Chapter Summaries

Qin Siyang absorbed cooked God Remains and broke through to domain sequence level four, becoming a Mountain-River Cauldron Lord. His new skills and domain bonuses greatly expanded his strength and battlefield support as he discovered that a domain contract had been established.

• Qin Siyang felt the essence of the God Remains transform his body and sharpen his senses as his breakthrough began.
• Qin Siyang reached domain sequence level four and was named the Mountain-River Cauldron Lord.
• Qin Siyang reviewed his upgraded God Eater skills, including stronger God-cooking, teleportation, and god-skill use.
• Qin Siyang saw that his Domain Banquet Order could now reset an extra skill cooldown within his territory.
• Qin Siyang discovered that a domain contract had been established and gained the Domain Summoning skill.

Qin Siyang examined the new contract tied to Fire Island and remained unable to use Feast Kingdom. Meanwhile, the First Domain's leaders learned that two groups had killed their people, then received word that a visitor from the Eighth Domain had arrived with tier five artifact-crafting methods.

• Qin Siyang studied the Domain Summoning skill and wondered how Fire Island differed from a spatial artifact.
• Qin Siyang confirmed that the Domain Contract applied only to Fire Island and speculated that the Evolutionary Sequence Domain was not his domain.
• The Godslayer Spear told Qin Siyang that Monroe had died after activating the skill that kept Feast Kingdom disabled.
• Duke Henry reported that Baron Henry and his guards had been killed, while Marquis Madison revealed that Elbridge, Monroe, and their expedition team had been wiped out.
• Viscount Wilson concluded that two different groups had challenged the First Domain by killing its people.
• Neil interrupted the Round Table Meeting to report that a visitor from the Eighth Domain offered tier five artifact-crafting methods and held a strange blade to his neck.

Zhong Dingming subdued Neil outside the First Domain and offered to cooperate, prompting Duke Henry to send Baron William to meet him. The nobles then reconsidered who had killed Baron Henry, Elbridge, and their forces, and concluded that their assumptions about their enemies had to change.

• Zhong Dingming restrained Neil and said he had come to cooperate with the First Domain, not join it.
• At the Round Table Meeting, Duke Henry asked who would meet Zhong Dingming, and Baron William volunteered.
• Duke Henry returned the meeting to the deaths of Baron Henry, Elbridge, and the others.
• Marquis Adams reasoned that the First Domain's forces had been killed by powerful people, not a Large God.
• Marquis Adams said at least two of their assumptions about the World-Destroying Church, Sima Ji, and the Eighth Domain's Domain Master were wrong, and urged them to revise their plans.

The Twelve Nobles of the Round Table Meeting discussed the Eighth Domain’s defenses and agreed to handle the deaths of their associates separately. When Zhong Dingming offered to cooperate with the First Domain through an artifact, Duke Henry refused, and Zhong concluded the nobles were as cautious as Qin Siyang.

• Count George argued that the World-Destroying Church’s enemies likely came from the Seventh or Eighth Domain, and the nobles agreed the Eighth Domain could not be conquered for now.
• Duke Henry proposed that his family deal with Sima Ji over Baron Henry’s likely death while Marquis Madison’s faction handled Elbridge and Monroe’s deaths.
• Baron William reported that a visitor’s powerful clone had subdued Neil and left behind a horn-shaped communication artifact, which Duke Henry ordered him to explain.
• The artifact played Zhong Dingming’s offer to help someone win the succession star competition, but Duke Henry refused cooperation and invited him to join the First Domain instead.
• Zhong Dingming rejected the invitation, destroyed the artifact, and remarked that the First Domain’s people were as cautious as Qin Siyang.

After breaking through to domain sequence level four, Qin Siyang learned that twelve first clears of the large gods' trials could help him reach level five. He believed he had already collected all twelve and prepared to continue cultivating, while Hu Chan and Duan kept watch.

• Qin Siyang emerged from secluded cultivation at domain sequence level four, surprising Hu Chan and Quan Taibin.
• Hu Chan told Qin Siyang he had passed all seven large gods' trials, though the Land-Carrying Mirage's trial had only one phase.
• Hu Chan said he and Senior Duan planned to seek opportunities to advance after Qin Siyang reached domain sequence level five.
• Hu Chan relayed the large gods' message, "Twelve first clears, level five," and Qin Siyang counted enough first-clear effects to meet the number.
• Qin Siyang decided to keep cultivating toward level five, expecting Monroe's shackles effect to wear off after his breakthrough.

Qin Siyang tested a golden substance produced by his skill on Hu Chan and confirmed that it greatly enhanced strength and recovery. He entrusted Gu Yunzheng with helping decide how to distribute the scarce supply, while Hu Chan expressed another debt of gratitude.

• Quan Taibin warned that the next enemies would likely be domain sequence level five, so the group needed to protect Qin Siyang while he was in seclusion.
• Qin Siyang gave Hu Chan a bottle of golden gas to test, and Hu Chan inhaled a small amount despite its foul taste.
• Hu Chan found that the substance sharpened his perception and improved his skills and body more effectively than a hundred Sequence Potions.
• Qin Siyang refused to give Hu Chan more bottles, explaining that the supply was limited and needed a careful distribution plan.
• Qin Siyang asked everyone to discuss distribution with Mr. Gu after they returned, and Hu Chan said he could never repay Qin Siyang's kindness.

Qin Siyang consumed large amounts of God Remains in seclusion, but failed to break through to domain sequence level five and concluded that one of the Large Gods had deceived him about their Succession Trials. His Feast Kingdom skill also remained sealed, so he planned to keep exploring the sea.

• Qin Siyang gave Quan Taibin Divine Feast Fragrance to study and quantify, while Hu Chan warned Qin Siyang not to rush his next breakthrough because he was exhausted.
• Qin Siyang cooked and consumed God Remains for more than ten days, growing stronger and collecting Divine Feast Fragrance without breaking through to domain sequence level five.
• After consuming the last portion of God Remains, Qin Siyang concluded that he had enough power but lacked at least one first-clear effect from the Large Gods' Succession Trials.
• Qin Siyang suspected that one of the seven Large Gods he had met at sea had lied and resolved to keep exploring the sea for other trials.
• Qin Siyang found that his Feast Kingdom skill was still sealed more than twenty days later and wondered if the seal was the price of killing someone with the Shackles ability.

Marquis Madison and Count Adams found Qin Siyang’s island and attacked with immense domain abilities. Qin Siyang used Domain Summoning to make the island and everyone with him vanish, leaving the two powerful enemies to search the surrounding sea.

• Hu Chan alerted Qin Siyang to the arrival of Marquis Madison and Count Adams, whom Gu Yunzheng identified as two of Earth’s strongest people.
• Madison and Adams unleashed abilities that dragged the island toward the Night King’s Court and formed a blazing white crown over it.
• Qin Siyang ordered everyone to enter the Spatial Artifact and prepared to use Domain Summoning to escape with the island.
• Qin Siyang summoned Mirage Land Fire Island away just before Madison and Adams struck, causing their attacks to hit the empty sea.
• Madison and Adams realized Qin Siyang had taken the whole island and agreed to search nearby until they found and killed him.

Qin Siyang relocated the island to strange, starless waters, where his companions found signs that the Second Domain had once appeared. As debris from a sunken settlement surfaced, the group realized the Domain’s history was more complicated than they had been told.

• Qin Siyang used [Domain Summoning] to move the island far away, leaving the ability on cooldown for twenty-four hours.
• Qin Siyang brought everyone onto the island, and Quan Taibin noticed that the sea currents moved independently of the wind.
• Gu Yunzheng identified a rotting flag’s emblem as likely belonging to the Second Domain.
• Gu Yunzheng explained that the Second Domain’s Domain Master may have killed the Sequence Level Ten One person who triggered the calamity, then led survivors into the [Evolutionary Origin Domain].
• Qin Siyang questioned why the First Domain knew nothing about the Second Domain’s merger, and Gu Yunzheng admitted his information had been incomplete.
• Qin Siyang watched shattered buildings, stoves, and a lighthouse base rise from the sea, suggesting the remains of a city from seventy years earlier.

Qin Siyang and the others discovered that the Sunken Star Currents were tied to the Second Domain and learned about the dangerous Old Voyage phenomenon. A current seemed to invite them onward, while Gu Yunzheng warned that survivors from the Second Domain might be hostile.

• Gu Yunzheng explained that an old journal described the Second Domain merging into the Evolutionary Origin Domain and the Sunken Star Currents forming in its ocean territory.
• Qin Siyang and the others saw preserved figures from the Second Domain beneath the water, and one opened a metal box that emitted silver-white light.
• The figures’ broken messages mentioned a lost fleet and shifting star currents before they sank from view.
• Gu Yunzheng identified the waiting current as an Old Voyage, which could lead along a past shipping route to the fleet’s final destination but might be a trap.
• Qin Siyang considered following the current as a possible lead, and Gu Yunzheng warned that the Second Domain had been built largely on slavery and its people might fight them.

Qin Siyang prepared to keep exploring the sea because he still could not break through to domain sequence level five, while Old Johnny gave him medicine and confessed his fears about dying before finding Zhang Kuang. Qin Siyang challenged Old Johnny’s belief that only heroes favored by fate could live meaningful lives, asking whether ordinary people’s lives were meaningless too.

• Qin Siyang said he would resume exploring the sea once he recovered, and Hu Chan, Zhaxi, and the others agreed to accompany him.
• Old Johnny gave Qin Siyang liquor-based medicine intended to help domain sequence ability users recover.
• Old Johnny asked Qin Siyang to break through and help find his little brother, then admitted he might die before they found him.
• Old Johnny said he wanted Zhang Kuang to remember him as a brave elder brother, and Qin Siyang criticized his fixation on heroes and fate.
• Qin Siyang asked whether Old Johnny’s parents, who had no fame or exceptional luck, had lived meaningless lives.

Qin Siyang urged Old Johnny to value lives and keep fighting, then left to rest and seek a breakthrough. In the Fourth Domain, Alan reeled from the defeat in the Eighth Domain and learned that Sima Ji had broken with Duke Henry, leading him to suspect Sima Ji wanted to become Star Lord.

• Qin Siyang challenged Old Johnny’s talk of last words, reminded him that Director Zhang was less likely to survive, and left to recover and seek a breakthrough.
• Alan hid in the Fourth Domain after the defeat, while grieving families demanded answers and the Safe Zone faced dwindling guards and growing danger from gods.
• Alan replayed the battlefield footage and concluded that the Eighth Domain had become a power that could rival the First Domain.
• Alan learned that Duke Henry had sought a meeting with Sima Ji, who refused him and was suspected of reaching Domain Sequence Level Five and killing Baron Henry.
• Alan realized that Sima Ji might be seeking the position of Star Lord.

Alan faced pressure from the First and Seventh Domains to choose sides, but news of the First Domain’s losses made him decide to pursue his own chance at becoming Star Lord. He bought ten days by promising both sides different things, then secretly left the Fourth Domain for the Cursed Sea to seek a breakthrough to domain sequence level five.

• Alan received Duke Henry’s demand that he appear in the First Domain and Sima Ji’s request that he move the Fourth Domain beside the Seventh Domain.
• Alan initially chose to side with the First Domain, but news that the Eighth Domain had likely destroyed Elbridge and Monroe’s expedition—and that Marquis Madison and Marquis Adams had gone missing—made him reconsider.
• Alan concluded that the First Domain’s troubles created an opening for him to compete for Star Lord, and ordered his forces and puppets prepared.
• Alan asked Duke Henry and Sima Ji for ten days, giving each a different reason for the delay, and ordered his attendants to bring out Puppet Number One.
• Alan disguised himself to match Puppet Number One, left the Fourth Domain, and told the Centipede Lizard he was going to the Cursed Sea to seek a breakthrough.

Qin Siyang discovered that [Domain Summoning] could not free his island from the Sunken Star Currents, so he sent a detector along the Old Voyage to investigate. Its footage revealed the ruins of the Second Domain and a city-sized Safe Zone buried underwater, apparently destroyed in a later catastrophe.

• Qin Siyang tried [Domain Summoning] twice to leave the Sunken Star Currents, but the scenery barely changed and the same figures repeated their actions.
• Qin Siyang read that the Old Voyage must not be traveled in reverse, and Gu Yunzheng explained that doing so could lead into an ancient disaster.
• Quan Taibin sent a detector along the Star Stream, where it recorded voices warning the Third Fleet to stop the sacrifices and not approach the main city.
• The detector showed the Second Domain's ruined wall and a black wharf filled with eyeless silver-gray figures, which warned, "Do not travel in reverse!"
• A massive shadow moved beneath the sea, and the detector lost control and sank, revealing a devastated, uninhabited city the size of a Safe Zone.

A probe revealed that Second Domain City had sunk to the seabed with its dome largely intact, while the missing Third Fleet had crashed into the gates and been barred from entering by its own people. The probe reached a fissure beneath the city and uncovered a gigantic dead Large God impaled beneath the Safe Zone, leaving Qin Siyang stunned by evidence that the Second Domain had once killed one.

• The probe showed that Second Domain City had anchored itself to the seabed and that the Third Fleet's wreck was wedged in the gates, where its crew had been blocked by Second Domain defenders.
• The probe entered the city, where a shriek attacked the minds of weaker World-Destroying Church members and a flash from the lighthouse revealed the streets filled with hollow-eyed residents.
• A force swept the probe through the city to a vast fissure that split the Safe Zone apart.
• The probe revealed a gigantic deep-sea fish corpse beneath the fissure, with black spikes connecting its body to the city's foundations.
• Zhao Fengjun and Quan Taibin recognized the corpse as a Large God, and Qin Siyang struggled to believe the Second Domain had killed one.

Qin Siyang entered the Sunken Star Currents alone and fought off a Registry Page that tried to register him for sacrifice, then continued along the Star Stream. Elsewhere, Madison and Adams discussed the darkness at sea and Madison’s plan to help Adams become Star Lord.

• Qin Siyang sent everyone but Hu Chan, Duan Chongfang, Gu Yunzheng, and Old Johnny into a Spatial Artifact, then entered the Star Stream alone.
• Qin Siyang saw images of the Second Domain, including branded Blacksoil People, and jumped from his Capsule Pod into the current.
• A Registry Page marked Qin Siyang as eligible for temporary registration and sacrifice, but he destroyed it with his spear and escaped its pull.
• Qin Siyang swallowed some of the seawater, vomited it back up with fragments of his internal organs, and continued swimming forward.
• Madison told Adams that other Large Gods had warned him to avoid dark stretches of sea, and Adams wondered whether the Eighth Domain had entered one.
• Madison said he would support Adams’s bid to become Star Lord and asked him to ensure a peaceful transition; Adams agreed.

Qin Siyang entered the Second Domain, where black fingerprints began registering him as an outsider. He found the Registry Room and met Ada Moreau, who said she could explain how to resolve the danger but could not remove the fingerprints herself.

• Qin Siyang entered the Second Domain and destroyed the slave brands on the risen corpses to make them sink back to the seabed.
• Black fingerprints appeared on Qin Siyang and began writing his name and identity into his skin, while Zhao Fengjun's curse-removing medicine failed to stop them.
• Qin Siyang destroyed the luxurious houses with his spear, found the Registry Room, and entered the one building that remained standing.
• Qin Siyang met Ada Moreau, who confirmed that she had lured him there after he burned a registration page and killed the registrars at the entrance.
• Ada offered to explain the Second Domain and how to resolve the situation, but Qin Siyang interrupted her and demanded an immediate solution to the fingerprints.

Ada explained that the Second Domain had been a slaveholding Safe Zone transformed by its Domain Master’s sacrificial array and later merged into the [evolutionary origin domain]. Qin Siyang connected the Domain Master’s warnings about “succession refresh” to his own locked skill and learned that a large god’s attacks eventually exploited damage to the Safe Zone’s glass.

• Ada told Qin Siyang that the Registry Offering Mark came from the Second Domain’s sacrificial array, which used the Slave Registry Ledger to treat its people as property.
• Ada recounted how the Domain Master stopped a disastrous sequence level ten one breakthrough, rebuilt the Safe Zone, and merged the Second Domain into the [evolutionary origin domain].
• Ada said that a large god attacked the Second Domain and that the Domain Master muttered about “trouble brought on by succession refresh” and “Every gift has a price.”
• Qin Siyang realized that succession refresh might relate to the condition requiring him to kill a large god, and asked Ada to explain what happened next.
• Ada described an enormous fish repeatedly trying to breach the Safe Zone, while tsunamis shattered its blast-resistant glass and let the waiting large god enter through the cracks.

Ada explained that the Second Domain’s Domain Master sacrificed its people to kill the Sunken Star Manta Ray, but the Sacrificial Array continued after the domain fell and trapped her spirit. Qin Siyang learned that he could erase his registry offering mark only by becoming the registry’s master, then discovered Alan was also a candidate and that they would have to compete.

• Ada told Qin Siyang how the Domain Master sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people to kill the Sunken Star Manta Ray, destroying the Second Domain in the process.
• Ada explained that her tangled registry records caused the Sacrificial Array to trap her spirit instead of killing her, while everyone else was sacrificed.
• Ada warned Qin Siyang that the registry had begun recording him and that the ongoing sacrifice would claim him once his entry was completed.
• Ada told Qin Siyang that only the registry’s master could erase his offering mark and that the registry could have only one master.
• Alan, the Fourth Domain’s Domain Master, appeared in the registry room, and Ada revealed that he and Qin Siyang would have to compete for ownership.

Qin Siyang and Alan were forced to fight over ownership of the Slave Registry Ledger in the Registry Room, where Ada explained that only one Domain Master could survive and claim it. Alan trapped Qin Siyang in a puppet assault and gained the upper hand, leaving Qin Siyang restrained by monsters made from filing cabinets.

• Ada explained that only one person could claim the Slave Registry Ledger, and Alan and Qin Siyang prepared to fight.
• Alan admitted that he had killed Elbridge, Monroe, and the others, while Qin Siyang refused to negotiate.
• Qin Siyang drew the Godslayer Spear, and Alan filled the Registry Room with Puppet Strings and launched objects at him.
• Qin Siyang pierced Alan's throat, but Alan escaped through a Humanoid Puppet after his body turned to yellow sand.
• Alan overwhelmed Qin Siyang with Registry Pages and puppets, then used a doll to make Qin Siyang's spear thrust miss and restrained him with filing-cabinet monsters.