Chapter Summaries

Key events

• After killing Calamity, Su Chen uses the Creation Net to sever Ignorance’s connection to the Nether Domain, leaving him vulnerable. He pins Ignorance down and destroys him with purple-black flames, preserving his core essence for later.
• Dao Lord, Amitabha, and Yuan Shuo witness the deaths of two Final Ruins and realize the Creation Net may make it possible to cleanse the Nether Domain permanently.
• Nine Eyes, who had tried to escape Su Chen’s control, surrenders after Calamity’s death. Su Chen accepts his explanation but seals him away rather than killing him, intending to use him later.
• The group concludes that the remaining Final Ruins—Old Gou and Three Fool—are preparing an ambush in the Blazing Heaven Domain. With Calamity and Ignorance’s deaths likely to alert them, Su Chen decides to strike immediately.
• The four Bright Suns travel directly there using Amitabha’s World-Crossing Dharma Wheel, with Dao Lord offering to share the expense.
• In the Nether Domain, a mysterious figure senses Calamity’s death and reacts with disbelief, confirming that the Final Ruins’ creator is aware of the loss.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Chen demonstrates overwhelming power and confidence. He is unmoved by Nine Eyes’ betrayal because he never trusted him, and treats him with unexpected warmth before sealing him away. He also conceals what he knows about the Creation Net behind a story that Jue Tianshuo taught it to him.
• Dao Lord shifts from astonishment to hope, seeing Su Chen’s power as a chance to end the Nether Domain’s threat. He supports the decision to attack the Blazing Heaven Domain.
• Amitabha openly flatters Su Chen and wants to stay on his good side. He helps identify the likely ambush site and complains about the cost of transporting the group.
• Yuan Shuo remains focused on Su Chen’s safety and raises the danger of the planned ambush.
• Nine Eyes is terrified and remorseful, insisting he only sought freedom rather than joining the attack. Su Chen acknowledges his motive but does not release him.

Significant themes

• Power and liberation: The Creation Net can break the Final Ruins’ defining protection—their bond to the Nether Domain.
• Trust and control: Su Chen’s calm response to betrayal reflects his pragmatic view of allegiance and his reliance on power rather than trust.
• Hope after long struggle: The deaths of Calamity and Ignorance offer Abyssless a prospect its Bright Suns have pursued for generations.
• Urgency and consequence: The victories may alert the remaining Final Ruins, prompting the heroes to act before their enemies can prepare.

Chapter Summary: “Unexpected”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Kind Father discovers that Calamity and Ignorance have died, with their Origin Spirits collapsing completely. This shocks him because Final Ruins are nearly impossible to kill unless they enter the Reality Universe.
• He suspects that Old Gou lured them into the Reality Universe, though Old Gou denies involvement.
• Old Gou learns that Calamity and Ignorance left the Nether Domain more than half a month earlier, supposedly to deal with a problem in an Outer Domain. Their unexplained departure makes him increasingly uneasy.
• Kind Father concludes that only Su Chen could have killed both Final Ruins, since their deaths likely required someone powerful enough to confront them simultaneously.
• Meanwhile, Su Chen, Yuan Shuo, Dao Lord, and Amitabha enter the Nether Domain. Using the resurrected Nine Eyes, Su Chen creates a sacrificial connection to locate Three Fool and Old Gou.
• Three Fool senses Nine Eyes’ sacrifice and instinctively responds. This allows Su Chen to break through the Nether Domain’s defenses and appear directly before them.
• Su Chen immediately attacks Three Fool. Three Fool blocks the punch with his tentacle-like limbs, but one limb is destroyed, revealing the enormous gap between their strength.
• Old Gou recognizes that the situation has collapsed. His plan to use the World-Purifying Tower to trap Su Chen—and then benefit regardless of the outcome—has failed because Calamity and Ignorance were killed beforehand.
• Old Gou realizes that his only remaining option is to fully submit to Kind Father. He acknowledges Su Chen’s victory and withdraws, warning that neither he nor Three Fool will appear in Abyssless while Su Chen remains alive.

Character Developments

• Kind Father shifts from anger and suspicion toward a more rational assessment. Although he initially blames Old Gou, he recognizes that Old Gou would gain nothing from the Final Ruins’ deaths and begins to suspect Su Chen instead.
• Old Gou is revealed to be manipulative and opportunistic. He had designed a plan that would benefit him whether Su Chen lived or died, but Su Chen’s rapid growth and unexpected victories destroy that strategy. Old Gou becomes fearful and accepts that submission to Kind Father may be his only path.
• Su Chen demonstrates overwhelming power and tactical intelligence. He uses Nine Eyes as bait and a sacrificial medium to locate his enemies, then attacks before they can prepare. His rapid growth has made even the Final Ruins wary of him.
• Three Fool appears more powerful than Calamity, but even he is unable to withstand Su Chen’s direct attack without suffering severe damage.
• Nine Eyes has been resurrected or reshaped under Su Chen’s control and is now being used as an important tool in Su Chen’s strategy.
• Dao Lord, Yuan Shuo, and Amitabha remain Su Chen’s allies, but Dao Lord in particular is increasingly astonished by Su Chen’s extraordinary abilities.

Significant Themes

• The inevitability of change: Final Ruins once seemed nearly immortal, but Calamity and Ignorance’s deaths prove that even ancient, supposedly untouchable beings can be destroyed.
• Power shifting rapidly: Su Chen’s growth has happened so quickly that long-standing schemes and power structures are becoming obsolete.
• Fear and survival: Old Gou’s calculations ultimately reduce to self-preservation. His ambitions give way to submission when he realizes he cannot compete with Su Chen.
• Manipulation and strategy: The chapter emphasizes schemes within schemes—Kind Father suspects Old Gou, Old Gou manipulates the Final Ruins for his own benefit, and Su Chen uses Nine Eyes to set a trap.
• The consequences of hesitation: Old Gou regrets delaying his confrontation with Su Chen. His earlier underestimation allowed Su Chen to become too powerful to control.

Character Interactions

• Kind Father and Old Gou: Their exchange reveals mistrust and a strained father-son relationship. Kind Father accuses Old Gou of causing the Final Ruins’ deaths, while Old Gou defensively insists he was uninvolved.
• Old Gou and Three Fool: Old Gou tries to command Three Fool despite not truly having authority over him. Three Fool’s refusal to accept subordination highlights their uneasy alliance.
• Su Chen and Nine Eyes: Su Chen treats Nine Eyes as a strategic instrument, ordering him to establish a sacrificial connection with Three Fool.
• Su Chen and Three Fool: Their brief clash establishes Su Chen’s superiority. Three Fool can react quickly and draw upon the Nether Domain to heal, but Su Chen’s attack still destroys part of his body.
• Su Chen and Old Gou: Their confrontation is as psychological as it is physical. Su Chen hints that he understands more about Old Gou’s alliances than he reveals, while Old Gou recognizes that Su Chen has decisively outmaneuvered him.

Chapter Summary: “Kill Again!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Su Chen reveals that his apparent conversation with Old Gou and Amitabha was only a stall tactic. He had secretly prepared the Creation Net elsewhere and moved it into the Nether Domain.
• The net manifests as a vast web of white lines, melting the surrounding Nether Mist and, more importantly, severing Old Gou and Three Fool’s connection to the Nether Domain—the source of their immortality and recovery.
• Su Chen and his allies immediately attack. Dao Lord, Amitabha, and Yuan Shuo work together to restrain Old Gou while Su Chen focuses on Three Fool.
• Three Fool transforms into a monstrous mass of tentacles, beast heads, hammers, and black mist. His physical power is vastly greater than that of Calamity or Ignorance, and his attacks nearly tear apart the Shallow Nether Domain.
• Su Chen counters with overwhelming physical strength, empowered by the Emperor of Flesh and Blood, Flesh Embryo Inscriptions, and the True Martial Nine Transformations. He creates nine combat-capable versions of himself, surrounding and relentlessly beating Three Fool.
• The technique consumes an enormous amount of energy, but it allows Su Chen to overwhelm Three Fool before he can recover. Three Fool’s body is destroyed, and Su Chen captures his remaining Origin Power.
• Old Gou, realizing Three Fool is about to die, finally uses a trace of the Kind Father’s Corruption Power to resist. However, the Creation Net limits its effectiveness.
• Su Chen’s nine incarnations then turn on Old Gou. They destroy his body, but unlike Three Fool, Old Gou leaves behind no Origin Power, suggesting that he has not truly died.
• The Nether Mist outside the Creation Net forms Old Gou’s shape again, but the figure quickly becomes a faceless, deeply unsettling shadow. Dao Lord recognizes that the power controlling it originates from the Bottom of the Nether Domain.
• The shadow addresses Su Chen directly, ending the chapter on a threatening cliffhanger.

Character Developments

• Su Chen demonstrates that his strength and planning have reached a terrifying new level. He has developed a method capable of cutting off Nether Domain immortality and can temporarily create nine versions of himself with near-equal combat power. However, the technique’s energy consumption is extreme.
• Old Gou is shown to be cautious and highly perceptive. He recognizes the danger of the Creation Net quickly and hesitates over whether to use the Kind Father’s power to save Three Fool. His eventual intervention shows that he values survival and cannot afford to lose another ally, but his apparent death reveals that he possesses—or is connected to—something even deeper than his physical body.
• Three Fool changes from an arrogant, confident defender of the Nether Domain into a desperate and terrified victim. Once severed from the domain’s restorative power, he is unable to withstand Su Chen’s assault and is ultimately destroyed.
• Dao Lord, Amitabha, and Yuan Shuo function as coordinated support for Su Chen. Dao Lord’s attacks prove ineffective against Old Gou, emphasizing Old Gou’s superior strength, while Amitabha uses a Buddha Kingdom to help contain him.
• The Kind Father becomes a more significant threat. His Corruption Power is powerful enough to affect the battlefield, but the Creation Net appears capable of restraining or interfering with it.

Significant Themes

• Preparation versus raw power: Su Chen succeeds not only because of his strength but because he carefully prepared the Creation Net and chose the order of his targets.
• The limits of immortality: Old Gou and Three Fool believed the Nether Domain made them impossible to kill, but Su Chen’s method exposes that their immortality depends on an external connection.
• Escalation beyond known powers: Three Fool’s monstrous form and Su Chen’s nine incarnations demonstrate that the conflict has advanced beyond ordinary combat between powerful beings.
• Hidden identities and deeper forces: Old Gou’s apparent destruction leads to the emergence of a faceless entity from the Bottom of the Nether Domain, suggesting that bodies, identities, and sources of power may be interchangeable or deceptive.
• The cost of supreme strength: Su Chen’s ninefold manifestation grants overwhelming combat power, but its energy consumption is so severe that prolonged use may be dangerous.

Character Interactions

• Su Chen taunts and misdirects Old Gou and Amitabha while secretly completing his setup.
• Old Gou and Three Fool react with shock when the Creation Net severs their connection to the Nether Domain.
• Dao Lord, Amitabha, and Yuan Shuo cooperate to hold Old Gou back while Su Chen attacks Three Fool.
• Three Fool desperately calls for Old Gou’s help, forcing Old Gou to choose between preserving his secrecy and saving his ally.
• Old Gou invokes the Kind Father’s power, but Su Chen has anticipated this possibility and continues his assault.
• After killing Three Fool, Su Chen confronts Old Gou directly.
• The chapter ends with the mysterious shadow—apparently no longer truly Old Gou—calling Su Chen’s name, establishing a new and more dangerous confrontation.

Chapter Summary: The Last Road

Key Plot Points and Events

• Su Chen and his allies confront Kind Father, the true power behind the Nether Domain and the Final Ruins. Kind Father reveals that he is also known as the Rot King, the Beast of the End, and the Doomsday Cycle.
• The Creation Net, inherited from Jue Tianshuo, prevents Kind Father from fully using the Nether Domain’s power. It also severs Old Gou’s connection to the Nether Domain, stopping his transformation and leaving him vulnerable.
• Su Chen and Kind Father exchange threats and attempt negotiations. Su Chen offers mutual noninterference, while Kind Father demands that Su Chen submit. Neither can currently defeat the other, so Kind Father withdraws, warning that they will meet again soon.
• Su Chen explains that Kind Father is badly injured. Four of the five Final Ruins have fallen, three strands of the Black and White Flowing Light remain missing, and Kind Father lacks the power to recover quickly.
• After retreating, Kind Father realizes that Su Chen’s resurrection of Nine Eyes connects many recent events. Su Chen was responsible for locating the Black and White Flowing Light, killing Kind Father’s avatar, and possibly observing him when he entered the Reality Universe.
• Fearing that Su Chen will continue growing stronger, Kind Father concludes that he must take a drastic, dangerous course of action—one that may trap him permanently within the universe. He gives Old Gou an undisclosed mission.
• Su Chen, Dao Lord, Amitabha, Yuan Shuo, and other powerful figures arrive at Blazing Heaven Hall, where they confront Xiao Jinye and accuse him of colluding with Final Ruins to ambush Su Chen.
• Dao Lord orders Blazing Heaven Hall to surrender for investigation. White Marsh questions the legality of the action, but Su Chen uses his power to expose and break the altered cognition surrounding the hall.
• The people of Blazing Heaven Hall recover erased or distorted memories and realize that their sacred tower had originally been called the Rock Mountain Sacred Tower, not the World-Purifying Tower.
• Xiao Jinye reveals his corruption and attacks, but Su Chen kills him instantly. Su Chen determines that Xiao Jinye was not truly a half-step Bright Sun and had likely been secretly empowered by the Final Ruins.
• Su Chen retrieves the genuine World-Purifying Tower, confirming that the entire situation had been used as bait by the Final Ruins.
• He orders the Xuantian Ancient King and Tang Huai to investigate Blazing Heaven Hall while sparing uninvolved members. Su Chen then prepares to pursue the remaining Black and White Flowing Light before Kind Father can reclaim it.

Character Developments

• Su Chen demonstrates overwhelming confidence and strategic restraint. He recognizes Kind Father’s weakness, refuses submission, and avoids an unnecessary battle while preserving his strength for the larger conflict.
• His abilities have advanced significantly: he can use the Creation Net, penetrate altered memories and cognition, expose hidden corruption, and destroy Xiao Jinye effortlessly.
• Kind Father shifts from detached curiosity to genuine alarm. Su Chen’s connection to Nine Eyes and rapid growth make him a serious threat, forcing Kind Father to abandon his preferred plans and consider a desperate final strategy.
• Old Gou survives only because Kind Father rescues him. His confidence is shaken by Su Chen’s power, and he becomes more dependent on Kind Father.
• Dao Lord openly supports Su Chen and helps establish authority over Blazing Heaven Hall, showing that he now recognizes Su Chen as the central force opposing the Final Ruins.
• Xiao Jinye is exposed as a collaborator and is destroyed before he can launch a meaningful attack.
• The leaders of Blazing Heaven Hall, including White Marsh, Huang Pan, Tang Huai, and the Xuantian Ancient King, become cautious and fearful as Su Chen demonstrates his ability to uncover hidden manipulation.

Significant Themes

• Escalating power and strategic balance: Neither Su Chen nor Kind Father can yet defeat the other, creating a tense stalemate in which both sides prepare for the next decisive move.
• The danger of time: Kind Father’s injuries and Su Chen’s rapid growth mean that delay favors Su Chen. This pressure drives Kind Father toward a risky, irreversible choice.
• Truth versus manipulated memory: The Final Ruins have altered the minds and memories of Blazing Heaven Hall’s members. Su Chen’s intervention restores their awareness and reveals how deeply the enemy has infiltrated reality.
• Legacy and succession: Su Chen’s use of Jue Tianshuo’s Creation Net shows that he is becoming connected to—and perhaps surpassing—the previous defender who once sacrificed himself to restrain Kind Father.
• Hidden corruption and betrayal: Xiao Jinye’s collaboration illustrates that the Final Ruins operate through secret influence and corrupted agents rather than relying only on direct confrontation.
• The approaching final conflict: The recovery of the remaining Black and White Flowing Light and Kind Father’s mysterious “last road” set up an imminent struggle that may determine the fate of the Reality Universe.

Important Character Interactions

• Su Chen and Kind Father: They engage in a tense verbal duel, each testing the other’s strength. Their exchange confirms that both recognize the other as a major future enemy.
• Kind Father and Old Gou: Kind Father saves Old Gou, then questions him about Su Chen’s actions. Old Gou’s report about Nine Eyes causes Kind Father’s fear and urgency to intensify.
• Su Chen and Dao Lord: Dao Lord backs Su Chen’s accusation against Blazing Heaven Hall, while Su Chen relies on him to manage the political and investigative aftermath.
• Su Chen and Xiao Jinye: Su Chen publicly accuses Xiao Jinye of betrayal and destroys him when his corruption becomes evident.
• Su Chen and Blazing Heaven Hall: Su Chen demonstrates that the hall has been manipulated but distinguishes between the guilty and the innocent, ordering an investigation rather than indiscriminate punishment.

Chapter Summary: “Remnant Body”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Su Chen decides that finding the remaining Black and White Flowing Light is urgent, suspecting that Kind Father may soon mobilize Old Gou and the surviving Final Ruins to retrieve them.
• He tells Dao Lord that he may have a method to locate the Flowing Light, but admits that he needs all of it himself to pursue power beyond the Saint Monarch realm. Dao Lord agrees to help search for multiple streams.
• Su Chen releases the imprisoned Nine Eyes and brings him, Dao Lord, and the other Saint Monarchs into the Nether Domain.
• Using his connection to the Nether Domain, Su Chen draws Nether Mist into his own chaotic blood vitality and uses it to restore Nine Eyes’ weakened body. Nine Eyes’ strength rises to nearly the level of Ignorance.
• Su Chen forms a Sacrificial Rune Array around Nine Eyes. Dao Lord and the others are instructed to kill Nine Eyes if he makes any suspicious move.
• The ritual activates and allows Su Chen and Nine Eyes to locate the remaining three streams of Black and White Flowing Light—apparently by directly reaching the Bottom of the Nether Domain.
• Meanwhile, Kind Father instructs Old Gou to retrieve those same three streams. Kind Father also begins sacrificing his enormous true body, intending to abandon his current form and pursue a new path.
• Su Chen’s ritual interrupts Kind Father’s sacrifice. Kind Father attacks, furious that Su Chen has divined his location.
• Su Chen and Nine Eyes arrive at the Bottom of the Nether Domain and see Kind Father’s true form: a colossal, decaying, human-shaped being with a hollow chest containing a black-and-yellow heart.
• Kind Father orders them to leave and fires black beams at Su Chen. Su Chen responds by activating the Infinite Neural Core and drawing power from both the Nether Domain and the Reality Universe.

Character Developments

• Su Chen becomes increasingly proactive and willing to take risks. He openly seeks power beyond the Saint Monarchs and exploits his mysterious connection to the Nether Domain.
• Su Chen’s status becomes more enigmatic when Nine Eyes realizes that Su Chen possesses an aura resembling that of a Final Ruins being. His ability to command or attract the Nether Mist suggests a deeper connection to the Nether Domain.
• Dao Lord continues to act rationally and honorably. Although he understands that Su Chen may be using the Flowing Light for himself, he agrees to help because the information benefits them both.
• Nine Eyes is restored physically but becomes even more fearful of Su Chen. He recognizes that he is being used as part of a dangerous ritual and discovers that Su Chen can access the Bottom of the Nether Domain.
• Kind Father reveals vulnerability and desperation. He is willing to sacrifice his vast true body to escape his current situation and uncover Su Chen’s secret, but Su Chen’s intervention forces him into direct confrontation.
• Old Gou remains obedient to Kind Father after the deaths of the other Final Ruins, carrying out orders to retrieve the Flowing Light.

Significant Themes

• Power through sacrifice: Both Su Chen and Kind Father use sacrificial methods to reach greater power or obtain information. Their rituals mirror one another, emphasizing the extreme costs of advancement.
• Hidden identity and transformation: Su Chen’s resemblance to a Final Ruins being and Kind Father’s human-like but monstrous true form reinforce the uncertainty surrounding their origins and natures.
• Manipulation and distrust: Nine Eyes is restored only so he can serve Su Chen’s purposes, while Kind Father’s alliance with Old Gou is also based on necessity rather than loyalty.
• The pursuit of transcendence: The Black and White Flowing Light represents a path beyond the Saint Monarchs, motivating both Su Chen and Kind Father despite the dangers involved.
• The boundaries between universes and domains: Su Chen’s ability to combine the Nether Domain’s power with the Reality Universe’s support suggests that he is beginning to bridge realms normally kept separate.

Character Interactions

• Su Chen and Dao Lord negotiate over the Black and White Flowing Light, with Dao Lord recognizing Su Chen’s ambitions but choosing cooperation.
• Su Chen dominates Nine Eyes throughout the chapter, first restoring him, then placing him inside the sacrificial array and threatening him with execution if he resists.
• Nine Eyes’ perception of Su Chen changes dramatically when he recognizes the aura of a Final Ruins being within him.
• Kind Father and Old Gou interact as commander and subordinate, with Old Gou tasked with recovering the Flowing Light.
• Su Chen and Kind Father finally confront one another directly at the Bottom of the Nether Domain, turning their indirect conflict into an open battle.

Key plot points and events

• Su Chen uses Nine Eyes as a conduit in the Sacrificial Rune Array to deduce three locations of the Black and White Flowing Light: the Ice Soul Wasteland, the Thunderflame Pillar, and a range of obsidian mountains. Kind Father tries to sever the connection and turn the Nether Domain against Su Chen, but neither effort works.
• The process badly harms Nine Eyes. Once Su Chen has obtained the locations, he ends the ritual, destroys Nine Eyes’ vertical pupil, and takes a wisp of his essence.
• Great Heaven tells Mech Sovereign that the Final Ruins’ plot around the Blazing Heaven Domain was real. He also reveals that disturbances in the Nether Domain suggest three powerful members of the Final Ruins—Calamity, Ignorance, and Three Fool—may have died. Their followers have gone mad, with one high-ranking follower dying outright.
• Mech Sovereign abandons the idea of competing with Su Chen for the Abyss Pillar. Though wary of Su Chen, he decides not to obstruct him if Su Chen can resolve the shared threats of the Nether Domain and the Final Ruins.
• Su Chen organizes an expedition to recover the Black and White Flowing Light: Dao Lord heads for the Ice Soul Wasteland, while Amitabha and Yuan Shuo go to the Thunderflame Pillar with Su Chen’s empowered incarnation and the Creation Net. Su Chen sets out for the final location himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Chen demonstrates extraordinary deductive power, resistance to the Nether Domain, and strategic caution. He protects his allies by dividing the mission and strengthening the less powerful team, while continuing to pursue the resources needed for his next Supreme Metamorphosis.
• Kind Father is shaken by Su Chen’s immunity to the Nether Domain and becomes fixated on obtaining his secret, treating the Black and White Flowing Light as secondary.
• Mech Sovereign moves from suspicion and reluctance toward pragmatic restraint, recognizing that Su Chen may be essential against a greater danger. His exchange with Great Heaven also reveals his concern for his faction’s future generations.
• Great Heaven tests Mech Sovereign’s priorities and shares crucial intelligence, while implying he might have allied with Su Chen if Mech Sovereign had chosen to challenge him.
• Nine Eyes is left severely weakened and terrified after serving as the conduit for Su Chen’s deduction.

Significant themes

• Power and the limits of control: Kind Father’s attempts to sever Su Chen’s connection and weaponize the Nether Domain fail, exposing the limits of forces once considered overwhelming.
• Shared threats over rivalry: Mech Sovereign puts aside competition because the Final Ruins and Nether Domain endanger everyone’s successors.
• Knowledge as a weapon: Su Chen’s ability to uncover hidden locations shifts the balance of power, while Great Heaven’s data reveals that the Final Ruins may have suffered major losses.
• Sacrifice and consequences: Su Chen’s achievement depends on Nine Eyes’ suffering, and the wider conflict exacts costs even on forces far removed from the immediate battle.

Key plot points and events

• After leaving the Bottom of the Nether Domain, Su Chen reflects on Kind Father’s strange, rotting true body and suspects it may have come from outside the universe. Merely thinking about Kind Father causes a tangible corruption to cling to him; Su Chen crushes it, but recognizes the danger.
• Su Chen travels to the Obsidian Forest, where he waits in extreme gravity for the Black and White Flowing Light and possibly for Old Gou. His allies, Yuan Shuo and Amitabha, search another region but discover their target has already been taken.
• Su Chen waits until he confirms the other strand is secure, then returns to the Bronze Church. The Dao Lord gives him two strands of Black and White Flowing Light, bringing him closer to the materials needed for his third Supreme Metamorphosis.
• News spreads that the Saint Monarch killed Xiao Jinye, master of Blazing Heaven Hall, after Xiao colluded with the Final Ruins and attempted to ambush him. The Six Pillars make no move, and the incident soon becomes gossip.
• A patrol in Abyssless detects Nether Mist expanding rapidly, reversing the gains made since the Abyss Pillars were rebuilt. The chapter ends with the Dao Lord warning Su Chen that something has happened in Abyssless.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Chen becomes more cautious about Kind Father after experiencing the corruption firsthand. He remains pragmatic, securing rare resources while weighing the threat’s possible reach.
• Yuan Shuo and Amitabha help search for Black and White Flowing Light. Su Chen reassures Yuan Shuo that the failed search was not his fault.
• The Dao Lord successfully secures two strands and hands them to Su Chen, then reports the emerging crisis in Abyssless.
• Xiao Jinye’s death shapes public opinion: observers accept the official explanation, citing evidence and the Dao Lord’s presence, while some speculate about the Saint Monarch’s motives.

Significant themes

• Corruption and hidden danger: Kind Father’s influence can reach Su Chen even through thought, suggesting a threat beyond ordinary physical confrontation.
• Uncertainty and incomplete knowledge: Su Chen questions what the Nether Domain is and where Kind Father originated.
• Power and political reputation: Xiao Jinye’s execution sparks rumors, but the apparent evidence and political silence help settle the matter.
• Resurgence of an old threat: The sudden spread of Nether Mist signals that progress against it may be fragile.

Chapter Summary: “The Ultimate Leap?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After retrieving the Black and White Flowing Light, Su Chen learns that the Nether Mist has suddenly begun returning to Abyssless.
• The mist is not merely spreading from one location; it is converging toward the center of Abyssless and may engulf the entire region within roughly a thousand years.
• The mist has also become far denser and more dangerous:
  • It drains lifespan more rapidly.
  • It can corrupt lower-tier Profession holders.
  • Nether Domain lifeforms may soon be able to cross directly into the Reality Universe.
• The Dao Lord suspects the Rot King is responsible, likely reacting desperately to Su Chen’s destruction of several Final Ruins members.
• The major powers—including Mech Sovereign, Great Heaven, and Longevity—are investigating the crisis. The Dao Lord plans to convene the Joint Council in ten days.
• News of the spreading mist causes widespread panic. Refugees flee outer life-bearing planets, and Star Gate hubs become severely congested.
• Amid the crisis, Su Chen completes his third Supreme Metamorphosis and advances to the point where only the “Ultimate Leap” remains before he can surpass Bright Sun.
• Su Chen realizes that the Ultimate Leap normally requires enormous quantities of rare substances comparable to the Black and White Flowing Light—resources that are no longer available in sufficient numbers.
• The Lord of Creation advises him to focus on the Abyss Pillar. Su Chen concludes that bearing the Abyss Pillar may compensate for the missing resources, just as it helped Jue Tianshuo partially achieve the Ultimate Leap.
• Because the Abyss Pillar is damaged, Su Chen needs a huge amount of Faith Spirit to repair it. He considers obtaining the reserves accumulated by Abyssless’s major factions, believing the current crisis may make them more willing to cooperate.

Character Developments

• Su Chen becomes increasingly central to the conflict with the Rot King. He remains calm despite the worsening disaster and recognizes that the enemy is acting urgently because of the threat he poses.
• He completes his third Supreme Metamorphosis, bringing him one step away from surpassing Bright Sun.
• Su Chen’s strategic thinking develops: instead of relying solely on rare essences, he identifies the Abyss Pillar as a possible alternative route to the Ultimate Leap.
• The Dao Lord takes responsibility for coordinating Abyssless’s response and preparing the Joint Council.
• Amitabha leaves to return to his own people and manage the crisis among them.
• Yuan Shuo offers Su Chen support, emphasizing that the survival of Abyssless is a collective responsibility rather than Su Chen’s burden alone.
• The Lord of Creation continues guiding Su Chen indirectly through the panel, pointing him toward the Abyss Pillar as a solution.

Significant Themes

• Escalating existential danger: The renewed Nether Mist threatens every level of society, especially ordinary people and weaker Profession holders.
• Desperation and retaliation: The Rot King’s unprecedented action suggests that Su Chen’s attacks have forced the enemy to abandon previous restraints.
• Preparation versus urgency: Su Chen must advance rapidly while the Nether Mist gives him only limited time.
• Collective responsibility: The crisis affects all of Abyssless, requiring cooperation among the major factions rather than relying on a single hero.
• The cost of transcendence: Reaching the Ultimate Leap demands immense resources and carries the implication that even near-godlike power requires sacrifice, preparation, and risk.
• Hidden value of the Abyss Pillar: An object once associated with Jue Tianshuo’s failure may become the key to Su Chen’s success because Su Chen has completed the necessary preliminary transformations.

Character Interactions

• The Dao Lord informs Su Chen of the Nether Mist’s resurgence and explains its increased lethality. Their discussion establishes the urgency of the crisis and the need for a Joint Council.
• Su Chen and Amitabha briefly coordinate their responses before Amitabha departs to protect his own people.
• Yuan Shuo asks whether Su Chen is confident against the Rot King. Su Chen admits he is uncertain until he reaches his next milestone, while Yuan Shuo promises assistance.
• Su Chen’s internal interaction with the panel—and especially the Lord of Creation—provides the breakthrough regarding the Abyss Pillar and the Ultimate Leap.
• The wider population reacts with fear and anger, questioning the Five Pillars and comparing the event to, or even judging it worse than, the historic Mistfall Calamity.

Key plot points and events

• Su Chen has completed his adaptation to the Blazing Sun level, with all nine Holy Professions fully Sanctified, and returns to the Bronze Church to review reports.
• The Nether Mist is spreading faster than expected. Its concentration and unknown material readings are rising, Nether Domain creatures are evolving rapidly, and the boundary between the Nether Domain and reality is weakening. The Pillar Lords fear Abyssless may collapse.
• At a private council of the Bright Suns, Su Chen asks whether Mech Sovereign and Great Heaven can be trusted. Both pledge to help, despite earlier wariness and tensions.
• Su Chen proposes rapidly repairing the Abyss Pillar, believing it may offer a chance to confront the force at the Bottom of the Nether Domain. The six Pillars agree to contribute their accumulated resources.
• At the wider council, the Pillar Lords initially make it appear they may abandon Abyssless. This pressures the other factions, many of which had previously delayed or avoided contributing to the Pillar’s repair.
• When the factions realize the Pillar’s restoration may be their best hope, they plead for the Bright Suns to stay and fight. Su Chen declares he will attempt to bear the Abyss Pillar and confront the threat.
• Mech Sovereign agrees to remain, but warns that his Machine Domain will leave if other factions shirk their duties. Su Chen establishes mutual oversight and calls on every faction to give everything it can toward repairing the Pillar. The assembly agrees.

Character developments

• Su Chen demonstrates greater strength and political confidence. He tests the other Pillar Lords’ sincerity, then uses the threat of collective disaster to secure broad cooperation.
• Mech Sovereign shifts from suspicion and reluctance to conditional commitment, though he remains protective of the Machine Domain and openly distrustful of factions that evade responsibility.
• Great Heaven and the other Pillar Lords show that, despite past rivalries, they will cooperate to prevent Abyssless’s collapse.
• The lesser factions move from hesitation and self-interest to fear-driven unity, accepting that they must contribute if they want the Pillars to stay and fight.

Significant themes

• Collective responsibility: Abyssless can survive only if powerful and smaller factions alike share the burden.
• Leadership and persuasion: The Pillar Lords use a calculated show of possible retreat to make the other factions understand the stakes.
• Trust amid rivalry: Old suspicions remain, but an existential threat forces former rivals to cooperate.
• The cost of survival: Repairing the Abyss Pillar will demand vast accumulated resources, and success is uncertain.

Character interactions

• Su Chen directly challenges Mech Sovereign and Great Heaven to prove their reliability; their sincere offers ease tensions.
• The Pillar Lords coordinate their contributions, while Mech Sovereign confronts factions that had neglected their repair obligations.
• The factions plead with the Pillar Lords, and Su Chen positions himself as the willing champion who may bear the Abyss Pillar.
• Su Chen and Mech Sovereign reach a pragmatic agreement: the Pillars will stay, while all factions contribute and monitor one another.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the Joint Council disperses, the major factions begin cooperating to repair the Abyss Pillar. Longevity Old Man and Dao Lord acknowledge that some factions may still harbor ulterior motives, so secret monitoring and possible executions are considered.
• Su Chen leaves Abyssless to investigate the Nether Mist. Using the enhanced Mortal Realm Eye, he discovers that the mist is composed of “unparseable matter” whose particles can form independent, evolving Nether Domain lifeforms.
• Su Chen glimpses the Rot King, Kind Father, and realizes that the Rot King has decomposed his own body and merged it into the Nether Domain. This sacrifice has greatly strengthened the Nether Mist and accelerated its spread.
• The Rot King confronts Su Chen and admits that Su Chen’s rapid growth has caused him fear. He offers Su Chen a choice: surrender his secret and follow him. Su Chen refuses and questions the Rot King about his origins and the limits of the Abyss Pillar.
• The Rot King claims that Su Chen cannot use the Abyss Pillar to achieve the Ultimate Leap, comparing him unfavorably to Jue Tianshuo. He also warns that the Nether Mist will soon engulf the Abyss Pillar.
• As the Nether Mist spreads, many factions and individuals attempt to flee Abyssless. Most disappear, while one badly eroded survivor returns, reporting that Nether Domain creatures are everywhere and that there is nowhere safe to live.
• Panic spreads through Abyssless. Doomsday religions rise, Strange Gods rampage, and the Six Pillars begin moving toward the core regions while sending avatars into the Nether Mist to suppress enemies.
• Across Abyssless, factions surrender their accumulated Faith Spirits to repair the Abyss Pillar. Although some resist or attempt to escape, survival pressure eventually forces nearly everyone to contribute.
• After roughly a year, the Abyss Pillar is fully repaired. The Nether Mist’s expansion has slowed somewhat, but vast regions of Abyssless have already been lost.
• Su Chen prepares to bear the restored Abyss Pillar. By destroying the statue within himself that suppressed his connection to it, he restores the bond created through Stingy Dragon.
• The Lord of Creation creates a spiritual phantom of Su Chen that enters the Abyss Pillar and bears the accumulated conviction, while Su Chen’s true body withstands its immense power.
• Su Chen becomes a true Supreme Sovereign, gaining both overwhelming power and authority over the Reality Universe. However, he realizes that the Abyss Pillar’s blessings depend on the size and vitality of the Reality Universe, which the Rot King has deliberately devastated.
• The Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord proposes cooperating with Su Chen to make the Ultimate Leap, but the Lord of Creation reveals that the leap requires additional conditions, including Vaultfire.
• The Lord of Creation’s hidden objective is exposed: he has been helping the Sage Lord grow so he could eventually merge with him and fill his own deficiencies. Rather than simply devouring the Sage Lord, the two merge into one being.
• The Emperor of Flesh and Blood and the Immortal also enter the resulting flesh cocoon. At the same time, Su Chen experiences an unprecedented surge of power and begins absorbing mysterious golden particles.
• The Abyss Pillar violently trembles, unleashing dangerous energy waves around Pivot Star. Dao Lord intervenes to protect the gathered beings, while Mech Sovereign and the others struggle to understand what is happening.

Character Developments

• Su Chen: Demonstrates growing confidence and perceptiveness by uncovering the Rot King’s true strategy. After bearing the Abyss Pillar, he rises to the level of a genuine Supreme Sovereign and gains universal awareness and authority. However, he also realizes that his path to the Ultimate Leap remains incomplete and may require morally difficult sacrifices.
• Rot King/Kind Father: Abandons his physical body and merges it with the Nether Domain, showing extreme decisiveness and willingness to sacrifice everything for victory. He becomes more deeply connected to the Nether Mist but is less able to act freely outside areas it has covered.
• Longevity Old Man, Dao Lord, and Mech Sovereign: Shift from political coordination to desperate wartime leadership. They help organize the repair of the Abyss Pillar and personally participate in suppressing Strange Gods and Nether Domain creatures.
• The Lord of Creation: Is revealed to have pursued an independent agenda while assisting Su Chen and the Sage Lord. His true purpose is to combine with the Sage Lord to complete his own existence.
• World-Purifying Sage Lord: Learns that he has been cultivated partly as material for the Lord of Creation’s completion. Though initially resistant, he ultimately accepts the fusion.
• Abyssless’s factions and civilians: Move from political reluctance and selfish preservation to widespread desperation and cooperation as the Nether Mist eliminates all reliable escape routes.

Significant Themes

• Unity through crisis: The Abyssless factions cooperate not because their divisions disappear, but because the Nether Mist leaves them no alternative.
• Sacrifice and survival: The Rot King sacrifices his body, the factions sacrifice their Faith Spirits, and the Sage Lord sacrifices his individual existence through fusion.
• Power and hidden motives: Nearly every alliance contains an ulterior purpose, particularly the cooperation between Su Chen, the Sage Lord, and the Lord of Creation.
• Authority versus strength: Su Chen’s transformation shows that becoming a Supreme Sovereign involves not merely gaining power, but assuming responsibility and authority over living beings and the universe itself.
• Time as the greatest enemy: Both sides race against the Nether Mist’s expansion. Repairing the Abyss Pillar and achieving the Ultimate Leap must occur before Abyssless is completely consumed.
• Incomplete transcendence: The chapter emphasizes that reaching beyond the Bright Sun requires more than raw strength or the Abyss Pillar; hidden conditions such as Vaultfire and the proper foundational structure are essential.

Character Interactions

• Su Chen and the Rot King: Engage in a tense confrontation marked by mutual recognition of each other’s threat. The Rot King tries to recruit or intimidate Su Chen, while Su Chen probes for information about his origins and the Ultimate Leap.
• Longevity Old Man and Dao Lord: Discuss how to control unreliable factions and later help direct the resistance against the Nether Mist.
• The Six Pillars: Cooperate uneasily to gather Faith Spirits, repair the Abyss Pillar, and combat the Nether Domain’s creatures.
• Su Chen and Mech Sovereign/Dao Lord/Yuan Shuo: Their exchanges reveal the others’ hope in Su Chen, despite his admission that success is uncertain.
• The Lord of Creation and the World-Purifying Sage Lord: Their concealed relationship is exposed as the Lord of Creation seeks completion through fusion, while the Sage Lord insists that his will should remain dominant.
• Rot King and Old Gou: Old Gou continues to revere the Rot King but now also fears him, sensing that the Kind Father has become something more akin to a Nether Domain entity.
• Dao Lord and Mech Sovereign: React immediately to the Abyss Pillar’s violent disturbance, protecting the surrounding population and investigating the mysterious transformation underway.
  The chapter ends on a major cliffhanger: Su Chen’s power is undergoing an unprecedented metamorphosis, while the merged entities within the flesh cocoon appear to be triggering a dangerous change in the Abyss Pillar.

Chapter Summary: Finale II

Key Plot Points and Events

• Su Chen initially appears to fail the trial of bearing the Abyss Pillar, causing the pillar to crack and shatter again. Rot King interprets this as proof that Su Chen’s hidden potential is insufficient and decides there is no reason to delay his attack.
• The forces gathered around Pivot Star fall into panic. Without the Abyss Pillar’s protection, the Nether Mist accelerates toward them. Over the next five years, despair spreads as people either flee, hide their descendants, or prepare to die.
• Old Gou arrives with the Nether Mist and announces that the Kind Father has already won. The Bright Suns attempt to resist, but Rot King’s power overwhelms Mech Sovereign, Dao Lord, and their defenses.
• As Rot King destroys the Abyss Pillar, the leaders discover that Su Chen is still alive within its core. His transformation suddenly completes:
  • The Supreme Profound Extremity Lord of Creation and the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord fuse.
  • Su Chen becomes the Creation Source Lord, gaining the Creation Source Body and the power of every profession through the unique root “Career’s End.”
• Su Chen’s awakening produces a flame visible to all life in the universe. The Nether Mist recoils from him, and the others realize that he has not merely borne the Abyss Pillar—he has transformed into something greater than it.
• Su Chen confronts Rot King, who has fused with the Nether Domain. Their first exchange ends without a decisive victory, but Su Chen then receives a temporary fusion with the Creation Source Lord, increasing his power further.
• Su Chen discovers that the Nether Domain originates from a mysterious rift at its deepest point. He begins stitching the rift closed with Creation Power, severing Rot King’s connection to his source.
• Rot King threatens Su Chen’s loved ones and the universe, but Su Chen reveals that he can manifest wherever life exists. Countless versions of both figures appear throughout reality, demonstrating that Rot King can no longer escape or intimidate him.
• Once the rift is sealed, the Nether Domain becomes “rootless duckweed.” The Reality Universe suppresses it, and the Nether Mist retreats from the worlds it had swallowed.
• Over the next thousand years, Su Chen and the leaders of Abyssless gradually eliminate the remaining Nether Mist using accumulated Faith Power. Rot King is compressed and destroyed.
• After the Nether Mist’s final disappearance, Su Chen returns to the sealed rift. He briefly reopens it and discovers that its mist can combine with reality to create a new Nether Domain. The chapter ends with him wondering what exists beyond the rift.

Character Developments

• Su Chen completes his ultimate transformation, surpassing the Bright Sun realm and becoming the Creation Source Lord. He evolves from a powerful individual into an existence nearly identical with the universe itself.
• Rot King shifts from confident superiority to alarm and desperation. He realizes that Su Chen’s potential was far greater than expected and that his own fusion with the Nether Domain has become a weakness once its source is sealed.
• Dao Lord, Mech Sovereign, Yuan Shuo, Longevity Old Man, and the other Bright Suns move from uncertainty and despair to renewed hope. They become responsible for rebuilding Abyssless and reclaiming the lost territories.
• Tang Huai and Qi You represent the scattered survivors. Their decision to preserve their legacy is strengthened when they witness Su Chen’s awakening and sense a possible future for the universe.
• Longevity Old Man ultimately dies from exhaustion and old age after helping repel the Nether Mist, and Chang Gexiao takes his place among the surviving leaders.
• Old Gou remains loyal to the Kind Father but is rendered powerless as Su Chen gains control over the source of the Nether Domain.

Significant Themes

• Despair transformed into hope: The destruction of the Abyss Pillar initially seems to mark the universe’s inevitable end, but it becomes the catalyst for Su Chen’s greater transformation.
• Evolution beyond established limits: Su Chen does not merely succeed within the existing system; he surpasses the Abyss Pillar and reaches a realm previously thought impossible in a Primordial Universe.
• Unity and sacrifice: Survival depends on the combined efforts of the Bright Suns, hidden survivors, descendants, and the collective Faith Power of the universe. Longevity Old Man’s death emphasizes the cost of preserving the future.
• Roots and dependence: Rot King’s apparent omnipotence depends on the Nether Domain’s source rift. Once separated from it, he becomes vulnerable, reinforcing the idea that power without a foundation is ultimately unstable.
• The unknown beyond reality: Even after saving the universe, Su Chen’s final act raises a larger mystery: the origin of the rift and what lies beyond the known universe.

Important Character Interactions

• Rot King and Old Gou discuss Su Chen’s apparent failure, revealing Rot King’s disappointment and the enormous cost of his sacrifice.
• The Bright Suns debate whether Su Chen is alive and whether they should enter the damaged Abyss Pillar, choosing caution until his fate becomes clear.
• Old Gou taunts Dao Lord and the other Bright Suns, claiming that resistance is futile because of the Kind Father’s power. Dao Lord responds by choosing to fight.
• Su Chen’s awakening reassures allies across the universe, including Tang Huai and Qi You, who recognize the familiar presence of the World-Purifying Sacred Lord.
• Su Chen and Rot King engage in a battle of cosmic scale. Rot King initially claims they are evenly matched, but Su Chen gains the advantage by identifying and sealing the Nether Domain’s source.
• After Rot King’s defeat, Su Chen entrusts the surviving leaders with rebuilding the universe while personally investigating the sealed rift, ending the chapter on a new mystery.

Chapter Summary: “Final Thoughts”

Key Plot Points and Events

• This chapter serves as the author’s reflection after completing the book, which took nearly a year to write and reached approximately 2.95 million characters.
• The author explains that the story’s overall direction was planned in advance, with only two major deviations:
  1. Writing approach: The author chose to simplify the protagonist’s professional progression and rely heavily on the system/panel rather than develop each profession in detail. This kept the pacing fast but caused the protagonist’s power to escalate quickly.
  2. Main-plot detour: After the protagonist left the beginner’s village and arrived in the great city, the story unexpectedly shifted into an extended internal conflict. The author eventually recognized that readers were losing interest, abandoned the detour, and returned to the Great Venerable storyline.
• The author admits that the protagonist’s rapid growth made many professional details difficult to explore, often reducing conflicts to the protagonist defeating opponents with one or two punches.
• After the protagonist killed the World Honored One, the main emotional arc was essentially complete. The remaining chapters focused on resolving loose ends.
• The ending was intentionally accelerated, with frequent plot developments and power increases, because the protagonist had become nearly invincible and the author felt that extending the story would reduce its impact.
• The author announces a break after finishing the book, partly to handle personal responsibilities and support his pregnant wife through upcoming hospital visits.
• The next book has not yet been planned; the author wants to wait until he regains the motivation and passion necessary to write well.
• In a postscript, the author notes that the book’s ranking improved after many AI-generated novels were removed, humorously mentioning that he had once been accused of using AI himself.

Character Development

• The protagonist’s progression is defined by extremely rapid power growth through the system/panel. This made him increasingly dominant and eventually almost invincible.
• Because of this strength escalation, the protagonist’s different professions did not receive enough independent development or distinctive abilities.
• By the time the World Honored One was defeated, the protagonist had reached the conclusion of his meaningful emotional and narrative development, leaving little room for further suspense.

Significant Themes

• Balancing pacing and depth: The author prioritizes an efficient, satisfying story over a slower, more detailed exploration of every profession.
• Power escalation and narrative limitations: Rapidly increasing strength can make earlier abilities and conflicts obsolete, reducing opportunities for tension and character development.
• Reader response and self-correction: The author monitors declining readership, reassesses the story, identifies the major problem, and redirects the plot.
• Satisfaction versus expansion: The author repeatedly emphasizes making the story satisfying rather than prolonging it unnecessarily.
• Completion and creative exhaustion: Once the central conflict ended, continuing the story felt forced, so the author chose a quicker conclusion and a personal break.
• Creative passion: The author believes a new book should only begin once genuine enthusiasm for the project has returned.

Character Interactions

• The chapter contains little direct fictional interaction because it is an author’s commentary rather than a narrative chapter.
• The protagonist’s central interaction is with the major antagonistic force represented by the World Honored One, whose defeat effectively concludes the main story.
• The author also discusses the indirect relationship between the protagonist and the various professions in the system: the protagonist’s overwhelming strength repeatedly eclipses their distinct characteristics.
• Outside the story, the author expresses gratitude toward readers and acknowledges how reader subscriptions and reactions influenced decisions about pacing and plot direction.