Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Bai Ye is shocked to learn that era progress has surged by 50 percentage points, from –80% to –30%. He postpones the Pangu USB Drive’s reward offer because An Xiaotong is badly wounded.
• He activates his God Domain, revealing his full power: three enormous golden dials and a transformed Platinum Holy Robe. Using “Time… reverse,” he rewinds the battlefield, restoring the wreckage and healing the wounded.
• The survivors hail Bai Ye as a true god. An Xiaotong recovers and shyly slips from his embrace as the crowd watches.
• Pei Qingyue is devastated by Fang Xubai’s death, while Lu Yao and the Twins grieve the Chief Judge.
• The Twins attack Bai Ye to avenge the Chief Judge. They explain that they know he would eventually have taken their souls, but believe their lives belonged to him because he once rescued them from slavery. They refuse to live without him.
• Bai Ye grants their wish and kills them. An Xiaotong is shaken by the deaths, and Bai Ye tells her not to blame herself: the Twins chose to remain loyal to their convictions.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Ye reveals the full scale of his power and uses it to save the battlefield’s survivors. He is protective toward An Xiaotong, but also acts decisively when the Twins insist on dying.
• An Xiaotong moves from near death to recovery, then struggles to understand why the Twins would choose death. Bai Ye comforts her and explains their choice.
• The Twins remain devoted to the Chief Judge despite recognizing his intentions. Their loyalty is personal, rooted in his having saved them, rather than in any belief in his justice.
• Pei Qingyue is left grieving Fang Xubai, trapped between the losses on both sides of the conflict. Lu Yao also mourns the Chief Judge.

Significant themes

• Power and salvation: Bai Ye’s time reversal appears miraculous to the survivors and turns him into an object of worship.
• Loyalty and agency: The Twins choose death according to their own understanding of what they owe the man who saved them.
• Grief and unavoidable suffering: Pei Qingyue’s pain and An Xiaotong’s distress show how conflict harms people caught between opposing sides.
• Peace versus conviction: Bai Ye argues that suffering persists because powerful people refuse to settle for peace—and that others may choose conviction over survival.

Li Xiao confronted Lu Yao after defeating her, condemning her for helping the Chief Judge and causing North Mang's devastation. Lu Yao and Yang Yuxin died, leaving Li Xiao to face the aftermath of their choices.

• Dual-Gun Li Baitian arrived, and Bai Ye confirmed that he had not betrayed the Silent Court.
• Li Xiao recovered and defeated Lu Yao, who broke down over the Chief Judge's failed rebellion and asked Li Xiao to kill her.
• Yang Yuxin pleaded for Lu Yao, but Li Xiao accused her of causing North Mang's destruction and said her actions were worse than her father's.
• Lu Yao rejected Yang Yuxin's protection and killed herself with a dagger while he tried to restrain Li Xiao.
• Yang Yuxin took his own life after telling Li Xiao that he had known Lu Yao never loved him.

Bai Ye reunited with An Xiaotong and the others after returning, while Painter sought his help to escape [Fate]. Bai Ye agreed, then punched Painter in the abdomen.

• An Xiaotong wept in Bai Ye's arms and fell asleep, so he took her into the Divine Kingdom and left her with Little Tangerine.
• Li Xiao asked Bai Ye about becoming the Black King, and Bai Ye exposed Li Xiao's old claims about the Black Mask and Future's Child as lies.
• Bai Ye greeted his revived companions and allies, who celebrated his return and thanked him for saving North Mang.
• Painter forced his way through the crowd and asked Bai Ye to help him break free of [Fate].
• Bai Ye called [Fate]'s name without consequence, then punched Painter in the abdomen as Gu Huangquan retreated and retched.

Bai Ye tried to kill Painter to draw out [Fate], but [Fate] appeared and was destroyed by the death amassed in the [Death Balance]. The fate lines then returned to the control of all living beings, while Painter gained the ability to see true fate.

• Bai Ye froze Painter with Pseudo-Time Stop and prepared to kill him, but Gu Huangquan arrived and was frozen too.
• Painter called for [Fate] as Bai Ye struck, and [Fate] rescued him beneath a sky covered in silver fate lines.
• Bai Ye unleashed the death stored in the [Death Balance], which consumed the fate lines and destroyed the evil god controlling [Fate].
• Bai Ye used Time Projection-[Twin Stars] to question Painter, who hastily declared that he revered the Black King.
• A streak of silver light entered Painter, and he saw harmonious fate lines linking all living beings, realizing that fate had returned to them.

After [Fate]’s death, Bai Ye dealt with Painter and assigned Wu De responsibility for uniting North Mang. He then learned that the others’ memories from ten years later could be restored using Time Projection, but first planned to collect his era-progression reward and recharge 009 [Time Sundial].

• Bai Ye punched Painter over his past scheme on Black Mountain, and Painter fled with his companion after recovering the Fate Eye.
• Bai Ye left Wu De in charge of cleaning up North Mang and entrusted him with greater responsibility as leader of the North Alliance.
• Bai Ye returned to the Divine Kingdom, found An Xiaotong unconscious, and summoned Yi Jingran to ask about restoring everyone’s memories.
• Yi Jingran explained that Bai Ye could use Time Projection on him to bring back his ten-years-later self, who had backed up everyone’s memories.
• Bai Ye decided to collect the divine power stored in the Pangu USB Drive before charging 009 [Time Sundial] and restoring the memories.

Bai Ye used the System Error to restore his lifespan and unlock Soul Technology and Genetic Engineering, completing mental and blood qi limit breaks. He finished the chapter celebrating his prison dragon gene and its immense power.

• Bai Ye asked the System Error to withdraw his stored divine power, and it increased his lifespan while optimizing his vital signs.
• The System Error fully unlocked Soul Technology, and Bai Ye's soul froze, shattered, and expanded as he completed a Mental Limit Break.
• The System Error fully unlocked Genetic Engineering and began fusing Bai Ye's dragon and divine genes, causing him intense pain.
• Bai Ye renamed the resulting flesh dragon gene the prison dragon gene after completing a Blood Qi Limit Break.
• Bai Ye unleashed his black-and-red blood qi and discovered that his god's blood qi had risen to 530,000.

Bai Ye completed his third limit break, gaining direct control over space and unlocking divine technology. After his god shards fused into a rudimentary divine spark, he realized he had only reached the threshold of demigodhood and needed to develop the spark further to become a god.

• Bai Ye completed his transcendent limit break and gained the ability to manipulate space directly, including storing a villa-sized space and locking his surroundings.
• Bai Ye compared his progress with Lu Chen's and declared that his three limit breaks let him stand alongside the Grand Generals.
• The system announced that Bai Ye had surpassed the human level and unlocked some divine technology.
• The system identified Bai Ye's god shards as Divine Spark Fragments, explaining that Forbidden Crystals were condensed forbidden energy while Divine Spark Fragments contained divine status.
• The fragments fused with the Rat Dung in Bai Ye's Mind Space, creating a colorless chibi version of him as a rudimentary divine spark at 0% generation.
• Bai Ye assessed his place in the transcendent progression and concluded that he was short of demigodhood until his divine spark began to develop.

Bai Ye waited for the Pangu USB Drive’s stage-three Time-Dimension Modification while exhausting himself trying to charge the [Time Sundial]. After telling An Xiaotong about the future, he spent three days charging the device and finally summoned Time Projection-Yi Jingran.

• Bai Ye realized Destiny had cultivated honestly and planned to visit him in Undersea.
• The Pangu USB Drive announced that its stage-three Time-Dimension Modification would take one hour to complete.
• Bai Ye tried to charge the [Time Sundial] with his mental power, but failed to produce a Time Projection of Yi Jingran.
• Bai Ye slept beside the unconscious An Xiaotong, and she woke up embarrassed and furious when she found him in her bed.
• Bai Ye told An Xiaotong about the next ten years, but she doubted him after catching him undoing her buttons.
• After three days of exhausting himself to charge the device, Bai Ye summoned Time Projection-Yi Jingran despite An Xiaotong offering to help.

Yi Jingran restored An Xiaotong’s memories from ten years in the future, and Bai Ye brought his companions to recover theirs as well. As they learned about their future selves, Li You discovered that he had no memories to receive.

• Yi Jingran transferred An Xiaotong’s sealed future memories, and she remembered the lost ten years while teasing Bai Ye about his reason for restoring them.
• Bai Ye brought Li Xiao, Li You, Xiao Yi, and Ghost Clown into the Divine Kingdom and explained that they had lost memories of the future.
• Bai Ye told Li Xiao that he became a god, Xiao Yi that he regained both arms, Li You that he became a mummy, and Ghost Clown that Yiyi came back to life.
• Yi Jingran helped the group recover their future memories, and Ghost Clown, Xiao Yi, and Li Xiao reacted to what they remembered.
• Li You opened his eyes and asked why Bai Ye had not transferred any memories to him.

Li You chose to recover his sealed memories so he could wield Abyss Eye against the coming destruction, and the century of imprisonment nearly overwhelmed him. Bai Ye then brought Doctor out of the Divine Kingdom and questioned whether he had recovered memories from the future.

• Bai Ye warned Li You that his memories held only despair and pain, but Li You insisted on recovering them so he could help fight the Ark Council.
• Bai Ye restored Li You's memories, and Li You collapsed as he relived a century of imprisonment, curses, and solitude before trying to reassure everyone with a joke.
• Abyss Eye joyfully merged with Li You, while Li Xiao lamented losing Nether Mimicry and vowed to reclaim it from Adolf in the West Continent.
• Bai Ye summoned Doctor from the Divine Kingdom and questioned him about his memories, while Doctor calmly explained that Bai Ye's question had told him he had lost them.