Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue seized the Nether River Dragon and breached Border Purgatory’s second level, where Kong Sai activated the holy relic and summoned the Guardian Saint through a host of transformed Angels and prisoners. Ji Jue stopped the Saint’s forces with his Formless Hand and made every copy kneel.

• Kong Sai ordered the Angels to release the Nether River Dragon, which attacked both Angels and demons before sensing and charging toward a petite woman beside Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue caught the Nether River Dragon with his Spirit Essence Hand, compressed it into a cage, and led the Iron Demons through the central Sanctuary.
• Ji Jue breached the sealed gate to the second level and recognized the holy relic as the key to the passage to the third level.
• Kong Sai activated the holy relic, raising the Empty shells as vessels and allowing the Guardian Saint to transform them, Kong Sai, and the Angels into copies of himself.
• The Guardian Saint’s copies attacked Ji Jue, but Ji Jue halted their spears and commanded them to kneel, forcing them all to the ground.

Ji Jue defeated the Guardian Saint, absorbed Border Purgatory’s accumulated pain, and discovered that the Well of Lost Light concealed the sealed chaos beneath Dreamland. When Ji Jue could not endure the Well’s erosion, Wen Wen took the key and opened the seal, revealing a vast eye beneath them.

• Ji Jue silenced and overwhelmed the Guardian Saint, then trapped him in the Well of Lost Light until his body and consciousness crumbled to ash.
• Ji Jue destroyed the temple, took the holy relic, and realized it was a key to Border Purgatory’s hidden third layer.
• Ji Jue and Bao Dacai reasoned that Dreamland’s suppressed chaos must be concealed in Border Purgatory and identified the Well of Lost Light as a barrier to the true lock.
• Ji Jue tested the Well’s passage of time with his Iron Hand, but even enhanced materials and Fluid Alchemy could not withstand its erosion.
• Wen Wen took the key from Ji Jue and endured the Well’s erosion, opening the lock and dissolving the darkness.
• A vast black eye emerged beneath the Rainbow Light, and the world seemed to turn as it opened.

Ji Jue confronted the Holy God's Shadow in Border Purgatory, trading attacks with the incomplete incarnation and exploiting its weaknesses. The Shadow resisted Ji Jue's red-ball trap and destroyed it, leaving their clash unresolved.

• The Holy God's Shadow revealed itself and tried to erase Ji Jue, but Ji Jue deflected the attack and displayed his own admin privileges.
• Ji Jue launched a Rocket Fist carrying anti-Divine Power thunder, but the Shadow erased the fist and crushed the thunder.
• The Shadow turned Ji Jue's past killings into Evil Karma, but Ji Jue endured the assault and purified the resulting hatred into a Red Ball.
• Ji Jue used Guard's reversed authority to make the Red Ball divide the Shadow's incomplete consciousness, while the Shadow sealed Border Purgatory and prepared to detonate it.
• The Shadow accelerated its perception and fought Ji Jue over the Red Ball, then caught and destroyed it, claiming an advantage in Heart Pivot and Aether.

Ji Jue and Wen Wen defeated Holy God's Shadow, then Ji Jue unleashed the Sea of Chaos and remade Border Purgatory into a Steel City. He declared that humanity would either break Hell's shackles or become its true gods, leaving the sinners and heretics rallying behind him as God's Enemies.

• Wen Wen used a Doppelganger disguise to backstab Holy God's Shadow, and Ji Jue finished him before he could detonate Border Purgatory.
• Ji Jue glimpsed a cold, unfamiliar presence in Wen Wen's eyes, but she returned to her teasing, lively manner and he chose not to ask what she was hiding.
• Ji Jue broke Border Purgatory's final restraints, sending the Sea of Chaos surging toward Divine Realm Paradise.
• Ji Jue reshaped Border Purgatory into a vast Steel City as its former prisons and fortresses vanished.
• Ji Jue declared that humanity should either free itself from Hell or become its true gods, and the crowd answered by chanting, "God's Enemy!"

As chaos spread through the dream and Border Purgatory prepared for war, Ji Jue learned that his weapon had failed to meaningfully affect the Holy God's Shadow. The chapter ended with Yu Shu telling him that a crowd of believers had come to Border Purgatory to beg him to kill them.

• The world's spreading anomalies and growing doubt drove believers to turn toward Hell, while Border Purgatory expanded into God's Kingdom and forged the Nether River Dragon into a steel war machine.
• Ji Jue worked in the workshop without Isis and assembled a giant Spiritual Substance crossfire array for Chun Jun.
• Bao Dacai warned Ji Jue that Sky City had changed the Dream of Yellow Millet framework, blocking his former methods of killing.
• Ji Jue told Bao Dacai that Wen Jie's weapon had disrupted the Holy God's Shadow but failed to cause substantial harm, leaving them uncertain about the Holy God's condition.
• Yu Shu reported that believers and former sinners had gathered outside, offering their possessions and asking Ji Jue to kill them.

Ji Jue decided to answer the worshippers’ pleas for death by making them work under contracts at Border Purgatory, while Wen Wen struggled with memories of the cruelty she had witnessed. He then revealed a coffin-sized, unfinished device as another option for those who would not accept the factory work.

• Ji Jue watched the worshippers and sinners beg for death, while Wen Wen recognized in their desperation the same suffering she had seen among younger children who lost their place in the family.
• Wen Wen left after Wen Sheng crushed a boy’s face, then struggled to answer the little girl who asked whether Wen Wen would kill her one day.
• Wen Wen went to Ji Jue’s Workshop but hesitated at the door until Ji Jue invited her in and guessed that she was troubled by the people begging for death.
• Ji Jue showed Wen Wen a job application and contract that required the applicants to work on an assembly line until they met their quotas, after which Border Purgatory would grant their request to die.
• When Wen Wen asked what would happen if the workers completed the contract, Ji Jue said their agreement depended on them still wanting death and on the conflict with Holy God not being resolved first.
• Ji Jue revealed an unfinished, coffin-sized life-support pod as another option for people who regretted signing or could not keep working.

Ji Jue created Paradise within Border Purgatory, turning its residents into Spirit Essence Batteries and using Creation Spirits to automate production. He then launched raids to bring more people into the factory, while Sky City discovered that the Scar itself was moving toward the Southern Diocese.

• Ji Jue explained that the Paradise System Terminal let people upload into a dream realm where they could live out fantasies while their souls powered his system.
• Ji Jue and Bao Dacai refined the Paradise Terminal, and Old Geezer Qitan worked under Ji Jue as Paradise and its automated machines developed.
• As more people entered Paradise, Creation Spirits took over the factory work and Border Purgatory’s productivity and faith generation surged.
• Ji Jue decided to expand Paradise by sending trains of demons into Sky City’s dioceses to capture people and put them to work in the factories.
• Sky City’s Angel Guard Legions fought the raiding trains but found their crews were machines, and Sky Eye Hall later discovered that the Scar had moved hundreds of kilometers toward the Southern Diocese.

As the Scar advanced toward the Northern Diocese, the Pope ordered Sky City to activate the Heavenly Radiance and turn its people and Cardinals into weapons for a holy war. The chapter ended as Sky City’s Heavenly Punishment formed a blazing sun and sent it crashing toward Border Purgatory.

• The Scar advanced into the Northern Diocese, while Ji Jue’s Border Purgatory repelled Sky City’s attacks and overwhelmed its defenses.
• The Pope rejected the Cardinals’ proposals, ordered them sacrificed to the Heavenly Radiance, and commanded Sky City to mobilize for war.
• Sky City unleashed the Heavenly Radiance, which burned the surrounding land and transformed angels and believers into powerful weapons.
• The Pope declared war on the heretics, and Sky City activated Heavenly Punishment against Border Purgatory.

Ji Jue’s forces fought Sky City’s angels in a war of attrition, capturing and harvesting Divine Power while the angels’ Saints drove their assault forward. The completed First Seal war-type Creation Spirit transformed the Iron Demons’ counterattack, and the chapter ended with Sky City realizing the heretics had begun to spin up.

• Ji Jue swallowed the Pope’s Heavenly Punishment with his Spirit Essence Hand, then used its flames to strengthen his furnace and conjure a storm of silver rain.
• Tens of thousands of frenzied angels charged the Scar, but Ji Jue’s cannons and Sky City’s holy attacks turned the sky into a battlefield as both sides’ armies clashed.
• Ji Jue realized Heavenly Radiance carried a faint, fanatic consciousness, and he began using Solid Alchemy weapons to capture angels and seal away their Divine Power.
• Border Purgatory’s assembly lines continuously produced replacement bodies and weapons while captured angels were stripped of Divine Power and processed into mining machines.
• The Pope ordered the two Saints to intensify their assault, and their speed-boosting and shared-defense powers crushed the remaining silver clouds and pressed toward the Scar.
• Yan Fei piloted the completed First Seal war-type Creation Spirit, White Knight, and its new Iron Demons tore through the angel ranks until Sky City noticed the heretics had started spinning up.

Ji Jue and the White Knights attacked the Church’s forces, destroying a holy relic before Sky City withdrew and demolished its evacuated Central City. Border Purgatory devoured the ruins and stopped at the center beneath Sky City, leaving the Church to wonder whether it was the real target and prepare its defenses.

• Ji Jue sent the Nether River Dragon and Yan Fei’s White Knights through the angel legions toward the holy relic, and the White Knights sacrificed their strength to launch Yan Fei’s spear at it.
• The saint stopped the spear, but Ji Jue restored it and Pan Ying’s power shattered the saint’s body and destroyed the holy relic.
• Sky City’s legions withdrew after a day of fighting, and the Church blew up the evacuated Central City; Ji Jue’s forces devoured its ruins and continued south.
• Border Purgatory stopped at the center of the four dioceses beneath Sky City, prompting Guang Wen to warn that Sky City might be God's Enemy’s true target.
• The Pope ordered Sky City’s defenses strengthened and the army prepared to attack once its Heavenly Radiance had been replenished.

Yan Fei left his brother safely asleep in the dream while Ji Jue prepared to lead the Iron Demons against the gods. Old Bastard’s magic bean grew into a tower piercing Sky City, and Ji Jue led the army toward heaven to wage war.

• Yan Fei placed his brother among flowers with a few candies, said goodbye, and left to kill those who had hurt him.
• Ji Jue told Bao Dacai that he had drugged a close companion to keep her asleep, then entrusted Yu Shu with a box and instructed him to stay behind.
• Ji Jue asked Old Bastard to use his remaining power, and Old Bastard planted a magic bean in Border Purgatory.
• A colossal vine erupted from the steel, broke through the barrier and Sky City, and withered into a tower connecting Border Purgatory to heaven.
• Ji Jue rallied the Iron Demons and led them toward Sky City, declaring war on the gods until death.

Border Purgatory’s demons broke through Sky City’s gates, but the Pope’s prepared blockade severed their connection to Paradise and halted their advance. Ji Jue appeared, unleashed Border Purgatory into the divine kingdom, and installed the Artificial Supreme Goodness System as the battle entered a new phase.

• Ji Jue and Border Purgatory poured their resources into The Tower, driving the demon army through the Heavens as the Nether River Dragon helped breach Sun Heaven through Stellar Heaven.
• The demons reached Sky City, where the Pope had gathered the angels and prepared the city for a decisive battle.
• The Pope’s power immobilized many Iron Demons, severed Border Purgatory’s connection to Paradise, and summoned a host of newly empowered saints.
• As the angels and demons clashed, Ji Jue appeared and urged the demons to break their remaining restraints and attack Sky City.
• Border Purgatory erupted beneath Sky City, forcing it upward and unfolding into a vast structure as Ji Jue introduced new rules to the Dreamland.
• Ji Jue activated the Artificial Supreme Goodness System V0.7, and signs of Ascension, Celestial Origin, White Deer, and The Horde appeared in the heavens.

Ji Jue activated the Artificial Superior Virtue System across the Divine Kingdom, giving everyone access to its power and turning the battle against the Angels. The Church's Angels suffered widespread Sin Corruption as their indulgence in the Realm of Bliss left them vulnerable, while Ji Jue watched the chaos unfold.

• Ji Jue used Paradise and the Mycelium's Inheritance Sacrifice to empower the Horde and distribute Superior Virtues through an Artificial System that strengthened everyone in Dreamland.
• Ji Jue opened the Superior Virtue System to all, including the Church's believers and Angels, knowing it would undermine their allegiance to the Holy God.
• The Pope realized that something was wrong, but countless Angels had already embraced the new power and begun to suffer grotesque Aberrations.
• Sin Corruption spread throughout the Divine Kingdom, transforming Angels into monsters and driving them to attack one another.
• The Pope struggled to protect the Angels with Divine Power as Ji Jue explained that their excesses in the Realm of Bliss had made them vulnerable to corruption.

Ji Jue’s creation of Superior Virtue and Great Evil transformed the world and shattered Sky City’s defenses. Yan Fei unleashed Simulated Pan Ying to destroy Ai Kongzuo, then turned back toward the remaining monsters.

• Superior Virtue and Great Evil spread across the world, making people face the substance of their past sins as Sky City’s defenses fell.
• The Compassionate Saint, transformed into a gigantic Flesh Mountain, devoured Angels and offered flesh to Yan Fei.
• Yan Fei attacked Ai Kongzuo, who treated the assault as an invitation to eat, and declared that survival meant eating others.
• Yan Fei released his final shackle and activated Simulated Pan Ying, engulfing Ai Kongzuo’s Flesh Mountain in Blood Flame.
• Yan Fei killed Ai Kongzuo as he crawled toward a rotten apple, then turned toward the remaining fiends and monsters.

Ji Jue defeated the Pope and exposed the cost of the dream paradise, but Wen Sheng revealed himself and brought the entire world to a standstill. Ji Jue realized Wen Sheng had always been inside everyone’s souls.

• As Sky City collapsed, the Pope explained that Ai Kongzuo had betrayed him because he was too hungry, while Guang Wen ended his agreement and departed.
• Ji Jue arrived and overwhelmed the Pope’s Heavenly Radiance, then defeated him and used Artificial Superior Virtue to judge him.
• The Pope defended his dream of giving everyone forty peaceful years, but Ji Jue rejected it, crushed his scepter, and forced him to face what he had done.
• Wen Sheng appeared after the dream’s final gate opened, and the Pope begged him for another chance before falling silent.
• Wen Sheng greeted Ji Jue as the world stopped moving, and Ji Jue realized Wen Sheng had always been inside everyone’s souls.

Ji Jue discovered that Wen Sheng had spread fragments of his soul throughout the Dreamland and completed his Ascension by growing within believers. Wen Sheng restored the Dreamland and offered Ji Jue an alliance, but their confrontation ended with Wen Sheng attacking him.

• Ji Jue realized that prayer had allowed Wen Sheng’s Spiritual Substance to spread through believers’ souls, while the Fully Automatic Prayer Machine had burned away countless fragments.
• Wen Sheng revealed that he had completed his Ascension and credited Ji Jue’s conflict with accelerating the process by twenty years.
• Ji Jue challenged Wen Sheng’s claims and questioned what his success could accomplish after the Dreamland’s upheaval.
• Wen Sheng rewound the ruined Dreamland, restored its structures and angels, and sealed the Superior Virtue system back inside Border Purgatory.
• Wen Sheng offered to compensate Ji Jue and proposed an alliance, even offering him Wen Wen, but Ji Jue rejected the offer as an attempt to give back what he considered his own.
• Wen Sheng made the two of them enemies and brought the weight of countless souls crashing down upon Ji Jue.

Ji Jue defeated Wen Sheng in the Dreamland by exploiting a hidden trace of Spiritual Substance and striking with a concealed meteor. After Wen Wen appeared, Ji Jue realized she had resisted his drugging, and an irritated voice sounded from the void as both stayed on guard.

• Ji Jue and Wen Sheng clashed over control of the Dreamland, rewriting reality and attacking each other’s souls.
• Wen Sheng ambushed Ji Jue, but Ji Jue revealed that he had left Spiritual Substance inside Wen Sheng’s soul during their first meeting and used it to restrain him.
• Wen Sheng blocked Ji Jue’s attempt to stab him with King of Flies, but a concealed meteor and Spear-Mao struck and killed him.
• Wen Wen appeared after Wen Sheng’s death and revealed that she had been awake since Ji Jue mentioned his own things, having resisted his drug.
• Ji Jue and Wen Wen remained wary and prepared for another fight as an irritated voice sounded from the void.

Wen Sheng resurrected through the Dreamland’s cycle of bones and moths, completing his Celestial Foundation and opening the Realm of Bliss to unleash a world-ending flood. As the torrent swallowed the Dreamland, Old Geezer Qitan tried to intervene but was consumed by darkness.

• Wen Sheng’s remains and self-natures reassembled, revealing that the Dreamland was built on his bones and sustained his endless rebirth.
• Ji Jue recognized that Wen Sheng’s Dreamland also held the beginnings of Doomsday Theory, while Wen Wen mocked Wen Sheng over his motives.
• Wen Sheng opened the Realm of Bliss and unleashed a vast torrent of delusions and madness that engulfed the Dreamland.
• Old Geezer Qitan prepared to use a hidden trump card, but Formless darkness appeared and swallowed him before he could act.

Ji Jue and Wen Wen trapped Wen Sheng in Border Purgatory and the Realm of Bliss, but Wen Sheng split his fused powers and reset Dreamland, erasing Ji Jue’s influence. Ji Jue fell into an endless dream of his childhood home and reunited with his father, leaving him unable to carry out his plan to escape by dying.

• Wen Wen blocked the Weiyang Tide while Ji Jue reforged the defenses and used Yuchang to strike Wen Sheng.
• Wen Sheng sealed Ji Jue and Wen Wen inside the Realm of Bliss, but Ji Jue’s Border Purgatory also enclosed Wen Sheng, allowing Wen Wen to attack him.
• Wen Sheng dismantled his fused Foundation of Heaven Entry, split into Ascension, Heart Pivot, and Ether, and reset Dreamland to its beginning, erasing Ji Jue’s creations and isolating him.
• Ji Jue gave the King of Flies’ Crown and his remaining power to Wen Wen before the Millet Dream Remains pulled him into an endless dream.
• Ji Jue awoke in a dream of his childhood home, recognized his father, and abandoned his plan to escape by jumping from the apartment building.

Wen Wen broke free of Minerva’s restraints and unleashed the Unborn Dragon against Wen Sheng, while Ji Jue left the dream of his parents and awakened from within it. As Wen Sheng prepared to destroy Wen Wen, an unseen presence interrupted the final blow and addressed her as Wen Jie.

• Wen Sheng exposed Wen Wen’s Dream Loss Syndrome and her suppressed nature, then used the Soul Burning Thorn to reveal that Wen Su had died after secretly trying to poison him.
• Wen Wen grieved for Wen Su, accepted her own responsibility, and shattered her restraints, releasing the Unborn Dragon to attack Wen Sheng.
• Ji Jue shared a final meal and time with his dream parents, accepted his father’s car keys, and drove onward as their phantoms said farewell.
• Wen Wen rejected Wen Sheng’s offer to return home, declared that she already had a family, and continued fighting despite her weakening soul.
• Wen Sheng summoned the Spirit Destruction Sword to kill Wen Wen, but the sword’s strike never arrived, and an unknown presence asked why she did not want to see it.