Chapter Summaries

[Sinful Karma] was slain by the Sword of Judgment, sending a shockwave across the universe and revealing that Hold Up the Heavens and allies had been behind a secret operation. In the battle’s aftermath, Lou Guanshan found his injured teammates and Suiyang, while a magnificent building stood at the center of the ruined Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.

• The Sword of Judgment killed [Sinful Karma], and the force of its strike shook the universe and disabled the Doomsday Tower.
• The Star Network announced that Hold Up the Heavens, Navigators of the End of the World, and major factions had carried out the operation, leaving Calamities and humans shocked and anxious.
• The Sword of Judgment’s blast scattered the Calamities and injured Ye Buyu and the others, while a magnificent building remained standing on the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.
• Lou Guanshan woke, found Wan Lan, and followed her instruction to check the building before searching for and gathering Ye Buyu, Kou Ying, Su Wuwei, and Mu Bingge.
• Suiyang emerged from the broken road after protecting people from the Salvation Hall of Fame, told Lou Guanshan they owed him a favor, and passed out.

After the Sword of Judgment defeated Sinful Karma, the exhausted Calamities reflected on their conflicted nature while Lou Guanshan offered them understanding. Ye Buyu’s soul witnessed an emotionless pair of eyes absorb a fragment of Sinful Karma and then turn toward her.

• Lou Guanshan dragged the injured Calamities out of the broken Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, and they rested beneath the Sword of Judgment.
• The Calamities admitted they had long believed living beings could never accept them, despite their own buried hopes for acceptance.
• Lou Guanshan explained that the forces behind the Calamities’ births could carry both destructive and protective effects, and the Calamities welcomed his words.
• Su Wuwei stayed still and complained as Mu Bingge woke, while Wan Lan slept after using her strength to save the group.
• Ye Buyu’s soul recalled the Sword of Judgment shattering Sinful Karma and saw its soul fragment slip into a pair of hollow eyes that then looked at her.

After [Sinful Karma] was defeated, Ye Buyu saw a mysterious pair of star-filled eyes take something from its soul and heard them say they awaited the ending and beginning she would give them. She woke and left the revelation for later, then wondered what the eyes had taken and why they were waiting for her.

• Ye Buyu recalled the mysterious eyes and wondered whether they belonged to a Level Fifteen God.
• Lou Guanshan gathered the wounded and earned praise while the recovering Calamities worried about another enemy like [Sinful Karma].
• Ye Buyu told Little Whale about the eyes, making it panic and drawing the Hold Up the Heavens Team's attention to her floating soul.
• Ye Buyu returned to her body and pretended to wake, but the team confronted her about what she had seen.
• Ye Buyu admitted the eyes might belong to a God and questioned what they had taken from [Sinful Karma] and why they were waiting for her.

After defeating [Sinful Karma], Ye Buyu and Hold Up the Heavens discussed their spoils and the fate of the Night Realm Calamities. [Withering] tried to leave, but Ye Buyu refused to let him go without supervision, while several other factions departed and the Four Seats of Judgment stayed.

• Ye Buyu and her teammates joked about their victory, then agreed to divide [Sinful Karma]'s Fate Fragments equally.
• [Withering] declared the Contract finished and tried to leave, but Ye Buyu and her teammates insisted on accompanying him wherever he went.
• Kou Ying demonstrated that she could still control the Sword of Judgment, and [Withering] grew wary of being watched by Hold Up the Heavens.
• [Madness] asked Ye Buyu about the eye she had seen, while [Thought-Madness] and [Self-Imprisonment] asked to see the outside world; [Fear] warned Qian Tu against recruiting the Calamities.
• [Fear], [Darkness], and Qian Tu left through a vortex, followed by [Plague] and the two from the Primordial Beginning Tower; the Four Seats of Judgment remained, while [Cycle] and [Stagnation] departed.

The Calamities accused Hold Up the Heavens of orchestrating events to recruit them, while the Six denied planning such an elaborate scheme. Kou Ying suggested that Ye Buyu’s role as the Causal Line might have guided events through cause and effect, leaving the accusation unresolved.

• [Madness] laid out the chain of coincidences that had brought the Calamities into the battle and asked Ye Buyu whether she had engineered it.
• Ye Buyu denied setting anything up and asked [War] to confirm she had not manipulated his arrival.
• [War] recounted how the Salvation Hall of Fame, the End of the World, and the Calamities had become entangled, then wondered whether the events had been calculated.
• The Night Realm’s Calamities, the Four Seats of Judgment, and the Salvation Hall of Fame’s Calamities all suspected Hold Up the Heavens of pretending not to be Tang Yinren.
• Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Mu Bingge, and Lou Guanshan rejected or joked about the elaborate theory.
• Kou Ying reminded Ye Buyu that she was the Causal Line, suggesting cause and effect might have guided the coincidences in Hold Up the Heavens’ favor.

Ye Buyu and the others agreed to escort the disguised Calamities to the End of the World, while Kou Ying and the Four Seats discussed his role and the Sword of Judgment. Days later, the group arrived at Four Symbols Academy in the Present World, where a student mistook [Withering] for a Calamity spy.

• [History-Eater] asked to visit the End of the World, and [Withering] agreed after Wan Lan warned that the Calamities might not be welcomed.
• Kou Ying left the Sword of Judgment with the Four Seats, accepted being called their leader, and gave them the password, “Burn the Night, Wield the Light. Reforge the Dawn.”
• Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge realized Kou Ying’s bad luck came from death arriving late for those he wanted to save, and Lou Guanshan connected his power to [Death].
• Ye Buyu brought the group to Four Symbols Academy, where [Withering] called the school ordinary.
• Bai Yun tested the group with jokes, then suspected [Withering] was a Calamity spy and called for the gatekeeper to pin him down.

Ye Buyu and the Calamities were mistaken for spies, then visited a snack street to experience everyday life in the Present World. They learned how ordinary people viewed Hold Up the Heavens as hope, while Withering questioned whether the Calamities might be the ones in danger.

• The locals surrounded Ye Buyu and the Calamities with weapons, but Wu Yan revealed his identity and explained that Withering was not a spy.
• A vigilant student apologized for the false alarm, then insisted that he would keep treating unfamiliar people as potential threats.
• The group chose a snack street over a fancy restaurant, and Ye Buyu began eating before remembering to order food for the others.
• At a food stall, the vendor told the group that his daughter had gone to a Floating City to build an Interstellar Network and praised Hold Up the Heavens for facing danger.
• The vendor called Hold Up the Heavens hope for the Present World, and Withering retorted that the Calamities might be the ones facing danger from them.

The group explored the prosperous city, and [Self-Imprisonment] questioned whether their friendships and society could withstand the lure of power once Doomsday ended. [War] warned that people might preserve external threats to maintain Civilization’s stability, leaving the group with a troubling possibility to consider.

• The owner and passersby mistook [Withering]’s anger for admiration of Hold Up the Heavens, while Ye Buyu and Su Wuwei stopped him from starting a fight.
• Su Wuwei challenged [Withering] to a one-on-one fight, and Wan Lan asked [Thought-Madness] to accept her challenge.
• The group visited the Doomsday Tower, where [History-Eater] carved the city and asked where to find the local Calamities.
• [Self-Imprisonment] asked Mu Bingge how the Navigators would prevent power and competing interests from dividing their team and society after Doomsday ended.
• [War] questioned whether people who lost their roles and future prospects might create or tolerate dangerous Calamities to preserve external pressure and Civilization.

Ye Buyu brought several powerful Calamities to the Doomsday Observatory to meet the local Calamities. The meeting revealed the unusual history and close ties between the local Calamities and Hold Up the Heavens, while Wind-Thunder proudly displayed its diplomatic medal.

• Ye Buyu gave a guard storage devices and asked him to have Gong Jieyong and the others process the materials to strengthen their End of the World.
• Wei Changming lifted Ye Buyu into the air and blinded her with light pollution as a teasing welcome, while Horizon members checked that she was unharmed.
• Ye Buyu introduced the visiting fourteenth-tier Calamities to Wind-Thunder, Little White, Blue Sea, and Wugui.
• Little White explained that it, Blue Sea, and Wugui had survived because of past surgery and that Hold Up the Heavens had created Wugui.
• Wind-Thunder showed the visiting Calamities its Calamity Diplomatic Ambassador Medal and boasted about being celebrated across the world.

Thought-Madness and the others exposed how living beings had once raised and slaughtered Calamities for materials, a practice that helped cause the Peak Epoch’s collapse. The Calamities opposing [Sinful Karma] said they were gambling on a different future, while Ye Buyu and the others were left facing the unresolved contradiction between the two groups.

• Thought-Madness warned that living beings and Calamities still needed to kill or sacrifice one another to gain power.
• [Self-Imprisonment] revealed that Calamities had once been scarce during the Peak Epoch, before [War] explained that people had raised them in captivity and harvested their materials.
• Withering explained that [Sinful Karma] wanted everyone to become Calamities because it believed living beings and Calamities could not coexist.
• [Madness] said the Calamities opposed [Sinful Karma] because they wanted to gamble on a future beyond their repeating cycle of suffering.
• [History-Eater] asked whether the present could forge a different path from the Peak Epoch, and Ye Buyu and Wei Changming struggled to see how the two groups could coexist.

Ye Buyu and her companions sought a way for living beings to use Calamity Power without killing Calamities, while considering how peaceful coexistence could work. Wei Changming introduced them to [Streetlamp] and [Trickery], who revealed how their generations lived and worked with partners to address problems.

• Su Wuwei proposed finding a way to draw Calamity Power directly, and Mu Bingge compared the idea to developing solar panels that could replace Calamities as sources of usable energy.
• Wan Lan said Calamities that continued attacking living beings should be killed, while Ye Buyu struggled to devise a way for Calamities to coexist peacefully.
• Wei Changming brought Orange Lamp, a battered umbrella, and [Rift] to meet the group, introducing the elders as [Streetlamp] and [Trickery].
• [Streetlamp] and [Trickery] explained that they came into being through successive generations, had finite lifespans, and partnered with others to solve problems.
• [Streetlamp] described enjoying its work with its partners, leaving the group impressed by how meaningful and comfortable its life seemed.

[History-Eater] asked [Streetlamp] and [Trickery] to teach it how to coexist with living beings, and they agreed to help others as their life’s purpose. Ye Buyu outlined solutions for coexistence and the crisis facing the End of the World, then tried to leave the work to the others, who insisted she and the Six stay and help.

• [Streetlamp] and [Trickery] explained that helping others gave them purpose, and they agreed to teach [History-Eater] how to coexist with living beings.
• Wan Lan proposed developing a device to convert Calamity Power and testing it at designated sites, while Little Whale suggested reproduction could help establish order among Calamities.
• Ye Buyu tried to hand the remaining work to Wei Changming and the others, but they protested that the plan was too large to handle without her and the Six.
• Guan Xiaomei, Chu Lie, Yu Qin, and Wei Changming stopped Wan Lan, Lou Guanshan, Ye Buyu, and Su Wuwei from slipping away, while Kou Ying and Xiao Shuo began working together.
• Meng He and Mu Bingge started tackling problems, and Su Wuwei agreed that the Six would help with the toughest tasks.

Hold Up the Heavens returned and began helping Horizon and the Present World’s organizations, while Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and the Dark Web’s emperor demonstrated how much the group had changed. The chapter left criminals and would-be Star Network manipulators giving up once they realized Hold Up the Heavens was behind the crackdown.

• News spread that Hold Up the Heavens had returned to work with Horizon, prompting the Present World’s organizations to celebrate and worry about what would happen to them.
• Mu Bingge used an azure clocklike light to give Social Security Bureau staff a glimpse of the future, helping them find answers to their problems.
• Lou Guanshan raised ancient trees and restored the fortress’s land, healing soldiers and regrowing the limbs of those who had lost them.
• Lou Guanshan urged the Vermilion Bird Division members to declare that their era had arrived, but Wusu and the others vanished and left him to say it alone.
• The Dark Web’s emperor returned and purged wanted criminals, while the Dark Web’s users realized the technical expert was likely a member of Hold Up the Heavens.
• Buyer No. 1 told Calamity 778 that Hold Up the Heavens had forced them to abandon plans to control the Star Network, and Calamity 778 deleted their account when asked if they could handle the group.

Ye Buyu reassured the scholars that she could help them choose research directions while she watched the moon, where Su Wuwei and Wan Lan were helping Wind-Thunder and Slyder improve their abilities. The chapter left Wan Lan beginning a fight with [Thought-Madness] so they could explore the nature of her power.

• Ye Buyu stopped the scholars from treating her and the Navigators as objects of worship, though they insisted they could still make dolls and figurines as hobbies.
• Ye Buyu offered to advise the scholars on difficult research choices and explained that she planned to watch the moon while her teammates pursued deeper power there.
• On the moon, Su Wuwei and Wan Lan faced [Withering] and [Thought-Madness], while Wind-Thunder and Slyder complained about being pulled into the training session.
• [Thought-Madness] said Wan Lan had likely found her Origin but that Su Wuwei’s ability was too abstract to identify.
• Wan Lan challenged [Thought-Madness] to fight so they could discuss her power as they tested it.

Wan Lan used the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road’s Order to resist [Thought-Madness], who realized that order could untangle chaotic thought and rebuild a world after turmoil. Su Wuwei then faced [Withering], who promised to strip away what he possessed and reveal what lay beneath.

• [Thought-Madness] attacked Wan Lan and explained that she could borrow a small part of the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road’s power.
• [Thought-Madness] filled Wan Lan’s mind with conflicting sayings and urged her to use her Origin to resist his influence.
• Wan Lan imposed her own rules with the wind of Order, cutting through [Thought-Madness]’s chaotic power.
• [Thought-Madness] realized the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road embodied Order and understood that order was needed to judge wrongs and untangle chaotic thought.
• [Withering] questioned the breadth of Su Wuwei’s team’s powers, then challenged Su Wuwei to face his ability.
• Su Wuwei welcomed [Withering]’s trial and said he preferred it to a violent fight.

Su Wuwei endured [Withering]’s attack until Wan Lan helped him realize that his Origin was Civilization, rooted in his love of watching civilizations grow and change. He recovered, but he remained concerned that Calamities would resist the new rules his group hoped to establish.

• [Withering] weakened Su Wuwei, who refused to resist while searching for what he wanted to hold on to.
• Wan Lan urged Su Wuwei to remember his Obsession with the human world’s fun, and he realized that he cherished watching civilization develop.
• Su Wuwei identified Civilization as his Origin and explained how Old Affairs in the Embers rekindled the wills of worlds that had been reduced to ashes.
• Wan Lan attacked Wind-Thunder and Slyder after they awkwardly tried to reassure her, while [Thought-Madness] wondered whether the group had come on a mission.
• Su Wuwei said the world needed more excitement and reflected that his group would have to use force and persuasion to make the Calamities accept their rules.

Su Wuwei refused to let Withering and Thought-Madness enter the River of Forgetfulness, but helped them find paid work and agreed to take Thought-Madness wine shopping. Wan Lan learned that Su Wuwei embodied Civilization and discovered that Ye Buyu was immobilized while holding the Black Box wrapped in Red Thread.

• Su Wuwei told Withering and Thought-Madness that they could enter the River of Forgetfulness only by dying, and refused to take them there.
• Thought-Madness accepted Wan Lan's offer of a thousand an hour, and Su Wuwei agreed to take him and Withering to buy wine.
• Wan Lan carried Wind-Thunder and Slyder to the Scholars' Association's spaceship and joined Ye Buyu.
• Wan Lan told Ye Buyu that the new Order was settled and that Su Wuwei's nature was Civilization.
• Ye Buyu revealed that she could not move because she held the Black Box wrapped in the Red Thread.

Ye Buyu prepared to confront the legendary God, warned Wind-Thunder and Slyder that they could not come with her, and sought reassurance from Bai Anjia before setting out with Hold Up the Heavens. The chapter ended with the team aboard the Starship, looking over the land they protected.

• Ye Buyu told Wind-Thunder and Slyder that she could suppress the threat for three more days and asked Wan Lan to assemble the others and the Night Realm's Calamities.
• Ye Buyu revealed that she feared they would face the legendary God, and Wind-Thunder and Slyder refused to join her but agreed to help Meng He and the others.
• Ye Buyu entered the River of Forgetfulness and told Bai Anjia she feared she might not bring her teammates back; he encouraged her to keep going and promised they would meet again.
• Ye Buyu opened her eyes to find the five assembled members of Hold Up the Heavens behind her, and the six stood aboard the Starship surveying the Present World.
• Su Wuwei teased Ye Buyu about her ominous attempt to set a mood, and Lou Guanshan loudly called for everyone to get wild.

Ye Buyu and her companions traveled through time to the lost era, scattering into separate destinations after the Black Box was halted. Ye Buyu landed alone in a deep sea, where a strange light placed a halo over her head before she threw it away.

• Ye Buyu left the Night Realm calamities and Salvation Hall of Fame members behind as the six companions departed in the Black Box.
• The Doomsday Tower stirred in the Present World, and transparent threads connected people to its star-filled pan of scales.
• A mysterious sleeper noticed that the travelers had left, then went back to sleep.
• The Black Box traveled upstream through time before the river of stars stopped it and split it into several streaks of light.
• Ye Buyu crashed into a meteorite, broke it apart, and plunged into the deep sea of an unknown planet.
• A ray of light followed Ye Buyu across the water and formed a halo above her head, which she threw into the sea.

Ye Buyu arrived in a world dominated by Fate, where she discovered that she had been marked as a Divine Guest. She was left stunned when the divine procession stopped in front of her and the crowd bowed.

• Ye Buyu found that the halo she had thrown into the sea kept returning to her head, and she bound a strange ball of light within her soul with the power of Cause and Effect.
• Ye Buyu reached a city and learned from a passerby that outsiders received travel permits and blessings from the Fate Temple.
• Ye Buyu opened a chest containing five hundred Fate Coins but chose not to take them, suspecting that accepting them could entangle her with Fate.
• Ye Buyu heard that a divine carriage was approaching West Street and hid to watch the procession.
• The Guards announced the arrival of the Divine Guest, and the divine deer stopped before Ye Buyu, knocking away her disguise and revealing her silver hair and halo.