Chapter Summaries

Lynn overwhelmed Red Demon with a devastating Sinfire slash, then charged the Four Great Nightmare Demons alone. Having spent years preparing and learning from repeated failures, he fought with newfound precision and challenged the Nightmare King to kill him.

• Lynn shattered Red Demon's Giant Blade and nearly cleaved him in two with a Sinfire slash.
• The Nightmare King recognized the danger of Lynn's strength and realized their advantage had vanished.
• Lynn said he had spent over a decade preparing to kill the Nightmare Demons and charged all four of them.
• Lynn evaded their attacks and struck several Nightmare Demons, tearing apart the Nightmare King's serpent with Sinfire.
• Lynn slapped the Nightmare King into the spatial structure and taunted him to take the chance to kill him.

Lynn repeatedly humiliated the Nightmare King before burning him away with Sinfire and slaughtering the remaining Nightmare Demons. Afterward, he reassured Silver Fantasy that he was still himself, and the two prepared to return.

• The Nightmare King repeatedly attacked Lynn, but Lynn blocked each assault and slapped him away while restraining the other Nightmare Demons.
• Lynn explained that he would make the Nightmare King pay for his crimes, then seized him and burned him away with Sinfire.
• Lynn turned on the remaining Nightmare Demons and killed them under his overwhelming power.
• Silver Fantasy stared in shock at Lynn's strength and asked whether he was still the Lynn she knew.
• Lynn tapped Silver Fantasy's forehead, showed her his familiar smile, and pulled her close as he reassured her.

Lynn returned to the Main Universe after more than a decade of training and reunited with Miss Machine Intelligence and the defenders of Dark Night City. As his followers welcomed him as their king, he promised to lead them in reclaiming everything they had lost.

• Lynn reunited with Miss Machine Intelligence, punched him, and then embraced him as he promised to stay and fight beside her.
• Lynn told Silver Fantasy he had trained with the Reincarnation God-King in the past and explained that Nightmare Demons were threatening the Main Universe.
• Lynn arrived in Dark Night City and assured his family and Legion that he had killed four Nightmare Demons and would prevent further trouble.
• Self-Binding Angel embraced Lynn and wept as he apologized for leaving her to fight alone and promised not to leave again.
• Dark Night City's legions and survivors knelt before Lynn and welcomed him back as their king.
• Lynn accepted his followers' allegiance and vowed to lead them in taking back what they had lost.

Lynn returned as the Main Universe’s Laws and God Frontier collapsed under the Calamity’s influence, and he organized the Legions to rebuild the defenses. After anchoring the Laws with the Trident and entrusting Silver Fantasy and the Captain with stabilizing the primordial source, he walked alone into the darkness to face his final responsibility.

• Lynn ordered the Legions to withdraw from the Calamity-occupied outer ring, reinforce the Star Sectors, and restore the God Frontier with golden spears.
• Lynn explained to Silver Fantasy and the Captain that the Calamity’s awakening had destabilized the Main Universe and that the Trident’s primordial source was struggling to distinguish its master.
• Lynn asked Silver Fantasy and the Captain to stabilize the primordial source while he anchored the universe’s Laws with the Trident.
• Lynn used the Trident to steady the Laws, while the golden spears reconnected the God Frontier across the Main Universe.
• Silver Fantasy watched Lynn walk alone into the darkness and pleaded for him to return alive.

Lynn reunited with Aivier and confronted the three Nightmare Demons who had gathered in the Inner Ring. He killed the Beast King with a single strike, leaving the arriving King's Knight stunned by how much stronger Lynn had become.

• The Mirror Demon and two other Nightmare Demons sensed the Nightmare King’s defeat and raced toward the Main Universe’s Core Region.
• Lynn appeared before the Mirror Demon and reunited with Aivier, who warned him that three Nightmare Demons had surrounded them.
• Lynn told Aivier that the Divine Realm’s crisis had already been settled and invited all three Nightmare Demons to attack him together.
• The Beast King fell to one stroke from Lynn’s sheathed saber, and the arriving King's Knight stared at the devastating display in shock.

Lynn defeated the Mirror Demon and Nightmare Demon with ease, revealing how thoroughly his training had sharpened his ability to predict their attacks. Afterward, he showed off to Aivier and reflected that he still had a greater calamity to face.

• Lynn evaded the Mirror Demon's attacks by predicting them through the battle simulations in his dream, then pierced him with his scabbard and burned him to ashes.
• Lynn confronted the Nightmare Demon, who fled across several astronomical units, but he struck her with a clean wound and destroyed her with scarlet sinfire.
• Lin Meng, the King's Knight, and the others arrived and stared in shock at Lynn's effortless victories.
• Lynn asked Aivier whether his performance had looked cool, then explained that he had grown stronger during his absence.
• Lynn reflected that his power still fell short of what he would need to challenge the calamity looming above them.

As the true Sleeper pressed against the Main Universe, Lynn left the Four Kings of Hell and Aivier to face the threat and walked alone toward the dark Border. He entered the starless Chaos Deep Space, where countless nightmares turned to look at him.

• Lynn asked the King's Knight how likely they were to hold out against the Sleeper, and the King's Knight admitted their Female Host was being pushed back.
• The King's Knight warned that their Female Host's scale had shrunk by nearly a tenth in two hours and urged Lynn to act.
• Lynn entrusted the Main Universe to the Four Kings of Hell and set off toward the Border.
• Aivier begged Lynn to return alive, and Lynn raised his hand in farewell without looking back.
• Lynn reached the darkness of Chaos Deep Space, where endless twisted nightmares turned toward him.

Lynn fought through the Dark Tide and reached the shattered azure world, where Painter had been battling the Black Pupil. He saved her from a killing blow and reunited with her after a long separation.

• Lynn drank wine, drew his sheathed blade, and cut a path through the Dark Tide toward the battlefield.
• Painter repeatedly charged the Black Pupil but was beaten back as the azure world was consumed.
• Painter made her closest approach to the Black Pupil before a black waterfall of lightning struck toward her.
• Lynn arrived and severed the lightning with one slash, shielding Painter from the attack.
• Lynn told Painter that he had kept his promise and that it had been a long time.

Lynn returned to find the Painter holding the Calamity at bay by letting it consume her, but she charged into its Black Pupil without explaining why. Lynn followed her into the Calamity’s domain, where its darkness began devouring his Sinfire as he called for the Painter.

• Lynn asked the Painter about the Calamity, and she explained that her immense mass was keeping it disordered while it consumed her from outside the Inner Ring.
• Lynn questioned the Painter’s true objective, but she charged at the Black Pupil before answering.
• The Calamity focused its will on the Painter, and Lynn used his Sinfire to tear a path through its counterattack.
• The Painter plunged into the Black Pupil’s domain, and Lynn followed her into the Calamity itself.
• The Calamity’s darkness began eroding Lynn’s Sinfire, and he shouted for the Painter.

Lynn and the Painter entered the calamity’s dream and saw a white-haired figure bound within it, revealing why the Painter had fought to make him manifest. After the calamity’s upheaval overwhelmed them, they returned to the azure world, where the weakened Painter said Lynn was still too weak and he asked whether she had already planned how to survive the tribulation.

• Lynn fought through the calamity’s nightmares and caught up with the Painter inside the dream.
• Lynn saw a white-haired figure bound in black chains, and the Painter explained that the calamity had not yet fully integrated the Firstborn and the Sleeper.
• The Painter said she had watched the calamity consume more of the Main Universe’s substance so the figure would become clearer.
• A black upheaval swept over Lynn and the Painter, and Lynn lost consciousness beneath the calamity’s attack.
• Lynn awoke with the Painter in the azure world, where she knelt and said he was not strong enough to withstand the calamity.
• Lynn asked the Painter whether she had already planned a way to survive the tribulation without him.

The azure figure revealed that she had killed the Ravens to restore her lover’s will and keep the Lord of the End from awakening. She told Lynn her final plan was to let the Sleeper consume her, buying the Main Universe time by keeping him occupied and sustaining his dream.

• The azure figure explained that the Sleeper was suppressing his own desire to awaken because becoming lucid could tear the Star River apart.
• She admitted to Lynn that she had killed most of the Ravens, using their sacrifice to restore her lover’s will and keep the Lord of the End from being born within him.
• The azure figure confirmed she had sent the Butcher and Clown after Lynn, hoping he would replace his original self and complete the path she had laid out.
• She told Lynn she intended to let the Sleeper swallow her, keeping him occupied and delaying his awakening.
• The azure figure explained that her mixed nature as a Chaos Being and bearer of order would make her difficult to consume and help sustain the Sleeper’s dream.

Lynn agreed to help the azure figure enter the calamity’s deepest reaches, knowing he would have to face its counterattack alone. As she withdrew her presence, the Main Universe’s azure boundary vanished, and the calamity began to surge toward Lynn.

• The azure figure told Lynn she would let the calamity devour her so she could reach its depths, while Lynn would have to protect the Main Universe alone.
• She warned Lynn to prioritize his safety and preserve half the Main Universe as a final safeguard if the plan failed.
• The azure figure began withdrawing her presence, and beings across the Main Universe watched the azure boundary contract as Aivier wept and the jailers knelt.
• Lynn released the chains on Scabbard at the black frontier as the calamity’s pulses spread through the void.

Lynn charged into the deepest darkness with the azure girl on his back, carving through the nightmares of Chaos Deep Space. The raven corpses and the Trident drew the Black Pupil’s gaze away, but shadows of the Old Days appeared as Lynn entered the final calamity.

• Lynn drew the Night Demon Blade and set out toward the darkness with the azure girl, promising to wait for her explanation.
• Lynn fought through endless nightmares, blazing a path deeper into Chaos Deep Space as the people of Dark Night City cried out for him.
• At the final barrier, the azure girl urged Lynn onward and revealed that the raven corpses she had saved would lure the being’s gaze away.
• The Trident tore free and shone across the Main Universe as raven corpses flew through its light, drawing the Black Pupil’s attention away from Lynn.
• Lynn cut through the black mist and charged into the deepest darkness, where the azure girl warned him that the shadows of the Old Days had arrived.

Lynn fought through the chaotic dream’s divine phantoms and broke the territory of the man who looked like him. With the girl urging him onward, he left the motionless figure behind and continued toward the black mist.

• Painter drove away the Firstborn chaotic beings that charged at Lynn and the girl.
• Lynn fought through the phantoms of Truth, Creation, Destruction, Causality, and space, cutting them down with his blade and fire.
• Lynn attacked the man who looked like him, enduring repeated defeats until his Golden Dream let his blade break the man’s one-meter territory.
• The man remained unharmed but stopped moving, and the girl told Lynn to go as the phantoms collapsed.
• Lynn continued toward the black mist and saw the man still standing among the collapsing illusions; the girl said some imprints ran deep and some people always stood ahead of you.

Lynn reached the far shore with the Painter, who sacrificed herself to send him back and buy time for the chained figure’s humanity. Her disappearance ended the dark frontier’s assault on the Main Universe, leaving Aivier to mourn her and reflect on her parents’ repeated reunions and partings.

• Lynn fought through the chaotic dream until he collapsed near the chained figure, and the Painter continued toward the phantom alone.
• The Painter promised to help the chained figure retain his humanity and used her power to send Lynn back, asking him to carve out a real future.
• The Painter’s azure light spread through the Main Universe, and the darkness and oppressive gaze receded.
• Aivier saw that the Painter’s presence had vanished, mourned her, and accepted that she had been reunited with her father.
• Aivier recalled witnessing her father’s fall and her mother’s long vigil as she grieved their repeated separations.

After the Painter’s sacrifice drove the Calamity into dormancy, Lynn recovered and reunited with his allies, while Aivier inherited Hell’s authority. With the Painter gone and the apocalypse still ahead, Lynn and Aivier unified the Main Universe’s forces under his command.

• The survivors of Dark Night City saw the Calamity recede, while Lynn drifted near death at the Main Universe’s border.
• The Jailers knelt before Aivier, who took up the royal authority the Painter had entrusted to her, and mourned her parents before an old portrait.
• Lynn awoke among his worried companions and learned the Painter’s plan had succeeded, giving the Main Universe a final respite as the Calamity entered a long slumber.
• Lynn reunited with his family, friends, and Legion, then declared that everyone would have to rely on their own strength to defend their home.
• Aivier came to Dark Night City and joined its forces with Hell under Lynn’s leadership, reorganizing them alongside the returning Exile Defense Line into the second Deity Army Formation.

Lynn found Zuo Zuo frozen in the void beyond time but chose not to bring her back, promising to return for her after he faced the coming apocalypse. The Silver Sun questioned his choice and warned that his ties to others could burden him.

• Mortal armies across the Main Universe joined the mechanized army formation, while the God Frontier linked more than ten billion soldiers under orders from Dark Night City.
• The Silver Sun told Lynn he had found Zuo Zuo, and Lynn rushed into the void beyond time to see her frozen inside an enormous ice crystal.
• Lynn remembered his years of longing for Zuo Zuo but withdrew his hand, apologizing and saying he would bring her home after he dealt with everything.
• Lynn pushed Zuo Zuo back into the void, marked her, and shouted that he would return for her.
• The Silver Sun said Lynn should have brought Zuo Zuo back and warned that his causal ties to others could hold him down.

Lynn obtained the Time Divine Spark from the silver Blazing Sun, but chose not to fuse it as he considered severing his spatial spark and firstborn power before the final battle. He remained blocked from advancing sinfire to blackfire and expanding his dream, leaving his preparations for the calamity unfinished.

• The silver Blazing Sun showed Lynn where the ancient Time Divine Kingdom lay and gave him the Time Divine Spark, while claiming he was only curious about Lynn’s chances against the calamity.
• Lynn sheathed his blade and said he would watch the silver Blazing Sun, considering the gift repayment.
• After the Main Universe’s defensive line was rebuilt, Lynn decided against fusing the Time Divine Spark because it could make the firstborn power harder to remove.
• Lynn considered severing his spatial divine spark and firstborn power, transferring their authority to the Trident to keep the God Frontier operating.
• Lynn’s attempts to advance sinfire into blackfire failed, and the God King continued to tell him the time was not yet right for his dream to reach its next state.
• Lynn found that his will had reached a limit that stopped him from expanding his dream further.

Three years after Painter was devoured, a vastly strengthened nightmare army attacked the Main Universe, and Lynn fought the twelve Nightmare Demons before driving the invasion back. The victory restored hope, but the Nightmare King warned that the Calamity would soon regain lucidity, leaving the war’s end uncertain.

• Lynn wondered whether mastering the Dream World required becoming a Chaos Being, but had no time to pursue the question before war erupted again.
• Three years after Painter was devoured, a nightmare army more than ten times larger attacked the Main Universe, with twelve Nightmare Demons descending into Chaos Deep Space.
• Lynn fought all twelve Nightmare Demons, killed ten, and left the other two badly wounded as they fled.
• Lynn projected his dream-born Sinfire across the Main Universe’s outer boundary and helped force the nightmare army to retreat.
• The Self-Binding Angel told Lynn they had won again, while the chapter ended with the question of where the nearly twenty-year war would end.

As the Main Universe’s people sink into despair, the Self-Binding Angel urges Lynn to become a King and a symbol of hope, and he tacitly accepts the plan. Over the years, his actions in the war and the ancient raven legend turn belief in him into fervor, leaving him elevated as the Main Universe’s final Redeemer.

• At a council meeting, the Self-Binding Angel tells Lynn that the people need a King to give them hope, but he rejects the idea because it recalls the Great Lord’s disastrous rise.
• The Self-Binding Angel pleads with Lynn to become the King who can help everyone endure the coming winter, and she recites an ancient ballad about the raven bringing hope.
• After the meeting, Dark Night City changes its strategy to put Lynn in the spotlight, and he tacitly accepts the role despite his misgivings.
• In the years that follow, Lynn’s military leadership and battlefield strength inspire belief across the Main Universe, especially after he holds back the Dark Tide beyond its borders.
• When people recognize Lynn as the raven of their ancient legends, fervor spreads through civilization after civilization and elevates him as their final Redeemer.