Recaps

Lu Cang reunited with Luluwei and learned how she had reached level 8 with the help of a dying 9th-tier archer. After Luluwei attacked Huang Minzhi, Yuna revealed that the answer they were seeking concerned the problem of balance.

• Lu Cang apologized to Luluwei, drew her close, and shared a curated account of his experiences with her.
• Luluwei shared her memories and told Lu Cang that a 9th-tier archer had taken her as an apprentice and taught her.
• Lu Cang learned that the requirements for reaching level 9 shifted according to whether someone in a class had already reached that tier.
• Huang Minzhi interrupted the reunion, and Luluwei shot at him before Lu Cang caught her arrow and explained that Huang Minzhi was his friend.
• Yuna said the problem Lu Cang and Luluwei needed to understand was the problem of balance.

Lu Cang considered whether becoming a monster could exploit the world’s balance, but Yuna warned that doing so would greatly strengthen monsters and weaken intelligent beings. Huang Minzhi suggested that Lu Cang was already a monster by nature, and Lu Cang recognized that the choice could determine which side balance favored.

• Lu Cang reasoned that monsters grew stronger through balance and wondered whether Moon Star could benefit by becoming a monster.
• Yuna explained that Lu Cang joining the monsters would further tilt balance and could help them break it before its effects adjusted again.
• Huang Minzhi suggested Lu Cang could become part of a nest, prompting Luluwei to draw her bow when he called Lu Cang a monster.
• Lu Cang confirmed that he had been a monster in his previous life, though he had looked human.
• Lu Cang suspected Yog had sent him to Moon Star so he could choose which side benefited from balance.

Huang Minzhi and Yuna told Lu Cang that the balance was nearing total destruction and urged him to decide whether to transform, with Yuna hoping he could prevent the foretold catastrophe. Back in the Land of Seeing the Moon, Lu Cang reunited with Luluwei and Yuna and planned to deliver what the Expeditionary Force needed before repairing his understanding of the Source and forging the Supreme Lucky Scepter.

• Huang Minzhi explained that four of the five pillars of balance had been broken and that Lu Cang's mature transformation was hidden from all but Yog.
• Yuna warned Lu Cang that the balance would be destroyed in three years, bringing the gods and Moon Stars down, and said she believed he could avert the end.
• Lu Cang and his companions returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon, where he discussed Phase magic with Luluwei and learned Izpalut had known it for about nine years.
• Yuna emerged from a rift and recognized the Moon Sea, while she and Luluwei quickly surveyed their surroundings.
• Lu Cang told Yuna and Luluwei to rest while he went to deliver what the Expeditionary Force needed, then planned to repair his understanding of the Source and forge the Supreme Lucky Scepter.

Lu Cang left the Moon Sea and attacked a godlike being in a Forbidden Zone after a future simulation showed it would turn against him. He resisted its Divine Authority and pierced its body with the Emperor Sword, but the being’s contact-based Shared Soul for Life surrounded him.

• Lu Cang raced across the sea, killed tens of thousands of monsters in the Abyss of Falling, and ended Time Stop to test his ideas about magic.
• Lu Cang reached a Forbidden Zone in Boundless Mountain and found a fallen god using Divine Authority—Soul Annihilation against him.
• Lu Cang explained that a Future Simulation had shown the being would become his enemy, so he had come to kill it first.
• The being tried to seize Lu Cang’s soul, but Lu Cang grabbed the tangible black snake representing its attack.
• Lu Cang struck the being with the Emperor Sword, triggering its Divine Authority—Shared Soul for Life as its body enveloped him.

Lu Cang trapped Bote, the Soul Porter, and used Fate magic to command its death. After Bote died, a wraith imbued with divinity, divine power, and Divine Authority emerged from Lu Cang’s shadow.

• Lu Cang saw a future in which Bote joined five other Forbidden Zone Lords from Boundless Mountain in the Abnormal Nest, where they would oppose him.
• Bote tried to escape as Lu Cang sealed the area, but Lu Cang stopped every fragment of its soul and took control of its body.
• Bote begged Lu Cang to spare it and join forces against the threats to come, but Lu Cang refused.
• Lu Cang used Cang Dao—Third Path: Cause of Life · Final Pronouncement of Death to declare that Bote would die, and its souls burst apart.
• A wraith carrying divinity, divine power, and Divine Authority emerged from Lu Cang’s shadow.

Lu Cang killed Bote and turned him into a powerful undead, gaining the Divine Authority to sense every soul in the world. He returned to the Moon Sea with six captives and left the Merman Sage to speak with Xisha, but secretly stayed nearby to listen.

• Lu Cang used Divine-level Undead Rebirth on Bote and gained the Divine Authority to sense every soul in the world.
• Bote demonstrated his power by collapsing the souls of monsters hundreds of billions of kilometers away.
• Lu Cang decided to return to the Moon Sea before hunting the four remaining gods and warped back to the Merman Sage's room.
• Lu Cang delivered six bound people, including Xisha, Xiu Mi, and Airosa, to the Merman Sage and released Xisha and the others from his Seals.
• The Merman Sage promised Lu Cang a reward, then asked to verify information with Xisha, and Lu Cang vanished while secretly remaining nearby to eavesdrop.

Xisha reported that she had witnessed the Abnormal Nest’s Lair Lord consuming what was likely the Evil Lair’s Lair Lord, who appeared to have died. After the others left, the Merman Sage called on Lu Cang, who had been listening unseen.

• Xisha woke and reported that the Abnormal Nest’s passage had opened inside the Evil Lair, transforming its monsters and spreading across its sky.
• Xisha described entering the Abnormal Nest and seeing its Lair Lord consume a being she believed was the Evil Lair’s Lair Lord.
• Xisha said a powerful perception swept over her group and they reappeared elsewhere, though they had never sent the distress call that brought the Merman Sage to them.
• Xisha searched for Lu Cang but did not find him, while the Merman Sage listened to her report and let the group go rest.
• After everyone left, the Merman Sage sighed and told Lu Cang to come out.

Lu Cang accepted the Merman Sage’s trust and learned of a set of Godly Robes left by Yaluomochi. Back at the Land of Seeing the Moon, he remained unable to find an answer to magic or the Source and considered preparing Mo Cheng to face the truth.

• The Merman Sage trusted Lu Cang despite Xisha’s suspicions and promised to retrieve the sealed Godly Robes in five days.
• Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon, where Lotdan was startled by the gathering of Level 8 Class-changers, including Yuna and Luluwei.
• Lu Cang spent extensive time thinking and using Future Simulations but could not understand the Source or determine how mages could advance without it.
• Mo Cheng noticed Lu Cang’s worries and offered to help, so Lu Cang considered explaining the Source’s lack of an answer to him gradually.

Lu Cang gave Mo Cheng seven sealed books containing problems about the Source, which would unlock as Mo Cheng advanced in magic. Luluwei visited the Mage Tower and asked about Lu Cang’s apprentice and the Tree of the World Center, but Lu Cang said it was not convenient to go there yet because its Seal was tied to the Original Taboo User who cast it.

• Lu Cang showed Mo Cheng seven books of blank pages that filled with difficult knowledge, then explained that Mo Cheng would unlock them as he advanced, up to level eight.
• Mo Cheng asked whether Lu Cang was leaving, and Lu Cang told him to prepare for uncertainty and plan ahead.
• Luluwei arrived at the Mage Tower, met Mo Cheng, and questioned Lu Cang about taking an apprentice who might surpass him.
• Luluwei asked when they would visit the Tree of the World Center, and Lu Cang said they could not go right away.
• Lu Cang recalled that the Tree of the World Center was sealed by Original Forbidden Magic and that breaking the Seal had led Everything Solved to strike at the Tenth Original Taboo User, whose power threatened his life.

Lu Cang completed the Supreme Lucky Scepter after preparing to confront the Old Gods and collecting the Merman Sage’s promised Godly Robes. He also forged Mo Cheng a battle spear, and the chapter ended with the divine artifact finished.

• Lu Cang learned that the Forbidden Zones held former gods who had lost their faith and been trapped in declining Divine Kingdoms, and he planned to turn hostile Old Gods into undead after making proper preparations.
• Lu Cang used spatial switching to appear before the Merman Sage and demand the promised Godly Robes, which the Sage handed over without tricks.
• Lu Cang’s Blacksmith and Enchanter classes reached Level 5 as he forged the Supreme Lucky Scepter, and he made Mo Cheng a mage’s battle spear.
• Mo Cheng continued studying magic but had not yet reached Level 3 or discovered his Origin Magic.
• Twelve days after returning from the Chamber of Answers, Lu Cang finished forging the Supreme Lucky Scepter.

Lu Cang tested the Supreme Lucky Scepter and wondered whether its luck effects worked, then encountered and subdued a gigantic Living Soul Stone on Boundless Mountain. Elsewhere, a golden-haired girl discovered that her prepared Aether Soul Stone had vanished.

• Lu Cang examined the Supreme Lucky Scepter and questioned whether its luck effects were working.
• Lu Cang traveled to Boundless Mountain, where he found a gemstone and was attacked by a 2,500-kilometer-tall Living Soul Stone.
• Lu Cang caught the Living Soul Stone, swung it into the ground, and demanded that it submit or be destroyed.
• The Living Soul Stone bowed to Lu Cang under the pressure of the Emperor Sword.
• A golden-haired girl searched her Divine Kingdom for Bote's returning soul and discovered that her Aether Soul Stone was missing.

Rona discovered that the Aether Soul Stone had escaped her treasury through a chain of unlikely accidents and suspected Yakartikto was behind it. Lu Cang traced the stone to Rona, then used the Supreme Lucky Scepter to travel to the Forbidden Zone and prepare to test his luck.

• Rona reviewed how the newly awakened Aether Soul Stone had landed on a Random Teleport Scroll and been sent out of her Divine Kingdom.
• Rona destroyed the puppet responsible for guarding the treasury and blamed Yakartikto for the stone's disappearance.
• Rona left to meet her next client, Aegimiss, the Moon Star of chaos and madness.
• Lu Cang learned that the Aether Soul Stone had come from Rona's treasury and stored it away for later.
• Lu Cang used the Supreme Lucky Scepter to arrive before the Forbidden Zone, where Soul Porter emerged from his shadow.

Lu Cang attacked Keluoxiu'er, but the Forbidden Zone Divine Kingdom broke apart when Order Perfection exposed it to the world's laws. Lu Cang used stopped time to overwhelm the Ice God, leaving her body pierced by the Emperor Sword and her consciousness collapsing.

• Lu Cang confronted Keluoxiu'er, who questioned his hostility and prepared to freeze him with her ice laws.
• Order Perfection shattered the Forbidden Zone Divine Kingdom, exposing Keluoxiu'er to the world's perfected laws.
• Lu Cang used Time Rush to accelerate himself, built up a Time Stop chance, and thrust the Emperor Sword through Keluoxiu'er.
• Lu Cang severed his frozen right hand and sent Bote to attack Keluoxiu'er's soul while time was stopped.
• Lu Cang battered Keluoxiu'er until her senses and divine power collapsed, leaving her pierced by weapons and the Emperor Sword through her heart.

Lu Cang defeated Keluoxiu'er and added her complete form to his ranks before setting out to hunt another target. Elsewhere, a creature left the Abnormal Nest in secret as an investigator discovered that the Old Gods’ Forbidden Zones had been breached and their occupants had vanished.

• Lu Cang killed Keluoxiu'er with Bote’s help, then summoned her complete form and welcomed her into his ranks.
• At the Abnormal Nest, a genetic-spiral creature confirmed that Kumiloni had taken the Tree of Wisdom seed by prior agreement.
• The genetic-spiral creature left the Abnormal Nest secretly to handle other matters, while the enormous sea of flesh stayed behind.
• A trench-coat-and-cowboy-hat creature searched Forbidden Zones at Boundless Mountain and another site, finding both empty.
• The creature discovered that the Old Gods’ Forbidden Zones had all been breached and their occupants had disappeared without a trace.

Lu Cang turned six Old Gods into undead and defeated Stroud of Myriad Worlds without damaging Boundless Mountain. When a gene-like spiral Demonic Beast emerged, Lu Cang trapped and subdued it, then ordered it to die.

• Lu Cang used overwhelming numbers, ambushes, and the Supreme Lucky Scepter to defeat six Old Gods and make them his undead.
• Lu Cang defeated Stroud of Myriad Worlds while it slept, avoiding a battle that could have destroyed Boundless Mountain.
• A gene-like spiral Demonic Beast emerged from the ground, but Lu Cang froze the land and seized it before it could escape.
• Lu Cang exploded after touching the creature, then used ten thousand Emperor Sword projections to pierce it and pinned it down.
• Lu Cang compelled the Demonic Beast to kowtow and submit, then told it to die.

Lu Cang returned from killing six gods and a 9th Tier Demonic Beast, then prepared to use the Transformation Ritual to restore his parents. At the Abnormal Nest, the creature's master learned of its death and vowed revenge.

• Lu Cang killed the spiral-like creature after it submitted, leaving it confused about why he had not spared it.
• Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon with a new Artifact Blueprint and found Yuna teaching Mo Cheng.
• Yuna told Lu Cang she had prepared the plans for founding a nation and religion, along with the Transformation Ritual.
• Lu Cang told Mo Cheng he had to attend to something urgent, then left with Yuna to begin the ritual.
• At the Level 9 Abnormal Nest, the master mourned the creature's death and demanded to know who had killed it so it could take revenge.

Lu Cang and Yuna began a forbidden ritual to restore Lu Cang’s parents from their Demonic Beast forms, using a fragment of Earth’s final history. The ritual was interrupted by Ekhatol, who confronted Lu Cang about tampering with time.

• Lu Cang asked Yuna about Yug, and she said Yug seemed to seek knowledge and might be able to help him.
• Yuna used a historical shard given to her by Yug to project Earth and prepare the Second Forbidden Ritual: Time Reenactment Ritual.
• Yuna began the ritual to return Lu Cang’s parents to their state before they became Demonic Beasts.
• The ritual suddenly exploded, Yuna vanished, and a young girl with ivory-white hair appeared in her place.
• Ekhatol questioned Lu Cang for recklessly tampering with time, and Lu Cang recognized her.

Ekhatol confronted Lu Cang over the second timeline created when he released a sinner, warning that it had split the unique essence of the world. Lu Cang tried to escape her time-stopping attacks, but Ekhatol pursued him through reincarnation and the Turbid Sea, leaving him with no clear way to resist.

• Ekhatol restrained time in her Divine Kingdom and told Lu Cang that his actions had created a second timeline and divided the world's unique essence.
• Lu Cang realized Ekhatol's accusation might explain the Root's incompleteness and the contradictions surrounding Izpalut's future.
• Ekhatol stopped time and killed Lu Cang inside his womb, then pursued him when he reincarnated and fled through Phase Passages.
• Lu Cang summoned Keluoxiu'er, whose Divine Kingdom froze a vast stretch of the Turbid Sea, but Ekhatol destroyed her with a touch.

Lu Cang was repeatedly thrown into earlier stages of his life as Ekhatol attacked him through time, until a cloaked being intervened and pulled him free. He emerged facing another ivory-haired Ekhatol, who claimed she had rescued him and was not the same Ekhatol who had tried to kill him.

• Ekhatol erased Lu Cang's present memories, but he used God-Tier · Secret Origin to learn that her voice had been planted in the past.
• Ekhatol manipulated time and sent Lu Cang back to his infancy, then appeared before him and declared his Death Date was infinite.
• As Ekhatol attacked, Lu Cang was sent back to the cave where he had first met Iz and the others, with his powers and perception gone.
• A black-cloaked being shielded Lu Cang, and Ekhatol accused it of colluding with the Foul Source Nest.
• Someone grabbed Lu Cang and pulled him free of the time distortion, restoring his powers and ending Final Sense's warning.
• An ivory-haired Ekhatol told Lu Cang she had rescued him and asked him to notice that she differed from the Ekhatol who had attacked him.

Lu Cang escaped Ekhatol’s Divine Kingdom with help from the girl he had once released, who explained that Ekhatol was a level 9 Class-changer and a god who had completed her Oath Bind. Safe in the girl’s spacetime, Lu Cang realized he had brought out a second timeline with laws and elemental roots different from those of his original world.

• Lu Cang recognized the girl as Ekhatol and learned that she had rescued him from Ekhatol’s Divine Kingdom by exploiting a brief flaw in its spacetime seal.
• The girl told Lu Cang that Ekhatol was both a level 9 Class-changer and a god, and that completing her Oath Bind let her move freely in the world.
• Lu Cang learned that Ekhatol was no weaker than most Moon Stars and decided against returning while she could still hunt him.
• Lu Cang examined the unfamiliar world and realized it was the second timeline he had brought out, with different laws and an alternate interpretation of its elemental root.

Lu Cang learned from Naierkatuo how Ekhatol’s time abilities worked and rested in another timeline, while Ekhatol restored the Turbid Sea by reversing time. The chapter ended with Ekhatol confronting Yuna and suspecting Yog had taught her the forbidden ritual.

• Naierkatuo explained that Ekhatol’s existence connected timelines and that she shared Ekhatol’s Time-Gap Body.
• Naierkatuo warned Lu Cang about Ekhatol’s Time Reversal and Divine Kingdom, then took him to her residence in another timeline.
• Naierkatuo told Lu Cang that Yog had helped her rescue him and that this timeline had no Foul Source Nest or contamination.
• Ekhatol found that Lu Cang had disappeared from the past and chose not to pursue him, then reversed time across the Turbid Sea to undo the devastation.
• Ekhatol confronted Yuna and questioned how she had used the forbidden ritual, suspecting Yog had helped her.

Ekhatol confronted Yug over the Second Taboo Ritual and heard Yug’s proposal concerning another timeline. Meanwhile, Aegimiss offered Rona a guaranteed chance to become October’s Moon Star in exchange for an alliance against Yakartikto, and Rona agreed subject to additional conditions.

• Ekhatol entered Yug’s library in the Astral Realm and accused Yug of helping Yuna activate the Second Taboo Ritual.
• Yug admitted its involvement and proposed that Ekhatol join forces with it to reclaim control of another timeline; Ekhatol demanded the details after consulting the future.
• Aegimiss met Rona in her Meeting Chamber and offered her a guaranteed chance to become October’s Moon Star, Ba Ni of War and Fire.
• Aegimiss asked Rona to form an unconditional alliance against Yakartikto if she became Moon Star.
• Rona accepted the deal on the condition that she became Moon Star safely and unharmed, then began stating additional conditions.

Rona negotiated with Aegimiss for a viable plan to fight Yakartikto, while Lu Cang’s companions learned that his life or death was unknown. In the second timeline, Lu Cang enhanced the Supreme Lucky Scepter and felt his luck rise to a level comparable to Yakartikto’s.

• Rona agreed to transact with Aegimiss only if they developed a plan that did not rely on sacrificing her, and Aegimiss promised to seek a way for them both to survive.
• Mo Cheng’s black crystal shattered, and he told Luluwei, Airosa, and Xiu Mi that it meant Lu Cang had lost contact and might be dead.
• Luluwei comforted Mo Cheng as Airosa left to report the news, and Lotdan arrived after learning that something had happened to Lu Cang.
• In the second timeline, Lu Cang forged the Supreme Lucky Scepter to +3 with materials gathered by Naierkatuo.
• The enhanced scepter drew extraordinary treasures and a powerful current of luck to Lu Cang, who sensed that his luck rivaled Yakartikto’s.

Lu Cang advanced to level 4 Prophet, gained a God-Tier talent, and sparred with Naierkatuo to test his strength and study her time abilities. After demonstrating Ekhatol’s known techniques, Naierkatuo prepared to test him with her Divine Kingdom, Realm of Life Reflection.

• Lu Cang enchanted the Supreme Lucky Scepter, gathered its gems, and used his altered future to complete his level 4 Prophet advancement, gaining the God-Tier talent to veto a foreseen future.
• Naierkatuo warned Lu Cang that defeating Ekhatol required strength to contend with a Moon Star and the ability to overcome her physique, divine artifact, and Divine Kingdom.
• Naierkatuo tested Lu Cang with time magic, while he adapted, struck back with time-based techniques, and formed the Spear of Naierkatuo from her law.
• Lu Cang and Naierkatuo fought through Demonic Beast lairs, and Lu Cang studied her time techniques while refining his Cang Dao.
• Naierkatuo said she had shown Lu Cang all the techniques she knew Ekhatol used and then invoked her Divine Kingdom, Realm of Life Reflection.

Naierkatuo showed Lu Cang how Ekhatol’s Divine Kingdom could erase him by returning him to his vulnerable past, then explained that his absence had shifted the world’s balance and delayed conflict. Meanwhile, Izpalut entered Rona’s Meeting Chamber seeking time to reshape the root of modern magic, leaving Rona waiting as he used their negotiation to work on arcane formulas.

• Naierkatuo trapped Lu Cang in a vision of his past and explained that Ekhatol’s Divine Kingdom could kill him by erasing him at a weaker point in time, though restoring his strength throughout his past or erasing its traces could counter it.
• Naierkatuo told Lu Cang that finding the Moon Star of January might help erase his past, then ended their practice and urged him to train before facing Ekhatol.
• Naierkatuo explained that Lu Cang’s disappearance had tipped the world’s balance toward Sentient Life, weakening the Demonic Beasts and postponing their attempt to break the balance.
• Izpalut arrived at Rona’s Meeting Chamber and asked to stay there so he could escape the seal on him and reshape the root of modern magic.
• Rona questioned the danger and duration of Izpalut’s plan, but he spent hours filling the Meeting Chamber with arcane formulas instead of answering her, until she crushed her teacup and demanded a time estimate.