Chapter Summaries

Lu Cang battled a white-haired, red-eyed youth who wielded abilities from eight professions, enduring his attacks and countering him with Origin Magic, powerful defenses, and rapid healing. As the youth explained his Eternal Undefeated battle will and void-phasing defense, a Swift Kill Speed Ghost attacked from behind and a massive black blade descended from the front.

• Lu Cang survived the youth’s sword strikes and detonated repeated Soul Condensation True Explosions, but the youth returned to attack with swords, cannons, and other class abilities.
• Lu Cang froze the arena with Era of Absolute Ice Seal, raised and reclaimed the souls of the youth’s undead, and used Future Law to freeze him long enough to land a spear strike.
• Lu Cang’s healing and defenses let him withstand further attacks, and he pierced the youth’s throat after using the Evil Eye Gaze Cloak to surprise the Observer.
• The youth phased through Lu Cang’s spear and revealed that he entered a higher dimension when attacked, while describing his Eternal Undefeated battle will and defensive creed.
• As the youth struggled against the spreading ice, a Swift Kill Speed Ghost attacked him from behind and a massive black blade came crashing down from the front.

Lu Cang fought a reincarnated warrior backed by seven powerful monsters, then turned the warrior’s own Myriad Annihilation Killing Array against him. After sealing the white-haired, red-eyed youth’s abilities, Lu Cang prepared to kill him and end his chance at reincarnation.

• The white-haired, red-eyed youth battled Lu Cang and seven Continent-Sinking Tier monsters while struggling against Lu Cang’s relentless magic.
• The youth deployed stored formation diagrams to transform the Hall of Reincarnation Legacy into a sealed killing array.
• The youth explained his accumulated strength and challenged Lu Cang’s choice to pursue godhood, believing the array had trapped Lu Cang.
• Lu Cang revealed that he controlled the array, and its restrictions sealed the youth’s abilities instead.
• The youth begged Lu Cang to spare him and offered friendship and treasure, but Lu Cang struck his forehead with the Soul-Devouring Dagger.

Lu Cang obtained the Reincarnation Mark after defeating Sheng Yi’s projection, then returned from the battlefield with his memories erased by the Month of Forgetting. His written records helped him recover what had happened, and a dream about the elements led him to discuss higher dimensions with Iz, who warned him about the Forgotten Kingdom.

• Lu Cang claimed the Reincarnation Mark, learned Sheng Yi’s name from the Reincarnation Record, and returned to the battlefield as the barrier fell.
• Lu Cang questioned the survivors about Moon Sea, gave Xiu Mi a Storage Ring of monster materials, and searched the corpses for records and treasure maps.
• Lu Cang emerged in a wasteland with no memories of his recent experiences, but used his blank Fire Writing Paper and extra supplies to piece together what had happened.
• Lu Cang returned to Knoroya, slept, and dreamed of the elements merging into a projection of All Elements in the material world.
• Lu Cang visited Iz and described his dream, and Iz explained that physical-world elements reflected higher planes and warned him that entering dungeons could lead to the Forgotten Kingdom.

During the Month of Forgetting, Lu Cang discussed the Forgotten Kingdom’s magic with Iz, gathered its spoils, and continued farming dungeons while advancing his studies and combat skills. He asked Luluwei to investigate secret cult members connected to the Death Church, and the chapter left him still working toward promotion across his classes.

• Lu Cang told Iz about the Forgotten Kingdom, discussed theories of the world’s origin, and found that notes faded when left unattended during the Month of Forgetting.
• Lu Cang showed Iz his recovered treasures, then asked Kumiloni to identify a gray seed as an Ash Tree that could destroy a continent when fully grown.
• Lu Cang recalled that Pali had sold him distant information about the traitor who colluded with monsters in Ruiga, leaving him with no practical way to pursue the lead.
• Lu Cang and Chicheng farmed Level 6 Evil Lairs while Luluwei defeated a Nation-Destroying monster, and Lu Cang asked her to track members of secret cults tied to the Death Church.
• Lu Cang failed to gather enough Demonic Tide to create another Tier 7 dungeon, then continued refining his Skyward Flow and progressing toward promotions in several classes.

Lu Cang advanced his Decipherer profession, and his God-Tier · Secret Origin talent revealed clues about Earth and the source of pollution. After developing the first six forms of his Skyward Flow fighting style, he learned that Chum might have met with disaster and followed Kumiloni with Luluwei; they found Kumiloni kneeling beside a severed arm.

• Lu Cang advanced to Level 4 Decipherer and gained Subconscious Deciphering, then used Secret Origin to learn that Earth existed somewhere in the world and that he had been randomly teleported to the Ruin Continent.
• Lu Cang let several filthy tadpoles infect him, learned about the Foul Source Nest and its pollution, and had Kumiloni cleanse him with her Power of Complete Purification.
• Lu Cang learned details about Kumiloni's talent and abilities, then spent seven days developing the first six forms of his Skyward Flow fighting style.
• At the Promotion Hall, Lu Cang learned that Chum might have met with disaster during a mission and decided to find Kumiloni despite her absence.
• Lu Cang brought Luluwei with him, and they found Kumiloni kneeling on blood-soaked ground beside a severed arm.

Lu Cang tracked down the group that had killed Chum, recovered her body, and helped Kumiloni resurrect her at the Life Church. After questioning a captured Skin Stealer, Lu Cang learned that the Rose of Skin Shedding had marked him and several of his companions as targets, and he planned to strike back before they could escape.

• Lu Cang found Chum's severed arm, preserved it, and followed clues from the battlefield toward her abductors while warning Chicheng that he was pursuing the wrong trail.
• Lu Cang caught up with the attackers at their hideout, killed several of them, and captured the Skin Stealer while Luluwei brought in stragglers.
• Lu Cang and Kumiloni reunited Chum's arm with her body and revived her at the Life Church using her Life Merit and Kumiloni's resurrection skills.
• Chum identified the Rose of Skin Shedding as an organization of Skin Stealers, and the captured member revealed that Lu Cang, Luluwei, Leng Qingying, and other powerful figures were on its target list.
• Lu Cang concealed how he had obtained additional information and decided to change classes and gather trusted companions before pursuing the organization.

Lu Cang underwent his fourth-level Warrior promotion in the Promotion Hall while White Tower scholars observed the ritual and its contamination. After Chicheng challenged him to demonstrate his combat skills, Lu Cang fought back with increasingly powerful techniques and ended with a soul-charged spear thrust at Chicheng.

• Lu Cang arrived at the Promotion Hall, where Chum, Iz, Kumiloni, Yuna, and the White Tower scholars gathered to witness his promotion.
• Kumiloni presided over Iz's heavily modified promotion ritual, which revealed Foul Worms pouring toward Lu Cang as the scholars watched.
• Chicheng appeared and attacked Lu Cang, prompting them to clash with Warrior techniques as Lu Cang's body healed from Chicheng's blows.
• Lu Cang summoned magic and creatures while fighting Chicheng, who responded with a powerful whirlwind slash that cleared the arena and dispersed Lu Cang's summons.
• Lu Cang entered the Void behind Chicheng and launched a battle-spear thrust powered by a 500-million soul sacrifice.

Lu Cang completed his Level 4 Warrior Promotion Ritual after Kumiloni stopped his escalating fight with Chicheng, then gained a new talent that let him conceal himself and make others forget him. He learned that Chum planned to explore dangerous ruins where the Rose of Skin Shedding cult was also headed, and the group prepared to eradicate the cult.

• Lu Cang unleashed attacks powered by five hundred million souls, but Kumiloni ended his fight with Chicheng before either could escalate it further.
• Lu Cang proved his battle experience by offering ten Continent-Sinking Tier monster corpses, and Iz and the scholars discussed how Foul Worms might be prevented from reaching people undergoing Promotion Rituals.
• Lu Cang advanced to Level 4 Warrior and gained God-Tier Enlightenment Realm Awareness, then tested its Forgetting artistic conception on Chicheng.
• Luluwei showed Lu Cang a ritual in which a woman told Lord Havey that Chum was alive and asked whether to cancel the exploration of the ruins.
• Chum said she planned to explore the ruins to confront the cultists, and Kumiloni and the others joined Lu Cang in preparing to eradicate the Rose of Skin Shedding cult.

Lu Cang tracked the Rose of Skin Shedding to Ailotis and joined a Life Church expedition to destroy its base. After completing his Death Priest promotion and gaining the God-Tier talent Fate of Certain Death, he reached the Chaotic Nations with his companions, where locals began targeting them as outsiders.

• Lu Cang found a Ten-Thousand-Mile Remembrance Ritual in the apartment of the woman Luluwei had watched and traced its other endpoint to a place near the Rose of Skin Shedding's main base.
• Lu Cang showed the Life Church documents pointing to the Rose of Skin Shedding's base in Ailotis, and Kumiloni issued a proclamation authorizing the expedition.
• On the way to Ailotis, Lu Cang sacrificed 33.3 billion black ant souls, reached level 4 as a Death Priest, and gained the God-Tier talent Fate of Certain Death.
• Lu Cang discovered he could see the Death Dates of his companions, but he could not see his own or Kumiloni's; Kumiloni persuaded Chum to conceal the sacrifice from the Inquisition.
• Lu Cang and his companions reached the Chunohe Mountains, disguised themselves as locals, and entered a city in Ailotis.
• Several locals noticed the group and planned to visit their lodging that night to threaten them and demand a tax.

Lu Cang investigated Ailotis’s forbidden sites, rescued Prince Vidar from the royal palace, and uncovered evidence that Skin Stealers had infiltrated the kingdom and were connected to Ruijia. He captured the king’s true identity, a Skin Stealer, and questioned him about Ruijia.

• Leng Qingying killed a man who was abducting a little girl, healed the child, and left her money while Lu Cang burned the corpse.
• Lu Cang found Skin Stealer palaces and human-skin records beneath several towers, then trapped the occupants inside their barriers while surveying other locations.
• Lu Cang entered Ailotis’s palace, rescued Vidar from a hidden chamber, and learned that a Skin Stealer had killed Vidar’s father and relatives and that visitors had discussed taking control of Ruijia.
• Lu Cang brought Vidar to the inn, then returned to the palace’s skinning chamber and pieced together evidence about the Skin Stealers.
• The disguised king returned to the chamber, but Lu Cang pinned him down and discovered that his parents were Skin Stealers before asking whether Ruijia’s king was under their control.

Lu Cang forced Dilo to reveal that the Rose of Skin Shedding had infiltrated Ruijia and gathered a list of its Skin Stealers. After Dilo died by suicide, Lu Cang and his allies prepared to head to Ruijia to stop the cult from escaping or consolidating its control.

• Lu Cang used Fear Oppression and threats to make Dilo disclose the Rose of Skin Shedding’s plans, its Skin Stealer ritual, and its agents across Ailotis and nearby kingdoms.
• Lu Cang let Dilo flee under oath while Luluwei tracked him, and Dilo found his allies dead wherever he sought help before dying by suicide at a hidden communication ritual.
• Kumiloni, Chicheng, Leng Qingying, Chum, and Lu Cang agreed to go to Ruijia, where the cult had seized control of the kingdom.
• Chicheng and Luluwei eliminated the Skin Stealers named in Dilo’s list, while Lu Cang collected the cult’s files and studied their writings on flesh and skinning.

Lu Cang tracked Dilo’s parents to an underground passage in Serl City that led to the Inner World, where the Rose of Skin Shedding had set a trap. He escaped as the entrance closed, leaving Kumiloni and the others trapped inside while powerful auras closed in on Serl City.

• While traveling to Ruijia, Lu Cang tested God-Tier: Fate of Certain Death and concluded that learning someone’s death fate let him alter it, even saving a deer with Kumiloni’s help.
• Lu Cang’s group reached Serl City, slipped past its defenses, and found a hidden passage beneath the palace leading toward an underground city.
• Lu Cang identified the passage as an entrance to the Inner World, and Kumiloni scouted it before the group followed her inside.
• In the Inner World, Lu Cang sensed danger and retreated through the entrance just before it vanished, trapping Kumiloni, Chicheng, Luluwei, Leng Qingying, and Chum.
• Lu Cang sensed powerful, nonhuman auras approaching Serl City from every direction.

Lu Cang confronted a vast force of Skin Stealers surrounding Serl City and discovered they were part of a worldwide cult serving the God of Skinning and Shapeshifting, Aertemi. As the entire capital shed its disguises, Lu Cang realized Skin Stealers had taken over the city and that the order to capture Kumiloni was part of a much larger divine plan.

• Lu Cang recognized that he had underestimated his enemies, then killed Nicodi and struck down dozens of attackers with a single wind spell.
• A Skin Stealer elder began melting, and four Flower Demons confronted Lu Cang; he killed them and learned from their memories that the Rose of Skin Shedding had spread across the world.
• Lu Cang decoded an order from Aertemi to capture Kumiloni alive and uncovered more of the conspiracy surrounding Ruijia.
• An assassin attacked Lu Cang, who killed him and sensed an increasingly dangerous force gathering around Serl City.
• Lu Cang saw clergy, soldiers, and ordinary city workers tear off their skins as the mist turned crimson and the sun revealed a flesh-like surface, exposing that Skin Stealers had taken over the entire capital.

Lu Cang unleashed his undead army in Serl City, killed the Level 7 Skin Stealers who had surrounded him, and searched their belongings for clues to Kumiloni’s capture. He realized the celestial phenomenon pointed to a god’s involvement, but Aertemi appeared in person and stripped away his defenses.

• Lu Cang pretended to leave, then activated the Guiding Ritual and summoned an undead army that overwhelmed the Skin Stealers in Serl City.
• Lu Cang killed the Level 7 attackers by exploiting their Death Dates, while a purple-eyed Level 7 powerhouse destroyed many of his strongest undead before dying from skin rejection.
• Lu Cang collected the fallen enemies’ souls and storage bags, then searched the loot and reconsidered the blood-red celestial phenomenon.
• Lu Cang realized that only a god could alter the celestial phenomenon and used several techniques to escape an attack.
• Aertemi revealed herself, said she had come for Kumiloni, and reached Lu Cang after stripping away the shields around him.

Lu Cang fought Aertemi’s skin-wearing vessel across Serl City, using church wards, soul explosions, and his power to make her forget to survive her attacks. With all three churches’ Forbidden Halls destroyed, he was left in the open sky as Aertemi regenerated again.

• Lu Cang escaped Aertemi’s attacks and identified her as a vessel controlled by Aertemi’s skin, while the kingdom’s and churches’ wards restrained her.
• Lu Cang unleashed a soul explosion and struck Aertemi with attacks that used his forgetting power, but she touched him and began stripping away his skin and flesh as his body regenerated.
• Lu Cang retreated between the churches’ Forbidden Halls and repeatedly attacked Aertemi with battle spears while predicting her movements and replenishing his souls.
• Aertemi broke through the Dark Church’s wards, but Lu Cang made her forget and pierced her with sixteen spears, annihilating her body before it regenerated.
• Aertemi returned to the Ice Church’s Forbidden Hall and destroyed Lu Cang’s ice spears, but he made her forget again and landed another barrage that annihilated her.
• All three Forbidden Halls were destroyed, leaving Lu Cang in the open sky as Aertemi condensed and revived once more.

Lu Cang battled Aertemi with holy relics, Void tactics, and rapid regeneration, repeatedly lowering her Death Date but struggling to escape her attacks. At the brink of death, he understood how essence and its outer manifestations formed a complete whole and manifested his Tier 4 Origin Magic, Core of the All-Encompassing Whole.

• Lu Cang released the seals on the Dark Church relic, using its darkness to evade Aertemi and create an opening for a soul-sacrificing strike with the Holy Spear.
• Lu Cang pierced Aertemi with the Holy Spear, and its light reduced her to ashes, lowering her Death Date to 10 years, 6 months, and 22 days before she regenerated.
• Aertemi attacked Lu Cang with her skin-stripping power, but he scattered his heart, brain, kidneys, and liver before rapidly regenerating his body.
• Lu Cang repeatedly used Forget: Void and summoned Holy Spears, while Aertemi grew more irritated and pursued him through the Void.
• As Aertemi’s hooked dagger neared him, Lu Cang understood that the Source included both singular essence and its many outer manifestations.
• Lu Cang formed a dazzling core in his palm and pressed it toward Aertemi, manifesting Tier 4 Origin Magic: Core of the All-Encompassing Whole.

Lu Cang defeated Aertemi, who had descended through Ties, and destroyed her body and soul after nearly dying to her Divine Authority. He returned from the Inner World with Kumiloni and the others, learned why Izpalut had stayed away, and his victory was recorded as the day he slew a god.

• Aertemi dodged Lu Cang's attack, pierced his heart, and believed she had killed him, but Lu Cang reappeared and shattered her with his Origin Magic.
• Lu Cang stripped Aertemi from Ties, took Ties's soul, and obliterated Ties so neither could return; he then learned about Ties and claimed Aertemi's Ten Thousand Skins Bag.
• Lu Cang opened the Inner World and found Kumiloni and the others alive; Kumiloni healed him, and the group left the devastated battlefield.
• On the journey back, Lu Cang recounted his fight with Aertemi, and Kumiloni urged him to flee future enemies beyond his strength.
• In Knoroya, Izpalut apologized for not coming and explained he had stayed to prevent An Zheng from attempting a dangerous path to level nine.
• The Life Church publicized Lu Cang's victory, recording that on January 16, 5026, he had slain a god.

After the Month of Forgetting erased Lu Cang’s memories of January, he used his records to recover what he had studied and adjusted to February’s healing Life Rain. On February 4, he boarded a specially modified airship with Kumiloni and White Tower scholars to attempt his advancement to level-four mage.

• Lu Cang was honored by the Life Church for defeating Aertemi, reviewed his spoils, and discussed advancing as a mage with Kumiloni while the White Tower researched a moving Promotion Hall.
• During January, Lu Cang studied Fate and Time, trained with Yuna, and watched Loren incorporate most of Ruijia; on January 31, he and Yuna fell asleep as the Month of Forgetting ended.
• On February 1, Lu Cang woke with no memories of January, used Information Tracing on his blank Fire Writing Paper, and learned that February’s Life Rain and Leap Year Blessing had begun.
• Lu Cang reviewed his lost studies, met Chicheng to create several level-six dungeons, and spent the first day of February without dying.
• On February 4, Lu Cang, Kumiloni, and White Tower scholars boarded an airship fitted with a Promotion Hall to attempt Lu Cang’s advancement to level-four mage.

Lu Cang underwent his Mage promotion ritual aboard the Flying Light airship, using its extreme speed to escape the Foul Worms and reach the Secret Sea. He discovered the Secret Origin, developed his Core of the All-Encompassing Whole, and was promoted to Level 4 Mage.

• Lu Cang boarded the Flying Light with Kumiloni and the Mechanists, who prepared to conduct his promotion ritual at top speed.
• The airship accelerated to 800 kilometers per second, and Kumiloni began the ritual after they shook off the Foul Worms.
• Lu Cang used Origin Magic and his core to blast the ocean and touch the Mage Origin, gaining information about the God-Tier Secret Origin.
• Lu Cang formed a defensive core around his knowledge and magic, then submitted the remains of a Tier 6 Continent-Sinking Tier magical beast as combat experience.
• Pale light descended from the Mage Origin, and Lu Cang's mage level rose to Level 4.

After becoming a 4th-tier Mage, Lu Cang gained the God-Tier talent Complete Method and confirmed that the group had escaped the Contamination Worms by outrunning them. Back in Knoroya, he pulled Hun Mu from class to discuss something, and Hun Mu panicked and begged him not to punish him for a practice shared by other teachers.

• Lu Cang gained Complete Method, which let him complete lost magical laws, comprehend another person's Origin Magic of the same tier, and resist knowledge contamination.
• Lu Cang confirmed that neither he nor Kumiloni sensed contamination, and Flying Light slowed after the pursuing Contamination Worms disappeared behind them.
• The scholars realized that outrunning the worms worked, then questioned how fast a ship would need to travel and whether Loren could afford the fuel or a suitable mechanic.
• On the return journey, Lu Cang and the others passed the Secret Sea and saw the distant Tengge Continent.
• Lu Cang went to Hun Mu's classroom, ended the lesson early, and gave the students 20,000 gold coins as compensation.
• Hun Mu panicked when Lu Cang took him aside and begged him not to single him out, claiming Teachers Tino and Pafa did the same thing.