Chapter Summaries

Qin Siyang used [Taste of Godhood] and [Domain Banquet Order] to suppress Alan and attack through the Registry Room’s clutter. He discovered that weakening Alan’s sequence skills let his spear sever the puppet strings, opening a path toward him.

• Qin Siyang activated the Tide-Listening Clam’s [Tide-Listening Tide Song] and [Domain Banquet Order], strengthening himself while weakening Alan’s sequence skills.
• Alan pierced his own ears to reduce the mental attack, then assembled the Registry Room’s objects into a braced giant puppet that blocked Qin Siyang’s advance.
• Alan’s puppet attacked Qin Siyang with registry pages and mechanical arms, while its reinforced structure resisted the Godslayer Spear.
• Qin Siyang realized that Alan’s puppet strings could be severed after Alan’s sequence skills were weakened, and he cut the strings controlling the puppet’s left arm.
• Qin Siyang saw the gap left by the fallen arm and charged toward Alan.

Qin Siyang discovered Alan’s hidden Lifebound Puppet and pierced its crystal core, but Alan used [Body Seizure] to invade Qin Siyang’s body and try to claim him as a new puppet shell.

• Qin Siyang used [Taste of Godhood] and Feather Eagle’s [Phantom] while pursuing Alan through the Registry Room.
• Qin Siyang realized Alan’s apparent deaths were caused by sand doubles, then used [Tide-Listening Tide Song] to locate the hidden Lifebound Puppet.
• Qin Siyang fought through Alan’s puppets and exposed the wooden puppet beneath old books and filing cabinets.
• Alan’s Puppet Strings pierced Qin Siyang, but Qin Siyang resisted their control and stabbed the crystal core in the Lifebound Puppet.
• Alan’s shadow escaped the crystal core and entered Qin Siyang’s wrist, activating [Body Seizure] in an attempt to take over his body.

Qin Siyang fought Alan inside his sea of consciousness after Alan activated [Body Seizure] to steal his body. Qin Siyang’s Foundation of Self-Enlightenment overwhelmed and devoured Alan’s, destroying his consciousness and ending the threat.

• Alan revealed that [Body Seizure] let him devour another person’s Foundation of Self-Enlightenment and take their body.
• Alan tried to merge his Foundation of Self-Enlightenment with Qin Siyang’s, but Qin Siyang’s was larger because of its bright golden halo.
• Qin Siyang’s Foundation of Self-Enlightenment devoured Alan’s, causing Alan’s power to fade and his domain to crumble.
• Alan lamented that he had died after finally embracing his ambition, and Qin Siyang called him a coward for invading the Eighth Domain instead of confronting the First Domain.
• Alan’s final Foundation fragment shattered, and his consciousness vanished from Qin Siyang’s sea of consciousness.

After defeating Alan, Qin Siyang tried to become the Sacrificial Array’s new master to remove the Registry Offering Mark threatening his life. As the ledger began to bind him, Ada revealed that she had been waiting for a powerful offering and turned against him.

• Qin Siyang realized his earlier efforts to strengthen his Foundation of Self-Enlightenment had helped him defeat Alan, but the black fingerprints on his arm still threatened to kill him.
• Ada told Qin Siyang that he could claim the Sacrificial Array by earning the Slave Registry Ledger’s recognition and becoming its array master.
• Qin Siyang questioned Ada about the danger of restoring the array master, then chose to drip his blood onto the ledger and press his hand against it.
• The Registry Offering Mark turned black, and powerful patterns spread from Qin Siyang’s palm as the ledger began to bind him.
• Ada’s body became solid, and she summoned an enormous Sacrificial Seal from the Registry Room’s Slave Registry Numbers.
• Ada revealed that she had been waiting for a powerful offering, identifying Qin Siyang as the offering she wanted.

Bedel Bartow revealed that she planned to sacrifice Qin Siyang to the God of Sacrifice, but Qin Siyang tricked the ritual into offering her instead. After Bedel died, a mysterious figure emerged from the Slave Registry Ledger and focused on Qin Siyang and his Godslayer Spear.

• Bedel identified herself as the Second Domain's former Domain Master and began a ritual to sacrifice Qin Siyang for eternal life.
• Qin Siyang revealed that he had turned the Slave Registry Ledger to a different page, causing the ritual to register Bedel as the offering instead of himself.
• The Sacrificial Seal reversed, and its backlash tore Bedel apart until she disintegrated.
• The Slave Registry Ledger opened again, and an ancient, indescribable figure emerged and looked at Qin Siyang's Godslayer Spear.

A mysterious figure nearly sacrificed Qin Siyang on an altar, but the Woman in Sigma District noticed him across the distance and caused him to relent. Qin Siyang returned alive with his Registry Offering Mark gone, while the Woman closed her stall and told Liu Dao Wu he would never need to follow her again.

• The mysterious figure silenced Qin Siyang, activated the Slave Registry Ledger, and dragged him onto an altar in the darkness to be sacrificed.
• The figure stripped the crow phantom of its perception as Qin Siyang’s consciousness sank toward oblivion.
• The Woman tending a stall in Sigma District sensed the figure and met his gaze across the distance, surprising him.
• After realizing what had happened, the figure abandoned the sacrifice and vanished, leaving Qin Siyang alive with his Registry Offering Mark erased.
• The Woman gave a little girl a wooden comb, closed her stall early, and told Liu Dao Wu he would never need to follow her again.

Woman said goodbye to Liu Dao Wu and left the Underground City, while Liu Dao Wu resolved to grow stronger in hopes of seeing her again. In Zone 6, Gu Yunxuan told Zhao Sifang that Wen Shu had returned and wanted help traveling to Zone 1.

• Woman told Liu Dao Wu she was leaving and that they might never meet again, then urged him to live well.
• Liu Dao Wu reflected on Woman's kindness and resolved to break through to the domain sequence so he might see her again.
• Zhao Sifang paused his discussion with Jiang Changfu when someone knocked on his office door.
• Gu Yunxuan told Zhao Sifang that Sister Wen wanted help getting past the checkpoints on her way to Zone 1.

Qin Siyang returned to the Registry Room after a mysterious encounter, then found the Sunken Star Manta Ray’s corpse still intact but too tough to harvest. While searching for a way to escape the Sunken Star Currents, he investigated the corpse’s gill-like openings and was suddenly sucked inside one.

• Qin Siyang woke in the Registry Room with his skill cooldowns reset and discovered that the room’s objects could now be destroyed.
• He left the Registry Room, found the surrounding ruins empty, and confirmed that the Sunken Star Manta Ray’s corpse remained beneath the Second Domain.
• Qin Siyang tried to cut into the corpse with the Godslayer Spear but could barely pierce its scales, leaving him unable to harvest it or escape the Sunken Star Currents.
• Qin Siyang noticed Star Streams flowing from gill-like openings beneath the corpse’s scales and pried one opening wider with the Godslayer Spear.
• A powerful suction force pulled Qin Siyang into the opening.

Qin Siyang was drawn into the Sunken Star Manta Ray’s corpse, where he met the dying Star Ray and learned that his trial reward could not give him the first-clear effect he wanted. Star Ray agreed that Qin Siyang could take and use his corpse, though he explained that its death had disgraced his kind and caused its mission to fail.

• Qin Siyang used the Godslayer Spear to keep from being sucked into the Sunken Star Manta Ray’s corpse, but the Star Stream pulled him inside anyway.
• Qin Siyang met Star Ray, who said that the [Succession Trial] was effectively over and that he was about to die.
• Qin Siyang offered Star Ray medicine, but Star Ray refused, explaining that his life force was exhausted and that he could not reveal why he had briefly returned to life.
• Star Ray offered Qin Siyang a trial reward in exchange for keeping his corpse safe and eventually returning it to his kind, but Qin Siyang said he valued the corpse more than the reward.
• Star Ray accepted that Qin Siyang would take and use his corpse, then said that dying in the [Succession Star Competition] had disgraced his kind and caused his mission to fail.

Qin Siyang learned that the Star Ray was Yao Kuoshen and agreed to carry news of his death to his kind. Yao Kuoshen gave Qin Siyang a skill to decompose his corpse, then became alarmed when Qin Siyang explained that he needed to kill a Large God to unlock a skill and began checking their contract for ways to help.

• Yao Kuoshen explained that his trial had failed and asked Qin Siyang to bring news of his death to his kind in exchange for his corpse.
• Qin Siyang introduced himself as the Eighth Domain Master, and Yao Kuoshen recognized his talent and offered to help him escape.
• Yao Kuoshen granted Qin Siyang the [Star Stream Decomposition] skill, which could break down the corpses of dead living beings.
• Qin Siyang asked whether Yao Kuoshen's death would count as a kill, explaining that he needed to kill a Large God to unlock a skill locked by [succession refresh].
• Yao Kuoshen reacted with shock, retrieved the contract for the [succession star competition], and began searching it for ways to help Qin Siyang.

Qin Siyang revealed that he could use the abilities of Large Gods he had encountered, and Star Ray realized [Dream Illusion] might be strong enough to kill him and help Qin Siyang pass [Succession Refresh]. After hearing about Qin Siyang’s encounter with the dark figure, Star Ray grew wary and respectful, then urged Qin Siyang to activate the skill before the Starry Sky’s crow phantom intervened.

• Qin Siyang listed the Large Gods’ abilities he could use and showed Star Ray Nightmare Lantern Tree’s dark-gold seed.
• Star Ray identified Nightmare Lantern Tree as a Dreamfruit Fir and said [Dream Illusion] could now kill him while he was near death.
• Qin Siyang told Star Ray how he had killed Bedel and encountered a pitch-black figure in a patchwork robe at an altar.
• Star Ray reacted with alarm to the figure, distinguished Qin Siyang’s “he” from the being he called “He,” and refused to explain further.
• Star Ray apologized to Qin Siyang, asked him to help his clan if disaster struck, and then urged him to activate [Dream Illusion] as the crow phantom watched from the Starry Sky.

Qin Siyang watched Yao Kuoshen die, then returned to the seabed and unlocked the reward for killing a Large God: [World Devourer]. He decided to postpone devouring the Star Ray’s corpse so the Sunken Star Currents could continue shielding him from Madison and Adams.

• Qin Siyang used [Taste of Godhood] and the Dreamfruit Fir’s [Dream Illusion] to put the Star Ray to sleep as Yao Kuoshen insisted it was time for him to die.
• Qin Siyang stayed beside Yao Kuoshen until his breathing stopped, then returned to the seabed beside the Star Ray’s enormous remains.
• Qin Siyang fulfilled the condition to unlock his new skill by personally killing a Large God.
• Qin Siyang learned that his new skill, [World Devourer], could devour an area’s boundary and temporarily convert it into his own domain.
• Qin Siyang postponed devouring the Star Ray’s corpse because the Sunken Star Currents could protect him from Madison and Adams.

Qin Siyang waited for the [Shackles] effect to wear off so he could escape the Sunken Star Currents, while Hu Chan persuaded Old Johnny to return to the Eighth Domain before searching for Zhang Kuang. After his skills unlocked, Qin Siyang went to the seabed, split open Star Ray’s corpse, and began eating its flesh for a boost.

• Qin Siyang told Hu Chan and the others he could deal with Star Ray’s corpse, but feared Adams and Madison would stop them if they escaped before his skills unlocked.
• Old Johnny resisted returning to the Eighth Domain to search for Zhang Kuang, but Hu Chan argued that advancing there would give them a better chance to save Zhang Kuang, and Qin Siyang settled the plan.
• After waiting for a month, Qin Siyang saw [Feast Kingdom] unlock and told the others to keep watch while he went to the seabed.
• Qin Siyang returned to Star Ray’s corpse, bowed, and used [Star Stream Decomposition] to split it open with the Godslayer Spear.
• Qin Siyang ate a piece of Star Ray’s flesh and noted that it gave him a strong boost but tasted terrible.

Qin Siyang finished collecting the Star Ray’s remains with the help of two expanded Fourth-Tier Storage Boxes, then removed the gills that sustained the Sunken Star Currents. When he surfaced, Hu Chan warned that they were surrounded by illusions, and a voice announced it had waited a month for the Eighth Domain Master.

• Qin Siyang struggled to fit the enormous Star Ray corpse into his Storage Boxes and returned to shore for more capacity.
• Quan Taibin and Gu Weihong gave Qin Siyang two extra-large Fourth-Tier Storage Boxes, and Quan worried that Qin Siyang would leave them too little of the corpse for research.
• Qin Siyang packed away the Star Ray’s remains except for its gills, then warned everyone to prepare to leave the Sunken Star Currents.
• Qin Siyang stored the gills, causing the Star Streams and phantom shipping routes to vanish, and hurried back to the island.
• Hu Chan told Qin Siyang that illusions surrounded them, and a distant voice said it had waited a month for the Eighth Domain Master.

Qin Siyang was trapped in Madison’s illusion domain, where Madison disrupted his spatial sense and attacked him with illusions. As the battle continued, Qin Siyang’s perception deteriorated and the darkness drew closer.

• Madison revealed that he had been waiting outside the Sunken Star Currents and had prepared measures to prevent Qin Siyang from teleporting away.
• Madison manifested an upside-down royal court and emerged from the darkness, while Qin Siyang sent Hu Chan into the Spatial Artifact.
• Madison distorted the sea and multiplied his apparent forms, and a bell made Qin Siyang lose track of his direction and surroundings.
• Qin Siyang fought off Madison’s attacking figures, but his sense of distance kept worsening as the darkness closed in.

Qin Siyang fought Marquis Madison inside the Upside-Down Royal Court, then used [World Devourer] to breach its boundary and regain his bearings. Facing Madison’s overwhelming attacks, Qin Siyang escaped with [Feast Kingdom], while Madison realized he had underestimated him.

• Qin Siyang endured Madison’s attacks without activating [Domain Banquet Order] and failed to get him to reveal how to win the [Succession Star Competition].
• Qin Siyang used [World Devourer] to tear open the Upside-Down Royal Court’s boundary, creating a small domain where he could orient himself and see Madison.
• Qin Siyang clashed with Madison’s Hunting Sword, forced him backward, and discovered the weapon could withstand the Godslayer Spear.
• Madison summoned an army of black-armored warriors and rang the clock tower bell, but Qin Siyang’s Crimson Armor blocked their attacks.
• Qin Siyang judged Madison too powerful to fight directly and escaped with [Feast Kingdom].
• Madison noted that Qin Siyang’s breach had lasted fifteen minutes and fifty-seven seconds before disappearing.

Qin Siyang returned to the Eighth Domain and told Gu Weirong that he had found Gu Weilong’s son, Gu Yunzheng. Gu Weirong explained Qian Wendao’s history with his family and shared Qian’s gratitude to Qin Siyang, leaving them both in tears as they remembered him.

• Qin Siyang used [Feast Kingdom] to travel from the island to the Eighth Domain and startled Gu Weirong in his office.
• Qin Siyang told Gu Weirong that Gu Weilong had died but that he and Dean Gu had found Gu Weilong’s son, Gu Yunzheng.
• Gu Weirong explained that Qian Wendao had learned of Gu Weilong’s death after Gu Weilong sacrificed himself to save Qian and others in the Sixth Domain.
• Gu Weirong said Qian had trusted him because Gu Weilong had vouched for his character and had arranged for him to succeed Qian as Secretary-General.
• Gu Weirong recalled Qian telling him that Qin Siyang had ended his years of wandering and let him put down roots, and Qin Siyang broke down in tears.

Qin Siyang returned to the Safe Zone and learned that Commander Zhao Longteng and six other Domain Sequence Ability Users had died mysteriously while exploring outside. He suspected they had fallen into an unknown Large God trial and set out to visit Chu Baxing, the Zhao family, and Professor Hao’s memorial; Chu Baxing revealed how deeply the losses had affected him.

• Qin Siyang asked Gu Weirong about the Safe Zone and learned that Zhao Longteng had been killed by a Large God.
• Gu Weirong told Qin Siyang that six more Domain Sequence Ability Users had died within a week, several without sending any warning, and their bodies could not be found.
• Qin Siyang suspected the dead had fallen into an unknown Large God trial and said he would investigate.
• Qin Siyang asked Gu Weirong to break the news to Dean Zhao, then said he would visit Chu Baxing, the Zhao family, and Professor Hao’s memorial.
• Qin Siyang went to the Chu Character Legion’s headquarters, where Chu Baxing admitted he had started smoking because he felt awful.

Qin Siyang returned to the Safe Zone and visited Chu Baxing, who mourned the deaths of his two father figures and learned that large gods could be killed. Qin Siyang then went to the Zhao Family, where Zhao Sifang remained convinced that his father, Zhao Longteng, was still alive.

• Chu Baxing told Qin Siyang that his father and Uncle Zheng had both died, leaving him grieving and burdened by command.
• Qin Siyang confirmed that Hu Chan had survived and revealed that he had killed a large god.
• Qin Siyang explained how to pursue a breakthrough and pass the large gods' trials, and Chu Baxing decided to venture outside the Safe Zone.
• Qin Siyang went to the United Merchants' Association and found Zhao Fengjun in disbelief over Zhao Longteng's reported death.
• Zhao Longfei explained that he had restrained Zhao Sifang, who begged Qin Siyang to help him find his father.

Qin Siyang comforted Zhao Sifang after Zhao Longfei’s death and urged him to grow stronger rather than act recklessly. After learning Wen Shu had returned, Qin Siyang went to pay respects to Hao Liang and told his grieving friends that Director Zhang was missing, promising to bring him back.

• Qin Siyang told Zhao Sifang that Zhao Longfei was dead, revealed he had killed a Large God, and gave Zhao Sifang a booklet to help him grow stronger and seek revenge safely.
• Qin Siyang urged Zhao Longfei to release Zhao Sifang and said he would investigate why a certain kind of Large God had killed people.
• Gu Yunxuan told Qin Siyang that Wen Shu had returned and was staying secretly at the Merchants' Association in Zone 1.
• Qin Siyang and Zhao Longfei went to Zhao Longfei’s mourning hall, where Zhao Sifang broke down crying with Gu Yunxuan.
• Qin Siyang visited Hao Liang’s place in Sigma District and told Li Tianming, Wu Yu, and Chang Tianxiang that Director Zhang had gone missing during the expedition.
• Qin Siyang promised Li Tianming that he would bring Director Zhang back.