Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiaowen negotiated with Jin Gong for a translation manual, an offline managed stall, and a long-range communicator, spending thirty Divine Cores and promising to repay the shortfall. While browsing the stalls, he found a listing for a Sword of Divine Punishment Fragment and wondered why it matched the fragment he had taken from Okandis.

• Bai Xiaowen asked Jin Gong to bundle translation, stall management, and intelligence services, then negotiated over communicator features and the total cost.
• Bai Xiaowen and Jin Gong settled on thirty Divine Cores, with Bai Xiaowen promising to repay the remaining amount later.
• Using Jin Gong's translation manual, Bai Xiaowen learned Gold Mine Star writing and browsed the stalls, where he saw many artifact-fragment trade offers.
• Bai Xiaowen found a listing for a Sword of Divine Punishment Fragment that sought a Desert God series fragment in exchange.
• Bai Xiaowen compared the listing with the fragment he had taken from Okandis and considered whether duplicate artifacts existed or the listing was false.

Bai Xiaowen watched Jin Gong broker a fragment trade, then encountered Chadu and Guli outside the Prophecy Temple. After secretly overhearing their suspicions that he had a Sea God's Staff fragment, he offered to trade his Divine Rune Blackstones for artifact fragments, leaving Chadu caught off guard.

• Bai Xiaowen watched Jin Gong arrange an artifact-fragment trade and gained more trust in his stall-management service.
• Bai Xiaowen prepared to enter the Prophecy Temple's dangerous, ever-shifting Cube but recognized Chadu and Guli from Profound Ice Star.
• Bai Xiaowen intercepted Chadu and Guli's secret thoughts, learning that they suspected he had a fragment of the Sea God's Staff.
• Chadu tried to interest Bai Xiaowen in Divine Rune Blackstones, but Bai Xiaowen offered his own stones in exchange for artifact fragments.
• Bai Xiaowen's offer left Chadu unable to reject the stones he had just praised.

Bai Xiaowen drove away two alien visitors who wanted to trade for the Frozen Ancient God Seal, then entered the Prophecy Temple’s Cube Zone to investigate its shifting grids. He discovered that neighboring squares changed every twenty minutes and that crossing a shifting boundary could divide a creature without killing it.

• Bai Xiaowen offered Chadu and Guli the Frozen Ancient God Seal in exchange for divine artifact fragments, Divine Cores, or Spirit Crystals, and they left without trading.
• Bai Xiaowen suspected the two visitors had collected multiple fragments of the Sea God's Staff and recalled records about several divine artifacts.
• Bai Xiaowen entered the Cube Zone and found himself in a roughly ten-kilometer square of open hills, separated from the temple plaza.
• Bai Xiaowen flew to the edge of the hills, saw a dark mountain grid beyond it, and watched a gorilla-like alien fly into the mountains without hesitation.
• Bai Xiaowen buried a Bone Archer carrying a Spirit Force Mark, waited two hours, and observed the neighboring grid change six times, about once every twenty minutes.
• Bai Xiaowen tested a shifting boundary and found that it split the Bone Archer between grids without reducing its health, though the creature could no longer move.

Bai Xiaowen entered a river square and encountered three followers of Turtle God Torgola, who attacked after discovering he was a Chosen One of Sea God Neptune. He summoned his army to fight back, but the Ninja Turtles revealed powerful combat skills.

• Bai Xiaowen failed to recall his split Bone Archer and entered the river square to investigate the Rubik’s Cube zone.
• Three Ninja Turtles confronted Bai Xiaowen and demanded to know whose Chosen One he was.
• Bai Xiaowen claimed to serve Sea God Neptune, and the Ninja Turtles surrounded him and demanded the Sea God's Staff fragments.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned his army and used Psychic Armor as the Ninja Turtles attacked.
• Bai Xiaowen’s summoned creatures engaged the three Ninja Turtles, and Turtles A and B displayed at least Grandmaster Tier Fighting Specialization.

Bai Xiaowen and his allies overwhelmed three Ninja Turtles, killing Ninja Turtle C and forcing the other two to flee. He gained a Punishment Mark from the Turtle God and Boon Marks from the Sea God and Desert God, while one fleeing Ninja Turtle was decapitated when the Cube Grid shifted.

• Bai Xiaowen's Lightning Strikes broke Ninja Turtle A and Ninja Turtle B's Spirit Force defenses, allowing Abaddon and Butcher to wound them and hold them back.
• Ninja Turtle C's Water Tornado threatened Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures, but Bai Xiaowen shattered his turtle-shell defense and disrupted his spell with Origin Lightning.
• Bai Xiaowen sealed Ninja Turtle C's teleportation with the Spatial Lock Device, and Sigrdrifa killed him with a spiraling spear attack.
• Bai Xiaowen received a Punishment Mark from the Turtle God and Boon Marks from the Sea God and Desert God after Ninja Turtle C's death.
• Ninja Turtle A and Ninja Turtle B fled; one escaped in a streak of light, while the other was decapitated when the Cube Grid shifted.

Bai Xiaowen spared a helpless Turtle God Chosen One long enough to learn that an altar and the Eye of Prophecy were hidden in the temple, then discovered the altar carried Bai Yuantang’s third thought imprint. Bai Yuantang gave him a Titan Star Chart leading toward the Main Hub and revealed that a crucial planet on the route could make Bai Xiaowen powerful enough to defeat any Chosen One short of a deity.

• Bai Xiaowen questioned the immobilized Ninja Turtle, who revealed that Turtle God had sent three Chosen Ones to retrieve an unknown item from an altar and destroy it.
• The Ninja Turtle told Bai Xiaowen that the Prophecy Temple supposedly contained the Eye of Prophecy, which could sense the locations of other artifact fragments.
• A black altar rose from the river square, and Bai Xiaowen recognized its runes from the Trial Grounds where he had encountered Bai Yuantang’s first thought imprint.
• Bai Yuantang appeared on the altar and explained that it had emerged because it sensed Bai Xiaowen’s Eye of Evolution, while Turtle God’s Chosen Ones had been waiting there in vain.
• Bai Yuantang gave Bai Xiaowen a Titan Star Chart marking a route to the Main Hub and warned that rival Elite Chosen Ones would become more common along the way.
• Bai Yuantang revealed that the star chart led to a planet where Bai Xiaowen could find an item and complete a fusion that would let him defeat any Chosen One unless a deity intervened.

Bai Xiaowen followed Bai Yuantang’s advice and left the Prophecy Temple to pursue the Main Hub, then discovered that Jin Gong had fled after scamming the Chosen Ones. He traced Jin Gong’s destination and realized the goblin was following the same optimal star route, before activating the portal to pursue him.

• Bai Yuantang urged Bai Xiaowen to leave at once for a key planet and find an item that would greatly increase his strength.
• Bai Xiaowen copied his father’s optimal star route onto both Titan Star Charts, gave one to Sigrdrifa, and returned to the Prophecy Temple’s gate plaza.
• Bai Xiaowen learned that Jin Gong had vanished after swindling the Chosen Ones out of their Divine Cores and had taken a Planetary Portal to the third star region.
• Bai Xiaowen compared Jin Gong’s destination with his star chart and concluded that the goblin was an Elite Tier Chosen One following the same optimal route.
• Bai Xiaowen activated the Planetary Portal and left in pursuit of Jin Gong.

Following Bai Yuantang’s star route, Bai Xiaowen reached Death Omen Star, where lethal Nether energy and dangerous terrain made travel perilous. At the Nether River, he met Yeti and secretly boarded a ferry carrying wandering souls, hoping to cross without alerting the ferryman or the planet’s guardians.

• Bai Xiaowen arrived at Death Omen Star and recognized the planet’s name on its Boundary Stele.
• Bai Xiaowen encountered Yeti beside the Nether River, and they concealed their identities and agreed not to reveal their deities.
• Bai Xiaowen tested the river with a strip of cloth and discovered that it sank, making the river impossible to cross by swimming or walking.
• Yeti told Bai Xiaowen to hide his presence and follow the procession when a raft ferry approached.
• Bai Xiaowen saw wandering souls emerge from the ground and line up to board the raft.
• Bai Xiaowen and Yeti boarded behind the souls, and the ferryman looked toward them without detecting them.

After crossing the Nether River, Bai Xiaowen used Death God's Visage to make a path through a horde of skeletons and felt it being called toward the missing torso bones of the Death God. He realized that finding them could restore the Death God's Godhead and make him a god, but he wondered what Yeti and the other Chosen Ones sought on Death Omen Star.

• Bai Xiaowen and Yeti crossed the Nether River on a raft, and Yeti froze the ferryman when it demanded no fare from him.
• Bai Xiaowen realized the raft itself was alive, and he and Yeti fled the shore as its shriek summoned a sea of powerful skeletons.
• Yeti froze the skeletons ahead of them, then looked to Bai Xiaowen to help clear their escape route.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Death God's Visage, whose suppression made the Skeleton Warriors kneel and open a path.
• Bai Xiaowen felt Death God's Visage drawn toward the missing torso bones and realized they could complete the Death God's Godhead and make him a god.
• Bai Xiaowen wondered what Yeti and the other Chosen Ones had come to Death Omen Star to find.

Bai Xiaowen realized that the other Chosen Ones on Death Omen Star might be there to stop him from inheriting the Death God, and he tested the Yeti’s allegiance. The Yeti revealed himself as the Winter God’s Chosen One and attacked, but Bai Xiaowen trapped him in an Immortal Formation as he continued onward.

• Bai Xiaowen reasoned that rival gods might have sent their Chosen Ones to prevent him from collecting the Death God's Remains and becoming the Death God.
• Bai Xiaowen showed the Yeti the Death God's Visage mask to discover which faction he served, while secretly preparing an Imprisonment-type Immortal Formation.
• The Yeti identified Bai Xiaowen as the Death God's inheritor and revealed that the Winter God had ordered him to eliminate Bai Xiaowen.
• The Yeti's frigid attack froze Bai Xiaowen and shattered his Psychic Armor, but Bai Xiaowen activated the Immortal Formation and vanished into its mist.
• The Yeti failed to escape the maze formation and began recovering with Spirit Crystals as Skeleton Warriors wandered in and attacked him.

Bai Xiaowen reached a vast black castle on Death Omen Star and tested whether his Death God inheritance could control its Gargoyle guardians. The Gargoyles attacked despite his suppression, leaving him to face their assault.

• Bai Xiaowen confirmed Yeti’s protective barrier held against Skeleton Warriors and left him absorbing a Spirit Crystal.
• Xia Feng arrived at the Prophecy Temple’s Cube Zone, where Sigrdrifa waited to deliver her master’s orders.
• A blond Hidden Society member defeated a Bone Giant, received a command from the Shadow God, and set off after learning Lu Wang was on Death Omen Star.
• Bai Xiaowen crossed the undead lands and reached a black castle guarded by nearly twenty Gargoyles that he believed might be Divine-Scion Tier.
• Bai Xiaowen prepared three Sword Seals for an escape, but the first two Gargoyles awakened and attacked with sonic blasts.
• Bai Xiaowen used Death God’s Visage and True Essence Force to suppress the Gargoyles, then injected Death God’s Power when the weakened guardians continued attacking.

Bai Xiaowen suppressed the Divine-Scion Gargoyles guarding the Grand Mausoleum, but Gast Bibby arrived and attacked him to keep him from entering the Death God's Castle. Bai Xiaowen used the Silver Throne and his lightning attacks to withstand Gast, ending the chapter as Origin Lightning struck him.

• Bai Xiaowen used Death God's Power to slow the Divine-Scion Gargoyles and limit their attacks.
• Gast Bibby, the leader of the Hidden Society and the Shadow God's Chosen One, arrived and recognized Bai Xiaowen as Lu Wang.
• Gast attacked Bai Xiaowen, who escaped the first strike by swapping places with a Sword Seal.
• Bai Xiaowen sat on the Silver Throne and used Psychic Armor to block Gast's sword attacks.
• Gast unleashed a rain of crimson flowers, and Bai Xiaowen countered with Snake Lightnings before firing Origin Lightning at him.
• Gast tried to dodge the tracking bolt, but the Origin Lightning struck him.

Bai Xiaowen exploited the cooldown of Gast’s Magic Mirror to strike him with Origin Lightning, but Gast used a Shadow God statue to swap their positions and redirect the attacks. Bai Xiaowen escaped the trap, blocked Gast’s counterattack, and enclosed them both in two layers of formations.

• Bai Xiaowen deduced that Gast could not activate the Magic Mirror again immediately after using it, then struck him with Origin Lightning.
• Gast revealed the Shadow God’s Scapegoat Conspiracy Statue, which swapped his position with Bai Xiaowen and redirected the lightning’s lock-ons.
• Bai Xiaowen seized control of the lightning bolts and diverted them into the ground.
• Gast thrust at Bai Xiaowen, but Pudge the Butcher blocked the attack and suffered severe wounds.
• Bai Xiaowen identified the statue’s one-use ability and raised the Four Symbols Formation and Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation around himself and Gast.

Bai Xiaowen killed Gast Bibby by trapping him between two formations and striking him with Origin Lightning and the Formless Blade. Six other Chosen Ones revealed themselves and waited for the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation to run out of energy before attacking.

• Gast retreated through the Four Symbols Formation with Magic Mirror but became trapped inside the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation.
• Bai Xiaowen deactivated the inner formation, struck Gast with Origin Lightning, and killed him with the Seven Fiends Great Hand Seal and the Formless Blade.
• The Spirit Realm Rules gave Bai Xiaowen a Punishment Mark from the Shadow God and Boon Marks from the Fire God and the Elven God.
• Bai Xiaowen collected the artifact fragments that emerged from Gast's storage ring, though he could not open the ring.
• Six other Chosen Ones emerged from the gray mist and explained that they had let Gast test Bai Xiaowen and his formation.
• The Chosen Ones held back and waited for the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation to run out of energy.

Bai Xiaowen faced six opposing Chosen Ones who waited outside his formation, planning to wear him down and stop him from becoming Death God. At night, Queen Bee and Qiao Liqun arrived, and Qiao Liqun began casting a large-scale mental spell against the six.

• The six Chosen Ones decided to keep Bai Xiaowen trapped and interrupt his attempts to recover Spirit Force until his resources ran out.
• Bai Xiaowen absorbed Spirit Crystals from the Silver Throne while waiting for allies to arrive.
• Queen Bee, a Chosen One of the Fire God, emerged from the mist, but the six refused to let her pass.
• Qiao Liqun appeared and identified himself as a servant of the God of Truth, prompting the six to watch him warily.
• Qiao Liqun read from a red-covered book, then unleashed a large-scale mental spell of Disruption when the six interrupted him.

Qiao Liqun and Queen Bee helped Bai Xiaowen escape the six opposing Chosen Ones, who discovered that the figure trapped in the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation was only a puppet. Bai Xiaowen entered Death God's Castle and set out to gather the Death God Bones and ascend as the Death God.

• Qiao Liqun used his Evangelist ability to trap the six Chosen Ones in a dream and influence them with the truth in his red book.
• The turtle man prayed to the Turtle God, awakened from the dream, and used an air cannon to wake his five companions.
• Qiao Liqun and Queen Bee retreated, while the six Chosen Ones broke the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Immortal Formation and found only a puppet in Lu Wang's place.
• Bai Xiaowen revealed that he had used Death God's Power and Death God's Visage to slip past the Divine-Scion Gargoyles and enter Death God's Castle.
• Bai Xiaowen advanced through the castle, using Death God's Visage to avoid its powerful undead as he prepared to gather the Death God Bones.

Bai Xiaowen reached the hall containing the final piece of Death God Bones, only to awaken the powerful undead guarding it. He discovered that an unseen enemy controlled them with Puppet Threads and deployed his forces against their attack.

• Bai Xiaowen converted powerful undead as he explored Death God's Castle and solved its puzzles.
• Bai Xiaowen found a vast hall filled with coffins and identified the Black Coffin at its center as the resting place of the Death God's torso bones.
• Bai Xiaowen sent a Giant Bone Hound across the hall, triggering the coffins and sealing the passage behind him with a barrier of glowing runes.
• Bai Xiaowen found that Death God's Power could not control the awakened undead and sensed Puppet Threads directing them.
• The awakened undead overwhelmed and killed the Giant Bone Hound, so Bai Xiaowen formed his remaining undead into an Ironclad Formation and summoned a Death God Manifestation.

Bai Xiaowen defeated the hidden mastermind controlling the undead, claimed the final piece of Death God Bones, and completed Death God's Visage without putting it on. After Death God's Castle vanished, a planet began crashing toward Death Omen Star.

• Bai Xiaowen led his allied undead through the hall, disrupted seven hostile battle formations, and advanced toward the Black Coffin.
• Bai Xiaowen traced the Puppet Threads to their hidden mastermind, changed Death God Manifestation into an attacking stance, and killed it with a sweeping strike of the Black Scythe.
• Bai Xiaowen found Mysterious Leather and Mysterious Core where the mastermind had hidden, then reached the Black Coffin and recovered the final piece of Death God Bones.
• Death God's Visage consumed the torso bone and completed itself, but Bai Xiaowen stored the mask instead of putting it on.
• Death God's Castle vanished, and Bai Xiaowen saw a massive planet crashing toward Death Omen Star.

Bai Xiaowen escaped the Death Omen Star’s destruction with Qiao Liqun, then traveled toward the Main Hub while cultivating his two professional classics. He reached level 19 in both professions and gained the ability to project his Primordial Spirit, but he chose not to become a god yet.

• Bai Xiaowen used Position Swap repeatedly to flee the Death Omen Star’s imminent collision, but Qiao Liqun rescued him through a Spatial Rift.
• Qiao Liqun told Bai Xiaowen that the Queen Bee had already left the Death Omen Star and that many neutral deities had shifted their support to Bai Yuantang’s faction.
• Bai Xiaowen declined to become a god immediately and traveled with Qiao Liqun toward the Main Hub.
• During their two-month journey, Bai Xiaowen cultivated Taigong's Art of War and the Scripture of the Grand Void, reaching level 19 in both professions.
• Bai Xiaowen’s Scripture of the Grand Void granted him Primordial Spirit Projection, allowing his Primordial Spirit to leave his body and roam thousands of miles.

Bai Xiaowen considered how the Scripture of the Grand Void differed from the authority-based paths of the gods, and refused Qiao Liqun’s urging to become a god. On the Yellow-Sand Planet, he faced a swarm of powerful Crystal Spines guarding the Planetary Portal and began defeating them with precisely targeted lightning.

• Bai Xiaowen reflected on the difference between Law Deities and Immortals and wondered what path the Scripture of the Grand Void would lead him down.
• As Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Liqun neared the Core Starfield, Qiao Liqun said native creatures had grown hostile and urged Bai Xiaowen to become a god, but Bai Xiaowen chose to remain human.
• Bai Xiaowen used Divine Sense to locate the Planetary Portal on the Yellow-Sand Planet, then traveled there with Qiao Liqun.
• Bai Xiaowen found hundreds of Crystal Spines and more than ten Divine-Scion Tier Scorpion Queens surrounding the portal, so he tested the swarm’s defenses.
• Bai Xiaowen used War Simulation to guide Heavenly Lightning through gaps in the scorpions’ crystal plates, bypassing their spell resistance and reflection.