Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian and Sha Ming guided Huang Leji’s group deeper through the passage, with Third Xun confirming that the destination lay beyond the next bend. The group reached a steep final stretch where they were ordered not to move, and Huang Leji confronted Sha Ming about their sudden injuries.

• As the group grew weary and asked how much farther they had to go, Sha Ming said the destination lay beyond the next bend and invited Fu Qian to ask Third Xun for confirmation.
• Fu Qian questioned Third Xun through the wall, and Third Xun confirmed that they would reach the destination after the next bend and would not need to go farther.
• Huang Leji led the group onward, while Sha Ming hinted that the Xun would explain what the title meant and followed the others.
• As Fu Qian caught up with the group, wounds appeared across his body amid cries of alarm and orders for everyone to stay still.
• On the steep final stretch, Huang Leji demanded to know why they were being injured while walking downhill, and Sha Ming replied that they no longer needed to walk farther.

Sha Ming led Huang Leji and his group to a one-way endpoint where going uphill also caused severe injuries, leaving them trapped. He revealed that Huang Zhixun was close by but separated by a boundary, and said he had told Fu Qian this because Fu Qian still had the strength to go farther.

• Huang Leji tested Sha Ming’s claim by walking uphill and suffered fresh injuries, confirming that leaving the path in either direction brought punishment.
• Fu Qian argued that Huang Leji and his group should consider whether escaping their cramped area would help, since the boundary might not follow ordinary logic.
• Sha Ming confirmed that Huang Zhixun had stolen his belongings and returned alone, but admitted he had allowed Huang Zhixun to believe he was acting on his own.
• Fu Qian questioned why Sha Ming had sent a rescue team after Huang Zhixun, and Sha Ming said he had done so because Huang Zhixun was already close to him.
• Sha Ming told Fu Qian that Huang Zhixun was near the endpoint but separated by a difficult boundary, and that he had shared this to motivate Fu Qian to keep going.

Sha Ming revealed that the Xun abhorred divinity and identified Fu Qian as a demigod, but Fu Qian admitted he had impersonated the Xun to provoke a reaction and learn about them. Sha Ming hinted that he had a reason Fu Qian could not refuse, and Third Xun Brother appeared amid countless beams of light.

• Sha Ming explained that the Xun abhorred divinity and said Fu Qian's convincing imitation had exposed him as a high-ranking Transcendent.
• Huang Leji and the others reacted with fear when Fu Qian openly accepted Sha Ming's claim that he was a demigod.
• Fu Qian explained that he had impersonated the Xun to draw out information about them rather than hide his identity.
• Fu Qian said Sha Ming's explanation was not enough to make him do more, and Sha Ming hinted that he knew something about Fu Qian that would compel him.
• Hundreds or thousands of beams of light appeared, with Third Xun Brother standing at their center, and Fu Qian confirmed that he had arrived.

Third Xun revealed that the myriad truths had made the place and everyone in it immutable, trapping the narrator in a form he could not escape. He urged the narrator to fight for freedom, warning that delay would only deepen his hopelessness.

• The narrator suspected Sha Ming was a divine target whose power or tool concealed him from the narrator’s Inspiration.
• Third Xun appeared, reduced the narrator’s Sanity Value by one, and showed him the lines of truth filling the seemingly empty space.
• Third Xun claimed that the myriad truths transcended reality and that his existence was immortal, while the Warehouse’s protection had proved illusory.
• The narrator recognized that Third Xun had once worked for the Warehouse and had abandoned it after witnessing the Law’s immortality.
• Third Xun warned that the narrator was trapped in the cage of myriad truths, bound to return even if he left, and urged him to struggle for freedom.

Fu Qian realized Sha Ming and Third Xun had brought the team through the thorns to expose the laws and push him toward breaking them. He resisted Third Xun’s pressure and learned that Third Xun considered Sanity Value a lifeline, but another rescue team member was suddenly killed on the staircase.

• Fu Qian concluded that the Warehouse had locked his existence to this world, making escape from the cage impossible without abandoning his career.
• Fu Qian inferred that Sha Ming and Third Xun had used the exploration team to reveal the laws, and that they wanted him to test the rules and suffer punishment.
• Third Xun repeatedly reduced Fu Qian’s Sanity Value and was shocked when Fu Qian showed no sign of breaking.
• Fu Qian taunted Third Xun and drew out his claim that he was truly immortal because the lifeline around his neck had been cut loose.
• A rescue team member fell down the staircase and was torn apart by an invisible force.

Sha Ming revealed that his power had grown beyond demigod level and used the rescue team to pressure Fu Qian, while Third Xun Brother disclosed that Sha Ming had an unseen Xun follower to contend with. Fu Qian then called out to Miranda, who appeared and was asked whether she knew she was being used.

• Sha Ming kicked another rescue-team member and restored his appearance, undermining Huang Leji's hope that the team could use their bond as leverage.
• Sha Ming told Huang Leji and Fu Qian that he had been a demigod half an hour earlier and had since grown stronger through the mental projection and exploration.
• Fu Qian questioned why Third Xun Brother was not dealing with Sha Ming, and Third Xun Brother said they would grow together and hinted that someone was already dealing with Sha Ming.
• Fu Qian realized the rescue team had been reduced to material for pressuring him and asked Sha Ming whether Miranda knew the real plan.
• Fu Qian turned toward the path behind them and asked whether Miranda knew she was being used, and Miranda emerged in response.

Fu Qian accepted Sha Ming and San Xun’s advice and tested the Law Remnants, but the holy place suppressed them. He transformed into a massive, mirror-scaled dragon instead, leaving the group terrified and partly buried in rubble.

• Miranda confronted Sha Ming, but Fu Qian judged her actions and the fate of her group as evidence that she was probably not working with him.
• Fu Qian stopped questioning Miranda and accepted the concerns raised by Sha Ming and San Xun, announcing that they would begin.
• Fu Qian tried to activate the Glorious Tyrant and his other powers, but all three auras failed in the holy place.
• Fu Qian put a sedative between his teeth and transformed into a huge, ice-crystal-like dragon, collapsing part of the ancient structure.
• The gathered members emerged from the rubble and stared in terror at Fu Qian’s transformed form, with the Bell Staff still in his mouth.

Fu Qian transformed into a Frost Mirror Dragon and used Gospel Blast against Sha Ming, learning that its mental shock spread through the bonds while leaving Sha Ming’s control of the cage intact. After Third Xun urged him to tear apart the holy place, Fu Qian said he believed him and took another deep breath.

• Fu Qian shaped himself into a Frost Mirror Dragon and roared at Sha Ming with Gospel Blast, causing Sha Ming and the bonded people to reel from mental shock.
• Sha Ming claimed that Fu Qian’s attack could not disrupt his connection to the cage or create an escape opening, and said breaking the barrier would lead to Blood Lion.
• Fu Qian asked whether Huang Zhixun was in the pit, then aimed another Gospel Blast at Third Xun and felt the attack’s reflected impact.
• Third Xun remained unaffected and told Fu Qian that he could banish him by defiling the holy place and tearing the cage apart.
• Fu Qian said he believed Third Xun and took a third deep breath.

Fu Qian used the Prison of Myriad Truths to summon Rainbow of Yao Bian into the underground confrontation. The being immediately unleashed a powerful attack, leaving Fu Qian, Sha Ming, and the others facing the blast.

• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse, recovered, and put on the mask again to reenter the prison.
• Fu Qian struck the lantern and used the Great Summoning Technique to bring a cosmic being into the underground space.
• Rainbow of Yao Bian appeared as a blurry, color-draining figure, stunning Sha Ming and the Xun followers.
• Rainbow of Yao Bian spoke to Fu Qian, then formed a sphere and released a blinding blast across the underground.

Fu Qian and the rescue team escaped Blood Lion’s Mind World projection, finding Blood Lion transformed into golden plants and the Record of True Transcription beside him. Sha Ming insisted that the radiance of Order had returned, while Fu Qian challenged his certainty.

• A dazzling burst erased the wasteland projection without harming the people inside, leaving Fu Qian and the rescue team in a cave.
• Sha Ming stared in shock at the vanished Mind World, while the iridescent figure remained nearby and Third Xun Brother disappeared.
• The group found Blood Lion transformed into golden, flower-laden plants, with scattered clothes and a golden book among the leaves.
• Fu Qian asked Sha Ming for the book’s name, and Sha Ming identified it as the Record of True Transcription.
• The iridescent figure explained that the book recorded and stored laws through resonance, while Sha Ming argued that Order’s radiance had returned and his advancement proved it.
• Fu Qian cut off Sha Ming’s claims by asking what had happened to his one-on-one Follower.

Fu Qian deduced that both the tree and the Record of True Transcription shaped the laws in Xiyuan City, while Sha Ming tried to approach the tome despite his suspicions. Just as Sha Ming neared it, several rescue team members collapsed, while Fu Qian and his summon remained still.

• Fu Qian concluded that the tree and the Record of True Transcription were separate sources of Xiyuan City's order, and that the book was recovering its strength by using the rescue team and him.
• Fu Qian welcomed Sha Ming's threat, but Sha Ming hesitated to approach the Record of True Transcription because of Fu Qian and the summon.
• Huang Leji stopped several excited rescue team members from rushing toward the golden tome.
• Sha Ming asked Fu Qian why he was allowing events to unfold, then decided to approach the tome himself.
• As Sha Ming came within a few steps of the tome, multiple rescue team members suddenly collapsed while Fu Qian and the summon remained motionless.

Fu Qian realized the apparent victory over the pursuer had been a smokescreen inside the mental projection, then identified the rainbow figure as Parchi the Deceiver rather than the god it appeared to be. Parchi revealed himself and spoke with Fu Qian, leaving Fu Qian asking how he had performed his impressive move.

• Two members of Huang Leji’s team suddenly died, while the survivors found themselves unharmed and confused.
• Sha Ming concluded that the team remained inside the mental projection, and Fu Qian explained that he had stayed still because he was cautious.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the rainbow figure could not be the god at the other end of the connection, since that god would recognize the cage as a trap and avoid entering it.
• The rainbow figure revealed himself as Parchi the Deceiver, whom Fu Qian had previously met on Leaf Island.
• Parchi praised Fu Qian’s progress, and Fu Qian asked how Parchi had performed his impressive move.

Fu Qian questioned Pachi about how he had hidden their prison and its injuries from the group, then deduced that the trick had also affected the Record of True Transcription. Pachi confirmed the book had become more active, while Sha Ming realized Fu Qian had found a way to make Pachi undo the effect.

• Fu Qian kept his distance from Pachi and asked how he had concealed their conversation from Sha Ming and the others.
• Pachi explained that he had removed their awareness of the prison and its laws from cognition rather than freeing them from the cage.
• Fu Qian deduced that the hidden injuries had continued to accumulate until the victims died, and that Pachi's power affected living things beyond their minds.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the Record of True Transcription had also been affected, and Pachi confirmed that he had hidden its awareness of being a Mind World projection.
• Sha Ming stopped and appeared to understand that Fu Qian had maneuvered Pachi into undoing the effect.

Fu Qian watched as Huang Leji and the rescue team tried to force Sha Ming to lift the bond, while Miranda deliberately triggered its deadly effect. After Miranda’s body engulfed Sha Ming, a rag doll sprang toward the Record of True Transcription, but Fu Qian took the book first.

• Fu Qian declined to intervene as Huang Leji urged the team to threaten Sha Ming by triggering the bond together.
• Sha Ming taunted the team to act, and Miranda began walking toward him despite Huang Leji’s warning.
• Miranda’s advance caused the team members to fall, but she kept going until she reached Sha Ming.
• Miranda’s body burst into pieces and engulfed Sha Ming as the remaining rescue team members collapsed.
• A rag doll leaped toward the Record of True Transcription, but Fu Qian seized the book and said he would take it.

Fu Qian exposed the hidden observer inside Miranda and seized the Record of True Transcription, discovering its connection to the tree. Through that connection, he saw the tree transformed into an immobile golden body and recognized it from Lairding, suggesting something beyond the King of Prison Break might be returning.

• Fu Qian recognized the bloodstained Ragdoll emerging from Miranda as the surveillance device Tan Mingxue had used, and realized Miranda had been infected without anyone noticing.
• Fu Qian concluded that the Night Watchers had deliberately allowed Xiyuan City to be abandoned and suspected their powerful leader had approved the plan.
• Fu Qian used the Thread of Concern to seize the Record of True Transcription and formed a strange connection with the tree.
• Fu Qian saw that the tree had become motionless and golden, and found that his three auras no longer worked in its presence.
• Fu Qian recognized the golden tree from his earlier encounter in Lairding and wondered whether someone besides the King of Prison Break was returning.

Fu Qian connected the return of the world’s laws to the distorted star laws and believed his discovery would earn him a strong report to the Pontiff. As Ragdoll began tearing itself apart and Sha Ming demanded the Record of True Transcription, Fu Qian used the Copper Fish Hook on the living book.

• Fu Qian hypothesized that the essence of law had been taken from this world, used to create the starry barrier in another world, and later returned.
• Fu Qian considered his theory a success in the scientific expedition and planned to have the Witch verify it.
• Sha Ming recognized the Night Watchers’ involvement after Miranda’s fragments were cleared away.
• Ragdoll split open and began tearing its body apart as Sha Ming warned Fu Qian that he could not sever their bond or take the Record of True Transcription across space-time.
• Fu Qian used the Copper Fish Hook on the Record of True Transcription, hoping to turn the living book into a fish.

Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse with the golden tome transformed into a damaged copper-ring fish, then swallowed it to bind it before it could escape. The chapter ended with Fu Qian receiving the World-Weariness authority as Volume Seven concluded.

• Fu Qian used Returning Home to escape with the copper-ring fish, while Pachi laughed at his choice of a boring job.
• Fu Qian realized the fish was unstable and hostile, and the Warehouse did nothing to suppress it.
• Fu Qian opened the cylinder containing Kalaodola's flesh and found that its patterned growth was withering like the phenomenon beyond the stars.
• Fu Qian grabbed the fish and swallowed it, binding the False Law Authority as World-Weariness.

After devouring the Record of True Transcription, Fu Qian gained World-Weariness and discovered that his Law Remnants were now anchored as False Law. He tested how his transformed powers interacted with the Warehouse, then left the warehouse with a ring and used Return Home.

• Fu Qian assessed the Record of True Transcription’s rewards and concluded that its claim about False Law Authority confirmed the genuine Law had returned to the Western Plains.
• Fu Qian connected his earlier clashes with Ill Omen and the Blood Clan to their powers being false laws without the essence of Law Authority.
• Fu Qian activated his Law Remnants, Return Edict, and Glorious Tyrant, finding that their transformed powers could stir a faint ripple in the Warehouse.
• Fu Qian considered the return of ancient powers and the changed old order, then retrieved a ring from the remains and activated Return Home.

Fu Qian reviewed the costs and consequences of escaping the Xiyuan incident, then returned to the Half-step Moon and found the Red Moon waiting for him. He discovered that his transformed Return Edict could slightly ease Her condition, and the chapter ended with Her touching his forehead.

• Fu Qian calculated that Third Xun Brother and the delayed attacks had cost him 34 Sanity Value, but he had escaped without using his trump card.
• Fu Qian considered the damage left in Xiyuan, including the destruction of the Record of True Transcription and the losses suffered by Sha Ming and the Huang family, and decided not to return.
• Fu Qian repaired his wounds in the Half-step Moon, where the Red Moon appeared in the armchair and listened to his casual account of work.
• The Red Moon praised Fu Qian, and he used the transformed Return Edict to slightly improve Her condition.
• The Red Moon brushed Fu Qian's face and forehead with Her finger while he remained still.

Fu Qian survived Red Moon’s attempt to embrace him and learned that Annalise, the Blood Clan Progenitor, had died before the Long Night. Red Moon left him with powerful self-repairing armor, and Fu Qian sensed that a bullet had been triggered near Wen Li.

• Red Moon restrained her urge to crush Fu Qian, embraced him from a distance, and said that Annalise had not lived to see the Long Night.
• Fu Qian recalled Selena’s account of the Blood Clan Progenitor and wondered who had killed Annalise and whether Dark Moon was involved.
• Red Moon vanished, leaving blood-red marks on Fu Qian that formed into scarred, dark-silver armor fused with his body and enhanced his regeneration.
• Fu Qian sensed the King of Prison Break’s power flare briefly and identified Wen Li as the person on the other end of the triggered bullet.