Chapter Summaries

Ye Buyu and her companions learned that Zhao Zhe and the White Tiger Division had arrived, and that their people were spread across the Primordial Beginning Tower, Judgment, and the Salvation Hall of Fame. They agreed that the End of the World would partner with the Primordial Beginning Tower and set their immediate priority on getting stronger.

• Lou Guanshan remarked that the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road’s shroud had lifted just after they escaped, and Kou Ying asked who from the Present World had come looking for them.
• Suiyang explained that Zhao Zhe had arrived with the White Tiger Division and that, as a Blueprint Drafter, he was responsible for the End of the World’s affairs.
• Ling Wei described how Blueprint Drafters and their Blueprint Guards served civilizations, while Little Whale corrected her and said the End of the World would partner with the Primordial Beginning Tower rather than join it.
• Little Whale told Kou Ying that [Those Without a Home], Little White, Blue Sea, [Streetlamp], and [Trickery] had gone to Judgment, and Kou Ying said he would visit them.
• Ye Buyu concluded that the group needed to get stronger, and Su Wuwei joked that they might as well dream of becoming gods.

After learning who had been present at Calamity Castle, Suiyang reluctantly agreed to join the Salvation Hall of Fame rather than risk being dragged into battles by Ye Buyu. Little Whale warned Suiyang to stay on Ye Buyu’s good side as the group prepared to continue toward the Primordial Beginning Tower.

• Ye Buyu reminded Suiyang that she had bound it with a Contract, stopping its laughter.
• Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, and Kou Ying trained while Little Whale gave the Six materials collected from defeated Calamities.
• Little Whale asked Qi Qingyu whether Ku Rong had planned the events at Calamity Castle, and Qi Qingyu explained that he had joined on a whim after learning they were there.
• Clown told Little Whale that the People of Judgment, the Primordial Beginning Tower, the Black Plague, and the Lost Legion had all sent people to the castle.
• Suiyang agreed to join the Salvation Hall of Fame, and Little Whale advised it to avoid offending Ye Buyu and to give her gifts.

The group reached Primordial Beginning Tower after escaping the Withered Glory Theatre, and Chen Ze welcomed them aboard a Cloud Platform. On the way inside, Ye Buyu and the others revealed that they had used divine power to destroy Calamity Castle and kill [Dead Skeleton].

• Little Whale warned Suiyang that Ye Buyu attracted trouble and suggested that giving her materials could keep some of it at bay.
• Three days later, Ye Buyu and the others arrived at Primordial Beginning Tower with Ling Wei and Qiu An.
• Ling Wei thanked the Deity for protecting her, while the Six marveled at the tower and its dangerous magnetic-storm defenses.
• Ling Wei requested entry, and Chen Ze arrived on a Cloud Platform to bring the group inside; the Withered Glory Theatre performers stayed behind.
• Chen Ze asked whether Ye Buyu and the others had learned Calamity Castle's Secret of Godhood, and Su Wuwei said they had used divine power to blow up the castle.
• Mu Bingge explained that the divine power had recognized them, allowing them to work with Calamity Castle and kill [Dead Skeleton].

Chen Ze learned that Hold Up the Heavens had defeated a level thirteen Calamity, then welcomed the six home. Ling Wei and Qiu An reported to Xiang Mingyang, who began to suspect that Hold Up the Heavens and the Withered Glory Theatre were connected to something significant.

• Mu Bingge told Chen Ze that [Dead Skeleton] had been level thirteen and that its divine power vanished when Calamity Castle fell apart.
• Chen Ze was shocked to learn the six had fought a level thirteen, and they explained that their dangerous journey had forced them into battles despite being only seventh tier.
• Chen Ze welcomed the six with a meal, while Ling Wei and Qiu An went to report to Xiang Mingyang.
• Ling Wei and Qiu An described Hold Up the Heavens as daring, fearless, and only seventh tier, and explained its links to the Withered Glory Theatre and the Salvation Hall of Fame.
• Ling Wei revealed that the Tenth Seat would explore a place connected to [Life] with the six, and Qiu An suggested they seemed to outrank the Tenth Seat.

Ye Buyu and the other Navigators discussed their relationship with the Primordial Beginning Tower and decided they should remain independent partners rather than join an organization. They met Xu Chen, the tower administrator responsible for liaising with the End of the World, and Suiyang revealed their standing in the Salvation Hall of Fame.

• The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members ate together while Zhao Zhe explained that the Primordial Beginning Tower had mixed opinions about the Navigators and that some people wanted access to the End of the World.
• Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge decided the Navigators should not join any faction, since their ties to the Salvation Hall of Fame, Judgment, and the Void Order made partnership a better choice.
• Zhao Zhe arranged a meeting with Xu Chen, and Ye Buyu agreed to discuss their position with him.
• Xu Chen arrived and was introduced to the six Navigators, then asked about Suiyang.
• Suiyang introduced themself as the Salvation Hall of Fame Tenth Seat, [Seedling Eater], and told the others to continue their discussion.

Xu Chen explained the Primordial Beginning Tower’s internal conflicts and admitted that some members used the End of the World as a means to gain power. Ye Buyu rejected joining the tower, warning that its ideals had been hollowed out by mistrust and hierarchy.

• Xu Chen admitted that some in the Primordial Beginning Tower had made Zhao Zhe a Blueprint Drafter to gain influence over the End of the World.
• Xu Chen described the tower’s conflicts between civilizations and said proposals to develop the End of the World had been rejected.
• Ye Buyu told Xu Chen that the End of the World would not join the Primordial Beginning Tower and questioned whether its members still believed in its founding goal.
• Xu Chen acknowledged that some members used the tower’s ideals as an excuse to protect their power and interests.
• Ye Buyu concluded that the tower’s greatest danger was internal distrust and suggested this explained why the Salvation Hall of Fame did not expand.

Xu Chen asked Ye Buyu and the End of the World to help the Primordial Beginning Tower purge its internal threats by spreading false news that the End of the World had joined and opened its passage. Ye Buyu agreed to cooperate, delegated the announcement to Wan Lan, and the group headed off to rest.

• Xu Chen explained that the Primordial Beginning Tower needed to eradicate its internal threats and asked the End of the World to help.
• Ye Buyu and her companions agreed to cooperate on the condition that they would not be put in danger.
• Xu Chen asked them to announce that the End of the World had joined the tower and would open its passage, drawing its enemies into a trap.
• Ye Buyu assigned Wan Lan to make the announcement, while Su Wuwei hoped to photograph the scene.
• Ye Buyu went to her room to sleep as Zhao Zhe bickered with the others, and Little Wan asked Suiyang to turn into something she could cuddle.

Xu Chen explained that the End of the World’s use of the Universal Encrypted Language and Script challenged the Primordial Beginning Tower’s theories about its origins. At the announcement, Wan Lan declared the End of the World’s admission in one sentence and left the crowd wanting more.

• Xu Chen told his guide that the End of the World’s language and script made its civilization crucial to investigating the origins of the Universal Encrypted Language and Script.
• A guide from the Primordial Beginning Tower came to Ye Buyu’s room and insisted she attend the announcement, so she got dressed and went with them.
• At the venue, Xu Chen introduced the End of the World’s representatives and invited them to announce their decision.
• Wan Lan announced that the End of the World was joining the Primordial Beginning Tower and would open a passage for visitors.
• Wan Lan started to leave, then described her civilization as “Splendid, glorious, great” when someone demanded an introduction.

After rumors twisted the End of the World's invitation into a challenge for control of the Primordial Beginning Tower, Ye Buyu prepared to draw in those spreading the rumors. Lou Guanshan brought the invited guests to meet the group, including a hesitant Blueprint Drafter and Xiang Mingyang.

• Wan Lan's announcement that the End of the World welcomed visitors was distorted into rumors that they planned to challenge the Primordial Beginning Tower's leaders.
• Ye Buyu and her companions discussed the rumors and invitations, and Ye Buyu revealed that she had sent invitations using both her identities to bait the rumor spreaders.
• Suiyang returned with materials for the group, while Wan Lan cultivated and the others divided the supplies.
• Lou Guanshan arrived with the invited guests and explained that he had carried in a hesitant Blueprint Drafter after the man delayed his decision.
• Xiang Mingyang entered, and Yan Yan hurriedly welcomed the guests despite Xiang Mingyang calling him timid.

Ye Buyu and the others met with Blueprint Drafters from the Primordial Beginning Tower, trading questions about their invitations and the group’s past exploits. Suiyang revealed that the Six would represent the Salvation Hall of Fame in the expedition to explore the [Life] miracle.

• Hang Jiuwang challenged Ye Buyu and the others about refusing the Blueprint Drafters’ invitations and asked whether they would join the upcoming operation.
• Ye Buyu said they had avoided the invitations because they feared being drawn into the Primordial Beginning Tower’s factional struggles, while Banyi and Xiang Mingyang explained their own reasons for inviting them.
• Ye Buyu, Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Mu Bingge, and Lou Guanshan acted timid and downplayed their role in Calamity Castle’s destruction and their titles at the Withered Glory Theatre.
• Suiyang announced that the Six would represent the Salvation Hall of Fame in the expedition to explore the [Life] miracle.
• When Hang Jiuwang asked why the Salvation Hall of Fame would not enter the expedition itself, Suiyang mocked him and said the Primordial Beginning Tower would not accept their direct involvement.

The Blueprint Drafters discussed their factions and the dangers of opening a passage with Ye Buyu and the others, while Banyi sought to learn about their homeland. After the meeting, Yan Yan revealed that he represented the remnant Dustgrass Civilization and asked them to hear his request.

• Banyi gave the group information about [Life], while Hang Jiuwang and Xiang Mingyang warned them against opening a passage and left.
• Banyi explained the differing approaches of Hang Jiuwang, Xiang Mingyang, and her own civilization, Qian Gu Bell.
• Mu Bingge described the Third Zone and its Calamity domains, leaving Banyi disappointed and suspicious.
• After the other Blueprint Drafters departed, Yan Yan told the group he suspected they had been playing the others and offered to share what he knew.
• Yan Yan said he represented only the Dustgrass Civilization and asked the group for a favor, which Lou Guanshan agreed to hear.

Yan Yan asked Hold Up the Heavens to help him meet the King of Withering and Flourishing, and Ye Buyu agreed to contact him after the [Life] miracle exploration. After learning that the Primordial Beginning Tower’s foundations contained a Throne of God, Ye Buyu and her teammates went to see it, but touching its barrier sucked all six of them inside.

• Yan Yan asked to meet the King of Withering and Flourishing, and Ye Buyu agreed to help after the [Life] miracle exploration while considering him a potential informant.
• Yan Yan explained that he had recognized Hold Up the Heavens as the group behind the invitation by watching the others’ glances and reading the Withered Glory Theatre’s script.
• Kou Ying revealed that Elder Xu had arranged the gathering, and Xu Chen said he had found leads he would expose at the site of the [Life] miracle.
• Xu Chen told Ye Buyu and her teammates that the Primordial Beginning Tower’s inaccessible foundations were a Deity’s Throne of God open to visitors.
• Ye Buyu and her teammates visited the Throne of God, where Kou Ying’s probing pen slipped and Lou Guanshan accidentally touched the transparent membrane.
• The membrane pulled Lou Guanshan inside, and Ye Buyu and the other four teammates were dragged in while trying to save him.

The six were pulled into a shifting space, where they found a mysterious number, a key, and six rainbow-colored flowers. As the flowers flooded them with energy, they began absorbing it and advancing toward the eighth tier.

• The shifting space formed a spiral staircase, and Lou Guanshan led the group up it.
• Ye Buyu and the others found the number 153469 and a key beneath a mysterious curtain; the curtain and pillars vanished, leaving six rainbow-colored flowers.
• Wan Lan, Ye Buyu, and the others absorbed the flowers' overwhelming energy, which also repaired their injuries and flowed toward Ye Buyu.
• Ye Buyu used the energy to push toward breaking through the seventh-tier barrier into the eighth tier.
• Mu Bingge, Kou Ying, and Wan Lan showed signs of their auras advancing as they absorbed the energy.

Ye Buyu broke through the seventh tier inside the Throne of God, causing the Primordial Beginning Tower to shake and eject her team. The Six landed on the administrators’ restricted rooftop, where they admitted their breakthrough had caused the disturbance.

• Lou Guanshan, Su Wuwei, and Wan Lan noticed Ye Buyu absorbing the energy released by their advancement as she continued her breakthrough.
• Ye Buyu broke through her barrier, and the Throne of God began to tremble and push the team out.
• Ye Buyu and her teammates emerged through a transparent membrane near the top of the Primordial Beginning Tower and grabbed onto pillars to avoid falling.
• The Six encountered Xu Chen and the tower administrators, who demanded to know how they had entered the restricted rooftop and where they had been during the shaking.
• Wan Lan explained that the Throne of God had absorbed them, given them energy that helped them advance, and then thrown them out; Lou Guanshan admitted that they had caused the tower to shake.

After the Six emerged from the Throne of God and caused the Primordial Beginning Tower’s first-ever tremor, Ye Buyu persuaded the Administrators to conceal what happened and impose Speech Censorship. The Administrators accepted the plan and recognized that they needed to keep the Six from the End of the World on their side to learn how they entered.

• The Administrators questioned the Six, who said they had been sucked into the Throne of God, found only chaos, absorbed some divine power, and were thrown back out by a tremor.
• Su Wuwei assured the Administrators that the Six had taken nothing unrelated to them, and the Administrators called in people from the End of the World to assess what happened.
• Zhao Zhe explained that the Primordial Beginning Tower had never shaken before and warned that failing to give everyone a reasonable explanation could cause unrest.
• Ye Buyu argued that revealing the Throne of God could invite factional conflict and a Calamity invasion, then urged the Administrators to cover up the event as an experiment.
• Mu Bingge proposed several layers of Speech Censorship to keep the secret from spreading, and the Administrators approved the measure.
• The Six left with Zhao Zhe and the others, while Xu Chen concluded that the Administrators should avoid alienating them because they might be the only way to learn how to enter the Throne of God.

After learning that Hold Up the Heavens had reached the eighth tier, Ye Buyu feared that her next advancement would bring another dangerous upheaval. As the departure for the [Life] region moved up and a cryptic bookmark hinted that the Salvation Hall of Fame’s First Two Seats knew the deities, she began to suspect the region was tied to the mysteries surrounding the Primordial Beginning Tower.

• Chen Ze told Zhao Zhe that Hold Up the Heavens had reached the eighth tier, leaving Zhao Zhe and the White Tiger Division anxious about the dangers ahead.
• Ye Buyu worried that advancing to the eighth tier would provoke another crisis, while Wan Lan and Kou Ying teased her about her bad luck.
• Yan Yan warned Ye Buyu that Banyi and other Blueprint Drafters were watching her, and that the departure for the [Life] region had been moved up.
• Ye Buyu asked Suiyang for information about [Life] and learned that the deity had once restored planets and saved lives before the Twilight of the Gods.
• Ye Buyu found a bookmark suggesting the Salvation Hall of Fame’s First Two Seats knew who the deities were, and suspected the [Life] region was connected to the Primordial Beginning Tower’s mysteries.

Ye Buyu and her companions reached the [Life] miracle region, where a shifting maze of numbered doors guarded a shattered planet. Kou Ying noticed the doors’ numbers, and the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members seemed to recognize the answer to the mystery.

• Ye Buyu reunited with Little Wan, and three days later she and her companions left the Primordial Beginning Tower’s expedition to travel with the Withered Glory Theatre.
• Wind-Thunder, Blue Sea, and Little White set out from Judgment to deliver something to Kou Ying, while Little White revealed that Judgment had sent them to establish a portal for Those Without a Home.
• Calamities gathered along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road as Ye Buyu and her group reached the [Life] region and saw a lifeless half-planet surrounded by flourishing land.
• Suiyang revealed the maze’s true form by tossing a seed into the region, causing continental plates and enormous doorways to rise.
• Several calamities entered the maze and died, and Suiyang explained that the shifting doors had thwarted even powerful factions’ attempts to find a route through.
• Kou Ying noticed that the doors were numbered, and the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members seemed to recognize what the numbers meant.

Ye Buyu and the others slipped through the doors by disguising their entry as accidental knockback, then followed the code through the maze to the Dead Star’s core. There they discovered a blade driven into the planet.

• Hang Jiuwang and the factions began attacking the ten doors, and Ye Buyu’s group joined the assault while Hold Up the Heavens stayed back.
• Ye Buyu rammed into a Calamity and used the resulting blast to get herself through door one; Su Wuwei and the others followed.
• Ye Buyu’s group followed the code sequence through the identical doors until door nine revealed a jungle, a barren road, and a Dead Star above shattered land.
• Lou Guanshan led the group up the suspended land fragments toward the Dead Star’s core.
• Ye Buyu and Su Wuwei realized that the rocky spike inside the planet was a blade driven into it.

Lou Guanshan used the key on the ground, summoning a giant key that restored the shattered Dead Star and revealed the six companions atop it. The arriving factions recognized the spectacle, and Yan Yan confirmed to himself that the silhouettes were the six who had entered ahead of them.

• Su Wuwei identified the Dead Star as a scabbard sealing a Divine Artifact, and Ye Buyu urged the group to act before the pursuers arrived.
• Lou Guanshan followed his intuition and slammed the key into the ground, causing a pillar of light and a giant key to descend from above.
• Ye Buyu climbed onto the falling key and called the others up as the resulting storm swept through the maze and engulfed the approaching factions.
• The giant key struck the ground, reassembled the Dead Star, and revealed six silhouettes atop the key beneath the planet.
• Qian Tu wondered whether the six figures were intruders or remnants left by [Life], while Yin Li suspected they were familiar.
• Yan Yan quietly asked Chen Ze if the silhouettes were the six companions, and Chen Ze's reaction confirmed his guess.

Ye Buyu and the others entered the Dead Star to investigate its core, while Suiyang and other faction leaders gathered outside and argued over their aims and strength. The chapter ended with Zhan Tu challenging Suiyang by invoking his past fight with Cangyuan.

• Ye Buyu and the other five entered the Dead Star, where its space scattered them, and Ye Buyu told them to regroup underground and head for the core.
• Suiyang, Little Whale, and Little Wan stayed on the Key to watch the other factions as their members entered the planet.
• Qian Tu sent her people inside while Ji Wangsheng arrived and prayed for life to endure and defilement to die.
• Zhan Tu arrived and traded accusations with Ji Wangsheng over the killings committed by the Lost Legion and Black Plague.
• Qian Tu warned Ji Wangsheng that Black Plague would never obtain the godhood it sought, then Suiyang criticized the factions for talking instead of fighting.
• Zhan Tu dismissed Suiyang as the weakest Salvation Hall of Fame seat and challenged him, recalling his fight with Cangyuan.