Chapter Summaries

Bloody Hand Butcher and the Hualun Guild began developing Neptune while discussing humanity’s expansion across the Solar System. Meanwhile, Zhou Hao warned Xue Zhi and Jin Ling that the Ancient Ruins might change, and the First Gate stirred, prompting the ancient powers to prepare for its opening.

• Beautiful Girl Killer used her wind formation pattern to weaken Neptune’s storms enough for large-scale mining, and Bloody Hand Butcher discussed humanity’s plans to develop the Solar System.
• Bloody Hand Butcher and the others discussed the need for spatial technology or teleportation formations to overcome the distances between planets.
• Zhou Hao saw that Xue Zhi and Jin Ling had reached World Class Hun Yuan and warned them to shut down Divine Descent if they noticed anything wrong.
• The statues at the Eternity Council awakened, and the ancient Councilors recognized signs that the First Gate was about to open.
• The colossal beings in the depths of thunder concluded that the two Keys of Tai Chu in the Ancient Ruins had owners and ordered the aberrations to suspend their attacks while they prepared for the First Gate.

Yuan returned from the Eternity Council and warned the Hun Yuan Lords that changes in the Ancient Ruins had eased pressure on the front lines. As rival forces began searching the ruins for the Controller’s relics, Councilor Ming Yan sent Yuan to investigate Giant Crystals, leaving the Living Beings Faction to compete as a cautious outsider.

• Yuan told Dao Jun, Chi Ming, and the other lords that the Ancient Ruins had changed and the Hun Yuan Creatures might shift their forces there; he warned them to stay in Tai Yin’s palace while ancient powerhouses entered the ruins.
• Mo Yuan and several ancient Eternity Council powerhouses arrived in the True Spirit Domain and agreed to have True Creatures map the Giant Crystals containing the Controller’s relics.
• Mo Yuan learned that Hei Long possessed the Key of Tai Chu and instructed the Exotic Lords to mark the locations of Giant Crystals across the Ancient Ruins.
• After Hei Long reported the search plan to their ancestors, the three ancient Hun Yuan Creature Lords decided to conceal some crystal locations and send trusted creatures to search for crystals themselves.
• Councilor Ming Yan instructed Yuan to use a treasure to detect objects inside Giant Crystals, report any finds, and avoid entering them or taking risks.

A World Class Hun Yuan Monster wiped out the players gathered around a Giant Crystal in the Iron Cloud Domain, prompting Zhou Hao to warn Xue Zhi that a fierce contest for the crystals was coming. Five years later, a Giant Crystal was discovered near Pluto, and Director Zhang asked Bloody Hand Butcher and Beautiful Girl Killer to contact the Divine Descent officials and learn their intentions.

• More than ten thousand guilds gathered around the Iron Cloud Domain's Giant Crystal, but a World Class Hun Yuan Monster killed nearly all the players, marked the crystal, and left a clone behind.
• After the survivors reported the incident, Xue Zhi told them to avoid the Iron Cloud Domain, and Zhou Hao explained that powerful figures were seeking the Giant Crystals and ordered the players' expansion slowed.
• Zhou Hao reviewed the treasures he had found in Giant Crystals, including Ultimate Great Dao Fragments and a black seal stone, while he wondered where the Solar System was hidden in the Ancient Ruins.
• Five years later, Director Zhang told Bloody Hand Butcher, Beautiful Girl Killer, and other players that an enormous crystal had been found near Pluto and said its discovery supported the claim that Divine Descent was real.
• Director Zhang asked Bloody Hand Butcher and Beautiful Girl Killer to contact the Divine Descent officials, learn their intentions, and tell them about the crystal near Pluto.

Zhou Hao found a Controller God Seal Fragment inside the Giant Crystal near Earth, gaining powers that could protect him and revive those he marked. Twenty years later, he reached the Hun Yuan Lord level and sensed the powerful Eternity Council figures in the Ancient Ruins’ core region.

• Zhou Hao realized Earth’s Giant Crystal meant Earth was enveloped by True Great Dao Energy and warned Xue Zhi and Jin Ling to keep players away from it.
• Zhou Hao entered the Giant Crystal and absorbed its Controller God Seal Fragment, which could alter Great Dao rules and help him control the Infinite Hun Yuan Space.
• Zhou Hao rewarded the players with guidance slots and marked Xue Zhi and Jin Ling with the seal so he could revive them if they died.
• Bloody Hand Butcher, Beautiful Girl Killer, Crotch a Little Cool, and Tian Se accepted the Planner’s strength and prepared to use their guidance slots to improve.
• Over twenty years, mutants searched the Ancient Ruins and found the Giant Crystals, while Hei Long withheld their distribution map from Mo Yuan and the Eternity Council.
• Zhou Hao broke through to the Hun Yuan Lord level, sensed powerful Eternity Council figures in the Ancient Ruins’ core region, and called for Xue Zhi and Jin Ling.

Zhou Hao ordered Divine Descent shut down to protect players from powerful experts in the Ancient Ruins, leaving humanity to face upheaval while the game was unavailable. As Zhou Hao continued cultivating, Mo Yuan and the Eternity Council searched the Giant Crystals for years without finding any items.

• Zhou Hao told Xue Zhi and Jin Ling to announce Divine Descent’s temporary shutdown because experts in the Ancient Ruins could permanently kill players.
• Xue Zhi explained the danger to Bloody Hand Butcher, Beautiful Girl Killer, and veteran players, then promised to guide them during the shutdown period.
• After Divine Descent closed, players protested and unrest spread as divine-level players seized territory; Bloody Hand Butcher and Beautiful Girl Killer refused foreign recruitment and sought authority to help maintain peace in China.
• Zhou Hao raised his parents to top divine-level strength and resumed comprehending the Ultimate True Great Dao.
• Mo Yuan and the Eternity Council divided up the Giant Crystal regions and searched them for several years, but found no items.

Mo Yuan and the other Eternity Council powerhouses found the Giant Crystals empty and left the True Spirit Domain, while Yuan reassured the Hun Yuan Lords that their faction was safe for now and directed them to strengthen their defenses. Fifty years later, human civilization had advanced through Array Pattern Technology, and Bloody Hand Butcher arrived to tell Beautiful Girl Killer that something had happened with the Short-distance Space Jump technology.

• Mo Yuan led the other five Eternity Council powerhouses in searching every Giant Crystal, but they found no relics and decided not to seek approval to activate the Eternity Plate.
• Mo Yuan and the others left the True Spirit Domain, and Yuan later returned to Lord Taiyin's palace without finding any items.
• Yuan told the Hun Yuan Lords that the Living Beings Faction's immediate danger had passed, ordered Tai Yin to clear the mutant creatures, and sent Chi Ming, Dao Jun, and the others to reclaim defensive lines.
• Zhou Hao sensed that the ancient powerhouses had left and resumed cultivating, while fifty years passed without Divine Descent returning.
• Human civilization developed Short-distance Space Jump technology from Cheng Li's Array Pattern Technology, and Bloody Hand Butcher had successfully tested it.
• Bloody Hand Butcher visited Beautiful Girl Killer in Space City and said an incident involving the Short-distance Space Jump technology had occurred half a month earlier.

Beautiful Girl Killer and Bloody Hand Butcher investigated ancient Martian ruins, prompting a search for more relics across Earth, while Zhou Hao decided to reopen Divine Descent after a century of cultivation. Divine Descent opened again, and Beautiful Girl Killer heard the news at Xijiang Villa.

• Beautiful Girl Killer learned that his space jump array patterns had exposed Martian ruins containing ancient Chinese artifacts, strange Tadpole Script, and the bones of a powerful Qi Refiner.
• Bloody Hand Butcher explained that experts believed the ruins were linked to Pre-Qin cultivators, and he asked Beautiful Girl Killer to search Earth for other hidden ruins.
• The First Gate statue shook in the Eternity Council, as its members discussed the dangers and possible rewards of entering it.
• After another hundred years, Zhou Hao mastered a second Ultimate Great Dao and ordered Xue Zhi and Jin Ling to reopen Divine Descent in a month.
• Beautiful Girl Killer remained at Xijiang Villa as another Earth ruin confirmed the experts' suspicions, then heard that Divine Descent had opened.

Divine Descent reopened, and Xue Zhi told Beautiful Girl Killer that its crisis was not fully over. After he uncovered an ancient Daoist Canon on True Earth, Zhou Hao identified it as a profound cultivation method and gave the players an easier adaptation, while the group prepared to resume competing in events.

• More than a billion players returned to Divine Descent, and Xue Zhi warned Beautiful Girl Killer that the powerful enemy might return and the game could close again.
• Beautiful Girl Killer told Xue Zhi about ancient sites on True Earth, and Zhou Hao speculated that they might hold traces of powerful experts and instructed Xue Zhi to help investigate them.
• With Xue Zhi's help, Beautiful Girl Killer copied Tadpole Script from a Martian relic and brought it to Zhou Hao, who identified it as the Huang Ting Dao Jing and created an easier cultivation method for the players.
• Beautiful Girl Killer shared both methods with the players, who agreed to cultivate Zhou Hao's adaptation and pass the original Daoist Canon to the country for suitable candidates.
• Bloody Hand Butcher urged the group to prepare for upcoming events, and the players eagerly vowed to compete for the top rankings.

Zhou Hao learned that the Key of Tai Chu required him to enter the First Gate, where only one entrant could survive and become the Controller of the Infinite Hun Yuan Space. He entered despite the danger, leaving Xue Zhi and Jin Ling to wait anxiously after his presence vanished.

• Zhou Hao watched his Origin World prosper, saw Luo Feng and the others grow stronger, and learned from translated Bamboo Slips that ancient Earth was connected to the Infinite Hun Yuan Space.
• The Key of Tai Chu warned Zhou Hao that the First Gate would open soon and that he had to reach it within half a year, so he asked Xue Zhi and Jin Ling to look after Divine Descent and his friends.
• Zhou Hao and the other Key of Tai Chu holders were transported to the Eternity Council, where the elders explained that only one person could emerge alive from the First Gate and become Controller.
• After one lifeform relinquished its key, Zhou Hao chose to enter, and the grizzled elder opened the First Gate with the Eternity Plate.
• Mo Yuan and other Council members demanded Zhou Hao's treasures, but Zhou Hao ignored them and entered the First Gate; Xue Zhi and Jin Ling then found that his presence and soul imprint had vanished.

Zhou Hao entered the First Gate, discovered that the Nine Provinces Continent was an Immortal Realm connected to Earth, and learned how to use the Ultimate True Great Dao to fight its inhabitants. The chapter ended with the Immortal Realm facing collapse after the arrival of the Otherworlders.

• Zhou Hao converted his energy into the Ultimate True Great Dao, defeated Mo Yuan and six other Councilors, then escaped when reinforcements arrived.
• Mo Yuan and the Hun Yuan Progenitor fought local experts, then agreed to cooperate over the Keys of Tai Chu and the treasures they had seized.
• Zhou Hao secretly overheard their agreement and traveled to a city, where he posed as an Immortal Emperor and read the City Lord's historical records.
• Zhou Hao learned that the Nine Provinces Continent was the Immortal Realm, that Earth was its Mother Star, and that Immortal Emperors could descend to Earth.
• The Immortal Realm shook as news spread that the Age of Dharma's End had arrived; the city lord said the Otherworlders' appearance would collapse the immortal path and erase all energy.

Zhou Hao concealed his strength in the Immortal Realm as it collapsed, then struck when Mo Yuan and the other surviving Otherworlders tried to descend into the Mortal Realm. He killed most of them and seized six Keys of Tai Chu, but Mo Yuan and other elders escaped, leaving Zhou Hao on Earth with little ability to track them.

• Zhou Hao used the Controller God Seal to stop his energy from leaking away and hid near an Immortal Emperor's territory while gathering information about the Otherworlders.
• Over two years, Immortal Emperors hunted down most of the Councilors, and Mo Yuan's remaining group decided to flee through a passage to Mother Earth.
• When the Keys of Tai Chu exposed Mo Yuan's group near Fire Feather Immortal Emperor's passage, Zhou Hao unleashed his full strength and froze the region.
• Zhou Hao killed most of the Otherworlders and collected six Keys of Tai Chu, but Mo Yuan, the Nine-Headed Serpent, and another elder escaped using special means.
• Zhou Hao descended to Earth, where his cultivation fell to the True Immortal level and he could no longer easily sense the other Keys of Tai Chu.

Zhou Hao returned to Earth through the First Gate and reunited with his parents as the Age of Dharma’s End weakened cultivators and shut down Divine Descent. When Hualun Guild’s leaders sought a way forward, Zhou Hao told them that only finding another Giant Crystal or controlling the source of superpower energy could preserve their powers.

• Zhou Hao discovered that the Solar System lay within the world of the First Gate and arrived on Earth, where he reunited with Zhao Hui and Zhou Yimin in Hang City.
• Director Chen and other officials questioned Zhou Hao about Divine Descent’s closure and the decline in Mental Power, and Zhou Hao explained that the Age of Dharma’s End had arrived.
• Bloody Hand Butcher, Beautiful Girl Killer, and Hualun Guild’s other leaders discussed their uncertain future and decided to seek advice from Zhou Hao.
• Hualun Guild’s leaders met Zhou Hao in Hang City, where he explained that another Giant Crystal or control over the source of superpower energy might offer a way to resist the Age of Dharma’s End.

The Immortal Emperors debated how to restore the Immortal Realm as the Age of Dharma's End weakened their cultivation, while Zhou Hao recruited Beautiful Girl Killer and her allies to search for Giant Crystals. Mo Yuan stayed hidden after recovering by devouring a devil-path cultivator, but a coming census threatened to expose him.

• Sakyamuni Buddha told the Immortal Emperors that they needed to find the Great Dao Supreme Treasures or the source of the Great Dao's origin on Earth, and Demon Emperor Vira threatened to act if they made no progress within thirty years.
• Immortal Fairy Hong Ni proposed searching Earth for Otherworlders and investigating a Pluto-sized crystal at the edge of the Solar System, which she believed might hold a vital item.
• Beautiful Girl Killer and Bloody Hand Butcher deduced that the Divine Descent Planner had descended and needed the item inside a Giant Crystal, then asked Zhou Hao to help them preserve their strength.
• Zhou Hao confirmed their deduction and tasked the group with finding Giant Crystals and handling other matters, while limiting the assignment to a dozen people.
• Mo Yuan secretly killed a devil-path cultivator to nourish his damaged soul, then learned that census inspections were about to begin and realized the Immortal Dao intended to uncover Otherworlders.

Bombings and demonic attacks intensified tensions between civilians and Immortal Realm factions, prompting negotiations that restricted demonic, demon, and evil cultivators to western China. Five years later, cultivation had declined further and the factions still had not found the Otherworlders or a way to stop the Age of Dharma’s End, so Immortal Fairy Hong Ni proposed a census registration.

• Mo Yuan and another Eternity Council elder orchestrated inspection bombings, while demonic cultivators exploited the ensuing chaos to massacre civilians and devour superpowered individuals’ souls.
• China’s Superpower Alliance confronted Immortal Realm leaders during livestreamed negotiations, and the factions argued over civilian protections, punishments, and restrictions on cultivators.
• Zhou Hao searched Rong City for the Eternity Council elders, but Mo Yuan had already left the city.
• After Immortal Fairy Hong Ni revealed the Giant Crystal, Magic Lotus Venerable compromised, and the factions agreed to confine demonic, demon, and evil cultivators’ activity to western China.
• Over five years, cultivation declined sharply, many cultivators relocated to other planets, and Immortal Fairy Hong Ni proposed a census after searches failed to find the Otherworlders or a solution to the decline.

Fifteen years after the Immortal Dao Alliance descended, the Age of Dharma's End continued to weaken cultivators and superpowered people, while Zhou Hao waited for the other half of the Controller God Seal and prepared to track events worldwide. Five years later, the decline triggered widespread violence in western China, and the Superpower Alliance barely held together under Bloody Hand Butcher and Beautiful Girl Killer.

• Alliance enforcement officers killed a demonic heretic who had abducted women, as their captain warned that the coming years would grow chaotic.
• Immortal Fairy Hong Ni and the Immortal Emperors discussed their dwindling power; Hong Ni said she would sacrifice herself to the Dao rather than become mortal, while the Blood Fiend Demon Ancestor admitted he could no longer restrain his followers.
• Zhou Hao continued waiting in Hang City, reasoning that the other half of the Controller God Seal would emerge only after the Ultimate Great Dao and special energies vanished, while his allies built an underground information network.
• Five years later, the Age of Dharma's End deepened, leaving even the strongest cultivators unable to fight without rapidly losing their cultivation.
• Demon and heretic cultivators began attacking humans as western China descended into chaos, while Bloody Hand Butcher and Beautiful Girl Killer kept the Superpower Alliance from breaking apart.

Big Pot and the Superpower Alliance hunted down a flood python demon cultivator, while Zhou Hao’s allies and former rivals faced old age as the Age of Dharma’s End continued. The nine Keys of Tai Chu gathered without opening the First Gate, shattering the group’s last hope, and Mo Yuan asked Zhou Hao to remember them after they died.

• Big Pot’s enforcement squad attacked a hundred-meter flood python, but it wiped them out before Big Pot arrived and defeated it with high-energy arrows.
• Big Pot returned to the Superpower Alliance, where he discussed the fading lifespans of the former awakened players with Crotch a Little Cool, Meow Meow is Cute, Bloody Hand Butcher, and Beautiful Girl Killer.
• Thirty years later, Mo Yuan and the other elderly Otherworlders brought the remaining two Keys of Tai Chu to join Zhou Hao’s seven, but the nine keys showed no reaction.
• Shakyamuni Buddha, Immortal Emperor Wei Yang, Fire Feather Immortal Emperor, and Mo Yuan despaired when the gathered keys failed to reveal another way through the Age of Dharma’s End.
• Mo Yuan asked Zhou Hao how he had preserved his strength, and Zhou Hao explained that his comprehension of the true Ultimate Great Dao had surpassed theirs.
• Mo Yuan asked Zhou Hao to burn incense at his grave after he died, since Zhou Hao might be the last person to remember the powerful figures of their era.

After the Immortal Realm’s final generation passed away and the world lost its special energy, Zhou Hao watched humanity return to Earth and lived alone for a century, sealing away his memories to endure his loneliness. His quiet life in postwar Hang City was interrupted when two descendants of Shakyamuni Buddha found him and delivered an ancestral command to serve him.

• Shakyamuni Buddha asked Zhou Hao to restore the Immortal Realm if he ever returned to the peak, and Zhou Hao agreed to rebuild it if he could.
• Over the following years, the Age of Dharma's End lost its remaining energy, the first-generation Divine Descent players died, and Mo Yuan's adopted granddaughter Ji Yuhan gave Zhou Hao a Controller relic.
• A century later, Zhou Hao lived as an ordinary person in a war-scarred Hang City, having sealed away his memories and left humanity to face its crises without him.
• Two women told Zhou Hao that their great-grandfather, Shakyamuni Buddha, had ordered them to find him and remain by his side to serve him.

The Shi sisters returned to Zhou Hao seeking to fulfill Shakyamuni Buddha’s ancestral instruction, but Zhou Hao insisted they reveal what else their great-grandfather had told them. Shi Wan'er concluded Zhou Hao held secrets and decided to seek answers from the family, while Zhou Hao remained curious about the instruction and its possible connection to the Controller God Seal.

• At a bar, Shi Wan'er and Shi Qing discussed Zhou Hao and planned to use Shi Qing as a honey trap to fulfill their family’s ancestral instruction.
• Zhou Hao reflected that Shakyamuni Buddha had likely arranged more than having his descendants serve him, and wondered whether it related to the other half of the Controller God Seal.
• The next day, Zhou Tong warned Zhou Hao that the Shi sisters’ visit had attracted attention, then left when they arrived at Zhou Hao’s apartment.
• Shi Wan'er offered Zhou Hao a property and ten years of companionship, but he demanded to know Shakyamuni Buddha’s full instructions and sent the sisters away.
• Back at the family villa, Shi Wan'er questioned Shi Qing about their great-grandfather’s instructions and decided to contact Third Uncle for answers.

Zhou Hao opened Shakyamuni Buddha’s sealed box and learned that the God Seal and nine Keys of Tai Chu were tied to the Shi family’s bloodline. After reaching the island where Shakyamuni Buddha died, Zhou Hao tested the Shi sisters’ blood on the keys, and Shi Wan’er’s virgin blood activated one key and the ancient altar.

• Shi Bin offered Zhou Hao money to stay away from his sisters, then revealed that Shakyamuni Buddha’s box could be opened only by Zhou Hao.
• Zhou Hao opened the box and read Shakyamuni Buddha’s letter, which connected the God Seal, the Keys of Tai Chu, and Shi family blood.
• Zhou Hao tried Shi Bin’s blood on the keys, but they did not react, so he incapacitated Shi Bin’s armored guards and demanded to know where Shakyamuni Buddha had died.
• Zhou Hao traveled to the Pacific island and found a damaged altar made of energy metal, but discovered no further clues there.
• Shi Wan’er and Shi Qing came to Zhou Hao’s company, and he took them to the island where their great-grandfather had died.
• Zhou Hao tested Shi Wan’er’s virgin blood on the Keys of Tai Chu, activating one key and causing the altar to tremble and light up.

Zhou Hao used Shi Qing's virgin blood on the Key of Tai Chu, confirming that the other half of the Controller God Seal required more bloodlines to unlock. After learning the Shi Family lacked the information he sought, he took Shi Wan'er and Shi Qing to the Zeng Family, then returned with them to Hang City, where Shi Wan'er offered to help him find families with the same bloodline.

• Zhou Hao used Shi Qing's virgin blood on the Key of Tai Chu, but it did not react, so he concluded that the other eight keys also needed blood to activate.
• Shi Wan'er and Shi Qing confronted Zhou Hao about taking their virginity, and he agreed to take responsibility for them in name before demanding to meet the Shi Family head.
• At the Shi Family estate, Zhou Hao killed Shi Wan'er's eldest brother after he challenged him, then asked Shi Xuebing about families sharing the Shi bloodline.
• Zhou Hao explained the prewar transcendent era to the Shi Family, and Shi Xuebing directed him to the Zeng Family for preserved information.
• The Zeng Family had no information Zhou Hao needed, and back at the apartment Shi Wan'er offered to help him find families with the same bloodline as her family.