Chapter Summaries

[Withering] explained that he was born from the collapse and suffering caused by [Sinful Karma] destroying the interstellar trading system. Ye Buyu chose not to single out one Calamity, and [Madness] made the others introduce themselves, leaving their accounts of their origins underway.

• [Withering] recounted how the destruction of the trading hub caused economic collapse, famine, disease, and conflict, from which he was born.
• Ye Buyu took the Walking Stick and considered the Calamities’ expectation that she choose one of them.
• [War] asked Ye Buyu whether she had decided, and [Madness] urged her to choose anyone, including herself.
• Ye Buyu said she wanted to choose all the Calamities at once, and [Madness] agreed to make them share their origins.
• [Monarch] and [Ritual Flame] described how they were born, and other Calamities briefly named their origins and traits.

Ye Buyu heard how [History-Eater], [Self-Imprisonment], and [Thought-Madness] had been born from disasters across different epochs. [Thought-Madness] explained that he remained confined because uncontrolled verbal attacks and clashes of ideas had created him.

• [History-Eater] told Ye Buyu how she awakened in a submerged world of books and records, consumed its contents, and later came to the refuge with Ku Rong’s help.
• [War] described himself as a Man-Made Calamity born amid the fighting at the end of the Peak Epoch.
• [Self-Imprisonment] explained that she arose in the Great Decline Epoch from people’s stubborn convictions and mistrust, and had entered the refuge willingly.
• [Thought-Madness] said he represented confusion, paradoxes, and distortions created when ideas collided without restraint.
• [Thought-Madness] recounted how personal attacks and endless arguments had helped bring destruction and said the Salvation Hall of Fame had sent him to confinement.

Ye Buyu resisted [Madness] and became the focus of the Calamities after guessing she came from the Deity Epoch. Just as [Madness] threatened to force her to hear the story, an enormous eye found Ye Buyu, but its offer to grab something left her trapped as a Gray Mist-wreathed heart appeared.

• [Madness] noticed Ye Buyu had resisted her influence and began telling her she came from the Deity Epoch.
• Ye Buyu guessed [Madness] came from the Deity Epoch, prompting the Calamities to surround her and demand to know what she knew about Deities.
• Ye Buyu refused [Madness]'s repeated offers to hear her story, and [Madness] threatened to make her want to listen.
• An enormous eye searched the sky, found Ye Buyu, and asked whether it should go in or fish her out.
• Ye Buyu shouted for the eye to get her out, but it returned holding [Delusion]'s heart wreathed in Gray Mist.

Ye Buyu tried to escape the Night Realm, but her Salvation Hall of Fame teammates arrived and rescued her from the Calamities. She explained that the Chief had thrown her in because they were disturbing his sleep, while the gathered Calamities watched her reunited with her backup.

• Ye Buyu flew toward the opening in the sky, but Ying Ruxing crashed into her and tearfully complained that Ye Buyu had forgotten her.
• Water Mirror pulled Ying Ruxing away, and Ying Ruxing happily spun Ye Buyu around while Mu Bingge steadied her.
• [Withering] questioned [War] about Ye Buyu, while [Thought-Madness] doubted that she had faked her fear to deceive the Calamities.
• [History-Eater] asked Ye Buyu why her teammates had arrived, and Ye Buyu said the Chief had tossed her into the Night Realm because the Calamities disturbed his sleep.
• Mu Bingge removed [Madness]'s mark from Ye Buyu's hair, and Wan Lan mocked [Madness] as the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members insulted her together.

Ye Buyu and Hold Up the Heavens fought [Madness], with Lou Guanshan striking her down after Mu Bingge empowered him beyond the Ninth Rank. The group then learned that the Salvation Hall of Fame expected them to handle a sealed crowd of powerful Calamities, leaving them unsure how to proceed.

• [Madness] attacked the six, but Ye Buyu and the members of Hold Up the Heavens worked together to restrain her and create an opening for Lou Guanshan.
• Mu Bingge empowered Lou Guanshan, who unleashed a strike that sent [Madness] crashing to the ground.
• The Chief woke and repaired the sphere containing the fighters, while Su Wuwei tossed a small sun into the darkness and enraged the bird-headed Calamity.
• Ye Buyu asked the Salvation Hall of Fame what they should do, and Ying Ruxing explained that the Chief had sealed the Calamities there for Ye Buyu to deal with.
• The six realized they were expected to face numerous peak Level Thirteen and Fourteenth Tier Calamities, and stared at the Salvation Hall of Fame in disbelief.

Ye Buyu and her teammates stayed to talk with [Madness] and the other sealed Calamities, revealing that they had traveled to the past. Their revelation left [Madness] questioning whether the path to becoming Deities had been severed and what fate awaited them.

• Ye Buyu agreed to remain in the Corridor Court and speak with [Madness] after learning the Calamities’ origins.
• Ye Buyu’s teammates backed her up when [Madness] tried to divide them, and Ye Buyu declared that her friends were her confidence.
• [Madness] asked how such young people could be Hall Masters of the Salvation Hall of Fame, and Ye Buyu said they had gone back to earlier times.
• The Calamities were stunned by the revelation, and [Madness] concluded that becoming Deities was far beyond their reach.
• [Madness] realized the path had been severed and demanded to know how the story ended.

[Madness] described being born from the crystallized madness of Deities who died in the war at the end of the Deity Epoch, and revealed that her mission to destroy Civilization had been bound to her Divine Status. Ye Buyu and her teammates realized their journey into the past might still continue and uncover the secrets of the Gods’ fall.

• [Madness] asked where the world and its inhabitants could go after the Deities fell, prompting Ye Buyu and the Salvation Hall of Fame members to consider their connection to the ancient war.
• Ye Buyu and her teammates feared that her self-detonation could send them further into the past, while Lou Guanshan tried to reassure them that the danger would not come immediately.
• Water Mirror asked [Madness] to explain her story, and she said she had been born at the end of the Deity Epoch from the crystallized madness of dead Deities.
• [Madness] explained that her mission was to drive everything, especially Civilization, into madness and destruction, but she had not carried it out.
• [Madness] said the shackles binding her Divine Status broke before she could fulfill her mission, leaving her questioning her purpose after hearing the Universe sigh.
• [Madness] said she had been weak and easily captured by the Chief, and that other Calamities with similar contradictions were later thrown into the same place.

[Madness] explained that she resisted the destructive path her Origin had set for her, while Ye Buyu and the others learned that [Sinful Karma] was about to emerge from the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road. The Calamities sought to join the coming battle, and Ye Buyu proposed they sign a Soul Contract before leaving.

• [Madness] told the Calamities she had chosen to resist her destructive instincts, and they affirmed that they liked or respected her choice.
• [Madness] complimented Ye Buyu's silver hair, prompting Ye Buyu to fear that the danger she had anticipated had arrived.
• Cangyuan relayed the Chief's warning that the being inside the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road was coming out, and Ku Rong identified it as [Sinful Karma].
• [Monarch] and [Ritual Flame] asked to join the battle against [Sinful Karma], while the other Calamities also showed interest.
• Ye Buyu said she wanted the Calamities to join but needed to protect the outside world, so she proposed a Soul Contract.

Ye Buyu proposed a temporary Contract with the Calamities to fight [Sinful Karma], offering communications devices and entertainment as payment. After [War] revealed how thoroughly the End of the World had resisted the Calamities, Ye Buyu admitted they had already fought [Sinful Karma] and driven it into the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, leaving [Monarch] astonished at the outside world's unity.

• Ye Buyu proposed a time-limited Contract for the Calamities to help fight [Sinful Karma], and [Monarch] agreed in exchange for a communications device.
• [Ritual Flame] and [Madness] asked for rewards too, while Ye Buyu promised devices and entertainment to the Calamities who helped.
• Little Whale defended Ye Buyu's ability to sign Contracts and praised the people of the End of the World for developing the Way of the Soul together.
• [War] explained that the Calamities had lost completely against the End of the World, even before [Sinful Karma] arrived.
• Ye Buyu revealed that the End of the World had fought [Sinful Karma] and driven it into the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, then asked the Calamities how to kill it.
• [Monarch] questioned Ye Buyu about the outside world, and Wan Lan explained that its factions had united through great effort.

The group learned that the moon had become a Semi-Divine Artifact and had helped trap [Sinful Karma], though nobody knew how they had set the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road in motion. Ye Buyu turned the discussion toward killing [Sinful Karma], leaving Suiyang complaining about her threats.

• [Thought-Madness] explained that even Tenth Tier powerhouses had never influenced the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, and Wan Lan asked how the group had activated it.
• Wu Yan said [Sinful Karma] was invincible below the Gods, while Water Mirror explained that the moon had absorbed Divine Statuses and Calamity Power until it became a Semi-Divine Artifact.
• The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members admitted they did not know how they had set the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road in motion.
• Ye Buyu asked the Salvation Hall of Fame to discuss how to kill [Sinful Karma], saying she would rather fight it than a God.
• Suiyang explained that Hold Up the Heavens had rebuilt the Floating City and united the outside factions, then protested when Ye Buyu joked that he could stand between them and [Sinful Karma] to swallow its attacks.

Ye Buyu brought the Night Realm’s Calamities before the Chief, who handed her control of the sphere and returned to bed. The group then entered the Salvation Hall of Fame’s shifting True Body, where Ye Buyu learned that its members had built their homes in the overlapping space.

• Ye Buyu asked the Chief to open a door after the Calamities signed short-term Contracts, and he brought them out of the sphere and handed it to her.
• Withering suggested usurping Ye Buyu, so the Chief slammed him into a wall and warned the Calamities to treat her politely.
• The Chief explained that he became Chief after losing a bet to Ye Buyu about who would fall asleep first, and he kicked Ritual Flame into the wall for complaining about his treatment of the Calamities.
• The Chief went back to sleep and had everyone moved out of his bedroom, revealing the Salvation Hall of Fame’s shifting, overlapping True Body.
• Kou Ying asked to study the overlapping space, and Ku Rong agreed as long as he did not dismantle it; Ye Buyu admitted she could not defeat the Chief.

Ye Buyu and her companions prepared to confront [Sinful Karma] on the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, making plans to notify allies and choose a battlefield. The chapter ended as Wei Changming angrily confronted Ye Buyu over the sudden plan.

• Ye Buyu left the Salvation Hall of Fame members’ hidden space, reflecting on their lost worlds and the hope they had placed in the future.
• Lou Guanshan tried to rally the group, but Kou Ying covered his mouth, and Ye Buyu stopped Su Wuwei from joining the teasing.
• Ye Buyu outlined preparations for the battle, including notifying Horizon and their partners, gathering helpers, and setting aside a battlefield.
• Mu Bingge selected a location near the Land of Life Divine Miracle, where the group planned to lure [Sinful Karma] from the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.
• Kou Ying received a video-conference request from Wei Changming, who immediately cursed Ye Buyu for deciding to take on [Sinful Karma].

Ye Buyu organized an interstellar conference to coordinate a preemptive strike against [Sinful Karma]. The factions agreed to prepare their strongest fighters, and Ye Buyu warned that anyone who refused to join would face her at home.

• Ye Buyu told Wei Changming that she had found help against [Sinful Karma], while Su Wuwei urged the factions to discuss the threat and Xiao Shuo began connecting them through the Interstellar Network.
• Ye Buyu reassured Wind-Thunder and introduced the Calamities beside her, including [Madness], as the Night Realm Calamities watched humans and Calamities coexist.
• The Primordial Beginning Tower agreed to send two Tenth Tier elders, Judgment pledged all four members, and Weier of the Rift asked to be told the location.
• Ji Wangsheng asked Ye Buyu to introduce the Calamities, Qian Tu questioned the gathering, and [Cycle] and [Stagnation] offered to join the fight.
• Ye Buyu argued that doing nothing would let [Sinful Karma] target them and demanded that every faction send its top combatants, threatening to take the fight to any faction that refused.

Ye Buyu and the Calamities agreed to prepare a battlefield at the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, but [Sinful Karma] began breaking out before they could finalize their plans. The group rushed into the ancient road to confront it, carried at tremendous speed by a Wind Bird beneath Wan Lan.

• [Fear] and Ji Wangsheng demanded assurances that the End of the World would not attack their factions while their top combatants were away, and Ye Buyu agreed to sign a short-term Contract with the Horizon Team.
• Mu Bingge proposed fighting at the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, but Ye Buyu announced that [Sinful Karma] was about to escape and planned to target everyone.
• [Sinful Karma] analyzed the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road's power and battered its wind barriers with Karmic Fire as a universe-shaking thump sounded.
• Ye Buyu brought the Calamities of the Salvation Hall of Fame and the Night Realm into the refined Star Domain and set out for the nearest Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.
• Hold Up the Heavens entered the ancient road, and a vast Wind Bird formed beneath Wan Lan and carried the group toward their destination.

Ye Buyu and the Calamities confronted [Sinful Karma], whose power overwhelmed them even as they fought together. While Ye Buyu’s allies tried to forge Lou Guanshan’s Mo Dao into a Divine Artifact, [Sinful Karma] questioned why the world kept placing obstacles in the way of its mission.

• Ye Buyu arrived with Water Mirror and [Thought-Madness], who destroyed the guillotine trapping the wind bird as [Madness] attacked [Sinful Karma].
• [Sinful Karma] condemned the Calamities for abandoning their mission, provoking [Monarch], [Ritual Flame], [Self-Imprisonment], and the others to fight back.
• [Sinful Karma] crushed the Calamities’ attacks and injured several of them, while Little Wan shielded the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members with a golden gate.
• Ye Buyu and her allies tried to turn Lou Guanshan’s Mo Dao into a Divine Artifact by feeding it incomplete Divine Status and refining it with fire, wind, time, and formations.
• Cangyuan, Ying Ruxing, [Self-Imprisonment], [Withering], and [War] helped shatter [Sinful Karma]’s enormous hand, but it remained standing and questioned why the world obstructed its mission.

[Monarch] and six peak Level Thirteen Calamities sacrifice their Origin to forge a powerful blade and confront [Sinful Karma]. His strike splits the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road and opens a path for outside Calamity Power and several figures, trapping everyone within a ring-shaped deathtrap.

• [Monarch] rises in defiance, voicing the questions and anger of the people whose wills shaped him.
• [Ritual Flame] burns its Origin, and [Indifference], [Selfishness], [Despair], [Heart-Erosion], and [Dullness] follow by merging their power into Lonely Desolation’s blade.
• Ku Rong explains that [Monarch] is opening a path and guiding the self-contradictory Calamities toward a chance of victory.
• [Monarch] slashes through [Sinful Karma]’s Karmic Fire and shatters the [Guillotine] attacks above him.
• [Monarch] cleaves the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road apart, forming a ring-shaped trap as outside Calamity Power and several figures enter through the fissure.

The Calamities who followed [Monarch] sacrificed themselves to destroy a third of [Sinful Karma]'s karma, leaving the surviving fighters to continue the battle. The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members considered how to use Judgment's sword against [Sinful Karma], and prepared a plan centered on Kou Ying's connection to it and Lou Guanshan's nearly finished saber.

• [Thought-Madness] gathered the fallen Calamities' divine-status fragments into a wine flask and gave it to Ye Buyu, explaining that their sacrifice was the answer they had chosen.
• [Sinful Karma] restored its body and argued that the world had no future, while [Withering], [Fear], [Darkness], [Plague], the Four Seats of Judgment, and others attacked it.
• The Annihilation Seat told Hold Up the Heavens that Judgment's Headquarters was a sword blade engraved with their name, and Ye Buyu found that Kou Ying had the strongest connection to Judgment.
• The Six discussed using Judgment's sword, with Lou Guanshan's saber as a backup, and Kou Ying warned that his bad luck made the attempt dangerous.
• Su Wuwei explained that attacks gave [Sinful Karma] more power, so Ye Buyu prepared to disrupt its karma while Lou Guanshan readied his crimson blade.

Ye Buyu’s crimson power let the Calamities attack [Sinful Karma] without resisting the Karmic Fire’s judgment, and their combined assault drove it back. Lou Guanshan awakened a new power through his saber slash and collided with [Sinful Karma], sending everyone nearby flying.

• Ye Buyu’s crimson petals weakened the Karmic Fire’s effects, allowing the Calamities to fight [Sinful Karma] at full strength.
• The Calamities attacked [Sinful Karma] together, severing its right arm and piercing its defenses with the Four Seats of Judgment’s blade.
• Lou Guanshan poured his power into a crimson saber slash and awakened the new character “Lou,” gaining a distinct Deity’s aura.
• Lou Guanshan crashed into [Sinful Karma] like a falling river of stars, and the resulting impact blasted the nearby Calamities and Ye Buyu’s group away.
• Su Wuwei and Wan Lan steadied Ye Buyu, while Mu Bingge pulled Kou Ying clear of a hurtling Calamity.

Ye Buyu and the Calamities discovered that [Sinful Karma] had survived their devastating attack and was using its Divine Status to detonate its power and burn away every sin in the world. As the Guillotine descended, Qian Tu, Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, and the others struggled to hold it back while Mu Bingge accelerated Kou Ying's time, leaving the final plan in motion.

• Ye Buyu treated the barely alive Lou Guanshan while the Calamities believed their combined attack had killed [Sinful Karma].
• Qian Tu noticed that [Sinful Karma]'s Divine Status was missing, and Su Wuwei and Wan Lan rushed toward the lingering Karmic Fire.
• [Sinful Karma] reappeared beneath a forming Guillotine and declared it would detonate its Divine Status to burn away every sin in the world.
• Qian Tu braced herself against the Guillotine, and Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Ye Buyu, and the other Calamities joined her to resist its descent.
• [Madness] attacked [Sinful Karma]'s cracked Divine Status, but its destruction made the Guillotine more solid as the blade kept falling.
• Ye Buyu rejected another slash and called for the final plan, so Mu Bingge unleashed her power to advance Kou Ying's time.

Kou Ying glimpsed the deaths and memories tied to his life and sensed the Sword of Judgment answering his call. As the sword tore through space toward [Sinful Karma], everyone fled from its indiscriminate power.

• Ye Buyu told Qian Tu that the group would rely on her teammates and, if necessary, take [Sinful Karma] down with them.
• Mu Bingge exhausted herself to help Kou Ying reach his future self’s power, and Kou Ying witnessed the deaths and memories woven through his life before sensing [Sinful Karma]’s desire for death.
• The Sword of Judgment rose from Judgment Headquarters and crossed the Universe after Kou Ying’s call, while [Sinful Karma]’s Karmic Fire overwhelmed the fighters.
• Kou Ying announced that the Sword of Judgment had arrived and ordered everyone to retreat, prompting Ye Buyu, Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Little Whale, and the Calamities to flee.
• The Sword of Judgment cleaved through space and descended with an indiscriminate aura of death, engulfing the area as the Guillotine fell toward [Sinful Karma].