Chapter Summaries

The Faceless Man discussed the demigod creatures and possible future cooperation with the Mystic Tortoise, who decided to find a new hiding place. Bai Fu prepared for a banquet and planned to bring Su Ze because she had divined a threat to her, while Nan Xi learned Chi Zhiyuan might soon have a romantic fate.

• The Faceless Man left after suggesting that the Mystic Tortoise might be useful as an ally, and he wondered whether she had gained power connected to the Ancient God Hall.
• Nan Xi tried to persuade Bai Fu to secretly watch Jing Yue, but Bai Fu saw through her scheme and advised her to focus on Chi Zhiyuan.
• Bai Fu told Nan Xi that Chi Zhiyuan would soon have a romantic fate, though she could not divine its details because Chi Zhiyuan possessed demigod power.
• Bai Fu chose an evening gown for the banquet and planned to bring Su Ze because she had foreseen a threat against herself that night.
• Bai Fu and Nan Xi arrived at the study in Suzhou City, where Qin Yushi complained that people they had helped had taken their kindness for granted.

Qin Yushi and Nan Xi discussed the coming Gate of Another World disaster and the public’s skepticism about Su Ze’s dream-trial guide. At Su University, Su Ze helped Tang Xinnuo settle a family dispute, but her attempt to flirt with him was interrupted by Qin Yushi.

• Qin Yushi told Nan Xi and Bai Fu that people were questioning the dream-trial guide and that Su Ze had warned the Gate of Another World would erupt the day after tomorrow.
• Bai Fu said Su Ze had issued the warning according to his mood, and Nan Xi and Qin Yushi teased her about understanding him.
• Su Ze watched as Tang Xinnuo scolded her parents over her father’s near-affair and told them not to bring such problems to her again.
• Su Ze reassured Tang Xinnuo that her father had not acted on his temptation, though he might have done so if she had returned later.
• Tang Xinnuo crouched in front of Su Ze to flirt with him, then saw Qin Yushi standing there and realized she was in trouble.

Qin Yushi teased Tang Xinnuo over trying to seduce Su Ze, while Bai Fu discussed the Gate of Another World and the evening banquet with Su Ze. Before heading out to handle business, Bai Fu let Chen Keqing style her for the occasion, leaving Chen Keqing under the impression that she and Su Ze were going on a date.

• Qin Yushi warned Tang Xinnuo not to pursue Su Ze without reporting to the official wife, and offered to put in a good word if Tang Xinnuo served her well.
• Bai Fu asked Su Ze about the Demigod-grade Gate of Another World, and Su Ze reassured her that he could protect those around him.
• Bai Fu told Su Ze that her divination suggested Chi Zhiyuan had good romantic luck ahead, and Su Ze asked what she would offer in exchange for the information.
• Chen Keqing took Bai Fu to the dressing rooms after dinner and helped her choose an evening gown for the banquet.
• Bai Fu realized Chen Keqing thought she and Su Ze were going on a date, but chose not to correct her before calling Su Ze to leave.

Matilda sent the Black Mist Knight to assassinate Bai Fu, but the creature became loyal to Bai Fu because of its beauty and Su Ze destroyed it. Su Ze then shared sake with Bai Fu by the railing, while the Star Alliance banquet continued.

• Matilda ordered the Black Mist Knight to kill Bai Fu after deciding to use it to seize power.
• Su Ze and Bai Fu received applause after dancing and headed toward the platinum seats.
• The Black Mist Knight appeared before Bai Fu but knelt to her, breaking its connection with Matilda.
• Su Ze remotely crushed Matilda and destroyed the Black Mist Knight, adding it to the Old Days Museum.
• Su Ze and Bai Fu shared sake by the stone railing as he held her close.

Su Ze told Bai Fu that Chi Zhiyuan would face a dangerous Time Travel event tied to the Ancient God Hall, whose true target was him, and that the Faceless Man might strike at any time. The Faceless Man then attacked Bai Fu, who escaped the initial blast and prepared to fight back.

• Su Ze admitted he had secretly listened to the women around him and promised Bai Fu a selection of Mythical Grade Word Spirit Techniques.
• Bai Fu asked about Chi Zhiyuan, and Su Ze said the Ancient God Hall would likely send her through Time Travel to recover memories and encounter danger while targeting him.
• Bai Fu asked whether Demigod Authorities carried curses, but the surroundings distorted before Su Ze could answer.
• The Faceless Man appeared in an illusion and detonated a blast beneath Bai Fu, who escaped a thousand meters away unharmed with her scepter.
• The Faceless Man blamed Chi Zhiyuan for failing to kill Bai Fu, then attacked her through a black hole.

Bai Fu fought the Faceless Man until Su Ze shattered the illusion and defeated him, then discussed whether Demigod Authority could carry a curse. The next day, Su Ze, Bai Fu, and Chi Zhiyuan prepared for the Faceless Man’s expected attack and discussed Dr. Gales’s discovery about the Elder Ones’ ruins.

• Bai Fu traded attacks with the Faceless Man, who revealed a Divine Relic and launched a relentless assault.
• Su Ze entered the illusion, destroyed it, and crushed the Faceless Man, then asked Bai Fu whether Demigod Authority might have affected Tao Yaoyao’s emotions.
• On Day 159, Bai Fu briefed Chi Zhiyuan about the Faceless Man’s possible attack and the time-travel plot targeting her.
• Chi Zhiyuan reported that Dr. Gales had invited the company to cooperate after discovering the Elder Ones’ ruins were built in White Space and connected to Parallel Blue Stars through nodes.

Su Ze assigned Dr. Zhu Que to handle the company's collaboration with Dr. Gales and discussed the advancement path his powers could provide. Meanwhile, Chi Zhiyuan was pulled through a violent collapse of time and space and regained consciousness in an unknown place.

• Su Ze told Chi Zhiyuan to send Dr. Zhu Que to work with Dr. Gales on exploring the Elder Ones' ruins.
• Su Ze and Bai Fu discussed the Word Spirit Techniques and the limits of the power he could grant his followers.
• Su Ze left to deal with Chi Zhiyuan's situation, while Chi Zhiyuan arranged the company's response to Dr. Gales.
• Luo Ning'er told Chi Zhiyuan that a mysterious person had warned her that Abel was still alive.
• Before Chi Zhiyuan could contact Su Ze, time and space collapsed around her and swallowed her consciousness.
• Chi Zhiyuan awoke after an unknown passage through space, dazed and in pain.

Chi Zhiyuan traveled into her childhood memories and discovered her family manor had been destroyed by masked enemies. Su Ze arrived in time to save her, and the two began exploring the fantasy world where she was born.

• Chi Zhiyuan woke in a child's body inside her family's hidden underground passage and realized the manor was under attack.
• Chi Zhiyuan emerged to find the manor burned and her family and servants dead, then masked enemies returned and threatened her.
• Su Ze appeared and killed the masked attackers with a blast before they could harm Chi Zhiyuan.
• Su Ze said the world was a fantasy realm and that his powers remained intact, then picked up Chi Zhiyuan and teased her by biting her cheek.

Su Ze revived Chi Zhiyuan’s family, then disappeared as she was about to reunite with them. Chi Zhiyuan arrived at a later point in time, where she faced a flood dragon and discovered two conflicting sets of memories.

• Su Ze used Fallen Gift to revive Chi Zhiyuan’s family and warned that he had seen four points in time.
• Chi Zhiyuan hesitated to return to the manor, but Qingyun Sect reinforcements arrived and found her alone after Su Ze vanished.
• Chi Zhiyuan fell into the second point in time and fought a phantom flood dragon as the final trial for the Sword Saint’s inheritance.
• Chi Zhiyuan realized she had two vivid versions of her past: one where her family died and another where Su Ze saved them.
• Su Ze spoke beside Chi Zhiyuan, questioning whether she could still tell which set of memories was real.

Su Ze and Chi Zhiyuan reunited in successive time nodes within the Sword Saint Inheritance Ground, where her refreshed memories made her increasingly attached to him. In the third node, Chi Zhiyuan became Qingyun Sect Master, and Su Ze kissed her as they explored their intimacy.

• Su Ze told Chi Zhiyuan that her revived family existed only within the time nodes and suspected the inheritance ground contained scattered Demigod Authority.
• Chi Zhiyuan asked Su Ze not to disappear again, and he estimated their first time node had less than a minute remaining.
• Chi Zhiyuan tried to record their meeting before the node ended and she fell into the third time node.
• Su Ze found Chi Zhiyuan at Qingyun Sect, where she had become Sect Master and reached the middle stage of Mythical Grade.
• Chi Zhiyuan questioned her feelings and memories while Su Ze teased her, then he sat beside her and kissed her.

Chi Zhiyuan and Su Ze watched the continent be erased by the battle between True Gods, while Su Ze rescued Qingyun Sect and Chi Zhiyuan’s family estate into the independent world. As Su Ze defended their refuge from the divine aftershock, the Faceless Man attacked him with a Divine Power Chain, but he killed her without being harmed.

• Chi Zhiyuan realized she had become the new Sword Saint and reached peak Mythical Grade while seeking a Deity’s recognition for her Demigod Authority.
• Su Ze showed Chi Zhiyuan the continent collapsing under the aftermath of a battle between True Gods.
• Su Ze used God Summoning and Advent Talent to move Qingyun Sect and Chi Zhiyuan’s family estate into the independent world.
• A demigod tried to save the continent, but a Deity erased the continent and killed the demigod with a precise strike.
• The Faceless Man struck Su Ze with a Divine Power Chain, but it had no effect, and Su Ze killed her with the Guardian God Phantom.

After returning from the time nodes, Chi Zhiyuan compared her old and revised memories and wondered whether the past had truly changed. Su Ze teased her about their relationship, and they agreed the revised memories felt more real, though they could not tell what changes would follow; in Avalon, Chen Keqing proposed that everyone help plan its next expansion.

• Chi Zhiyuan recalled that the revised memories showed Su Ze saving the sect from destruction, while her old memories ended with its ruin, and she wondered which version was real.
• Chi Zhiyuan panicked when she could no longer sense Su Ze, but he revealed he had deliberately blocked their connection to tease her.
• Su Ze and Chi Zhiyuan discussed how real the revised memories felt and whether the changes to the past would alter the future.
• Chi Zhiyuan left the office to sort through her memories and avoid letting their flirting go further there.
• In Avalon, Chen Keqing suggested that everyone help design the layout for Su Ze's planned expansion.

Chen Keqing playfully asserted her authority as Su Ze’s principal wife, while Su Ze reviewed a new simulation that revealed an approaching crisis and an unusual single path in the Mythical Stage. The chapter ended with Su Ze and Chen Keqing teasing each other in bed as they discussed his bond with Chi Zhiyuan and the possibility of having a child.

• Chen Keqing announced that the women in the living room could not get into Su Ze’s bed for three days, extending Qi Xiaoye’s ban to seven days after she protested.
• Chen Keqing asked Bai Fu about her passionate night with Su Ze, and Bai Fu teased that Su Ze did not like Chen Keqing enough.
• On Day 160, Su Ze reviewed a ten-day simulation showing a near-term minor crisis, increased anomalous activity, and his likely advancement in the Mythical Stage the next day.
• Su Ze worried that the single path awaiting him in the dark space might carry an unknown message, despite its promise of letting him decipher Transcendent Grade and Mythical Grade Word Spirit Techniques.
• Chen Keqing woke beside Su Ze, reminded him of her three-day exclusivity rule, and became jealous as they discussed his long simulated relationship with Chi Zhiyuan.
• Chen Keqing suggested giving Su Ze a child, and they joked together as he prepared to get up.

Dr. Yucuriri began breaking the seals on a massive Gate of Another World and killed the man whose basement concealed it. After reading Dr. Gales's appeal to work with Su Ze, Yucuriri wavered but decided the chain-breaking could not be stopped and that he might still win.

• Dr. Yucuriri revealed a Gate of Another World sealed beneath the old white man's basement and broke its first chain.
• Dr. Yucuriri killed the old white man and said it was time to begin.
• Dr. Yucuriri met Mystic Tortoise, confirmed the Faceless Man was dead, and hinted that he knew Mystic Tortoise had sought out other demigods.
• Dr. Yucuriri read Dr. Gales's email saying that Su Ze was on their side and that they did not need to be enemies.
• Dr. Yucuriri turned his anomalous ring and concluded that the chains could not be stopped from breaking, though he might still win.

As the Gate of Another World’s chains began breaking faster and their sounds killed survivors, Su Ze moved people close to him to safety and went to confront Dr. Yucuriri. The sixth chain had broken, leaving only one chain sealing the Gate, and Dr. Yucuriri appeared before Su Ze.

• Su Ze watched the Antlered Girl in the Old Days Museum while Qi Xiaoye teased him and tried to persuade him to break her seven-day ban.
• Su Ze sent Qi Xiaoye to Avalon, then appeared at the Containment Station headquarters, where Qing Shuang was recording the chain-breaking sounds.
• The sixth chain-breaking sound struck Qing Shuang, and Su Ze told her it had killed at least a million survivors before sending her to Avalon.
• Su Ze traveled to the Gate of Another World and found that only one chain remained after the other six had snapped.
• Su Ze said the space had been exposed when the first chain broke, and Dr. Yucuriri emerged before him.

Su Ze confronted Dr. Yucuriri at the Gate of Another World and revealed that he knew Yucuriri’s plans, while the last chain holding back the Devourer of All Worlds began to strain. Meanwhile, Abel attacked Capital City, where his older brother Cain appeared to stop him, and Luo Ning'er learned that both brothers were Demigods.

• Su Ze told Dr. Yucuriri that only one chain remained on the Gate of Another World and identified the creature behind it as the Devourer of All Worlds, a projection of the King of Crimson.
• Yucuriri asked about his daughter, and Su Ze revealed that he knew about Yucuriri’s plans involving Abel, the Great Yan Dynasty, and Star Ring Company.
• Yucuriri’s clone ended their conversation as the last chain on the gate strained under an immense force.
• Abel arrived at Capital City and unleashed his Demigod pressure, killing countless people and destroying much of the city.
• Cain appeared in Abel’s path, summoned a spear, and called on his younger brother to wake up.
• Chi Zhiyuan showed Luo Ning'er the battle from Star Ring Company headquarters, and Luo Ning'er recognized Cain as Abel’s older brother and another Demigod.

Su Ze confronted Yucuriri as the Gate of Another World’s seal nearly failed, but Yucuriri chose to surrender and bargain for his daughter’s safety. Yucuriri used a Demigod Relic to reconnect the broken chain, leaving the Devourer sealed and asking Su Ze what he thought of the Ancient God Hall.

• Su Ze observed that Cain’s arrival had eased the pressure on him, while Yucuriri’s final chain snapped and the Guardian God’s phantom struggled to keep the seal intact.
• Yucuriri revealed a single-use Demigod Relic from the Ancient God Hall but hesitated to use it, then discussed his belief that the Hall was an inanimate object.
• Yucuriri decided to surrender and asked Su Ze to preserve the conditions that would let his daughter live well.
• Su Ze agreed that Yucuriri’s daughter might be able to go outside if her power and germophobia were restrained.
• Yucuriri used the Demigod Relic to reconnect the broken sealing chain, then asked Su Ze what he thought of the Ancient God Hall.

Su Ze intervened in the battle between Abel and Cain, which ended with both demigods dying after severely damaging Parallel Blue Star. The next day, he hunted the Mythical Grade Silent Runner to gain a power that could restrain the Antlered Girl, then entered another moment of growth.

• Luo Ning'er worried that Abel and Cain's battle would destroy her family's home, while Chi Zhiyuan told her that Su Ze's side had finished.
• Su Ze returned from Parallel Blue Star and reported that Abel and Cain had both perished, while Dr. Yucuriri had compromised as planned.
• Qi Xiaoye explained that the Devourer of All Worlds was a projection of the Supreme Deity known as the King of Crimson, and Qin Yushi asked where Su Ze had gone.
• Su Ze found the Silent Runner on Parallel Blue Star and used the Guardian God's power to destroy it, intending to gain its Silent Domain ability for the Antlered Girl.
• Su Ze arrived at another moment of growth and saw only one path of light beneath his feet.

Su Ze advanced to a Mid-Rank Mythical Creature and received 1,000 Talent Shards. On Parallel Blue Star, Chi Zhiyuan dealt with Luo Ning’er’s interest in Su Ze while he met with Dr. Gales to discuss Dr. Yucuriri’s encounter with Yog-Sothoth.

• Su Ze reached the end of the path of light and advanced to a Mid-Rank Mythical Creature, earning 1,000 Talent Shards.
• Chi Zhiyuan observed that the Great Yan Dynasty’s planet had been devastated by Abel and Cain’s battle and told Luo Ning’er that relocation would begin after Su Ze arrived.
• Luo Ning’er hinted that her elders were considering her marriage, and Chi Zhiyuan realized she had come because she liked Su Ze.
• Su Ze read Chi Zhiyuan’s thoughts, and she admitted that she did not want Luo Ning’er competing with her for him.
• Su Ze went to Antarctica on Parallel Blue Star and began telling Dr. Gales that Dr. Yucuriri’s meeting with Yog-Sothoth had set later events in motion.

Su Ze and Dr. Gales discussed Dr. Yucuriri’s encounter with Yog-Sothoth and the possibility that the Ancient God Hall was a predetermined program tied to the Apocalyptic Cataclysm. After Dr. Gales left, Su Ze spoke with Vermilion Bird and asked whether he could trust her as he showed her an Old Days Museum work badge.

• Su Ze explained that Yucuriri had conspired with an avatar of Yog-Sothoth but ultimately abandoned the plan because Su Ze was too strong and Dr. Gales’s letter contributed to his hesitation.
• Su Ze and Dr. Gales agreed that uncovering the Ancient God Hall’s secrets and the cause of the Apocalyptic Cataclysm was a priority, and Dr. Gales suggested investigating the Elder Ones’ ruins for ways to borrow external power.
• Dr. Zhu Que entered the lounge, and Dr. Gales continued discussing the Nekht Codex and the possibility of communicating with a Deity under specific conditions.
• Dr. Gales left after expressing that he wanted to continue exchanging information with Su Ze.
• Su Ze told Vermilion Bird about Yucuriri’s lost Goddess and said he had not come to supervise her work, then showed her an Old Days Museum work badge and asked whether he could trust her.