Chapter Summaries

The Present World’s tremors ended after Panshi Star’s land connected to it, and Lou Guanshan explained that the land would now offer protection and blessings. The Narrator then revealed the ancient history behind the upheaval to audiences across the world, leaving Flora, Hadd, and the others stunned by Hold Up the Heavens’ role.

• Ye Buyu, Kou Ying, Su Wuwei, and Mu Bingge celebrated as the tremors subsided, while soldiers crawled out from beneath the dust and rubble.
• Lou Guanshan told Lan Huaiyu that Panshi Star’s land had connected to the Present World and would protect those whose battle-will it acknowledged.
• Slyder questioned why Great Xia had gathered six calamity-bringing people on one team, and Lan Huaiyu said they had come together through the Gaokao system.
• The Narrator scattered scripts over the land and broadcast the history of the ancient battle across the Present World and calamity gathering grounds.
• Flora and the others realized that Hold Up the Heavens had played a major role in the world-spanning tremor, and Hadd apologized for his earlier arrogance.

Hold Up the Heavens was introduced to the Present World as the Withered Glory Theatre’s Hall of Fame Leading Actors, but the team rejected the title and attacked Narrator. They beat him down on camera and demanded payment for healing him.

• Narrator announced Hold Up the Heavens as Hall of Fame Leading Actors approved by the Withered Glory Theatre and the King of Withering and Flourishing.
• Ye Buyu, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, Su Wuwei, and Mu Bingge protested being named Leading Actors while the Present World watched their reactions.
• Wan Lan shot at Narrator, and the team combined their powers to bind him and drag him from the air.
• Hold Up the Heavens surrounded Narrator and beat him while criticizing the Theatre and joking about their guest appearance.
• Ye Buyu activated Compulsory Cost Mode and demanded payment for treating Narrator’s wounds.

Hold Up the Heavens beat the Withered Glory Theatre’s Narrator during a worldwide broadcast, then their display of power prompted the Present World’s leaders to debate how to keep them from causing more havoc. The chapter ended with Great Xia’s supreme leader revealing that the team had formed only a few months earlier, entirely by its members’ own choice.

• Wusu warned Hold Up the Heavens that the Withered Glory Theatre was broadcasting them worldwide, but Lou Guanshan and the others resumed beating Narrator while demanding the livestream stop.
• Narrator struggled to finish his broadcast introduction before Ye Buyu strangled him unconscious, leaving viewers around the world stunned by Hold Up the Heavens’ behavior.
• The Doomsday Tower’s displayed percentage fell from 66% to 65%, and Calamities began urging one another to kill Hold Up the Heavens to gain fame and power.
• The Present World’s leaders asked Great Xia to give Hold Up the Heavens reasonable missions away from the Third Zone and the front lines.
• Great Xia’s supreme leader agreed to deliberate, then revealed that Hold Up the Heavens had formed only a few months earlier and had not been deliberately created by the government.

The leaders proposed sending Hold Up the Heavens’ six members to different places, offering resources and protection in exchange. After reviewing their invitations, the teammates accepted their separate assignments and promised to meet again.

• Song Yi agreed to consider the leaders’ plan only after Hold Up the Heavens had been asked for its opinions and secured guarantees of safety and resources.
• Ye Buyu received an invitation from the Present World Scholars' Association to continue researching Soul's New Path.
• Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and Su Wuwei each received invitations directing them to New Rome, the Americas, North Russia, the front line, and the Construction Engineering Institute.
• The six discussed their assignments and accepted that separating would help them grow, while looking forward to reuniting.
• Ye Buyu and her teammates ended the evening by promising to meet again and challenge one another to keep improving.

Ye Buyu joined Newmanda at the Scholars' Association and sought information about [Tempest Fiend] while Little Whale revealed a threat to the Present World at the front line. She persuaded Newmanda to consider taking the Scholars' Association there in half a month, and they entered its mobile library.

• Ye Buyu left the base with Newmanda, who told her that Lady Huang Songming was the Scholars' Association's Seventh Tier combatant.
• Ye Buyu asked Newmanda for information on [Tempest Fiend], explaining that she wanted to learn about the Three Calamities after encountering [Wind and Thunder King].
• Little Whale told Ye Buyu that [Seedling Eater]'s supporters planned to target the Present World with a carnival at the front line in half a month.
• Ye Buyu persuaded Newmanda to consider taking the Scholars' Association to the front line to test Soul Shock Fusion Body Technique, and he agreed to consider going then.
• Ye Buyu and Newmanda entered the Scholars' Association's mobile library.

Ye Buyu arrived at the Scholars' Association and helped its scholars make major progress in Soul Power research. Huang Songming obtained records on the Tempest Fiend and revealed that she was watching over Ye Buyu to ensure the power behind her did not harm her.

• Newmanda brought Ye Buyu into the Library Pavilion, where Zhang Tu and Huang Songming greeted her.
• Huang Songming invited Ye Buyu to spar, and Ye Buyu agreed before realizing she was only Fourth Tier.
• Ye Buyu advised scholars at the consultation desk, and their Soul Power research advanced considerably over the course of the day.
• Huang Songming gave Newmanda materials on the Tempest Fiend and cautioned him that their records might be biased.
• Huang Songming told Newmanda that her sparring invitation was meant to check whether Ye Buyu's power was harmful and warned that the Scholars' Association would target it if it threatened her.
• Huang Songming agreed to let Ye Buyu visit the front line to see her teammates.

Ye Buyu admitted that her suggestions had led the scholars to raise Soul Power concentration to three hundred times its usual level, causing chaos aboard the battleship. Huang Songming then dragged Ye Buyu to the training grounds to spar, despite her protests that she was only Fourth Tier.

• The scholars’ experiments caused explosions, strange transformations, and a violent tilt that nearly sent the battleship crashing.
• Ye Buyu revealed to Huang Songming and Newmanda that she had suggested increasing Soul Power concentration three hundred times.
• Newmanda went to inspect the experiments while Ye Buyu tried to leave the Scholars’ Association.
• Huang Songming took Ye Buyu to the training grounds and insisted they spar, while Ye Buyu protested that she was a healer, not a fighter.

Ye Buyu helped the Scholars' Association expand soul power research while growing stronger through training with Huang Songming. During a spar, Huang Songming entered Ye Buyu's Mindscape and discovered the remains of the [Whale of Wailing], but she judged them harmless and let Ye Buyu keep them; Ye Buyu later found Little Whale safe.

• The Scholars' Association's researchers developed new soul power skills, while Ye Buyu's strength rose with the association's support.
• Ye Buyu began intensive training with Huang Songming, who asked why Ye Buyu's power had shared its strength with her.
• Huang Songming struck Ye Buyu into a weapons stand, then entered her Mindscape and cut through layers of illusion.
• Huang Songming found the remains of the [Whale of Wailing] and concluded they had given Ye Buyu some of her powers but posed no particular harm.
• Ye Buyu returned to her dorm, entered her Mindscape, and found Little Whale alive and well.

Wan Lan continued teaching at Orbis Academy while preparing to collect her Honorary Knight medal, and she tormented Duke Slyder during their carriage ride to the Royal Knights. The chapter ended with Slyder furious and threatening Wan Lan.

• Ye Buyu relaxed aboard the battleship and wondered what her teammates were doing.
• Wan Lan finished a training lesson, taunted the defeated students, and told them to practice before tomorrow.
• Wan Lan explained that she had completed the Royal Knights' challenges and Hell-Level Knight Trial to earn an Honorary Knight title.
• Wan Lan told Slyder he could escape his escort assignment by reaching the eighth tier, provoking him into shouting from the carriage.
• The driver asked Wan Lan to stop arguing until they reached the Royal Knights, but Slyder continued threatening her.

Wan Lan collected her Honorary Knight medal and secured permission to consult the Royal Knights' Archives for information on Calamities. After she entered, Kelin praised Hold Up the Heavens and wondered what Wan Lan might have contributed to the world.

• Wan Lan apologized to Duke Slyder for upsetting him, and he left in distress after she arrived at the Royal Knights.
• Wan Lan asked to skip the investiture ceremony, and Deputy Commander Kelin agreed to issue her medal and activate her access.
• Wan Lan told Kelin she wanted to research Calamities, accepted a monitoring mark, and asked that its recording be destroyed afterward.
• Kelin agreed to destroy the recording herself and let Wan Lan enter the Archives, though top-secret materials remained off limits.
• After Wan Lan entered the Archives, Kelin told other knights that Hold Up the Heavens had brought hope and said she would want Wan Lan as the next Commander if she would join.

Wan Lan investigated the forces behind the Calamities and suspected the [Void Order] was connected to Kou Ying. Meanwhile, Su Wuwei returned to the Construction Engineering Institute with Yang You and revealed his strained relationship with the Institute's leadership over his secret identity and his choice to join young teammates.

• Wan Lan reviewed the Calamity records, suspected a Man-Made Calamity—possibly the [Void Order]—was behind Kou Ying, and remained uncertain about Su Wuwei.
• Su Wuwei arrived at the Construction Engineering Institute with Yang You, who said the Doomsday Observatory had to monitor him as a Calamity that had yet to take shape.
• Su Wuwei and Yang You entered the Institute's headquarters, where a vast crystal powered major engineering projects across the Present World.
• Wang Jianshe scolded Su Wuwei for hiding among young people and recklessly joining Hold Up the Heavens against [Earthshaker].
• Su Wuwei defended his choice to fight alongside his teammates and explained that revealing his identity as [Sun's Sorrow] would bring surveillance from the Azure Dragon Division.

Su Wuwei explained why he hid his identity as half a founder of the Construction Engineering Institute and told Wang Jianshe he intended to remain with Hold Up the Heavens. The chapter ended with Wang Jianshe and Yang You bickering while Su Wuwei asked to take tea back to his teammates.

• Wang Jianshe questioned why Su Wuwei hid his founder identity, and Su Wuwei said he did not deserve the title because the Construction Engineering Institute predated Doomsday and its origins were unknown to him.
• Yang You guessed Su Wuwei had left to investigate the Institute's origins, but Su Wuwei dismissed the idea and said he was too weak to avoid being attacked.
• Wang Jianshe asked whether Su Wuwei would keep pretending to be a newbie with Hold Up the Heavens, and Su Wuwei said the team had secrets of its own and he had joined because they were interesting.
• Su Wuwei said he believed Hold Up the Heavens could uncover the world's truth and the secrets behind Calamity, and Wang Jianshe accepted his decision to stay with them.
• Yang You poured Wang Jianshe scalding tea, prompting a quarrel, while Su Wuwei calmly drank tea and asked to take some back for his teammates.

Su Wuwei, Wang Jianshe, and Yang You arranged to watch over Kou Ying in the Americas while bickering about who would protect him. At Ayr Academy, Kou Ying decided his students needed crisis-based training to master Soul Power and went to discuss it with the Principal, leaving them terrified.

• Su Wuwei asked Wang Jianshe to keep an eye on Kou Ying's potential enemies in the Americas, and Yang You offered to help too.
• Wang Jianshe chased Yang You with a stool after taking offense at his offer, while Su Wuwei watched and teased them.
• At Ayr Academy, Kou Ying stumbled in front of his students, who recalled the terrifying punishments he had used to keep them in line.
• Kou Ying worried that the students had made too little progress in mastering Soul Power and decided to change his teaching approach.
• Kou Ying concluded that crisis-based training would work best and left to discuss it with the Principal as his students cried out in fear.

Maisa challenged Kou Ying to a fight at Nini Home, a Third Zone Simulation Arena in the Americas, and the students and staff gathered to watch. As they arrived, Maisa revealed that his father was inside, while Kou Ying remained unfazed by his classmates’ doubts.

• A student urged the class to resist Kou Ying, but Ximier and Yark warned that challenging him without confidence was foolish.
• Maisa led the students in challenging Kou Ying and chose Nini Home as the venue.
• Kou Ying accepted the challenge, and Nora realized that Nini Home’s simulated Third Zone might give him an advantage.
• News of the challenge spread through Ayr Academy, prompting the Principal, teachers, and other spectators to hurry to Nini Home.
• At the front desk, Maisa said he had invited Kou Ying to challenge him and asked where his father was; the attendant doubted Maisa could defeat a Hold Up the Heavens member.

Maisa boasted that Hold Up the Heavens had only succeeded through luck, then revealed his level-four administrator status in Nini Home and challenged Kou Ying to a simulation. The group entered the unfinished [Earthshaker] scenario as influential observers gathered, and Kaitis arrived as the challenge was about to begin.

• Maisa dismissed Hold Up the Heavens' achievements and showed off his level-four administrator title in Nini Home.
• Maisa explained Nini Home's alleged connections to the Dark Web and the Third Zone, while Ximier questioned his claims.
• Old Maisa arrived to greet his son, then asked Kou Ying why he wanted to register with a virtual identity.
• Maisa pulled Kou Ying and the others into Nini Home, where leaders of organizations and official agencies gathered to watch.
• Maisa opened the unfinished [Earthshaker] simulation and asked Kou Ying to judge its accuracy.
• Kaitis entered the simulator room and greeted the gathered guests, including Lady Kana.

Kana Mei watched Kou Ying test himself and the Ayr Academy students against a simulation of [Earthshaker], a Calamity whose power overwhelmed them before they could even see it. After Kou Ying failed to stop it alone, Kana Mei urged him to collect the resources he had earned, and he resolved to keep teaching his teammates.

• Kana Mei told Kaitis she had come to see someone of the younger generation and asked him to watch [Earthshaker]'s true form.
• Maisa challenged the incomplete [Earthshaker] simulation and was destroyed by a distant attack before he saw it.
• Yark and the other students repeatedly died while fleeing the Calamity's devastating earth attacks, while Maisa stubbornly insisted on trying again.
• Kou Ying deployed weapons and interception formations, then charged [Earthshaker] alone, but his data body collapsed and the battle reset.
• Kana Mei asked Kou Ying why he was not using his own access privileges to collect his earned resources, and he resolved to continue teaching Maisa and the others.

Kou Ying revealed himself as Nini Home’s Creator and forced Maisa and the other students to learn Soul Power by repeatedly confronting projections of the Three Great Calamities. After the ordeal, he introduced himself to the senior figures watching and asked them to provide the resources they had agreed upon.

• Maisa saw the Terminal identify Kou Ying as Nini Home’s one and only Creator, while the old fellows recognized Kou Cheqie'er in his appearance.
• Kou Ying trapped the students in the Simulation Space and had them face the Three Great Calamities’ projections with their sensory feedback set to ninety percent.
• After repeated deaths and resets, the students gradually learned Soul Power, and Kou Ying pulled out those who had mastered it for Yark and Ximier to heal.
• Kou Ying stopped the training once everyone had more or less learned Soul Power, then addressed the watching seniors as Nini Home’s Creator and requested the promised resources.

Kaitis defended Kou Ying's claim to resources, and Kaname persuaded the old-timers to support him. After learning that Mu Bingge was also achieving major success in North Russia, Kaitis reflected on how each member of Hold Up the Heavens dominated their own field.

• Kaitis revealed Kou Ying's credentials and warned that withholding his resources could cripple the Americas.
• Kaname left after urging the old-timers to give Kou Ying his due resources and let their juniors connect with him.
• The Bessy, Sanchez, and Ricardo families publicly supported allocating resources to Kou Ying.
• Kaitis learned from Kaname that her support for Kou Ying came from her ties to Kou Cheqie'er, their collaboration, and the Construction Engineering Institute.
• Morkov told Kaitis that Mu Bingge had led Tidewater Workshop into a major North Russian partnership and become an honorary professor at Viksu Academy.
• Anania complained that Mu Bingge's brutal training had left her swollen and much of Viksu Academy unable to move, while Morkov laughed at her.

Mu Bingge won over Viksu Academy through relentless endurance training, practical teaching, and challenges against its teachers. After most students mastered Soul Power, she went to the Steel Corps as a special instructor.

• Mu Bingge led exhausted Viksu Academy students through weighted endurance training, taking on their weights while encouraging them to persevere.
• After the training room exploded, Mu Bingge explained how special weights helped develop strength control and demonstrated her power by piercing steel and collapsing a hill.
• Mu Bingge challenged Viksu Academy's Fourth Tier, Fifth Order, and Sixth Tier teachers, prompting staff and students to train harder and study Soul Power with her.
• Anania joined the training and was beaten by her teachers, while more students came to admire Mu Bingge's dedication and knowledge.
• Morkov invited Mu Bingge to instruct the Steel Corps, and she arrived after most of Viksu Academy had mastered Soul Power.
• Morkov introduced Mu Bingge to the assembled soldiers as a member of the Hold Up the Heavens Team and their new instructor.

Mu Bingge continued training the Steel Corps while Lou Guanshan caught up on his teammates’ achievements and watched Ye Buyu explain the Scholars' Association’s chaotic experiments in a news interview. The chapter ended with Lou Guanshan heading to deliver supplies to a battle zone, accompanied by Bai Zhao, who chose that duty over contacting the Scholars' Association.

• Mu Bingge gave the Steel Corps a brief speech, and the soldiers enthusiastically applauded and challenged him to train with them.
• Lou Guanshan browsed news about his teammates’ accomplishments and discovered that Ye Buyu was being interviewed about the Scholars' Association’s mishaps.
• Ye Buyu tried to reassure viewers that the Scholars' Association was under control as scholars and experiments caused chaos behind her.
• Ye Buyu learned that invitations from the Present World Union Secretariat and the Construction Engineering Institute had been canceled, then left to help at the Scholars' Association.
• Lou Guanshan was called to deliver supplies to the Level Five Region, and Wusu assigned Bai Zhao to accompany him rather than liaise with the Scholars' Association.