Chapter Summaries

Kou Ying and the Hold Up the Heavens crew staged an attack on the Primordial Beginning Tower under the Rift’s name, while broadcasting the spectacle to the Present World. The act drew two tenth-tier powerhouses into the confrontation, leaving the crew at risk of being attacked by their supposed allies.

• Kou Ying announced that Evergreen of the Rift had come to wage war on the Primordial Beginning Tower, shocking Lan Huaiyu, Slyder, and the others.
• Kou Ying opened a channel to Horizon, accidentally broadcasting the battle to the Doomsday Tower and alarming the Present World.
• Ye Buyu, Su Wuwei, Mu Bingge, and Wan Lan discussed their undercover alliance and planned to deal with the watching Calamities.
• Wu Dan and another tenth-tier powerhouse appeared before the Primordial Beginning Tower, and Wu Dan challenged the Lord of the Rift over his attack.
• Lou Guanshan claimed Li Yong’s death demanded vengeance, while Ye Buyu warned the crew not to provoke their allies into attacking.

Hold Up the Heavens and the Rift joined forces to draw the other Calamity factions’ attention, while Lan Huaiyu and Wu Dan learned the truth and prepared the Primordial Beginning Tower to play along. The factions withdrew to watch the coming battle, leaving the uneasy alliance to stage a convincing fight.

• Lou Guanshan demanded that Hold Up the Heavens fight, and Lan Huaiyu urged both sides to clear away the surrounding Calamities first.
• Ye Buyu activated the flagship’s weapons, and Lou Guanshan threatened the other factions as the Rift attacked the Calamities watching nearby.
• The other Calamity factions retreated to observe from a distance, while Hold Up the Heavens asked Kou Ying to create effects that would conceal their plan.
• Su Wuwei produced blinding light instead of the intended special effects, then clashed with Lan Huaiyu and told her that Hold Up the Heavens had allied with the Rift to draw attention.
• Lan Huaiyu secretly informed Wu Dan that only six members of Hold Up the Heavens were aboard and asked the Primordial Beginning Tower to put on a convincing fight.

Wu Dan confronted Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge’s group while everyone mistook their staged encounter for a real clash with the Rift. As the onlookers recorded the spectacle and prepared for the danger they believed was coming, the performance continued with Wu Dan testing the supposed vanguard.

• Wu Dan warned Zong Jin that Evergreen might not be the Rift and asked him to cover her while she approached the newcomers.
• Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge unleashed a spectacular display of power as they flew out of the Flagship to meet Wu Dan.
• Ye Buyu secretly identified herself to Wu Dan and pleaded with her to go easy, prompting Wu Dan to rein in her power while keeping up the act.
• Wu Dan challenged Lou Guanshan’s group as Banyi wondered why the clash seemed staged and why Zong Jin had not joined in.
• Yan Yan recognized traces of Hold Up the Heavens in the supposed Calamities, while Slyder and others recorded Wu Dan’s techniques.
• Observers in the Present World and the Primordial Beginning Tower reacted to the spectacle by studying it, preparing for battle, and worrying that the enemies being fooled must be powerful.

Kou Ying and the others warned the Present World that powerful Calamities were investigating the End of the World, while people there dealt with corrupt entrepreneurs and the return of the Orange Lamp. The chapter ended with the revelation that squads of Level Eleven and Level Twelve Calamities might still reach the Present World, leaving its people in despair.

• People in the Present World argued over whether the Navigators' warnings were necessary, and Kou Ying's efforts helped jolt them out of complacency.
• A principled speaker refused to join corrupt entrepreneurs exploiting workers and customers, and the Orange Lamp burst in with several young people to attack them.
• The young employees escaped the attack and watched the Doomsday Tower's screen, hoping the Navigators would be safe.
• Wan Lan told Wei Changming that at least Fourteenth Tier Calamities would come looking, though the Navigators would try to intercept the strongest threats.
• Kou Ying clarified that Calamities might arrive in armies of Level Elevens and Level Twelves, with squads of about a dozen potentially getting through, and the Present World was left stunned.

Kou Ying and Ye Buyu helped the Primordial Beginning Tower stage a fake battle to buy time, while Kou Ying’s dangerous battlefield antics terrified people watching through his perspective. When the Lost Legion lost contact with its superior, enemy Calamities realized the Rift had joined forces with the Primordial Beginning Tower and rushed to inspect its Flagship.

• Kou Ying stopped talking after Wei Changming warned him that everyone in the Present World could hear him, then joined the battlefield by creating an army of shadows.
• The Primordial Beginning Tower opened fire on Kou Ying’s shadows, and Kou Ying dodged the barrage while people in the Present World watched his perilous perspective.
• After two hours, Wu Dan agreed the staged battle could stall for only another hour, and Ye Buyu prepared to have the Escort Ships attack Calamities watching the spectacle.
• A powerful eruption elsewhere severed the Lost Legion’s Calamities from their superior, while the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty and the Black Plague ordered their forces to identify who was aboard the Rift’s Flagship.
• The Calamities’ superiors exposed the fake battle and ordered them to inspect the Flagship, leading them to suspect the Rift had defected to the Primordial Beginning Tower.

Ye Buyu and the others used the Rift’s Flagship to ambush the calamities, but Weier exposed Hold Up the Heavens as the group behind the operation. As the factions prepared to drive out the calamities, the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty decided to approach Hold Up the Heavens for information about the Rift.

• Ye Buyu and the Rift’s Flagship attacked the calamities while Wu Dan told the Primordial Beginning Tower to intercept them and protect the Flagship’s crew.
• Su Wuwei fought off a concealed calamity, and Ye Buyu fired the Flagship’s Impact Cannon at the advancing enemies.
• Weier publicly thanked Hold Up the Heavens for helping the Rift, exposing the group and drawing curses from the surrounding factions.
• Ye Buyu dropped her disguise and attacked the calamities with a Gatling Gun while Slyder urged the Primordial Beginning Tower to prepare to move.
• Qian Tu and [Darkness] discussed the Rift’s escape from their trap, and [Darkness] ordered Qian Tu to contact Hold Up the Heavens for information about the Rift’s ruler.

The Second Seat of the Salvation Hall of Fame, Water Mirror Heart Tide, asked [Fear] to stop [War] in the Lost Legion and warned the Two Calamities not to provoke Hold Up the Heavens. Elsewhere, a girl entered Black Plague Headquarters to watch Ji Wangsheng and the figure in the coffin.

• Water Mirror Heart Tide appeared before [Darkness] and Qian Tu, who identified her as the Salvation Hall of Fame's Second Seat.
• [Fear] arrived and learned that [War] had appeared in the Lost Legion; she agreed to stop him in exchange for fulfilling Heart Tide's promise.
• Heart Tide warned [Fear] not to provoke Hold Up the Heavens, and [Fear] told Qian Tu and [Darkness] to guard the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty.
• [Fear] asked Qian Tu and [Darkness] who Hold Up the Heavens were, then left after warning that the world was nearing a crisis.
• A green-braided girl entered Black Plague Headquarters and told Ji Wangsheng she intended to watch her and the figure in the coffin.

Ying Ruxing warned [Plague] that [War] had appeared and that Hold Up the Heavens was under the Salvation Hall of Fame’s protection. Little Whale rushed to Ye Buyu during the battle, urged an immediate retreat, and the fleet withdrew into the Primordial Beginning Tower as [War] threatened to emerge.

• [Plague] climbed from his coffin and greeted Ying Ruxing, who had come to watch him and investigate the appearance of [War].
• Ying Ruxing told [Plague] not to target Hold Up the Heavens, while he admitted he had not found the divine statuses of [Life] and [Death].
• Little Whale crashed into Ye Buyu and Kou Ying, then warned them that [War] had appeared and told them to retreat to the Primordial Beginning Tower.
• Ye Buyu alerted Wu Dan and hurried back to the Flagship with Little Whale and Kou Ying.
• Wu Dan ordered Zong Jin to open a temporary stopover point, and the fleet regrouped and withdrew into the Primordial Beginning Tower.

Ye Buyu and the others questioned Little Whale about [War], then used its screen to watch Ku Rong report on a battle between fourteenth-tier Calamities. As the Primordial Beginning Tower evacuated the area, a vast light screen appeared and an overwhelming roar froze the Calamities who had stayed behind.

• Little Whale explained that [War] had repeatedly survived their attacks and was drawn back into conflict after a long period of relative peace.
• Ye Buyu denied that the Six had caused the crisis, while Su Wuwei and the others recognized how their past actions had led to it.
• Little Whale brought out Ku Rong's curated war broadcast and warned the Six not to underestimate fourteenth-tier Calamities.
• The Six put on special glasses and watched the battle as Little Whale reminded them that they were only eighth tier.
• The Primordial Beginning Tower drove away the Calamities, and the older ones urged the others to leave before the coming crisis.
• A vast light screen appeared behind the Calamities who remained, and its roar and pressure froze them in place.

[War] descended into the ruined Star Domain and battled Weier, growing stronger as conflict and slaughter spread. Just as he prepared to kill her and the Rift, a newcomer wielding an overwhelming aura of fear arrived and stopped his blade.

• [War] told Weier that she had drawn him to the Star Domain, and Weier crushed Zhan Tu's skull before challenging him to a fight to the death.
• The Lost Legion's Calamities celebrated [War]'s arrival and proclaimed that war would let them rise again, but [War] killed them with a single slash.
• [War] demanded to know what Weier was, then fought her and grew stronger amid the devastation and violence.
• [War] decided to finish off Weier and the Rift, but a newcomer arrived and caught his blade with one hand.
• The newcomer's aura of fear clashed with [War]'s influence, calming the surviving Calamities and driving some of them to flee.

[War] and [Fear] unleashed a Fourteenth Tier battle that shattered the Star Domain and forced the Rift's Calamities to flee. Ye Buyu and her companions vanished from their seats and were transported in the box to an unknown destination, where Ye Buyu worried about what awaited them.

• [War] and [Fear] escalated their fight with their Origin weapons, and their attacks tore the Star Domain apart.
• The battle's aftershocks drove Calamities to evacuate, while some lost their reason and attacked those around them.
• Little Whale warned Ye Buyu that the neighboring Star Domains were doomed and that fighting the two Calamities would mean certain death.
• Little Whale discovered that Ye Buyu and the others had disappeared, and the six found themselves inside a vehicle after the box transported them without warning.
• Ye Buyu lamented that she had missed the rest of the battle and worried about what she and her teammates would face next.

Ye Buyu and the others returned to Cangyuan nearly a thousand years later and found the planet destroyed. With Mu Bingge’s Water Mirror, they witnessed the past and learned how internal exploitation, Calamity Breeders, and attacks on the Central Hub had weakened Cangyuan before its final fall.

• Su Wuwei and Ye Buyu persuaded the group to establish the Salvation Hall of Fame, and the six returned to find Cangyuan shattered.
• Cangyuan sensed Water Mirror’s presence and told Mu Bingge that Cangyuan’s destruction had been fate, while affirming that he had become Cangyuan.
• Mu Bingge used her Water Mirror and the Time Method to reconstruct Cangyuan’s destruction, revealing the planet surrounded by mist and attacked by indistinct enemies.
• Cangyuan recalled how resource scarcity led High-Rank Awakened to exploit others and how Calamity Breeders emerged.
• Cangyuan explained that people questioned the threat of Calamities and that manipulators weakened the Central Hub, severing its ties to the world until disaster struck.

Ye Buyu discovered that an army of Calamities had attacked Cangyuan through the Gray Mist, and Cangyuan learned that a planet he had once supported may have helped destroy his home. Overcome by rage, he began his revenge by attacking that planet and killing those he identified as conspirators.

• Ye Buyu rewound the scene and saw Calamities in ships attacking Cangyuan through the Gray Mist.
• Cangyuan told Ye Buyu that Cangyuan had hunted Calamities to prevent their spread, and Ye Buyu concluded that many Calamities had joined forces against it.
• Ye Buyu gave Cangyuan images of the attackers, and he erupted in rage after recognizing people connected to Cangyuan's destruction.
• Cangyuan crossed a Star Domain, broke through a planet's defenses, and destroyed its Central System building and the people who emerged.
• Cangyuan accused the planet's leaders of letting Calamities help destroy Cangyuan, then fought through their warships as a young commander insisted the planet was innocent.

Cangyuan and his allies destroyed the Calamities who were sacrificing Cangyuan Star, while the young general resolved to expose the civilization’s betrayal. Cangyuan set out to pursue those responsible, and Ye Buyu and the others joined him to investigate the Gray Mist and seek revenge.

• Cangyuan attacked his former student and confronted the Calamities as sacrificial rites devastated cities across the planet.
• Wan Lan urged the stunned soldiers to fight, while Ye Buyu marked the Calamities and weakened their power across the planet.
• Wan Lan, Kou Ying, and Su Wuwei helped destroy the Calamities, and Su Wuwei raised the Shadow Tree Spark to burn them.
• Lou Guanshan warned the young general to face the truth, and the general ordered his soldiers to find evidence of the betrayal of Cangyuan.
• Cangyuan left to hunt those responsible, and Ye Buyu and Water Mirror Heart Tide joined him to uncover the truth about the Gray Mist.

Cangyuan hunted those responsible for Cangyuan’s destruction and confronted the elves, whose empress admitted that they had helped destroy his world so they could become Calamities. Wan Lan killed the empress, and a descending Mo Dao began splitting apart the elves’ planet.

• Cangyuan killed those who had taken part in Cangyuan’s destruction, while Ye Buyu and the others witnessed the beginnings of the Great Cataclysm.
• Cangyuan reached the elves’ primary planet and accused the empress of sending the Third and Fourth Legions against Cangyuan.
• The empress defended the elves’ choice to become Calamities and revealed that they had infiltrated Cangyuan and joined forces to destroy it.
• The empress taunted Cangyuan for becoming a Calamity himself and urged him to kill himself.
• Wan Lan appeared behind the empress and pierced her neck with an arrow, killing her.
• A Mo Dao descended, split the enormous elven tree, and continued on to destroy the primary planet.

Lou Guanshan and Cangyuan’s forces destroyed the elven main planet after discovering that its Calamities had enslaved and sacrificed the satellite planets’ population for power. Ye Buyu rescued an infant during the battle and learned from Water Mirror that elves remained infants until age twenty.

• Lou Guanshan watched the main planet explode and condemned the Calamities after discovering the massacre and enslavement of the satellite planets’ elves.
• Cangyuan’s forces continued their assault while the surviving elves on the satellite planets mechanically carried on with their lives.
• A Calamity tried to kill a crying infant, but the infant’s protector shielded her, flowers bloomed, and Ye Buyu arrived as rain killed the attacker.
• Ye Buyu took the infant and told the elf that the empress and main planet were gone and the survivors were free.
• Ye Buyu asked Water Mirror to care for the infant, and Water Mirror explained that elves left infancy at twenty.

Ye Buyu explained Hold Up the Heavens’ future origins and her plan to gather exceptionally gifted Awakened, while the group witnessed the destruction of Cangyuan’s homeworld and helped kindle hope among its survivors. They followed Cangyuan to a technologically advanced planet, where he went to seek answers and the others paused to enjoy its peaceful everyday life.

• Ye Buyu told Water Mirror that Hold Up the Heavens came from the future and aimed to gather powerful, exceptionally gifted people to face the calamities.
• Kou Ying named the rescued elf Ying Ruxing, wishing she would shine like the eternal stars.
• Su Wuwei burned and gathered the wreckage of the destroyed main planet, giving its people a symbol of hope as Cangyuan finished his battle.
• The group followed Cangyuan to a technologically advanced planet, where he left to seek answers while the others concealed themselves and entered the city.
• Ye Buyu and her companions watched the bustling city and reflected that peaceful daily life was better than being chased by calamities.

Ye Buyu and the others encountered Rong Fan and tried to bring him along, while Cangyuan met Wu Yan, who decided to launch an operation against the enemy threatening Withered Star. The chapter ended with Rong Fan recognizing the six as the calamity.

• Ye Buyu and her companions recognized Rong Fan and told him his sixth-tier strength was not enough for the coming universe-scale disaster.
• Cangyuan met Wu Yan, who shared three suspects connected to Cangyuan’s destruction and warned that Withered Star was the enemy’s next target.
• Wu Yan decided to deploy the Withered Star First Army’s vanguard, and Cangyuan agreed to introduce her to the people he had found.
• The six surrounded Rong Fan and pressured him to come with them, and he realized they were the calamity.

Ye Buyu and the Six met Wu Yan at Withered Star’s Central Hub and proposed forming a secret organization to fight the growing Calamity threat. Rong Fan challenged their plan, but Ye Buyu demonstrated how outmatched Withered Star was against even ordinary high-level Calamities.

• Rong Fan tried to resist the Six, but they stopped him from sending a message and surrounded him.
• General Zhu Yin returned and told Ye Buyu that Withered Star’s leader was Wu Yan, whose ability was foresight.
• Rong Fan threatened the group to protect Kou Ying, but Kou Ying restrained him and led everyone to the Central Hub Building.
• Wu Yan revealed herself as the leader of Withered Star, and the Six recognized her as an old acquaintance from the Present World's Bai Ze Division.
• Ye Buyu proposed a secret organization to prepare for the spreading Calamity Power and an even greater crisis.
• Rong Fan dismissed the proposal, so Ye Buyu incapacitated him and warned that an ordinary Level Twelve or Level Thirteen Calamity could destroy Withered Star in half a minute.

Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge invited Wu Yan and the others to join the Salvation Hall of Fame to resist the Calamities threatening the Withered Star. After Water Mirror and Cangyuan joined, Ye Buyu discovered a mysterious red thread that could guide her to recruits, then led the group to confront a mutiny on the Withered Star's Third Affiliated Star.

• Ye Buyu explained that civilizations faced destruction or corruption by Calamities and urged Wu Yan and the others to choose whether to fight back.
• Water Mirror and Cangyuan agreed to join the Salvation Hall of Fame, and Rong Fan asked what the organization was called.
• A red thread entered Ye Buyu's heart and showed her a vision of the character for night; afterward, a thread on her fingertip connected to Wu Yan and the others.
• Ye Buyu decided to search for the Calamities and the master of the gray mist, while Su Wuwei took Rong Fan along to test the truth through practice.
• Wu Yan offered support from the Withered Star, and Cangyuan stopped the garrison's mutiny on the Third Affiliated Star with a single slash.
• Ye Buyu fired at the mutineers and ordered them to come over.