Chapter Summaries

Luo Bing’s miracles protected the people of Holy Light Star from the Lord of Dawn’s attack, causing faith in him to collapse and drawing the Pantheon’s attention. As a divine expedition set out to find Lin Yuan, he challenged the gods to a public debate whose outcome would decide the Pantheon’s fate.

• The Lord of Dawn denounced the God of Revelation as evil and urged his followers to hunt down heretics, while Luo Bing answered with a miracle that revealed knowledge to the people of Holy Light Star.
• When temple knights threatened civilians who had embraced new knowledge, the Lord of Dawn attacked a crowded district, but Luo Bing’s protection protocol used knowledge-bearing objects to form a dome that absorbed his divine beams.
• Witnessing the Lord of Dawn attack his own believers and the dome protect them, many people lost their faith in him.
• The Pantheon detected the Lord of Dawn’s collapsing faith, and the God of Destiny ordered the Holy Word Expeditionary Force to pursue the preacher’s source.
• Lin Yuan learned that the Pantheon had locked onto the Vessel of Ascension and invited all its gods to a public debate, staking his Dao against the future of the Pantheon.

Lin Yuan sent the Pantheon’s chief Gods a Cosmic Echo inviting them to debate the Dao, forcing them to accept a public confrontation at the Faith Furnace. He prepared the army to attend the dangerous gathering, which the Gods intended to use to destroy him before their believers.

• Lin Yuan ordered Luo Bing to combine her Dao with his and send the Pantheon’s Gods an unignorable invitation to debate.
• The Cosmic Echo reached the chief Gods as they planned a holy war against the God of Revelation, challenging their beliefs and provoking their anger.
• The God of Destiny warned that refusing the invitation would undermine the Gods’ authority, so he called for a public debate before the Pantheon’s believers.
• The Gods announced that they would confront Lin Yuan at the Faith Furnace and turn him into fuel for their faith.
• Lin Yuan ordered Meng Ao and Luo Hou to put the army on combat readiness and told Luo Bing to set their course for the Pantheon.

Lin Yuan reached the Pantheon’s Faith Furnace and challenged the three hundred and sixty-five chief gods by ascending on a stairway formed from his own Dao. He argued that their faith-based power imprisoned believers and stifled civilization, leaving the gods shaken but the confrontation unresolved.

• The [Vessel of Ascension] arrived at the [Faith Furnace], where the chief gods waited on their thrones without welcoming Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan formed an [Ascension Stair] from Chaos Dao Resonance and climbed toward the God's Thrones, while the [God of Judgement] attacked him with a Judgment Spear that dissolved into the stairway.
• Lin Yuan explained that his power came from within, unlike the gods’ power drawn from believers, and reached the height of their thrones to demand a discussion about why their Dao was wrong.
• The [God of Destiny] defended the gods’ rule over the Pantheon, but Lin Yuan accused their Dao, Order, and eternity of relying on believers’ ignorance, fear, and devotion.
• Lin Yuan rejected the [God of Wealth]’s claim that comfort was generosity and told the [God of Life] that the gods used life for faith reaping instead of teaching its true mysteries.
• The chief gods’ divine senses wavered as Lin Yuan’s criticism recast their gifts as imprisonment, their Order as stagnation, and their eternity as deprivation.

Lin Yuan challenged the Gods of the Pantheon by explaining that his Dao of Pursuit freed life to evolve beyond divine control, and he evolved God of Judgement’s chains into Chaos Lotuses. When Lord of War and Destruction and God of Judgement ignited the Faith Furnace to destroy him, Lin Yuan faced its impending explosion and declared that faith was meant for creation.

• Lin Yuan described his Dao of Pursuit as the pursuit of truth, wisdom, and life’s freedom from the Gods’ control.
• God of Judgement attacked Lin Yuan with sacred chains, but Lin Yuan evolved them into Chaos Lotuses, shaking the Gods’ faith in their own Dao.
• Lord of War and Destruction rejected God of Destiny’s admission that the Gods had lost and proposed igniting the Faith Furnace.
• Lord of War and Destruction and God of Judgement sacrificed their Godheads to ignite the Faith Furnace, while the other Gods fled.
• Lin Yuan faced the furnace’s coming destruction without defending himself and declared that the true power of faith was creation.

Lin Yuan absorbed the Pantheon’s destructive power and transformed the believers’ wishes into a new Wish Universe, ending the old gods’ rule. With the new galaxy stabilized and its guardians assigned, he set his next destination as the Origin of Chaos.

• Lin Yuan absorbed and reshaped the Pantheon’s Faith Furnace, then told its believers their wishes for truth, wisdom, peace, and freedom would become a new faith.
• The Wish Universe formed from the believers’ wishes, while the 365 Gods lost their foundations and became mortals; the God of Destiny entered the new universe after recognizing Lin Yuan’s Dao as Transcendence.
• The Pantheon’s starfield transformed into the vast Wish Universe, and Luo Bing reported that the Mechanical God Army, Heavenly Punishment Vanguard, and God-Awakened Army would help protect it.
• Lin Yuan opened the Great Dao Map and declared that the expedition’s next target was the Origin of Chaos.

Lin Yuan led the [Vessel of Ascension] into the Sea of Nihility, where external laws and navigation failed and existence itself was threatened. He made the vessel into a self-sustaining universe and began broadcasting his Dao into the void to draw the [Origin of Chaos] toward them.

• The [Vessel of Ascension] entered the Sea of Nihility, and Luo Bing reported that its detectors, Law Engine, and navigation markers had failed.
• Lin Yuan recognized the threat as [Existential Stripping] and ordered Luo Bing to sever outside connections and activate 'Inner Cycle' mode.
• Lin Yuan used his Chaos Dao to create independent spacetime laws inside the [Vessel of Ascension], stabilizing the Ark Universe and protecting its crew.
• Luo Bing warned that the vessel had no way to locate the [Origin of Chaos], so Lin Yuan proposed using their Dao as a beacon to attract it.
• Luo Bing activated the Ark Universe's core power, and the [Vessel of Ascension] began radiating a story of its Dao into the Sea of Nihility.

After waiting centuries in the Sea of Nihility, Lin Yuan and the crew encountered a Ghost ship and its Tomb Keeper, who began erasing the Vessel of Ascension’s existence. Lin Yuan recognized the attacker’s Dao as emptiness, but the ship and its crew remained in grave danger.

• After a long silence in the Sea of Nihility, Luo Bing detected an approaching anomaly on the Mystic Mirror.
• A dilapidated Ghost ship manifested beside the Vessel of Ascension, and Lin Yuan identified it as the remains of a failed story and Dao.
• The Tomb Keeper emerged from the ship and called Lin Yuan’s story too full, then unleashed the Soul Lantern’s power of forgetting.
• The Soul Lantern began erasing the Vessel of Ascension’s Dao, weakening the Ark Universe and causing Luo Hou to fear he was forgetting how to fight.
• Lin Yuan recognized the Tomb Keeper’s emptiness-based Dao, but the erasure intensified until half the Vessel of Ascension’s hull turned translucent.

Lin Yuan overcame the Soul Lantern’s emptiness by fusing the four False Daos through Chaos, then absorbed the Void Flower and continued toward the Origin of Chaos. The Vessel of Ascension encountered a frozen fleet, which Lin Yuan identified as rival civilizations that had fought over the Origin and warned was trapped rather than dead.

• Lin Yuan used Chaos to fuse the four False Daos into a self-sustaining cycle, causing the Vessel of Ascension to reflect the Soul Lantern’s emptiness.
• The hunched figure realized its emptiness was a dead end, vanished with its bone ship, and left Lin Yuan a pure Source seed of Emptiness.
• Lin Yuan merged the Void Flower into the core engine, transforming the Vessel of Ascension into an extension of his Dao that advanced toward the Origin of Chaos.
• Luo Bing detected multiple remnants of the Dao, and the crew saw an immense fleet of motionless ships surrounding their route.
• Lin Yuan recognized the fleet as enemies from powerful civilizations that had fought to claim the Origin of Chaos and stopped Luo Hou from attacking, saying they were trapped rather than dead.

Lin Yuan and his allies awakened the Time Cage’s frozen fleet, which turned its fire on [Dao's Boat]. As the fleet adapted to his Voidification, Lin Yuan ordered a counterattack and launched a hunt to devour the remnants’ Daos.

• Lin Yuan recognized the battlefield as the [Origin of Chaos]'s [Time Cage], where their arrival restarted time for the ancient fleet.
• The awakened warships attacked [Dao's Boat], but Lin Yuan used Voidification to let their shots pass through and strike one another.
• A warship’s entropy laws destabilized Voidification as the fleet adapted and combined its laws to force [Dao's Boat] back into existence.
• Lin Yuan ordered Luo Bing to analyze the enemy, Meng Ao to protect the boat, and Luo Hou to lead the vanguard in an assault.
• Lin Yuan dispelled Voidification and charged into battle as the [Truth Judgement] fleet, God-Awakened Army, and Asura warriors attacked the ancient warships.

Lin Yuan devoured the Entropy Boat and transformed its power of Termination, evolving the [Dao's Boat] and his Chaos Dao. The remnants of Dao recognized him as a threat, and several warships turned their attacks on him.

• Luo Hou led the [Heavenly Punishment Vanguard] into the biological warship while Luo Bing used the Way of Logic to disable a crystal warship.
• Meng Ao's Wish Protection Barrier came under pressure from conceptual erasure and a curse of absolute betrayal.
• Lin Yuan confronted the Entropy Boat, absorbed its power of Termination, and used the [Void Flower] and Chaos Wheel to digest its Dao.
• The [Dao's Boat] completed its first evolution, and Lin Yuan's Chaos Power gained the power of Termination alongside creation.
• The remnants of Dao feared Lin Yuan, and the thunder warship, crystal warship, and metal biological warship launched attacks against him.

Lin Yuan absorbed the Time Cage’s united Myriad Dao Torrent, allowing its conflicting laws to destroy one another before incorporating their fragments into [Dao's Boat]. With the cage cleared, the vessel reached the Origin of Chaos, where its crew faced an infinite flood of information.

• The remnants of the Daos formed a Hunting Alliance and attacked [Dao's Boat] with the Myriad Dao Torrent, breaking the Wish Barrier and overwhelming Luo Bing's Way of Logic.
• Lin Yuan turned the Chaos Core into a singularity and swallowed the torrent, letting the contradictory Daos clash inside the Ark Universe while his Chaos Dao recorded and absorbed their processes.
• Lin Yuan absorbed the resulting Dao fragments into the Chaos Wheel, transforming [Dao's Boat] into a composite body bearing the condensed history of countless eras.
• After [Dao's Boat] consumed the Time Cage's last Dao remnants, it reached the end of the path and the route to the Origin of Chaos.
• Luo Bing reported that the crew's detectors and law-based definitions had failed in a region of infinite information density, while the information flood threatened to overwhelm weaker warriors.

Lin Yuan reached the Origin of Chaos and discovered that it was a mirror reflecting every possible version of every being. After he brought his companions back from the confusion of their alternate lives, he understood the Origin as the possibility behind all existence and reached to touch it.

• Lin Yuan stepped outside Dao's Boat and saw that the Origin of Chaos was a mirror reflecting countless possible versions of himself and everyone aboard the ship.
• Luo Hou, Luo Bing, and Meng Ao became overwhelmed by the alternate lives and choices reflected in the mirror.
• Lin Yuan awakened his companions by urging them to remember what they had chosen to become.
• Lin Yuan recognized the mirror as the possibility of all existence and reached toward it to discover what new universe might emerge from a choice touching the infinite.

Lin Yuan rejected the final choices offered by the Origin of Chaos and created a new universe from his Chaos Dao, with Luo Hou, Meng Ao, and Luo Bing becoming its fundamental ways. After the universe began and a boy received permission to explore it, Lin Yuan discovered strange, malicious anomalies spreading through his creation.

• Lin Yuan entered the mirror and chose to become possibility itself, collapsing the mirror, the Dao's Boat, and the Sea of Nihility into a singularity.
• Luo Hou, Meng Ao, and Luo Bing merged into the singularity, and the Vessel of Ascension became the new universe's foundational ways.
• Lin Yuan's singularity exploded into a universe governed by his Chaos Dao, and a boy on a cerulean planet wished to see what the universe truly looked like.
• Lin Yuan granted the boy's wish, then watched over the universe as its laws and living beings developed.
• Lin Yuan detected anomalies that broke gravity and evolution, and learned they were spreading like a malicious error through his universe.

Lin Yuan gave Ling Chen a sliver of his authority so he could investigate errors in the universe from within. After Ling Chen discovered he could see the world as code and witnessed an unknown instruction override, Lin Yuan realized another entity was trying to claim administrator privileges, while Ling Chen embraced his new role as the universe’s [BUG Debugger].

• Lin Yuan chose Ling Chen, a boy wishing to see the universe’s true form, as his proxy and lent him a sliver of authority and perspective.
• Ling Chen woke with heightened senses and noticed the world seemed unusually clear.
• Pang Hu and his lackeys cornered Ling Chen in an alley, but Pang Hu’s punch clipped through Ling Chen without harming him.
• Ling Chen saw the world as lines of code and read an error stating that collision logic had been overwritten by an unknown instruction.
• Lin Yuan identified the error as a deliberate instruction override by an unknown entity seeking administrator privileges.
• Ling Chen ran from the alley and accepted his role as the universe’s [BUG Debugger].

Ling Chen learned that a Heretical Method was corrupting the universe’s Dao laws and received the Origin Sight to find its source. After seeing it nearly cause a car crash, he resolved to act as the world’s Dao Guardian.

• Ling Chen learned that the fist had missed him because the Dao of Solidity and the Technique of Collision had been twisted apart by the Lament of the Dao.
• The ancient voice explained that a Heretical Method from beyond the heavens was corrupting the universe and revealed that Ling Chen had been chosen to find contaminated Daos.
• Ling Chen gained the Origin Sight and saw the threads of law that formed a brick wall and the bustling street.
• Ling Chen noticed the Dao of Friction weakening beneath a speeding sedan as its brakes failed, then saw the Dao of Space twist and divert the car into a guardrail without casualties.
• Ling Chen spotted a black line, recognized it as the Heretical Method, and resolved to pursue it as the world’s Dao Guardian.

Lin Yuan battled the Shadow of Outer God at the universe’s Origin Sea and entrusted Ling Chen with the task of protecting the world. Ling Chen traced the Heretical Method to City Center Hospital, where he encountered a Spirit of Decay and faced its lethal attack.

• Lin Yuan suppressed the Shadow of Outer God and chose Ling Chen, a mortal unbound by the laws, to judge and oppose it.
• Ling Chen concluded that hospitals were likely breeding grounds for the Heretical Method and traveled to City Center Hospital.
• Ling Chen used Origin Sight to find a web of black lines beneath the hospital’s Inpatient Building and followed it to the morgue.
• A Spirit of Decay emerged from the Void after the morgue door’s laws were erased, and its spreading Dao Decay targeted Ling Chen.
• As the Spirit of Decay threatened to erase him, Ling Chen’s fear awakened a pride rooted in the universe’s Source.

Ling Chen fought the Spirit of Decay in the morgue and raced to destroy the Heretical Method’s anchor in refrigerated cabinet 44. After Lin Yuan opened a path to the source of Chaos Creation, Ling Chen unleashed the Dao of Life, destroying the anchor and erasing the Spirit of Decay.

• Ling Chen borrowed a thread of the Dao of Life and struck the Spirit of Decay, briefly tearing through its domain.
• Ling Chen dragged the mortuary beds together to block the Spirit of Decay and bought himself time to reach refrigerated cabinet 44.
• Ling Chen opened cabinet 44 and found a mummified corpse whose black rune served as the Heretical Method’s anchor.
• Ling Chen called to the source of his Origin Sight, and Lin Yuan opened a door to the source of Chaos Creation.
• The Dao of Life poured through Ling Chen, shattered the rune, burned away the Dao Mark Web, and restored the Spirit of Decay to the Dao of Death before it dissipated.

After destroying the Spirit of Decay, Ling Chen awoke with Dao Flame tempering his body and learned that the Heretical Method’s next anchor was greed. He headed for the Global Financial Center, where he saw the Greed Method silently draining people’s luck.

• The Light of Creation restored the underground morgue and left Dao Flame within Ling Chen, reforging his body as the Shadow of Outer God’s first anchor was removed.
• Lin Yuan suppressed the Shadow of Outer God and vowed that his Dao Guardians would find and destroy its remaining anchors.
• Ling Chen awoke in the hospital and used Origin Sight to perceive the world’s laws as a tangible ocean, with Dao Flame burning within his soul.
• Ling Chen recognized greed as the next anchor point and identified the Global Financial Center as the new battlefield.
• Ling Chen left the hospital and saw a dark-gold pillar of greed devouring nearby laws of opportunity, luck, and Order.
• Ling Chen rode the elevator toward the top of the Global Financial Center and watched parasitic threads silently steal the financial elites’ luck.

Ling Chen confronted the Lord of Gold in a trading hall and discovered that the Dao of Life could counter the Greed Method when offered freely. The Lord of Gold’s Golden Throne began to disintegrate, but he transformed into a furious, inhuman form.

• Ling Chen saw the Lord of Gold draining the traders’ luck, wealth, and vitality through the Greed Dao Principles.
• The Lord of Gold tried to seize Ling Chen’s Dao of Life and tore a wisp of its flame from his soul.
• Ling Chen sent the flame to the Lord of Gold as a deliberate act of giving, causing it to burn and pierce the Greed Dao Principles.
• The Lord of Gold’s Golden Throne flickered and began to disintegrate as Ling Chen realized he had found another way to resist the Heretical Method.
• The Lord of Gold roared at Ling Chen, his face melting away to reveal golden vertical pupils.

Ling Chen lured the Lord of Gold away from his Golden Throne with a Dao Seed, then severed the throne’s connection to the greed that fueled his domain and destroyed him. After claiming the Lord of Gold’s Source Power, Ling Chen saw a new threat forming in the network world: [Jealous Hatred].

• The Lord of Gold unleashed All Things Return to Gold, turning the trading hall’s objects into gold and sweeping a law-assimilating storm toward Ling Chen.
• Ling Chen condensed his remaining Dao of Life into a Dao Seed, which drew the Lord of Gold’s greed and redirected the storm away from him.
• Ling Chen rushed to the Golden Throne and severed its connection to the building’s greed, cutting off the power sustaining the Lord of Gold’s domain.
• The Golden Throne shattered, the golden storm receded, and the Dao Seed’s green halo purified the hall before melting the Lord of Gold into Dark Gold liquid.
• Ling Chen claimed a Dark Gold crystal from the Lord of Gold and saw a vast online vortex formed from malice, jealousy, and curses, identified as [Jealous Hatred].