Chapter Summaries

Su Wuwei and Wan Lan left the tribe after warning its people to grow stronger, then interrogated and killed a merchant who revealed how [Colonialism] manipulated language and divided people. They headed toward the Western Continent to confront [Colonialism], while Wujia resolved to become strong enough to see them again.

• Wan Lan and Su Wuwei taught Wujia and the tribe to distrust those who undermined them and urged them to grow strong enough to face their enemies themselves.
• Su Wuwei and Wan Lan disappeared, and Wujia chased after them before his comrades helped him up; he vowed to reclaim what belonged to his people and see the Great General again.
• Su Wuwei and Wan Lan forced the merchant to reveal that [Colonialism] controlled money and power on the Western Continent and used agents to erase and distort languages, discredit people, and provoke groups into fighting one another.
• Su Wuwei recognized the scheme as Colonization of Thought and burned the merchant to ashes despite his offers of money and ancient texts.
• Su Wuwei and Wan Lan set off toward the distant continent, and Su Wuwei speculated that internet-driven manipulation could create groups that fought over labels.

Su Wuwei and Wan Lan traveled to the Western Continent to confront [Colonialism], where the hidden god had prepared an ambush. They defeated the black-robed guardians and faced Mohe, while [Colonialism] remained concealed.

• Su Wuwei explained to Wan Lan that people caught up in emotional conflicts could eventually see through those manipulating them, then raced with her toward the Western Continent.
• A hidden figure ordered Mohe to receive the visitors and told the four guardians to prepare.
• Mohe invited Su Wuwei and Wan Lan to meet his god, but Wan Lan attacked the castle with a storm-charged arrow and demanded that [Colonialism] appear.
• Four black-robed guardians surrounded Su Wuwei and Wan Lan, who fought back; Su Wuwei's flames consumed one guardian while Wan Lan bound two others.
• Su Wuwei confronted the remaining guardians and destroyed one with a blazing saber strike as Mohe urged them to follow the plan.
• Su Wuwei denounced parasites like [Colonialism], which remained hidden.

Wan Lan and Su Wuwei destroyed the city’s forces and confronted [Colonialism], exposing how the entity had abandoned the people it exploited. After discovering [Colonialism]’s weakness, they attacked together and drove it back, with Wan Lan aiming her bow as Su Wuwei pressed his blade against its chains.

• Wan Lan used chains of order and Su Wuwei’s help to hurl Mohe and the Black-Robed Men into the city, then sent a flaming arrow crashing down and destroying the area.
• [Colonialism] ignored the people begging for rescue and blamed them for expecting salvation from a legacy they had helped destroy.
• Wan Lan and Su Wuwei arrived and blocked [Colonialism] from leaving the burning ruins.
• Su Wuwei and Wan Lan attacked [Colonialism] with his saber and her arrows, snapping its chains and breaking through its blockades.
• Su Wuwei pressed his blade against [Colonialism]’s chains as Wan Lan aimed her drawn bow at the entity.

Wan Lan and Su Wuwei battled [Colonialism], using order to expose it and weaken its concealment while resisting its chains. As the fight continued, Lou Guanshan, Kou Ying, Ye Buyu, and Mu Bingge arrived in the world and headed toward a giant iron ball, drawing the tribes’ attention.

• Wan Lan exposed [Colonialism]'s weakness, and she and Su Wuwei attacked it inside its domain of chains.
• [Colonialism] wounded Wan Lan and Su Wuwei but was struck by both of their attacks as they fought back.
• [Colonialism] questioned how they had gained their powers, and Su Wuwei explained that living beings could become strong without being born with power.
• Lou Guanshan, Kou Ying, Ye Buyu, and Mu Bingge descended into the world, and Ye Buyu sent her halo to search for their teammates.
• The four spotted a giant iron ball and flew toward it, while tribespeople saw the strange meteors and suspected new visitors had arrived from beyond the sky.

Wan Lan and Su Wuwei discovered how to restrain [Colonialism] with the power of order, but they could not overcome his near-endless energy. Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and a fourth companion arrived and joined the battle after seeing their wounded teammates.

• Su Wuwei and Wan Lan fought [Colonialism] while the chains of order began to lock him in place.
• Wan Lan recognized that the power of order could suppress [Colonialism], but the pair remained at a disadvantage because of their limited stamina.
• Su Wuwei and Wan Lan sensed unfamiliar presences outside the chains, and [Colonialism] realized four newcomers had appeared.
• Lou Guanshan and Ye Buyu peered through a gap in the chains, and Ye Buyu attacked after seeing Su Wuwei and Wan Lan's wounds.
• Mu Bingge and Lou Guanshan joined Ye Buyu and the fourth companion in breaking through the blockade, prompting [Colonialism] to demand where they had come from.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members overwhelmed [Colonialism] with a coordinated attack, but the wounded deity transformed and self-detonated as they fled. The six survived the blast, though the explosion erased the surrounding landmass.

• Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Lou Guanshan, and Kou Ying combined their attacks to pierce and pin down [Colonialism].
• [Colonialism] asked where [Fate] and [Eternal Life] were, then transformed into a sphere of destructive energy to self-detonate.
• Kou Ying warned the others to run, and Ye Buyu carried Wan Lan while Lou Guanshan carried the exhausted Su Wuwei.
• [Colonialism]'s explosion hurled the six into the air, and Ye Buyu bound them together with her spear while Mu Bingge raised water mirrors against the shock waves.
• The blast pulverized the mountains, evaporated the rivers, and caused the continent to collapse until the landmass was erased.

Ye Buyu and her companions traveled to the native civilization’s territory, where they discovered evidence that the world had fallen from a high-tech civilization. When they reached a fortified settlement, its soldiers mistook them for enemies who had captured Su Wuwei and Wan Lan.

• Wan Lan explained that the destroyed settlement had been built by people who exploited the world’s population, and she directed Ye Buyu east toward the native civilization.
• As the group crossed the ocean, Lou Guanshan and Kou Ying recognized signs that the landscape had been reshaped by a catastrophic high-energy impact.
• Ye Buyu suggested the three Divine Realms had targeted specific members of the group, but Mu Bingge urged everyone to focus on the nearby settlement.
• The group approached a riverside tribe and found fortifications built from Kou Ying’s designs, which Su Wuwei had apparently taught the locals.
• The soldiers mistook the sleeping Su Wuwei and Wan Lan for captives and accused the group of killing them, then demanded that they release the general.

Mu Bingge and the others reunited with Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, and Wujia’s troops after a misunderstanding made the soldiers think the two were dead. Once inside the tribe, they warned the leaders that Colonialism might still be alive, and Ye Buyu suggested it could have weakened after its self-detonation, leaving Wujia wondering what experience she had with such an attack.

• Mu Bingge doused the exhausted Wan Lan and Su Wuwei with water to wake them, then Wan Lan dried everyone with a breeze.
• Wujia’s soldiers mistook Wan Lan and Su Wuwei for the dead and challenged the group to give the password, which Su Wuwei answered correctly.
• Wujia rushed to greet Wan Lan, who knocked him down, and the companions explained that their rough treatment of the sleeping pair had been meant to check on them and prove they were allies.
• Su Wuwei reassured the soldiers, and the group entered the tribe, where its leaders learned that Colonialism might still be alive and planning another attack.
• Wan Lan and Ye Buyu suggested Wujia might be able to fight the weakened Colonialism, and Wujia asked what Ye Buyu meant by her experience with self-detonation.

Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, and the others taught the tribe leaders how divisive rhetoric could turn people against one another, then prepared to intensively train them for a mission to return to another world and confront its deities. Meanwhile, [Colonialism] tempted a resentful man in the tribe into exploiting and manipulating his people, and he accepted its reasoning.

• Wan Lan and Su Wuwei demonstrated how hostile rhetoric could provoke Wujia and sow distrust of outsiders, warning the leaders to watch for deliberate manipulation.
• Kou Ying revealed that the group needed to return to a world and fulfill a promise by dealing with its deities, while Mu Bingge said she would slow time for intensive training.
• Deep within the tribe, [Colonialism] whispered to a disgruntled man, promising wealth and influence if he gained the people's trust and used their strength.
• The man recalled criticism of his laziness and empty promises, then blamed Commissioner Su and General Wan Lan for making the people harder to deceive.
• [Colonialism] urged the man to divide the people, undermine their confidence, and bind them to him with small rewards, and he abandoned his hesitation and embraced the plan.

A manipulative man took control of a work team by exploiting its members’ trust, but Old Li saw through his efforts to divide and intimidate them. After leaving, Old Li went to the school, where he discovered Commissioner Su and was invited to explain his predicament.

• The man apologized to the team, won support for his work method, and gradually replaced its original leader.
• After a month of losses, the man blamed his decision-making and warned the team that they had few options outside their current work.
• Old Li challenged the man’s attempts to make the team fear outside risks, citing a lesson from a student of Commissioner Su, then announced he was leaving.
• Old Li went to the school and found Ye Buyu, Su Wuwei, and others studying there.
• Ye Buyu introduced Su Wuwei as Commissioner Su, astonishing Old Li, then urged the group to listen to his predicament.

Ye Buyu and her companions investigated a Labor Corps after hearing its former captain describe how the new captain had undermined him and the other workers. They exposed Captain Chen’s corruption, but the hostile presence inside him escaped, and Ye Buyu revealed that she had caught it with a Red Thread.

• The former captain told Ye Buyu and her companions that he had left the corps after the new captain targeted him and changed the workers’ behavior, and Wan Lan reassured him that he was not to blame.
• Ye Buyu and the others went to the corps, where Ye Buyu approached Captain Chen by pretending they wanted work.
• Wan Lan accused Captain Chen of withholding wages, evading taxes, bribing officials, and intimidating people, while Su Wuwei used fire to make a teacup reveal the voice in Captain Chen’s heart boasting about his schemes.
• Captain Chen denied the accusations and called Su Wuwei an impostor, but Wan Lan knocked him unconscious as the corps members recognized Su Wuwei’s techniques.
• The hostile presence slipped away, but Ye Buyu said her Red Thread had caught its tail and taunted it that it had nowhere to run.

Ye Buyu devised a plan to draw [Colonialism] out of the crowd after the god concealed itself by parasitizing people in the Tribe. As [Colonialism] watched the Six grow stronger and wondered why they had gathered, the team prepared to act while still lacking a way to locate the god's Godhead.

• Lou Guanshan encouraged the shaken team members to register at a guild and explore the School for answers.
• The Six recognized that [Colonialism] had hidden among the crowd, and Ye Buyu proposed using red strings to trace its scattered clues.
• Ye Buyu suggested putting venomous creatures in a jar to force the god out, and the next day a patrol began recruiting people for an Elite Team.
• [Colonialism] watched the Tribe's movements, felt reassured when the Six followed planted clues elsewhere, and reflected on their rapid growth and unlikely alliance.
• Lou Guanshan asked Ye Buyu whether she could locate the god's Godhead, and she said she could not.

Ye Buyu and the others struggled to locate Colonialism, while the parasite secretly exploited the gathered people’s ambitions and resentment. Ye Buyu found its largest manifestation and immobilized the gathering, forcing Colonialism to answer for itself.

• Ye Buyu and the others admitted they could not pinpoint Colonialism, and Su Wuwei proposed relying on the Tribe before sealing off the area.
• Colonialism whispered into the hearts of people at the gathering, encouraging them to manipulate and exploit one another.
• Wujia and an old man watched the gathering and worried that words alone could divide and corrupt people.
• Ye Buyu emerged from a Water Mirror as chains sealed the area and immobilized Colonialism.
• Ye Buyu identified the largest Colonialism manifestation inside a man and demanded that Colonialism reveal itself.

Ye Buyu and her companions confronted [Colonialism], whose dazzling appearance revealed the greed and desires of the elites watching. After [Colonialism] defended selfishness as merely another way of living, Wan Lan attacked it and condemned the elites for letting it corrupt them.

• Ye Buyu fired her Silver Pistol, transformed it into a Gatling Gun, and drove the elites into a panic.
• Wan Lan ordered Wujia and the soldiers to remove the elites, then let Wujia stay and witness the enemy.
• [Colonialism] emerged as a jewel-covered figure, while Ye Buyu and her companions saw different forms and the elites saw wealth or their own desires.
• The elites claimed that greed was human nature, but Su Wuwei and Kou Ying challenged their excuses.
• [Colonialism] argued that selfishness was no worse than giving, so Ye Buyu shot at it and Wan Lan rushed in to beat it.

Ye Buyu and the Hold Up the Heavens Team weakened [Colonialism] and left the Tribe to confront its lingering influence. As they headed for the hidden Godhead, [Colonialism] fled the Divine Realm to seek help from [Fate] and [Eternal Life].

• Wujia beat an elite who invoked his heroic father to excuse his own oppression, while Su Wuwei silenced [Colonialism] as it tried to provoke more conflict.
• Ye Buyu revealed that the Tribe would have to carry on the fight against [Colonialism], and Wan Lan crushed the deity’s formed body after Ye Buyu identified the Godhead’s location.
• Su Wuwei warned the Tribe’s leaders to guard against political schemes and said the team might be gone for decades, centuries, or forever.
• The Hold Up the Heavens Team set out for the hidden Godhead, while [Colonialism] returned there and decided to seek help from [Fate] and [Eternal Life].
• Ye Buyu sensed [Colonialism] leaving through the opened Divine Realm, and Kou Ying realized the deity was seeking help from the other two.

Ye Buyu chose to fight despite [Eternal Life] merging with the Divine Realm and [Fate] wavering between two personalities. After [Colonialism] demanded an explanation, [Fate] revealed she would split her loyalties between the two sides, leaving the gods facing an uncertain battle.

• Ye Buyu told Su Wuwei that they would fight, while [Eternal Life] had merged with the Divine Realm and [Fate] was divided between two personalities.
• [Colonialism] confronted [Eternal Life], who revealed that half his Godhead had shattered and directed him to question [Fate].
• [Fate] arrived and explained that an opponent from her side had attacked [Eternal Life] with power comparable to a demigod.
• [Fate] said she had allowed the newcomers to arrive because they had created her second personality, then questioned whether the gods had to obey the universe's mission when living beings opposed it.
• [Fate] decided to split apart so one half could fulfill the mission and the other could protect living beings, promising to help both sides in the coming battle.
• [Colonialism] and [Eternal Life] recognized that they might lose despite their opponents not yet being gods.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members confronted [Colonialism] and the gods at the convergence of the three Divine Realms, determined to resist the Universe’s path toward destruction. After [Fate] split into two and [Eternal Life] withdrew from the Divine Realm, the final battle began with Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, and Lou Guanshan attacking.

• Ye Buyu told [Fate] that the Six would fight because living beings refused to accept the Universe’s impending destruction.
• [Fate] split into two, with one version standing beside [Colonialism] and the other declining to join the battle.
• [Eternal Life], [Colonialism], and [Fate] withdrew their power from their Divine Realms to face the Six in their complete forms.
• [Fate] explained that the gods’ Godheads were inside their bodies and that the Six could choose to exist as living beings or calamities.
• The indifferent [Fate] separated the three Divine Realms and declared their convergence the final battlefield of the gods.
• Mu Bingge attacked [Colonialism], while Su Wuwei and Lou Guanshan unleashed flaming saber strikes across the Sea of Stars.

Ye Buyu, Wan Lan, Mu Bingge, Lou Guanshan, and Su Wuwei defeated [Eternal Life] and [Colonialism] in the Sea of Stars. As [Fate] faded away, all six were grievously injured without warning, and Ye Buyu found a black chain piercing her chest.

• Ye Buyu struck [Eternal Life] with her Double-Edged Spear while Wan Lan attacked the two deities with azure arrows, and Mu Bingge and Lou Guanshan cornered [Colonialism].
• Ye Buyu drove her spear into [Eternal Life], unleashing scarlet threads and draining its Origin Power, while Su Wuwei brought down a Sunfire blade as shadows swallowed its feet.
• Wan Lan’s arrow pierced the Origin at [Colonialism]’s core, causing its chains and body to disintegrate and collapse.
• Su Wuwei’s strike cleaved [Eternal Life]’s head from its body and split the Godhead inside its skull.
• [Fate] acknowledged that living beings could create miracles, then warned them not to celebrate too soon as all six were suddenly grievously wounded.
• Ye Buyu looked down and saw a pitch-black chain piercing her chest.

The compassionate [Fate] gave up half of its Godhead and faith to help Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Mu Bingge, Ye Buyu, Lou Guanshan, and Kou Ying become gods. They began attacking [Eternal Life], [Colonialism], and the indifferent [Fate] in the Sea of Stars, while allies in the Divine Realms sensed the battle and prepared to help.

• The six wounded fighters prepared to keep battling as the Godheads of [Eternal Life] and [Colonialism] merged, and the indifferent [Fate] explained that the gods could resurrect while their Divine Realms endured.
• The compassionate [Fate] dismantled its Godhead and sent its power and faith to Wan Lan, Su Wuwei, Mu Bingge, Ye Buyu, Lou Guanshan, and Kou Ying, helping them form their own Godheads.
• The six awakened new powers tied to Order, civilization, Cause and Effect, planetary life, and death, then resolved to destroy the gods' Divine Realms and attacked together.
• The battle shook the Three Divine Realms, where countless beings sensed its effects and Wujia felt an urgent message from his teacher.
• In [Eternal Life]'s world, a woman urged workers to finish a cutting-edge construction project, saying it would be delivered to the friends fighting for them.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members continued battling [Eternal Life], [Colonialism], and [Fate], while the time distortion caused a year to pass in the Sea of Stars and three years in the Divine Realms. As Wan Lan opened an escape route, Yun and two Merkels prepared to deliver an object, and Wujia’s Tribe faced the problem of how to make its civilization tower fly.

• A pale cyan rift split the Sea of Stars, and its energy upheaval continued for a year as star domains became forbidden zones.
• The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members fought the three gods through repeated rounds of destruction and recovery, while [Colonialism]'s power weakened and the Divine Realms neared collapse.
• Wan Lan established the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road as an evacuation passage through the three great Divine Realms.
• Yun and two Merkels agreed to fulfill their promise by delivering an object as death and life returned to Yun's world.
• Wujia's Tribe built a tower to carry its people and records of civilization, but Wujia admitted he had never figured out how to make it fly.