Chapter Summaries

After returning from the mental world, Chen Xi and Lin Yue reviewed their companions’ new equipment and learned that their next trial would take place in the Raging Waves Territory of the Black Moon Empire. Ailin confirmed Zhu Li had not been possessed in the abandoned timeline, then sent Chen Xi and Lin Yue into the modified trial.

• Chen Xi discovered that her embrace with Lin Yue had earned a Legend-rank CG called “You in My Eyes” with the effect “Beyond the World.”
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue met with Emma, Mili, Qiu Ye, and Gu Yu to discuss their new equipment, including Gu Yu’s Star Shift bracer, which let her switch places with stars inside its domain.
• After the group spent nearly a day entertaining themselves, Ailin summoned Chen Xi and Lin Yue and congratulated them on completing the trial.
• Ailin confirmed that Zhu Li had not been possessed by the Flame Ghost in the abandoned timeline and explained that the next trial would be a modified solo trial in the Raging Waves Territory.
• Ailin assured Lin Yue that the God-Chosen Trial would adjust the difficulty for Gu Yu, then transported Chen Xi and Lin Yue into the Trial Space.

Chen Xi entered a banquet trial where she had to identify the person possessed by the Source of Desire, but she lacked the guests’ memories and faced immediate questioning. After checking the trial information, she found a way to answer and told the four guests she had lost her memory.

• Chen Xi arrived in the Trial Space and learned she had one minute to prepare before identifying the infected person among five guests.
• Godfrey, Diana, Raoul, and the other guest discussed the Source of Desire and explained that the infected person's memories would be altered or blurred.
• Godfrey asked the guests to test Chen Xi, leaving her worried that she could not match their memories.
• Chen Xi checked the trial panel, regained her confidence, and told the others she had lost her memory.

Chen Xi revealed her amnesia during the group’s debate over whether she was infected, then summoned Andres and attacked the Transcendents. In Bright Flame Territory, Lin Yue faced Agatha in a trial set eighteen years in the past, and the fight began.

• Chen Xi told Raoul, Godfrey, Diana, and Conrad that she had lost her memory, prompting them to debate whether the Source of Desire was awakening inside her.
• Raoul argued that Chen Xi’s behavior did not fit an infected person, while Godfrey warned that misjudging her could have serious consequences.
• Chen Xi summoned Andres, revealed his fifth-tier power, and unleashed Domain Expansion: Rain Disaster against the group.
• Lin Yue appeared in the ruined Duke’s Mansion during a single-player trial and learned that she had traveled eighteen years into the past, when Agatha was preparing to attack the young Gu Yu.
• Agatha attacked Lin Yue with her scythe, but Lin Yue blocked the strike and prepared to unleash her domain.

Lin Yue finished her trial and joined the others in the Return Space, where they watched their teammates’ battles. After Lin Yue tested whether she could attack Chen Xi, the Trial Panel warned them not to attack other trial-takers, while Gu Yu remained the only one still fighting.

• Lin Yue defeated Agatha and returned to the Void Transfer Station, where Chen Xi was watching the other trials on a projection screen.
• Qiu Ye completed her objective on the wasteland, while Emma and Mili finished their separate objectives in the mountain range and returned to the Trial Space.
• Chen Xi explained that the Return Space was connected to their personal spaces, and Lin Yue discovered she could summon an assault rifle there.
• Lin Yue fired near Chen Xi to test whether trial-takers could attack each other, and the Trial Panel warned her that further violations would deduct all performance ratings.
• The group turned their attention to Gu Yu, who was still fighting on the screen.

Gu Yu eliminated the Source of Desire–infected Third Rank Transcendent in her special trial and earned an EX evaluation with a large reward. Back in the Exclusive Room, Lin Yue repeatedly refined her wish for an item that could reveal a Fifth Rank Ascension Ritual until the Holy Grace Gift Box finally returned an answer.

• Gu Yu used Star Shift and Reality Reversal to disrupt the infected man’s defenses, then erased him with a final star.
• Gu Yu returned to the Transit Space, where Chen Xi and the others congratulated her before everyone was sent back to their Exclusive Room.
• Gu Yu received an EX evaluation, 121% Wish Power charge, and an upgrade to her Gold Tier Three Mark Trial Badge.
• Lin Yue tried to use the Holy Grace Gift Box to obtain information about Fifth Rank Ascension Rituals, but her first three requests failed.
• Lin Yue kept refining her request until the Holy Grace Gift Box finally returned an answer.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi obtained the Book of Enlightenment and learned that their rapidly advancing Badge ranks would soon expel them from the God-Chosen Trial. Ailin revealed the history behind the Regression and the war against Original Sin, then Lin Yue asked about the altered memories and how the trial rankings appeared outside.

• Lin Yue exchanged the Holy Grace Gift Box for the Book of Enlightenment after Chen Xi agreed.
• Ailin summoned Lin Yue and Chen Xi and explained that their Badge ranks would soon force them to leave the God-Chosen Trial, while she planned to raise Gu Yu's rating so she could leave with them.
• Ailin said that three gods remained alive after the battle against Original Sin, which had killed four gods and left the world weakened and its worldlines collapsing.
• Lin Yue asked Ailin how the gods handled their memories and how Transcendents saw the trial rankings after leaving the God-Chosen Trial.

Ailin explained how the God-Chosen Trial altered memories, assigned rankings, and awarded Legends and Badges, while Chen Xi and Lin Yue arranged to return with the other participants and avoid drawing attention. After Chen Xi shared the plan with Gu Yu and the Special Envoys, Mili learned that their memories of fighting together would remain, and Gu Yu eagerly raised her hand to speak.

• Ailin told Chen Xi and Lin Yue that the trial altered participants’ memories, restricted what they could reveal, and left Tier 6 Transcendents able to recognize the truth.
• Ailin showed Chen Xi and Lin Yue the ranking rewards, including Legends that revealed their tier when wielded but could never be upgraded.
• Lin Yue asked how the three of them would return without exposing their special status, and Ailin said they would all return to reality together in three months.
• Chen Xi asked Ailin to adjust their settlement Badge tiers when results were tallied, and Lin Yue said they could accept it if the attempt failed.
• Chen Xi told Gu Yu about the plan, and Gu Yu agreed before Chen Xi gathered the Special Envoys for a final meeting.
• Mili worried that altered memories would keep her from recognizing Chen Xi outside the trial, and Chen Xi reassured her that they would still remember fighting together.

Gu Yu revealed that she had reached Third Rank after using Quicksand and witnessing a higher being for her ritual. After the party, the team discussed Qiu Ye’s plans and learned that Gu Yu had awakened two abilities, including her Domain Finisher, before Chen Xi asked her to demonstrate her Domain.

• Gu Yu told Chen Xi that witnessing a higher being had fulfilled her Third Rank advancement ritual.
• Mili and Emma left the party to test their new abilities, while Qiu Ye said she would not return to the Spark Alliance and had leads on calling Chen Shuo’s soul back.
• After Qiu Ye teleported to her Exclusive Room, Chen Xi and Lin Yue discovered that Gu Yu still had Quicksand in her Hourglass.
• Gu Yu said she had awakened two abilities, including her Domain Finisher, and Lin Yue explained that abilities varied with a Transcendent’s Legend.
• At Chen Xi’s urging, Gu Yu unfolded her Domain.

Gu Yu showed Chen Xi and Lin Yue the abilities she had awakened and demonstrated her powerful domain-ending move, Falling Stars Upon the World. After Chen Xi assessed its strength, Gu Yu learned that Chen Xi and Lin Yue had been far stronger at the same rank, and the conversation ended with Chen Xi playfully chasing her.

• Gu Yu explained that her stars could be tangible and intangible at once, allowing her to catch opponents off guard.
• Gu Yu dispelled her domain and unleashed Falling Stars Upon the World, whose exploding stars nearly damaged the Entertainment Space.
• Chen Xi contained the shockwaves with her domain and judged Gu Yu's move comparable to a standard peak Third Rank domain-ending move.
• Gu Yu asked how strong Chen Xi and Lin Yue had been at her rank, and Lin Yue said they could match a high-level Fourth Rank Transcendent.
• Gu Yu lost her pride at the comparison, then dodged Chen Xi as Chen Xi tried to teach her a lesson.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue traded teasing and shared an intimate moment while Gu Yu was sent out of the room. Later, as the trial neared its final opening window, Chen Xi prepared to leave and noticed her appearance had changed before the trial notification appeared.

• Chen Xi teased Lin Yue about being the Saintess's Contract Knight, then kicked Gu Yu out when Lin Yue asked what it meant.
• Chen Xi drank Lin Yue's beer and kissed her, while Lin Yue rejected Chen Xi's claims that she liked drinking and liked Chen Xi.
• Lin Yue hugged Chen Xi from behind and asked to take the lead, and Chen Xi agreed to stay with her.
• As the trial's final opening window approached, Chen Xi admired her taller, more mature appearance in the mirror, and Lin Yue said legends caused a second growth spurt.
• The trial's notification sounded in Chen Xi and Lin Yue's minds, but the chapter ended on a wait prompt.

Ailin warned Chen Xi and Lin Yue that their God-Chosen Trial had been disrupted by a Lamenter phantom, then offered compensation. Chen Xi received a huge Wish Power charge from an EX performance rating, and the two returned to the Trial Space prepared to face the altered trial.

• Ailin forcibly brought Chen Xi and Lin Yue to the Core Space and revealed that the trial now included a sixth-Rank lower-level Lamenter phantom.
• Ailin explained that the phantom had absorbed unknown energy and intruded into the Trial Space, endangering Chen Xi and Lin Yue.
• Chen Xi refused Ailin's offer to raise their Ranks and asked instead for three EX-grade performance ratings.
• The trial awarded Chen Xi 334% Wish Power charge after CG generation failed, bringing her total charge to 1146%.
• Chen Xi explained her mechanics to Ailin, and she and Lin Yue were transported back to the Trial Space.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue returned to the Trial Space as the group prepared to face the Headless Lamenter, and Chen Xi revealed that the phantom was sixth rank. Chen Xi infused Wish Power into Andres, raising Andres to the peak of the fifth rank and giving her a domain that caused copied targets to wither, leaving Chen Xi ready to begin her revenge.

• Gu Yu recovered memories of her death in the banquet hall and realized Chen Xi and Lin Yue were missing from the plaza.
• Qiu Ye and Mili suggested that something had gone wrong during teleportation and that Chen Xi and Lin Yue might have received new instructions.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue returned, and Chen Xi explained that she had to deal with the newly appeared phantom as a special envoy.
• Chen Xi told the group that the Headless Lamenter was sixth rank, shocking Qiu Ye and Mili.
• Chen Xi infused Wish Power into Andres, raising her to the peak of the fifth rank and unlocking The End of Life, a domain transformation that caused copied targets to wither.

Chen Xi used Andres to battle the Lamenter while Lin Yue and the others defended Chen Xi’s real body from the Headless Shadows. The fight continued as the Lamenter and its derivative monsters pressed their attacks.

• Lin Yue caught Chen Xi as she released control of her real body, then held her while Chen Xi took control of Andres and prepared to fight.
• Chen Xi activated True Name Release and Domain Expansion, summoning a Lamenter’s Replica that reached eighty percent of the phantom’s strength.
• The Lamenter attacked with whispers and invisible hands, but the Replica held it back while Chen Xi’s source power nullified its attacks and her music weakened its assault.
• Lin Yue marked the giant Headless Shadow and began tearing apart its body, while waves of smaller Headless Shadows repaired it and advanced toward Chen Xi’s real body.
• Mili transformed into a Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox and used her telekinetic power to tear through the Headless Shadows approaching from the west.

Lin Yue and the others held off the Headless Shadows while Chen Xi, controlling Andres, fought the Lamenter high above them. The giant shadow unleashed a powerful attack that Lin Yue blocked, while Chen Xi continued searching for a way to overcome the Lamenter’s innate ability.

• Emma reported that the north was secure as her Drawing Creatures fought the Headless Shadows and helped Gu Yu defend the south.
• Gu Yu crushed shadows with her Solid Stars, and Lin Yue urged her to focus and trust that Chen Xi would win.
• The giant shadow recovered much of its body and fired a black orb at Lin Yue and Chen Xi, but Lin Yue blocked it with her shadow tendrils.
• Lin Yue resumed suppressing the giant shadow while Chen Xi watched the motionless Lamenter and tried to understand its innate ability.
• Chen Xi noted that Andres’s Wither had already reduced the Lamenter’s strength by roughly half a percent.

Chen Xi weakened and destroyed the Lamenter’s illusion, then discovered that its origin of reincarnation was bringing it back in a newborn-like form. As the Lamenter began to emerge from its black cocoon, Chen Xi watched with her unused trump card still in reserve.

• Chen Xi reasoned that the Lamenter’s power might stem from reincarnation rather than death or time, and wondered whether the illusion could use that ability at all.
• Chen Xi noticed that Andres’s Wither was weakening the Lamenter’s defenses, then attacked it with musical notes while the Replica’s invisible hands overwhelmed it.
• Chen Xi and the Replica crushed the Lamenter into ash, but a baby’s wail and a familiar magical fluctuation announced its return.
• The Lamenter reappeared as a black ball of flesh, and Chen Xi stopped her attacks when they accelerated its formation.
• The ball split open, and a pair of pitch-black eyes looked out at the world.

Chen Xi struggled against the transformed Lamenter, whose rebirth made it immune to earlier attacks, and discovered a way to hurt it. She ordered Andres to use Burial of All Things, leaving the battle poised for her counterattack.

• The Lamenter emerged from its flesh shell, ignored the Invisible Hand and Chen Xi’s musical attacks, and rapidly wore down Andres’s magic.
• Chen Xi summoned the Replica, whose black-mist barrier held off the Lamenter even as her own attacks passed through it.
• Chen Xi realized the Lamenter’s transformation had erased the damage it suffered before, so she stopped controlling Andres and attacked with her true self’s Water and Sky as One.
• Chen Xi confirmed that her strike had slightly reduced the Lamenter’s magic and deduced how its rebirth worked.
• Chen Xi took control of Andres again and ordered her to use Burial of All Things.

Chen Xi and Andres defeated the Lamenter’s Replica and the original, ending the battle and completing the God-Chosen Trial. Chen Xi reunited with her companions, then woke in the Void Transfer Station with Lin Yue and Gu Yu and prepared to check her rewards.

• Chen Xi crushed the Replica’s life essence, and Andres copied its injuries onto the Lamenter, destroying it.
• The God-Chosen Trial awarded the group an EX performance rating and upgraded their Trial Badge to Diamond Tier Three Mark.
• Chen Xi returned to the group, where Gu Yu tearfully embraced her and Mili realized Chen Xi and Qiu Ye were leaving.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue exchanged farewells with their companions before the Trial Space froze.
• Chen Xi woke in the Void Transfer Station with Lin Yue and Gu Yu and opened the Trial Panel to check her rewards.

Chen Xi received a legendary Sixth-Rank Holy Grace Gift Box, while Lin Yue used the Key of Enlightenment to reveal their Ascension Ritual requirements. Lin Yue learned she had already fulfilled hers, and the group began weighing where Chen Xi could complete hers, leaving the Desert Molding Federation under consideration.

• Chen Xi discovered she had received a Sixth-Rank Holy Grace Gift Box, and Lin Yue explained that their trial rewards had likely stacked onto Chen Xi as the main attacker.
• Chen Xi opened her finalized first-place ranking reward and waited for the system to match her with a compatible Legend, while Lin Yue exchanged her reward for the Key of Enlightenment.
• Lin Yue joined the Key of Enlightenment to the Book of Enlightenment, unlocking a prompt that revealed Lin Yue's ritual was already complete and Chen Xi needed to bring abundant rain to a drought-stricken country until its environment changed.
• Lin Yue listed the Hengsha Federation, the Gray Rock Empire, and the Desert Molding Federation as the world's drought-stricken countries, then ruled out the first two because of war and hostility to outsiders.
• Lin Yue began explaining the Desert Molding Federation as the remaining possibility.

Chen Xi considered where to pursue the Ascension Ritual, but the dangers and distance involved made her reluctant to travel. Ailin then congratulated the group for killing the Lamenter and called them to finish the cleanup.

• Lin Yue explained that the Desert Molding Federation's supernatural desert required a lone, high-Rank water Transcendent to supply an enormous amount of magic.
• Chen Xi planned to visit the Desert Molding Federation after resolving the Saintess matter, but Lin Yue pointed out the long journey and warned that the Hengsha Federation was ruled by Legends.
• Chen Xi gave up on the Ascension Ritual for now and said she would remain at Rank Four, while Lin Yue mocked her for slacking off.
• Ailin congratulated Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu on killing the Lamenter and asked them to handle the final cleanup together.

After the battle with the Lamenter, Ailin explained that it had destroyed the world on another timeline after becoming a Seventh Rank being, and warned that it could return after at least three months. She concealed Lin Yue, Chen Xi, and Gu Yu’s divinity with Primal Wreaths, then told Gu Yu that she knew a little about the origin of the Eye of Falling Galaxy.

• Chen Xi reappeared beside Ailin and discovered that Ailin had changed the tea’s taste with a trick.
• Ailin revealed that the Lamenter had destroyed the world on another timeline after restoring its head and becoming a Seventh Rank being.
• Ailin said she did not know what had triggered the Lamenter, but it would not reappear for at least three months and the gods had prepared for its return.
• Lin Yue asked Ailin to conceal their divinity, and Ailin gave them Primal Wreaths that hid their true nature from Legends below her level.
• Ailin told Gu Yu not to underestimate the power of her eye, and Gu Yu asked whether she meant the Eye of Falling Galaxy.