Chapter Summaries

As Royt’s barrier trapped the exhausted defenders and more people fled, Qin Siyang waited for a chance to use his hidden strength. Reinforcements began attacking the artifact from underground, striking directly beneath Qin Siyang and restoring the defenders’ hope.

• After Gong Yingduo fled, Li Tianming kept coordinating the group’s attacks as their strength and morale dwindled.
• President Liu used an [Apocalypse Fragment] to escape, becoming the fifth person to flee.
• Qin Siyang held back his Silver Needle, waiting for the right moment to help break the barrier.
• Powerful impacts shook the world from below, revealing that reinforcements were attacking the barrier underground.
• Li Tianming rallied the defenders to attack alongside the reinforcements, who focused their blows beneath Qin Siyang’s feet.
• Qin Siyang welcomed the arrival of the Sandworm.

As the Sandworm’s attacks weakened the [Apocalypse Barrier], Royt and Manderson discussed their failing plan to sacrifice the trapped people and seize power. Royt ordered Manderson to ambush Gu Weiyang and Xie Nanyun while the barrier was still intact.

• Li Tianming realized Qin Siyang was connected to the reinforcements as the Sandworm’s attacks stalled the [Apocalypse Barrier]’s restoration.
• Royt and Manderson used Conversation Shielding to discuss the barrier’s imminent collapse and the Sandworm’s [Succession Trial].
• Royt suspected that one of the mysterious people who had arrived with the first Chosen Ones had activated the trial, and Manderson warned that this person could be a powerful opponent.
• Royt refused to abandon the plan, insisting that the barrier was nearly complete and that its restoration points could hold off the Sandworm longer.
• Manderson assessed the remaining attackers, and Royt ordered him to take Qin Yingguang and Jerry to kill Gu Weiyang and Xie Nanyun.

As the trapped fighters worked to break Royt’s barrier, Royt revealed himself and the World-Destroying Church and Reincarnation Church launched attacks. Gu Weiyang came under a coordinated assault, and the chapter ended with him isolated as the barrier’s pressure threatened to immobilize everyone.

• Li Tianming coordinated the reinforcements’ attacks while members of the World-Destroying Church and Reincarnation Church emerged from the shadows.
• Royt appeared at the barrier’s center, and Gu Weiyang urged everyone to join forces and destroy it.
• Qin Yingguang, Jerry, and Manderson attacked Gu Weiyang and Xie Nanyun, breaking Xie Nanyun’s shield and separating Gu Weiyang from the others.
• Gu Weiyang fought off Manderson’s illusions and learned from Li Tianming that his direction of the barrier was the weakest.
• Royt moved to intercept anyone trying to help Gu Weiyang as the barrier turned black and its crushing pressure left sequence level six fighters unable to move.

As Li Tianming and the others battered the barrier, Gu Weiyang fought Manderson while suffering from his Rainbow Plague. Gu Weiyang kept attacking despite the chance to escape, and the barrier began to crack as he faced the prospect of dying with a clean corpse.

• Gu Weiyang ordered Li Tianming to keep attacking while Royt blocked anyone from reaching him.
• Li Tianming coordinated attacks with the Sandworm, and their blows opened a crack in the barrier that revealed the stars.
• Manderson told Gu Weiyang that Rainbow Plague was dissolving his organs, while Xie Nanyun struggled to hold off Jerry and Qin Yingguang.
• Gu Weiyang treated his wound and struck the barrier again as Manderson's rainbow attack pierced his chest, widening the crack and making him spit multicolored blood.
• Manderson urged Gu Weiyang to escape and mocked his lack of Tier Five tools; Gu Weiyang replied that he was clean and said he would leave a clean corpse even if he died.

As the apocalypse barrier neared completion, Li Tianming and the others raced to break it while Gu Weiyang weakened under Manderson’s attacks. With the professors unable to strike the cracks themselves, Qin Siyang offered to try.

• More people activated their [Apocalypse Fragment] and left, while those who stayed continued attacking the barrier.
• Three people tried to escape through a widening crack, but Royt’s crows killed them in explosions of black flame.
• Gu Weiyang continued attacking despite severe injuries, and Manderson taunted him before attacking while he faced away.
• Li Tianming and the professors realized they might not break the barrier in time to save Gu Weiyang, whose attacks were weakening.
• Qin Siyang spoke up and offered to attack the barrier’s cracks.

Qin Siyang prepared his hidden trump card and joined Gu Weiyang’s final assault on the barrier. Their combined attacks widened its crack into a hole over ten meters across, leaving Qin Siyang hovering above it as the battlefield erupted in shock.

• Liu Wenzhao and Liang Wensheng lent Qin Siyang artifacts to conceal his attack, while Hao Liang gave him pharmaceuticals to prepare for battle.
• Qin Siyang consumed the pharmaceuticals and God Remains, activated his skills, and used Flash Step to race toward the barrier’s crack as Li Tianming counted down.
• Gu Weiyang rose despite his grave wounds and gathered what remained of his strength for one final punch.
• At Li Tianming’s command, Qin Siyang struck with his Short Club at the same moment Gu Weiyang punched the barrier.
• Their attacks widened the crack into a hole more than ten meters across, and an unseen force turned the approaching Crows to ash.

Qin Siyang broke through the barrier, making him the key to the battle, and Royt rushed to kill him before he could strike again. Yu Ziying, Yang Guanglie, Han Shuo, and Li Tianming protected Qin Siyang long enough for the coordinated attack to begin.

• Qin Siyang punched through the barrier, and Zhang Kuang estimated that the reinforcements' next attack would arrive in fifteen seconds.
• Royt recognized Qin Siyang as the new threat and charged at him, prompting Chu Zhongxiong to order the fastest fighters to protect him.
• Yu Ziying, Yang Guanglie, and Han Shuo raced through the battlefield's air resistance to intercept Royt, while Manderson stayed beside the gravely wounded Gu Weiyang.
• Yu Ziying disrupted Royt's attack, Yang Guanglie blocked his path with ice crystals, and Han Shuo strengthened the ice vortex as Li Tianming counted down.
• Royt blasted through the fighters' defenses, but Li Tianming struck him in Titan form, and Hao Liang called for everyone to attack.

Qin Siyang and the others shattered Royt’s Apocalypse Barrier, ending his ten-year plan. After Olof revealed that a Sandworm was the real attacker outside, Qin Siyang used [Feast Kingdom] to draw it away from the crowd.

• Hao Liang ordered another assault, and Qin Siyang struck the barrier while Li Tianming kept Royt occupied.
• Qin Siyang’s blow opened the barrier, and its remaining sections collapsed completely.
• Royt recognized that the Sandworm had been attacking from outside and wondered whether Qin Siyang had initiated its [Succession Trial].
• Olof warned everyone that the Large God, the Sandworm, was approaching, and the crowd panicked at the threat.
• Qin Siyang repeatedly activated [Feast Kingdom] to move away from the crowd, hoping to protect the people who could not escape.

Qin Siyang escaped the Sandworm’s attack when it suddenly pursued a transparent man instead, and Royt abandoned his attempt to kill him. As Gu Weiyang lay dying, he used a Lie Detector to publicly nominate Qin Siyang as the next Minister of Armaments.

• The Sandworm stopped pursuing Qin Siyang and raced after a transparent man, while Qin Siyang fled to safety.
• Royt tried to pursue Qin Siyang, but Li Tianming and the others stood in his way, so Royt withdrew.
• Li Tianming collapsed after exhausting himself, then worried about Gu Weiyang’s condition.
• Manderson asked the dying Gu Weiyang for his last words as Royt intercepted Yu Jianyun and the others rushed toward them.
• Gu Weiyang used his communication tool and a Lie Detector to announce that Dmitri had betrayed them and been executed, then nominated Qin Siyang as Minister of Armaments.

Gu Weiyang died after naming a young man with no connection to him as Minister of Armaments, and the World-Destroying Church forces fled the battlefield. As his rainbow-lit remains disappeared, Qin Siyang reflected on Gu Weiyang’s life and recognized fairness as the quality that had defined him.

• Manderson watched Gu Weiyang die, and Royt ordered the World-Destroying Church to retreat.
• The Church members, Manderson, Jerry, and Qin Yingguang turned into black crows and vanished, leaving the battlefield silent.
• Olof, Qi Tian, Yu Jianyun, and the others gathered around Gu Weiyang, whose body still glowed with rainbow light.
• Qin Siyang recalled Gu Weiyang’s restrained yet indulgent support and reflected on his distinctive role in the Safe Zone.
• Qin Siyang concluded that fairness had defined Gu Weiyang, and Gu Weiyang’s remains vanished in a blaze of color.

After Gu Weiyang's death, Qin Siyang wrestled with the burden of being named his successor as Minister of Armaments, while Qi Tian urged him not to let Gu's final wish become a lifelong obligation. The survivors returned to the Safe Zone without revealing the [Apocalypse Fragment]'s contents, though Qin Siyang believed he would disclose the secret someday.

• Olof told Yu Jianyun to notify him before holding a meeting in Zone 1, saying he planned to fulfill Gu Weiyang's last wish.
• Qin Siyang reflected on Gu Weiyang's wish for him to become Minister of Armaments and feared he lacked the ability to bear the responsibility.
• Qi Tian warned Qin Siyang that he need not accept Gu Weiyang's dying words as an obligation and defended him against people who might use them to pressure him.
• The group left the battlefield and returned to the Safe Zone without answering questions about the [Apocalypse Fragment].
• Qin Siyang stayed silent about the fragment out of respect for Gu Weiyang, who had died preventing the World-Destroying Church from revealing its contents, and resolved to reveal everything someday.

After the battle outside the Sigma District, Qin Siyang attended to funeral arrangements and flew Chu Baxing to the Chu Character Legion, where Chu Xiaoang’s officers had been kept under watch. Chu Baxing revealed that his father had died and confronted Zheng Mubian about the succession plan, leaving Qin Siyang struck by how much the boy had changed.

• Qin Siyang arranged for others to attend several funerals on his behalf and planned to honor Lu Daoxing with a memorial tablet in the Miracle Building.
• Qin Siyang piloted the Drill Pod to the Chu Character Legion with Chu Baxing for Chu Xiaoang’s funeral.
• Huang Yihan challenged Zheng Mubian’s decision to keep the legion’s senior officers at headquarters, while Qu Xiayang and Xiang Tianxiao urged them to wait for Chu Xiaoang.
• Chu Baxing called Zheng Mubian and told him that Qin Yingguang had killed Chu Xiaoang.
• Chu Baxing used a Lie Detector to challenge Zheng Mubian about whether Chu Xiaoang had intended for Zheng to take over the legion and rename it.
• Qin Siyang reflected on Chu Baxing’s growth after hardships had changed him.

After Chu Xiaoang’s death, Chu Baxing returned toward camp while Zheng Mubian assessed the loyalty of the Chu Character Legion’s leaders. At headquarters, Huang Yihan openly rejected Zheng’s authority, and Zheng sought support to suppress the 1st Army’s rebellion.

• Chu Baxing told Zheng Mubian that Chu Xiaoang had died and asked him to keep the camp in line until he returned.
• Qin Siyang warned Chu Baxing that trusted people could betray him, but Chu Baxing said Zheng was the only person left in the legion he trusted.
• News of Chu Xiaoang’s death reached headquarters, where Zheng Mubian asked the assembled officers what they intended to do.
• Huang Yihan admitted he rejected both Chu Baxing and Zheng Mubian, then declared that the 1st Army would break away.
• Qu Xiayang pledged the 2nd Army’s support and offered to suppress Huang’s rebellion, while Xiang Tianxiao said he would join only if the Chu Character Legion became the Zheng Character Legion.

Chu Baxing returned to the Chu Character Legion with Qin Siyang and addressed officers debating the Legion’s future after Chu Xiaoang’s death. He defended his readiness to lead, but ended by declaring that the other second-generation heirs were worse than trash.

• Xiang Tianxiao argued that the Chu Character Legion should remain intact under Zheng Mubian rather than split into an independent unit, and warned that Chu Baxing might abuse his authority.
• Chu Baxing and Qin Siyang entered the meeting room after Chu Baxing had watched the discussion through Zheng Mubian’s recording device.
• Qin Siyang announced that he had brought Chu Baxing and wanted to discuss future cooperation with the Chu Character Legion, then sat quietly while the officers reacted to his presence.
• Chu Baxing thanked Qu Xiayang for his support and told Xiang Tianxiao he would learn from Zheng Mubian and listen to the officers.
• Chu Baxing admitted that he had once considered his peers trash, then said he had learned they were worse than trash.

Chu Baxing confronted the officers over their children’s corruption and demanded that they either discipline them or keep them out of command. After Qin Siyang killed Huang Yihan for refusing to yield the 1st Army, Chu Baxing set out alone to put down the rebellion.

• Chu Baxing denounced the Chu Character Legion’s younger generation for competing in indulgence instead of military ability, and challenged the officers to raise children capable of obeying orders.
• Chu Baxing rejected Division Commander Qiu’s defense of his son by pointing out that the apocalypse demanded young people be ready to step forward when their elders died.
• Chu Baxing told Huang Yihan he would not let him take the 1st Army, and Qin Siyang killed Huang Yihan with one punch when he refused to yield.
• Chu Baxing asked Zheng Mubian to lend him the Special Brigade so he could quell the rebellion, but refused offers of help and left to handle it alone.

Chu Baxing returned from quelling the 1st Army’s rebellion and reported the deaths of its three rebellious brigade commanders. He secured the remaining commanders’ obedience, and the chapter ended with Xiang Tianxiao accepting a transfer to lead the 1st Army.

• In the Conference Room, Qin Siyang defended Chu Baxing’s decision to prove himself and rejected the rebellious officers’ attempts to bargain for leniency.
• Chu Baxing returned bloodied and announced that Kuai Zhong, Zuo Wanjun, and Nian Zefeng had been killed and the 1st Army had returned to the Military Camp.
• Chu Baxing described how he defeated the 6th, 7th, and 8th Brigades and killed the 2nd Division’s deputy commander and chief of staff.
• Chen Lanpo asked Chu Baxing to spare his family, received his assurance, and killed himself.
• Chu Baxing offered Xiang Tianxiao command of the 1st Army and assigned Zheng Cong to lead the Ace Division; Xiang accepted the transfer.

Qin Siyang exposed Guard Regiment Commander Fu Zhaoyue as the traitor who had sabotaged Chu Xiaoang’s armor and helped bring about his death. Fu Zhaoyue revealed his revenge motive and ties to Zone 1 before Chu Baxing executed him.

• Qin Siyang trapped Fu Zhaoyue in a Lightning Cage and accused him of tampering with Chu Xiaoang’s armor.
• Fu Zhaoyue’s reaction confirmed Qin Siyang’s suspicion, and Qin Siyang explained how he had deduced the sabotage.
• Fu Zhaoyue revealed that he was Yue Zhao’s son and had betrayed Chu Xiaoang to avenge his father and the destruction of the Yue Character Legion.
• Qin Siyang used his artifact to determine that Zone 1 had helped Fu Zhaoyue conceal his identity.
• Chu Baxing executed Fu Zhaoyue for his role in Chu Xiaoang’s death.

Chu Baxing regained control of the Chu Character Legion after putting down the rebellion, while Qin Siyang shared crucial secrets and secured supplies for his brigade. Qin Siyang then rushed back to Nanrong University after learning that Wen Shu had gone missing.

• Chu Baxing reorganized the Chu Character Legion, stripped the rebel officers of their military authority, and thanked Zheng Mubian, Zheng Cong, and Qin Siyang for their help.
• Chu Baxing offered Qin Siyang low-tier armor and weapons, and Qin Siyang warned him against going to war with the Qin Character Legion.
• Qin Siyang privately told Chu Baxing how to unlock the [path of self-verification] and shared the first and second parts of the Apocalypse Fragment.
• Qin Siyang left the Chu Character Legion and raced back toward Nanrong University after learning from Zhao Longfei that Wen Shu had gone missing.

After learning that Wen Shu had disappeared following her grandmother Xu Lanzhi’s death, Qin Siyang went to Wen Shu’s home and was attacked by a powerful mental-skill user. The attacker believed they had engulfed Qin Siyang in pink crystals, but he reappeared alive and prepared to fight.

• Qin Siyang learned from Zhao Longfei that Xu Lanzhi had died and Wen Shu had vanished with her grandmother’s body.
• Qin Siyang found Xu Lanzhi’s memorial portrait and urn at Wen Shu’s empty home, then paid his respects.
• An unseen enemy launched a powerful mental attack, and Qin Siyang used Flash Step to escape the initial assault.
• Pink mist overwhelmed Qin Siyang, and crystalline flowers covered him until the attacker believed he had been swallowed.
• The attacker wondered why Qin Siyang’s mind held no memories of Wen Shu, but Qin Siyang appeared behind them alive and summoned a silver spear.

Qin Siyang narrowly escaped the pink mist, advanced to Origin Sequence level 3, and confronted the enemy who had been searching for Wen Shu. As Qin Siyang attacked, a chaotic gale swept through Zone 14121, leaving He Kui wondering whether another powerful expert had emerged.

• Qin Siyang used a shadow clone to escape the pink mist, refined his tenth mote of primordial starshine, and advanced to Origin Sequence level 3.
• Qin Siyang discovered that his skills had strengthened, especially Feast Kingdom, and used his silver spear to confront the pink figure.
• The pink figure recognized that Qin Siyang had grown stronger and accused him of holding back during the barrier battle.
• Qin Siyang silently thrust his spear toward the pink mist, while a fierce, chaotic wind swept through Zone 14121.
• He Kui learned from Cui Zhonghua that the gale had originated inside the Safe Zone and wondered whether another formidable expert had appeared.