Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue used Established Law and his newly attained Heavenly Being Form to turn the Gray Wind against his enemies and devastate the afterimages on the Audience Road. After surviving The Horde’s ambush and Yuchang’s self-destructing strike, he faced visions of further attacks from the Nine Forms.

• Ji Jue’s Heavenly Being Form let him seize the Gray Wind, turn it into a blood-red Tidal Wave, and burn away the attacking afterimages.
• The Wristwatch activated Established Law and the Tai'a Domain, elevating Ji Jue to the level of a Heavenly Being.
• Ji Jue used Mo Defense and Fa Shan to turn the Sin Demons’ attacks against one another, destroying the Abyss monk, Nether Frost, and the Usurper while grievously wounding Unending.
• Ji Jue recognized the afterimages’ shared weakness and cut through The Horde, killing its commander.
• Wolf's Malice and Worm's traits warned Ji Jue of Yuchang’s ambush, and his prepared Non-Aggression destroyed the attacker before Yuchang self-destructed.
• Ji Jue saw visions of the Blood Flame Sword, Thunderfire Blade, and other Nine Forms attacking him.

Ji Jue shattered the Ye Clan’s Nine Forms and goaded Ye Zhun into unleashing Victory Over Evil’s Heavenly Punishment. Ji Jue answered by awakening Pan Ying and summoning Heavenly Slaughter, bringing two of the Empire’s Three Heavens into battle.

• Ye Zhun used the Ye Clan’s accumulated Nine Forms to summon Swordsmith Shadows, whose self-sacrificing attacks empowered their blades against Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue transformed into a Mohist Heavenly Being and used Scene Tremor to shatter the Nine Forms, declaring his inheritance superior to the Ye Clan’s.
• Enraged by Ji Jue’s taunts, Ye Zhun drew Victory Over Evil and unleashed the Sacrificial Master’s Heavenly Punishment.
• Ji Jue drew Pan Ying, fed it the blood of a Heavenly Being, and used Established Law to revive its Inheritance Sacrifice.
• The Sacrificial Master answered the call, and Ji Jue’s Pan Ying unleashed Heavenly Slaughter against Ye Zhun’s Heavenly Punishment.

Ji Jue and Ye Zhun’s Victory Over Evil blades clashed across the Imperial Capital, and Ji Jue damaged Ye Zhun’s sword with his improvised Scene Tremor technique. Ye Zhun invoked the Ye Clan’s true Scene Tremor and brought nine empowered Nine Forms down on Ji Jue.

• Ji Jue and Ye Zhun repeatedly fought with Heavenly Slaughter and Heavenly Punishment, tearing apart the Imperial Capital as their Victory Over Evil blades cracked.
• Ye Zhun noticed Ji Jue feeding gold coins into Heavenly Slaughter, allowing it to keep fighting without the blood sacrifices Heavenly Punishment required.
• Ji Jue broke through Ye Zhun’s attacks and used Scene Tremor to crack Ye Zhun’s Victory Over Evil, sacrificing half his body to Heavenly Slaughter and then regenerating.
• Ye Zhun restored his blade through The Tower’s blessing and summoned countless Nine Forms, merging them into nine overwhelming gleams with the Ye Clan’s true Scene Tremor.
• Ji Jue mocked Ye Zhun, who unleashed the nine Nine Forms and commanded them to strike.

Ji Jue endured Ye Zhun’s overwhelming Nine Forms and deduced that the Void Throne inside the Tower, rather than Ye Zhun himself, controlled them. He found that the Tower’s command chain created a fatal delay, leaving him a chance to fight back.

• Ji Jue mocked Ye Zhun’s fury over Ye Xian’s achievements as Zhanlu and Juque battered him.
• Ji Jue used the Established Law to summon Worm’s afterimage of Juque Engineering, which bought him half a second before Zhanlu destroyed it.
• Ji Jue escaped Zhanlu’s strike across the Imperial Capital, then barely survived Victory Over Evil’s follow-up and Juque’s renewed attacks.
• Ji Jue analyzed Ye Zhun’s Nine Forms and realized their immense power came from Ye Xian’s Scene Tremor being amplified by the Tower.
• Ji Jue saw the Void Throne emerge within the Tower and concluded it controlled the Nine Forms through a delayed chain of commands, creating a fatal weakness.

Ji Jue endured Ye Zhun’s attacks, unleashed the Fire of Feiming to buy time, and combined his powers to strike at Juque with Zenith of Scene Tremor. The attack cracked Ye Zhun’s defensive sword and stole its Man-Heaven Symbiosis blessing and earth-vein crystal, leaving Ji Jue ready to strike again.

• Ye Zhun attacked Ji Jue with the law of aberration, shattering his Heavenly Being Form and breaking his Victory Over Evil sword, Pan Ying.
• Ji Jue ignited the Fire of Feiming across the Imperial Capital, but the Tower extinguished it after it bought him one second.
• Ji Jue repaired himself, merged silver radiance with black flames, and used Harm Elimination to guarantee the success of Zenith of Scene Tremor.
• Ye Zhun braced Juque against Ji Jue’s attack, but a delayed crack split the sword and caused its Blessing Chain to begin collapsing.
• Ji Jue took the Man-Heaven Symbiosis blessing and a purified earth-vein crystal from Juque, then raised his hands to attack again.

Ji Jue used the Zenith of Scene Tremor to refine Ye Zhun’s weapons and survive being reduced to ashes, then prepared to unleash Myriad Things Self-Transformation against him. Ye Zhun faced Ji Jue’s final move as the battle reached its decisive moment.

• Ji Jue’s Scene Tremor damaged Juque and refined Victory Over Evil, creating a Blessing and weapon fragments from Ye Zhun’s creations.
• Ye Zhun bound Ji Jue with the Tower Edict and blasted him with Zhanlu’s thunder and fire, reducing him to ashes.
• Ji Jue regenerated from the remaining traces of his Heavenly Being Form and Shadow of the Fiend Demon, then taunted Ye Zhun for not using Heavenly Punishment.
• Ye Zhun prepared another attack, but Ji Jue calmly raised his hands and announced that he would use Myriad Things Self-Transformation.

Ji Jue and Ye Xian used the Containing Form Mirror and their combined Scene Tremors to defeat Ye Zhun, severing his connection to the Void Throne. With Ye Zhun removed, the Tower of the Great Fiend lost its restraints and began to manifest its true, uncontrollable form.

• Ye Zhun fortified himself against Ji Jue’s Scene Tremor, but the Containing Form Mirror he had taken from Ji Jue shattered and exposed Ye Xian’s hidden attack.
• Ghost Artisan emerged from the mirror, and Ye Xian’s Celestial Foundation appeared alongside the Matrices Gan Jiang and Mo Xie.
• Ji Jue and Ye Xian repeatedly struck Ye Zhun with coordinated Scene Tremors, dismantling him and tearing the Tower’s parasitic growth away from the Void Throne.
• Ye Xian’s Nine Forms pinned Ye Zhun’s remnant body, and Ji Jue declared that the throne had never belonged to him.
• The Tower of the Great Fiend expanded beyond anyone’s control as the Imperial Capital crumbled and the Tower began its completion.

Ji Jue used the Established Law to halt the Tower’s completion and began climbing toward the Throne Hall to bring someone back. Ye Xian stayed behind to keep Ye Zhun from interfering as the Tower fought against Ji Jue’s control of time.

• Ye Xian used her Time Wedge to shield Ji Jue from the Tower’s corrosion and stayed behind to restrain Ye Zhun.
• Ji Jue activated the Established Law’s Omni-Spacetime Domain Flow Control, reversing time and freezing the Void Throne’s completion.
• The Tower unleashed its laws and the Great Evil’s power to resist, but Ji Jue’s authority opened the paths before him.
• Ji Jue followed the footprints left by the petitioner four hundred years earlier and began climbing toward the Throne Hall.

Ye Chun woke from a vision in which Gloria comforted her, while Ji Jue climbed the Tower under the crushing weight of its authority. Guided by the Jade Horn and the cries of unborn souls, he reached the throne and drove Yuchang into it, demanding that the Tower return what was his.

• Ye Chun saw Gloria reunite with her mother in a vision, and Gloria urged her to live well before vanishing.
• Ji Jue staggered as the Tower's Shadow rose and countless souls cried out, while his body began to crumble under the Tower's authority.
• Ji Jue resisted the call to use the Edge of Transformation, and the Jade Horn's light and the unborn souls' cries helped him continue climbing.
• An unseen figure pointed Ji Jue toward the throne hall, and the sealed doors opened for him.
• Ji Jue reached the nearly completed throne, drew Yuchang, and refused to kneel before the Tower's authority.
• Ji Jue leapt onto the throne and drove Yuchang into its back, shouting for the Tower to give back what was his.

Ji Jue used the Spirit Essence Hand and Creation Theory to halt the Void Throne’s completion, then split himself and began breaking the throne apart. As Ye Chun tried to sacrifice herself to save him, Ji Jue seized her hand and refused to let her go.

• The Spirit Essence Hand rescued Ji Jue from the darkness, allowing him to invoke Creation Theory and reverse the Tower’s progress.
• Ji Jue split himself, leaving his reflection and the Sage Form to hold back Tower’s Completion while he attacked the Void Throne.
• Ji Jue used Scene Tremor to crack the Void Throne and Tower, exposing a path to the Imperial Jade Seal.
• Ye Xian revealed that she had preserved the Ye Clan’s final bloodline and that the emperor had accepted Eternal Severance to prevent the Void Throne’s birth four hundred years earlier.
• Ye Chun prepared to push Ji Jue away and perish with the darkness, but Ji Jue seized her hand and held on.

Ji Jue pulled Ye Chun away from Tower's Shadow as the Emperor's decree disrupted the Tower's control, but the Tower struck back. Sage Mercury's final attack faltered, and a greater Revolution reignited to carry it forward.

• Ji Jue reached into the darkness, kissed Ye Chun, and pulled her toward him as she chose to leave with him.
• The Emperor seized both their hands and issued an Edict of Dominion, forcing the Tower's decrees into conflict and helping separate Ye Chun from the Tower.
• The Tower resisted as Ji Jue tore apart the forming Void Throne, and Sin Demon Fire swallowed Ye Chun while Tower's Shadow surged after them.
• Sage Mercury's shadow wielded Edge of Transformation to cut through the darkness and strip Great Evil of its defenses, but its Sage Form fractured before the final strike landed.
• A greater Revolution ignited from the darkness and took up the attack as Mercury's radiance faded.

Mercury and the two Mohist Sages struck Great Evil with Tian Zhu, triggering a Breakpoint that let Spider complete his Metamorphosis into the Shadow Sun Dragon. As the collapsing world corrected itself, Matrix Child rescued Gloria with a lantern, while Mercury chose to continue the four-hundred-year road she had set for herself.

• Mercury and the two Mohist Sages unleashed Tian Zhu, severing Great Evil’s Shadow and splitting the Dark Tower as Tower’s connected Usurpers suffered its wounds.
• The collapse of the Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar briefly severed past from future, allowing Spider to break free of the Eternal Gate and become the Shadow Sun Dragon.
• The newly formed Breakpoint unleashed a Vortex that dragged the Tower and Ji Jue into the collapsing world, while the Established Law burned out and its Wristwatch fell away.
• Gloria began to disappear under the Breakpoint’s correction, but Matrix Child caught her and gave her a lantern that restored her stability.
• Matrix Child told Gloria to keep walking without looking back, and she followed the lantern-lit path as Mercury watched her go.
• Mercury thanked Matrix Child, then chose to continue her four-hundred-year journey while he remained free to decide where to go.

Spider reached the future Terminal Station, where the dispatcher revealed that Sky Rail’s plan had made the Seal of Shadow Sun depend on a repeating cycle. After Spider and the dispatcher were swallowed by Shadow Sun and time reset, Sky Rail restored the Present World, dissolved, and its president prepared to go home.

• Spider arrived at the future Terminal Station and learned that Sky Rail had sealed Shadow Sun through a plan spanning the past, present, and future.
• The dispatcher explained that Shadow Sun’s confinement had a limited term, and Spider was swallowed by the freed black sun along with the dispatcher and Central Station.
• A broken Wristwatch reversed time by twenty-four hours, restarting the cycle and restoring the Seal of Shadow Sun’s integrity to 100%.
• Heavenly Furnace realized the turmoil had already served the Sower’s objective as Sky Rail’s network crushed the Worms and strengthened the Present World’s stability.
• Sky Rail Group dissolved and gave up its authority to maintain the Seal of Shadow Sun, while its president’s friends celebrated its retirement.
• The president declined the others’ offers and prepared to go home, wearing its rainbow B-effect bell.

Ji Jue completed the Established Law and learned that the Sky Rail’s wardens had chosen eternal exile to seal Shadow Sun, then promised to protect them in the Present World. As the collapsing past vanished, Matrix Child and the Emperor shared a final drink before Matrix Child disappeared and the Emperor returned to his lonely vigil.

• Ji Jue frantically scavenged the collapsing world for foreign materials and loot before speaking with the dispatcher.
• The dispatcher explained that Ji Jue had completed the Established Law, closing the cycle and ensuring the Seal of Shadow Sun would remain hidden.
• Ji Jue realized the Sky Rail’s wardens had sacrificed themselves to preserve the seal, and he promised the dispatcher he would protect them and give them a place to live freely.
• The dispatcher revealed himself as a Creation Spirit, said farewell to Ji Jue, and sent him back to the Dispatch Center with a mysterious gift to collect later.
• At the Tower’s ruins, Matrix Child met the Emperor, shared wine with him, and vanished after they promised to meet again.
• The Emperor drank the remaining wine, remembered the freedom he had briefly shared with Matrix Child, and returned to his vigil in the darkness.

After surviving the false timeline, Ji Jue found that Beagle had multiplied into dozens of energetic dogs, while Ye Chun had become their Dog Emperor. He reunited with a living Gloria, then brought her to Central Earth, where Yan Fei became her senior brother and promptly steered her toward firearms.

• Ji Jue returned to the Central Dispatch Center exhausted and found Beagle near death from the backlash, but the timeline’s corrections had produced dozens of Beagles.
• Ye Chun commanded the dogs into a ceremony and declared herself their emperor while Ji Jue watched in dismay.
• The CEO led Ji Jue and Doberman to the empty portrait, where Gloria emerged alive and free from the Anchor’s interference.
• Ji Jue accepted Gloria as his student and took her to Yan Fei, assigning him to teach her Three-Phase Refinement while warning him to explain his secret activities.
• Ji Jue beat Yan Fei with an alchemical iron staff until Yan Chang refused to help him, then left Yan Fei to teach Gloria.
• Gloria mastered Yan Fei’s lessons with astonishing speed, so he took her to try shooting and promised to show her his World-Destroying Rapid-Fire Cannon.

After Ji Jue and Ye Xian formally severed their master-disciple relationship and transferred the Ye Clan inheritance, rumors spread while both sides stayed busy with their own plans. Ji Jue saw Youngest off to study with Lulu, then discovered Ye Chun was secretly watching him and drove toward Tide Sound Workshop to confront her.

• Ji Jue and Ye Xian completed the public process of ending their relationship, transferring the inheritance, and relocating Tide Sound Workshop, while rumors blamed Ji Jue for seizing control.
• Lu Cai clung to Youngest and cried at the Airship boarding gate as Lu Ma and the family said goodbye to her.
• Ji Jue entrusted Lu Xing to the old woman he called Miss Lulu, who welcomed the child and gave him a pendant despite his already wearing a better one.
• Youngest departed for her studies, and Lu Ma went home planning to break Lu Feng's legs after he teased her.
• Ji Jue discovered that Ye Chun was watching him from behind the Curtain while eating potato chips, then drove toward Tide Sound Workshop to show her the Mohists' ultimate technique.

After the Storm Type 1 Navigation Satellite launched, Ji Jue rejected Heavenly Furnace’s offer to inherit his title and began preparing a lunar operation. The chapter then traced Heavenly Furnace’s memories and revealed how a damaged watch entered circulation fifty-one years earlier.

• The Southeast Chamber of Commerce Alliance celebrated the successful launch of the Storm Type 1 Navigation Satellite, while a fragment from its third-stage assembly headed toward the moon.
• Isis told Ji Jue that the beacon would land on the moon in four hours and that the first batch of modified units was ready; Ji Jue ordered her to proceed with the plan.
• Heavenly Furnace told Ji Jue that Sower’s recent actions were a probe and asked whether Ji Jue wanted to become Heavenly Furnace, but Ji Jue refused.
• Heavenly Furnace recalled his teacher’s final lesson and the day he became Heavenly Furnace, then left Ji Jue with a light step.
• Fifty-one years earlier, Chen Lusheng found a damaged watch at a recycling depot and sold it to the Eternal Clock shopkeeper, who repaired it and displayed it as a supposed family heirloom.

As Courier Logistics expanded across the Wilderness, Uncle Li reflected on how life in his Settlement had improved. Meanwhile, Feng Yao tried to delay paying the Coast for its security services, but the collector unexpectedly agreed to give him more time.

• Courier Logistics deliverymen carried goods and packages between Wilderness Settlements, while one deliveryman explained that company policy told them to abandon cargo and flee from bandits.
• Uncle Li slapped and warned Rat Hui and the other idlers against targeting the Coast’s cargo, then told Xiao Liu that poor people had no reason to worry about the bosses’ business.
• Uncle Li ate food from the Coast and looked forward to planting crops and raising chickens as conditions in his Settlement improved.
• The Coast’s collector confronted Feng Yao over the Settlement’s debt of 160 years of labor for security services provided during the rainy season.
• Feng Yao tearfully asked for more time, and the collector agreed, leaving Feng Yao and his followers stunned.

Coast Industry sold Feng Yao’s debt to Ten Thousand Miles Finance, revealing that the Wild Bazaar would take over collection and leaving the Settlements terrified. As Coast Industry and Courier Logistics prospered, their expanding network helped connect settlements across Haizhou.

• Feng Yao expected Coast Industry’s debt collector to threaten his people, but the collector instead complained about the company’s losses and offered sympathy.
• The collector revealed that Coast Industry was selling its debts and introduced Mr. Zhu of Ten Thousand Miles Finance as the buyer.
• Mr. Zhu completed the debt transfer while Feng Yao tried and failed to stop him, then demanded a repayment plan on behalf of the Wild Bazaar.
• President Gou ignored distressed calls from the Settlements and celebrated the funds Coast Industry recovered by selling its bad debts.
• Courier Logistics expanded its routes across Haizhou, connecting cities, villages, and Settlements as trade and living conditions improved.
• Doctor Xie reviewed Ji Jue’s records and discharged him from Xinxiang Sanatorium.

After recovering from repeated leg injuries, Ji Jue naturally advanced to the Rebirth Rank and was forced out of the sanatorium. He took Lu Ma and the children to Heavenly Gate’s sports meet, where he discovered Coast Industry had sponsored the event with his money.

• Ji Jue’s Wristwatch lit up with a golden [7], marking his breakthrough to the Rebirth Rank after eleven months as a Chosen One.
• Ji Jue settled his hospital bill by threatening Xie Lan, then Professor Ye dismissed him and gave him old Nine Forms research notes.
• With his businesses running smoothly and no urgent work to handle, Ji Jue took Lu Ma, Third Sister, and Youngest to Heavenly Gate to visit Lu Ling.
• Ji Jue carried the children around the lively university grounds and entered the arena with Lu Ma to watch the sports meet.
• Ji Jue saw Coast Industry’s sponsorship banner in the arena and realized that he had funded the event himself.