Chapter Summaries

After Gu Chen spent a dozen hours experiencing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s first steps, he left with Su Mengchan and encountered six masked men who had come for him. He protected the sleeping Su Mengchan inside an energy barrier as the men attacked.

• Gu Chen walked through the deserted streets at night with Su Mengchan on his back.
• The streetlights went out, and six masked men appeared ahead of Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen set Su Mengchan on a bench, covered her with his coat, and warned the masked men not to harm her.
• The masked men identified Gu Chen as their target and moved to capture him, while 06 asked what to do with Su Mengchan.
• Gu Chen shaped golden energy into a protective cocoon around Su Mengchan and the bench.

Gu Chen used his thought-sensing ability to kill six men in black, then struggled with memories stirred by the words “Heaven Mending.” Carrying Su Mengchan away, he set out to find someone who could explain his past, even if that person wanted to kill him.

• Gu Chen unleashed a palm strike that destroyed and then restored the surroundings, leaving the six men in black gone.
• Gu Chen explained that he sensed killing intent and could read his enemies’ thoughts to judge them.
• Gu Chen reacted strongly to “Heaven Mending” and tried unsuccessfully to recover his fragmented memories.
• Gu Chen reflected that his forgotten thousand years had been filled with darkness and despair, and suspected he had deliberately discarded parts of his past.
• Gu Chen melted the Light Cocoon, carried Su Mengchan on his back, and walked off to seek answers about himself.

Gu Chen returned to the inn with Su Mengchan and learned that Gu Yue had been his girlfriend. The revelation left him stunned as he struggled to process it.

• Gu Chen returned to the inn, where Cang Ming greeted him and tossed him a mysterious pink-ribboned box.
• Cang Ming hinted that the box would be useful, while Su Mengchan blushed and Gu Chen remained confused.
• On the stairs, Gu Chen asked Su Mengchan who Gu Yue was to him and explained that the name felt important.
• Su Mengchan told Gu Chen that Gu Yue was his girlfriend, leaving him shocked and speechless.

Gu Chen reflected on romance, human nature, and the decline of the Soul Beasts while settling into a room with Su Mengchan. He ended by doubting that a leader would ever emerge to guide humanity toward true equality.

• Gu Chen entered the room, showed Su Mengchan the secondary bedroom, and teased her when she accepted the arrangement without protest.
• Su Mengchan joked with Gu Chen before going to the secondary bedroom, and Gu Chen felt a warmth as he watched her leave.
• Gu Chen opened the curtain and looked out at the darkness, sensing that the apparent calm of his life hid unknown dangers.
• Gu Chen recalled how humanity had captured Soul Beasts and turned them into Soul Spirits, and questioned the ideal of equality for all.
• Gu Chen concluded that a true emperor would need to lead humanity toward a new path, but such a person would not appear barring accidents.

Gu Chen woke inside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s body and connected with her through the Power of Fate, sharing memories across timelines. Tang San’s Divine Sense avatar appeared in their Sea of Consciousness and demanded that Gu Chen leave, but Gu Chen challenged his warning.

• Gu Chen awoke in an unfamiliar place with golden, flame-covered paws and realized he had become a four-legged beast held by a beautiful woman.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s consciousness forced Gu Chen into her Sea of Consciousness, where she pressed her third eye against his forehead and connected their memories with the Power of Fate.
• Gu Chen received memories of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s life, while she was overwhelmed by a thousand years of his negative emotions and the golden ocean cracked.
• Tang San’s Divine Sense avatar appeared among the blue threads in the Sea of Consciousness and ordered Gu Chen to leave, warning that staying would declare war on God King Tang San.
• Gu Chen asked Tang San to repeat his words about declaring war.

Gu Chen defeated Tang San’s Divine Sense in the Sea of Consciousness and rescued the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Di Qiu'er. After glimpsing a clue about his own memories, he recognized her as a potential ally and she decided to place her hope in him as a future leader for the soul beasts.

• Gu Chen froze and shattered the Sea of Consciousness, then struck Tang San with a golden palm and challenged him to stop hiding.
• Tang San attacked Gu Chen with the Golden Trident’s Third Halberd, One Way Trip, and Gu Chen formed a Lightning War Spear in response.
• Gu Chen hurled the Lightning War Spear through Tang San, destroying his Divine Sense avatar and snapping the Golden Trident in two.
• Gu Chen lifted the dazed Three-Eyed Golden Lion from the sea and sensed that he needed her help to uncover a clue about himself.
• Di Qiu'er considered the memories she had gained and chose to trust Gu Chen as a possible leader who could help change the soul beasts’ future.

Di Qiu'er pushed Gu Chen away and separated them with a transparent barrier, despite the grief and hope he saw in her eyes. Before he was pulled away, Gu Chen asked about the memories he could not remember, and Di Qiu'er replied that he could accept his past self but not who he was now.

• Di Qiu'er told Gu Chen to leave and never return, then pushed him away as she transformed into the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• A transparent wall appeared between Di Qiu'er and Gu Chen, separating them as they looked at each other.
• Gu Chen saw grief, despair, and hope in Di Qiu'er's eyes, but did not understand why she felt that way.
• Gu Chen asked Di Qiu'er what she had seen in his memories and explained that he wanted to find his past.
• Di Qiu'er brought up the question, "Why does life fall into slumber!" and said Gu Chen could accept his past self but not his current self.

As Gu Chen prepared to leave, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion bound them together with a golden chain and entrusted him with the luck of the soul beasts. She asked him to save her people, leaving their alliance and her plea as he departed.

• Gu Chen reflected on why life fell asleep and prepared to leave the place where he had made memories.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion offered Gu Chen a gift before he left.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion's third eye turned red-gold, and a golden chain appeared around Gu Chen's right wrist and her body.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion entrusted Gu Chen with the soul beasts' luck, declaring their bond an alliance and her one-sided request.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion pleaded with Gu Chen to save her people.

Gu Chen realized that fate had connected him with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion across timelines in a mental world formed from Mental Power. Their conversation ended in anger when Gu Chen tried to comfort her about her death, and he lost consciousness as she lunged at him.

• Gu Chen questioned whether the encounter was a dream, then concluded he was seeing the past and recognized the Emerald Swan outside.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that the Power of Fate connected their distant timelines and that she was a reflection of the past.
• Gu Chen accepted the encounter as fate's arrangement, though the Three-Eyed Golden Lion realized he had misunderstood her explanation.
• Gu Chen remarked that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion should be dead in his timeline and offered to do what he could to help her.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion angrily insulted Gu Chen and lunged at him, causing his consciousness to vanish.

Gu Chen encountered a colossal golden eye in his Mental Power world and accepted its light after sensing its affection and sorrow. As he fell through the void, his golden chain transformed into a Heavenly Ring, his clothing became golden light armor, and a crimson-gold thread appeared in his genetic helix.

• A huge golden eye emerged through a rift and targeted Gu Chen as his consciousness departed.
• Gu Chen fought the eye's golden beam, then lowered his defenses when he sensed its tender, sorrowful gaze.
• Gu Chen fell through the void as the golden chain around his wrist began to dissipate into Light Particles.
• The Light Particles formed a golden Heavenly Ring behind Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen's clothes transformed into golden light armor as golden energy surged behind his closed eyes.
• A crimson thread appeared in Gu Chen's genetic helix alongside the gray and purple threads.

Gu Chen underwent a transformation as three powers fused, then met the Plane Will in a golden space and learned how his soul had shaped the Child of Luck. The Plane Will confirmed that Gu Chen still carried the Child of Luck’s identity and duties, then revealed that it had found him because he was its child; Gu Chen asked if it was dying.

• Three threads of power fused within Gu Chen, reshaping and strengthening his body as he fell.
• Gu Chen met the Plane Will and asked whether to call it the Plane Will, father, or mother.
• The Plane Will explained that Gu Chen’s soul and choices had shaped an embryonic mass of luck into the Child of Luck.
• The Plane Will reassured Gu Chen that his current body was a god’s body and confirmed that he still held the Child of Luck’s identity and duties.
• The Plane Will said it had found Gu Chen because he was its child, and Gu Chen asked whether it was dying.

Gu Chen learned that the Golden Ancient Tree’s destruction had left the Plane Will facing a crisis, then realized his Child of Luck status came from the Power of Fate linking past and present. He left the fading space determined to settle his conflict with Tang Hao through death.

• The Plane Will told Gu Chen that the Golden Ancient Tree was gone and that Tang Hao and Ah Yin were threatening it.
• Gu Chen offered to destroy the Golden Ancient Tree, and the Plane Will said that might only ease its crisis temporarily.
• Gu Chen understood that the Plane Will had sent him into the past through the Power of Fate, where he gained human and soul beast luck as the Imperial Auspicious Beast’s Child of Luck.
• Gu Chen realized his luck and potential had drawn the attention of powerful beings and made him a guide for the world’s civilization.
• Gu Chen declared Tang Hao his undying enemy, vanished from the space of fate, and left it to dissolve.

Gu Chen awakened the Fate Heavenly Ring and used a recovered memory to draw two beads from his palm, which merged into a gray jade disk linked to him. He suspected the disk had formed from the transformation of his eyes, but its true nature remained unknown.

• Gu Chen manifested a golden Fate Heavenly Ring whose twelve spikes extended and joined into a larger outer ring.
• Gu Chen used the ring's memory key to recover fragments of his past and find a memory he had been seeking.
• Gu Chen summoned two gray beads from his memory, and their light concealed the Fate Heavenly Ring.
• The two beads merged in Gu Chen's palm into a gray jade disk that felt like an extension of his body.
• Gu Chen reasoned that the disk might have formed from his eyes transforming before his death, but he did not know its origins.

Gu Chen named the gray artifact the Yin-Yang Fate-Reversing Disk and sent it into his eyes, then considered how the plane’s Power of Fate might have changed the past involving the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. After waking, he found Su Mengchan sitting on his stomach and asking for something.

• Gu Chen transformed the gray beads into the Yin-Yang Fate-Reversing Disk, named it, and sent it into his eyes.
• Gu Chen put away the Fate Heavenly Ring and wondered whether changing the past would alter the future.
• Gu Chen decided he needed to visit the Star Dou Forest to investigate what had happened to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Su Mengchan woke Gu Chen by sitting on his stomach and greeted him after five hours apart.
• Gu Chen teleported off the bed, leaving Su Mengchan to bounce onto it.

Gu Chen sensed an ambush in Ming Capital, escaped an explosion with Su Mengchan, and found the surrounding area mysteriously deserted. When a blood-colored Soul Tool barrier descended over the city, he smashed through it with a single punch.

• Gu Chen heard an approaching sound, grabbed Su Mengchan, and escaped through a spatial rift just before flames destroyed the inn.
• Gu Chen discovered the inn, its guests, the uncle downstairs, and the merchant caravan had vanished, along with people from nearby buildings.
• Gu Chen saw a massive blood-colored Soul Tool barrier descend over Ming Capital and wondered whether the Federation had targeted him.
• The Fate Heavenly Ring shone behind Gu Chen, and he punched a large gap through the barrier, disabling its protective function.

Gu Chen detected over three hundred people closing in with murderous intent, and his strike shattered the energy shield and exposed them. As the battle began, Su Mengchan transformed into a dragon beside him, while the chapter ended with an unrelated reflection on beauty.

• A red sphere outside the shield cracked apart, and the middle-aged man beside it spat blood after a force struck him.
• The Ring of Fate trembled, and Gu Chen sensed more than three hundred hostile people approaching as a distant voice warned that the level-eight shield could not hold him.
• Su Mengchan sensed the killing intent and offered to help Gu Chen, who insisted that he should protect her as the older one.
• Gu Chen clenched his hand and unleashed an attack that raised a mushroom cloud, shattered the force-field shields, and flattened nearby houses.
• The hidden attackers were exposed, and a battle involving more than three hundred people began as Su Mengchan transformed into a dragon and golden lightning gathered behind Gu Chen.
• An unnamed speaker remarked that beauty depended on individual understanding and that every object possessed its own unique beauty.

Gu Chen confronted an armed force led by an unidentified gray-haired elder and guessed that they were Tang Sect members who had come to resolve the Abyss. He was left facing the threat as the Abyssal Demon Dragon’s roar killed several attackers and Gu Chen considered why the Abyssal Sage King might descend.

• Gu Chen stood atop the Abyssal Demon Dragon and invited the armed force above him to talk, but the gray-haired elder refused and demanded that he pay for what he had done.
• The Abyssal Demon Dragon roared, killing several people with its sonic attack, while golden threads from Gu Chen’s Fate Heavenly Ring bound them and then snapped, turning them into blood mist.
• Gu Chen said he did not recognize the attackers and guessed they were from the Tang Sect, then asked the elder whether he was an unknown hermit or a Tang Sect Supreme Elder.
• Gu Chen concluded that the group had come to resolve the Abyss and reflected on his connection to the Void Plane, Douluo Continent, and the Plane Will.
• Gu Chen reasoned that the Abyssal Sage King’s power and the Abyss’s immense energy made the coming threat formidable, though he did not know how the Abyssal Sage King had discovered him.

Gu Chen explained how he had drawn the Abyss toward Douluo and faced an old man who realized Gu Chen knew the truth behind the disaster. Using the Power of Fate, Gu Chen declared that the old man and others would die by his hand, then killed dozens of people instantly.

• Gu Chen explained that he had opened passages between the Abyss and Douluo, allowing the Abyss to discover Douluo's location.
• The old man recognized that Gu Chen understood how the Abyss had been drawn over and suspected Gu Chen had caused it.
• Gu Chen summoned the Fate Heavenly Ring and declared that fate had sentenced the old man to die by his hand.
• Gu Chen used the Power of Fate to kill dozens of people instantly, and golden threads vanished from the Fate Heavenly Ring.

Gu Chen summoned an Abyssal Demon Dragon that sealed the battlefield, trapping Elder Mu and the others as they tried to escape. He then drew the Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear, whose swing tore open the void, while a taunting voice left someone helpless to intervene.

• An old man accused Gu Chen of using a heretical trick, but Gu Chen summoned an Abyssal Demon Dragon that surrounded the battlefield with a barrier.
• Gu Chen declared that no one who had come would leave, and Elder Mu ordered the others to flee while he held off the threat.
• Gu Chen pointed out that fleeing would abandon Ming Capital’s people, then warned that none of them would escape or resolve the conflict.
• Gu Chen pulled a purple-gold dragon-headed spear from the space within his eyes and recognized it as the Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear, though he could not remember its origin.
• Gu Chen swung the spear, shaking space and tearing open a huge rift in the void.

Gu Chen used the Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear to lock down Ming Capital and confronted the armored old man, whom he suspected knew the truth about the people pursuing him. He ordered A-Meng to kill the fleeing pursuers, but the old man intervened, and Gu Chen prepared to counter his attack.

• Gu Chen unleashed Space Lockdown, spreading purple cracks across Ming Capital and trapping the people trying to flee.
• Gu Chen ignited blood-colored flames along his spear and challenged the old man, who summoned platinum armor and agreed to fight.
• Gu Chen asked the old man for his name, but the old man said he would reveal it only if Gu Chen defeated him.
• Gu Chen asked A-Meng to pursue and kill the fleeing people, and the Abyssal Demon Dragon charged after them.
• The old man slashed at the Abyssal Demon Dragon with platinum sword energy, and Gu Chen's eyes changed as he prepared to respond.