Chapter Summaries

Ye Buyu and her companions realized they had returned to the past and gathered with Zhao Zhe, Dream of Notes, Wen Ling, and the Wind and Thunder King. Wen Ling revealed that Judgment had assigned her to protect the Hold Up the Heavens Team, leaving Ye Buyu curious about the organization and her new mission.

• Ye Buyu, Wan Lan, and Mu Bingge woke up and confirmed they had returned to the past, while Lou Guanshan shouted the news from a dormitory window and jumped downstairs.
• Su Wuwei reached the gathering first and found the Wind and Thunder King, Zhao Zhe, Dream of Notes, and Wen Ling waiting there.
• Lou Guanshan arrived and questioned Zhao Zhe and Wen Ling, and Ye Buyu recognized Wen Ling and asked whether she was there on a Social Security Bureau mission.
• Zhao Zhe exposed the presence of people from the Primordial Beginning Tower and Judgment, then admitted that he was a Blueprint Drafter of the Primordial Beginning Tower.
• Wen Ling told Ye Buyu that she had recently joined Judgment and had come on her first mission, assigned by [Those Without a Home], to protect the Hold Up the Heavens Team.

Ye Buyu and her companions spoke with Note about their connection to the Salvation Hall of Fame and Judgment, and Note reassured them that the Narrators did not resent or intend to harm them. They acknowledged that they had returned from over five hundred years in the past, thanked Note for saving the Present World, and resolved to focus on growing stronger.

• Wen Ling explained that Judgment rarely issued missions and that Four Seats had not answered [Those Without a Home]'s request to protect the group.
• Note silently greeted Mu Bingge, then Ye Buyu pulled her aside to ask whether she was angry about the group being only at the sixth tier.
• Note said she held no resentment and assured the group that Ku Rong's grievances would not lead him to harm them.
• Mu Bingge reassured Ye Buyu about the pressure of the future, and Ye Buyu decided to focus on the situation at hand.
• Ye Buyu revealed that the people Note had met over five hundred years earlier were the group returned from the past, and thanked Note for saving the Present World.
• Note credited them with following her plans, while Lou Guanshan and Kou Ying urged everyone to focus on their shared goal and grow stronger.

Ye Buyu and the others learned more about her power and the hierarchy of gods and Calamities, then discovered they had brought back a fragment of Fate after killing a god. The revelation left the group overwhelmed and Ye Buyu angrily insisted they might as well be called gods.

• Ye Buyu asked Note why she had lost to Meng He, and Note explained that Ye Buyu's power had stopped her from winning, leaving both fighters unconscious.
• Note and the others speculated that Ye Buyu's ability was connected to time and discussed how the power might be correcting events.
• Note told Su Wuwei that the level thirteen Calamity [Annihilation] had destroyed the Sun and explained that gods ranked above Calamities at level fifteen.
• Note revealed that the group had brought back a fragment of Fate and that they had killed a god, though she did not know how.
• The six reacted with panic, and Ye Buyu shouted that Note might as well say they were all gods.

After Note left the sealed base, Ye Buyu and the others went to eat while Zhao Zhe told Wind-Thunder the full account of [Tempest Fiend]’s last message. Wind-Thunder learned that [Tempest Fiend] had named and blessed the being it would become, and was left reflecting on how unpredictable life was.

• Note gave Ye Buyu six musical notes containing enough power to handle a level-twelve Calamity, then disappeared.
• Ye Buyu suggested the group eat, and she and the others headed to the cafeteria.
• Zhao Zhe told Wind-Thunder that [Tempest Fiend] had left a second part to its final message, naming Wind-Thunder as the soul to emerge after its death.
• Wind-Thunder realized [Tempest Fiend] had likely merged its core with the Doomsday Tower to bring it into being, and said life was unpredictable.

Zhao Zhe explained why the Present World had once tried to kill Wind-Thunder, then revealed that Ruan Yinke was [Dream of Notes] and that the sealed door, [Myriad Worlds Silent Palace], belonged to the Salvation Hall of Fame. The Horizon Team was assigned to investigate the door with the Navigators, while Hold Up the Heavens decided to grow stronger before approaching the world beyond it.

• Zhao Zhe told Wind-Thunder that the Present World had tried to kill him when he threatened its students or allied with [Earthshaker], but had spared him at other times; Wind-Thunder left to process the explanation.
• Lan Huaiyu summoned Zhao Zhe to a meeting after the base surveillance captured his conversation, and he revealed that Ruan Yinke was [Dream of Notes], the Seventh Seat of the Salvation Hall of Fame, who had put Hold Up the Heavens to sleep.
• Zhao Zhe identified the sealed door as [Myriad Worlds Silent Palace], and the leaders assigned the Horizon Team to ask Hold Up the Heavens about reaching the world beyond it.
• Hold Up the Heavens discussed preparing to enter the world beyond the door and agreed they needed to reach the seventh tier, using Calamity materials and pressure from Four Symbols Department experts to speed their breakthroughs.

The Horizon Team arranged intensive training for Hold Up the Heavens so they could advance a tier, despite Ye Buyu needing rare, costly materials. Ye Buyu and her teammates began training against an overwhelming lineup of powerful fighters.

• Mu Bingge explained that the team could redeem advancement materials and told everyone Xiao Shuo was asking when they would open the Myriad Worlds Silent Palace.
• Wei Changming created the Exhausted Horizon group chat, and Ye Buyu warned that her advancement might require a Level Ten Calamity's core.
• The Horizon Team arranged for Present World's eighth-tier fighters and Four Symbols Department members to train Hold Up the Heavens.
• Ye Buyu discovered Sun Xi, Gong Jieyong, and Wei Hua waiting to train her, while Kaitis, Gerard, and Morkov took on Kou Ying.
• Sun Xi, Gong Jieyong, and Wei Hua attacked Ye Buyu together, and the other teammates were beaten by their assigned trainers.

The Six endured relentless group assaults as part of an intense training regimen, with Kou Ying repeatedly suffering from his bad luck. After more than a month of fighting and recovery, Su Wuwei, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and Wan Lan reached the seventh tier, while the others continued their training.

• Gong Jieyong, Sun Xi, Mo Yi, Wusu, Mu Ruying, Gou Xiangwang, and the other divisions brutally attacked the Six, while Wang Jianshe watched Su Wuwei’s fight over tea.
• Kaitis, Gerard, and Morkov worried that Kou Ying’s rotten luck might kill him, but Kou Ying insisted they continue the training on a clear plain.
• The Six spent their days fighting and their nights absorbing materials, steadily building power through exhaustion and recovery.
• Su Wuwei broke through to the seventh tier during the White Tiger Division’s assault and immediately counterattacked Gou Xiangwang.
• Mu Bingge entered the seventh tier amid the Black Tortoise Division’s attacks, then Mu Ruying congratulated her.
• Lou Guanshan reached the seventh tier after summoning a mountain peak, and Wan Lan broke through by surpassing the speed of the wind; Mo Yi praised her speed.

Ye Buyu remained unable to advance despite absorbing a level ten calamity’s core, until Little Whale returned to explain what she was missing. The chapter ended with Little Whale revealing that Ye Buyu needed Fate Fragments and that its seal had been limiting her path of calamity.

• Kou Ying transformed into a dark mass and advanced to the seventh tier while Kaitis and Gerard bickered.
• Ye Buyu failed to advance despite enduring more than a month of attacks, and Wei Hua suggested she needed a life-or-death crisis.
• Little Whale emerged from Ye Buyu’s Mindscape, startling Gong Jieyong, Wei Hua, and Sun Xi.
• Ye Buyu grabbed Little Whale and demanded to know what she was missing to advance.
• Little Whale said Ye Buyu needed Fate Fragments and explained that its seal had limited her path of calamity.

Ye Buyu absorbed a [Nightmare] status fragment while Little Whale explained that the Salvation Hall of Fame had killed the Calamity responsible for the Great Cataclysm. As her companions gathered to watch, Ye Buyu’s absorption left her looking like a lump of black coal.

• Little Whale offered Ye Buyu several status fragments, and she chose the level eleven [Nightmare] fragment despite being only sixth tier.
• Sun Xi, Gong Jieyong, and Wei Hua learned that the Salvation Hall of Fame had killed [Nightmare], the Calamity behind the Great Cataclysm, and accepted the news with relief.
• Ye Buyu began absorbing the [Nightmare] fragment while Little Whale admitted it had never seen a sixth-tier person absorb one.
• Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Mu Bingge, and Lou Guanshan arrived and found Ye Buyu transformed into a blackened lump, prompting Lou Guanshan to call it a tumor.

Ye Buyu’s advancement went wrong when a Nightmare remnant seized control of her body and began spreading red mist across the Present World. Ye Buyu remained alive but trapped as [Nightmare] announced its plan to regain its peak, and the city began evacuating as the Doomsday Tower sounded its alarm.

• Little Whale knocked Lou Guanshan away after he called it a tumor, then noticed Ye Buyu was the only one who had yet to advance.
• Ye Buyu collapsed and convulsed from absorbing too much energy, while Su Wuwei tried to burn away some of its power.
• Ye Buyu’s soul discovered that [Nightmare] had taken over her body and used Little Whale to strike it, alerting Mu Bingge and the others that something was wrong.
• [Nightmare] emerged from Ye Buyu’s body, spread red mist, and revealed that it intended to devour human dreams and recover its strength.
• Ye Buyu was pulled back into her body and found herself bound by the red mist as [Nightmare] continued controlling her.
• The red mist approached the city, residents began evacuating, and the Doomsday Tower sounded its alarm for [Nightmare].

Ye Buyu fought [Nightmare] as it spread red mist across the city, then used her newly gained control to suck the mist and its phantom away. [Nightmare] tried to possess her again, but Little Whale trapped its soul in a bubble.

• [Nightmare] restrained Ye Buyu and taunted Little Whale while recovering its strength and spreading red mist.
• Ye Buyu broke free and repeatedly slapped [Nightmare] with the red mist, then learned that the mist spreading toward the city could not be recalled normally.
• Gong Jieyong warned that [Nightmare]'s power threatened the city, while Su Wuwei and the others set fires around the perimeter to clear the mist.
• Ye Buyu shaped the mist into a giant catlike head that swallowed [Nightmare]'s phantom and sucked the red mist back from the sky.
• [Nightmare] entered Ye Buyu's body to seize control, but Little Whale struck it down and trapped its soul inside a bubble.

Little Whale crushed Nightmare’s remaining soul as Ye Buyu absorbed the red mist, leaving a giant cat head visible above the Doomsday Tower. Wei Changming and the newly advanced Horizon Team held an impromptu press conference at the scene, reassuring the Present World that Nightmare was dead and the red mist was being handled.

• Little Whale crushed Nightmare’s remaining soul, and the red mist transformed the cat head Ye Buyu had thrown out into a giant shape in the sky.
• Wei Changming and the Horizon Team learned that Hold Up the Heavens was connected to the incident, and the team advanced to the sixth tier amid their anger and frustration.
• Wei Changming went to the scene and began an online press conference, presenting officials and asking Hold Up the Heavens to explain what had happened to Nightmare.
• Wan Lan told the public that Nightmare’s soul had been crushed and its red mist reclaimed, while Lou Guanshan said Ye Buyu was swallowing the remaining mist.
• Gong Jieyong arrived, realized the Federation Secretariat was holding a press conference at the scene, and was stunned by the revelation.

Ye Buyu absorbed the red mist, broke through to the seventh tier, and witnessed [Nightmare]'s memories of the Great Cataclysm and the people who resisted its dream-filled escape. She returned to her teammates as [Nightmare] vanished, leaving behind a mysterious seed or obsession that fell into the Present World.

• Gong Jieyong agreed to hold the Present World's first public press conference, while Ye Buyu continued absorbing the red mist.
• Ye Buyu broke through to the seventh tier and saw [Nightmare]'s memories of the Great Cataclysm, when people chose between surrendering to dreams and struggling to wake and resist.
• Ye Buyu rejected [Nightmare]'s claim that dying in dreams was a matter of freedom, and a mysterious seed or obsession fell into the Present World as [Nightmare] departed.
• Ye Buyu opened her eyes, stepped out of Little Whale's Path, and landed before her teammates.
• Su Wuwei teased Ye Buyu by asking how she could prove her identity, while Lou Guanshan, Wan Lan, and Mu Bingge congratulated her on advancing.

After reaching the Seventh Tier, Ye Buyu learned that a mysterious hand had dropped something near her hometown during the Great Cataclysm. The meteor had fallen on the exact date of her birthday, leaving her and her teammates to wonder whether it was connected to her origins.

• Ye Buyu reached the Seventh Tier, and Wei Changming ended the Present World Union Secretariat's press conference.
• Ye Buyu asked the three veterans whether they had seen a giant hand during the Great Cataclysm, and Sun Xi recalled a meteor that vanished near Zhaoyang City.
• Sun Xi checked his notebook and found that the meteor fell on September thirteenth, nineteen years earlier.
• Ye Buyu revealed that September thirteenth was also her birthday and that she had been rescued during the Great Cataclysm.
• Mu Bingge and Lou Guanshan suggested the meteor could be connected to Ye Buyu's origins, while Ye Buyu protested and Wan Lan teased her about having another powerful Calamity identity.

Ye Buyu and Hold Up the Heavens relaxed with the Horizon Team and explained how they brought the Present World's projects back to the past. Su Wuwei revealed that his own identity and name were part of a time paradox, leaving the origin of the loop unresolved.

• Su Wuwei warned that Ye Buyu seemed connected to something feared by Nightmare, while the group speculated about her and Hold Up the Heavens' ties to the Doomsday Tower.
• Wan Lan learned that most of her teammates were nonhuman, and Wei Changming's notebook revealed his ambition to defeat Hold Up the Heavens.
• The teams went to bathe and rest before the Horizon Team asked Ye Buyu about the Doomsday Tower.
• Ye Buyu explained that Hold Up the Heavens had seen the Present World destroyed and reshaped, then taken the Artificial Sun, River of Forgetfulness, Aurora Bridge, and Doomsday Tower projects back to the past.
• Kou Ying clarified that Hold Up the Heavens had carried engineers' analyses and results into the past rather than creating the projects themselves.
• Su Wuwei said he had stopped himself from becoming [Sun's Sorrow] and given himself his name, creating a closed time loop with no traceable origin.

Ye Buyu and the others finished their Hell Training and prepared to venture beyond the gate as the first Navigators, while their friends promised to support them from the Present World. The group set out with confidence, leaving their allies to keep the rear secure.

• Ye Buyu and her classmates splashed and wrestled in the pool, letting their pressure ease as they enjoyed their time together.
• Ye Buyu told Horizon the Six that the Navigators would go beyond the gate, and reassured them that the six of them were suited to serve as the vanguard.
• The group explained that they would explore gradually and establish a foothold before allowing the Present World to enter the world beyond the gate.
• Wei Changming and the others agreed to maintain order and stand ready to aid the Navigators, while Kou Ying handed over his responsibilities and prepared to leave.
• After several days of preparation, the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members departed, and Lou Guanshan promised Qin Yue they would open the road ahead.

Ye Buyu prepared to leave the Present World with Hold Up the Heavens, and Little Wan awakened to open the Myriad Worlds Silent Palace. Little Wan joined the group, but her attempt to pretend she did not know them only made the experts more suspicious.

• Qin Yue praised Wan Lan for growing up, while Slyder warned her to be careful in the world beyond the door.
• Ye Buyu reassured the experts that Hold Up the Heavens had ways to protect themselves, and Little Whale promised to fight any Calamities below Level Thirteen.
• Ye Buyu reached the Myriad Worlds Silent Palace and awakened its spirit, Little Wan, who appeared as a little girl.
• Ye Buyu tried to hide her connection to Little Wan, but Little Wan introduced herself as the palace and the fourth seat of the Salvation Hall of Fame.
• Little Wan insisted she did not know Hold Up the Heavens, prompting Sun Xi to point out that she had called them “them.”

The Six entered the World Behind the Door and crossed the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road with Little Whale’s help, while the Present World began preparing its defenses. The group continued onward after Wan Lan spent an hour studying the winds, and Wind and Thunder King arrived too late to find them.

• Ye Buyu and the others fled through the barrier into the World Behind the Door, and Wei Changming announced that the Present World would begin the Purging plan and fortify its territory.
• The Six found themselves surrounded by storms on the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, and Little Wan directed them toward the winds before Little Whale warned that crossing them unaided would be fatal.
• Little Whale enclosed the group in protective bubbles and guided them toward the storm, while Little Wan teased him about being small and black.
• Ye Buyu asked Little Whale to stop so Wan Lan could study the wind energy, and the group waited an hour for her to finish.
• Wind and Thunder King entered the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road but saw only the ancient winds and wondered whether Hold Up the Heavens had already left.

[Wind and Thunder King] encountered a toll collector on the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, and Wen Ling paid for him to travel to Judgment. Meanwhile, Little Whale brought six people into a war-torn world, where Little Wan casually caught and returned a missile.

• [Wind and Thunder King] learned that passage on the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road required Thousand-Wind Coins or costly materials, and the collector first demanded a Level Ten Calamity core.
• Wen Ling paid ten Thousand-Wind Coins and directed the reluctant [Wind and Thunder King] to Judgment, warning that he would be in danger elsewhere.
• The collector watched Wen Ling and [Wind and Thunder King] leave and worried that the world was nearing chaos.
• Little Whale brought six people out of the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road into a battlefield littered with wreckage and fighting figures.
• Little Wan caught a missile with one hand, threw it back into the melee, and assured the six people that she would protect them.

Little Whale led the six away from a battlefield without a destination until they chose to explore Calamity Castle, a notorious amusement planet’s sole surviving structure. Little Whale described its deadly history, and Kou Ying questioned why it would be safe for them to enter.

• The six watched the opposing forces resume their battle after deciding not to pursue them.
• Ye Buyu asked Little Whale where she was taking them, and Little Whale admitted she had no destination in mind.
• Su Wuwei said they should explore the world firsthand, and Ye Buyu agreed to avoid the Salvation Hall of Fame for now.
• Little Whale proposed visiting Calamity Castle, describing it as a former amusement planet reduced to one enormous castle that welcomed visitors.
• Little Whale explained that fortune seekers, refugees, and Calamities had repeatedly died while exploring or trying to claim the castle.
• Kou Ying asked why the six should consider a place with such a deadly reputation safe.