Chapter Summaries

The rankings shifted as former enemies and unlikely allies climbed the standings, while Star Track’s team remained stuck in the fourth dream layer. Lynn agreed to show the worried Fallen what was happening, revealing that he had arranged the situation because Star Track’s teammate was her father, the Old Sage and former God of Elements.

• The Wisdom and War Team held first place, the Water and Fire Team reclaimed second, and the team led by Saint Anna, Asmodeus, and the Forgotten One rose to third.
• The Origins learned that Asmodeus and the Forgotten One had abandoned their attempts to corrupt Saint Anna and now competed to win her affection while fighting beside her.
• The Died and Came Back Team climbed to tenth place, while members of the rival Lived and Died Again Team bickered and fought before cooperating with impressive efficiency.
• As the second ranking round neared its end, the Fallen worried that Star Track’s team had remained stuck in the fourth dream layer and fallen to last place.
• The Throne Angel asked Lynn to reveal Star Track’s dream, and Lynn agreed, explaining that he had arranged it because her teammate was her father, the Old Sage and former God of Elements.

Star Track relived her hatred for her father, the former God of Elements, whom she blamed for abandoning the Elven Race during the calamity three thousand years ago. As she repeatedly killed him in Lynn’s dream, the Throne Angel explained how the disaster had nearly wiped out the Elves.

• Star Track fought her father in the Fourth Dream Layer and demanded to know why he had betrayed their world.
• The former God of Elements argued that prophecy had made the calamity inevitable and that resistance would only have caused more deaths.
• Star Track accused him of deceiving her, her mother, and their people, then recounted how he had taken their gathered power and abandoned them before the disaster struck.
• Star Track killed her father again and again in the dream, but her resentment did not fade.
• The Origins watched Lynn’s dream, and the Throne Angel said the calamity had killed more than ninety percent of the Elf Race despite its strong organization and forces.

The Throne Angel revealed how Star Track’s father stole the elves’ power and abandoned them before the calamity, leaving Star Track to return to a devastated Home Planet and live with hatred for him. Lynn restrained Star Track in her dream and asked the Elf King what he had foreseen; he said their entire race would have been slaughtered.

• The Throne Angel explained that the Elf King gathered the elves’ strength, then fled their Home Planet and left his powerless people behind.
• Star Track’s father took her to the Barren Planet, broke her legs, sealed her remaining power, and abandoned her.
• After escaping the seal, Star Track returned to find her people nearly wiped out, her Home Planet burning, and her mother dead.
• In the dream, Star Track repeatedly attacked her father and demanded to know why he had betrayed their race.
• Lynn entered the dream and restrained Star Track as she refused to forgive her father.
• Lynn asked the Elf King what he had foreseen, and the Elf King said the elves would all be slaughtered.

The Elf King revealed that he had weakened the Elves and sacrificed himself in a one-man war to divert the Great Purge and preserve a remnant of his people. After surviving in Hell for three thousand years, he had finally found Star Track, who was left trembling after seeing his memories.

• The Elf King told Star Track he had weakened the Elves so some of their race might survive the Great Purge.
• Star Track accused her father of lying and demanded to know why he had decided their fate without telling them.
• The Elf King explained that his visions showed the complete destruction of the Elves, and that he had acted out of his duty as king.
• The Elf King revealed how he drew the calamity toward himself and fought alone, diverting most of the slaughter from his people.
• The Elf King survived his final battle by falling into Hell and wandered there alone for three thousand years until he saw Star Track.
• Star Track watched his memories and was left deathly pale and trembling.

After the Old Elf King's memories revealed the sacrifice behind Star Track's survival, the Fallen regained their resolve to return and fight in the Main Universe. A month later, Lynn reorganized them into five mixed-system legions, formally forming an army in Hell.

• The Old Elf King explained that he had let Star Track believe he betrayed her so hatred would keep her alive to lead the elves after the apocalypse.
• Moved by memories of the first Great Fall, many Fallen renewed their resolve to fight, while the Life Council and the Church of Death agreed to set aside their conflict until after the war.
• Star Track continued the dream trials in silence, and the Old Elf King coordinated with her so their group could keep pace.
• Over a month, Lynn trained the groups to work together, then reorganized them into five legions whose members had complementary abilities.
• Lynn's formation of the legions became known as the Deities' Army Formation.

After two months of expansion and training, Lynn united Dark Night City’s Origins into a disciplined army and gathered his family on the city walls. He revealed that the gathering was not a military review but the beginning of his plan to help them ascend to Godhood.

• Lynn and the Origins completed the expansion of Dark Night City, which grew dozens of times larger and became Hell’s largest mega city.
• Lynn surveyed the newly disciplined Root-Level army and promised Sir Awen he would bring everyone home to the Main Universe after the war.
• Lynn joked that he would marry everyone except Zuo Zuo, then argued with his left hand until the Self-Binding Angel knocked him down.
• The Self-Binding Angel and Dark Night City’s other Origins arrived and asked Lynn why he had called them together.
• Lynn reminded his family that he had promised to help them ascend to Godhood and turned toward the assembled army.

Lynn gave the Origins Firstborn fragments to help them advance toward godhood, then handed his family customized law fragments suited to their paths. The chapter left his family reacting to his conspicuously casual distribution of powerful gifts.

• Lynn promised the Origins that those who joined his pact and followed him into battle in the Main Universe would receive a path to godhood.
• Lynn sent Firstborn fragments into the Origins, immediately strengthening their connection to the laws.
• The Origins cheered for Lynn and called him their instructor as they celebrated the gifts.
• Lynn revealed that he had made customized fragments for his family and handed them out from a cloth sack.
• Silver Fantasy questioned whether giving his family special treatment was appropriate, and Lynn insisted that he would clearly distinguish between those close to him and everyone else.

Lynn handed out Firstborn Power fragments to his family, then realized he had forgotten to bring Titan back from banishment. He rescued Titan from spatial turbulence, whereupon Titan returned furious and demanded to know what had happened to the Black-Robed Figure.

• Lynn gave Silver Fantasy and Xiao Xiao Firstborn Power fragments, while he sent the Sin Lord away to study the laws.
• The family realized Titan had been missing for two months, and Lynn discovered he was bathing in spatial turbulence.
• Lynn rushed to retrieve Titan, who chased him for three thousand li before Lynn used his Firstborn Power to wake him from his war frenzy.
• Back in Dark Night City, Titan angrily ate roast meat and scolded Lynn for leaving him banished for two months.
• Titan asked whether the Black-Robed Figure had been driven off, and everyone looked at Lynn to answer.

Lynn convinced his family to help hide that he had left Titan Head in the North Sea for two months by inventing a false account of the battle. Witch God Head agreed to keep his secret but used it to push for Lynn to marry Xiao Xiao, shocking everyone.

• Lynn assured Titan Head that he would avenge him if they ever found the mysterious man who had attacked him, earning Titan Head's affection.
• Lynn hurried his family out of the Conference Hall before they could reveal that he had forgotten Titan Head in the North Sea.
• Lynn knelt and begged his family to cover up his lie, threatening them with the prospect of Titan Head grinding him into fertilizer.
• Lynn wrote a shared testimony claiming that a Black-Robed Figure was the villain and that Lynn had returned from secluded training to lead the victory.
• Witch God Head agreed to keep Lynn's secret but demanded that he marry Xiao Xiao, prompting shocked cries from everyone outside the Conference Hall.

The Witch God Head tried to make Lynn honor his old engagement to Xiao Xiao, while Lynn and Zuo Zuo objected to being forced into marriage. The argument was interrupted when the Witch God Head summoned Xiao Xiao, who returned from begging for food with Eve.

• The Witch God Head revealed that Lynn and Xiao Xiao had been engaged before he came to Dark Night City and urged them to marry.
• Lynn protested that Xiao Xiao was still little, and Zuo Zuo and the Colossus Brain joined him in objecting to the marriage.
• The Witch God Head challenged Lynn to say he did not like Xiao Xiao, then stopped him from answering and blew a whistle.
• Xiao Xiao crashed into Dark Night City Square and told her mother that she and Eve had begged for food at the city gates.

The Witch God Head pressured Lynn to marry Xiao Xiao, but he tried to postpone the wedding by exploiting Xiao Xiao’s confusion about marriage. Xiao Xiao then remembered what marriage meant and declared that she wanted to marry Lynn so they could be together forever.

• The Witch God Head cornered Lynn into admitting that he loved Xiao Xiao and suggested they marry immediately.
• Zuo Zuo objected to the marriage, but Xiao Xiao first agreed without understanding what marriage was, then said she did not want to fight Lynn.
• Lynn persuaded Xiao Xiao to agree to postponing the wedding for eighty or a hundred years, enraging the Witch God Head and starting a chaotic brawl with him.
• As Lynn and the Witch God Head fought, Xiao Xiao recalled that marriage meant being together forever.
• Xiao Xiao declared that she wanted to marry Lynn so he would never die and they could stay together.

Lynn confronted Xiao Xiao’s hopeful belief that marriage would keep them together forever, and admitted he feared her dying more than his own death. As he took a day off before his journey to the Main Universe, Xiao Xiao arrived to bring him food.

• Xiao Xiao asked Lynn to marry her, believing marriage would mean they could stay together forever, while the others urged him not to die.
• Lynn tried to reassure Xiao Xiao, then buried his face in the dirt and whispered that he feared her dying.
• Lynn reflected on his companions in Dark Night City and the preparations others were making for his journey to the Main Universe.
• Xiao Xiao called out that she had brought Lynn food, then crashed onto the slope where he was resting and searched for him.

Lynn reunited with Xiao Xiao, examined her teeth, and repaired a damaged molar while remembering how they first met. He asked whether she wanted to marry him and become his little wife, and she asked if he would have lots of little wives.

• Lynn crawled out from beneath Xiao Xiao after she landed on him, and she happily licked him.
• Xiao Xiao told Lynn she had missed playing with him and said she did not want to grow up.
• Lynn examined Xiao Xiao's teeth and pulled a piece of death star crystal machinery from a back molar.
• Lynn used the laws to heal the hole in Xiao Xiao's tooth, and she praised him.
• Lynn asked whether Xiao Xiao really wanted to marry him, and she asked whether he would have lots of little wives.

Lynn set aside the looming crisis to spend a day playing with Xiao Xiao, promising to marry everyone if that would keep them together. After they slept, Xiao Xiao woke confused about why she only had a head and said she wanted to talk to Lynn, who asked if she wanted to return to how she used to be.

• Lynn joked about marrying several women, and Xiao Xiao said she would be happy if everyone married him and stayed together.
• Lynn took Xiao Xiao back to Wandering Soul Alley, and they spent the day visiting familiar places, causing trouble, and pretending to slay dragons.
• Lynn and Xiao Xiao found shelter and slept for an extended time, while Lynn feared waking to a tragic separation.
• Xiao Xiao woke to find Lynn still beside her and said she wanted to grow up again.
• Xiao Xiao became distressed because she had only a head and could not say what she wanted to tell Lynn, who asked whether she wanted to return to how she used to be.

Lynn restored Xiao Xiao to the child she had been three thousand years ago, and she remembered the suffering that had changed her. He told her he would enter the Main Universe to protect the home he had found, while Xiao Xiao wept because she could not stop him.

• Lynn held out his finger, and Xiao Xiao touched it, triggering a transformation that restored her childhood form and memories.
• Xiao Xiao remembered her parents changing amid blood and fire, and she cried as she clung to Lynn.
• Lynn comforted Xiao Xiao and admitted he had kept her from growing because he feared the pain and dangers she would face.
• Lynn said his home was with his companions and vowed to fight the approaching apocalypse, even if it cost his life.
• Xiao Xiao sobbed as she realized Lynn would enter the Main Universe and that she would forget why she had cried when she changed back.

Xiao Xiao told Lynn that everyone loved him and begged him not to sacrifice himself for their sake. Lynn promised to cherish his life and stay with everyone if he could not change the future, then woke to find Xiao Xiao cheerful again and took her to go fishing.

• Xiao Xiao explained that the others followed Lynn because they hoped he could lead them to a future they could win, and begged him not to die for them.
• Lynn promised Xiao Xiao that he would cherish his life and, if he could not change things, return to wait for the apocalypse with everyone.
• Lynn slept peacefully for the first time in months and woke when Xiao Xiao licked his cheek.
• Xiao Xiao remembered their conversation but did not understand why she had cried, and Lynn pretended he barely remembered it.
• Lynn agreed to take Xiao Xiao to the North Sea to eat fish, and reassured her that he would not die.

Lynn and the assembled deities discussed the dire state of the Main Universe, where the defensive line against the Calamity had been breached from within. The Self-Binding Angel explained that the line was a cosmic mechanism built by rearranging the stars, and Lynn prepared to learn more about it.

• Lynn said he would consider marrying Xiao Xiao after the war, prompting the others to tease him about the engagement.
• Lynn called the deities together to discuss their coming campaign in the Main Universe.
• The Self-Binding Angel revealed that the Main Universe's defensive line against the Calamity had already been breached and corrupted.
• The Self-Binding Angel explained that the Great Purge had become indiscriminate, unleashing Polluters to slaughter life throughout the Main Universe.
• The Self-Binding Angel showed that the defensive line was a powerful mechanism created by altering the trajectories of countless planets and star systems.

Lynn questioned Star Track and Saint Anna about the Main Universe and the mysterious Forger who had altered its star chart and created a defense line against the Polluters. Star Track began explaining the defense line’s three great borders, leaving their details unrevealed.

• Lynn summoned Star Track and Saint Anna to Dark Night City to learn about the Main Universe before returning there.
• Lynn asked whether they had met the Forger of the defense line, and Star Track said the Forger had personally invited her to help build it over two thousand years earlier.
• Star Track described how the Forger had rearranged the stars around her home world and driven out the Polluters, bringing the Main Universe a brief period of peace.
• Star Track recounted how the Forger presented a blueprint linking planets and galaxies into a defense line designed to protect the Main Universe from a coming calamity.
• Star Track said the Forger had established three great borders for the defense line and conjured a starry boundary above the conference table.

Star Track explained the three frontiers and how the End Times Cult’s infiltration weakened the defenses before the second invasion. Lynn recognized links between the frontiers and his own memories as Star Track recounted how the God and Chaos Frontiers fell.

• Star Track described the God Frontier, the Chaos Frontier, and the final boundary called the Frontier of Reason and Chaos.
• Lynn recalled warnings that he was the last remnant of someone’s reason, then asked whether the woman who built the defense line had stayed; Star Track said she had vanished.
• Star Track explained that the End Times Cult infiltrated their ranks and corrupted the deities maintaining the stellar system over two thousand years.
• Star Track said the calamity’s projection appeared in the Main Universe twice, including an attack on Colors of Chaos, before the invasion began.
• More than a dozen node planets exploded, breaching the God Frontier and letting Polluters into the Main Universe.
• The Chaos Frontier also failed as unknown beings crossed over and devoured the Main Universe’s space and matter.

Star Track described how the Polluters had devastated the Main Universe, and Lynn used a star map to confirm that the defenses had limited their entry to twelve breached node worlds. When Star Track revealed that the architect of those defenses called herself the Dreamwalker, Lynn and the others considered whether she might be another outsider like Ether.

• Star Track explained that the Polluters had overwhelmed the Main Universe and that its vast scale, rather than the defenders, had slowed their advance.
• Lynn projected a map of the Main Universe and asked Star Track to compare its darkened regions with the lost node planets.
• Star Track identified the marked regions as the twelve node worlds that had first been breached, and Lynn concluded that the defenses still restricted where the Polluters could appear.
• Star Track said the mysterious builder of the defenses had called herself the Dreamwalker, a name that startled Lynn and the others.
• After Star Track left, Lynn and the gathered group discussed whether the Dreamwalker was an outsider like Ether and what connection she might have to him.