Chapter Summaries

Xu Ye killed Ruth after the Harvest Mother Goddess’s power drove her to mutate, then secretly contacted Lilith in Water prison No. 1. Lilith rejected the escape plan and revealed that her people had betrayed the Child of Calamity and were being punished for their sins.

• Ruth’s organs mutated after the Harvest Mother Goddess’s aura affected her, and Xu Ye killed her to end her suffering.
• Before dying, Ruth told Xu Ye she had eaten an inherited liver to use the Harvest Mother Goddess against the Child of Calamity and had only wanted to help him and their people.
• Xu Ye left to find Lilith, then used his eye, ear, and mouth to slip past a guard and contact her in Water prison No. 1.
• Xu Ye explained the plan to free Lilith during the Sea Burial, but Lilith refused to escape and urged him to take Lillian away instead.
• Lilith revealed that her people worshipped the Child of Calamity while also betraying him, leaving them cursed and trapped in atonement.

Xu Ye learned that the Child of Calamity’s apotheosis ritual required years in a seabed coffin and the sacrifice of thousands of lives, including the Mermaid people. After returning to his water cell, Xu Ye informed Lillian and made Kus cry out for help to cover his actions.

• Lilith told Xu Ye how the Mermaids betrayed the Black Mermaid, who was actually the Child of Calamity, and sealed him in a coffin.
• Lilith explained that the Child of Calamity’s ritual required eight thousand years in the coffin and eight thousand human, Aberrant, and Mermaid lives, as well as an unknown final element.
• Lilith said she would accept the Sea Burial rather than abandon her people, while Xu Ye considered taking her away by force.
• Xu Ye returned to his water cell after the guard’s inspection and used Alice to tell Lillian and the others what he had learned.
• Xu Ye slapped Kus on the head, and Kus shouted for help and called out that there was an Aberration.

Xu Ye learned that the Old Chief had recognized him and deliberately kept him trapped, apparently because of the Child of Calamity’s ritual. Realizing the Bloody Pirate Group might push the Parrot’s population past the ritual’s threshold, Xu Ye resolved to fight back and take control of his fate.

• The Old Chief questioned Kus and Xu Ye about Ruth’s death, then removed the Harvest Mother Goddess’s hidden aura from Ruth’s remains.
• The Old Chief told Old Lun that he knew Xu Ye was not Lillian and had been looking for Xu Ye instead.
• Xu Ye realized the Water Prison’s barrier had been strengthened and suspected that he was being held for the Child of Calamity’s ritual.
• Xu Ye and Bandit Lord recognized that the Bloody Pirate Group’s planned hijacking could raise the Parrot’s population beyond seven thousand, and Xu Ye could not reach Alice.
• Xu Ye felt trapped by the schemes surrounding him, then resolved to fight back rather than remain a pawn.

Ivy's group discovered that the Parrot's crew were actually Vengeful Spirits serving Captain Jack, who tried to attack them while they were in Ivy's room. Lu E arrived and destroyed the First Mate with the power of the Crying Baby, leaving Captain Jack's plans unresolved.

• Ivy caught a second Catfish, while Alice abandoned her proposed ban on hunting them after Lillian offered her fish belly.
• Qin Feng explained that his men would take the tourists hostage and sink the Parrot, then noticed a message carved into his fish.
• Captain Jack ordered the First Mate and the other Vengeful Spirits to drive the ship's passengers mad and keep Qin Feng and the Mermaids from interfering.
• The First Mate sent black smoke into Ivy's room, but Alice spotted him and Qin Feng and Lillian joined her in attacking.
• The First Mate's despair-inducing scream incapacitated Alice, Lillian, and Qin Feng until Lu E used the Crying Baby's wails to destroy him.

Xu Ye and Alice struggled to contain the chaos aboard the Parrot as dead souls drove passengers to violence, while the Young Wives' Club revealed that the Child of Calamity's ascension ritual had begun. Alice defeated the presence of Ron hidden inside Jiang Mei, but Xu Ye was left wondering why a demigod feared aberration.

• Xu Ye connected to Alice through her deity's mark and learned that the Young Wives' Club and its president were aboard the Parrot, whose crew were dead souls serving an evil-spirit captain.
• As negative energy spread through the ship, a man killed his wife and Xu Jiaojiao stabbed Chen Man before Alice knocked her away and Lu E's infant cries dispersed the dead souls in the corridor.
• Xu Ye sent Alice toward the Third-Class Cabin to find Zhou Xiaoqi, and she discovered Jiang Mei's body decaying while Ron's presence spoke through her.
• Alice attacked the presence in Jiang Mei and used her soul-seizing talent to trap Ron in an illusion, causing his presence to dissipate.
• Xu Ye realized Alice had developed soul-seizing further and wondered why Ron's deepest fear was aberration.

Alice and Xu Ye encountered Captain Jack the Evil Spirit with Yan Shanwu, who uncovered how he had manipulated her father and the Thunder Sound Society president to bring Blasphemers into contact with the Child of Calamity. Captain Jack escaped after warning that the gods were bound by a secret agreement, while the Old Chief led his clanspeople and two Black Coffins toward a cliff above the sea.

• Alice and Xu Ye left the Cruise Ship and encountered Captain Jack the Evil Spirit in the mist.
• Yan Shanwu confronted Captain Jack and revealed that he had lured her father to the Child of Calamity and later manipulated the Thunder Sound Society president into activating the Holy Grail.
• Yan Shanwu concluded that Captain Jack's schemes had brought Blasphemers close to the Child of Calamity, while Xu Ye wondered whether he had been targeted as part of a divine plan.
• Captain Jack said the gods were bound by a secret agreement and vanished after revealing that his master was trying to become a god.
• The Old Chief led his clanspeople, carrying two Black Coffins, to a sheer cliff above the raging sea.

Xu Ye learned that the Harvest Mother Goddess and the Child of Calamity were targeting Bandit Lord, then escaped his coffin with Kus and rescued Lilith. As whirlpools swept the Parrot and a swarm of aberrants into the depths, Xu Ye realized he would have to follow them deeper into the sea.

• Bandit Lord admitted that the Harvest Mother Goddess and the Child of Calamity were after him and recalled fragments about an experiment, a new Blasphemer, and the Illusion Overlord.
• The Old Chief's spiritual qi immobilized Xu Ye in his coffin, but Kus bit through the threads and freed him.
• Xu Ye crushed an Underwater Talisman, escaped his coffin, and broke open Lilith's coffin with Kus.
• Xu Ye urged Lilith to stop treating the deities as unquestionable masters, though she struggled with the idea of defying the Old Chief.
• Whirlpools swept the Parrot and a swarm of aberrants past Xu Ye and into the depths, leaving him to follow them farther underwater.

Xu Ye and his companions reached an island beneath both a white moon and the Red Moon, where they met Huang Junxiang, a young man from Earth who believed he was dreaming. Huang Junxiang vanished and then reappeared, leaving Xu Ye to face the possibility that people could cross between worlds.

• Xu Ye, Lilith, the Fishman, and the others emerged from the sea onto an island beneath a white moon and the Red Moon.
• Qin Feng told Xu Ye that more than a thousand people had died and that an evil spirit had trapped the survivors aboard the ship.
• Huang Junxiang rushed toward Lilith, but Lillian blasted him with water; Xu Ye stopped her and questioned him.
• Huang Junxiang said he was from Hangcheng, and Xu Ye realized he might have come from Earth.
• Huang Junxiang faded away, then reappeared moments later, wondering why he had not woken from his dream.

Xu Ye and his companions met Huang Junxiang, a man from an Earth where more than a century had passed and humanity had survived a war against mutated creatures. As Xu Ye feared for his family back home, monsters began emerging from the sea and moving inland.

• Huang Junxiang claimed he came from Hangcheng on Earth, but he and Xu Ye’s companions realized their worlds had different histories and conditions.
• Lilith explained that her people sought Earth as a clean New World, while Huang Junxiang described how Great Fiends, nuclear weapons, and Awakened had shaped his Earth over the past hundred years.
• Xu Ye worried that more than a century had passed since he left Earth and wondered whether his parents and younger sister were still alive.
• Huang Junxiang declared himself a destined savior traveling between worlds and challenged the trials ahead.
• The Parrot was flung into the sea, and groups of strange monsters emerged from the water and headed deeper into the Island.

Xu Ye and his companions fought off a level 3 aberrant drawn to Xu Ye by Angel, then decided to follow the aberrant procession toward the Child of Calamity. As Xu Ye fell asleep, Doctor Chen deduced a dangerous secret about the Land of Exiles, but the Gods' Pact prevented him from saying it aloud.

• Angel sent a moth aberrant after Xu Ye, and Qin Feng, Huang Junxiang, Lilith, Lillian, and Xu Ye worked together to trap and attack it.
• Huang Junxiang vanished after saying his time was up, leaving Xu Ye and the others to follow the aberrant procession toward the Child of Calamity.
• Xu Ye warned the group to stay away from Angel, then lay down to rest while they waited for the procession to finish coming ashore.
• Doctor Chen reconsidered how Huang Junlang had appeared and concluded that an unlikely explanation was the truth, but the Gods' Pact stopped him from speaking it aloud.
• Doctor Chen decided to involve Xu Ye in Li Wan's exploration of a crucial location in the Great Fiend Restricted Zone and used Alice's divine imprint to reach him.

Xu Ye entered Li Wan’s body and joined Athos, the King of the Underworld, and the Heart of the Order Keeper at the Illusion Overlord’s burial ground. There, he encountered a torch-bearing girl from Great Xia who believed Planet Earth was her group’s New World, but the worlds began to fracture before they could meet.

• Xu Ye learned that Doctor Chen had used Li Wan’s brand to summon his consciousness into Li Wan’s body, and he joined Zhu Dalong on watch.
• Athos teleported Xu Ye and the others to a ruined palace, where he sought the Illusion Overlord’s eye and the King of the Underworld agreed to their deal.
• Xu Ye used the Holy Grail’s talisman to pass through a binding, then found himself alone in a desert facing the torch-bearing girl.
• The girl identified herself as Chen Tiantian and said her group was searching for Planet Earth, which they believed was the New World.
• Xu Ye told Chen Tiantian his name, and the two promised to meet as the worlds began to crack apart.

Athos and the others escaped the Illusion Overlord’s illusion with new powers, while Xu Ye received the Overlord’s Sixth Eye and followed the Aberrants deeper into the forest. On Earth, Chen Tiantian’s brother was sacrificed to bring sunlight to Chen Family Village, and she returned to the mountain road, where Xu Ye appeared beyond the barrier.

• Athos explained that the King of the Underworld’s illusion had prepared her to become an Ancient Sage, while Zhu Dalong and Shen Xinghai also discovered they had advanced in sequence.
• Zhu Dalong found Li Wan melted into muddy water, and the King of the Underworld recognized the technique as Chen Du Kang’s.
• Xu Ye learned that the black-and-white bead was the Illusion Overlord’s Sixth Eye, which could alter truth and falsehood three times, then told Alice and the Bandit Lord what had happened.
• Xu Ye identified the girl from the illusion as Chen Tiantian and led the group after the Aberrants, spotting Fang Xiang’s face on a jellyfish.
• Chen Tiantian watched her brother get sacrificed to the Bright Emperor, bringing ten days of sunlight to Chen Family Village.
• Chen Tiantian walked into the mountains and saw Xu Ye appear beyond the wind-and-sand barrier.

Xu Ye and his companions reached the Child of Calamity’s church, where Lilith began preparing an escape route from the altar. Huang Junxiang arrived under the Harvest Mother Goddess’s influence, triggering the Angel to break free, and Xu Ye begged the Child of Calamity to protect him.

• Xu Ye warned the Bandit Lord about the danger but decided to enter the church and investigate the Child of Calamity’s coffin.
• Xu Ye’s group saw Aberrants being sacrificed on the altar, and Lilith said she could alter a section of it to teleport them out.
• Huang Junxiang appeared after taking sleeping pills and falling asleep, then began vomiting his organs after mentioning pork liver.
• Huang Junxiang’s blood touched the Angel, which broke free and unleashed a devastating aura throughout the church.
• Xu Ye concluded that the Harvest Mother Goddess and the Angel were targeting him, then knelt before the altar and offered the Child of Calamity his heart in exchange for protection.

Xu Ye used the Illusion Overlord’s eyeball to break the Child of Calamity’s spatial binding, allowing the group to escape the dark church through Lilith’s altered teleportation formation. On Mermaid Island, the Old Chief’s actions left Melissa demanding to know why he had helped Lilith leave.

• The Harvest Mother Goddess and the Child of Calamity exchanged power and information while Lilith worked to alter the altar’s formation.
• Xu Ye attacked the Angel and accused the Harvest Mother Goddess of plotting against the Child of Calamity’s plan to use Athos to become a True God.
• Lilith activated the teleportation formation, but the Child of Calamity froze it and trapped the group in place.
• Xu Ye used the Illusion Overlord’s eyeball to declare the spatial binding fake, breaking it so everyone could escape through the formation.
• The Child of Calamity roared for the Illusion Overlord from the black coffin beneath the altar’s pool.
• On Mermaid Island, Melissa confronted the Old Chief about deliberately helping Lilith leave, and he calmly smiled at her.

The Old Chief explained why he had arranged for Lilith and Lillian to leave the Mermaid tribe, fearing their Lord’s instability and a coming upheaval. In Uman City, Shenchuan Shengshui was captured by Ron and a Reincarnation Cult bishop, while Xu Ye waited for him and was approached by a stranger asking about the Illusion Overlord.

• The Old Chief told Melissa that Lilith and Lillian’s departure might protect the Mermaid race from their unstable Lord and its coming punishment.
• Shenchuan Shengshui prepared to leave Uman City, but Yun Changeng stopped his escape and Ron and a Reincarnation Cult bishop captured him, identifying him as the Harvest Mother Goddess Proxy.
• Shenchuan Shengshui welcomed his capture, reasoning that it could force Shenchuan Xiu to trade Qin Yanhua for him and intensify conflict between the Shenchuan Family and the Reincarnation Cult.
• Xu Ye arranged for Qin Feng to gather intelligence and find shelter for Lilith and Lillian, then went with Alice to a cafe to wait for Shenchuan Shengshui.
• When Shenchuan Shengshui failed to arrive, a hunched old woman approached Xu Ye and asked whether he had heard of the Illusion Overlord.

Xu Ye found Zhou Nian’s parents, Du Meifang and Zhou Fanghua, hiding in a monastery in Uman City, where they told him of the Illusion Overlord’s prophecy that the New World gate would open onto hell and bring invaders from parallel worlds. As a child cried in the monastery’s rear courtyard, Xu Ye began to suspect that dangerous sequence talents might have caused the Illusion Overlord’s madness.

• Du Meifang claimed Xu Ye was chosen by the Illusion Overlord, then staged a fall to force him to accompany her to a monastery.
• Xu Ye recognized Du Meifang and Zhou Fanghua as Zhou Nian’s parents, and they confirmed that they had faked their deaths and founded the Returning Cage Cult.
• Zhou Fanghua explained that Athos had lured them to Mandala Island to steal the Illusion Overlord’s sacred scepter, and that they later escaped by way of Mermaid Island.
• Du Meifang and Zhou Fanghua said the Old Chief had sent them to Uman City to await Xu Ye and had kept the scepter for safekeeping.
• Zhou Fanghua relayed the Illusion Overlord’s prophecy that the New World gate would crack within half a year, allowing humans from parallel worlds to invade and destroy their world.
• Xu Ye considered whether sequence talents had caused the Illusion Overlord’s madness, then heard a child crying in the monastery’s rear courtyard.

Xu Ye learned that Zhou Fanghua and Du Meifang were sheltering orphaned children and told them about the Death God’s return ritual. He persuaded the couple to join his operation and follow Alice, while the other members of their cult remained undecided.

• Xu Ye followed Zhou Fanghua and Du Meifang into a room where they cared for orphaned children traumatized by pollution incidents.
• Qin Feng told Xu Ye that Shenchuan Shengshui had been captured by the Reincarnation Cult and had left a document explaining his plan to escalate the conflict.
• Xu Ye shared what had happened in Uman City, and Zhou Fanghua revealed that the Lord’s Scepter had warned that the Death God was not ready to return.
• Xu Ye asked Zhou Fanghua and Du Meifang to help disrupt the ritual and change their faith, then presented Alice as the Illusion Overlord’s successor.
• Zhou Fanghua and Du Meifang agreed to join Xu Ye’s operation, though they could not commit the other members of the Returning Cage Cult.

Xu Ye and his allies planned to capture Yun Changeng and disrupt the Reincarnation Cult’s ritual, learning that a Shadow Spider parasite was hiding inside him. After agreeing on their operation, they formed a group called Aurora, which would worship no deities and bow to no fate.

• Xu Ye explained his plan to rescue Qin Yanhua and sabotage the Dead Soul ritual using the Illusion Overlord’s ability to disguise himself as the ritual corpse.
• Ivy suggested capturing Yun Changeng, and Zhou Fanghua proposed searching his dreams with energy drawn from the children’s connected dreamscapes.
• Xu Ye consulted his heart, which warned that Yun Changeng controlled spiders and that a Shadow Spider parasite was involved, though an interference cut off the simulation.
• The Bandit Lord identified the parasite as a Shadow Spider and suspected Yun Changeng intended to profit from the Death God’s ritual.
• Xu Ye told the group about the Shadow Spider, and the allies discussed possible names for their organization.
• Xu Ye named the group Aurora and declared that it would worship no deities and bow to no fate.

Xu Ye and his allies lured Yun Changeng into revealing the Shadow Spider’s secrets and drove him toward the Monastery. The hunt began as Qin Feng confirmed that Yun Changeng had followed their plan.

• Ivy hid her ear in the Quiet Tavern and reported Yun Changeng’s arrival to Xu Ye.
• Yun Changeng drank Mandala Wine, letting the Shadow Spider in his body reveal that the Mother Nest planned to descend into the fourth layer of the dreamscape and that Liu Tianlei had been manipulated.
• The Shadow Spider identified Qin Feng outside the tavern, then sensed a plot and warned Yun Changeng that danger was approaching.
• Yun Changeng recognized the Child of Calamity’s influence, fled through the snow, and headed toward the Monastery.
• Qin Feng confirmed that Yun Changeng had followed their guidance and announced that the hunt had begun.

Xu Ye lured Yun Changeng to the Monastery and used a level 3 Aberrant Human Skin to distort the Heavenly Dao, creating a restricted zone that blocked teleportation. Yun Changeng arrived at the altar and recognized the Child of Calamity, Will, in the Black Coffin.

• Alice explained how Xu Ye had used staged clues and illusions to guide Yun Changeng toward the Monastery, and Xu Ye sent her to disguise herself as a stray cat and use an illusion on him.
• Sophia warned Yun Changeng that someone had subtly guided him, then urged him to kill Alice when she spotted the stray cat; Yun Changeng struck Alice and later violently threw her to the ground before teleporting away.
• Alice returned to Xu Ye and reported what happened, while Ivy said Yun Changeng would arrive in about ten minutes.
• Xu Ye released the female Aberrant Human Skin and used its power to distort the Heavenly Dao, turning the area around the Monastery into a restricted zone.
• Yun Changeng's teleportation was interrupted, and the Monastery collapsed into an altar with a pool containing a Black Coffin.
• Sophia recognized the Child of Calamity, Will, and panicked at the sight of him.