Chapter Summaries

Wan Lan arranged for Blue Sea to join the Calamity group chat, while Ye Buyu and her allies cleared the Calamities and prepared to leave the Land of Exile. The land collapsed after Blue Sea sent them back to the Venue, and the Doomsday Tower announced that [Pollution] was entering the Present World.

• Wan Lan gave Blue Sea an Obsidian Terminal and added him to Traitor's Home, where the [Wind and Thunder King] questioned his presence.
• Wan Lan explained that the [Wind and Thunder King] opposed the Calamities, and asked it to guide Blue Sea and Little White in the Third Zone.
• Little White, Blue Sea, and Ye Buyu's group killed the gathered Calamities, but Lou Guanshan reported that their storage devices were full.
• Blue Sea offered to deliver the materials, crushed the Sun, and sent everyone back to the Venue as the passage to the Land of Exile shattered.
• Qin Yue questioned Ye Buyu about the collapsing land and [Pollution], then Secretary-General Gong Jieyong reported that the Doomsday Tower had stirred.
• The Doomsday Tower announced that the Land of Exile had completely collapsed and [Pollution] was entering the Present World, raising doomsday progress to 67%.

[Pollution] delivered a massive haul of materials to the Awakened League Venue before leaving the Present World, and the Doomsday Tower announced that the Land of Exile and its calamity horde had been destroyed. With the competition grounds gone, the King of Withering and Flourishing was left to decide how to determine the final rankings.

• Ye Buyu and Qin Yue watched [Pollution] approach, then realized it had come to deliver materials as a cheerful voice called goodbye from the sky.
• The Doomsday Tower lifted its alert, added Sintar 178's relics and information to the Present World, and rolled Doomsday progress back to 63%.
• Contestants and spectators scrambled to catch the falling materials until Slyder flew up and held them on a giant molten-iron tray.
• Lan Huaiyu and the others cleared space for Slyder to set down the enormous pile after the material rain lasted five minutes.
• Qi Qingyu and the King of Withering and Flourishing considered how to conclude the competition now that the Land of Exile had vanished and the top six were undetermined.
• Wei Changming and the other Contestants wondered how the competition results would be decided.

The contestants agreed to decide the six spots in the Withered Glory Theatre through a Battle Royale, and the finals began with the Hold Up the Heavens Team immediately becoming the main target. Ye Buyu’s team fought off the opening assault, but the other contestants regrouped to attack them.

• Mo Yue, He Chuan, and the Horizon Team each argued that they deserved places among the six winners, while Ye Buyu urged Su Wuwei to take out the others.
• Mu Bingge warned Ye Buyu that their team would become everyone’s target if the contestants fought together.
• Qi Qingyu announced the elimination rules, protected the audience with a golden barrier, and started the finals.
• Kou Ying opened the battle with Dark Shadow Lotus, eliminating five contestants before the rest charged at the Hold Up the Heavens Team.
• He Chuan raised a glacier and Su Wuwei melted it with his Golden Flame saber as Ye Buyu’s Otherworldly Flowers forced attackers to their knees.
• A contestant threw down materials to escape Ye Buyu’s effect, but an azure flash and a mirror appeared before her as she tried to charge again.

Hold Up the Heavens overwhelmed the other contestants with coordinated attacks until Horizon Team and He Chuan’s group mounted a counterattack. Ye Buyu escaped their assault, and Su Wuwei and Wan Lan eliminated He Chuan with a surprise strike.

• Mu Bingge, Kou Ying, Wan Lan, and Lou Guanshan eliminated contestants as the crowd struggled to handle Hold Up the Heavens’ attacks.
• Ye Buyu used her oversized whale-head hammer against contestants trapped by Su Wuwei’s fire walls, then Wan Lan finished off more with Wind Riding, Pierce the Clouds.
• Wei Changming joined forces with He Chuan and Mo Yue, and the two groups launched a counterattack against Hold Up the Heavens.
• Lou Guanshan pulled Ye Buyu underground to save her from He Chuan and Mo Yue’s charge.
• Horizon Team targeted Kou Ying with a powerful slash while Su Wuwei and Wan Lan attacked He Chuan from behind.
• He Chuan raised ice walls, but Wan Lan’s arrow and Su Wuwei’s saber struck through his defenses and eliminated him.

Ye Buyu and the Hold Up the Heavens team turned the Horizon Team’s powerful attack against their opponents, eliminating more than half the Contestants. The remaining battle continued as He Chuan recognized the team’s carefully arranged trap.

• Mu Bingge’s illusion let her eliminate Fu Sheng while Mo Yue was threatened by Lou Guanshan, but Fu Sheng returned to the Stage and explained what had happened.
• Ye Buyu caught the Horizon Team’s lightning-wreathed blade with her bare hands, then reflected the attack back at all six members.
• Ye Buyu weakened the Horizon Team’s repeated attacks while Lou Guanshan and Su Wuwei switched opponents at her command.
• Ye Buyu used an absorbed blade to strike the Contestants who had pursued Lou Guanshan and Su Wuwei, eliminating more than half of them.
• He Chuan deduced that Hold Up the Heavens had used their teammates as bait and the Horizon Team’s ultimate attack to eliminate other Contestants, while Mo Yue and He Chuan discussed how unexpected Ye Buyu’s abilities were.

Ye Buyu lured Wei Changming’s team into eliminating her while she used their attack to eliminate Wen Ling, setting up her teammates to finish off the exhausted opponents. Afterward, she told the confused spectators that she had already secured victory.

• Mo Yue and He Chuan reviewed the fight and wondered why Mu Bingge and Wan Lan had not joined the battle against the Horizon Team.
• Wei Changming ordered his scattered teammates to spread out, while Wen Ling escaped Ye Buyu’s pressure and tried to free the Horizon Team from Su Wuwei and Lou Guanshan.
• Ye Buyu sent Lou Guanshan and Su Wuwei away, then provoked Wei Changming’s team into attacking her as she waited for Kou Ying’s operation to succeed.
• Ye Buyu absorbed Wei Changming’s slash and redirected it at Wen Ling, eliminating both of them in the resulting clash.
• Mu Bingge and Wan Lan eliminated the exhausted members of Wei Changming’s team, and Ye Buyu revealed that victory had already been assured.

Ye Buyu explained how Hold Up the Heavens had secured the top six by using the chaos to eliminate their strongest rivals. After the match, the Horizon Team conceded and warned their friends to stay safe, leaving both teams moved by their show of friendship.

• Ye Buyu revealed that eliminating the four top individual finishers had been the core of Hold Up the Heavens' plan to secure the top six.
• He Chuan and the other contestants realized they had been lured into gathering together so the team could use Horizon's ultimate move against them and eliminate the greatest threat.
• The five returning Hold Up the Heavens members met the six Horizon teammates, who warned Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and Su Wuwei to be more careful and stay safe.
• Wei Changming led Horizon to concede, and Ye Buyu was touched by the team's concern for their rivals.
• Mo Yue clung to Fu Sheng and declared they should be teammates for life, while He Chuan remarked that it was good to be young.

The Hold Up the Heavens Team celebrated its victory in the Awakened League and entered the Withered Glory Theatre to collect its rewards. As Qi Qingyu led them through corridors recording destroyed worlds, she revealed that the King was waiting in the Main Hall.

• Qi Qingyu announced that the Hold Up the Heavens Team had taken all six top places, and the team celebrated with the cheering crowd.
• Qin Yue evacuated the audience and gave each of the six a badge to crush if they encountered danger.
• The six followed Qi Qingyu into the Withered Glory Theatre and saw images recording major events, including the Hunger King, Earthshaker, and Those Without a Home.
• The group passed galleries depicting Sintar's destruction and other worlds, where only a few images retained color.
• Qi Qingyu said more than two hundred and eighty million worlds had been destroyed and led them onward toward the Main Hall, where the King was waiting.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens met Withering and Flourishing in the Withered Glory Theatre’s hall after receiving Hall of Fame-level Leading Actor nameplates. Withering and Flourishing promised to reveal the truth about the world and said Ye Buyu was responsible for making him wait years to meet them.

• Ye Buyu and the others entered a hall displaying plaques of Qin Yue and the Six Hold Up the Heavens, where their nameplates descended to them.
• Qi Qingyu explained that the nameplates carried the rewards promised by the Withered Glory Theatre, then left the hall after receiving a message.
• Ye Buyu called for the [King of Withering and Flourishing], and Withering and Flourishing appeared, saying he had met them before even though this was their first meeting with him.
• Withering and Flourishing blamed Ye Buyu for making him wait many years, leaving the others confused.
• Mu Bingge asked why he had appeared, and Withering and Flourishing offered to reveal the truth about the world and let them record or relay the conversation to Qin Yue and the Present World Union.

Ku Rong revealed that the Present World was the universe’s last surviving world, had been rewound, and faced a coming war, then introduced himself as the eighth seat of the [Salvation Hall of Fame] and offered the faction as an ally. He left Ye Buyu’s group with more unanswered questions, including what caused the rewind and what the coming war involved.

• Lou Guanshan contacted Qin Yue and connected Ku Rong to the Present World’s top-secret channel.
• Ku Rong revealed that every other world had been destroyed, the Present World had been rewound, and the group was not yet qualified to enter the gate in the Forbidden Zone.
• Ye Buyu asked why Ku Rong was helping the Present World and whether the Calamities had factions; Ku Rong said he belonged to the [Salvation Hall of Fame], which welcomed the Present World as an ally.
• Su Wuwei asked how the Present World had been rewound, but Ku Rong ended the session and said Ye Buyu could answer the question.
• Ku Rong told Ye Buyu’s group that she also knew about the coming war, and everyone turned to her for an explanation.

Ye Buyu confronted Kurong and Little Whale about their plans for the coming war against two powerful Calamities. Kurong agreed to explain why the enemies had joined forces and what preparations had been made.

• Ye Buyu revealed that a Level Eleven Calamity would target the Present World in a month and said she expected to reach the Sixth Tier by then, alarming her teammates.
• Lou Guanshan asked Kurong about the weakest fighter in the [Salvation Hall of Fame], and Ye Buyu angrily threw Little Whale and a stool at Kurong.
• Ye Buyu accused Kurong and Little Whale of planning the war while leaving the Present World facing overwhelming odds from [Eternal Frozen Silence], [Seedling Eater], and other Calamities.
• Ye Buyu demanded that Kurong explain the war plans and why [Eternal Frozen Silence] was joining forces with [Seedling Eater].
• Kurong said he was willing to explain the situation to Hall of Fame-level Leading Actors.

Kurong explained that Wailing had delayed [Eternal Frozen Silence] from attacking the Present World, but the threat now remained, along with the mysterious [Seedling Eater]. He left Ye Buyu and the others to prepare for the war themselves, and they returned from the Withered Glory Theatre with a message to send to [Those Without a Home].

• Kurong revealed that the Whale of Wailing held the Hall of Fame’s ninth seat and had delayed [Eternal Frozen Silence]’s attack, while admitting his group had pushed the Present World into the spotlight to help it grow.
• Kurong said [the Seedling Eater] had awakened unexpectedly, and warned that the Present World’s coming war would serve as an Assessment with victory bringing resources and defeat carrying severe consequences.
• Little Whale warned Ye Buyu that if it and Kurong fought, the resulting Calamity concentration would doom the Present World, so Ye Buyu chose to seek help from [Those Without a Home] instead.
• Kurong agreed to pass on Ye Buyu’s message and said [Those Without a Home] might send an avatar, though its True Body’s intervention would raise Calamity concentration in the Third Zone.
• Kurong sent Ye Buyu and the others out of the Withered Glory Theatre, where Qin Yue met them and urged them to return and sort through what they had learned.

Wan Lan and the others traveled to the Federation to report that a war led by [Eternal Frozen Silence] and the [Seedling Eater] would begin in one month. The Present World's leaders were shocked by their revelations and began confirming the timetable as preparations for war came into focus.

• Wan Lan summarized the Forbidden Zone's sealed Calamities, the [Salvation Hall of Fame]'s plan, and the coming war, while Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, Kou Ying, and Su Wuwei described possible allies, weapons, and defenses.
• Ye Buyu and the others arrived at the Federation and presented their report to representatives of the major institutions and the Present World's eighth-tier combatants.
• The leaders reacted with shock to the report, and Gong Jieyong asked whether the war would truly begin in one month.
• Ye Buyu confirmed the deadline and said she had warned the Vermilion Bird Division's Minister six months earlier; Gong Jieyong confirmed the report and said the Present World Allied Army had been preparing without data for level eleven Calamities.

Ye Buyu decided to travel alone to the Forbidden Zone to investigate [Seedling Eater] and seek information that might help the Present World survive the coming war. After asking Wu Yan for a prediction, she asked Little Whale whether it could take her to see [Seedling Eater].

• Mu Bingge offered to locate combat records on [Eternal Frozen Silence] and [Seedling Eater], and the Scholars' Association agreed to help translate them.
• Wan Lan secured the Doomsday Observatory's cooperation, while Kou Ying and Lou Guanshan obtained agreement to process resources and deploy weapons.
• Ye Buyu announced she would go to the Forbidden Zone alone, rejecting offers from Su Wuwei and others to accompany her.
• Ye Buyu explained that she needed to investigate something only she could discover and asked Wu Yan to predict her prospects; Wu Yan agreed to do so the next day.
• Ye Buyu entered the Mindscape and asked Little Whale whether it could take her to see [Seedling Eater].

Ye Buyu decided to investigate the secrets surrounding the [Seedling Eater], even though the trip might kill her, and insisted on going alone. Her teammates confronted her and revealed their hidden powers and identities, leaving her stunned and confused.

• Ye Buyu told Little Whale she would leave for the River of Forgetfulness after getting a prediction, determined to uncover the truth about her other self.
• Little Whale agreed to find a way to retrieve Ye Buyu, while her five teammates overheard her plans and resolved to follow her.
• Ye Buyu returned to her teammates and refused to let them accompany her, insisting that she had to go alone.
• Su Wuwei claimed he was the Sun, and Kou Ying revealed that he could control half the [Void Order] and locate people in the Forbidden Zone.
• Su Wuwei demanded to know why Ye Buyu would leave them behind, and Lou Guanshan questioned how Su Wuwei could be the Sun that had exploded.

Su Wuwei and Kou Ying revealed their extraordinary identities as they tried to stop Ye Buyu from leaving alone. The others figured out that she planned to seek the [Seedling Eater], but she refused to explain her hidden identity, and Su Wuwei set off to find the enemy himself.

• Su Wuwei revealed that he was the Sun, while Kou Ying disclosed his connection to the [Void Order], shocking Ye Buyu and the others.
• Wan Lan, Lou Guanshan, Mu Bingge, and Kou Ying pressed Ye Buyu to reveal why she planned to go alone, and Mu Bingge realized she was targeting the [Seedling Eater].
• Ye Buyu said the mission concerned her personally and that her teammates would die if they followed, but admitted she feared watching them die.
• Su Wuwei left to find the [Seedling Eater] and threatened to use Self-Detonation again, so Kou Ying and Mu Bingge tried to stop him.
• Kou Ying tripped while using Dark Shadow to bind Su Wuwei, and Ye Buyu struggled to hide her laughter as the others returned their attention to her.

Ye Buyu explained that she did not know her hidden identity and planned to investigate the [Seedling Eater] alone in the Forbidden Zone. Her teammates forced her to accept safeguards and a promise to return alive, while Qin Yue revealed that an Aurora Bridge passage could give her an escape route.

• Ye Buyu told her teammates that the [Whale of Wailing] and Ku Rong had recognized her, but she could not remember awakening the [Seedling Eater] and intended to uncover the truth herself.
• Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan accepted that Ye Buyu would go alone, while Su Wuwei threatened to risk his life if she failed to return.
• Mu Bingge made Ye Buyu swallow Shared-Life Spring, which linked her vitality to Su Wuwei's, and Kou Ying fitted her with a vital-sign monitor.
• Ye Buyu gave in after her teammates insisted on raising the stakes with their own lives.
• Qin Yue told Slyder that Gong Jieyong and Song Yi had approved a temporary Aurora Bridge passage that could let Ye Buyu escape through the River of Forgetfulness to the Present World.

Ye Buyu received the Bai Ze Division’s prediction that she would die in a place cut off from the world, though her soul would remain, and departed by Space Elevator to confront the danger. Hold Up the Heavens refused to accept the prediction and began preparing to follow and bring her back.

• Slyder gave Ye Buyu an iron ring that could become a steel shield capable of withstanding a direct hit from a Level Ten Calamity.
• Wu Yan told Ye Buyu that the Bai Ze Division predicted she would die in an isolated place but that her soul would remain, possibly through a connection to the River of Forgetfulness.
• Ye Buyu boarded the Space Elevator and questioned Little Whale about [Eternal Frozen Silence], which wanted to plunge the Present World into an ice age.
• Ye Buyu spotted five figures below and left determined to return alive.
• Lou Guanshan, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Mu Bingge, and Su Wuwei prepared to finish their work and go after Ye Buyu, while Wu Yan encouraged them to break the prediction.

Ye Buyu rode [Whale of Wailing] into the Forbidden Zone to find [Seedling Eater], telling Sun Xi that [Eternal Frozen Silence] might be there as well. She arrived at the mysterious area and ignored Ku Rong’s offer of help, leaving him offended as Little Whale warned him he might already have provoked her retaliation.

• Sun Xi ordered the Doomsday Observatory to track Ye Buyu, who rode a Calamity from the Controlled Zone into the War-Torn Zone.
• [Whale of Wailing] appeared and swept Ye Buyu away, then carried her into the Forbidden Zone.
• Ye Buyu borrowed a Seventh Tier observer’s equipment and told Sun Xi she was heading to [Seedling Eater], where [Eternal Frozen Silence] might also be located.
• Sun Xi and the observatory staff were stunned that Ye Buyu was riding a Level Ten Calamity, while the observer wondered whether the world had gone mad.
• Ye Buyu reached the mysterious area with Wail and told Ku Rong she had never intended to rely on him.
• Little Whale warned Ku Rong that Ye Buyu might retaliate after he kept doubting and targeting her.

Ye Buyu entered the frozen region with Little Whale and Ku Rong, where they encountered a bizarre one-eyed cucumber and confronted [Seedling Eater] and [Eternal Frozen Silence]. After Little Whale and Ku Rong slapped [Seedling Eater], Ye Buyu declared that she had come specifically to speak with it, but it accused them of using her as a pawn to break their agreement.

• Ku Rong angrily followed Ye Buyu and Little Whale after Ye Buyu called them unreliable.
• Ye Buyu entered a frozen wasteland and found a laughing, one-eyed cucumber dancing in the snow.
• [Seedling Eater] and [Eternal Frozen Silence] arrived, and [Seedling Eater] mocked Little Whale's plush-toy form.
• Ku Rong slapped [Seedling Eater], and Little Whale slapped it again when it insulted Ye Buyu.
• Ye Buyu told [Seedling Eater] that she had come to find it, while [Seedling Eater] accused them of using her to break the agreement and buy time for the Present World.