Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao accepted Zhuo Jing’s Destiny ability to enhance his Time Roaming, then ventured beyond the novice protection zone and slaughtered Little Black People until he advanced to the second order. The chapter left him secretly watching seven evolvers fight off a larger tribe of Little Black People.

• Zhuo Jing explained that Destiny could strengthen a chosen evolver’s ability or permanently strip an enemy’s strongest ability, and Lin Xiao agreed to let her share his Time Roaming in exchange for her help managing the team.
• Lin Xiao and Zhuo Jing appeared hand in hand before their classmates, then Lin Xiao gave Zhuo Jing a gorilla arm claw and watched her group depart before entering the jungle alone.
• Lin Xiao killed a powerful Gray-haired Wolf, passed beyond the novice protection zone, and fought through a tribe of venom-armed Little Black People.
• Lin Xiao gained enough evolution energy to advance to the second order, increasing the power of his existing abilities.
• Lin Xiao heard fighting nearby and watched seven evolvers, five of them first-order, hold their ground against forty or fifty Little Black People.

After the Seven Day Protection Period ended, Lin Xiao planned to leave the decaying school with Zhuo Jing and the surviving students. He hunted powerful monsters for Evolution Points and a better weapon, then prepared to depart as other students asked to bring people along.

• Lin Xiao saw the passage out of the Novice Forest and decided to head there in three days, while he and Zhuo Jing planned to leave the school within three to five days.
• Lin Xiao killed a massive beast, obtained a white-grade bladed weapon, and gave a dying security guard a quick death.
• Lin Xiao continued hunting massive beasts, gaining Evolution progress as he encountered Evolvers who enslaved weaker people.
• Three days later, a massive beast destroyed the school cafeteria, and Zhuo Jing killed it, but two members of the group died in the battle.
• Before dawn, Lin Xiao gathered the six survivors apart from Zhuo Jing, then asked who had told others about their departure when he heard people breathing nearby.
• Two boys asked Lin Xiao if they could bring Xiao Ying and another person with them.

Lin Xiao led his group to the Tong Tian Pagoda and learned that clearing three Checkpoints would let them leave Novice Village. He entered alone, crushed the first six challenges, and faced ten elite Minotaurs at the seventh Checkpoint.

• Lin Xiao persuaded two men to stay behind at school and led the rest of his group toward the Tong Tian Pagoda.
• At the Pagoda, Lin Xiao learned that challenges were solo, began at a difficulty matching the challenger’s strength, and required three consecutive clears to reach the Main Map.
• Lin Xiao entered the Pagoda and defeated successive waves of Bat Monsters before choosing to continue past the first three Checkpoints.
• Lin Xiao defeated two increasingly powerful Minotaurs and received a refined-steel longblade after the fifth Checkpoint.
• Lin Xiao killed three elite Minotaurs at the sixth Checkpoint and entered the seventh, where ten elite Minotaurs awaited, including a heavily armored warrior wielding two axes.

Lin Xiao fought his way through the Tong Tian Pagoda’s increasingly varied and dangerous checkpoints, relying on his time Talents and discovering that each checkpoint restored their uses. By the twenty-sixth checkpoint, he had advanced to Third Order, gained Time Lock, and found that his evolution was outpacing his ability to absorb strength.

• Lin Xiao used Time Acceleration to defeat the elite Minotaurs at the seventh checkpoint and discovered that clearing a checkpoint restored his Talent uses.
• Lin Xiao defeated the Manticore and successive groups of Manticores, then used his time Talents to overcome the Serpent Lizards and Poison Dragons.
• Lin Xiao defeated an Evil Eye and continued through later checkpoints against powerful enemies including Medusa, a Six-Armed Snake Demon, a Magma Elemental, Corpse Wights, and an Arcanist.
• Lin Xiao reached the twenty-sixth checkpoint and advanced to Third Order after accumulating evolution progress from his battles.
• Lin Xiao gained Time Lock, upgraded Time Roaming to Level 4 and Time Acceleration to Level 3, and saw that his evolution was outpacing his strength absorption.

Lin Xiao fought increasingly powerful past contestants in Tong Tian Pagoda, relying on Time Roaming and Time Lock to defeat them despite their dangerous talents. After barely overcoming a giant whose hammer attacks nearly killed him, he faced a Golden Ancient Tree at the thirty-third checkpoint.

• Lin Xiao used Time Lock to find and kill a Tigerman whose spatial attacks had wounded him from afar.
• Lin Xiao endured the Succubus Queen’s disabling whip, dagger, and sonic attacks, then used his time abilities to kill both the Silver Queen and the Blood Queen.
• Lin Xiao spent hours wearing down a physically formidable human at the twenty-ninth checkpoint and later defeated an Undead Evolver with Essence Drain.
• Lin Xiao bypassed the demon’s summoned souls at the thirty-first checkpoint and killed the demon directly.
• Lin Xiao evaded the giant’s devastating hammer explosion and eventually wore him down after nearly being defeated several times.
• At the thirty-third checkpoint, Lin Xiao saw a Golden Ancient Tree fill the thousand-meter challenge space.

Lin Xiao fought the powerful Golden Ancient Tree Avatar on the Tong Tian Pagoda’s thirty-third floor, using his Time Talents to overcome its healing and Life Absorption. After finally defeating it, he obtained the deep-purple Eternal Tree Heart.

• Lin Xiao recognized the Golden Ancient Tree Avatar as the one Nightmare Will had exiled and saw that it had grown far stronger.
• Lin Xiao used Time Lock, Time Acceleration, and Time Roaming to slash through the Golden Ancient Tree Avatar’s trunk and cripple it.
• The Golden Ancient Tree Avatar regenerated and fought Lin Xiao to a standstill, but repeated Time Lock triggers let him cut it down to a stump.
• Lin Xiao’s Black Hole Avatar defeated the Golden Ancient Tree Avatar after a nested chain of Time Locks enabled a massive burst of attacks.
• Lin Xiao picked up the deep-purple Eternal Tree Heart, which boosted vitality and stamina and granted the Life Absorption skill.

Lin Xiao defeated the Lightning Specter on the Tong Tian Pagoda’s thirty-fourth floor, learned its powerful Unstable Current skill, and faced the Phoenix on the thirty-fifth floor. He discovered that the Phoenix had no apparent physical body, and its flames began to burn him beyond what he could withstand.

• Lin Xiao used Time Roaming and a prolonged barrage to defeat the Lightning Specter after recovering the strength it had drained from him.
• Lin Xiao obtained and learned Unstable Current, a lightning skill that increased movement speed and punished nearby enemies and skill attackers.
• Lin Xiao entered the thirty-fifth floor and encountered a massive Phoenix whose flames raised the arena’s temperature and relentlessly tracked him.
• Lin Xiao passed through the Phoenix with Time Roaming and found no physical body to strike.
• Lin Xiao’s flesh and bones began to char as he endured the Phoenix’s flames, and his consciousness started to blur.

Lin Xiao defeated the phoenix, upgraded the Eternal Tree Heart with Nirvana Light, and faced Ancient Ice Soul Carl's projection on the Tong Tian Pagoda's thirty-sixth floor. After enduring more than forty-eight hours of an unwinnable stalemate, he was declared the new defender and received Carl's Relic.

• Lin Xiao found and destroyed the phoenix's core, then broke its reborn Phoenix Egg and obtained Nirvana Light.
• Lin Xiao fused Nirvana Light with the Eternal Tree Heart, upgrading it to the orange-quality Eternal Heart.
• Lin Xiao entered the thirty-sixth floor and discovered that Ancient Ice Soul Carl's projection froze him whenever he used Time Roaming to approach.
• Lin Xiao and Carl's projection fought to a stalemate for more than forty-eight hours, with neither able to meaningfully harm the other.
• Lin Xiao slowly reached Carl and touched him with his blade, after which the frost vanished and the Tong Tian Pagoda declared Lin Xiao the winner.
• Lin Xiao received Carl's Relic and guessed that enduring until the stalemate ended was enough to clear the floor.

Lin Xiao cleared all thirty-six floors of the Tong Tian Pagoda, advanced to Fourth Order, and received the Libra Gold Cloth as his reward. After arriving in the Human Main City, he concealed his achievement and reunited with Zhuo Jing and his companions.

• Lin Xiao received the Tong Tian Pagoda champion rewards, advanced to Fourth Order, and raised Heart of Time to Level 2.
• Lin Xiao opened the Golden Treasure Chest and equipped the powerful, conspicuously glowing Libra Gold Cloth.
• Lin Xiao arrived in the Human Main City as a Nightmare Race evolver was announced as the new thirty-fourth-floor defender; he refused to reveal his own identity for a ten-year experience bonus.
• Lin Xiao met Zhuo Jing and his companions, declined to choose a guild immediately, and learned that Ruan Wan had died while Zhuo Wan had reached the twenty-seventh floor.

Lin Xiao took Zhuo Jing to the Death Mountain Range so she could gain combat experience, then opened the essence of Ancient Ice Soul Carl and discovered an unexpected legacy. Meanwhile, in the Main World, he prepared the Giant God Division for the coming campaign against the Tidal Crystal Wall System, where the war zone and the Insectoid Divine Domain Civilization remained in a tense standoff.

• Lin Xiao left the main city aboard the Spectre Train with Zhuo Jing and parted ways with Su Youxin, Wei Dahua, Chu Yue, and Wu Ziqi at Spore Village.
• Lin Xiao brought Zhuo Jing to the Death Mountain Range, turned down suspicious offers of lodging, and ignored evolvers who harassed her.
• Lin Xiao gave Zhuo Jing a Libra Holy Sword and golden holy shield, then let her fight a tiger-striped serpent monster while he opened Ancient Ice Soul Carl's essence and found a projected legacy.
• In the Main World, Lin Xiao gave his parents Divine Professions and developed the Giant God Division, whose strength had risen to rival veteran divisions.
• Lin Xiao and his allies prepared to attack the Tidal Crystal Wall System after negotiations with the Insectoid Divine Domain Civilization failed, while two Void Fortresses faced the Insectoids outside the system.

Lin Xiao created a Black Hole Sprite as a gift for Shen Yuexin’s father and traveled with her to meet him at the Tidal Crystal Wall System. He discovered that the nostalgic Great Divine Power Yun Zhe was a fellow Dota 2 fan, and the chapter ended with them starting a match together.

• Lin Xiao created a tiny Black Hole Sprite with limited potential and prepared it as a gift for Yun Zhe.
• Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin traveled to the Tidal Crystal Wall System, where Lin Xiao sensed a strong resonance coming from within it.
• Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin visited General Lan Wanqing’s flagship, Blue Tide, and followed her directions to Yun Zhe.
• Lin Xiao found Yun Zhe playing Dota 2 in an old-fashioned room and recognized the game from his life before transmigrating.
• Yun Zhe invited Lin Xiao to play, assigned him position five, and led their team to claim first blood against Enigma.

Lin Xiao helped his father-in-law win eleven Dota matches, then joined General Lan Wanqing’s preparations for the struggle over the ascending Tidal Crystal Wall System. He entered the world to investigate a powerful resonance with his abilities, but after half a year searching its kingdoms and temples, he found no source and began to suspect it lay elsewhere.

• Lin Xiao dominated the lane, roamed to help kill enemy heroes, and stacked jungle camps until his father-in-law’s Sven quickly bought an Aghanim’s Scepter and led the team to victory.
• Lin Xiao played eleven games with his father-in-law, then accepted General Lan Wanqing’s invitation to discuss the coming conflict with the Insectoid Divine Domain Civilization.
• Lin Xiao was assigned to defend the right flank and later entered the Tidal Crystal Wall System through an outpost teleportation array to investigate the resonance he had sensed.
• Lin Xiao reached the Main Material Plane and learned that the world was ascending, while Lan Wanqing and the insectoids competed for the chance to claim its future world master and a supreme treasure.
• Lin Xiao searched the kingdoms and temples of the Main Material Plane for nearly half a year without finding the resonance’s source, so he considered that it might lie elsewhere.

Lin Xiao discovered that becoming a god in the Tidal Crystal Wall System might reveal what resonated with him, but the Zerg and the Fifth War Zone settled on a deadly contest to decide the system’s ownership. Lin Xiao volunteered as one of humanity’s ten fighters, and the contestants gathered before the first Divine Domain battle began.

• Lin Xiao searched the planes of the Tidal Crystal Wall System for clues, then learned from his father-in-law that he needed to become a god there to uncover what he sought.
• The Fifth War Zone and the Zerg agreed to settle ownership of the system through a life-and-death gauntlet between ten Divine Domain Sons from each side.
• At a military conference, Lin Xiao revealed his resonance with the system and offered to fight in exchange for the right to claim what resonated with him; Lan Wanqing accepted the terms.
• The two sides’ Divine Domain Civilization wills verified the contestants and created a shared battle space, where Lin Xiao’s revealed Greater Divine Power unsettled the Zerg.
• Lin Xiao and the other nine human elites faced ten Zerg contestants, and the rules required each fighter to battle until one side’s contestant died.

Lin Xiao had his Kinfolk prepare for a coming war against an Insectoid Divine Domain, while he defeated the Insectoid leader’s attempt to expand its domain into his. When the invasion began, Lin Xiao held back the enemy’s assault as the Insect Race poured through the Two Worlds Passage toward his golem army.

• Lin Xiao assigned his ten companions a single battle each by drawing numbered lots, then promised to take on any opponents who came afterward.
• Lin Xiao and the Insectoid Divine Domain Son linked their Divine Domains, while the first human and Insect Race elites entered a Divine Domain War.
• Lin Xiao summoned his Kinfolk to the Two Worlds Passage, and his armies gathered as the Insect Race announced an attack one year later.
• Lin Xiao seized an Insectoid projection’s memories and learned that a vast fortress and tens of millions of Insect Race troops stood beyond the passage.
• Lin Xiao’s forces spent a year assembling Mage Towers, Floating Cities, golems, Star Spirits, Titan Nagas, and Angels around the battlefield.
• The Insect Race began its invasion, but Lin Xiao suppressed its expanding domain and stopped its first giant attack before the God of Magic Arlement ordered the golem army forward.

Lin Xiao’s forces held off the Insect Race Monarch’s invasion while his father-in-law inspected Lin Xiao’s creations and advised him to clarify which Divine Profession he would pursue. When the insect main forces entered the battlefield, Lin Xiao summoned Slarda, whose power exceeded that of ordinary Greater Divine Powers.

• Lin Xiao’s golems, Little Nagas, and Star Spirit Mages contained billions of insects while he evaluated the Titan Nagas’ battlefield performance.
• Lin Xiao’s father-in-law visited his Divine Domain, praised his created races, and warned him to swear before the Master of Creation that he would not pursue Creation as his primary Divine Profession.
• Lin Xiao considered his advancement options and settled on Balance as his safest Great Divine Power path, with Reincarnation as another possibility.
• The Insect Race Monarch sent armored insects, ranged insects, centipedes, flying dragons, and psychic Insectoids through the Two Worlds Passage.
• Lin Xiao summoned Slarda, whose true power rivaled Greater Divine Power and who emerged as a formidable force against the insect army.

Lin Xiao’s forces overwhelmed the Insect Race Monarch’s Divine Domain, where Slarda proved strong enough to suppress the monarch. During the ensuing clash between Zu'tar and the Lord of Radiance, Lin Xiao ascended to become a God of War and discovered that the Tidal Crystal Wall System Master shared the origin of the Crystal Wall System Origin Core in his soul.

• Lin Xiao ordered Slarda to lead the counterattack, and his armies pushed through the Two Worlds Passage into the Insect Race Monarch’s Divine Domain.
• Slarda’s forces crushed the insect armies, and Slarda advanced carefully toward the Super Mother Nest while Lin Xiao waited for the battle to conclude.
• Two years later, Lin Xiao crossed the passage and saw Slarda holding back the Insect Race Monarch at the Super Mother Nest, then Lin Xiao was struck down by a sudden attack.
• The Lord of Radiance furiously confronted the Insect Race Sovereign, and their battle tore open the Tidal Crystal Wall System as Lin Xiao’s avatar found an opening to ascend as a God of War.
• Lin Xiao learned through the World Source Sea that Zu'tar, the Tidal Crystal Wall System Master, was a surviving Great Divine Power from the same Crystal Wall Universe as the Origin Core fragment within Lin Xiao’s soul.

Lin Xiao learned from Zu'tar that the powerful Twisted Abyss threatened the Resistance Organization, then helped bring Zu'tar into the Human Divine Domain Civilization as a member of the Fifth War Zone. As Zu'tar's arrival drew offers from major factions, Lin Xiao studied the Twisted Abyss and worried over its strength.

• Lin Xiao defeated the Insect Race Monarch, and the Insect Race forces withdrew while the remaining battles in the Tidal Crystal Wall System continued.
• Lin Xiao entered the Tidal Crystal Wall System and reunited with Zu'tar, who told him the Twisted Abyss had one Supreme, three high-level masters, and more than a dozen low-level Great Masters.
• Zu'tar told Lin Xiao that the Resistance Organization's three Great Masters and other survivors faced a possible attack from the Twisted Abyss's Supreme.
• Lin Xiao informed Xia Yunzhe and Xie Tianyan of the threat and conveyed Zu'tar's decision to join the Fifth War Zone.
• Zu'tar officially joined the Human Divine Domain Civilization, prompting major factions to send envoys and make extravagant offers, all of which he rejected.
• Lin Xiao studied information about the Twisted Abyss while using Faith Power to strengthen the law origins he controlled.

Lin Xiao prepared for a possible invasion by the Twisted Abyss, sent Tisha Er to the Wizard World on a mission, and entered the Chaotic Void Sea to strengthen himself. In the Evolution Journey World, he reached the Sixth Order and encountered a radioactive monster on the Annihilation Plateau.

• Lin Xiao concluded that the Twisted Abyss was a mortal enemy and considered seeking help from Enigma, the Chaotic lifeform he realized was his kin.
• Lin Xiao asked Tisha Er to go to the Azure Ripple World, find Jin Nantian, and give him a chance to become a Progenitor while killing the True Underworld Progenitor.
• Half a year later, Tisha Er secretly returned to the Wizard World, while Lin Xiao left avatars behind and sent his true body into the Chaotic Void Sea to devour energy.
• After three and a half years in the Evolution Journey World, Lin Xiao advanced from the Fourth Order to the Sixth Order and arrived at the Annihilation Plateau.
• Lin Xiao left the train station and approached a huge tentacled monster, which charged at him while spreading a radioactive halo.

Lin Xiao reached the human gathering place in the Annihilation Highlands and learned that the Evolution Journey was nearing its brutal final stage, but he still needed to pursue the Time Law origin in the higher-level maps. Zhuo Jing chose to go with him, and after helping her reach Sixth Order, Lin Xiao set out with her to challenge a World BOSS and obtain a World Pass.

• Lin Xiao crossed the Annihilation Highlands and entered Shelter Fortress, where Reiss explained that Sixth Order evolvers could enter higher-level maps by soloing a World BOSS and using its World Pass.
• Reiss warned Lin Xiao that the Evolution Journey was close to its final showdown, with Eighth Order evolvers already present, but Lin Xiao decided he still had to enter to obtain the Time Law origin.
• Lin Xiao wrote to Zhuo Jing about the danger, and she arrived less than five days later and chose to go with him.
• Lin Xiao trained Zhuo Jing against powerful monsters in the Highlands until she evolved to Sixth Order after a month and a half.
• Lin Xiao and Zhuo Jing returned to the human fortress, said farewell to Reiss and the other evolvers, and headed toward a World BOSS.

Lin Xiao and Zhuo Jing killed a Super Aberrant and used its pass to reach the Ancient Altar, where the Final Life and Death Battle had begun. Lin Xiao survived two randomly assigned fights with ease, while Zhuo Jing remained unselected and the battles continued.

• Zhuo Jing used Time Roaming and Time Lock to cut apart the Super Aberrant, and Lin Xiao destroyed its core with a golden spear.
• Lin Xiao crushed the one-way pass, bringing himself and Zhuo Jing to the Ancient Altar as Xiao Long won a battle against a werewolf.
• Spirit Dragon explained that contestants now faced random life-and-death battles, and Lin Xiao was selected the next day.
• Lin Xiao used Time Shatter to strip the Elf woman's sealed true form of its power, killed her, and gained a large amount of Evolution Points.
• Lin Xiao went unselected for two days, then killed a stronger Sixth Order opponent in one strike; he learned that ten consecutive wins allowed a contestant to withdraw safely.