Chapter Summaries

Chen Xi and Lin Yue spent a day watching movies together, then walked beside a lake after a surprisingly moving post-apocalyptic film. Chen Xi sensed that Lin Yue was hiding something, but Lin Yue blamed her distraction on the lingering emotions from turning back time.

• Chen Xi booked tickets for every movie playing that day, and she and Lin Yue watched them together, commenting on each film afterward.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue watched a post-apocalyptic romance that moved Chen Xi and seemed to remind Lin Yue of the apocalypse.
• After leaving the theater, Chen Xi noticed Lin Yue was unusually distracted and confronted her about hiding something.
• Lin Yue claimed she was processing negative emotions from turning back time, though ripples moved through her dark golden eyes as Chen Xi remained doubtful.

While traveling around Blue Star, Chen Xi and Lin Yue encountered and defeated a fourth-tier snow wolf Legend. After filming Chen Xi’s effortless victory, Lin Yue stole Chen Xi’s last lollipop and teased her.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue encountered a fourth-tier Legend descending in a snowstorm while traveling.
• Chen Xi discovered that the Legend was a hostile snow wolf, and Lin Yue began filming the fight.
• Chen Xi destroyed the wolf with a giant sword of water, ending its snowstorm domain.
• Lin Yue took Chen Xi’s last strawberry lollipop with her shadow ability and claimed it for herself.

After Azure Hundred Deer warned Chen Xi that the King of Abundance and Forests planned to claim part of its woodland, Chen Xi agreed to meet him in the Forest Sea Realm. Seven days later, Chen Xi and Lin Yue reached the appointed place, where Azure Hundred Deer greeted them.

• Chen Xi watched the battle video of her fight against the snow wolves and told officials that the Legend had been resolved.
• Azure Hundred Deer contacted Chen Xi and warned that the King of Abundance and Forests intended to descend on Blue Star and manage its forest with him.
• Chen Xi told Azure Hundred Deer to arrange the meeting in the Forest Sea Realm and said she would confront the King herself.
• Chen Xi checked her Wish Power Charge and found it had reached 348%; Lin Yue agreed that the King’s intentions seemed suspicious.
• Seven days later, Chen Xi and Lin Yue traveled to Azure Hundred Deer’s relocated meeting place and found the little deer waiting in the bushes.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue visited the Azure Hundred Deer’s private space and learned the King of Forests was expected to descend that night. The King arrived early, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue went out to meet her, leaving the Azure Hundred Deer behind.

• The Azure Hundred Deer told Chen Xi and Lin Yue that the King of Forests would probably descend around midnight, and Chen Xi decided to wait for her.
• The Azure Hundred Deer opened a passage into its private space, Azure, where Chen Xi and Lin Yue saw the ancient tree and the peaceful creatures living beneath it.
• Chen Xi explained that the King of Abundance and Forests was not the benevolent god described in the Azure Hundred Deer’s inherited knowledge.
• The King of Forests arrived early, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue left Azure to meet her while the Azure Hundred Deer stayed behind.
• The King of Forests appeared before Chen Xi and Lin Yue, and Lin Yue greeted her.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue confronted the Forest King, which demanded that Azure Hundred Deer appear. After learning that Chen Xi had contracted with him, the Forest King accused her of deception and attacked; the chapter ended as Chen Xi raised Sovereign's Wrath to strike.

• The Forest King arrived and demanded that Azure Hundred Deer come out, while Chen Xi and Lin Yue studied it.
• Chen Xi told the Forest King that she had contracted with Azure Hundred Deer and held the authority to negotiate with it.
• The Forest King sensed the Contract, accused Chen Xi of deceiving Azure Hundred Deer, and refused her offer to let him speak for himself.
• Chen Xi asked about the Forest King and the Vengeful Spirit Tree Demon's plans in the Spark Federation, then noted that the Forest King could not use its full strength in its manifested form.
• The Forest King and the two girls expanded their domains, and the Forest King caused plants throughout its forest kingdom to grow and bloom.
• Lin Yue's five-senses manipulation weakened the Forest King, and Chen Xi summoned Sovereign's Wrath as brilliant sword light pierced the darkness.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue defeated the Forest King, whose true nature and alliance with the King of Deathly Silence and Withering they later revealed to Azure Hundred Deer. After returning to the city, Chen Xi called out to Lin Yue as they set off for a teppanyaki restaurant.

• Dawn replicated the Forest King’s domain while Andres used the death origin, helping Chen Xi overcome its defenses.
• Chen Xi struck the Forest King with Sovereign’s Wrath, killing it and destroying its descended form.
• Lin Yue asked Chen Xi to replenish her magic power through Same Origin, and Chen Xi agreed.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue told Azure Hundred Deer that the Forest King had allied with the King of Deathly Silence and Withering, the Vengeful Spirit Tree Demon.
• Lin Yue chose a teppanyaki restaurant on her phone’s map, and Chen Xi called out to stop her.

After nearly five peaceful months, Chen Xi and Lin Yue prepared to return to the past and deal with Original Sin. As they shared a cigarette on Chen Xi’s rooftop, the Lamenter appeared in a vast rift in the sky.

• Chen Xi asked Lin Yue how she had dealt with her divine aura, and Lin Yue said her ability had evolved; she promised Chen Xi that she could be trusted.
• Nearly five months after resolving the Forest King matter, Chen Xi and Lin Yue discussed returning twelve months into the past to eliminate Original Sin and use Iris’s ability to glimpse the future of Lin Yue’s world.
• Lin Yue began smoking more often as their planned return drew closer, and she explained that she used her ability to control her senses.
• Chen Xi accepted one cigarette after Lin Yue offered it, and the two lit their cigarettes together.
• As the lighter sparked, a vast rift tore open the sky, and the Lamenter’s pale eye appeared above them.

The Lamenter attacked Blue Star with a domain that transformed people into headless shadows, forcing Chen Xi, Lin Yue, Yue Xing, and Ademos to fight back. The Lamenter overwhelmed their defenses, leaving the world on the brink of destruction as Chen Xi recognized that rewinding its lifespan was her only ability that could affect it.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue sensed the Lamenter’s presence, and it spread its greatly expanded domain across more than half of Blue Star.
• Yue Xing and Ademos fought the headless shadow creatures, but the Lamenter’s power began crushing their domains and tearing Yue Xing’s body apart.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue unleashed their powers against the Lamenter, while it crushed their attacks and destroyed Chen Xi’s Replica.
• Chen Xi concluded that only her ability to rewind the Lamenter’s lifespan could affect it.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue escaped the Lamenter by triggering Lin Yue’s Regression, but Chen Xi realized they still lacked a way to defeat its second form. After meeting again in the past, they prepared to use Iris to return to the Spark Federation and begin their plan.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue used the Hourglass to regress from the Lamenter, with Chen Xi retaining her memories.
• Chen Xi woke on September 12th and received the Epic CG blessing Brave Heart, then concluded her strength was not enough to face the Lamenter alone.
• Chen Xi informed Ademos and Yue Xing that she had failed and was about to undergo Regression, then traveled to the Taihua Mountains.
• Lin Yue arrived with Original Sin, admitted she had lost completely, and agreed to follow Chen Xi’s plan.
• Chen Xi took out the pot of Iris so they could teleport back to the Spark Federation after Regression.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue used the Iris to travel to Zhu Li's villa in Tianhai City, but arrived to find the city devastated and Zhu Li missing. After discovering the Lamenter's influence and the Headless Shadows roaming the ruins, Chen Xi used the Origin of Death to erase them.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue held hands and used two Iris petals to travel between worlds.
• They arrived at Zhu Li's villa, where Lin Yue sensed that no one was present.
• Chen Xi detected blood and deathly magic in the villa, which Lin Yue connected to the Lamenter.
• Chen Xi sent Andres's domain across Tianhai City and saw a ruined city filled with Headless Shadows.
• Chen Xi activated the Origin of Death and wiped out every Headless Shadow in Tianhai City.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue discovered that the Lamenter had arrived a month early and destroyed the Spark Federation. Ademos's recorded message urged Chen Xi to leave the damaged region and meet him in the Black Moon Empire, but a Headless Shadow interrupted the projection.

• Chen Xi checked a phone and confirmed that only a few days had passed since their Regression, suggesting the Lamenter had altered the timeline.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue suspected the Lamenter's understanding of time had changed after their previous encounter.
• Chen Xi contacted Ademos through Lord's Cross and learned that he had retained memories of the Regression with Lin Yue's help.
• Ademos's projection revealed that the Lamenter had descended a month early and the Spark Federation had fallen, then advised Chen Xi to meet him in the Black Moon Empire.
• A Headless Shadow replaced Ademos's projection, and Chen Xi cut it down with a spatial water blade.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue tried to flee Tianhai City after Ademos warned them to return to the Black Moon Empire, but the Lamenter's influence revived the Headless Shadows and blocked their teleportation. They escaped by flying toward the Federation's border, leaving the full extent of the threat and the Black Moon Empire's condition uncertain.

• Chen Xi told Lin Yue what Ademos had revealed in the recording, and they decided to head back to the Black Moon Empire to meet him.
• Chen Xi sensed the destroyed Headless Shadows reforming, and she and Lin Yue's attempts to teleport away were disrupted by the shadows.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue fled through the air as the Headless Shadows pursued them, repeatedly regenerating at increasingly dangerous ranks.
• Lin Yue unleashed Myriad Agonies, crushing the pursuing Headless Shadows so they could no longer regenerate.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue continued toward the edge of the Spark Federation, expecting the journey to take about three days and worrying about what awaited them.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue flew across the ruined Spark Federation, finding no other Transcendents and concluding that the Lamenter had struck at least three days earlier. At the border of Haiyuan City, they found Tang Xue asleep inside a giant rose, and she woke believing they had just boarded the Voyager cruise ship.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue observed the devastated cities and realized the Lamenter had left the Federation deserted.
• Chen Xi inferred from the dried blood that the Lamenter had arrived more than three days ago, and the two raced toward the Federation's border.
• Chen Xi resolved to grow strong enough to reach the sixth rank and confront the Lamenter after reuniting with Ademos.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue sensed magic power near Haiyuan City and found Tang Xue lying inside an enormous rose by the sea.
• Tang Xue woke and asked why they were there, saying she thought they had just boarded the Voyager cruise ship.

After the Lamenter destroyed the Spark Federation, Tang Xue was reborn in a mysterious rose dress but remained bound to the area as the Legend representing the Federation's fate. She urged Lin Yue and Chen Xi to leave, and as they escaped, Lin Yue secretly held onto a rose petal with a cold resolve.

• Chen Xi explained the time regressions and the Lamenter's attack to Tang Xue, who realized she had been killed before she could understand what was happening.
• Tang Xue told Chen Xi and Lin Yue that she had awakened in a rose dress with unknown residual magic and recalled a cold-voiced woman putting it on her.
• Tang Xue rolled her fate die, saw it land on one, and said that she could not leave the destroyed Spark Federation and had no reason to keep living.
• Tang Xue gave Lin Yue a rose petal and wished her and Chen Xi good luck as they departed across the sea.
• As they escaped, Lin Yue secretly gripped the rose petal and resolved not to waste another regression trying to persuade Tang Xue.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue traveled to the Black Moon Empire to investigate the Lamenter's attack and search for clues from Ademos. After finding the empire evacuated but apparently uncorrupted, they teleported to Casper's Duke's Mansion to look for information.

• Chen Xi guessed Wala might have dressed Tang Xue in the red rose dress, but Lin Yue rejected the idea because Wala remained trapped in the God-Chosen Trial.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue reached the Black Moon Empire and discovered Ademos's barrier had failed, though the empire showed no signs of the Lamenter's corruption.
• Chen Xi learned that teleportation worked again and found that Mod Town had been evacuated, while its scattered notices offered no useful clues.
• Chen Xi teleported with Lin Yue to Casper's Duke's Mansion to search for information, and Lin Yue went toward the meeting room.
• Chen Xi headed for the study and landed on the corner of its window.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue investigated the Duke’s Mansion and found evidence that the Lamenter had already descended, while learning that Ademos had sought Grishis’s protection for the Black Moon Empire. The chapter left them with the timing of the Lamenter’s arrival confirmed, but no response from Ademos.

• Chen Xi examined Casper’s world map and saw that he had marked the Oracle Empire, where Ademos had apparently sought Grishis’s help and arranged to move the Black Moon Empire’s citizens.
• Chen Xi tried to contact Ademos through the Lord’s Cross, received no answer, and worried that the Lamenter’s descent might not follow the same rules in the next regression.
• Lin Yue brought Chen Xi a diary from the Duke’s Mansion meeting room, and Chen Xi found its final entry saying, “It came.”
• Using the diary clue and Tang Xue’s confirmation, Chen Xi and Lin Yue determined when the Lamenter had descended.
• Chen Xi complained about people writing daily diaries, then Lin Yue asked about her information gathering and learned that Chen Xi had already provided the map.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue followed clues about Ademos to Black Moon Royal City, using a chain of teleportation arrays to reach his concealed estate. There, they triggered a recording magic left by Ademos.

• Lin Yue identified the Oracle Empire as a likely destination for Ademos, but Chen Xi chose to check Black Moon Royal City first.
• Chen Xi found magic ore deliberately left in a teleportation array, and she and Lin Yue used the arrays to travel toward the royal city over several days.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue arrived in the outer district of Black Moon Royal City and used Dreamlike Mirage to reach Ademos's hidden estate.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue explored the estate and triggered the recording magic Ademos had left behind.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue learned from Ademos that the Lamenter had attacked nearly the entire world and would launch another offensive in a month. With Ademos unable to teleport them, they set out on foot for the Oracle Empire, where the remaining peak sixth-rankers would gather.

• Ademos appeared through the estate’s magic and told Chen Xi and Lin Yue that he had relocated the Black Moon Empire to the Oracle Empire.
• Ademos revealed that the Lamenter could split its body, had conquered nearly the entire world, and was prophesied to attack again in a month.
• Ademos explained that the Lamenter’s Erosion made long-distance teleportation unreliable, while his battle against its shadow army kept him from helping them.
• The Lamenter disrupted Ademos’s projection and sent a Headless Shadow, which Chen Xi destroyed with Water Blade.
• Chen Xi took Lin Yue’s hand and began planning their overland journey to the Oracle Empire, while Lin Yue quietly brushed dust from Chen Xi’s hair.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue set out for the Oracle Empire, aiming to reach it in about half a month and confront the Lamenter. After traveling for seven days without rest, they switched to a Shadow Sports Car, but Headless Shadows appeared along their route.

• Chen Xi estimated that they could reach the Oracle Empire in about half a month, and she and Lin Yue set off after sharing a fist bump.
• Lin Yue appeared with a shadow-mimicked fan, and Chen Xi compared her to Gu Yao before cutting off their Shadow Communication connection.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue traveled through the primeval forest for seven days without stopping, then Lin Yue conjured a Shadow Sports Car and Chen Xi joined her inside.
• Headless Shadows emerged around the car, and Lin Yue gripped the steering wheel and refused to back down.

After Lin Yue admitted she believed they could never defeat the Lamenter, she tried to persuade Chen Xi to stop and hide, but Chen Xi refused. Lin Yue reversed time and returned them to the moment after escaping the Lamenter’s encirclement, where she called Chen Xi a pig.

• Lin Yue drove the Shadow Sports Car through a horde of Headless Shadows while Chen Xi supplied her with magic power.
• Lin Yue confessed that no matter how many times they tried, she believed they could never defeat the Lamenter.
• Lin Yue stopped the car and urged Chen Xi to give up, hide with her in an abandoned city, and let her rewind time when the Lamenter threatened the world.
• Chen Xi refused to stop, and Lin Yue froze time and reversed it with the Hourglass before Chen Xi could learn who she was.
• Lin Yue returned to the moment after they escaped the Lamenter’s encirclement, called Chen Xi a pig, and Chen Xi agreed.