Chapter Summaries

Ye Buyu questioned the [Seedling Eater] about who had awakened it, but its attacks and [Eternal Frozen Silence]'s assault left her fighting to survive. She connected the Otherworldly Flower to the River of Forgetfulness, and Other Shore pierced her as power flowed through the bridge.

• Ye Buyu asked the [Seedling Eater] who had awakened it and whether they had left a message.
• The [Seedling Eater] attacked Ye Buyu, then said it had been awakened by the person she sought; Ku Rong and Little Whale tried to stop it.
• A cucumber recognized Ye Buyu as the human who had poisoned it, and [Eternal Frozen Silence] attacked her.
• Ye Buyu used Slyder's Silver Ring to form a steel shield, but [Eternal Frozen Silence] destroyed it with an avalanche.
• Ye Buyu sent the Otherworldly Flower into the aurora, connecting it to the River of Forgetfulness and drawing power from the soul within.
• Other Shore turned into a spear and pierced Ye Buyu as [Eternal Frozen Silence]'s wind and snow reached her.

After the Spear pierced Ye Buyu, she entered suspended death, but her soul was pulled through the Giant Gate into an unfamiliar realm. There, she encountered the [Hunger King].

• The Spear pierced Ye Buyu, and Little Whale and Ku Rong realized she was dead.
• Kou Ying saw Ye Buyu’s vital signs flatline, while Mu Bingge collapsed after sensing her death.
• Su Wuwei watched the Aurora Bridge return empty, and Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan looked toward the Forbidden Zone in alarm.
• Ye Buyu’s soul was dragged away from the Present World, through the Giant Gate, and into a vast Mark of stars.
• Ye Buyu searched the silent realm, realized she had no body, and found the [Hunger King] wandering nearby.

Ye Buyu traveled to the [Hunger King]'s era and guided the newborn Calamity away from the angry souls' influence. She reached the sealed [Seedling Eater], was pulled into its red light, and began examining a floating seed.

• Ye Buyu realized she had traveled into the past and approached the not-yet-aware [Hunger King] in a starry robe.
• Ye Buyu blocked the malicious whispers and used the Soul-Suppressing Tune to guide the angry souls within the [Hunger King] toward somewhere they belonged.
• Ye Buyu traveled to the ruined world where the [Seedling Eater] was sealed, but hesitated to awaken it.
• The red light dragged Ye Buyu inside, where the sleeping [Seedling Eater] pleaded to be released and promised to call her Mom.
• Ye Buyu ignored the [Seedling Eater]'s sleep talk and tapped a shriveled seed, causing a scene to unfold before her eyes.

Ye Buyu learned how the [Seedling Eater] arose from a devastated planet and was sealed by the [Salvation Hall of Fame]. She signed an Origin Contract with it and initiated its awakening as she began to be pulled away.

• Ye Buyu watched seed-borne visions of food waste and a fertile planet ruined by repeated exploitation.
• The [Seedling Eater] arose on the planet, swallowed invading fleets and Calamities after its home was destroyed, and was sealed by the [Salvation Hall of Fame].
• Ye Buyu considered leaving the [Seedling Eater] imprisoned but offered it freedom in exchange for a contract after hearing its wish to repair its home.
• The [Seedling Eater] agreed to an Origin Contract on the condition that Ye Buyu could not force it to do anything against its wishes.
• Ye Buyu completed the contract, used Soul-Suppressing Song on the sleeping [Seedling Eater], and threw a stone infused with Life Breath while commanding it to awaken.

Ye Buyu traveled into the past and made the [Seedling Eater] promise to guide the [Hunger King] and attack anyone who sought information about her under the keyword “Alternate Identity.” After the [Seedling Eater] found the [Hunger King], Ye Buyu returned to the moment she had feigned death, where the Calamities demanded an explanation from the creature.

• Ye Buyu freed the [Seedling Eater] and ordered it to guide a Man-Made Calamity, attack one person associated with “Alternate Identity,” and avoid attacking civilizations itself.
• The [Seedling Eater] was pulled into a Region of Deathly Silence, where it found and devoured nearby Calamities before approaching the emaciated Man-Made Calamity.
• The [Seedling Eater] named the Man-Made Calamity the [Hunger King] and took it as its follower.
• A connection formed between the [Seedling Eater] and the [Hunger King], and Ye Buyu fell back through the Mark to the moment she had feigned death.
• Little Whale and Ku Rong reacted to Ye Buyu’s return, and Ku Rong demanded that the [Seedling Eater] explain its actions.

As Ye Buyu remained frozen, [Eternal Frozen Silence] revealed its plan to engulf the Present World in an Ice Age within a month. Her allies began mobilizing to reach her and face the Level Eleven Calamity, while Mu Bingge freed the [Stillwater King] and asked for her help.

• The [Seedling Eater] explained that it had let the [Hunger King] go in accordance with their contract, while Ku Rong and Little Whale demanded answers about Ye Buyu.
• [Eternal Frozen Silence] announced that it intended to freeze the Present World in a month, and Ku Rong warned that the End of the World would stop it.
• After receiving Kou Ying's message, Wan Lan demanded Ye Buyu's last known location from Sun Xi, while Sun Xi said the allied forces were mobilizing.
• Lou Guanshan told Qin Yue and Wusu that he was taking the Bedrock Mobile Fortress to rescue his teammate, then left.
• Kou Ying summoned a black-robed member of the [Void Order], accepted the group's cloak, and set out to attack the Level Eleven Calamity.
• Mu Bingge freed the [Stillwater King] from her prison cell and asked her for help.

Su Wuwei entered the Forbidden Zone after awakening as Sun's Sorrow, a Calamity, and the Present World mobilized its forces for the coming battle. With the leaders unable to stop their fighters from going, the chapter left the allied armies converging on the battlefield.

• Yang You tried to stop Su Wuwei from entering the Forbidden Zone, but Su Wuwei burned his hand and transformed into Sun's Sorrow.
• The Doomsday Observatory warned that Sun's Sorrow had awakened, and Sun Xi gave Wan Lan a USB flash drive and told her to go fight.
• As the Doomsday Tower shook, Gong Jieyong confronted Song Yi while Si Erweiqi listed the fighters setting out for battle.
• The Present World's leaders issued mobilization orders, and divisions and allied forces headed toward the Forbidden Zone.
• The White Tiger Division entered the River of Forgetfulness, preparing to use the Aurora Bridge for an airborne assault.

Wan Lan gathered Blue Sea, Little White, and Wind and Thunder King to rescue Ye Buyu from Eternal Frozen Silence, while Ku Rong and Little Whale struggled to protect her and explain her condition. Su Wuwei arrived first, newly transformed into the Calamity Sun's Sorrow, and attacked Little Whale as he demanded that Ye Buyu be released.

• Wan Lan told Blue Sea, Little White, and Wind and Thunder King that Ye Buyu had entered Eternal Frozen Silence's territory and asked them to buy time while they searched for her.
• Little White, Blue Sea, and Wind and Thunder King agreed to join the rescue, and Wan Lan listed the other allies mobilizing to help.
• Ku Rong and Little Whale argued over what to do with the frozen Ye Buyu as Eternal Frozen Silence sensed heat and Seedling Eater saw ice beginning to melt.
• Su Wuwei entered Eternal Frozen Silence's territory and demanded that Little Whale release Ye Buyu, then attacked with blazing chains.
• Ku Rong realized that Su Wuwei had become the Calamity Sun's Sorrow and had staked everything on entering the fight.

Su Wuwei and his allies gathered to rescue the frozen Ye Buyu, while [Eternal Frozen Silence] unleashed its domain and forces against them. Little Whale punched a hole through the domain and ordered everyone to leave, trying to keep Ye Buyu’s allies safe.

• [Eternal Frozen Silence] attacked Su Wuwei, but Kou Ying arrived with [Void Order], [Streetlamp], and [Trickery] to support him.
• Mu Bingge and the [Stillwater King], followed by the [Wind and Thunder King], Blue Sea, and Little White, arrived and tried to reach Ye Buyu.
• Little Whale dodged attacks from Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan, then carried the frozen Ye Buyu to Mu Bingge and warned Su Wuwei not to disrupt her condition.
• [Eternal Frozen Silence] trapped the group in its domain and summoned glaciers, ice Calamities, and mammoths to attack them.
• The Man-Made Calamities and King-level fighters prepared to hold off [Eternal Frozen Silence] while others evacuated Ye Buyu.
• Little Whale struck Su Wuwei, broke a hole through [Eternal Frozen Silence]'s domain, and ordered everyone to leave.

The Three Calamities and their allies battled [Eternal Frozen Silence], which unleashed its power and argued that civilizations inevitably rotted from within. It demanded that the [Salvation Hall of Fame] answer whether the world could still be saved.

• [Eternal Frozen Silence] unleashed an avalanche and froze the attacks of Blue Sea and Little White into a meteor aimed at the black-robed figure.
• [Eternal Frozen Silence] knocked the Calamities aside and pinned them to a glacier, while Su Wuwei pushed Little Whale out of danger.
• The Sun of the Present World descended and melted the glacier, but [Eternal Frozen Silence] appeared behind the group and attacked Wan Lan, [Streetlamp], and [Trickery].
• Little Whale protected Wan Lan and the others with a Soul Barrier, while [Wind and Thunder King] and [Stillwater King] joined the fight against [Eternal Frozen Silence].
• [Eternal Frozen Silence] described how [Streetlamp] and [Trickery] had helped shape the Present World and warned that civilizations beyond the door had decayed from within.
• [Eternal Frozen Silence] challenged the [Salvation Hall of Fame] to say whether the world could be saved from the cycle of prosperity and decay.

The Black-Robed Man opened passages that brought the Present World's forces to the battlefield, and Qin Yue ordered them to attack [Eternal Frozen Silence]. As the fighters pressed their assault, Ku Rong revealed that they were using tactics preserved from past civilizations, leaving [Seedling Eater] to wonder whether [Eternal Frozen Silence] feared facing old enemies again.

• The Black-Robed Man summoned fighters through black passages, and the Void Order declared its support for the Present World's ideals.
• The Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Four Symbols, the Heavenly Fire Society, the Knights' Order, the Steel Corps, and other forces arrived at the battlefield.
• Qin Yue ordered the assembled forces to begin battle, and the fighters shattered [Eternal Frozen Silence]'s ice shield and cracked its body.
• Ku Rong explained that the Present World's fighters were using combat data and tactics inherited from other civilizations.
• [Seedling Eater] recognized the battle formation from earlier civilizations, and Ku Rong asked whether [Eternal Frozen Silence] might fear the return of its old foes.

The experts fought [Eternal Frozen Silence] with knowledge passed down through generations, while [Sun's Sorrow] and the others unleashed devastating attacks. As the battle continued, the Present World's fighters used coordinated healing and suicidal charges to damage the Calamity's origin, leaving it cracked but still fighting.

• The experts used inherited knowledge to sever [Eternal Frozen Silence]'s arm, but its counterattack wounded several fighters and trapped it in ice.
• [Sun's Sorrow] struck [Eternal Frozen Silence] with a full-force attack, and the clash of fire and ice created an expanding sea that drove Calamities toward the Third Zone.
• [Eternal Frozen Silence] split a glacier through the sun, while Mu Bingge and the others evacuated the injured Su Wuwei and tended to him.
• Little Whale told Mu Bingge that Ye Buyu would have to explain what happened when she returned, and said the battle was the Present World's test.
• [Eternal Frozen Silence] became a blizzard and challenged the fighters to defeat it, but the healing team used Vitality Reappearance to preserve the lives of those who charged into it.
• The fighters repeatedly attacked the blizzard, forcing [Eternal Frozen Silence] out of its form and cracking its face as their charges damaged its origin.

Wang Jianshe’s solar cannon struck [Eternal Frozen Silence], but the calamity summoned three level ten allies, forcing the Present World and its allies to split into separate battles. As the battlefield grew more chaotic, Ye Buyu began to sense the fighting while trapped in an endless fall.

• Wang Jianshe fired an enhanced solar cannon at [Eternal Frozen Silence], which revealed that it had summoned [Overgrowth], [Iron Prison], and [Rotten-Clothes Lady].
• Blue Sea told Qin Yue and the others to finish [Eternal Frozen Silence] while he and his allies fought the three level ten calamities.
• The Black-Robed Man, [Streetlamp], and [Trickery] confronted [Rotten-Clothes Lady], while [Wind and Thunder King] and [Stillwater King] faced [Overgrowth].
• Ku Rong freed [Seedling Eater] and warned Little Whale that he would kill it if it chose the wrong side, then stayed beside the frozen Ye Buyu.
• Mu Bingge and Kou Ying prepared to join the battles, while Lou Guanshan headed for the Fortress.
• Ye Buyu sensed heat, cold, and fragments of the battle as she fell through a dark abyss, and the Otherworldly Flower in her arms briefly flashed.

Ye Buyu emerged in the River of Forgetfulness and learned that the battle against [Eternal Frozen Silence] had begun. She joined the White Tiger Division on the Aurora Bridge, carrying a powerful weapon from Gou Xiangwang, while the Present World's forces struggled against [Iron Prison].

• Ye Buyu grabbed the Ferryman's boat and learned that the Sun Project and the battle against [Eternal Frozen Silence] had already begun.
• Ye Buyu caught up with the White Tiger Division and told Gou Xiangwang that she had entered suspended animation to separate her soul from her body.
• Gou Xiangwang gave Ye Buyu a weapon empowered by the River of Forgetfulness and asked her to land the killing blow on [Eternal Frozen Silence].
• Ye Buyu and the White Tiger Division crossed the Aurora Bridge to the battlefield, where [Iron Prison] had suppressed the Present World's weapons.
• Blue Sea drew [Iron Prison]'s attention as artillery fire struck and engulfed it in a mushroom cloud.

The Present World’s forces nearly destroyed [Eternal Frozen Silence] in a coordinated assault, but the Calamities tried to save it. Ye Buyu activated her soul contract and ordered the [Seedling Eater] to swallow their aid, and a shattering crash announced the death of a level eleven Calamity.

• Lou Guanshan kept the Fortress firing while Morkov left to reinforce Mo Yi.
• Gou Xiangwang, Mo Yi, Mu Ruying, Kaitis, Gerard, and Morkov led a combined assault that devastated [Eternal Frozen Silence] and exposed its core.
• Ye Buyu unleashed the River of Forgetfulness’s ultimate weapon, while the Calamities tried to block it and protect [Eternal Frozen Silence].
• Mo Yi and the exhausted survivors formed a human wall to prevent the Calamities from reaching [Eternal Frozen Silence].
• Ye Buyu activated her soul contract and ordered the [Seedling Eater] to eat the leaf and silk scarf meant to aid [Eternal Frozen Silence].
• The [Seedling Eater] swallowed both objects, and a glass-like crash announced the death of a level eleven Calamity.

Ye Buyu returned to the battlefield, shattered the ice of [Eternal Frozen Silence], and used [Seedling Eater] to turn the tide. As her team regrouped, the Calamities demanded to know why [Seedling Eater] had switched sides, but it had no idea what they were talking about.

• [Seedling Eater] swallowed the aid from [Overgrowth] and [Rotten-Clothes Lady], allowing Ye Buyu's Spear to strike and its healing power to revive the wounded.
• Ye Buyu emerged from the shattered ice and reunited with Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Little Whale, and Ku Rong.
• Ye Buyu accidentally worsened Su Wuwei's condition by healing him, and Wan Lan explained that he had become a Calamity while Kou Ying had become a Man-Made Calamity.
• Wan Lan stopped Ye Buyu from apologizing and reminded her that the battle was not over.
• The team questioned Ye Buyu about how she had made [Seedling Eater] obey, while [Overgrowth] and [Rotten-Clothes Lady] demanded an explanation from it.
• [Seedling Eater] returned to human form and inwardly admitted that it did not know why it had swallowed the attacks.

Ye Buyu’s soul Contract with [Seedling Eater] helped the Present World defeat the Three Calamities, who retreated after realizing [Those Without a Home] was attacking their territories. The surviving experts worked out that Ye Buyu was [Seedling Eater]’s Contractor, and she confirmed it.

• [Seedling Eater] revealed that it had acted because of its Contractor, while Ye Buyu hid in the crowd and struggled to explain their Contract.
• Little Whale and Ku Rong subdued [Seedling Eater], and Little Whale threatened [Overgrowth], [Rotten-Clothes Lady], and [Iron Prison].
• [Rotten-Clothes Lady] realized [Those Without a Home] was missing, and the Three Calamities fled to protect their territories.
• The exhausted Present World experts discussed who had commanded [Seedling Eater] to betray the Calamities.
• Gou Xiangwang explained that he had left the final blow to Ye Buyu, and the experts concluded she was [Seedling Eater]’s Contractor.
• Wan Lan asked Ye Buyu if she was [Seedling Eater]’s Contractor, and Ye Buyu confirmed that she was.

After Ye Buyu explained that she had traveled into the past and contracted [Seedling Eater], her friends put off hearing the unbelievable details while they handled the aftermath. Ku Rong revealed that Ye Buyu was the Hall Master of the [Salvation Hall of Fame], and he and Little Whale hoped the long struggle in the Forbidden Zone would soon reach its final stage.

• Wan Lan and the Hold Up the Heavens Team reacted in disbelief when Ye Buyu said she had contracted [Seedling Eater] and become its Contractor.
• Ye Buyu explained that her soul had returned to the past after she feigned death, where she signed a Contract with [Seedling Eater] before coming back to the present.
• The others avoided listening to Ye Buyu's explanation and went back to their tasks, while Wan Lan and Kou Ying asked her to tell them later.
• Ku Rong called Ye Buyu the Hall Master, leaving her stunned, then admitted that he had deliberately surprised her.
• Ku Rong and Little Whale discussed the coming final stage of the centuries-long struggle, while Little Whale told [Seedling Eater] that it was now the youngest member of their group.

Ye Buyu argued with [Seedling Eater] after accidentally calling herself its mom, then publicly swore she was not. The group joked about the exchange and reflected on their strength as the kings encouraged Mu Bingge and Wan Lan.

• Ye Buyu and [Seedling Eater] argued over whether it had called her Mom, and she challenged it to return to its seal.
• [Seedling Eater] demanded that Ye Buyu publicly deny being its mom, and she swore that she was not.
• The crowd reacted to the argument, while [Wind and Thunder King] joked about Ye Buyu being [Seedling Eater]'s mother.
• Kou Ying said he needed to advance a tier because greater challenges awaited, and the Black-Robed Man assured him he would grow stronger.
• [Stillwater King] said he would wait for Mu Bingge to unseal her power, and [Wind and Thunder King] praised Wan Lan for keeping pace.

The Present World celebrated after the Level Eleven Calamity [Eternal Frozen Silence] was killed and the Sun returned. In the Third Zone, [Those Without a Home] stopped the vassals’ invasion and slaughtered the fleeing Calamities.

• Wang Jianshe returned with the Sun Project to announce victory to the Present World.
• The Present World Union reported that [Eternal Frozen Silence] was dead and [Overgrowth], [Iron Prison], and [Rotten-Clothes Lady] had withdrawn, and dawn returned as the Doomsday Tower’s progress bar settled at sixty percent.
• Sun Xi, the Present World Union representatives, Gong Jieyong, Wu Yan, and the border troops reacted with relief to the news of victory.
• The vassals of [Overgrowth] and [Rotten-Clothes Lady] led a Calamity Tide toward the Present World, but [Those Without a Home] blocked their path.
• [Those Without a Home] killed the vassals’ Calamities and drove the survivors to flee.