Chapter Summaries

Ouyang Tiantong arrived to help Chu Yun defend the Origin World, and the Chaos Ruler and Celestial Phenomenon Ruler brought powerful forces to the Great Xia Imperial Palace. As the Hell and God Realms gathered for an impending attack, Chu Yun told the two Sovereigns that their opponents’ unusually aggressive approach seemed suspicious.

• Ouyang Tiantong arrived in the Origin World as the Asura Ruler’s representative and offered to follow Chu Yun’s arrangements, while Nalan Yi remained in the Asura Realm.
• Chu Yun told Meng Ruoxue that Qian Sha had been given another mission and that his elder brother and the Celestial Phenomenon Ruler would arrive with their forces that night.
• The Chaos Ruler and Celestial Phenomenon Ruler arrived at the Great Xia Imperial Palace with more than ten Immortal King Absolute Peak powerhouses from their realms.
• The Celestial Phenomenon Ruler asked Ouyang Tiantong about the Asura Ruler, and Ouyang Tiantong explained that clan affairs had kept him away.
• Chu Yun reported that the Hell Realm’s forces had gathered and the God Realm’s people were converging on them, then said their forceful advance felt suspiciously impulsive.

Chu Yun set an ambush at the Solar Star System's border for the Hell Realm and God Realm, trusting Chaos Sovereign's confidence that they could defend the system. When no enemies appeared and Wu Ji could not contact Qin Xi, they discovered that Desolate Ghost had turned back while Ling Tian and the others attacked the Chaos Realm instead.

• Chaos Sovereign reassured Chu Yun that the Solar Star System could withstand the enemy, and Chu Yun vowed to make it their forbidden ground.
• After learning God Realm experts were among the Hell Realm's forces, Chu Yun gathered allies and prepared an ambush at the Solar Star System's border.
• Chu Yun and the others waited in concealment for two days, but no Hell Realm or God Realm experts arrived.
• Chaos Sovereign ordered Wu Ji to contact Qin Xi, but Wu Ji could not reach her, and Heavenly Mystery Ruler reported that Desolate Ghost had turned back.
• Chaos Sovereign realized Ling Tian had feinted toward the Solar Star System and attacked the Chaos Realm, then vanished as Wu Ji led the Chaos Realm experts back.
• Heavenly Mystery Ruler told Chu Yun not to blame himself, and Chu Yun remarked that he and Ling Tian had thought alike.

Ling Tian and the Ancient Thunder Realm captured Qin Xi in a planned attack, then vanished with her, leaving her severed arm behind. After discovering the betrayal, the Chaos Sovereign ordered an assault on the Heavenly God Star System to avenge Qin Xi and exterminate the heavenly gods.

• Lei Wanjie revealed that the Ancient Thunder Realm had plotted against Qin Xi and summoned Ling Tian, who appeared in his True Body.
• Ling Tian shattered Qin Xi's defenses, severed her left arm, and imprisoned her in his Inner Universe while promising Lei Wanjie’s faction its reward.
• The Chaos Sovereign arrived at the Ancient Thunder Realm and found the realm gone, along with Qin Xi, but recovered her severed arm.
• The Chaos Sovereign used the Immortal-Slaying Diagram to reverse time and learn that Ling Tian, Desolate Ghost, and the Ancient Thunder Realm had conspired to capture Qin Xi.
• The Chaos Sovereign ordered Wu Ji and Wu Zhen to join the Celestial Phenomenon Ruler and invade the Heavenly God Star System while he departed with the Silver Divine Spear.

After learning that Ling Tian had captured Qin Xi and the Chaos Sovereign had gone to rescue her, Chu Yun revealed a hidden teleportation array that could bring their forces to the Heavenly God Star System within an hour. The group waited for Qian Sha and the others to connect the array coordinates before setting out.

• Wu Ji reported that Ling Tian had captured Qin Xi and the Chaos Sovereign had rushed to the Heavenly God Star System.
• The Celestial Phenomenon Ruler proposed that everyone travel there immediately, but Chu Yun warned that the journey would take several hours.
• Chu Yun revealed that he had secretly sent people into the Heavenly God Star System to destroy four star realms and build an ultra-large-scale Spatial Teleportation Array.
• Chu Yun explained that Qian Sha and the others needed to connect the array coordinates before the Origin World could use it.
• The Celestial Phenomenon Ruler agreed that the group could wait calmly for the teleportation array to be linked.

Chu Yun and his allies planned a two-pronged attack on the Heavenly God Star system, with Celestial Phenomenon Ruler moving to rescue Qin Xi and Chu Yun leading an assault on the Heavenly God Realm. After teleporting into the system, they confirmed Ling Tian was not there and split up to carry out their plans.

• Chu Yun argued that Ling Tian had likely set a trap near the border of the Heavenly God Star system and proposed rescuing Qin Xi while distracting Ling Tian.
• Celestial Phenomenon Ruler took responsibility for rescuing Qin Xi, while Chu Yun was ordered to attack Ling Tian's rear and destroy the Heavenly God Realm.
• Qian Sha reported that the teleportation array was ready, and Chu Yun led the allied forces into the Heavenly God Star system.
• Chu Yun learned from Xiaoyaozi that Ling Tian and Qin Xi had not been found in the system, confirming their suspicion that the pair were near its border.
• Celestial Phenomenon Ruler headed for the border, while Chu Yun led the remaining powerhouses toward the Heavenly God Realm.

Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost trapped the Chaos Sovereign in the Eighteen Hells God-Extinguishing Formation, using Qin Xi as leverage to force him to endure its attacks. The Chaos Sovereign rejected their choices and launched a spear attack against both rulers.

• Ling Tian waited with Qin Xi sealed into the surrounding void, where any power that disturbed it would injure her.
• The Chaos Sovereign arrived, and Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost activated the Eighteen Hells God-Extinguishing Formation around him.
• Desolate Ghost explained that the formation’s attacks could hurt Qin Xi if the Chaos Sovereign used too much power to resist.
• The Chaos Sovereign questioned whether he would risk himself to save Qin Xi, while Desolate Ghost insisted their bond made her irreplaceable.
• The Chaos Sovereign smiled, declared that he could kill Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost, and thrust his spear at them.

Chaos Sovereign battled Desolate Ghost Ruler and Ling Tian Ruler, while Celestial Phenomenon Ruler revealed himself and rescued Qin Xi. After warning that Chu Yun was attacking the God Realm, Chaos Sovereign destroyed the ambush formation and wounded both Rulers, leaving them cornered between him and Celestial Phenomenon Ruler.

• Chaos Sovereign charged Desolate Ghost Ruler with the Immortal-Slaying Spear, and their powers tore apart the formation and surrounding space.
• Desolate Ghost Ruler hurled Qin Xi's space into the clash, but Celestial Phenomenon Ruler appeared, revealed he had severed her connection to the formation, and rescued her into his inner world.
• Celestial Phenomenon Ruler told Ling Tian Ruler that Chu Yun and four Half-step Rulers were attacking the God Realm.
• Ling Tian Ruler attacked Celestial Phenomenon Ruler with the Heavenly God Plate, but Chaos Sovereign used his spear to calm the storm and neutralize the assault.
• Chaos Sovereign unleashed ninety-nine Chaos Starfields and destroyed Desolate Ghost Ruler's formation, overwhelming the combined defenses of Desolate Ghost Ruler and Ling Tian Ruler.
• Chaos Sovereign wounded both Rulers and blocked their retreat as Celestial Phenomenon Ruler held their rear, trapping them between the two allies.

The Chaos Sovereign retaliated after learning Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost had used their distraction to rescue Qin Xi, forcing the two Sovereigns to flee through time. He left Celestial Phenomenon Ruler and Chu Yun to handle the God Realm and Hell Realm while he prepared to make sure the fugitives could never return, but Celestial Phenomenon Ruler blocked his path.

• The Chaos Sovereign revealed that he had seen through Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost’s plan to distract him while Tianxiang rescued Qin Xi, then unleashed the power of his ninety-nine Chaos Starfields.
• Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost tried to escape, but the Chaos Sovereign used eighteen Chaos Starfields to form sealing locks around them.
• Desolate Ghost used three Samsara Divine Pearls to open a Gate of Reincarnation, and he and Ling Tian escaped into another timeline.
• Celestial Phenomenon Ruler recovered the three pearls, while the Chaos Sovereign declared that the cost of taking Qin Xi was not yet paid and that Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost must never return.
• The Chaos Sovereign left Celestial Phenomenon Ruler and Chu Yun in charge of the God Realm and Hell Realm and asked Celestial Phenomenon Ruler to care for Qin Xi, but Celestial Phenomenon Ruler blocked his way.

Chu Yun’s forces broke the God Realm’s protective formation and slaughtered its inhabitants, destroying the realm as Chaos Overlord set out to pursue vengeance. The God Realm’s Heavenly Dao was devoured, leaving the victors to gather its spoils while two of its Immortal Kings remained missing.

• Chaos Overlord rejected Tianxiang’s warning and departed to make Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost pay, while Tianxiang followed toward the God Realm.
• Chu Yun’s forces bombarded the God Realm’s protective formation until Great Master Manjushri shattered it, and the Corrosion Clone fled as Wu Ji and Great Master Manjushri pursued him.
• Chu Yun and the invading forces swept through the God Realm, killing its inhabitants and searching the Realm Lord’s Residence for survivors.
• Chu Yun’s group failed to find Heavenly Blessing Immortal King or Myriad Transformations Immortal King and suspected the Corrosion Clone had taken them.
• After the slaughter, Demon Puppet devoured the God Realm’s Heavenly Dao, leaving the realm a dead star as the victors began collecting its treasures.

Chu Yun and his allies celebrated the destruction of the God Realm while wondering why Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost had dared to capture Qin Xi. Heavenly Phenomenon Overlord returned with Qin Xi, but Chu Yun’s Big Brother and the two Rulers were still absent.

• Mu Qianli and Great First Master celebrated the God Realm’s destruction and asked whether Chu Yun had heard from Chaos Ruler and the others.
• Chu Yun explained that Manjushri, the Wu Ji Clan Leader, and Master Ouyang had pursued Ling Tian, then wondered what had given Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost confidence to capture Qin Xi.
• Great First Master suggested Chu Yun ask Third Senior Brother for answers when he returned, and Chu Yun agreed.
• Heavenly Phenomenon Overlord arrived through a Spatial Gate and brought out the injured, awakened Qin Xi.
• Qin Xin helped Qin Xi away, while Wu Zhen asked Heavenly Phenomenon Overlord why his Father God had not returned and where he had gone.

After the Chaos Sovereign severed the River of Time, the Celestial Phenomenon Ruler explained that Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost were trapped in the past, while Chu Yun worried that Third Gentleman might also be unable to return. Chu Yun planned to pursue the Ancient Thunder Realm after his allies returned, and Ouyang Tiantong, Wu Ji, and Great Master Manjushri came back from hunting the Corrosion Clone with gloomy expressions.

• The Celestial Phenomenon Ruler revealed that Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost had fled into the past through Samsara Space-Time Gates, and that the Chaos Sovereign had severed the River of Time to trap them there.
• The Celestial Phenomenon Ruler warned that severing the River of Time would provoke temporal backlash and could eventually throw time throughout the world into chaos.
• Mu Qianli and Wu Zhen accepted the Chaos Sovereign's decision, while Chu Yun and the Celestial Phenomenon Ruler worried that Third Gentleman might also be stranded in the past.
• The Celestial Phenomenon Ruler said the Chaos Sovereign was going to confront the Grand Alliance Master of the Starry Sky Alliance over false intelligence, and gave Chu Yun the Ancient Thunder Realm's coordinates.
• Chu Yun learned that destroying the God Realm had earned him five billion seven hundred million Editing Points, but he postponed using them.
• Ouyang Tiantong, Wu Ji, and Great Master Manjushri returned from hunting the Corrosion Clone with gloomy expressions.

After the Corrosion Clone escaped with an unknown Half-step Ruler, the Celestial Phenomenon Ruler divided his forces to attack the Hell Realm and Ancient Thunder Realm. In the past, the Desolate Ghost Ruler and Ling Tian discovered that Chaos had severed the River of Time, trapping them, and the Desolate Ghost Ruler demanded answers from Ling Tian.

• Great Master Manjushri explained that an unknown Half-step Ruler had rescued the Corrosion Clone, while Ouyang Tiantong admitted he arrived too late to help.
• Great Master Manjushri named Duan Wanjue and the old Titan as possible suspects, though Ouyang Tiantong argued that neither had a reason to interfere.
• The Celestial Phenomenon Ruler sent Chu Yun, Wu Ji, and others to settle accounts with the Ancient Thunder Realm, while he personally led a force to the Hell Realm.
• Chu Yun set out for the Ancient Thunder Realm, and the Celestial Phenomenon Ruler departed for the Hell Realm after the God Realm celestial body was annihilated.
• The Desolate Ghost Ruler and Ling Tian found the River of Time severed by Chaos and failed to restore it.
• The Desolate Ghost Ruler blamed Ling Tian for trusting that their hidden ally would prevent any disaster and demanded an explanation.

Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost confronted the masked voice in the Purple Disk after Chaos severed the River of Time, only to learn that the speaker had manipulated them to trap someone investigating his identity. The two Sovereigns were stranded in the past, cut off from Ling Tian’s Corrosion Clone, and left facing the destruction of their realms and the speaker’s control of what remained.

• Ling Tian contacted the person inside the Purple Disk, and he and Desolate Ghost demanded to know why the speaker had not intervened when Chaos severed the River of Time.
• The speaker revealed that Ling Tian, Desolate Ghost, Chu Yun, Tianxiang, and Chaos had all served as pieces in a plan to prevent an investigator from returning to the future and exposing his secrets.
• The speaker explained that Desolate Ghost’s Samsara Divine Pearls had helped bring about the plan, and that he had secretly sealed the severed River of Time to make its repair nearly impossible.
• Ling Tian threatened to expose the speaker’s identity through his Corrosion Clone, but the speaker had already made the clone unreachable.
• The speaker told Ling Tian and Desolate Ghost that the God Realm had been destroyed and that he would preserve some of the Hell Realm’s Immortal King Absolute Peak combat strength before ending the call.
• Ling Tian collapsed in despair as Desolate Ghost roared, realizing they were trapped in the past and that the speaker had ruined their plans.

Lei Wanjie and the Ancient Thunder Realm waited anxiously for news of the battle between the God Realm and the Chaos Realm. Wu Ji and Chu Yun arrived, captured Lei Wanjie, and unleashed a slaughter across the Ancient Thunder Realm.

• Lei Wuxing reassured Lei Wanjie that the God Realm had the strength and leverage to prevail, and Lei Wanjie ordered another scouting party sent out.
• Chu Yun appeared in the Realm Lord's Residence with Wu Ji and a host of experts, revealing that the Chaos Realm had won.
• Wu Ji trapped the Ancient Thunder Realm's people in his Chaos Order Field and crippled Lei Wanjie.
• Lei Wanjie begged Wu Ji to spare the innocent people and preserve the Ancient Thunder Realm's bloodline.
• Wu Ji condemned Lei Wanjie for betraying the kindness he had shown the Ancient Thunder Realm and unleashed Chaos Power to slaughter its inhabitants.

Wu Ji annihilated the Ancient Thunder Realm, and Chu Yun’s group returned to the Origin World while Wu Zhen gathered its resources. At the Starry Sky Alliance, the Chaos Sovereign confronted the Grand Alliance Master over faulty intelligence and learned that severing the River of Time might leave him vulnerable to greater threats.

• Wu Ji killed Lei Wanjie, Lei Wuxing, Lei Qianfeng, and the other high-ranking Immortal Kings, leaving Chu Yun with 500 million Editing Points.
• Great Master Manjushri and Chu Yun declined a share of the Ancient Thunder Realm’s resources, and Wu Ji assigned Wu Zhen to collect them and destroy the realm.
• Chu Yun, Wu Ji, and their companions returned to the Origin World, planning to rendezvous with Celestial Phenomenon Ruler after he settled matters in the Hell Realm.
• The Chaos Sovereign arrived at the Starry Sky Alliance headquarters, where Wen You, Chu Huang, and Qin Guang escorted him to the inner hall.
• The Chaos Sovereign demanded an explanation from the Grand Alliance Master for the Alliance’s faulty intelligence about Qin Xi.
• The Grand Alliance Master warned that severing the River of Time could endanger the Chaos Sovereign against greater foes and urged him to restore it if possible.

The Grand Alliance Master exposed Wen You for colluding with Ling Tian and giving the Chaos Realm false intelligence, and Chaos Sovereign killed him. Chaos Sovereign accepted two Samsara Divine Pearls as an apology and left, while Chu Huang asked the Grand Alliance Master what would happen to Wen You’s confidants.

• The Grand Alliance Master told Chaos Sovereign that Wen You had colluded with Ling Tian and spread false intelligence that led to the Qin Xi incident.
• Wen You admitted his wrongdoing and begged for mercy, but the Grand Alliance Master left his fate to Chaos Sovereign.
• Chaos Sovereign struck Wen You with a Chaos Imprint, which assimilated him completely and killed him.
• Chaos Sovereign accused the Grand Alliance Master of knowing about Wen You’s actions, and the Grand Alliance Master offered him two Samsara Divine Pearls as an apology.
• Chaos Sovereign accepted the pearls and left Eternal Star, and Chu Huang asked the Grand Alliance Master about Wen You’s confidants.

After the Hell Realm’s destruction, Chu Yun edited his background to gain a finger bone of the Heavenly Progenitor and broke through to the God-Communing Realm of the Absolute Peak Three Realms. He was left asking the system how powerful the finger was.

• The Grand Alliance Master put Chu Huang in charge of Wen You’s subordinates and alliance affairs, then went into seclusion.
• The Undying Ruler learned that the Hell Realm had been destroyed and its strongest experts had disappeared, and he suspected a hidden Ruler was behind the conflict.
• The Undying Ruler decided to send a gift to the Origin World for his nephew-in-law and learned that Mo Fukui and the others were likely dead inside Forbidden God Valley.
• After returning to the Origin World, Chu Yun set aside news of the Hell Realm and chose to edit the background Manifestation from a Part of Heavenly Progenitor’s Body.
• The edit gave Chu Yun a Heavenly Progenitor finger bone in his right index finger and raised his cultivation to the God-Communing Realm of the Absolute Peak Three Realms.
• Chu Yun asked the system how powerful the finger was after sensing that its energy exceeded the Celestial Phenomenon Ruler’s Order Power.

Chu Yun learned that the Heavenly Progenitor's hand bone could threaten Ruler-level experts and that far stronger realms existed beyond Sovereign. After discovering the Evil Thought on Chaotic Demon Island was a formidable God Annihilation Realm being, Chu Yun went to Grass Hall to look for precautions his Third Senior Brother had left behind.

• The system explained that Chu Yun could use fifty percent of the Heavenly Progenitor's hand bone's power, enough to severely injure a Ruler-level expert.
• The system revealed that the realms beyond Sovereign were God Annihilation, God Tribulation, and Ancestral God, and that the Chaos Sovereign had reached Half-step God Annihilation.
• The system told Chu Yun that the Heavenly Progenitor ruled hundreds of thousands of Universe Realms and that Chu Yun's world was an Eighth-level Universe Realm.
• Chu Yun learned that the Evil Thought on Chaotic Demon Island was a powerful God Annihilation Realm being capable of nearly matching a God Tribulation expert.
• The system suggested that Chu Yun's Third Senior Brother might have prepared countermeasures, so Chu Yun teleported to Grass Hall.
• Chu Yun entered Master's courtyard, where Mu Qianli and Ren Pingsheng were talking with the old man, and greeted them.

Chu Yun asked Master whether Third Senior Brother could return after the River of Time was severed, and learned that Third Senior Brother had gone into the past to investigate the hidden figure behind the conflict. Master told Chu Yun to retrieve the River of Time Shore Flower from Forbidden God Valley to restore the river, then advised him to address the Origin World's immediate troubles first.

• Chu Yun asked Master whether Third Senior Brother could return, and Master explained that the severed River of Time had trapped him in the past.
• Master revealed that Third Senior Brother had deliberately gone in person to draw out and investigate the unseen figure manipulating events.
• Master told Chu Yun that only the River of Time Shore Flower could restore the River of Time and bring Third Senior Brother back.
• Master said the flower was in Forbidden God Valley, where it had been left by the ancestor of the Death Curse Tribe, and gave Chu Yun a detailed map of the valley's formations.
• Chu Yun pledged to retrieve the flower, then returned to the Great Xia Dynasty and agreed to deal with the Origin World's urgent matters first.

Third Gentleman encountered Ling Tian Ruler and Desolate Ghost Ruler stranded in the past and demonstrated that he could redirect injuries through altered karma. He secured their oath to seek revenge on the one who trapped them and promised to help them return within three months.

• Third Gentleman approached Ling Tian Ruler and Desolate Ghost Ruler on the River of Time and introduced himself as a member of Grass Hall from the Origin World.
• Ling Tian Ruler attacked Third Gentleman, but the damage appeared on Desolate Ghost Ruler instead because Third Gentleman had altered their karma.
• Third Gentleman told the two Sovereigns that he knew why they were trapped and asked what they would do if they could return.
• Ling Tian Ruler and Desolate Ghost Ruler vowed to take revenge on the person who had played them as chess pieces.
• Third Gentleman proposed a karmic oath that they would pursue revenge, and promised to help them return within three months.
• Ling Tian Ruler and Desolate Ghost Ruler accepted the Three-Month Pact and swore the oath.