Recaps

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members overwhelmed [Colonialism] with a coordinated attack, but the wounded deity transformed and self-detonated as they fled. The six survived the blast, though the explosion erased the surrounding landmass.

• Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Lou Guanshan, and Kou Ying combined their attacks to pierce and pin down [Colonialism].
• [Colonialism] asked where [Fate] and [Eternal Life] were, then transformed into a sphere of destructive energy to self-detonate.
• Kou Ying warned the others to run, and Ye Buyu carried Wan Lan while Lou Guanshan carried the exhausted Su Wuwei.
• [Colonialism]'s explosion hurled the six into the air, and Ye Buyu bound them together with her spear while Mu Bingge raised water mirrors against the shock waves.
• The blast pulverized the mountains, evaporated the rivers, and caused the continent to collapse until the landmass was erased.

Ye Buyu and her companions traveled to the native civilization’s territory, where they discovered evidence that the world had fallen from a high-tech civilization. When they reached a fortified settlement, its soldiers mistook them for enemies who had captured Su Wuwei and Wan Lan.

• Wan Lan explained that the destroyed settlement had been built by people who exploited the world’s population, and she directed Ye Buyu east toward the native civilization.
• As the group crossed the ocean, Lou Guanshan and Kou Ying recognized signs that the landscape had been reshaped by a catastrophic high-energy impact.
• Ye Buyu suggested the three Divine Realms had targeted specific members of the group, but Mu Bingge urged everyone to focus on the nearby settlement.
• The group approached a riverside tribe and found fortifications built from Kou Ying’s designs, which Su Wuwei had apparently taught the locals.
• The soldiers mistook the sleeping Su Wuwei and Wan Lan for captives and accused the group of killing them, then demanded that they release the general.

Mu Bingge and the others reunited with Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, and Wujia’s troops after a misunderstanding made the soldiers think the two were dead. Once inside the tribe, they warned the leaders that Colonialism might still be alive, and Ye Buyu suggested it could have weakened after its self-detonation, leaving Wujia wondering what experience she had with such an attack.

• Mu Bingge doused the exhausted Wan Lan and Su Wuwei with water to wake them, then Wan Lan dried everyone with a breeze.
• Wujia’s soldiers mistook Wan Lan and Su Wuwei for the dead and challenged the group to give the password, which Su Wuwei answered correctly.
• Wujia rushed to greet Wan Lan, who knocked him down, and the companions explained that their rough treatment of the sleeping pair had been meant to check on them and prove they were allies.
• Su Wuwei reassured the soldiers, and the group entered the tribe, where its leaders learned that Colonialism might still be alive and planning another attack.
• Wan Lan and Ye Buyu suggested Wujia might be able to fight the weakened Colonialism, and Wujia asked what Ye Buyu meant by her experience with self-detonation.

Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, and the others taught the tribe leaders how divisive rhetoric could turn people against one another, then prepared to intensively train them for a mission to return to another world and confront its deities. Meanwhile, [Colonialism] tempted a resentful man in the tribe into exploiting and manipulating his people, and he accepted its reasoning.

• Wan Lan and Su Wuwei demonstrated how hostile rhetoric could provoke Wujia and sow distrust of outsiders, warning the leaders to watch for deliberate manipulation.
• Kou Ying revealed that the group needed to return to a world and fulfill a promise by dealing with its deities, while Mu Bingge said she would slow time for intensive training.
• Deep within the tribe, [Colonialism] whispered to a disgruntled man, promising wealth and influence if he gained the people's trust and used their strength.
• The man recalled criticism of his laziness and empty promises, then blamed Commissioner Su and General Wan Lan for making the people harder to deceive.
• [Colonialism] urged the man to divide the people, undermine their confidence, and bind them to him with small rewards, and he abandoned his hesitation and embraced the plan.

A manipulative man took control of a work team by exploiting its members’ trust, but Old Li saw through his efforts to divide and intimidate them. After leaving, Old Li went to the school, where he discovered Commissioner Su and was invited to explain his predicament.

• The man apologized to the team, won support for his work method, and gradually replaced its original leader.
• After a month of losses, the man blamed his decision-making and warned the team that they had few options outside their current work.
• Old Li challenged the man’s attempts to make the team fear outside risks, citing a lesson from a student of Commissioner Su, then announced he was leaving.
• Old Li went to the school and found Ye Buyu, Su Wuwei, and others studying there.
• Ye Buyu introduced Su Wuwei as Commissioner Su, astonishing Old Li, then urged the group to listen to his predicament.

Ye Buyu and her companions investigated a Labor Corps after hearing its former captain describe how the new captain had undermined him and the other workers. They exposed Captain Chen’s corruption, but the hostile presence inside him escaped, and Ye Buyu revealed that she had caught it with a Red Thread.

• The former captain told Ye Buyu and her companions that he had left the corps after the new captain targeted him and changed the workers’ behavior, and Wan Lan reassured him that he was not to blame.
• Ye Buyu and the others went to the corps, where Ye Buyu approached Captain Chen by pretending they wanted work.
• Wan Lan accused Captain Chen of withholding wages, evading taxes, bribing officials, and intimidating people, while Su Wuwei used fire to make a teacup reveal the voice in Captain Chen’s heart boasting about his schemes.
• Captain Chen denied the accusations and called Su Wuwei an impostor, but Wan Lan knocked him unconscious as the corps members recognized Su Wuwei’s techniques.
• The hostile presence slipped away, but Ye Buyu said her Red Thread had caught its tail and taunted it that it had nowhere to run.

Ye Buyu devised a plan to draw [Colonialism] out of the crowd after the god concealed itself by parasitizing people in the Tribe. As [Colonialism] watched the Six grow stronger and wondered why they had gathered, the team prepared to act while still lacking a way to locate the god's Godhead.

• Lou Guanshan encouraged the shaken team members to register at a guild and explore the School for answers.
• The Six recognized that [Colonialism] had hidden among the crowd, and Ye Buyu proposed using red strings to trace its scattered clues.
• Ye Buyu suggested putting venomous creatures in a jar to force the god out, and the next day a patrol began recruiting people for an Elite Team.
• [Colonialism] watched the Tribe's movements, felt reassured when the Six followed planted clues elsewhere, and reflected on their rapid growth and unlikely alliance.
• Lou Guanshan asked Ye Buyu whether she could locate the god's Godhead, and she said she could not.

Ye Buyu and the others struggled to locate Colonialism, while the parasite secretly exploited the gathered people’s ambitions and resentment. Ye Buyu found its largest manifestation and immobilized the gathering, forcing Colonialism to answer for itself.

• Ye Buyu and the others admitted they could not pinpoint Colonialism, and Su Wuwei proposed relying on the Tribe before sealing off the area.
• Colonialism whispered into the hearts of people at the gathering, encouraging them to manipulate and exploit one another.
• Wujia and an old man watched the gathering and worried that words alone could divide and corrupt people.
• Ye Buyu emerged from a Water Mirror as chains sealed the area and immobilized Colonialism.
• Ye Buyu identified the largest Colonialism manifestation inside a man and demanded that Colonialism reveal itself.

Ye Buyu and her companions confronted [Colonialism], whose dazzling appearance revealed the greed and desires of the elites watching. After [Colonialism] defended selfishness as merely another way of living, Wan Lan attacked it and condemned the elites for letting it corrupt them.

• Ye Buyu fired her Silver Pistol, transformed it into a Gatling Gun, and drove the elites into a panic.
• Wan Lan ordered Wujia and the soldiers to remove the elites, then let Wujia stay and witness the enemy.
• [Colonialism] emerged as a jewel-covered figure, while Ye Buyu and her companions saw different forms and the elites saw wealth or their own desires.
• The elites claimed that greed was human nature, but Su Wuwei and Kou Ying challenged their excuses.
• [Colonialism] argued that selfishness was no worse than giving, so Ye Buyu shot at it and Wan Lan rushed in to beat it.

Ye Buyu and the Hold Up the Heavens Team weakened [Colonialism] and left the Tribe to confront its lingering influence. As they headed for the hidden Godhead, [Colonialism] fled the Divine Realm to seek help from [Fate] and [Eternal Life].

• Wujia beat an elite who invoked his heroic father to excuse his own oppression, while Su Wuwei silenced [Colonialism] as it tried to provoke more conflict.
• Ye Buyu revealed that the Tribe would have to carry on the fight against [Colonialism], and Wan Lan crushed the deity’s formed body after Ye Buyu identified the Godhead’s location.
• Su Wuwei warned the Tribe’s leaders to guard against political schemes and said the team might be gone for decades, centuries, or forever.
• The Hold Up the Heavens Team set out for the hidden Godhead, while [Colonialism] returned there and decided to seek help from [Fate] and [Eternal Life].
• Ye Buyu sensed [Colonialism] leaving through the opened Divine Realm, and Kou Ying realized the deity was seeking help from the other two.

Ye Buyu chose to fight despite [Eternal Life] merging with the Divine Realm and [Fate] wavering between two personalities. After [Colonialism] demanded an explanation, [Fate] revealed she would split her loyalties between the two sides, leaving the gods facing an uncertain battle.

• Ye Buyu told Su Wuwei that they would fight, while [Eternal Life] had merged with the Divine Realm and [Fate] was divided between two personalities.
• [Colonialism] confronted [Eternal Life], who revealed that half his Godhead had shattered and directed him to question [Fate].
• [Fate] arrived and explained that an opponent from her side had attacked [Eternal Life] with power comparable to a demigod.
• [Fate] said she had allowed the newcomers to arrive because they had created her second personality, then questioned whether the gods had to obey the universe's mission when living beings opposed it.
• [Fate] decided to split apart so one half could fulfill the mission and the other could protect living beings, promising to help both sides in the coming battle.
• [Colonialism] and [Eternal Life] recognized that they might lose despite their opponents not yet being gods.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members confronted [Colonialism] and the gods at the convergence of the three Divine Realms, determined to resist the Universe’s path toward destruction. After [Fate] split into two and [Eternal Life] withdrew from the Divine Realm, the final battle began with Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, and Lou Guanshan attacking.

• Ye Buyu told [Fate] that the Six would fight because living beings refused to accept the Universe’s impending destruction.
• [Fate] split into two, with one version standing beside [Colonialism] and the other declining to join the battle.
• [Eternal Life], [Colonialism], and [Fate] withdrew their power from their Divine Realms to face the Six in their complete forms.
• [Fate] explained that the gods’ Godheads were inside their bodies and that the Six could choose to exist as living beings or calamities.
• The indifferent [Fate] separated the three Divine Realms and declared their convergence the final battlefield of the gods.
• Mu Bingge attacked [Colonialism], while Su Wuwei and Lou Guanshan unleashed flaming saber strikes across the Sea of Stars.

Ye Buyu, Wan Lan, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and Su Wuwei defeated [Eternal Life] and [Colonialism] in the Sea of Stars. As [Fate] faded away, all six were grievously injured without warning, and Ye Buyu found a black chain piercing her chest.

• Ye Buyu struck [Eternal Life] with her Double-Edged Spear while Wan Lan attacked the two deities with azure arrows, and Mu Bingge and Lou Guanshan cornered [Colonialism].
• Ye Buyu drove her spear into [Eternal Life], unleashing scarlet threads and draining its Origin Power, while Su Wuwei brought down a Sunfire blade as shadows swallowed its feet.
• Wan Lan’s arrow pierced the Origin at [Colonialism]’s core, causing its chains and body to disintegrate and collapse.
• Su Wuwei’s strike cleaved [Eternal Life]’s head from its body and split the Godhead inside its skull.
• [Fate] acknowledged that living beings could create miracles, then warned them not to celebrate too soon as all six were suddenly grievously wounded.
• Ye Buyu looked down and saw a pitch-black chain piercing her chest.

The compassionate [Fate] gave up half of its Godhead and faith to help Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Mu Bingge, Ye Buyu, Lou Guanshan, and Kou Ying become gods. They began attacking [Eternal Life], [Colonialism], and the indifferent [Fate] in the Sea of Stars, while allies in the Divine Realms sensed the battle and prepared to help.

• The six wounded fighters prepared to keep battling as the Godheads of [Eternal Life] and [Colonialism] merged, and the indifferent [Fate] explained that the gods could resurrect while their Divine Realms endured.
• The compassionate [Fate] dismantled its Godhead and sent its power and faith to Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Mu Bingge, Ye Buyu, Lou Guanshan, and Kou Ying, helping them form their own Godheads.
• The six awakened new powers tied to Order, civilization, Cause and Effect, planetary life, and death, then resolved to destroy the gods' Divine Realms and attacked together.
• The battle shook the Three Divine Realms, where countless beings sensed its effects and Wujia felt an urgent message from his teacher.
• In [Eternal Life]'s world, a woman urged workers to finish a cutting-edge construction project, saying it would be delivered to the friends fighting for them.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members continued battling [Eternal Life], [Colonialism], and [Fate], while the time distortion caused a year to pass in the Sea of Stars and three years in the Divine Realms. As Wan Lan opened an escape route, Yun and two Merkels prepared to deliver an object, and Wujia’s Tribe faced the problem of how to make its civilization tower fly.

• A pale cyan rift split the Sea of Stars, and its energy upheaval continued for a year as star domains became forbidden zones.
• The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members fought the three gods through repeated rounds of destruction and recovery, while [Colonialism]'s power weakened and the Divine Realms neared collapse.
• Wan Lan established the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road as an evacuation passage through the three great Divine Realms.
• Yun and two Merkels agreed to fulfill their promise by delivering an object as death and life returned to Yun's world.
• Wujia's Tribe built a tower to carry its people and records of civilization, but Wujia admitted he had never figured out how to make it fly.

Wujia and the other survivors prepared to flee their doomed worlds along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road while Hold Up the Heavens fought the fused gods. After the tower carried the civilizations to safety, the six turned back to face the gods with nothing left to protect behind them.

• Lou Guanshan explained that the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road had originally formed as an escape route, and Wujia urged his people to enter the tower.
• Merkel and Yun sent the Sword of Judgment ahead with a library of their civilization’s technology, while Ye Buyu, Su Wuwei, and Lou Guanshan fashioned a Godhead fragment into a vessel for the refugees.
• Su Wuwei launched the tower to collect the people of the Divine Realms of Fate and Eternal Life as Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge held back the three gods.
• Wan Lan opened the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, and the refugees departed with the six members identifying themselves as Hold Up the Heavens.
• After the passage closed, Hold Up the Heavens regrouped and prepared to continue fighting the three gods; Ye Buyu offered the last Fate Fragments and threatened to smash their Godhead apart.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members fought the Three Gods until the Three Gods destroyed their Divine Realms in a final attack. Ye Buyu sent a fragment of [Fate] and a skill into the future, where Little Brat caught it, while the battlefield and the Godheads were erased.

• Ku Rong investigated the protected pavilion traveling along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, but the Chief told him to leave it alone and return.
• After ages of fighting, [Fate] activated the World Core and the Three Gods began destroying their Divine Realms to take the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members down with them.
• Ye Buyu and the other five used their remaining strength to resist the explosions, while the Sword of Judgment was blasted into the Void.
• [Fate] cast off a Divine-Character Fragment, but Ye Buyu severed the Three Gods' attempts to escape and sent the fragment, along with a skill, through a rift toward the future.
• Little Brat caught the fragment beyond the world and resolved to work overtime as Calamity Aura spread; the Godheads and Divine Realms then disintegrated, leaving the battle's aftershocks unresolved.

The Salvation Hall of Fame received a fragment of [Fate] and resolved to investigate the tower while growing stronger. Decades later, Yun’s expedition found the ruined Judgment Sword and left Hold Up the Heavens’ name on it, as the new age’s people began to call the upheaval the lost Deity Epoch.

• The Chief gave the Salvation Hall of Fame a fragment of [Fate] and told them to decide when to use it and Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon.
• Water Mirror and Ku Rong agreed to investigate the tower and wait for Hold Up the Heavens while the Hall of Fame grew stronger.
• Yun led an expedition to the ruined sword, named it Judgment, and carved Hold Up the Heavens into its blade.
• The people established the Primordial Beginning Tower, and explorers discovered the stable Thousand-Wind Ancient Road linking regions of the universe.
• A mysterious account named the brief upheaval the lost Deity Epoch, which the Salvation Hall of Fame linked to their Hall Master and friends.

The Chief found the newly born [Madness] struggling between her mission and the suffering she had glimpsed, and brought her inside to guard the door while she decided what to do. As a new era began, people in a prosperous civilization started manufacturing calamities by feeding prisoners—and eventually innocent people—to them for profit.

• [Madness] awoke with the power of a fourteenth-tier calamity after the universe’s expansion was diverted into the dimensional space.
• Haunted by visions of suffering, [Madness] hesitated to carry out her mission to let madness rule the world.
• The Chief invited [Madness] inside to guard the door until she had figured out her purpose, and she accepted.
• The Chief took the sphere into the Sea of Stars and left the next steps to others.
• In a new era, profiteers began creating calamities by feeding death-row prisoners to them, then expanded the practice to other prisoners and framed innocent people.

The Floating City’s reckless experiment unleashed [Sinful Karma], and its collapse triggered a cascade of disasters and new Calamities across the universe. As the Great Decline Epoch descended, the Salvation Hall of Fame began rescuing the remnants of civilization and opposing the spreading darkness.

• [Sinful Karma] broke free, judged those involved in the experiment, and brought about the fall of the Floating City.
• The founders guided the births of [Stagnation] and [Cycle], and [Thought-Madness] emerged amid the chaos that followed.
• As warfare and scarcity spread, [Withering] was born, and people who salvaged books died preserving civilization’s history.
• A little girl became [History-Eater], and Note and Wu Yan invited her to the Night Realm.
• [War] awakened as the last peaceful star system fell, while survivors fled through the broken Sea of Stars.
• Figures from the Salvation Hall of Fame appeared across the universe, and the name of Judgment began to spread.

The chapter traced how humanity’s suffering and failed hopes gave rise to Calamities including [Self-Imprisonment], [Despair], [Indifference], [Selfishness], [Dullness], [Ritual Flame], and [Heart-Erosion], before the Chief fell asleep holding the Night Realm. In another dimension, Ye Buyu and her companions remained as scattered fragments and tried to determine whether they still existed, but Wan Lan realized Kou Ying was missing.

• Humanity’s repeated disasters, failed leaders, and collapsing civilizations gave rise to [Despair] and the Calamity called [Monarch].
• People’s indifference, selfishness, and refusal to question their own beliefs gave rise to [Indifference], [Selfishness], and [Dullness].
• People burned a living person and sacrificed a planet to appease their god, and [Ritual Flame] emerged from the flames.
• As the Sea of Stars dimmed, [Heart-Erosion] mourned the hollowing of people’s hearts, and the Chief fell asleep with the Night Realm in her hands.
• Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, Lou Guanshan, Feng, and Wan Lan found themselves reduced to fragments but could still communicate.
• Wan Lan identified her companions by their fragments and asked where Kou Ying was.

Ye Buyu and the other five battered consciousnesses discussed how to escape their sealed space without bringing their Godheads into the Present World and turning it into six Divine Realms. Their theory that they themselves had created the Black Box and the Divine-Character Fragments left them wondering whether completing a time-spanning Cause and Effect was the only way forward.

• Wan Lan urged the six to find a way to reunite their consciousnesses and explore the outside, while Kou Ying said they might need to reassemble their Godheads to escape.
• Su Wuwei warned that bringing their Godheads to the Present World could divide it into six Divine Realms, and Kou Ying said they needed to separate the Godheads from themselves.
• Ye Buyu proposed that the strange space they had passed through while traveling in time was their current location, and that they themselves might have made the time-traveling Black Box.
• Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Ye Buyu compared the characters they had seen during time travel and realized each matched their own name or power.
• The six speculated that their past selves might have witnessed them forming their Godheads and that closing a Cause and Effect loop across time could be necessary to separate them.
• Ye Buyu admitted that the speculation was making her feel as if she was going to lose it.

Six recovering consciousnesses sent a water droplet out of the Hidden Dimension to discover how much time had passed. Mu Bingge learned that the droplet had reached Calamity Castle and that they had been asleep for three epochs, leaving the group shocked by how far their timeline expectations had been wrong.

• Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Su Wuwei struggled to form their souls and writing while waiting for Wan Lan to sense the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.
• Mu Bingge made a droplet of water, and Ye Buyu added cause-and-effect power so it could travel outside and return information.
• The Chief awoke in the Salvation Hall of Fame and ordered Note and the others to guard the coordinates without disturbing the hidden place.
• The droplet landed on a cracked Cyan Stele, and Mu Bingge sensed that it had first fallen into Calamity Castle rather than the Present World.
• Mu Bingge told the others that Calamity Castle’s time traces revealed they had been asleep for three epochs, shocking Lou Guanshan and the others.

Ye Buyu and the Six formed their Godheads while arranging the events that had shaped their own lives. After [Gestation] revealed that she had created Ye Buyu out of hope, the Six completed their preparations and sent a black box through time, causing the explosion that began Ye Buyu’s story.

• Ye Buyu saw [Gestation] send a red thread toward a young ocean and understood that she had been born from [Gestation]’s love and sacrifice.
• Mu Bingge announced that Doomsday had arrived, and the Six continued forming their Godheads while joking that they were setting themselves up.
• Kou Ying sensed Kou Cheqie'er enter his prepared grave and complete the final proposition of his life, while Kou Cheqie'er looked toward the future with hope.
• Mu Bingge made a black box, and the Six filled it with their Origin Power before sending it along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.
• The black box’s power followed Ye Buyu into the Present World and triggered the explosion that began her story, leaving the Six to realize they had caused the events themselves.

Ye Buyu and the other five sealed their Godheads and waited in the Void for their past selves to return, gradually becoming tangible as the timeline advanced. When six figures carrying Black Boxes entered the Godheads, the Doomsday Tower’s progress plummeted to 11.1 percent, and the Present World reacted in shock.

• Ye Buyu finished condensing her Godhead just as her original self traveled through time, and the six sealed their Godheads inside a hidden space.
• Ye Buyu explained that they might have to wait until their past selves returned before they could fully take on tangible forms.
• Lou Guanshan urged the others to wait and strengthen their powers while they watched their former selves pass through the Godheads.
• As Hold Up the Heavens traveled through time, the six became tangible and fell into the depths of their Godheads carrying Black Boxes.
• The Chief awoke in shock and exclaimed that the battle was over.
• The Doomsday Tower shook as its progress dropped from 66 percent to 11.1 percent, while the Web of Fates and the Scales stirred and the Horizon Team wondered what had happened.