Chapter Summaries

Su Ye gained the Causality Thread and absorbed the vast Power of Causality it released before returning to the Main World to help Old Man with urgent files. The files revealed new dangers on the Starry Sky Frontline and White Eagle’s partnership with the Warp, Demons, and Zerg.

• Su Ye bound the Causality Thread and spent half a day absorbing the Power of Causality into Causality Divinity while Lilith guarded him.
• Su Ye returned to the Main World and found Old Man waiting with more than twice as many documents as before.
• Su Ye read a report about newly emerged Rules of Horror, which authorities were investigating to determine how they worked.
• Su Ye learned that Barren Soul-Devouring Insects from another Zerg royal bloodline had joined the Starry Sky Frontline, where The Empire had deployed nine Taboos to defend against the threat.
• Su Ye read that White Eagle had formed a partnership with the Warp, Demons, and Zerg, though Old Man did not know its terms.

Su Ye finished processing the school's paperwork and received an invitation to a banquet hosted by the Gu Yue Family. Elsewhere, Abaddon arrived in a forgotten space-time seeking Little Destiny, only to discover that someone had already taken it.

• Su Ye handled the school's routine paperwork and grew frustrated with the work.
• Abaddon reached a forgotten space-time, sensed the fading aura of destiny, and realized someone had taken Little Destiny before he arrived.
• Abaddon flew into a rage and began collapsing the space-time, while Su Ye sneezed and suspected Barbatos was cursing him.
• Barbatos sensed someone plotting against him as he waited beside Ye Xiu, who remained in the midst of his evolution.
• After work, Su Ye learned the Old Man had sent him to a banquet hosted by the Gu Yue Family and accepted the invitation.

Su Ye attended the Gu Yue Family’s birthday banquet as Imperial Capital University’s representative, signaling the university’s support for the declining family. When an arrogant guest arrived with a clock as an insult, Su Ye confronted him and warned him against starting a fight.

• Old Man sent Su Ye to the Gu Yue Family’s banquet to show support and told him to deal with any trouble as he saw fit.
• Su Ye presented Old Man Gu Yue with his respects and met Gu Yue Zhong, Gu Yue Xiao, Gu Yue Yi, and Gu Yue Yong before settling in to wait.
• A man in a suit kicked open the banquet hall doors and presented Old Man Gu Yue with a clock on behalf of his family.
• Su Ye applauded, approached Old Man Gu Yue, and called the man a dumbfuck while asking which family he came from.
• The man threatened Su Ye, who warned that a fight would have serious consequences; the man searched his memory for Su Ye’s identity but did not recognize him.

Su Ye confronted the Zhong Family at Old Master Gu Yue’s birthday banquet, then encountered the Rule Anomaly Huang Lanlan on the road home. After Bionic Girl One failed to kill Huang Lanlan, Su Ye called the Old Man to join the fight.

• Su Ye identified himself to the Zhong Family man, who took his people and the bell and left.
• Su Ye reassured Old Master Gu Yue at the banquet and learned that the visitor belonged to the Zhong Family.
• Su Ye drove home and told the Longxiang to run over Huang Lanlan, who appeared as a helpless woman in the road.
• Huang Lanlan asked Su Ye whether she was beautiful, and his answer triggered her rule and revealed her true form.
• Bionic Girl One cut Huang Lanlan in half, but Su Ye discovered that she was still alive and used the All-Knowing Eye to inspect her abilities.
• Su Ye called the Old Man, who appeared beside him.

The Old Man captured Huang Lanlan and discussed the Zhong Family’s political limits with Su Ye before sending him home. Su Ye returned to his territory, spent the night with his companions, and began his daily summons the next morning.

• The Old Man trapped Huang Lanlan in a compressed space and took her back to his office with Su Ye.
• Su Ye told the Old Man about the banquet, and they discussed the Zhong Family’s ambitions and the Empire’s oversight.
• The Old Man told Su Ye to go home and return to work the next day, and Su Ye went back to his territory.
• Su Ye reflected on the growing threat from the Weird, then joined his companions by the bonfire.
• The next morning, Su Ye collected 10 million Gold Coins and a Hero Promotion Card from the Cornucopia, then took Lilith to the Wicked Summoning Hall to summon.

Su Ye noticed Tang Yun had reached Sanctuary Rank and wondered about her connection to the Scarlet Old One before going to work in the world of Rules of Horror. Meanwhile, the Evil Karma Overlord and the Blood Overlord enlisted White Eagle to help ambush the Scarlet Old One, and White Eagle began negotiating its share of the spoils.

• Su Ye sensed that Tang Yun had returned and reached Sanctuary Rank, then questioned how she had gained power so quickly and whether she was connected to the Scarlet Old One.
• Su Ye went to the Old Man's office, reviewed a report about hundreds of thousands of Rule Anomalies across The Empire, and started processing his documents.
• The Evil Karma Overlord, the Blood Overlord, and a White Eagle Taboo discussed targeting the Scarlet Old One, whom the Evil Karma Overlord hoped to devour for its Origin.
• The Evil Karma Overlord said he could temporarily ascend and hold the Scarlet Old One back while White Eagle's forces surrounded and attacked it.
• The White Eagle Taboo asked when they would strike, then proposed discussing how to divide the spoils.

Su Ye discovered that Tang Yun's bloodline concealed formidable laws, then returned to the Main World when its Luck Cocoon pulsed and learned that White Eagle had begun hunting the Scarlet Old One in Fei Kingdom. The chapter ended as the Evil Karma Overlord sublimated and attacked, while the Scarlet Old One watched calmly from his throne.

• Su Ye sensed that Tang Yun's bloodline held powerful laws, judged it comparable to Lilith's, and chose not to investigate further despite having planted the Seed of Original Sin in her.
• Su Ye noticed the Luck Cocoon throbbing, returned to the Main World, and saw Inscriptions disrupting its underlying code.
• Old Man told Su Ye that White Eagle was livestreaming its attempt to hunt the Scarlet Old One in Fei Kingdom to demonstrate its power.
• The Evil Karma Overlord and Blood Overlord arrived with eight White Eagle Taboos to confront the Scarlet Old One.
• The Evil Karma Overlord sensed that the Scarlet Old One seemed like an empty shell, then sublimated and declared that he would take the Old One's origin.
• The Scarlet Old One remained relaxed on his throne as the Evil Karma Overlord prepared to attack.

The Scarlet Old One extinguished the Evil Karma Overlord’s flame and sealed the Fei Kingdom, forcing the White Eagle’s Taboo beings to fight. He impaled one of them with a War Halberd, then asked who would be next as the remaining enemies stared at him in horror.

• The Evil Karma Overlord trapped the Fei Kingdom and attacked the Scarlet Old One with Evil Karma Flame, but the Scarlet Old One extinguished it with his own evil karma.
• The Evil Karma Overlord tried to flee, but the Scarlet Old One sealed the world and forced him and the nine Taboo beings to fight.
• The White Eagle discovered that the Supreme God had been corrupted while their livestream continued, and Meidongzong raged over their failed attempt to display the Empire’s strength.
• The Scarlet Old One hurled a War Halberd through a White Eagle Taboo being, pinning him to the ground as scarlet corruption spread through his body.
• The Scarlet Old One summoned a war spear and asked who was next, leaving the Evil Karma Overlord, the Blood Overlord, and seven other Taboo beings horrified.

The Scarlet Old One killed several Taboos with blood-red weapons, then transformed the dead into scarlet beasts to fight the survivors. Su Ye realized the Scarlet Old One was far beyond Half-Step Genesis, while the Old One judged Su Ye too weak for the coming final battle.

• The Scarlet Old One hurled a blood-red lance that ignored the Taboos' attacks and killed another Taboo, while the remaining Taboos realized the dead were transforming.
• Su Ye used the All-Knowing Eye on the Scarlet Old One and saw only question marks, then felt the Old One notice him through the livestream.
• The Scarlet Old One considered Su Ye a promising junior but decided he needed another epoch to become strong enough for the final battle.
• The Scarlet Old One shot two arrows that killed two more Taboos before the arrows had finished flying through space-time.
• The Scarlet Old One transformed the five dead Taboos into scarlet beasts, then challenged the five survivors to fight them.

Scarlet’s five Blade Beasts overwhelmed the Taboos in Fei Kingdom, revealing power that left Su Ye and the Old Man alarmed about the Empire’s safety. After the Evil Karma Overlord was surrounded and impaled, the Empire treated Fei Kingdom as a forbidden zone, while Scarlet’s intentions remained uncertain.

• Scarlet ordered the five Blade Beasts to attack the Evil Karma Overlord, the Blood Overlord, and White Eagle’s remaining Taboos.
• Su Ye and the Old Man watched the live projection and wondered who Scarlet was and whether he posed a threat to the Empire.
• The Evil Karma Overlord unleashed his evil karma, but a Blade Beast endured his attacks and repaired its damaged armor.
• Four more Blade Beasts appeared after defeating the other Taboos, and nine Blade Beasts surrounded and impaled the Evil Karma Overlord.
• The live feed froze, and Su Ye and the Old Man concluded that Fei Kingdom had become a forbidden zone.
• The Old Man told Su Ye to return while he went to see the other Old Man.

After seeing the overwhelming strength displayed in the livestream, Su Ye began creating a cultivation system that ordinary people could use. He developed half of its foundation overnight and named its first realm Spirit Awakening, but still needed to test whether people without special resources could cultivate it.

• Su Ye returned to his territory, decided to cultivate in seclusion, and went to the Palace of Origin to organize a new system.
• Su Ye chose the body as the system's foundation and experimented with using power as a seed while setting aside his own Divinity.
• Su Ye absorbed innate spiritual energy throughout the night, strengthening his body until golden Eternal Light emerged from it.
• Su Ye realized his territory's abundant treasures might have made his method unsuitable for ordinary people in the Main World.
• Su Ye named the system's first realm Spirit Awakening and planned to test it on ordinary people and his believers, but wondered where to find ordinary people.

Su Ye reviewed the Scarlet Old One’s arrival and the loss of eight White Eagle Taboos, then told Old Man that the Scarlet Old One seemed to be waiting for something. The chapter left Su Ye uncertain about what the Scarlet Old One wanted, but worried that obtaining it could overturn the Main World.

• Su Ye completed his daily tasks, received another Little Destiny, and returned to the Main World.
• Su Ye went to Old Man’s office and examined intelligence showing the Scarlet Old One seated among ten Taboo-level Scarlet Blade Beasts.
• Old Man told Su Ye that eight of White Eagle’s native Taboos had died and that White Eagle had buried the incident beneath domestic entertainment news.
• Su Ye observed that the Scarlet Old One had stayed in the Fei Kingdom after visiting The Empire and suggested he was waiting for something.
• Su Ye reasoned that the Scarlet Old One was not waiting for Little Destiny and feared the Main World would be turned upside down if he got what he sought.

The Seven Divine Pillars discussed the Scarlet Old One, the Empire’s dangers, and the need to recall those searching for fragments of past history. Yelokiji then met the Dao Gu Clan’s ancient ancestor, who revealed that his victory in the Previous Epoch had not healed the wound left by his rival.

• The First Divine Pillar said the Empire should avoid offending the Scarlet Old One and prepare for the threat despite knowing little about him.
• The Divine Pillars discussed the incomplete revival of another figure, the ancient clan’s awareness, and recalling those searching for fragments of past history.
• Yelokiji entered the Dao Gu Realm and went to meet the clan’s ancestor.
• Yelokiji asked about what happened in Purgatory, and the ancestor said he knew because his old rival had underestimated him.
• Yelokiji pointed out that the ancestor’s wound from the Previous Epoch remained unhealed, while the ancestor said Yelokiji did not understand and had left behind what he won for the world.

Yelokiji learned that the Dao Gu Clan’s ancestor was reviving and that the clan’s old man was withering under the weight of a horrifying secret, so he abandoned plans to ally with them. Meanwhile, Ye Xiu fled a Demon tide with Barbatos, and Su Ye finished work only to discover Old Man would not pay him.

• Yelokiji learned that the Dao Gu Clan’s ancestor had slaughtered their pure-blooded race and was expected to return in this epoch.
• The old man revealed that he knew the ancestor was reviving, but his decayed body and inner turmoil left him unable to act; Yelokiji decided the Dao Gu Clan was doomed and left.
• Barbatos told Ye Xiu that his blood made him Ye Xiu’s father in name, and Ye Xiu attacked him for turning him into a Demon.
• Barbatos admitted that he had stolen around a hundred million soul crystals, bringing a Demon tide after them, and Ye Xiu fled with him.
• Su Ye asked Old Man for his salary after finishing work, but Old Man refused and threatened to hit him instead.

Su Ye sent Huo Wenyue his unfinished Spirit Awakening method, while Yelokiji returned to the Main World and encountered the Scarlet Old One. The Scarlet Old One noticed Yelokiji spying from the Warp and struck him with Scarlet light.

• Su Ye complained to Old Man about working without pay, and Old Man ordered him to double his documents the next day.
• Su Ye sent his Spirit Awakening system to Huo Wenyue, who received it as a divine oracle and began cultivating it.
• Su Ye decided not to share his unfinished method with ordinary people yet and went to swim in Sun Moon Star Light Lake.
• Yelokiji returned to the Main World, searched a passerby's memories, and recognized the Scarlet figure in the Fei Kingdom as an existence resembling the Dao Gu Clan's inherited portraits.
• Yelokiji fled into the Warp after the Scarlet Old One sensed him, and he realized that he had been polluted by merely looking at it.
• The Scarlet Old One observed Yelokiji in the Warp and caused Scarlet light to erupt from his body.

Yelokiji was afflicted by the Scarlet Old One’s power after seeing his memories, while the Scarlet Old One watched from the Main World in a fragile vessel. In Su Ye’s territory, Keisha returned with billions of converted believers, and after completing his daily tasks, Su Ye began recruiting a new hero.

• Scarlet patterns spread across Yelokiji in the Warp, and the other Warp Lords sensed his terrifying transformation.
• The Scarlet Old One observed the Warp from the Fei Kingdom, noted that his vessel was cracking, and waited for certain things to appear.
• Keisha returned to Su Ye’s territory and reported that believers in two worlds had become four kinds of Holy Spirit units, numbering several tens of billions.
• Su Ye welcomed Keisha, celebrated with her and his followers, and recovered the next morning after a night of passion.
• Su Ye completed his daily tasks, collected four Little Destinies, and brought Keisha and Lilith to the Hero Temple to recruit a new hero.

Su Ye recruited Orianna, a God-Level Hero Unit who could control rules, then returned to the Main World and went to work for Old Man. Meanwhile, the Scarlet Old One awaited approaching enemies, and the Dao Gu Clan ancestor ordered his people to flee to the Land of Eternity.

• Su Ye recruited Orianna, checked her attributes, and introduced her to Lilith and Keisha before returning to the Main World.
• Su Ye sensed someone looking toward him, then went to Old Man's office and reluctantly began processing a doubled stack of documents.
• The Scarlet Old One opened its eyes in the Fei Kingdom, sensed that others were coming, and declared that it was time to reveal the real enemy.
• The Dao Gu Clan ancestor gathered his powerful clan members and told them to leave their world for the Land of Eternity.
• The Dao Gu Clan ancestor told the stunned clan members that they were going to the Land of Eternity to flee, not to join the Era War.

The ancestor of the Dao Gu Clan ordered his people to flee as nine innate divinities arrived to claim him as a sacrifice. After revealing his ancestral form, he confronted their leader in battle, leaving the fate of the Dao Gu World uncertain.

• The ancestor warned the Dao Gu Clan that a calamity was coming and ordered everyone to escape immediately.
• After the clan members departed, the ancestor remained behind as sacred patterns spread across his body.
• Nine Genesis-level innate divinities emerged from a rift and found the Dao Gu World nearly empty.
• The divinities called the ancestor a sacrifice and dismissed the Dao Gu Clan as inferior acquired creatures.
• The ancestor reverted to his ancestral form and met the leader’s Heavenly Halberd with his battle sword.

The ancestor of the Dao Gu Clan fought nine creation-level innate deities while Su Ye sensed a threat looming over the Main World. After receiving alarming buffs and two Substitute Death Puppets, Su Ye returned and learned that the Dao Gu Clan was negotiating to enter the Main World.

• The ancestor of the Dao Gu Clan split the leading innate deity's body with a sword and mocked the innate deities for relying on their bloodlines.
• Nine innate deities attacked the ancestor of the Dao Gu Clan with their Great Daos.
• Su Ye returned to his territory, learned that Orianna had gone to the Silver Demon World, and drank with Lilith and Keisha.
• The next morning, Su Ye found powerful survival buffs and two Substitute Death Puppets among his rewards, and concluded that a major threat was approaching the Main World.
• Su Ye returned to the Main World and went to Old Man's office, where Old Man showed him a document about the Dao Gu Clan negotiating with The Empire to enter the Main World.

Su Ye learned that the Dao Gu Clan, victors of the Previous Epoch, had fled their ancestral world for refuge in The Empire, though no one knew what had forced them to leave. The Scarlet Old One identified the clan’s Sacred Marks as Hunting Marks and Sacrificial Marks and connected them to the clan’s progenitors, Dao Wu and Gu Heng.

• Su Ye asked Old Man about the Dao Gu Clan, and Old Man explained that they had won the Previous Epoch but came to the Main World to seek refuge.
• Old Man said The Empire knew the Dao Gu Clan faced a major problem but did not know what had happened to their world, while Su Ye resolved to focus on growing stronger.
• The Empire debated whether to admit the Dao Gu Clan, whose decision to abandon their ancestral land suggested they faced a grave threat.
• The Scarlet Old One examined the Dao Gu Clan’s Sacred Marks and recognized them as Hunting Marks and Sacrificial Marks.
• The Scarlet Old One identified Dao Wu and Gu Heng as the Dao Gu Clan’s true progenitors, the Innate Sacred Gods and Origin Deities.