Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye used infinite energy to defeat and seal Bill Cipher, restored the Rick and Morty multiverse, and returned to Marvel. He then created a world of resurrected people and announced a death match in which victory would grant the contestants permanent death.

• Bai Ye seized the Rick and Morty universe’s infinite energy, reached Level 13, and compressed Bill Cipher into a one-dimensional point before sealing him in Intangibility Space.
• Bai Ye took Rick and Morty five hundred years into the past, restored and reinforced the multiverse, then returned to the Marvel Universe.
• Bai Ye asked Stark to find seven people for a death match, and Stark left to carry out the order.
• Bai Ye created a Palm World filled with countless lives, including people he had killed before, and revived them.
• Bai Ye told the resurrected people that they were his playthings and that only defeating his chosen contestant would earn them complete death.

Bai Ye resurrected his victims and forced them through repeated cycles of unbearable pain before announcing a universe-wide deathmatch with rules that could eliminate anyone who broke them. He sent the contestants to the Creation Jade Butterfly, where the Holy Grail War began as an enormous surge of energy erupted from Fuyuki City.

• Bai Ye resurrected everyone he had killed and made them endure seven cycles of soul-destroying pain.
• Bai Ye announced that the contestants would fight to be the last survivor, while anyone else who died or broke the rules would suffer eternal pain.
• Bai Ye answered objections about unequal strength by stripping everyone’s powers and granting each contestant a talent, then began the game.
• Bai Ye sent the contestants into the Creation Jade Butterfly, where Zhao Yingkong lamented that he was using it like a trash can.
• Stark delivered seven people selected by Bai Ye, saying they had agreed to take part.
• A youth in Fuyuki City watched the Holy Grail War begin, and an immense wave of energy surged from the city across the universe.

A blinding light exposed the Holy Grail War to the whole world as Bai Ye’s chosen Servants appeared across Fuyuki City. Weber Velvet summoned Stephen William Hawking, and their bizarre shared abilities forced them to flee while Kobe Bryant and MacArthur revealed their powers to their Masters.

• A white light erupted from Fuyuki City and irradiated the universe, making the Holy Grail War impossible to hide.
• Weber Velvet summoned Stephen William Hawking as a Rider and discovered that roasting generated Roast Energy he could use to materialize things.
• Hawking explained that he could gain Materialization Energy by acting like an idiot and urged Weber Velvet to leave Fuyuki City because their actions had made them enemies of the world.
• Ryunosuke Uryu met his Caster, Kobe Bryant, who demonstrated his Elbow of Fantasy talent.
• Kenneth and Sola summoned Lancer MacArthur, who revealed his Innate Commentary Holy Body and said his words could make others believe them.

Tokiomi Tohsaka summoned John Fitzgerald Kennedy instead of Gilgamesh for an unprecedented Holy Grail War backed by the White Empire. Kennedy explained their absolute talents and the war’s immense stakes, leaving Tokiomi determined to win and facing Kennedy’s demand for filial loyalty.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka and Kirei Kotomine witnessed the summoning of a suited Heroic Spirit who identified himself as John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
• Kennedy declared that Tokiomi’s talent was Absolute Hit, while his own talent was Absolute Dodge, and explained how conflicting absolute traits might be resolved.
• Kennedy told Tokiomi that the White Empire’s war could destroy the world and that its winner could make a wish to a god.
• Kennedy explained that absolute traits used infinite energy to reach their results, then urged Tokiomi to win the battle.
• Tokiomi vowed to win, and Kennedy told him to show filial loyalty to his American daddy.

At the Matou residence, Pol Pot was summoned as Kariya’s Berserker and killed Zouken with his ability to nullify supernatural powers. Kiritsugu summoned Adolf, learned about her talent and his own, and accepted an alliance as the full roster of Heroic Spirits was revealed.

• Pol Pot introduced himself to Kariya, identified Zouken as an enemy, and nullified his magecraft before beating him to death.
• Pol Pot told Kariya that his talent, Live On, could regenerate him and heal others; Kariya’s body was restored.
• Adolf introduced herself to Kiritsugu and explained that her Gene Integrator talent copied others’ genetic abilities.
• Adolf told Kiritsugu that his Correct Path talent let him see possible futures within the next day and choose a course of action.
• Kiritsugu used Correct Path to understand the game, accepted Adolf’s partnership, and the chapter listed all seven summoned Heroic Spirits.

Kiritsugu Emiya told Hill they would strike first and targeted Li Shu, whose system let his offspring gain powerful genes. Using his future sight, Kiritsugu abducted Li Shu and explained how they could exploit Matou magecraft to produce offspring quickly, leaving them ready to gather materials and begin.

• Kiritsugu rejected Hill’s plan to flee Fuyuki City and said he would attack Li Shu, whose system complemented Hill’s Gene Integrator talent.
• Li Shu considered using the system to impregnate captive women, unaware Kiritsugu had made him the target.
• Kiritsugu manipulated a sequence of distractions to knock Li Shu unconscious and drag him into an alley, where Hill joined them.
• Hill questioned how they could overcome the time needed for pregnancies and find enough mothers, and Kiritsugu proposed using insects and Matou magecraft.
• Kiritsugu said he had already studied the Matou Family’s magecraft through future sight and could use it once they gathered the materials.

Kiritsugu Emiya used his foresight thousands of times to gather information about Fuyuki City and warned Hill about the Matou pair’s dangerous abilities. Meanwhile, Kennedy defeated another talent holder and joined Tokiomi Tohsaka, who remained concerned that Kirei Kotomine’s summoned Heroic Spirit had not appeared.

• Hill learned that Kiritsugu Emiya had used his ability an average of three times per second, stretching each second into three days of foresight.
• Kiritsugu Emiya warned Hill that the Matou pair had powers that could destroy supernatural abilities and heal any injury.
• Kennedy stopped a man on the highway to the airport and dodged his Submachine Gun bullets with his twisting head and body.
• Kennedy defeated the man, restrained him, and told Tokiomi Tohsaka they could claim talent holders’ abilities to improve their chances of victory.
• Kirei Kotomine told Tokiomi Tohsaka that he could sense his Heroic Spirit but could neither see nor detect it.

Kennedy’s group accepted MacArthur’s feigned defection because his ability made them believe his words, while Kiritsugu Emiya manipulated Hill into trusting him so he could use her strength. Elsewhere, Bai Ye watched the contestants compete, as Ryunosuke trained and Weber and Hawking sought ways to gain power.

• MacArthur used his Innate Commentary Holy Body to convince Kennedy and Tokiomi Tohsaka that he and Kenneth had joined their side, then removed Kenneth’s earplugs after they parted.
• Kiritsugu Emiya told Hill about MacArthur’s ability and persuaded her to trust him, secretly planning to exploit her power to win the Holy Grail War.
• Bai Ye observed the contestants and judged that only a small number were likely to win because most failed to act with enough urgency.
• Kobe pushed Ryunosuke Uryu to train his Never-Ending talent, but Ryunosuke collapsed and protested when Kobe threatened him with a sulfuric acid bath.
• Hawking studied comedy skits for Roast Energy while Weber mocked television dramas and examined the costly list of talents he could exchange for.

Bai Ye contained the Holy Grail War contestants in an infinite multiverse, then paused the entire conflict when he tired of watching it. The story shifted to Jiang Zhiwei arriving at Shaolin, where she wondered what awaited her.

• Zhao Yingkong asked Bai Ye to stop the contestants from destroying other universes, and Bai Ye created infinite universes to contain them.
• Ryunosuke destroyed a planet with a powerful punch, while Pol Pot and Kariya defeated supernatural enemies and teleported to their next target.
• MacArthur used his ability to win over a loser as Tokiomi Tohsaka told Kennedy that a delayed attack would kill MacArthur and discussed Kiritsugu Emiya as a threat.
• Hill hunted for Kiritsugu Emiya after learning about Irisviel and Ilya, while Weber wondered whether he could gain Roast Energy by mocking Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye paused the Holy Grail War and stored its universe in his Intangibility Space.
• Jiang Zhiwei arrived at Shaolin two months after joining the Chat Group and wondered what would happen there.

After being transported from Shaolin to a mysterious White Jade Plaza, Jiang Zhiwei called Bai Ye for help. Bai Ye accepted her invitation and arrived as the world around her appeared to freeze.

• Jiang Zhiwei entered Shaolin and told the Chat Group she had arrived, despite still doubting whether the group was real.
• Bai Ye told Jiang Zhiwei to stay where she was and wait for a change.
• Jiang Zhiwei and disciples from several sects were suddenly transported to a White Jade Plaza.
• Jiang Zhiwei sent Bai Ye a cross-world invitation, and he accepted it.
• As Qing Jing argued with Zhen Ding, the scene around Jiang Zhiwei stopped, and Bai Ye told her that only she had been accelerated.

Bai Ye froze time to meet Jiang Zhiwei and offered to guide her cultivation while she faced the Reincarnation World. She chose his deliberately slow method, and Bai Ye returned her to the resumed timeline, intending to accompany her unseen.

• Bai Ye separated Jiang Zhiwei's personal time from the world and explained that he had come to guide her.
• Bai Ye offered Jiang Zhiwei three paths to reach Creation and recommended the slowest one so he could enjoy the world longer.
• Jiang Zhiwei chose the inferior method, and Bai Ye revealed he would have rewound time until she made that choice.
• Bai Ye restored the timeline as Qing Jing, Zhen Ding, and Senior Brother Zhang continued their argument, with Bai Ye remaining invisible to everyone but Jiang Zhiwei.
• Bai Ye told Jiang Zhiwei to exchange a cultivation technique from the Lord of Six Paths Reincarnation and denied that he could read minds.

Jiang Zhiwei and the others learned that the Lord of Six Paths Reincarnation would send them on missions in exchange for Merit Points, then arrived at their first mission site. Bai Ye gave Jiang Zhiwei a minimap marking enemies and urged her to kill them, as her first red-marked target approached.

• The Lord of Six Paths Reincarnation explained the mission system and showed the group divine arts and weapons they could exchange for Merit Points.
• Jiang Zhiwei exchanged Qi Gathering Pills for one hundred Merit Points and browsed basic sword techniques and cultivation manuals.
• The group was teleported to a stone passage, where eerie flames revealed their mission details.
• Bai Ye told Jiang Zhiwei to ignore the mission background and kill the marked enemies, then gave her a minimap displaying red dots.
• Bai Ye reminded Jiang Zhiwei that she had never killed anyone but chickens, and a red-marked enemy rapidly approached her.

Bai Ye trained Jiang Zhiwei by repeatedly rewinding her battles against a dungeon enemy, helping her refine her swordsmanship. After she adapted to the enemy’s changing reactions in Normal Difficulty, Bai Ye proposed a harder group challenge, which Jiang Zhiwei welcomed.

• Jiang Zhiwei warned the group of an approaching shadow and cut its rope with a sword strike that revealed a powerful phantom in her mind.
• Bai Ye explained that he could rewind the battle and let Jiang Zhiwei repeat it, and she agreed to keep practicing the imagined sword techniques.
• Jiang Zhiwei improved her strikes through repeated rewinds, then asked Bai Ye to raise the difficulty.
• Bai Ye set the enemy to retain its memories between rewinds, forcing Jiang Zhiwei to adapt as it began defending itself with an axe.
• After dozens of changing exchanges, Bai Ye urged Jiang Zhiwei to defeat the enemy and promised a Hard Mode group fight, which she said would be for the best.

Jiang Zhiwei cleared the Hidden Imperial Fortress, then Bai Ye reset the encounter into a hard mode where the fortress lord remembered his death. Bai Ye planted the Light of the Heart in the Reincarnation Squad, creating a way to transmit power and influence across space.

• Jiang Zhiwei led the group through the fortress, using her knowledge and strength to kill its enemies and reach the fortress lord.
• Jiang Zhiwei killed the fortress lord with one sword strike, then killed the black-clad puppets who attacked the group.
• Bai Ye reset the fortress encounter, sending Jiang Zhiwei and the enemies back in time with their memories intact.
• The fortress lord recognized Jiang Zhiwei from his memory of dying and ordered his men to attack, but she killed him again.
• Bai Ye implanted the Light of the Heart in the Reincarnation Squad, anchoring their hearts to his and enabling power to be transmitted across space.

Bai Ye confronted Lord Laozi in Dou Shuai Palace after warning him not to interfere with the Light of the Heart spreading across worlds. Their discussion of the Dao turned into a clash that gave Lord Laozi a glimpse of Bai Ye’s path, and the palace was destroyed.

• Bai Ye’s Light of the Heart spread through living beings and Reincarnation Squads across worlds, while Lord Laozi sensed the disturbance in Dou Shuai Palace.
• Bai Ye broke into Dou Shuai Palace and warned Lord Laozi not to interfere with the spreading influence or related matters.
• Bai Ye asked Lord Laozi to discuss the Dao, rejected his answer, and attacked with the principle “I! Am the Dao!”
• Lord Laozi countered Bai Ye’s attack, sensed a way of advancing beyond the limits of the Other Shore, and asked Bai Ye to evaluate his Dao in return.
• Lord Laozi struck Bai Ye with a power combining the One World Dharma and the essence of Bai Ye’s attack, but Bai Ye answered with Secret Technique [∞·∞], reducing Dou Shuai Palace to dust.

After Jiang Zhiwei defeated the Hidden Imperial Fortress Lord, the aftershocks of Bai Ye’s battle with Laojun rewrote reality, changing the world’s concepts and feminizing everyone. Bai Ye then activated the Do Subtraction to Seek Emptiness System across the myriad worlds, startling Meng Qi after her return to reality.

• Jiang Zhiwei completed the mission by killing the Hidden Imperial Fortress Lord and returned to the White Jade Plaza with her teammates.
• Bai Ye explained that his battle with Laojun had erased the concept of male, turning Jiang Zhiwei’s teammates into women and reshaping history and reproduction.
• The battle’s aftershocks also erased gray, while Jiang Zhiwei and the other girls discussed their Merit Points and returned from the Reincarnation Space.
• Bai Ye shared a new version of Everyone Can Practice and divided his attention among discussing the Dao, accompanying Jiang Zhiwei, and awakening the Light of the Heart in living beings.
• The Do Subtraction to Seek Emptiness System activated throughout the myriad worlds, and Meng Qi was startled by its arrival after returning to reality.

Meng Qi received the Do Subtraction to Seek Emptiness System and learned that her fellow Shaolin disciples had received it too. At the Great Hero Hall, Divine Nun Kongwen revealed that the system had affected people across the sects.

• Meng Qi received the "Everyone Can Practice 6.0 Exterior Scene Edition" and a mission to enter the Exterior Scene within ten days or face erasure.
• Meng Qi discovered that Zhen Ying, Zhen Guan, Zhen Hui, and other disciples were cultivating with the same system and art.
• Temple bells summoned the disciples to the Great Hero Hall, where leaders from multiple sects had gathered.
• Divine Nun Kongwen asked whether the guests had heard of the system, then concluded that they had all been possessed by it.

Bai Ye revealed that every being across the worlds had received a System, sparking debate over the chaos that universal power could bring. He explained to Jiang Zhiwei that the Do Subtraction to Seek Emptiness System would collect fifteen percent of the power its users cultivated.

• Divine Nun Kongwen announced that everyone had been possessed by the System, and the people in the Great Hero Hall reacted with shock.
• Bai Ye told Jiang Zhiwei that he had given Systems to all beings, including demons, beasts, ghosts, and artificial intelligences, so they could cultivate toward the Other Shore.
• Shouzhuo Daoist warned that universal access to divine strength would bring chaos and slaughter, while Xuanyuan Zi argued it could create a harmonious world.
• Su Wuming warned that those who failed to cultivate could be overtaken and killed, and Bai Ye confirmed that strength without restraint would be decided by numbers.
• Bai Ye explained that the System would collect an average fifteen percent of the power its users cultivated, while the remaining power would still raise their productivity.

While Bai Ye and Laojun discussed the Dao, Bai Ye used their exchange to spread a cultivation method that let him draw on the power of living beings across the worlds. Laojun discovered the scheme and attacked, determined to rewrite the past and spread his own method.

• Bai Ye and Laojun exchanged cultivation systems, and Bai Ye created Everyone Can Practice 7.0 with a backdoor that let him mobilize 15% of all living beings’ power.
• Laojun adopted Bai Ye’s ideas and secretly sent an incarnation to the Human Realm to collect taxes, but found its inhabitants had spent nearly two years cultivating Everyone Can Practice.
• A newly made Legend celebrated aloud, only to be silenced by an older Legend who complained that Dharma Bodies were common and Celestial Immortals walked everywhere.
• Laojun examined the new Legend’s memories, realized Bai Ye had spread the cultivation method while he was distracted, and accused him of monopolizing the world’s power.
• Bai Ye challenged Laojun to stop him, and Laojun unleashed his full Other Shore power to alter the past and spread a cultivation method with his own backdoor.

Laojun tried to rewrite history by changing the river of time, but Bai Ye’s cultivation system had given every living being a Dharma Body and anchored them to the present. Bai Ye linked himself to the system’s users and claimed the power of their wishes, leaving Laojun facing a world united against him.

• Laojun reached into the river of time to plant his cultivation method in the past and overwrite Bai Ye’s actions.
• Laojun’s intervention awakened the sleeping beings on the Other Shore, who discovered that all intelligent life across the myriad heavens and worlds had Dharma Bodies and that Earth Immortal power was commonplace.
• Laojun found that the countless Dharma Bodies anchored the present and resisted his attempt to change history, so he decided to destroy all living beings and reforge heaven and earth.
• Bai Ye activated the Light of the Heart and connected with every living being who had obtained the Do Subtraction to Seek Emptiness System, drawing upon their wishes and sharing his vision.
• Bai Ye declared that latecomers had no chance in the winner-takes-all game and announced that he was the Final Producer.