Chapter Summaries

Jiang Mian fought Rakshasa after she used the mechanical heart to spread [Shatter] through the [World] and threaten Base City Number Four. Jiang Mian learned how Rakshasa resisted her time-stopping power and launched a colossal axe strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Rakshasa revealed she knew about the New World Plan and enlarged the mechanical heart, spreading [Shatter] through Jiang Mian's [World].
• Jiang Mian used Torrent clones to slow time, then attacked the heart with Golden Crow transformed into [Sun Wheel], but Rakshasa retained enough movement to block her with a sword.
• Jiang Mian stopped extending the clones and fought Rakshasa across the [World], while Jiang Ling used the Annihilation Wind to slow [Shatter]'s spread.
• Jiang Mian used her final three Torrent clones to determine that Rakshasa could move for no more than 0.4 seconds during a 1.2-second delay.
• Jiang Mian combined [Cataclysm] and [Abyssal Sea Eye] to immobilize Rakshasa, then sent [Sun Wheel] down as a colossal flaming axe.

Jiang Mian defeated Rakshasa, but Rakshasa’s death triggered an Old God projection of [Shatter] that threatened the [World]. [Balance] intervened and Ye Chenyang returned, leaving Jiang Mian safe and reunited with him.

• Jiang Mian used the [Sun Wheel] and her fused powers to shatter Rakshasa, who left behind a mask, a broken sword, and an enormous head.
• The three objects escaped Jiang Mian’s Annihilation Wind and entered the still-beating mechanical heart, summoning a projection of [Shatter].
• The [Shatter] projection wounded Jiang Mian and spread cracks through the [World], leaving her unable to fight back.
• [Balance] descended, stabilized the [World], and suppressed [Shatter] until its projection crumbled; Jiang Mian then erased the mechanical heart.
• Ye Chenyang arrived in his main body, and Jiang Mian embraced him before darting off to fish after noticing his unkempt appearance.

After Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang explained how the damage to the [World] could be repaired, they returned to Base City Number One and reunited at home. The chapter ended with Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang drawing close after years apart.

• Jiang Mian worried that her actions had damaged the [World], and Ye Chenyang explained that completing its fundamental laws and balancing them with [Balance] would repair it.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang returned to reality, where Jiang Mian reported Rakshasa's defeat and arranged for the remaining [Slaughter] fragments to be contained.
• Jiang Mian freed Xiao Song's talent, then left with Ye Chenyang for Base City Number One.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang returned to their villa, cleaned it, and discussed Ye Chenyang's years mastering [Time].
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang embraced and kissed at home, rekindling their intimacy after their long separation.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang visited Oblivion River so she could guide Jiang Mian and Yin Mengyao into the Other Shore to find the Flower Sea. There, Oblivion River asked whether Jiang Mian planned to kill or devour her, but Jiang Mian left her uncertain about what would happen.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang went to Research Institute No. 1, where Gu Yuanzhou led them to Oblivion River's containment cell.
• Oblivion River put little Withering to sleep, then agreed to take Jiang Mian and Yin Mengyao into the Other Shore to find the Flower Sea.
• Oblivion River released Jiang Mian and Yin Mengyao from the cell, and Jiang Mian had to restrain her powerful Mental Body upon entering the Other Shore.
• As they searched for the Flower Sea, Jiang Mian asked Oblivion River what was troubling her.
• Oblivion River asked whether Jiang Mian would kill or devour her, and Jiang Mian said her plans had changed but did not explain what she would do.

Jiang Mian dominated Oblivion River and learned how to create a new Other Shore, then began consuming the old Flower Sea to use as material for her world. She left the existing Other Shore behind as her power of Annihilation spread through it.

• Jiang Mian used Silver Fire to cross the black river with Oblivion River and Yin Mengyao and reached the Flower Sea.
• Yin Mengyao absorbed the Flower Sea’s spiritual power until she reached the peak of the Sixth-tier, then stored the excess in the [Hundred Forms of Floating Life Scroll].
• Jiang Mian told Oblivion River she would spare her but make her the eternal administrator of a new Other Shore, then completed her Domination.
• Jiang Mian gained [Wandering Dragon Startles Dreams] and the Shatter Delusion trait, along with information about Other Shore and a foundation for the laws of [Soul] and [Nightmare].
• Jiang Mian sent Oblivion River through a door into the new Other Shore and began absorbing the Flower Sea with [Annihilation].
• Jiang Mian expanded through the blood-red world after the Flower Sea vanished, driven by the instinct of [Annihilation].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.