Recaps

Izpalut told Rona he had found a way to reshape the root and offered her a new root form, prompting her to ask him for help dealing with Yakartikto. Elsewhere, Kumiloni planted the Tree of Wisdom’s seed, while Lu Cang met a level 8 Izpalut in another timeline.

• Izpalut told Rona he had found the answer to reshaping the root and gave her a point of pale-blue starlight representing its new form.
• Rona changed their proposed trade and asked Izpalut to help her deal with Yakartikto.
• Kumiloni and Sophia’s level 8 planter disciple planted the Tree of Wisdom’s seed, draining the spirituality from the Eternal Flower Continent as the tree grew.
• Three days later, the Eternal Flower Continent had vanished and the Tree of Wisdom was releasing spirituality into the world.
• Lu Cang met a level 8 Izpalut in another timeline, and Izpalut asked Naierkatuo to show him time magic so he could look for its weaknesses.

While researching the root and forging divine artifacts in the Second Timeline, Lu Cang asked Naierkatuo why its history differed so greatly from his original timeline. Naierkatuo began explaining the collapse of history, but Ekhatol suddenly arrived and shocked them both.

• Lu Cang and Izpalut combined their knowledge of the root and found that even after repairing it, a nearly undetectable imperfection remained.
• Lu Cang forged the divine artifacts [Skinning] and [Soul Judgment Chain], bringing his total to six divine artifacts.
• Lu Cang met Naierkatuo by the kingdom's pond and asked why the Second Timeline lacked features such as the Moon Star, many born gods, and the Lair Lord.
• Naierkatuo said the differences were caused by the collapse of history, but stopped when Ekhatol tore open a rift in time and appeared above the world.

Ekhatol attacked Naierkatuo across repeated time reversals, using the Sword of Time Erasure to stack temporal wounds and overwhelm her. As Ekhatol prepared to kill Naierkatuo, Lu Cang's Soul Judgment Chain tore Ekhatol's soul from her body.

• Ekhatol and Naierkatuo entered the time gap together and clashed, twisting the world with the force of their attacks.
• Ekhatol revealed that Yog had told her about Lu Cang and said she had come to eliminate the threat posed by his growth.
• Ekhatol used Time Reversal and the Sword of Time Erasure to stab Naierkatuo and inflict wounds that could not heal.
• Ekhatol reversed time again, causing old injuries from their earlier exchanges to erupt on Naierkatuo and leave her close to shattering.
• As Ekhatol moved to kill Naierkatuo, Lu Cang's Soul Judgment Chain activated inside the frozen time gap and tore out Ekhatol's soul.

Ekhatol used Time Reversal to return to the moment before she first confronted Lu Cang, then defeated him and Naierkatuo with overwhelming force. Lu Cang seized control of Time Reversal during a tiny opening, leaving Ekhatol facing the first defeat she had failed to foresee.

• Ekhatol reversed time and resumed her conversation with Yog before setting out again.
• Ekhatol attacked Lu Cang and Naierkatuo, froze the Soul Judgment Chain, pinned Naierkatuo to a mountain, and captured Lu Cang.
• Ekhatol condemned Lu Cang and Naierkatuo, then began unfolding her Divine Kingdom, which abruptly exploded.
• While Ekhatol entered the Time Gap, Airosa's Spear of Naierkatuo pierced her and struck the Time Reversal pendant.
• Lu Cang used his weapon abilities to seize control of Time Reversal and escaped Ekhatol's grasp.

Ekhatol’s enemies coordinated an ambush by sharing the Time Gap enchantment, allowing Izpalut, Kaijia, Dixi, and Lu Cang to attack her together. Ekhatol forced everyone out of the Time Gap, but the poison and the Skinning artifact’s effects then erupted in her body.

• Ekhatol planned to kill Lu Cang and Naierkatuo, but Naierkatuo vanished as Izpalut appeared and enchanted himself and the others with the Time Gap effect.
• Kaijia attacked Ekhatol with his axe while Dixi stabbed her with a poisoned dagger, and Ekhatol froze the attacks using Time Within Time.
• Lu Cang joined Izpalut carrying the Sword of Time Erasure, restoring Naierkatuo and revealing that the group had prepared for Ekhatol’s arrival.
• Kaijia continued striking Ekhatol until she snapped her fingers and pulled everyone out of the Time Gap.
• Ekhatol dragged Dixi out of the void, then the poison and the Skinning artifact’s effects erupted from the dagger wound in Ekhatol’s waist.

Izpalut used the Black Star Scepter to cast 10th Tier Time and Arcane Magic, destroying Ekhatol after Lu Cang’s poison and Kaijia’s attacks weakened her. Ekhatol and Naierkatuo vanished, and Lu Cang was left gripping Time Reversal as the world’s magic power ran dry.

• Kaijia struck Ekhatol with his axe while Lu Cang’s time-piercing poison continued to corrode her despite her attempts to stop it.
• Ekhatol sensed Izpalut’s uninterrupted spellcasting and realized he posed a fatal threat.
• Izpalut used the Black Star Scepter to cast 10th Tier Time Magic, gathering his past selves into one force and freezing Ekhatol in place.
• Izpalut cast 10th Tier Arcane Magic, Shatter Falsehood, and its pillar of light broke through Ekhatol’s defenses and destroyed her.
• Naierkatuo vanished with Ekhatol, and Lu Cang watched the magic-depleted world while holding Time Reversal.

Lu Cang returned to the Main Timeline after Naierkatuo dealt with Ekhatol, but he found Moon Sea engulfed by a battle between light, darkness, and a burning sea. The chapter left Lu Cang facing scarlet legions fighting unseen enemies above the ocean.

• In a timeless void, Naierkatuo confronted Ekhatol and wrapped them both in silver-white threads.
• Lu Cang witnessed a timeline branch away as Ekhatol disappeared, revealing the destruction that awaited worlds where everything was not unique.
• Naierkatuo told Lu Cang he could return to his own world, and he thanked her before entering the silver-white passage.
• Lu Cang arrived in the Main Timeline amid July Dark Moon fog that crippled perception and found people lost within it.
• Lu Cang traversed space to Moon Sea and saw golden light, ink-black darkness, and a burning sea-boil as scarlet legions fought unseen enemies.

Yog explained to Huang Minzhi how others’ obsessions shaped their fates, while Naierkatuo remained in the restored timeline after her connection to Lu Cang was severed. Back in the present, Lu Cang found the world transformed by Moon Star powers, followed Yog’s clue to the final pillar of Balance, and confronted a god at the Twin Lair.

• Yog told Huang Minzhi that Ekhatol’s disappearance and the resulting events had followed from the characters’ own desires, and said he would relearn all knowledge after eventually obtaining it.
• Naierkatuo returned to the timeline of Existence Uniqueness, lost her connection to Lu Cang, and insisted that she would remain herself despite Ekhatol’s presence within her.
• Lu Cang returned to a world reshaped by Moon Star powers, surveyed the Abyssal Sea and the World Tree, and learned through Huang Minzhi that the coordinates of Balance’s final pillar had been sent to him.
• Yog told Huang Minzhi that he stayed safe by helping others find their optimal solutions, while he tracked Lu Cang through records that were difficult to preserve.
• Lu Cang reached the Twin Lair, materialized an incoming divine law with Immunity to All Laws, and challenged a god to test its strength.

After a month of cultivation, Lu Cang fused many of his talents and overwhelmed the twelve Old Gods, stripping them of their artifacts and turning them into undead spirits. At the giant pillar he had been sent to destroy, he paused to question whether Yog’s plan was truly the right choice.

• Lu Cang fused his Warrior talents, gaining immense physical power, insight, and the ability to stop time and reject attacks.
• While time was frozen, Lu Cang pulled the twelve gods’ divine artifacts from their bodies and drained their vitality through a living sacrifice.
• When time resumed, the injured gods attacked Lu Cang, but his fused talents and undead spirits killed them before their attacks could reach him.
• Lu Cang stood alone with twelve divine undead spirits and their artifacts in the nest, facing the giant stone pillar Yog had identified as his target.
• Lu Cang studied possible futures and hesitated to destroy the pillar, knowing that otherwise the world might empower Demonic Beasts beyond humanity.

Lu Cang destroyed the last Pillar of Balance, then took Lotdan’s destiny and proclaimed the Kingdom of Cang across the world. His promise of protection was answered when a fallen adventurer wielded a projection of the Emperor Sword and wiped out a Level 6 Nest.

• Lu Cang sensed that Yog had arranged for Sentient Life to reach its strongest point and saw futures where breaking the balance empowered humanity, so he destroyed the final Pillar of Balance.
• Lu Cang traveled from the Twin Lair to the Loren Continent and found Lotdan rebuilding his kingdom.
• Lu Cang took and subtly altered Lotdan’s destiny, which promised that his founded kingdom would continuously flourish, and said he would protect Loren.
• Lu Cang announced the founding of the Kingdom of Cang and promised protection to all who believed in him.
• During a Level 6 Nest expedition, a guardian called out to Lu Cang for protection, and a fallen teammate rose with an Emperor Sword projection and destroyed the Nest.

Lu Cang founded a nation whose citizens’ faith strengthened the Emperor Sword, then advanced to the Creator class in the Mage Tower. He gained the God-Tier talent Reality Creation, and the chapter left him ready to explore his new power.

• Lu Cang founded a nation as people seeking safety sent him their faith and wishes, rapidly expanding his realm.
• Lotdan congratulated Lu Cang and welcomed his request to rest in Loren for a few days.
• Lu Cang visited the sealed top floor of the Mage Tower, thought of Mo Cheng, and decided to wait until after advancing before visiting him.
• Lu Cang performed the Promotion Ritual using the Class Scroll Aegimiss had given him, combining the origins of Blacksmith, Enchanter, and Alchemist.
• Lu Cang obtained the level 1 Creator class and the God-Tier talent Reality Creation.

Lu Cang gained the Creator class and used it to build a world within his World of Self. Lotie escaped Deep Earth and invited him to discuss matters involving him and the Foul Source Nest, but his Future Simulation revealed what she intended to show him.

• Lu Cang analyzed matter instantly and created clouds, a sea, and gemstones from nothing with Construct Matter.
• Lu Cang formed oceans, continents, skies, and plants inside his World of Self, bringing it close to becoming a Divine Kingdom.
• A breach opened in the Secret Sea, and Lotie emerged from Deep Earth amid dreamlike illusions and four-leafed flowers.
• Lotie recognized Lu Cang and asked him to meet so she could discuss matters concerning him and the Foul Source Nest.
• Lu Cang completed a Future Simulation after Lotie made her request, and Lotie realized he already knew what she had wanted to say and show him.

Lotie revealed that Lu Cang himself was the Foul Source Nest, and his buried corruption blossomed into a transformation that made him attack his former allies. As Chicheng, Yang Ming, and Obades confronted him, Lotie summoned Yakartikto, saying Lu Cang was the one who had to resolve the corruption.

• Lotie told Lu Cang that he was the location of the Foul Source Nest, and he realized the nest had been buried within him since he was a seedling.
• The Foul Source Nest bloomed in Lu Cang's sea of consciousness, transforming his eyes and awakening his immense power.
• Chicheng and Yang Ming attacked Lu Cang, but he blocked their strike and destroyed everything across five hundred light-years in the clash.
• Lu Cang turned on Lotie and struck at her, while Obades shielded Chicheng and Lu Cang's undead and artifacts appeared.
• Lotie denied wanting to kill Lu Cang and summoned Yakartikto, declaring that Lu Cang had to untie the knot himself.

Lu Cang accepted that his identity was the Foul Source Nest, and his former human life began to feel like a fading dream. He joined several Moon Stars in attacking Yakartikto, but she unleashed her Divine Kingdom, the Great Absurd World, and turned Lu Cang’s sword against him.

• Lu Cang realized that he was the Foul Source Nest, a vessel formed from spirituality and pollution, and questioned whether he was still human.
• Yakartikto appeared above the ruined Secret Sea and confronted Lu Cang, who recognized her from their meeting ten thousand years earlier.
• Lu Cang stopped time and attacked Yakartikto as the Moon Star of October fell and Rona of Wealth and Trade took its place.
• Lotie, Chicheng, Yang Ming, and Obades joined the assault on Yakartikto, while bloodstained gold coins rained down on her.
• Yakartikto cast Divine Kingdom: Great Absurd World, canceled the time stop, and bent Lu Cang’s sword back into his head.

Lu Cang fought Yakartikto and his allies inside the Great Absurd World, where Porter briefly turned his undead against him and the enemy Warriors tried to suppress him. As the battle continued, Lu Cang completed his promotion ritual and advanced to level 8 as both a Warrior and a Death Priest.

• Aegimiss joined Lu Cang, while Rona forced a patch of real-world space into Yakartikto's Divine Kingdom, and the four launched a coordinated attack.
• Porter regained its self-awareness and briefly took control of Lu Cang's undead, whose attacks and the Forbidden Law Lock sealed his laws.
• Chicheng, Yang Ming, and Obades attacked Lu Cang, but his counters and abilities let him withstand their assault despite the Great Absurd World's effects.
• Lu Cang fought Chicheng and Yang Ming across the Secret Sea, the Turbid Sea, and Boundless Mountain as his movements traced a promotion ritual.
• The ritual triggered the inverted sword's approval, and Lu Cang advanced to level 8 as a Warrior and a Death Priest.

Lu Cang killed Chicheng and Lotie, claimed Lotie’s divine artifact, and continued growing stronger as he fought Obades and Yang Ming. After gaining the God-Tier Perception Split talent, he struggled between his human identity and the Foul Source Nest until Pali affirmed that he could choose who to become; Lu Cang then cut through Aegimiss’s attack on her.

• Lu Cang pierced Obades’s defense and killed Chicheng, then severed both of Yang Ming’s arms.
• Lu Cang impaled Lotie with the Sacrificial Spear, and her body became a divine artifact fan while her undead spirit appeared behind him.
• Lu Cang performed new promotions and forged divine artifacts as Yakartikto remained pinned down by Aegimiss and Rona.
• Lu Cang reached Level 8 Decipherer and gained the God-Tier talent Perception Split, dividing his consciousness into many independent selves.
• Yakartikto triggered a miracle that briefly cleared Lu Cang’s mind, and Pali told him that his identity depended on what he chose to become.
• Aegimiss attacked Pali with a maw of chaos, but Lu Cang raised his golden sword and tore the attack apart.

Lu Cang resisted the Foul Source Nest, created his own Divine Kingdom, and charged into Aegimiss’s chaos to help Yakartikto. As Yakartikto’s luck turned against Rona, Rona mistakenly bought all the misfortune in the world.

• Lu Cang shattered his own heart to regain clarity while the Foul Source Nest’s many consciousnesses tried to overwhelm him.
• Lu Cang used his Divine Kingdom, Complete World, to erase Aegimiss’s chaos, then fused dozens of divine artifacts into a powerful war spear.
• Lu Cang told Yakartikto he would help her and attacked Aegimiss, but the Moon Star’s chaos began consuming him.
• Yakartikto caught Lu Cang’s Supreme Lucky Scepter +4 and used it to make Rona’s entire treasury vanish through absurd mishaps.
• Rona tried to buy Yakartikto’s luck on credit but mistakenly purchased all the misfortune in the world.

Rona’s scheme to defeat Yakartikto collapsed when her unpaid debts triggered the return of Ba Ni, and her death began Aegimiss’s downfall. Lu Cang killed Aegimiss, whose final outburst engulfed nearly the whole world in chaos, leaving the victory devastating and another timeline’s crisis looming.

• Rona’s assets ran out, causing her debt for Ba Ni’s Moon Star position to come due; Ba Ni burst from her body and killed her.
• Yog reviewed how Aegimiss had used his intelligence to plan an attack on Yakartikto, then observed Rona’s and Aegimiss’s deaths unfold.
• Aegimiss tried to persuade Lu Cang that he was the Foul Source Nest, but Lu Cang insisted he wanted to be human and pierced Aegimiss with his battle spear.
• Aegimiss unleashed absolute chaos across the world before dying, while the Foul Source Nest was temporarily sealed within Lu Cang’s consciousness.
• Yog closed another book as, in another timeline, Naierkatuo saw the Foul Source Nest appear above the world.

As chaos consumed the world, Yakartikto led Lu Cang to a gathering of the Moon Stars while Lotie and Kumiloni preserved the souls of the world's inhabitants. The meeting began with several Moon Stars arriving, leaving Lu Cang and four seats still unaccounted for.

• Lu Cang saw the world fall into chaos, and Yakartikto told him they could not save its inhabitants because the world had borne the cost of her descent.
• Lu Cang promised Obades he would find a way to bring Brother Chicheng back, then followed Yakartikto toward the complete destruction of the Foul Source Nest.
• Lotie revealed that she had preserved the world's souls, while Kumiloni guided them into the bubble world of Deep Earth.
• Yakartikto and Lu Cang entered a calm lake-like space, where a table and thirteen chairs appeared for a Moon Star meeting.
• Yug, Zhu Ya, Aromochi, Sophia, White, Naraku, Perga, and Shanna arrived, while four seats and Lu Cang's place remained empty.

The Moon Stars discussed Yog’s plan to make Lu Cang a Moon Star so they could pursue their wishes across different timelines. Sophia exposed the plan’s hidden cost: Lu Cang would be assimilated into a powerful world will, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Yakartikto invited Lu Cang to take the empty October seat and join the Moon Stars as an equal.
• Yog recommended Lu Cang as a new Moon Star, arguing that his connection to Ekhatol’s divine artifact and the God of Time could draw spirituality from multiple timelines.
• Yog claimed that the gathered spirituality could elevate Lu Cang beyond the Moon Stars and allow them to fulfill their wishes.
• Sophia challenged Yog’s promise and warned that Lu Cang would lose his independent identity, becoming a world will that the Moon Stars could exploit.

Yog proposed that the Moon Stars help Lu Cang become a future Moon Star by using the Foul Source Nest to devour spirituality from other timelines, offering a way to escape their conflicts over scarce resources. He revealed that other timelines also had Moon Stars, but claimed Ekhatol’s existence gave their timeline the initiative, then shared his plan with the others.

• Yog argued that the Moon Stars could end their disputes by seeking resources in other timelines and said Lu Cang could resist the spiritual impact without losing himself.
• Perga agreed to let Lu Cang become a future Moon Star, believing he had chosen personhood and might bring peace; Sophia showed interest in Lu Cang as the ultimate lifeform she sought.
• Yog suggested Sophia could pursue her goal in a world where she was the only Moon Star, but Sophia refused to agree until he disclosed the full truth.
• Yakartikto agreed with Yog’s proposal, while Bai remained indifferent and the other Moon Stars asked Yog to explain further.
• Yog revealed that Lu Cang would need the Foul Source Nest’s power to devour spirituality and would face other timelines’ Moon Stars, including versions of Zhuya and Naraku.
• Yog claimed that only their timeline had Ekhatol and a Time God, giving them the initiative, then transmitted his detailed plan to the assembled Moon Stars.

Lu Cang learned that the Moon Stars had agreed to his becoming one of them, while Yug returned Mo Cheng to him and prepared to negotiate with other powerful beings. As the ruined world approached a new beginning, Izpalut broke the time seal and Kumiloni gathered the souls needed to transform it.

• Yug explained why the Foul Source Nest had awakened at that moment and persuaded the Moon Stars to support Lu Cang becoming a Moon Star.
• Lu Cang met Mo Cheng in Yug's Divine Kingdom, comforted his disciple, and heard that the Moon Stars would act once he became one of them.
• In the Heavenly Realm, Zhuya agreed to look beyond the world, while Naraku wondered how Yug would negotiate with Difu, the level 10 builder.
• Izpalut expanded his Divine Kingdom around the time seal and cracked it, then noticed that Rona's Meeting Chamber could no longer be sensed.
• Kumiloni gathered the world's souls so they could be transformed alongside the environment, and at midnight on August 1st the world's origin was reshaped.

Izpalut returned to the world after breaking the Magic God’s Oath Bind and faced ten Original Taboo Users. He freed them to fight at full strength, then reversed time and confronted their combined attacks, ending with fate magic compelling him to take a world-spanning 10th Tier Elemental spell head-on.

• Izpalut returned from the Divine Kingdom and learned that Chicheng had died, though he believed he could use Kumiloni’s power to resurrect him.
• Ten Original Taboo Users confronted Izpalut, whose rapid growth and reshaping of the root had disrupted their plans.
• Izpalut cast a magic array that broke the shackles on all ten Original Taboo Users and invited them to attack him at full power.
• The Taboo User of Time stopped time, but Izpalut countered with his own time magic and reversed the flow of Chaos throughout the world.
• The Original Taboo Users combined the world’s elements into a 10th Tier spell, while the Taboo User of Fate sealed Izpalut’s escape and compelled him to face it head-on.

Lu Cang watched Izpalut battle ten Original Taboo Users and held back as Izpalut demanded. Izpalut countered their attacks with powerful magic, then targeted the ten enemies with a mind-fate fusion spell as one unleashed Mind Arbitration.

• Lu Cang watched Izpalut fight, ready to intervene if he began to lose, but honored Izpalut's request not to join the battle.
• Izpalut used 10th Tier Elemental magic, Constant Invariant Quantity, to grind away the enemies' elemental attack.
• The Original Taboo Users struck Izpalut with Space, Mind, Illusion, and Seal magic, but their effects were greatly weakened or unraveled.
• Izpalut revealed that he existed in the dimension of another root and cast 10th-tier mind-fate fusion magic, threading the ten Original Taboo Users.
• One Original Taboo User exposed her brain and unleashed Ninth Forbidden Magic, Final Form—Mind Arbitration, killing the surviving Old Gods with psychic waves.

Izpalut deceived the Original Taboo Users into believing their mind magic had taken control of him, then turned their attacks against them. He overcame their Guardian magic and killed its wielder, though the battle against the remaining Original Taboo Users continued.

• The final form of mind-type Forbidden Magic struck Izpalut, but Lu Cang’s Colorful War Spear blocked its aftershock from assimilating him.
• Izpalut appeared controlled and nearly made himself destroy his Life Origin, but then revealed that he had been pretending and had used Mind Arbitration on the Original Taboo Users instead.
• Izpalut took control of the Original Taboo Users and caused the mind-magic wielder and the Space Forbidden User to die.
• The surviving Original Taboo Users activated Original Guardian Magic, and its wielder transformed them into Undying bodies at the cost of his life and Guardian magic.
• Izpalut reversed time to undo their Undying state, then pierced the Guardian wielder with a 10th Tier Elemental Sphere.