Chapter Summaries

Gu Yu explained that she had fled the Black Moon Empire to avoid the Saintess selection, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue learned that she wanted to stay away. After Shen Mo insulted them and was defeated by Lin Yue, Chen Xi offered to escort Gu Yu to Wufeng City in exchange for information about the Black Moon Empire and other countries, then asked whether a Spark Federation Transcendent could cross the border with Skynet.

• Gu Yu told Chen Xi and Lin Yue that she was a candidate Saintess who had traveled from the Black Moon Empire to the Spark Empire and fled after the Priest of Evil Flower threatened her.
• Chen Xi summarized Gu Yu's journey, and Gu Yu clarified that she felt too weak for the Saintess selection and had a way to return to the Black Moon Empire if her life was in danger.
• Shen Mo called Chen Xi and Lin Yue country bumpkins and boasted that he was a Third Rank Transcendent, so Lin Yue beat him unconscious with her shadow ability.
• Chen Xi asked Gu Yu whether she planned to return with Shen Mo, and Gu Yu said she wanted to stay.
• Chen Xi offered to escort Gu Yu to Wufeng City in exchange for information about the Black Moon Empire and the wider world, then asked whether a Spark Federation Transcendent could cross the border with Skynet.

Gu Yu explained the Skynet Forum’s restrictions and the costly ways to leave the Spark Federation, then described the Black Moon Empire’s Transcendent strength. After joking about their ages and relationship, Chen Xi asked Gu Yu about recent international events.

• Chen Xi asked whether Transcendents could smuggle the Skynet out of the Spark Federation, and Gu Yu said doing so would damage their souls and cost them the ability to wield another Legend.
• Gu Yu explained that she could access the Skynet Forum in both nations because of her special bloodline, and outlined ways to remove its restrictions or leave the Federation.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue were shocked to learn that leaving required five hundred thousand Spark Points, while keeping the forum required five million; Chen Xi decided staying was preferable.
• Gu Yu said the Black Moon Empire had about sixteen hundred official Fourth Rank Transcendents and roughly twenty-four hundred including other organizations.
• Chen Xi revealed that Lin Yue was 186 years old, and Lin Yue jokingly claimed Chen Xi was her adoptive mother before they clarified the joke to Gu Yu.
• Chen Xi asked Gu Yu whether anything major had happened internationally lately.

Gu Yu told Chen Xi and Lin Yue about the upcoming God-Chosen Trial, and the three traveled toward Wufeng City while preparing to enter it. During the flight, Lin Yue fought a Headless Shadow in a dream, then woke to Chen Xi showing her a forum post titled “Doomsday.”

• Gu Yu explained that the God-Chosen Trial began on December 12 and selected eligible adults with special aptitudes, including Chen Xi and Lin Yue.
• Chen Xi planned to use the eight days before the trial to sneak into Wufeng City, and she and Lin Yue traveled with Gu Yu and a High Priest of Evil Flower under Lin Yue’s control.
• Shen Mo returned alone to the Black Moon Empire after Gu Yu refused to go back.
• On the plane, Lin Yue awoke in a dream to find the cabin empty and a Headless Shadow standing in the aisle.
• Lin Yue sensed that the Headless Shadow was a lower Third Rank, used her domain and Myriad Agonies to destroy it, and woke as the dream shattered.
• Chen Xi told Lin Yue that the dream had happened again and showed her a forum post titled “Doomsday.”

Lin Yue and Chen Xi discussed the Headless Shadow’s viral post and its apparent power to evade Skynet, while Gu Yu worried about the coming nightmare at the airport. Their conversation ended when a mysterious peak Fourth Rank girl challenged them to fight.

• Lin Yue and Chen Xi saw that the Headless Shadow’s post had gained millions of comments and could not be removed by Skynet.
• Chen Xi suspected the Shadow had spread its image to make Transcendents afraid, and Lin Yue said she would obtain Legend Degree in four days.
• At the airport, Gu Yu said the Black Moon Empire had reported no Headless Shadow and admitted she could not return there without being trapped in the Saintess Selection.
• Gu Yu complained about someone stepping on the wall behind her, and Chen Xi warned her that the person was standing right behind her.
• Chen Xi identified the white-haired girl as a peak Fourth Rank Transcendent, and the girl challenged Lin Yue, Chen Xi, and Gu Yu to fight.

Tang Xue challenged Chen Xi and Lin Yue, using her Garden of Possibilities domain to make their attacks miss through improbable luck. After Chen Xi identified her ability, Tang Xue summoned a peak Fourth Rank Red Dragon, leaving the two women facing a much greater threat.

• The High Priest of Evil Flower sensed a Fourth Rank aura in the airport and slipped toward the emergency exit rather than get involved.
• Tang Xue introduced herself, expanded her Garden of Possibilities domain, and transformed the airport hall into a forest as Chen Xi and Lin Yue countered with their own domains.
• Lin Yue and Chen Xi attacked Tang Xue together, but their strikes inexplicably veered away from her.
• Chen Xi tested Tang Xue with waves of water, then deduced that her ability was invincible good fortune, which Tang Xue confirmed after rolling a six.
• Tang Xue declared it was her turn and summoned a peak Fourth Rank Red Dragon beside her.

Chen Xi prepared her strongest attack against Tang Xue while Lin Yue helped stall for time. Chen Xi unleashed the Raging Tide Water Sword, engulfing Tang Xue and leaving her fate uncertain.

• Chen Xi explained that overwhelming force could overcome Tang Xue's luck-based ability and secretly built up Rain Slash's power.
• Tang Xue sent Wales the Red Dragon to attack, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue countered before retreating into a ruin.
• Tang Xue recalled Wales and revealed that its attack had only been a test, then challenged Chen Xi to kill her.
• Chen Xi activated Water and Sky as One and struck Tang Xue with the Raging Tide Water Sword.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue defeated Tang Xue, only to learn that Tang Xue could resurrect once a day by rolling a six. At a noodle shop, Tang Xue revealed that good fortune had led her to Lin Yue, the world’s chosen one and the only hope in the doomed Spark Federation.

• After Tang Xue survived Chen Xi’s Rain Slash by resurrecting, she explained that rolling a six let her resurrect once that day.
• Tang Xue asked Chen Xi to wait for Gu Yu before explaining why she had fought them, and Chen Xi called Gu Yu over.
• At a noodle shop, Tang Xue introduced herself as a peak fourth-tier Transcendent wielding the Dice of Fate and said she had fought them to leave a deep impression.
• Tang Xue told Lin Yue that good fortune had chosen her as the world’s only hope in the doomed Spark Federation.
• Gu Yu asked what Tang Xue meant by everyone being doomed to die, and Tang Xue hesitated over which question to answer first.

Tang Xue warned Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu that the Spark Federation would be destroyed in three months and proposed taking them away. After answering their questions and giving them a million Spark Points, she used her ability to transport them to Wufeng City.

• Tang Xue told Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu that everyone in the Spark Federation would die in three months, and said she could only tell them the truth.
• Tang Xue explained that Lin Yue was a protagonist and offered to take the group out of the Federation in two months, after giving them a million Spark Points.
• Chen Xi asked about Snow Dragon and Flame Ghost, and Tang Xue said Snow Dragon had died while the Ten Thousand Year Ice Spring could suppress Flame Ghost's Vitality.
• Chen Xi asked to reach Wufeng City sooner so Gu Yu could get inside and the group could take refuge there.
• Tang Xue rolled a six with her Six-Sided Die and transported all four of them out of the noodle shop.

Tang Xue transported Gu Yu, Lin Yue, and Chen Xi to Wufeng City before leaving to handle an urgent matter. Gu Yu explained why she had come: she wanted to complete her Ascension Ritual without surrendering the eyes her mother had given her, while Chen Xi and Lin Yue settled into a hotel and discussed exploring the city.

• Tang Xue transported Gu Yu, Lin Yue, and Chen Xi more than fifty thousand kilometers to Wufeng City, then left and told them to contact her through the forum.
• Gu Yu told Lin Yue and Chen Xi that her family wanted her to give up her eyes and wield a different Legend, but she treasured the eyes as her mother's gift.
• Gu Yu explained that her eyes consumed the three slots normally used for Legends, which had kept her from reaching First Rank.
• After booking separate hotel rooms, Chen Xi and Lin Yue teased and kissed each other in their room.
• Chen Xi suggested that she and Lin Yue investigate Wufeng City, but Lin Yue went to take a shower first.

Lin Yue encountered an Erosion State version of herself, who promised to take over after Lin Yue died and regressed again. Later, Lin Yue and Chen Xi found an official Wufeng City Transcendent exchange party announcement and decided to attend, while Chen Xi teased Lin Yue about which woman she had been thinking of.

• Lin Yue worried that Chen Xi would die again, and her Erosion State double appeared in the bathroom mirror.
• The double told Lin Yue to leave everything to her and said she would take over after Lin Yue died and regressed; Lin Yue then discovered a new ability, Me.
• Lin Yue and Chen Xi used the forum's hidden meeting function and found that Qiu Ye and the others were in Wufeng City.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue saw an official announcement for a Wufeng City Transcendent exchange party and decided to attend to gather information for the upcoming God-Chosen Trial.
• Lin Yue admitted she had been thinking about another woman, and Chen Xi guessed several names before asking whether she meant Chen Xi herself.

Lin Yue fought the Headless Shadow after it dragged her into a dream, defeating the now-Third-Rank monster with her shadow and soul-striking abilities. She woke to find Chen Xi still asleep and playfully pinched her cheek before Chen Xi opened her eyes.

• Lin Yue and Chen Xi stayed awake together, waiting for the Headless Shadow to pull them into a dream.
• The Headless Shadow appeared with both hands missing and had risen to Third Rank, so Lin Yue prepared to fight it.
• The Headless Shadow dodged Lin Yue’s shadow tentacles and struck her through her defenses, sending her crashing down the street.
• Lin Yue bound the Headless Shadow with her tentacles, then ended her domain and killed it with a soul strike.
• Lin Yue woke beside the sleeping Chen Xi and pinched her cheek, and Chen Xi opened her eyes and asked what she was doing.

After defeating the Headless Shadow, Chen Xi shared newly learned information on Skynet and received a large Spark Points reward. Meanwhile, Long Jue chose not to investigate the new Tier 4 Transcendents, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue considered buying a Legend before Lin Yue received an invitation to meet.

• Chen Xi explained that the Headless Shadow could transform from Tier 3 to upper Tier 4 and posted the information on Skynet for a reward.
• Long Jue learned that unfamiliar Tier 4 Transcendents in Wufeng City had been vouched for by Tang Xue, but decided she had no time to investigate them.
• Long Jue ordered Feng Yi to give Chen Xi three hundred thousand Spark Points and speak with her.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue discussed buying a new Legend through Skynet's special delivery ability.
• Lin Yue showed Chen Xi a message inviting the newly promoted Tier 4 Transcendent to meet.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi searched the official site for a fourth-tier Legend that could improve Lin Yue’s regeneration, and Lin Yue chose the costly Vampire Prince. After she bought it, a spatial passage opened and delivered the Legend in a black paper box.

• Lin Yue and Chen Xi waited for a reply from the official-badged account, but Long eventually said to forget about meeting.
• Chen Xi suggested they spend some of their Spark Points on a Legend, arguing they had two months to earn the money back.
• Lin Yue rejected several fourth-tier Legends before finding the Vampire Prince, whose shadow affinity and lack of holy abilities matched her requirements.
• Lin Yue purchased the Vampire Prince for 960,000 points after Chen Xi reassured her they could ask Tang Xue for help later.
• A spatial passage opened from the computer screen and delivered a black paper box into Lin Yue’s arms.

Lin Yue absorbed the blood needed to take control of the Vampire Prince, then joined Chen Xi in guarding Gu Yu during her Ascension Ritual at Wufeng City's Exchange Meeting. Gu Yu advanced to Second Rank and began asking them to be her Contract Knights, but an unseen force suddenly crushed the Transcendents in the lobby.

• Lin Yue drank the heated blood, wrapped herself in shadows, and slept for twenty-one hours before waking with white hair that she later changed back to pale gold.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue took Gu Yu to the Exchange Meeting, where she performed her Ascension Ritual near Spark's Dragon Vein while they watched over her.
• Gu Yu completed the ritual and advanced to Second Rank, then thanked Chen Xi and Lin Yue and asked them to become her Contract Knights.
• The lobby abruptly darkened, and an invisible force crushed the gathered Transcendents, splattering Gu Yu's blood across Chen Xi and Lin Yue.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue discovered that a headless corpse had slaughtered Wufeng City and was destroying the Spark Federation. Count Suit evacuated a group of Transcendents, but the Headless Shadow followed them into his card passage and killed him.

• An invisible attack crushed everyone in the Countermeasure Bureau hall except Chen Xi and Lin Yue, while two Fourth Rank Transcendents escaped.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue fled the bureau and saw that Wufeng City’s streets were covered with corpses before Lin Yue spotted the attacker overhead.
• In Tianhai City, Chen Shuo rescued Qiu Ye from the Headless Shadow’s influence and told her that ordinary people across all Fifteen Cities were dead.
• Chen Shuo carried Qiu Ye to Jiahua Plaza, where Count Suit used his cards to teleport the remaining Transcendents away.
• The Headless Shadow appeared in Count Suit’s card passage, pierced his chest, and caused the card world to collapse.

In Wufeng City, Chen Xi and Lin Yue discovered that Headless Shadows had caused the catastrophe and tried to escape the city. They narrowly survived the colossal shadow’s attack, but it turned on them again.

• Chen Xi pulled Lin Yue away from the headless corpse, and they learned from the Skynet Forum that the Spark Federation was in crisis.
• Chen Xi realized that Headless Shadows had killed people in their dreams and erased their memories, then fled with Lin Yue as the shadows gathered into a giant figure.
• Lin Yue tried to restrain the giant Headless Shadow with her tendrils but could not move it.
• Lin Yue warned Chen Xi to dodge, and Chen Xi sharply redirected their flight to evade the shadow’s leap, injuring her arm in the turn.
• The giant Headless Shadow turned toward them and unleashed a flood of darkness from its chest.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue fought off the Headless Shadow long enough to build a shadow slingshot and launch themselves out of the Spark Federation. They escaped its reach at extreme speed, and Chen Xi kissed Lin Yue as they realized they had survived.

• Chen Xi used Sovereign's Wrath to split the Headless Shadow's attack while Lin Yue tried and failed to control the blood covering the city.
• Lin Yue devised a plan to launch them into the sky with a giant shadow slingshot, and Chen Xi agreed to hold the Headless Shadow back with Rain Slash.
• Chen Xi knocked the Headless Shadow away with Rain Slash while Lin Yue raised shadow pillars and stretched a shadow band between them.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue launched themselves from the slingshot just as the Headless Shadow's Invisible Hand broke through Lin Yue's barrier.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue sped beyond the horizon, and Chen Xi kissed Lin Yue as they looked at each other tenderly.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue fled Wufeng City as the Azure Dragon fought the Headless Mummified Corpse, but the Dragon Girl’s final attack failed. The corpse’s chant drained the life from every living thing in the Spark Federation, leaving Chen Xi and Lin Yue to die together among the ruins.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue escaped the Headless Mummified Corpse and learned they were still over five thousand kilometers from Wufeng City’s border.
• The Azure Dragon attacked the corpse above Fulong City, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue continued their escape in Lin Yue’s Shadow Sports Car.
• The Dragon Girl unleashed her final Azure Dragon attack, but the Headless Mummified Corpse survived.
• The corpse’s chant drained Chen Xi and Lin Yue’s life force, and its domain wiped out every remaining living thing in the Spark Federation.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue held hands among the ruins as their lives ran out, and Lin Yue apologized before the world went black and white.

After regressing to September 16, Chen Xi found herself in a train baggage car with Lin Yue, who had revealed her true identity. Chen Xi checked her new Myth-grade CG, Silent Funeral, and learned that its summoned Legend Andres could briefly advance to the fifth tier.

• Chen Xi woke in a train baggage car and discovered she had regressed nearly twenty-two days to September 16.
• Lin Yue revealed that she was not the meek version Chen Xi knew and explained that she had chosen not to kill Chen Xi because of her resurrection ability.
• Chen Xi checked her panel and found that her failed CG generation had become Wish Power, while she had gained the Myth-grade CG Silent Funeral and its summon, Andres of Death.
• Chen Xi chose not to enhance Andres of Death, saving her Wish Power for a possible Legend-grade CG.
• Chen Xi opened Andres's detailed abilities and discovered that True Name Release temporarily advanced Andres to the fifth tier.

After Lin Yue and Chen Xi escaped immediate danger, Lin Yue bit off Chen Xi’s tongue during a teasing kiss, then healed it with water. Over dessert, Lin Yue revealed that someone powerful had set a trap for her, leaving Chen Xi worried about the threat—and thinking about how to exploit Lin Yue’s abilities.

• Chen Xi examined Andres’s ability and realized the summon might have reached the Fifth-Order, while Lin Yue said they should leave the Spark Federation.
• Lin Yue kissed Chen Xi, bit off her tongue using shadow to numb it, and watched as Chen Xi restored it with water.
• At a dessert shop, Lin Yue explained that memories would be blurred when she left her current state, and Chen Xi reminded her of how she had betrayed her during a Regression.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi about Qianlang Mountain and the text messages, suggesting a Seventh-Order Deity might have set a trap specifically for her.
• Chen Xi dismissed Lin Yue’s reassurance and joked that she wanted to explore Lin Yue fully to generate more powerful and plentiful CGs.