Chapter Summaries

Karna unleashed his divine spear against Sefar, whose ability absorbed every attack and made her grow. Refusing to give up, he offered himself to the Indian gods and transformed into a godlike being, preparing to face her with the pantheon’s power.

• Sefar absorbed the attacks Karna and the others launched at her, growing several times larger as she advanced.
• Karna explained how he had given his golden armor to Indra and received a god-killing spear in return.
• Karna sacrificed his armor and summoned the spear’s true form, accepting its life-threatening power to fight Sefar.
• Attila watched without attacking as Karna prayed to Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu for their strength.
• Divine power transformed Karna into a godlike being, marked by the powers of the Indian deities, as he prepared to continue the battle.

Attila defeated Karna, and the remaining Heroic Spirits fighting for Gaia were soon overwhelmed by Ye Ting’s allies. Gaia’s Counter Force lost its ability to resist as Ye Ting’s First Magic finished overturning the world’s laws.

• Attila’s Sword of the War God overwhelmed Karna’s Vasavi Shakti, and Karna died smiling after vowing to train for another hundred years.
• Attila won the second battle for Ye Ting’s side, leaving the outcomes of the other two battles apparent.
• Nitocris, Hippolyta, and Penthesilea defeated Romulus-Quirinus.
• Attila, Atalanta, and Medea defeated Gilgamesh despite his Enkidu and Enuma Elish.
• Gaia’s remaining champions returned to the Throne of Heroes, and its Counter Force lost the ability to resist Ye Ting’s rewriting of the world’s laws.

Ye Ting completed his plan to overwrite the planet’s rules and end the Age of Gods, despite Gaia warning that removing True Ether would leave the planet vulnerable. The surface lost its True Ether as it was redirected to the Inner Sea of Stars, leaving Phantasmal Species, descendants of gods, and mages facing depletion.

• Gaia contacted Ye Ting and challenged him over his plan to eradicate divine life-forms and eliminate True Ether.
• Ye Ting told Gaia that he intended to overthrow the Age of Gods, cultivate and control Alaya, and remove whatever obstructed his plans.
• Ye Ting finished establishing the new rules he had created with the First Magic across the planet’s surface.
• True Ether flowed through the planet’s spiritual veins into the Inner Sea of Stars, which began generating Ether and sending it back through the veins.
• The surface lost the foundation sustaining the gods, and Phantasmal Species, descendants of gods, and mages who relied on True Ether began to suffer depletion.

Ye Ting’s early banishment of True Ether transformed Earth’s environment more than two centuries before it would have in the original timeline, leaving Gaia to manage the fallout. Phantasmal Species on the surface began dying or entering a slumber that might never end, while survivors in the Inner Sea of Stars escaped the catastrophe and could rebuild their populations.

• Ye Ting completed the banishment of True Ether ahead of schedule, delaying Alaya’s awakening relative to the end of the Age of Gods and giving him an opportunity to act.
• Gaia accepted that the surface environment would change and cooperated with Ye Ting to limit the damage to Earth.
• The replacement of True Ether with ether disrupted the laws and conditions Phantasmal Species depended on, causing Dragons and other powerful creatures to suffer first.
• The Phantasmal Species that had attacked the Inner Sea of Stars survived there after Gaia called off the assault, though their numbers had fallen to less than one-tenth.
• Surface Phantasmal Species withered or entered protective slumber, and most faced death from exhausting their energy during the long sleep.

As True Aether disappeared, Phantasmal Species and minor pantheons migrated to the British Isles and Japan, while others adapted to Aether or became yokai. The Qin Empire remained largely unaffected, shifted its magical institutions toward magecraft, and reorganized several academies, leaving the future centers of magic and magecraft established.

• Phantasmal Species and surviving minor pantheons migrated toward the British Isles and Japan, where True Aether and gateways to the Inner Sea of Stars remained.
• Some Phantasmal Species evolved to use Aether, while highly intelligent species in the East developed their own Aether techniques and became known as yokai.
• The Qin Empire continued operating through its Immortal Magic Furnaces and Immortal Crystal Soul Engines, while replacing key components in its furnaces worldwide.
• Qin's mages and Daoist practitioners adopted magecraft as magic lost most of its usefulness, and Xu Fu's group sought to establish a Daoist academy in Japan.
• Circe moved Mystra Academy's magic-focused branch into the Inner Sea of Stars, while Daedalus led the alchemy and programming faction to Atlas Mountain; the remaining faction stayed in Colchis.

After conquering the world, Ye Ting oversaw a decade of construction and education to integrate newly subjugated peoples into Qin and secure their loyalty before Alaya’s birth. The new subjects adopted Qin culture, while Qin people gained social and economic advantages over them.

• Ye Ting focused on guiding Human Order toward Alaya’s birth and building loyalty among the conquered peoples.
• Qin spent around ten years building cities, railways, and highways worldwide while educating the newly subjugated peoples.
• The newcomers adapted to modern magitech society and entered Qin’s workforce, mostly in difficult, low-level jobs.
• Qin settlers who had helped build and teach in the new cities became their masters, using their first-mover advantage to gain wealth and status.
• The newly subjugated peoples increasingly revered Qin culture, learned Qin Mandarin and Small Seal Script, and adopted Qin festivals and clothing.

Qin Shi Huang, Ye Ting, launched campaigns to eliminate worship of other gods and confiscate civilian weapons and magical materials. He and Daedalus repurposed the collected cold weapons into twelve metal giants stationed in geostationary orbit.

• Qin Shi Huang, Ye Ting, banned worship of gods other than himself and the goddesses beside him, while Qin cataloged and destroyed religious materials and punished cult followers.
• Qin’s Six Doors and Ye Ting’s allies hunted down surviving gods who appeared, and the campaign gradually eliminated heretical cults across the empire.
• Ye Ting ordered Qin to confiscate weapons and magical items from civilians and require civilian magi to register with the authorities.
• Qin gathered the confiscated cold weapons in Xianyang, where Ye Ting and Daedalus transformed them into twelve GUNDAM stationed in geostationary orbit.

Ye Ting began a ritual to reach Alaya by entering the Sea of Hearts, the collective consciousness where she was born. The chapter explained how human imagination and shared stories formed that sea, leaving Ye Ting poised to make contact with Alaya.

• Ye Ting gathered the women close to him in Afang Palace and prepared to begin his ritual.
• Ye Ting used his authority as the ruler revered by humanity to connect with Alaya, who existed within the collective consciousness of mankind.
• Ye Ting planned to descend through the ritual of offering sacrifices to Heaven into the Sea of Hearts, also known as C's World.
• The chapter explained that humans' ability to tell stories and imagine shared communities enabled cooperation among strangers and distinguished human societies.
• The Sea of Hearts formed as human thoughts connected across tribes, nations, and civilizations, and Alaya was born within it as its essence.
• Human Order and civilization were described as existing in the shared imagination of humanity rather than in physical objects alone.

Ye Ting performed the Heaven-Sacrificing Ritual in Afang Palace and entered C's World, the spiritual realm connected to humanity's collective unconscious. The world welcomed him as he approached a radiant sphere at its center.

• Ye Ting wore the imperial treasures representing Heaven's protection and recited the Heaven-Sacrificing prayer from the throne in Afang Palace.
• He heard the voices of his subjects and opened a colossal door leading to C's World.
• Ye Ting stepped through the white light and found himself in a floating stone structure above a sea of clouds.
• Stone slabs appeared beneath Ye Ting's feet as he walked toward the center of the world.
• The clouds parted to reveal a gigantic sphere shining like the sun.

Ye Ting waited for Alaya, humanity’s collective unconscious, to be born and prepared the Chain of Akasha to bind her. Alaya emerged as a little girl, called Ye Ting “Master,” and left him baffled by her appearance.

• Ye Ting recognized the enormous sphere as the world’s core and Alaya’s gestating embryo, then waited for her birth.
• As the sphere cracked, Ye Ting summoned the Chain of Akasha, a divine artifact designed to bind Alaya and humanity’s creations.
• The sphere exploded, and the newly born Alaya rapidly absorbed the world’s energy before growing into a little girl.
• Ye Ting concluded that Alaya’s appearance reflected his own image of her and protested that he was not attracted to little girls.
• Alaya opened her eyes, ran to Ye Ting, and called him “Master.”

Ye Ting tricked Alaya into wearing Akasha's Chains, which bound her and branded a permanent contract onto her. Alaya realized Ye Ting now controlled her and humanity's future, leaving their relationship strained but playful.

• Ye Ting gave Akasha's Chains to Alaya, and she happily fastened the collar around her neck.
• Akasha's Chains restrained Alaya and prevented her from escaping despite her immense power.
• The chains branded a permanent contract requiring Alaya to obey Ye Ting, then vanished into the collar.
• Alaya realized she had lost her freedom and that Ye Ting controlled humanity's future.
• Alaya called Ye Ting a pervert and pounded his chest as he relaxed, confident that he had become humanity's sovereign.

After Ye Ting used Alaya to drive the Qin Empire’s people into tireless obedience, the Empire prospered for fifty years but suffered technological stagnation. Alaya pleaded with Ye Ting to let humanity return to its former state.

• Ye Ting used his control of Alaya to influence humanity’s subconscious and make Qin’s citizens devoted, industrious, and obedient.
• The Qin Empire accelerated its expansion and development for fifty years, growing to five billion people, while its technological progress slowed as creativity declined.
• Qin’s upper ranks noticed the stagnation, and Alaya appeared before Ye Ting in Afang Palace.
• Alaya told Ye Ting that his control had made humanity’s continued way of life terrible and asked him to let humanity return to how it used to be.

Alaya persuaded Ye Ting to loosen his mental influence over humanity, and he agreed to lift some restrictions while preserving basic moral values. He then offered her a region to govern freely and left her stunned by suggesting Earth.

• Alaya spent an hour urging Ye Ting to end his ideological constraints on humanity, arguing that freedom of thought was necessary for creativity.
• Ye Ting agreed to reduce his mental interference, though he insisted that interference concerning basic moral values would remain.
• Ye Ting offered Alaya the people of one region to govern without restrictions, and she eagerly asked which region he had chosen.
• After Alaya guessed at colonies, habitats, and Ringworld regions, Ye Ting asked her how she felt about Earth.

Ye Ting explained why he would give Alaya control of Earth: its vast possibilities could produce heroes and new potential for humanity. He clarified that Qin’s people would remain under his guidance, then hinted that Alaya could govern humans from another era.

• Alaya was stunned when Ye Ting offered her Earth, and she asked him to confirm he was serious.
• Ye Ting explained that Earth could provide humanity with greater possibilities and produce heroes to strengthen Qin.
• Alaya agreed to care for the people on Earth, but Ye Ting told her she would not govern Qin’s people.
• Ye Ting said he would leave Earth’s non-Qin inhabitants to Alaya, and hinted that they could come from a different era.

After Ye Ting moved humanity from Earth to the ringworld, Qin tested Afang Palace’s Spiritron Annihilation cannon by erasing nearly all traces of its abandoned civilization while sparing the natural world. Qin then sent advanced SCV engineering mechs to Earth to begin further construction.

• Ye Ting ordered Afang Palace to target Earth with its Spiritron Annihilation planet-killing cannon.
• Orianna completed the cannon’s targeting and charge sequence, and Ye Ting authorized the strike.
• Afang Palace fired a minute-long azure beam that destroyed nearly 99% of Qin’s abandoned civilization on Earth while leaving natural landscapes and wildlife unharmed.
• Afang Palace departed, and Qin dispatched advanced SCV engineering mechs to Earth.
• The chapter explained that Qin’s SCVs used Daedalus’s Projection-Alchemy Thaumaturgical Mechanism to build structures from base materials.

Ye Ting used Mooncell and divine power to recreate a world without the Immortal Qin Empire on Earth, populating it with nearly two hundred million people and restoring the year 1 AD. He left Earth as a sociological testing ground where new heroes could emerge, while Qin scientists observed from orbit.

• Mooncell provided data on the original Type-Moon world, and SCVs began rebuilding Earth to match it.
• Ye Ting and the goddesses created nearly two hundred million people and settled them across the restored Earth.
• Alaya lifted humanity’s restrictions, and Earth returned to the worldline of 1 AD, with figures such as Wang Mang and Octavian living their histories.
• Ye Ting established Earth as a testing ground where people could create heroic legends and earn places among his Heroic Spirits.
• Qin retrieved its satellites and orbital cannons, leaving a sociological observation station in orbit to study Earth.

Ye Ting followed a distress signal through World of Warcraft’s tangled timelines and reached its main timeline. He appeared in a dungeon before a captive Draenei trainee priest who had prayed for rescue.

• Ye Ting left the Type-Moon world and traveled through the Sea of Chaos toward Azeroth, hoping to reunite with his companions and study its sources of magical energy.
• A temporal jump sent Ye Ting into World of Warcraft’s chaotic river of time, where the Bronze Dragons’ struggle against the Infinite Dragons had left the timeline poorly maintained.
• Ye Ting sensed a faint plea for help from a being whose immense fortune was dimmed by an aura of death, and recognized the signal as a route to the main timeline.
• A captive Draenei trainee priest prayed for someone to save her from the dungeon where she had been imprisoned.
• A mysterious light appeared in the Draenei’s cell, and Ye Ting materialized before her.

Ye Ting created a living Holy Light sprite and presented it to Yrel as a miniature Naaru. Yrel was amazed by his apparent ability to create Naaru, leaving Ye Ting with her trust and admiration.

• Ye Ting used Holy Light and the Third Magic to create a miniature living Holy Light sprite.
• Yrel praised Ye Ting as an extraordinary Azeroth archbishop and asked what the sprite was.
• Ye Ting explained that the sprite was a smaller Naaru, startling Yrel so much that she dropped it.
• Yrel apologized to the sprite, then studied its triangular core and concluded that it truly was a Holy Light life-form like a Naaru.
• Yrel looked at Ye Ting with even greater admiration, while he privately recognized that his deception had worked.

Ye Ting restored Yrel’s confidence in the Holy Light, and she regained its blessing and asked him to teach her both Light and Shadow. After accepting her as his student, Ye Ting realized she had become a fervent believer in him and began planning a philosophy that could let her master both powers safely.

• Ye Ting told Yrel that her kindness made her worthy of the Holy Light, despite her doubts about herself.
• Ye Ting praised Yrel for risking her safety to save her people, and the Holy Light returned to her.
• Yrel asked Ye Ting to become her mentor and teach her the Holy Light and Shadow so she could protect herself and her people.
• Ye Ting accepted Yrel as his student, and she eagerly settled down to receive his teachings.
• Ye Ting recognized that Yrel had made him the focus of her faith and considered how to guide her toward mastering both the Holy Light and Shadow.

Ye Ting helped Yrel deepen her understanding of the Holy Light and left Shadow energy in her body so she could study it. When a Shattered Hand Orc arrived and offered her a chance to enter the arena, Ye Ting secretly told her to accept, leaving his reasons unclear.

• Yrel mastered the Holy Light needed to purge the Shadow energy in her body, but kept it there at Ye Ting's request so she could study it.
• Ye Ting heard Orcs approaching, turned invisible, and told Yrel to act like a defeated prisoner.
• A one-handed Shattered Hand Orc entered Yrel's cell and offered her freedom if she won one hundred consecutive arena matches.
• Yrel doubted the offer and was about to refuse when Ye Ting told her to agree.
• Yrel accepted the Orc's offer to sign up for the gladiatorial matches.