Arc 18Chapters 437–457

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Ch. 437The New 'Other Shore'

Jiang Mian successfully created the new “Other Shore,” but using the old one sharply reduced the world’s remaining lifespan. After returning, she learned that Jiang Li herself was the next material needed for [Myriad Spirits] and [Silent Death].

  • Oblivion River recognized the scarlet band encircling [World] as the prototype of the new “Other Shore” and waited as it formed over seven days.
  • The new “Other Shore” completed its circuit, drew Oblivion River inside, and Jiang Mian ordered her to remain there under the name Hua Ling.
  • Jiang Mian returned to her main body and learned that seven days had passed and the old world’s remaining lifespan had fallen to about half because “Other Shore” had nourished the new world.
  • Jiang Mian moved Hua Xixi and the child’s containment room into the new “Other Shore,” then heard that Yin Mengyao had reached Seventh-tier and that Qin Xiao, Xiao Shuang, and Wang Chen were training.
  • When Jiang Mian asked what materials were needed for [Myriad Spirits] and [Silent Death], Jiang Li appeared and said that she was the next material.

Ch. 438Sacrifice

Jiang Li began ascending to godhood at Everbright Tower so Jiang Mian could interrupt the ritual and absorb her, helping establish the new world's laws. As Shatter's true body descended and Ye Chenyang confronted it, Jiang Mian waited for Jiang Li's power to transform enough to act.

  • Jiang Li told Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang that she would sacrifice herself to help form the new world's laws, and they went to Everbright Tower to begin.
  • Jiang Li instructed Jiang Mian to interrupt her ascension once her authority became a half-law, then swallow her so [Red Moon] could preserve her remaining consciousness.
  • Jiang Li activated her ascension, causing life and death to cycle across the Core Circle as the countdown before Jiang Mian rapidly fell.
  • Jiang Mian realized she would need to escape the world's limits and reach the stars to avoid Black Sun's gaze, but set aside those concerns to focus on the immediate crisis.
  • Shatter's true body descended through a fissure in the sky, and Ye Chenyang confronted it as Jiang Mian continued watching Jiang Li's ritual.
  • When Jiang Li's aura completed its initial transformation at a countdown of 75, Jiang Mian sensed that it was time to act.

Ch. 439Ninth-tier!

Jiang Mian devoured the fifth level of the Netherworld Abyss, merging Jiang Li and its life-and-death realm into her new [World]. After advancing to the Ninth-tier and completing the foundations of [Myriad Spirits] and [Silent Death], she prepared to begin the great population migration from the old world.

  • Jiang Mian drove [Shatter] back into the Void Realm and followed Jiang Li through a door into the deepest level of the [Netherworld Abyss].
  • Jiang Li asked Jiang Mian to devour her and the abyss, and Jiang Mian swept through the realm with [Annihilation], absorbing its Death Qi and dissolving Jiang Li.
  • Jiang Mian sensed a familiar aura wrapped in the Red Moon's power and took comfort that Jiang Li had not truly been killed.
  • Oblivion River noticed the new laws and life forming in [World], and Jiang Mian ordered her to prepare for the arrival of humans.
  • Jiang Mian completed the foundations of [Myriad Spirits] and [Silent Death], advanced to the Ninth-tier, and reunited with Jiang Ling.
  • Jiang Mian looked toward the old world and decided it was time to begin the great population migration.

Ch. 440Aurora

Jiang Mian emerged after absorbing most of Jiang Li's power and told Zhong Chang that the new world was nearly ready. She began the migration by spreading an aurora across the Core Circle, leaving everyone looking up at the unprecedented sight.

  • Zhong Chang watched the distant battle with Wang Chen and said he could not help in a fight of that level.
  • Zhong Chang and Wang Chen joined Ye Chenyang outside Everbright Tower, where Ye Chenyang said Jiang Mian had nearly completed her progress.
  • Jiang Mian appeared before Ye Chenyang, Zhong Chang, and Wang Chen, and Wang Chen recognized her despite her transformed appearance.
  • Jiang Mian told Zhong Chang that [World] could capture the entire Core Circle and that the new world was nearly ready.
  • Jiang Mian appeared atop Everbright Tower and spread a multicolored aurora throughout the Core Circle, drawing everyone's gaze.

Ch. 441They've Come Knocking?

Jiang Mian completed the transfer of the Core Circle into [World], leaving the old world exposed to the Mist Tide as the Flesh Battleship arrived. She confronted Formless and attacked the battleship with wind chains.

  • Shen Qiuyu saw the aurora and realized Jiang Mian’s breakthrough meant people might soon move somewhere without mist.
  • Chu sensed the new world nearing completion and said she intended to stop it and settle her score with [Doom].
  • Torrent and Xuanhuang followed the Flesh Battleship to the Core Circle and waited for Everbright’s barrier to fall.
  • Jiang Mian stored the Core Circle in [World], while Yang Xin stayed behind to oversee the transfer.
  • The Everbright barrier shattered, the Mist Tide swept in, and the Flesh Battleship charged toward the Core Circle.
  • Jiang Mian bound the Flesh Battleship with wind chains and called on Formless to reveal itself.

Ch. 442[Doom]

Jiang Mian and her allies fought Chu and her forces as [Shatter] disintegrated, trying to harvest the fragments needed to complete the foundations of law. With Yin Mengyao’s return and promise to handle the enemy, Jiang Mian unleashed [Doom], bringing the world to its end.

  • Chu emerged aboard the battleship with Qilius and an unfamiliar shadow, and Jiang Mian began preparing to fight as the countdown fell.
  • Chu freed the battleship and attacked with darkness, while Ye Chenyang and Zhong Chang exposed and struck Qilius and the sharp-eared woman as Jiang Mian’s cataclysms descended.
  • Jiang Mian and her allies focused their attacks on Chu, but after the darkness was annihilated, Qilius and the sharp-eared woman merged into a winged figure radiating half-law [Chaos] power.
  • Yin Mengyao returned and told the others to focus on harvesting while she handled the rest.
  • Jiang Mian activated [Doom], the countdown plunged to one, and the world collapsed.

Ch. 443The Harmony Begins, One Step to Success

Jiang Mian prepared to complete the new world’s laws, and Ye Chenyang agreed to bear [Shatter]’s lifespan restriction so he could harmonize the laws and ascend as [Balance]. As Xu Xiaoan prepared to fulfill her agreement, a black-and-white divine radiance cut through the darkness consuming the battlefield.

  • The [Chaos] angel received [Black Sun]’s blessing, and Ye Chenyang led everyone in attacking while they tried to protect Jiang Mian.
  • Jiang Mian worried that Xu Xiaoan was part of Jiang Li’s contingency plan, then struggled to decide where to place the mechanical heart that embodied the new laws.
  • Ye Chenyang offered to bear the lifespan shackles by becoming the new world’s [Balance], and Jiang Mian agreed to change the plan and begin his ascension immediately.
  • Jiang Mian gave Ye Chenyang the mechanical heart, which he crushed and absorbed as she used the new world’s power to pave his way to godhood.
  • Xu Xiaoan reached the peak of the eighth rank aboard the flesh-and-blood battleship and watched Chu’s battle against [Black Sun]’s blessing.
  • A black-and-white divine radiance shot upward and cleaved the rampaging darkness and Mist in two.

Ch. 444New World, Complete!

After Ye Chenyang completed the new world and became its bound divine ruler, Jiang Mian returned to the outside world and prepared to confront [Chaos]. She nearly destroyed Chu, but [Chaos] pulled Chu away and began engulfing the world.

  • Ye Chenyang completed the new world, returned its origin to Jiang Mian, and became bound to the world as its divine ruler.
  • Jiang Mian returned to her main body, opened a door for the wounded Zhong Chang, Yin Mengyao, Torrent, and Xuanhuang, and told Zhong Chang to look after Zhong Zhen and A Xiang.
  • Jiang Mian confronted Chu, drew the [Yin Yang Sword], and used [Balance] to immobilize her before striking her with black-and-white divine light.
  • A will from the void pulled Chu back into Chaos as her consciousness began to collapse.
  • Jiang Mian sensed [Chaos] spreading across the world to engulf it and realized it was making its move.

Ch. 445Heaven's Opening!

Jiang Mian attempted to break through the chaos barrier while Xu Xiaoan merged with Chaos to buy her time. With Ye Chenyang unifying the laws into the Sun Wheel, Jiang Mian completed her transformation and swung a battle-axe at the barrier to split open heaven.

  • Xu Xiaoan revealed she had arranged to help Jiang Mian escape and embraced her, calling her mother before beginning her fusion with Chaos.
  • Xu Xiaoan started merging into Chaos as [Red Moon] and [Balance] appeared in the heavens and attacked the black sun.
  • Jiang Mian entered the sea of chaos but could not break through its barrier, even with support from [World] and Ye Chenyang.
  • Xu Xiaoan’s and the gods’ efforts halted the chaos’s spread and eased the pressure around Jiang Mian.
  • Jiang Mian asked Ye Chenyang to unify all laws, and the laws filled the Sun Wheel before it transformed into a battle-axe.
  • Jiang Mian completed her transformation and struck the chaos barrier with the battle-axe, declaring, “One axe, splitting open heaven!”

Ch. 446Stepping Towards the Future (Grand Finale)

Jiang Mian escaped Chaos, merged with her other selves, and ascended into the Primordial God [Doom], the true [Reincarnation]. After adjusting to her new existence beyond the world she created, she returned to Ye Chenyang.

  • Jiang Mian crossed the path out of Chaos, where the gaze of [Reincarnation] annihilated her body and drew her soul toward the origin law.
  • Jiang Mian realized her lives as Jiang Ming and Jiang Mian were parts of a cycle shaped by [Fate], then traveled back through time and brought Xu Xiaoan into her soul.
  • Jiang Mian merged with [Reincarnation] and became the Primordial God [Doom], while [Black Sun] silently accepted her actions.
  • Jiang Mian's new world ascended with her, but she stayed outside it until she could safely return without destroying it.
  • Ye Chenyang waited for Jiang Mian in the new world, and she appeared behind him in her familiar blue dress and glasses.

Ch. 448Resupply 1 · Withering

Ji Xuan endured brutal exploitation at work and abuse at home in Base City No. 181, then was attacked by two Awakened men in an alley. As he lay dying, a strange transformation turned him into a black skeleton with blue flames in his eye sockets.

  • Supervisor Wang slapped Ji Xuan awake at the Special Affairs Bureau and docked fifty from his pay for dozing during his long shift.
  • Ji Xuan returned home and defied his abusive father, who beat him and took the money he had brought.
  • Ji Xuan left after his father ordered him not to come back, then encountered a burly man and a blond Awakened in an alley.
  • The blond knocked Ji Xuan down and searched him, while Ji Xuan's hatred and pain triggered a transformation.
  • Ji Xuan rose as a pitch-black skeleton with ghostly blue hellfire blazing in his eye sockets.

Ch. 449Backlog 2: Promise

Ji Xuan reunited with Oblivion River after their defeat by [Doom], and they agreed to continue working together. Oblivion River began examining Ji Xuan’s soul, experiencing his memories and deepening her understanding of spiritual pain.

  • Ji Xuan woke in the secret realm, his body still suffering from the curse and the damage to the Underworld Embryo.
  • Oblivion River told Ji Xuan that [Fierce God] had died and their enemies had only been lightly wounded.
  • Oblivion River reaffirmed her promise to Ji Xuan, and he agreed to accept her help analyzing his painful emotions.
  • Oblivion River examined Ji Xuan’s soul as he lay on the stone bed, and his memories flowed into her through their link.

Ch. 450Backfilling 3 - Mutual Aid Society

Xu Qing took her dead daughter Xu An beyond Base City No. 7 to bury her, but Xu An's body suddenly awakened with an unknown presence inside. The presence claimed it could bring Xu An back and demanded that Xu Qing agree to its conditions.

  • Xu Qing carried Xu An out of the city and told Number Three to stand guard at the pipeline outlet.
  • Xu Qing recalled that a Fifth-tier [Shadow Plunderer] had infiltrated the Mutual Aid Society headquarters and Xu An had died from a mental shock during the battle.
  • Feeling uneasy, Xu Qing went farther from the city to find a place to bury Xu An.
  • Xu An opened her eyes, but Xu Qing recognized that the presence inside her daughter's body was not her daughter.
  • The presence claimed it could bring Xu An back, imitated the girl's familiar mannerisms, and told Xu Qing she had to accept its conditions.

Ch. 451Epilogue 1: High Summer

Five years after Jiang Mian returned to the New World and reset time, she reunited with Ye Chenyang, who had watched over the world in her absence. They spent a playful day together at the beach, where Ye Chenyang promised that he would act on Jiang Mian’s teasing request soon.

  • Jiang Mian reassured Ye Chenyang that she would not leave him again as they embraced on the beach.
  • The chapter recounted how Jiang Mian had reversed time and how the New World had changed over five years, with Ye Chenyang serving as its steward and several others ascending to godhood.
  • Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian walked into the sea, and Jiang Mian splashed him with cold water.
  • Ye Chenyang lunged into the water with Jiang Mian, and they teased each other as they played.
  • Jiang Mian began asking Ye Chenyang when he planned to fulfill her request, but he kissed her and promised it would be soon.

Ch. 452Epilogue 2: Phantom Abyss

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang revisited the place where he had given her the Sun Mark, where he arranged a display of [Phantom Abyss] before proposing to her. Jiang Mian accepted, while Jiang Ling and Jiang Xiaoan watched from nearby.

  • Jiang Mian asked Ye Chenyang about the Calamities that still appeared in the new world, then proposed opening a path to the stars in a hundred years, and he agreed.
  • Ye Chenyang led Jiang Mian to the rise overlooking the Inner Sea, where he had given her the Sun Mark before.
  • Countless [Phantom Abyss] jellyfish rose from the sea and transformed into colorful lights across the sky.
  • Ye Chenyang asked Jiang Mian to marry him, and she accepted.
  • Jiang Ling covered Jiang Xiaoan's eyes as the couple embraced, then told a glowing butterfly that its help had succeeded.

Ch. 453Epilogue 3: The Wedding

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang held their wedding on their private beach, surrounded by friends and family. After exchanging vows and kissing, they joined the guests to celebrate their happy ending.

  • Jiang Li and her companions transformed the private beach into a flower-filled wedding venue as guests gathered.
  • Qin Xiao arrived with Yu Qingyuan, and Xiao Shuang complained that Qin Xiao had broken their agreement to remain single together.
  • Ye Chenyang waited beneath the archway as Jiang Ling scattered petals and Jiang Mian walked toward him in her wedding dress.
  • Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian completed the simple ceremony, exchanged affectionate words, and kissed to the guests' applause.
  • Lin Yun watched with surprise as the guests, including Zhong Chang and members of [Cataclysm], offered their blessings and celebrated.

Ch. 454Epilogue 4: Night Talk

After their wedding, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang returned to their new seaside home, where they said goodbye to Lin Yun and shared an intimate evening together. The chapter ended with Jiang Mian agreeing to spend the night with Ye Chenyang.

  • Jiang Mian offered to use her power to improve Lin Yun’s talent, but Lin Yun declined, saying she was content to have seen a world without Mist.
  • Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang watched Lin Yun and the other guests leave, then went into their seaside home together.
  • Jiang Mian changed into a nightgown and stockings before playfully pouncing on Ye Chenyang.
  • Ye Chenyang asked whether Jiang Mian’s body was truly alright, and she explained that it had been reshaped through [Reincarnation] and had reached the level of a Primordial God.
  • Jiang Mian agreed to spend the night with Ye Chenyang, and he kissed her.

Ch. 455Epilogue 5: Other Shore

After Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang's wedding stirred Hua Ling's loneliness, she sat in the Flower Sea of New Life with Ji Xuan. Ji Xuan asked why she never left the Other Shore and said he hoped to stay with her forever when he grew powerful, leaving Hua Ling to postpone the answer until he grew up.

  • Hua Ling withdrew her senses after Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang's wedding and sat alone, feeling lonely as echoes from souls flowing to the Other Shore reached her.
  • Ji Xuan returned and joined Hua Ling, who held him and thought about how to raise him.
  • Ji Xuan asked Hua Ling why she never went out, and she said she had to oversee the operation of the entire Other Shore.
  • Ji Xuan hugged Hua Ling and asked whether he could stay with her forever if he became as powerful as her and Sister Ya.
  • Hua Ling tapped Ji Xuan's forehead, smiled faintly, and told him they would talk about it after he grew up.

Ch. 456Epilogue 6: Twins

Jiang Mian lifted the restrictions on conceiving, and she and Ye Chenyang looked forward to having a child. Half a year later, with her pregnancy progressing, she told Torrent and Xuanhuang that the two little deities would take several years to be born.

  • Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang she had lifted the restrictions, and he gently touched her belly as they discussed whether they wanted a boy or a girl.
  • Jiang Mian's belly grew over the next half year while Yin Mengyao, Qin Xiao, Xiao Shuang, Jiang Ling, and Jiang Xiaoan visited and offered their blessings.
  • Torrent arrived at the seaside cottage in a formal black trench coat to see the Sovereign, and Xuanhuang teased her about her change in style.
  • Jiang Mian welcomed Torrent and Xuanhuang into the living room, where they congratulated her and chatted about the coming children.
  • Jiang Mian said the two little deities would need at least several years to grow before they were born, leaving the room silent.

Ch. 457Epilogue 7: Starry Night (End)

Three years later, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang enjoyed a quiet night together at Coastal Cottage with their young children, Ye Xi'an and Ye Wan'ning. Jiang Mian filled the dark sky with stars, and the family watched them together as the story ended.

  • Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang tucked their three-year-old twins, Ye Xi'an and Ye Wan'ning, into bed.
  • After the children fell asleep, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang sat together on the rooftop swing and talked quietly.
  • Jiang Mian suggested adding stars to the night sky, but Ye Xi'an and Ye Wan'ning came out to find their parents.
  • Jiang Mian brought the children to the swing and snapped her fingers, lighting up the sky with stars and a river of stars.
  • Jiang Mian, Ye Chenyang, and their children watched the starry sky together.
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