Chapter Summaries

Worn down by relentless attacks as she raced toward Tongji Gate, Zhang Queling discovered the mass of murdered civilians that stopped her in her tracks. A monk’s voice nearly subdued her, but Yao Zhixue’s hatred broke its hold and triggered Zhang Queling’s Diamond Mountain Breaker.

• Zhang Queling fought through waves of suicidal pursuers, killing martial artists while conserving her strength to reach Tongji Gate and help Yao Zhixue escape.
• After fifteen minutes of pursuit, Zhang Queling killed the Crimson Flame Duo and continued toward the gate despite her worsening injuries and exhaustion.
• Zhang Queling broke through a wall and found a training ground covered with mounds of corpses, including many naked female victims.
• A fat monk landed atop the corpses and used his Buddhist voice to weaken Zhang Queling until she could barely hold her Zhanmadao.
• Zhang Queling urged Yao Zhixue to release her hatred, and Yao’s cries shattered the monk’s influence and unleashed a surge of qi and blood.
• Zhang Queling activated Diamond Mountain Breaker as her power surged toward a possible breakthrough to the Fourth Order.

Zhang Queling slaughtered her way through the martial artists while possessed, then escaped toward Tongji Gate before collapsing and logging off. Back in the Heavenly River, Yao Zhixue found her badly injured, and they decided to seek Nezha’s help before Earth Virtue Star Lord appeared.

• Zhang Queling repelled the hidden weapons, killed many martial artists, and knocked the fat monk and Blood Ghost General from the corpse pile.
• Zhang Queling fought through the remaining attackers and fled toward Tongji Gate, but soldiers ambushed her until she collapsed in a courtyard.
• The fat monk tried to capture Zhang Queling and demanded that she reveal her secret technique, but she logged off after telling him to wait.
• Yao Zhixue found Zhang Queling injured on the bridge in the Heavenly River and tearfully apologized as Zhang Queling regained consciousness.
• Zhang Queling asked about their remaining talismans and decided they should find Nezha to help break through the encirclement.
• Earth Virtue Star Lord appeared beside them at the end of the ruined bridge.

Li Wei accepted a substitute-fighting mission from the Third Holy Mother to break out of a city caught in a massacre, despite her doubts about the clients’ confidence in her. After preparing to enter the small world, she let Yao Zhixue activate the talismans and followed their pull into the vortex.

• Li Wei met Earth Virtue Star Lord Tude, who explained that substitute fighting used talismans to send her into a small world to handle a client’s problem.
• Tude told Li Wei that the Third Holy Mother’s mission had changed from rescuing civilians to breaking out of the besieged city, with the reward reduced to three thousand.
• At the Celestial River, Zhang Queling doubted Li Wei’s ability, but Yao Zhixue reminded her that Tude would not accept a mission likely to fail, and Zhang agreed to proceed.
• Li Wei refused a tactical briefing and heard Zhang warn that the original owner’s lingering emotional memories would affect her after she entered the small world.
• Tude and Zhang placed their souls in a bead carried by Li Wei, and Yao activated the talismans before Li Wei voluntarily entered the vortex.

After memories of the Qing massacres in Yangzhou overwhelmed Li Wei, she abandoned her plan to break through and declared she would destroy the Qing regime. Inside the soul pearl, Yao Zhixue and Zhang Queling worried about her, while Tude insisted she was a formidable figure.

• Li Wei emerged from teleportation in Yangzhou and was overwhelmed by memories of massacres and atrocities committed by Qing forces.
• Li Wei named the massacres and Qing commanders she remembered, then laughed as Yao Zhixue timidly asked whether they should set off to break through.
• Uncle Dan, an old woman, and the child urged Li Wei to leave without them, but the child asked whether she would return.
• Li Wei reassured the child that everything was over and said she would destroy their country, exterminate their race, and cut off their lineage.
• Inside the soul pearl, Yao Zhixue asked Tude and Zhang Queling to persuade Li Wei, while Tude insisted she was a bigshot among bigshots.

Li Wei awakened the complete Four Seasons Sword Array above Yangzhou and covered the city in a deadly lotus field. She left Happy Maitreya reduced to a skeleton, while the city remained sealed by the array.

• Li Wei flew from the dry well as a huge full moon appeared over Yangzhou, and the city's fighting stopped beneath her presence.
• Li Wei spent four million essence to solidify the four Lotus Swords and break through the barrier preventing her from summoning the array foundation.
• Li Wei placed the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Swords at Yangzhou's four gates, then spread a four-colored sea of lotuses across the city.
• Li Wei heard the others describe the visions they saw through the White Jade Mask and recognized that it had concealed the Sword Array's appearance.
• Li Wei appeared before Happy Maitreya in a Buddhist temple and killed him with the Sword Array, leaving only his skeleton.

Li Wei massacred Qing forces across Yangzhou and killed Dodo, the man who ordered the massacre, while freeing the surviving women. She flew north, declaring that she would destroy the Qing country, people, and descendants.

• Li Wei slaughtered Fucha Ming'an and his generals aboard a pleasure boat after finding the bodies of abused women.
• She walked through Yangzhou, killing Qing soldiers in the streets and the men gathered at the Hua residence.
• Li Wei entered the Yangzhou Prefectural Office, mutilated Dodo, and carried him above the city as she destroyed Qing troops throughout Yangzhou.
• She left Dodo, dismembered and dying, for the surviving women, then flew north as Yangzhou's people prayed and thanked her.
• Li Wei told Zhang Queling that she intended to destroy the Qing country, annihilate its people, and extinguish its descendants.

After returning from the Heavenly River Small World, Li Wei wondered whether Blue Star was connected to Earth and studied the power of her complete Four Seasons Sword Array. The chapter ended with Jiang Xinyue calling and demanding to know what Li Wei had done.

• Li Wei collected the Incense Money Yao Zhixue had left and accepted her promise to transfer future earnings.
• Zhang Queling and Yao Zhixue wondered whether Li Wei was Little Bodhisattva, while Tude argued that her power surpassed that of a third-tier expert.
• Li Wei returned to the base and questioned whether Blue Star might be Earth in the distant future, then planned to ask Old Gu about her suspicions.
• Li Wei realized the complete Four Seasons Sword Array covered more than three thousand meters while using far less qi and blood.
• Li Wei answered a late-night call expecting Little Sea Urchin, but Jiang Xinyue shouted, "What have you done—!!!"

Li Wei learned that using the complete sword array had drained nearly one-tenth of the Lotus Pond’s stored energy, and Jiang Xinyue warned her not to use the array foundation except in a life-or-death crisis. The next morning, Li Wei found out her mistaken belief that a livestream was prerecorded had made her an internet meme, then heard that prominent families were gathering around the Western Frontier conflict before heading out to grind monsters.

• Jiang Xinyue confronted Li Wei about draining the Lotus Pond’s energy and ordered her not to use the array foundation except in a life-or-death crisis.
• Jiang Xinyue told Li Wei that her videos had made her famous in D Station’s Meme Zone, then ended the call.
• Li Wei called Liang Qiushi the next morning and learned she had mistakenly thought her livestream during the Arctic Alliance Counterattack Battle was prerecorded.
• Liang Qiushi warned Li Wei that prominent families and Martial Immortals were involved in the dispute over the Western Frontier, but Li Wei dismissed them as clowns.
• Li Wei ate a fried egg and headed for the helipad to grind her daily little sea urchins.

After three nights of rampaging through nearly every low-tier Heavenly River Small World, Jiang Xue was summoned to Bedrock Fortress, where Li Huaiyuan told her he was transferring away and warned her about his successor. He saluted her for saving Western Frontier soldiers, and Jiang Xue returned the salute.

• Jiang Xue spent three days accompanying the little sea urchin by day and wreaking havoc across 101 small worlds by night.
• The Command Department summoned Jiang Xue to Bedrock Fortress, where she found Li Huaiyuan’s office almost completely cleared out.
• Li Huaiyuan scolded Jiang Xue for disrupting the front-line troops, then revealed he was transferring to the Darwin War Zone for two years.
• Li Huaiyuan warned Jiang Xue that General Yang Siwen, a Grandmaster and renowned commander, would replace him, but Jiang Xue dismissed the need for a new commander.
• Li Huaiyuan thanked Jiang Xue for her contributions and saluted her on behalf of Western Frontier soldiers; Jiang Xue returned his salute.

Two days after Yang Siwen became General Commander, he warned Liu Songming not to provoke Jiang Xue and explained that their faction had to protect the benefits they gained from the personnel change. Yang Siwen planned to attend the Peach Banquet with Thunder God and test the newly appeared Jade Emperor.

• Liu Songming complained about Jiang Xue and urged Yang Siwen to punish her, but Yang Siwen warned that she had powerful people watching over her.
• Yang Siwen told Liu Songming they were there to “pluck peaches” and must not cause trouble for Senior Yun, who had enabled the personnel change.
• Liu Songming questioned whether they should support the Jade Emperor at the Peach Banquet, and Yang Siwen stopped him from speaking disrespectfully about the figure stationed above the Western Frontier.
• Yang Siwen told Liu Songming he would not attend the banquet and said he would go with Thunder God and the others to assess the Jade Emperor.

Li Wei traveled with Ma Baoguo to a banquet at the Jade Pool, where he warned her that Liu Songming might seek revenge. As the gathering began, Ma Sirui and Mazu discussed the vanished Heavenly River restrictions and wondered whether the Jade Emperor had caused them.

• Ma Baoguo warned Li Wei that Liu Songming was the grandfather of the Liu Feibai she had crippled and might retaliate, but she said she could protect herself.
• Ma Baoguo told Li Wei that the restrictions across the Heavenly River realms had vanished, and he suspected she was responsible rather than the Jade Emperor.
• Li Wei and Ma Baoguo arrived at the Jade Pool banquet, where Li Wei joined Third Holy Mother and He Xian Gu while Ma Baoguo took his place in the middle tier.
• Ma Sirui questioned Ma Baoguo about arriving with Chang'e and whether he had invited Jiang Xue; he denied that Chang'e was Jiang Xue and said Jiang Xue had refused.
• Mazu told Ma Sirui that the vanished restrictions had thrown her missionary arrangements into chaos, and Ma Sirui wondered whether the Jade Emperor had caused it.

At the Peach Banquet, Yang Siwen and Nine Heavens Thunder God plotted to test the new Jade Emperor by using Chang'e Fairy, while Li Wei was bemused by the banquet’s ordinary food and drink. The Jade Emperor’s arrival began in spectacular fashion, leaving Li Wei’s curse unnoticed despite the Immortal Palace’s rules.

• Yang Siwen and Nine Heavens Thunder God agreed to investigate the Jade Emperor’s origins and avoid confronting him until they knew his influence.
• When Chang'e Fairy arrived, the faction planned to make Giant Spirit God propose that she dance, intending to embarrass the Jade Emperor whether she accepted or refused.
• Li Wei found a supermarket sticker on her peach and learned from Yao Zhixue and He Xian Gu that the banquet’s refreshments were ordinary store-bought foods and drinks.
• A ceremonial chime silenced the banquet, and two magnificent immortal chariots descended toward the Jade Pool.
• Li Wei blurted out a curse at the spectacle, but the Immortal Palace’s rules did not appear to react.

At the Jade Lake banquet, Li Wei violently rebuffed Giant Spirit God and the aristocratic faction when they demanded that she dance. After Nine Heavens Thunder God called her a “bitch,” heavenly punishment destroyed him and nearby faction members while leaving Li Wei unharmed.

• Jade Emperor and Queen Mother took their seats, and their divine authority compelled everyone but Li Wei to bow before they invited the guests to rise.
• Giant Spirit God proposed that Li Wei dance for Jade Emperor, and Li Wei threw fruit at him and insulted him and the aristocratic faction.
• Upholder of the Kingdom Heavenly King and Earl of the Winds confronted Li Wei, but she insulted them as well.
• Nine Heavens Thunder God unleashed his divine power, and Li Wei answered by insulting him and throwing a jade pot at his head.
• After Nine Heavens Thunder God called Li Wei a “bitch,” nine bolts of heavenly lightning struck him and nearby faction members, leaving a pit and their divine-office manifestations behind while Li Wei remained unharmed.

Li Wei seized control of the Jade Pool and brutally imposed her rule, forcing Shen Yaochi to yield the Queen Mother’s seat. When she confronted the Jade Emperor, she recognized him as Gu Jinzhi, and the two joyfully reunited.

• Li Wei declared herself emperor and killed members of the Aristocratic Faction who defied her decrees.
• Li Wei’s decrees punished remonstrance and criticism, nearly wiping out the Aristocratic Faction while others failed to log off.
• Li Wei demanded the seats of honor, and Shen Yaochi stepped aside and yielded the Queen Mother’s throne.
• Li Wei kicked the Jade Emperor’s throne, then recognized Gu Jinzhi by his voice and their secret code.
• Gu Jinzhi embraced Li Wei, who lifted him and celebrated his awakening as the onlookers reacted in shock and fear.

Li Wei reunited with Gu Jinzhi in the Heavenly Ruins and learned that he had been conscious during much of their time together, then reassured him about her military service. Gu Jinzhi asked her to leave the army, but she refused and asked him how to perfect her sword technique.

• After the others left the Jade Pool, Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi embraced, and he eventually admitted he had regained consciousness when Min Zimo arrived.
• Li Wei panicked that Gu Jinzhi had heard her private remarks, but relaxed when he said he had only awakened on the day Min Zimo arrived.
• Li Wei bragged about her military victories and promotion, and Gu Jinzhi silently cried as he listened.
• Their jade masks disappeared, and Gu Jinzhi asked Li Wei to leave the army and return to the capital until he woke up; she refused.
• Li Wei asked why she could not perfect the first three swords of the Nine Moon Reflection Swords, and Gu Jinzhi explained that she had to cultivate all nine to Great Accomplishment first.

Li Wei questioned the strange differences between Blue Star’s mythology and the Heavenly Court, while trying not to reveal that she was a transmigrator. Gu Jinzhi explained that other members of the Heavenly Ruins saw nothing unusual, leading Li Wei to suspect a Thought Imprint.

• Gu Jinzhi urged Li Wei to retire from the military, but she silenced him with a chokehold and reconsidered whether to share her suspicions.
• Li Wei recalled questions about the Queen Mother’s fear of certain deity names, Blue Star’s primitive mythology, the Heavenly Court’s destruction, missing Immortal Gods, and the uncanny parallels between the myriad realms and Earth.
• Li Wei asked Gu Jinzhi about anomalies in Blue Star’s mythology, and he confirmed that he had noticed them after receiving the Jade Emperor divine position.
• Gu Jinzhi admitted that he had discussed the issue with the Queen Mother, prompting Li Wei to scold and slap him for ignoring her earlier.
• Gu Jinzhi said the Queen Mother, the Mysterious Maiden, Min Zimo, and Su Mo had never noticed anything strange, and Li Wei suggested a Thought Imprint.

Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi discussed the Thought Imprint and suspected surviving Immortal Gods had imposed it on humanity to erase their memory of them. After Li Wei logged off, Gu Jinzhi concealed his emotions and turned his attention to restoring the White Jade Mask.

• Gu Jinzhi explained that his Jade Emperor inheritance had helped him notice the abnormalities in Blue Star's mythology and break the Thought Imprint.
• Gu Jinzhi described missing divine positions, inconsistent inheritances and Magic Treasures, and the unexplained absence of the Three Pure Ones.
• Gu Jinzhi proposed that surviving Immortal Gods had imposed the Thought Imprint on humanity to prevent people from remembering them, and linked their purpose to the Abyss and humanity's hardships.
• Li Wei pledged to grow stronger while Gu Jinzhi investigated, then teased him after catching him staring at her chest.
• Li Wei arranged to meet Gu Jinzhi at the Moon Palace the next night and logged off; Gu Jinzhi watched her disappear and cried.
• Gu Jinzhi summoned an ancient scroll and put on the White Jade Mask, muttering that it needed restoration before the Heavenly Ruins fell into chaos.

Li Wei received a vague warning from Teacher Ma, then learned that a theater-wide alert had been triggered because the new General Commander and two grandmaster-level Legion Commanders had become vegetables. Uncle Yun told her through Zhang Luye to carry on as usual, so Li Wei prepared to resume monster-farming.

• Li Wei received a message from Teacher Ma telling her to act normally, but he did not answer when she asked what he meant.
• A theater-wide alert sounded, and Li Wei and Qin Lan waited at the base without knowing why it had been issued.
• Li Wei worried that the alert might stop her daily monster-farming, then tried contacting Uncle Yun and Brother Zhang for answers.
• Zhang Luye told Li Wei that Yang Siwen and two grandmaster-level major general Legion Commanders had become vegetables, and that Uncle Yun and Senior Li Wei had gone to the Rock-Solid Fortress.
• Zhang Luye relayed Uncle Yun's instruction for Li Wei to carry on as usual, and Li Wei decided the alert did not prevent her from monster-farming.

Yun Heng learned that the aristocratic faction had suffered mass deaths and disappearances, so he ordered Li Guitang to secure the capital while he moved up the war’s start date. In the Heavenly Ruins, Gu Jinzhi confirmed that Chang’e was his wife and openly supported her actions despite Shen Yaochi’s concerns.

• Yun Heng and Li Guitang concluded that Yang Siwen and two other leaders had lost their souls, and ruled out Eternal Night as the culprit.
• Yun Heng received a report that the aristocratic faction had lost two Grandmasters, six Masters, and fifty-nine gifted descendants to death or disappearance.
• Yun Heng sent Li Guitang to the Imperial Capital to hold off Zhou Qing and Yang Hanshan, then announced that the war would begin in three days.
• Mazu pledged the Sea God Church’s allegiance to the Jade Emperor, while Gu Jinzhi paid little attention and thought of Chang’e.
• Shen Yaochi asked Gu Jinzhi to rein in Chang’e, but he declared her his wife, defended her actions, and left after lightning interrupted Shen Yaochi’s warnings.

Yongye met with Master Beiku, who explained a plan to lure the humans into investing heavily in fortifications before launching a decisive battle. Yongye expanded the plan to involve nearly all their forces, leaving Master Beiku to accept his command.

• Yongye appeared in the void, where Master Beiku told him Da Meng had died and presented Da Meng's core as a gift.
• Yongye revealed that he had met Hei and assured Master Beiku that Hei was stable and would not devour him.
• Yongye sensed that the humans were advancing their fortifications, and Master Beiku explained that they intended to let the humans build up sunk costs before striking.
• Master Beiku proposed using the first circuit as bait, gradually increasing pressure, and launching a decisive battle when the humans seemed close to victory.
• Master Beiku outlined a plan to draw human Above Ninth Order experts into battle near the passage while Seventh and Eighth Order forces infiltrated in advance.
• Yongye ordered everyone at or above the Third Stage to join the decisive battle, insisting on absolute superiority, and Master Beiku bowed in agreement.