Recaps

Xu Xiaoan resolved to gain real power within the Chaos Cult while Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang assessed the growing conflict around the Dead Line. As they headed toward Base City No. 185, a Phantom Shadow Rain Ruins appeared in their path, and Jiang Mian demonstrated how Annihilation could conceal them.

• Yun Ling reported that the Chaos Cult had over forty thousand followers, including more than a hundred Sixth-tier members, and Xu Xiaoan decided she wanted to become a true Young Mistress.
• Xu Xiaoan activated Separation and created a dark-red ball of flesh as she began her plan to secretly extend her tendrils.
• Shen Qiuyu returned to battle corps headquarters with Jiang Mian’s report, prompting the authorities to surround the Dead Line and establish a Northern Defense Line.
• Ye Chenyang showed Jiang Mian a map of Withering’s territory and explained that the Chaos Cult had taken control of Base Cities No. 187 and No. 185, giving them reason to wait for the two factions to clash.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang set out toward Base City No. 185, but a Phantom Shadow Rain Ruins blocked their route, and Jiang Mian used Annihilation to conceal herself from even Eighth-tier opponents.

Yu Zhengqing confronted Withering above Base City No. 185, but Withering’s ally drew him into an illusion while Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang headed for the city. There, they found Luo Zheng facing Withering, who rejected his offer to submit to [Chaos] and opened his [Netherworld Abyss] domain.

• Withering refused Yu Zhengqing’s offer to cooperate with [Chaos], and their battle began as he turned the rain into needles that Yu Zhengqing froze with [Extreme Cold].
• Withering’s ally [Sinking Fragrance] pulled Yu Zhengqing into an illusion, prompting Jiang Mian to persuade Ye Chenyang to raid Base City No. 185.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang flew around the battle and found Luo Zheng confronting Withering above the city.
• Luo Zheng tried to persuade Withering to join [Chaos], but Withering refused and expanded his [Netherworld Abyss] domain.

Luo Zheng and Withering entered a battle inside [Netherworld Abyss] while Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang moved to take Base City No. 185. Yu Zhengqing awakened from Hua Ya’s dream and found himself trapped by curses as Jiang Mian’s attack engulfed the city.

• Luo Zheng unleashed [Blood-Bathed Heavenly Demon], and Withering pulled them both into [Netherworld Abyss].
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang guarded the rift and prepared to capture the Chaos-assimilated city below.
• Jiang Mian unleashed a powerful elemental attack over Base City No. 185 as Ye Chenyang sensed the storm building.
• Yu Zhengqing awoke from Hua Ya’s [Sweet Dream] and realized [Shadow Rain Ruins]’ curse had seeped into his body.
• Hua Ya put Yu Zhengqing back to sleep with [Sweet Dream] and [Sinking], while [Shadow Rain Ruins] went to find its Lord.

Jiang Mian unleashed a vast Cataclysm on Base City No. 185, then tried to escape with Ye Chenyang when a bandaged woman pursued them through the rain. Ye Chenyang recognized that their surroundings had been distorted and revealed the pursuer might be a fiend god wearing a red wedding dress.

• Jiang Mian’s Cataclysms devastated Base City No. 185, and she realized the disasters continued on their own after she started them.
• Ye Chenyang warned Jiang Mian that Yu Zhengqing’s battle had gone quiet and they needed to leave before an Eighth-tier threat arrived.
• A bandaged woman near the Netherworld Abyss pursued Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang, who escaped her first attack by combining time-slowing and spatial powers.
• Jiang Mian sent a Torrent clone to break through the rain woman’s curse-laden domain, but the rain followed them.
• Ye Chenyang used [Eternal Day] to expose that the pair had been trapped in a distorted space and identified the woman’s red wedding dress as a sign she might be a fiend god.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang escaped You’s looping domain, only to be caught in Hua Ya’s sleep-inducing attack. With Jiang Mian unconscious and the Rank Eight Calamities closing in, Ye Chenyang refined the bronze token as the Torrent clones attacked.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang realized that You was a Calamity fused with Fierce God’s soul fragments, and that her Shadow Path Loop had made them circle back.
• Ye Chenyang used the Yin Yang Sword and bronze token to resist You’s sealing curse while Jiang Mian summoned Torrent clones to tear open a path through the domain.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang escaped through the gap, but Hua Ya’s Sinking Fragrance overwhelmed Jiang Mian and left her unconscious.
• Hua Ya arrived carrying Yu Zhengqing, and You reappeared beside her as black rain spread around them.
• Hua Ya tried to capture Ye Chenyang, who tossed the Yin Yang Sword into the air, refined the bronze token, and fought back alongside the Torrent clones.

Hua Ya trapped Yu Zhengqing in the Thunder Prison while Ye Chenyang fused the bronze waist token’s authority and entered Jiang Mian’s dream. Jiang Mian recognized the false Ye Chenyang as an enemy, and a crack in the dream released her power, letting her prepare to attack him with [Annihilation].

• Hua Ya threw Yu Zhengqing into the Thunder Prison, where lightning overwhelmed him.
• Ye Chenyang fused the authority in the bronze waist token, balancing clarity and Sinking and beginning to grasp [Formless].
• Jiang Mian awakened on a dream beach and realized the Ye Chenyang who approached her was an enemy.
• Jiang Mian attacked the fake Ye Chenyang with her Exotic Fire flames, but he regenerated after each apparent death.
• A crack opened in the sky and black-and-white light unsealed Jiang Mian’s power, allowing her to add [Annihilation] to her flames.

Jiang Mian woke from the dream and, with Ye Chenyang, ordered the Torrent clones to attack Yu Zhengqing while they waited for Profound Yellow to arrive. After Profound Yellow trapped Yu Zhengqing, Yun Ling and Rakshasa appeared and proposed joining forces with Hua Ya and You against the humans.

• Jiang Mian woke in Ye Chenyang's arms, learned that the Torrent clones were near collapse, and refused to retreat because Profound Yellow was coming.
• Jiang Mian ordered the Torrent clones to unleash their final strike, and their combined lightning bolt targeted the weakened Yu Zhengqing.
• Yu Zhengqing froze the lightning with [Extreme Cold] and [Chaos], but Profound Yellow emerged and sealed him in purple crystal.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang landed on Profound Yellow as its attack struck Yu Zhengqing, while the Torrent's remaining lightning continued toward him.
• Yun Ling and Rakshasa arrived, rescued Yu Zhengqing inside a black bubble, and proposed that Hua Ya and You cooperate with them against the humans.
• Hua Ya stalled Rakshasa's proposal by suggesting they wait for the exalted ones to decide the outcome, and Rakshasa agreed.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang were caught in a three-way battle between the authorities, Withering, and the Chaos Cult, and the arrival of five human Rank Eights escalated the clash. They headed for the rift to intercept whoever emerged, preparing a full-force attack as the main battlefield threatened to spill into the real world.

• Jiang Mian confirmed that Yun Shan had disappeared from Base City No. 187 and concluded that the factions were headed for a three-way battle.
• Yun Ling attacked Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang, while Hua Ya and You attacked Yun Ling and Rakshasa intervened; Yun Shan then joined Yun Ling against Xuanhuang.
• Jiang Mian used two Torrent clones to destroy Yu Zhengqing, killing him and leaving Yun Ling furious.
• Gu Chengan arrived with four other Rank Eights, and their attacks forced the factions to temporarily unite against them as Xuanhuang roared into battle.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang flew toward the rift, where they prepared to strike whoever emerged.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang fought Withering after apparently killing Asura, but Asura revived through his Three Demonic Molts and joined the battle. The clash intensified as the two sides prepared to fight at full strength.

• Luo Zheng emerged from the rift, and Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang struck him down with their combined attacks.
• Withering appeared from the rift, and Ye Chenyang warned Jiang Mian that Asura might revive and told her to ready the Source Marrow.
• Withering attacked Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang with Death Qi, while Jiang Mian used Annihilation Wind shields to protect them.
• Asura reassembled from the mangled flesh, regained his strength, and agreed to help Withering hold off the pair.
• Asura charged into the sky as Jiang Mian transformed into the True Form of the Calamity Beast.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang joined forces to defeat Asura, while a mysterious white-haired girl intervened to kill Withering. The chapter ended with the girl greeting Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang after a long absence.

• Jiang Mian fought Withering and restored herself with Source Marrow as Ye Chenyang battled Asura.
• Jiang Mian redirected the Sun Wheel's fireball toward Asura, and Ye Chenyang held him back with a sword formation.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang's combined assault annihilated Asura.
• A blood-red pillar of light rose from the distant battlefield as someone attacked Withering from behind.
• The white-haired girl poured life force into Withering's core, killed him, and greeted Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang.

Jiang Li revealed that she had gained control of Withering’s Death Qi, but kept the truth about her changed state secret until Jiang Mian reached the eighth tier. As the battle elsewhere turned in [Chaos]’s favor, a clash between immense forces unleashed a spatial torrent that swept Jiang Mian, Ye Chenyang, and Jiang Li away with the fighters.

• Jiang Li appeared after killing Withering, demonstrated her Death Qi, and promised to explain her changes when Jiang Mian reached the eighth tier.
• Jiang Mian agreed to keep Jiang Li’s return secret, stored Withering’s slowly burning remains, and saw [Annihilation]’s progress reach 50% after Asura’s death.
• You and Hua Ya realized their side was losing, while Yun Ling threatened the human fighters with the incomplete [Extreme Cold] Authority.
• Rakshasa inherited abnormal [Slaughter] and [Wrath] Authorities after Asura died and unleashed a powerful attack against the human fighters.
• Yun Ling used [Extreme Cold] to freeze the eighth-tier experts, and Yun Shan began dragging them toward a singularity with [Collapse].
• A black-and-white light disrupted the authorities driven by [Chaos], and the resulting spatial torrent swept everyone nearby, including Jiang Mian, Ye Chenyang, and Jiang Li.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang were lost in the Void Realm after spatial turbulence separated them from the others, while Xu Xiaoan took control of the Chaos Cult amid the battle’s aftermath. Jiang Li then appeared before Xu Xiaoan and asked whether she would sacrifice her life to free the world from [Chaos].

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang realized that Jiang Li had gained [Silent Death] after killing Withering, then followed a direction indicated by Ye Chenyang’s [Balance] in hopes of finding the main world.
• Xu Xiaoan learned from Wu Lie that Yun Shan, Yun Ling, and Rakshasa had been gravely wounded, Lord Asura had died, and Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang were missing in the Void Realm.
• Xu Xiaoan decided to take over the Chaos Cult and ordered all Sixth-tier cultists to report to headquarters.
• Jiang Li suddenly appeared before Xu Xiaoan, who questioned how she had arrived.
• Jiang Li asked Xu Xiaoan whether she would give her life for a chance to free the world from [Chaos].

Jiang Li told Xu Xiaoan that [Chaos] could consume the world and that Xu Xiaoan’s hesitation could create an opportunity to stop it, then urged her to grow stronger while Jiang Mian prepared for a key role. Elsewhere, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang reached a strange, polluted region of the main world and headed toward some ruins, watched by a figure who emerged from scarlet moonlight.

• Jiang Li revealed that [Chaos] would unify all existence through [Fusion] and that Xu Xiaoan, as [Chaos]’s child, could make it hesitate briefly.
• Xu Xiaoan agreed to help Jiang Li’s plan for Jiang Mian and was told to approach Ninth-tier before Jiang Mian broke through.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang returned from the Void Realm to a desolate, polluted region of the main world with no Mist Creatures or plants.
• Jiang Mian sensed ruins about thirty kilometers away and rode on Ye Chenyang’s back as they set off toward them.
• A burly figure emerged beneath scarlet moonlight and watched Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang depart, saying they had arrived quickly.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang investigated a ruined city warped by spiritual contamination and found a Chaos-infected [Cataclysm] Calamity beneath it. After Jiang Mian killed the creature, a massive warship made of twisted flesh emerged from a Void Realm hollow, leaving the pair facing a new threat.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang approached the ruins and saw different visions of a seemingly intact city shaped by spiritual contamination.
• Ye Chenyang purified Jiang Mian, and she used her senses through the earth to investigate the underground.
• A Chaos-infected [Cataclysm] Calamity erupted from beneath the ruins and attacked them with mental power.
• Jiang Mian transformed into her dragon form and killed the creature with [Heaven's Punishment], raising [Annihilation]'s Fusion progress to around seventy.
• A crack opened where the creature fell, and an enormous warship made of twisted flesh sailed out of a Void Realm hollow.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang struggled to escape the flesh-and-blood warship’s vast Dark Sky Curtain as its reinforcements overwhelmed their Torrent clones. With their escape still blocked by layer after layer of darkness, Ye Chenyang stayed behind to cover Jiang Mian and began fusing with [Balance] to break through to the seventh tier.

• A flesh-and-blood warship detected Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang, enveloped nearly a thousand kilometers in darkness, and sent powerful black shadows after them.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang used their combined powers and Torrent clones to break through the darkness, but found another expanse of it beyond the passage.
• As more reinforcements overwhelmed their clones, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang repeatedly broke through the layers while fleeing.
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian he could break through to the seventh tier and asked to cover the rear; Jiang Mian trusted him and went ahead.
• Ye Chenyang used [Balance] and Heavenly Momentum to begin the final Fusion, and an invisible force descended on him as his aura rose.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang escaped the flesh-and-blood battleship’s Dark Sky Curtain and were rescued by Zhao Niugao, who brought them to a sheltered region beneath twin moons. Zhao Niugao confirmed that their arrival had been anticipated, while a mysterious man emerged from the battleship and sensed [Eternal Day].

• Jiang Mian opened a breach with [Flame Burst], and Ye Chenyang used "Heavenly Momentum" to reach the Seventh-tier and slash through the encroaching shadows.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang fled through nine layers of the Dark Sky Curtain, fighting off increasing waves of twisted creatures until they reached daylight.
• Zhao Niugao froze and defeated the creatures pursuing them with crimson moonlight, then led Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang away.
• Inside the flesh-and-blood battleship, a handsome man tore himself out of a heart-like mass of flesh and sensed [Eternal Day].
• Zhao Niugao brought Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang to a mist-free region beneath twin moons and admitted he had been watching for them and that their arrival was part of a plan.
• Ye Chenyang asked whether the enemy feared Her power, and Jiang Mian asked Zhao Niugao what had happened to the world and what had happened to him.

Zhao Niugao explained how [Formless] destroyed this world's humanity and revealed that it was aboard the Ark with the world's stone tablets. Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang learned they were expected to seek the tablets and help advance a plan, then went to rest after Jiang Mian's overloaded core began to hurt.

• Zhao Niugao told Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang that [Formless] wielded Source Law as a Primordial God and had defeated the world's apexes.
• Zhao Niugao recounted how [Eternal Day] and Yang Ze fought [Formless], which boarded the Ark after humanity's Fire Seed was extinguished.
• Zhao Niugao said Jiang Mian was crucial to a plan that would be revealed when she reached the eighth tier, and assured her the Old Gods would protect her.
• Zhao Niugao explained that overlapping the two worlds with their stone tablets could help Jiang Mian level up, and said both tablets were aboard the Ark.
• Jiang Mian's core pain returned after its temporary protection vanished, so Ye Chenyang carried her to a guest room to recover.

Jiang Mian advanced toward the Seventh-tier by mastering [Annihilation] and destroying Shadow Servants, while Ye Chenyang stayed by her side. As she broke through, her growing power stirred allies in other worlds and left Jiang Ling fearing an approaching calamity.

• Ye Chenyang concluded that [Balance] let him wield the world's power, and he and Jiang Mian speculated that [Annihilation] or [World] might be central to the plans surrounding her.
• Jiang Mian's Fusion progress rose to eighty after Ye Chenyang helped soothe her pain, and she continued raising it over the next few days.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang learned that Shadow Servants guarded the ruins, then Jiang Mian destroyed a three-headed Shadow Servant with an Annihilation Storm.
• Jiang Mian began her Seventh-tier advancement, resisted being swallowed by [Annihilation], and absorbed a point of Golden Light.
• Xuanhuang sensed Jiang Mian's advancement and began forming [Earthquake] authority, while Jiang Ling sensed that a great calamity would soon threaten the outside world.

Ye Chenyang learned from Zhao Niugao that the worlds had only nine months left and that seizing the stele and merging the worlds would mainly help Jiang Mian develop her authority. As Jiang Mian fused with [Annihilation], [Red Moon] showed her the birth and destruction of worlds, and she began to sense a deeper meaning in the cycle.

• Zhao Niugao told Ye Chenyang that Jiang Mian’s fusion would take time and that each new demigod shortened the world’s remaining lifespan.
• Zhao Niugao explained that merging the worlds would chiefly nourish Jiang Mian’s authority, while the [Formless] and its battleship stood in the way of seizing the stele.
• Ye Chenyang learned that the world had nine months left, and that merging the worlds could extend its lifespan by at most three months.
• As Jiang Mian waited for her soul and [Annihilation] to fuse, she witnessed [Red Moon] and the destruction of worlds in the Void Realm.
• Jiang Mian realized [Red Moon] was watching over her, then experienced the repeated birth and destruction of worlds and began to notice something beyond the cruel cycle.

Jiang Mian completed her Fusion with [Annihilation], reached the Seventh-tier, and gained [Annihilation Feather] and part of the [Cataclysm] authority. After reuniting with Ye Chenyang and visiting [World], she learned that her companions were nearing their next advancement and ended the chapter alone with him in her bedroom.

• Jiang Mian gained control of [Annihilation], advanced to the Seventh-tier, and acquired [Annihilation Feather] and [Cataclysm] (3/6).
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian that her Fusion had taken seven days, then Zhao Niugao walked in on their embrace and quietly shut the gate.
• Jiang Mian brought Ye Chenyang into [World], where she reunited with Jiang Ling and saw that the realm had been cleansed by [Annihilation].
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian that Torrent and the others were advancing toward the ninth tier and that they should wait for them before the stele-seizing operation.
• Jiang Mian took Ye Chenyang to her bedroom and teased him, saying her breakthrough had left her feeling hungry.

Jiang Mian explained her theories about Doom and the old gods’ plan while sharing an intimate reunion with Ye Chenyang, and the two reaffirmed their love. Meanwhile, [World-Overturning Torrent] began ascending, Yang Xin departed to prepare for her own advancement, and Jiang An received an order to evacuate the western region’s civilians.

• Jiang Mian asked Ye Chenyang why his endurance had improved, and he attributed it to [Balance] and the power of [Red Moon].
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang she would let go of preventing a pregnancy after everything was over, and Ye Chenyang said he still owed her a grand wedding.
• Jiang Mian reflected that Doom might have been intended to end a cycle in the old gods’ plan, then whispered that she loved Ye Chenyang before falling asleep in his arms.
• Yang Xin and Jiang An observed the lightning above the Blood Sea as [World-Overturning Torrent] began its ascension.
• Yang Xin left the Western Defense Line to prepare for advancement, leaving Jiang An in charge of her work.
• Jiang An learned that the north was withdrawing its troops and that the western region also had to evacuate all civilians from its twenty Base Cities.

After mastering the effects of [Annihilation], Jiang Mian reluctantly parted from Ye Chenyang as he left to help prepare the Core Circle for a mass relocation. Missing him, she checked a Save Point at the former Northern Legion Headquarters, where her arrival surprised Shen Qiuyu.

• Jiang Mian experimented with her new abilities, finding that [Annihilation] added destructive effects to her skills and that [Annihilation Feather] changed her [True Form of the Calamity Beast].
• Ye Chenyang explained that he had to return because the two worlds were nearing their limit and the authorities planned to relocate the population inland.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang exchanged affectionate farewells, and Zhao Niugao took Ye Chenyang through the Void Realm.
• Zhao Niugao told Ye Chenyang that [Formless] had detected the approaching main world and that [Balance] held the dominant position among the remaining incarnations of rules.
• After Ye Chenyang left, Jiang Mian checked her Save Points and sent an elemental avatar to the former Northern Legion Headquarters.
• Shen Qiuyu tried to contact Jiang Mian through an azure-gold core, which cracked and brought a tall woman in a black dress before her.

Jiang Mian met with Shen Qiuyu, learned that Xu Xiaoan had taken control of the Chaos Cult and that Oblivion River wanted to speak with her. Jiang Mian traveled to the ruins of Base City No. 185 to meet Oblivion River, who appeared holding a baby.

• Jiang Mian changed her clone to her familiar appearance to reassure Shen Qiuyu, then discussed the fallen Calamities and Xu Xiaoan’s activities in the Chaos Cult.
• Shen Qiuyu told Jiang Mian that Xu Xiaoan had seized leadership of the Chaos Cult and was gathering high-tier Calamities for a dangerous ritual.
• Shen Qiuyu said Oblivion River had requested a meeting, and Jiang Mian decided to go see her.
• Jiang Mian met Hua Xixi, Oblivion River’s timid Nightmare envoy, and carried her across the Dead Line toward Base City No. 185.
• Jiang Mian arrived at the ruined city and saw Oblivion River appear among red petals, holding a chubby infant.

Jiang Mian secured Oblivion River and the remaining Tier 8 [Nightmare]s after Oblivion River surrendered and asked her to protect the reincarnated Withering. Back in her main body, Jiang Mian saw that [Thunder], [Flood], and [Earthquake] had advanced [Cataclysm] to full completion and flew into the night.

• Oblivion River explained that [Origin] had taken Withering’s Death Realm and transformed his backup body into an ordinary infant, then surrendered herself in exchange for his safety.
• Jiang Mian agreed to protect little Withering if Oblivion River and the other Tier 8 [Nightmare]s submitted to human oversight.
• Oblivion River gathered her remaining followers, and Jiang Mian and Gu Chengan arranged their containment.
• Jiang Mian learned that Ye Chenyang had returned to Base City Number One and told Shen Qiuyu she would head back to the Second Main World.
• Jiang Mian returned to her main body and saw [Thunder], [Flood], and [Earthquake] complete [Cataclysm] at (6/6).
• Jiang Mian flew into the night after the completed [Cataclysm] stirred her desire to go out.

Jiang Mian revealed that she could use the transforming Golden Crow to impersonate her, persuading Zhao Niugao to reconsider the plan to seize [Formless]. She set out to integrate [Cataclysm] and complete the Golden Crow’s transformation, while Ye Chenyang returned to Everbright Tower and confronted the arriving Jiang Ran, whom he called Jiang Li.

• Zhao Niugao returned to the stormy second main world and met Jiang Mian, who had created a vast elemental catastrophe across Moonlight Ridge.
• Zhao Niugao explained the plan to lure out [Formless] and have Yang Xin seize it, but Jiang Mian proposed going herself.
• Jiang Mian vanished from Zhao Niugao’s senses, then revealed that her apparent human form was the Golden Crow while her true body remained hidden in the clouds.
• Zhao Niugao agreed to discuss changing the plan with Old Man Zhong and create an opportunity for Jiang Mian.
• Jiang Mian explained that [Cataclysm] was transforming the Golden Crow and decided to focus on integrating the authority before the operation.
• Ye Chenyang returned to Everbright Tower, fed his [Eternal Day] power into its formation, and addressed the arriving Jiang Ran as Sister Jiang Li.