Recaps

The Blueprint Drafters discussed their factions and the dangers of opening a passage with Ye Buyu and the others, while Banyi sought to learn about their homeland. After the meeting, Yan Yan revealed that he represented the remnant Dustgrass Civilization and asked them to hear his request.

• Banyi gave the group information about [Life], while Hang Jiuwang and Xiang Mingyang warned them against opening a passage and left.
• Banyi explained the differing approaches of Hang Jiuwang, Xiang Mingyang, and her own civilization, Qian Gu Bell.
• Mu Bingge described the Third Zone and its Calamity domains, leaving Banyi disappointed and suspicious.
• After the other Blueprint Drafters departed, Yan Yan told the group he suspected they had been playing the others and offered to share what he knew.
• Yan Yan said he represented only the Dustgrass Civilization and asked the group for a favor, which Lou Guanshan agreed to hear.

Yan Yan asked Hold Up the Heavens to help him meet the King of Withering and Flourishing, and Ye Buyu agreed to contact him after the [Life] miracle exploration. After learning that the Primordial Beginning Tower’s foundations contained a Throne of God, Ye Buyu and her teammates went to see it, but touching its barrier sucked all six of them inside.

• Yan Yan asked to meet the King of Withering and Flourishing, and Ye Buyu agreed to help after the [Life] miracle exploration while considering him a potential informant.
• Yan Yan explained that he had recognized Hold Up the Heavens as the group behind the invitation by watching the others’ glances and reading the Withered Glory Theatre’s script.
• Kou Ying revealed that Elder Xu had arranged the gathering, and Xu Chen said he had found leads he would expose at the site of the [Life] miracle.
• Xu Chen told Ye Buyu and her teammates that the Primordial Beginning Tower’s inaccessible foundations were a Deity’s Throne of God open to visitors.
• Ye Buyu and her teammates visited the Throne of God, where Kou Ying’s probing pen slipped and Lou Guanshan accidentally touched the transparent membrane.
• The membrane pulled Lou Guanshan inside, and Ye Buyu and the other four teammates were dragged in while trying to save him.

The six were pulled into a shifting space, where they found a mysterious number, a key, and six rainbow-colored flowers. As the flowers flooded them with energy, they began absorbing it and advancing toward the eighth tier.

• The shifting space formed a spiral staircase, and Lou Guanshan led the group up it.
• Ye Buyu and the others found the number 153469 and a key beneath a mysterious curtain; the curtain and pillars vanished, leaving six rainbow-colored flowers.
• Wan Lan, Ye Buyu, and the others absorbed the flowers' overwhelming energy, which also repaired their injuries and flowed toward Ye Buyu.
• Ye Buyu used the energy to push toward breaking through the seventh-tier barrier into the eighth tier.
• Mu Bingge, Kou Ying, and Wan Lan showed signs of their auras advancing as they absorbed the energy.

Ye Buyu broke through the seventh tier inside the Throne of God, causing the Primordial Beginning Tower to shake and eject her team. The Six landed on the administrators’ restricted rooftop, where they admitted their breakthrough had caused the disturbance.

• Lou Guanshan, Su Wuwei, and Wan Lan noticed Ye Buyu absorbing the energy released by their advancement as she continued her breakthrough.
• Ye Buyu broke through her barrier, and the Throne of God began to tremble and push the team out.
• Ye Buyu and her teammates emerged through a transparent membrane near the top of the Primordial Beginning Tower and grabbed onto pillars to avoid falling.
• The Six encountered Xu Chen and the tower administrators, who demanded to know how they had entered the restricted rooftop and where they had been during the shaking.
• Wan Lan explained that the Throne of God had absorbed them, given them energy that helped them advance, and then thrown them out; Lou Guanshan admitted that they had caused the tower to shake.

After the Six emerged from the Throne of God and caused the Primordial Beginning Tower’s first-ever tremor, Ye Buyu persuaded the Administrators to conceal what happened and impose Speech Censorship. The Administrators accepted the plan and recognized that they needed to keep the Six from the End of the World on their side to learn how they entered.

• The Administrators questioned the Six, who said they had been sucked into the Throne of God, found only chaos, absorbed some divine power, and were thrown back out by a tremor.
• Su Wuwei assured the Administrators that the Six had taken nothing unrelated to them, and the Administrators called in people from the End of the World to assess what happened.
• Zhao Zhe explained that the Primordial Beginning Tower had never shaken before and warned that failing to give everyone a reasonable explanation could cause unrest.
• Ye Buyu argued that revealing the Throne of God could invite factional conflict and a Calamity invasion, then urged the Administrators to cover up the event as an experiment.
• Mu Bingge proposed several layers of Speech Censorship to keep the secret from spreading, and the Administrators approved the measure.
• The Six left with Zhao Zhe and the others, while Xu Chen concluded that the Administrators should avoid alienating them because they might be the only way to learn how to enter the Throne of God.

After learning that Hold Up the Heavens had reached the eighth tier, Ye Buyu feared that her next advancement would bring another dangerous upheaval. As the departure for the [Life] region moved up and a cryptic bookmark hinted that the Salvation Hall of Fame’s First Two Seats knew the deities, she began to suspect the region was tied to the mysteries surrounding the Primordial Beginning Tower.

• Chen Ze told Zhao Zhe that Hold Up the Heavens had reached the eighth tier, leaving Zhao Zhe and the White Tiger Division anxious about the dangers ahead.
• Ye Buyu worried that advancing to the eighth tier would provoke another crisis, while Wan Lan and Kou Ying teased her about her bad luck.
• Yan Yan warned Ye Buyu that Banyi and other Blueprint Drafters were watching her, and that the departure for the [Life] region had been moved up.
• Ye Buyu asked Suiyang for information about [Life] and learned that the deity had once restored planets and saved lives before the Twilight of the Gods.
• Ye Buyu found a bookmark suggesting the Salvation Hall of Fame’s First Two Seats knew who the deities were, and suspected the [Life] region was connected to the Primordial Beginning Tower’s mysteries.

Ye Buyu and her companions reached the [Life] miracle region, where a shifting maze of numbered doors guarded a shattered planet. Kou Ying noticed the doors’ numbers, and the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members seemed to recognize the answer to the mystery.

• Ye Buyu reunited with Little Wan, and three days later she and her companions left the Primordial Beginning Tower’s expedition to travel with the Withered Glory Theatre.
• Wind-Thunder, Blue Sea, and Little White set out from Judgment to deliver something to Kou Ying, while Little White revealed that Judgment had sent them to establish a portal for Those Without a Home.
• Calamities gathered along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road as Ye Buyu and her group reached the [Life] region and saw a lifeless half-planet surrounded by flourishing land.
• Suiyang revealed the maze’s true form by tossing a seed into the region, causing continental plates and enormous doorways to rise.
• Several calamities entered the maze and died, and Suiyang explained that the shifting doors had thwarted even powerful factions’ attempts to find a route through.
• Kou Ying noticed that the doors were numbered, and the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members seemed to recognize what the numbers meant.

Ye Buyu and the others slipped through the doors by disguising their entry as accidental knockback, then followed the code through the maze to the Dead Star’s core. There they discovered a blade driven into the planet.

• Hang Jiuwang and the factions began attacking the ten doors, and Ye Buyu’s group joined the assault while Hold Up the Heavens stayed back.
• Ye Buyu rammed into a Calamity and used the resulting blast to get herself through door one; Su Wuwei and the others followed.
• Ye Buyu’s group followed the code sequence through the identical doors until door nine revealed a jungle, a barren road, and a Dead Star above shattered land.
• Lou Guanshan led the group up the suspended land fragments toward the Dead Star’s core.
• Ye Buyu and Su Wuwei realized that the rocky spike inside the planet was a blade driven into it.

Lou Guanshan used the key on the ground, summoning a giant key that restored the shattered Dead Star and revealed the six companions atop it. The arriving factions recognized the spectacle, and Yan Yan confirmed to himself that the silhouettes were the six who had entered ahead of them.

• Su Wuwei identified the Dead Star as a scabbard sealing a Divine Artifact, and Ye Buyu urged the group to act before the pursuers arrived.
• Lou Guanshan followed his intuition and slammed the key into the ground, causing a pillar of light and a giant key to descend from above.
• Ye Buyu climbed onto the falling key and called the others up as the resulting storm swept through the maze and engulfed the approaching factions.
• The giant key struck the ground, reassembled the Dead Star, and revealed six silhouettes atop the key beneath the planet.
• Qian Tu wondered whether the six figures were intruders or remnants left by [Life], while Yin Li suspected they were familiar.
• Yan Yan quietly asked Chen Ze if the silhouettes were the six companions, and Chen Ze's reaction confirmed his guess.

Ye Buyu and the others entered the Dead Star to investigate its core, while Suiyang and other faction leaders gathered outside and argued over their aims and strength. The chapter ended with Zhan Tu challenging Suiyang by invoking his past fight with Cangyuan.

• Ye Buyu and the other five entered the Dead Star, where its space scattered them, and Ye Buyu told them to regroup underground and head for the core.
• Suiyang, Little Whale, and Little Wan stayed on the Key to watch the other factions as their members entered the planet.
• Qian Tu sent her people inside while Ji Wangsheng arrived and prayed for life to endure and defilement to die.
• Zhan Tu arrived and traded accusations with Ji Wangsheng over the killings committed by the Lost Legion and Black Plague.
• Qian Tu warned Ji Wangsheng that Black Plague would never obtain the godhood it sought, then Suiyang criticized the factions for talking instead of fighting.
• Zhan Tu dismissed Suiyang as the weakest Salvation Hall of Fame seat and challenged him, recalling his fight with Cangyuan.

Yan Yan endured a Calamity’s abuse before killing him with poison, then admitted he was afraid but had to survive and remember his civilization. Mu Bingge watched from hiding as Yan Yan walked away.

• Zhan Tu recoiled from Little Wan and Little Whale, and Little Wan warned him not to attack Little Bug.
• Lou Guanshan burrowed underground to seek the treasure, while Kou Ying planned to turn a giant tree into transportation.
• Mu Bingge hid near a lake and saw several Calamities interrogating and beating Yan Yan for information.
• Yan Yan used poison hidden in glass shards to kill the horned Calamity and his companions.
• Yan Yan told the dying Calamity that he hated himself, then confessed he was afraid and chose to keep living to remember his civilization.
• Mu Bingge emerged from hiding as Yan Yan walked away.

Banyi traded information about the Primordial Beginning Tower for a chance to join the Lost Legion, while Wan Lan learned from Xiang Mingyang how other Civilizations endured Calamity Power. Wan Lan realized that the Present World’s common abilities were unusual compared with the rest of the universe.

• Banyi revealed the upheaval at the Primordial Beginning Tower and the arrival of the End of the World, then asked One-Eyed Calamity for an Invitation Letter to the Lost Legion.
• Su Wuwei watched Banyi negotiate and thought their use of the Primordial Beginning Tower as a bargaining chip was unwise.
• Wan Lan encountered Xiang Mingyang, who recognized that Wan Lan’s earlier timid behavior had been an act.
• Xiang Mingyang explained that many Civilizations had been displaced or left struggling, and that she had spent Contribution Points to shelter those rejected by the Primordial Beginning Tower.
• Wan Lan learned that Calamities could not be turned back into humans and that only Eighth-Tier humans or Level Twelve Calamities could master Soul Power.
• Wan Lan connected Xiang Mingyang’s account to the Present World’s unusual abilities and wondered whether everyone there was a mutant.

Ye Buyu rejected Li Yong’s offer to join the Rift and become a Calamity, despite his overwhelming strength. After Li Yong severely wounded her, Ye Buyu’s strike knocked off his hat and unleashed painful memories in his mind, but he threw her through several trees, leaving her barely alive.

• Li Yong introduced himself as the Rift’s public-facing leader and offered to help Ye Buyu develop her abilities if she joined.
• Ye Buyu denied knowing [Gestation] and tried to escape, but Li Yong caught up and revealed that she could not overpower or evade him.
• Li Yong insisted Ye Buyu had to join the Rift and become a Calamity, while Ye Buyu refused and attacked him.
• Li Yong shattered Ye Buyu’s shoulder and severed her arm, but she struck at him and knocked off his hat, causing a flood of memories to overwhelm him.
• Li Yong recovered, flung Ye Buyu through several giant trees, and left her badly injured and clinging to life with Life Breath.

Ye Buyu survived her Soul Self-Destruction as a disembodied soul and discovered that she could torment Li Yong, who had survived the blast but was badly wounded. Outside Dead Star, Suiyang confirmed Ye Buyu was alive, while Ye Buyu set out to find her teammates.

• Ye Buyu detonated her body and soul, unleashing a blast that shocked Li Yong and everyone nearby.
• Ye Buyu's soul rebuilt itself in a mysterious realm before a repulsive force pushed her back out as a ghost.
• Ye Buyu taunted Li Yong, who could hear her but could not find her, and resolved to reach her teammates instead of confronting him.
• Suiyang found Ye Buyu's Contract connection and confirmed she was alive, relieving Zhao Zhe, Ku Rong, and Little Whale.
• Little Wan praised Suiyang for honoring his Contracts, and Suiyang angrily complained that Little Wan had sealed him away.

Ye Buyu tried to warn Hang Jiuwang away from fighting Li Yong, a fourteenth-tier enemy, but Hang chose to face him to gather information and avoid leaving the danger to others. Their battle began with Hang badly outmatched, and he stood firm despite Ye Buyu’s warning.

• Gou Xiangwang urged the others to enter Dead Star and tell Hold Up the Heavens that Ye Buyu was still alive, while Little Whale went ahead to watch over them.
• Ku Rong told Little Wan and Suiyang that he feared the group had not brought enough people, then revealed that the Salvation Hall of Fame’s sixth seat was Wu Yan, director of the Bai Ze Division.
• Ye Buyu searched the devastated area for her teammates and warned them not to attack the enemy recklessly.
• Hang Jiuwang arrived and ignored Ye Buyu’s warning to flee when Li Yong appeared and attacked him.
• Li Yong sent Hang flying, but Hang refused to retreat, deciding that fighting the injured fourteenth-tier opponent was an opportunity to learn more and protect future generations.

Ye Buyu reunited with her allies after surviving Li Yong’s attack in soul form, while Hang Jiuwang fought the fourteenth-tier Rift leader. Xiang Mingyang rescued Hang Jiuwang as their companions covered the retreat, leaving Li Yong wounded and the group fleeing to safety.

• Hang Jiuwang told Ye Buyu to record his fight with Li Yong and relay the information if he died.
• Ye Buyu explained to Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Zhao Zhe, and the others that she had survived Soul Self-Destruction in soul form and urged them to retreat underground with Lou Guanshan.
• Xiang Mingyang charged Li Yong to rescue Hang Jiuwang, and their companions attacked Li Yong to cover their escape.
• Li Yong broke free and destroyed the Golden Flame tree, but the attack wounded his hand before he found the area deserted.
• As Xiang Mingyang fled with Hang Jiuwang, he told her Ye Buyu had wounded Li Yong before he arrived.

Ye Buyu and her companions climbed the ancient stairs in search of the blade, but the stone hilt proved to be a decoy and a pillar trapped them inside a mysterious casket. After the casket spun and vanished, they emerged before a figure in a star-studded robe, and Ye Buyu realized they had returned to the past again.

• Ye Buyu and the others reached a cavern beneath the Dead Star and climbed the towering stairway toward the blade’s platform.
• Lou Guanshan pulled the stone hilt from the platform, but it broke and proved to be an ordinary rock.
• Su Wuwei touched a nearby pillar and was pulled against it, and the pillar captured the rest of the group as stone walls closed around them.
• Su Wuwei’s Sunfire helped the walls catch a falling slab, and the enclosure transformed into a Mysterious Casket that vanished as time froze in the cavern.
• The casket stopped spinning and opened to reveal Ye Buyu and her companions before a figure in a star-studded robe, and Ye Buyu recognized that they had returned to the past.

The six traveled into the past and found [Earthshaker] fighting a fleet, where Ye Buyu’s spear struck the calamity and repeated an event from its memories. They protected a planet caught in the battle, and its people saw Kou Ying’s black lotus consume falling meteors.

• The six explored the ancient universe and Lou Guanshan sensed [Earthshaker] nearby.
• The group arrived at the battlefield and watched warships attack [Earthshaker].
• Ye Buyu hurled her silver spear into [Earthshaker], recreating a scene the group had seen in its memories.
• Mu Bingge spotted a planet in danger, so the six intervened to shield it from the battle’s shock waves.
• Wan Lan diverted a crashing warship away from a city, and Kou Ying’s black lotus devoured meteors falling toward the planet.

Mu Bingge helped preserve a planet by sending it away from the battlefield, while Ye Buyu and the others considered searching for the roots of Calamity Power. After [Earthshaker] was destroyed, Dr. Oligar confronted the commanders over the conspiracy that had doomed Panshi Star, and a young commander from Cangyuan Star declared her innocent.

• Mu Bingge left materials for the planet’s future generations and helped shield it as it fled the battlefield beneath the Golden Flame.
• The members of Hold Up the Heavens sent the planet away, then watched [Earthshaker] fall to the warships and discussed finding the source of Calamity Power.
• Survivors of the battle noticed mysterious figures and a weapon that had struck [Earthshaker], but dismissed their fears as the crisis quietly took root.
• Dr. Oligar accused the commanders of allowing the planetary core to be sent to Panshi Star and of acting only when [Earthshaker] threatened their interests.
• A young commander said Dr. Oligar was innocent and declared that Cangyuan Star would not take part in her trial.

Oligar was sentenced to death by the rulers, and she took poison after warning them that their fear and ambition would bring humanity to ruin. The Six arrived too late to save her, while her guards begged the Cangyuan general for protection from an expected purge.

• The rulers voted nine to one to execute Oligar, blaming her research for the giant crisis and refusing to heed her warnings.
• Oligar drank water as the poison took effect, then collapsed after warning that the power could affect humans and that humanity might be destroyed.
• A ruler silenced questions about Oligar’s warning, and the Cangyuan general arranged for her remains to be cremated with dignity.
• The Six arrived outside the warship and, after Kou Ying used a Language Communicator, learned what had happened too late to save Oligar.
• Oligar’s guard begged the Cangyuan general to save him and the other guards from a likely purge, while the general recognized that he had no authority to intervene.

The Six discovered that Water Mirror Star had vanished and realized the allied forces might also be under attack by Calamity Power. They reached a massacre too late to save the jailer’s family, and Ye Buyu kicked a fleeing person to death as the survivors begged the Six for help.

• A soldier told the generals that Water Mirror Star had disappeared, and Mu Bingge opened a water mirror to investigate.
• Mu Bingge realized the central allied forces could also have been invaded by Calamity Power, which remained after [Earthshaker] died.
• The jailer learned that his wife and child had been killed and transformed into a Calamity, slaughtering the people around him.
• The Six arrived through a water mirror and found the jailer amid the corpses as survivors pleaded for protection.
• Ye Buyu kicked one of the survivors through several walls, killing them and leaving everyone in stunned silence.

Ye Buyu and the Six left the Warden to take revenge on the people who had created him, while a mutation outbreak ravaged the warship. Ye Buyu discovered that her bullets could stop the mutation, leaving the Broken-Brow General and his soldiers stunned by the Six’s arrival.

• Ye Buyu rejected a man's offer of money and power, then shot him dead after asking whether he could undo the deaths and suffering caused by the disaster.
• The Cangyuan Star General abandoned the people begging for help, and the Six left as the Warden began killing those who tried to escape.
• As mutations spread across the warship, soldiers restrained a transforming comrade, and the Broken-Brow General ordered the Drug Analysts to investigate the outbreak.
• When the bound soldier begged to be shot, an old soldier fired at him, but the bullet stopped his mutation and left him alive.
• The Broken-Brow General recognized the Six as Ye Buyu fired another bullet, and the soldiers aimed their guns at them before the bound soldier's embarrassed moan broke the standoff.

The Six used Ye Buyu’s Light Wheel to stop the Calamity outbreak among Cangyuan Star’s soldiers, then explained the danger of Calamity Power to General Zhu Yin. Zhu Yin invited them to Cangyuan Star to help prepare for the wider crisis, and the Six considered accepting.

• Ye Buyu created an enormous Light Wheel that restored the mutated soldiers and dissolved the Calamity and the guard who had become a Man-Made Calamity.
• Lou Guanshan introduced the Six as Hold Up the Heavens and warned the soldiers to leave because the emanations could affect humans again.
• Ye Buyu and Lou Guanshan explained Calamity Power to General Zhu Yin and asked him to establish a new order and prepare countermeasures.
• Zhu Yin invited the Six to Cangyuan Star to teach them how to respond to the crisis, arguing that his people needed a chance to survive.
• The Six discussed the invitation in their native language, and Ye Buyu suggested going to Cangyuan Star to investigate and help them prepare.

The six decided to pretend to be gods and choose proxies to help civilizations awaken and resist Calamity, though Zhu Yin and his soldiers mistook them for real gods. The six vanished after giving Zhu Yin materials to study, leaving him with the means to begin passing on the Path of Awakening.

• Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Ye Buyu, and Kou Ying agreed that they could not contain Calamity alone and needed to teach others how to fight it.
• Ye Buyu proposed the God-Feigning Plan, and all six voted to impersonate gods, choose proxies, and help planets enter the age of awakening.
• The six told Zhu Yin they would not go to Cangyuan Star but would give him methods for fighting disasters.
• Ye Buyu transmitted awakening and training knowledge to Zhu Yin, but he could not understand it because he did not recognize the writing.
• Kou Ying gave Zhu Yin a translator and a dictionary, urging him to master the knowledge so his civilization could preserve it.
• The six disappeared, and Zhu Yin's soldiers called them gods as they gazed at the Light Wheel that had cleansed the mutation aura.

The Six discovered that the universe’s unstable energy and human destruction were driving calamities, and a dying planetary consciousness entrusted its remains to them as a blade. After witnessing the blade’s origin, they returned to the stone platform and tried to figure out what their next step was and how to get home.

• Zhu Yin withdrew from the dangerous area with the warships while Ye Buyu and the others waited for their teammates to return.
• Kou Ying shared Dr. Oligar’s research materials, and the Six reflected on how the creators of the man-made calamity had caused their own deaths.
• The Six cleared Calamity Power from one area, then traveled to a dead planet and found its surviving planetary consciousness.
• The planetary consciousness explained that the universe’s energy imbalance was causing its expansion and approaching collapse, and it urged the Six to absorb the swelling power and carry its remains with them.
• The dying planetary consciousness used its last strength to forge a blade from its remains, and the Six witnessed the blade’s origin before returning to the stone platform.
• The Six considered why the dead planet appeared in the [Life] Divine Miracle, whether Lou Guanshan could become a god, and how they could return to their own time.