Chapter Summaries

Lynn learned that the man holding back time was his future self, who had erased his original past and was searching countless possible paths for one that could avert disaster. The girl revealed the Nightmares surrounding the end of time and told Lynn that the Main Universe lay beneath their feet.

• Lynn recognized the figure severing time as his future self and questioned whether he was destined to become him.
• The girl explained that the figure had destroyed his original past, forged new causality, and was holding back time until Lynn reached him.
• The girl revealed that the two Lynns had suffered similar losses, and that the figure’s manipulations had been meant to preserve Lynn’s loved ones in a false dream.
• The girl showed Lynn the vast army of Nightmares closing in through Chaos Deep Space.
• Lynn asked where the Main Universe was, and the girl said it was beneath their feet.

A girl revealed to Lynn that their resistance had failed because they lived inside the Great Lord’s dream, and that the Firstborn path only brought him closer to awakening. She explained that the Isolated Island was the scar where a soul from Earth first entered the Dream World, and that this place might allow them to freeze time and reforge the past.

• The girl told Lynn that nearly everyone had died and that even his becoming a Firstborn could not overcome the Great Lord’s dream.
• She recounted how Ether, Blood Core, the Matriarch, Titan Big Brother, and Big Brother Awen had died, and said the Firstborn path was a dead end.
• The girl explained that time had offered a faint possibility of changing the outcome and led them to the Isolated Island.
• She revealed that the island was a nexus where a soul from outside the dream entered the world and became the first and only God of Reincarnation.
• Lynn realized the soul had come from Earth and that the island was the origin and end of the Nether Sea.
• The girl said they could use the place to freeze time, sever the river to the future, cut away causality, and reforge the past.

Lynn learned that he was the past reforged by the original man, chosen to reach the future and take his place in defending history. He left the girl guarding the grave resolved to keep going, find her, and make a future without such suffering.

• Lynn learned that the original man had severed cause and effect, reforged his past, and chosen Lynn as the path toward a true future.
• The girl explained that enemies wanted to kill Lynn in the past and collapse the reforged chains of cause and effect.
• The girl urged Lynn to keep going and find her, promising she would remain by his side in the future.
• The girl revealed that she had chosen to stay beside the original man so someone would remain to shelter him.
• Lynn walked away from the grave, determined to continue and prevent a future filled with suffering.

Lynn returned to his own timeline, vowed to find the Time Divine Spark and bring Zuo Zuo back, and discovered that his dream could become a weapon. Meanwhile, the surviving Corrupted Deities waited anxiously for news of the Truth God King until a golden figure approached through the Nether Sea.

• Lynn returned to the Isolated Island and swore to bring Zuo Zuo back once he found the Time Divine Spark.
• Lynn considered whether the Truth God King had survived the collapse of time and decided to leave the dangerous region quickly.
• Lynn realized his dream had begun affecting reality and could be released as a weapon against his enemies.
• The surviving Corrupted Deities failed to contact the Truth God King and debated how to reach the region where he had disappeared.
• The Corrupted Deities spotted a golden figure bearing the Laws of Truth and wondered whether the Truth God King had returned.

Lynn emerged from the Nether Sea and attacked the Gods of Corruption after discovering that the Truth God King was absent. He tested his golden dream’s power by trapping the Upper Gods in a separate world and killing one, then seized its divine spark.

• The Gods of Corruption mistook Lynn for the Truth God King until he revealed himself and killed several of them with crimson sinfire.
• Lynn confirmed the Truth God King was absent and charged into the encircling Upper Gods.
• Lynn extinguished his sinfire and unleashed golden ripples that froze the Upper Gods and suppressed their chaotic power.
• Lynn struck one trapped Upper God with his Trident, destroying its body.
• Lynn reached through the divine radiance and seized the Upper God’s escaping divine spark.

Lynn used his golden domain and scarlet sinfire to slaughter the Gods of Corruption in the Nether Sea. Aware that the God King-level threats remained, he left for the Abyss, promising to bring Zuo Zuo back once Brain found the divine spark of time.

• Lynn trapped and killed several Upper Gods inside his golden domain as the Gods of Corruption tried to fight back.
• Lynn charged through the enemy ranks and killed the God of Corruption who tried to summon the Chaos Beings.
• Lynn unleashed Second Gear: Sinfire after the enemy attacks weakened his domain, and the scarlet flames overwhelmed the remaining Corrupted Deities.
• The Corrupted Deities lost their will to fight and fled, but Lynn caught and slaughtered them all.
• Lynn recognized that the Truth God King and two other God King-level beings still threatened him, then promised Zuo Zuo he would return and left for the Abyss.

Lynn returned to the Abyss and found its planes devastated by the Polluters, with all their inhabitants apparently slaughtered. At the shattered Spatial Hub, he sensed a faint trace of life but found angels nailed to crosses and tortured to death.

• Lynn avoided the border, returned through the Sea of Mists, and vowed to avenge Dreamweaver and stop the Lord of the End's resurrection.
• Lynn found the Abyss's First Plane engulfed in flames and crawling with Polluters, with no survivors he could sense.
• Lynn searched the Abyss's planes and found their inhabitants, including Night Doctors from Dark Night City, dead amid the ruins.
• Lynn reached the Seventh Plane and found the Spatial Hub and nearby floating continent shattered.
• Lynn sensed a faint flicker of life at the Spatial Hub but found angels with broken wings nailed to crosses and drained of blood.

Lynn found a dying angel from his Angel Legion crucified at the Spatial Hub and tried to save her. As polluted beings closed in, he preserved her final consciousness in his golden dream and destroyed the attackers, refusing to let her sacrifice become meaningless.

• Lynn recognized the crucified angels as members of his Angel Legion and found one guard who still had a trace of life.
• The angel told Lynn that Chaos had destroyed her soul and urged him to leave before the approaching polluted beings arrived.
• Lynn drew the angel's final consciousness into his golden dream, preserving it from death.
• Lynn expanded his golden boundary across the Spatial Hub and destroyed the tens of thousands of polluted beings approaching them.
• Lynn declared that he would not let his people die for nothing, while the angel watched from within the dream and accepted his choice.

After escaping the Seventh Plane, Lynn reached the Main Universe and used the stars to survey the damage caused by the enemy’s coordinated assault. He realized the defense lines were collapsing and hurried to find Painter before the Truth God King returned.

• Lynn warped from the Seventh Plane toward the Main Universe while worrying that the Causality God King might have awakened.
• Lynn arrived in the stars where he and Dreamweaver had previously reinforced the defenses, erased his arrival trail, and connected with the stars to gather information.
• Lynn discovered that more than half of the reclaimed star sectors had fallen again and that thousands of stars had been destroyed.
• Lynn saw that the Main Universe’s borders had contracted and concluded that the Second Line of Defense had fallen to the Chaos Beings.
• Lynn realized the enemy was advancing against all three defense lines and decided to leave the Main Universe to find Painter.
• Lynn severed his connection to the stars and used a Void Leap to disappear into the starry sky.

Lynn neared the Main Universe’s border, but repeated distortions in Curvature Space and his course suggested that something was preventing him from reaching it. After discovering his route had curved far away from the border, he suspected that someone had tampered with space.

• Lynn used long-distance warps to cross the Polluters’ star sectors and approach the Universe Frontier without being pursued.
• A chaotic storm disrupted Curvature Space and forced Lynn back into reality near a Broken Eye, where Polluters detected him and gave chase.
• Lynn escaped the Polluters, but a supernova’s energy destabilized Curvature Space during another warp and pushed him farther from the border.
• Lynn traveled through the void instead of warping, then checked his Star Map and discovered his route had curved drastically away from the border.
• Lynn questioned whether someone had tampered with space, since his spatial coordinates had led him off course without warning.

Lynn discovered that the Causality God King had used a causal effect to confine him within the Main Universe and force an encounter. After his attempts to escape failed, he realized he needed to shield his causality before the trap tightened further.

• Lynn noticed his route shifted only when he traveled toward the Main Universe's border, and suspected that causality rather than distorted space was responsible.
• Lynn concluded that the Causality God King had imposed the effect that he could never leave the Main Universe.
• Lynn used unrestricted spatial Warps to test the effect, but accidents repeatedly derailed him and sent him back toward the universe's center.
• Lynn inferred that the Causality God King had confined him so he would encounter her inside the Main Universe, where she had prepared an ambush.
• Lynn rejected doing nothing and decided he needed to shield his causality to avoid being drawn deeper into the forced chain of events.

Lynn used his dream to try to escape the causal power pursuing him, but his enemies severed the chain of events linking his departure from the Sea of Mists to his flight. He was pulled back to the First Abyss Plane, where the corrupted deities and the Nightmare King had been waiting to kill him.

• Lynn wrapped himself in his dream and moved toward the border, finding that it initially concealed his trajectory from causal interference.
• A sudden attack severed part of Lynn's causality, and the pain forced him out of the dream.
• Lynn found himself back on the First Abyss Plane, surrounded by corrupted deities and nightmares, with the ethereal woman and the black-misted figure confronting him.
• The black-misted figure explained that they had cut away Lynn's experiences after he left the Sea of Mists, causing him to return to the start of that chain of events.
• Lynn understood that his dream could not protect him from causality being severed through the past and accepted that his enemies had been waiting for him.

Lynn made a last stand against the corrupted deities and nightmares surrounding him, fighting with the Trident as the Resurrection Process neared its final threshold. Inside the sealed Strange Otherworld, Captain Constantine, Silver Fantasy, and the others felt the world shake and realized Lynn was in danger, but they could not reach him.

• Lynn rejected the black-mist figure’s claim that his death was inevitable and charged at the assembled deities with the Trident.
• Lynn unleashed scarlet sinfire and fought without restraint, killing nightmares and corrupted deities as the battle shook the Strange Otherworld.
• Captain Constantine, Silver Fantasy, and others felt the Strange Otherworld tremble and understood that Lynn was fighting outside.
• The group called out to Lynn, but the Trident’s seal kept them from seeing or reaching him.

Lynn fought the Nightmare King’s forces while trying to reach the Causality God King, reasoning that she could not yet join the battle after severing his causality. He wounded the Nightmare King’s black serpents and cast away his Trident, plunging the battlefield into darkness.

• Lynn slaughtered Corrupted Deities and Nightmares while the Nightmare King watched from the black mist and let them wear him down.
• Lynn realized the Nightmare King was shielding the Causality God King, who was likely unable to fight because of the cost of severing his causality.
• Lynn hurled Golden Spears toward the Causality God King, then changed course and tried to break through toward the Sea of Mists, but the Nightmare King’s black serpents struck him back.
• Lynn fought through the serpents and the remaining enemies, then hurled his Trident through one serpent, severely wounding several others before the weapon vanished into the Vast Cosmos.
• Lynn clenched his fist and swallowed the starlight from the sky, plunging the battlefield into darkness.

Lynn fought a cautious figure and an endless horde of resurrecting nightmares, learning that they could not be killed while their master remained asleep. He was gradually overwhelmed and left gravely wounded, while still hiding his final trump cards.

• Lynn used Star Stillness in second gear to destroy the giant serpents and many nearby nightmares, but the figure summoned more serpents from the black mist.
• The figure explained that the nightmares returned to their lord upon death and were undying as long as their master slept.
• Lynn realized the nightmares were the inexhaustible enemies tied to the Lord of the End’s revival and charged the figure despite the surrounding horde.
• The figure used the revived nightmares to trap and wear Lynn down, noting that Causality had been weakened and that Lynn was still concealing some strength.
• Lynn continued fighting while saving his dream and Dreamweaver’s life-consuming blade strike, but the nightmares broke through his defenses and covered him in severe wounds.

Lynn endured a relentless barrage of chaos spears until he appeared dead, but the Divine Sparks around his heart and soul concealed his survival. When his enemy moved to refine him, Lynn revealed himself and summoned the King's Halberd, calling the golden tide of laws to return.

• Lynn staggered forward through successive volleys of spears, fighting until they pinned him to his knees.
• The figure in the black mist ordered the nightmares to keep attacking, but the ethereal woman stopped him from ordering another volley.
• The figure approached Lynn and tried to refine the last remnants of his soul, unaware that Divine Sparks protected his heart and soul.
• Lynn opened his eyes and summoned the King's Halberd, calling the golden tide of laws with the command, "Return to your place!"

Lynn revealed that he had survived by hiding his presence behind a divine barrier and used the golden God Frontier to trap the Nightmare King. He restored his strength through the laws and unleashed the Red Lotus Sinfire, leaving the First Abyss Plane collapsed and its surviving Corrupted Deities in despair.

• Lynn held the Nightmare King in place as his golden God Frontier engulfed him and several Corrupted Deities and Nightmares.
• The Trident returned to Lynn, and the laws flowing through the golden world restored his body, vitality, soul, and power.
• Lynn invoked Dreamweaver’s memory and ignited the Trident with the Red Lotus Sinfire.
• Lynn’s slash annihilated the Nightmares and Corrupted Deities caught in the dream and drove back the God King of Causality.
• The First Abyss Plane collapsed, leaving the surviving Corrupted Deities staring helplessly into the burning void.

The Ethereal Woman stopped the Nightmare King from pursuing the wounded figure after glimpsing someone from her past, and told him that his target had escaped. The gravely injured figure drifted through the laws of the Main Universe until Clown defended him against those gathered at his side.

• The Ethereal Woman sensed a distant figure across the Abyss and let the thread she had gathered disappear.
• The Nightmare King survived the strike, and the Ethereal Woman told him that his target had escaped.
• The wounded figure drifted through the golden border, unable to recover as the lingering Sinfire burned through his laws and soul.
• The figure glimpsed someone with azure hair and recognized Clown among the indistinct people around him.
• Clown accused the gathered figures of abandoning the wounded man and declared that he was the Great Lord in his heart.

After Lynn nearly died, Zuo Zuo carried him to a secluded riverside home and guarded him while the afterflame slowly faded. Months later, the Jailers and Dark Night City found their refuge, and Zuo Zuo faced the arrival of Lynn’s family and friends.

• Lynn drifted into darkness, while Zuo Zuo answered his plea and stayed beside him.
• Zuo Zuo carried Lynn to a quiet riverside house and held him whenever the afterflame burned through him.
• Zuo Zuo fought off Jailers and visitors from Dark Night City, protecting Lynn as he remained delirious.
• Over the following months, Lynn’s afterflame grew less frequent, while Zuo Zuo’s body became covered in burn scars.
• The sky shattered, revealing the Jailers and the people of Dark Night City, including Lynn’s family and Xiao Xiao, who had come to find him.

Silver Fantasy refused to let anyone take Lynn, even as the people from Dark Night City begged her to bring him home so the Painter could try to save him. After she briefly gave way, several Jailers moved to seize Lynn, and she attacked them before declaring that no one would hurt him.

• The Self-Binding Angel and Captain Constantine pleaded with Silver Fantasy to bring Lynn back to Dark Night City so the Painter could try to revive him.
• Xiao Xiao and the others called for Lynn, while the group recalled how Silver Fantasy had taken his broken body from the Jailers months earlier and kept everyone away.
• The Self-Binding Angel knelt and begged Silver Fantasy to trust them and let them help Lynn.
• Silver Fantasy dropped her sword and collapsed, appearing to yield, as several Jailers secretly prepared to take Lynn.
• The Jailers rushed Lynn from two directions, but Silver Fantasy seized her sword and struck them, wounding and burning them.
• Silver Fantasy stood guard over Lynn and warned that no one would hurt him.