Chapter Summaries

At the Tarot Club gathering, Qin Sheng shared fabricated diary entries that revealed information about Ouroboros and Amon, while Klein and Derrick exchanged intelligence about Devils and the True Creator. Fors joined the gathering seeking Potion formulas and left with several costly purchases arranged on credit.

• Audrey offered Qin Sheng five thousand pounds, but he declined and said his invested wealth would soon earn returns.
• Klein read Qin Sheng’s diary pages, learning about Ouroboros’s ability to restart and cleanse madness and Amon’s hunt for High-Sequence Marauders.
• Derrick exchanged information about Devils with Mr. World, while Qin Sheng let him handle the trade and Fors learned that the gathering’s members dealt with the True Creator.
• Fors asked for the Prestidigitator and Apothecary formulas, and Qin Sheng offered her the Prestidigitator formula on credit for 420 pounds.
• Mr. World sold Fors the Apothecary formula for 230 pounds, and Qin Sheng directed her to buy the Prestidigitator ingredients from Derrick, leaving Fors worried about the costs and debt.

At the Tarot Club, Fors trusted Mr. World, learned the Acting Method, and paid for the knowledge while the members exchanged information and discussed potion ingredients. After the gathering, Klein received Fors’s cash sacrifice and met Qin Sheng, who paid him for diary pages and discussed Klein’s investigation into a serial murder case.

• Fors trusted Mr. World’s proposed sacrifice-and-bestowal method for completing their transaction, and Audrey taught Fors the Acting Method for a fee of 200 gold pounds.
• Derrick asked about the seven gods, and the Tarot Club members shared what they knew before Qin Sheng asked Derrick to seek information in the City of Silver about Fantasy Ancient Demons and Mind Wanderers.
• Klein ended the gathering, divined the origin of an Apprentice Pathway key, and received Fors’s sacrifice of 430 pounds in cash.
• Qin Sheng wondered why the Goddess had not sent news, then welcomed Sherlock Moriarty to his villa and accepted Klein’s payment for the diary pages.
• Qin Sheng deduced that Klein was investigating the serial murders and encouraged him to solve the case and serve Mr. Fool.

Klein visited Qin Sheng in Backlund to discuss his siblings’ future, received a Savant formula for Melissa, and sought advice on a suitable Beyonder pathway for Benson. Later, Bernadette arrived ahead of an exhibition and asked whether she could visit her father, Roselle, leaving Qin Sheng unable to say where his tomb was hidden.

• Klein told Qin Sheng that Benson planned to take the government employee examination and Melissa planned to apply to Backlund Technical University, and asked him to look after them.
• Qin Sheng agreed to help the siblings, offered Klein the Savant formula on credit, and advised that Benson choose the Lawyer Pathway.
• Klein left with the formula and Qin Sheng’s advice, while Bernadette came to stay at Qin Sheng’s home before the exhibition.
• Bernadette asked Qin Sheng whether Roselle could be saved from the Outer Deities’ contamination, and he said even a True God could not save him.
• Bernadette asked to visit Roselle, but Qin Sheng said he did not know where Roselle’s final tomb was hidden.

Klein visited Roselle’s memorial exhibition with Qin Sheng and Bernadette, where he spotted a likely Blasphemy Card disguised as a bookmark. Qin Sheng confirmed it was the Black Emperor card and took it from the museum, leaving Klein to wonder what reward could match its value.

• Klein visited the museum and discovered that Roselle’s diary entry about constipation was on public display, realizing he had paid for the same entry the day before.
• Qin Sheng and Bernadette examined Roselle’s exhibits, and Qin Sheng described Roselle’s achievements and his unwavering love for Bernadette.
• Klein recognized a bookmark in Roselle’s recreated study as a possible Blasphemy Card and asked Qin Sheng to confirm whether it was genuine.
• Qin Sheng agreed to help, then returned to the museum after hours, took the bookmark, and unlocked it to reveal the Black Emperor pathway’s complete sequence formulas.
• Qin Sheng contacted The Fool to confirm the card’s identity and said he had taken it from the museum, leaving Klein to consider what reward would be equivalent.

After recovering the Black Emperor Blasphemy Card, Qin Sheng gave it to Klein and declined extra compensation, while Klein learned what the card contained. The Evernight Goddess arranged a meeting between Qin Sheng and Adam on Primordial Island, where Qin Sheng confronted Adam by asking whether he should call him Grisha.

• Qin Sheng reviewed the Black Emperor Card’s resurrection abilities and reflected on the durability of the Black Emperor and Death God Pathways.
• Qin Sheng gave Klein the Black Emperor Card, explained that its incantation was Bernadette’s name, and let him cancel their agreed formula transaction if the Fool provided the Lawyer formula.
• Klein examined the card above the Gray Fog, learned that gods were Sequence 0 Beyonders, and considered selling its lower-Sequence formulas to raise money.
• The Evernight Goddess told Qin Sheng that Adam wanted to meet him in person on Primordial Island, and Qin Sheng immediately traveled there through the Spirit Realm.
• Qin Sheng met Adam among the island’s ruins and asked whether he should address him as Adam or Grisha, startling him.

Qin Sheng met Adam at the ruined church and revealed that he knew Adam was the revived Ancient Sun God and was also from Earth. He warned that even the successful return of the Lord of Mysteries and God Almighty would not be enough to save humanity from the apocalypse, and Adam agreed to provide a Mind Wanderer’s tentacles for Qin Sheng’s plan.

• Qin Sheng confronted Adam about the Visionary Pathway and identified him as the Ancient Sun God revived in Adam’s body.
• Adam questioned Qin Sheng’s origins and speculated that he was connected to the Hermit’s Uniqueness and the Knowledge Moor.
• Qin Sheng sang a Russian song and revealed that he was from Earth, then introduced himself by name.
• Qin Sheng asked Adam for the Sage Characteristic and support in becoming the Hermit, warning that Earth would fall without more Old Ones emerging.
• Adam said he lacked a Sage Characteristic but could provide the tentacles of a Mind Wanderer.

Qin Sheng negotiated cooperation with Adam, who agreed to provide Mind Wanderer tentacles while Qin Sheng pursued the Sage Potion and a path to becoming an Old One. After returning to Backlund, Qin Sheng arranged for Bernadette to help gather ingredients and received payments relayed through the Gray Fog.

• Qin Sheng told Adam that the Outer Deities numbered at least ten and explained how their powers could restrain Earth’s candidates for the Lord of Mysteries.
• Qin Sheng declared his support for Evernight’s candidate and said he could become an Old One if he accommodated Knowledge Moor.
• Adam agreed to provide Mind Wanderer tentacles and advised Qin Sheng to seek the Fantasy Ancient Demon ingredient through the Spirit Realm or Bethel.
• Adam and the Evernight Goddess confirmed their cooperation, and Adam judged Qin Sheng to be genuinely committed to saving humanity.
• Qin Sheng returned to Backlund, asked Bernadette to help with the Sage Potion’s supplementary ingredients, and received Fors’s payment through Klein’s Gray Fog.
• Klein later sent Qin Sheng another 200 pounds while he was trying to sleep.

Qin Sheng taught Bernadette three adapted Nine Secret Techniques and discussed his plans to grant them to future believers. Klein visited to buy the main materials for the Savant Potion, hoping to help Melissa enter Backlund Technical University.

• Qin Sheng explained Bernadette’s Angel abilities and gave Sophia and Isha her honorific name to memorize.
• Qin Sheng taught Bernadette Nine Secrets: Qian, Nine Secrets: Zhe, and Nine Secrets: Jie, which strengthened spirituality, aided recovery, and increased power.
• Bernadette learned the techniques’ structure, and Qin Sheng said he planned to grant them to believers after becoming the True God of the Mystery Pryer pathway.
• Klein visited Qin Sheng and bought the main Savant Potion materials so Melissa could improve her chances of entering Backlund Technical University.
• Qin Sheng asked whether Klein was preparing a Lawyer Potion for Benson, but Klein said Benson would earn a government position through his own efforts.

Qin Sheng advised Klein on facing a Rose School Wraith, then visited the Tingen Nighthawks and Klein’s family before returning to Backlund. As a full moon rose, he revealed that it marked Mr. Door’s closest approach to Earth and sent Sophia away.

• Qin Sheng explained the dangers of the Prisoner Pathway and deduced that Klein was helping the Rose School’s Temperance Faction hunt a Wraith, then prophesied that the hunt would succeed.
• Qin Sheng took Sophia and Isha to Tingen, where he visited the Nighthawks and discussed Klein’s pension, the team’s changed duties, Leonard’s transfer, and Dunn’s decision not to advance.
• Qin Sheng visited Benson and Melissa, learned Melissa had consumed the Savant Potion, and encouraged the siblings to pursue their studies and leave Tingen for Backlund.
• Qin Sheng and the others returned to Enmat Harbor to pay respects to their family, then came back to Backlund before the full moon.
• Qin Sheng told Bernadette that a Blood Moon was linked to the Mother Goddess of Depravity and explained that the ordinary full moon signaled Mr. Door’s closest approach to Earth, then sent Sophia to bed.

Qin Sheng and Bernadette summoned Mr. Door to learn how to find a Fantasy Ancient Demon, and Qin Sheng secured instructions without agreeing to help Mr. Door return. Mr. Door fled after Qin Sheng revealed he was Evernight's Favored, and Qin Sheng later learned from the Goddess that the ritual was safe.

• Fors was overwhelmed by full-moon ravings, so Klein pulled her above the Gray Fog and stopped them.
• Qin Sheng told Bernadette that Mr. Door was still alive, then performed a ritual to contact him.
• Mr. Door recognized Bernadette as Roselle's daughter and explained that he had told Roselle about Beyonder laws and the world's hidden truths.
• Qin Sheng asked how to find a Fantasy Ancient Demon, and Mr. Door offered guidance in exchange for help returning to Earth; Qin Sheng refused and received instructions for a ritual at the Netherworld's edge.
• Mr. Door invited Qin Sheng to contact him again, but Qin Sheng revealed he was Evernight's Favored, causing Mr. Door to end the connection.
• Qin Sheng told Bernadette that Mr. Door had to return for the Lord of Mysteries to be born, but his return would also bring a world-ending disaster; the Goddess confirmed the ritual was safe.

Qin Sheng and Bernadette gathered the offerings needed to lure out the Fantasy Ancient Demon while the Tarot Club members exchanged information, requests, and advice. After the Evernight Goddess delivered the remaining materials, Qin Sheng and Bernadette entered the Netherworld to begin the plan.

• Qin Sheng arranged to obtain fantasy stories and blood from Demigods of the Mystery Pryer, Savant, and Audience Pathways, asking Adam to imagine Audience Pathway Demigod blood.
• At the Tarot Club, Klein displayed the Black Emperor Blasphemy Card, and Audrey learned that the Black Emperor was Sequence 0 after submitting Roselle's diary pages.
• Audrey asked about joining the Psychological Alchemists' Association, while Mr. World sought a Sun-domain weapon and Alger asked for clues about the disappearances of Southern Continent residents.
• Derrick sought help avoiding an expedition to the Fallen Creator's temple, and Fors arranged to obtain a Soul Eater's stomach pouch and Deep-Sea Marlin blood.
• The Evernight Goddess gave Qin Sheng Mind Wanderer tentacles and Spectator Pathway Demigod blood, and he collected fantasy stories from St. Samuel Church.
• Qin Sheng and Bernadette entered the Netherworld to lure out the Fantasy Ancient Demon.

Qin Sheng and Bernadette searched the Spirit Realm for the Fantasy Ancient Demon, met the resurrected Angel Renette Tinekerr, and followed her clue to Calderon. Qin Sheng summoned and subdued the creature to obtain its crystal, then decided to advance to Sage without performing the ritual.

• Qin Sheng and Bernadette encountered Renette Tinekerr in the Spirit Realm, and she told them she had seen the Fantasy Ancient Demon outside Calderon.
• Qin Sheng and Bernadette traveled to the City of the Dead and performed Mr. Door's ritual to lure the Fantasy Ancient Demon.
• The Fantasy Ancient Demon arrived but tried to flee, so Qin Sheng trapped it with Buddha's Palm Kingdom and forced it to surrender its crystal.
• Qin Sheng released the weakened Fantasy Ancient Demon and told Bernadette he would return to brew the Potion.
• Bernadette reminded Qin Sheng that he had not prepared the Sage advancement ritual, but he said his consciousness did not need its protection.

Qin Sheng advanced to Sequence 2, becoming a Sage and gaining Angel status aboard Bernadette’s ship, the Dawn. After sharing knowledge and secret techniques with Bernadette, he headed toward Backlund and spotted Klein fighting a Wraith.

• Bernadette brought Qin Sheng aboard the Dawn so he could safely drink the Sage Potion.
• Qin Sheng invoked the Evernight Goddess’s protection, drank the Potion, endured the world’s information torrent, and successfully reconstructed his body as a Sage.
• Qin Sheng discussed the awakened spiritual imprint, his anchors, and his new authorities with Bernadette, then shared his Sage acting principles.
• Bernadette declined to visit Calderon and instead learned Nine Secrets techniques from Qin Sheng, who also Mysteries-ized Dou and Xing.
• After leaving the Dawn on Thursday night, Qin Sheng sensed a battle near Backlund and saw Klein fighting a Wraith through the Spirit Realm.

Qin Sheng watched Klein and the Rose School factions battle over a warehouse, then revealed he had advanced to Sage and designed an honorific name that successfully reached him. He warned Klein about a Church of Steam artifact and said he would leave Backlund for a while, while Klein took the warning to heart.

• Qin Sheng watched Klein support Sharron and Maric as they fought Steve and the other Rose School Beyonders in the warehouse.
• Steve used the Crimson Moon Crown and a toxin bottle to weaken Klein’s group, but Klein tricked him into losing the crown, allowing Sharron to defeat him.
• Qin Sheng appeared after the battle and revealed that he had advanced; Klein realized this likely meant Qin Sheng had become an Angel.
• Qin Sheng returned home, created and tested his honorific name, then prayed to The Fool with a warning for Klein about a powerful Church of Steam Sealed Artifact.
• Klein entered the Gray Fog, received Qin Sheng’s warning, and decided to stay cautious and keep his identity hidden.

Qin Sheng left Backlund to digest his Sage Potion and explore the Southern Continent, while warning the Tarot Club about Amon’s presence in the City of Silver. The chapter ended with Qin Sheng reaching the Southern Continent as Klein began planning how to protect Derrick from Amon.

• Qin Sheng told Sophia and Isha he was leaving Backlund, gave Sophia his honorific name, and departed after receiving Klein’s copy of the Book of Secrets.
• Qin Sheng rewarded Ziton with knowledge of two Nine Secrets and ordered him to sail the Azathoth toward Pash Valley and the Star Highlands.
• At the Tarot Club, Qin Sheng recognized the prisoner beside Derrick as an avatar of Amon and warned Derrick to seek Mr. Fool’s protection if Amon tried to parasitize him.
• Klein agreed to help Derrick and, after the meeting, spotted the Black Emperor Card and began forming a plan to deal with Amon.
• Qin Sheng arrived at the Southern Continent aboard the Azathoth and set out to explore it.

After two and a half years of seclusion, Qin Sheng survived his Half-Saint Heavenly Tribulation and set out with Xiao Nanyin, Tushan Doudou, and Jin Shanshan to find the missing Silver Shanshan. As they traveled, Qin Sheng considered his progress in the One World Method and the deaths of two versions of himself in other worlds.

• Qin Sheng completed his tribulation in the Great Wilderness and advanced to Half-Saint while Xiao Nanyin, Tushan Doudou, Jin Shanshan, and Shi Zhongyu watched.
• Qin Sheng recovered his strength, reunited with Xiao Nanyin and Doudou, and praised Doudou's cultivation potential.
• Qin Sheng left the Shaking Light Holy Land with his companions to search for Silver Shanshan, whose Soul Lamp had grown dim after it went to investigate a place with Red Dragon Taoist.
• During the journey, Qin Sheng reflected on choosing a Dharma Body and whether he could gain Legendary Characteristics in the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Qin Sheng recalled that two of his other selves had died in the Late Qing and the animated world Little Cow Charges Forward, and noted that his Infinite Land enhancement had reached twenty-nine times.

Ye Fan advanced his combined Taiyin and Sun cultivation in a distant starfield while worrying about Beidou. Meanwhile, Qin Sheng used Xiao Nannan’s sharp eyes and his Source Technique to enter the Three Talents Refining Realm and reach the imprisoned Silver Shanshan and Red Dragon Taoist, where Xiao Nannan found Silver Shanshan’s body stiff.

• Ye Fan reached Immortal One Peak after preliminarily merging the Yin-Yang Immortal Platform Chapter, but he feared he might never return to Beidou.
• Qin Sheng and his companions arrived at the three divine mountains to rescue Silver Shanshan and Red Dragon Taoist from the Three Talents Refining Realm.
• Qin Sheng identified the altered formation and used Xiao Nannan’s observations to find and hold open its moving flaw.
• Qin Sheng led the group through the black Heart Flame and into the space beneath the magma, where Silver Shanshan and Red Dragon Taoist were bound by chains of divine order.
• Qin Sheng shattered the formation’s restraints, and Xiao Nannan rushed to Silver Shanshan before noticing that his body had gone stiff.

Qin Sheng rescued Silver Shanshan and Red Dragon Taoist from the Three Talents Refining Realm, where an Ancient Saint had trapped an evil spirit from the Immortal Mausoleum. After claiming a transformed World Stone and leaving the realm safe for future visitors, Qin Sheng departed with his companions and urged Silver Shanshan and Jin Shanshan to cultivate harder.

• Qin Sheng suppressed the Three Talents Refining Realm's formation, freed Silver Shanshan and Red Dragon Taoist, and helped them recover.
• Silver Shanshan and Red Dragon Taoist explained that an Ancient Saint had imprisoned himself to trap an Immortal Mausoleum Evil Spirit, and they showed Qin Sheng the Primal Chaos Stone stele bearing the story.
• Qin Sheng activated a Source Technique formation and uncovered a transformed World Stone that could create a world with three heavens.
• Qin Sheng buried the Ancient Saint and the other skeletons, while Red Dragon Taoist left after revealing that his ordeal had given him insight toward severing the Dao.
• Qin Sheng learned that Red Dragon Taoist might soon advance and chided Silver Shanshan and Jin Shanshan for lagging behind his cultivation.

Qin Sheng traveled through the Northern Territory with Xiao Nannan, rescued Li Heng from a Hell assassin, and visited the Thirteen Great Bandits’ hidden base. There, he reunited the Swallowing Heaven Devil Jar with Tu Tian’s Jar Body and asked to borrow it if the Eastern Wilderness needed its power.

• Qin Sheng followed a divination through the Northern Territory while Xiao Nannan and Doudou enjoyed the journey, and he explained to Silver Shanshan how the Fighting Saint Emperor’s death had devastated the region.
• Qin Sheng killed a Hell assassin who was attacking Li Heng, then learned that the assassin divine dynasties were targeting the Great Bandits and other experts.
• Li Heng brought Qin Sheng’s group to the Thirteen Great Bandits’ hidden small world, where Qin Sheng warned Liu Feng, Tu Tian, and the others that Hell and Human World might have Slaughter Saints.
• Qin Sheng privately met Tu Tian and revealed that he possessed the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy, while Tu Tian produced the Jar Body he had found.
• Qin Sheng and Tu Tian joined the two halves of the Swallowing Heaven Devil Jar, and Qin Sheng asked Tu Tian to lend the Jar Body if an Emperor Weapon battle threatened the Eastern Wilderness.

Qin Sheng secured Tu Tian’s half of the Swallowing Heaven Devil Jar and learned that Black Emperor and Duan De had returned from Fallen God Ridge and planned to provoke Heavenly Crow Nest. He took Xiao Nannan to Holy City to find them, while the two schemers secretly prepared to infiltrate the Primordial Royal Clan’s lair.

• Tu Tian agreed to lend Qin Sheng the Jar Body of the Devil Jar, and they separated the Swallowing Heaven Devil Jar into its two halves.
• Qin Sheng reassured Tu Tian about Tu Fei and warned him to keep their plans for using the Devil Jar secret.
• Li Heishui told Qin Sheng that Black Emperor and Duan De had emerged from Fallen God Ridge and planned to auction burial objects from Heavenly Crow Nest seven days later.
• Qin Sheng decided to take Xiao Nannan to Holy City, where he expected Black Emperor and Duan De to be hiding before their announced auction.
• Black Emperor and Duan De discussed sneaking into Heavenly Crow Nest to steal its treasures, then planned to visit Shaking Light Holy Land and fleece Qin Sheng.