Chapter Summaries

Ye Buyu and the others watched the factions gathered at the Ancient Castle and asked Little Whale to explain their origins and strength. The chapter left them better informed about the powers surrounding them, including the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty, the Lost Legion, Black Plague, and Rift.

• Qian Tu stopped attacking after the Ancient Castle's host intervened, while many onlookers fled in fear of the powerful figure.
• Ye Buyu and the six mushrooms watched from a private space and decided to bring Little Wan and the others into their group chat for information.
• Little Whale identified the arrogant Third Princess as Qian Tu, the third ruler of the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty, and warned the group about her strength.
• Little Whale explained that Shiying belonged to the Lost Legion and described its rivalry with Black Plague and Rift.
• Little Whale said Rift might be investigating the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road and revealed that the faction had once hunted [Annihilation], the Calamity behind the Sun's destruction.

Little Whale explained the gods, the Primordial Beginning Tower, and Judgment while the six mushrooms watched performers battle at the gathering. When humanoid NPCs launched the second half’s slaughter, Lou Guanshan triggered Building Punishment, adding chaos to the melee.

• Little Whale told Wan Lan and the others that gods existed, the Primordial Beginning Tower sought to restore civilization, and Judgment hunted Calamities.
• A mural revealed that humanoid NPCs would appear in the gathering’s second half, and Hongyan, Xiaoqing, the Float Knight, and other NPCs entered to attack the performers.
• Ling Wei and Qiu An fought back-to-back, then used Qiu An’s Identity Card to locate an escape route from the hall.
• Ye Buyu and Lou Guanshan decided to stir up trouble, and Lou Guanshan activated Building Punishment.
• The Ancient Castle shook, and a performer recognized the disturbance as Building Punishment.

Qian Tu confronted the six Golden Identity Card holders after their accumulated punishments caused chaos, then invited them to talk when she could no longer act. When she asked for their names, Ye Buyu and the others refused, leaving everyone furious and still ignorant of their identities.

• The six's accumulated building punishments unleashed attacks across the hall, and Qian Tu dodged the Float Knight while accusing it of being used to exhaust her ability to act.
• Qian Tu knocked the Float Knight unconscious, announced she could not act for three hours, and called for the six to come out and talk.
• The six returned to human form, and Ye Buyu and Lou Guanshan greeted the people watching from the hall.
• Qian Tu offered the six chairs and asked them to give their names, drawing the attention of people throughout the castle and beyond.
• Ye Buyu refused to reveal their names, and Wan Lan argued with Yin Li as the crowd complained.
• Su Wuwei and Kou Ying defended the six's refusal, saying they would not follow the powerful people's rules just because they were asked.

Ye Buyu and her companions turned the Lost Legion’s attack against them, killing Shiying in the Ancient Castle. Mu Bingge then changed the other performers’ identities to the Evil Faction, and Su Wuwei set their Calamity Power ablaze.

• Shiying, Yin Li, and Fishman attacked Ye Buyu’s companions, knocking them across the hall while Shiying closed in on Ye Buyu.
• Ye Buyu seized Shiying, used her ability to force him to his knees, and fired toward her companions to bring them back into the fight.
• Lou Guanshan, Mu Bingge, Kou Ying, and Su Wuwei attacked Shiying as Ye Buyu kept him restrained, killing him after his Resurrection Card took effect.
• Wan Lan blocked the Lost Legion members from rescuing Shiying while Ye Buyu’s companions challenged the survivors.
• Mu Bingge used her Goddess Identity Card to change everyone else’s identity to the Evil Faction, and Su Wuwei’s Golden Flames began burning away their Calamity Power.

Ye Buyu and her companions cleared the field by attacking the Calamities at the Performance Party, while Qian Tu questioned their motives and revealed why she had wanted to kill Ye Buyu. The battle continued as Qian Tu’s curiosity replaced her immediate killing intent.

• Weier of the Rift withdrew her team and hid in a corner, while some other guests stayed to watch for an opportunity.
• Ye Buyu used her control ability again, and Mu Bingge and Wan Lan joined the attack with Water Swords and Wind Blades.
• Qian Tu studied Ye Buyu’s abilities and decided she wanted to take her to the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty after the party.
• Ye Buyu explained that the group had come to broaden their horizons and judged the Calamities there weaker than ones they had faced before.
• Qian Tu admitted she had first wanted to kill Ye Buyu for her Golden Identity Card and later for embarrassing her, but now only felt curious about her.
• Ye Buyu said the group was clearing the field because they were angry.

Ye Buyu and the Six rejected the Killing Party’s slaughter and destroyed the Ancient Castle’s Popularity Pillars and Identity Cards. They escaped after blowing up the Stage, leaving the castle engulfed in flames.

• Ye Buyu confronted Qian Tu about treating slaughter as entertainment and declared that the Six quit being Leading Actors.
• Ye Buyu smashed a Popularity Pillar, and the Ancient Castle began to collapse as the Six destroyed its energy structures.
• Lou Guanshan, Mu Bingge, Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, and Kou Ying used their abilities and Golden Identity Cards to blind the NPCs and blast open the castle entrance.
• Ye Buyu shot the hidden materials, triggering an explosion, and the Six fled as a pillar of fire consumed the Ancient Castle.

After six Seventh Tier players fled the Ancient Castle and destroyed the Golden Identity Cards, Clown revealed the castle’s true, ruined form and opened its past. The six found themselves in an unfamiliar version of the Amusement Park, where Mu Bingge recognized the bumper car area but the group could no longer understand the local language.

• The spectators watched the Ancient Castle’s exit explode as the six players escaped, and Yin Li asked Clown what would happen to the game.
• Qian Tu praised the six for rejecting the slaughter game, while Clown declared the Performance Party over and began revealing the Ancient Castle’s true appearance.
• Clown vanished after announcing that the secret of godhood lay in the castle’s past, and Float Knight said the six had accidentally obtained the real key by destroying the Golden Identity Cards.
• The NPCs and Amusement Park owners disappeared, and unfamiliar figures appeared as the six explored the transformed park.
• Kou Ying was pulled away from a falling sign, and the group realized they could not read the writing or understand an illusory figure.
• Mu Bingge examined the writing and identified the area as the bumper car section.

Ye Buyu and the others encountered the trapped inhabitants of Laughing Castle, where visitors repeatedly beheaded the attraction manager. After they intervened and set the amusement park ablaze, its manager was freed to enter a music box and sleep, while the Float Knight remained behind awaiting Dawn.

• Mu Bingge obtained a translation Terminal, and Kou Ying programmed automatic translation so the group could understand Laughing Castle's inhabitants.
• As the six tried to leave, the bumper car attraction manager's head repeatedly flew into their path, and he asked them to stop the visitors from killing him.
• The manager explained that a Starfield Windstorm had left Laughing Castle isolated and that he had been killed more than four thousand five hundred times.
• The Float Knight arrived and offered to deal with the troublemaking visitors, but Ye Buyu recognized him as a changed version of the murderous figure they had encountered before.
• Wan Lan used Ten Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart to rescue the manager and the Float Knight, and Su Wuwei set the amusement park on fire.
• The manager explained that the amusement park was his body and that damaging it let him enter the music box and sleep; his head then dissipated as he wished the Float Knight strength until Dawn came.

The Float Knight told Mu Bingge and the others that the Amusement Park’s residents survived a catastrophe by merging with a crystal, but the six rejected his offer of a divine gift. As they left, he sent them deeper into an earlier time with a badge, leaving them to decide whether to save or destroy something.

• The Float Knight explained that the nearby star domains had been destroyed and that the Amusement Park’s residents had merged with a crystal to survive, becoming bound to the park and the Ancient Castle.
• The Float Knight revealed that he had shared the secret to lure the six into asking about the crystal, but Ye Buyu and the others refused to seek its divine gift.
• The Float Knight asked whether they would accept eternal imprisonment in exchange for survival, and the six said they only wanted to leave the Amusement Park.
• As the six walked away, the Float Knight threw them a badge and told them to go deeper into an earlier time, where they could choose to save or destroy something.
• The badge twisted space and transported the six away, while the Float Knight hoped his gamble had been right.

Ye Buyu and the others entered a layer where they reenacted the Float Knight’s parade, only to witness the amusement park’s destruction and the Crystal’s arrival. Qian Tu, Yin Li, and Shiying recognized the Crystal as the Power of God hidden in Calamity Castle.

• Qian Tu, Yin Li, Shiying, the Twins, the Fishman, and the Socially Anxious Person entered a deeper layer by their own means.
• Ye Buyu and the others landed in an amusement park, where staff treated Ye Buyu as the Float Knight and urged her to lead the parade.
• Ye Buyu drove the flower-covered Carriage through cheering crowds while she and the others wondered what they had been brought there to witness.
• Scarlet meteors struck the amusement park, its defenses failed, and a falling star corpse crushed the park into ruins.
• A translucent Crystal appeared and lifted the collapsing buildings, and Qian Tu identified it as the Power of God hidden in Calamity Castle.
• Yin Li and Shiying declared that they had finally found the Power of God.

Ye Buyu and the others controlled the Amusement Park’s assembled giant as it fought a newborn Calamity, while the park’s people faced a choice between resisting and becoming Calamities. Lou Guanshan, Wan Lan, and Kou Ying stopped those who wanted to surrender, leaving the group preparing to fight.

• The crystal merged with the music box, and the Amusement Park’s buildings assembled into a giant that pushed away the falling planetary wreckage.
• A newborn Calamity attacked the giant, and Ye Buyu and her five companions counterattacked.
• The Calamity offered to spare the park’s people if they became like it and handed over the crystal.
• Ling Wei and Qiu An warned the people not to accept, but Sishou was pressured to fetch the crystal for the Calamity.
• Lou Guanshan stopped Sishou, Wan Lan drove off a would-be surrenderer, and Kou Ying tied up four people who wanted to become Calamities.

Su Wuwei, Ye Buyu, and the others refused to become Calamities and used the Amusement Park’s assembled body to fight the newly born Calamity while Qian Tu and Yin Li tried to get the crystal. In the present, a distant Calamity felt the power of time and recalled that the crystal had once been merged into the Ancient Castle to drive it away.

• Su Wuwei rejected Qian Tu’s claim that the past could not be changed, while Ye Buyu ordered people who wanted to become Calamities thrown out.
• The Amusement Park’s assembled body attacked the giant Calamity and quickly gained the upper hand.
• Qian Tu and Yin Li demanded that Sishou hand over the crystal, but he said it had chosen Ye Buyu and the others and that he did not know where it was.
• The Six ignored Yin Li’s taunts and continued fighting, refusing to become Calamities.
• In the present, a distant Calamity was wounded and sensed the power of time near the sealed Ancient Castle, recalling the crystal’s role in driving it away.

Ye Buyu and the others relived the decisive moment in Calamity Castle, where Sishou’s Crystal could let them escape or restore the castle for another battle. After they wounded the Calamity in the past, the group returned to the present, and Ye Buyu questioned why the choice concerned them.

• Little Whale and Little Wan searched for Ye Buyu’s group as a wounded Calamity approached.
• Shiying attacked Ye Buyu and the others, while Sishou activated the Crystal and warped the world into it.
• Ye Buyu struck the Calamity, and the journey ended, returning the vanished NPCs to the Music Box.
• The Calamity attacked the Amusement Park, but Ye Buyu and her group reappeared and its severed head fell again.
• Sishou offered the Crystal, explaining that the group could leave or activate the Music Box to restore Calamity Castle for battle.
• Ye Buyu asked what the choice had to do with her group.

Ye Buyu and her companions rejected the Crystal and chose to fight the wounded [Dead Skeleton], while Mu Bingge destroyed the Crystal and the Amusement Park began assembling itself. The former Guards agreed to fight alongside them, and [Dead Skeleton] attacked the rising park as it vowed to destroy Calamity Castle and kill them all.

• The Guard explained that the Crystal had too little power left to create another Amusement Park, so Ye Buyu chose to kill the Calamity instead of taking it.
• Su Wuwei, Lou Guanshan, Wan Lan, and Kou Ying agreed that fighting the weakened enemy was their best chance.
• Mu Bingge crushed the Crystal, causing the ground and buildings to rise as the Amusement Park began reassembling.
• The Clown and the other former Guards agreed to fight alongside Ye Buyu's group, while Yin Li and the other expelled Tourists watched from outside.
• Qian Tu identified the wounded Calamity as [Dead Skeleton], and Little Wan and Little Whale wondered whether Ye Buyu's group had injured it.
• [Dead Skeleton] tried to smash the rising amusement rides and vowed to destroy Calamity Castle and kill its former residents.

Ye Buyu and the others fought Dead Skeleton in the starfield, using the [Time] crystal and the revived Amusement Park to overcome the level thirteen calamity. Dead Skeleton died in a final clash, while the Amusement Park and part of its divine power disappeared.

• Ye Buyu and the others used the assembled Amusement Park body to battle Dead Skeleton, whose attacks left both sides battered.
• Dead Skeleton questioned why it had to die, and Mu Bingge and Sishou accused it of devouring the starfield’s inhabitants.
• Dead Skeleton charged at the remains of the Amusement Park in a final attack, and the Amusement Park Masters charged toward its maw as Little Whale rescued Ye Buyu and the others.
• The Amusement Park body and Dead Skeleton exploded into ash, ending the battle and costing the group a castle and part of the divine power.

After defeating Dead Skeleton, Ye Buyu and the others mourned their lost limited-time accounts before Mu Bingge discovered a Music Box containing survivors and a script from Ku Rong. The script retold their victory across the star region, where Hold Up the Heavens became known to everyone, and the Music Box played its peaceful melody once more.

• Little Whale scolded Ye Buyu and the others for destroying the Ancient Castle and killing the Level Thirteen Dead Skeleton, then worried about where to take them next.
• Su Wuwei spotted a Music Box in Mu Bingge's hands, and Clown appeared from inside it.
• Clown explained that Float Knight had died, Hongyan and Xiaoqing had left, and that he and Sishou survived because of divine power and Ku Rong's script.
• Ye Buyu received the script, and the Withered Glory Theatre appeared to present the story of the Music Box and Hold Up the Heavens.
• Qi Qingyu revealed six cards bearing the members' names, while the Music Box played and Hold Up the Heavens' name spread throughout the star region.

The Withered Glory Theatre revealed Hold Up the Heavens’ identities to the world, leaving the Six furious at Ku Rong for exposing them. After Qi Qingyu shut off the projection, they beat Narrator Five, and Qian Tu approached Ye Buyu and said she would remember their name.

• The Six discovered their identities had been revealed on the Theatre’s projection and blamed Ku Rong, who had returned to the Salvation Hall of Fame.
• Narrator Five tried to keep the projection running and reached into his coat, but Kou Ying, Su Wuwei, Lou Guanshan, and Mu Bingge attacked him.
• Qi Qingyu agreed to turn off the projection after Ye Buyu demanded it, then thanked the Star Domains and introduced Hold Up the Heavens before the screen went dark.
• Ye Buyu crushed the Purification Light Wheel, and the Six beat Narrator Five for exposing them and making them part of a spectacle.
• Qian Tu approached Ye Buyu, praised Hold Up the Heavens as an interesting name, and said she would remember it; Ye Buyu asked her to forget their names.

Ye Buyu provoked Shiying and Yin Li into attacking, but Little Whale swallowed them and Suiyang spat them back out. Suiyang then joined Ye Buyu’s group, revealing it had been sent to deal with trouble because of her, while Little Whale and Little Wan could not act openly.

• Qian Tu explained that curses tied to a person's name no longer worked because [Fate] had departed.
• Ye Buyu mocked Shiying and Yin Li until they attacked her with crystal and virus-laden black fog.
• Ye Buyu used Little Whale as a shield, and Little Whale swallowed Shiying and Yin Li before Suiyang ordered them to leave.
• Suiyang cheered on the group beating Narrator, then recognized Ye Buyu and complained about the hardships she had caused it.
• Suiyang told Ye Buyu that it had been sent to handle trouble and noted that Little Whale and Little Wan could not act openly.

The Seedling Eater declared that the Salvation Hall of Fame would retrieve the ending and take the people from Hold Up the Heavens, forcing the other factions to withdraw. Before leaving with Suiyang and the others, Ye Buyu arranged for Qian Tu to contact Ku Rong, while Qi Qingyu asked Mu Bingge what she thought Gods were.

• Suiyang announced that the Salvation Hall of Fame had come to retrieve the ending under its agreement with Calamity Castle, and Qian Tu decided not to challenge its claim.
• Suiyang told Yin Li that the major factions had been invited to explore a Star Domain connected to [Life], and Yin Li left to report the news to Black Plague.
• Shiying and the Lost Legion departed, while the people from Rift had already slipped away.
• Ye Buyu offered Qian Tu Ku Rong's contact information, exchanged contact details with her, and shared his information.
• Suiyang led Ye Buyu and the others into the Withered Glory Theatre, which disappeared in transparent mist.
• Qi Qingyu asked Mu Bingge what Gods were, and Mu Bingge described them as somewhat more powerful life-forms.

Mu Bingge said some of [Time]'s power had merged with her body, and the group set out for the Primordial Beginning Tower to discuss cooperation over the area where traces of [Life] had appeared. Ling Wei explained the Primordial Beginning Tower's dispute with Black Plague, while Wan Lan noted the area had emerged shortly before their journey to Calamity Castle.

• Mu Bingge told Ye Buyu and the others that some of [Time]'s power had merged with her body, then gave Qi Qingyu the powerless Music Box to safeguard with other remnants of civilizations.
• Suiyang said the group should return to the Primordial Beginning Tower, where people from the Present World were gathering, and discuss their next journey.
• Suiyang pointed out that Ling Wei and Qiu An could explain the invitation, and said the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members were the ones cooperating with the Primordial Beginning Tower.
• Ling Wei explained that the Primordial Beginning Tower had discovered the area containing traces of [Life] before the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road's shroud disappeared, but Black Plague had moved in to claim territory.
• Ling Wei said the area had appeared a few days before the group reached Calamity Castle, and Wan Lan remarked that the timing was curious.