Chapter Summaries

Solomon sought magic to help Israel rival Egypt, and Yahweh gave him ten rings that let him command Demon Gods. The rings became the source of Israelite summoning magic, which gradually spread among mortals.

• Solomon strengthened Israel through trade, prosperity, and alliances, but recognized that Israel lacked Egypt’s magic.
• Solomon asked Yahweh for wisdom and magic, and Yahweh judged him worthy of the gift.
• Yahweh decided that the weakened gods sealed in rings could serve as the power source for Israelite magic.
• Solomon awoke with ten Seal Rings, later known as Solomon's Rings, which could command angels and demons.
• Solomon performed one miracle to establish his divine favor, while summoning magic gradually spread among Israelites.

Solomon’s meeting with the Eastern mage led him to reflect on his life and, at the moment of his death, return the rings to Heaven, severing humanity’s connection to Yahweh. Yahweh realized too late that the rings had bound his existence to them, and Solomon’s choice left him separated from the power he had relied on.

• The Eastern mage visited Solomon, after which Solomon began displaying emotions and spending long periods contemplating the rings.
• As he died, Solomon gave one ring to the mage and left the others on his throne, returning the divine gifts to Heaven by his own will.
• Solomon’s rejection of the rings severed Yahweh’s connection to humanity and the faith of his believers.
• Yahweh discovered that the power and aspects he had gained through the Seal Ring were actually tied to the rings themselves.

The demon gods considered launching Human Order Incineration after Solomon’s death, while Ye Ting explained how he had secretly freed Solomon and separated one Seal Ring from the rest. The chapter left the demon gods’ plan unknown to Ye Ting, who believed his own preparations made their threat insignificant.

• Solomon’s death left the demon gods sealed in the rings, where they concluded humanity had no value but feared their own annihilation.
• Ye Ting dismissed the demon gods’ potential Human Order Incineration, arguing that he could summon the Throne of Heroes and overwhelm them.
• Ye Ting revealed that he had freed Solomon from Yahweh’s control and kept the final Seal Ring for him after Solomon foresaw future crises.
• Ye Ting explained that he had separated the ring and its seal from the other nine, creating an independent system and poaching the demon gods’ foundation.
• The chapter described how Yahweh’s campaigns and the battles within the rings had left seventy-two powerful survivors who eventually reached an agreement.

Ye Ting recruited Dantalian, a former goddess of knowledge and the seventy-first demon god, to serve as his assistant and record extraordinary powers as usable magic. Dantalian boasted of her extensive collection of grimoires, but Ye Ting challenged whether her skills and collection were truly sufficient.

• Ye Ting met Dantalian and teased her after she mistook his interest in her for lechery.
• Ye Ting explained that he wanted Dantalian to analyze the powers of gods and humans, turn them into magic people could use, and record them in books.
• Dantalian revealed that she had once been a goddess of knowledge before Yahweh's purge left her captured, powerless, and eventually ranked seventy-first among the demon gods.
• Dantalian claimed she had recorded 103,000 grimoires, including the signature techniques of demon gods who had been destroyed.
• Ye Ting questioned why Dantalian ranked so low and told her she needed 906,666 volumes to qualify, leaving her speechless.

Ye Ting convinced Dantalian that he could pursue his goal of collecting 900,666 grimoires and became her new contractor. Dantalian opened the gate to her vast library, Heaven in a Jar, and welcomed him inside.

• Dantalian questioned whether Ye Ting understood the difficulty of collecting 900,666 grimoires.
• Ye Ting revealed that he had created the Seal Rings that bound the demon gods, and Dantalian acknowledged his ability.
• Dantalian accepted Ye Ting as her contractor, and ethereal chains entered his chest as their pact was sealed.
• Ye Ting recited the words that opened Dantalian’s gate, and the inn room transformed into her immense library.
• Dantalian welcomed Ye Ting to Heaven in a Jar, a shifting labyrinth filled with books and grimoires.

The Olympian gods engineered Rome’s founding through Ares’s sons, Romulus and Remus, to restore their influence among mortals. Meanwhile, Athena’s faction, aided by mages and other gods, helped the Greek states defeat Persia, while Rome grew powerful and began turning east.

• Ares fathered twins with Silvia, and Amulius ordered the infants cast into the Tiber River, but a she-wolf raised Romulus and Remus.
• Romulus and Remus overthrew Amulius, then Romulus founded Rome on Palatine Hill, where the city grew into a powerful state supported by the gods.
• Athena led her faction in aiding the Greek city-states against Persia, while Zeus and Hera’s faction focused on developing Rome.
• With help from magic and allied gods, the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis Bay, and Plataea.
• Athens expanded its naval power and established hegemony over the Aegean Sea as the Roman Republic grew strong and turned its attention eastward.

Ye Ting used Qin's Black Bird legends and the absence of an heir to become the next king of Qin, intending to unite the Nine Provinces and eventually all humanity. He formally began his plan to conquer the world.

• Ye Ting chose Qin as the foundation for becoming humanity's common sovereign and gaining control over Alaya.
• Ye Ting arranged for a Black Bird to appear at Mount Li and presented himself as a being created by the ancient Shang civilization.
• Qin's leaders accepted Ye Ting as the heir because King Zhuangxiang had no children and Ye Ting bore the Black Bird's legacy.
• Ye Ting ascended the throne of Qin and began his plan to conquer the world.

Ye Ting spent three years in a Shang dynasty ruin on Mount Li, deciphering its immortal arts technology with Dantalian and helping Qin's occultists advance. Their quiet routine was interrupted when an occultist arrived with news that the Qin king had died.

• Qin occultists discovered Ye Ting in the Mount Li ruin and revered him for his Black Bird bloodline and immortal body.
• Ye Ting stayed in the ruin and used Dantalian's help to decipher Shang dynasty knowledge and teach Qin's occultists.
• King Zhuangxiang placed Qin's occultists under Ye Ting's command, and Ye Ting gained their respect through his guidance.
• An occultist rushed into Ye Ting and Dantalian's afternoon reading and announced that the Qin king had died.

After the King of Qin died, Ye Ting left Mount Li, became the new King of Qin under the name Zhao Zheng, and completed a magical coronation. A mysterious fairy who sensed the Black Bird’s aura followed his convoy, while the coronation ended with two suns appearing in the sky.

• The fangshi told Ye Ting that the King of Qin had died and that the ministers wanted him to return and take charge.
• Ye Ting left Mount Li with Dantalian, noticed a presence like that of a fantasy species, and rode toward the Qin court.
• A mysterious fairy on Mount Li recognized the Black Bird’s aura around Ye Ting and followed his convoy.
• After King Zichu was buried, Ye Ting ascended the throne as King of Qin under the name Zhao Zheng.
• During Ye Ting’s coronation prayer, mana gathered above him and formed a blazing sun, while a second sun appeared in the distance.

Ye Ting learned that Yu Ji was a lonely natural spirit searching for her vanished kind and tried to persuade her to stay by offering help. He summoned Dantalian, whose presence immediately caught Yu Ji’s attention.

• Ye Ting grabbed Yu Ji as she tried to leave and questioned her about her search for her kind.
• Yu Ji explained that the immortals and gods had left after their war, while she had slept through their departure on Wu Mountain.
• Yu Ji revealed that Tamamo-no-Mae was still in the Nine Provinces but refused to tell Ye Ting where she was hiding.
• Ye Ting realized Yu Ji was lonely and said he could help her find companions through someone who assisted him.
• Ye Ting summoned Dantalian, and Yu Ji’s eyes lit up when she saw the demon god.

Yu Ji settled into Qin Palace, where the attendants mistook her for a consort and rumors of her divine identity strengthened Ye Ting’s rule. As Ye Ting spent the night with Yu Ji and Dantalian, Yu Ji recalled meeting Qu Yuan and other unusual visitors at Wu Mountain.

• Yu Ji stayed in Qin Palace after befriending Dantalian, Himari, and Bastet, and the attendants began treating her as Ye Ting’s consort.
• Rumors spread that Yu Ji was the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, increasing the people’s confidence in Ye Ting and strengthening his authority.
• Ye Ting came to Yu Ji’s room at night to avoid more rumors, and Yu Ji let him stay while she read with Dantalian.
• Yu Ji told Ye Ting that Qu Yuan had called her “Mountain Ghost” and recalled a king and his subordinate who had tried to marry her.
• Yu Ji recounted the subordinate’s misquoted passage about a divine maiden, which the narrator identified as lines from Song Yu’s Goddess Rhapsody.

Ye Ting teased Yu Ji as she settled into the Qin palace, then used his rule to recruit talent and rapidly industrialize Qin with magitech. Qin became a steampunk-like power, while Ye Ting kept its new technologies secret from the other kingdoms.

• Ye Ting admitted his interest in Yu Ji, and she warned that humans and elves could never be compatible before agreeing to start as friends and companions.
• Yu Ji settled into the Qin palace and grew closer to Dantalian, Hiyori, Bastet, and Ye Ting.
• Ye Ting issued an Edict to Recruit the Worthy across the Six Kingdoms, opening official posts to talented people regardless of background.
• Ye Ting recruited strategists including Wei Liao and Li Si, along with unconventional alchemists, and spread magitech throughout Qin.
• Qin underwent an industrial revolution powered by Immortal Magic Furnaces and Immortal Crystal Soul Engines, while Ye Ting concealed the technologies from the Seven Kingdoms.

The Ghosts, Qin’s new Psionics unit, annihilated a band of sorcerers through coordinated attacks, leaving their last survivor dead without understanding what he had faced. The chapter explained how Ye Ting created Psionics as a reliable, specialized force for fighting spellcasters.

• The goateed sorcerer watched his companions fall to the Ghosts’ coordinated psychic attacks, illusions, magic, and close combat.
• The goateed man died, becoming the last sorcerer on the battlefield.
• The chapter revealed that the women who defeated the sorcerers belonged to the Ghosts, a new military branch created by Qin King Zhao Zheng.
• Ye Ting created Psionics by combining and purifying fantasy-species bloodlines into the Ghost gene and cultivating suitable candidates.
• The Ghost gene proved suitable only for women, and the resulting Psionics could learn spells reliably and cast them quickly, making them effective mage killers.

After Qin conquered Zhao and absorbed Han and Zhao into its modern state, Yan sent Jing Ke to Xianyang with Fan Yuqi’s head in hopes of delaying Qin’s advance. As Jing Ke saw the prosperity and confidence of Qin’s people, she began to doubt whether assassinating the King of Qin was truly right.

• Qin conquered Handan in two days, then spent four years integrating Zhao and Han while preparing to advance against Yan.
• Prince Dan sent Jing Ke and her deputy, Qin Wuyang, to Qin with Fan Yuqi’s head to seek a delay.
• Ye Ting welcomed news of Jing Ke’s mission and agreed to meet the envoy, anticipating her assassination attempt.
• Jing Ke traveled across Qin by vehicle and saw its modern cities, technology, and prosperous people.
• Jing Ke was shaken by Qin’s people and questioned whether killing the King of Qin would serve the greater good.

Jing Ke approached Ye Ting on the throne while concealing a dagger inside the map of Yan, but the Qin King’s overwhelming presence left her unable to move and her assassination attempt failed before it began.

• Jing Ke saw Ye Ting’s golden eyes and felt the pressure of Qin’s power, nearly losing her balance.
• Ye Ting let Jing Ke carry the map and hidden dagger up to the throne platform, where she saw a chance to strike.
• As Jing Ke came within five steps, Ye Ting asked why she planned to assassinate him with only an ordinary iron dagger.
• Ye Ting’s killing intent appeared to Jing Ke as a sky-darkening Black Bird, and she froze under his pressure.
• Jing Ke realized she could not defeat the Qin King and wondered why he was such a monster.

After King Xi of Yan sent Dan of Yan’s head to Qin, Jing Ke abandoned neutrality and devoted herself to training Qin’s Ghosts as Qin’s campaign against Yan began. Wang Jian’s modernized forces defeated resistance across the states while Ye Ting followed the army aboard Qin Palace, personally countering sorcerous threats.

• Ye Ting promised Jing Ke that he would spare Dan of Yan, then King Xi of Yan sent Dan’s head to Qin after a hint from Qin’s envoy.
• Ye Ting executed the envoy and declared war on Yan, and Jing Ke became disillusioned with the rulers of the other states.
• Ye Ting gave Jing Ke an instructor’s post, and she trained the Beidou Squad and later batches of Ghosts in martial arts.
• The other states failed to unite against Qin, and Wang Jian’s forces advanced through them with overwhelming military and magical technology.
• Ye Ting followed the campaign aboard Qin Palace and used his knowledge and power to thwart sorcerous attacks on Qin’s army.

Ye Ting’s Qin conquered the six states, leaving the magical schools at Jixia Academy as its last organized resistance. Their opposition to Qin Law and centralized power made conflict with Ye Ting unavoidable, and he decided to stop offering them chances to surrender.

• Ye Ting rejected nobles’ attempts to surrender, and Qin continued its conquest until the King of Qi opened his gates in the third month.
• The Qin army then faced resistance from dozens of magical schools at Jixia Academy, whose freedom to pursue magic and ideas had flourished during the Warring States period.
• The schools studied Qin Law and saw that its centralized rule would eliminate their political influence and prevent their ideas from governing the realm.
• The schools resolved to resist Qin, and Ye Ting recalled that many past assassination attempts against him had been plotted by them.
• Ye Ting chose to end his tolerance of the schools after their repeated plots failed to make them abandon their opposition.

Ye Ting defeated Jixia Academy and proclaimed the Qin Empire, then completed a coronation ritual of his own design. The ritual won heaven and earth’s recognition, gave him absolute authority over Qin’s subjects, and united the Nine Provinces’ spiritual veins into a Dragon that became part of him.

• Ye Ting and Qin King Zhao Zheng crushed Jixia Academy, ending the Six States’ last resistance and bringing the Warring States era to a close.
• Ye Ting declared the Qin Empire and proclaimed himself Emperor because his rule over the unified Nine Provinces surpassed the title of king.
• Confucian practitioners offered to preside over the coronation using the Rites of Zhou, but Ye Ting refused and created the ceremony according to his own views.
• The coronation changed heaven and earth, and Qin’s subjects across the Nine Provinces knelt as Ye Ting gained authority over their lives and deaths.
• The Nine Provinces’ spiritual veins joined into a Dragon with Hecate’s cooperation, and the Dragon became part of Ye Ting, granting him power over spiritual veins.
• Heaven and earth bestowed imperial garments and regalia upon Ye Ting, who completed his transformation into Emperor.

Ye Ting formalized his imperial rule at the coronation, establishing Qin’s laws and national policies under his absolute authority. He then began directing Qin’s development and assimilation of the Six States, with loyalty to the Emperor made the core of the empire’s education and civic life.

• Ye Ting declared that only the emperor could use the pronoun “Zhen,” abolished posthumous names, and named himself the First Emperor.
• Ye Ting announced the unification of weights, measures, and writing, and extended Qin Law throughout the realm.
• Ye Ting entrusted enforcement of Qin Law to Afang Palace’s core intelligence, Orianna, with Qin’s bureaucrats serving as assistants.
• Ye Ting paused further expansion while Qin reeducated the people of the Six States and built infrastructure to assimilate their territories.
• Ye Ting used Qin’s electronic and spiritual networks to govern and promote technological development and universal education.
• Qin’s textbooks and loyalty oaths taught citizens to serve the Emperor, while Ye Ting and the intelligent mainframe assessed each person’s role in the empire.

Ye Ting developed Base Ships and Space Engineering Mechs to help the Qin Empire establish industrial bases across the Solar System, and designed the Eternal Engine to power ships beyond the Magic Web. Qin’s expansion had reached Mars and Venus, while Hecate’s influence continued to grow.

• Ye Ting designed ten-kilometer Base Ships and versatile Space Engineering Mechs to establish bases and factories on alien worlds.
• The Qin Empire used the modular construction system to expand rapidly through space.
• Ye Ting developed the Eternal Engine from Sunwell water to provide magic power where the Immortal Magic Furnace could not connect to spiritual veins.
• Hecate’s influence expanded to Mars and Venus as Ye Ting envisioned her becoming the goddess of the Magic Web throughout the Solar System.