Chapter Summaries

Wujia and the other survivors prepared to flee their doomed worlds along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road while Hold Up the Heavens fought the fused gods. After the tower carried the civilizations to safety, the six turned back to face the gods with nothing left to protect behind them.

• Lou Guanshan explained that the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road had originally formed as an escape route, and Wujia urged his people to enter the tower.
• Merkel and Yun sent the Sword of Judgment ahead with a library of their civilization’s technology, while Ye Buyu, Su Wuwei, and Lou Guanshan fashioned a Godhead fragment into a vessel for the refugees.
• Su Wuwei launched the tower to collect the people of the Divine Realms of Fate and Eternal Life as Ye Buyu and Mu Bingge held back the three gods.
• Wan Lan opened the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, and the refugees departed with the six members identifying themselves as Hold Up the Heavens.
• After the passage closed, Hold Up the Heavens regrouped and prepared to continue fighting the three gods; Ye Buyu offered the last Fate Fragments and threatened to smash their Godhead apart.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members fought the Three Gods until the Three Gods destroyed their Divine Realms in a final attack. Ye Buyu sent a fragment of [Fate] and a skill into the future, where Little Brat caught it, while the battlefield and the Godheads were erased.

• Ku Rong investigated the protected pavilion traveling along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road, but the Chief told him to leave it alone and return.
• After ages of fighting, [Fate] activated the World Core and the Three Gods began destroying their Divine Realms to take the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members down with them.
• Ye Buyu and the other five used their remaining strength to resist the explosions, while the Sword of Judgment was blasted into the Void.
• [Fate] cast off a Divine-Character Fragment, but Ye Buyu severed the Three Gods' attempts to escape and sent the fragment, along with a skill, through a rift toward the future.
• Little Brat caught the fragment beyond the world and resolved to work overtime as Calamity Aura spread; the Godheads and Divine Realms then disintegrated, leaving the battle's aftershocks unresolved.

The Salvation Hall of Fame received a fragment of [Fate] and resolved to investigate the tower while growing stronger. Decades later, Yun’s expedition found the ruined Judgment Sword and left Hold Up the Heavens’ name on it, as the new age’s people began to call the upheaval the lost Deity Epoch.

• The Chief gave the Salvation Hall of Fame a fragment of [Fate] and told them to decide when to use it and Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon.
• Water Mirror and Ku Rong agreed to investigate the tower and wait for Hold Up the Heavens while the Hall of Fame grew stronger.
• Yun led an expedition to the ruined sword, named it Judgment, and carved Hold Up the Heavens into its blade.
• The people established the Primordial Beginning Tower, and explorers discovered the stable Thousand-Wind Ancient Road linking regions of the universe.
• A mysterious account named the brief upheaval the lost Deity Epoch, which the Salvation Hall of Fame linked to their Hall Master and friends.

The Chief found the newly born [Madness] struggling between her mission and the suffering she had glimpsed, and brought her inside to guard the door while she decided what to do. As a new era began, people in a prosperous civilization started manufacturing calamities by feeding prisoners—and eventually innocent people—to them for profit.

• [Madness] awoke with the power of a fourteenth-tier calamity after the universe’s expansion was diverted into the dimensional space.
• Haunted by visions of suffering, [Madness] hesitated to carry out her mission to let madness rule the world.
• The Chief invited [Madness] inside to guard the door until she had figured out her purpose, and she accepted.
• The Chief took the sphere into the Sea of Stars and left the next steps to others.
• In a new era, profiteers began creating calamities by feeding death-row prisoners to them, then expanded the practice to other prisoners and framed innocent people.

The Floating City’s reckless experiment unleashed [Sinful Karma], and its collapse triggered a cascade of disasters and new Calamities across the universe. As the Great Decline Epoch descended, the Salvation Hall of Fame began rescuing the remnants of civilization and opposing the spreading darkness.

• [Sinful Karma] broke free, judged those involved in the experiment, and brought about the fall of the Floating City.
• The founders guided the births of [Stagnation] and [Cycle], and [Thought-Madness] emerged amid the chaos that followed.
• As warfare and scarcity spread, [Withering] was born, and people who salvaged books died preserving civilization’s history.
• A little girl became [History-Eater], and Note and Wu Yan invited her to the Night Realm.
• [War] awakened as the last peaceful star system fell, while survivors fled through the broken Sea of Stars.
• Figures from the Salvation Hall of Fame appeared across the universe, and the name of Judgment began to spread.

The chapter traced how humanity’s suffering and failed hopes gave rise to Calamities including [Self-Imprisonment], [Despair], [Indifference], [Selfishness], [Dullness], [Ritual Flame], and [Heart-Erosion], before the Chief fell asleep holding the Night Realm. In another dimension, Ye Buyu and her companions remained as scattered fragments and tried to determine whether they still existed, but Wan Lan realized Kou Ying was missing.

• Humanity’s repeated disasters, failed leaders, and collapsing civilizations gave rise to [Despair] and the Calamity called [Monarch].
• People’s indifference, selfishness, and refusal to question their own beliefs gave rise to [Indifference], [Selfishness], and [Dullness].
• People burned a living person and sacrificed a planet to appease their god, and [Ritual Flame] emerged from the flames.
• As the Sea of Stars dimmed, [Heart-Erosion] mourned the hollowing of people’s hearts, and the Chief fell asleep with the Night Realm in her hands.
• Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, Lou Guanshan, Feng, and Wan Lan found themselves reduced to fragments but could still communicate.
• Wan Lan identified her companions by their fragments and asked where Kou Ying was.

Ye Buyu and the other five battered consciousnesses discussed how to escape their sealed space without bringing their Godheads into the Present World and turning it into six Divine Realms. Their theory that they themselves had created the Black Box and the Divine-Character Fragments left them wondering whether completing a time-spanning Cause and Effect was the only way forward.

• Wan Lan urged the six to find a way to reunite their consciousnesses and explore the outside, while Kou Ying said they might need to reassemble their Godheads to escape.
• Su Wuwei warned that bringing their Godheads to the Present World could divide it into six Divine Realms, and Kou Ying said they needed to separate the Godheads from themselves.
• Ye Buyu proposed that the strange space they had passed through while traveling in time was their current location, and that they themselves might have made the time-traveling Black Box.
• Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Ye Buyu compared the characters they had seen during time travel and realized each matched their own name or power.
• The six speculated that their past selves might have witnessed them forming their Godheads and that closing a Cause and Effect loop across time could be necessary to separate them.
• Ye Buyu admitted that the speculation was making her feel as if she was going to lose it.

Six recovering consciousnesses sent a water droplet out of the Hidden Dimension to discover how much time had passed. Mu Bingge learned that the droplet had reached Calamity Castle and that they had been asleep for three epochs, leaving the group shocked by how far their timeline expectations had been wrong.

• Ye Buyu, Mu Bingge, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Lou Guanshan, and Su Wuwei struggled to form their souls and writing while waiting for Wan Lan to sense the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.
• Mu Bingge made a droplet of water, and Ye Buyu added cause-and-effect power so it could travel outside and return information.
• The Chief awoke in the Salvation Hall of Fame and ordered Note and the others to guard the coordinates without disturbing the hidden place.
• The droplet landed on a cracked Cyan Stele, and Mu Bingge sensed that it had first fallen into Calamity Castle rather than the Present World.
• Mu Bingge told the others that Calamity Castle’s time traces revealed they had been asleep for three epochs, shocking Lou Guanshan and the others.

Ye Buyu and the Six formed their Godheads while arranging the events that had shaped their own lives. After [Gestation] revealed that she had created Ye Buyu out of hope, the Six completed their preparations and sent a black box through time, causing the explosion that began Ye Buyu’s story.

• Ye Buyu saw [Gestation] send a red thread toward a young ocean and understood that she had been born from [Gestation]’s love and sacrifice.
• Mu Bingge announced that Doomsday had arrived, and the Six continued forming their Godheads while joking that they were setting themselves up.
• Kou Ying sensed Kou Cheqie'er enter his prepared grave and complete the final proposition of his life, while Kou Cheqie'er looked toward the future with hope.
• Mu Bingge made a black box, and the Six filled it with their Origin Power before sending it along the Thousand-Wind Ancient Road.
• The black box’s power followed Ye Buyu into the Present World and triggered the explosion that began her story, leaving the Six to realize they had caused the events themselves.

Ye Buyu and the other five sealed their Godheads and waited in the Void for their past selves to return, gradually becoming tangible as the timeline advanced. When six figures carrying Black Boxes entered the Godheads, the Doomsday Tower’s progress plummeted to 11.1 percent, and the Present World reacted in shock.

• Ye Buyu finished condensing her Godhead just as her original self traveled through time, and the six sealed their Godheads inside a hidden space.
• Ye Buyu explained that they might have to wait until their past selves returned before they could fully take on tangible forms.
• Lou Guanshan urged the others to wait and strengthen their powers while they watched their former selves pass through the Godheads.
• As Hold Up the Heavens traveled through time, the six became tangible and fell into the depths of their Godheads carrying Black Boxes.
• The Chief awoke in shock and exclaimed that the battle was over.
• The Doomsday Tower shook as its progress dropped from 66 percent to 11.1 percent, while the Web of Fates and the Scales stirred and the Horizon Team wondered what had happened.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens returned to the River of Forgetfulness in a chaotic landing, then revealed that they had traveled to the past and lived through several epochs before coming back. Their account left the assembled Calamities and scholars stunned, especially when Su Wuwei explained why the Deity Epoch was known as the Lost Age.

• The Six Hold Up the Heavens appeared in the sky, and the Horizon Team and other powerful figures prepared to defend the Present World.
• Kou Ying’s bad luck triggered a chain of collisions that sent the Six Hold Up the Heavens crashing into one another before they landed.
• Su Wuwei pretended to be a threatening stranger, then admitted he was joking after Lou Guanshan and Kou Ying identified themselves.
• Ye Buyu told Little Whale that the group had become gods, but Little Whale dismissed the claim.
• Mu Bingge confirmed that the Six had returned to the past, lived through a long stretch of history, and arrived back in the present.
• Su Wuwei explained that the Deity Epoch was called the Lost Age because the Salvation Hall of Fame had been unable to find it.

The Six Hold Up the Heavens Members reunited with their allies and began recounting their battles against the Three Gods, revealing they had fought separately and survived multiple near-death encounters. Their explanation left the Calamities wondering whether the earlier battle against [Sinful Karma] had been an act.

• Wan Lan gave a brief account of the battle against the Three Gods, and the group returned to a familiar place to talk over food and drinks.
• Ye Buyu told Little Whale that she and Mu Bingge had created a second [Fate] to escape a deadly trap, and she explained that the team had repeatedly blown up while fighting the Three Gods.
• Lou Guanshan recounted breaking out of prison in the [Eternal Life] Divine Realm with Kou Ying and confronting its Emperor.
• Kou Ying explained that [Eternal Life] was far stronger than [Sinful Karma], while Wan Lan and Su Wuwei revealed they had fought [Colonialism] instead.
• The others realized the Six Hold Up the Heavens Members had fought different gods in separate pairs, prompting [Withering] to question whether their earlier fight against [Sinful Karma] had been staged.

Ye Buyu and Hold Up the Heavens recounted how they had defeated the gods during the Deity Epoch, then their friends learned that they had founded the Primordial Beginning Tower and Judgment. The gathering ended with Ye Buyu saying that becoming a deity made her feel safer.

• Ye Buyu explained that the living beings of the Divine Realms had empowered Hold Up the Heavens to defeat the gods and end the Deity Epoch.
• [Madness] recognized Ye Buyu as the source of the silver flash, while Little Whale panicked after Ye Buyu trapped it on her head.
• Su Wuwei revealed that the original members of the Primordial Beginning Tower and Judgment came from the three Divine Realms and that Hold Up the Heavens had helped bring them out.
• Gong Jieyong and the others realized that Hold Up the Heavens had founded the Primordial Beginning Tower and Judgment, making them the seniors of their own seniors.
• Wei Changming listed Hold Up the Heavens' many achievements, and the humans and Calamities struggled to comprehend their history and power.
• [Thought-Madness] asked Ye Buyu what becoming a deity felt like, and she answered that she felt safer.

As the Horizon Team and Hold Up the Heavens discussed the universe’s imminent destruction, Ye Buyu jokingly suggested asking the Universe Consciousness to let them skip the Big Bang and move directly into the next universe. The others decided contacting it might be their only promising lead, leaving Ye Buyu protesting that she had not meant to propose a real plan.

• Lou Guanshan boasted that nothing could stump their group, then awkwardly realized the universe’s impending collapse was exactly such a problem.
• Ye Buyu said they could not solve the universe’s destruction and joked about asking the Universe Consciousness to skip the Big Bang.
• Ye Buyu pointed out that the Doomsday Tower’s progress bar had not reset, confirming the threat remained, and asked what would happen to the universe’s inhabitants.
• Wan Lan and Ku Rong explained that even gods would be powerless if the living beings and foundations supporting them were destroyed.
• Kou Ying urged everyone to attempt something rather than wait for death, and Wind-Thunder suggested negotiating with the Universe Consciousness.
• Su Wuwei agreed that contacting the Universe Consciousness was their best lead, praised Ye Buyu’s idea, and Ye Buyu insisted she had only said it offhand.

Ye Buyu and Kou Ying set out to search for the Universe Consciousness while the others split off for special tutoring. They planned to investigate Judgment and the Primordial Beginning Tower first, leaving the group to face Lou Guanshan’s remedial class.

• Su Wuwei assigned Ye Buyu to carry out her own plan, while Wan Lan and Lou Guanshan arranged special tutoring for the others.
• Lou Guanshan recruited Mu Bingge and Wei Changming for a remedial class, while Wan Lan and Su Wuwei took the Calamities, including Wind-Thunder.
• Suiyang chose to stay with Wan Lan rather than join Ye Buyu in searching for the Universe Consciousness.
• Kou Ying proposed that he and Ye Buyu visit Judgment and the Primordial Beginning Tower to investigate the origins of Judgment and search for records about Wujia and the others.
• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying prepared to set out as the rest of the group faced Lou Guanshan’s promised tutoring.

Ye Buyu and Kou Ying traveled to Judgment to learn about the Sword of Judgment and the people who had once inhabited it. The Annihilation Seat revealed that her teacher had left a letter and believed Hold Up the Heavens was a team that had promised to return.

• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying left Wan Lan and the others, while Lou Guanshan prepared to make the Salvation Hall of Fame spar against a towering wall.
• Wind-Thunder explained that the group was letting the Calamities grow stronger because the world's survival and the possibility of coexistence might depend on them.
• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying arrived at Judgment and found that the Sword of Judgment trembled as Kou Ying approached.
• The Annihilation Seat offered to show them Judgment's records and explained that her teacher had left a letter for them.
• The Annihilation Seat recalled that her teacher said Hold Up the Heavens referred to people who had promised to return, and that the name described a team rather than an individual.

Ye Buyu and Kou Ying opened Yun and Merkel’s message in Judgment, then set out with the Four Seats for the Primordial Beginning Tower. There, Ye Buyu reunited with Yan Yan, who immediately regretted being noticed.

• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying opened the sealed letter and watched Yun and Merkel’s recording, which explained how they founded Judgment and said they had chosen to face the end of their lives.
• The Four Seats learned that Ye Buyu and Kou Ying had once helped their forebears, and agreed to keep Hold Up the Heavens until it was needed.
• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying teased each other about their many titles, then invited the Four Seats to accompany them to the Primordial Beginning Tower.
• The Four Seats joined Ye Buyu and Kou Ying at the Primordial Beginning Tower, unsettling its management Elders and surprising Xiang Mingyang, Yan Yan, and the others.
• Ye Buyu spotted Yan Yan hiding behind a pillar, and he tearfully asked her to pretend she had not seen him.

Ye Buyu and Kou Ying visited the Primordial Beginning Tower to investigate its past and discovered that Wujia, its first Administrator, was sealed beneath it. They played the recording meant to wake him as the Tower’s Elders gathered around.

• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying told Wu Dan they had come to look for traces of the past and asked about Wujia, whom Wu Dan identified as the Primordial Beginning Tower’s first Administrator.
• Ye Buyu sensed Wujia beneath the tower and took Wu Dan with her and Kou Ying to the Throne of God.
• Ye Buyu found the sealed Wujia and tried to wake him by shaking him, alarming the Elders who arrived.
• Wu Dan stopped Ye Buyu and Kou Ying, explaining that Wujia needed a special audio recording to wake.
• An Elder played the sealed recording, which called Wujia to wake and remember Hold Up the Heavens.

Ye Buyu and Kou Ying awakened Wujia, who revealed that Hold Up the Heavens had helped found the Primordial Beginning Tower and were his Teachers. The Elders and Yan Yan were left struggling to understand how Hold Up the Heavens could be both recent arrivals and figures from Wujia’s distant past.

• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying punched Wujia awake, and he mistook them for familiar figures in a dream.
• Wujia asked after Teacher Wan Lan and Commissioner Su, then explained that the Primordial Beginning Tower had begun as a gathering place built at Hold Up the Heavens’ request.
• Wujia said the Primordial Blueprint was inspired by Teacher Lou and that Yun and others had named themselves Judgment after the sword Ye Buyu had left behind.
• Wujia identified the Elders as the true Tower Masters and Hold Up the Heavens as the six Gods who had saved them from the Evil God.
• Kou Ying covered Wujia’s mouth as he praised Hold Up the Heavens, while Yan Yan and the Elders questioned how the group could belong to both their era and Wujia’s past.

Ye Buyu and Kou Ying explained to Wujia and the Elders that they had traveled across Epochs and defeated the Deities, then urged Wujia and the others to prepare for a possible crisis. They left for Floating City in search of a way to address the Universe’s situation, uneasy that their journey had gone too smoothly.

• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying told Wujia, Yan Yan, and the Elders about their journey across several Epochs and confirmed that they had crushed the Deities’ Godheads.
• Wujia realized Ye Buyu and Kou Ying were searching for a way to help the current Universe, and Kou Ying told him and the Four Seats of Judgment to go to the End of the World and strengthen themselves.
• Ye Buyu and Kou Ying departed the Primordial Beginning Tower, while Wujia asked for the history of Hold Up the Heavens and praised the Elders for establishing a connection with the group.
• Yan Yan hoped Ye Buyu and Kou Ying would astonish the Universe’s major powers, while Ye Buyu and Kou Ying arrived in Floating City and remarked that their journey had been suspiciously quiet.