Chapter Summaries

Lynn and his companions found an ancient mural that the Feather Pen opened, revealing that Causality had entered the region months earlier. Despite the danger, Lynn led the group inside, where a curious sprout encountered the Silver Sun.

• Dragon Guard Lan discovered an ancient mural in the temple, and the Feather Pen resonated with it and opened a passage.
• Lynn probed the Fire God's memories and saw Causality enter the region with Black Knights and Nightmares, but Causality sensed his gaze.
• Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan realized the Fate Nation's refugees might be in danger, while Lynn wondered whether Causality was still inside.
• Lynn decided to enter the region despite the risk and led his companions through the opening.
• Inside a lush jungle, a tender sprout asked the Silver Sun who it was.

A silver sun spoke with a little sprout about a past mistake and chose to leave rather than become entangled in causality. Lynn and his companions entered the woodland through the Light Gate, where Divine Sound and Momo began recovering memories and Momo was overwhelmed by terror.

• The silver sun asked the sprout why a single screw could derail a speeding train, and she said it might have been holding something important in place.
• The silver sun admitted he had overlooked that the people involved were fundamentally the same person, then offered to take the sprout elsewhere to avoid entangling himself in causality.
• Lynn, Dragon Guard Lan, and the guards emerged from the Light Gate, while Divine Sound and Momo recognized the woodland as a place they had once lived.
• Momo clutched her head as painful memories returned, and Lynn used his power to ease her suffering.
• Momo opened her eyes, overcome by terror and despair.

Momo remembered the Divine Realm’s destruction and blamed its jailers for abandoning its inhabitants. She tried to detonate her Divine Spark, but Lynn stopped her and restored it, leaving him to identify her as the God of Stillness.

• Momo recalled how corrupted deities massacred the loyal gods and how the jailers abandoned the Divine Realm.
• Momo screamed, froze everything around her, and accused the jailers of abandoning her people.
• Momo attacked Lynn with a polearm made of laws and tried to flee with Divine Sound, but Lynn trapped the sisters in a spatial barrier.
• Momo invoked her Divine Spark and attempted a Sacrificial Detonation, while Divine Sound pleaded with her to stop.
• Lynn contained the blast and reversed time to repair Momo’s Divine Spark as Divine Sound caught her.
• Lynn identified Momo as the God of Stillness and realized she had left her Divine Spark in the woodland.

Lynn showed the memories of the Great Cataclysm, revealing that Dragon Guard Lan, the Jailers, and the Female Host had been present when the Loyalist Deities were slaughtered. Divine Sound confronted Dragon Guard Lan over their abandonment, and Lan admitted the Jailers had chosen to leave with Princess Aivier.

• Lynn used his power to reveal the unconscious girl's memories of the Great Cataclysm.
• The memories showed the Female Host and the Jailers abandoning the Loyalist Deities during the slaughter.
• Dragon Guard Lan confirmed that the Female Host and the Jailer Group had been in the Divine Realm when the calamity began.
• Dragon Guard Lan said they left with Princess Aivier because the Divine Realm was already corrupted and destined to fall.
• Divine Sound demanded to know why the Jailers had ignored their pleas for help despite having strength to spare.

Divine Sound learned that the Jailers had knowingly abandoned the deities during the Great Cataclysm, and Dragon Guard Lan explained the hatred and choices that followed. Unable to remain with Lynn after discovering the truth, Divine Sound carried her sleeping sister away.

• Divine Sound confronted Dragon Guard Lan with the deities’ deaths, and Lan admitted that the Jailers had left them to buy time for their own escape.
• Dragon Guard Lan explained that many Jailers had viewed the New Gods as embodiments of the deities who had oppressed them in the Old World.
• Divine Sound dropped her sword and broke down crying while Lynn remembered Aivier’s words about painful reincarnation.
• Dragon Guard Lan recalled how Aivier had led a small group of Jailers away from Hell after the tragedy in the Divine Realm.
• Divine Sound apologized to Lynn, asked him to conceal their presence, and left with her sleeping younger sister.

Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan searched the hidden woodland for the survivors from the Fate Nation, while Lan asked Lynn to kill the jailers if they ever became oppressors themselves. They found the settlement consumed by chaotic fire and its inhabitants transformed into Polluters, and Lynn ordered the guards to put them out of their misery.

• Dragon Guard Lan confessed her guilt as a jailer and asked Lynn to kill all the jailers if they could not return to their King's ideals.
• Lynn led Lan and the remaining guards through the woodland, using Momo's memories to search for the survivors and explaining that he had temporarily synchronized time with the outside world.
• Lynn recognized the woodland as the first God of Fate's hidden home and the group reached the survivors' settlement.
• Lynn and the guards found the village burning with chaotic black flames and realized the attack had happened recently.
• Polluted remnants of the Fate Nation crawled from the ruined houses, and Lynn ordered Lan and the guards to kill them.

Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan searched the Woodland settlements and found them destroyed by the Black Knights, but Lynn sensed survivors and took the group to another village. There, a Black Knight was interrogating an old man about a silver-sun construct when a dragon-roaring spear struck the knight and his horse.

• Lynn and his companions found the first settlements burned and their inhabitants dead or transformed into Polluters.
• Dragon Guard Lan and the other guards grieved after every settlement in Momo's memories had been destroyed.
• Lynn reasoned that other settlements might exist and spread his perception throughout the forest.
• Lynn sensed living people amid a dense mass of Chaos and used Warp to take Dragon Guard Lan and the others there.
• A Black Knight questioned an old man about a floating silver-sun construct and raised his spear to kill him.
• A dragon-roaring spear impaled the Black Knight and his horse, saving the old man.

Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan arrived in time to save the surviving villagers from the Black Knights and Polluters, then learned the attackers were searching for a silver sun. The old man revealed he had found it in a valley years earlier and had rapidly aged after approaching it, leaving Lynn and Lan to consider what the clue meant.

• Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan’s forces annihilated the Black Knights and Polluters attacking the village, then began rescuing the survivors.
• Dragon Guard Lan reassured the wounded villagers, while the old man explained that the settlement’s people were remnants of the Fate God Kingdom.
• The old man said a Black Knight had shown him an image of a silver sun, suggesting the attackers had a specific target.
• The old man conjured an image of the silver sun and said he had seen it in a foggy canyon near the central region.
• The old man revealed that after approaching the silver light, he had suddenly grown old, prompting Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan to recognize a possible vital clue.

An old man told Lynn how a silver sun had accelerated his aging, leading Lynn to suspect it was connected to the Divine Spark of Time. At a canyon where time flowed abnormally, Lynn found traces of causality left by the Causality God King and realized she was searching for the same sun.

• The old man said the silver sun had aged him to the end of his expected lifespan and pointed Lynn to the canyon where he had seen it.
• Lynn sent Dragon Guard Lan to stay with the others and traveled to the canyon to search for the silver sun's traces.
• Lynn used his Monocle to see that time flowed faster across a boundary dividing two sections of forest.
• Lynn detected black threads of causality concealed within the temporal anomaly and stopped before crossing the boundary.
• Lynn concluded that an avatar of the Causality God King had been there searching for the Divine Spark of Time, then disappeared without venturing farther.

Lynn confirmed that the canyon held temporal anomalies and traces of causality connected to the Time Divine Spark, then began sealing the Minor World and wiping out its invading Polluters and Black Knights. Elsewhere, the Silver Sun met a mysterious woman who recognized him as the Lord Time God-King and recalled the old war’s unexpected victor, the Violet Monarch.

• Lynn returned to the village and told Dragon Guard Lan that he had found temporal anomalies and traces of causality near the canyon.
• Lynn ordered Lan to gather the villagers and promised to take them to safety, then sent duplicates to alter the Minor World’s barrier into a prison.
• Lynn unleashed a spatial force that annihilated Polluters and Black Knights across the woodland while warping surviving remnants away.
• The Silver Sun met an ethereal woman in the ruins, and she addressed him as the Lord Time God-King.
• The woman recalled that the Violet Monarch, not the Silver Sun or Reincarnation, had won the ancient contest and become the final Firstborn.

The Silver Sun told the woman that he remained curious whether anyone could overcome eternity, while Lynn sealed the world and attacked her as a newly risen God King. Lynn sensed a connection between the Silver Sun and the Time Divine Spark, but the Silver Sun said the spark was not with him.

• The Silver Sun rejected the woman's call to join the Lord of the End and explained that he wanted to see whether struggle could avert the predetermined future.
• The Silver Sun warned that Lynn had gauged the woman's strength and grown beyond her ability to stop him.
• Lynn severed the woman's connection to her true form by sealing the world, then struck her with the Trident.
• The woman recognized Lynn's Space God-King Spark and realized their plan had fallen for Hell's Lure the Tiger from the Mountain stratagem.
• Lynn confirmed a connection between the Silver Sun and the Time Divine Spark, but the Silver Sun said the spark was not with him.

Lynn defeated the Causality God King’s avatar and pursued the Silver Sun through a temporal vortex. He reached the darkness beyond the River of Time, where the Silver Sun awaited him.

• Lynn shattered the Causality God King avatar’s laws and chased her to the world’s entrance, where Firstborn Power prevented her escape through causality reversal.
• Lynn pierced the avatar with his Trident and suppressed her powers until she burned away, warning him that he did not understand the being he was fighting.
• Lynn returned to the ruins and struck the place where the Silver Sun had vanished, using the temporal vortex to travel beyond the River of Time.
• Lynn appeared beyond the River of Time and saw the Silver Sun shining in the darkness.

Lynn met the former Time God-King, who showed him scenes from countless cycles revealing that Reincarnation had always visited Miao Miao as she grew. The Time God-King questioned whether Reincarnation, worn numb by endless repetition, could still care for her, leaving Lynn stunned by the pattern in their past.

• Lynn met the former Time God-King, who explained that the ancient God Kings could still manifest through the world's laws.
• The Time God-King revealed scenes from past cycles and said that a figure resembling Lynn had appeared in every one.
• Lynn saw Reincarnation visit Miao Miao as she grew, staying with her through countless cycles.
• The Time God-King described how Reincarnation's emotions faded into numbness while he continued returning to Miao Miao.
• The Time God-King questioned whether Reincarnation could still care after enduring endless repetitions.

Lynn uncovered that the Great Lord’s defeat had hinged on his inability to let go of someone he killed in his final lifetime, then confronted the Silver Sun and agreed to help him find an old friend. Lynn traveled back to the time outside the City of Sin, where the Feather Pen saw him reappear from the raven’s corpse.

• Lynn realized fate had exploited the Great Lord’s lingering attachment across his reincarnations, rather than the shattered ring, to bring about his defeat.
• Lynn threatened the Silver Sun with his crimson-burning Trident and refused to let him decide the world’s fate.
• The Silver Sun offered to reveal the location of the divine spark of time and help Lynn bring someone back if Lynn agreed to a condition.
• Lynn accepted the offer, and the Silver Sun asked him to take him to an old friend who could answer a question.
• Lynn traveled through the River of Time to the past outside the City of Sin and reappeared from the raven’s corpse as the Feather Pen watched.

Lynn brought the Silver Sun to meet the Reincarnation God-King, hoping to learn whether she would join him in ending the cycle. She refused to give him an answer, and the Silver Sun challenged her choice to remain apart as their final meeting began.

• Lynn embraced the Feather Pen and told her he had rescued the survivors in the Fate God Kingdom and would make Calamity pay.
• The Silver Sun froze time and asked the Reincarnation God-King to join hands with him again.
• The Reincarnation God-King sent Lynn flying out of the frozen space and told the Silver Sun to leave after they finished their game.
• The Silver Sun accused the Reincarnation God-King of refusing to escape the cage of time and reincarnation with him.
• The Reincarnation God-King said she could no longer be certain he belonged to her era, while the Silver Sun admitted concealing part of the truth and urged her to help end their repeated revivals.

Lynn returned to the Reincarnation God-King after being thrown far away, where he found him and the Silver Sun had fought. He pressed the God-King about their agreement and why he was helping him, and the chapter ended with the God-King asking what Lynn thought death was.

• Lynn used his Firstborn Power to stop drifting through space, then flew back to confront the Reincarnation God-King and the Silver Sun.
• Lynn found the Silver Sun injured and unstable after a fight with the Reincarnation God-King; the Silver Sun left after being reminded of their agreement.
• The Reincarnation God-King told Lynn that the Silver Sun would help him find the Divine Spark of Time and assist him for a while.
• Lynn asked what the Reincarnation God-King and the Silver Sun had discussed, then clung to the Time Rifts after the God-King tried to expel him.
• Lynn asked why the Reincarnation God-King was making him stronger, and the God-King asked what Lynn thought death was.

The figure explained how the Great Lord stopped his awakening by agreeing to keep the Sleeper in eternal slumber, ending their cycle of conflict and preserving the world. Lynn realized the Great Lord had chosen to bear the cost alone.

• The figure told Lynn he had planned to break down and remake himself as the Firstborn so he could possess the Sleeper and end Reincarnation, but the Great Lord had stopped him.
• The figure explained that the Great Lord left countless versions of Lynn among the ravens as bargaining chips, knowing the figure would awaken through them.
• After their True Forms perished together, the Great Lord met the figure and offered his own eternal slumber in exchange for the figure's release.
• The figure said he had accepted the bargain and only remembered it long after awakening.
• Lynn understood that the Great Lord had chosen eternal imprisonment to preserve the world and had carried the decision alone.

Lynn learned that the Great Lord had agreed to preserve the world in exchange for never awakening again, then returned to the present with the Silver Sun to seek the Time Divine Spark. He prepared to leave the Lin Mansion and turned his attention to the sleeping sprout beneath its ruins.

• Lynn realized the Great Lord had accepted a compromise to spare the world and ensure he would never awaken again.
• The Great Lord warned Lynn that he would have to rely on himself in the coming war, while hinting that he too might be controlled by another force.
• Lynn tried to reclaim his Feather Pen but was defeated and thrown out of the River of Time.
• The Silver Sun promised to help Lynn find the Time Divine Spark and warned that Causality's true form had sensed the loss of her avatar.
• Lynn returned to the Lin Mansion, raised his divine spark into the sky, and asked the sleeping sprout whether she had caused the temporal anomaly.

Lynn preserved the Violet Great Lord’s world and sent it into the chaotic spatial currents so someone else could fulfill the promise made to Miao Miao. He returned to the Fate God Kingdom, where a nightmare invasion was underway, and hurried to evacuate the Dragon Guards and the others.

• Lynn realized the woodland was a world the Violet Great Lord had preserved, then sent it away so another person could take Miao Miao to see the outside world.
• Miao Miao awoke among the ruins and asked the aged figure there if she knew him, and he apologized to her.
• Lynn emerged from the mural in the Fate God Kingdom as the land shook and nightmares poured through a rift in the sky.
• Lynn decided he could not wait for the three God Kings to return and traveled through space to the Dragon Guards’ shelter.
• Lynn told Dragon Guard Lan to gather everyone and leave, then rejected the Silver Sun’s claim that helping them was meaningless.

Lynn brought Dragon Guard Lan and the others to Aivier’s Palace to search for an anchor that could revive Princess Aivier. He arrived at the ruined, chaos-filled realm and asked the little Aivier to sense it, but she cared more about candy and agreed only after Lynn bribed her with access to another warehouse.

• Lynn used Dragon Guard Lan’s memories to locate Aivier’s Palace and transported everyone to its coordinates.
• Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan found the realm shattered and engulfed in black fumes, with the palace bound by enormous chains.
• Lynn brought little Aivier out of his system space and asked her to sense the anchor’s presence.
• Little Aivier mistook Lynn’s question for one about candy, so he knocked her head and demanded that she focus.
• Lynn offered little Aivier the key to Zuo Zuo’s snack warehouse, and she agreed to sense the area.