Chapter Summaries

Lu Cang stopped trying to open the door and encountered Izpalut again after another time reset. Izpalut revealed that Lu Cang had been corrupted and asked to modify Eternal Annihilation so Chicheng could be revived, leaving Lu Cang wary of trusting him.

• Lu Cang gave up on opening the door and waited for the ruin to reset him back to an earlier point.
• Izpalut appeared again, and Lu Cang realized he had been testing him to learn the truth about his behavior.
• Izpalut told Lu Cang that corruption had taken root in him, and Lu Cang said he suspected it but hoped to suppress or remove it.
• Izpalut asked Lu Cang to leave a loophole in Eternal Annihilation so Kumiloni could revive Chicheng.
• Lu Cang agreed to hear how to alter the talent but privately questioned whether he could trust Izpalut with his trump card.

Lu Cang accepted Izpalut’s help, gained the Second Forbidden Magic—Time, and let Izpalut analyze his talent as time reset in the ruins. After returning to the present, Lu Cang considered the lost chance to save Chicheng and prepared to test the Seventh Forbidden Magic—Element.

• Lu Cang revealed his God-Tier Eternal Annihilation talent and told Izpalut he trusted him while Izpalut enveloped the talent in arcane symbols.
• Izpalut offered Lu Cang the Second Forbidden Magic—Time, which Lu Cang extracted from him and mastered.
• Izpalut said he believed Lu Cang could resist the corruption and had someone he needed to defeat, then analyzed Lu Cang’s talent as Lu Cang studied his new magic.
• Time reset Lu Cang to the corridor, and he waited rather than enter the ruins’ second area until another reset returned him to Euynri.
• Lu Cang left the ruins and reached the Valley of Emptiness, realizing Izpalut’s plan to save Chicheng was now lost, then gathered elements to test the Seventh Forbidden Magic—Element.

Lu Cang tested the two forms of Elemental Primordialization and discovered that Elemental Myriad Manifestations could unleash 9th-tier magic but drained his mana and caused uncontrollable destruction. After repeatedly rehearsing the spell, a clock-like sound abruptly pulled him out of the future rehearsal while he was making a potion.

• Lu Cang used Elemental Primordialization to dissolve everything within fifty thousand kilometers into elemental energy.
• Lu Cang activated Elemental Myriad Manifestations in a future rehearsal, unleashing a 9th-tier fire spell that evaporated the ocean and destroyed the surrounding land.
• Lu Cang realized his mana could not sustain the other 9th-tier spells and that he could not precisely control Elemental Myriad Manifestations.
• Lu Cang repeatedly cast the second form in rehearsal, but a clock-like sound suddenly ended the rehearsal and left him holding a test tube while making medicine.

Lu Cang realized that time was resetting him to earlier points in his life and, following Ansu’s advice, returned to the ruin to open the mysterious door. After advancing again as a Decipherer, he reached the door and asked Ansu what to do, leaving the attempt to open it unresolved.

• Lu Cang discovered that his Decipherer level and talent had reverted, and he told Ansu that time was resetting forward.
• Ansu suggested that the ruin’s door was causing the resets and urged Lu Cang to return and open it.
• Lu Cang refined and drank the Extreme Perception Potion, then completed the Decipherer Promotion Ritual and regained his former mastery and talent.
• Lu Cang returned to the ruin, passed through its changing Second Area, and found the mysterious door again.
• Lu Cang asked Ansu about the door, and Ansu told him to open it or let Ansu use souls to force it open.

Lu Cang tried to understand the prison of time behind the door and attacked it with his strongest elemental magic, but the door remained untouched. Its backlash sent him farther back in time, leaving him in a familiar basement in Missilshu, Atlantis City.

• Lu Cang discussed with Ansu whether the door held the time lost by people trapped in the ruins’ resets, then chose not to give it souls.
• Lu Cang touched the door and saw overlapping images of himself, including one from an earlier visit.
• Lu Cang used the Initiation Style and then the Release Style of Original Forbidden Magic, unleashing 9th Tier Elemental spells against the door.
• The door resisted the attack and sent a rippling surge of time back at Lu Cang.
• Lu Cang heard the click of a clock and found himself in a basement in Missilshu, Atlantis City, farther back in time.

As time continued to rewind, Lu Cang investigated whether Luluwei had already been corrupted by entering her sea of consciousness. After she explored his in return, she reacted with confusion to what she saw.

• Lu Cang found himself back on April 28 and worried that the rewind might carry him so far into the past that he could never reach the Valley of Emptiness again.
• Lu Cang went to his house and asked Luluwei for permission to enter her sea of consciousness.
• Lu Cang found Luluwei's sea of consciousness healthy and uncorrupted, despite her expected corruption two days later.
• Luluwei asked to explore Lu Cang's sea of consciousness, and he guided her inside.
• Luluwei looked around Lu Cang's sea of consciousness and asked whether it had always been that way.

Lu Cang discovered that several people could see a legendary Tree of Wisdom in his Sea of Consciousness, though he and Ansu could not. After advancing and racing to the Valley of Emptiness, he reached its door again on April 30, before the Pure Month, while his two wishes remained unreleased through the time reset.

• Luluwei saw a vast Tree of Wisdom in Lu Cang's Sea of Consciousness, but Lu Cang and Ansu could not see it.
• Lu Cang showed his Sea of Consciousness to Yuna and Leng Qingying, and both saw the Tree of Wisdom.
• Lu Cang advanced, extracted a ship's attributes to travel quickly, and reached Moonfall Island before extracting enchantments from the Moon Sea Ship.
• Lu Cang traveled from Moonfall Island to the Valley of Emptiness and stood before its door on April 30, without having gained the Level 6 Decipherer talent.
• Lu Cang's two wishes had not been released or reset: returning to normal time and using the Level 6 Decipherer talent to solve the problem in the Time Ruins.

Lu Cang and Ansu studied the time-warping door in the Valley of Emptiness, using Ansu’s power over death to try to open it. After more than ten days of reflection, Ansu touched the door again and made it begin to turn black.

• Lu Cang and Ansu approached the door eighteen days before Lu Cang’s expected reset, and Ansu warned that failing to open it might send him further into the past.
• Lu Cang gathered the countless souls in his consciousness and lent their power to Ansu, who regained his strength and appeared beside him.
• Ansu explained that everything, including time, would eventually die, then caused the corridor to wither and vanish while the door remained.
• Ansu shifted the corridor’s decay to another time and sat with Lu Cang to think through the door’s nature, sharing his thoughts with him.
• After more than ten days of studying time, Ansu warned Lu Cang that he might need to seek Lotie’s help if the door resisted again.
• Ansu touched the door once more, and it began to take on a faint shade of black.

Lu Cang and Ansu broke through an enormous door and discovered Ekhatol behind it, but she reset time and sent Lu Cang back to an earlier day. Lu Cang retained his classes and levels, and he saw the Tree of Wisdom in his sea of consciousness.

• Ansu destroyed the door, and Lu Cang's time seemed to flow backward as his Decipherer levels and God-Tier · Deepest Reality returned.
• A white-haired figure restored the door, prompting Ansu to break it open again.
• With his restored talent, Lu Cang saw the girl clearly as Ansu identified her as Ekhatol and asked her to let Lu Cang return to normal time.
• Ekhatol raised her hand, and Lu Cang awoke in his basement on April 26 with his classes and levels intact.
• Lu Cang examined his sea of consciousness and saw the Tree of Wisdom.

Lu Cang discovered the Tree of Wisdom in his sea of consciousness and examined the powers and costs of Forbidden Magic: Time. After asking Ansu about Ekhatol, he encountered a purple-haired girl in Atlantis City’s ancient library who resembled Pali.

• Lu Cang suspected the Tree of Wisdom was connected to his many God-Tier Talents, but he could not reach or investigate it.
• Lu Cang reviewed the Activation, Release Spell, and Final Form of Forbidden Magic: Time, noting their costs, conditions, and extraordinary effects.
• Lu Cang asked Ansu to tell him everything it knew about Ekhatol, and Ansu began recounting what it remembered.
• Lu Cang went to Atlantis City’s ancient library and encountered a short-haired purple-haired girl who resembled Pali but did not recognize that name.
• The girl offered to divine the whereabouts of the person Lu Cang was seeking, while the core moved behind her and made contact with her.

Lu Cang searched the Ancient Library Room for information about Ekhatol after meeting Pidi, a librarian who looked almost exactly like his missing friend Pali. In a sealed fifth-floor collection, he found a damaged book describing someone cursed to travel backward through time.

• Lu Cang met Pidi, learned she was a level 5 fortune-teller and level 4 scholar, and asked her about Pali, but her divination showed no clues.
• Pidi told Lu Cang that books about Ekhatol were sealed on the fifth floor and refused to lend them to him because he was a child.
• Lu Cang secretly teleported to the fifth floor and asked Ansu where he might find clues about Ekhatol; Ansu suggested looking for ruins in the Turbid Sea.
• Lu Cang searched the ancient collection and found a damaged book titled Time's Lone Curse.
• Using Information Tracing, Lu Cang read the account of a person whose life moved backward each day after returning from a pitch-black spiral.

Lu Cang read a record from someone trapped in a time loop and feared he might be caught in the same curse. He tested whether reincarnation could let him escape, and woke as a newborn in the Derdas Family, though he did not yet know whether the reset would follow him.

• The record's writer described more than twenty-five years of endless time loops, failed attempts to escape, and a life extended across over 110,000 years.
• Lu Cang considered possible explanations for the record's survival and worried that he might be living in a separate timeline or simulated world.
• Lu Cang entered Future Simulation on May 18 and decided to test whether dying and reincarnating could free him from the curse.
• Lu Cang sealed his healing and Myriad Battles Absolute Body talent, killed himself, and reincarnated as a baby in the Derdas Family.

Lu Cang used reincarnation to escape the time curse in a Future Simulation, then spent more than a decade across repeated timelines preparing to revisit the Secret Sea. He returned to April 1, reenacted the trial to keep events controlled, and reached the Secret Sea again, where he sensed its hidden dangers and spotted Roa and a four-winged angel in the sky.

• Lu Cang concluded that reincarnation could free him from the resets and considered using the repeating timelines to study the past and grow stronger.
• Lu Cang examined Black Secret and his own sea of consciousness, suspecting Luluwei, Deep Earth, or Lotie as the source of his corruption.
• Lu Cang repeatedly reenacted events until he reset to April 1, then retraced his route through the ruins and entered Aegimiss's trial again.
• Lu Cang recreated the first two trial stages, lured Ansu into a trap and bound him with a slave contract, then defeated the Golden Dragon and saved Eukrinli.
• Lu Cang reached the Secret Sea and used Deepest Reality to perceive its corruptive whirlpools, the extraordinary people around him, and Roa and a four-winged angel watching from above.

Lu Cang led Kumiloni, Yelia, and Rhine into the deep sea after claiming Aegimiss had hinted that the Sea Abyss held a way to save the Secret Sea. They reached its first layer and discovered it was crowded with humanoid monsters, angels, and Life Church members.

• Lu Cang invited Kumiloni, Yelia, and Rhine to investigate the deep sea, and Yelia agreed after he said Aegimiss had hinted at a connection to the third trial.
• Lu Cang led the group toward the Sea Abyss, using magic to part the water and speed their descent.
• The four descended nearly ten million kilometers and arrived at the first layer of the Sea Abyss.
• Lu Cang sensed humanoid monsters, angels, and people in Life Church robes throughout the darkness.

Lu Cang and Kumiloni discovered Life Church members and angels performing a forbidden Life Exchange Ritual in the Sea Abyss. They learned the ritual was Sophia’s Divine Decree to sacrifice the Secret Sea and revive the Lord of the Ocean, and Yelia arrived to stop them.

• Kumiloni recognized the Life Exchange Ritual on a planet and rushed toward it, with Lu Cang arriving first.
• Lu Cang used Thought Invasion and Idea Implantation to make the gathered level-six Class-changers answer his questions.
• A Life Church believer said Sophia had ordered them to sacrifice the Secret Sea’s lives to revive the Lord of the Ocean.
• Kumiloni questioned the believer’s claim and raised her emerald staff, while the believer insisted they would continue the ritual.
• Yelia arrived with the Sword of Netfire Judgment and condemned the ritual for threatening to ruin the Secret Sea.

Lu Cang questioned an angel and learned that Lord Zhuya had ordered angels and followers of Life to sacrifice themselves to awaken the Lord of the Ocean, despite knowing it would devastate the Secret Sea. Yelia destroyed the planet’s inhabitants, and Lu Cang recognized the Eighth-tier Devilish Creature Lomo among the hostile figures gathering around them.

• Kumiloni urged Yelia to uncover the truth before judging the people responsible for the Secret Sea’s destruction, and Lu Cang supported her plea.
• Lu Cang brought a dazed angel before him and used mental pressure to make it explain that Lord Zhuya had ordered the ritual to awaken the Lord of the Ocean.
• The angel confirmed that it knew the awakening could destroy the Secret Sea, and Yelia decided to act according to her own principles.
• Yelia used Scorching Severance to split apart the planet and kill everyone on it.
• Hundreds of hostile perceptions and powerful figures converged on Lu Cang, Yelia, and Rhine, and Lu Cang recognized Lomo, the Eighth-tier Devilish Creature he had once killed.

Lu Cang, Kumiloni, and the others watched as a vast ritual sacrificed millions to awaken an ancient being. Yelia left with Zhuya’s angel to receive her Divine Decree, while Lu Cang and Kumiloni followed Sophia’s call through the Sea Abyss.

• An eighth-rank monster’s pressure swept over the group as Zhuya’s angel arrived and ordered the ritual to begin.
• Millions of ritual lights ignited, draining the Class-changers who presided over them and awakening an ancient being beneath the Sea Abyss.
• Yelia received a Divine Decree, and the angel revealed that he was Zhuya’s fifth angel and had a divine artifact for her.
• Kumiloni heard Sophia calling and decided to seek her out, while Lu Cang agreed to go with her and Rhein chose to follow.
• Yelia departed with the angel, and Lu Cang and Kumiloni headed toward the source of Sophia’s call.

Lu Cang, Kumiloni, and Rhine encountered Sophia in the Sea Abyss, where she admitted to saving and awakening the Lord of the Ocean. As Kumiloni challenged Sophia, a second voice spoke through Kumiloni, revealing that she might be a vessel for a divine presence.

• Lu Cang asked Kumiloni whether she would keep believing in Sophia if the goddess proved to be different from what she expected, and Kumiloni said she would not believe blindly but wanted to ask Sophia herself.
• Lu Cang used the Core of the All-Encompassing Whole to track Yelia from afar, then illuminated the Sea Abyss as Kumiloni approached a familiar voice.
• Kumiloni recognized the grotesque creature before her as Sophia, who said she was the goddess of life and growth and had saved the Lord of the Ocean.
• Kumiloni confronted Sophia over awakening a monster that could destroy the Secret Sea, but Sophia argued that she had only saved a life and was not responsible for what it did afterward.
• Sophia grew irritated and called Kumiloni a perfect vessel; then a voice speaking in Sophia's tone came from Kumiloni and addressed Lu Cang as if he were an ant.

Sophia possessed Kumiloni and tried to alter Lu Cang’s life essence, but he used Soul Dominator to extract Sophia’s soul from Kumiloni’s body. Sophia began taking root inside Kumiloni again, revealing that she intended to be reborn and replace her.

• Sophia controlled Kumiloni and questioned Lu Cang about his identity and intentions.
• Lu Cang saw that Kumiloni’s body was Sophia’s immortal vessel and that her Death Date was infinite.
• Sophia touched Lu Cang and began to change the essence of his life.
• Lu Cang used Soul Dominator to pull Sophia’s soul out of Kumiloni, freeing Kumiloni from her control.
• Sophia’s soul burst apart, but she began taking root inside Kumiloni again and declared that Lu Cang could not stop her without taking her soul outright.

Lu Cang used time and elemental magic to fight Kumiloni, but she survived his strongest attack and revealed her plan to absorb all life into herself. The chapter ended with Kumiloni merging with Rhine and reaching for Lu Cang, inviting him to become part of her.

• Kumiloni identified Lu Cang's lack of fear and inferred that he was connected to Ekhatol and not in his main timeline.
• Lu Cang escaped with time magic and transformed the surrounding area into pure elements with Forbidden Magic—Element.
• Kumiloni offered to trade answers, then used her power to make new limbs grow from Lu Cang's body.
• Lu Cang attacked Kumiloni with Elemental Myriad Manifestations, but she regenerated after being destroyed.
• Kumiloni explained that she wanted all life to become one and pulled Rhine into herself, beginning to merge with her.
• Kumiloni invited Lu Cang to become her as well.