Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Su Yi absorbs the Divine Authority of Eternal Fire, gaining fine control over energy and strengthening his existing abilities.
• He fuses with the sixth Ancient Teleportation Gate and enters a higher-dimensional realm where history, civilizations, and time appear as linked threads and crystals.
• Looking back through time, Su Yi witnesses his own arrival in this world, events leading up to the Third Great Cataclysm, and the cataclysm’s opening battle: Qian Haonan and others pilot a colossal robot against the forces emerging from a black hole.
• He sees the Deceiver of Yore and Mist Sage alongside the Watchful Elder’s true form, a gigantic Cosmic Worm, and realizes the worm may be the key to killing the Elder permanently.
• The Mist Sage notices Su Yi across time and warns him not to rewind further. The Dreamwalker rules much of higher-dimensional space, and the threads and crystals there are chains and restraints created by the Open-Heaven Blacksmith. Venturing too far could attract the Dreamwalker.
• Returning to the Dark Universe, Su Yi finds his Divine Body transformed and discovers a vast, time-powered creature beneath his Throne: the source and king of the Time Hounds. Touching it gives him absolute command over them.
• Su Yi also senses two distant, powerful heartbeats and learns that Maria is carrying his children. Their souls and command of the world’s rules have developed remarkably over five years.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi gains a major new ability and a deeper understanding of time, but the Mist Sage’s warning makes him cautious about testing it. Their brief exchange confirms that the Mist Sage can perceive him across time and offers hard-won advice.
• Su Yi’s bond with the lionlike Time-Hound progenitor becomes mutual: it welcomes him, and he gains authority over its kind.
• Su Yi discovers his children and feels an intense emotional connection with them; they appear to respond to his attention by quickening their heartbeats.
• Qian Haonan remains eager and exuberant, anticipating life beyond the tomb, while Su Yi reflects that hardship can lead to something bright.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Su Yi’s growing command over time comes with risks he cannot yet overcome.
• Interconnected fate and history: The higher-dimensional realm portrays every life and event as part of a vast network.
• Legacy and connection: Su Yi’s ties to the past, the Time Hounds, and his unborn children deepen as his power grows.
• Hope beyond hardship: Qian Haonan’s optimism and Su Yi’s reflection frame the chapter’s revelations as a promise of life and possibility.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi senses that his unborn children, Winter and Maria, share a profound bond with him and have inherited his power and Divine Authority. He chooses not to interfere with their development.
• The Time Hounds’ king alerts Su Yi to six Nightmare-infused Soulless from the Heat Death Research Institute, concealed in turbulent currents of space-time and watching the children. Su Yi realizes they can traverse time, but holds back to avoid revealing that he has noticed them.
• Back in the base, Qian Haonan explains that the Eternal Fire is gone and the facility has only about an hour of power at full capacity. He presents Su Yi with two prepared gifts: the Time Anchor, which can stabilize Su Yi’s mind against ancient madness, and plans for the Zeroing Giant God—Pangu.
• Qian Haonan describes Pangu as a universe-scale machine for restoring planets, creating worlds, and harnessing stellar power. Its Civilization Singularity engine can reverse entropy by consuming forgotten histories and civilizations from the River of Time.
• Pangu is not yet feasible to build: it would require resources Su Yi could gather only after becoming the Unity True God. It would then serve as his assistant or even a Doppelganger.
• Su Yi expresses gratitude for the support he has received. Qian Haonan reminds him that others chose him for a reason and that his role is to help preserve civilization.
• An alarm sounds as the base trembles. Qian Haonan realizes that someone has activated Entropy Resonance.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi shows both paternal care and strategic restraint: he protects his children by leaving their growth undisturbed, and conceals his awareness of the Soulless observers to preserve the element of surprise.
• His understanding of his time-and-space abilities deepens, as does his grasp of the extraordinary technology behind Pangu.
• Su Yi briefly reflects on how much help and luck he has had, but accepts Qian Haonan’s reassurance rather than falling into self-doubt.
• Qian Haonan shifts from relaxed mentor to alarmed engineer. He takes pride in his invention, explains its purpose to Su Yi, and encourages him to trust the path others have entrusted to him.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and renewal: Su Yi’s children represent a future beyond the Dreamwalker, while Pangu embodies civilization’s accumulated knowledge.
• Restraint and strategy: Su Yi avoids interfering with the children or exposing his discovery of the intruders.
• Civilization’s responsibility: Characters are bound by distinct duties to keep civilization alive, even in an unfair universe.
• Time, memory, and entropy: The chapter links history and civilization to energy, presenting forgotten pasts as fuel for resisting the universe’s eventual heat death.

Key plot points

• Qian Haonan reveals that the Nightmare Pioneer’s forces are preparing to use Entropy Resonance, a weapon that irreversibly raises entropy across an entire star sector, reducing it to a scorching wasteland. He built two hidden backdoors into the system: one to monitor it and another to disable it.
• Su Yi learns that the Light Empire’s expedition to detach the Sacred Will from its region’s Dragon Vein has provoked the Dreamwalker’s factions. The Sacred Will is one of the Void Emperor’s Doppelgangers, and the enemy is also trying to protect the other fragments and revive an ancient war god.
• Su Yi visits the Supreme Dao and Divine Totem. He discovers that their long-running battle is an attempt to understand and fuse their powers deeply enough to recreate the Black Abyss Overlord without surrendering their individual wills. They have made no progress in five thousand years.
• Su Yi reveals that he has recovered nearly all of Unity’s Divine Authority and is close to becoming the complete Unity True God. He asks the deities to issue holy-war edicts against the Light Empire—not to truly oppose it, but to give their followers a way to travel there with less interference from Nightmare agents.
• Both deities agree. Su Yi says infiltrators in their factions can serve as Prophets and guide the campaign. The Divine Totem warns that Molly, now a powerful leader in her faith, may be affected by the order. She also asks whether Su Yi has found the hidden Goddess of White Frost; he has not.
• Qian Haonan finishes packing his research base’s important supplies. Su Yi brings him to the Light Empire’s capital, where Qian Haonan joyfully celebrates his return.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi shows growing mastery of concealment and space-time power, alongside strategic resourcefulness. Rather than simply request military aid, he devises a way to mobilize the deities’ followers while reducing their exposure to Nightmare corruption.
• Qian Haonan proves both technically brilliant and cautious: he anticipated that Entropy Resonance could be misused and built in safeguards. After years in isolation, his arrival in the Light Empire is an emotional homecoming.
• The Supreme Dao and Divine Totem reveal a shared ambition beneath their apparently lethal rivalry. They recognize Su Yi’s progress and feel renewed hope, then agree to help despite the risks of issuing binding religious commands.
• The Divine Totem’s concern for Molly and her unanswered question about White Frost underscore personal ties and unresolved mysteries amid the larger conflict.

Significant themes

• Power, control, and authority: Moving the Sacred Will challenges the Dreamwalker’s control over the deities’ domains.
• Cooperation across divisions: Su Yi turns the deities’ factions into potential allies, while the deities’ own failed attempt at cooperation highlights how difficult true unity is.
• Hope in a declining universe: Su Yi’s progress gives the ancient deities hope after ages of stagnation.
• Faith as both strength and constraint: Divine edicts can mobilize followers, but once issued they are difficult even for the gods to reverse.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi and Qian Haonan return to the Light Empire’s Imperial Core. The Imperial Guard reports that the capital is heavily defended and that Kilman is directing the expedition against the Wolong Star Sector.
• Hidden scouts from the Heat Death Research Institute detect Su Yi’s return and alert its leaders. The four doctors reveal that their fleet is preparing to activate Entropy Resonance in ten Standard Days.
• The Institute intends to use the system to accelerate time throughout the Wolong Star Sector by as much as 300 times, cutting it off from outside support and rapidly exhausting its inhabitants and supplies. They expect the Light Empire’s forces to collapse within years.
• At the Imperial Palace, Su Yi reunites with Kilman and Nine Blades and reveals that Qian Haonan—thought lost for tens of thousands of years—is alive.
• Qian explains that he left a backdoor in Entropy Resonance’s technology. If the Light Empire can locate at least half of its resonance points and find the core, he can hack and destroy the system.
• Nine Blades initially proposes committing a large force to the search, but Kilman cautions that doing so could alert the enemy and expose the expedition to further danger.
• Su Yi proposes sending transformed Time Guards to find the resonance points. He summons Wheelchair, whose unusual fusion of a Time Hound and a human soul amazes Qian.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi returns with greater power and confidence. He reassures Kilman, shares some of his space-time power with him and Nine Blades, and takes charge of countering the enemy’s plan.
• Kilman is shown as a capable commander coordinating the expedition, but remains deeply devoted to Su Yi and welcomes his return eagerly.
• Qian Haonan shifts from enjoying his regained freedom to urgently explaining the threat and offering a technical way to stop it. His teasing exchange with Su Yi briefly lightens the tense meeting.
• Nine Blades is shaken by the scale of the danger and reacts impulsively, then accepts Kilman’s warning and considers a more cautious approach.
• Wheelchair is delighted to see Su Yi again and is entrusted with an important mission, while Qian recognizes the significance of his transformed nature.
• Imperial guards defend Su Yi’s loyalty to Kilman, rejecting speculation that Su Yi’s lack of imperial blood could cause a political rift.
• The Institute’s doctors are confident in their trap, though Dr. Aether urges caution even as the others predict the sector’s defeat.

Significant themes

• Time as a weapon: Entropy Resonance threatens not merely through heat, but by accelerating time until an entire sector is isolated and its resources consumed.
• Strategy over force: Finding and sabotaging the resonance system may matter more than winning conventional battles.
• Trust and loyalty: Su Yi’s bond with Kilman and the guards’ defense of their relationship contrast with the Institute’s plans to exploit vulnerabilities.
• Uncertainty and hidden capabilities: Qian’s survival, his technological backdoor, and Wheelchair’s transformation all reveal that the conflict may turn on unexpected knowledge and allies.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi learns that the enemy’s Nightmare Shades can spy, travel through Space-Time Turbulence, and are difficult to kill. He assigns Wheelchair responsibility for protecting the Imperial Palace across time and plans to create a large force of Time Guards to counter them.
• Su Yi reunites with Winter and Emma after five years. Winter explains that many players now believe the world is real, and governments have used its technology to advance rapidly. Su Yi asks her to assemble about 10,000 recruits, dividing them among the front line, protection for Winter and Maria, and security for the Imperial Core.
• Su Yi gives Emma plans for a Memory Anchor to develop with Molly.
• At Open-Heaven Manor, Su Yi reunites with Maria and Dora. They report that the Flame Dragon Empire remains unstable, its front against the Nightmare Alliance is difficult, and the Grand Chancellor’s fate is unknown. Su Yi says he believes he can bring the Grand Chancellor back.
• They also discuss Ilis, who has become a vast, heat-radiating tree but has not awakened. Before leaving to see Vulcan, Su Yi gives Maria and Dora Unity Authority Interfaces, allowing them to draw on the Unity True God’s power through him.

Character developments and interactions

• Wheelchair has overcome a major obstacle and developed a new form capable of producing Time Guards; Qian Haonan praises his breakthrough.
• Winter has become more powerful and now processes immense streams of information. Emma has completed her metamorphosis, gaining more of the Twins’ Divine Authority and a ghostlike appearance.
• Maria and Dora have grown into powerful defenders of Open-Heaven Manor. Maria controls the local Dragon Vein and strengthens Order, while Dora uses Desire Seeds to detect people influenced by nightmare power.
• The reunions emphasize the characters’ long separation and affection: Winter and Emma rush to embrace Su Yi, while Maria and Dora greet him with even less restraint. Dora offers to fight at the front, but Su Yi declines for now.

Significant themes

• Surveillance and secrecy: Nightmare Shades threaten security across vast distances, making protection and countermeasures urgent.
• Preparation and cooperation: Su Yi responds by organizing new forces, delegating duties, and equipping allies.
• Change through time: Five years apart have transformed the world, its players, and several characters.
• Love amid crisis: The reunions provide warmth and reassurance, even as the wider conflict continues.
• Order versus nightmare: Maria and Dora’s defenses reflect the broader struggle to protect the empire from corruption and disorder.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi returns to Open-Heaven Manor, which has recovered from the Nightmare over five years through help from the Light Empire and the Players. Exchange programs have strengthened ties between the two groups.
• He reunites with Alton and Leg Kicker. Alton has endured years of Primordial Fire forging and now shows strong potential to reach demigodhood; Leg Kicker has become an influential scholar and political broker for the Light Empire.
• Su Yi, Vulcan, Alton, and Leg Kicker discuss the Heat Death Research Institute’s plan to accelerate time and seal off a region. Leg Kicker suggests using the situation to lure in forces associated with Nightmare Pioneer and Soul Dominator. Su Yi proposes a powerful bait and tells Leg Kicker to contact Winter.
• Su Yi then visits the Flame Dragon Dynasty, where Madman and millions of Players are embedded as independent mercenaries supporting Wen Xuan’s rule.
• Su Yi gives Madman a crystal containing part of his authority over time and space. It merges with Madman’s soul, granting him vast awareness and the ability to travel across the universe, manipulate space, and halt time. Su Yi names him the Eye of Time and Space.
• Su Yi asks Madman to accompany him to revive Kong Liang. They head toward the imperial palace, where Zhao Hailong escorts them to the Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Palace. There, they find Wen Xuan beside the elderly Grand Chancellor, surrounded by an immense starfield array.

Character developments

• Su Yi returns as a powerful leader who delegates parts of his authority to trusted allies, both to expand his reach and to avoid carrying every responsibility himself.
• Alton has transformed through painful, sustained training with Vulcan. His body is now powerful and human-sized, and he has begun mastering the laws of fire.
• Leg Kicker has grown into a capable diplomat and strategist, helping manage trade and proposing a trap for the approaching enemy forces.
• Madman rises beyond demigodhood after receiving Su Yi’s time-and-space authority, becoming a cosmic observer and messenger.
• Vulcan recognizes the value of the Light Empire’s support and credits Alton and Leg Kicker with helping Open-Heaven Manor recover.

Significant themes

• Recovery through cooperation: Open-Heaven Manor’s restoration is tied to sustained collaboration, exchange, and mutual support.
• Growth through hardship: Alton’s dangerous forging trials demonstrate the cost of advancement.
• Delegation and trust: Su Yi empowers people whose talents fit particular roles rather than trying to do everything alone.
• Turning threats into opportunities: The group considers exploiting the enemy’s own time-manipulation plan as a way to draw out and defeat hostile forces.

Character interactions

• Su Yi’s reunion with Alton and Leg Kicker is warm and approving; both credit their progress to the pressure of representing the Light Empire and to Su Yi’s support.
• Vulcan and Su Yi exchange respect, with Vulcan emphasizing how the Light Empire’s aid and the brothers’ efforts helped secure the manor’s recovery.
• Leg Kicker shares his strategic idea with Su Yi, who responds with confidence and directs him to coordinate with Winter.
• Su Yi rewards Madman for his years of service, and Madman responds with intense gratitude. Su Yi then invites him to help revive Kong Liang.
• Zhao Hailong greets Su Yi with reverence and quickly escorts him to Wen Xuan and the Grand Chancellor.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points

• Wen Xuan visits the unconscious Grand Chancellor Kong Liang and mourns the losses and failures of the past few thousand years. He feels guilty for abandoning the dynasty and believes he has failed Kong Liang.
• Su Yi arrives with Madman and explains that he can use his newly acquired Time Authority to restore Kong Liang’s body to youth while preserving his memories. The restoration will be temporary: it will last ten years, with later extensions becoming progressively shorter.
• Wen Xuan accepts the cost, wanting time to make amends and complete their work together. Su Yi rejuvenates Kong Liang and awakens him.
• Kong Liang wakes focused on the dynasty’s military crisis and immediately recognizes Wen Xuan. Believing himself dead, he apologizes for failing their shared mission; Wen Xuan instead apologizes for leaving him to carry the burden alone. They exchange gratitude and regret.
• Wen Xuan explains the five-and-a-half years that have passed, including the state of the dynasty and Su Yi’s role. Kong Liang recognizes Su Yi as the Unity Wolf Lord, an associate from their shared organization, and thanks him for restoring both his life and his chance to serve Wen Xuan again.
• Su Yi asks Madman to remain as his envoy, help stabilize the dynasty, guard against spatial and temporal threats, and build a long-range Teleportation Gate. Su Yi then returns to the Light Empire, anticipating that he may later need the Flame Dragon Dynasty’s support.
• With Wen Xuan and Kong Liang reunited, the dynasty’s factions quickly rally behind them. The capital celebrates Kong Liang’s recovery, and the chapter ends with Wen Xuan and Kong Liang standing together, ready to finish what they began.

Character developments and interactions

• Wen Xuan moves from grief and self-reproach toward renewed purpose. His reunion with Kong Liang lets him acknowledge his failures and express his gratitude directly.
• Kong Liang awakens with his characteristic focus and loyalty intact. Despite his restored youth, his first concern is the dynasty’s crisis; he remains devoted to Wen Xuan and eager to resume their mission.
• Su Yi uses his power compassionately but makes clear that Kong Liang’s restored life has limits. He also treats the reunion as a strategic step toward uniting allies for the coming conflicts.
• Madman is deeply moved by the reunion, which recalls the relationship between Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei. He accepts Su Yi’s assignment to help protect and rebuild the dynasty.
• Wen Xuan and Kong Liang’s mutual apologies and gratitude reveal a bond built on shared ambition, trust, and sacrifice. Their reunion quickly becomes a source of legitimacy and unity for the Flame Dragon Dynasty.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and duty: Kong Liang’s devotion has sustained him through centuries of responsibility, while Wen Xuan’s return gives him the chance to serve alongside his emperor again.
• Regret and reconciliation: Both men believe they failed the other, but their reunion allows them to recognize each other’s sacrifices and begin again.
• The cost and limits of power: Su Yi can reverse bodily time, but cannot grant Kong Liang an unlimited lifespan.
• Leadership and unity: The emperor’s return and the chancellor’s recovery restore confidence and draw divided factions together.
• Hope amid upheaval: Their renewed partnership offers the dynasty a path forward as larger wars threaten the universe.

Summary

• The narrator’s recurring back pain has flared up again.
• They are resting face down on the bed with a heat pack and taking the day off.

Character and themes

• No other characters or interactions appear, and there is no significant character development.
• The brief passage focuses on managing recurring pain and recognizing the need to rest.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi returns to the Light Empire and gathers more than ten thousand veteran players for an irreversible transformation. By merging with Time Hounds, they will gain the ability to move through time and become resistant to ordinary powers—but lose their unlimited revivals and some freedom, binding their lives to Su Yi’s Divine Authority of Unity.
• The players, many of whom found belonging and purpose in this world after hardship on Earth, unanimously accept. Su Yi vows that they will stand together until the Dreamwalker is destroyed. He then opens Light Gates and begins their transformation.
• Su Yi asks Winter about the Evil God’s campaign. The Evil God’s missionaries have infiltrated factions across nearly half the known regions, helped by several former students of the Evil God’s Painting Department.
• The narrative shifts to the Evil God’s unconventional expeditionary fleet. Led in part by Rijia, it uses cult tactics against cults: recruiting and brainwashing less extreme zealots, then sending them on dangerous missions to destroy more threatening groups. The fleet has expanded across three Star Sectors without relying on Light Empire supplies.
• The fleet’s methods have made it effective against both entrenched cults and nightmare corruption. Cultists showing signs of nightmare influence are killed, and the players consume the released nightmare power. The strategy has worked for five years.
• During a celebration aboard the fleet’s flagship, the Day of Judgment, Su Yi arrives. The Evil God’s followers hail him as the “Zeroing Emperor.”

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi acknowledges the players’ devotion but makes sure they understand the cost of transformation. He reinforces their bond with a solemn pledge of mutual loyalty.
• The players show how deeply this world has become home to them. Big Watermelon, Yan Shuangying, and Eiyu Miyagi speak openly about their reasons for choosing it, and the group responds to Su Yi’s pledge with a unified rallying cry.
• The Evil God has turned from a feared power into the architect of a vast, unconventional anti-cult campaign. His ability to absorb and redirect dangerous followers has become central to the fleet’s success.
• Jawbone, once a Void Abyss Lord whom Su Yi had manipulated into a scheme, joins the Evil God after learning of his connection to Su Yi. He becomes a minor commander and helps with infiltration and recruitment.
• Katherine, matriarch of the Enthralling Elves and formerly a follower of the Twins of Pleasure, has been brainwashed into the Evil God’s ranks and become one of his lovers.
• The fleet’s players relish its dangerous battles, using their resistance to mental corruption and ability to revive to take risks unavailable to ordinary soldiers. The fleet’s success earns it supplies despite hostility from some Light Empire forces.

Significant themes

• Belonging and chosen family: Players who felt isolated or constrained on Earth find purpose, respect, and companionship in this world.
• Commitment and sacrifice: The transformation offers immense power but permanently changes the players’ lives and limits their freedom.
• Fighting evil with evil: The Evil God uses cult techniques, indoctrination, and sacrifice against the very threats that employ them.
• Unity and moral ambiguity: Su Yi’s followers pledge themselves to a common cause, while both his power and the Evil God’s methods raise questions about freedom, loyalty, and the cost of survival.

Plot points

• Su Yi arrives at a vast gathering of humans and other races, including many corrupted or mutated people. Most kneel and proclaim their devotion to him.
• He formally rewards two of his Ten Pioneer Sages for their work over the past five years:
  • Tentacles Aren’t Evil God receives the power of faith and fusion, becoming the Unity Saint. He can receive and combine forces, calm madness, and channel faith and power through a divine gate.
  • Girlfriend, also called Friend of the Sorceress, receives dominion over souls, death, and the boundary between life and death, becoming the Lord of the Dead Realm. He can perceive souls and their nature, and is linked to a vast realm of the dead.
• Su Yi promises the other Players that their contributions will be honored as he pursues Unity of All Things and prepares for a coming divine war.
• He then briefs the core Players: they are to use agents planted in factions aligned with Supreme Dao and the Divine Totem to provoke a war and draw their enemies into Redstone Empire territory. Su Yi reveals that both Deities have already agreed to support his side, leaving the Players free to request divine edicts in his name.

Character developments and interactions

• Tentacles Aren’t Evil God and Girlfriend move from devoted lieutenants to powerful divine figures, pledging lifelong service to Su Yi and accepting roles as his spiritual shepherd and death’s gatekeeper.
• Su Yi shows affection and confidence in his followers, publicly recognizing their long service while revealing the scale of his political influence and war plans.
• The other Players respond with pride, envy, and renewed enthusiasm. Natural Jailer boasts that their people have infiltrated opposing factions through both persuasion and force.
• Jawbone, hoping to take credit for his work, is overwhelmed by Su Yi’s power and interprets even his past deception by Su Yi as a blessing. Catherine likewise sees Su Yi as the force capable of bringing order to a chaotic universe.
• The assembled believers’ devotion intensifies after witnessing the boons, which they regard as proof of Su Yi’s divinity.

Significant themes

• Faith as both power and organization: the Unity Saint channels belief across the universe, while the faithful become a tool in Su Yi’s wider strategy.
• Unity and order amid corruption: Su Yi’s power promises to absorb or reconcile disparate forces, madness, and distortion.
• Death as judgment and passage: Girlfriend’s new authority frames death as both a final destination and a realm where souls receive reward or punishment.
• Loyalty rewarded, but put to use: Su Yi honors his followers’ devotion while directing them toward an approaching war.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi orders the Players to begin an operation intended to bring the divine war to its peak within two years. Its true target is the Redstone Empire, whose leadership is tied to Nightmare power. Su Yi plans to use energy accumulated through an entropy-increase resonance in the Wolong Star Sector to destroy the Empire’s royal palace and weaken Nightmare influence.
• The chapter shifts to 108 and Mountain Dog, who have spent five years leading a conventional conquest campaign. Their forces have taken more than 300 heavily populated Planets and dealt major blows to the Mechanical Father and Steel Savior.
• Their approach combines 108’s formidable Steel Warriors with Mountain Dog’s infiltrators and assassins. Though costly, their victories dismantle enemy forces, while disciplined conduct and the Light Empire’s technology win the support of civilians.
• After their latest victory on Kane Star, Su Yi arrives to praise them and redirects their campaign: their next target is the Redstone Empire.
• Su Yi gives each man a crystal containing part of Unity’s Divine Authority. 108 becomes one of the Ten Saints, the Lord of Heavenly Tribulation; Mountain Dog becomes the Shadow-Returning Venerable. Both surpass level 100, cross into Demigodhood, and become Quasi-Gods.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi reveals the broader strategy against Nightmare power and shows confidence in his commanders. He rewards 108 and Mountain Dog not just with praise but with divine elevation and new responsibilities.
• 108 has grown into an imposing, steadfast commander. Despite his achievements, he worries about whether he has met Su Yi’s expectations and is eager to fight the Redstone Empire.
• Mountain Dog has become more disciplined and serious while retaining his warmth toward Su Yi. He reassures 108 that their relationship is more than rank and insists their hard-won victories are enough.
• 108 and Mountain Dog function as complementary leaders: one commands overwhelming force, the other shadow operations. Their humility and concern for Su Yi contrast with their fearsome reputations.
• Su Yi and the two commanders share evident affection and trust. Their reunion is warm, and the divine promotions affirm both their bond and their standing in the Empire.

Significant themes

• Power through complementary methods: Open warfare and covert action combine to defeat entrenched enemies.
• Conquest and legitimacy: Military victories are paired with discipline, improved living conditions, and protection of civilians, helping the Empire establish faith and stable rule.
• Duty and recognition: 108 and Mountain Dog put aside personal advancement to remain at the front; Su Yi’s gifts reward their service and prepare them for a greater war.
• The expanding conflict: The campaign against the Mechanical Father and Steel Savior gives way to a larger confrontation with the Redstone Empire and Nightmare power.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi grants 108 and Mountain Dog powerful Divine Authorities, transforming them into new forms tied to war and shadows. Their abilities let them sense conflicts and injustice across the universe and reach them through fire, lightning, or darkness.
• He appoints them as two of the God of Unity’s ten sacred Gatekeepers, responsible for protecting the universe’s order. They vow to fight the Dreamwalkers and prepare to target the Redstone Empire.
• In the Light Empire, Kavelyn urgently tells Kilman that the Redstone Empire is preparing to attack while the Light Empire’s forces are committed elsewhere. Nightmare-aligned factions are gathering, led by Redstone’s long-lived imperial elite.
• Kilman consults Su Yi. Su Yi explains that the Redstone Empire’s rulers are controlled by Nightmare and must serve the Heat Death Research Institute’s plans, regardless of their own wishes. He also warns Kilman to watch the Second Empire, which may turn against them if they seem vulnerable.
• Su Yi agrees to meet Kavelyn. She reminds him of their old agreement; he claims he has forgotten, leaving their conversation—and the agreement’s significance—unresolved.

Character developments

• 108 and Mountain Dog gain immense power and status. Their enthusiasm is matched by a stronger sense of duty, though they have yet to master their new authorities.
• Kavelyn shows herself to be a courageous and pragmatic messenger: despite her covert ties to the Redstone Empire, she warns the Light Empire of its planned attack.
• Kilman demonstrates strategic judgment and loyalty to Su Yi, while preparing to defend against Redstone and monitoring the Second Empire.
• Su Yi remains confident and far-seeing, recognizing the larger forces behind Redstone’s actions and sensing a hidden connection between Kavelyn and the Primordial Empire.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: 108 and Mountain Dog’s new abilities come with duties to safeguard universal order.
• Corruption and loss of agency: Nightmare’s influence has turned Redstone’s leadership into servants who cannot control their own choices.
• Loyalty and betrayal: Kavelyn warns the Light Empire despite her Redstone connections, while other factions may exploit any weakness.
• Order amid conflict: The heroes’ expanding reach is framed as a response to war, injustice, and decay.

Character interactions

• Su Yi encourages 108 and Mountain Dog, who express gratitude and rally their followers for the coming campaign.
• The new Gatekeepers inspire excitement among their Players and assassins, especially when they announce Redstone as their next target.
• Kavelyn warns Kilman; he tests the credibility of her claim before arranging for her to meet Su Yi.
• Su Yi and Kilman discuss Redstone’s subservience to Nightmare and the danger posed by the Second Empire.
• Su Yi and Kavelyn exchange familiar pleasantries before she raises their past agreement, which he pointedly says he has forgotten.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi confronts Kavelyn about her hidden connection to the Mother of Immortality. He warns that the fourth Great Cataclysm and a new cosmic order are approaching, and that choosing the wrong side could mean annihilation.
• Recognizing Su Yi as the Unity True God’s successor—and believing his plans may reshape the universe—Kavelyn agrees to cooperate without reservation.
• Kavelyn reveals that she is Immortality, one of the Six Ancient Righteous Gods. Though the Dreamwalker split her into three Deities and took her Divine Authority, her consciousness remains the system’s true master; the three Deities are effectively separate personalities.
• She offers Su Yi her power, knowledge, and eventual personal allegiance in exchange for surviving the coming upheaval in the new universe.
• Kavelyn has secretly controlled the three Deities through other powers and institutions. In the Redstone Empire, she arranged for its rulers to imprison and drain the corrupted Loving Father of Light. In the Primordial Empire, she helped the Immortal Queen Mother seize the Immortal Venerable’s uncorrupted Divine Authority while keeping his Nightmare-corrupted remains confined.
• Kavelyn also reveals that Lu Qingyan is another aspect of her current form, embodying purity and aloofness in contrast to Kavelyn’s seductive persona.

Character developments

• Su Yi demonstrates strategic confidence and perceptiveness, recognizing Kavelyn’s unusual life aura and pressing her about her true identity. He remains cautious, requiring concrete assurance rather than accepting a vague promise.
• Kavelyn shifts from flirtatious envoy to solemn ancient deity. Having once hesitated to commit to Su Yi, she now acts decisively, betting on his success and seeking a place in the world he intends to create.

Significant themes

• Change, catastrophe, and survival: The coming God War and cosmic rebirth force powerful beings to choose sides.
• Power, rules, and control: Kavelyn’s story shows that influence and knowledge of systems can control beings even without direct power.
• Immortality and fear of death: Despite embodying immortality, Kavelyn’s deepest motive is to survive the transition into the new universe.
• Unity versus possession: Kavelyn trusts Su Yi partly because he shares his power rather than hoarding it, making him seem less likely to betray her.

Character interactions

• Su Yi and Kavelyn trade flirtatious, pointed remarks before moving into a serious negotiation.
• Kavelyn offers a sweeping alliance, while Su Yi tests her motives and demands evidence that she can deliver.
• Their discussion reveals the hidden links between Kavelyn and the Redstone and Primordial Empires, as well as her connection to Lu Qingyan.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi discovers that Lu Qingyan is connected to Kavelyn, the Mother of Immortality. Kavelyn explains that she deliberately created Lu Qingyan from part of her own consciousness and immortal soul, but the process made Lu Qingyan a fully independent person.
• Lu Qingyan is also tied to the Primordial Empire’s Dragon Vein and serves as Kavelyn’s emergency escape route: if Kavelyn were gravely injured, their connection could let them fuse and cross vast distances instantly.
• Su Yi and Kavelyn agree to cooperate. He offers to preserve her immortality if she surrenders her power and Divine Authority, promising to return some of it after the Dreamwalker dies. In exchange, she must remain with him in the new universe and not threaten its order.
• Kavelyn reveals that the Lord of Evolution is being held by the Elf Empire and used as the power core of its Minor World. His distorted Divine Authority has also fostered a violent, “survival of the fittest” form of worship.
• She admits she arranged for the Elf Empire to come to the Primordial Empire, guided by her sense that its gathering fortune signaled the arrival of the person she had been waiting for. Su Yi’s actions at Open-Heaven Manor confirmed his identity to her.
• They discuss the Frost Empire’s presence and the little-known Goddess of White Frost, an unseen seventh Ancient True God. She may be humanity’s last defense against the Dreamwalker, though her strength and whereabouts remain unknown.
• Su Yi outlines his plan to trigger the Fourth Great Cataclysm through the Heat Death Research Institute and a massive energy surge in the Wolong Star Sector. Kavelyn warns that the scheme could fail if the Redstone Empire blocks the energy through its World Wall.
• Kavelyn agrees to remain a spy within the Redstone Empire, gather intelligence, and protect the younger faction targeted by the Elder Council.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi gains a clearer understanding of Kavelyn’s ruthless nature and accepts her alliance while placing strict limits on her future freedom. He remains confident about his plan but admits its details are not settled.
• Kavelyn/Ling Xuan reveals both her willingness to sacrifice parts of herself and her confidence in her long-term schemes. She gives Su Yi her original name, “Ling Xuan,” signaling a more personal level of trust.
• Their exchange is cautious but warm: Ling Xuan flirts and proposes having children, while Su Yi responds playfully but declines, emphasizing that they have time to know each other.
• Ling Xuan agrees to help Su Yi by spying and shielding potential allies, while Su Yi acknowledges how important they will be to his plan.

Significant themes

• Identity and wholeness: Kavelyn’s creation of Lu Qingyan raises questions about whether a being can be divided yet produce a genuinely separate person.
• Immortality and sacrifice: Kavelyn’s eternal life comes with severe constraints, and she has repeatedly risked her own integrity to preserve it.
• Trust and control: Su Yi and Ling Xuan form an alliance based on mutual usefulness, but Su Yi insists on controlling the danger she could pose in the new universe.
• Hidden powers and uncertain history: The revelations about the Lord of Evolution and the Goddess of White Frost suggest that the universe’s political and divine order conceals crucial forces and past decisions.
• Planning under risk: Su Yi’s strategy could reshape the conflict, but its dependence on unstable energy and the World Wall makes the coming cataclysm perilous.

Key plot points

• Su Yi and Ling Xuan begin separate parts of their plan: Su Yi heads to the Wolong Star Sector, while Ling Xuan reports to the Redstone Empire’s Elder Council.
• Ling Xuan tells the elders that Gheros intends to reclaim the Black Abyss Overlord’s power by moving against the Divine Totem and the Supreme Dao. The elders verify that both deities have ordered their factions to prepare a Divine War against the Light Empire.
• The elders decide to exploit the conflict. While the Light Empire’s forces are occupied in Wolong, the Heat Death Research Institute will attack the locations of Gheros’s two women, and Redstone forces will invade the Imperial Core. Nightmare Contamination Weapons are meant to win the elders a direct Boon from the Dreamwalker and free them from their life-support systems.
• The elders also plan to sacrifice rebellious young Redstone conspirators: they will send them as envoys, then use their Redstone Vessels to create chaos and open Teleportation Gates for the assault.
• Meanwhile, Palace Guard Officer Leo Stowe tells Twelfth Princess Raffia that their movement now has over thirty thousand supporters. Raffia fears the elders have discovered their conspiracy, but Leo urges her to trust their powerful ally and see the coming chaos as an opportunity.

Character developments and interactions

• Ling Xuan presents herself as a loyal informant, but her report may be part of a larger deception. The elders suspect her motives yet judge the intelligence largely credible.
• Tes emerges as the council’s cautious strategist, weighing the possibility of a trap while directing the invasion plan. Puro, Grayrock, and Blood Dragon share the elders’ ambition and contempt for their opponents.
• The elders’ discussion reveals their desperation: their dependence on the Loving Father of Light has left them physically withered and confined, and they now seek the Dreamwalker’s power to regain freedom.
• Raffia and Leo are close and politically aligned, but Raffia is wary of the elders’ reach. Leo reassures her and frames the upheaval as a chance to seize power.
• The chapter recalls how Raffia’s uncle’s earlier rebellion was crushed after his allies betrayed him, underscoring the danger facing the current plotters.

Significant themes

• Power and decay: The elders retain immense political influence despite their ruined bodies, while their pursuit of immortality has made them dependent and cruel.
• Conspiracy and betrayal: Multiple factions plan to deceive or sacrifice others, and even trusted allies may be unreliable.
• Ambition amid chaos: Gheros, the elders, and Raffia’s group all seek advantage from the looming conflict.
• Exploitation: The elders’ pursuit of pleasure and freedom is built on the abuse of captives and the intended sacrifice of their own political rivals.

Plot points and events

• Raffia worries that the Unity True God may be too overwhelmed to help the Redstone Empire. Her father, Emperor Winster, summons her and her fiancé, Leo Stowe, to the palace—an order that fills her with dread.
• Leo senses danger and urgently contacts Su Yi through the Time Rift. Su Yi suspects the decaying elders plan to harm the couple, but agrees to let them proceed: their scheme could offer a chance to infiltrate the palace.
• Su Yi gives Leo and Raffia protection against Nightmare Power and promises he can extract them if necessary. Leo leaves reassured.
• Su Yi then speaks with the Deceiver of Yore about the Mist Sage’s condition and the larger plan. The Mist Sage is recovering forgotten plans and memories, including the location of the Goddess of White Frost and the seventh Ancient Bronze Gate.
• The Deceiver explains that the seventh Gate is essential to assemble Unity’s complete Divine Authority; without it, the first six Gates are useless, and the Dreamwalker could use it to destroy the universe.
• The Deceiver reveals that the Mist Sage plans to sever his connection to the parallel world and transfer his remaining connections to Su Yi, minimizing the backlash Su Yi will suffer when the Sage disappears.
• The Mist Sage steps outside the Deceiver’s protection. A mechanical giant detects him, and four doctors—Combustion, Void, Atom, and Aether—appear to surround him.

Character developments and interactions

• Raffia hides her fear of the palace and obeys her father, despite its painful associations with family and friends who entered and never returned.
• Leo prioritizes Raffia’s safety and the Redstone Empire’s future, but Su Yi’s protection gives him confidence to accept the dangerous summons.
• Su Yi has grown powerful enough to perceive the Deceiver of Yore clearly. He remains focused on the plan’s endgame and treats the palace threat as a potential opportunity.
• The Deceiver of Yore explains why he must remain hidden: his power depends on mystery and would weaken if exposed. He expresses deep respect for the Mist Sage.
• The Mist Sage, Liu Jianghe, accepts his impending disappearance without regret. He reflects on a lifetime spent carrying the hopes of his people and protecting countless civilizations, and chooses to sacrifice his remaining ties for Su Yi and the new universe.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and duty: The Mist Sage gives up recognition, connection, and ultimately his place in the coming era for the universe’s survival.
• Hope and legacy: He finds meaning in having helped people live happier lives and in seeing the future he fought for nearly become real.
• Hidden power and secrecy: The Deceiver’s strength depends on remaining unseen, while the Mist Sage’s concealed memories protect the larger plan.
• Trust amid danger: Su Yi’s protection allows Leo and Raffia to face the palace’s threat, while the Mist Sage entrusts the future to Su Yi.

Key plot points and events

• The frail Mist Sage arrives at the Heat Death Research Institute, where its four leading doctors—his former students—are shocked by how much of his power and existence has vanished.
• The doctors have spent years investigating his decline, but cannot explain it. They believe the crisis in the Wolong Star Sector has driven his successor, Qian Haonan, into desperation.
• The doctors defend their plan to gather the universe’s remaining heat and restart it. They see wish-powered energy as limitless and believe they can create a better world as its gods.
• The Mist Sage condemns their confidence as delusion and argues that their work has transformed the Soulless into nightmare worshippers. The altered beings around the institute, made from fragments of their own people’s souls, stir as if recognizing what they once were.
• Although the doctors briefly feel shame and confusion, they still believe their teacher has no power to stop them. The Mist Sage promises them a final lesson about courage, hope, and a brighter future.

Character developments and interactions

• The Mist Sage appears near death, but remains composed and morally resolute. He has come seeking his people and a final chance to reach his former students, whom he still regards as family.
• Drs. Atom, Burning, Aether, and Void retain deep reverence for their teacher, instinctively bowing and retreating despite their immense power. Yet they are also proud of their discoveries and convinced their plan is necessary. The Mist Sage’s rebuke briefly unsettles them.
• The Mist Sage and the doctors face each other as teacher and students, but also as opponents: he appeals to their shared history and conscience, while they argue that their new science offers the only way to save the universe.

Significant themes

• Arrogance versus wisdom: The doctors’ confidence in their knowledge may have blinded them to the consequences of their choices.
• Home, belonging, and loss: The Mist Sage returns hoping to find his people, only to realize their society has vanished.
• Hope and courage: The chapter frames hope not as technological control over the universe, but as the capacity to confront loss and choose a better path.
• The cost of survival: The Soulless’ pursuit of power has preserved their rule while degrading their people into tools and killing machines.

Key plot points and events

• The four leaders of the Heat Death Research Institute pretend to welcome the Mist Sage, while secretly sealing his soul inside their territory. They split off fragments of themselves to question him and remove their emotions, leaving their main selves free to continue their plan.
• Their forces have deployed all 16 core and 320 auxiliary nodes in the Wolong Star Sector. The Institute plans to use Entropy Resonance to trap the Light Empire’s elite vanguard in an isolated time distortion, then coordinate a vast assault on the rest of the Empire with Nightmare-aligned factions and other hostile powers.
• The Institute learns that Gheros has provoked the Stigmata Totem and Supreme Dao, prompting both Deities’ factions to prepare holy expeditions against the Light Empire. The doctors speculate that Gheros encountered them in the Starflame Corridor, then detect his arrival in the Wolong Star Sector—but choose not to interfere.
• On the battlefield, the Light Empire’s Expeditionary Army is winning despite intense attacks. Iron Root’s adaptable runes greatly reduce casualties, while Iron Pot uses teleportation to move reinforcements and evacuate wounded soldiers.
• Iron Pillar reports that he has broken through the Soul Dominator’s fleet. Iron Root and Iron Pot explain that their Divine Authorities have grown stronger in conceptual form. Su Yi arrives just as Iron Pillar realizes he may finally receive a Benediction.

Character developments

• The four doctors reveal how completely they prioritize the Institute’s strategy, even severing emotional parts of themselves to keep working without distraction.
• Iron Root now embodies the conceptual power of runes, using time and space as the medium for powerful spellcraft.
• Iron Pot has developed his command of doorways and contracts, becoming both the army’s commander and its central transport network.
• Iron Pillar, still the only one among the ten without Su Yi’s Boon, feels eager and hopeful when Su Yi appears.
• The Sanctuary of the Heart remains committed to reaching its Deity, though its members are frustrated by the opposition.

Significant themes

• Strategic confidence and hidden danger: The Institute believes its layered plan is secure, but Gheros’s unexpected arrival complicates its assumptions.
• Power through unity and specialization: The Light Empire’s strength comes from coordinated forces and Divine Authorities applied across an entire army.
• Faith and authority: The Sanctuary’s effort to retrieve its Deity threatens the Dreamwalker’s standing, explaining the intensity of the resistance.
• Emotion versus efficiency: The doctors deliberately discard compassion and nostalgia to pursue their plan with ruthless precision.

Character interactions

• The doctors privately debate Gheros’s motives and capabilities while maintaining a courteous façade toward the Mist Sage.
• The Sanctuary members question why the enemy fights so fiercely; Erzhuzi explains that their mission challenges the Dreamwalker’s authority.
• Iron Root and Iron Pot compare how Su Yi’s power has transformed their abilities, then recognize the significance of Iron Pillar possibly receiving his Benediction.
• Su Yi’s arrival shifts the command room’s attention to Iron Pillar’s long-awaited moment.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi recognizes Iron Pillar’s years of loyalty and formally names him one of the Ten Saints of Unity: the Godslayer Overlord. Iron Pillar accepts the Slaughter Authority and merges it into himself.
• His transformation gives him immense power over slaughter: he can sense killing intent across the universe and appear wherever killing occurs. His long-used iron rod becomes a size-changing concept weapon capable of subduing billions or killing a Planetary God.
• The army’s advance through the Wolong Star Sector has met little resistance. Su Yi and his commanders suspect the enemy is luring them toward the Central District, but this aligns with their own objective: reaching the Sacred Will and drawing the Soul Dominator and Nightmare Pioneer into a decisive battle.
• Su Yi reveals the enemy’s Entropy Resonance array, which can accelerate time and push a region toward Heat Death. Iron Pot suggests turning its energy effects against the enemy.
• Su Yi’s larger plan is to use the Void Emperor’s remains, his Gate Authority, and the region’s concentrated heat to force the three Deities—Sacred Will, Soul Dominator, and Nightmare Pioneer—to fuse around the remains. The resulting shock wave could open a super-gate; Su Yi intends to direct its destructive energy toward the Redstone Empire.
• He assigns roles: Iron Pillar will lead the advance and draw enemy attention; Iron Pot will lure factions into the region and arrange their arrival and sacrificial preparations; Iron Root will secretly build a sector-wide rune array to gather heat. The array must be completed in under half an hour, so Iron Root requests more Time Guards, which Su Yi promises.

Character developments and interactions

• Iron Pillar’s longing for Su Yi’s approval is finally acknowledged. Su Yi praises him and entrusts him with a sacred authority and major responsibility; Iron Pillar responds with fierce devotion.
• Iron Pot and Iron Root are pleased that their three-brother group is once again united in rank and capability. Iron Pillar’s followers and other Players are encouraged by his ascension and hope for their own future advancement.
• The commanders react with alarm to the Entropy Resonance but quickly turn to planning. Iron Pot contributes the idea of exploiting the array’s energy, while Iron Root accepts the most technically demanding and dangerous assignment.

Significant themes

• Recognition and loyalty: Iron Pillar’s ascension rewards years of service and his bond with Su Yi.
• Power joined to responsibility: The Godslayer Overlord is not merely a weapon; he is charged with enforcing order against those who abuse power.
• Unity and shared advancement: Iron Pillar’s rise restores parity among the three brothers and inspires their followers.
• Strategy through controlled risk: Su Yi intends to exploit the enemy’s trap, deliberately drawing factions and threats together to create a decisive opportunity.
• Scale and sacrifice: The plan’s cosmic forces and potential cataclysm highlight the enormous stakes—and dangers—of Su Yi’s ambitions.

The narrator planned to get some exercise, but after sweating and getting chilled in the wind, they later developed a headache and mild nausea. Feeling foggy, they decide to take the day off and rest.

• Character development: The narrator recognizes their limits and chooses rest rather than pushing through.
• Themes: Physical vulnerability, self-care, and the unpredictability of feeling unwell.
• Interactions: No other characters appear; the passage focuses on the narrator’s symptoms and decision.