Chapter Summaries

The girl transformed Gu Qingshan into a Judgment Envoy and explained the history of the Judgment Set Card and her escape from the seal. After an earthquake signaled that the Eternal Monster was waking, she warned that they had one day before it devoured every living thing in the world.

• The girl used the Ancient Era transformation credential to turn Gu Qingshan into a gray card and make him a Judgment Envoy, her companion.
• The girl explained that the Seven Demon Gods had created her to fight threats, then sealed her with an Eternal Monster after fearing her growing independence.
• The girl said a church had tried to seize the Judgment Set Card, so she turned it into the Escape Set Card and dispersed her power to escape the seal.
• An earthquake shook the desert, and the girl sensed that the Eternal Monster was stirring.
• The girl warned Gu Qingshan that the Eternal Monster would awaken within one day and consume every living thing in the world.

Gu Qingshan became a Judgment Envoy with Xiao Xi’s help, but he still needed to escape Quicksand World before its destruction and save his companions. With only a day left and no money or vessel, he faced a new threat as a bounty squad set out to kill him.

• Gu Qingshan learned that he and Xiao Xi needed to grow stronger before they could find a card capable of healing gods and saving his friends.
• Xiao Xi turned into an Emerald Card, then stored the Divine Power Frost Crystal in a blank card and went to sleep in Gu Qingshan’s jade box.
• Gu Qingshan realized he needed a flying vessel to escape Quicksand World safely, but he lacked money and time.
• In White Stone World, a Gray Giant led the Dark Massacre Bounty Squad to accept Death Divine Hall’s bounty and head for Quicksand World to kill Gu Qingshan.

Gu Qingshan disguised himself and used Mountain Girl to form a permanent team in Quicksand World, hoping to earn access to the Black Market. After discovering that the Death Divine Hall had placed a bounty on him and Xiao Xi, he chose a mission seeking information about the bounty, intending to report what he knew himself.

• Gu Qingshan discovered he could turn into a card, then planned to enter town disguised as a woman with Mountain Girl.
• Mountain Girl and Gu Qingshan, disguised as Wang Cheng, registered a team by paying forty coins; Gu Qingshan returned as Qi Yan to serve as their third member.
• The team found a bounty notice for Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi posted by the Death Divine Hall.
• Gu Qingshan chose a Black Market Guard mission offering access and rewards for verified information about the bounty, despite Mountain Girl's concern.

The Gray Giant’s bounty hunters raced toward the Quicksand World while Wang Cheng directed the Black Market Guard toward Gu Qingshan and Mountain Girl’s hidden refuge. Mountain Girl reached the Black Market, where Gu Qingshan sensed a dangerous aura and urged them to leave the world immediately.

• The Gray Giant ordered his entire bounty hunter group to attack as soon as Heavenly Eye spotted the targets.
• Wang Cheng told the Black Market Guard that the wanted pair had entered a concealed area, and the lie-detection stone confirmed his claims.
• The Black Market Guard rewarded Wang Cheng and prepared to send its people after the targets.
• Wang Cheng evaded professionals who tried to follow him, while Mountain Girl entered the Black Market through the town’s teleportation passage.
• Gu Qingshan sensed an inauspicious aura in the Black Market and told Mountain Girl they had to leave the world at once.

Gu Qingshan tried to flee the Black Market by taking the first available ship to the Nine Stars Empire, but the Scorpion Demon Queen and her family boarded the same flight. As the ship prepared to leave, an earthquake shook the Black Market, and Little Black Scorpion cried that something was coming out.

• Gu Qingshan abandoned his plans to explore the Black Market and hurried to the Flight Center, sensing that his final Life Tribulation had begun.
• Gu Qingshan paid for a seat on the next ship to the Nine Stars Empire, which was due to depart in ten minutes.
• The Scorpion Demon Queen arrived with her dark-skinned husband and Little Black Scorpion, reserved the remaining seats, and recognized Gu Qingshan.
• Gu Qingshan and the Scorpion Demon Queen's family boarded the ship and were shown to a shared cabin.
• A tremendous rumble shook the Black Market, and Little Black Scorpion clutched his father's arm and shouted that something was coming out.

As the Quicksand World shook, Gu Qingshan boarded an airship with the Scorpion Demon Queen and the Black Faced Strongman, but divine runes abducted the family and trapped everyone inside. Gu Qingshan learned that an Ancient Era World-Eating Demonic Insect had swallowed the world, while Heavenly Eye found the man on the Bounty Order.

• The Black Faced Strongman explained that his stinger had been with Gu Qingshan, and the Scorpion Demon Queen arranged to split the Black Robed Man's storage bag with him.
• The Scorpion Demon Queen and the Black Faced Strongman offered to help Gu Qingshan through his final Life Tribulation as their airship took off to escape Sin Abyss.
• Golden threads suddenly carried away the Scorpion Demon Queen, the Black Faced Strongman, and their son, while Gu Qingshan's Life Tribulation began.
• Golden divine runes appeared across the sky, and departing airships exploded when they struck them; Gu Qingshan escaped his own burning airship before the runes gave way to a fleshy barrier.
• Xiao Xi identified the barrier as belonging to an Ancient Era World-Eating Demonic Insect that had swallowed the Quicksand World, and said she was not strong enough to fight it.
• Aboard a newly arrived spaceship, Heavenly Eye reported that he had found the man on the Bounty Order.

Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi faced a bounty hunter group hired by the Death Divine Hall, and their coordinated assault drove Gu Qingshan into a difficult fight. As the hunters surrounded them, Xiao Xi activated the Twin Shadows card and synchronized their powers, beginning Twin Shadows Combat Mode.

• The Gray Giant sent the bounty hunters after Gu Qingshan after Heavenly Eye identified him as a Thousand Tribulations Late Stage cultivator.
• Gu Qingshan told Xiao Xi that the Scorpion Demon family had been captured, and she discovered that the Scorpion Demon Queen's summoning card had gone blank.
• Xiao Xi reflected an ambush beam with her Reflection Net, bringing down the hunters' spaceship, and Gu Qingshan recognized the attackers as bounty hunters pursuing a temple bounty.
• Xiao Xi drew most of the hunters' attacks toward herself while Gu Qingshan killed two opponents, but a coordinated spell barrage struck him and shattered his Divine Might Battle Armor.
• The Gray Giant ordered his hunters to extract a secret from Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi before killing them, while Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi agreed to fight together.
• Xiao Xi activated the Twin Shadows card, successfully synchronizing with Gu Qingshan and activating Twin Shadows Combat Mode.

Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi used Twin Shadows combat mode to share cards and skills as the Bounty Hunter Group attacked them. Gu Qingshan tore through the attackers while Xiao Xi thwarted the Gray Giant and blasted a shadow-wielding hunter, leaving the battle still underway.

• Gu Qingshan added Shape Shifting to Xiao Xi’s deck, and she gained the ability to use his skills after he played three of her cards.
• Gu Qingshan charged the attacking Bounty Hunter Group with Rapid Attack and Emerald-grade armor, then cut down a diamond-bodied hunter with the True Crimson Demon Spear.
• Xiao Xi drew Saint of Love’s Kiss from Gu Qingshan’s skills and blushed before putting the card away.
• The Gray Giant charged Gu Qingshan but was blocked by Xiao Xi’s puppet warriors, and she used cards to give Gu Qingshan five shields and capture the giant’s Warhammer.
• A shadow-wielding Bounty Hunter rushed Xiao Xi, but Shape Shifting moved him to her prepared explosives while she appeared in the sky and detonated them.

Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi slaughtered the bounty hunters, who escaped with a secret scroll just as they prepared for a final fight. Gu Qingshan passed his Life Tribulation and advanced to the Great Void Realm, while Xiao Xi explained how he could help strengthen her Double Shadow ability.

• Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi defeated dozens of bounty hunters, and the Gray Giant rallied his survivors to prepare a desperate attack.
• The Gray Giant activated a secret scroll that transported the bounty hunters away, leaving Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi unable to catch them.
• Gu Qingshan realized his Life Tribulation had passed, meditated in midair, and advanced to the Great Void Realm, though his Spirit Sense would fall dormant for a time.
• Xiao Xi explained that Double Shadow had exhausted her because she bore the card costs for both of them, then described ways to strengthen a Judgment Envoy.
• Xiao Xi turned into a Jade Card and fell asleep, while Gu Qingshan's interface upgraded him to a one-star card and granted him the Damage Amplification Skill Card.

Gu Qingshan searched the Black Robed Man’s pouch, discovered that Number One Hundred and Ninth Currency could summon a refrigerator, and headed for the Flight Center to seek a refund. Meanwhile, Su Ke’er learned that Anna had concealed Gu Qingshan’s wanted status and revealed overwhelming power as the Fate Divine Hall’s messenger mistook her for Su Xue’er.

• Gu Qingshan found Number One Hundred and Ninth Currency and used it to summon a refrigerator stocked with drinks.
• Gu Qingshan found more Number Ten Currency in the pouch and flew toward the Flight Center disguised as Wang Cheng to seek a refund.
• Anna told Su Ke’er that Gu Qingshan was in a Cultivation World and advised her to ask Zhang Yinghao and Ye Feili for his whereabouts.
• After Anna left, Su Ke’er obtained a Fate Divine Hall report and learned that Gu Qingshan was on the Death Divine Hall’s wanted list.
• Su Ke’er’s power surged as a divine messenger arrived and mistakenly addressed her as Lady Su Xue’er.

As chaos erupted in the Black Market, Gu Qingshan watched from the Flight Center as giant green hands rose across the Quicksand World and seized a nearby town. When one hand nearly grabbed the Floating City, its controls activated and the city began to rise, leaving its people cheering in relief.

• Gu Qingshan left the rioting Flight Center and watched the Black Market descend into violence while considering the gods and the red wall of flesh above.
• A giant green hand rose from the desert, followed by countless hands that covered the Quicksand World.
• The giant hands seized a nearby town, killed its inhabitants, and dragged their bodies into the quicksand.
• A giant green hand reached for the Floating City, and its first touch shattered the city's void-defense array.
• Black Market staff activated the Floating Platform controls, and the Floating City rose free of the hand as its people cheered.

As the monster beneath the Floating City began to awaken, Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi found themselves unable to escape. While chaos erupted in the black market, Gu Qingshan prepared a meal and helped Xiao Xi try soup for the first time, leaving her moved by the experience.

• Xiao Xi told Gu Qingshan that the rising monster was only partly awake and that she was too weak to help them escape.
• Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi watched people fight and loot across the black market as the Floating City faced disaster.
• Gu Qingshan prepared food and invited Xiao Xi to eat with him, but she hesitated because the gods had forbidden her from ordinary living activities.
• Xiao Xi told Gu Qingshan how she had collected flowers and liked traveling between worlds, prompting the gods to seal her after she fought the underground monster.
• Gu Qingshan served Xiao Xi soup, and she tried a sip for the first time before wiping away a tear and admitting she could not describe the feeling.

Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi ate in a quiet corner of the Floating City while chaos raged across the black market. The Light-Shape Being halted the fighting and revealed that the survivors had to find three Divine Artifacts hidden in a maze beneath the Quicksand to seal the demonic insect, promising the finders would become demigods.

• Gu Qingshan used Soul Searching Technique on a dying general and learned about the Contention Zone and the black market.
• Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi watched powerful figures fight over territory and treasures while they ate.
• The Light-Shape Being appeared and used its radiance to drive the enormous green hands back into the desert.
• The Light-Shape Being warned that the demonic insect would emerge when its seal failed and told the survivors to find the Twenty-One Prophecy Poems and three Divine Artifacts hidden beneath the Quicksand.
• The Light-Shape Being promised that those who found the artifacts would become demigods after the evil was sealed.

After the God-Eating Demon King reappeared, Gu Qingshan learned from Xiao Xi about the gods’ ancient battle with it and a secret hidden in Coin Number 944. He activated Traces of Divinity Search to seek the divine artifacts directly, leaving with Xiao Xi for the desert as the wider worlds fell to ruin.

• People in the black market searched the Seven Divine Scriptures for the Twenty-One Prophecy Poems that could lead them to the gods’ maze.
• Xiao Xi urged Gu Qingshan to help find the divine artifacts and become a demigod, but he read a final obituary announcing the fall of the Nine Billion Worlds Federation and the High Tower Guardian Association.
• Gu Qingshan showed Xiao Xi the monster from the Theology Academy, and she identified it as the Predator, Enemy of the Gods, God-Eating Demon King, and Archaic Terminator.
• Xiao Xi told Gu Qingshan that the gods had defeated and sealed the monster in an ancient battle, and that Coin Number 944 held a secret about how to deal with it.
• Gu Qingshan said he would seek the divine artifacts in the desert and activated Traces of Divinity Search, a skill he believed the God-Eating Demon King used to hunt gods.

As the Archaic Terminator battled a corpse raised from the River of Time, the Demon King's Order withdrew from the Ephemeral Worlds, and Gu Qingshan arrived in the Quicksand World. At the Hundred Flowers Sect, Qin Xiaolou gathered the disciples to investigate their mysterious little guest, only to conclude that she was their master's illegitimate daughter and get blasted by White Goose.

• The Archaic Terminator devastated the Nine Hundred Million Layer World and the Fallen Zone until the True Fiend Master and the Demon King's Order awakened a repaired corpse to fight it.
• The Demon King's Order withdrew from the Ephemeral Worlds as the larger worlds teetered on the brink of destruction, and Gu Qingshan arrived in the Quicksand World.
• Qin Xiaolou secretly gathered White Goose, Xiu Xiu, Qing Rou, and Wan Er to discuss the little girl staying at the Hundred Flowers Sect.
• Qin Xiaolou pointed out that the girl carried a cloth doll resembling their master, looked like her, and had her aura concealed, then declared that she was their master's illegitimate daughter.
• Qing Rou and Wan Er rejected Qin Xiaolou's theory, and White Goose finally lost its temper and blasted him.

As the black market traded information about the Prophecy Poems, Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi searched for a way out of the Quicksand World and discovered that the sealed monster had taken over the Sin Abyss wardens. They concluded that the monster was guarding the labyrinth to prevent anyone from obtaining the divine artifact or releasing another seal.

• A famous powerhouse announced that his organization had found a Prophecy Poem and offered to trade information, and Headtaker exchanged a Number Three Hundred and Thirty-Seven Currency for it.
• Traders gathered information about the poems with few battles, and they found nine Prophecy Poems in the Seven Divine Scriptures, leaving twelve still undiscovered.
• Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi flew across the desert, where the Black Faced Strongman questioned them; Gu Qingshan gave him a bag of coins and claimed they were searching for a way out.
• After they flew on, Gu Qingshan explained that the Black Faced Strongman was likely dead and that the sealed monster had taken over his body, using the money bag and Xiao Xi’s blank Scorpion Demon Queen summon card as evidence.
• Gu Qingshan suspected the monster had also taken over the Sin Abyss wardens and was blocking access to the labyrinth to keep anyone from obtaining the divine artifact or releasing another seal.

Gu Qingshan prepared a teleportation array and tested the Black Faced Strongman’s hostility at the Seven Gods Maze entrance. He discovered that talk of escaping made the man’s aggression disappear, then provoked another reaction by suggesting he bring his family along.

• Gu Qingshan completed an array in the desert after discussing the monster’s attacks and Xiao Xi’s past battle with it.
• Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi returned to the maze entrance, where the Black Faced Strongman revealed his hostility and attacked as they escaped through the teleportation array.
• Gu Qingshan concluded the Black Faced Strongman’s concern about escape was suspicious and returned with Xiao Xi to test him again.
• Gu Qingshan told the Black Faced Strongman they had found a way out, and the man stopped preparing to fight and agreed to leave.
• Gu Qingshan suggested the Black Faced Strongman bring his wife and children, causing the man’s expression and voice to turn vicious.

Gu Qingshan exposed the Black Faced Strongman guarding the maze as an impostor and deduced that the monster was possessing guards one at a time, leaving Black Scorpion and his family alive. He entered the maze with Xiao Xi and Mountain Girl while the real Black Scorpion was trapped in a chain of teleportation formations, then freed himself from the possession and began destroying the arrays.

• Gu Qingshan returned to the desert with Xiao Xi and questioned the Black Faced Strongman, concluding that the Scorpion family might still be alive.
• Gu Qingshan summoned a second Black Faced Strongman, and the two identical figures fought; Gu Qingshan identified the one from the maze as the impostor.
• The impostor revealed that Black Scorpion's soul was inside him, and Gu Qingshan deduced that the monster could control many bodies but use only one at a time.
• Gu Qingshan used Shape Shifting to send the impostor into the teleportation chain and entered the maze with Black Scorpion and Xiao Xi; Mountain Girl changed back into her true form and returned Black Scorpion's stinger.
• The real Black Scorpion regained control of his body, realized the monster had possessed him, and began destroying the teleportation arrays so he could reach his wife and son.

Gu Qingshan entered the gods’ palace maze and received a coin that could send a mortal five minutes into the past, along with instructions to find three divine artifacts and seal an evil existence. He learned that the coin was an imitation and that neither the gods nor the War God System could travel through time, then set out to search for the artifacts.

• Gu Qingshan entered the magnificent palace maze, where seven Light-Shape Beings appeared above him and an envelope delivered the gods’ message.
• The gods explained that an evil existence might seek three hidden divine artifacts, and gave Gu Qingshan a coin that could return him five minutes to the past once.
• The War God System said the coin was a powerful imitation and explained that Gu Qingshan’s changes to the timeline had made the system unable to travel through time.
• Gu Qingshan asked Xiao Xi whether the coin resembled any Coin Number 1001 coin, but she said the gods could not travel through time and that the Seven Demon Gods had minted only the first seven hundred coins.
• Gu Qingshan considered how time travel might have let him save the Black Sea Lady, then decided to focus on finding the divine artifacts.

Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi infiltrated the maze to retrieve an artifact hidden in the library, using a summoning contract to draw away the guard. Gu Qingshan escaped with the artifact and flew toward another building as a butterfly.

• Gu Qingshan and Xiao Xi entered the maze, and Gu Qingshan chose the library as the first artifact's hiding place.
• Gu Qingshan transformed into a snow eagle, then a bee and an ant to enter the library without alerting its statue guard.
• Gu Qingshan identified the artifact hidden in the wall beside the fireplace and realized the guard could observe the library through its statue.
• Xiao Xi made a free summoning contract with Gu Qingshan and agreed to lure the guard away from the library.
• Gu Qingshan summoned Xiao Xi, who drew the guard outside while he cut open the wall, took the box, and escaped through the ventilation duct.
• The guard returned to find the artifact missing as Gu Qingshan, transformed into a butterfly, flew toward another building.