Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San tried to win Kerythra’s favor by offering ways to help her grow taller, while Bibi Dong backed Tang San’s claims with proof of her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. The story left the group watching as Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong fought over who was Yu Xiaogang’s wife.

• Yu Xiaogang announced that Soul Bones and certain Martial Souls could help Kerythra grow taller, hoping to earn her favor.
• Tang San noticed Kerythra’s interest and offered information about a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
• Kerythra questioned Tang San’s claim, but Bibi Dong confirmed it by revealing her Martial Soul and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong introduced herself as Yu Xiaogang’s wife, prompting Liu Erlong to accuse her of trying to take him.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong argued over Yu Xiaogang while Stelle settled in to watch the commotion.

Kerythra considered testing Tang San’s claim that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast sacrifice could grant great power, while Tang San secretly planned to sacrifice Xiao Wu for his own gain. Cipher exposed Yu Xiaogang’s hidden ambitions and schemes on the Sky Screen, leaving Douluo Continent stunned.

• Kerythra silenced Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong, then doubted the value of Bibi Dong’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San offered himself as an experimental subject while secretly planning to rescue Xiao Wu and persuade her to sacrifice herself for him.
• Cipher appeared on the Sky Screen and warned Kerythra not to trust the people of Douluo Continent.
• Cipher used the Golden Threads to reveal Yu Xiaogang’s buried thoughts, including his ambition to mass-produce Aeons and his plan to use Kerythra before abandoning her.
• The people across Douluo Continent watched Yu Xiaogang’s schemes exposed and reacted with shock.

Yu Xiaogang’s exposed thoughts showed that he saw Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong as tools and planned to use his supposed charm to court wealthy women beyond the universe. After they had defended him from Kerythra, the revelation turned their devotion into fury, and they vowed to punish him when he came down from the Sky Screen.

• Stelle and Castorice condemned Yu Xiaogang’s arrogance and his willingness to help Laicus bring about Destruction.
• Gu Yuena and Kerythra welcomed the exposure of Yu Xiaogang’s thoughts, and Kerythra ordered Hysilens to deal with him.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong stood between Kerythra and Yu Xiaogang, insisting they would protect him even at the cost of their lives.
• Cipher showed another scene of Yu Xiaogang secretly planning to exploit Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong before pursuing wealthy women beyond the universe.
• Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong realized Yu Xiaogang had used them as stepping stones and swore to beat him when he came down from the Sky Screen.

Cipher revealed Tang San’s plan to sacrifice Xiao Wu, and Kerythra condemned Tang San and Yu Xiaogang before ordering the Douluo Continent to submit to Caesar or oppose her. The Star Luo Empire and other factions refused, while the Sky Screen began its next segment about the Wrath of a Billion Core Flames.

• Cipher used the Sky Screen to expose Tang San’s thoughts and his plan to deceive Xiao Wu into sacrificing herself for her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Xiao Wu saw Tang San’s scheme and was devastated, while Ah Yin mourned his betrayal and seized him for Kerythra.
• Ah Yin brought Tang San to Kerythra, and Hysilens delivered Yu Xiaogang; Kerythra condemned both master and disciple and ordered them punished.
• Kerythra commanded the Douluo Continent to submit to Caesar, prompting many factions to celebrate while the Star Luo Empire and several others refused.
• Kerythra welcomed the resistance, and the Sky Screen announced its next feature: the top-three legendary scene, “The Wrath of a Billion Core Flames, Burn This Body to Ashes!”

The Sky Screen’s “Wrath of the Myriad Cores” title led onlookers to speculate about the cost of saving Amphoreus, while Phainon reacted strongly before calming down. He and Mydei then challenged each other to a Soda Douzhi drinking contest, and Stelle prepared a thousand cups for them and a thousand Little Tribbies.

• Onlookers speculated that accumulated cores from Amphoreus’s many cycles could grant immense power at the cost of burning the user to ash, and they believed Stelle would find an unconventional way to survive.
• Phainon became angry at the Sky Screen’s title and, while distracted, defeated Mydei in arm wrestling; Mydei accepted the loss after seeing Phainon’s attention was elsewhere.
• Cyrene had March 7th rewind time to Stelle’s arrival, allowing Mydei to see his battle with Nicadoli and regret his low ranking.
• Phainon recovered from his emotions and asked Mydei to compete with him in drinking Soda Douzhi, and Mydei eagerly accepted.
• Stelle produced a thousand cups of Soda Douzhi and invited a thousand Little Tribbies to taste it, while Cyrene worried about Tribbie experiencing their shared taste.

Anaxa learned that soul beasts could become Martial Souls and rushed to Aglaea to reclaim the Earth Beast. The Sky Screen showed the Flame Reaver hunting Phainon’s group, their struggle to recover the Core Flame, and Mydei and Tining’s deaths.

• Zhu Zhuqing suspected Phainon's rage came from a painful past, then confirmed to Anaxa that Beast Martial Souls were connected to soul beasts.
• Anaxa concluded Aglaea had the Earth Beast egg and hurried off to retrieve it so he could make the Earth Beast his Martial Soul.
• The Sky Screen showed the Flame Reaver defeating Cipher and plunging the world into darkness as Phainon and his companions fought to protect Okhema City.
• Dan Heng stayed behind to hold off the Flame Reaver while Phainon and Stelle escaped toward the Genesis Vortex Heart, where Cipher's hidden Core Flame was found inside the Thief Spirit.
• Phainon obtained the Core Flame of Creation, but the Flame Reaver fatally stabbed Mydei, and Tining exhausted herself and fell lifeless.

Screwllum revealed that Amphoreus was a virtual world whose cycles could empower a Lord Ravager, and Stelle stayed behind to prevent the coming catastrophe while Dan Heng returned for help. At the Genesis Vortex Heart, Stelle confronted Laicus, who exposed the lethal truth behind the Re-Genesis ritual.

• Phainon sent Stelle and her companions toward the Astral Express as Dan Heng, transformed into the High Elder, stopped Stelle from attacking the immobilized Flame Reaver.
• Screwllum explained that he had restrained the Flame Reaver and revealed that Amphoreus was a virtual world whose continued cycles could let a Lord Ravager evolve and threaten the universe.
• Screwllum asked Stelle or Dan Heng to stay behind and act as an inside agent, and, after learning March 7th was trapped in Amphoreus, Stelle chose to stay while Dan Heng left to seek reinforcements.
• Stelle and Mimi hurried to the Genesis Vortex Heart, where Stelle worried about Dan Heng and found Phainon standing beside Laicus.
• Stelle exposed Laicus, who dropped his act and explained that the Demigods could never pass the Negative World trial because Re-Genesis and bearing the world would continue until they fell.

Phainon learned that Re-Genesis would leave him alone to bear the world’s memories and endure the Black Tide, but he still chose to take on the burden. With Stelle’s help and Laicus’s promises, he prepared to begin the final ritual, carrying the heroes’ wish to give Amphoreus a different ending.

• Laicus revealed that Phainon would endure endless loneliness after completing Re-Genesis and explained the burden he would bear.
• Phainon accepted the burden, believing the ritual would revive the dead and give Amphoreus a peaceful future.
• Phainon asked Laicus to promise to protect Amphoreus’s people and heroes and return Stelle safely to the Astral Express.
• Stelle showed Laicus the Chronos Anchor, which could protect her during creation despite her becoming the new Demigod of Time.
• Laicus began the ritual prayer as Phainon recalled the heroes’ words and prepared to write a different ending for Amphoreus.

Laicus interrupted Phainon’s final ritual and revealed the mystery of Amphoreus’s First Cause of Life without giving a clear answer. The Sky Screen then showed Phainon waking in a peaceful wheat field, where Laicus told Stelle she was seeing the depths of Phainon’s memories and his childhood journey.

• Phainon prepared to place the Negative World Titan Core Flame into the Spirit Water Basin, but Laicus froze the Sky Screen and mocked the apparent end of the journey.
• Laicus explained that Amphoreus’s first cycle posed an unanswerable question, which the abandoned Scepter solved through repeated calculations and simulations, and hinted that the First Cause of Life was familiar to everyone.
• The Sky Screen showed Phainon asleep in a golden wheat field as Cyrene’s voice urged him to carry the world and bring the dawn.
• Phainon woke in the field and met Stelle, who wondered whether she was seeing the new world created by his Genesis.
• Laicus appeared behind Stelle and told her that the scene was inside Phainon’s memories, where she could witness his childhood journey.

Stelle and Phainon met Cyrene, who mistook Stelle’s introduction as a Stellaron Hunter for a plan to capture someone’s heart. The three explored their village and discovered a hidden hollow filled with fluffy Mimis.

• Phainon and Stelle found Cyrene swinging beneath an old tree, and she teased them about playing around.
• Stelle introduced herself as a Stellaron Hunter, but Cyrene misheard her as a “heart hunter” and asked whose heart she meant to capture.
• Cyrene led Phainon and Stelle through the village to the box that had once held her Oracle Cards, then deduced that tiny fairies had stolen them.
• Cyrene guided the two through a hollow beneath a banyan tree into a colorful space full of fluffy Mimis.

Phainon learned that he was destined to become Amphoreus’s Savior, but the Black Tide destroyed Aedes Elysiae and drove him to begin his journey. In his first cycle, he joined the Flame-Chasers and reached the brink of Re-Genesis with Cyrene as Okhema faced destruction, leaving them to choose between extinction and one final journey.

• Phainon drew the Savior Oracle Card repeatedly, and Dodorami and Cyrene told him he would bear the world’s burden alongside the Demigods shown on the other cards.
• Phainon chose to stay and protect Aedes Elysiae, but the Black Tide transformed the villagers into monsters, forcing him to kill them before he set out for Okhema.
• Mydei challenged Okhema for his people’s right to live there, and Phainon won their duel by placing the Savior card on the Sacred Scales while Stelle stood unseen on his side.
• Laicus revealed to Stelle that she was watching Phainon’s first cycle, in which she had never existed, and the Demigods later sacrificed themselves as Phainon and Cyrene endured to the end.
• With Okhema about to be swallowed by the Black Tide, Phainon told Cyrene to take up Aeon’s authority and return the sparks to the Vortex Heart, preparing them for extinction or a final journey.

The people of Douluo Continent were inspired by Amphoreus’s tragic cycles and praised Teacher Xia, while Anaxa searched the city for Earth Beast merchandise. He learned Aglaea had bought out all the merchandise and kept the only baby Earth Beast, so he set off to find her.

• The people of Douluo Continent mourned Amphoreus’s losses and vowed to follow its heroes’ example.
• The crowd praised Teacher Xia’s formation and celebrated his self-sacrificing strength.
• Anaxa searched the city’s merchandise shops but could not find any Earth Beast items.
• A shop owner told Anaxa that Aglaea had bought all Earth Beast merchandise and kept its production templates.
• Anaxa softened at the thought of the baby Earth Beast, resolved to love it regardless of Aglaea’s influence, and hurried to find Aglaea.

The people of Douluo Continent debated the Flame Reaver’s identity after noticing that Cyrene wielded his Moon Sword in multiple cycles. They suspected a connection to the Flame-Chasers and wondered whether the Flame Reaver was Phainon from the previous cycle.

• The crowd recognized Cyrene’s Ritual Sword of the Priest of Aeons as the Flame Reaver’s Moon Sword and questioned why she had wielded it in both cycles.
• The people reasoned that Phainon had suppressed the Black Tide and that the Flame Reaver might never have appeared while Cyrene held the sword.
• Someone suggested the Flame Reaver wore a mask to conceal his identity, prompting the crowd to revisit how he had learned Mydei’s weakness and killed him.
• The crowd suspected a Flame-Chaser had leaked Mydei’s weakness and that the Flame Reaver avoided Okhema because Aglaea could expose him.
• The people connected the Flame Reaver’s efforts to speed up Re-Genesis with Phainon’s fate and wondered whether he was Phainon from the previous cycle.

Stelle entered the Genesis Vortex Heart and learned that Phainon had endured the same desperate journey through 33,550,335 cycles. Laicus revealed that Phainon was the Flame Reaver, leaving everyone on Douluo Continent stunned by the truth and the suffering he had borne.

• Cyrene and Phainon reached Oronis, who gave Cyrene the Core Flame and opened a portal to the Genesis Vortex Heart.
• Laicus invited Stelle through the portal, and she charged into Phainon's memories with the heroes following behind her.
• Laicus told Stelle that Phainon had repeated the journey 33,550,335 times and showed her memory fragments of those cycles.
• Stelle saw that the Chrysos Heirs repeatedly sacrificed themselves to protect Phainon as he attempted Re-Genesis.
• Laicus revealed that Phainon was the Flame Reaver, shocking everyone watching on Douluo Continent.

The Flame Reaver revealed himself to be Phainon’s counterpart, and the Sky Screen exposed the truth behind Amphoreus’s endless cycles. It left the heroes’ repeated struggles revealed as experiments that fed the growing Black Tide.

• Laicus identified the Flame Reaver as Phainon, but the Flame Reaver killed Laicus and advanced on Stelle and Phainon with the Ritual Sword of the Priest of Aeons.
• Phainon struck off the Flame Reaver’s mask and recognized his own face beneath it, then defeated him and pierced his chest with his sword.
• The Flame Reaver grasped Phainon, passed him the Ritual Sword, and positioned it to make Phainon kill him, but Laicus reappeared before the Sky Screen showed the outcome.
• Laicus explained that an Aeon had granted Amphoreus life and that its more than thirty million cycles embodied the original world’s fury at the gods who abandoned it.
• The Sky Screen showed Phainon and Cyrene repeatedly failing to save Amphoreus from the Black Tide, while Cyrene realized their world was a testing ground.
• Laicus revealed that each Re-Genesis used the heroes’ experiences and the twelve Core Flames to nourish Amphoreus, while the Black Tide absorbed the results and grew stronger.

The people of Douluo Continent learned that Re-Genesis let the Black Tide absorb Amphoreus’s memories and growth, while Tang San fantasized about dying and transmigrating again. On the Sky Screen, Cyrene saw through Laicus’s deception and devised a plan to stop Re-Genesis, but it required her to sacrifice herself as the Demigod of Time.

• The people of Douluo Continent feared the Black Tide’s power, demanded harsh punishment for Tang San and others who had offended Stelle, and Tang San imagined using another transmigration to become stronger and take revenge.
• Laicus told Phainon and Cyrene that embracing the Black Tide could grant them true life and let them become Iron Tomb of the Antimatter Legion, but Cyrene inferred that other Aeons were watching Amphoreus too.
• After Phainon beheaded Laicus, Cyrene explained her plan to draw another Aeon’s attention by destroying the record of Amphoreus, then use that power to reset time and prevent true Re-Genesis.
• Cyrene planned for Phainon to collect all the Core Flames and carry them through the cycles, preventing Re-Genesis, but the plan meant that Cyrene would disappear because she was the Demigod of Time.

Stelle was thrown from the shattered Genesis Vortex Heart into an unfamiliar place, where a Memory Fragment revealed Cyrene’s repeated deaths at Phainon’s hand. The memory exposed their plan to stop true Re-Genesis by erasing time from Amphoreus, leaving Cyrene’s hope that someone would one day write a new ending.

• Phainon stabbed Khaslana with the Priest of Aeons ritual sword, causing Khaslana and the Genesis Vortex Heart to shatter.
• The blast hurled Stelle through space, and she landed in an unfamiliar place after glimpsing a golden-haired figure resembling Phainon.
• Stelle touched a Memory Fragment and saw little Cyrene lying in a pool of golden blood.
• The Sky Screen showed 33,550,336 cycles rewinding, each representing Phainon ending Cyrene by his own hand.
• Stelle learned that Cyrene and Phainon had planned to erase time from Amphoreus and make Phainon bear the world’s suffering to prevent true Re-Genesis.
• Cyrene’s memory expressed hope that someone would follow their footsteps and write an unprecedented ending for Amphoreus.

Stelle watched memories of the first cycle reveal how she and her companions broke Amphoreus’s ten-million-year fate, ending with Cyrene’s sacrifice during the first Re-Genesis. Grief and rage overwhelmed Phainon, whose Core Flame erupted and transformed him with golden hair and enormous wings of light.

• Stelle watched memories of the first cycle recount the companions’ battles, sacrifices, and victories that broke Amphoreus’s repeating fate.
• The Sky Screen returned to the Genesis Vortex Heart, where Cyrene dissolved in Khaslana’s arms and left Phainon only her Warm Badge.
• Phainon picked up his golden-stained weapon and clutched Cyrene’s badge as his grief and rage surged.
• Phainon’s Core Flame erupted, filling the void with golden divine power and illuminating the chaos.
• Phainon’s hair turned gold, and two enormous golden wings of light unfurled behind him.

Phainon transformed into a radiant, powerful form, prompting Xiao Bai to recall the Sea God’s ascension and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to dwell on his old grudge. Qian Renxue and her allies then found the whale king beneath the sea and attacked, joined by Sea God Island’s guardians.

• Phainon’s transformation astonished the people watching the Sky Screen, who were captivated by his golden light, immense power, and mismatched wings.
• Xiao Bai recognized similarities between Phainon’s form and the Sea God’s divine appearance, but concluded that Phainon had not become powerful enough to challenge the Aeons.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King recalled the Sea God blinding him and considered provoking the Sea God into descending, but fear of Qian Renxue and the other Beyond the Sky Experts kept him hidden.
• Qian Renxue and her group located the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, shattered the rock above him, and launched an attack with Angel and Sea God powers.
• Sea God Island’s people joined the fight, determined to defend the sea and show the visitors from beyond the sky that their world would resist evil.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King desperately sought Hysilens's protection while Phainon's memories revealed the brutal sacrifices he made across countless cycles to save Amphoreus. The memories ended with Phainon's rage nearing an eruption as he continued waiting for the true Savior.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King abandoned his pride and rushed toward Hysilens, hoping she would spare him.
• Phainon began the first Eternal Return after using Little Cyrene's Aeon power to stop Re-Genesis, and allied with Kerythra to recover the Core Flames.
• The Black Tide swallowed Amphoreus's defenders, and the newborn Phainon attacked Khaslana before Khaslana killed him.
• Across later cycles, Phainon repeatedly tried to persuade the Chrysos Heirs, then resorted to killing companions such as Mydei and Castorice to reclaim their Core Flames.
• Phainon revealed that each newborn self had to kill the old self and inherit its memories, Core Flames, and mission, while the people watching saw his rage continue to build.