Chapter Summaries

Chen Xi learned that the Lamenter might be approaching Rank 7 and planned to report it to the Pope in person. Meanwhile, Gu Yu reflected on her family and agreed to spar with Isha, while Lin Yue pressed Chen Xi about what she would do if Zhu Li broke free of the Flame Ghost's Erosion.

• Casper recognized that the Lamenter might be transforming into a Rank 7 and tried to report the danger to the Pope, but Chen Xi said she would speak to him the next day.
• Casper left Aveline in charge beneath Iseriel and the others, and Gu Yu said goodbye to Chen Xi and Lin Yue before leaving.
• Gu Yu considered her family's political troubles and her wish to explore the world with Chen Xi and Lin Yue after resolving them.
• Isha asked Gu Yu to spar so she could test her strength, and Gu Yu agreed to meet her at the training ground.
• Lin Yue asked Chen Xi what she would do if Zhu Li broke free of the Flame Ghost's Erosion, and demanded an answer.

Chen Xi agreed not to take Zhu Li along when she and Lin Yue traveled to complete the Tier Five advancement ritual, after Lin Yue admitted she wanted Chen Xi’s attention for herself. Chen Xi then turned the questioning around and asked Lin Yue about her relationship with Crimson.

• Chen Xi said she would travel with Zhu Li and Gu Yu after Zhu Li recovered, but Lin Yue insisted they leave Zhu Li in the Black Moon Empire.
• Lin Yue questioned Chen Xi about her feelings and past with Zhu Li, and Chen Xi denied falling for, kissing, or sleeping with her during the regression.
• Chen Xi described her former life on Blue Star and her relationships with Yue Xing and Ademos, then admitted Lin Yue was being selfish toward Zhu Li.
• Chen Xi agreed they would leave Zhu Li behind, and Lin Yue visibly relaxed.
• Chen Xi asked Lin Yue what her relationship with Crimson was.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi argued over Lin Yue’s past closeness with Crimson before reconciling, and Lin Yue explained that her Hourglass ability had evolved after reaching Fifth Rank. Chen Xi discovered that Lin Yue’s Regression curses might have disappeared, leaving them uncertain about where the Erosion had gone.

• Chen Xi questioned Lin Yue about her relationship with Crimson and learned that Lin Yue had held Crimson’s hand during their time on Qianlang Mountain.
• Chen Xi claimed Lin Yue as hers and examined Lin Yue’s right hand before they became intimate, though Lin Yue asked her to stop using her Succubus features.
• Afterward, Chen Xi wondered whether she had been indulging too much and asked Lin Yue why she could reveal her time Regression ability again.
• Lin Yue said her Hourglass ability had evolved at Fifth Rank, allowing her to preserve the full state of her Legends and let two other people retain their Legend states during Regression.
• Lin Yue warned Chen Xi that the curse caused by Regression might no longer work, and Chen Xi checked her status panel and found that her curses were gone.
• Chen Xi wondered where the Erosion had gone if it had not turned into curses.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue discussed the danger that Lin Yue’s curse disappearing might cause new problems, but they could not reach Ailin for answers. Chen Xi decided their priority was to strengthen themselves against the Lamenter, while Lin Yue fell asleep before hearing the rest of her plan.

• Chen Xi asked Lin Yue how she sensed changes in her body, and Lin Yue agreed that the curse disappearing could bring trouble.
• Chen Xi said they could ideally ask Ailin about Lin Yue’s abilities, but the God-Chosen Trial prevented them from contacting her.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue settled on waiting to see what happened, and Chen Xi told Lin Yue to rest while she thought through the problem.
• Chen Xi decided they needed to grow stronger than the Lamenter and considered asking the Black Moon Pope for information about its abilities.
• Lin Yue fell asleep on the bed before Chen Xi finished explaining her plan.

Chen Xi explained her plans to Lin Yue, including working with the Black Moon Empire, helping Zhu Li, and making Gu Yu a Saintess. The next morning, Chen Xi and Lin Yue went to bring Gu Yu to meet the Black Moon Pope, leaving Gu Yu bewildered at the invitation.

• Chen Xi told Lin Yue she would work with the Black Moon Empire to raise her Legend Degree and adjust her Ascension Ritual plans based on the Black Moon Pope's information about the Lamenter.
• Chen Xi said they would work with the Black Moon Pope to help Zhu Li get rid of Flame Ghost and make Gu Yu a Saintess.
• Lin Yue agreed with Chen Xi's plan, then fell asleep, and Chen Xi joined her.
• The next morning, Chen Xi brought breakfast to Lin Yue, and they ate before heading to the rear garden pavilion.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue found Gu Yu at her room and invited her to come with them to meet the Pope, leaving Gu Yu confused.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue took Gu Yu to meet the Black Moon Pope and discuss the Saintess Selection, while talking about Gu Yu’s awakened Eye of God and the Lamenter’s transformation. The chapter ended with Gu Yu learning that Chen Xi and Lin Yue planned to take her along when they traveled the world, and the three of them playfully horsing around in the garden.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue dressed and groomed Gu Yu before pulling her toward the back garden to meet the Black Moon Pope.
• Lin Yue explained that Gu Yu’s eyes stayed open because her awakened Eye of God had made her much stronger, and Chen Xi compared her condition to the Lamenter’s.
• Chen Xi told Gu Yu what she had learned about the Lamenter the previous night as they walked through Casper’s flower-filled garden.
• Gu Yu asked whether Chen Xi and Lin Yue would leave the Black Moon Empire without her, and Lin Yue confirmed they planned to take her traveling with them.
• Gu Yu teased Chen Xi, who chased her around Lin Yue as the three of them laughed and horsed around.

Chen Xi met the Black Moon Pope and recognized him as Ademos, a being whose true self belonged to Lin Yue’s world. Ademos could not find memories of Blue Star in his clones, leaving Chen Xi uncertain about what had happened to her home, while Lin Yue began to question the effects of time and space.

• As they walked through the flower corridor, Chen Xi asked Gu Yu about the Black Moon Pope and learned that his presence could wash away people’s negative emotions.
• At the garden pavilion, Chen Xi recognized the Pope as Ademos and stopped Lin Yue from unleashing her domain.
• Chen Xi told Ademos that she came from Blue Star and explained that he had sent a Third-Rank peak clone to help when the Seven Deadly Sins descended.
• Ademos said he had searched his clones’ memories but found no record of Blue Star, and suggested its return might have failed or been disrupted by chaotic time and space.
• Lin Yue asked whether Ademos could be trusted, and Chen Xi immediately assured her that he could.

Lin Yue revealed that she was the weakened god of time, while Chen Xi disclosed that she was the god of death. After Chen Xi shared information about the Lamenter, Ademos identified its predicted arrival as the Hengsha Federation’s Boundless Desert, 280 days away.

• Lin Yue removed Ailin’s flower crown and revealed her identity as the god who governed time to Ademos, Casper, and Gu Yu.
• Chen Xi explained that she was the god of death, and Gu Yu realized that her supposed prophetic dreams had been real events obscured by a restriction.
• Ademos explained that he supported Gu Yu becoming a Saintess but warned that appointing her outright could draw unwanted attention from the Black Moon Territory’s factions.
• Chen Xi shared the group’s intelligence about the Lamenter’s phantom, prompting Ademos to explain that the Lamenter was a post-catastrophe Legend that had reached the peak of the sixth tier in two thousand years.
• Ademos told Lin Yue that the Lamenter would descend in the Boundless Desert of the Hengsha Federation in 280 days.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue learned that the Lamenter would descend in the Hengsha Federation in 280 days, and Ademos traced the changed timing to Lin Yue’s Regression and her power over time. Ademos proposed rallying Tier 6 Transcendents to fight the Lamenter, but the group realized the Eastern Continent had few strong allies and distant forces could not spare their protectors.

• Chen Xi learned that the Lamenter would descend in the Hengsha Federation in 280 days and realized the group could reach it in about two months.
• Ademos linked the altered descent timing to Lin Yue’s Regression, and Lin Yue confirmed that she and Chen Xi had died to the Lamenter in an earlier cycle.
• Ademos explained that the Lamenter’s brief contact with Lin Yue’s power of time had disrupted its sense of time, then said he had come to propose an alliance against it.
• Ademos identified Qu Sheng of the Tianzhou Federation as the Eastern Continent’s strongest Tier 6 Transcendent and said he commanded two peak Tier 5 Legends.
• Chen Xi explained that other continents’ forces were too weak or too far away to send their Tier 6 protectors without leaving their own federations vulnerable.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu discussed the Lamenter’s threat and the changes to Domains, then Chen Xi asked Ademos to help strengthen her and Lin Yue before he and Casper left. Gu Yu was left feeling useless, while Chen Xi remained composed.

• Ademos explained that only five Rank Six peak beings existed and estimated their chances against the Lamenter at less than ten percent if it had a Second Life.
• Ademos said the changed Death Duel Domains had weakened their advantage, and clarified that Bai Ziqing had spread the new method to help Transcendents imitate a Legend’s Domain.
• Chen Xi told Ademos about the Ascension Ritual, and he agreed to handle the Legend Degree requirements for Chen Xi and Lin Yue.
• Chen Xi described Zhu Li’s year of controlling the Flame Ghost, and Ademos predicted Zhu Li might advance directly to Rank Five once the problem was resolved.
• Ademos and Casper left for urgent business, and Gu Yu slumped over the table and said she felt useless.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu discussed Gu Yu’s frustration at falling behind and prepared for a banquet celebrating Isha’s Silver Tier Trial Badge. Chen Xi reassured Lin Yue about their chances against the Lamenter and revealed she had enough Wish Power charges to raise another CG to Legend, leaving her considering [Last Jasmine].

• Gu Yu lamented that she had fallen behind in strength, and Lin Yue and Chen Xi tried to comfort her.
• Chen Xi showed Lin Yue and Gu Yu news of the Duke’s Mansion banquet celebrating Isha’s Silver Tier Trial Badge, and both agreed to attend.
• After Gu Yu left to sleep, Lin Yue worried about the consequences of their limited time and asked Chen Xi whether they would win.
• Chen Xi assured Lin Yue they would defeat the Lamenter and said she still had a secret weapon.
• Chen Xi revealed she had more than six hundred Wish Power charges, enough to raise another CG to Legend, and identified [Last Jasmine] as her only eligible option.

Chen Xi upgraded Flower Cluster into a Legend*Wish ability that could seize and enhance seven Legendary abilities, giving her renewed confidence about defeating the Lamenter. She planned to seek more abilities in the Black Moon Empire and Hengsha Federation before facing the Lamenter, then hurried to prepare for the banquet.

• Lin Yue advised Chen Xi to spend her remaining Wish Power upgrading Flower Cluster, and Chen Xi used Last Jasmine to do so.
• Flower Cluster gained the ability to seize and enhance seven Legendary abilities, and it upgraded King of the Near Seas, Look Down, and Voice of Heaven.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue made a bet about whether Chen Xi would survive the Lamenter, then Chen Xi sent Ademos information and asked him to arrange the schedule.
• Chen Xi planned to search for Legendary abilities in the Black Moon Empire and Hengsha Federation before confronting the Lamenter.
• With less than two hours before the banquet, Chen Xi parted from Lin Yue and returned to her room to choose an outfit.

Lin Yue prepared for the banquet, expecting Chen Xi to make a clumsy attempt to outshine her. After waiting through the speeches and festivities, Lin Yue finally saw Chen Xi arrive in a striking black-and-red gown and was captivated by her beauty.

• Lin Yue dressed for the banquet and followed a maid to the Duke's Mansion hall.
• Casper introduced Isha as a Silver Tier trial-taker and announced Aveline as his newly adopted daughter.
• Gu Yu visited Lin Yue, asked where Chen Xi was, then left to find a charming partner.
• Lin Yue waited through the banquet and wondered why Chen Xi had not appeared.
• Chen Xi arrived in a black-and-red gown, and Lin Yue silently admired her beauty.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue danced together at the banquet, turning their playful rivalry into an elaborate performance before Chen Xi called a halt. They returned to the dessert corner and found a dejected Gu Yu pleading for help beside an orange-haired girl.

• Chen Xi accepted Lin Yue's invitation to dance, and Lin Yue explained that she had studied dance for six years and later took online lessons.
• Chen Xi quickly learned the tango, and she and Lin Yue grew closer as they danced across the floor.
• When the first song ended, Lin Yue started a second dance after Chen Xi teased her, and they competed with increasingly difficult steps until the song ended.
• Chen Xi said she was tired and left the dance floor with Lin Yue for the dim corner.
• Lin Yue teased Gu Yu about her supposed Princess Charming, and Gu Yu sprang up and asked Chen Xi and Lin Yue for help.

Gu Yu, Chen Xi, and Lin Yue encountered a mysterious orange-haired girl who begged to see Gu Yu’s domain. When Gu Yu revealed the Vast Starry Sky, the girl showed the power of a Sixth Rank Transcendent, took hundreds of pictures, and identified herself as Ju Xiu before reacting with shock that Chen Xi and the others had come back to life.

• Gu Yu asked Chen Xi and Lin Yue for help when an orange-haired girl clung to her and begged to see her domain.
• Chen Xi concealed their conversation from the other banquet guests, while Gu Yu warned that showing her domain might be dangerous.
• With Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Andres ready to intervene, Gu Yu revealed the Vast Starry Sky domain.
• The girl awakened, revealed a Sixth Rank magical aura, and took hundreds of pictures of Gu Yu without reacting to the others’ domains.
• Chen Xi asked the girl who she was, and she introduced herself as Ju Xiu before exclaiming that Chen Xi and the others had come back to life.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu met Ju Xiu, the Supreme God of Eternity, who explained her camera-based material gathering and granted Gu Yu a resurrection ability before leaving. Afterward, Chen Xi declined to claim anything from Iseriel's treasury, saying her earlier request had been a joke.

• Ju Xiu introduced herself as the Supreme God of Eternity, and Chen Xi explained that she and Lin Yue had been reincarnated.
• Ju Xiu explained that she used her camera to collect scenes for her mental world and that her many wandering forms helped her recover from serious injuries.
• Ju Xiu told the group that she and Qiuchuan could not help them with the Lamenter, then granted Gu Yu the ability Eternity before vanishing.
• Chen Xi read Gu Yu's new ability, which would return her to her current state upon death, and considered how to strengthen her own abilities against the Lamenter.
• Casper asked Chen Xi when she would visit the treasury, and Chen Xi told him to say that her earlier interest had only been a joke.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue left the banquet, then Lin Yue told Chen Xi that Iseriel and Todds had been killed on a mission in the Dragon Bone Mountains. As they prepared to meet Ademos, Chen Xi confessed that her emotions felt unusually detached, and Lin Yue suggested that one round could solve the problem.

• Chen Xi declined Casper’s offer of resources, and she and Lin Yue left the banquet for their rooms.
• Lin Yue visited Chen Xi the next morning and told her that Iseriel and Todds had died in Qiyan Territory while on a mission.
• Chen Xi worried that the deaths of her friends and her plans to grow stronger were affecting her less than they should.
• Lin Yue noticed Chen Xi’s emotional detachment and explained that she had experienced the same problem before.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi that the problem could be solved with one round.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue discussed how Chen Xi could recover from her empty state before joining Ademos and Casper to investigate the deaths of Todds and Iseriel. The investigation suggested a powerful, unidentified culprit had used a subtle mental attack, while interference prevented precognitive Transcendents from finding answers.

• Lin Yue advised Chen Xi to talk with her or Gu Yu when she fell into an empty state, and Chen Xi teased Lin Yue before they left for the conference room.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue joined Ademos, Casper, and Kossarius, where Ademos showed them photographs of the dead Todds and Iseriel.
• Ademos explained that Todds and Iseriel had left a handover ceremony in Qiyan Territory for the Dragon Valley Mountains and that investigators had found no traces of magic.
• Lin Yue estimated that the killer was near the peak of Rank Five or possibly Rank Six and had used a gentle mental attack; Chen Xi suggested the killer may have been someone familiar to the victims or an illusionist.
• Ademos said interference had blocked precognitive investigations, and the conference room fell silent as the group faced the lack of answers.

Casper volunteered to investigate Iseriel and Tordes’s deaths alone while Ademos offered Chen Xi the Black Moon Empire’s sacred Lord’s Cross as a way to bypass the fifth-tier Ascension Ritual. Chen Xi learned that absorbing it would tie part of her strength to the empire’s faith, and she considered the offer as Ademos said he trusted her and Lin Yue.

• Casper proposed investigating the culprit alone, and Ademos approved while Chen Xi and Lin Yue agreed.
• Casper left to investigate, and Ademos explained that Casper was struggling with the deaths of Iseriel and Tordes.
• Ademos revealed the Lord’s Cross, which held the Wish Power of the Black Moon Empire, and explained that it could let Chen Xi advance directly to the fifth tier.
• Chen Xi felt the cross’s pull but resisted absorbing it, then learned her strength would be tied to the empire’s faith by thirty percent.
• Chen Xi questioned whether Ademos could give away the empire’s sacred relic, and he said he trusted her and Lin Yue.

Chen Xi absorbed the Lord's Cross, reaching the peak of Rank Five and transforming her Rain Disaster domain into a power that accelerated or reversed lives until they died or vanished. After describing its strength to Lin Yue and Ademos, she asked Ademos about his domain.

• Chen Xi accepted the Lord's Cross, and Ademos explained how she could absorb its power.
• Chen Xi used the cross and spent the day absorbing it while Lin Yue and Ademos waited.
• Chen Xi completed the absorption, reached Rank Five's peak, and gained the Beginning and End of All Things domain transformation.
• Chen Xi explained that her domain could age targets to death or reverse them into nothingness, alarming Lin Yue.
• Ademos described his domain as one that gradually made living beings within its range lose their hostility.