Chapter Summaries

Beiling was nearly destroyed by the Turning Wheel Saint King's self-detonation, but Ji Jue seized control of Triple Station and turned the attack against him. Ji Jue appeared before Beiling and began using [Fa Shan], leaving Beiling convinced he was about to die.

• The Turning Wheel Saint King's self-detonation filled Beiling with a compulsion to die, badly damaged him, and shattered the heart at the center of Triple Station.
• Beiling began repairing himself with the Giant Pillar's song, but Ji Jue's mist and black flames invaded his wounds and disrupted the recovery.
• Ji Jue used the Scarlet Firmament Banner to take control of Triple Station, allowing the Heavenly Origin Law to suppress Beiling.
• Beiling attacked the source of the malice with [Wuming], but the strike failed to affect Ji Jue, who appeared before him in a Seven-Horned Crown and blood-red robe.
• Ji Jue raised his hand to deliver [Fa Shan] and seized the worst possible outcome from the shifting probabilities, while Beiling feared his imminent death.

Ji Jue, Tang Qian, and Inverse Scale overwhelmed Beiling while the Demon Mirror trapped him in a dream of his own perfection. An Ran drew Parting Sorrow and struck Beiling with the Autumn Wind of Death, leaving his mind bodies fractured beyond repair.

• Wuming’s attack pierced Beiling’s seal, reviving his Self-Destruction Poison and throwing his mind bodies into chaos.
• Ji Jue returned Beiling’s Turbid Sinful Current, and the Demon Mirror ensnared Beiling in a jealous hallucination about the Vow Lord.
• Ji Jue, Tang Qian, and Inverse Scale attacked the entranced Beiling while Lulu guided An Ran toward seeing the essence of the Four Seasons Sword.
• An Ran drew Parting Sorrow and released the Wind of Withering, silently fracturing every one of Beiling’s mind bodies.
• Beiling awoke from the shattered mirror as the Autumn Wind of Death consumed his soul, and An Ran’s strike was named Sword of Returning Death: Baicang.

An Ran’s strike with Baicang spread cracks through Beiling’s soul and triggered Shuang Jiang, while An Ran gained a new revelation from the Blade Tooth legacy. Beiling discovered the Vow Lord had bound him to defend the station, but Lulu trapped him as Ji Jue and his allies subdued him, leaving him to reveal secrets before his consciousness faded.

• An Ran’s strike spread cracks through Beiling’s divided soul, and Shuang Jiang’s frost began destroying his reserves.
• An Ran saw the river and the Blade Tooth legacy’s beast, gained an undying spirit in his matrix, and saw the path to Transcendence open.
• Lulu protected An Ran as he entered his moment of enlightenment, while the white deer departed after witnessing the battle.
• Beiling found a hidden mark compelling him to defend the station, realized the Vow Lord had placed it, and destroyed it to escape.
• Lulu trapped Beiling in a labyrinth, and Ji Jue, Isis, and the old geezer restrained him as he revealed secrets about the Original Vow Lineage and the Vow Lord.
• Beiling’s resistance and consciousness faded as he remembered his past and sank into darkness.

Ji Jue seized the Sin Demon Soul and used Triple Station to connect its routes across the Present World, turning Spider’s standoff with the Association into a crisis for everyone. As the station’s network opened, Spider’s grand plan became impossible to ignore, and Heavenly Furnace gained many furious new friends.

• Ji Jue obtained the Sin Demon Soul and decided to help Spider by activating Triple Station.
• Spider fought Sky Rail, the Association, and Doberman while sacrificing parts of itself and using the remaining worms to absorb attacks.
• Triple Station emerged restored, and Spider angrily attacked it as the Association reinforced its protection.
• Ji Jue transformed into a worm and burned his time to activate every route in Triple Station.
• Triple Station planted routes throughout the Present World, connecting sites including the Federation House of Representatives, the Emperor’s bedroom, and Celestial Pivot.
• Heavenly Furnace joked about a widespread fire as people across the Present World erupted in outrage.

The Present World’s powers destroyed the Evil Transformation Cult’s counterfeit Sky Rail network and Triple Station, exposing Spider’s attempt to replace the Central Dispatch Center. As Spider’s Station fell, Spider reversed time at the cost of everything it had and restored the network for an instant, rising beyond the blockade and reaching the Central Dispatch Center.

• Pang Pei and the Present World’s leaders learned that the Evil Transformation Cult had spread a counterfeit Sky Rail network across the world and mobilized to stop it.
• The Sky Overseer, Earth Warden, War Lord, and other powers destroyed the network’s doors and severed its connections across the Present World.
• The Present World’s forces killed Evil Transformation Cult leaders and allies, then annihilated Triple Station and its network.
• Ji Jue saw that Spider had built Triple Station as a copy of the Central Dispatch Center in an attempt to claim Shadow Sun’s Seal.
• Spider reversed time by burning through its stored shadows and accumulated time, restoring the counterfeit Station and network for an instant.
• Spider rose above the collapsed blockade and looked down upon the nearby Central Dispatch Center.

Spider discovered that the Eternal Gate had shackled every bug from birth and used their debts to strengthen the Seal of Shadow Sun. As Spider neared the Central Dispatch Center, it suddenly froze in bewilderment and cursed the animals around it.

• Spider sacrificed its remaining bugs and began breaking through its cocoon, summoning the Great Evil's Shadow as it tried to reach the Sage Realm.
• The Eternal Gate appeared and restrained Spider, revealing that it had kept every bug incomplete and collected the repayments from their loans.
• Ji Jue realized the Eternal Gate was the true creditor behind the bugs' debts, using their repayments to reinforce the Seal of Shadow Sun.
• Spider used the restraints of the Eternal Gate and Shadow Sun to navigate toward the Central Dispatch Center, while Ji Jue tried to intervene.
• Doberman stopped Ji Jue, and the CEO and dispatcher watched Spider approach the center.
• Spider froze just short of success, then roared, "Animals!!!"

The Spider’s attempt to replace the Central Dispatch Center failed because it was a counterfeit, but the Spider escaped after Heavenly Punishment broke through the seals. Ji Jue woke back at the Central Dispatch Center exhausted, only to learn that his work in Border Purgatory was far from over.

• The Spider discovered that the Central Dispatch Center was fake, and the Dispatcher used the opening to seize the counterfeit and trap the Spider.
• Lulu arrived to reinforce the Star-Fixing Anchor, while Ji Jue and the others watched the Spider struggle against the Station’s restraints.
• Heavenly Punishment struck through the seals, allowing the Spider to abandon its possessions and flee.
• Ji Jue woke at the Central Dispatch Center, vomited from the strain of maintaining Tai'a, and gave Eldest Brother Beagle scraps of imprints as compensation.
• The dispatcher told Ji Jue to return to work and sent him toward more levels of Border Purgatory.

Spider was offered a chance to recover his lost power by helping Sower pry open the [Seal of Shadow Sun]. Meanwhile, Ji Jue investigated the invisible presence in B Room and discovered it eroded souls, ending his experiment with the sound of an infant crying.

• A messenger from Sower offered Spider help and invited him to the ruins of Central Earth's old capital within two days to meet someone who could help pry open the [Seal of Shadow Sun].
• Ji Jue found that an unseen presence in B Room drained Spiritual Substance and consciousness from living beings and damaged his body and the Transport Cats.
• Ji Jue sent a purely mechanical remote-control car into B Room and confirmed that the presence did not affect objects without souls.
• Ji Jue created a simulated body and sent it into B Room, where it lost control as its Spiritual Substance was stripped away.
• Ji Jue analyzed the final recording and identified the last sound as an infant crying.

Ji Jue witnessed the sealed mark’s true form emerge as a crying infant, which destroyed itself before he could strike it, leaving behind a mysterious Jade Horn. A Revelation then showed him Ye Xian’s massacre of the Ye Clan and the moment she rescued a dying embryo and promised to name it.

• The crying spread through Ji Jue’s workshop, draining Spiritual Substance and causing its systems and creations to lose control as the infant took shape.
• Ji Jue recognized the infant as the true form of the mark sealed in Border Purgatory, but it shattered and vanished on its own, leaving him with a Jade Horn.
• The Well granted Ji Jue another Revelation, showing Ye Xian slaughtering the Ye Clan and destroying the Secret Rite at the central altar.
• Ye Xian and Fan Gan discovered a heap of malformed embryos beneath the mountain, and Ye Xian ordered them burned.
• When one embryo cried as it died, Ye Xian lifted it into her hands and promised to give it a name if it survived.

Ye Chun recalled the first time she learned what death was, then woke from a dream and returned to sleep. After discovering the jade fragment’s identity and asking Fan Gan about the Ye Family’s past, Ji Jue confronted Ye Xian with the question of whether Ye Chun had been the child in the specimen case, but Ye Xian did not answer.

• At five years old, Ye Chun found a dying cat, ended its suffering, and learned from Ye Xian that everyone would eventually die.
• Ye Chun woke at night, told Ye Xian she had dreamed about many things, and went back to sleep with Xiao Jiu.
• Ji Jue called Fan Gan to ask what happened to the Ye Family more than twenty years earlier, but Fan Gan said a Truth Oath prevented him from revealing details and could not say where the child had gone.
• Ji Jue recognized the jade fragment as a chipped piece of the Imperial Jade Seal and decided he had to uncover the truth.
• Ji Jue visited Ye Xian, showed her Tai'a, and admitted he had seen her from twenty years earlier and events from over thirty years ago.
• Ji Jue asked Ye Xian whether Ye Chun had been the child in the specimen case, and Ye Xian remained silent.

Ye Xian told Ji Jue how the Ye Clan pursued the Eternal Empire’s inheritance through True Blood experiments, and revealed Ye Chun’s connection to those efforts and the cost of keeping her alive. Ji Jue warned that Ye Chun was entangled with the Eternal Empire, but learned she could not leave the Federation without risking catastrophe, leaving him with no way to protect her by taking her to the Station.

• Ye Xian confirmed that Ji Jue’s vision of the Ye Clan’s destruction was real and explained that the clan sought to revive the Eternal Empire through True Blood and the Unfinished Tower.
• Ye Xian explained that Ye Chun was a failed experiment tied to the Tower, and that she had spent years overcoming the damage that nearly killed her.
• Ye Xian recounted how her sister disappeared after the Ye Clan used its own members as experimental materials, and how she regretted refusing the family’s inheritance before she could save her sister.
• Ji Jue warned Ye Xian that Ye Chun was likely entangled with the Eternal Empire, citing a revelation from the Established Law, and Ye Xian said she would prepare.
• Ye Xian showed Ji Jue that Federation laws and protections kept Ye Chun stable, but leaving the Federation would expose her to Sin Corruption and endanger the Station.
• Ye Chun returned with groceries, teased Ji Jue about his expression, and offered him a potato chip while remaining unaware of their conversation.

Ji Jue confessed to Ye Chun that he had faked his food-poisoning claim years ago, and she revealed that she was an Abomination while accepting his support and a protective bracelet. As Ye Chun put on the bracelet, she suddenly flickered and vanished when a streak of radiant light pierced through her.

• Ji Jue confessed that he had pretended to be food-poisoned to get help applying for a poverty-student fee waiver and free dormitory.
• Ye Chun became furious at Ji Jue’s confession, but he told her he had never thought of her as an Abomination and accepted her true nature.
• Ye Chun asked Ji Jue how he felt about her identity, and he admitted he wanted to study her, prompting her to angrily eat the food he offered.
• Ji Jue gave Ye Chun a bracelet that provided protection, warning, and condition sensing, and she put it on.
• Ye Chun flickered and began to vanish, then a streak of radiant light descended and pierced through her.

Spider met the messenger and Ye Zhun in the ruins of the old capital, then gambled everything on a key that could open the Seal of Shadow Sun. Meanwhile, Ye Chun began fading as the Present World shuddered; Ye Xian and Ji Jue stabilized her, and Ji Jue promised to find a way to save her.

• The messenger introduced Ye Zhun to Spider and revealed a fragment that Spider desperately wanted, while Victory Over Evil warned him away.
• The messenger explained that Ye Zhun's fragment could open the Seal of Shadow Sun, and Spider chose to stake everything on the gamble.
• Ye Chun began disappearing as anomalies spread across the Present World, but Gloria anchored her and Ye Xian used Tai'a Domain and the workshop to stabilize her.
• Ji Jue and Ye Xian determined that an outside force was interfering with Ye Chun's existence and dragging her elsewhere; Ye Xian estimated she could hold the situation for about five days and sixteen hours.
• Ji Jue told Ye Xian he would handle the rest and promised to find a way, and Ye Xian agreed to let him act.

Ji Jue cleared Border Purgatory L4 and received a vision of the Central Dispatch Center destroyed when Shadow Sun broke free of its seal. As he reported the vision, temporal disturbances spread across the world, and Pang Pei heard a tremendous roar that made him suspect Heavenly Furnace had finally acted.

• Ji Jue learned that a vast temporal disturbance had appeared and that the Established Law had warned the Central Dispatch Center, then set out to clear Border Purgatory.
• Ji Jue and his forces rapidly cleared Border Purgatory L4, and the Established Law pulled him into a vision of the ruined Central Dispatch Center and Shadow Sun breaking free.
• Ji Jue told the dispatcher what he had seen, but the dispatcher dismissed his alarm, so Ji Jue reported him to the CEO for colluding with Spider.
• Pang Pei received reports of disasters and rapidly shifting continents, then concluded that time had likely been altered and ordered the authorities to follow procedure and contact Locksmith and T5.
• Pang Pei heard a sudden roar and wondered whether Heavenly Furnace had finally gone insane.

The Present World’s Nemesis suppressed anomalies while Spider’s hidden time theft enabled him to begin forming the Shadow of the Throne, bringing the Sky Rail’s collapse closer. As the Established Law weakened under interference tied to Tai’a, Ji Jue climbed toward L9 to uncover what the Worms were doing in the Eternal Empire’s era.

• The Nemesis swept away temporal disorders across the Present World and vaporized two revealed Sin Demons.
• Spider evaded the Star Core Association’s search and revealed that he had stolen one second from the Present World each week for seventy-one years, saving the time for his plan.
• Spider used his accumulated stolen time to begin forming the Shadow of the Throne, the final fragment needed for destruction.
• Ji Jue learned from the dispatcher that interference with the Established Law might be connected to Tai’a and could allow the Worms to alter events above the anchor point.
• Ji Jue ended his break and climbed toward L9, racing the Worms toward the Eternal Empire’s era.

Ye Chun’s condition worsened as the Shadow of the Throne completed the Heavenly Origin Tower, and she fell into its darkness with Gloria. Ji Jue witnessed her apparent death through Revelation and, overcome with rage, destroyed Border Purgatory Layer L9.

• Ye Chun woke beside Ye Xian, flickered out of stability, and asked her aunt to apologize to Ji Jue if there was no way to save her.
• A crack appeared across Ye Chun’s chest, and darkness swallowed her before she could say goodbye to Ye Xian.
• Ji Jue saw Spider’s Shadow reclaim a stolen hour and discovered that the Shadow of the Throne had completed the Heavenly Origin Tower.
• Ji Jue watched Ye Chun fall into the throne’s darkness, and Gloria leaped after her, wrapping them both in silver wings.
• Ji Jue ended Revelation and unleashed Black Flame, burning Border Purgatory Layer L9 to ashes.

As the Law of Aberration unleashed deadly consequences for broken vows across the Present World, Ye Xian confronted Ji Jue about Ye Zhun, Worm, and the danger surrounding A Chun. She ordered Ji Jue to kill A Chun if her aberration could not be undone, then graduated him by entrusting him with the Containing Form inheritance and commanding him to exterminate the Ye Family.

• The Law of Aberration spread across the Present World, killing more than seventy thousand people in its first minute, while Nemesis, Sky Overseer, Earth Warden, and the locks suppressed the spreading calamities.
• Ye Xian asked Ji Jue whether Ye Zhun was alive and concluded that True Blood had been a smokescreen for a plot targeting the Tower, with Ye Zhun allied with Worm.
• Ye Xian's Swordsmith Blood and Usurper's Law began to aberrate, but she suppressed them and told Ji Jue to kill A Chun himself if her aberration became irreversible.
• Ye Xian demanded the Containing Form Mirror and ordered Ji Jue to leave the school, establish the Swordsmith Containing Form branch under the name Ji, and uphold its orthodoxy.
• Ye Xian burned away the Ye Clan's inherited marks in the mirror and commanded Ji Jue to exterminate every remnant of the Ye Family; she then declared him graduated.

Ji Jue received the Established Law as a weapon, completed his Rebirth Form with Gong Bu’s Blood, and departed aboard the Sky Rail Armed Rescue and Clearance Vehicle to confront Spider at Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar. The dispatcher warned that destroying the Void Throne would also destroy the woman bound to it, while the CEO and dispatcher prepared to fulfill their own missions.

• The dispatcher explained that Spider and the Eternal Empire’s remnants were completing the Void Throne, and that Ji Jue alone could intervene at Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar.
• Ji Jue entered Border Purgatory L10, where the Shadow of the Fiend Demon vanished after the Established Law descended into his Wristwatch as his weapon.
• Isis began the final catalytic procedure, and Gong Bu’s Blood fused with Ji Jue’s Rebirth Form to complete the Nine-Form Body.
• Ji Jue said farewell to the Woof Woof Squad and boarded the Sky Rail Armed Rescue and Clearance Vehicle after the dispatcher warned him that destroying the Void Throne could kill the woman bound to it.
• The CEO stayed behind to attend the T5 meeting, while the dispatcher prepared to leave through a door in the mural and fulfill his mission.

Sky Rail and its allies stabilized the Present World, tracing the temporal breach to the Spider’s attack on the Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar four centuries earlier. Doberman carried Ji Jue to the Imperial Capital, where Ji Jue isolated the city from the Spider’s interference and Doberman stayed behind to confront it.

• The Spider’s emergence threatened the Present World, but Sky Rail, the Star Core Association, and the Chosen Ones of the Eternal Gate restored stability and revealed the breach’s origin at the Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar.
• Doberman raced into the past with Ji Jue aboard, using the Jade Horn to find its way through the Spider’s temporal storms.
• The Spider attacked the train, and Tai’a unleashed Absolute Punishment, but the Jade Horn made the radiance vanish before it struck Ji Jue.
• Doberman crashed into the Imperial Capital and brought Ji Jue to the historical anchor point, with only the driver’s seat left intact.
• Ji Jue used Tai’a to isolate the Imperial Capital from the Spider’s influence, sealing Doberman outside the boundary.
• Doberman unleashed its full power and charged the Spider to block it from the anchor point.

Spider unleashed a vast army of time-fragment reflections against Ji Jue, while Ji Jue used the Hand of Imperial Rule to pass through the Imperial Capital’s defenses and confront Ye Zhun. The chapter left Ji Jue revealing his power as a Heavenly Being and continuing toward the Tower.

• Spider’s shadow and Doberman’s Light-Eater Cannon struck Tai'a Domain, but the domain withstood both attacks.
• Ji Jue reached the Imperial Capital and confronted Ye Zhun at the summit of the Heavenly Origin Tower.
• Ye Zhun reclaimed the Containing Form Mirror and turned the Tower’s defenses against Ji Jue, but the golden constructs halted before Ji Jue’s wristwatch.
• Ji Jue invoked the Hand of Imperial Rule and walked unhindered through the Imperial Capital’s immobilized defenses.
• Spider unleashed countless time-fragment reflections, including Sin Demons, to attack Ji Jue, but their attacks all missed.
• Ji Jue broke free of his restraints, manifested the Shadow of the Fiend Demon, and revealed that he had become a Heavenly Being.