Chapter Summaries

Su Ze gathered the scattered fragments of a Divine Relic and gave Qi Xiaoye a Demigod Grade weapon that could change forms. Lillian then reported that Jiang He had run away with Vermilion Bird, and Su Ze planned to deal with the situation the next day after finishing his story.

• Su Ze advised Qi Xiaoye to choose a combat relic and gave her a shape-changing dagger suited to her fighting style.
• Su Ze searched for the Divine Relic's missing fragments and gathered enough to raise it to entry-level Demigod Grade.
• Qi Xiaoye transformed the relic into a bow and eagerly considered firing an arrow with a nuclear explosion effect.
• Lillian rushed into the study and showed Su Ze a letter in which Jiang He admitted to taking Vermilion Bird and dared them to find her.
• Su Ze said he would treat Jiang He's disappearance as a betrayal and planned to deal with her the next day.

Su Ze advanced to High Mythical, received Talent Shards, and upgraded Fallen Gift to Demigod Grade while considering the path to godhood and his promise to Chen Keqing. As he and Chen Keqing neared the end of their Black Storybook story, Bai Fu noticed his growing confidence.

• Su Ze advanced to High Mythical and received 1,000 Talent Shards, then saw that Simulator Version 3.0 was coming and might be tied to becoming a god.
• Su Ze spent Talent Shards to max out Infinite Domain and Fallen Gift, then used a Demigod Authority to raise Fallen Gift to Demigod Grade.
• Su Ze realized Fallen Gift could create life and grant immortality, but creating Chen Keqing's parents would not restore their original souls, so he planned to wait until he became a god to fulfill his promise.
• Chen Keqing showed Su Ze her illustration of the Black Thorn Empress, and he praised it as matching his vision for the story.
• Bai Fu brought coffee into the study, heard that the story was in its final stages, and remarked that Su Ze seemed more confident of victory than before.

Su Ze explained his theory that the Black Thorn Empress was rewarding him and that story scores depended on both her approval and readers’ satisfaction. He remained uncertain about Vermilion Bird’s necklace, while Bai Fu invited Chi Zhiyuan to join the next battle.

• Su Ze told Bai Fu that the Black Thorn Empress might be repaying him by preparing a Demigod Authority and helping resolve the crisis within Vermilion Bird.
• Su Ze guessed that stories needed both the Empress’s approval and an objective audience’s satisfaction to earn high scores, while Bai Fu questioned why Zhang Murphy’s story had scored zero.
• Su Ze suggested that deities were interfering with his path to godhood and might restrain one another, and he speculated that Vermilion Bird’s gemstone necklace was connected to competing divine wearers.
• Chi Zhiyuan returned to the study after handing over her company duties, and Bai Fu asked her to enter the next battlefield with her hand in hers.

Chi Zhiyuan and Bai Fu entered the Mythic Battlefield as hundreds of Transcendents gathered to challenge it. Chi Zhiyuan easily killed an ambusher, and Su Ze appeared to check on her before heading to the Trial Ground.

• Chi Zhiyuan and Bai Fu discussed the crowded Mythic Battlefield before entering its gate together.
• Chi Zhiyuan arrived in a modern-looking illusion where passersby watched challengers, and she waited as the battlefield count rose to 740/24.
• A High Transcendent ambushed Chi Zhiyuan with a laser-like Word Spirit Technique, but she neutralized it and killed the attacker with one sword slash.
• Su Ze appeared behind Chi Zhiyuan, wrapped his arms around her, and said he had come to check on her and Bai Fu before going to the Trial Ground.

Su Ze teased Chi Zhiyuan and summoned Bai Fu before preparing to enter the Trial Ground. Meanwhile, Jiang He and Vermilion Bird survived a brutal lava stage and waited at its teleportation gate, with Vermilion Bird revealing that meeting Su Ze had ended the negative emotions tied to her immortality.

• Su Ze teased Chi Zhiyuan, summoned Bai Fu to join them, and then withdrew from the battlefield to prepare for the Trial Ground.
• Jiang He and Vermilion Bird climbed through a lava-filled stage and reached a platform with a teleportation gate after more than ten hours.
• Jiang He and Vermilion Bird rested while discussing the dangers of the Trial Ground and the limits of Vermilion Bird's powers.
• Vermilion Bird told Jiang He that the depression and suicidal urges connected to her immortality had disappeared after she met Su Ze.

While waiting for the portal, Vermilion Bird shared how she fell for Su Ze, and Jiang He invented a story about her past to tease her. When Jiang He woke, she found Vermilion Bird surrounded by black mist and apparently no longer in control of herself.

• Jiang He teased Vermilion Bird about how love had made her cherish life and about her feelings for Su Ze.
• Vermilion Bird recounted how Su Ze had first seemed like a god to her and how her feelings changed after learning he was human.
• Jiang He claimed a Deity had directed her to the Calamity Starry Sky and foretold that her future husband would be a Deity willing to help her.
• Jiang He admitted in her thoughts that she had made up the story, then rested while Vermilion Bird kept watch.
• When Jiang He woke near the portal’s opening, she saw black mist around Vermilion Bird’s face and found her eyes aggressive and devoid of self-awareness.

Vermilion Bird lost control under the Ruby Necklace’s influence, but Jiang He’s Deity’s Token summoned a divine force that restored her, and Su Ze appeared to take charge. After declaring Jiang He under arrest, Su Ze led her and Vermilion Bird into a new Trial Ground and claimed the monsters and Demigod Authority for himself.

• Jiang He realized the Ruby Necklace was causing Vermilion Bird’s evil aura and used the Deity’s Token to call for help.
• The token shattered, and a powerful divine force dispersed the black mist and restored Vermilion Bird’s consciousness.
• Su Ze appeared, Vermilion Bird greeted him with relief, and he told Jiang He she was under arrest.
• Su Ze, Vermilion Bird, and Jiang He entered a wheat-field Trial Ground, where Su Ze killed the monsters before Jiang He could claim their rewards.
• Jiang He complained about losing her chance to level up and gain Demigod Authority, while Su Ze blamed her for bringing Vermilion Bird into danger.

Jiang He demanded compensation from Su Ze for losing her Deity's Token, and their confrontation turned into a private encounter that made Vermilion Bird jealous. After days of traveling through the Trial Ground with Su Ze, Jiang He and Vermilion Bird woke in his paradise-like castle and Vermilion Bird asked where he was.

• Jiang He demanded that Su Ze compensate her for the lost Deity's Token or hand over the Demigod Authority, and Su Ze said he thought he had controlled her before.
• Jiang He challenged Su Ze to control her, and Vermilion Bird watched their encounter with growing jealousy.
• On the moon, Lillian and Luo Ning'er discussed the missing Link and a romance novel before learning that the first Mythic Battlefield had ended and someone had returned.
• In the Trial Ground, Jiang He teased the sleeping Vermilion Bird, who got dressed and asked where Su Ze was.

Su Ze absorbed the Demigod Authority and returned from the Trial Ground, where he speculated that the Black Storybook might have been created by a powerful future version of himself. The Simulator announced Version 3.0, and the chapter ended with Luo Ning'er being sent out of Chi Zhiyuan’s office while Su Ze was expected to arrive.

• Jiang He and Vermilion Bird waited as Su Ze absorbed the Demigod Authority, and he glimpsed a figure resembling the Black Thorn Empress.
• Su Ze, Jiang He, and Vermilion Bird left the collapsing space and returned to the study, where Chen Keqing was reading the Black Storybook.
• Su Ze wondered whether his future self had created the Storybook, then told Chen Keqing that Jiang He and Vermilion Bird had caught up with her group in their intimacy with him.
• Su Ze checked the Simulator and saw that the Fifth Emblem’s storyline had concluded and Version 3.0 would be unlocked.
• At the Moon company headquarters, Chi Zhiyuan and Bai Fu argued until Chi Zhiyuan sent Luo Ning'er outside for two hours.

Bai Fu returned to Chi Zhiyuan’s office after Luo Ning’er left, while the Containment Station’s leaders discussed appointments and the proposed O5 Council. That evening, Su Ze vanished while helping Chen Keqing cook, and Nan Xi no longer remembered who he was.

• Luo Ning’er left Chi Zhiyuan’s office, and Bai Fu waited outside under a concealed-presence buff before slipping back inside.
• Qin Yushi, Tao Yaoyao, and Jing Yue assigned Containment Station tasks, while Qing Shuang pressed Qin Yushi for a seat on the proposed O5 Council.
• Su Ze returned to Avalon, watched Qi Xiaoye, Nan Xi, Jiang He, and Vermilion Bird play a co-op game, then joined Chen Keqing in the kitchen.
• Su Ze told Chen Keqing that he might learn his specific Path to Godhood within the next few days.
• Su Ze disappeared before handing Chen Keqing the flour, and Nan Xi failed to recognize his name when Chen Keqing asked where he was.

As the Fifth Emblem’s Meme propagation spread, everyone except Qi Xiaoye began forgetting Su Ze, and the Old Days Museum started to collapse. Qi Xiaoye stabilized the Museum, but Su Ze remained missing, and the group suspected he had entered another space while seeking a path to godhood.

• Vermilion Bird, Jiang He, and the others began forgetting Su Ze as their memories and skill connections flickered, while Qi Xiaoye remained unaffected.
• Chen Keqing tried to record her memories of Su Ze, but she could no longer remember what to write.
• Qi Xiaoye took Chen Keqing into the trembling, collapsing Old Days Museum and searched for Su Ze as Chen Keqing’s memories briefly returned and faded again.
• Qi Xiaoye shouted for the Museum to stop collapsing, and the space stabilized while the Word Spirit Technique recovered.
• Qi Xiaoye gathered everyone in Avalon, where Chen Keqing recalled that Su Ze had said he would find a path to godhood.
• Bai Fu suggested Su Ze had entered another space on that path, while the group questioned why the Museum had trembled and their memories had nearly vanished.

A week after Su Ze disappeared, his friends and allies continued waiting while the world changed around them. Qi Xiaoye began sleepwalking into a terrifying place where someone seemed to be killing monsters, and after dreaming again, she believed she had seen Su Ze.

• Jing Yue visited the Museum and reflected that the Contained Objects already present remained even though no new ones appeared after Su Ze vanished.
• Bai Fu told Chi Zhiyuan that the rebels on D-178 had been dealt with and agreed to kill them all next time rather than identify the true rebels.
• Qi Xiaoye told Chen Keqing that she had dreamed of fleeing monsters while someone nearby killed them, possibly Su Ze.
• Chen Keqing suggested Qi Xiaoye try to continue the dream, and she used a giant veterinary syringe to anesthetize her.
• Luo Ning'er reviewed reports of rising Mythical Grade powerhouses and remained optimistic that Su Ze would return.
• After another dream, Qi Xiaoye told the gathered group that she thought she had seen Su Ze.

Qi Xiaoye dreamed that Su Ze had slain a god and appeared again in the Sea of Darkness, giving Chen Keqing and the others hope that he might soon return. The chapter left them waiting for confirmation while Bai Fu and Chi Zhiyuan watched the Chaos Tribe fall.

• Qi Xiaoye described seeing Su Ze in a dark space where powerful, formless beings fell silent, and Bai Fu concluded that it was Su Ze’s Path to Godhood.
• Bai Fu and the others decided they could only wait for Su Ze, while Qi Xiaoye promised to glimpse his progress through her dreams.
• A month later, Qi Xiaoye told Chen Keqing that she had sensed a powerful presence weaken and disappear, then seen Su Ze again.
• Chen Keqing shared Qi Xiaoye’s dream with the council group, whose members wondered whether Su Ze had slain a god and was coming back.
• Qing Shuang explained that Bai Fu and Chi Zhiyuan were watching the Chaos Tribe fall.

Three months after Su Ze remained away, the company’s leaders watched other factions lose control as Mythical Grade experts reshaped the world. Qi Xiaoye dreamed of seeing Su Ze outside the Sea of Darkness, while the Supernatural Alliance’s attempt to secure Star Ring Company’s support ended with a High Mythical taking power.

• Bai Fu and Chi Zhiyuan observed the Chaos Tribe’s internal upheaval and concluded that it would soon be renamed.
• At Star Ring Company headquarters, Dr. Gales presented the Star Drifter Plan to build hundreds or thousands of starships for humanity’s future.
• Qi Xiaoye dreamed that she saw Su Ze at an upscale bar outside the Sea of Darkness, then told Chen Keqing about it.
• The women discussed Su Ze’s continued absence in the group chat, while Chi Zhiyuan hoped he would return soon.
• A Supernatural Alliance official asked Star Ring Company for military aid, offering to share its scientific technology and accept a transformation like Kukes University’s.
• Before the meeting ended, Chi Zhiyuan learned that the Supernatural Alliance had changed regimes and that the High Mythical Taylor had become its president.

Star Ring Company consolidated its dominance as Jing Yue crushed a Church Faction power grab within the Mechanical Church, while the company helped Dr. Gales eliminate the faction. Qing Shuang and Tang Xinnuo emerged from a Mythic Battlefield as High Mythicals and asked Jiang He about Su Ze, whose whereabouts remained uncertain.

• The newly appointed Supernatural Alliance president greeted Star Ring Company, while people outside regarded the company as the strongest power and the Mechanical Church as stable through its support.
• Che Qinghe approached the Mechanical Church's throne in a Church Faction plot to make him Divine Son and seize control of the church's resources.
• Jing Yue killed Che Qinghe with a single Demigod Grade strike and ordered the Containment Station Special Task Force to purge the remaining Church Faction members.
• Vermilion Bird and Tao Yaoyao observed the space carrier prototype, and Dr. Gales thanked Bai Fu for the company's help in ending the Church Faction.
• Qing Shuang and Tang Xinnuo emerged from a Mythic Battlefield with Mythical Grade Word Spirit Techniques, and Jiang He congratulated them on reaching High Mythical.
• Qing Shuang asked Jiang He for news of Su Ze, and Jiang He said people believed he had lost himself in the colorful world outside.

Qi Xiaoye and Chen Keqing encountered a Divine Incarnation in the form of a Shaking Machine while hoping for news of Su Ze. Chen Keqing prepared to use it to help him return, but Qi Xiaoye warned her that operating it could be fatal.

• Qi Xiaoye woke from a nap and persuaded Chen Keqing to walk outside after sensing a mysterious calling.
• As they walked, Chen Keqing expressed how much she hoped Su Ze would return safely, while Qi Xiaoye reassured her about his apparent strength.
• Qi Xiaoye spotted a Shaking Machine and recognized it as a god-tier Contained Object she had encountered with Su Ze before.
• Chen Keqing learned that the Shaking Machine demanded a random price and offered a random item, then prepared to pull its lever in hopes of bringing Su Ze back.
• Qi Xiaoye stopped Chen Keqing and warned her that using the Shaking Machine might kill her, making Chen Keqing reconsider the consequences.

Qi Xiaoye shook the mysterious machine and won a Great Follower Bond that could take ten people to find Su Ze. The women prepared to use it, leaving others behind to manage their duties, but the chapter ended before they set off.

• Qi Xiaoye won a Great Follower Bond from the Shaking Machine, and she and Chen Keqing read that it would let them follow Su Ze and that the former Goddess had already paid the price.
• Qi Xiaoye gathered everyone at Avalon, where the women discussed using the bond and arranged for colleagues to cover their work while they were away.
• Bai Fu assigned Luo Ning'er to cover her duties, while Qin Yushi and Qing Shuang made calls home and discussed who would stay behind.
• Qi Xiaoye noticed that the bond could take only ten people, so the group agreed that those without places would stay behind and help maintain order.

Qi Xiaoye and eight companions traveled through a Spacetime Tunnel, where scenes from Su Ze’s past appeared along its walls. They reached a newly revealed scene of Su Ze among the intelligent inhabitants of a shattered civilization, who knelt before him.

• Qi Xiaoye used the Great Follower Bond at midnight, transporting herself and eight companions into a Spacetime Tunnel where their powers were suppressed.
• The group watched scenes of Qi Xiaoye stopping the Museum’s collapse and Su Ze fighting monsters in the Sea of Darkness.
• They saw Su Ze destroy a god whose body was larger than the Milky Way, then watched him reach the end of a River of Light and kill countless monsters with a gesture.
• The group continued deeper into the tunnel and saw Su Ze in a shattered civilization surrounded by intelligent Treants and beasts, who knelt before him.

Su Ze reunited with his girlfriends after completing his path to godhood and explained that they had arrived on the Shanhai Continent, where Deities protected human civilization. He outlined the ranks of Deities and distinguished the more powerful but mindless Chaos Deities, leaving the group with new questions about the world around them.

• The group saw visions of Su Ze commanding respect from other Deities and dismissing attendants because his wives would soon arrive.
• Su Ze's girlfriends emerged from the Spacetime Tunnel and reunited with him at a restaurant beneath the stars.
• Su Ze told Chen Keqing and the others that he had traveled through many civilizations but found none like the ones they knew.
• Su Ze explained that his disappearance had forced him to complete the path to godhood and identified their current location as the Shanhai Continent.
• Su Ze described the Void God, True God, and God King ranks, then said Chaos Deities were stronger but lacked a complete sense of self.

Su Ze explained the difference between Chaos Deities and Ordinary Deities, clarified his companions’ questions about divine incarnations and his own godhood, and said the group would return to the Calamity Starry Sky before leaving on another journey. Nearly ten days later, Qing Shuang remained at the lunar base, worried that Su Ze and the others had not returned.

• Su Ze explained that Chaos Deities embodied the universe’s nature and endured as long as it existed, while Ordinary Deities could be killed by erasing their divinity.
• Su Ze told Qi Xiaoye that she was herself, though she had probably once been an Ordinary Deity, and explained that Demigods generally reached godhood by replacing another Deity.
• Su Ze said he had reached roughly Level 3 Deity strength and explained that the group’s time remained frozen while they were in the Calamity Starry Sky.
• Su Ze said the group would vacation before returning to the Calamity Starry Sky to settle matters and wait for an enemy.
• Nearly ten days later, Qing Shuang inspected the lunar starship base and worried that Su Ze and the others might have fallen into a trap.