Chapter Summaries

Zhou An met Nothing, an intelligent anomaly with a Golden Finger like his, and rejected its plan to turn humanity into anomalies. After returning to the Black Palace, he helped arrange a counterattack against the Marauders while Nothing began slaughtering people in another world to strengthen itself.

• Zhou An encountered Nothing in the Pure Black Garden and learned that it wanted to end human suffering by transforming humanity into anomalies.
• Zhou An rejected Nothing’s offer to spare his world, and the two accepted that they would eventually fight.
• Zhou An returned to the Black Palace, told Old Yang and Green Robe about his idea, and agreed to help locate the Hidden Master for the coming counterattack.
• Zhou An told Xingwu Emperor about the plan to use the Hidden Master, then returned home to train with Black Jade while preparations continued.
• Nothing entered an unpolluted world and attacked a city, slaughtering its inhabitants to make up for its weaker attributes.

Wu slaughtered a world to raise his proficiency while vowing to settle his debts with Zhou An. As Great Chu and Great Yue prepared an expedition against the Marauders, Zhou An exposed and killed Dragon Spirit, a Marauder who warned that her kind would eventually find his world.

• Wu destroyed a world, turning its survivors into strange entities, and left to seek more worlds and proficiency.
• The Xingwu Emperor and the Cloud Arising Emperor finalized plans for Hidden Master to lead an expedition against the Marauders in half a month, with Zhou An joining.
• Eunuch Wei reported his progress to the Xingwu Emperor, who tasked him with helping prepare for the expedition.
• Zhou An received the expedition notice and decided to spend the next half month raising his Armor Piercing Demon Suppressing Blade proficiency.
• Zhou An found Dragon Spirit emerging from his well and learned she claimed the Marauders had placed a warrant on him.
• Zhou An used Celestial Craft Divine Calculation to identify Dragon Spirit as a Marauder, then stabbed her as she warned that her kind would find and destroy his world.

Zhou An tracked Dragon Spirit to a world the Marauders had plundered and joined Black Jade in killing her forces. After defeating and killing Dragon Spirit, Zhou An learned little about the Marauder organization and noticed the surviving natives watching him.

• Zhou An used Celestial Craft Divine Calculation to find the crack Dragon Spirit had used, expanded it, and entered the bizarre beings’ world with Black Jade.
• Zhou An fought his way through bizarre beings, gaining Armor Piercing Demon Suppressing Blade proficiency, then followed a golden thread through another crack to Dragon Spirit’s world.
• Zhou An and Black Jade confronted Dragon Spirit amid piles of corpses; Black Jade attacked her horned subordinates while Zhou An fought Dragon Spirit.
• Dragon Spirit broke off her Spirit Horns to boost her power, but Zhou An pierced her defenses and wounded her with his black saber.
• Dragon Spirit offered to betray the Marauders, but Zhou An judged her information and offer inadequate and killed her; Black Jade finished off the remaining horned people.
• Zhou An used the Eye of Chaos to sense the surviving natives watching nearby, then noticed something with the Eye of Chaos as he prepared to leave.

Zhou An defeated the hundred-headed Weird and entered the enormous rift it had carried, where he encountered a clone of Wu. After Wu vanished, Zhou An used the Eye of Chaos to search the darkness for the important thing his Celestial Craft Divine Calculation had detected.

• Zhou An examined a woman's short sword, recognized Wu's lingering aura on it, and erased the trace before leaving the devastated world with Black Jade.
• On his way back through the rift, Zhou An fought the nearly two-hundred-meter, hundred-headed Weird and destroyed it after a prolonged battle.
• Zhou An noticed the rift remaining after the Weird's death and entered it with Black Jade because his divination indicated something important was inside.
• In the darkness within the rift, Zhou An was attacked by a hand of black mist and recognized the man who appeared afterward as Wu.
• Wu said he would leave the place to Zhou An, then vanished, and Zhou An sent the Eye of Chaos through the darkness to search for something flickering in the distance.

Zhou An rejected Wu’s offer to return to his former world and destroyed Wu’s avatar, then focused on growing stronger. A month later, Zhou An joined the assembled experts as they entered the rifts to begin the campaign against the Marauders.

• Zhou An discovered that the glowing hole showed his former world and learned Wu had altered the rift to tempt him into leaving the other worlds behind.
• Wu offered Zhou An the chance to return with companions, but Zhou An refused and drove a black longsword through Wu’s avatar.
• Black Jade comforted Zhou An, and he left the fissure with her to return to Great Chu.
• Zhou An spent nearly a month raising his skills, including reaching level 15 with Armor Piercing Demon Suppressing Blade, while Great Chu and Great Yue gathered experts for the expedition.
• Zhou An arrived at the mountain assembly, where Hidden Master sent him and the other experts into the rifts to search for the Marauders.

Zhou An trained in the rift while Old Yang ascended to the Heavenly Realm and Wu prepared to strengthen his aberration-controlling skill. When the Marauder leaders gathered, Zhou An attacked them, eager to defeat them quickly.

• Zhou An separated from Eunuch Wei’s group to grind proficiency and search for Marauder leaders inside the rift.
• Old Yang shattered the black Imperial Seal, entered the Heavenly Realm, and set out to exterminate aberrations across the rifts.
• Wu sent a clone to direct Zhou An toward the Marauder leaders, but Zhou An used the opportunity to keep training while he waited for them.
• Wu gave up on slowing Zhou An and sent controlled aberrations to slaughter living worlds so he could raise his Lord of Aberrations Physique.
• Eunuch Wei’s group hunted Marauders, Old Yang swept through aberrant worlds, and Wu continued destroying living worlds as Zhou An trained.
• Ten Marauder leaders arrived at their meeting place, where Zhou An finished training and charged them with Black Jade.

Zhou An finished preparing for his final battle with Nothing as Nothing created a Heavenly Realm aberration to trap Old Yang and rallied countless conscious aberrations against Great Chu and Great Yue. Zhou An and his allies gathered in his world beneath Nothing’s apparition as the battle began.

• Zhou An used his Sacred Spirit Demonic Bodies and blade skills to kill the Marauders, then continued hunting aberrations to improve his strength.
• Nothing reached level 15 in Lord of Aberrations Physique, merged the fragments of destroyed worlds, and created a giant Heavenly Realm aberration to fight Old Yang.
• Nothing summoned countless aberrations with rudimentary consciousness and ordered them to attack the world where Great Chu and Great Yue were located.
• Eunuch Wei, King Yuanxi, Green Robe, the Guild Master, and the symbiotes responded to the aberrations’ movement, while Green Robe decided to head to Zhou An’s world after revealing she had a hidden measure in the Spirit Connection Space.
• Zhou An saw the aberrations fleeing, recognized that Nothing had made his move, and traveled with Black Jade toward Great Chu and Great Yue.
• Zhou An and the gathered allies entered his world and faced Nothing’s apparition, which declared, “Death is the rebirth of all things.”

As Nothing’s strange entities overwhelmed the world, Green Robe proposed sealing humanity inside an Immortal Imperial City, with Xingwu Emperor and Cloud Arising Emperor sacrificing themselves to become its eternal guardians. The city bought the survivors time, but Nothing waited outside, and Yu Hang and Ye Shuang discovered cracks in its wall.

• Nothing opened cracks across the sky, unleashing strange entities as Zhou An and the forces of Great Chu and Great Yue fought back.
• After more than a month of retreat, Green Robe revealed that the Immortal Imperial City could shield humanity, but Xingwu Emperor and Cloud Arising Emperor would have to become conscious statues and endure eternal solitude.
• Xingwu Emperor and Cloud Arising Emperor accepted the sacrifice, and Zhou An said he would face Nothing himself after gaining a few months to prepare.
• The emperors abdicated, and Green Robe formed the Immortal Imperial City from the Sages’ reliefs, trapping the strange entities outside while the survivors mourned the emperors.
• Nothing vowed to break through the city, while Zhou An and Black Jade trained and survivors struggled with their losses inside the walls.
• Yu Hang and Ye Shuang inspected the city wall and found cracks in one of the reliefs.

A breach in the relief-carving wall let the Bizarre overrun the Immortal Imperial City, and Yu Hang and Ye Shuang sacrificed themselves to restore the barrier. After Zhou An emerged at the Ascension Realm, he left to hunt the one responsible for their deaths.

• Yu Hang and Ye Shuang discovered a widening crack in the wall, and Eunuch Wei organized the city’s defenses as Bizarre poured through.
• As Yue Ming’s formations failed and the defenders retreated, the Guild Master and Bizarre Assembly arrived with human consciousness and proposed rebuilding the wall through sacrifice.
• Yu Hang and Ye Shuang agreed to become stone statues, and they joined the Guild Master and Bizarre Assembly in restoring the relief-carving wall.
• More than a month later, Zhou An visited the seven statues and told Black Jade he would return before severing their connection and leaving.
• Zhou An used his level 15 Celestial Craft Divine Calculation to track the enemy and declared that he had come to kill him.

Zhou An defeated Nothing and absorbed the other half of their Golden Finger, gaining the skill Infinite. He then confronted the source behind the bizarre beings and met a White Light Humanoid Being that claimed it had once been all the worlds.

• Zhou An left the Immortal Imperial City to face Nothing while the people there waited for the outcome and prepared for a final counterattack.
• Zhou An and Nothing fought across countless worlds, and Nothing revealed that he had tried to use Zhou An to reach and destroy the world from his previous life.
• Zhou An defeated Nothing, absorbed his Golden Finger, and gained the single skill Infinite, which let him combine the abilities of countless worlds.
• Zhou An used his power to destroy the bizarre being fighting Old Yang and summoned Old Yang back to his world for a final battle.
• Zhou An entered a chaotic space of merging world fragments, where a White Light Humanoid Being appeared and said it had once been all the worlds.

The White Light Humanoid Being revealed how its illness created strangeness and shattered the world, then proposed that Zhou An take its place and repeat the cycle of life. Zhou An questioned the cost and ended by asking whether the being was lying to him.

• The White Light Humanoid Being showed Zhou An how it awakened, caused disasters, and watched civilizations rise and fight across its vast world.
• The being explained that aging and illness spawned strange entities, so it shattered the world into fragments to delay its decline and protect living creatures.
• The White Light Humanoid Being revealed that it had given Zhou An the Golden Finger and that defeating Nothing had allowed him to meet it.
• The being described two outcomes of its death: the world would either collapse into nothingness or become a realm ruled by strangeness.
• The White Light Humanoid Being proposed that Zhou An take control of the world and repeat its life cycle, but Zhou An suspected it was lying.

Zhou An rejected the White Light Humanoid Being’s demand to become its vessel and used the power of the remaining worlds to kill it. He then began turning its death and the unstable world fragments into a cycle of reincarnation to address the Eerie crisis.

• Zhou An deduced that the White Light Humanoid Being had lied about giving him his Golden Finger and learned that it planned to use his body to be reborn.
• The White Light Humanoid Being urged Zhou An to sacrifice himself, promising that his family, friends, and the worlds would survive for a time.
• Zhou An attacked with the remaining worlds’ powers, then explained that he and the White Light Humanoid Being each held half of the world and that its aging, illness, and approaching death made it vulnerable.
• Zhou An rejected the White Light Humanoid Being’s warning that killing it would doom everyone and proposed using it to create reincarnation for the Eeries.
• Zhou An pressed his finger to the White Light Humanoid Being’s forehead and destroyed it, then prepared to begin creating reincarnation as the world fragments grew unstable.

Zhou An connected the worlds and established a reincarnation cycle to resolve the root cause of the bizarre entities. After deducing that the new balance would hold, he prepared to return to those waiting for him.

• Zhou An used the White Light Humanoid Being's power to suppress the bizarre entities and connected the destroyed worlds, his world, and his previous world with bridges of light.
• Black Jade sensed Zhou An's aura when a white bridge appeared above the Immortal Imperial City, and Eunuch Wei and the others learned that newborns were absorbing traces of bizarre aura.
• Zhou An realized that births in the two human worlds could not keep pace with deaths, so he used the Infinite skill to create living creatures throughout the bizarre worlds.
• Zhou An established laws for reincarnation, sending those who had committed great evil into strange creatures and allowing those who had done no great evil to enter the human worlds.
• Zhou An used the Infinite skill to deduce future changes, concluded that the root cause had been resolved, and decided to return.

Zhou An returned to Great Chu after removing the root of the bizarre, freed the people trapped in statues, and left the world’s future to the others as he departed with Black Jade and Ye Shuang. Years later, he lived with them in his past-life world, where their modern-device addictions prompted him to try to make them quit.

• Zhou An returned to the Immortal Imperial City, reunited with Black Jade, and greeted Eunuch Wei and the others.
• Zhou An shattered the statues and freed Ye Shuang, Yu Hang, the two emperors, the Guild Master, and the Bizarre Assembly, then shared what had happened with them.
• Zhou An said he would leave the future to everyone else and vanished with Black Jade and Ye Shuang.
• More than ten years later, Zhou An asked Black Jade and Ye Shuang whether they wanted to return to Great Chu, but they refused because they preferred their phones and tablet.
• Zhou An tried to make Black Jade and Ye Shuang quit their internet habits and dragged them into the mountain villa.