Recaps

Izpalut continued defeating the Original Taboo Users while explaining that he meant to replace the world’s flawed root and elements. The chapter ended as Origin combined the nine kinds of Original Forbidden Magic and revealed the roots’ true form, which Izpalut still judged to be wrong.

• Izpalut reshaped the world’s elements with vast magic while hunting down Seal.
• Izpalut killed an Original Taboo User with Karma Fire Severance and then caught and killed Void.
• Izpalut confronted the five surviving Original Taboo Users and spoke with Origin about his confidence and the world’s other talented Mages.
• Izpalut sat back to await Origin’s complete form, and Origin combined the nine kinds of Original Forbidden Magic into a ten-handed form surrounded by black-hole-like substance.
• Izpalut looked at Origin’s revealed form and concluded that it was still wrong.

Izpalut fought and defeated [Source], proving that he could surpass the embodiment of all magic. As [Source] vanished, a new Source appeared within Lu Cang while Izpalut began ascending to the realm of a level 10 Mage.

• Izpalut and [Source] unleashed final-form Original Forbidden Magic and 10th Tier spells, devastating the world around them.
• Izpalut explained that he wanted to change Source because its guidance would leave no Mages in the world.
• Izpalut’s newly created 10th Tier Magics overwhelmed [Source]’s spells and shattered its body.
• As [Source] disappeared, it asked whether Izpalut had ever lost, and Izpalut recalled one draw in a battle of pure magic.
• Lu Cang felt [Source] vanish, then sensed a new Source ignite within him as Izpalut advanced toward becoming a level 10 Mage.

After the world was reshaped, Lu Cang spent several months helping restore life, creating a new plane, and reviving people from his past while growing stronger. At the start of January 5037, reaching level 9 as a Decipherer revealed that Yog had orchestrated the events needed to prepare Lu Cang for an unknown purpose.

• Izpalut restored the complete Source, became a level 10 Mage, and later took April’s Moon Star position.
• Kumiloni revived Chicheng and Lotie, while Lu Cang created a new plane where revived people could return after being killed.
• Lu Cang revived his parents, met Euynri, and learned how Euynri’s research had helped create intelligent Demonic Beasts.
• White Deer lived among ordinary people during a peaceful December, and Lu Cang reached level 9 as a Warrior and a Decipherer.
• Lu Cang realized that Yog had orchestrated the Foul Source Nest’s arrival, the Tree of Wisdom’s restoration, and several Moon Star vacancies to fulfill a larger plan.

Lu Cang led the Moon Stars across parallel timelines, defeating powerful versions of them and gathering worlds’ spirituality until his abilities and existence transformed. After traversing tens of millions of spacetimes, he glimpsed the ultimate end of spirituality, a supreme realm above everything.

• Yog revealed a timeline corrupted by the Foul Source Nest, and the Moon Stars agreed to invade it so Zhuya could claim the world and break her Oath Bind.
• Lu Cang, Izpalut, and White crossed into the corrupted world, where Lu Cang used Fate Designation and his divine artifact to kill the corrupted Zhuya.
• Zhuya purified the world and broke her Oath Bind, while the Moon Stars began claiming other timelines and releasing their own Oath Binds.
• Lu Cang killed Aertemi, who had conquered a timeline and turned other Moon Stars into Skin Puppets, then absorbed that world's spirituality.
• Lu Cang traveled through millions of parallel spacetimes, gaining vast power and new classes as Zhuya and the other Moon Stars spread into timelines of their own.
• After decades of exploring tens of millions of spacetimes, Lu Cang glimpsed the ultimate end of spirituality.

After resolving his inner conflict and defeating the Foul Source Nest, Lu Cang transcended reality itself and used his power to create worlds for his friends. He returned to his original timeline, rejoined Luluwei and Mo Cheng, and later brought Naierkatuo back as immortality and fulfilled wishes spread across all worlds.

• Luluwei and Mo Cheng wondered whether Lu Cang would return while he traveled through time and space to confront the Foul Source Nest.
• Lu Cang gathered the Foul Source Nests from countless timelines into one world and destroyed their combined consciousness.
• Lu Cang accepted his own existence, entered the realm of transcendence, and crushed the Foul Source Nest in the airport.
• Lu Cang created independent worlds for his friends and returned to his original timeline, where he told Luluwei and Mo Cheng, "I'm back."
• In Year 5049, Lu Cang brought Naierkatuo back from another timeline, and all things became undying and immortal.

The author reflected on the novel’s readership, writing style, pacing, and unresolved ideas, explaining how they chose a more unrestrained approach in its latter half. They described the ending and several characters and plotlines they had cut or regretted, then left judgment of the work to later readers.

• The author said subscriptions stayed stable while new favorites nearly stopped growing, and explained that avoiding readers’ pet peeves and prioritizing logic had made the writing feel constrained and its characters monotonous.
• The author described deciding to embrace outrageous, unrestrained plotlines, which shaped the style of the latter half, and admitted that reduced updates also changed the pacing.
• The author said the major mysteries involving the Foul Source Nest, Yog, and Lu Cang had been resolved, and explained that Lu Cang’s overwhelming strength made the story feel ready to end.
• The author regretted that Izpalut overshadowed Lu Cang and recalled scrapped endings in which Lu Cang and Iz, or Mo Cheng and Iz, fought the Source together.
• The author explained Yog’s strategy of binding others’ interests to himself, and said Chicheng and Obades had received less development than intended.
• The author listed cut material involving Xin Baiyue and said they were tired of writing about timelines, before leaving judgment of the novel to later generations.

The author reflected on struggling to complete the book, apologized to readers, and explained that they would begin a job in May while hoping to write novels as a side job. They planned to keep their next book within their strengths and limit it to just over one million words.

• The author said they had found a job and would start work in May.
• The author apologized for disappointing readers and described how insufficient preparation and inspiration made writing the book increasingly difficult.
• The author said stable employment and time to prepare would help them approach writing with a better mindset.
• The author decided that their next book would stay within their comfort zone and end at just over one million words.
• The author thanked readers for following their books.