Chapter Summaries

Feng Qi reflected on humanity’s struggle to escape the limits of time and honored the sacrifices of his past selves at Star City’s Hero Statue. He returned to the Tiger Soul Research Institute to arrange a long-term seal for Jian Ji, while preparing to attend Zhang Daowen’s move into the military department before departing for the final battle.

• Feng Qi explained to Xiao You how the Hero Statue’s sword and book represented force and knowledge, then considered the dangers of faith connections and humanity’s need to improve its cultivation foundation.
• Feng Qi placed flowers at the Hero Statue in remembrance of the Sacrifice Timeline versions of himself who had endured hardship to build Star City’s prosperity.
• Feng Qi returned to the Tiger Soul Research Institute and planned with Old Mi to seal the wounded Jian Ji for fifteen hundred years, identifying the need to keep him alive, suppress his healing, and prevent him from waking.
• Feng Qi arranged for the Scarlet Institute to plan Jian Ji’s sealing in advance so the secret base could account for the long-term resource burden.
• Feng Qi prepared to attend Zhang Daowen’s retirement from frontline duties and entry into the military department, where he would present him with the Medal of Honor before leaving Star City.

Feng Qi reviewed Star City’s hidden Virtual Game functions and considered the mystery behind Lü Yue’s arrival, then presented Zhang Daowen with a medal at his retirement ceremony. The livestream revealed Feng Qi’s return to the Five Great Cities, and he left with Xiao You for the final stop of the Ascension Challenge.

• Feng Qi decided Star City should keep the Domain Instance and Custom Instance functions secret until humanity was strong enough to control the risks.
• Feng Qi considered who had brought the Lü Family to the Road to Heaven and arranged Lü Yue’s admission, concluding that the United Research Institute might be involved.
• Feng Qi attended Zhang Daowen’s welcome ceremony and presented him with the Human Outstanding Contribution Gold Medal.
• Viewers recognized Feng Qi during the livestream, and news of his return spread through the Five Great Cities.
• Feng Qi returned to the Tiger Soul Research Institute, then boarded the Tiger Soul Special Plane with Xiao You and the others to travel to the final stop of the Ascension Challenge.

Feng Qi and the Demon Blade agreed to seal Jian Ji for fifteen hundred years before killing him, but news that the Dawn Army and Winter City were on the brink of war sent Feng Qi rushing toward the conflict. A missile attack destroyed his plane after it entered Bitter Winter Northern Territory, leaving Feng Qi and his companions to continue toward Winter City on their own.

• Feng Qi persuaded the Demon Blade to accept sealing Jian Ji for fifteen hundred years, with the promise that they would later kill him together.
• Feng Qi learned that the Dawn Army and Winter City were about to begin a full-scale war, possibly over missing Rune Modification Laboratory researchers, and that Winter City had banned Star City flights.
• Feng Qi decided to jump from the plane upon entering Bitter Winter Northern Territory, but Viper missiles locked onto and destroyed the aircraft before they could leave safely.
• Feng Qi, Po Jia, and Thunder survived the missile attack, and Po Jia and Thunder destroyed the nearby anti-air platforms.
• Feng Qi gave the pilot spirit plants and liquor before the pilot headed south to await rescue, then Feng Qi turned north and set off for Winter City.

Mu Qing led the Dawn Army against Winter City after Jian Ji cut off supplies to the front, while Jian Ji prepared to kill her and the Sword Clan attacked Dawn's forces. As Qin Shi Kong was nearly overwhelmed at the south gate, Feng Qi appeared and terrified the Sword Clan warriors.

• Mu Qing explained that Winter City's blockade had left the Dawn Army no choice but to attack, while Mu Yao struggled to reconnect with her main body.
• Jian Ji revealed that he had engineered the supply cutoff to force Mu Qing into battle, renewed his youth with the Burning Sky Sword, and waited for her arrival.
• Mu Qing smashed through the north gate and entered Winter City with Mu Yao while the Dawn Army prepared to hold back the city's forces.
• At the south gate, Winter City's legion commander ordered an attack, and Qin Shi Kong's Dawn troops clashed with the city's soldiers and Sword Clan warriors.
• More than a hundred Sword Clan warriors broke Qin Shi Kong's Bagua formation and nearly killed him before Feng Qi shattered their sword formation with a black blade strike.
• Feng Qi advanced on the Sword Clan warriors, who recognized him as the Devil Saber and recoiled in fear.

Feng Qi killed thousands of Sword Clan warriors and entered Winter City while Mu Qing and Mu Yao battled Jian Ji in the Northern District. Jian Ji unleashed the Sword Spirit Grand Array, overwhelming Mu Qing until the Demonic Blade arrived, and Chao Tian announced that he had come to collect a debt.

• Feng Qi slaughtered thousands of Sword Clan warriors, ordered Xiao You and the others to stop the fighting, and flew into Winter City after teasing Qin Shi Kong.
• Mu Qing and Mu Yao fought Jian Ji while Winter City evacuated, but their combined attacks failed to defeat him.
• Jian Ji summoned a million ancestral swords and Sword Spirit Bodies to form the Sword Spirit Grand Array, then struck Mu Qing with a gigantic sword of energy.
• Jian Ji prepared another devastating strike against Mu Qing, but the Demonic Blade intercepted it.
• Jian Ji recognized the blade and called out to Chao Tian, who said he had come to collect a debt.

Feng Qi fought Jian Ji in Winter City, with Mu Qing and Mu Yao helping him break through the Sword Spirit Grand Array. After the demonic blade was cracked, Feng Qi awakened his Negative Consciousness Body and entered the Asura Evil Ghost form, leaving the battle unresolved as he and his allies attacked Jian Ji together.

• Feng Qi and Jian Ji traded powerful attacks, and Jian Ji used the million sword spirits to absorb damage while his sword techniques overwhelmed Feng Qi.
• Mu Qing and Mu Yao helped Feng Qi break through Jian Ji’s sword qi lotus, but Jian Ji struck Feng Qi down and cracked the demonic blade.
• Feng Qi asked Mu Qing to keep her distance, awakened the Negative Consciousness Body, and formed the Asura Evil Ghost form with a mirrored ghost blade.
• Feng Qi’s ghost blade infected Jian Ji with Negative Emotions, allowing Feng Qi to destroy the sword-energy array and attack him.
• Jian Ji resisted Feng Qi’s blades, and Mu Qing and Mu Yao joined Feng Qi in striking at him from both sides.

Feng Qi and Mu Qing fought Jian Ji after he fused the Million Sword Spirit Array into his body, but Jian Ji overwhelmed them and shattered the magic blade. As Jian Ji prepared to finish Feng Qi, Feng Qi awakened the demon sealed within him and trapped Jian Ji in a Negative Spiritual Domain.

• Jian Ji fused the Million Sword Spirit Array into his body and used its power to overpower Feng Qi, Mu Qing, and Mu Yao.
• Mu Yao sacrificed herself to break Jian Ji's golden greatsword, while Mu Qing continued fighting as Feng Qi awakened multiple abilities and joined her.
• Jian Ji crushed the magic blade's gauntlet and nearly defeated Feng Qi, but Mu Qing tore off Feng Qi's arm to free him and then shielded him from Jian Ji's killing blow.
• The Negative Consciousness Body urged Feng Qi to awaken the demon sealed within him, and Feng Qi's Negative Personality took control as the Gray Ghost Blade formed.
• Negative Feng Qi struck Jian Ji with the ghost blade, flooded his mind with Negative Emotions, and trapped him in the Negative Spiritual Domain, declaring it his hell.

Garon restored the Mechanical Celestial's core, strengthening mechanical forces in the blood war and expanding their plans into Scorched Hell, while rejecting a proposal to enslave intelligent creatures. After returning to Dragon Court with Yuna, the story shifted to Sigil, where the Great Sun God Si Chuo Mao Zi arrived secretly.

• Garon returned the Metal Cube to the Mechanical Giant Pillar, restoring the Mechanical Star and the Mechanical Celestial's full power.
• The Mechanical Celestial's system update strengthened mechanical units fighting across the Myriad Abyss Plain, helping threatened fortresses repel demons.
• Garon ordered the Mechanical Celestial to open a Scorched Hell war zone and recruit more mechanical wondercraft players.
• The Mechanical Celestial proposed enslaving intelligent creatures to use as mechanical intelligence, but Garon rejected the plan.
• Garon and Yuna left for Dragon Court, and the Mechanical Celestial began repairing the Mechanical Star.
• Si Chuo Mao Zi arrived alone and undetected in Sigil.

Negative Feng Qi overwhelmed Jian Ji with mental torment, but Taihang sacrificed the Pseudo Dream Demon Bell’s origin power to suppress him. Feng Qi survived through the Seed of Life, yet his injuries proved fatal; after his death, Wei Wei told Xiao You that he would return over a thousand years later, and Xiao You set out to follow his Ascension Challenge path.

• Negative Feng Qi trapped Jian Ji in repeated cycles of betrayal, fear, and despair while Xiao You and the others arrived and found Feng Qi consumed by negative emotions.
• Taihang shattered the Pseudo Dream Demon Bell and released its derivative origin power, helping Feng Qi and the Negative Consciousness Body suppress Negative Feng Qi and restore Feng Qi’s body with the Seed of Life.
• Feng Qi gave Jian Ji a Brain Active Needle, carried Mu Qing’s body to Winter City, and later mourned her at her tomb while his own health continued to fail.
• Feng Qi died beside Xiao You, who grieved for three days until Wei Wei told her that he would return over a thousand years later and showed her the shattered Magic Blade.
• After Feng Qi’s Ice Coffin was buried, Xiao You left Star City with Po Jia, Thunder, and Taihang to retrace Feng Qi’s Ascension Challenge path and grow strong enough to see him again.

Feng Qi escaped the abyss of Negative Emotions with the narrator’s help and used Wei Wei’s records to learn what happened after his death. He found Jian Ji sealed in Room 1303 and reviewed humanity’s recovery, while concluding that a future merger depended on first building New City.

• The narrator’s familiar voice reached Feng Qi as his primary personality neared transformation, and Feng Qi awoke and swallowed Wei Wei’s enhanced Mental Soothing Potion.
• Feng Qi shut down the brain on the metal table, started the console, and opened Wei Wei’s messages to review events after his death.
• Wei Wei’s records said Xiao You left Star City with Po Jia, Thunder, and Taihang to retrace Feng Qi’s Ascension Challenge path, carrying his demon blade.
• Wei Wei reported that Jian Ji had been frozen in Room 1303 inside an Ice Coffin, restrained with Seal Chains, and monitored by a Life Detection System.
• Wei Wei’s records described progress toward cracking the Blood Sacrifice and an alliance supporting Winter City’s reconstruction after its war with the Dawn Army.
• Feng Qi agreed that rebuilding Winter City was better than merging it into Star City, and said a broader merger could happen after New City was developed.

Feng Qi read Wei Wei’s messages about the Scarlet Secret Base, Jian Ji’s unstable seal, and the device prepared to track him if he escaped. He reached Room 1303 to find out whether Jian Ji was free, but the Narrator mocked him for asking instead of looking.

• Feng Qi read that Star City had diverted resources from Dawn City to rebuild Winter City and that the secret base was struggling to balance research, Jian Ji’s seal, and support for Suction Cup.
• Wei Wei reported Lin Ran’s plan to use Mental Immortality to guide believers through Feng Qi’s Sea of Consciousness, while warning that Lin Ran’s health was failing.
• Wei Wei described the plan to isolate Jian Ji’s room, later reported that his consciousness was nearing escape, and developed a tracking device stored in Room 1302.
• Feng Qi learned that Wei Wei had embedded the timeline’s research results in his brain before her time ran out, then went to Room 1303 to check Jian Ji’s status.
• The Narrator reminded Feng Qi that it could investigate through the isolation wall, but refused to answer whether Jian Ji had escaped and urged him to look for himself.

Feng Qi discovered that Jian Ji had escaped and tracked him through the ruins of Star City, where the maddened swordsman attacked him. Just as Jian Ji’s assault was about to kill Feng Qi, a Blade Demon Squad led by a familiar woman in purple arrived and shattered Jian Ji’s sword attack.

• Feng Qi found Zhang Daowen’s shattered Ice Coffin, used the tracker, and learned Jian Ji was less than four kilometers away.
• Feng Qi activated his Blood God talent and raced west through the ruins, but Jian Ji intercepted him and attacked with a corrupted Million Sword Spirit Array.
• Feng Qi evaded Jian Ji’s increasingly powerful attacks until Jian Ji’s black sword energy overwhelmed his defenses and dissolved his Blood God form.
• Thunder and Po Jia arrived with a large force of Blade Demon Squad members, and Thunder used lightning to clear the negative energy from Feng Qi.
• The woman in purple confronted Jian Ji, shattered his spiraling sword energy with a gesture, and removed her straw hat to reveal herself to Feng Qi.

Feng Qi reunited with Xiao You, who had become a powerful leader of the Blade Demon Squad, and watched her overwhelm Jian Ji. Xiao You shattered the Million Sword Spirit Array without killing Jian Ji, then embraced Feng Qi and told him how much she had missed him.

• Feng Qi recognized Xiao You and apologized for keeping her waiting as his body was restored.
• Jian Ji gathered power and attacked Xiao You, but the Demon Blade swallowed his first strike and Po Jia crushed another with his crimson ferocious soul.
• Xiao You appeared before Jian Ji and defeated him with Feng Qi's old blade techniques and her own attacks, severing his limbs.
• Xiao You pierced and shattered the Million Sword Spirit Array on Jian Ji's chest, removing Feng Qi's concern about the Winter City residents within it.
• Xiao You spoke with the Demon Blade about the Enhancement Gem, then ran to Feng Qi and embraced him, saying she had missed him.

Feng Qi reunited with Xiao You and killed Jian Ji, fulfilling their long-standing promise. As the group dealt with the Enhancement Gem, Jian Ji’s remaining vitality surged into Feng Qi, and Xiao You recognized it as his reward for the kill.

• Xiao You reunited with Feng Qi, broke down in tears, and the Blade Demon Squad learned that he had been its original founder.
• Xiao You crippled Jian Ji and gave Feng Qi the demonic blade, and Feng Qi killed Jian Ji with its black flames.
• Jian Ji’s Burning Sky Sword shattered, and Thunder claimed the Enhancement Gem and used it to strengthen his bracer.
• Xiao You gave the Enhancement Gem to Feng Qi, but it did not merge into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Jian Ji’s corpse released a surge of vitality into Feng Qi, and Xiao You recognized it as his reward for killing him.

Feng Qi gained Jian Ji’s Demon Sword True Explanation and learned that Taihang was near the end of his life. He let Xiao You challenge Little Black while Po Jia carried him to Dawn City, where Zhang Daowen welcomed him as “Uncle Qi.”

• Feng Qi absorbed Jian Ji’s vitality, gained 72,080 Bloodline Evolution Points, and acquired the sixth-sequence Demon Sword True Explanation.
• Feng Qi decided to keep Jian Ji’s sword ability for humanity’s future Talent library and considered whether his dark-gold blood signaled further evolution.
• Xiao You told Feng Qi that Taihang had reached the limit of his lifespan, then asked to fight Little Black; Feng Qi reluctantly agreed after she promised to retreat if necessary.
• When Little Black appeared, Xiao You ordered Po Jia to take Feng Qi to Dawn City while the Blade Demon Squad prepared to retreat; she stayed behind to fight Little Black.
• Po Jia flew Feng Qi to Dawn City, where the city’s defenses alerted its warriors and Zhang Daowen appeared at the gate.
• Zhang Daowen greeted Feng Qi as “Uncle Qi,” and Feng Qi patted his shoulder and acknowledged the years he had endured.

Feng Qi toured Dawn City with Zhang Daowen and learned how humanity’s cultivation system and Rune Modification Project had developed after Mu Yao’s defeat. He concluded that defeating Mo was humanity’s next challenge and asked Zhang Daowen about the Elf Race.

• Zhang Daowen showed Feng Qi Dawn City’s cultivation buildings, defensive energy system, and his Comprehending the Dao manor.
• Zhang Daowen explained that rune modification had once strengthened humanity but could not sustain future generations after the cultivation system collapsed.
• Zhang Daowen said helping Mu Yao defeat Mo was the only way to preserve humanity’s cultivation system.
• Feng Qi considered Mo’s contracts with powerful factions and realized humanity could not defeat them with its current strength.
• Feng Qi asked Zhang Daowen whether he had contacted the Elf City since Feng Qi left.

Feng Qi learned how Darkwood defeated the Elf King, took its Life Furnace, and used the golden egg to transform into a new lifeform that consumed humanity in the Central District. Zhang Daowen then led Feng Qi to an underground base and revealed that its captured Domain Creatures were prepared as talent seeds for Feng Qi’s Faith Growth system.

• Zhang Daowen told Feng Qi that the Elf King nearly transferred its consciousness into a golden egg but was defeated by Darkwood, which seized the Life Furnace and egg.
• Zhang Daowen showed Feng Qi that Darkwood completed the consciousness transfer over five years, then used humans and other Domain Factions in the Central District as nourishment.
• Feng Qi connected the dark gold egg to the powerful egg Old Mi had described and concluded that it contained the reborn Darkwood.
• Feng Qi decided that helping the Elf King defeat Darkwood could make the Elf Race an ally, while he would remain cautious about trusting the Elf King.
• After discussing humanity’s situation with Zhang Daowen, Feng Qi followed him to an underground base containing 278 captive Domain Creatures.
• Zhang Daowen revealed that six such breeding grounds had been prepared as talent seeds for Feng Qi’s Faith Growth system.

Feng Qi harvested Talent Abilities from six underground plazas of Domain Creatures that Zhang Daowen had prepared for him, and began planning a compendium to prevent future waste. After considering the Elf King's Life Furnace, he wondered whether it could mass-produce offspring with varied life sequences for him to harvest.

• Zhang Daowen explained that he had spent thirty years preparing six plazas containing 1,208 Domain Creatures for Feng Qi to harvest.
• Zhang Daowen froze the creatures as they were released, and Feng Qi shattered them with telekinesis to absorb their blood and Talent Abilities.
• Feng Qi harvested creatures from all six plazas and obtained 1,176 Talent Abilities, realizing the rest belonged to species he had already hunted.
• Feng Qi decided to record previously harvested species and preserve even seemingly useless Talent Abilities for humanity's future Talent skill bank.
• Feng Qi considered asking the Elf King to use the Life Furnace to produce offspring with varied life sequences so he could harvest their Talent Abilities.

Feng Qi abandoned his plan to exploit the Elf King’s Elf Seeds after learning they required enormous resources, then traveled with Zhang Daowen to the Blood Soul Clan’s Heart Refining Platform to suppress his Negative Emotions. After completing two new Heart Forging Challenges, he left with Zhang Daowen to return home.

• The narrator explained that the Elf King’s incomplete Elf Seeds needed extensive resources and time to develop, so Feng Qi accepted that mass-producing Talent Abilities was not a practical shortcut.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen left the underground prison, where Po Jia discussed Blackie’s rapid recovery and learned about the narrator and Blackie’s unrevealed third form.
• Zhang Daowen urged Feng Qi to visit the Blood Soul Clan’s Heart Refining Platform, and Po Jia stayed behind because the clan had placed a bounty on him.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen traveled through an ice-crystal space passage to the Blood Soul Clan’s territory, paid to use the Heart Refining Platform, and Feng Qi began its trials.
• Feng Qi passed the Difficulty of Right and Wrong and the Difficulty of Tribulation, reducing the Negative Emotions in his heart, then stopped because he was mentally exhausted.
• Feng Qi left the Heart Refining Platform and told Zhang Daowen that they should go home.

Feng Qi reviewed Dawn City's cultivation methods, construction records, and rune modification advances so he could carry useful knowledge into future timelines. While resting, he considered upgrading humanity’s information storage and recalled Wei Wei’s proposal for a Pseudo Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Feng Qi used Dawn City's Data Console to memorize Zhang Daowen's improved Ice and Snow cultivation method and extensive urban construction records.
• Feng Qi studied Dawn City's Cultivation System Frameworks and the improvements to rune modification technology developed with Winter City.
• Zhang Daowen eased Feng Qi's mental fatigue, allowing him to rest after his intensive studying.
• Feng Qi considered the risks and limitations of humanity's data centers compared with other races' knowledge-storage methods.
• Feng Qi recalled Wei Wei's proposal to use the True God Bracelet to create a browsable knowledge database in his Sea of Consciousness.