Chapter Summaries

After the Heavenly Crane High God's fall, Shi Lan gathered offerings and treasures to repair her Primordial Spirit, then chose to sleep before deciding whether to remain the Primordial Lord of the Void. Meanwhile, a group of powerful outsiders entered the Twilight of the Gods instance as Neutral players and confronted a hostile deity, whose fall jolted Shi Lan awake.

• The gods feared Shi Lan's swift defeat of the Heavenly Crane High God, while his followers' prayers and incense began flowing to her.
• Shi Lan ordered her followers to gather soul-nourishing treasures and cultivation resources, then fell into a deep slumber to repair her Primordial Spirit and calm her thoughts.
• A team of high-ranking newcomers entered the Twilight of the Gods instance and chose the Neutral faction, hoping to seize the Divine Court's treasury and return home.
• The team entered a divine kingdom, where a towering deity ordered the godforsaking intruders to leave, and their middle-aged leader bared his sharp teeth.
• Shi Lan jolted awake after sensing the fall of a lower god and the destruction of a divine kingdom.

Shi Lan investigated a ruined divine kingdom, received the Divine Court’s decrees about the rebels and unorthodox gods, and used a trace of foreign energy to track the attackers. She confronted a group from the Cube on an island, where their leader demanded to know who she was.

• Shi Lan examined a destroyed divine kingdom and identified its attackers as Yin Spirits whose aura seemed familiar.
• Saicai delivered the Divine Court’s decrees, warning Shi Lan that the rebels included peak experts capable of shattering a High God’s divine jade.
• Shi Lan burned the divine kingdom and its corpses, found a foreign wisp of energy in the ashes, and used it to locate the attackers.
• Shi Lan opened a rift to a corpse-strewn island where black-clad figures had destroyed a sea god statue and discussed their ranking and spoils.
• Shi Lan recognized the group as people from the Cube, and their leader rose and demanded to know who she was.

Shi Lan defeated Fan Yong and his Cube team, then questioned them about the world, the Cube, and Rong Xuanqing. After learning that the world would collapse and that the Lord God would decide their fate, she handed them over as divine thunder descended.

• Shi Lan used the Prison Dragon Cauldron to overcome Fan Yong and his companions, trapping them despite their attempts to flee.
• Shi Lan questioned Fan Yong and learned that the Cube was based in the Divine Martial Otherworld and that the world would collapse in a little over ten years.
• Fan Yong said the Divine Court's hidden treasure was connected to condensing a Dao Fruit, but he did not recognize Rong Xuanqing.
• Shi Lan released the captives and said she had reported their crimes to the Lord God, leaving their punishment to him.
• A dragon-like figure appeared in the storm clouds and unleashed divine thunder upon the group.

Shi Lan was taken to the divine court, where Leisha recommended her for elevation to Orthodox God and most of the assembled gods approved. The central god questioned her about the role of gods and believers, leaving her final question about the gods’ own shackles unanswered.

• Leisha told Shi Lan that Heavenly Crane’s death was justified and brought her through a portal to the divine court.
• Leisha introduced Shi Lan as the Void Primordial Lord and proposed that she become an Orthodox God.
• Ten Orthodox Gods approved the proposal, while two abstained and the central god withheld its judgment.
• The central god asked Shi Lan what believers meant to deities and what deities meant to believers.
• A god told Shi Lan that deities were shackles, fetters, and the bottom line for believers, and Shi Lan asked where the gods’ shackles were.

Shi Lan underwent the Grand Primordial Lord’s ascension to supreme godhood, but prayer-power corruption and a heart demon nearly destroyed her. She refined both with the Candle Spirit Scripture, became a supreme god, and continued absorbing prayer power until she advanced three realms into her second step in the Supreme Domain.

• The supreme god explained to Shi Lan that becoming a supreme god meant serving the Heavenly Dao and casting aside part of herself, then agreed to the Grand Primordial Lord’s ascension.
• Prayer power poured into Shi Lan, rapidly raising her divine cultivation and forming an illusory Dao Fruit that suppressed her heart demon and advanced her Primordial Spirit cultivation.
• A crack formed in the Dao Fruit, allowing prayer-power corruption and the heart demon to overwhelm Shi Lan with greed, destructive urges, and terrifying illusions.
• Shi Lan used Ling Yun’s Candle Spirit Scripture to burn her Primordial Spirit and the incoming prayer power, refining the corruption and weakening the heart demon until the Dao Fruit healed.
• Shi Lan ascended to supreme godhood, transforming the Grand Primordial Lord’s statues throughout the world and causing the faithful’s prayer power to surge.
• Shi Lan continued absorbing the prayer power and crossed three realms in half a month, reaching her second step in the Supreme Domain.

Shi Lan advanced to Primary God and used her time in the Divine Court to rebuild and refine her martial path, while struggling to find a way to control her Primordial Spirit’s flames. Yao Po sent her to subdue the Godforsaken Land, where a powerful enemy ambushed her contingent.

• Yao Po named Shi Lan the Tai Xu Primary God and granted her offerings from two hundred and eighty million deities.
• Shi Lan stayed in the Divine Court to strengthen her Dao Fruit and deduce a new martial path, repeatedly testing methods to reduce the harm martial combat caused her body.
• Yao Po ordered the Divine Court’s forces to cleanse the cosmos, and Shi Lan set out hoping to find people from the Rubik's Cube who could help suppress her Primordial Spirit’s flames.
• Yao Po assigned Shi Lan three newly advanced Primary Gods and nearly a hundred High Gods to campaign in the Godforsaken Land.
• The group entered the Godforsaken Land and crushed waves of fanatical believers as Shi Lan watched for a powerful enemy.
• A gray curtain covered the sky, and a colossal silver hand reached from the void toward Shi Lan.

Shi Lan fought Lin Dou, a Rebel God Chief God, and wounded him with the World-Burying Bow before the invading gods withdrew. She discovered a fragment of Lin Dou’s battle flag could keep her Primordial Spirit flame from harming her, but burning it made the flame grow stronger.

• Shi Lan shattered Lin Dou’s divine curtain and attacked him with her spear, but his battle flag absorbed her power of prayer.
• Shi Lan fired a golden arrow from the World-Burying Bow, tearing Lin Dou’s battle flag and gravely wounding his divine body; he withdrew.
• The Rebel Gods retreated, and the Divine Court’s deities imprisoned the believers while Shi Lan claimed the torn battle flag.
• Shi Lan used Lin Dou’s true name and essence blood to activate the Demon-Slaying Order, but it failed to find his source and destroyed only nearly a thousand of his golden bodies.
• Shi Lan placed a fragment of the battle flag in her Primordial Spirit flame and found that it stopped harming her, but the flame consumed the fragment and grew fiercer.

Shi Lan continued conquering the region abandoned by the gods while collecting rare treasures, as Lingdou’s rebel gods debated whether to resist the Divine Court and sought a path out of the world through the Heavenly Court. When Yao Po warned that powerful beings from beyond the domain had arrived, Shi Lan returned to the Divine Court after taking Lingdou’s silver lamp, leaving him furious when he realized she had never known what the Heavenly Court was.

• Shi Lan used the Primordial Spirit’s fire to consume a fragment of the battle banner and examined its divine blood crystal for body tempering.
• Shi Lan and the Divine Court’s forces subdued dozens of divine kingdoms, while she traded her share of captured believers for tribute and rare treasures.
• Lingdou told the rebel gods that Taixu had become a principal god unusually quickly and suspected her bow came from the Heavenly Court; he decided to withdraw his forces and meet her alone.
• Lingdou confronted Shi Lan and offered to hand over the region if she could contact the Heavenly Court, while Shi Lan demanded treasures in exchange.
• Yao Po warned Shi Lan that terrifying beings who had sealed the world had arrived early, so Shi Lan took Lingdou’s silver lamp and ordered the deities back to the Divine Court.
• Shi Lan asked Lingdou what the Heavenly Court was before stepping through the domain gate, and Lingdou realized she had deceived him and roared in fury.

Lin Dou rejected Xu Cheng’s offer to help him obtain the Ancestral God’s remains, but outsiders arrived ahead of schedule, forcing the gods to prepare for a battle they expected to lose. The chapter ended with the Divine Court and the rebel gods resolving to fight and preserve their faith until death.

• Lin Dou mourned the loss of his silver lamp and refused Xu Cheng’s proposal unless Xu Cheng brought him Taixu’s divine jade.
• Nearly a hundred warships entered the world, startling Xu Cheng and prompting Lin Dou to return to his divine palace.
• Lan Xiao ordered the rebel gods to cease hostilities with the Divine Court and declared that the outsiders intended to slaughter every living being.
• Yao Po told the Divine Court’s deities that the coming battle was unwinnable and asked those willing to die to step forward.
• Every deity stepped forward, and the gods recalled the Ancestral God’s decree that faith would endure beyond their deaths.

As the Twilight of the Gods began, Yaopo mobilized the Divine Court and led an attack on the outsiders’ warships. Shi Lan killed a martial Supreme with Burial Realm, but the battle widened as more enemies arrived and a familiar figure in silver robes appeared among the rebels.

• Yaopo told Shi Lan that her arrow may have alerted the outsiders and accelerated their invasion, then warned her that Burial Realm could draw their attacks.
• The outsiders erased the memories of selected followers, seized the world’s resources, and left the deities alone.
• Yaopo led ten High Gods in a surprise assault on nearly a hundred warships, where Dongyou of the Heavenly Firmament Palace confronted them.
• Shi Lan used Burial Realm and the azure spear as an arrow to kill a golden-armored martial Supreme, prompting four Supremes to surround her.
• Yaopo sent fallen deities to intercept returning Supremes, while rebels from the Godforsaken Land attacked the warships and nearly half charged at Shi Lan.
• Shi Lan recognized a silver-robed rebel among the attackers.

Shi Lan and Lin Dou fought off the Supreme Venerables until a Martial Dao Supreme Venerable seized Shi Lan’s spear and nearly killed her. Shi Lan summoned immense immortal power, which shattered the black sword suppressing the realm, and the enemy called for the Alliance’s Supreme Elder.

• Lin Dou and several Heretic Gods intervened to help Shi Lan fight the Supreme Venerables, and Shi Lan killed one with an arrow.
• A burly Martial Dao Supreme Venerable seized Shi Lan’s azure spear and hurled it at her, but three Main Gods’ incarnations shielded her.
• Lin Dou warned Shi Lan to run as the burly Supreme Venerable threatened her, and Shi Lan summoned the Immortal Summoning Art.
• Immortal power raised Shi Lan to the realm of a peerless Supreme Venerable, and two immortal fingers crushed the black sword suppressing the great realm.
• Yao Po killed the old man fighting him while he was distracted, and the Martial Dao Supreme Venerable demanded that the Alliance send its Supreme Elder.

Shi Lan tried to master an immortal summoning art while the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s Supremes fought the Divine Court and rebel gods. Just as the Martial Dao Supreme attacked her, a powerful being emerged from the Yellow Springs and claimed he would take the Supreme’s body.

• The Martial Dao Supreme shattered the passage through which an unknown immortal power had reached Shi Lan, and the Heavenly Dao Alliance sent for its Supreme Elder.
• Two hidden black-clad observers discussed how the changing events differed from the Cube’s plotline and planned to seize the Divine Court gods’ remains by sacrificing a chief god’s Dao Fruit.
• Shi Lan absorbed the last immortal power in her body, while the rebel gods broke through the Alliance’s defenses and the Martial Dao Supreme struck her apart; she re-formed her body and studied the Summon Spirits art.
• Yao Po intercepted the Martial Dao Supreme, but the Alliance’s Supremes used a treasure pearl to suppress the chief gods and strengthen their own forces.
• Shi Lan opened a passage to the Yellow Springs as she tried to summon reinforcements, and the Martial Dao Supreme attacked her before a towering figure blocked his strike with a golden arm bone.
• The figure emerged from the passage, transformed the surrounding land into netherworld soil, and told the Martial Dao Supreme he would take his body.

Shi Lan and the gods survived the battle against the extraterritorial forces only for the realm’s revived Heavenly Dao to slaughter every invader. With the world sealed and reinforcements arriving, Yaopo explained the ancient history of the Heavenly Court to Shi Lan.

• Yaopo attacked the warship while Shi Lan used her Bathing Radiance immortal art to aid the main gods, and the Demon Cube Supremes discovered they could no longer contact the Demon Cube.
• Blood rain revived the realm, its barriers healed, and the Heavenly Dao manifested a heavenly saber that killed the extraterritorial invaders, including the Martial Dao Supreme.
• Shi Lan gathered the Supremes’ remains and artifact fragments, returned Lindou’s silver lamp, and discussed the sealed realm with Yaopo and Lanxiao.
• Yaopo recounted how the Heavenly Court once ruled over immortals and maintained ties with the incense-fire lineage before contact with the realm was forbidden.
• A radiant figure appeared above the firmament as the extraterritorial reinforcements arrived.

Shi Lan and the gods attempted to escape the Divine Martial Great World by following Yao Po, who drew on the faith of billions to challenge the Ancestral God, but the Ancestral God destroyed them. Ling Yun intervened, prompting the figure to rewind time and restore the gods and their world before the Rubik's Cube system reported the instance wiped out and sent Xuan Qing to investigate.

• Shi Lan sensed the Ancestral God's overwhelming pressure, while Yao Po and Lan Xiao realized they had lost their chance to resist.
• Yao Po summoned the Ancestral God's power through the faith of the Divine Court, and Lan Xiao joined him as the gods and billions of believers gathered into a fortress to flee.
• Shi Lan and Xu Cheng's group followed the gods toward the starry expanse, but the Ancestral God struck them down and Shi Lan lost consciousness as her Dao fruit crumbled.
• Ling Yun confronted the Ancestral God, who excused his intervention and rewound time, restoring the gods and the world to the moment before the passage of immortal power appeared.
• The Rubik's Cube system declared the Twilight of the Gods instance a total loss, detected space-time turbulence, and ordered Xuan Qing to investigate.

Shi Lan woke in the Divine Martial Otherworld with a greatly strengthened body and discovered the golden arm bone held fragments of its former owner’s memories. After witnessing an ancient betrayal and battle involving the Heavenly Court, she opened her eyes to find Rong Xuanqing standing before her.

• Shi Lan regained consciousness in the Divine Martial Otherworld and found that her body had been refined, while the golden arm bone had appeared in her sea of consciousness.
• Shi Lan fed the golden arm bone to the fire of her Primordial Spirit, activating its laws and revealing ancient memory fragments.
• Shi Lan witnessed deities discuss betraying the Heavenly Court, followed by a brutal battle in which the main gods turned against the Immortal Dao.
• Shi Lan recognized a True Immortal in the battle who looked like the young man who had helped her escape the Buddhist sect and was connected to the Heavenly Azure Spirit Mystery Scripture.
• Shi Lan’s vision ended, and she opened her eyes to find Rong Xuanqing standing only a few feet away.

Shi Lan encountered Rong Xuanqing in the Divine Martial Otherworld, received a way out and a means to contact him, then reunited with Qing Lan. Shi Lan left the otherworld while Qing Lan chose to remain and continue exploring.

• Shi Lan recognized Rong Xuanqing and declined his invitation to enter a land of great fortune; he gave her two World-Breaking Seals and a blood crystal, and warned her to keep their meeting secret.
• Rong Xuanqing returned to the Rubik's Cube space and told the beings in its pillars that a space-time turbulence had destroyed the world projection; they released source power into the otherworld and went back to sleep.
• Shi Lan crossed dozens of star systems to reach Qing Lan, who had spent about twelve hundred years in a desolate world and had nearly attained the Dao.
• Shi Lan gave Qing Lan a World-Breaking Seal and asked her to return the Feather-Defying Heavenly Wheel to the Silver Feather Dynasty; Qing Lan gave Shi Lan a golden arrow taken from an immortal corpse.
• Shi Lan asked Qing Lan to watch for Ying Qianqiu, said she would return to Lingyang, and used the World-Breaking Seal to leave the Divine Martial Otherworld while Qing Lan returned to the desolate world.

Shi Lan left the Divine Martial Otherworld and headed back toward the Lingyang Realm, while promising to help Samsara regain its body and confront its headquarters. After nearly ten years away, she returned to the Tianyan Sect and found it flourishing, then entered its secret realm to reunite with its people.

• Shi Lan restored her connection to the Qiong Luo Realm and decided to return to the Lingyang Realm to protect her family and loved ones.
• Samsara asked Shi Lan to give it a body, and Shi Lan promised to help it recover and eventually attack its headquarters.
• Shi Lan reached the Divine Martial Great World, learned that nearly ten years had passed, and heard that many prodigies who entered the Divine Martial Otherworld had died.
• Shi Lan returned to the Tianyan Sect and found it stronger, with many young disciples beginning their cultivation.
• Shi Lan met Bai Yu in the secret realm, then saw Tian Bai and Bian Qin cultivating beside the jade pool.
• Tian Bai caught Shi Lan's familiar scent and abruptly opened his eyes.

Shi Lan checked on her disciples and the Asura clan, then prepared to leave the Divine Martial Great World for Lingyang. News of Lingyun’s attack on the Buddhist sect spread as Shi Lan traveled, and the Buddhist sect’s response remained unclear.

• Shi Lan praised Bian Qin’s cultivation progress and learned that Tian Bai had read only forty-two of the five thousand scriptures Su Yangbing gave her.
• Shi Lan visited the Asura clan, passed on an improved Embryonic Breathing Art, and saw that several youths were nearing the eighth rank.
• Shi Lan asked Li Canglan whether he still wanted revenge on the Zheng family, but he declined her offer to handle them and did not reconsider before she left.
• Shi Lan entrusted Cang Yue and the other great demons with matters in the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, left a communication talisman for Bai Yu, and set out for the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty.
• After a Spirit Martial Hall disciple reported a Buddhist ambush against Shi Lan, Lingyun attacked the Buddhist sacred mountain and killed six Arhat-level peak experts; the Buddhist sect’s response was intriguing.

Shi Lan returned to Lingyang to check on the Tianyan Sect and discovered that the realm was engulfed in a major war between the Human Race and the Demon Race. She found Zhu Xiyang on Yunyan Star and asked what had happened and where the Emperor was.

• The Lingwu Hall issued a decree threatening to bar the Buddhist sect from its dynasties if Shi Lan fell in a foreign realm.
• Shi Lan traveled to the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty and reopened the space-time passage to Lingyang Star Domain.
• Shi Lan emerged near Taiyin Star and found Lingyang Realm eerily quiet, with bloody skies and an empty starfield.
• Shi Lan descended into Chengtian Domain and saw the Human Race and Demon Race facing off with Imperial Armaments and supreme treasures deployed.
• Shi Lan avoided the battlefield, entered the Illusory Star Domain, and returned safely to Yunyan Star.
• Shi Lan met Zhu Xiyang at the Tianyan Sect and asked why war had broken out and where the Emperor was.

Shi Lan returned to Chengtian Domain after learning that Emperor Taishi had died and sought Chu Hanzhou’s help with her quest. Chu Hanzhou agreed to honor his promise to make her leader of the Xuan King lineage, but revealed that the human race’s historical records had already accepted Ling Chu as their master.

• Zhu Xiyang told Shi Lan that Emperor Taishi had fallen after Heavenly Punishment appeared in the Illusory Star Domain and blood rain followed.
• Shi Lan learned that Liu Yunzheng held the human race’s historical records while Emperor Wuxu secretly guarded Shenzhou, and that the Devil Race had contacted the human race while harassing the Boundless Demon Domain.
• Shi Lan entered Chengtian Domain and went to the historical records to find Chu Hanzhou’s help with her long-term system quest.
• Chu Hanzhou offered to notify Shi Lan’s relatives and help her take them back to Lingyang, while reassuring her that protecting her family was understandable.
• Shi Lan asked whether Chu Hanzhou still intended to make her leader of the Xuan King lineage, and he agreed but explained that Ling Chu had already gained the historical records’ acknowledgment.