Chapter Summaries

Saitama and his companions were captured by Ji Shu, endured the Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar, and joined Thanos’s expanding forces after agreeing to surrender. As the group pressed west and fought King Arthur, Han Li explained Ji Shu’s identity, while Ye Fan and the others rapidly advanced to the Saint Realm.

• Ji Shu captured Saitama, Tatsumaki, Genos, and the others and bound them to the Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar, where they endured a barrage of calamities.
• Zhu Bajie asked Saitama and the others to surrender; they agreed, learned that Ji Shu was their captor, merged their Dao, and joined Thanos, Lin Dong, and Xiao Yan’s team.
• Saitama warned the team about King of All’s powerful forces in the west, but Thanos and the others trusted Ji Shu’s backing and continued their campaign.
• The team defeated King Arthur, who refused to surrender, so Thanos sent Nebula to take him to the Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar; after days of torment, King Arthur questioned Han Li about its master.
• Han Li told King Arthur that Ji Shu was the Main God behind the pillar, while Ye Fan and the others cultivated in the kingdoms’ richest regions and reached the Saint Realm.

Ye Fan, Zhao Ling'er, Tang Xuejian, and others attained sainthood and entered the battlefield, while Saitama's group fought King of All's forces. King of All overwhelmed Saitama and demanded that the group surrender, leaving their answer unresolved.

• Ye Fan and Zhao Ling'er, Long Kui, Tang Xuejian, and others reached sainthood and charged into battle under Ji Shu's support.
• Tang Xuejian, Zhao Ling'er, and Long Kui fought fiercely with massive sabers as more of Ji Shu's followers attained sainthood.
• Vegeta challenged Xiao Yan, but Saitama intervened, defeated Vegeta and Trunks, and helped drive the Super Saiyans back to King of All's Capital.
• King of All arrived with the Grand Minister and attacked Saitama, overpowering him with strength exceeding that of a hundred Saints.
• King of All offered to reveal how he had grown stronger if Saitama's group submitted, then demanded their answer.

King of All and the gathered fighters were frozen, captured, and subjected to tribulations by the power behind a mysterious hand. After King of All and the others surrendered to the Holy Lord, Zhu Bajie led them to attune to the Dao, and King of All asked about Ji Shu.

• King of All shattered Xiao Yan with a punch and moved to kill Lin Dong, but a drop of water froze everyone and everything in the battle.
• A hand appeared behind Lin Dong, seized King of All, the Saints, Sun Wukong, and the others, and bound them to pillars in the Mystic Fire Mirror Space, where tribulations overwhelmed them with pain.
• King of All recognized the power holding them and declared that he was willing to surrender to the Main God; Zhu Bajie clarified that they had been captured by the Holy Lord.
• King of All and the Saint Legion surrendered, followed by Sun Wukong, Vegeta, the Angels, and the Gods of Destruction.
• Zhu Bajie led the captives to attune to the Dao, and King of All asked him about Ji Shu.

The King of All joined forces with Saitama’s group and led an expanding campaign through the western lands, where Orochi’s team surrendered after learning that Holy Lord had subdued the King of All. Meanwhile, Tang San and his companions fled east, surrendered to Han Li, and Tang San immediately attacked him from behind.

• The King of All met Thanos, Saitama, Lin Dong, and the others, then agreed to split the forces and conquer the lands to the north and west.
• Aiolos and Shura fought Gaidel and Crazy Iori as Kyo Kusanagi told Orochi’s team that Holy Lord had effortlessly captured the King of All and his allies.
• Chizuru Kagura and Kyo Kusanagi urged surrender, and Orochi agreed; the King of All ordered the newly surrendered group to serve as the vanguard.
• Tang San, Tang Hao, and their companions fled east as the King of All advanced, then encountered Han Li, who demanded that they surrender or die.
• Tang San agreed to surrender, then stabbed Han Li from behind; Han Li escaped the attack and denounced him.

Tang San was defeated by Han Li, Ultraman Tiga, and their allies, then forced to merge his True Spirit with the Dao and join their campaign under the Holy Lord. As the teams patrolled the continent and competed for royal seats, Tang San recruited Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi Hanamichi, and their companions after they agreed to surrender.

• Han Li summoned his allies, and Ultraman Tiga’s attack helped the Saints overwhelm Tang San’s team until Tang San surrendered.
• Zhu Bajie released Tang San and his companions from the Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar, brought them to merge their True Spirits with the Dao, and sent them to Han Li and Tiga.
• Tiga warned the team against infighting and explained that hundreds of teams were competing for the Holy Lord’s Emperor’s and King’s Seats.
• Tang San’s group saw Zhao Ling’er, Tang Xuejian, and the other Holy Lord disciples defeat their opponents and charge onward with broadswords.
• Tang San stopped Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi Hanamichi, and their fleeing group, offered them surrender or death, and they chose to surrender after learning the Holy Lord was Sun Wukong.

Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi Hanamichi, and other teams surrendered to Ji Shu’s forces, while Ji Shu studied the Chaotic Battle Continent’s Dao laws and grew closer to controlling it. After Zhao Ling’er’s team defeated Luffy’s Pirate Country, the Emperor’s Seat and nine King’s Seats appeared early, and both Zhao Ling’ers ascended to the Emperor’s Seat and gained immense power.

• Rukawa Kaede explained that Saints across nearby countries were surrendering to teams under Ji Shu, and Tang San became increasingly determined to uncover Ji Shu’s past.
• Ji Shu perceived increasingly advanced Dao laws appearing above the Chaotic Battle Continent and continued observing the continent while cultivating atop Mount Olympus.
• Zhao Ling’er, Long Kui, Li Xiaoyao, Six-Eared Macaque, and their team defeated Luffy’s Pirate Country, whose members surrendered and joined Ji Shu’s forces.
• The Emperor’s Seat and nine King’s Seats formed far earlier than expected, astonishing Luffy, the Empress, and the other participants.
• Both Zhao Ling’ers were drawn onto the Emperor’s Seat, cultivated in Ji Shu’s divine space, and emerged wearing Imperial Crowns with power approaching the Heavenly Dao Level.
• Ye Fan and Sun Wukong were stunned, while Zeus envied Zhao Ling’er’s rise and suspected Ji Shu had chosen her to become an Emperor.

Zhao Ling'er became the Emperor, while Long Kui and eight others ascended as Kings; Ji Shu then raised countless survivors through General and Soldier Seats. After revealing the Chaotic Battle Continent’s role as a route to the Eternal Life Ladder, Ji Shu absorbed it into the Painted World and brought the gods and other survivors inside.

• Zhao Ling'er reached the Emperor’s Seat and became a Heavenly Dao-level powerhouse, illuminating the path to the Eternal Life Ladder.
• Six-Eared Macaque, Long Kui, Li Xiaoyao, Tang Xuejian, Ye Fan, Xiao Bai, Xiao Longnv, Nie Feng, and Wu Song ascended the nine King’s Seats and became the Nine Kings.
• Ji Shu created countless General and Soldier Seats, allowing Saitama, King of All, and many others to comprehend Great Dao Arts and rapidly ascend in cultivation.
• Ji Shu refined the Chaotic Battle Continent and learned that the Main Gods used its route to the Eternal Life Ladder to turn fighters into expendable tools.
• Ji Shu absorbed the Chaotic Battle Continent into the Main God Space, and the Painted World grew stronger as gods, demons, and other survivors entered it.

Ji Shu climbed the Eternal Life Ladder and discovered that its rungs contained Main God Spaces filled with reincarnation missions, while its rails held exiled Main Gods. When the ladder appeared over the Eternal Life Continent, Main Gods seized stored Emperor's Bodies and King's Bodies and rushed toward him as he continued toward the Great Dao Tablet.

• Ji Shu used his heightened perception to inspect the Eternal Life Ladder and saw countless Main God Spaces, including Main God Space No. 392, where Zheng Zha's Central Continent Team fought the Demon Team in Resident Evil.
• Ji Shu concluded that the Great Dao exiled Main Gods into the ladder's vertical rails and that they sought powerful bodies to improve their chances of reaching its end.
• Ji Shu reached the Eternal Life Continent and saw that its underside contained worlds formed from shattered Main God Spaces.
• The Main Gods sensed the ladder's appearance and guessed that the final battle in the Chaotic Battle Continent had produced an Emperor's Seat and King's Seats.
• Main Gods possessed stored bodies including Zheng Zha, Bull Devil King, Athena, Zeus, Sun Wukong, Saitama, and King of All, then surged toward Ji Shu.
• Ji Shu ignored the approaching Main Gods and continued climbing to find the Great Dao Tablet.

Ji Shu climbed the Eternal Life Ladder while the Main Gods struggled behind him, unable to see the mysterious source of Origin Order above them. As he surveyed the Eternal Life Continent and watched the Main Gods consume their stolen Emperor's Bodies and King's Bodies, the Painted World's inhabitants grew more loyal to him.

• Ji Shu climbed the ladder unseen, while Frieza, Zheng Zha, Saitama, and the other Main Gods sensed the powerful presence above them and pressed onward despite the crushing pressure.
• Saitama and King of All tried to observe the Chaotic Battle Continent through the Main God Space, but found it obscured by haze and feared an ancient upheaval would destroy the Eternal Life Continent.
• Ji Shu used the Great Dao Scripture and his talents to survey the Eternal Life Continent, where countless fighters lived in divine kingdoms and alternate dimensions, unaware that the Chaotic Battle Continent was gone.
• As Ji Shu climbed, Saitama and the others' bodies withered and were replaced by shells belonging to figures such as Vegeta, Thanos, and Athena; Ji Shu recognized the Main Gods' control over them.
• After half a month, most pursuing Main Gods fell away when they ran out of bodies, while Ji Shu saw that many remaining shells belonged to former Emperor's Seat and King's Seat holders who had been killed and exploited.
• The Painted World's inhabitants watched the Main Gods' plight and became more grateful and devoted to Ji Shu, while Frieza, Vegeta, Luffy, and the others abandoned thoughts of leaving.

Ji Shu reached the Great Dao Tablet and let millions of people from the Painted World cultivate in its aura, rapidly increasing their power. When the Main Gods reached the summit and tried to reclaim their subordinates, they discovered Ji Shu’s people lacked Main God Space marks and were vastly outnumbered, leaving them frightened and proposing a truce.

• Ji Shu reached the end of the Eternal Life Ladder and found the Great Dao Tablet, whose aura contained laws beyond his comprehension.
• Ji Shu released Ye Fan, Zhao Ling'er, and the others from the Painted World, and they cultivated beside the tablet as their power soared.
• Shi Hao, replica Zheng Zha, Martial Ancestor Lin Dong, and the other Main Gods sensed the rising auras and hurried toward the summit, intending to seize the supreme treasure and reclaim their subordinates.
• The Main Gods reached the summit, recognized members of their Main God Spaces, and pulled Saitama, King of All, and others toward them despite their pleas to Ji Shu.
• Gojo Satoru, Kaido, and the Sailor Soldier noticed that Ji Shu's people lacked Main God Space marks, while millions of powerful cultivators gathered behind him.
• The Kakarot Main God saw the overwhelming force facing the Main Gods and awkwardly proposed that both sides keep to themselves.

Ji Shu’s forces defeated the Main Gods at the Great Dao Tablet, freeing their captives and seizing the Main Gods’ true spirits. As Ji Shu comprehended the Great Abnormality Dao and transformed Kakarot into a powerful aberration, the surviving Main Gods realized that Ji Shu was the hidden force behind their defeat.

• Li Kui and the Six-Eared Macaque attacked the Main Gods, and Wu Song and the others joined the battle beside the Great Dao Tablet.
• Zhao Ling'er, Wu Song, Song Jiang, Tathagata, Guanyin, and the millions of troops overwhelmed the Main Gods; some surrendered and were bound in the Mystic Fire Mirror Space, while Long Kui, Tang Xuejian, and the others killed those who fled.
• Ji Shu freed the King of All, Saitama, and the other captives, who thanked him before joining the others in comprehending the Great Dao.
• As the defeated Main Gods’ spaces collapsed, Han Li, Xiao Yan, and others seized their true spirits and began cultivating beside the Great Dao Tablet.
• Ji Shu comprehended the Great Abnormality Dao and transformed Main God Kakarot into a mindless monster whose combat power increased more than tenfold.
• Doraemon God and the other surviving Main Gods concluded that Ji Shu was the true power behind the army and feared what he might do next.

After countless years of cultivation, Ji Shu mastered the Great Dao, absorbed the Eternal Life Continent into the Painted World, and completed his quest in the Main God Great World. He claimed a talisman that could return him to places in his memories, sealed the world from other Players, and found that his six Portal Marks had fused.

• While imprisoned, Doraemon God, Kumagawa Kagemori God, and the other Main Gods speculated that Ji Shu came from beyond the Eternal Life Continent or was connected to the Great Dao, and they regretted having disrespected him.
• Ji Shu awoke from his long seclusion to find that the millions of soldiers had become Heavenly Dao Level experts, then seized the Eternal Life Continent and embedded it in the Painted World.
• Ji Shu put away the Great Dao Tablet, leaving the watching experts and imprisoned Main Gods astonished by his power.
• Ji Shu completed his Main Quest and claimed a talisman that could take him to any place in his memories, including his hometown, Earth.
• Ji Shu created two portals, chose their destinations, and sealed the Main God Great World against other Players.
• Ji Shu saw that his six Portal Marks had fused together, linking the Great Worlds of Smiling Proud, Zhu Xian, Legend, and others.

Ji Shu reunited with Qu Feiyan and the others, then cleared the Tower of the Multiverse and gained the Supreme Possession Talent. At the tower’s core, its dead master Xuanyuan Tuo revealed that more than ninety million worlds’ Players had died in repeated resets and that Xuanyuan Tuo himself had been killed by Zhou Tianzi.

• Ji Shu reunited with Qu Feiyan, Yue Lingshan, Bi Yao, Lu Xueqi, and the others after ten million years apart, then helped them ascend beyond the Main God level.
• Ji Shu entered the Tower of the Multiverse, cleared it as its only summit-reaching Player, and received the Supreme Possession Talent.
• Ji Shu entered the tower’s core alone and met Xuanyuan Tuo, who claimed to be the tower’s true master and said he needed Ji Shu as a vessel.
• Ji Shu asked what had happened to Players from earlier worlds, and Xuanyuan Tuo admitted that the tower’s resets had killed them all.
• Xuanyuan Tuo revealed that the Players came from Lords of the Great Dao’s worlds, then confirmed he was a dead Lord of the Great Dao killed by Zhou Tianzi.

Xuanyuan Tuo revealed that he had engineered the Tower of the Multiverse’s reincarnations to find a vessel, then demanded Ji Shu surrender everything but his soul. Ji Shu trapped and devoured Xuanyuan Tuo, learned the truth of his history, and began refining the Tower of the Multiverse’s spirit.

• Xuanyuan Tuo told Ji Shu that he had survived his mutual destruction with Zhou Tianzi and had used the Tower of the Multiverse to search countless worlds for a suitable vessel.
• Xuanyuan Tuo demanded Ji Shu’s body and offered him worldly pleasures, but Ji Shu refused and attacked him.
• Ji Shu fought Xuanyuan Tuo’s endlessly replicating bodies, then endured his provocations for ten million years while replenishing his strength from the source of emptiness.
• Xuanyuan Tuo invaded Ji Shu’s sea of consciousness to possess him, but Ji Shu’s Possession Talent trapped and compressed him until he vanished.
• Ji Shu absorbed Xuanyuan Tuo’s Primordial Spirit, learned his history and how to control the Tower of the Multiverse, then captured its spirit and began refining it.

After gaining control of the Tower of the Multiverse, Ji Shu returned to Blue Star and confronted the rulers who had oppressed Players for ages. He destroyed Hong Tianren and the corrupt elites, then took the Tower away, leaving the world to hail him as a legend.

• Ji Shu appeared outside the Tower of the Multiverse, where soldiers recognized him as their lord, and Hong Chen identified him as the long-missing Player on the Kill List.
• Hong Chen and hundreds of Heavenly Immortal Players surrounded Ji Shu, and Hong Tianren arrived to avenge his daughter Hong Qian.
• Hong Tianren attacked with the Rain Curtain Divine Sword, but Ji Shu froze everyone and erased him with a single finger.
• Ji Shu eliminated Hong Chen and the corrupt nobles, royals, and imperial Players while sparing those who had remained relatively kind.
• Ji Shu vanished, and the Tower of the Multiverse disappeared with him, ejecting its Players and sparking celebrations and speculation across Blue Star.

After tens of millions of years away, Ji Shu returned to Earth, reunited with his homeland, and uncovered the truth about his reincarnation and the Talent Tower. He left a mortal clone on Earth and began sending other clones through reincarnation, while Ouyang Shirou married Cao Liao and wondered what had happened to Ji Shu.

• Ji Shu returned to Earth and walked through space, drawing attention online and leading his parents and classmates to recognize him after he had been missing for three years.
• Ji Shu met Ouyang Shirou, learned she was about to marry Cao Liao, and declined her invitation to the wedding.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Ji Shu summoned the Great Dao Tablet Mountain and Sea and recovered memories revealing that he was the reincarnation of a remnant soul of Great Dao Master Zhou Tianzi.
• Ji Shu resolved to temper his Dao heart through mortal lives, left a clone on Earth to fulfill his filial duty, and sent other memoryless clones into the worlds contained in the Painted World.
• At Ouyang Shirou's wedding, Ji Shu's calligraphy gift drew a ten-million offer from a tycoon, who warned Cao Liao not to provoke Ji Shu.
• Ouyang Shirou recalled a vivid dream of chasing Ji Shu as he flew away and split a city with a blade, and she wondered where he had gone.

Ji Shu returned to his parents and revealed his immortality, guiding them into cultivation while powerful people sought his favor. After his parents began growing younger, Ouyang Shirou was sent to Ji Shu’s home following her divorce from Cao Liao, and Ji Shu invited her to stay and cultivate with him.

• Ji Shu reunited with his parents, confirmed that immortals existed, and demonstrated his power by carrying them on a cloud.
• Ji Shu gave his parents immortal tea that cleansed their bodies, then began teaching them the Tai Chi Martial Arts he had created for them.
• Over the following year, Ji Shu’s parents grew younger, while dignitaries and wealthy people tried to win them over for access to immortality.
• Powerful families arranged for Ouyang Shirou to divorce Cao Liao and approach Ji Shu, while the Cao Family warned Cao Liao not to provoke Ji Shu.
• Ouyang Shirou arrived at Ji Shu’s home, and he invited her to stay with him and cultivate immortality.

Ji Shu protected Earth from the falling Creator Dao Lord, whose final memories revealed a spreading black-light corruption threatening the Nine-Dimensional World. After learning the danger and receiving her knowledge of the Creation Great Dao Tablet, Ji Shu realized he needed to prepare for the coming crisis.

• Ouyang Shirou confessed her fears to Ji Shu, who reassured her and let her weep in his arms before she fell asleep.
• Ji Shu's parents urged him to marry Ouyang Shirou, and he later taught her the Star Moon Divine Art, which rapidly strengthened her.
• In the ninth year in the Human World, Ji Shu could not move Earth, so he shielded its inhabitants as the injured Creator Dao Lord fell toward the Solar System.
• The Creator Dao Lord recognized the auras of Xuanyuan Tuo and Zhou Tianzi on Ji Shu, shared her name, and died as her body, origin, and Great Dao Tablet dissolved.
• Ji Shu absorbed the Creator Dao Lord's memories and learned that the vanished Burial Ground of Heaven had left a hole in the Nine-Dimensional World through which corrupting black light was pouring.

After learning that the Creator Dao Lord’s sacrifice had delayed the spread of contamination, Ji Shu accelerated his cultivation and began condensing his own Great Dao Tablet. On Earth, he discovered and refined nine dimensional anomalies that formed keys to Earth’s Secret Treasure, which he suspected held a path beyond Great Dao Masters.

• Ji Shu resolved to condense his own Great Dao Tablet and used spacetime laws to train his avatars across the Myriad Worlds, gathering their experiences to temper his Dao heart.
• Ji Shu’s avatar searched Earth’s dragon veins and found strange Dao lights at nine locations, then recognized them as dimensional anomalies connected to Zhou Tianzi’s memories of Earth’s natural wonders.
• Ji Shu refined the anomaly at Mount Hua and discovered it was part of a strange treasure that served as a key to Earth’s Secret Treasure.
• Ji Shu traveled among the nine locations and began refining their dimensional anomalies, including the objects at Mount Tai, Mount Heng, Changbai Mountain, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Qinling Mountains, Mount Wuyi, and Kunlun Mountain.

Ji Shu forged the nine Supreme Treasures into the Axe Key and traveled to Hangcheng to open Earth's Secret Treasure. He established ninety-nine Martial Arts Monuments across the Ancient Country, gathering popular acclaim, and discovered that the acclaim was needed to unlock the Void Dimension Lock beneath Hangcheng.

• Ji Shu combined the nine Supreme Treasures into the Axe Key and decided to seek Earth's Secret Treasure.
• Ji Shu arrived in Hangcheng, where people filmed him and the elites' representatives learned that he planned to build Martial Arts Monuments.
• Ji Shu's parents gave nine low-grade immortal artifacts to elite representatives in gratitude for their care over the years.
• Ji Shu created ninety-nine Martial Arts Monuments across the Ancient Country, drawing crowds and prompting people around the world to study their inscriptions.
• Ji Shu revealed that he had built the monuments to gather popular acclaim, which he needed to use the Axe Key on the Void Dimension Lock beneath Hangcheng.