Chapter Summaries

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.

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.