Chapter Summaries

The Frost King weighed the threat of Li Yuan’s coalition and accepted Sequence 009’s aid, deciding the Frostborn could win by exploiting their frozen terrain and raising the dead. Li Yuan’s first assault failed and strengthened the Frostborn, leaving him determined to defeat the Frost King before he personally entered the battle.

• Four nations encircled the Frost King, while Sequence 009 sent Nairasojin and five divisions to support the Frostborn.
• The Frost King and his dukes judged that their smaller force had advantages in strength, terrain, and the ability to turn enemy corpses into new Frostborn.
• The Frost King declared, “We can fight,” and his duke agreed that casualties would become their own troops.
• Li Yuan launched a siege after earlier skirmishes against Sequence 009 had cost his coalition more than a hundred thousand soldiers.
• The Frostborn used their terrain to repel Li Yuan’s first offensive and increased their numbers by ten percent.
• Li Yuan resolved to eliminate the Frost King before Absolute Freeze made the battle impossible.

Li Yuan unleashed the Great Serpent against Buri City, where it summoned a meteor and a rock giant to break through the defenders. Nairasojin answered with the Ten-Day Holy Artifact, and their aerial battle left the Great Serpent exhilarated as Li Yuan warned it not to risk its only body.

• Li Yuan sent the Great Serpent into battle, and it summoned a meteor that struck Buri City's defensive checkpoint and caused heavy casualties.
• The Great Serpent created a rock giant and shielded itself from the city's duke and Nairasojin while the giant charged toward Buri City.
• Nairasojin summoned the ten components of the Ten-Day Holy Artifact and fired purple lasers that pierced the Great Serpent's shield and severed the giant's arm.
• Nairasojin used the Magic Web to recharge the Holy Artifact and pursued the Great Serpent with a sequence of laser attacks.
• The Great Serpent rejoiced in the battle, and Li Yuan warned it that it had only one body.

After the Great Serpent lost to Nairasojin, Li Yuan returned to human form and confided in Liu Yue about a prophetic dream in which the Frost King killed him and his followers. Liu Yue comforted him, reminding him that he could still choose how to live in the present, even if he could not control the future.

• Nairasojin pierced the Great Serpent's book and destroyed four more books, forcing Li Yuan's winged fourth-stage followers to drag the wounded Great Serpent away.
• Li Yuan walked alone through the mist before returning to the shore and changing back into his original human form.
• Liu Yue appeared beside Li Yuan and told him she could see his dreams and knew he was troubled by the future.
• Li Yuan described his dream of the Frost King freezing the ocean and killing him, and admitted he had begun to believe his war against the Frost King would end in failure.
• Liu Yue reassured Li Yuan that she would face that future with him and urged him to focus on living well in the present.

Li Yuan found a moment of peace with Liu Yue and chose to remain with her, leaving the war without his direction. Meanwhile, the conflicts stayed locked in stalemates, and the wounded Dragon Sui brought Dragon Crystal home, where he shielded her from an ambush and asked her to leave after meeting their parents.

• Li Yuan rested with Liu Yue, while Chen Ye considered killing Hydra but decided to let it go.
• Li Yuan woke at night and told Liu Yue he wanted to stay with her; Li Heng saw them, took human form, and ordered his forces to withdraw.
• In Year 450 of the World Calendar, the Great Serpent and Nairasojin continued their prolonged battle, while the Frost King's forces and the Ocean Army remained locked in war without orders from Li Yuan.
• Angel Mo became surrounded by forces tied to the Dragon Empire, Meng Qing, and Qin Leng, while Lin Feng and Chen Yuan held back and the conflict stalled.
• Dragon Sui returned to the Longwu Empire with Dragon Crystal, badly wounded from years of battles, and they were ambushed by Dragon Blood Descendants who had joined Sequence 009.
• Dragon Sui took a Scale-Piercing Bullet meant for Dragon Crystal, who destroyed another bullet and survived the attackers' missile strike; he then asked her to leave after meeting Father God and Mother God and never return.

Long Jiu Qian defied Emperor Qi’s orders, rallied the Dragon Martial army to follow him and the Martial Emperor against foreign invaders, and revealed that he had broken through to the fourth rank. Dragon Sui returned to Tai Heng Palace with the Dragon Crystal and found the Dragon God’s Immortal Body near death.

• Long Jiu Qian condemned Emperor Qi and the Dragon God for failing to defend the nation and declared that he would summon the Martial Emperor to fight the foreign enemies.
• A soldier shot Long Jiu Qian from behind, but Long Jiu Qian survived, killed the attacker, and offered his army the choice to leave or follow him.
• Long Jiu Qian’s son tried to send him home, but Long Jiu Qian forced him to his knees and revealed his strength had advanced beyond the third rank.
• The soldiers chose to follow Long Jiu Qian and the Martial Emperor against the foreign enemies, and Long Jiu Qian vowed to uphold Long Chen’s vision for their people.
• Dragon Sui returned to Tai Heng Palace with the Dragon Crystal and discovered that the Dragon God’s Immortal Body was on the verge of death.

Dragon Sui and Dragon Crystal confronted Sarah, who revealed that she had been siphoning the Dragon God's fortune through Dragon Crystal and had prepared an army of Black Goat offspring. Long Chen and his forces arrived as the stolen fortune began flowing away from Sarah, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• Sarah revealed that Dragon Crystal's connection to her had let her drain the Dragon God's fortune, while Dragon Sui had borne the hardships meant for Dragon Crystal.
• Sarah sent her Fourth Tier Black Goat offspring to attack Dragon Sui and Dragon Crystal, and Dragon Crystal stood up for her brother.
• Kan Gong and Li Shang broke free from their petrified states and charged into Tai Heng Palace, having reached mid Fourth Tier.
• Long Chen entered with Long Jiu Qian and an army that surrounded the palace, then declared that he relied on the people's will.
• Long Chen showed Sarah that her fortune was draining through Dragon Crystal and flowing to him, then took a spear and confronted her.

Long Chen defeated Sarah’s forces, witnessed the Dragon God’s death, and rallied the Longwu Empire for a final battle without divine protection. Sarah later tried to understand how Long Chen reclaimed the Dragon God’s fortune, suspecting the people’s faith had formed a conceptual power.

• Sarah ordered her fourth-rank subordinates to attack Long Chen, but he overcame them and drove her and her offspring to flee.
• The dying Dragon God entrusted the future to Long Chen, who closed the god’s eyes and called the people of Great Wu to fight on without gods.
• The Twin Dragons confirmed that the Dragon God’s stolen fortune had returned and agreed to keep the secret of the Heart of World Origin.
• Long Chen left to retrieve the crown while the Twin Dragons carried the Dragon God’s body to the imperial mausoleum.
• At the end of Dragon Calendar 450, Sarah returned to her country and argued with the Inner Demon parasitizing her about how Long Chen had reclaimed the fortune.
• Sarah considered whether the people’s will was a conceptual ability, then questioned whether the Priest had been involved.

Sarah confronted Meng Qing about fate and agreed to send troops while he took command of the alliance. Elsewhere, the Starry Sky Principal became obsessed with deciphering the Magic Web, and Adolf used a rare artifact to breach a Sky City fortress's defenses.

• Sarah accused Meng Qing of interfering with her fate, and he admitted involvement while denying he could control it outright.
• After Sarah refused to lead the alliance, Meng Qing accepted command and urged her to deploy her hidden fourth-rank forces against the Dragon Empire's crisis.
• Meng Qing told Mystra that an unknown planner had arranged events around the Dragon God's stolen fate, then said they should let others use the Magic Web for another fifty years.
• The Starry Sky Principal tore apart his formulas while trying to understand the Magic Web, believing that mastering it could let him create his own and reach godhood.
• During Adolf's assault on a Sky City fortress, he drew the single-use Ball of Destruction to remove its magical defenses, and a centaur protested the waste of the artifact.

Adolf and the Centaur fought Longwu Empire soldiers while trying to bring down a magically shielded sky fortress. As Adolf weakened the barrier, 004 arrived inside the Black Goat Fetus and sent the giant monster against them.

• The Centaur charged the sky fortress but bounced off its magical shield, then healed with a capsule and joined Adolf in fighting the soldiers.
• Adolf used Pain Link to kill a group of mages maintaining the fortress barrier, but discovered that at least twelve more anchor points remained.
• A huge Black Goat Fetus entered the battlefield, ignored Adolf’s gunfire, and spoke through 004.
• 004 recognized the Centaur and taunted him before ordering the Black Goat Fetus to attack.
• The Centaur hacked at the monster’s leg with his Thorn Wheel Revolving Axe while avoiding its stomps.

Adolf’s forces failed to take South Sea Fortress after 004 unleashed the Black Goat Fetus’s mental attack, forcing Adolf to order a retreat. As he planned to use the Ball of Destruction to protect Tianmen Pass, he learned that the Longwu Empire had wiped out the rebels he supplied.

• The Black Goat Fetus’s mental contamination incapacitated both armies, but Adolf used Eternal Punishment to tear the creature apart at the cost of dying and reviving in agony.
• 004 summoned two more Black Goat Fetuses, and Adolf ordered the Chaos allied forces to withdraw.
• At camp, Adolf and his officers reviewed the front lines and concluded they had to take South Sea Fortress to prevent Tianmen Pass from falling.
• Adolf told the centaur he would use the Ball of Destruction, then considered how slowly the Longwu Empire could be conquered without a decisive advantage.
• A communications officer told Adolf that the Longwu rebels had been wiped out.
• In Tianyang City, Long Chen ascended the great hall as generals displayed a map of the merged continents.

Long Chen arrived with reinforcements at Tianmen Pass, where the Beast of a Thousand Throats and Adolf had surrounded Longwu’s forces and were about to destroy its front line. After the loyal old commander died in Long Chen’s arms, Long Chen confronted the Beast of a Thousand Throats and began overpowering him.

• Adolf destroyed South Sea Fortress, while the Beast of a Thousand Throats intercepted Longwu’s forces and three Chaos armies surrounded the defenders at Tianmen Pass.
• Adolf offered the elderly dragon-horned commander a chance to defect, but the commander refused and rallied his soldiers to fight for Longwu.
• The Beast of a Thousand Throats pierced the commander’s chest, but Long Chen arrived, kicked the attacker away, and brought Dragon Blood Soldiers to reinforce the surrounded army.
• The commander died after greeting Long Chen, who laid him down and then faced the Beast of a Thousand Throats.
• Long Chen overpowered the Beast of a Thousand Throats in the sky and pierced his lower jaw with his spear, telling him he should have been stronger to learn the truth.

Long Chen and the Longwu Empire endured a prolonged war against the Chaos Empire, with the advantage shifting repeatedly. As Sequence 009 fused with Arthur and killed both dragons, Meng Qing intervened in the fate of the battle, targeting Arthur instead of Sequence 009.

• Adolf and Thousand Throats used the Chains of Pain against Long Chen, but Long Chen repeatedly reforged his body through the Dragon God's Heart of World Origin, and Adolf ordered a retreat after Longwu gained the advantage.
• Over the following years, the war remained deadlocked until Nairasojin and Arthur helped the Chaos Empire recapture Tianmen Pass and advance to Dragon Head City.
• Meng Qing sealed the Chaos side's access to the Magic Web, weakening its forces and allowing Longwu to counterattack.
• Sequence 009 fused with Arthur and used the God-Slaying Spear to kill Kan Gong and Li Shang, while Long Chen destroyed Arthur's divine artifact and evaded Sequence 009.
• Meng Qing used Silk Threads to interfere with Sequence 009's fate, reasoning that Arthur could be killed even if Sequence 009 could not.

009 fought Long Chen while fused with Arthur, rediscovering the pain and sensations that made him feel alive even as Arthur’s body began to fail. Meng Qing declared that he had fixed 009’s fate, but 009 rejected fate and unleashed black energy that severed Meng Qing’s Thread of Destiny.

• Long Chen repeatedly outmaneuvered 009 and pierced Arthur’s body, making 009 feel pain after his Immortal Body and Recurve Core were sealed and destroyed.
• 009 explained that regaining sensation through fusion made him feel alive and eagerly resumed fighting Long Chen.
• Long Chen’s attacks overwhelmed Arthur’s body, which became badly wounded and close to collapse.
• Meng Qing revealed that his authority over fate had locked in 009’s fate and foretold the deaths of Arthur, the Centaur, Thousand Throats, and Nairasojin.
• 009 rejected fate and unleashed black energy from the God-Slaying Spear, collapsing space and time and severing Meng Qing’s Thread of Destiny.

Sequence 009 discovered that Meng Qing was the missing member of the Right Hand Unit, while Meng Qing confessed that he had betrayed Nine-Tailed Fox to survive. As a fifth-tier magical attack threatened the battlefield, the Magic Web collapsed, leaving the attack undelivered and the world’s mages and sky fortresses falling.

• Sequence 009 identified Meng Qing as Seth, the missing Right Hand Unit member, after finding Qin Leng’s records and suicide note.
• Meng Qing removed his mask and admitted that his fear of death had led him to betray his comrades, kill Bai Ye, help Li Yuan corrupt the world, and turn Nine-Tailed Fox into Li Yuan’s tool.
• Meng Qing revealed that his cooperation with the Starry Sky Principal had enabled a white-robed mage to wield fifth-tier magic through the Magic Web.
• Sequence 009 left Arthur’s body and entered Adolf’s to confront the massive magical attack, but the Magic Web collapsed before the attack could land.
• The collapse spread cracks across the sky and caused flying mages and sky fortresses to fall across the planet.

The Starry Sky Principal deciphered the Magic Web and tried to seize control of it by merging with its energy. His success severed Mystra’s connection and caused the Magic Web—and the Magic Era—to collapse.

• The Starry Sky Principal concluded that the Magic Web drew power from its users and believed he could reach the sixth tier by replacing its core with himself.
• The Starry Sky Principal left his laboratory and merged his conscious energy with the Magic Web to take control from Mystra.
• The Starry Sky Principal seized the Magic Web, but severing Mystra’s connection caused it to collapse.
• The Magic Web’s collapse cut off the power sustaining the Sky Cities, causing them to fall and ushering in the end of the Magic Era.

After the Magic Web collapsed, Meng Qing returned to Babylon’s ruins and tried to rally survivors to recover the crowns. Years later, Mo offered Sequence 009 an alliance, but Lin Feng’s private words changed the outcome, and Mo asked Pandora to kill Sequence 009 and his companions.

• Meng Qing found Babylon destroyed, learned Mystra had not recovered the crowns, and vowed to find survivors who could retrieve them.
• The Magic Web’s collapse reversed the war, and Chaos and the Longwu Empire entered a ten-year truce before Sequence 009 renewed his assault and seized a quarter of Longwu territory.
• Angel Mo allied with Heart Spirit Chen Yuan, while Balroza fell, the Painter was defeated, and Kalen disappeared with his crown.
• Mo offered Sequence 009 a crown for an alliance, but Sequence 009 rejected him despite Mo revealing Lin Feng’s connection to him.
• Lin Feng whispered to Sequence 009, who withdrew with Nairasojin and the others, and Mo asked Pandora to kill them.

Pandora’s attempt to kill Sequence 009 and the Chaos Army triggered Adolf’s reflected-damage ability, killing her and devastating the allied forces. Mo’s Apostles then forced Sequence 009 into a cycle of painful deaths, and months later Lin Feng feared Adolf might finally be dead.

• Pandora used her instant-death ability on Adolf, Arthur, Centaur, Thousand Throats, Nairasojin, and much of the Chaos Army, but Adolf’s reflected damage killed her as well.
• Sequence 009 blamed Mo for his allies’ deaths and attacked him, but the God-Slaying Spear could not hit Mo because Sequence 009 had not entered the field.
• Chen Yuan struck Sequence 009 aside, and Sequence 009 fought Mo’s Apostles, killing several waves before Mo summoned replacements.
• Mo and Chen Yuan left after Sequence 009 reached the fifth stage and killed several hundred Apostles, leaving him kneeling among the corpses for months.
• Sequence 009 separated from Adolf’s body, and Lin Feng saw his hand pass through Adolf without a response, suspecting Adolf was dead.

Lin Feng followed Mo’s plan to ally with Sequence 009 and revealed that Isis could resurrect the dead. A year later, Mo found Li Yuan by the sea, where Li Yuan warned that their plan might fail and Mo resolved to see it through.

• Sequence 009 blamed himself for the deaths caused by repeatedly using Lin Feng’s body, then agreed to ally with him using Pandora’s Crown.
• Lin Feng told Sequence 009 that Isis could resurrect the dead as long as their Crowns had not been taken and their corpses remained.
• Mo told Chen Yuan that there had only ever been one plan, then left to find Li Yuan.
• A year later, Mo found Li Yuan at a seaside house and learned that Li Yuan had made no progress because the enemy was too troublesome.
• Li Yuan warned Mo that their rational plan might fail because their god enjoyed toying with fate.
• Mo left after insisting that he would continue the plan even if Li Yuan would not.

As the world entered its six-hundredth year, 009 prepared to act while powerful beings awakened across the continents. Titan led the giants south toward 004’s territory, and Sandrius seized control of the Elf Empire after killing its king.

• 009 gathered the divine artifacts and had the Sword Forger reshape Arthur and the others’ remains into four swords that could serve as their bodies if they were revived.
• At midnight, the six-hundred-year mark arrived, allowing fourth-tier beings to enter the field; 009 vanished, and Adolf’s corpse opened its eyes.
• Titan emerged from the volcano beneath the Great Snow Mountain, ordered the giants to march south, and set them against 004’s territory.
• Sandrius appeared in the Elf Empire’s royal hall, killed the Elf King, took his crown, and commanded the elves to resume their discussion with him.

The Martial Emperor fought Sandrius but was defeated, and the Golden King failed to bargain for her life. Kalen arrived as Sandrius threatened to devour her corpse, and the confrontation turned toward a fight between them.

• The Martial Emperor faced Sandrius and was quickly overpowered as he demanded the crown’s location.
• The Golden King appeared and offered to trade for the Martial Emperor’s life, but Sandrius refused and crushed her head.
• Sandrius stopped a portal from taking the Martial Emperor’s corpse and threatened to devour it so she could not be resurrected.
• Kalen emerged from another portal, and Sandrius challenged him and the Golden King to fight and devour one another.