Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping discovered that Furnace Wizards had spread throughout the Evil God Universe during his seclusion, greatly increasing his followers and origin energy. He learned that they planned to attack a sleeping Evil God because the Evil God’s followers intended to awaken it and wipe them out.

• Xia Ping learned that Chong Xiaoqian, Tan Menglu, and the others had opened a spacetime passage between the Evil God Universe and the Present World Universe.
• Xia Ping examined the Book of Karma and discovered that Furnace Wizards had become a major human profession across countless worlds.
• Xia Ping realized that trillions of Furnace Wizards had contributed an immense and continuous supply of origin energy.
• Xia Ping saw that powerful Furnace Wizards planned to sacrifice a sleeping Evil God, while its followers sought to awaken it and destroy the growing Furnace Wizard forces.

Xia Ping learned that the injured lesser god, the God of Trickery, might soon awaken and decided to test his strength against a god. After leaving the Madness Mountains, he was surrounded by more than a hundred demigod-level monsters who intended to capture him, while he saw them as easy prey.

• Xia Ping learned from the Book of Karma that the God of Trickery was a weak but notorious lesser god, and decided to use the injured Evil God to gauge divine strength.
• Xia Ping left the Madness Mountains and encountered more than a hundred demigod-level monsters gathered nearby.
• The monsters were shocked to find a human demigod and suspected Xia Ping was a Furnace Wizard who had caused the mountains' flames.
• The demigod-level monsters joined forces, surrounded Xia Ping with their domains, and planned to capture him for his secrets.
• Xia Ping welcomed the attack, confident he could defeat the monsters and use their corpses to nurture Life-Death Fruit.

Xia Ping slaughtered waves of demigod-level monsters in Godfall Land and fed their remains to the World Tree, which produced Life-Death Fruits. He continued hunting monsters across the outskirts, leaving their numbers dwindling as the World Tree gathered more of their essence.

• Xia Ping froze more than a hundred demigod-level monsters with the power of his nine worlds and crushed their bodies and souls.
• Xia Ping sent the monsters’ remains to the World Tree, which quickly produced Life-Death Fruits.
• A thousand demigod-level monsters surrounded Xia Ping, and he trapped them in a hundred thousand overlapping illusionary worlds.
• Xia Ping seized the immobilized monsters and fed them to the World Tree, which bore over a thousand Life-Death Fruits.
• Xia Ping headed for the outskirts of Godfall Land and hunted down every demigod-level monster he encountered.

Xia Ping entered the Ryan Great World, where the God of Trickery resided, while its followers prepared to summon their sleeping god. The archbishop sought the god’s help against Furnace Wizards, whose spreading flames threatened to drive Evil God minions from the world.

• Xia Ping killed three thousand demigod-level monsters in Godfall Land and left without further opposition.
• Xia Ping used the Spacetime Wings to travel unseen through many worlds and reach the world of the God of Trickery.
• Xia Ping crossed the barrier into the Ryan Great World without being detected.
• The God of Trickery’s archbishop learned that the ritual to summon the god was ready, despite the god’s instructions not to awaken it without great cause.
• The archbishop argued that Furnace Wizards’ deadly flames and growing numbers threatened the Evil God minions and left their children starving.

The temple elders decided to awaken the gods as millions of Furnace Wizards arrived to stop their sacrifice. The archbishop completed the rite and awakened the God of Trickery, who demanded to know why Laike had disturbed its slumber.

• The temple elders recalled how Furnace Wizards had used mass self-destruction to devastate their forces and spread across multiple worlds.
• The archbishop ordered the elders to begin a sacrifice to awaken the gods and end the Furnace Wizard threat.
• An elder announced that millions of Furnace Wizards had gathered beneath the temple, and the elders blamed a leak before leaving to confront them.
• The archbishop offered blood and precious sacrifices on the altar, awakening the God of Trickery.
• The God of Trickery questioned Laike about being roused from its ancient slumber, while the archbishop pleaded for help against the humans.

The God of Trickery awakened to find millions of Furnace Wizards attacking its temple and used its Intelligence Reduction authority to stop them. While the god searched the wizards’ memories for the force behind their power, Xia Ping watched from hiding after learning about the authority through the system.

• The God of Trickery sensed the Furnace Wizards attacking its temple and suspected another god had empowered them to test its injuries.
• The God of Trickery spread its divine domain across billions of light-years and used Intelligence Reduction to immobilize the Furnace Wizards.
• The God of Trickery’s dependents rejoiced and vowed to wipe out the Furnace Wizards once the attack ended.
• Xia Ping observed the god from concealment and used the system to learn about its authority and the importance of understanding divine powers.

Xia Ping learned that gods could be killed by destroying their godheads or separating their souls from them, and discovered the Samsara Pen could exploit the wounded God of Trickery’s cracked godhead. He kept the artifact’s seals intact to avoid revealing himself, then struck the god with Soul Screech as it searched the Furnace Wizards’ souls.

• Xia Ping asked the system how to kill a god and learned that a god survived as long as its godhead remained intact.
• The system explained that a god could be killed by shattering its godhead or forcibly separating its soul from it, but Xia Ping’s Soul Screech was too weak to do the latter.
• The system revealed that the Samsara Pen’s Soul-Hooking Spirit-Seizing ability could remove the God of Trickery’s soul because the god’s ancient wounds had left cracks in his godhead.
• Xia Ping chose not to unseal the Samsara Pen, avoiding the energy fluctuations that would expose him.
• While the God of Trickery searched the Furnace Wizards’ souls for the mastermind, Xia Ping attacked it with Soul Screech.

Xia Ping exploited the God of Trickery’s momentary Stun to tear its soul from its godhead and burn it to death with Hell Golden Crow flames. He gained a vast amount of origin energy, which began strengthening his soul, mana, and bloodline.

• The God of Trickery searched a Furnace Wizard’s memories, saw the Hell Golden Crow Bloodline’s ruler-class power, and suffered a severe backlash.
• A Soul Screech deprived the God of Trickery’s followers of their souls and briefly Stunned the God of Trickery.
• Xia Ping seized the opening and used the Samsara Pen’s Soul Hooking ability to pull the God of Trickery’s soul from its godhead.
• Xia Ping caught the exposed soul with Hell Golden Crow Claw and burned the God of Trickery to death.
• Xia Ping absorbed the lower god’s immense origin energy, rapidly boosting his soul power, mana, and bloodline power.

Xia Ping killed the weakened God of Trickery with the Samsara Pen’s help, then burned the Evil God’s followers and left with its remains, godhead, and treasures. The Furnace Wizards regained their senses, recognized that the Lord of the Furnace had won, and celebrated humanity’s dominance in the world.

• Xia Ping reflected that favorable timing, the God of Trickery’s weakened state, and the Samsara Pen had made his godslaying possible.
• The Evil God followers realized their god was dead and panicked as Xia Ping turned to kill them.
• Xia Ping burned every Evil God follower present, absorbed their origin energy, and took the God of Trickery’s remains, godhead, and treasures before leaving the temple.
• The Furnace Wizards regained their intelligence and found the God of Trickery and its followers gone.
• A Furnace Wizard leader recognized Xia Ping’s aura and declared that the Lord of the Furnace had killed the God of Trickery, prompting the wizards to celebrate humanity’s victory.

After entering the Classic of Mountains and Seas World, Xia Ping used the Feathered Serpent God's Authority Replication to copy the five Great Dao laws and Intelligence Reduction authority from the God of Trickery's godhead. He realized his avatars might help him advance to godhood, but he still needed enough godheads and origin energy.

• Xia Ping examined the God of Trickery's godhead and learned it held the Intelligence Reduction authority.
• Xia Ping activated Authority Replication through his Feathered Serpent God avatar and analyzed the Great Dao laws in the godhead.
• Xia Ping discovered that the God of Trickery had mastered five Great Dao laws and learned how Great Dao laws were formed from law runes.
• Xia Ping's avatar replicated and integrated all five Great Dao laws, gaining the God of Trickery's authority.
• Xia Ping considered using his nine avatars and true body to accumulate Great Dao laws and advance to High-God, while recognizing that he needed more godheads and origin energy.

Xia Ping planned to expand the Furnace Wizards throughout the Evil God Universe while preparing to face any Lower-Gods that might awaken. He spent all his accumulated origin energy unsealing the Samsara Pen, then became its master and learned of its abilities.

• Xia Ping resolved to make more humans followers of the Hell Golden Crow and use the Furnace Wizards to undermine the Evil God Universe.
• Xia Ping assessed the threat posed by awakening Lower-Gods and decided to strengthen himself by unsealing the Samsara Pen.
• Xia Ping poured all his accumulated origin energy into the Samsara Pen, breaking through all five seals.
• Xia Ping left the Classic of Mountains and Seas World to protect it from the Samsara Pen's unleashed power.
• Xia Ping's soul merged with the Samsara Pen, making him its master and sending knowledge of its abilities into his mind.

Xia Ping fully unsealed the Samsara Pen and the Book of Karma, gaining powerful abilities and ensuring contracted Furnace Wizards’ souls could not be consumed by Evil Gods. He resolved to make every human a Furnace Wizard while the Evil Gods remained asleep, leaving his plan poised to transform their universe before they awoke.

• Xia Ping learned the Samsara Pen’s five abilities: Soul Hooking, Life Stealing, Reincarnation, World Destruction, and Fate Alteration.
• Xia Ping discovered that the Book of Karma had also regained its full power and would protect Furnace Wizards’ souls from being devoured by Evil Gods.
• Xia Ping realized that denying Evil Gods human souls would cripple their ability to heal and grow stronger, while allowing humans to reincarnate and cultivate again.
• Xia Ping connected the Book of Karma and Samsara Pen to Hell’s Six Paths of Reincarnation and considered the artifact’s importance to Hell World.
• Xia Ping decided to turn every human, including infants, into a Furnace Wizard before the sleeping Evil Gods discovered his plan.

Over ten thousand years in the Evil God Universe, Xia Ping spread Furnace Seeds across human worlds, killed awakened lower gods, and helped humanity become a force of Furnace Wizards. In Greenwood Great World, a father explained to his child how the Furnace Fire and Furnace Seeds protected humans, while the wilderness remained dangerous.

• Xia Ping spread Furnace Seeds across the Evil God Universe, turning nearly all humans and many other creatures into Furnace Wizards.
• Xia Ping killed Evil God retainers who tried to awaken their gods and ambushed the lower gods who were awakened, gaining dozens of divine sparks.
• Humanity built cities around altars to the Lord of the Furnace, where Furnace Fires kept evil creatures at bay.
• A father in Willow City told his child that Furnace Wizards had given humans a chance to survive and extended their lifespans.
• Mothers brought newborns to receive Furnace Seeds, which gave them a weak inner flame and better protection from sinister fiends.

Willow City's elders sacrificed the Seklotol Star Monster to the Lord of the Furnace, who bestowed furnace seeds upon the babies. Elsewhere, the evil gods’ servants discussed humanity’s growing dominance and concluded they had to kill the Furnace Wizards to survive.

• Willow City’s elders brought the captured Seklotol Star Monster to the altar and said its sacrifice would earn powerful furnace seeds for the babies.
• The gray-robed old man rejected the monster’s threats and threw it into the altar, where Hell Golden Crow Flame burned it to ashes.
• The altar produced dark-golden furnace seeds that flew into the babies and gave them a powerful aura.
• The servants of evil gods gathered and complained that humanity had driven them from their territory and hunted their kind.
• The evil gods’ servants cited the deaths of the Human-Faced Rats, Terror Hunters, Shaggai Insects, and Seklotol Star Monster, and called for the Furnace Wizards to be killed.

Xia Ping’s cultivation advanced to the mid-stage Demigod Realm as origin energy from Furnace Wizards throughout the Evil God Universe strengthened him and awakened more of his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline. Meanwhile, Evil God offspring across countless worlds planned to rouse other Evil Gods by stirring a trace of Azathoth’s power, unaware that Xia Ping was cultivating.

• Evil God offspring revealed that Furnace Wizards had spread across the Evil God Universe and driven evil creatures into a corner.
• The Evil God offspring proposed stirring a fraction of Azathoth’s power to alarm other sleeping Evil Gods, and allies from hundreds of millions of worlds supplied offerings for the plan.
• Xia Ping absorbed origin energy from Furnace Wizards across the universe and broke through to the mid-stage Demigod Realm.
• Xia Ping’s divine consciousness reached two billion light-years, and he gained the ability to create two hundred thousand illusion worlds.
• Xia Ping awakened Hell Golden Crow Cells from thirty trillion to sixty trillion, strengthening his bloodline and the flames of every Furnace Wizard.

After turning humanity in the Evil God Universe into Furnace Wizards and gathering divine authorities and Great Dao laws, Xia Ping received a warning that Sovereign-level evil gods would kill him. He decided to leave the universe through a secret spacetime passage and return when he was stronger.

• Xia Ping sensed that the Furnace Wizards’ sacrifices had built a foundation linking their fate to the Evil God Universe, so killing them would hasten its collapse and harm the evil gods.
• Xia Ping reviewed how he had copied the authorities of sixty-six Low-Gods and comprehended more than a hundred Great Dao laws, while noting that compatible laws were needed to form powerful divine authorities.
• Xia Ping received a vision from Future Sight in which awakened Sovereign-level evil gods found and killed him.
• Xia Ping decided that his plans had already succeeded and that he would escape to Hell World, where the evil gods would be suppressed.
• Xia Ping avoided Tan Menglu and the others’ spacetime passage and headed for the evil gods’ passage to keep his hidden route into the universe secret.

After Xia Ping escaped the Evil God Universe, the followers’ ritual awakened countless evil gods, including dominator-level beings. The awakened gods learned that Furnace Wizards had spread across the worlds and threatened them, while the Fate Evil God declared that the Lord of the Furnace was not an evil god.

• After Xia Ping left the Evil God Universe, the followers’ ritual leaked the God of Darkness’s aura and awakened countless evil gods.
• The awakened evil gods’ psychic power overwhelmed the ritual participants, who explained that they had intended to awaken the gods for help.
• The followers told the evil gods that Furnace Wizards, empowered by the Lord of the Furnace, had driven them from their territories and burned many of their kind.
• Nyarlathotep confirmed that humans across countless worlds had become Furnace Wizards whose flames could threaten evil gods.
• The Fate Evil God stated that the Lord of the Furnace was not an evil god.

The Fate Evil God revealed that the Lord of the Furnace was a demigod from outside the Evil God Universe who had escaped fate and entered through a passage to Hell World. The Evil Gods decided to target his Furnace Wizards, but learned their fused power could consume and counter Evil God power.

• The Fate Evil God told the gathered Evil Gods that the Lord of the Furnace was an outsider demigod who had evaded fate and the universe’s origin laws.
• The Fate Evil God asked Yog-Sothoth to track the Lord of the Furnace, but Yog-Sothoth reported that he had left through the spacetime tunnel to Hell World.
• Yog-Sothoth and the other Evil Gods discussed Hell World’s former glory, destruction, and the suppression that prevented them from entering it freely.
• The Evil Gods resolved to deal with the Furnace Wizards before the Lord of the Furnace could disrupt their rule over the Evil God Universe.
• The Fate Evil God explained that the Furnace Wizards’ bodies and souls had been transformed, and their power could consume Evil God power and grow stronger.

The Evil Gods learned that humans who became Furnace Wizards could unleash lethal Hell Golden Crow Flames when killed. After one Evil God wiped out humanity in a world and was burned to death, Fate Evil God warned that killing the Furnace Wizards would destroy their worlds.

• The Evil Gods decided Furnace Wizards were a threat and discussed destroying humans to eliminate them.
• An impatient Evil God killed every human in a great world despite Fate Evil God trying to stop it.
• The dead humans' Furnace Seeds erupted, and Hell Golden Crow Flame burned the Evil God to death and engulfed the world.
• Fate Evil God explained that a Furnace Seed's flames erupted upon its host's death and could kill even a lower god.
• Fate Evil God warned that the flames would keep burning, turning any world where the humans were killed into an eternal sun.

The Evil Gods realized that killing too many humans would destroy their worlds and hasten the collapse of the Evil God Universe, while human souls claimed by the Lord of the Furnace could no longer be devoured. They concluded that his plan had trapped them between protecting Furnace Wizards and suffering their attacks, and ended by demanding his capture despite his retreat to Hell World.

• The Evil Gods realized that human deaths could destroy worlds and accelerate the collapse of their universe, so they had to protect humanity.
• An Evil God discovered that dead humans’ souls had vanished, and Fate Evil God explained that the Lord of the Furnace’s contracts claimed the souls of Furnace Wizards.
• Fate Evil God admitted that the soul-contract artifact was beyond its power to stop, leaving the Evil Gods unable to recover human souls by killing their owners.
• The Evil Gods recognized that both killing and sparing the humans would weaken them and their universe, and blamed the Lord of the Furnace for setting a fatal trap.
• An Evil God demanded that they capture the Lord of the Furnace, but another pointed out that he had already returned to Hell World.