Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian realized the Mycelial Emperor’s power had transformed the world around him and followed him back to the Academy of Revelation. As he headed for Professor Rob’s laboratory, the world attacked him, and a sword-path Higher Being ambushed him inside Blood Conquest.

• Fu Qian broke a short sword, recognized the mushroom-like Sword Pavilion, and used Blood Conquest to leave.
• Fu Qian concluded that the mycelium’s influence reached every person and thing around him, while his injuries remained.
• Fu Qian returned to the Academy of Revelation and tore open the sky, finding mycelium woven behind it and sensing fate within its strands.
• The paving stones shifted beneath Fu Qian, and a lamppost transformed into a hound that lunged at him.
• Fu Qian entered Blood Conquest to evade the hound, where a massive sword struck at the tentacles emerging from him.

Fu Qian fought the Mycelial Sword Saint, whose swordsmanship could forcibly demolish the supernatural essence of a False God while the Mycelial Emperor transferred damage between them. As the clash awakened a terrifying will, Fu Qian canceled Blood Conquest and turned his attention to the elite opponent.

• Fu Qian assessed the mycelial puppet as a Sword Saint empowered by the Mycelial Emperor and engaged it in close combat.
• The Sword Saint’s blows began forcibly demolishing the fundamental structure of Fu Qian’s False God form.
• Fu Qian’s Thread of Concern dragged the Sword Saint into another exchange, while its damage-transfer ability made Fu Qian suffer reflected injuries.
• The Sword Saint split itself and its greatsword into a man and a woman as the clash awakened a terrifying will.
• Fu Qian canceled Blood Conquest and went after the elite.

Fu Qian fought the two Yin-Yang Sword Saints and the mycelial monsters, using Sword Three Missing One and his ability to heal wounds to counter their damage transfer. As the awakened Being locked onto him, Fu Qian activated Mythical Form and prepared to face it.

• Fu Qian confronted the Sword Saints and surrounding monsters after the Blood Conquest was canceled.
• Fu Qian activated his four halos and used Sword Three Missing One to attack the mycelial creatures and test their damage transfer.
• Fu Qian healed wounds by stabbing himself, then traded blows with both Sword Saints despite their attacks.
• Fu Qian struck one Sword Saint with an Internal Organ Critical Hit as the world fell silent and something locked onto him.
• Fu Qian activated Mythical Form as the Being awakened.

Fu Qian transformed into the Mechanical Tyrant and attacked the Fungus-Fied Extraordinary Academy, trying to break free from the Mycelial Emperor’s reconstructed world and reach the absent Jade Soul Master. After the Sword Saints revealed an ancient power that could erode him, Fu Qian struck at the Mycelial Emperor’s entire divine kingdom.

• Fu Qian realized that the academy was being controlled remotely by the Jade Soul Master, who was absent from the real-world building behind the glass.
• Fu Qian used damage transfer to tear away the mycelial connections, then punched through the female Sword Saint and ripped her apart.
• The other Sword Saint stabbed Fu Qian with a weapon infused with an awakened Higher Being’s authority and vanished into the mycelial world.
• Fu Qian smashed the ground to undermine the Sword Saint’s unity with her surroundings and attacked the Mycelial Emperor’s divine kingdom with a Calamity Curse and Dimensional Poison.

Fu Qian defeated the Sword God in the collapsing mycelial world, then returned to the Academy of Revelation and discovered that the Jade Soul Master had trapped him behind the glass again. He visited Professor Rob’s laboratory to check on his project and found that Rob was safe, though the divine flesh still seemed capable of anchoring a Higher Being.

• Fu Qian struck the Sword God with repeated Internal Organ Critical Hits, then broke his weakened sword and watched him perish with the collapsing world.
• Fu Qian canceled his Mythical Form after returning to the real academy, but the Jade Soul Master cast him back behind the glass.
• Fu Qian used Sword Three Missing One to heal most of his injuries, then summoned his Embrace Armor, which bore faint mycelium-like marks.
• Fu Qian went to Professor Rob’s laboratory to check on his project, and Rob invited him inside.
• Fu Qian confirmed that Rob was uncorrupted and examined the protected divine flesh, wondering whether it could serve as an anchor for a Higher Being.

Fu Qian followed ghostly outlines through a mist-shrouded Academy and discovered a grand, unfamiliar version of the Institute of Curses. Inside, he found a crowd of strangers and recognized Old Man Feng... Yunhong, who was still only fifth-tier.

• Fu Qian decided not to visit Professor Kalaodola and headed downstairs, believing he needed to focus on defeating Jade Soul Master.
• Fu Qian noticed ghostly humanoid outlines walking toward the Institute of Curses and followed them through the mist.
• Fu Qian found that the Institute of Curses had become a grand, unfamiliar building and entered with the crowd.
• Fu Qian saw the outlines turn into solid people inside, but recognized none of them at first.
• Fu Qian spotted Old Man Feng... Yunhong in the crowd and noted that he was still only fifth-tier.

Fu Qian watched Nepheli demonstrate a miracle she called Meria’s resurrection, using several ritual objects around a dead supernatural man. As the ritual began, the corpse’s stomach rapidly swelled, and Fu Qian recognized the Snow Tree leaf among the objects and wondered about its connection to Meria and the Ark.

• Fu Qian recognized Dean Feng and Nepheli among the gathered spectators and examined the corpse in a silver-white refrigerated cabinet.
• Nepheli announced that she would demonstrate a miracle, which she called Meria’s resurrection.
• A demigod asked who Meria was, and Nepheli described Her as a noble and benevolent being.
• Nepheli placed ritual objects around the corpse, and Fu Qian recognized one as a carved Snow Tree leaf.
• Nepheli lit a special candle, and the corpse’s stomach swelled rapidly.

Nepheli dissected Lady Meria’s corpse and revealed a boy emerging from a cocoon, claiming he had resurrected. Fu Qian rejected her explanation, recognized Mother of Gospel’s influence behind the phenomenon, and faced her as the Institute of Curses began to collapse.

• Nepheli warned the researchers back and cut open Lady Meria’s swollen abdomen.
• Nepheli pulled a struggling boy from a cocoon inside the corpse and said he had returned to life.
• Nepheli and the crowd asked Fu Qian whether he believed the resurrection, and he answered that he did not.
• Fu Qian recognized similarities to the Larrea family’s flesh-and-bone cradle and the Gray Descent tied to the Ji Clan.
• Fu Qian caught a falling dark flame and realized Mother of Gospel had appeared as the Institute of Curses began collapsing.
• Fu Qian concluded that the Jade Soul Master’s anchor had triggered the apocalypse, leaving Mother of Gospel focused on him.

Fu Qian realized the apocalypse had unfolded at the Institute of Curses, then confronted Mother of Gospel as she took control of the Institute’s people. After he killed the possessed Lady Nepheli, the baby’s cry triggered the true Gospel Blast and ignited Fu Qian’s consciousness.

• Fu Qian connected the Ark, the Institute’s miracle, and Mother of Gospel’s actions to an apocalypse that may have become false history.
• Dark flames erupted around Fu Qian and the audience, whose members spoke together while Lady Nepheli held a premature baby.
• Fu Qian recognized that Mother of Gospel had arrived and taken control of the Institute’s people, and he suspected Jade Soul Master had brought him to the apocalypse to test him.
• Mother of Gospel roared after Fu Qian grabbed Lady Nepheli, but he used his four halos and snapped her neck.
• The baby cried as the Institute members fell silent, and the apocalyptic surge awakened Fu Qian’s true Gospel Blast.

Fu Qian resisted the Mother of Gospel’s call while investigating how Her influence converted supernatural beings into stronger versions of themselves. He left the converted crowd destroyed, but the source of the Gospel remained a threat.

• Fu Qian felt the Gospel’s call and considered whether the King of Prison Break might share an origin with the Mother of the Supernatural, but refused to accept Her embrace.
• A demigod from the Academy of Revelation attacked Fu Qian in a complete Mythical Form, and Fu Qian struck him apart.
• Fu Qian realized the Gospel had enhanced the converted demigod without changing his apparent path of power.
• Old Man Feng Yunhong began swelling as if to unleash his familiar self-destructive attack.
• Fu Qian crushed Old Man Feng Yunhong and the surrounding spectators with a single stomp.

Fu Qian realized Nepheli had used a miracle to imprison him in a silent region of the Mind World and keep him from finding the cries. Rather than waste time searching for a way out, he unleashed the King of Prison Break’s power against the darkness.

• Fu Qian noticed that the newborns had hidden inside the spreading blackness, which he identified as a silent region of the Mind World.
• Holding Nepheli’s head, Fu Qian received the words “self... imprisonment” as a surge of thought, and his senses shrank to a small area around him.
• Fu Qian deduced that Nepheli had used a miracle to confine him and delay his search, fulfilling Mother of Gospel’s purpose before she rotted away.
• Fu Qian dismissed his armor and unleashed the Myriad Tentacles, setting the tentacles alight with golden flame as they surged into the darkness.

Fu Qian set the Sea of Mind ablaze to escape the mental prison, provoking Mother of Gospel into tearing apart his Tyrant Form before he fled. He then traveled to Half-step Moon to intensify his apparent desertion and leave Jade Soul Master alone with Mother of Gospel in the apocalypse.

• Fu Qian used King of Prison Break's power to burn the Sea of Mind, causing the Gospel to stop.
• Mother of Gospel attacked Fu Qian with a giant dark claw, and he answered with a stolen Gospel Blast before removing his mask to escape.
• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse, reverted to Second Order form, and realized that his inner-demon attribute was rapidly accumulating as he struggled with Jade Soul Master.
• Fu Qian used the Beloved Ring to travel from the Warehouse to Half-step Moon, where the Red Moon accelerated his healing and his inner-demon accumulation.
• Fu Qian stayed on Half-step Moon to force his apparent desertion, hoping Mother of Gospel would turn her anger toward Jade Soul Master.

Fu Qian recovered from the false history but found the world rejecting him as his synchronization rate fell. While resting outside the Institute of Curses, he met Meria, the Jade Soul Master, who had appeared as idealism gained strength.

• Fu Qian confirmed that the apocalypse and the false history had vanished, then visited the Institute of Curses and found its Night Watchers treated him with special deference.
• Fu Qian realized his earlier trick had cost him: the world was rejecting him, his synchronization rate was falling, and the academy risked becoming part of Jade Soul Master's pure self.
• Fu Qian sat on a bench to rest, but a stranger plucked a leaf from a nearby Snow Tree and joined him.
• The stranger introduced themself as Meria, and Fu Qian recognized them as Jade Soul Master.
• Meria asked why they had appeared there, and Fu Qian understood that the world's rejection of him had allowed idealism to insert Meria into it.

Fu Qian confronted Jade Soul Master, who discussed how language and truth were fallacies and revealed he knew about Fu Qian’s past. As Jade Soul Master transformed into a Meria of Fu Qian’s rank, he challenged Fu Qian’s grounds for distinguishing gods from humans.

• Jade Soul Master examined Fu Qian’s paper cup and praised him as the most memorable outsider he had met.
• Fu Qian thanked Jade Soul Master for a philosophy he had used in the Realm of Ultimate Bliss, and Jade Soul Master said he had been there and knew of Eckhart.
• Jade Soul Master confirmed Fu Qian had been looking for him and said Fu Qian’s disbelief made him a meaningful choice.
• Jade Soul Master argued that truth had no solid foundation and made the Snow Tree leaf glow as he spoke.
• Jade Soul Master transformed into a Meria of Fu Qian’s rank and questioned what grounds could define the boundary between gods and humans.

Fu Qian learned that Jade Soul Master had begun as an ordinary person who pursued Zen, and he challenged the master's belief that supernatural levels and identities were illusions by demonstrating his own transformations. Jade Soul Master remained unconvinced but explained why Fu Qian mattered to him, then offered him an eyeball.

• Fu Qian realized Jade Soul Master's apparent mortal form reflected an authority that let him exist at any supernatural level.
• Jade Soul Master said he had started as an ordinary person who overthought questions of identity and called his pursuit Zen.
• Fu Qian changed his face and lowered his supernatural level to the mortal realm, then restored it to challenge Jade Soul Master's convictions.
• Jade Soul Master praised Fu Qian's display but said the nighttime hunter was too one-dimensional and had lost the support of a power over space and time.
• Jade Soul Master said Fu Qian was still favored by his ancient fallacy about changing the past, then held out an eyeball and told him to put it on.

Fu Qian accepted Jade Soul Master's freshly harvested eyeball and used its vision of overlapping realities and dreams to understand Jade Soul Master's explanation of chaos, illusion, and the harm Fu Qian had caused. Jade Soul Master revealed that he intended to deal with the outsider Akons and explained that seeing Fu Qian's Destructive Meteor had shown him it was time for everything to begin.

• Fu Qian accepted Jade Soul Master's eyeball and pressed it into his eye socket alongside his own.
• Fu Qian used the new eye to see overlapping versions of the Winter Academy, past events, apocalypses, and dreams as equally real.
• Jade Soul Master taught Fu Qian that reality and dreams had no fundamental difference and that Fu Qian's power amplified chaos.
• Fu Qian concluded that Jade Soul Master viewed him as a mistake whose effectiveness had caused even greater harm.
• Jade Soul Master said he would deal with Akons and explained that seeing Fu Qian's Destructive Meteor had told him it was time for everything to begin.

Fu Qian questioned Jade Soul Master about the apocalyptic miracle beneath the Institute of Curses and learned that Jade Soul Master had triggered it. Jade Soul Master also claimed Meria did not exist, leaving Fu Qian to consider the revelation as their confrontation continued.

• Fu Qian realized that his actions, including using Typhoid Fear, might have contributed to the crisis, though he blamed the Night Watchers’ mole for the meteor attack.
• Fu Qian asked whether Jade Soul Master had triggered the apocalyptic miracle beneath the Institute of Curses, and Jade Soul Master admitted that he had.
• Jade Soul Master explained that he had discovered the miracle as a hole in reality and challenged Fu Qian to explain why the ark had docked there.
• Fu Qian suggested that the ark had returned to Meria’s homeland, but Jade Soul Master said Meria did not exist because he could not find her when he traveled a thousand years into the past.
• Jade Soul Master said Meria’s name, symbols, authority, and protection were real despite her absence, and he knew of no similar cases.
• Fu Qian thanked Jade Soul Master, then cut his hand and filled a paper cup with blood before drinking from it.

Fu Qian and Jade Soul Master continued their contest of wills as Jade Soul Master used a Snow Tree leaf to reveal the realm of self-rejection. Jade Soul Master concluded that Fu Qian and the Madness Fire were the keys to reaching it, then offered to help.

• Fu Qian drank from the cup that merged blood and wine, while Jade Soul Master praised his resolve and noted that his heart-demon index had barely changed.
• Jade Soul Master released a Snow Tree leaf, whose movement revealed a deeper realm that Fu Qian recognized as the place of self-rejection.
• Jade Soul Master said Fu Qian's past display of the ominous fire had strengthened his belief that Fu Qian was the key to entering the realm.
• Fu Qian considered Jade Soul Master's claim that the ancient deity he had become once owned the Madness Fire, and wondered whether the King of Prison Break had lost that authority.
• Jade Soul Master said Fu Qian had deliberately shown him the fire and given him a suggestion, then held out his hand and agreed to help.

Fu Qian used his powers and transformed into King of Prison Break to grasp a resonance with Forsaken Prison, the battleground Jade Soul Master had chosen. He sensed Red Moon in the real academy before stepping into the place of self-abandonment.

• Jade Soul Master returned Fu Qian's eyeball, explained that his eyes would hinder Fu Qian, and crushed the eyeball.
• Fu Qian realized Jade Soul Master had chosen Forsaken Prison as their next battleground, though Jade Soul Master had only observed it and never entered.
• Fu Qian activated Left and Right and mixed his blood into his wine to strengthen his resonance with Forsaken Prison.
• Fu Qian engulfed himself in golden flames, transformed into King of Prison Break, and finally grasped the resonance.
• Fu Qian sensed Red Moon and another force in the real academy, then stepped into Forsaken Prison.

Fu Qian explored the King of Prison Break’s Forsaken Prison, where countless people had surrendered their bodies and wills to Madness Fire. Cut off from the flames and outside realms, he saw a deep blue moon appear in the sky.

• Fu Qian explored the lavish, empty hall and found that Madness Fire had vanished from his hand.
• Fu Qian looked from the terrace across a strange world of unfamiliar buildings and countless pale, living bodies.
• The bodies turned toward Fu Qian and prostrated themselves in trembling reverence, revealing the fate of those who had surrendered themselves to Madness Fire.
• Fu Qian realized the prison was sealed off from the outside and could no longer sense the crimson moonlight or opposing colors.
• A bright, deep blue moon appeared in the sky before Fu Qian.