Chapter Summaries

[Overgrowth] unleashed its full power, but Gong Jieyong used Unjust Scales to slash its overwhelming vitality and give Mo Yi and Wusu a chance to attack. [Overgrowth] detonated itself in a final attempt to kill them, and a survivor emerged from the crater with the two unconscious warriors.

• [Overgrowth] attacked everyone with its wildly growing monster and drained the energy of the Calamities who pleaded that they were not enemies.
• Gong Jieyong activated Unjust Scales, linking his life to [Overgrowth] and sharply reducing its vitality.
• Mo Yi and Wusu poured their strength into their attacks while [Overgrowth] tried to defend itself.
• [Overgrowth] exploded in a self-detonation that destroyed the canyon and left a vast crater.
• A survivor climbed from the crater and rescued the unconscious Mo Yi and Wusu.

The [Wind and Thunder King] saved the survivors from [Overgrowth]'s self-detonation and headed to the other battlefield, where Hold Up the Heavens fought [Iron Prison]. As more allies joined the fight, Si Erweiqi called for someone inside the Voidwalker to come out.

• The [Wind and Thunder King] rescued the unconscious survivors and left to check on the other battle, while Gou Xiangwang and the others recovered.
• The Voidwalker rammed [Iron Prison] through mountains, and Su Wuwei revealed that Hold Up the Heavens was inside it.
• Hold Up the Heavens grappled with [Iron Prison] as Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, Wan Lan, and Su Wuwei taunted him.
• Slyder, Wang Jianshe, Chen Ze, Sun Cheng, Lan Huaiyu, and Nora joined the attack on [Iron Prison].
• Si Erweiqi looked toward the Voidwalker and asked who inside it was still refusing to come out.

The fighters joined forces to defeat [Iron Prison], with Slyder disrupting its control of the iron while Wang Jianshe drew the metal away and Voidwalker struck it down. Si Erweiqi then revealed that [Iron Prison] had hidden its true core, stabbed it, and survived its counterattack as Slyder caught him.

• Ye Buyu told the others to leave Voidwalker under their control and focus on defeating [Iron Prison].
• Chen Ze and Sun Cheng attacked [Iron Prison] alongside Lan Huaiyu and Wei Yueyan as Voidwalker leaped above it.
• Slyder seized control of the iron torrents, while Wang Jianshe opened his mechanical chest and pressed down on his core to draw the iron away from [Iron Prison].
• Voidwalker crashed down on [Iron Prison], leaving it apparently defeated, but Si Erweiqi charged through the dust and stabbed its true core.
• [Iron Prison] pierced Si Erweiqi's chest, then recognized him as a knight and admitted defeat as he drove his sword deeper.
• Slyder caught Si Erweiqi as he staggered and cursed him for not saying sooner that the wound had missed his vitals.

The team defeated [Iron Prison], and Wang Jianshe revealed that he was the legendary Wang Xiaoran, the Present World's first Eighth Tier fighter. He explained his long effort to kill [Iron Prison] and his promise to guard the Present World, while the Sun Project’s danger had kept him from intervening sooner.

• Ye Buyu and the others attacked [Iron Prison] through its wounds, while Ye Buyu healed Si Erweiqi with repeated gunfire.
• Wang Jianshe arrived and taunted the dying [Iron Prison], which recognized him as Wang Xiaoran, the first Eighth Tier fighter.
• Mu Bingge and the others realized Wang Jianshe was the legendary Sword Immortal who had helped establish the Present World's first Frontline fortress.
• Wang Jianshe explained that he had modified Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Source to attract iron torrents and kill [Iron Prison], which had devastated the Present World with the Iron Flood.
• Wang Jianshe recalled promising his fallen comrades to watch over the Present World and described how guarding the Sun Project had prevented him from acting against [Iron Prison] sooner.

After the long-awaited defeat of [Iron Prison], the survivors celebrated their victory and learned how Ye Buyu and the others had turned a fishing mission into a battle against three Level Ten Calamities. The group began recovering and swapping explanations, while Gou Xiangwang hinted that even more dangerous enemies awaited them.

• Wang Jianshe laughed as [Iron Prison] accepted its death, left behind an iron bead, and melted into the wasteland.
• Gong Jieyong, Gou Xiangwang, Zhang Yuanjing, Sun Xi, and Wei Hua celebrated, then recalled that their mission had begun as a rescue and fishing operation.
• Ye Buyu used medicine to restore herself and her five teammates from cucumber disguises to human form.
• Ye Buyu explained to Slyder that the team had lured out Void Cultists, joined Evergreen under a made-up name, and infiltrated the enemy by posing as hunted Calamities.
• Wang Jianshe asked Su Wuwei how he and Kou Ying had changed back from their Calamity-like appearances.

Ye Buyu and the others explored the memory fragment left by [Iron Prison] and saw how it was born from a world destroyed by war, then met Gu Yuan, the figure who called himself [War]. The vision ended with a list of forces that had shaped [Iron Prison]’s fate, leaving the group shaken by the threat posed by powerful beings beyond their world.

• Lou Guanshan identified Ye Buyu as the one who had turned a Calamity back into a human, and Ye Buyu showed the group the iron bead left by [Iron Prison].
• Ye Buyu activated the bead, revealing a devastated world of ruined machines, corpses, and burning skies where a Calamity formed from molten iron.
• The newborn Calamity encountered Gu Yuan, who called himself [War] and ordered it to seek death while he went to destroy those who had fled.
• The iron bead shattered as Ye Buyu and the others watched the phantom recount how Shattered Fate, the Blueprint Drafter, Salvation Dark Star, Eternal Thousand Winds, and Endtime Candlelight had influenced its fate.
• The phantom vanished, and the group feared that a Calamity powerful enough to destroy a galaxy could reduce the Present World to a wasteland; they wondered what level Gu Yuan had been.

After the [Iron Prison] vanished, Gou Xiangwang revealed that [War] was a fourteenth-tier Calamity, leaving the sixth-tier team stunned. Back in the Present World, Song Yi proposed that the Horizon Team take over its major leadership roles, and Wei Changming questioned why the responsibility was not going to Hold Up the Heavens.

• Gou Xiangwang explained that the seal preventing him from discussing the world beyond the door had disappeared with [Iron Prison], but Gong Jieyong stopped him from saying more in the dangerous area.
• The [Wind and Thunder King] offered to take everyone back in exchange for information about the world beyond the door, and Wei Hua agreed to let it listen to an audio feed.
• Song Yi and the Horizon Team watched the battle and heard Gou Xiangwang identify [War] as a fourteenth-tier Calamity, which left them shocked.
• Song Yi told the Horizon Team he wanted them to take over the Present World and its major institutions, including his position and the Doomsday Observatory.
• Wei Changming interrupted Song Yi and asked why Hold Up the Heavens was not being given the responsibility.

Song Yi explained the Present World's institutions and revealed that the Four Symbols Department served as its ears, gathering information from people who had crossed beyond the door. He urged Wei Changming and the others to take leadership roles so they could manage the Present World while Hold Up the Heavens advanced toward the World Behind the Door.

• Song Yi offered the six deputy positions in major institutions, but Wei Changming argued that Hold Up the Heavens were better suited to make decisions because they knew more about the threats ahead.
• Song Yi described the Present World Union and the roles of its institutions, including the Four Symbols Department's responsibility as the Present World's ears.
• Song Yi explained that people had crossed beyond the door, though none could share what they learned, and said some of them were in the Social Security Bureau.
• Chu Lie questioned why this history meant the six of them should train to lead the institutions.
• Song Yi said Hold Up the Heavens had wreaked havoc on Calamities in a year and warned that the six needed to keep the Present World under control if the group opened the forbidden door.

Song Yi explained that Hold Up the Heavens would become the Present World's Navigator, an organization with supreme authority to lead the world after the portal opened. At the conference, officials assigned members of Horizon to take minutes for their respective organizations, while Yu Qin and Chu Lie warned Ye Buyu to look out for herself.

• Song Yi told Horizon that the Navigator would unite the Present World under one authority and that Hold Up the Heavens was the best candidate to lead it.
• Gong Jieyong, Sun Xi, and other officials and representatives from across the Present World gathered for a conference about the world beyond the portal.
• Song Yi appointed Wei Changming to take the meeting minutes, and other leaders assigned Xiao Shuo, Chu Lie, Yu Qin, Guan Xiaomei, and Meng He to record minutes for their organizations.
• The six members of Hold Up the Heavens secretly laughed at Horizon's new responsibilities, and Wei Changming remarked that they might not be laughing for long.
• Yu Qin and Chu Lie warned Ye Buyu to look out for herself, leaving her confused about what danger they expected.

At a meeting about the Navigator Plan, the Four Symbols Department and foreign representatives revealed that many of them had visited the World Behind the Door. They discovered that their encounters pointed to the Primordial Beginning Tower, and Mu Ruying began sharing what she knew.

• Song Yi presented the Navigator Plan, and Gou Xiangwang said the time had come to discuss the World Behind the Door because Hold Up the Heavens had eliminated the Level Ten Calamities in the Third Zone.
• Mu Ruying, Sun Cheng, Huang Songming, Shen Juan, and Lü Yuncheng stood to reveal they had visited the World Behind the Door, while Chen Ze pretended to have gone before admitting he had not.
• Yang You, Su Yuan, and Yao Shanshan revealed they had also visited, leaving Mo Yi stunned that three of his Azure Dragon Division subordinates had kept it from him.
• Kaitis, Gerard, and Morkov revealed their visits, and Morkov said he had encountered a Blueprint Drafter from the Primordial Beginning Tower.
• Kaitis and Gerard confirmed they had also encountered the Primordial Beginning Tower, and Mu Ruying began explaining what she knew.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members explained the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, the Primordial Beginning Tower, Judgment, and the Salvation Hall of Fame. Wan Lan and Su Wuwei realized Ye Buyu was the Hall Master of the Salvation Hall of Fame, leaving the group stunned and confused.

• Kaitis explained that Judgment hunted evil Calamities and interfered with the Calamity Dynasty's plans.
• Gerard described the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road as a safe route governed by Longwind and enforced by its Navigators.
• Gou Xiangwang explained that the Primordial Beginning Tower sought to restore the world and that its founder was a Level Fifteen god, while the Salvation Hall of Fame was equally powerful and mysterious.
• Ye Buyu nearly fainted at the thought of being associated with the Salvation Hall of Fame's founder and clung to Mu Bingge, pleading to be saved.
• Wan Lan told Su Wuwei that Ye Buyu was the Hall Master, and Su Wuwei reacted by tearing Kou Ying's clothes as the others wondered what had happened.

As the leaders discussed the powers beyond the door, they proposed the Navigator Plan and unanimously chose Hold Up the Heavens to serve as Navigators. Ye Buyu objected over the danger and the team’s record of causing upheaval, but Mu Bingge accepted the roles on the team’s behalf, and Ye Buyu reluctantly confirmed.

• Wan Lan concealed the revelation that she was the Salvation Hall of Fame’s Hall Master from everyone except Su Wuwei.
• Gou Xiangwang summarized what they knew about the Salvation Hall of Fame, Judgment, and the Primordial Beginning Tower, while Song Yi proposed the Navigator Plan.
• The leaders agreed that Hold Up the Heavens were the best candidates to become Navigators and voted unanimously to nominate them.
• Ye Buyu objected, warning that the team had caused too many disasters in the Present World and might make things worse.
• Mu Bingge accepted the Navigator roles for Hold Up the Heavens, and Ye Buyu finally confirmed their acceptance while holding the Bronze Token.

Hold Up the Heavens accepted the mission to expand their territory while Horizon took charge of the major agencies and rear affairs. After Gong Jieyong insisted Ye Buyu rest instead of advancing, she told her teammates that Ku Rong had called her the Hall Master of the Salvation Hall of Fame, and the [Wind and Thunder King] revealed it had overheard their conversation.

• Wei Changming promised that Horizon would work with Hold Up the Heavens to protect the Present World and rein them in if necessary.
• When Ye Buyu said she wanted to consider advancing a tier, Gong Jieyong and the others urged her to go back to base and sleep.
• Aboard the Space Elevator, Ye Buyu explained that Ku Rong had called her the Hall Master of the Salvation Hall of Fame, leaving Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Mu Bingge stunned.
• Wan Lan warned the team not to tell Elder Song and the others, but the [Wind and Thunder King] said it had been listening the whole time.
• The team got off the elevator and posed for a photo with a staff member while still dumbfounded.

After the group compared their abilities and identities, Ye Buyu explained that they might all return to the past and meet the Salvation Hall of Fame’s mysterious powerhouses. As everyone went to rest, Ruan Yinke revealed an eerie power that put Su Wuwei into a trance and sent him unconscious.

• Su Wuwei, Lou Guanshan, Mu Bingge, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, and Ye Buyu described their abilities and affiliations.
• Ye Buyu said she had returned to the past by pulling her soul from her body near death and believed the group would return to the past together.
• Ye Buyu suggested that the mysterious powerhouses in the Salvation Hall of Fame might have met them in the distant past.
• Ye Buyu met Ruan Yinke, a second-batch trainee, in the dormitory and went to sleep after they parted.
• Ruan Yinke rang a bell in the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members’ minds and told Su Wuwei to name an unclaimed soul, causing him to collapse unconscious.

Ruan Yinke sent Ye Buyu and several others’ souls through the mysterious symbol, while Wen Ling and Zhao Zhe stayed behind to wait for the students to wake. Ye Buyu reunited with Su Wuwei and the others in the distant past, where the Sun began to crack.

• Ruan Yinke sent [Wind and Thunder King] away and used a symbol to carry Ye Buyu and several souls out of the dormitory buildings.
• Ruan Yinke identified herself as the Salvation Hall of Fame’s seventh seat, Dream of Notes, and Wen Ling said she was observing the Present World under Slaughter’s orders.
• Zhao Zhe revealed that he had become the Primordial Beginning Tower’s Blueprint Drafter after passing through a door while chasing Void Cultists, then sealed the base and kept Ruan Yinke and Wen Ling there.
• Ye Buyu awoke in the Sea of Stars beside Su Wuwei and recognized the azure planet and the Sun as the world before it became shattered.
• Ye Buyu used the password to identify Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Mu Bingge, who had also been brought there.
• Meteorites struck as a crack appeared in the Sun, and Ye Buyu shouted that Su Wuwei was cracking.

Su Wuwei and the others watched the Sun destroy the original Present World while Ye Buyu went to find the being behind the explosion. She discovered that the Salvation Hall of Fame had been waiting for someone to appear and that her classmate Ruan Yinke belonged to it.

• Su Wuwei tried to approach the exploding Sun, but Mu Bingge stopped him and Ye Buyu went ahead alone under a curtain of stars.
• Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Mu Bingge discussed the powers they seemed to have, while Su Wuwei and the others watched the Sun's blast annihilate the Present World.
• Ye Buyu saw a paper, a blade, and a vortex stop the being whose finger had pierced the Sun, as a giant door sealed it away.
• The door, Ku Rong, Little Whale, and others discussed activating a backup plan and waiting for someone who had not appeared.
• Ye Buyu recognized Ruan Yinke as a member of the Salvation Hall of Fame and realized her trip to the past had set up the situation herself.

Note used the Fate Godhead fragment to restore the Present World to just before its destruction, while Su Wuwei stopped [Sun's Sorrow] from forming and gave his past self his name, completing a closed loop. The restored world had no Doomsday Tower, River of Forgetfulness, or Sun Project, leaving the group uncertain about their purpose.

• Cangyuan went to confront [Annihilation] while Note prepared the Fate Godhead fragment.
• Note fused the fragment with Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon, and the moon restored the Present World to its state before the explosion.
• Su Wuwei realized that the enraged soul becoming [Sun's Sorrow] was his past self and that he needed to stop it from forming.
• Su Wuwei suppressed the soul, named him Su Wuwei, and sent him to the Present World, completing the loop behind his own name.
• Kou Ying and Mu Bingge noticed that the restored Present World had no Doomsday Tower, River of Forgetfulness, or Sun Project.

After the Present World was turned back in time, Ye Buyu and the others realized they had the blueprints, energy, technology, and materials needed to rebuild its projects. Ye Buyu reunited with Ruan Yinke, revealed that she would need her help, and left her former classmates stunned by her hidden identity.

• Wan Lan and the others concluded they could build the Sun Project, the River of Forgetfulness, and the Doomsday Tower with Su Wuwei's blueprints and energy, Kou Ying's technical knowledge, and Lou Guanshan's material refining.
• The [King of Withering and Flourishing] and the [Whale of Wailing] decided to stay near the Present World, while [Dream of Notes] remained to watch it revive.
• Ye Buyu surprised [Dream of Notes], who recognized her as the Hall Master and explained that they had used Fate's Divine-Character Fragment and Ye Buyu's skill to turn back time.
• Ye Buyu asked [Dream of Notes] to help build the projects and to return in five hundred years under the alias Ruan Yinke, then gave her further instructions to test her own power.
• Ye Buyu brought [Dream of Notes] to the others, where Kou Ying recognized her as their former classmate Ruan Yinke and Wan Lan reacted with disbelief.

Ye Buyu introduced the level 13 Dream of Notes to Hold Up the Heavens, and Note used her power to build the structures needed to restore the Present World. The Planet’s Consciousness sacrificed itself to connect the River of Forgetfulness to the Artificial Sun, and the first sunlight awakened life across the world.

• Ye Buyu introduced Dream of Notes as a helper, and Note exposed that she remembered meeting the others before.
• Note took charge of the blueprints and used Dream-Building City, Mirage Made Real to construct the projects while Kou Ying added their operating procedures.
• Su Wuwei powered the Artificial Sun with the Sun’s remaining energy, and Ye Buyu brought a fading soul from the shattered planet into the River of Forgetfulness.
• The Planet’s Consciousness recognized Hold Up the Heavens as its children and sacrificed itself in the River of Forgetfulness to sustain the Present World.
• The River of Forgetfulness and Artificial Sun connected through the Aurora Bridge, and the sun rose over the Present World as its inhabitants awoke to daylight.

Note completed the Doomsday Tower by adding Fate's Divine-Character Fragment, and [Wind and Thunder King] supplied the Calamity power it needed. As Ye Buyu and the others vanished from the Present World, Ye Buyu's answer gave [Dream of Notes] hope that saving the world was only beginning.

• After Planet's consciousness sacrificed itself, Note realized the Doomsday Tower needed one final component, and Ye Buyu identified the Fate's Divine-Character Fragment on the moon.
• Note merged the fragment into the Doomsday Tower, causing towers to appear across the Present World and record its information, though they still could not detect Calamity.
• Mu Bingge offered to provide a trace of Calamity power, but a fierce wind from [Wind and Thunder King] activated the towers and supplied the missing sample.
• [Wind and Thunder King] wondered why it had been brought to the Present World, while Wan Lan promised to explain after it helped complete the Doomsday Tower.
• As Ye Buyu and the others began to vanish, Note asked Ye Buyu whether they had fulfilled their duty and whether saving the world could succeed.
• Ye Buyu silently pointed to the reviving Present World and told Note, "Haven't you saved it?"; [Dream of Notes] then found hope in the thought that this was only the beginning.