Ch. 1624IF Line: What If Shen Tang Had Never Existed (Part One)

After Shen Tang recovered from the Supreme Ascension ceremony, she reassured her companions that she remembered them and confirmed that the life she had experienced in Quan E was real. The celebration for Shao Mei's ascension ended with the guests drinking wine made from Gongxi Chou's Gu, leaving everyone asleep and destined for nightmares.

  • Shen Tang told the others to stop making Liao Jia pay for their nerves and asked Luan Xin to copy Shao Mei's Supreme, while Lin Feng brought Lin Su to her.
  • Shen Tang reassured everyone that she had not forgotten them and told Wei Lou that Quan E's world and its people had truly existed among countless worlds.
  • Shen Tang invited everyone to celebrate Shao Mei's ascension and Luan Xin's progress, while she considered Lin Su's failed ceremony another chance to copy the Way of the Scholar.
  • The officials and generals drank and bickered at the victory banquet, while Liao Jia paid the enormous bill.
  • Gongxi Chou revealed that he had made the wine Gu from Jimò Qiu's notes, and Jimò Qiu went to prepare an antidote after learning it would give everyone nightmares.

Ch. 1625IF Line: What If Shen Tang Had Never Existed (Part 2)

After waking in his younger body, Qin Li realized he had returned to the time before he joined Wu Xian and used his knowledge of the future to verify the change with his companions. He decided to shelter his people and build up their resources before seeking out Shen Youli as an early follower, though the chapter ended by asking where their lord had gone.

  • Qin Li woke from a fever in his old home and learned from Zhao Feng and Cui Xiao that decades had not passed as he remembered.
  • Qin Li tested whether he was trapped in an illusion, then told his companions that they might have returned to the past.
  • Cui Xiao questioned Qin Li about his family and Kang State, and Qin Li's detailed knowledge convinced the group that his story was true.
  • After several days, Qin Li accepted the situation and chose to settle his people somewhere safe instead of submitting to Wu Xian.
  • Qin Li resolved to gather resources and become one of Shen Youli's earliest followers, while the closing note wondered where Shen Youli had gone.

Ch. 1626IF Line: What If Shen Tang Had Never Existed (Part Two)

After Qin Li returned to the past, he tried to reunite with Shen Tang and her companions, but the people and events he remembered were missing or altered. Believing Shen Tang did not exist in this world, he collapsed; he then woke beside Shen Tang, who was caring for him after a food-poisoning incident.

  • Qin Li shared his future knowledge with Cui Xiao and Zhao Feng, built a base with them, and waited for the events that would bring him to Shen Tang.
  • After Zheng Qiao destroyed Xin Country, Qin Li intercepted the exiles but learned that Shen Tang had never appeared as the replacement bride he expected.
  • Qin Li found Lin Feng dead in a massacre and later identified Chu Yao among the ruins of Xiaocheng, while Shen Tang remained missing.
  • Gu Chi brought Qin Li to the wounded Qi Shan, who did not know Shen Youli; Qin Li concluded that Shen Tang and the people he remembered did not exist in this world, then collapsed from heart failure.
  • Qin Li woke beside Shen Tang, who asked whether he still felt unwell, while Gongxi Chou and Jimò Qiu explained that Qin Li had been affected by poisonous mushrooms.

Ch. 1627Extra: A New Era (Part One)

Shen Tang handed the throne to Shen De after decades of preparation, then met a red-haired woman who had come to collect a senior from another world. The chapter ended with the woman asking whether Shen Tang would sell her planet.

  • Shen Tang comforted Qin Li after he woke from a disturbing dream, while he pressed her to explain why he had not been included in a plan for reincarnation among the Demon Race.
  • Shen Tang left Qin Li to attend to ministers waking from the food poisoning incident, and Shen De managed the Royal Court’s affairs during its seven-day closure.
  • Shen Tang praised Shen De’s readiness to rule, and Shen De asked for more time before taking the throne.
  • In the first month of the fiftieth year of the Yanhuang Era, Shen Tang abdicated in favor of Crown Princess Shen De, and the Royal Court announced a new era name.
  • A red-haired woman from another world visited Shen Tang during the celebrations and asked whether she would sell the planet.

Ch. 1628Extra: The New Era (Part Two)

Shen Tang left the Kang State to travel while its rulers and society changed over the following centuries, then lived in a modern era where spiritual energy had returned and ancient history was being rediscovered. As Gongxi Chou caused a stir by confronting a streamer who mocked him, Shen Tang learned that Wuhui and the others were about to hatch in the Demon Realm.

  • Shen Tang declined to help Zhang Yang with her tribulation, and the Red-haired Woman took Zhang Yang away to try to guide her through it.
  • Shen Tang advised Shen De to keep power and wealth from becoming unfairly concentrated, then left the royal capital to travel; decades later, Taizong named her daughter as heir, and the Kang State ultimately had four emperors across 350 years.
  • In the modern era, Shen Tang saw reports of an underwater civilization and complained that Single Owner had blocked her paintings again.
  • Gongxi Chou returned from an audition rejected for the role of Gongxi Chou, then stormed off to confront a streamer spreading outrageous stories about him.
  • Gongxi Chou interrupted the streamer's live broadcast and was stopped by Jimò Qiu before he could continue his revenge; viewers connected his appearance to a newly unearthed statue.
  • Shen Tang told Gongsu that Wuhui and the others were about to hatch, as news reports announced the recovery of ruins from a continent that sank 2,700 years earlier.

Ch. 1629The Demon Master

Shen Tang visited the Demon Realm and helped Pei Ye care for a chaotic group of demon cubs, including her former colleagues reborn as animals. As Shen Tang completed her final task, a believer reunited with her in the ruins of her old Divine Temple.

  • Pei Ye showed Shen Tang the Demon Realm and explained that she had turned the ruined continent into a refuge where demon cubs could grow.
  • Pei Ye told Shen Tang that Jiang Zhao's reincarnation had been disrupted because his feelings were hidden, but Shen Tang said she already had a way to help him.
  • Shen Tang and Qin Li helped Pei Ye feed the cubs, who fought, played, and crowded around Shen Tang in animal forms without their past-life memories.
  • Shen Tang stayed in the Demon Realm to help care for the cubs and finish her final task.
  • A youth in the ruined Divine Temple recognized Shen Tang, ran to her, and called her his god, lord, and Mama; Shen Tang answered that she was there.
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