Chapter Summaries

Amon created a Tarot Club in the Gray Fog and gathered Avatars preserving the memories and personalities of his past selves. After they warned that treating them as separate people could destabilize his mind, Amon dismissed them and resolved to continue his journey alone through the Void.

• Amon shaped the Gray Fog into a temple with a bronze table and twenty-two chairs, then summoned Avatars representing his different personalities.
• Di Er Meng took the Fool's seat and declared the first Tarot Club meeting open, while the Avatars teased one another and Xiao Meng mourned Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Meng asked Amon to restore Xiao Yan, but he explained that he had replaced Xiao Yan's Fate, not his consciousness.
• White Amon warned that the Avatars were facets of one mind, and Zhou Mingrui and Huang Tao cautioned Amon against losing his mental stability.
• Amon dismissed the Avatars and reaffirmed that he was alone, then reflected on the Void and the vivid worlds scattered through it.

Amon reflected on the immense power and preliminary control of the Gate of Order he gained in the Battle Through the Heavens Universe. He also recognized that his growing mental instability and fading humanity threatened his sense of self, and hoped the next world would help him remember what it meant to be human.

• Amon realized that accommodating most of the Firmament Ranking and the Evil King True Eye could raise his life essence to the level of an Ancient One.
• Amon recognized that exceeding the Gate of Order’s agreed power limit had let him alter its inner space and become half its owner.
• Amon noticed that his avatars, including Xiao Meng, Di Er Meng, and Klein, were beginning to seem like independent people to him, risking a true Amon civil war.
• Amon traced his fractured sense of self to separating and disguising his consciousness as Xiao Meng while struggling against Xiao Yan in the Battle Through the Heavens Universe.
• Amon realized that his divinity had overwhelmed his humanity, leaving him increasingly indifferent to others.
• Amon polished his monocle and hoped the next world would help him remember what it felt like to be human.

Amon discovered the Dragon Raja world and, after it rejected the Gate of Order’s offer to trade, chose to invade. The world’s will summoned Nidhogg to fight him, and their battle began as Amon fired a searing beam at the charging dragon.

• The Gate of Order found a layered world, but its attempt to negotiate received a demand to leave.
• Amon stopped the Gate of Order from retreating and sent his tentacles toward the hostile world.
• The world’s will answered with a roar and manifested a powerful agent to defend it.
• Amon recognized the agent as Nidhogg and identified the world as Dragon Raja.
• Nidhogg charged at Amon, who shaped a tentacle into a pistol and fired a searing beam.

Amon fought the World Will’s Nidhogg projection, drawing the battle close to the Dragon Raja world and sending his severed arm and sword through its Barrier. That night, Lu Mingfei saw a blood-red light appear in the sky.

• Amon realized Nidhogg’s immense strength made defeating it a war of attrition, so he shrank to human size and formed a sword from his left arm.
• Nidhogg took a humanoid form, and it and Amon fought with swords as Amon used Starlight to keep pace despite being physically weaker.
• After hundreds of exchanges, Amon stabbed Nidhogg through the heart while Nidhogg severed Amon’s right arm.
• Amon’s falling arm and sword cut through the Dragon Raja world’s Barrier, and the arm exploded into bloody mist after entering the world.
• Lu Mingfei watched the night sky from his rooftop and saw a blood-red light appear overhead.

Blood-red meteors filled the sky as Lu Mingfei sensed a looming change and uttered a cryptic prophecy. In a hotel room, Boss told Long Legs and the languid beauty that Earth faced an alien invasion and the world might cease to exist if they failed to stop it.

• Lu Mingfei watched the blood-red meteor shower and felt that an immense shadow had fallen over the world.
• Lu Mingfei's eyes changed, and he declared, "At the end of December 2012, Starlight descended from the heavens."
• The languid beauty called Long Legs to the balcony to look at the strange sky, and Long Legs wondered whether it was connected to Dragon Kind.
• Boss appeared in the hotel room and warned the two women that their new era might disappear and the world could cease to exist.
• Boss revealed that the coming threat was an alien invasion, leaving Long Legs and the languid beauty stunned.

After a meteor struck near True Martial Temple, an old Taoist followed mysterious whispers into the mountains and discovered an ancient sword. Grasping it revealed the Immortal Gate to him, and he believed he had found a path to immortality.

• A red meteor struck a mountaintop near True Martial Temple, shaking the temple and damaging several buildings.
• An old Taoist heard whispers about ascension and immortal elixirs, then set out at night for the impact site.
• The old Taoist lost his footing when his rope broke and rolled to the bottom of the meteor crater.
• The old Taoist found an ancient sword embedded in the earth, and its opened eye flooded his mind with information.
• The old Taoist gripped the sword, saw the Immortal Gate in a vision, and pulled the blade free while declaring that immortality was within reach.

Lu Mingfei watched a Dayun Automobile commercial in which a red truck smashed a giant serpent, while Xia Mi recognized the serpent as her own mythic identity and grew furious at the ad. Distracted by the commercial on her phone, Xia Mi was struck by a real red truck, and its driver rushed to check on her.

• Lu Mingfei watched a Dayun Automobile ad featuring a red truck destroying a giant serpent and was sent out by his aunt to buy soy sauce and check the mail.
• Xia Mi, secretly Jormungandr and one of the First Generation Dragons, saw the ad and angrily decided to seek compensation for its portrayal of her.
• Xia Mi stared at her phone while walking and failed to notice a red truck approaching.
• The truck hit Xia Mi, and the driver stopped, got out, and anxiously asked whether she was okay.

After a truck hit Xia Mi, she suspected the driver was connected to an earlier incident in GG and pretended to be gravely injured to investigate. Once the police and hospital examinations revealed nothing suspicious, she began to wonder whether the collision had been an ordinary accident.

• Xia Mi let the truck hit her rather than reveal her superhuman abilities, then pretended to be unconscious and coughed up blood.
• The driver called emergency services and the police, but Xia Mi grew suspicious when she recognized him from GG and heard him complain that living victims were troublesome.
• Traffic police questioned the driver, checked the surveillance footage, and preliminarily assigned Xia Mi eighty percent of the responsibility and the driver twenty percent.
• An ambulance took Xia Mi to the hospital, where she faked being unconscious and passed the examinations without raising suspicion.
• After waking in her hospital room, Xia Mi found no evidence of a conspiracy and wondered whether the collision had been an accident.

Amon, living as ordinary truck driver He Xiaomeng, dealt with the aftermath of hitting Xia Mi and learned she had no family to contact. Xia Mi woke in the hospital and theatrically complained of her injuries.

• Amon received a call from the traffic police saying the unconscious girl was an orphan, and he agreed to advance her medical expenses.
• Amon asked Xia Mi's doctor about her condition and requested receipts for the payments so he could seek insurance reimbursement.
• Amon noticed Xia Mi had apparently protected her undamaged phone during the accident.
• Xia Mi woke up, recognized Amon as the driver who hit her, and complained that more than a thousand of her bones were broken.
• Amon corrected Xia Mi, pointing out that humans had only 206 bones.

After a traffic accident, Xia Mi pressured Amon to pay her medical bills while he tried to determine whether she was a Dragon. Their meeting ended with both suspecting the other had deliberately sought them out.

• Xia Mi argued that Amon owed her compensation, but he insisted she was chiefly responsible for the accident and offered to pay only twenty percent of her medical bills.
• When Xia Mi threatened to tell the police Amon had tried to kill her, Amon wondered whether she had used supernatural powers to fake being unconscious.
• Amon recalled that he had planted a reference to the King of Earth and Mountains in a car advertisement to attract the attention of Dragon Kind and gain access to the Inner World.
• Xia Mi showed Amon a video of him driving and threatened to expose his company, prompting him to agree to pay all her medical bills.
• Xia Mi gave her name, and Amon introduced himself as He Xiaomeng; both believed their accidental meeting had been intentional.

Xia Mi examined the dangerous drop of God's Blood she had hidden in her phone, believing it could let her survive the apocalypse without devouring her brother. Amon left the hospital to buy her lunch, and a mysterious woman in a blue sports car hurried away after purchasing buns.

• Xia Mi teased Amon about his age, then called him her big brother to persuade him to buy her soup dumplings.
• After Amon left, Xia Mi inspected the God's Blood hidden in her phone and recalled how it had overwhelmed even her Dragon King blood.
• Xia Mi considered the blood's extraterrestrial origin and its potential to let her evolve beyond the world's ultimate end, but decided she could not absorb it yet.
• Amon left the hospital, relaxed his guard, and bought three servings of soup dumplings to take back to Xia Mi.
• A woman in sunglasses arrived in a blue sports car, paid for two servings of buns, and quickly drove away.

Mai Sakatoku learned that a pure drop of God's Blood had been stolen and agreed to use another drop to track it through God's Blood’s mysterious attraction. She left to drive around the city with the bottle, hoping the two drops would draw her toward the thief.

• Amon watched Mai Sakatoku drive away and suspected that Long Legs was no ordinary woman.
• Su Enxi told Mai Sakatoku that a pure drop of God's Blood had been stolen from a safe without leaving clear clues.
• Mai Sakatoku returned to the hotel and learned that the stolen drop might be tracked using another drop of God's Blood.
• Su Enxi explained that drops of God's Blood mysteriously attract and aggregate, increasing the chance that their bearers would meet.
• Mai Sakatoku took the bottle and prepared to drive around the city to locate the stolen God's Blood.

Amon brought Xia Mi soup dumplings at the hospital and promised to return for dinner, while she reflected on the little girl’s wish for a brother. Xia Mi remembered Fenrir and the coming Judgment Day, and a vision showed a young dragon declaring that no one could bully his sister.

• Amon brought Xia Mi soup dumplings, and they joked about his age and his supposed studying.
• Xia Mi corrected Amon’s misattributed quote, and he left to finish his work before promising to return for dinner.
• A little girl in the next bed said she wished she had a brother like Amon, and Xia Mi fell silent.
• Xia Mi thought of Fenrir still inside the Bone Cinerary Urn and sensed that Judgment Day was approaching.
• In a vision of the war of the monarchs, a colossal dragon declared that no one was allowed to bully his sister.

After Xia Mi left the hospital, Amon heard what sounded like an infant crying during a storm and suspected a Dead Servant was coming for him, possibly at Xia Mi’s direction. Armed with a handgun, he waited in his living room and fired twice when the monster smashed through the balcony window and attacked.

• Xia Mi recovered from her injuries, joked with Amon during her hospital stay, and exchanged QQ accounts with him when she was discharged.
• During a storm, Amon heard eerie infant-like crying near his old neighborhood and suspected a Dead Servant was approaching.
• Amon recalled Xia Mi’s possible role and took an M1911 handgun from beneath his pillow.
• The crying stopped as the Dead Servant entered hunting mode, and Amon waited in the center of his living room.
• A dark figure smashed through the balcony window and lunged at Amon, who raised his handgun and fired two shots.

After killing a Snake-form Dead Servant, Amon found Xia Mi at his door and brought her inside at gunpoint. He questioned why she had come and discussed the supernatural world with her, ending on their conversation about the strange blood-red meteor shower from a year earlier.

• Amon killed the Snake-form Dead Servant by shooting its eyes, spine, heart, and chest, then heard someone knock at his door.
• Amon opened the door and accidentally struck Xia Mi, who appeared drenched and frightened him with her powerful presence before identifying herself.
• Amon made Xia Mi close the door, kept her away from the corpse, and weighed it down with furniture before taking her to his bedroom.
• Amon questioned Xia Mi, who said she had lost her job and housing while recovering from an injury and had come seeking a place to stay.
• Amon and Xia Mi discussed the monster, supernatural powers, and the unusual blood-red meteor shower that people around the world had seen a year earlier.

Amon told Xia Mi how a Snake-Person sighting led him to investigate the supernatural world and why he distrusted the authorities. Xia Mi decided Amon might be useful and persuaded him to let her stay at his home.

• Amon recounted seeing a tall, golden-eyed Snake-Person with a snake tail near Elevated Bridge No. 10 during a storm.
• Amon said police dismissed his report, and he suspected an officer had somehow made him forget the encounter temporarily.
• Amon explained that he investigated supernatural rumors because he hoped to discover real superpowers and enjoyed the danger.
• Xia Mi considered recruiting Amon as a follower and recognized the monster they had encountered as a Corpse Guardian from her Nibelungen.
• Xia Mi persuaded Amon to let her live with him by promising to help with household tasks, and Amon reluctantly agreed.

Amon let Xia Mi stay at his house and protected her from a Corpse Guardian that attacked during the night. After discovering the creature had been dead before he shot it, he became eager to investigate the supernatural world.

• Xia Mi brought her luggage to Amon's house, and he showed her his late sister's room and explained that she had died three years earlier.
• Amon barricaded the passageway against the monster and had Xia Mi sleep in his room while he kept watch with his gun.
• Amon and Xia Mi slept through the Corpse Guardian's nighttime struggle, but it was still lying in the passageway the next morning.
• Amon emptied another magazine into the Corpse Guardian, then decided its corpse could be sold to an underground dealer.
• Amon realized the Corpse Guardian had been dead before he shot it, and Xia Mi pretended to fear the supernatural creature she had sent.

Xia Mi learned that Amon’s younger sister, He Xiaoyu, had died and decided to replace her in everyone’s memories, including Amon’s. Her attempt to alter Amon’s memories quickly failed, but he accepted her as his sister, leaving Xia Mi unsure whether she had also misremembered their hot-pot plans.

• Xia Mi questioned two elderly neighbors and learned that He Xiaomeng’s younger sister, He Xiaoyu, had died three years earlier.
• Xia Mi decided to pose as He Xiaoyu and altered the neighborhood residents’ memories so they believed she had merely been absent.
• Amon finished dissecting the Corpse Guardian and discussed its tough body while Xia Mi revealed her Golden Eyes and tried to change his memories.
• Amon’s resilient spiritual will restored his memories almost immediately, though Xia Mi convinced him that she was his sister, He Xiaoyu.
• Xia Mi invited Amon to eat hot pot, but he firmly claimed he had never promised, making her doubt her own memory.

Amon and Xia Mi went out for a buffet, but their truck collided with Mai Sakatoku’s sports car. After Mai paid Amon one million yuan, she asked Su Enxi to investigate him, leaving Amon unaware that Mai had taken an interest in him.

• Amon teased Xia Mi, then agreed to take her to a buffet.
• Mai Sakatoku crashed her car into Amon’s truck while speeding through the rain and told Su Enxi she had been in an accident.
• Mai offered Amon one million yuan for the damage, and Su Enxi transferred the money to his account.
• Amon and Xia Mi drove away, and Xia Mi urged him to pursue Mai for her wealth, but Amon said he was more interested in the corpse at home.
• Su Enxi picked up Mai, who showed her Amon’s photo and asked her to investigate him.

Mai Sakatoku and Su Enxi investigated He Xiaomeng after discovering signs he had encountered supernatural forces and a huge snake had passed through his residential complex. Mai entered his apartment under cover of an invisibility Spirit Word, leaving the source of the danger unknown.

• Su Enxi found records showing that He Xiaomeng had investigated supernatural events after reporting a Snake-form Dead Servant and may have found the Gate to the Inner World.
• Mai Sakatoku and Su Enxi went to He Xiaomeng’s residential complex, where they found a trail suggesting a giant snake had passed through.
• An elderly resident told Mai that someone had asked about Xiaomeng earlier and that she had heard a small child crying the previous night.
• Mai noticed a shattered window on the fourth floor of Building 6, picked the lock to Room 401, and used Spirit Word: Underworld Reflection to conceal herself.
• Mai cautiously entered He Xiaomeng’s apartment with a hand on her pistol.