Recaps

Ye Buyu oversaw Floating City’s defenses and resource gathering while explaining that an impending breakthrough was driving her to unite the fighting forces. The chapter ended with her waiting for the far end of a growing Red Thread to reveal the opportunity she needed.

• Three people from the End of the World insulted their Navigators for Level Twelve materials, then caught the Calamity who tried to avoid paying them.
• Xiehu arrived at Floating City and saw hostile Calamities bound and flown like kites while newcomers were sorted according to their intentions.
• Ye Buyu told [Stagnation] that the bound Calamities would provide resources and demonstrate Floating City’s security to others.
• Qian Tu asked whether Ye Buyu meant to unite the factions against the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty, but Ye Buyu said she only wanted balance and lacked time for that plan.
• Ye Buyu revealed that she was close to breaking through and said she was accelerating Floating City’s construction because she feared what might happen if she delayed.
• Ye Buyu told the others that she saw a Red Thread growing clearer and believed its other end might mark the opportunity for her breakthrough.

Ye Buyu was abducted by the Chief of the Salvation Hall of Fame just as she was about to undergo rank advancement, prompting her allies to hurry after them. Meanwhile, the Horizon Team committed to connecting the End of the World with the wider universe and making its civilization indispensable.

• A mysterious hand dragged Ye Buyu through a vortex, and Wan Lan and [Stagnation] failed to stop it.
• Little Whale revealed that the Chief had taken Ye Buyu to the Salvation Hall of Fame's Headquarters, alarming Suiyang and Cangyuan because Ye Buyu was about to undergo rank advancement.
• Wan Lan contacted Horizon and her family, while Wind-Thunder and the others feared the consequences of Ye Buyu's abduction.
• The Horizon Team decided to stabilize the situation by building teleportation devices and an interstellar network, and by contacting Rift, the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty, and Black Plague.
• Wei Changming and Meng He explained that the End of the World would build ties with the universe and spread the Present World's civilization, inspiring Wind-Thunder and Those Without a Home.
• The Six declared that they would make the End of the World indispensable to the universe and carry its civilization farther.

Wind-Thunder accepted the End of the World’s mission to build an Interstellar Network and entered the Black Plague to invite it to join. After advancing to the Twelfth Rank, Wind-Thunder challenged the Black Plague’s doubts about the plan, but [Plague] remained unconvinced.

• Wei Changming and the Horizon Team asked Wind-Thunder to help establish the Interstellar Network through the Floating City and support Calamities seeking to restore their Civilizations.
• Guan Xiaomei gave Wind-Thunder an Observation Station token, and the team entrusted it with the legacy of those who came before.
• Wind-Thunder comprehended Origin Power, entered the Twelfth Rank, and declared that it would take the job.
• At the Rift, Weier approved the plan, while several Calamities recognized the corroded token and connected it to the End of the World.
• Wind-Thunder invited the Black Plague to join the Interstellar Network and described it as a way to connect people and Calamities and recover Lost Civilizations.
• [Plague] warned that the cruel world had no room for Wind-Thunder’s vision, and Wind-Thunder replied that they would not know unless they tried.

Wind-Thunder persuaded [Plague] to cooperate, then heard Ji Wangsheng recount how she once knew a man carrying a matching token and began telling the history of the Great Decline Epoch. Ji Wangsheng left the story at the era’s devastation and the birth of [War].

• Wind-Thunder answered [Plague]’s questions about its origins and beliefs, and [Plague] agreed to cooperate with it.
• [Plague] gave Wind-Thunder a jar of medicinal wine and asked Ji Wangsheng to see it out.
• Ji Wangsheng recognized Wind-Thunder’s token and told how a man carrying a similar one had become her companion, stolen from her treasure vault, and vanished.
• Ji Wangsheng began recounting the Great Decline Epoch, describing the fall of Floating City, centuries of conflict, and the birth of [War].
• Ji Wangsheng explained that her Teacher, [Plague], had lived through that era, when plague spread amid mass death and survivors had nowhere to flee.

Wind-Thunder entered the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty to invite it to join Floating City’s upcoming Interstellar Network and learned that the Present World’s seniors had already secured help for it. Qian Tu and [Darkness] accepted the invitation, then Qian Tu revealed that a dying Calamity had once arranged for her to assist anyone carrying the Signal Device.

• After hearing Black Plague’s tragic origins, Wind-Thunder reached the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty but was initially turned away.
• A passing Calamity gave Wind-Thunder an Entry Permit, and another guide directed it to Qian Tu’s Palace after noticing its Signal Device.
• [Darkness] took Wind-Thunder’s Signal Device and Token, asked whether they came from Primordial Beginning Tower, and returned them.
• Wind-Thunder invited the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty to join the Interstellar Network that Floating City would construct, and [Darkness] accepted on the Eldest Sister’s instructions.
• Qian Tu recognized the Signal Device and explained that a dying Calamity had asked her to help or spare anyone who carried it.

Qian Tu learned that the Void Order had forged its own path back to the Present World, while [Darkness] recalled a wager with a stubborn woman from the Primordial Beginning Tower. The woman never admitted defeat or became a Calamity, and [Darkness] still did not know whether she had survived.

• Qian Tu asked Wind-Thunder about the people who had helped Calamities, and Wind-Thunder identified them as the Void Order, the End of the World's former land of ideals and the first Man-Made Calamity to return to the Present World.
• [Darkness] recognized the token and recounted how she had met a woman from the Primordial Beginning Tower while the woman was dealing with the Scavengers.
• [Darkness] and the woman repeatedly wagered on whether the woman would survive each crisis, with [Darkness] agreeing to handle the trouble if she did.
• After an ambush poisoned the woman and left her near death, [Darkness] chose not to mark her as a Calamity and instead sent her back to the Primordial Beginning Tower.
• [Darkness] told Wind-Thunder she never learned whether the woman awoke or died, and Wind-Thunder remarked that the woman might have become a turncoat in the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty.

Wind-Thunder learned that the previous Azure Dragon had been sent home by [Darkness], who was then called Glimmer, and reflected with the princesses on the contradictions of calamities born during the Great Decline. He revealed that he and his companions had killed [Iron Prison], leaving them wondering whether [War] also wanted to die and what had caused the Peak Epoch to end so abruptly.

• [Darkness] told Wind-Thunder that the woman she had once sent home used the code name Azure Dragon, and Wind-Thunder planned to ask the current Azure Dragon Division Chief about her.
• In the River of Forgetfulness, Ping-jie recalled that Glimmer had sent her home and said she still wanted to thank her, while dismissing the idea that Wind-Thunder needed a warning.
• [Darkness] told Qian Tu that Ye Buyu had been the person whose path crossed hers, then explained how she and Qian Tu had pursued goals that conflicted with their origins as calamities.
• Wind-Thunder argued that [War] might not be contradictory, but [Darkness] said it had abandoned its exclusive subject and might have sought its own death.
• Wind-Thunder revealed that he and his companions had killed [Iron Prison], then asked whether [War] might also have wanted to die and whether hidden factors had ended the Peak Epoch.

Ye Buyu was dropped into the Calamities’ lair and found herself face-to-face with the chained [War], who wanted to bargain for freedom. When she refused to help cover the duty Calamity’s shift as the sun, the Calamities turned their greedy attention toward her.

• Ye Buyu woke among the Calamities, learned that the place’s light came from a Calamity acting as the sun, and tried to survive by answering their questions.
• Ye Buyu recognized the chained [War], who proposed concealing her identity in exchange for being released, but she refused.
• [Withering] interrupted their confrontation and questioned Ye Buyu about her connection to [War].
• The bird-headed Calamity who Ye Buyu had knocked from the sky asked her to cover its shift as the sun, and Ye Buyu claimed she was too injured to help.
• The Calamities turned their blazing, greedy gazes on Ye Buyu after she refused the shift.

Trapped in the Seal Land, Ye Buyu provoked the Calamities by claiming to be Cause and Effect, hoping to survive a fight she had no chance of winning. War recognized that she was human but concealed its suspicions, calling her a special Calamity named Ye.

• Ye Buyu realized that unleashing enough power might draw the chains’ attention, then struck at her pursuers and challenged them to fight her one at a time.
• When Many-Faced asked her name, Ye Buyu answered, “Cause and Effect,” and the Calamities stopped to stare at her.
• Ye Buyu saw a massive red thread connecting her to the Calamities and realized the dangerous opponents might offer the breakthrough she had been seeking.
• Withering questioned War about whether Ye Buyu was truly Cause and Effect, and War wondered how a human could be connected to the power that had influenced time.
• War avoided revealing its suspicions and told the Calamities that Ye Buyu had once been a somewhat special Calamity named Ye.

Ye Buyu provoked the bird-headed Calamity into using its Origin, triggering the Night Realm’s chains and forcing it to become the realm’s sun. With her opponent restrained, she challenged the other Calamities to fight so she could pursue her breakthrough.

• The bird-headed Calamity mocked Ye Buyu and threatened her after she pinched its beak shut.
• Ye Buyu attacked with her spear, and the bird-headed Calamity fought back with black flames and feather daggers.
• Ye Buyu detonated the cause-and-effect power she had planted and forced the bird-headed Calamity to unleash its Origin.
• The Night Realm’s chains pierced the bird-headed Calamity and dragged it into the sky, where it had to serve as the realm’s sun.
• Ye Buyu declared that she would keep fighting until she reached her breakthrough and called for the next opponent.

Ye Buyu faced the peak level thirteen Calamities and challenged [Withering] to make her use her ability, but he brutally beat her while she healed. She rose again and severed [Withering]’s foot, leaving the Calamities stunned as she confronted him.

• [Monarch] identified himself and explained that Ye Buyu was trying to provoke the Calamities into triggering the restrictions.
• [Withering] challenged Ye Buyu, promising to eat her if she could not force him to use Origin Power.
• [Withering] kicked, punched, and repeatedly stomped Ye Buyu until she lay mangled in a crater.
• Ye Buyu grabbed [Withering]’s ankle and severed his foot with a red thread.
• Ye Buyu stood amid the silence, tossed aside [Withering]’s foot, and asked if he had enjoyed stomping on her.

Ye Buyu broke through a realm and gained a deeper grasp of her Origin Power, using red threads to attack [Withering] by severing cause and effect. The battle continued as she struck him, while [Withering] excitedly demanded more.

• As Ye Buyu hovered near death, red threads gathered around her and carried her beyond the Sea of Stars, where she glimpsed the character for “night.”
• Ye Buyu returned to her body as the Night Realm shook, and the Calamities saw her break through a realm and ascend in rank.
• Ye Buyu told the Calamities she had one minute, then charged [Withering] with her silver spear.
• Ye Buyu’s spear severed a segment of cause and effect, causing an old wound on [Withering]’s shoulder to reopen.
• Ye Buyu punched [Withering], unleashing energy that scorched his insides, and he urged her to keep attacking.

Ye Buyu fought [Withering] and briefly glimpsed Peerless Scenery, drawing the attention of the Fourteenth Tier Calamities. After they agreed not to attack her again, she began healing beside [War], who wondered what the others would think if they learned she was the Hall Master of the Salvation Hall of Fame.

• Ye Buyu used her spear and then seven stomps to defeat [Withering], who became fixated on the glimpse of Peerless Scenery she had seen.
• Ye Buyu withdrew to heal, and [Madness] approached her and kissed her bloodstained hair, prompting Ye Buyu to flee from her.
• [Withering] tried to continue fighting Ye Buyu, but [Madness] stopped him because she also wanted a chance at Peerless Scenery.
• [History-Eater] warned [Madness] and [Withering] that Ye Buyu was planning to run, while [Self-Imprisonment] introduced herself, [Thought-Madness], and [History-Eater] and promised the Calamities would not attack Ye Buyu again.
• Ye Buyu chose to heal and clean herself beside [War], who asked what she planned to do there, and she replied that she had been thrown in.

Ye Buyu learned that the Night Realm held Calamities sealed for different reasons, while the others became interested in her power to perceive sights beyond the Fourteenth Tier. After she refused to heal [Withering] for free, he paid her for a shot and discovered that her healing could erase Calamity Power but did not seriously harm him.

• [Madness] teased Ye Buyu about being trapped in the Night Realm, while [Withering] warned her that the Calamities wanted something from her.
• The old woman told Ye Buyu that she had touched something tied to sights beyond the Fourteenth Tier, and [Thought-Madness] remarked that Cause and Effect could become a Calamity.
• [History-Eater] explained that many Calamities had been sealed in the Night Realm as threats or placed there for protection, and Ye Buyu admitted she knew nothing about the realm.
• A Calamity created a pavilion and scenic surroundings for the group, while [Withering] asked Ye Buyu to heal his injuries.
• Ye Buyu shot [Withering] between the eyebrows, and he found that her power erased Calamity Power but only felt like a recoverable blow to him.
• [Withering] gave Ye Buyu part of his finger as payment, and she warned that her healing would be more effective if he let her use it without restraint.

Ye Buyu learned about the Night Realm and the Calamities from [Madness], who then forced everyone into a game about revealing how they were born. Ye Buyu threw [Self-Imprisonment]'s Walking Stick, and it flew toward [Withering].

• [Withering] explained that the Night Realm was created by the Salvation Hall of Fame to contain Calamities, while [Madness] claimed to be the first Calamity there and told Ye Buyu how several others had arrived.
• [Madness] grabbed Ye Buyu and played with her hair while answering questions, then asked Ye Buyu how she had been born.
• [Madness] proposed a game in which whoever was struck on the head by [Self-Imprisonment]'s Walking Stick had to reveal how they were born, and the Calamities warned Ye Buyu that she could not refuse.
• [Madness] made Ye Buyu throw the Walking Stick, which flew toward [Withering].
• The old woman explained that the Walking Stick chose its target according to the thrower's wishes.

[Withering] explained that he was born from the collapse and suffering caused by [Sinful Karma] destroying the interstellar trading system. Ye Buyu chose not to single out one Calamity, and [Madness] made the others introduce themselves, leaving their accounts of their origins underway.

• [Withering] recounted how the destruction of the trading hub caused economic collapse, famine, disease, and conflict, from which he was born.
• Ye Buyu took the Walking Stick and considered the Calamities’ expectation that she choose one of them.
• [War] asked Ye Buyu whether she had decided, and [Madness] urged her to choose anyone, including herself.
• Ye Buyu said she wanted to choose all the Calamities at once, and [Madness] agreed to make them share their origins.
• [Monarch] and [Ritual Flame] described how they were born, and other Calamities briefly named their origins and traits.

Ye Buyu heard how [History-Eater], [Self-Imprisonment], and [Thought-Madness] had been born from disasters across different epochs. [Thought-Madness] explained that he remained confined because uncontrolled verbal attacks and clashes of ideas had created him.

• [History-Eater] told Ye Buyu how she awakened in a submerged world of books and records, consumed its contents, and later came to the refuge with Ku Rong’s help.
• [War] described himself as a Man-Made Calamity born amid the fighting at the end of the Peak Epoch.
• [Self-Imprisonment] explained that she arose in the Great Decline Epoch from people’s stubborn convictions and mistrust, and had entered the refuge willingly.
• [Thought-Madness] said he represented confusion, paradoxes, and distortions created when ideas collided without restraint.
• [Thought-Madness] recounted how personal attacks and endless arguments had helped bring destruction and said the Salvation Hall of Fame had sent him to confinement.

Ye Buyu resisted [Madness] and became the focus of the Calamities after guessing she came from the Deity Epoch. Just as [Madness] threatened to force her to hear the story, an enormous eye found Ye Buyu, but its offer to grab something left her trapped as a Gray Mist-wreathed heart appeared.

• [Madness] noticed Ye Buyu had resisted her influence and began telling her she came from the Deity Epoch.
• Ye Buyu guessed [Madness] came from the Deity Epoch, prompting the Calamities to surround her and demand to know what she knew about Deities.
• Ye Buyu refused [Madness]'s repeated offers to hear her story, and [Madness] threatened to make her want to listen.
• An enormous eye searched the sky, found Ye Buyu, and asked whether it should go in or fish her out.
• Ye Buyu shouted for the eye to get her out, but it returned holding [Delusion]'s heart wreathed in Gray Mist.

Ye Buyu tried to escape the Night Realm, but her Salvation Hall of Fame teammates arrived and rescued her from the Calamities. She explained that the Chief had thrown her in because they were disturbing his sleep, while the gathered Calamities watched her reunited with her backup.

• Ye Buyu flew toward the opening in the sky, but Ying Ruxing crashed into her and tearfully complained that Ye Buyu had forgotten her.
• Water Mirror pulled Ying Ruxing away, and Ying Ruxing happily spun Ye Buyu around while Mu Bingge steadied her.
• [Withering] questioned [War] about Ye Buyu, while [Thought-Madness] doubted that she had faked her fear to deceive the Calamities.
• [History-Eater] asked Ye Buyu why her teammates had arrived, and Ye Buyu said the Chief had tossed her into the Night Realm because the Calamities disturbed his sleep.
• Mu Bingge removed [Madness]'s mark from Ye Buyu's hair, and Wan Lan mocked [Madness] as the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members insulted her together.

Ye Buyu and Hold Up the Heavens fought [Madness], with Lou Guanshan striking her down after Mu Bingge empowered him beyond the Ninth Rank. The group then learned that the Salvation Hall of Fame expected them to handle a sealed crowd of powerful Calamities, leaving them unsure how to proceed.

• [Madness] attacked the six, but Ye Buyu and the members of Hold Up the Heavens worked together to restrain her and create an opening for Lou Guanshan.
• Mu Bingge empowered Lou Guanshan, who unleashed a strike that sent [Madness] crashing to the ground.
• The Chief woke and repaired the sphere containing the fighters, while Su Wuwei tossed a small sun into the darkness and enraged the bird-headed Calamity.
• Ye Buyu asked the Salvation Hall of Fame what they should do, and Ying Ruxing explained that the Chief had sealed the Calamities there for Ye Buyu to deal with.
• The six realized they were expected to face numerous peak Level Thirteen and Fourteenth Tier Calamities, and stared at the Salvation Hall of Fame in disbelief.

Ye Buyu and her teammates stayed to talk with [Madness] and the other sealed Calamities, revealing that they had traveled to the past. Their revelation left [Madness] questioning whether the path to becoming Deities had been severed and what fate awaited them.

• Ye Buyu agreed to remain in the Corridor Court and speak with [Madness] after learning the Calamities’ origins.
• Ye Buyu’s teammates backed her up when [Madness] tried to divide them, and Ye Buyu declared that her friends were her confidence.
• [Madness] asked how such young people could be Hall Masters of the Salvation Hall of Fame, and Ye Buyu said they had gone back to earlier times.
• The Calamities were stunned by the revelation, and [Madness] concluded that becoming Deities was far beyond their reach.
• [Madness] realized the path had been severed and demanded to know how the story ended.

[Madness] described being born from the crystallized madness of Deities who died in the war at the end of the Deity Epoch, and revealed that her mission to destroy Civilization had been bound to her Divine Status. Ye Buyu and her teammates realized their journey into the past might still continue and uncover the secrets of the Gods’ fall.

• [Madness] asked where the world and its inhabitants could go after the Deities fell, prompting Ye Buyu and the Salvation Hall of Fame members to consider their connection to the ancient war.
• Ye Buyu and her teammates feared that her self-detonation could send them further into the past, while Lou Guanshan tried to reassure them that the danger would not come immediately.
• Water Mirror asked [Madness] to explain her story, and she said she had been born at the end of the Deity Epoch from the crystallized madness of dead Deities.
• [Madness] explained that her mission was to drive everything, especially Civilization, into madness and destruction, but she had not carried it out.
• [Madness] said the shackles binding her Divine Status broke before she could fulfill her mission, leaving her questioning her purpose after hearing the Universe sigh.
• [Madness] said she had been weak and easily captured by the Chief, and that other Calamities with similar contradictions were later thrown into the same place.

[Madness] explained that she resisted the destructive path her Origin had set for her, while Ye Buyu and the others learned that [Sinful Karma] was about to emerge from the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road. The Calamities sought to join the coming battle, and Ye Buyu proposed they sign a Soul Contract before leaving.

• [Madness] told the Calamities she had chosen to resist her destructive instincts, and they affirmed that they liked or respected her choice.
• [Madness] complimented Ye Buyu's silver hair, prompting Ye Buyu to fear that the danger she had anticipated had arrived.
• Cangyuan relayed the Chief's warning that the being inside the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road was coming out, and Ku Rong identified it as [Sinful Karma].
• [Monarch] and [Ritual Flame] asked to join the battle against [Sinful Karma], while the other Calamities also showed interest.
• Ye Buyu said she wanted the Calamities to join but needed to protect the outside world, so she proposed a Soul Contract.

Ye Buyu proposed a temporary Contract with the Calamities to fight [Sinful Karma], offering communications devices and entertainment as payment. After [War] revealed how thoroughly the End of the World had resisted the Calamities, Ye Buyu admitted they had already fought [Sinful Karma] and driven it into the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, leaving [Monarch] astonished at the outside world's unity.

• Ye Buyu proposed a time-limited Contract for the Calamities to help fight [Sinful Karma], and [Monarch] agreed in exchange for a communications device.
• [Ritual Flame] and [Madness] asked for rewards too, while Ye Buyu promised devices and entertainment to the Calamities who helped.
• Little Whale defended Ye Buyu's ability to sign Contracts and praised the people of the End of the World for developing the Way of the Soul together.
• [War] explained that the Calamities had lost completely against the End of the World, even before [Sinful Karma] arrived.
• Ye Buyu revealed that the End of the World had fought [Sinful Karma] and driven it into the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, then asked the Calamities how to kill it.
• [Monarch] questioned Ye Buyu about the outside world, and Wan Lan explained that its factions had united through great effort.

The group learned that the moon had become a Semi-Divine Artifact and had helped trap [Sinful Karma], though nobody knew how they had set the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road in motion. Ye Buyu turned the discussion toward killing [Sinful Karma], leaving Suiyang complaining about her threats.

• [Thought-Madness] explained that even Tenth Tier powerhouses had never influenced the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, and Wan Lan asked how the group had activated it.
• Wu Yan said [Sinful Karma] was invincible below the Gods, while Water Mirror explained that the moon had absorbed Divine Statuses and Calamity Power until it became a Semi-Divine Artifact.
• The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members admitted they did not know how they had set the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road in motion.
• Ye Buyu asked the Salvation Hall of Fame to discuss how to kill [Sinful Karma], saying she would rather fight it than a God.
• Suiyang explained that Hold Up the Heavens had rebuilt the Floating City and united the outside factions, then protested when Ye Buyu joked that he could stand between them and [Sinful Karma] to swallow its attacks.