Chapter Summaries

Kou Ying defeated Li Er with a shadow feint and a dagger at his throat, while Ye Buyu and Kou Ying bet on which teammate would win their next match fastest. Lou Guanshan’s match began with Tengping’s corrosive bullets, which failed to harm him.

• Kou Ying evaded Li Er’s chanting ropes with multiple shadows and forced him to surrender with a dagger against his throat.
• Kou Ying and Ye Buyu returned to their teammates, and Wan Lan, Lou Guanshan, Su Wuwei, and Mu Bingge agreed to race to finish their matches.
• Ye Buyu bet that Wan Lan would finish first, while Kou Ying chose Su Wuwei.
• Lou Guanshan confused Tengping during their pre-match exchange, and Tengping opened the fight by firing a Modified Gatling Gun at him.
• Tengping watched in disbelief as his corrosive bullets struck Lou Guanshan’s flesh without injuring him.

Lou Guanshan, Wan Lan, Mu Bingge, and Su Wuwei quickly won their matches in the tournament. Afterward, the team decided Kou Ying would pay for their meal because Wan Lan had won their speed contest.

• Lou Guanshan defeated Tengping with a powerful Mo Dao strike, and the referee declared him the winner.
• Wan Lan won when her opponent fled her arrow attack, though she also left the referee covered in arrows.
• Mu Bingge defeated her opponent by wrapping them in her whip and flinging them out of the ring.
• Mo Yue introduced herself to Su Wuwei and invited him to join her team, then attacked with a giant hammer; Su Wuwei split it with his flaming blade, and Mo Yue surrendered.
• Su Wuwei returned to his teammates, who agreed Wan Lan had been the fastest, so Kou Ying accepted that he would pay for their meal.

Hold Up the Heavens kept winning the rapid Awakened League matches, and spectators discussed the team’s unusual abilities and brutal training. As the field narrowed, Ye Buyu wondered whether the team had been kept from facing one another through backroom manipulation.

• Ye Buyu defeated opponents with bullets that chased them around the arena and repeatedly forced them to their knees.
• Contestants eliminated by Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Wan Lan reviewed the team’s strengths and weaknesses among themselves.
• Slyder told the spectators that Hold Up the Heavens had endured brutal training under him and said he wanted to see them suffer setbacks.
• Most contestants’ names dimmed on the screen, and Ye Buyu questioned why the team had not faced any of its own members after seven or eight rounds.

Ye Buyu faced Wen Ling, a contestant whose [Oblivion] ability made people forget her, and gradually recognized her as a childhood acquaintance. The fight continued after Wen Ling revealed her identity as Little Mosquito.

• Su Wuwei, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and Wan Lan discussed [Withered Glory Theatre] and urged Ye Buyu to accept the captaincy, while their teammates departed for individual matches.
• Ye Buyu entered ring one to fight Wen Ling, who claimed they had once promised to remember each other.
• The referee noticed Wen Ling's Numbered Token listed her as contestant 701, despite the competition having only 700 contestants.
• Ye Buyu's Soul Threads and attacks missed as Wen Ling used [Oblivion] to make Ye Buyu forget who she was fighting.
• Wen Ling explained that her [Oblivion] ability had swallowed everything of hers, and Ye Buyu recognized her as Little Mosquito, a childhood neighbor she had mistaken for a boy.

Ye Buyu defeated Wen Ling in the arena with her Life Breath ability and learned that Wen Ling’s power had made her parents forget she was their daughter. Wen Ling left for the elimination rounds, while the crowd promptly forgot who had fought Ye Buyu.

• Ye Buyu trapped Wen Ling with Purification Light Wheels and invisible threads, then struck her with the Whale-Head Health-Preserving Mallet and kicked her off the platform.
• Ye Buyu won the match, and Wen Ling asked whether her mallet was a healing skill; Ye Buyu explained that her ability was Life Breath and that her questions had paid Wen Ling’s Compulsory Cost.
• Ye Buyu asked Wen Ling who she was, and Wen Ling explained that her out-of-control Oblivion ability had made her parents forget they had a daughter.
• Wen Ling said she would not hold back in the elimination rounds and asked Ye Buyu whether she would remember her; Ye Buyu promised she would.
• After Wen Ling left, the spectators forgot who her opponent had been.

Ye Buyu watched her teammates finish their arena matches, while Mu Bingge used He Chuan’s instincts against him to win their close fight. The group had won all their matches except Kou Ying’s, which was still underway.

• Ye Buyu realized that people struggled to remember Wen Ling and promised that she would remember her.
• Su Wuwei defeated his sixth-tier opponent with one slash, then asked Ye Buyu about her whale-shaped hammer skill.
• Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan returned from their arenas after winning their fights.
• Wan Lan recognized Mu Bingge’s opponent, He Chuan, as a veteran sixth-tier expert and former Awakened League singles champion.
• Mu Bingge exploded her Water Mirror to make He Chuan retreat, then used his momentum to send him out of the arena and win.
• Ye Buyu healed and praised Mu Bingge, while Wan Lan reported that Kou Ying’s match was the only one still unfinished.

Kou Ying won a destructive battle of pattern formations, leaving only one corner of the arena intact. The individual competition’s scores showed tied rankings, and the host announced that the competition was not over.

• He Chuan, Liang Xiao, and Chen Xiaoli discussed Hold Up the Heavens’ strength and their chances in the team competition.
• Kou Ying and a black-robed opponent exchanged pattern formations as the arena was crushed and charred around them.
• With ten seconds remaining, Kou Ying unleashed a scarlet blast that destroyed the arena and defeated the black-robed figure.
• The referee declared Kou Ying the winner, and Kou Ying rejoined Ye Buyu and the others.
• Lou Guanshan noticed that the displayed scores were tied, and the host insisted the individual competition was not over.

The individual competition’s final round began with the top contestants matched against one another, including Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge. Mu Bingge attacked with Water Mirrors and a powerful sword technique, while Ye Buyu revealed more of her abilities and struggled to counter her teammate.

• The contestants saw that the individual competition had not ended, and the matchups appeared on the big screen.
• Wan Lan was matched against Lou Guanshan, Su Wuwei against Kou Ying, and Ye Buyu against Mu Bingge.
• Mu Bingge opened their match by filling the arena with Water Mirrors and countering Ye Buyu’s attacks with water and a steady supply of materials.
• Ye Buyu activated her regional compulsory cost, summoned red Otherworldly Flowers, and used her voice and an enormous palm to push toward Mu Bingge.
• Mu Bingge formed a transparent shield and unleashed “Cut Clouds and Sever Water,” cleaving through Ye Buyu’s summoned palm.

Ye Buyu and her Hold Up the Heavens teammates fought fiercely in the tournament, revealing new abilities while appearing to battle as mortal enemies. The matches continued as spectators noted the team’s hidden skills and the risk that they would run out of time to earn points.

• Ye Buyu absorbed Mu Bingge’s cross-shaped sword attack with her Shield Skill and reflected it, but Mu Bingge destroyed the reflected strike with her whip before they charged at each other again.
• Wan Lan relentlessly fired arrows at Lou Guanshan, who used Rock Armor to endure the barrage and launched a heavy Mo Dao strike at her.
• Kou Ying and Su Wuwei trapped each other with shadows and Flame Chain, leaving both unable to move as they clashed from a distance.
• Slyder remarked on the team’s hidden abilities, while Zhao Zhe warned Lan Huaiyu that the fighters might forget the time limit and miss out on points.
• Scholars, soldiers, and engineers watching the matches praised the teammates’ abilities and discussed Ye Buyu’s unused Virus skill and the matchup between Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan.

The arena matches ended without decisive winners after the fighters lost track of time, and Ye Buyu accidentally struck a Narrator who announced the deadline. She tried to heal him but nearly killed him, while the other matches also ended in draws; the teams left the arena still trading jabs.

• Wang Jianshe and Yang You watched Su Wuwei's team fight, while Wei Changming's teammates joked about replacing him as captain.
• The referees announced that time was up and that undecided matches would count as losses, but Ye Buyu struck the referee who entered her arena.
• Ye Buyu tried to heal the unconscious referee, but her healing harmed the Calamity and left him apparently lifeless until Number Seven said he would likely recover.
• Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan's match ended undecided, and Lou Guanshan suggested fighting Su Wuwei another time.
• Su Wuwei and Kou Ying finished their match after spending the bout pulling against ropes around each other's necks, and Ye Buyu smacked Su Wuwei for calling her savage.

Ye Buyu and the other top Contestants tied for first after the arenas could no longer support their matches. The team event was set to take place aboard Sintar 178, a warship from the previous world, leaving the audience stunned to learn that world was called Sintar.

• Ye Buyu healed Su Wuwei and the other members of Hold Up the Heavens by slapping them, while the top Contestants’ points fell by the same amount.
• Number Seven announced that all ten top Contestants tied for first, and they accepted the result without objection.
• A strange island appeared overhead, and Ye Buyu recognized it as a warship wreck while Kou Ying spotted damaged Formations still operating.
• Number Seven revealed that the team event would take place aboard Sintar 178, a still-operating warship preserved from the previous world.
• Number Seven reflected that she, like Sintar 178, was a legacy of Sintar, while people in the Present World reacted to learning the previous world’s name.

The contestants began exploring a relic of the previous world, a damaged warship called Sintar, and Ye Buyu used her unusual insight to help them identify its contents. They formed a group chat to coordinate their search as the exploration moved deeper into the ship.

• The Secretary-General summoned Qin Yue and the Four Nations' top decision-makers to prepare for any danger connected to the relic of the previous world.
• Number Seven announced the team competition, and the contestants flew to the warship while Ye Buyu led Hold Up the Heavens.
• The Horizon Team set out to explore the warship, and Wei Changming urged them to prioritize exploration while still aiming to defeat Hold Up the Heavens.
• The contestants found no immediate hostility aboard and independently examined the wreck, treating the competition as a shared exploration effort.
• Ye Buyu identified weapon remains, a launching device, a pod, pipes, and nutrient solution, and the contestants increasingly relied on her insight.
• Ye Buyu created the Difficult Problems Crusher group chat so the explorers could share questions and coordinate as they headed deeper into the warship.

Ye Buyu and the Hold Up the Heavens Team explored a ruined control room with the arriving Horizon Team and found a way into a locked room. Inside, they discovered rows of frozen bookshelves in a space largely untouched by Calamity Aura.

• Xiao Shuo joined Guan Xiaomei and the others, and Wei Changming declared that Horizon would defeat Hold Up the Heavens after the exploration.
• Ye Buyu uncovered an Electrical Box and extracted a glowing crystal, while the teams searched the control room for clues.
• Yu Qin found a metal fragment that looked like an access card, and Ye Buyu located a locked door.
• Yu Qin used the metal fragment on the door's Recognition Device, which welcomed them back to Sintar and opened the door.
• The group entered a cold room where the ice receded from several rows of bookshelves.

Ye Buyu and the others reached the warship’s central control room, where they uncovered a recording left by Xin Meng, Sintar’s previous person chosen by [Abyssal Erosion]. Xin Meng revealed that the warship held records about Sintar and warned the next chosen one not to cross the door sealing away absolute darkness unless they were strong enough to face a Level Eleven Calamity alone.

• Wan Lan, Mu Bingge, and Ye Buyu found preserved books in the warship’s archive, and Yu Qin and Meng He stayed behind to help transport them.
• Mu Bingge sensed a familiar presence and suspected it belonged to Sintar’s previous person chosen by [Abyssal Erosion].
• Lou Guanshan tore through the sealed doors, but Mu Bingge’s power activated the warship’s mechanisms and opened the way to the central control room.
• Ye Buyu fitted a blue crystal into a device, stabilizing a recording of Xin Meng, who said the archive books contained Sintar’s history and information about the Calamities.
• Xin Meng explained that [Abyssal Erosion] flowed through time and warned the next chosen one not to cross the door sealing away absolute darkness without the strength to face a Level Eleven Calamity alone.

Ye Buyu and her companions watched Sintar’s final recordings and found a Chinese-Sintar dictionary, revealing that the soldiers’ “Universal Encrypted Language” was Chinese. Little Whale prompted Ye Buyu to remember what it had shown her before, and she realized the language’s connection was to her.

• Hong Yi and Sintar’s soldiers left a recording asking future survivors to remember Sintar and wishing them victory.
• Mu Bingge retrieved Sintar’s sealed documents, and the group left the warship resolved to grow stronger than Fifth Order.
• Guan Xiaomei and Wan Lan told Meng He, Yu Qin, and the others about Sintar’s recordings and offered to take the books and records.
• A bespectacled Contestant found a Chinese-Sintar translation dictionary, prompting the group to realize the recording had been in Chinese.
• Little Whale reminded Ye Buyu of something it had shown her, and Ye Buyu reacted with disbelief: “Me?!”

Ye Buyu and the others explored Sintar’s battleship instead of fighting the team match, then offered Qi Qingyu the recording left by her comrades and agreed to preserve the ship. The team match ended without a winner, and the rival teams prepared to face each other in the knockout rounds.

• Ye Buyu and her teammates collected information and Gifts from the battleship, while He Chuan suggested they protect Sintar’s legacy rather than fight inside it.
• The teams emerged unharmed and told Number Seven they had explored the battleship instead of competing; Number Seven agreed that the match could end without a clear winner.
• Mu Bingge called Number Seven Qi Qingyu, and Ye Buyu gave her a copy of the recording left by Qi Qingyu and her comrades.
• Qi Qingyu asked the group to take in the battleship, and Mu Bingge promised to purify its Calamity Power and restore it as much as possible.
• The teams accepted the unusual end to the match and looked ahead to the knockout rounds, while Ye Buyu asked whether the top-six rewards could help her reach Sixth Tier.

Ye Buyu and the other Contestants entered the final elimination round in the Present World's Land of Exile, where they had to weaken the man-made calamity [Pollution]. The Contestants were scattered across the Land of Exile, and Su Wuwei contacted his teammates while waiting for Ye Buyu to respond.

• The [King of Withering and Flourishing] invited Ye Buyu to meet him at the [Withered Glory Theatre] if she won, promising to reveal things Little Whale did not know.
• Qi Qingyu announced that the final round would take place in the Present World's Land of Exile and that Contestants had to weaken [Pollution] or kill it.
• He Chuan and Liang Xiao warned Hold Up the Heavens that other teams would oppose them as they pursued first place.
• The Contestants entered the portals, and the audience began watching them through camera feeds.
• Su Wuwei arrived alone in the Land of Exile, used golden flames to clear the area, and contacted his teammates, but Ye Buyu had not replied.

Ye Buyu was dropped into the Calamity Lord [Pollution]’s stronghold and escaped his followers by poisoning them, only to be pursued by the terrifying little boy himself. Her attacks seemed to purify him, and the chapter ended with him eagerly chasing her and asking her to hit him again.

• Ye Buyu landed in the enemy’s main base, where eight Calamities confronted her before the little boy on the throne.
• Ye Buyu threw bombs laced with poison and fled while the Calamities succumbed to bizarre symptoms.
• The little boy killed the eight Calamities by clapping, then left the hall to pursue Ye Buyu.
• The little boy caught up with Ye Buyu, who punched him and discovered that her attacks could purify him.
• Ye Buyu kept running and striking the regenerating [Pollution] as he chased her, delighted that she might be able to destroy him.

Ye Buyu was chased by [Pollution] after appearing in the Calamities’ headquarters, then fought back and smashed it into a blood mist before trying to escape. When [Pollution] returned and drove off its own subordinates, Ye Buyu faced it again and challenged it, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Ye Buyu fled through [Pollution]’s headquarters as viewers across the Present World watched in horror.
• Ye Buyu used her Light Wheel, gun, Soul Threads, and giant mallet to tear [Pollution] apart and pound it into a blood mist, then ran away.
• Eight Calamities surrounded Ye Buyu after she left the headquarters, but [Pollution] returned and exploded one of them before ordering the others to clean the great hall.
• Ye Buyu noticed that [Pollution] feared neither killing its subordinates nor showing its disgust for them, then turned to face it and asked, “Are you asking to die?”

Ye Buyu talked the little boy into letting her stay in [Pollution]'s headquarters, where she planned to gain power from the Calamities and fight back. She left her allies horrified by sending them photos of herself posing with the Calamity Master.

• Ye Buyu clarified that she could remove the little boy's Calamity Aura, but he warned he would kill her once she stopped being fun.
• Ye Buyu claimed she lacked power, so the little boy offered to make Calamities die repeatedly and lead her inside to collect their remains.
• Ye Buyu followed the little boy into the great hall, where Lord-Tier and King-level Calamities scrubbed the floor, and decided to build up her power there.
• Ye Buyu asked to take a picture, posed with the little boy flashing a peace sign, and sent it to the Difficult Problems Crusher group.
• Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Lou Guanshan, Kou Ying, and the others reacted in shock and urged Ye Buyu to stay alive.