Chapter Summaries

After receiving honors from the Arctic Alliance and the defense army, Li Wei used the jade token Ma Baoguo gave her to enter the dream again. There, Ma Baoguo revealed that the Heavenly Ruins was an organization and invited her to join, though Li Wei pressed him to explain the conditions.

• General Lebedev awarded Li Wei the Arctic Alliance Hero Medal and made her an Honorary Major General.
• Li Wei's support legion disbanded, and she returned to Pebble Fortress for another award ceremony before reporting to the 19th Army garrison as acting legion commander.
• Li Wei speculated that Ma Baoguo, Huang Lei, and the Queen Mother belonged to a secret organization, and she hoped the jade token would bring her another dream.
• The jade token surrounded Li Wei with cyan light, and she entered the same sea of clouds as before.
• Ma Baoguo appeared as Erlang Shen, identified the place as the gateway of the Heavenly Ruins, and invited Li Wei to join the organization.
• Li Wei asked whether the invitation came with conditions, but Ma Baoguo insisted there were none.

Li Wei entered the Heavenly Ruins with Ma Baoguo, questioning its rules and the purpose of her mask as they crossed the Cloud Bridge. At the ruined Lingxiao Hall, she mocked the Jade Emperor’s title, prompting Ma Baoguo to warn her that disrespecting high divine seats could bring divine retribution.

• Li Wei learned that her White Jade Mask concealed her identity, voice, and aura, and Ma Baoguo demonstrated its effect.
• Ma Baoguo urged Li Wei to enter the ruins, and she complained about the danger, work-injury coverage, and salary before crossing the Cloud Bridge with him.
• Li Wei asked about entering in spirit and acquiring an inheritance, while Ma Baoguo explained that the Heavenly Ruins formed her temporary body and put off answering about inheritances.
• Li Wei and Ma Baoguo reached the ruined Lingxiao Hall, where Ma Baoguo wondered why the Jade Emperor’s divine seat seemed to have someone despite the Jade Emperor being male.
• Li Wei misheard the title as “Bathing Emperor” and laughed, so Ma Baoguo warned that disrespecting high divine seats could damage her divine soul or destroy it; Li Wei offered a perfunctory bow.

Li Wei followed Ma Baoguo through the immortal palace ruins to receive a divine-position inheritance, but rejected the powerful Doumu Yuanjun position because its bonuses did not suit her. Ma Baoguo was left stunned by her ability to return the inheritance as she asked whether he had anything better.

• Ma Baoguo led Li Wei through the ruins of Ling Xiao Palace after learning she had not sensed an inheritance calling to her.
• Ma Baoguo brought Li Wei to a jeweled crown, which immediately entered her body and granted her the incomplete divine position of Doumu Yuanjun.
• Li Wei inspected the position’s temporary stellar powers and lack of an inheritance or magic treasure, then decided its benefits were unsuitable for her.
• Li Wei removed the jeweled crown and returned it to its place, leaving Ma Baoguo shocked that a divine position could be rejected after inheritance.

Li Wei searched the Heavenly Palace ruins for a divine position whose bonuses suited her, rejecting many options before finding Immortal Heng'e in the Moon Palace. She equipped it and realized its Great Yin Attribute bonus could greatly increase her power as she leveled it up.

• Li Wei tried numerous divine positions in the first ruins, but rejected them because their bonuses were unsuitable and they had no inheritances or Magic Treasures.
• Ma Baoguo told Li Wei that the vacant Doumu Yuanjun position was the only lower-ranked option, but she remained unimpressed and continued searching.
• After several more locations, Li Wei asked whether the Immortal Palace had a Moon Palace, prompting Ma Baoguo to lead her to the ruined Guanghan Palace.
• Li Wei entered the main hall and equipped the incomplete Immortal Heng'e divine position, which had 100% compatibility and boosted Great Yin Attribute cultivation methods and Combat Methods.
• Li Wei saw that Immortal Heng'e increased her maximum qi and blood and gleefully imagined how powerful the bonus could become when fully developed.

Li Wei became a probationary member of the Heavenly Ruins as Immortal Heng'e and learned she would attend the Peach Banquet. Elsewhere, Yun Sheng told Shen Yaochi that the Jade Emperor was the true leader and the hope of the era, then gave her an ancient scroll to deliver to him.

• Ma Baoguo explained how Li Wei could enter the Heavenly Ruins and contact him, while warning her not to investigate or reveal members' identities.
• Ma Baoguo told Li Wei the organization would hold a Peach Banquet for the newly appointed Jade Emperor, and she left as Immortal Heng'e.
• Yun Sheng told Shen Yaochi he would send someone to investigate the matter in the Western Border and gave her a scroll for the Jade Emperor.
• Yun Sheng revealed that the Jade Emperor was the true leader of the Heavenly Ruins and the hope of the era.
• Shen Yaochi asked why Yun Sheng would not present the scroll at the Peach Banquet, and he teased her about her relationship with the Jade Emperor.

Yun Sheng left Shen Yaochi to guide the new Jade Emperor and prepare for the Peach Banquet, while Li Wei completed the Immortal Heng'e godhood and endured its massive enhancement. Her awakening restored part of the Moon Palace and stirred Eternal Night, which sensed an old acquaintance had awakened.

• Yun Sheng told Shen Yaochi he would miss the Peach Banquet, gave her a scroll for the Jade Emperor, and departed after instructing her to explain the Heavenly Ruins and its factions.
• Li Wei returned to her room, confirmed her godhood had advanced, and tested how its enhancement affected her sword intent.
• Li Wei completed the Immortal Heng'e godhood, raising the effect of her Great Yin techniques to 1000% and her vitality to 100,000, then endured intense pain.
• A ruined side hall and its osmanthus trees in the Moon Palace began to restore themselves as Li Wei completed her godhood.
• Eternal Night awakened and sensed an old acquaintance, while Master Beiku questioned whether it meant Nyx or the Great Yin Star Lord.

After gaining the divine position’s qi-and-blood bonus, Li Wei upgraded her four Lotus Swords and tested the stronger Four Seasons Sword Array. She returned to base to find that Commander Li wanted her at Pebble Fortress immediately.

• Li Wei discovered that the divine position had let her body hold ten times more qi and blood without visibly changing her acupoints or meridians.
• Li Wei spent 400,000 essence points upgrading the four Lotus Swords to the Growth stage and gained deeper knowledge of the Four Seasons Sword Array.
• Li Wei tested the upgraded array in a secluded valley, finding that its range could reach nearly one thousand meters but that its qi-and-blood consumption became enormous.
• Li Wei tested the array’s Sword Qi on boulders, then recalled the swords and replenished the qi and blood she had spent.
• Qin Lan told Li Wei that Commander Li wanted her to report to Pebble Fortress immediately.

Li Wei endured a morning of theoretical training and learned that her role in Operation: Channel Reclamation was to protect construction of Dragon Tooth Bunkers and installation of Resonance Devices. At the abyss channel, Yun Heng and Master Beiku debated the odds of war before Beiku abruptly vanished, leaving Yun Heng stunned.

• Chen Jianwen led Li Wei through lessons on abyssal distortion, Resonance Devices, bunker layouts, and decades of frontier tactics.
• Chen Jianwen told Li Wei her task in the operation was to cover the construction of Dragon Tooth Bunkers and installation of Resonance Devices.
• Yun Heng and Master Beiku played chess above the abyss channel while discussing the forces humanity could assemble and the enemy’s advantage among Seventh and Eighth Order fighters.
• Master Beiku shattered the chessboard, disappeared, and accused Yun Heng of having a black heart.
• Yun Heng rose and stared toward the channel and the abyss, looking faintly stunned.

Yongye and Beiku discussed Yun Heng’s possible schemes and Yongye agreed to seek a Supreme’s attention. Meanwhile, Li Wei toured Dragon Tooth Bunker, then used the Yun Token to open a passage to the Heavenly Ruins, leaving her consciousness about to enter.

• Beiku told Yongye that Yun Heng might be testing humanity, forcing Hua Nation into a desperate situation, and using unfamiliar experts to kill through another’s hand.
• Beiku persuaded Yongye to visit a Supreme for help, and Yongye departed after telling Beiku to keep tormenting Great Dream.
• Li Wei toured Dragon Tooth Bunker, seeing its costly Resonance Device, underground transport tunnels, and troop-transport facilities.
• Back at the 19th Army’s station, Li Wei read Teacher Ma’s instructions on using the Yun Token and prepared to visit the Heavenly Ruins marketplace.
• Li Wei placed the Yun Token against her forehead, established a connection in her sea of consciousness, and opened the azure-lit passage.

Li Wei reached the Heavenly Ruins Marketplace, where Earth Virtue Star Lord Tude tried to sell her an information tablet. The encounter revealed that her guide was supposed to give her start-up Incense Money, but Li Wei had arrived without any.

• Li Wei saw the Jade Emperor, Queen Mother, and two other immortals cross Cloud Bridge, but they ignored her questions about how to use it.
• Li Wei walked to the Marketplace and found its rows of empty, humble stalls jarringly different from the surrounding immortal palaces.
• Tude introduced himself as the Earth Virtue Star Lord and offered Li Wei an information tablet for thirty Incense Money.
• Li Wei admitted she did not know what Incense Money was or have any, and Tude accused her guide of failing to provide her start-up funds.

Earth Virtue Star Lord explained Incense Money and the minor worlds of the Celestial River to Li Wei, then taught her how to control the Cloud Path. Li Wei flew without triggering the forbidden-flight punishment, while Earth Virtue was struck by lightning when he tried to fly himself.

• Earth Virtue Star Lord used his Cloud Token to store his stall goods and took Li Wei to a pavilion to explain Incense Money and the minor worlds in the Celestial River.
• Earth Virtue offered Li Wei a stone slab for twenty Incense Money, but she declined and asked him about the Heaven Ruins organization instead.
• Li Wei asked Earth Virtue to teach her how to control the Cloud Path, and he showed her a set of hand seals and a sensing method.
• Li Wei practiced and rose into the air on a cloud without triggering the expected thunder punishment.
• Earth Virtue tried to fly using his Grandmaster-level cultivation, but lightning struck him and sent him crashing to the ground.

At Yaochi, Gu Jinzhi and Shen Yaochi tried to negotiate Mazu’s support, but Ma Sirui challenged their authority and a mysterious woman repeatedly flew overhead on a noisy auspicious cloud. Ma Sirui tried to attack the woman and was overwhelmed by a deadly premonition, collapsing as her sword fell.

• Shen Yaochi asked Mazu to spread the Jade Emperor’s orthodoxy, but Ma Sirui mocked the request and questioned the Jade Emperor’s authority.
• Mazu asked whether Shen Yaochi’s proposal was Gu Jinzhi’s intention, and Gu Jinzhi prepared to answer.
• A woman on an auspicious cloud roared over the group twice, leaving a fixed letter S in the sky and startling the deities.
• Mazu offered to consider the proposal if Gu Jinzhi and Shen Yaochi could provide benefits, but the woman flew past again and left a letter B beside the S.
• Ma Sirui drew her sword toward the woman, felt certain she would die, and collapsed as her sword clattered onto the jade platform.

Li Wei learned about Heavenly Ruins’ factions and the closed Marketplace while asking Earth Virtue Star Lord about her cloud token. Before she left, he offered her a way to earn five thousand Incense Money.

• Li Wei discovered that her cloud token held a small storage space, and Earth Virtue Star Lord admitted that the stone tablet he had tried to sell her was useless.
• Earth Virtue Star Lord explained that Heavenly Ruins’ members were divided among aristocratic families, the Reconstruction Faction, and a neutral faction that included the Seafood Faction.
• Earth Virtue Star Lord told Li Wei that the aristocratic families faction had closed the Marketplace after failing to seize the Jade Emperor divine position.
• As Li Wei prepared to leave, Earth Virtue Star Lord noticed her white cloud token and asked about her strength, then offered her a chance to earn five thousand Incense Money.

Li Wei left the Heavenly Ruins and was jolted into action by a midnight assembly horn. Meanwhile, Zhang Queling helped her friend Yao Zhixue abandon a hopeless rescue attempt and resolve to escape the city and seek revenge.

• Li Wei celebrated her rewards from the Heavenly Ruins, then hurried into her combat uniform when an assembly horn sounded and demanded to know where Little Sea Urchin was.
• Zhang Queling urged Yao Zhixue to stop crying over a city massacre after three failed attempts to save its civilians.
• Zhang Queling showed Yao Zhixue a map of the city and offered to lead a breakout using the intelligence gathered from earlier attempts.
• Yao Zhixue admitted no one could save the civilians, but said she did not want to give up on the world and wanted revenge.
• Zhang Queling agreed to help Yao Zhixue escape the encirclement and target the killers through gradual assassinations.

Zhang Queling entered Yao Zhixue’s hidden safehouse beneath a dry well, endured the surge of her friend’s emotions, and found a group of rescued civilians in danger of being discovered. After promising to draw the enemy away, she sealed the safehouse and climbed out of the well alone.

• Zhang Queling regained control after Yao Zhixue’s emotions overwhelmed her and found herself in a stone chamber beneath a dry well.
• Yao Zhixue told Zhang Queling that the safehouse held civilians rescued from the city and that enemies might discover them within hours.
• Uncle Dan and the civilians urged Zhang Queling to escape Yangzhou, but she ordered them to stay quiet and protect one another.
• Zhang Queling promised to lure the enemy away, sealed the stone entrance, concealed it, and climbed toward the wellhead.

Zhang Queling crossed a ruined residence and slaughtered the Tartar soldiers inside, then continued toward the eastern battlefield. Master Beiku and Yun Heng watched her power emerge and ended the chapter negotiating a meeting with her.

• Zhang Queling climbed into a garden and found a headless corpse and a woman's head in the lotus pond.
• Yao Zhixue guided Zhang Queling toward the main courtyard, where Tartar soldiers were torturing and killing people.
• Zhang Queling killed the soldiers with her zhanmadao and leaped over another wall toward the battlefield.
• Master Beiku and Yun Heng discussed Zhang Queling's unusual blood and qi as they watched her fight.
• Zhang Queling unleashed forty meters of sword intent, freezing thousands of abyssal monsters on the eastern front.
• Master Beiku asked Yun Heng to arrange a meeting with Zhang Queling, and Yun Heng demanded an admission fee.

Zhang Queling broke through a barbarian patrol while fleeing, as the eastern front remained strangely quiet around an attention seeker surrounded by abyssal monsters. Li Huaiyuan discussed Zhang Yansheng’s transfer and possible departures before learning that Jiang Xue had brought her army group’s band to the forward position for accompaniment.

• Zhang Queling smashed through a courtyard wall, killed a barbarian squad, and escaped after a signal flare alerted nearby soldiers.
• Zhang Queling wounded a white-clad man with a Zhanmadao, but a black-clad man pulled him away with a chain and pursued her.
• The injured white-clad man fired a blood-colored signal flare as Zhang Queling continued fleeing.
• At the eastern defense line, Li Huaiyuan and Zhang Yansheng watched abyssal monsters loosely surround an attention seeker while the Fifth Army Group held its fire.
• Li Huaiyuan told Zhang Yansheng that leaving the Western Frontier might be for the best, and Zhang Yansheng asked whether Li Huaiyuan would leave too.
• Li Huaiyuan learned from Hu Rucai that Jiang Xue had requested the army group’s band at the forward position to improve her presence.

Zhang Queling fought her way through Tartar forces toward Tongji Gate, using her knowledge from previous resets to ambush the Blood Ghost General. Happy Maitreya interrupted her attack, and she fled into another alley to continue her escape.

• Zhang Queling killed a Tartar officer, broke through a house, and followed Yao Zhixue's directions toward Tongji Gate.
• Zhang Queling recognized the pursuing Blood Ghost General and decided to attack him rather than flee.
• Zhang Queling used Diamond Body and struck the Blood Ghost General, breaking his mace and badly wounding him.
• Happy Maitreya stopped Zhang Queling's finishing blow with a Buddhist sonic attack and attacked her.
• Zhang Queling met Happy Maitreya's palms with her Zhanmadao, used the impact to retreat, and escaped into another alley.

Li Wei encountered Master Beiku, who revealed that he had been controlling the sea urchins to help her fight them. After learning this, she returned with a musical accompaniment and asked to take him as her adoptive father, leaving everyone stunned.

• Happy Maitreya ordered the Jianghu fighters to pursue Zhang Queling, while the wounded giant threatened to exterminate their clans if they retreated again.
• Li Wei grew bored grinding sea urchins and asked the military band to replace its soothing music with a rousing military symphony.
• Master Beiku formed from the battlefield's black blood, but Li Wei's sword strikes destroyed him twice before Yun Heng told her a Senior Mighty Figure wanted to meet her.
• Master Beiku reappeared in the form of a handsome monk and told Li Wei that he had gathered the sea urchins for her to kill since September 2.
• Li Wei arranged for Purine's Little Tune to play, then bowed and asked Master Beiku to become her adoptive father, shocking Yun Heng, Li Huaiyuan, Zhang Yansheng, Li Guitang, and Zhang Luye.

Li Wei negotiated with Master Beiku to send Abyssal monsters for her to practice against, while he agreed to let Yun Heng’s forces advance one layer into Dragon Tooth Bunker. The chapter ended with Yun Heng revealing that Li Wei’s encounters were the price Master Beiku charged for watching her.

• Li Wei asked Master Beiku why he wanted to help her, and he said he wished to form a good connection with her.
• Li Wei called Master Beiku her adoptive father and bargained for regular Abyssal monsters to use as practice; they agreed on five days a week, with one extra hour of practice each day.
• Master Beiku told Li Wei that Yun Heng’s battle plan in October would bring countless monsters, then vanished into black slime after calling her naive.
• Yun Heng told Li Guitang that Master Beiku had agreed to let their forces advance one layer into Dragon Tooth Bunker without interference.
• Yun Heng explained that Li Wei’s encounters with Abyssal monsters were the ticket price for Master Beiku to watch the spectacle.