Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuu declared that Holy Paradise Mountain would launch the Great Crusade in five thousand years and appointed Supreme Jun to govern the Multiverse during the expedition. Supreme Jun accepted the responsibility and selected officials and Angels to remain with him.

• Supreme Jun, Supreme Tu, and the assembled ministers agreed to launch the Great Crusade and urged Jiang Yuu to conquer the Endless Planes.
• Jiang Yuu announced that the crusade would begin in five thousand years and ordered the Holy Kings, elite legions, and Holy Governors’ forces to assemble.
• Jiang Yuu chose Supreme Jun to remain behind and maintain order across the Multiverse while the crusade proceeded.
• Jiang Yuu said Paradise Mountain would accompany the crusade and assigned the Holy Court to govern in its place during the expedition.
• Supreme Jun requested that King Tu, Sophia, Nanaduo, Biting Wind Supreme, Divine Priests, and Angels remain to assist him, and Jiang Yuu approved his requests.

Jiang Yuu appointed Supreme Jun as grand consul and prime minister to govern Holy Paradise Mountain during the Great Crusade, which the Multiverse began preparing for five thousand years in advance. He explained to Annatania that he trusted Jun because Jun’s history and Equilibrium concept showed he sincerely sought peace and balance.

• Jiang Yuu decreed that Supreme Jun would govern Holy Paradise Mountain and the Multiverse in his stead during the crusade, and ordered Sophia to announce the decree.
• The Golden Hall meeting ended after three years, and Holy Paradise Mountain mobilized the Multiverse for the Great Crusade planned to begin in five thousand years.
• Jiang Yuu met Annatania in the Flower Sea Courtyard and told her that she and most of the Supremes would accompany him, leaving the realm’s core forces depleted.
• Annatania questioned why Jiang Yuu had chosen Jun over other veteran Supremes, and Jiang Yuu explained that Jun’s Seventh-Realm strength could suppress unrest.
• Jiang Yuu said he had seen Jun’s history and trusted his commitment to peace, balance, and prosperity.

Jiang Yuu secured support for Supreme Jun to govern the Multiverse during the Great Crusade, while Ming Laite reflected on his lesser standing and considered seeking an external posting. As the crusade drew closer, legions from across the Ten Domains began gathering near Holy Paradise Mountain.

• Jiang Yuu persuaded Annatania to publicly trust Supreme Jun as Grand Consul and prime minister, and their conversation spread across the Multiverse.
• Supreme Jun told Luan that he would serve Yuliel loyally, then embraced his new authority as a chance to reshape the Multiverse.
• Ming Laite accepted that Yuliel trusted Supreme Jun more than him and considered leaving his consul post for a minor position in the Mirror Sea Grand Domain.
• By Holy Calendar year 26000, armies from across the Ten Domains were gathering near Paradise Mountain and the Void Passage, with more still traveling through the Nothingness.

Jiang Yuu planned to establish a Greater Heaven above the Multiverse and expand Aeryta’s Greater Underworld beneath it, using both to centralize authority and secure Holy Paradise Mountain’s rule. The chapter then followed Ulaikes, a Star Saint in the expeditionary armies, as he visited Feland World while awaiting the Great Crusade.

• The Titan Giants, Lucifer’s angels, and Michael’s angels guarded the Passage of Being and Nonbeing, the future route for Holy Paradise Mountain’s armies.
• Jiang Yuu planned to turn Aeryta’s Cosmic Underworld into a Greater Underworld spanning the Multiverse and to create a Greater Heaven above it.
• Jiang Yuu intended to use the Four Primordial Gods’ authorities and the origins of the Multiverse to create ranks that granted power according to their authority.
• Annatania, Supreme Tu, Supreme Jun, and Holy Paradise Mountain’s other senior ministers agreed to Jiang Yuu’s plan to strengthen the mountain’s rule and preserve its authority.
• Ulaikes, a Star Saint serving a Holy King, toured Feland World while his universe’s legion waited for the Great Crusade to begin.

Ulaikes toured the World Tree and Feland World, learning about their peoples, faiths, and histories before returning to his universe to await the Great Crusade. In Holy Calendar year 28000, Jiang Yuu summoned the expeditionary army and ordered it to march.

• Ulaikes traveled through the World Tree for over a thousand years with a Forest Elf guide and heard hymns praising the Lord of Heaven and the gods of Paradise Mountain.
• Ulaikes entered the Original Universe after swearing an oath, then explored Feland World and learned about the Holy Golden Lion Empire, its resident gods, and the descendants of Lionheart Supreme Lionheart.
• Ulaikes traveled across Feland World, visiting High Barbarian Mountain, Rosendas, and the Eastern Sea Coast before returning to his universe in Holy Calendar year 27900.
• In Holy Calendar year 28000, Jiang Yuu rose from his recliner, told Annatania it was time to set out, and addressed the waiting Supremes and expeditionary armies.
• Jiang Yuu ordered the armies to march, and the Multiverse's forces answered with cheers and war cries.

Jiang Yuu gathered the Multiverse’s armies aboard Paradise Mountain and led them into the Void Passage to wage war against the Endless Planes. The expeditionary force left the Multiverse and began its journey toward its enemies.

• Jiang Yuu summoned Devisona, who transformed into a Platinum Holy Sword and joined him.
• Jiang Yuu ordered the armies and war fortresses to assemble on Paradise Mountain, where thousands of Supremes and countless warriors took their places over seven days and nights.
• Jiang Yuu entrusted the Multiverse and Holy Paradise Mountain to the Supremes who remained behind, then sealed Paradise Mountain with a radiant barrier.
• Jiang Yuu urged the expeditionary army to set out and fight for victory, while the warriors raised battle cries and praised him.
• Jiang Yuu led Sevenfold Heaven Mountain into the Void Passage, and the expedition departed the Multiverse for the Endless Planes.

Ulaikes and Metoles reflected on the expeditionary army’s mission as they looked out over the Land of True Nothingness beyond Paradise Mountain. Philogia Lionheart informed them that the war in the Endless Planes could last thirty thousand years and that the army would receive places to sleep, cultivate, and relax, while being required to follow Paradise Mountain’s rules.

• Ulaikes and Metoles discussed the danger of the Land of True Nothingness and their hope that the expedition would be remembered.
• Philogia Lionheart arrived and introduced himself as an Angel in the Golden Lion Legion’s warband.
• Philogia told Ulaikes and Metoles that the expedition to the Endless Planes could last thirty thousand years.
• Philogia explained that the Lord of Heaven had arranged facilities for the soldiers and warned them to obey Paradise Mountain’s regulations.
• After Philogia left to inform other legions, Ulaikes remarked on how long thirty thousand years would be.

Ulaikes and Metoles returned to their legion’s base with news from Angel, while the expedition’s leaders set rules and prepared to wait thirty thousand years before reaching the Endless Planes. In the Embers Grand Plane, Alanmonlos’s Ember Court stood as the chapter ended.

• Metoles told Ulaikes about Holy Paradise Mountain’s vast library and how he had learned about it from a Forest Elf he once met.
• Ulaikes and Metoles returned to their base on Fifth Paradise Mountain and reported Angel’s message to Arnotas, who relayed it to other legions.
• Ulaikes left to explore Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Paradise Mountain while the crusade remained thirty thousand years from the Endless Planes.
• Jiang Yuu convened the crusade’s Supremes, established provisional laws and a Tribunal, then returned to his throne to cultivate and left Paradise Mountain’s affairs to Annatania.
• The Crystal Emperor Grand Plane had been renamed the Embers Grand Plane, where Alanmonlos’s Ember Court stood.

Alanmonlos summoned the Ember Court’s True Kings and warned them that he sensed a real crisis approaching from beyond the Endless Planes. The assembly fell silent as he revealed that no being within his domain posed the danger.

• Alanmonlos recalled how he had raised the Emberfolk to power and reshaped the history of the Endless Planes after becoming their master.
• Alanmonlos presided over a grand assembly as thousands of True Kings gathered beneath him and the gathered races sang his praises.
• Alanmonlos told the assembly that he sensed an impending crisis, prompting disbelief and discussion among the True Kings.
• Elder Illusion King struck his staff against the floor, silenced the assembly, and urged the True Kings to listen to Alanmonlos.
• Alanmonlos confirmed that the crisis was real and came from beyond the Endless Planes.

Alanmonlos concluded that Yuliel of the Multiverse posed the threat he sensed and announced a renewed war against the Multiverse. Despite the True Kings urging caution, he ordered the Endless Planes' army to march out and fight in the Land of True Nothingness.

• The True Kings suspected that the threat to the Endless Planes came from the Multiverse, and some feared Yuliel, the Lord of Radiance.
• Alanmonlos said he had sensed Yuliel's aura and believed he was preparing to invade the Endless Planes.
• Alanmonlos announced that he would gather the kings and their armies to attack the Multiverse.
• Elder Suo urged Alanmonlos to wait for the Multiverse to invade, but Alanmonlos refused to risk casualties in the Endless Planes.
• Alanmonlos ordered the army to meet the Multiverse's forces in the Land of True Nothingness and asked the assembled ministers who supported his decision.

Alanmonlos rallied the True Kings of the Endless Planes and organized an expedition against the Multiverse, leaving Alianmel and Elder Illusion to govern in his absence. Five thousand years later, his army set out along the same route as the Multiverse’s forces, and the Monarch atop Paradise Mountain opened his eyes as they departed.

• The True Kings agreed to follow Alanmonlos into war against the Multiverse, and Kalai'es volunteered to lead the vanguard.
• Alanmonlos appointed Mengtuola, Alandu, and other True Kings to prepare armies, fortresses, and supplies, threatening to punish those who refused to join.
• Alanmonlos left Alianmel and Elder Illusion in charge of the Endless Planes and promised Alianmel that he would defeat Yuliel and return victorious.
• Alanmonlos ordered the True Kings to prepare for five thousand years before marching against the Multiverse, then wondered whether the Crystal Emperor had feared awakening the hidden Creator.
• Five thousand years later, Alanmonlos's army departed along the same route as the Multiverse's army, and the Monarch on Paradise Mountain opened his eyes.

Jiang Yuu sensed Alanmonlos leading the Endless Planes’ armies into the Land of True Nothingness and summoned the Monarchs to prepare for the coming war. Across the void, the two Monarchs detected each other and sent their auras forward, eager to clash.

• Jiang Yuu’s platinum divine eyes and surging aura alarmed the guards and expeditionary forces on Paradise Mountain, but he told them to return to their duties.
• Jiang Yuu told Aibo Luolaier to summon the Monarchs to the Golden Hall, explaining that the battlefield would be the Land of True Nothingness and war would begin sooner than expected.
• Jiang Yuu sensed the new Emperor of the Endless Planes and sent his aura through the void, welcoming their first clash.
• As Alanmonlos led the Endless Planes’ armies aboard the Ash Continent into true nothingness, he sensed Jiang Yuu and saw his radiant figure reflected in his eyes.
• Alanmonlos unleashed his aura to meet Jiang Yuu’s, alarming the Endless True Kings, who wondered whether their enemies had arrived.

Alanmonlos and Jiang Yuu prepared their forces for war as the Endless Planes and the Multiverse moved toward a decisive clash. Five thousand years later, their armies were about to meet.

• Alanmonlos rebuked the True Kings of the Endless Planes and made them pledge to fight the Multiverse.
• Jiang Yuu sensed Alanmonlos beyond the Endless Planes and told the Multiverse's Supremes that the enemy army was advancing.
• Jiang Yuu warned the Supremes that the armies would meet within five thousand years and ordered them to prepare for battle.
• The forces at Paradise Mountain mobilized as Jiang Yuu steered it toward the Ash Continent to confront Alanmonlos.
• Five thousand years passed as the two armies approached their clash.

Nockburn watched Yuliel arrive at the Ash Continent atop a holy mountain, his radiant presence sweeping away the gray snow and shaking the gathered armies. Yuliel introduced himself to the Endless Planes, leaving the camp stunned by the emperor’s arrival.

• Nockburn reflected on his service to Manrosta and his gratitude to Ember Emperor Alanmonlos for supporting the expeditionary forces.
• Nockburn headed to the camp square for the daily formation drills as gray snow fell across the Ash Continent.
• A platinum radiance swept away the gray snow, and an immense imperial presence spread across the continent.
• Nockburn saw Yuliel standing on a holy mountain with an army and thousands of True Kings behind him.
• Yuliel introduced himself to the people of the Endless Planes.

Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos confronted each other as their rival powers clashed over the Ash Continent. After Jiang Yuu offered Alanmonlos submission or battle, Alanmonlos refused, and Jiang Yuu called him to fight.

• Jiang Yuu’s sacred radiance forced many beings on the Ash Continent, including Nockburn, toward submission until Alanmonlos dispelled its pressure with his power over embers.
• Alanmonlos declared himself Emperor of the Endless Planes and accused Jiang Yuu of attacking his subjects, while the Ash Continent’s warriors rallied behind him.
• Lucifer raised the Blazing Heaven Holy Banner, opening a passage through True Nothingness for the Multiverse’s waiting armies.
• Jiang Yuu told Alanmonlos to submit and promised to spare his subjects and end the conflict between their realms.
• Alanmonlos rejected the offer and mocked Jiang Yuu, who answered by declaring, “Come and fight!”

Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos began their battle in the Land of True Nothingness, where Alanmonlos created an Embers Dimension and seemed to overwhelm Jiang Yuu with gray snow and ashes. As the Ember forces celebrated and Paradise Mountain waited for orders, Jiang Yuu spoke and called upon the sacred wind.

• Jiang Yuu drew the Platinum Holy Sword and advanced on Alanmonlos with overwhelming sword intent.
• Alanmonlos dismissed their contest of presence and created an Embers Dimension that spread across the Land of True Nothingness.
• Alanmonlos declared that everything in his dimension would turn to embers, and gray snow engulfed Jiang Yuu's radiance and sword.
• The True Kings of the Ash Continent celebrated Alanmonlos's apparent advantage, while an old True King ordered the armies to wait.
• Lucifer urged the Supremes at Paradise Mountain to remain calm and await Jiang Yuu's command.
• Jiang Yuu laughed softly and called, "O sacred wind, blow it away!"

Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos continued their battle across True Nothingness, each using a power that countered the other. Jiang Yuu opened the Sword Tomb of Myriad Armies and shattered Alanmonlos’s temporary dimension, cutting down the Flame of Succession.

• The Radiant Sovereign Yuliel unleashed the Wind of Sacred Ash, destroying the gray snow and burning away the Long River of Ash.
• Alanmonlos planted a spark of the Flame of Succession, which consumed the Sacred Wind and spread across True Nothingness toward Jiang Yuu.
• Jiang Yuu praised Alanmonlos’s technique, then stopped his Sacred Wind as the Flame of Succession reached him.
• Annatania reassured the watching Supremes and expeditionary forces that Yuliel would not be defeated.
• Jiang Yuu planted the Platinum Holy Sword and opened the Sword Tomb of Myriad Armies, filling its hills with divine swords.
• Jiang Yuu’s sword intents shattered Alanmonlos’s temporary supreme dimension and cut down the Flame of Succession.

Alanmonlos used the Embers Holy Grail to break through Jiang Yuu’s Sword Tomb of Myriad Armies and confronted him in the Land of True Nothingness. He then invoked the authority of the Endless Planes, declaring that he would use the power of the Emperor Realm to kill Yuliel.

• Jiang Yuu’s Sword Tomb of Myriad Armies crushed Alanmonlos’s supreme dimension and swept away his dimension-flame.
• Alanmonlos summoned the Embers Holy Grail and hurled it at the Sword Tomb, blasting the Sword Tomb Continent out of the Ash Continent.
• Alanmonlos left the Ash Continent and faced Jiang Yuu across the Sword Tomb Continent in true nothingness.
• Alanmonlos transformed his pupils into a simple triangular shape and received the crown and power of the Endless Planes.
• Alanmonlos declared that he would use the power of the Emperor Realm to send Yuliel to his death.

Alanmonlos created the Gray Mist Mortal World and challenged Jiang Yuu to a life-or-death rehearsal of their paths to transcendence. After the Emberfolk volunteered to populate the new world, Jiang Yuu accepted and began shaping Paradise Mountain and the Abyss.

• Alanmonlos raised gray mist and riverbank continents throughout True Nothingness, then dissolved the Ember Emperor's Crown to seed them with life and civilization.
• Alanmonlos invited Jiang Yuu to rehearse their future paths through a battle where life and death would be decided, and Jiang Yuu agreed.
• Alanmonlos asked the Emberfolk to enter the Gray Mist Mortal World, and they volunteered despite the risk of vanishing into True Nothingness.
• Alanmonlos chose half the Emberfolk to enter the new world and ordered the rest to remain on the Ash Continent under Old True King Ming Ruo.
• Jiang Yuu accepted Alanmonlos's arrangements and declared that he would break the world's restraints by creating Paradise Mountain and the Abyss.

Jiang Yuu created Holy Paradise Mountain and an Abyss to match Alanmonlos's Gray Mist Mortal World, then agreed to enter the contest alongside him. As the selected Angels and Emberfolk entered the battlefield, Alanmonlos began a new path based on the concept of Embers, which Jiang Yuu watched with interest.

• Jiang Yuu used his sword to separate Holy Paradise Mountain from the Gray Mist Mortal World and cleave the Sword Tomb of Myriad Armies into an Abyss.
• Jiang Yuu called on the Angels to fight, selected those bearing his feathers of light, and sent them into Paradise Mountain and the Abyss.
• Alanmonlos confirmed that the selected Emberfolk had entered the Gray Mist Mortal World and invited Jiang Yuu to join the contest.
• Jiang Yuu and Alanmonlos entered the battlefield, leaving their armies under Anna and the other leaders' command.
• Alanmonlos declared the concept of Embers, then dissolved into the Gray Mist Mortal World as the Emberfolk entered a dreamlike state.
• Jiang Yuu observed Alanmonlos's creation and wondered whether reality could become heaven and earth through a concept.