Chapter Summaries

Harvey and Qikala fought to survive Oleiwa’s Frosty Extinction, sacrificing Alice and much of their own bodies as the ice returned. Harvey transformed into the Blood Moon Corpse King to destroy the frost, but the change threatened to make him an undead creature; he remained determined to live and looked toward the Mist Door to the next level.

• Qikala dug Harvey and Alice out of the snow, but Oleiwa rose again and unleashed Frosty Extinction across the tenth level.
• Qikala and Harvey used Miracle Flesh Grand Flame to resist the freezing, burning away their limbs and then Alice until Oleiwa’s Spell Power briefly faltered.
• When Frosty Extinction resumed, Harvey revealed that Alice’s eye was enough to activate Icy Blazing Fire and chose to transform so Qikala could live.
• Harvey used the Ghost King Shackles to become the Blood Moon Corpse King, while warning Qikala that the transformation would eventually consume him.
• Harvey’s blood moon crushed Oleiwa’s white frost, and Harvey declared that he did not want to die yet as he looked toward the Mist Door.

Harvey recalled how he became a Cleaner, Controller, and Necromancer, and why he had chosen to die protecting Nalbel. As he sank through the deep sea, he accepted that his soul belonged to the Mist Veil Corpse Prison Dragon and believed he had finally died with value.

• Harvey grew up in a Nurturing Home, saved his construction wages to buy a house, and first met Nalbel while she was disposing of a corpse.
• Harvey joined Nalbel's organization as a Cleaner, developed ways to erase evidence from crime scenes, and later became a Necromancer and Controller.
• After his identity was exposed, Harvey erased his memories as Controller, let the Bloodfury Hunters capture him, and was sent to Broken Lake Prison.
• Harvey realized he had protected no one by remaining in prison, so he joined Ash and the others in Prison Break and pursued a death he considered meaningful.
• As Harvey sank through the deep sea, he recognized the Mist Veil Corpse Prison Dragon and accepted that his soul belonged to it.

Harvey recovered from undeath through Qikala’s life-consuming healing Fire Art, and Alice took over his former corpse as a vessel. Meanwhile, Ash, Igula, and Gwen found Tamashi on the fifteenth floor, where he urged them to reach the Bottom Layer and stop Silver Lamp from destroying Senluo.

• Harvey woke as Qikala used Life Fire to regenerate him from his remaining eyeball, spending his own lifespan to restore him.
• Qikala explained that he had always been a Healing Arcanist and agreed to travel with Harvey, who promised not to bind him with the Slave Contract.
• Harvey discovered Alice’s mummified corpse was now her vessel and offered to teach Qikala Necromancy.
• Ash, Igula, and Gwen entered the fifteenth floor and found Tamashi holding a Black Feather Spellcaster hostage beside an Empty Doorway Passage.
• Tamashi told Ash and the others to hurry to the Bottom Layer and stop Silver Lamp, who was constructing a World Extinction Spell to destroy Senluo.

Ash and his companions encountered Black Crow and Mercury Trojan Horse in Silent Helix while Silver Lamp prepared to destroy Senro. Black Crow begged them to stop Silver Lamp, but Ash collapsed under Raven Slaughter’s curse before they could decide what to do.

• Black Crow told Ash and the others that Tano Mu’s body was dead but Mercury Trojan Horse survived, and he asked them to stop Silver Lamp from destroying Senro.
• Mercury Trojan Horse revealed that she had a force of Artificers and spellcasters and intended to use Charlin’s Empty Doorway Passage to escape to a new world.
• Black Crow said he would hold Mercury Trojan Horse hostage while Ash, Igula, and Gwen went to stop Silver Lamp, but Ash insisted they would leave together after dealing with her.
• Ash suddenly collapsed as a crow-shaped mark appeared over his heart, and Mercury Trojan Horse explained that he had deviated from the Raven Slaughter Trial’s main theme and suffered its curse.

Black Crow stayed behind to confront Mercury Trojan Horse while Ash, Yin Gula, and Gwen went after Silver Lamp, and he resisted the Raven Slaughter curse by refusing to heed Tano Mu's taunts. As Black Crow charged into the Black Feather artificers, Yin Gula rescued him from their final assault.

• Mercury Trojan Horse explained that Ash's guilt had triggered the Raven Slaughter curse, and Ash decided he had to leave to stop Silver Lamp.
• Ash comforted Black Crow, calming the Blood Crow in his heart, then passed through the Mist Door with Yin Gula and Gwen.
• Mercury Trojan Horse accused Black Crow of choosing revenge over justice, but he ignored her words and killed Charlin, ending her hostage scheme.
• Black Crow charged through the Black Feather artificers toward Mercury Trojan Horse, fighting despite his growing wounds.
• Three Saint Domain Artificers struck Black Crow with powerful Miracles, and he wondered whether the world disliked him as he fell.
• Gwen helped Black Crow up behind Yin Gula's Saint Domain shield, and Yin Gula told him that the world liked him if his friends did.

Yin Gula and Gwen returned to save Black Crow, then confronted Mercury Trojan Horse as she proposed a truce. Black Crow revealed that Vishy and the Four Pillar Gods Church were involved in a plot around Silver Lamp, and Yin Gula rejected Mercury Trojan Horse’s offer and launched the fight again.

• Yin Gula and Gwen rescued Black Crow, and Yin Gula told him he had been wrong not to trust Ash and himself.
• Yin Gula, Black Crow, and Gwen faced Mercury Trojan Horse and her four Saint Domain Artificers as Mercury proposed that they retreat separately.
• Black Crow recalled that Vishy was at the Bottom Layer and warned that the Four Pillar Gods Church had designs on Silver Lamp.
• Yin Gula attacked Mercury Trojan Horse with Mind Thrust, but a hidden defensive Miracle blocked the strike.
• Yin Gula rejected Mercury Trojan Horse’s offer to negotiate, and Black Crow charged into battle with illusions clearing his path.

Alone on the Silent Helix’s sixteenth level, Ash confronted a shadow that tried to persuade him to abandon his pursuit of Silver Lamp and flee Senro. Remembering that his friends had prepared and supported him, Ash overcame the trial of loneliness and opened the Mist Door, continuing toward Silver Lamp.

• Ash wandered beside a boundless wall, grew anxious without his companions, and recalled that he had rarely been truly alone.
• Ash’s shadow spoke to him and urged him to return to Igula and the others, escape Senro, and leave Silver Lamp’s plan alone.
• The shadow warned that Ash might endanger himself and his friends by trying to save Senro, and argued that his guilt could be set aside.
• Ash said his friends were the preparation that had brought him this far and admitted that, despite feeling pushed into it, he wanted to act on his sense of justice.
• Ash recognized loneliness as the wall’s trial, thanked the shadow for reminding him of his friends, and parted the Mist Door inside the shadow to continue onward.

Black Crow, Yin Gula, and Gwen fought the Black Feather Guard as Mercury Trojan Horse’s forces combined their spells and tried to wear down Yin Gula. Yin Gula exploited the guards’ fear of Black Crow to break their formation, then realized their true psychological shadow was Tano Mu.

• Black Crow recalled how he first met Tano Mu after killing a Robbery Fire artificer, and how they once returned to the Raven Slaughter Sect together after missions.
• Black Crow killed a Black Feather Artificer while facing Mercury Trojan Horse, and the Black Feather Guard attacked him, Yin Gula, and Gwen with coordinated spells.
• Yin Gula and Gwen tried to retreat, but Mercury Trojan Horse blocked their route and rallied the Black Feather Guard to fight on.
• Yin Gula, Gwen, and Black Crow coordinated an attack that shattered the Black Feather Guard’s defenses, allowing Black Crow to kill several artificers and Yin Gula to kill Dao Qiong.
• Yin Gula explained that the Black Feather Guard feared Black Crow because Mercury Trojan Horse had made them his substitutes, but their renewed guilt and resolve left him unable to use the same miracle again.
• Black Crow said the guards’ true psychological shadow was the Tano Mu they imagined.

Yin Gula tricked Mercury Trojan Horse and the Black Feather Artificers into believing he could swap people’s positions, turning their attack against Mercury Trojan Horse and breaking their morale. Black Crow then slaughtered the weakened Black Feather Guard, while Mercury Trojan Horse faced the looming Death Knell Black Crow.

• Yin Gula realized Gwen was trying to get himself killed and used that resolve to set a trap for Mercury Trojan Horse.
• Yin Gula pretended to reveal a Position Swap Spell Spirit while negotiating, giving himself time to dig a hole and deceive the Black Feather Artificers.
• Gwen drew the Black Feather Artificers’ attention as Yin Gula secretly protected him with his Saint Domain.
• Mercury Trojan Horse ordered the arrow rain toward the figure she believed was Gwen, but Yin Gula’s illusion made the Artificers think they had killed Mercury Trojan Horse.
• The Black Feather Artificers collapsed under the guilt of believing they had killed their Honored Seat, and Black Crow slaughtered their forces in three seconds.
• Mercury Trojan Horse looked up as the Death Knell Black Crow loomed over her.

Mercury Trojan Horse used the mercury bullet inside Igula to stop Tama Hill from killing her in the Silent Helix. She offered to leave the Trial and spare Igula, while insisting she would not die.

• Tama Hill remembered how he had survived paralysis and rescued Mercury Trojan Horse from a Gun Artificer, then raised his Grey Fox Blade to kill her in the Silent Helix.
• Mercury Trojan Horse threatened to kill herself unless Tama Hill spared Igula, and revealed that her mercury could let her possess anyone it entered.
• Gwen found the mercury bullet inside Igula, and Mercury Trojan Horse warned that she might reincarnate into him and impersonate him.
• Mercury Trojan Horse described how she would secretly rebuild her power and asked Tama Hill to cherish her as before, but he pinned her hand to the floor with his blade.
• Mercury Trojan Horse offered to leave the Silent Helix so she could not possess Igula, while repeating that she would not die.

Black Crow spared Mercury Trojan Horse after Igula’s near-fatal collapse, and Igula later recovered with Raven Blood Wine. On the eighteenth floor, Vesir revealed that Silent Helix was Senluo Zhanzhu’s inheritance and that she intended to replace the waking Dream Master as Senro Country’s ruler.

• As Black Crow hesitated over whether to kill Mercury Trojan Horse, Igula collapsed, and Black Crow chose to let her go.
• Gwen and Black Crow used Mercury Trojan Horse’s Raven Blood Wine to stop Igula’s bleeding, and the three drank together to celebrate surviving and starting over.
• Ash reached the eighteenth floor of Silent Helix and found Vesir on a beach after the Mist Door disappeared.
• Vesir explained that Silent Helix’s first seventeen Trials selected an heir for Senluo Zhanzhu and that she had reached the place where it was easiest to wake the Dream Master.
• Vesir told Ash that Senluo Zhanzhu was waking, she was falling asleep, and she would take its place as Dream Master of Senro Country.

Ash learned that Silver Lamp inherited Senro Dreamland to carry out Senluo Zhanzhu’s wish to end the country before its collapse caused an even worse disaster. After hearing her explanation, Ash declared that he would try to untie the dead knot and revealed the Space Gate Spell Spirit.

• Igula explained that Silver Lamp’s mission stemmed from the Grey Fox Inheritance, and warned Ash that she was proud of her plan to destroy the world rather than seeking his rescue.
• Ash sent Igula and Gwen to help Tama Hill while he stayed to face Silver Lamp alone.
• Vesir explained that she could not maintain Senro Dreamland and that inheriting it would break the Silent Helix’s plug, sending its inhabitants toward the Virtual Realm.
• Vesir revealed that Senluo Zhanzhu and the Grey Fox Artificers had both accepted the destruction of Senro Dreamland as the only alternative to a worse catastrophe.
• Ash realized he had been summoned to address Senro Country’s crisis and told Vesir he had come to untie the dead knot, showing her the Space Gate Spell Spirit.

Ash told Vesir that the Space Gate Spell Spirit could open a stable passage to another country, offering the Senro People a way to escape the Wasteland. Vesir refused to leave or abandon her plan to destroy Senro, and the chapter ended with Ash and Vesir meeting three unexpected arrivals on the beach.

• Ash explained that using the Space Gate Spell Spirit underground could create a stable passage to Gospel Country and allow the Senro People to flee the Wasteland.
• Ash said Vesir’s takeover of Senro Dreamland would pressure the Senro People to seek escape, but Vesir rejected his invitation to leave and help save them.
• Vesir revealed that she wanted to destroy the world, believed she was bound to support Senro Dreamland until its collapse, and urged Ash to continue portraying her as the Demon King.
• Ash and Vesir watched a battered vessel reach the shore, where White Dove, Fire Cat, and Blue Bird introduced themselves.

Ash and Weiser learned that Senluo Zhanzhu had selected Ash as her Proxy and planned to share rule of Senro with him. Zhanzhu’s promise to recover and reclaim the land gave Ash’s evacuation plan a secure refuge, while Silver Lamp reacted with unexpected regret.

• Ash and Weiser were stunned when White Pigeon, Fire Cat, and Bluebird appeared and identified themselves as divine spirits.
• White Pigeon announced that Ash had passed the Silent Helix trial and repeated Zhanzhu’s declaration naming him her Proxy.
• White Pigeon explained that Ash would inherit part of Zhanzhu’s Dream Master share, eventually gain usable authority, and help govern Senro until Zhanzhu recovered.
• Bluebird said Ash would become Senro’s king, while White Pigeon added that Zhanzhu would grant him a World Secret Domain to help him reach the God Realm.
• Ash realized Zhanzhu’s future return would give Senro’s people a refuge and make his mass-evacuation plan more viable.
• Ash noticed that Silver Lamp showed dejection and regret instead of excitement about the arrangement.

Ash learned that Zhanzhu’s Divine Spirits would restrict Vesir’s Dream Master powers, then discovered they would not let the Senro People flee because their departure might save Zhanzhu. White Dove killed Ash after explaining that Zhanzhu had to die.

• Vesir saw through Ash’s attempt to influence her with Minstrel’s Speech but agreed to stop pursuing the destruction of the world.
• White Dove told Vesir that the Divine Spirits would perform a restrictive Ritual to prevent her from gaining more of the Dream Master’s share or using its authority.
• Ash suggested that the Divine Spirits announce Zhanzhu’s impending death and help the Senro People escape, but they refused because their departure would reduce the cost of maintaining Senro Land and might save Zhanzhu.
• Vesir realized something was wrong and tried to warn Ash as he fled toward the Mist Door, but White Dove pierced his head with her cane and declared that Zhanzhu must die.

Ash survived White Dove’s fatal attack through Round Cicada, but Fire Cat trapped him and Vesir inside her illuminated domain. Ash realized White Dove, Fire Cat, and Blue Bird had been deliberately undermining Zhanzhu because they had wanted their master dead since becoming her Divine Spirits.

• White Dove nearly killed Ash, but Vesir rescued him and Round Cicada used Three-Second Cicada to restore him to life.
• Fire Cat invoked Knowledge Keeper Fire and prevented anyone within her light from escaping, blocking Ash’s Mist Door and Wish Center.
• Vesir questioned whether the gods had betrayed Zhanzhu, and Ash recognized that they were exploiting gaps in her orders while remaining technically obedient.
• The three gods explained that they had wanted Zhanzhu dead from the moment they became her Divine Spirits, and Ash and Vesir realized their rebellion came from rejecting the role of a Divine Lord’s tool.

Ash and Vesir fought the Divine Spirits but found they could not harm them, until a mysterious Arcanist used water to injure Fire Cat. The stranger joined them and introduced himself as Vishy, leaving Ash and Vesir wary but with a way to hurt their enemy.

• Ash and Vesir attacked Fire Cat with the Heart Sword and Square Cicada, but she repeatedly recovered from their blows.
• Ash tried attacking Blue Bird and White Dove, but neither of his attacks could injure them.
• A mysterious Silver Black Arcanist appeared and used a spring to strike Fire Cat, revealing that water could damage her and make her regress in age.
• The stranger offered to fight alongside Ash and Vesir, who introduced themselves as Ash and Silver Lamp while remaining suspicious of him.
• The stranger said his name was Vishy and that he had only recently transmigrated to Senro.

Ash and Vesir fought the three gods on the eighteenth layer of the Silent Helix while Mister Vesir explained their powers and revealed that prophecy had brought him there. The story left Vishy preparing to seize the Divine Spirits, despite the present situation differing greatly from his Premonition Dream.

• Mister Vesir explained that White Dove’s Thorn Celebration Taboo forced targets to welcome his attacks and that physical or mental attacks could harm him.
• Ash and Vesir retreated through the jungle while Ash kept Silver Lamp between himself and White Dove, and Ash’s Heart Sword failed to injure the god.
• Mister Vesir described Fire Cat’s Knowledge Fire and Guardian Fire, but Vesir’s Torrent Spell Spirit evaporated before it could reach her.
• Mister Vesir explained that Bluebird’s As Desired needed a will to guide it, then admitted he knew the gods’ powers through Prophecy magic.
• Vishy recalled a Premonition Dream in which Silver Lamp and Ash led a successful effort to slay the gods, and decided to seize the three Divine Spirits himself.

Vishy manipulated Vesir into performing a ritual while Ash protected her, recreating a scene from a dream. The sky split open and turned bloodred as Vishy declared that Senro Doomsday had descended.

• Vishy learned that Zhanzhu's remaining gods had starved to death after White Dove, Blue Bird, and Fire Cat destroyed their resources, and that Weather had died 231 years earlier.
• White Dove and Fire Cat adapted to Ash and Vesir's attacks, growing more dangerous as their relentless assaults drained Vesir's Spell Power.
• Ash and Vesir struggled to survive the gods' attacks, and Vesir apologized as they argued about the trouble they had caused each other.
• Vesir revealed that he had a way to help and asked Ash and Vesir whether they had ever daydreamed, then used his gaze to control them.
• Vesir performed a blood ritual while Ash shielded her from the gods, and the sky turned bloodred with a vast rift resembling a scar.
• Vishy recorded the time and date and announced that Senro Doomsday had descended.

The Qin Day Alliance breached Vine Giant City after Qin Day killed Black Tide, but a world-shaking rupture interrupted the battle and swept everyone across Senro Wasteland into a Torrent of Fate. The Torrent dragged them toward Silent Helix, leaving the fate of the gathered armies uncertain.

• Black Tide faced Lin Bei'er and Ke Nei Li Ya as their forces fought around Vine Giant City, and they revealed that the Senro sects had united against the Four Pillar Gods Church.
• Qin Day appeared behind Black Tide, extracted and crushed his heart, then Lin Bei'er and Ke Nei Li Ya led the assault that breached Vine Giant City.
• Qin Day wondered why O'Neill had not appeared and considered the sects’ plans to destroy the Four Pillar Gods Church and fight for Senro’s future.
• The earth split beneath Vine Giant City and a wound opened in the sky, while the Torrent of Fate pulled Qin Day and the surrounding fighters toward the fissure.
• Qin Day recognized that the Torrent of Fate was sweeping people across Senro Wasteland toward Silent Helix.