Chapter Summaries

Su Chen joined Qi You and Ming Chi in defeating the White Lion Ruins Beast and earned a medium good deed. The Stupa Pagoda then named Su Chen a Rewards and Punishments Lower Envoy, leaving Qi You staring at the man who had introduced himself as Yuan Hao.

• Su Chen found the White Lion Ruins Beast on Lion Roar Peak and watched Qi You and Ming Chi lure it into a battle.
• After the White Lion overpowered Qi You and Ming Chi, Ming Chi asked Su Chen to save them, and Su Chen charged in and knocked the beast back.
• Su Chen, Qi You, and Ming Chi worked together for several days to exhaust the White Lion, and Su Chen delivered the final blow to liberate the medium Ruin Realm.
• The Stupa Pagoda awarded Su Chen a medium good deed, and Su Chen introduced himself to Qi You and Ming Chi as Yuan Hao.
• The Stupa Pagoda displayed a list of Rewards and Punishments Envoys, including Su Chen as a lower envoy, and Qi You realized the name matched the Bright Sun Chosen One standing beside him.

Su Chen, disguised as Yuan Hao, collected Source Fire with Qi You and Ming Chi as the Stupa Pagoda selected Reward and Punishment Envoys and drew the attention of powerful figures outside. Black Pagoda sought to incarnate Su Chen, but Yan Xing suddenly attacked him in the Harvesting Grounds.

• Qi You and Ming Chi suspected that Yuan Hao was connected to Su Chen, while Su Chen kept his disguise and discussed the Stupa Pagoda's Reward and Punishment Envoy ranks.
• Gray mist formed a wisp of Source Fire, which Su Chen claimed after Qi You and Ming Chi agreed to yield it to him.
• The Stupa Pagoda transported Su Chen, Qi You, and Ming Chi to another location as crimson lightning enveloped it outside the Nether Domain.
• The World Honored One and the other powers debated whether the Stupa Pagoda was choosing a master, then noticed Su Chen's name and speculated that he had entered using an avatar.
• Black Pagoda decided to find and incarnate Su Chen, but Yan Xing appeared and attacked him with a burst of energy.

Su Chen, Qi You, and Ming Chi discovered they were inside the Stupa Pagoda, which had absorbed the Harvesting Grounds and offered rewards for good deeds and hunting evildoers. Realizing he could earn Source Fire by entering Ruin Realms, Su Chen went through a portal to a medium Ruin Realm, and Qi You and Ming Chi followed.

• Su Chen activated the Stupa Pagoda and learned that Moderate Good could be exchanged for Source Fire or envoy advancement, while evildoers could be located and punished for rewards.
• Su Chen inspected the crimson, lightning-filled realm outside their room and found the Stupa Pagoda tower and a portal listing unliberated Ruin Realms.
• Ming Chi recognized the tower as the Stupa Pagoda, a ruling treasure of Abyssless, and explained its connection to the Buddha Land lineage.
• Qi You tried to reach other Floating Islands with streams of energy, but the surrounding waves destroyed them.
• Su Chen entered the portal to a medium Ruin Realm, and Qi You followed with Ming Chi despite their uncertainty about the danger.

Su Chen entered a collapsing Ruin Realm and encountered Gu Yi battling a Six-Hoofed Black Elephant, while both men tried to navigate the Stupa Pagoda’s rules. When Ming Chi attacked Gu Yi and was marked for a minor evil, Su Chen rushed to protect him as Gu Yi’s trident pursued him.

• Su Chen used the White Lion’s third eye to observe Gu Yi fighting the Six-Hoofed Black Elephant in the energy sea.
• Qi You and Ming Chi arrived, and Su Chen learned that Gu Yi was a Great Heaven Reward and Punishment Envoy who wielded the Four-Headed Demon Idol.
• Su Chen joined the battle, but he and Gu Yi restrained themselves while exchanging provocations and avoiding actions that might violate the rules.
• Ming Chi attacked Gu Yi with a Buddha-light mountain, and the Stupa Pagoda judged the attack a minor evil against a Reward and Punishment Envoy.
• Gu Yi sent a lightning-wreathed trident after Ming Chi, and Su Chen intervened with a fiery spear to shield him.

Su Chen defeated Gu Yi by turning his attack into healing, then had Qi You and Ming Chi help finish him off to share responsibility. After liberating more Ruin Realms and absorbing their beasts, Su Chen returned to find only three large Ruin Realms left, while Black Pagoda faced a new attack and the Stupa Pagoda searched for the Formless Heaven Gate.

• Su Chen tricked Gu Yi into attacking him, used crimson lightning to injure him, and then had Ming Chi and Qi You help kill him.
• Su Chen collected another Source Fire, returned to the Floating Island, and chose not to upgrade his Reward-and-Punishment Token yet.
• Black Pagoda appeared in a Ruin Realm, absorbed the Strange God who served him, and was attacked again after suspecting Reward and Punishment Envoys were targeting him.
• The Stupa Pagoda searched its projections for the Formless Heaven Gate and questioned whether the Reward and Punishment Lord would choose from among the people present.
• Su Chen liberated more Ruin Realms and absorbed their Ruins Beasts, eventually returning with eight beasts suppressed within him and seven strands of Source Fire.
• Su Chen saw that only three large Ruin Realms remained on the screen and realized they corresponded to Moon Radiance-level Ruins Beasts.

Su Chen advanced to middle envoy, hid his name, and selected the Strange God Lie Sha as his next target. He brought Qi You and Ming Chi into a large Ruin Realm, where Ming Chi tracked Lie Sha’s slaughter aura to the battlefield.

• Su Chen spent three portions of medium goodness to become a middle envoy, then hid his name on the Reward and Punishment Envoys list.
• Su Chen chose the lesser Strange God Lie Sha from the evildoer list and asked Qi You and Ming Chi to accompany him through the locating portal.
• The portal brought Su Chen, Qi You, and Ming Chi into a large Ruin Realm filled with an interstellar battlefield, alarming Qi You and Ming Chi.
• Ming Chi explained that Lie Sha fed on slaughter and used war to stir conflict, then employed Buddhist techniques to search for him.
• Ming Chi revealed red traces of slaughter aura crossing the battlefield and said Lie Sha was likely drawing them in.

Su Chen, disguised as Yuan Hao, ambushed Lie Sha and disrupted a trap set by the Five Pillars, but Lie Sha’s body released the injured Moon Radiance Black Pagoda. Su Chen survived Black Pagoda’s attack with help from the Sun-Transformed Tribulation Heaven Venerable, and the chapter ends as two dragons burst through the void behind Black Pagoda.

• Su Chen concealed himself, found Lie Sha, and beat the minor Strange God into a near-death state before learning that Ming Xiao and others had planned to trap him.
• Ming Xiao, Jiang Feng, Ni Zhan, and other fighters arrived, while Strange Gods emerged and revealed that Lie Sha had been part of a larger scheme.
• Black patterns formed a vertical eye over Lie Sha, from which the wounded Moon Radiance Black Pagoda emerged and trapped Su Chen in a confined space.
• Black Pagoda attacked Su Chen with gray streams of light, but the Sun-Transformed Tribulation Heaven Venerable strengthened Su Chen’s flames and helped him withstand the assault.
• Black Pagoda devoured the nearby Strange Gods and tried to capture the fighters, then turned his attention back to Su Chen as two dragons burst through the void behind him.

Su Chen and the others survived Black Pagoda’s attack before Yan Xing arrived and drove him off, only for Eternity and several other Great Strange Gods to appear. After the Strange Gods withdrew, the gathered Moon Radiances learned that Yuan Hao had injured Lie Sha and survived Black Pagoda’s strike, leaving them astonished by his strength.

• Su Chen received a portion of great good after Lie Sha died in the collision aftershocks, then stayed at the anchored location rather than return to the Floating Island.
• Yan Xing arrived and attacked Black Pagoda, but Eternity appeared and stopped his dragon-shaped strike before Huang Pan, Vast Sea, Formless, and Insect Demon gathered at the battlefield.
• Eternity refused Black Pagoda’s request to join forces against Yan Xing, and the Great Strange Gods vanished with Black Pagoda without starting a battle.
• Yan Xing asked why the groups had gathered, and Fat Buddha explained that hunting Great Strange Gods had drawn them together in the large Ruin’s Ends.
• Qi You and Ni Zhan told the Moon Radiances that Yuan Hao had severely injured Lie Sha and survived Black Pagoda’s attack while protecting the others.
• The Moon Radiances turned their attention to Yuan Hao, surprised by his strength and unable to understand why they had not recognized it earlier.

Su Chen concealed his identity among the Bronze Church while the Bright Suns confronted the Stupa Pagoda's manager over its rules and control. After learning that Source Fire was being claimed rapidly and that the Three-Headed Evil Flood Dragon could be captured, he weighed his next move and wondered whether he could use the Formless Heaven Gate.

• The Bright Suns found the Stupa Pagoda manager, questioned its selection of Reward and Punishment Envoys, and demanded control, but the manager invoked the rules established by the Supreme Sovereign and the Six Divine Bloodlines.
• Fat Buddha brought the group to a temporary base, where Huang Pan asked whether they had encountered Su Chen; Su Chen posed as Yuan Hao, while Vast Sea warned that someone might be colluding with the Strange Gods.
• Ni Zhan told Su Chen that people had already gathered substantial Source Fire and described the Purple-Maned Qilin and the Three-Headed Evil Flood Dragon, which could split into three beasts and merge again.
• Ni Zhan warned Su Chen not to associate with Ming Xiao and expected a confrontation soon; Su Chen then advanced to high-ranking envoy status and calculated how to earn the merits and Source Fire needed for elite status.
• Su Chen considered capturing the Three-Headed Evil Flood Dragon with the Heavenly Venerable's help and wondered whether he could use the Formless Heaven Gate.

Su Chen learned that Ming Xiao had questioned Ming Chi about him, then was appointed temporary commander as the Moon Radiances planned to liberate the Ruin Realm. Vast Sea urged an immediate attack, and Yan Xing ordered the Morning Stars to depart at once, while Black Pagoda and the other Great Strange Gods prepared for their next move.

• Ming Chi apologized to Su Chen for telling Ming Xiao how they had met, but said he had kept the matter of killing Great Heaven Gu Yi secret.
• Fat Buddha, Huang Pan, Vast Sea, and Yan Xing agreed to liberate the Ruin Realm and discussed having the Morning Stars assist them.
• Yan Xing summoned Su Chen and the others, announced the campaign, and appointed Yuan Hao as temporary commander.
• Vast Sea warned that the Strange Gods had learned of the ambush on Lie Sha and proposed striking immediately, so Yan Xing ordered everyone to gather and depart.
• Black Pagoda, Eternity, and the Insect Demon discussed the coming threat and their search for suitable Incarnation targets.

Black Pagoda attempted to use Incarnation on Yuan Hao after the allied forces attacked the Strange Gods, but discovered that Yuan Hao was an avatar carrying Su Chen’s consciousness. The revelation stunned everyone on the battlefield and exposed why Black Pagoda’s attempt had failed.

• Black Pagoda and Eternity decided to attack before their enemies could finish preparing, while the Strange Gods’ opponents launched a sudden assault on the Star Vault.
• Yan Xing engaged the Purple-Maned Qilin as the other Moon Radiances fought Black Pagoda, Eternity, and the Insect Demon, and Su Chen ordered the Morning Stars to hold back the Ruins Beasts.
• Su Chen joined Ni Zhan, Ming Xiao, and Jiang Feng in fighting the Three-Headed Evil Flood Dragon, then absorbed it to strengthen his body.
• Black Pagoda used Incarnation on Su Chen’s body but found that it was an unusual vessel with little mental power, and the attempt failed.
• Black Pagoda appeared in dense fog around Yuan Hao and announced that he had been created through a profession and carried Su Chen’s consciousness, shocking both sides of the battle.

Su Chen revealed that Yuan Hao was his avatar and used borrowed Moon Radiance power to defeat Black Pagoda alongside Vast Sea. After Black Pagoda was destroyed, the Stupa Pagoda’s teleportation force pulled Su Chen away from the Star Vault, where he saw a crimson phantom.

• Qi You, Ni Zhan, and the others realized Yuan Hao was Su Chen’s avatar as Black Pagoda prepared to kill him.
• Su Chen’s avatar unleashed Violet Extremity Flame and borrowed Moon Radiance power, then trapped Black Pagoda in a sealing cage.
• Vast Sea joined Su Chen against Black Pagoda while Eternity and the Insect Demon moved to intervene.
• Su Chen and Vast Sea destroyed Black Pagoda, and Su Chen received one share of ultimate goodness.
• The Stupa Pagoda’s teleportation force whisked Su Chen from the Star Vault, and he saw a crimson phantom when his vision cleared.

Su Chen was taken to the Stupa Pagoda’s administrator, exchanged a Supreme Good for Source Fire, and learned why the administrator wanted the Formless Heaven Gate. The administrator then recounted how the Nether Domain and Ruin’s End brought disaster to Abyssless, ending with the unfinished story of the Supreme Sovereign’s attempt to surpass Bright Sun.

• Su Chen questioned the administrator about his power and clone, then watched it teleport Vast Sea, Huang Pan, Fat Buddha, Yan Xing, Ming Xiao, Ni Zhan, Qi You, and the others away from the battlefield.
• The administrator identified Su Chen as Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord’s Chosen One and pressed him about the Formless Heaven Gate; Su Chen exchanged one Supreme Good for seventy portions of Source Fire.
• Su Chen learned the administrator had awakened because of the Formless Heaven Gate and wanted to borrow it to escape the Bright Suns outside the Stupa Pagoda.
• The administrator explained that Abyssless discovered the Nether Domain, whose Ruin’s End transformed the dead into Strange Gods and spread Nether Mist through the Reality Universe.
• The administrator said the Supreme Sovereign attempted an Ultimate Leap beyond Bright Sun, but had to use the Abyss Pillar to suppress a danger in Ruin’s End, leaving Abyssless exposed to the expanding Nether Mist.

Su Chen accepted the Stupa Pagoda Administrator’s offer of Reward and Punishment Lord authority, then discovered that the damaged Formless Heaven Gate caused the pagoda to merge with his avatar. The Stupa Pagoda vanished from the Bright Suns’ grasp and entered a colossal phantom in the void, leaving its destination unknown.

• Su Chen questioned the Administrator about the Formless Heaven Gate and learned he could gain Reward and Punishment Lord authority, granting him control over Reward and Punishment Envoys and their assemblies.
• The Administrator transferred the authority to Su Chen and explained the Stupa Pagoda’s limits and its purpose of suppressing Abyssless.
• Su Chen placed the Formless Heaven Gate into the Stupa Pagoda’s hall, but the Administrator found its core structure too damaged for it to serve as an escape route.
• When Su Chen stored the gate with his true body, the Stupa Pagoda shrank and merged into his avatar amid crimson lightning.
• The Bright Suns saw Su Chen named a Reward and Punishment Ambassador and watched the Thunderous Firmament collapse as the Stupa Pagoda disappeared.
• World Honored One, Dao Lord, and Old Gou followed the pagoda’s trace through a rift and saw it enter a towering phantom.

Su Chen returned from the Harvesting Grounds after feeding his stored Source Fire to Heavenly Venerable, who ignited it to challenge Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord. Outside, the Dao Lord questioned the survivors and revealed that the Stupa Pagoda had been selecting Reward and Punishment Envoys.

• The Dao Lord, the World Honored One, and Old Gou saw a phantom linked to the Stupa Pagoda, but they could not identify it or investigate it.
• Su Chen emerged in the Ruin's End Realm and fed his stored Source Fire to Heavenly Venerable, who used it to launch an attack on Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord.
• The Bright Suns brought Su Chen and the other survivors out of the Harvesting Grounds, where the Dao Lord questioned them about what had happened.
• Yan Xing reported that Su Chen's clone had used Moon Radiance-level power to kill Black Pagoda, and the Dao Lord suspected Bright Sun's Spirit had granted Su Chen a life-saving method.
• Qi You confirmed that Qin Guanyu and other participants had not returned, while the survivors mourned the many casualties.
• A white-haired Moon Radiance asked the Bright Suns to explain the disaster, and the Dao Lord said the Stupa Pagoda had been selecting Reward and Punishment Envoys.

Guo Yao challenged the Bright Suns over the deaths caused by the Stupa Pagoda’s mutation, but the Pillar Lords offered little beyond resources and demanded ninety percent of the harvested Source Fire. As Su Chen returned from the Nether Domain with immense rewards from the Heavenly Venerable’s fusion with the Sage Lord, he discovered Dao Lord’s projection waiting before his main body.

• Guo Yao questioned the Pillar Lords about their failure to warn everyone of the Stupa Pagoda’s danger, and Longevity Old Man admitted it had been their oversight.
• Dao Lord offered resources to replace each dead Morning Star, but the World Honored One raised the Source Fire contribution to ninety percent for Abyssless’s reconstruction.
• Su Chen handed over only three wisps of Source Fire, keeping one, while the Heavenly Venerable merged with the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord and completed all his Profession requirements.
• Su Chen gained several powerful flames, the Heavenly Venerable’s remains, and the Sage Lord’s promise to help him once, while the two wills fused within the Sage Lord.
• The Five Pillars opened a path back to reality, and Su Chen returned to his main body after arranging for his avatar to be brought to Soaring Heavens.
• Su Chen found that his Morning Flame tempering had reached 43 percent before seeing Dao Lord’s projection standing in front of him.

Su Chen learned that the Bright Suns planned to rebuild Abyssless and select a Supreme Sovereign through the Mystic Pivot, but they agreed he must not enter. He then discussed the Stupa Pagoda administrator’s plan to merge with the Abyss Pillar, leaving the safety of that plan uncertain.

• The Dao Lord visited Su Chen, confirmed he had returned safely, warned him to hide the Seven-Profession Wonder Tree from the World Honored One, and said Su Chen would join the Bright Suns in rebuilding Abyssless.
• The Dao Lord explained that the Abyss Pillar would repair the Reality Universe and cleanse corrupted Professional Spirit, then revealed that someone had intervened when the Stupa Pagoda escaped.
• The World Honored One proposed selecting a Supreme Sovereign through the Mystic Pivot, but argued that Su Chen must not go because his potential and possible connection to the Supreme Sovereign’s spirit posed a risk to the Six Divine Bloodlines.
• Su Chen contacted the Stupa Pagoda administrator, who revealed that the Formless Heaven Gate had brought him into Su Chen’s body beyond the Bright Suns’ detection.
• The administrator said he could merge with the Abyss Pillar if Su Chen brought him close, but they worried the Bright Suns might discover him and began considering a safer method.

Su Chen absorbed the gains from the Heavenly Venerable’s Final Dance, tempered his body with three strands of Body-Tempering Flame and Violet Extremity Flame, and grew dramatically stronger. After Qi You reported the Stupa Pagoda’s escape and Qin Guanyu’s death, Su Chen’s clone finally returned and merged with him, unleashing a terrifying surge of power.

• Su Chen used the Body-Tempering Flame to reach four Morning Flames, then consumed his remaining strands and advanced to six.
• Qi You returned to Soaring Heavens and told Tang Huai that the Stupa Pagoda had escaped, naming Yan Xing, Chang Gexiao, and Su Chen as its Reward and Punishment Ambassadors and reporting Qin Guanyu’s likely death.
• Tang Huai and Tong Zhuo learned that Su Chen had killed Black Pagoda, while the Bronze Ancient King warned the Bronze Church to prepare for hostility from Buddha Land and Great Heaven.
• The Five Pillars announced plans to reforge Abyssless, stirring widespread unease as returning harvesters spread news of heavy casualties and the changed division of rewards.
• Su Chen fused another Violet Extremity Flame, reached seven Morning Flames, and tested Blazing Transformation, but found that even fifty Heavenly Marks could not bridge the gap between Morning Star and Moon Radiance.
• Qing Cang brought Su Chen’s clone to his residence, where it merged with Su Chen and caused a violent power surge that forced Qing Cang and Qi You backward.

Su Chen returned to Soaring Heavens, learned that the Bronze Church was thriving, and was summoned by Dao Lord to help reforge Abyssless. Dao Lord revealed that Su Chen would be barred from the Supreme Sovereign selection because the World Honored One feared the Supreme Sovereign might choose him.

• Su Chen calmed his aura after revealing the Ruins Beasts contained within his body, and Qi You thanked him for protecting him in the Stupa Pagoda before leaving.
• Qing Cang told Su Chen that the Meteorfire Merchant Guild had gone bankrupt, the church was flourishing, and its Faith Spirit harvest could provide Su Chen with thirty-five thousand portions within about a year.
• Su Chen learned that Qin Guanyu had died when he encountered Tong Zhuo on his way to Soaring Heavens Palace, where Dao Lord had summoned him.
• Dao Lord brought Su Chen and the Spirit of the Bright Sun through the Heaven Gate to reforge Abyssless and said the Five Pillars planned to send people to the Ruins Origin Realm to select a Supreme Sovereign.
• Dao Lord told Su Chen that the World Honored One had barred him from the selection because the Supreme Sovereign might choose him, then explained the Ruins Origin Realm's connection to the Mistfall Calamity and a dangerous accident involving the Final Ruins.

Su Chen helped the Bright Suns reforge the Abyss Pillar, but the World Honored One used the process to bind Stingy Dragon to it and provoked a fight with Dao Lord. After Su Chen helped end the clash, the Stupa Pagoda appeared and Stingy Dragon intercepted it, thwarting the World Honored One’s attempt to stop it from reaching the pillar.

• Su Chen joined Dao Lord, Longevity Old Man, Mech Sovereign, Great Heaven, and the World Honored One at a vast Pivot Star to reforge the Abyss Pillar with Source Fire, Faith Power, and their Bright Sun Essence.
• The Bright Suns moved the life-bearing planet into the Abyss Pillar, and the pillar stabilized while drawing in the power of Flame.
• The Abyss Pillar’s chains pulled Stingy Dragon from Su Chen and bound him to the pillar; Dao Lord confronted the World Honored One after realizing he had engineered the maneuver.
• Su Chen learned that Stingy Dragon could not leave the pillar freely, then helped persuade Dao Lord to stop fighting the World Honored One.
• The Stupa Pagoda shot toward the Abyss Pillar, and Stingy Dragon intercepted it despite the pillar’s chains, preventing the World Honored One from seizing it.