Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: Challenge the Legend

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao realizes something has gone wrong after Zhao Yuemian and White Bone rescue Gu Guizong. The enormous number of magical treasures surrounding the area suggests that Gu Guizong has unleashed a terrifying arsenal.
• Gu Guizong, an ancient Artisan God, possesses the Artisan God’s Vault, a bonded magical treasure containing tens of trillions of weapons, rare materials, treasures, and his personally compiled God-Refining Manual.
• The livestream viewers and experts discuss the vault’s immense value and compare it to the fictional “King’s Treasury,” though Ou Zhizi explains that Gu Guizong’s vault is far broader and includes more than weapons.
• Guided by the viewers, Li Xiao flies upward and discovers that the treasures form a massive formation. A viewer identifies it as the Earth-Escaping Heaven-Piercing Formation, an ancient formation once used by the Abyssal Will to conquer worlds rapidly.
• The formation links the earth veins with the world’s will, allowing the Abyssal Will to corrupt an entire world in roughly ten days instead of a month.
• Li Xiao realizes that the Abyssal Will may have deliberately allowed Gu Guizong to be rescued. Once the formation fully controls the Yin-Spirit World, the Evil God Gu in the Ancient Demon Pit will be isolated and unable to resist effectively.
• Faced with the crisis, Li Xiao considers two choices: evacuate the Li Family or risk confronting Gu Guizong, claiming the vault, and then fighting the Abyssal Will and Evil God Gu.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao becomes increasingly cautious but is also tempted by the possibility of obtaining the Artisan God’s Vault. He recognizes that confronting Gu Guizong could be suicidal, yet believes the vault might provide the resources necessary to resist the larger threats.
• Gu Guizong is portrayed as both extraordinarily powerful and morally corrupt. His vast collection reflects his legendary skill, greed, and reputation as the worst-behaved among the Artisan Gods.
• Zhao Yuemian and White Bone remain largely offstage, but their rescue of Gu Guizong has triggered a much more dangerous situation.
• Ou Zhizi demonstrates extensive knowledge of artifact refining but admits the formation is beyond his understanding. He becomes defensive when the vault’s importance is challenged.
• Li Dongmo reveals knowledge of fictional or “two-dimensional” culture, leading to a humorous comparison between the Artisan God’s Vault and the King’s Treasury.
• The livestream viewers shift from excitedly encouraging Li Xiao to seize the vault to acknowledging that confronting Gu Guizong could result in instant death.

Significant Themes

• Greed versus survival: Li Xiao must decide whether the incredible rewards of the vault justify risking his life and the safety of his family.
• The danger of legendary power: Gu Guizong’s treasures are so numerous and powerful that even experts cannot imagine a realistic chance of defeating him.
• Strategic manipulation: The Abyssal Will appears to have allowed events to unfold according to a hidden plan, showing the danger of fighting an enemy with multiple layers of schemes.
• Knowledge and cooperation: Li Xiao depends on the livestream audience and experts to identify the formation and understand its purpose, emphasizing the value of collective intelligence.
• Moral corruption of power: Gu Guizong’s creations, originally products of supreme craftsmanship, are now being used as instruments of evil and oppression.
• Challenge against overwhelming odds: The chapter frames Li Xiao’s possible confrontation with Gu Guizong as an almost impossible battle—an ordinary figure daring to oppose a legendary existence.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao exchanges playful but tense banter with the livestream viewers about the possibility of obtaining the vault.
• Li Dongmo and Ou Zhizi argue over whether the Artisan God’s Vault resembles the King’s Treasury, revealing cultural differences and Ou Zhizi’s pride in artifact refinement.
• Shengyin Yeyu repeatedly provides sober strategic warnings, counterbalancing the viewers’ excitement.
• Mo Yunqingzhu and Ou Zhizi advise Li Xiao to study the formation from above.
• Grandpa Xiao identifies the formation and explains its connection to the Abyssal Will, while Unmarried Young Dragon clarifies its strategic impact on the Evil God Gu.
• The viewers mock Li Xiao’s hesitation, but ultimately acknowledge that challenging Gu Guizong would be nearly impossible.

Chapter Summary: “Search”

Plot and Events

• Li Xiao recognizes that his powerful artifacts—the Strange Force Chaos Banner and Five-Light, Ten-Color God-Summoning Ring—are still nowhere near enough to fight Gu Guizong directly. Gu possesses an overwhelming arsenal of treasures and countless defensive measures, while Li Xiao’s own body would likely be destroyed by even one of Gu’s attacks.
• Li Xiao therefore decides to search for an opportunity rather than confront Gu recklessly. He hopes Gu might be injured, restrained, or vulnerable to backlash from the massive formation he is controlling.
• Grandpa Xiao explains that Gu Guizong is likely near the formation eye of the Earth-Escaping Heaven-Piercing Formation. Because the formation’s light pillars correspond to the stars, Li Xiao quickly identifies the formation eye and teleports there with Purple God.
• Purple God, whose ability “Twisting Purple” allows it to connect distant points in space, becomes Li Xiao’s main means of transportation because it consumes far less mana than Li Xiao’s own teleportation.
• Gu Guizong is not found at the formation eye. Grandpa Xiao suggests searching for the areas with the strongest energy fluctuations, since Gu must be supplying enormous amounts of power to control the formation and his many treasures.
• Li Xiao begins moving from location to location, but each search only reveals earth veins contaminated by the Abyssal Will.
• A viewer notices that the inhabitants of several cities have vanished. Li Xiao realizes they have been controlled by the Abyssal Will and may be traveling toward Gu Guizong.
• He finds the corrupted people heading toward the Ancient Demon Pit. They have become grotesque, cannibalistic monsters, demonstrating the Abyssal Will’s destructive influence.
• Li Xiao concludes that the Abyssal Will is using them as cannon fodder to restrain the Evil God Gu. It has apparently not yet fully subdued the Evil God Gu and needs additional sacrifices before it can complete its control of the world.
• The discussion turns to Zhao Yuemian and White Bone’s failed plan to restore Gu Guizong’s sanity. Everyone finds the failure baffling because the plan was simple, carefully prepared over hundreds of millions of years, and should have had little room for error.
• Li Xiao continues searching while acknowledging that he may have to abandon the Yin-Spirit World if he cannot find Gu within ten days. When asked about the danger to Mirror Space if the entire world disappears, he admits he does not know.
• The chapter ends when Purple God teleports Li Xiao to a vast mountain range with no magic treasures nearby, leaving everyone surprised and suggesting that this location may be significant.

Character Development

• Li Xiao becomes more cautious and pragmatic. He clearly understands the massive difference between himself and Gu Guizong and refuses to confuse confidence with recklessness.
• He also demonstrates resourcefulness by conserving mana, relying on Purple God’s efficient teleportation, analyzing the formation, and adapting his search strategy when the initial plan fails.
• His determination remains intact: although he admits the possibility of retreat, he continues searching for a chance to defeat Gu.
• Grandpa Xiao acts as Li Xiao’s adviser, explaining the formation and proposing alternate methods of locating Gu, though he also defensively clarifies that his predictions are not guarantees.
• Purple God is established as an extremely useful support artifact or entity, capable of instantaneous movement within Mirror Space and efficient long-distance transportation.
• The viewers function as an active source of observations and deductions. Their questions help Li Xiao notice the disappearance of the cities’ inhabitants and reconsider how the Abyssal Will may be operating.
• Gu Guizong remains unseen but is characterized as overwhelmingly powerful, heavily equipped, and central to the danger facing the world.
• The Abyssal Will is shown to be a force of total corruption, capable of controlling living beings and transforming them into monstrous servants.

Significant Themes

• The danger of overconfidence: Li Xiao understands that even extraordinary treasures cannot compensate for an enormous difference in power.
• Survival through strategy: Rather than relying on brute strength, Li Xiao uses reconnaissance, spatial abilities, conservation of resources, and indirect clues.
• Corruption and destruction: The Abyssal Will damages both the land and its inhabitants, turning people into tools and threatening all life in the world.
• The limits of long-term planning: Zhao Yuemian and White Bone’s centuries-spanning plan failed despite appearing nearly foolproof, emphasizing how unpredictable powerful forces can be.
• Uncertainty and incomplete knowledge: Li Xiao and the viewers repeatedly encounter unanswered questions concerning Gu Guizong, Mirror Space, the Abyssal Will, and the failed rescue plan.
• Hope amid despair: Li Xiao’s idea of killing Gu may be unrealistic, but it prevents him from surrendering completely and motivates him to keep searching.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao and Grandpa Xiao cooperate closely, with Grandpa Xiao providing technical knowledge and Li Xiao applying it immediately.
• Li Xiao uses Purple God as a trusted transportation partner, prioritizing its low energy consumption over his own teleportation ability.
• The viewers actively communicate with Li Xiao, offering observations, theories, and warnings that influence his decisions.
• Li Xiao and the audience discuss the likely intentions of Zhao Yuemian and White Bone, questioning how their plan could have failed.
• The viewer “Unknown True Form” raises concerns about Mirror Space’s dependence on the physical world, prompting Li Xiao to acknowledge the limits of his understanding.

Chapter Summary: “Yuemian’s Legacy”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao detects enormous energy fluctuations in the mountain range and realizes that Gu Guizong is nearby.
• Gu Guizong appears on a mountaintop, transformed from his former corpse-like state. He now wears powerful treasure armor and radiates an evil aura influenced by the Abyssal Will.
• The observers identify Gu Guizong’s equipment, including:
  • The Ten Directions World Radiance Armor, which greatly distorts distance around its wearer.
  • Fuxi’s Yin-Yang Two Forms Ring, capable of converting yin and yang.
  • Nearly thirty other magical treasures, most of them defensive.
• Because Gu Guizong is heavily armed and apparently stronger than Li Xiao, viewers and artifact experts urge Li Xiao to retreat.
• Li Xiao refuses to leave without understanding why Zhao Yuemian and her allies failed after preparing for hundreds of millions of years.
• He investigates the cave where Zhao Yuemian and the others hid and discovers Zhao Yuemian’s mutilated corpse beside a shattered White Bone coffin.
• From her wounds and the state of the coffin, Li Xiao and Ou Zhizi conclude that Vice Dean White Bone betrayed Zhao Yuemian. White Bone likely intended to seize Gu Guizong’s Artisan God’s Vault rather than rescue him, but something went wrong.
• Strange tracks near the coffin suggest that White Bone may have mutated under the influence of the Abyssal Will.
• Li Xiao searches Zhao Yuemian’s storage artifacts, believing she must have prepared tools specifically to save Gu Guizong.
• He finds several potentially useful items, including:
  • A Golden-Binding Rope designed to restrain evil thoughts.
  • A powerful Golden Dragon Evil-Repelling Talisman.
  • Another unidentified golden talisman at the chapter’s end.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao demonstrates caution by keeping his distance from Gu Guizong, but his curiosity and determination outweigh his fear. Although he recognizes that Gu Guizong is probably beyond his current strength, he chooses investigation over retreat.
• Gu Guizong is revealed to possess extraordinary wealth and preparation, carrying an overwhelming arsenal of magical treasures. His appearance and demeanor show that he has been deeply affected by the Abyssal Will.
• Zhao Yuemian is portrayed as someone who genuinely intended to rescue Gu Guizong and had made extensive preparations for that goal. Her death reveals both her persistence and her failure to anticipate White Bone’s betrayal.
• Vice Dean White Bone is exposed as treacherous and possibly corrupted or mutated by the Abyssal Will.
• Ou Zhizi, Grandpa Xiao, and Gu Granny serve as knowledgeable commentators, identifying treasures, analyzing events, and offering contrasting judgments about Zhao Yuemian and Li Xiao’s actions.

Significant Themes

• Preparation versus betrayal: Zhao Yuemian spent immense amounts of time preparing to save Gu Guizong, but her plans collapsed because she trusted someone with hidden motives.
• Power and overwhelming resources: Gu Guizong’s nearly thirty treasures emphasize that strength depends not only on cultivation but also on artifacts, preparation, and accumulated wealth.
• Curiosity versus survival: Li Xiao understands that retreat is the safest choice, yet his need to uncover the truth drives him into danger.
• Corruption by the Abyssal Will: Both Gu Guizong and possibly White Bone have been twisted by an outside, destructive force, raising the possibility that corruption may also create vulnerabilities.
• The legacy of the dead: Although Zhao Yuemian failed and died, the preparations she left behind may provide Li Xiao with the means to oppose Gu Guizong.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao consults with Ou Zhizi, Grandpa Xiao, and Gu Granny as they identify Gu Guizong’s artifacts and assess the danger.
• Viewers repeatedly urge Li Xiao to flee, while he explains that he cannot abandon the mystery of Zhao Yuemian’s failure.
• Li Xiao and Ou Zhizi reconstruct the betrayal between Zhao Yuemian and White Bone.
• Gu Granny and Ou Zhizi harshly condemn Zhao Yuemian for the deaths associated with the disaster, while Li Xiao focuses more on using her remaining preparations.
• Li Xiao and the artifact experts examine Zhao Yuemian’s belongings together, searching for something capable of restraining or purifying Gu Guizong.

Chapter Summary: “Sneaky Rat Eye”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao examines Zhao Yuemian’s remaining possessions and discovers a collection of treasures specifically intended to suppress Gu Guizong:
  • One exceptionally powerful Evil-Suppressing Golden Talisman.
  • Two weaker but still valuable talismans of the same type.
  • Evil-Expelling Banners capable of forming a purification array.
  • Numerous medicinal pills, including cultivation-enhancing pills and others designed to restrain Gu Guizong’s evil nature.
• The discoveries remind everyone that Zhao Yuemian had prepared extensively to control Gu Guizong. Her defeat became inevitable largely because White Bone betrayed her.
• Unsure whether he can defeat Gu Guizong, Li Xiao asks his livestream audience for advice. He decides to gamble: if fusion produces something useful, he will stay and fight; otherwise, he will abandon the world.
• His first fusion combines the two lower-grade talismans, the Evil-Expelling Banners, and the Abyssal Demon Eye. The result is Kaxilan Big Eyes, an absurdly beautiful eye that makes those who look at it feel unattractive and ashamed.
• Dissatisfied, Li Xiao gambles again. Combining Kaxilan Big Eyes with other materials produces the Big-Eye Gu, a scouting insect whose enormous eye makes its surveillance obvious and easy to detect.
• Refusing to give up, Li Xiao conducts a third, much larger fusion using magical treasures, Gu insects, Waters of the Sea of Bitterness, monster corpses, and three Fusion Orbs.
• The result is the powerful Sneaky Rat Eye, which can ignore distance and space and forcibly steal one item from a chosen target once per day.
• Li Xiao installs the eye on his forehead, jokingly naming himself the “Three-Eyed Daoist.” Although he conceals the full extent of its ability from the audience, he realizes it is a perfect counter to Gu Guizong.
• With his confidence rising from uncertain to roughly ninety percent, Li Xiao prepares to confront Gu Guizong.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao displays increasing confidence and recklessness. Despite repeated warnings from viewers, he repeatedly gambles with valuable treasures until he obtains an exceptionally powerful ability.
• His humor and willingness to experiment remain prominent, particularly when he tests different locations for installing the Sneaky Rat Eye and jokes about becoming three-eyed.
• His strategic thinking improves: instead of relying solely on direct combat or suppression talismans, he recognizes that the Sneaky Rat Eye can bypass Gu Guizong’s defenses entirely.
• Zhao Yuemian is portrayed more sympathetically. Though condemned as deserving death, her devotion to Gu Guizong and her extensive preparations reveal that she genuinely tried to save or restrain him.
• Gu Guizong remains the looming threat, but the chapter establishes that his magical possessions may provide the key to defeating him.
• The livestream viewers act as advisors, critics, and comic foils. Some urge caution, while others encourage or mock Li Xiao’s gambling behavior.

Significant Themes

• Risk versus caution: Li Xiao must choose between retreating safely and gambling on a dangerous opportunity to save the world.
• Luck and fate: His repeated failures are contrasted with the later rise of his luck, suggesting that fortune can fluctuate and influence major outcomes.
• Betrayal and consequences: White Bone’s betrayal is identified as the event that made Zhao Yuemian’s situation irreversible.
• Power hidden behind absurdity: The first two fusion results appear useless or ridiculous, but the third produces an extraordinary ability, showing that appearances can be deceptive.
• Moral ambiguity and sacrifice: Zhao Yuemian’s evil actions coexist with sincere affection and attempts to restrain Gu Guizong, complicating the distinction between villain and victim.
• Trust and secrecy: Li Xiao withholds the full details of the Sneaky Rat Eye’s ability, while the viewers debate whether to trust him.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao consults Gu Granny, Ou Zhizi, and the livestream audience about whether to fight or retreat.
• Ou Zhizi supports Li Xiao regardless of his decision and later advises the others not to press him about the eye’s full abilities.
• Viewers alternately warn Li Xiao not to gamble, mock him as a gambling addict, and encourage him to test his luck again.
• Li Dongmo suggests sacrificing the Sneaky Rat Eye to the Strange Force Chaos Banner, but Li Xiao refuses because the eye cannot be fused or devoured again.
• Zhixing and Mo Yunqingzhu question the eye’s limitations and quality, while another viewer correctly speculates that it may retrieve objects from anywhere.
• The chapter ends with Li Xiao announcing that he is ready to begin the confrontation, having found a natural counter to Gu Guizong.

Chapter Summary: “Crimson Death Ray”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Gu Guizong’s great strength is revealed to come almost entirely from the countless magical treasures stored in Artisan God’s Vault. As an artifact refiner, he lacks conventional combat techniques but compensates by deploying powerful treasures.
• Shifty-Eyed and Rat-Faced previously neutralized his treasures, briefly leaving him vulnerable. However, after recovering from the Abyssal Will, Gu Guizong regains control of the situation and focuses on operating the Earth-Escaping Heaven-Piercing Formation.
• Li Xiao sends out the Black Light God instead of fighting personally. Her role is to test Gu Guizong, exhaust him, and identify weaknesses in his defenses.
• Gu Guizong relies on the Ten Directions World Radiance Armor, which drastically slows incoming attacks by expanding the apparent distance between him and anything approaching. The Black Light God’s initial beams and the Left-Ear Exquisite Sword are both stopped by this armor.
• Realizing that the armor must be bypassed, the Black Light God surrounds Gu Guizong with countless black spears. She then creates a larger spear from the black light and attacks from above.
• The attack pierces Gu Guizong’s chest despite the armor, surprising him and the spectators. Li Xiao explains that the Black Light God’s ability, Black Light Extension, allows her attacks to arrive instantly wherever her own black light exists.
• The surrounding spears were not merely an attack; they illuminated Gu Guizong with non-hostile black light, which the Ten Directions World Radiance Armor could not block. This exposed a loophole in the armor’s defensive principles.
• Gu Guizong repairs his pierced chest with a heart-shaped treasure and uses a bracelet to create a repulsive defensive barrier. The Black Light God attacks again, but Gu Guizong responds with the terrifying Crimson Death Ray.
• The red light instantly destroys the Black Light God and annihilates everything in its path, reducing trees and living creatures to ashes.

Character Development

• Gu Guizong: His dependence on magical treasures is emphasized as both his greatest strength and potential weakness. Despite being caught off guard and seriously pierced, he remains calm, repairs himself, and reveals an even more devastating weapon. His arrogance also contributes to his vulnerability, as he initially ignores the Black Light God’s movements.
• Li Xiao: He demonstrates strategic caution by sending the Black Light God into battle first rather than exposing himself. He also correctly analyzes and explains the weakness of Gu Guizong’s armor, showing strong tactical understanding.
• The Black Light God: She is established as an intelligent and highly capable combatant rather than a mindless summon. She uses feints, visual obstruction, battlefield manipulation, and her Black Light Extension ability to exploit Gu Guizong’s defenses.
• Ou Zhizi: He identifies the properties of Gu Guizong’s Left-Ear Exquisite Sword and recognizes the danger of the Crimson Death Ray, helping the audience understand the treasures’ abilities.

Significant Themes

• Strength and dependence: Gu Guizong’s power comes from external treasures rather than personal cultivation, raising the question of how powerful he is without them.
• Exploiting technical weaknesses: The battle emphasizes that even an apparently absolute defense can be defeated by understanding its rules rather than overpowering it directly.
• Arrogance and vigilance: Gu Guizong’s confidence causes him to underestimate the Black Light God, allowing her to land a successful attack.
• Intelligence in combat: Victory depends on strategy, timing, and understanding abilities—not merely raw destructive power.
• Light versus darkness: Although the Black Light God appears dark, her power represents light. This distinction becomes essential to bypassing the armor and forms the conceptual basis of her successful attack.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao uses the Black Light God as his proxy and later explains her abilities to the spectators and Gu Guizong.
• The Black Light God directly challenges Gu Guizong, initially overcoming his indifference through tactical deception and successfully injuring him.
• Gu Guizong questions how his armor was breached, but the Black Light God refuses to explain and immediately attacks again.
• Ou Zhizi and the viewers comment on the battle, analyzing the treasures and reacting to the Black Light God’s tactics and Gu Guizong’s final counterattack.
• The confrontation ends with Gu Guizong decisively destroying the Black Light God using the Crimson Death Ray, reasserting the overwhelming power of his artifact arsenal.

Chapter Summary: “Your Vault Is Great, but It’s Mine Now”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Black Light God is defeated, Li Xiao has to wait twelve shichen before summoning her again. He therefore relies on Yellow God to attack Gu Guizong from hiding.
• Yellow God uses Desire Bomb, attempting to turn Gu Guizong’s desires into an explosive weapon inside his body. Gu Guizong quickly detects and destroys it with Layer-Severing True Shadow and Crimson Death Ray.
• Gu Guizong reveals a key-shaped sword resembling Li Xiao’s Lock Key. Li Xiao realizes it can open many naturally existing or conceptual spaces, though likely not privately created spaces such as Mirror Space.
• Li Xiao retreats further into Mirror Space and moves his allies and possessions into the Golden Palace Maitreya Wonder Realm, making himself nearly impossible to locate.
• Gu Guizong produces the dangerous Eye-Slaying Star, a spear that automatically strikes anyone who looks at it. Warned by Ou Zhizi, Li Xiao avoids looking at it directly by watching Gu Guizong through his own livestream as a viewer. Gu Guizong eventually throws the spear away when he cannot make anyone look at it.
• Abandoning his attempts to flush Li Xiao out, Gu Guizong begins setting up defensive formations and prepares to seize control of the world for the Emperor and the Pure Land.
• Li Xiao concludes that Gu Guizong depends heavily on magical treasures. Taking a major risk, he uses the mysterious eye on his forehead to steal Gu Guizong’s enormous Artisan God’s Vault.
• The stolen vault manifests inside Mirror Space as a planet-sized, spherical structure covered in talismans. Its enormous gravity expands both Mirror Space and the Golden Palace Maitreya Wonder Realm rather than crushing them.
• Gu Guizong realizes the vault has been stolen and erupts in fury, attacking the surrounding area with several moon-sized gravitational spheres.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao demonstrates caution and ingenuity rather than direct strength. He recognizes that he cannot withstand Gu Guizong’s strongest attacks and uses concealment, livestream mechanics, and spatial abilities to survive.
• He also becomes increasingly bold, ultimately gambling on his forehead eye’s ability to steal the Artisan God’s Vault despite admitting there is roughly a fifty-percent chance Gu Guizong could destroy him.
• Gu Guizong is shown to be overwhelmingly powerful, highly reactive, and heavily dependent on magical treasures. After realizing Li Xiao understands his weapons, he stops wasting time on him and focuses on his larger objective.
• Yellow God proves useful as a long-range attacker, though Gu Guizong’s speed prevents the Desire Bomb from detonating.
• Ou Zhizi acts as an expert adviser, identifying the Eye-Slaying Star and warning Li Xiao of its conditions.
• Grandpa Xiao continues provoking others, while Ou Zhizi reprimands him for distracting Li Xiao. Their exchange adds comic tension amid the danger.

Significant Themes

• Cunning versus overwhelming power: Li Xiao cannot compete with Gu Guizong directly, so survival depends on knowledge, concealment, and exploiting abilities’ limitations.
• Information as a weapon: Understanding the Eye-Slaying Star allows Li Xiao to avoid its guaranteed attack. Gu Guizong’s lack of information about his opponent similarly leaves him vulnerable to the theft of his vault.
• Risk and desperation: Li Xiao openly accepts that his plan may kill him, emphasizing the extreme power gap between the two.
• Ownership and reversal of power: The title reflects the chapter’s central reversal: Gu Guizong’s greatest treasure becomes Li Xiao’s stolen weapon.
• The nature of space and reality: The vault reveals that Mirror Space and the Golden Palace Maitreya Wonder Realm operate according to unusual spatial rules, capable of containing objects vastly larger than themselves.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao coordinates with Yellow God and relies on Ou Zhizi’s knowledge to counter Gu Guizong’s weapons.
• Grandpa Xiao mocks Li Xiao’s cautious approach, but Ou Zhizi defends Li Xiao and tells Grandpa Xiao not to interfere.
• Li Xiao communicates with viewers through the livestream, using the platform itself as a tactical tool.
• Gu Guizong and Li Xiao remain locked in a battle of concealment and detection: Gu Guizong probes and prepares defenses, while Li Xiao watches, studies, and finally steals his vault.
• The chapter ends with Gu Guizong enraged and attacking blindly around Mirror Space, while Li Xiao possesses the treasure that once gave Gu Guizong much of his advantage.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao has stolen the Artisan God’s Vault, causing all treasures inside it to count as spoils of war and become unusable by Gu Guizong. However, the Vault’s orbiting satellites remain under Gu Guizong’s control.
• Gu Guizong unleashes the Vault Satellites against Li Xiao, but Mirror Space protects Li Xiao from their attacks. Li Xiao then summons Red God outside the space and sends him to fight.
• The Vault Satellites bombard Red God with devastating beams, obliterating roughly a third of the Yin-Spirit World and reducing the landscape to a scorched wasteland. Gu Guizong deliberately restrains the attack because he still needs the world intact enough for the Abyssal Will’s conquest.
• Red God survives the bombardment despite being the main target. Li Xiao’s gamble proves correct: Red God can absorb red-colored attacks, and Crimson Death Ray has a special effect on him.
• When Gu Guizong fires Crimson Death Ray at Red God, the attack appears to knock him down rather than kill him. After being struck multiple times, Red God transforms, developing spikes, a tail, dragon-like features, scarlet eyes, and immense red energy.
• In this berserk state, Red God becomes dramatically faster and stronger. He destroys Gu Guizong’s defensive palace, formation flags, and armor, then brutally beats and drives him into the ground.
• Gu Guizong is eventually pulled underground by mysterious red currents. Red God attempts to stop them, fails, and begins smashing and digging through the earth in pursuit.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao demonstrates strategic confidence and adaptability. He understands Red God’s abilities and deliberately uses Gu Guizong’s Crimson Death Ray to trigger Red God’s enhanced form.
• Red God evolves from a gigantic but relatively slow powerhouse into a terrifying berserker. His endurance, strength, speed, and physical appearance all change after absorbing Crimson Death Ray.
• Gu Guizong remains overwhelmingly powerful, but losing the Vault severely limits his resources. His priorities have also been warped by the Abyssal Will: conquering the Yin-Spirit World matters more to him than reclaiming the Vault or even Zhao Yuemian.
• Gu Guizong’s confidence is shaken when Red God survives his strongest attacks and overwhelms him in close combat.

Significant Themes

• Power through adaptation: Red God’s seemingly simple abilities become far more dangerous when combined with the right enemy attack.
• Strategic exploitation: Li Xiao wins an advantage not through direct strength, but by recognizing and exploiting the interaction between Red God and Crimson Death Ray.
• Corruption and altered priorities: Gu Guizong’s devotion to the Abyssal Will has replaced his former personal attachments, showing how completely it has distorted him.
• Destruction on a cosmic scale: The battle demonstrates the catastrophic consequences of their powers, with entire landscapes and populations erased in moments.
• The danger of underestimated strength: Red God initially appears slow and simple, but his hidden traits make him far more formidable than Gu Guizong expects.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao communicates with and reassures the livestream audience while explaining Red God’s power and observing the battle.
• The viewers, including Bai He and Ou Zhizi, react with disbelief and fear as Gu Guizong devastates the world and Red God survives.
• Gu Guizong dismisses Red God as insignificant before attacking him, but Red God soon reverses the power dynamic and savagely overwhelms him.
• Li Xiao watches the beating with satisfaction, even expressing concern that Gu Guizong’s Crimson Death Ray ring might be destroyed.
• Red God’s pursuit of Gu Guizong continues underground, turning the confrontation into an ongoing hunt.

Chapter Summary: “Hunting Down Gu Guizong”

Key Plot Points and Events

• In a berserk state, Red God relentlessly pursues Gu Guizong through the earth near the Ancient Demon Pit, destroying resurrected bone monsters in his path.
• Gu Guizong is prevented from descending farther by Eight-Directions Man’s ability, which creates a boundary that blocks movement between the upper and lower regions. Red God repeatedly tries to attack him from different directions, but Gu Guizong uses the surrounding tunnels and red current to evade him.
• Gu Guizong awakens after nearly being killed and realizes that his Fake Death Bracelet saved his life. He restores his injuries and the damage to his Ten Directions World Radiance Armor by twisting a ring on his pinky.
• The red current enters Gu Guizong’s body, turning his eyes red and apparently intensifying his aggression or power. Red God soon catches up.
• Gu Guizong reveals several hidden treasures stored within his armor. He first uses the Return Gauntlet, which reflects an enemy’s attack according to the strength of their Murderous Intent. The gauntlet severely damages Red God twice.
• Red God rapidly evolves, becoming more dragon-like and regenerating almost instantly. His relentless barrage eventually overwhelms and destroys the gauntlet, sending Gu Guizong flying and damaging his armor again.
• Gu Guizong uses poisonous black mist to slow Red God, then summons large numbers of puppets from special beans. These puppets are made of precious Sword Jade Steel and possess the strength of sword cultivators.
• Red God charges through the puppet army despite their sword attacks, demonstrating overwhelming physical strength and durability. Gu Guizong becomes increasingly alarmed and prepares another hidden treasure, a banner.
• Meanwhile, Li Xiao and the spectators comment on Gu Guizong’s many treasures and compare his banner to Li Xiao’s Chaos Banner. Li Xiao ultimately decides not to immediately use the Chaos Banner to devour the Artisan God’s Vault, wanting first to inspect the vault and retrieve potentially valuable cultivation materials.

Character Developments

• Red God: His berserk state grants him enormous speed, strength, endurance, and regenerative ability. He continues evolving during the battle, eventually taking on a dragon-like form and overpowering treasures and summoned sword puppets that would threaten even powerful demons.
• Gu Guizong: He proves to be extremely cautious and resourceful. Though weakened after losing the Artisan God’s Vault, he has concealed a vast collection of magical treasures in his armor. He survives multiple near-fatal attacks through the Fake Death Bracelet and healing ring, but Red God’s power begins to overwhelm his defenses, causing genuine panic.
• Li Xiao: He continues observing and directing Red God rather than joining the fight directly. His interest shifts toward the Artisan God’s Vault and the unique materials it may contain.
• Eight-Directions Man: He maintains his restrictive ability throughout the conflict and appears more focused on protecting the mysterious fruits than participating in battle.
• The spectators: Ou Zhizi, Gu Granny, Grandpa Xiao, and Li Dongmo analyze the fight. Their banter, especially Grandpa Xiao’s beating of Li Dongmo, provides comic relief amid the increasingly dangerous battle.

Significant Themes

• Preparation versus overwhelming power: Gu Guizong’s hidden treasures and cautious planning allow him to survive attacks, but Red God’s raw strength and rapid adaptation gradually overcome each defense.
• The limits of accumulated resources: Even an arsenal containing dozens of supreme treasures cannot guarantee safety against a sufficiently powerful opponent.
• Survival and adaptability: Both combatants repeatedly adjust their tactics. Gu Guizong uses healing, poison, summoned puppets, and escape techniques, while Red God evolves physically and regenerates from devastating injuries.
• Covetousness and secrecy: Gu Guizong’s Artisan God’s Vault is coveted by powerful figures, explaining his habit of hiding treasures throughout his armor. The vault itself remains a major source of mystery and potential power.
• Spectacle and humor amid danger: The livestream commentary turns the battle into both a deadly confrontation and a public spectacle, balancing tension with playful arguments among the observers.

Character Interactions

• Red God and Gu Guizong: Their encounter is a relentless chase and escalating battle. Gu Guizong repeatedly counters Red God’s attacks, but Red God steadily breaks through his defenses.
• Eight-Directions Man and Red God: Eight-Directions Man’s boundary temporarily immobilizes Red God and limits the battlefield, though Red God eventually works around it by tunneling from alternate directions.
• Li Xiao and Red God: Red God continues pursuing Gu Guizong because of Li Xiao’s command to kill him, showing Li Xiao’s control over the berserk creature.
• The commentators: Gu Granny warns that Gu Guizong remains dangerous despite losing his vault, while Ou Zhizi studies his treasures with envy. Grandpa Xiao and Li Dongmo engage in comic hostility, briefly distracting from the battle.
• Li Xiao and the Artisan God’s Vault: Li Xiao debates whether to let the Chaos Banner consume the vault or enter it personally, choosing exploration and the possibility of obtaining rare materials over immediate absorption.

Gu Guizong used the Myriad Bones Withered Soul Banner to delay Red God, then fled toward the Evil God Gu and tried to draw the two into a fight. The livestream viewers suspected the Evil God Gu had concentrated its power in its fruits, leaving its blood threads weakened, as Red God continued his pursuit.

• Gu Guizong trapped Red God in masses of bones, but Red God broke free with an explosive burst of flames, destroyed the banner, and repeatedly crushed Gu Guizong until his time-reversing ring shattered.
• Gu Guizong escaped by turning left through the soil, healed himself with a written character, and realized the Abyssal Will wanted him to divert Red God toward the Evil God Gu.
• Gu Guizong fired a laser gun while fleeing, but Red God broke free after the Evil God Gu's blood threads ensnared him and resumed the chase.
• Li Xiao and the livestream viewers speculated that Red God's power approached that of a Perfect One and discussed the shortness of their vast lifespans.
• As Gu Guizong and Red God neared the Evil God Gu, Li Xiao suggested its weakened attacks resulted from concentrating its power in the fruits, which Eight-Directions Man had been born to protect.

Sima Qianli tricked Gu Guizong into lending him the Ten Directions World Radiance Armor, then used the Void-Escape Technique to steal three Evil Dao Fruits from the Ancient Demon Pit. He escaped to a secret base on the moon with the fruits, while Li Xiao discovered evidence that another person had been present at the site.

• The Red God struck Gu Guizong through Eight-Directions Man’s barrier, and Gu Guizong reappeared injured beside Sima Qianli.
• Sima Qianli offered to help Gu Guizong fight the Evil God Gu in exchange for the Ten Directions World Radiance Armor, and Gu Guizong accepted.
• Sima Qianli used Li Zhenlian’s body to perform the Void-Escape Technique and vanished from the Ancient Demon Pit.
• Sima Qianli’s arm appeared in the pit, stole three Evil Dao Fruits, and disappeared, causing Eight-Directions Man to reverse his ability and pull everything toward himself.
• Li Xiao found Li Zhenlian’s remains and footprints that suggested Sima Qianli had been there with Gu Guizong.
• Sima Qianli reached his secret base on the moon and celebrated possessing the three sealed Evil Dao Fruits.

Sima Qianli prepared to refine the three Evil Dao Fruits he had stolen, hoping to grow powerful enough to claim Gu Guizong’s Artisan God’s Vault. Meanwhile, Eight-Directions Man’s escalating gravitational pull drew the Yin-Spirit World into a collapsing vortex, with Red God trapped on its surface.

• Sima Qianli’s past revealed how he had become a zombie, infiltrated Fengdu Academy, and traced the Evil God Gu to Aiona and her Evil Dao Fruits.
• Sima Qianli decided that refining three Evil Dao Fruits before seizing the Artisan God’s Vault would make him a mighty expert, and he began preparing to refine them.
• Sima Qianli recalled that Zhao Yuemian’s failure had forced him to approach Gu Guizong himself, and damage to the Ten Directions World Radiance Armor had limited him to stealing three fruits.
• Eight-Directions Man’s gravitational pull kept multiplying, compressing the matter it drew in and generating immense heat.
• The Ancient Demon Pit became a vast vortex that pulled in everything in the Yin-Spirit World, while Red God struggled to escape its surface.

Chapter Summary: “Revival”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao watches helplessly from Mirror Space as the Yin-Spirit World collapses under the conflict between the Abyssal Will and Evil God Gu, manifested through Eight-Directions Man’s black-hole-like sphere.
• The sealing formation beneath the Ancient Demon Pit finally breaks. The Abyssal Will emerges as a colossal red energy dragon and begins absorbing the world’s remaining matter and energy.
• The ruined world is reduced to floating continental fragments as the Abyssal Dragon and Eight-Directions Man’s black hole compete to devour it.
• Ai Lingye unexpectedly revives. Her corpse transforms into a wooden cocoon, from which she emerges as a beautiful, nature-like elf.
• Ai Lingye removes the dagger from Zhang Dong’s chest and restores him to life. Zhang Dong recovers with astonishing speed, revealing his immense vitality.
• Li Xiao’s livestream reaches Level 9 after accumulating massive viewer support. It gains new functions, including the Rational Administrator, improved broadcasting controls, multiple-stream viewing, collaboration, fan spaces, and a spatial stage.
• The chapter ends when Zhang Dong notices Li Xiao approaching and suddenly attacks him, forcing Li Xiao to retreat as Zhang Dong gives chase.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao remains largely powerless against the world’s destruction but waits for the decisive outcome and continues documenting events through his livestream. He also discovers the livestream’s advanced leveling system and new privileges.
• Ai Lingye is revealed to be extraordinarily powerful and resilient. As the strongest elf created by the World Tree God Iona, she possesses extensive knowledge of natural magic, cultivation, druidic arts, and scholarship. Her revival presents her as an almost sacred embodiment of nature.
• Zhang Dong survives despite being sealed and apparently dead. After Ai Lingye restores him, his physical recovery demonstrates his frightening strength and vitality. His immediate attack on Li Xiao suggests suspicion, hostility, or an instinctive response to being observed.
• Gu Guizong celebrates the Abyssal Will’s apparent escape and remains loyal to it.
• Ou Zhizi and Gu Granny reveal that they were once married, adding comic tension to their arguments. Ou Zhizi is also shown to have long admired Ai Lingye.
• Grandpa Xiao and Li Dongmo engage in a comedic quarrel over Ai Lingye, with Li Dongmo unexpectedly overpowering Grandpa Xiao.

Significant Themes

• World destruction and powerlessness: The Yin-Spirit World’s collapse emphasizes the helplessness of ordinary beings before near-Transcendent forces.
• Revival and resilience: Both Ai Lingye and Zhang Dong return from seemingly certain death, highlighting extraordinary vitality and the possibility of renewal amid destruction.
• Nature versus annihilation: Ai Lingye’s organic, life-giving revival contrasts with the Abyssal Dragon and black hole, which consume matter and reduce the world to nothingness.
• Spectacle and entertainment: Even during an apocalyptic battle, viewers focus on beauty, romance, comedy, and livestream functions, creating a contrast between cosmic catastrophe and casual audience behavior.
• The hidden cost of the livestream system: The revelation that the system profits from dead streamers adds a darker dimension to Myriad Live and suggests that its success is built upon repeated deaths.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao and the viewers: Li Xiao explains the livestream’s new Level 9 privileges and interacts with viewers’ questions and jokes.
• Ai Lingye and Zhang Dong: Ai Lingye revives Zhang Dong, establishing a relationship based on healing and mutual importance, though Zhang Dong’s later attack on Li Xiao introduces tension.
• Ou Zhizi and Gu Granny: Their bickering reveals their former marriage and their continuing antagonistic familiarity.
• Li Dongmo and Grandpa Xiao: Their argument over Ai Lingye turns into a comedic fight, with Li Dongmo claiming to have powerful backing.
• Li Xiao and Zhang Dong: Their interaction is abruptly hostile. Zhang Dong detects Li Xiao despite his approach and attacks him, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Zhang Dong used Listening Heart Fist to pursue Li Xiao, who refused to reveal himself and retreated toward the Abyssal Dragon. As Li Xiao and the livestream viewers examined the technique’s manual, they suspected it could only be mastered in a particular world.

• Zhang Dong sensed Li Xiao and attacked with Listening Heart Fist while Ai Lingye guarded the area around Li Xiao.
• Li Xiao decided he did not trust Zhang Dong or Ai Lingye, so he retreated toward the Abyssal Dragon until Zhang Dong stopped pursuing him.
• Irelia of Slaughter explained Listening Heart Fist, and Zhixing described how its success depended on the practitioner’s heart and disposition.
• Zeroing Bro sent Li Xiao a Listening Heart Fist manual, and Li Xiao shared it with the livestream viewers before reading its meditation method and chant.
• Granny Gu and Mo Yunqingzhu suggested that Listening Heart Fist might require a special environment, leading the viewers to consider that Zhang Dong had mastered a world-specific technique.

Chapter Summary: “Creation and World-Ending Theory”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao regrets being unable to participate in the battle between Eight-Directions Man and the Abyssal Dragon because he does not know the Listening Heart Fist.
• Eight-Directions Man remains passive while the Abyssal Dragon repeatedly attacks him. Their immense powers cause the Yin-Spirit World’s matter, atmosphere, and even spatial energy to be drawn toward them.
• The two beings absorb enormous amounts of matter, including parts of the world’s two largest continents, becoming colossal entities.
• The Abyssal Dragon’s attacks cause space itself to tremble, allowing Eight-Directions Man’s gravitational-like power to tear open a spatial rift several light-years across.
• Ou Zhizi explains the fundamental energies that can form worlds:
  • Attribute-Free Energy, which normally creates stable worlds
  • Psionic Energy, which is influenced by living beings
  • Anti-Energy, which annihilates or conflicts with Attribute-Free Energy
• Gu Granny clarifies that world creation ultimately depends less on understanding countless laws than on possessing and controlling sufficient energy.
• Li Xiao realizes that the Yin-Spirit World is being destroyed because its natural expansion is being violently opposed by Eight-Directions Man’s enormous pulling force. The world’s limited size makes the spatial damage especially severe.
• The group notices that the moon has remained unchanged despite the extreme gravitational disturbance. This suggests that it may be concealing a powerful secret or mechanism.
• Despite warnings from Ou Zhizi and others, Li Xiao chooses to investigate the moon rather than leave with the Artisan God’s Vault.
• He finds nothing unusual on the surface and begins burrowing into the moon’s interior.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao experiences frustration and helplessness as a spectator to forces beyond his ability to affect. However, he continues to demonstrate curiosity and courage, choosing to investigate the moon despite the danger.
• He also gains a deeper understanding of world formation, energy, and the mechanics behind the Yin-Spirit World’s destruction.
• Ou Zhizi acts as a patient mentor, correcting Li Xiao’s misconceptions and helping him connect his theoretical knowledge to reality.
• Gu Granny offers a broader perspective on creation, emphasizing energy as the true foundation of world-building.
• Eight-Directions Man remains mysterious and defensive, absorbing matter and spatial energy without launching a visible counterattack.
• The Abyssal Dragon is portrayed as relentlessly aggressive, continuously attacking and contributing to the world’s collapse.
• Li Dongmo and Grandpa Xiao maintain their antagonistic, comedic rivalry through verbal threats and challenges.

Significant Themes

• Helplessness before overwhelming power: Even powerful figures can become spectators when confronted by forces far beyond their control.
• Energy as the basis of creation and destruction: The chapter presents world-building as fundamentally dependent on obtaining, transforming, and controlling energy.
• Theory versus practical understanding: Li Xiao possesses considerable knowledge but often fails to apply it directly; Ou Zhizi helps him recognize the connection between abstract theory and real events.
• The fragility of worlds: Space and reality are not invulnerable structures; extreme forces can tear apart the foundations of an entire world.
• Curiosity versus safety: Li Xiao’s decision to investigate the moon reflects his willingness to pursue answers even when retreat would be safer.
• Hidden abnormalities: The apparently ordinary moon becomes suspicious precisely because it remains unaffected by extraordinary cosmic forces.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao discusses his inability to help with Guarding the Central Court and Timepiece, who sympathize and encourage him.
• Ou Zhizi and Gu Granny educate Li Xiao about world-forming energies and the requirements of creation.
• All-Beings Sigil points out the moon’s abnormal stability, prompting the investigation.
• Li Dongmo urges Li Xiao to explore the moon, while Grandpa Xiao warns him against it.
• Grandpa Xiao and Li Dongmo exchange hostile but largely comedic insults, while another figure repeatedly enters and exits the City Lord’s Manor to provoke Grandpa Xiao.
• Li Xiao ultimately seeks Gu Granny’s opinion but decides independently to investigate the moon, reflecting his growing confidence and initiative.

Chapter Summary: “Bonded Spear”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao discovers Sima Qianli in a hidden chamber, sitting before an alchemy furnace in a seemingly dead or incapacitated state.
• A strange sapling has grown from Sima Qianli’s skull. Its leaves resemble those of the tree associated with Ai Lingye’s rebirth, suggesting a possible connection between them.
• Li Xiao and the viewers debate Sima Qianli’s identity, wondering whether he is an outsider from another world, Ai Lingye’s descendant, or the powerful figure Ma Qianli.
• Li Xiao notices that Sima Qianli was using an alchemy furnace despite apparently being a zombie. This is suspicious because alchemy in the Yin-Spirit World is primarily practiced by Qi Practitioners, not zombies or ghost cultivators.
• The furnace differs from those native to the Yin-Spirit World: it has three legs rather than four and bears imagery of the “Moonlit Deathless Tree,” along with writing in Dao Script from another cultivation civilization.
• Li Xiao finds a wooden box containing a broken spearhead aimed at Sima Qianli’s head. By reconstructing the scene, he concludes that Sima Qianli tried to use the weapon against the sapling growing from him but lost control of his body before the attack could succeed.
• The spearhead is identified as part of the Bonded Spear, the famous weapon of Ma Qianli. Its distinctive name and markings, combined with the spear’s construction, convince Li Xiao that Sima Qianli is actually Ma Qianli.
• The chapter ends with a major mystery: if Sima Qianli was truly Ma Qianli, what role did he play in the disaster, and why did he die in such a strange condition?

Character Developments

• Li Xiao demonstrates stronger investigative reasoning. Although he jokes with the viewers and initially speculates about Sima Qianli, he carefully analyzes the body, furnace, writing, weapon, and circumstances of death to reach a confident conclusion.
• Sima Qianli/Ma Qianli is revealed to be far more important than previously believed. Rather than an insignificant fossil of the Sima Family, he may be a legendary and extremely powerful figure who has been hiding under another identity.
• Ou Zhizi contributes expert knowledge about alchemy furnaces and magical weapons, helping Li Xiao distinguish objects from different civilizations and understand the spear’s diminished spirituality.
• Zhixing provides the decisive information about Ma Qianli’s Bonded Spear.
• The livestream viewers continue acting as a source of theories, historical knowledge, and comic relief, though their speculation often clashes with Li Xiao’s investigation.

Significant Themes

• Identity and hidden origins: Sima Qianli’s true identity is concealed behind a false name and altered appearance, emphasizing the uncertainty surrounding powerful figures.
• Clues versus coincidence: Li Xiao argues that the matching spearhead, weapon name, craftsmanship, and markings form too many connections to be dismissed as chance.
• Cross-world connections: The furnace, Dao Script, and magical artifacts suggest that the Yin-Spirit World has been influenced by other cultivation civilizations and may contain remnants of ancient visitors.
• Death and transformation: The sapling growing from Sima Qianli’s head, his zombie-like body, and the Yin-Spirit World’s beliefs about death all reinforce the chapter’s focus on the boundary between life, death, and rebirth.
• The danger of incomplete knowledge: Even after identifying Sima Qianli, Li Xiao still cannot determine whether he was a victim, an experimenter, or a participant in the larger disaster.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao exchanges playful arguments with Grandpa Xiao and Li Dongmo while continuing his investigation.
• Grandpa Xiao proposes exaggerated theories, such as Sima Qianli being Ai Lingye’s son, while Li Xiao dismisses them humorously.
• Ou Zhizi acts as an expert consultant, confirming details about the furnace and spear’s spirituality.
• The viewers collectively recognize the sapling’s resemblance to Ai Lingye’s tree and help identify the Dao Script.
• Zhixing confirms the identity and history of the Bonded Spear, giving Li Xiao the final evidence needed to identify Sima Qianli as Ma Qianli.

Li Xiao witnessed the World Hole taking shape as Zhang Dong and Tian Laiye fought to stop it and the Abyssal Dragon. The battle continued with Zhang Dong striking the World Hole and Tian Laiye overpowering the dragon, while the danger to the surrounding worlds remained.

• Li Xiao saw the Abyssal Dragon split the moon in half and realized Eight-Directions Man’s black hole was becoming a World Hole.
• Ai Lingye summoned Tian Laiye, who stabilized the surrounding space and said the World Hole could not safely be destroyed by force.
• Zhang Dong chose to confront the World Hole while Tian Laiye took on the Abyssal Dragon.
• Zhang Dong’s punches shattered miniature worlds inside the World Hole, and Tian Laiye held their released energy so the hole could not absorb it.
• Ai Lingye strengthened Tian Laiye with nature spells, and Tian Laiye slapped aside the dragon’s corrupted beam and rammed it with its antlers.

Aiona awakened and absorbed the Yin-Spirit World's energy, completely destroying the world and overpowering Zhang Dong, Tian Laiye, and the Abyssal Dragon. After devouring even the world's timeline, she grew stronger as another cracked world approached, leaving Li Xiao asking whether anything could stop her.

• Li Xiao watched the World Hole fly to Aiona, who embedded it in her chest and drew in the Yin-Spirit World's energy, causing the world to collapse.
• Zhixing explained that the group had entered the vacuum world, while Aiona awakened fully and repelled Zhang Dong and Tian Laiye amid the spatial turmoil.
• Ai Lingye urged Zhang Dong to retreat, but Aiona's suction dragged him back as living roots tore apart and absorbed the Abyssal Dragon.
• Ou Zhizi revealed that the Abyssal Will had not been fully defeated and that Gu Guizong had disappeared.
• Viewers spotted another world approaching with cracks in it, while Aiona absorbed the Yin-Spirit World's timeline and gained even more power.
• Li Xiao asked whether anyone could still stop Aiona.

Li Xiao entered the Artisan God's Vault to verify its treasures and seek help against Aiona, but touching a magical treasure triggered a restriction. A Treasurelight Pixiu attacked him, and he entered Advanced Brain Overclocking as it closed in.

• Li Xiao agreed to inspect the Artisan God's Vault before promising a share of its treasures to powerful experts.
• Ou Zhizi explained that a teleportation array guarded the vault, and Li Xiao opened it with the Chaos Banner.
• Li Xiao entered the vault and found countless magical treasures arranged in overlapping spaces.
• Li Xiao touched the Sun-Turning Wheel, triggering a restriction that sent a devastating shock wave at him.
• A golden Treasurelight Pixiu charged at Li Xiao, and he entered Advanced Brain Overclocking while facing its attack.

Li Xiao was killed by the Treasurelight Pixiu inside the Artisan God's Vault, so Hawkins took over the fight. Hawkins defeated the loyal guardian beast and began examining its true form.

• The Treasurelight Pixiu shattered Li Xiao's body, but Li Xiao remained connected to Mother and asked Hawkins to handle the beast.
• Hawkins entered Mirror Space and tried to recruit the Treasurelight Pixiu, but it refused to abandon Gu Guizong and attacked him.
• Hawkins used Sage Mode to catch and hurl back the Treasurelight Condensed Bomb, badly damaging the Treasurelight Pixiu.
• The Treasurelight Pixiu continued fighting, so Hawkins pierced its head with an invisible strike and killed it.
• Hawkins activated Foresight and received information about the Treasurelight Pixiu's true form.

After Li Xiao’s livestream went black, viewers waited and worried while Star-Weaver prepared to aid the resurrected Aiona. Hawkins defeated the Treasurelight Pixiu and left the Artisan God’s Vault, and Li Xiao emerged from Mother above Infinite City, alive again.

• Ou Zhizi and Granny Gu stayed in the blacked-out livestream, hoping Li Xiao had survived.
• Li Dongzhen suspected Li Xiao was connected to Hawkins, but a talking dog attacked him while Hawkins was away.
• Star-Weaver ordered Long Qian to prepare support for Aiona, then reopened the livestream to watch for Hawkins.
• Hawkins left the Artisan God’s Vault with the Treasurelight Pixiu’s corpse and learned that Treasurelight Pixiu differed from ordinary pixiu through their willingness to protect what they loved, not through their bloodline.
• Li Xiao emerged from Mother above Infinite City, confirmed his resurrection, and joked about Mother’s appearance before returning to work.