Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen defeated the old man, whose attack had helped unleash the Abyssal Demon Dragon against the continent's people. He bound the old man's soul and questioned it about its past, ending with a grim warning about the fate of those who expected to win.

• Gu Chen shattered the old man's sword energy and told him he had lost after devastating his body.
• Gu Chen said the old man might have lasted longer if he had faced him directly, but had chosen to protect others instead.
• Gu Chen watched the Abyssal Demon Dragon slaughter the continent's people and said the old man should have waited for someone to guide their path.
• Gu Chen used the Fate Heavenly Ring to pull the old man's soul from his body and branded its forehead.
• The old man's soul recounted its story, then said its group had expected to win; Gu Chen replied that the last person who claimed victory had been split in half.

Gu Chen discovered that the old man's camera had livestreamed the incident and used the broadcast to demand public apologies from everyone involved, threatening to kill them all. The stream's millions of viewers doubted he could carry out his threat.

• The old man told Gu Chen that his camera system had been livestreaming the entire time and that the people who sent him were watching.
• Gu Chen checked the trending searches and opened the livestream, where viewers speculated that the girl was a Ferocious Beast.
• Gu Chen removed the camera from the old man's badge and addressed the livestream audience directly.
• Gu Chen demanded that everyone involved step forward and apologize or die, then declared that all of them would be killed.
• Millions of viewers watched, but many doubted that Gu Chen could kill them all.

Gu Chen crushed the livestream camera, absorbed Elder Mu’s soul into the Fate Heavenly Ring, and reunited with Su Mengchan after she burned their enemies. When Su Mengchan asked about their shared memories, Gu Chen recalled much of their past but faltered over the origin of her surname.

• Gu Chen crushed the metal camera, while viewers reacted in disbelief to his strength and wondered whether he was a god or a reincarnated deity.
• Gu Chen drew Elder Mu’s soul into the Fate Heavenly Ring and inspected the faint mark left by the elder’s attack.
• Su Mengchan descended in human form and told Gu Chen she was unharmed and had burned their enemies.
• Su Mengchan asked whether Gu Chen remembered their shared memories, and he said he had recalled a large part of them.
• Gu Chen explained how he had chosen the name Su Mengchan, then struggled to remember why he had given her the surname Su.

Gu Chen and Su Mengchan left the ruined city aboard Gu Chen’s adolescent Chaos Ancient Beast. After its deafening roar forced Gu Chen to silence it, the beast carried them away at great speed, while Gu Chen continued on a journey he seemed destined to walk alone.

• Gu Chen told Su Mengchan they had to leave because some people did not want them to stay, and she agreed that wherever he went was home.
• Gu Chen summoned the adolescent Chaos Ancient Beast from his Double Pupils, and he and Su Mengchan climbed onto its back.
• The Chaos Ancient Beast roared, hurting Su Mengchan’s sensitive hearing, until Gu Chen ordered it to stop.
• Gu Chen told the beast to go, and it carried him and Su Mengchan away from the city in less than a minute.
• The beast passed an armored vehicle without its occupants noticing, as Gu Chen continued his solitary journey.

Gu Chen and Su Mengchan reached Chaos City, Butian Sect’s heavily guarded outpost in the Far North, seeking a way back to the Void Plane and something else. At the gate, a guard aimed a transformed shotgun at them until someone shouted for him to stand down, while an online post revealed a picture to the person who had been looking for it.

• Gu Chen told Su Mengchan that Chaos City was Butian Sect’s external headquarters and explained its remote location and defenses against the Abyss.
• Gu Chen said they had come to return to the Void Plane and look for something, then set off toward the city with Su Mengchan following.
• The Chaos Ancient Beast turned into gray mist and vanished as Gu Chen and Su Mengchan crossed the deep snow toward Chaos City.
• City defenses locked onto Gu Chen and Su Mengchan, and a guard confronted them with a transformed shotgun.
• Someone shouted for the guard to stand down and addressed Gu Chen as Sect Master.
• A picture appeared on the constantly updating internet, and the person who wanted to see it saw it.

A silver-haired girl saw a young man on a phone screen and felt an inexplicable familiarity that made her cry. She summoned Di Tian, gave him the phone, then decided to seek out the source of the feeling herself.

• The silver-haired girl watched the young man on her phone and felt pain, warmth, and tears as she struggled to understand why he seemed familiar.
• The silver-haired girl summoned Di Tian, who appeared before her and knelt respectfully.
• The silver-haired girl tossed Di Tian the phone, and he reacted with shock when he saw its screen before taking it and leaving.
• The silver-haired girl wondered who the young man resembled, then vanished and decided to find him herself.

Gu Chen and Su Mengchan met Liu Yu in his office, where Liu Yu questioned Gu Chen about his return and the trouble surrounding him. Gu Chen confirmed that he would stay and that the Abyss was involved, leaving Liu Yu aware of the danger but without further answers.

• Gu Chen and Su Mengchan rode the elevator to Liu Yu's office and entered together.
• Gu Chen sat across from Liu Yu, and the two waited in silence before Gu Chen asked about Liu Yu's health.
• Liu Yu asked whether Gu Chen was truly alive, and Gu Chen said he was alive and doing well.
• Liu Yu asked when Gu Chen would return, and Gu Chen promised he would not leave again.
• Liu Yu raised the trouble Gu Chen had gotten into and asked whether it involved the Abyss, which Gu Chen confirmed.

Gu Chen told Liu Yu that he had brought the abyss’s arrival forward and would keep moving ahead, using it until he could eliminate the threats it posed. He left with Su Mengchan, promising to protect her and bear the consequences himself, but ended the chapter unable to clearly remember whether he had forgotten Tang Wulin or Xie Xie.

• Liu Yu warned Gu Chen to avoid the abyss, and Gu Chen explained that its arrival was unavoidable and that his actions had only hastened it.
• Gu Chen reflected that he had intended to set the Abyssal Sage King against Tang San, believing the two would eventually fight.
• Gu Chen declared that he would not turn back and would keep advancing until he erased everything that threatened him.
• Gu Chen took Liu Yu’s teapot and left the office with Su Mengchan, leaving Liu Yu to complain about losing it.
• Su Mengchan urged Gu Chen not to bear the abyss’s consequences alone, but he insisted he would resolve the threat and still needed to use the abyss.
• Gu Chen continued down the corridor, determined to protect Su Mengchan, then wondered whether he had forgotten Tang Wulin or Xie Xie.

Gu Chen met a timid boy who said he had come to find him and called him “my lord.” Gu Chen recognized the purple and gray flash in the boy’s eyes and realized he was Void.

• Gu Chen noticed a little boy following him through the snowy street and asked what he wanted.
• The boy said he knew Gu Chen and had come to find him, so Gu Chen brought him to a restaurant to warm up.
• Gu Chen questioned the boy about his identity and why he had called him “my lord.”
• The boy respectfully addressed Gu Chen as his lord, and Gu Chen recognized the flash in his eyes as a sign that he was Void.

Gu Chen met the newly conscious boy who had come to take him back, accepted him as his younger brother, and named him Gu Tian. Three days later, Gu Chen, Gu Tian, and Su Mengchan settled into a household routine, though Gu Chen seemed distracted at breakfast.

• The boy told Gu Chen that his will had awakened only days earlier and that he had come to take his master back.
• The boy recalled first sensing Gu Chen three years ago, then feeling lonely after Gu Chen left two years ago, and asked whether Gu Chen had been well.
• Gu Chen offered the boy his hand, accepted him, and named him Gu Tian, his little brother.
• Three days later, Gu Chen threw Gu Tian and Su Mengchan out of his bedroom, telling them the bed was too small for three people and warning them not to cling to the window at night.
• Su Mengchan prepared porridge for the three of them, and she asked Gu Chen what was wrong when he barely touched his bowl.

Gu Chen left Su Mengchan and Gu Tian to confront Di Tian, whom he recognized as the Golden Eye Black Dragon King. After blasting Di Tian out of hiding, Gu Chen demanded to know why he had come.

• Gu Chen told Su Mengchan he needed to go out, finished his porridge, and vanished from the chair.
• Di Tian hid near Chaos City and agonized over whether to obey his lord’s dangerous mission.
• Gu Chen emerged from a spatial fissure behind Di Tian and recognized him as the Golden Eye Black Dragon King.
• Gu Chen struck Di Tian with overwhelming pressure, blasting him out of hiding and into the ground.
• Di Tian rose unharmed, then stared in disbelief when he saw that Gu Chen was still alive.
• Gu Chen descended on golden energy steps with the Fate Heavenly Ring behind him and asked Di Tian why he had come.

Di Tian revealed that Gu Chen had lost a bloodline, triggering fragments of a forgotten memory and the realization that one of his companions from Eastsea City was missing from his recollections. When Gu Chen demanded to know his lord’s name, Di Tian attacked and tried to escape, but Gu Chen remained unharmed.

• Di Tian recognized Gu Chen and explained that he had seen him before, though Gu Chen could not remember meeting him.
• Di Tian said Gu Chen had lost his bloodline, prompting Gu Chen to struggle with the sense that he had forgotten something important.
• Gu Chen recalled that five people had left Eastsea City together but could remember only three others, then demanded to know Di Tian’s lord’s name.
• Di Tian attacked Gu Chen with a dragon claw and tried to flee through spatial rifts.
• Gu Chen stood still as the dragon claw struck him, but it rebounded and left his skin unharmed.

Gu Chen overpowered Di Tian and launched a causality-infused spear attack, but a mysterious silver light broke through the Fate Heavenly Ring and carried Di Tian away. Gu Chen recognized a familiar face in the rescuer and was left wondering at the sense of kinship it stirred in him.

• Gu Chen smashed Di Tian into a deep canyon and followed him down as the injured dragon struggled to survive.
• Gu Chen decided to kill Di Tian and read his soul memories instead of questioning him.
• Gu Chen summoned the Fate Heavenly Ring and sent a blood-colored dragon spear at Di Tian, binding the attack with the Law of Causality.
• A silver light broke through the barrier, seized Di Tian, and escaped through the collapsing space.
• Gu Chen saw a familiar face in the silver light and felt as though he had encountered family.

Gu Chen caught up with Di Tian and the silver-haired girl after they fled the Far North, and the two strangers recognized a curious familiarity in each other. The chapter ended with Gu Chen and Gu Yuena asking what names they should use for each other.

• Gu Chen retrieved his spear and pursued the silver-haired girl as she carried Di Tian away at extraordinary speed.
• The silver-haired girl set Di Tian down in an icebound forest, where he asked whether he could retire after the Soul Beasts revived.
• Gu Chen appeared before them, and his aura no longer carried the same intense killing intent.
• Gu Chen and the silver-haired girl both said they looked familiar but did not know each other.
• The silver-haired girl introduced herself as Gu Yuena, and Gu Chen gave his name; they then questioned how to address each other.

Gu Chen tried to begin a conversation with Gu Yuena about cooperation between humans and Soul Beasts, but she challenged his authority and questioned why she should trust him. The chapter ended with Gu Chen urging her to hear his proposal, arguing that sufficient benefits could outweigh their distrust.

• Gu Chen set aside the question of what to call him and suggested that he and Gu Yuena talk about Soul Beast affairs.
• Gu Yuena asked whether Gu Chen could represent humanity, and he clarified that he spoke only for himself and hoped to cooperate with her.
• Gu Yuena questioned what gave Gu Chen the right to cooperate and reminded him that humans had persecuted Soul Beasts; she also glanced at Di Tian.
• Gu Chen asked Gu Yuena to give him a chance to earn some trust, but she rejected the idea and said she had always hated humans.
• Gu Chen asked Gu Yuena to hear his proposal and argued that sufficiently great benefits could resolve their concerns about trust.

Gu Chen offered to help Gu Yuena recover the Dragon God Core, Dragon Clan Dharma Blade, and Dragon God Pillar in exchange for her aid when he counterattacked the God Realm. Gu Yuena accepted and formed a blood oath with him, then followed him through a portal to an unknown destination.

• Gu Chen told Gu Yuena he knew where to find three parts of the Dragon God's legacy and offered to help her counterattack the God Realm.
• Gu Yuena challenged Gu Chen's terms, but he pointed out the threats posed by the returning God Realm, the Abyss, and humanity.
• Gu Yuena agreed to his conditions and proposed a blood oath covenant to bind them both.
• Gu Chen accepted the blood seal, and the covenant restricted both sides while allowing them to share power under certain circumstances.
• Gu Chen opened a portal to another place and went through; after hesitating, Gu Yuena followed, determined to reclaim the Dragon Clan's inheritance.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena traveled to Chaos City and discussed the God Realm, Huo Yuhao, and the Soul Beast race’s decline. On the 66th floor, Gu Chen found a strange double-ended spear that drew Gu Yuena’s attention.

• Gu Yuena and Gu Chen left the Icebound Forest through a passage and arrived in Chaos City.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena rode an elevator to a towering building while discussing Tang San and Gu Yuena’s limited knowledge of the God Realm.
• Gu Yuena explained that Di Tian had been dormant for ten thousand years after his injuries in the ancient war.
• Gu Chen wondered whether Huo Yuhao might have become an ally and lamented the Soul Beast race’s near-extinction.
• Gu Chen found a nearly three-meter-long, double-ended spear in a storage box on the 66th floor, and Gu Yuena reacted with surprise.

Gu Chen merged Gu Yuena’s Silver Dragon Spear with the two-colored spear, then stored the changing weapon in the Fate Heavenly Ring. Exhausted, he disappeared to rest, leaving Gu Yuena to find a room on her own.

• Gu Yuena refused the two-colored spear because it had already acknowledged Gu Chen as its master, and Gu Chen revealed that he could sense other similar weapons far away.
• Gu Yuena gave Gu Chen the Silver Dragon Spear, and he recognized it, took it from her, and merged it into the two-colored spear.
• Gu Chen stored the mutating spear in the Fate Heavenly Ring and told Gu Yuena to find a room before vanishing to rest.
• Gu Yuena went to the third floor, entered a room without a keycard by phasing through the door, and took a shower.

Gu Yuena briefly recalled her past with the person bound to her by a contract, but her memories faded again. Elsewhere, Gu Chen received the Silver Dragon Spear and the Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear, whose power restored memories and unleashed Destruction energy within him.

• Gu Yuena's memories of her time with the person she called “Brother” briefly returned before she lost them again.
• Gu Yuena left the bathtub, dried herself with fire elemental power, and complained that her towel was too short.
• Gu Chen caught the Silver Dragon Spear and compared its power with the fused dragon spear of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.
• Gu Chen summoned the Fate Heavenly Ring, which produced the Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear before disappearing.
• Gu Chen cut his finger with the spear, absorbed his blood back, and received memories of the Purple Desolation Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon as Destruction energy surged through him.

After recovering his memories as Gu Chen, the exhausted child reached Shrek City and was let inside after claiming that Evil Soul Masters had attacked his village. Leng Yaozhu recognized him as a child who had run away and offered to take him home.

• Gu Chen sorted through vivid memories from his past and accepted Gu Chen as his name in this new life.
• After traveling through forests and wastelands for more than ten hours, Gu Chen reached Shrek City's walls and searched for an entrance.
• Gu Chen claimed that Evil Soul Masters had invaded his village, and Shrek's guards let him enter while remaining doubtful of his story.
• Leng Yaozhu brought Gu Chen onto the city wall and identified herself as a deputy pagoda master of the Spirit Pagoda.
• Leng Yaozhu assumed Gu Chen had run away to see Shrek and offered to take him home.