Chapter Summaries

Zhong Yi confronted the skeleton controlled by Sandru and explained how he had traced the undead ability behind his and his lover’s transformations. He concluded that the skeleton’s sudden control over him came from the Power of the White Tiger, and the Vermilion Bird said Chu Ge had likely found its source.

• Chu Ge and the Vermilion Bird appeared near Zhong Yi after Chu Ge used the World Within the Book to travel to Los Angeles.
• The Vermilion Bird told Zhong Yi that his soul and self remained intact despite his undead body.
• Zhong Yi recognized the skeleton as his lover’s remains and explained that she had sacrificed herself nearly a century earlier, leaving him unable to die.
• Zhong Yi asked whether his lover had sacrificed herself willingly or had approached him as an undead agent under Sandru’s orders.
• Zhong Yi suspected that Sandru might be a title shared by several people, then identified the skeleton’s control over him as the Power of the White Tiger.
• The Vermilion Bird confirmed Zhong Yi’s deduction and said Chu Ge had likely found the White Tiger’s source.

Chu Ge entered Death Valley to confront the forces lying in wait for Chu Jiangliu and discovered that his near-Supreme power made their attacks useless. The kitten awakened as a White Tiger, causing the buried remains of an enormous White Tiger to rise beneath Death Valley.

• Chu Ge reached the fissures in Death Valley with the kitten and realized the ambush had been prepared for Chu Jiangliu.
• Enemies attacked Chu Ge with gunfire, lightning, fire, and Esper Abilities, but their assaults failed and some abilities backfired.
• Chu Ge called out Sandru and suspected that an army and the White Tiger’s remains lay underground.
• At Chu Ge’s urging, the kitten stopped restricting her power and transformed into a colossal White Tiger.
• The ground shook across the region as the White Tiger’s gigantic skeleton rose from beneath Death Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

Chu Ge let the little cat hold off the White Tiger’s rampaging body while he descended into the enemy’s lair, where an old man captured him and revealed a plan to summon a god. As Chu Ge was taken, the Heavenly Emperor seized the Heavenly Dao’s absence as an opportunity and launched an attack on the Ziwei Imperial Palace.

• The White Tiger emerged from underground and attacked Chu Ge, while the little cat warned that its body could not be controlled.
• Chu Ge asked the little cat to occupy the White Tiger and went underground, where a formation drained his energy and the old man captured him.
• Chu Ge deduced that the old man wanted to open a passage to another plane and invite his Lord to descend, and the old man confirmed that their agreement with the Heavenly Emperor had been fulfilled.
• The Heavenly Emperor realized the Heavenly Dao was occupied in the Mortal World and declared war on the Ziwei Emperor.
• Heavenly soldiers and generals descended upon the Ziwei Imperial Palace.

Chu Tiange confronted the Heavenly Emperor, who attacked him after accusing him of rebellion, while Chu Ge remained calmly captive outside the book. A sudden surge of autumnal power swept into the battle, and Chu Ge revealed that he had deliberately given the Heavenly Emperor an opportunity to rebel.

• The Heavenly Emperor accused Chu Tiange of becoming a Golden Immortal through the Heavenly Dao’s favoritism, and Chu Tiange explained that the emperor’s own appointments and duties had advanced his cultivation.
• Chu Tiange accused the Heavenly Emperor of using him and then trying to discard him, while the Heavenly Emperor cited Chu Tiange’s refusal to hand over the White Tiger as proof of disloyalty.
• The Heavenly Emperor drew his sword and attacked Chu Tiange, but a vast, autumnal torrent swept across the sky toward the battle.
• Chu Ge told the elderly white man that he could not intervene in the book’s battle and revealed that he had deliberately led the Heavenly Emperor into rebellion.

Chu Ge resisted Michael's formation and Nanotech Legion while secretly weakening the summoning circle. Michael began a backup Divine Descent, and Chu Ge waited to see what would happen as the Vermilion Bird arrived to help the White Tiger.

• Chu Ge shattered his electrified chains and intimidated Michael and the Nanotech warriors despite the formation suppressing his powers.
• Chu Ge identified the Hexagram Formation as a summoning circle and secretly weakened it while regaining some strength.
• Michael ordered the Nanotech Legion to attack, but Chu Ge evaded their blows with the Misty Autumn Waters Step Technique and moved closer to him.
• Michael contacted his allies and began the backup plan, transforming his Nanotech Armor into six angelic wings and awakening divine might.
• The Vermilion Bird arrived to assist the White Tiger, easing the upheaval above and reassuring Chu Ge.

Vermilion Bird and Zhong Yi confronted Sandru, who revealed her human form and explained that Zhong Yi was far more important to her plans than he believed. Zhong Yi agreed to serve her, triggering a ritual that revealed the Angel of Death’s descent had gone wrong because his body rapidly aged.

• Vermilion Bird watched Skeleton transform into a woman, and Zhong Yi recognized her as the woman from his past.
• Zhong Yi deduced that the woman’s visit to Huaxia had been connected to the Spiritual Qi Revival, before tremors signaled White Tiger’s emergence.
• The woman claimed Chu Jiangliu had accelerated her century-long plans and offered Zhong Yi continued immortality if he served her.
• Zhong Yi agreed to go into seclusion with the woman, and his consent triggered a blood formation made from the zombies across the collapsing city.
• The woman declared that Zhong Yi would be the vessel for the Angel of Death’s Divine Descent, but he rapidly aged and the arriving entity protested that his body would soon die.

Vermilion Bird fought Azazel after the Angel of Death abandoned Zhong Yi’s aged body and possessed the woman Zhong Yi had once loved. A Mohican stranger gave Zhong Yi a Shared-Longevity Gu, restoring his strength, and Zhong Yi rushed to help Vermilion Bird.

• Azazel rejected Zhong Yi’s aged body, so Vermilion Bird returned Zhong Yi’s soul and kept him alive while Azazel possessed the woman as a backup vessel.
• Vermilion Bird and Azazel clashed, while Zhong Yi realized he had arranged the woman’s death to prevent Azazel from using his body.
• Believing he had little time left, Zhong Yi leaned behind a pillar and waited for death as his vitality drained away.
• A Mohican stranger offered Zhong Yi a Shared-Longevity Gu that would keep him alive for three days if its owner survived.
• Zhong Yi swallowed the Gu, regained enough vitality to fight, and charged toward Vermilion Bird and Azazel’s battle.

Zhong Yi destroyed Azazel’s summoning circle, allowing Vermilion Bird to defeat him, then walked away from the burning battlefield, resigned to his death. Meanwhile, White Tiger struggled to reclaim her skeleton from Michael and waited for Chu Ge’s help as Vermilion Bird arrived.

• Zhong Yi deduced that Azazel depended on a summoning circle and found its blood-red lines beneath the ruins of the Entertainment Company building.
• Zhong Yi shattered the circle, weakening Azazel, and Vermilion Bird burned his body to ash and captured his remnant soul.
• Vermilion Bird offered to stabilize Zhong Yi’s shattered hand, but he refused help and said that Zhong Yi had already died in the War of Resistance.
• Vermilion Bird left to help White Tiger, who was struggling against Michael’s control of her skeleton and had been waiting for Chu Ge to arrive.
• Vermilion Bird reached White Tiger as she neared her limit.

Vermilion Bird joined White Tiger in the fight against Michael while Chu Ge broke the underground Magic Circle and halted Michael’s Divine Descent. Michael tried to persuade Chu Ge to leave, but Chu Ge trusted Qiu Wuji to defeat the Heavenly Emperor and challenged Michael to wager on the outcome.

• Vermilion Bird entered White Tiger’s Spiritual Platform and helped it gain the upper hand against Michael.
• Chu Ge scraped through a line of the underground Magic Circle, ending its suppression and leaving Michael’s Divine Descent incomplete.
• Michael acknowledged Chu Ge’s power and explained that he had planned to use White Tiger and Chu Jiangliu in his worldwide operation.
• Chu Ge refused Michael’s attempt to send him away, saying he trusted his wife, Qiu Wuji, to handle the rebellion in the World Within the Book.
• Chu Ge wagered that the Heavenly Emperor would lose, while Michael doubted that Qiu Wuji and the newly advanced Golden Immortals could defeat him.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Tiange fought the Heavenly Emperor, using their mastery of time and space to penetrate his defenses and force him back. As the battle continued, the Heavenly Emperor sent a killing strike through time toward Qiu Wuji’s birth ten thousand years earlier.

• Qiu Wuji’s sword forced the Heavenly Emperor to defend himself, giving Chu Tiange a chance to escape his Sword of Time and Space.
• Qiu Wuji denounced the Heavenly Emperor and parried his attack that made onlookers feel time passing and their lives fading.
• Chu Tiange pierced the Heavenly Emperor’s protective River of Time with a devastating sword strike, forcing him to flee while Qiu Wuji pursued.
• Dabei and Yan Qianlie watched from afar and concluded that they could not intervene, while recognizing that Qiu Wuji and Chu Tiange had overcome the Heavenly Emperor’s defenses through their mastery of laws and protagonist fortune.
• The Heavenly Emperor launched a sword strike through time toward Qiu Wuji as a newborn ten thousand years in the past.

The Heavenly Emperor’s attempt to kill Qiu Wuji failed when Chu Ge shifted the infant Qiu Qiu out of harm’s way, and the battle escalated as the Dao Venerable joined Qiu Wuji and Chu Tiange. Just as the Heavenly Emperor seemed poised to reach Great Luo after conquering the Heaven Beyond Heaven, Chu Ge connected the Bridge Between Heaven and Earth, leaving the Mortal Realm unconquered and halting his breakthrough.

• The Heavenly Emperor’s sword strike missed the newborn Qiu Qiu after Chu Ge shifted her position, and Qiu Wuji and Chu Tiange attacked him together.
• The Dao Venerable ambushed the Heavenly Emperor, but the Heavenly Emperor blocked the attack with the Apricot Yellow Banner and revealed that his forces were conquering the Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• The Heavenly Emperor sealed the Dao Venerable in place and said he would attain Great Luo once the Heaven Beyond Heaven fell.
• The Heaven Beyond Heaven was conquered, and the Heavenly Emperor’s aura surged as Qiu Wuji, Chu Tiange, and the Dao Venerable failed to break through his defenses.
• Chu Ge connected the Bridge Between Heaven and Earth, unifying the Heavenly and Mortal Realms and leaving the Heavenly Emperor far from conquering the whole world.

The Heavenly Emperor’s bid to conquer both realms faltered as the Mortal Realm reconnected, and the battle in Central Heaven resumed. Meanwhile, Chu Ge fought Michael to keep him occupied, revealing how his years of training had made him powerful enough to withstand the flames of Hell.

• The Heavenly Emperor declared that his strength remained and challenged everyone to attack him, restarting the battle in Central Heaven.
• Dabei worried that Chu Tiange and Qiu Wuji might be in danger, while Yan Qianlie said they needed to fight their own decisive battle.
• Michael realized Chu Ge had been interfering in the book and attacked him with a flaming greatsword.
• Chu Ge used Qiu Wuji’s sword, his refined techniques, and spatial movement to evade Michael and cut down the nanotech soldiers.
• Michael unleashed Purgatory Fire, but Chu Ge surrounded himself with distorted space and walked through the flames unharmed.

Chu Ge stalled Michael while watching Qiu Wuji face the Heavenly Emperor inside the book. After enduring severe injuries and drawing on her conviction that both her worlds were real, Qiu Wuji unleashed a transcendent sword strike and declared it her own.

• Chu Ge evaded Michael to buy time, then turned his attention to Qiu Wuji's battle with the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Dao Venerable attacked the Heavenly Emperor with his Jade Ruyi, and their clash shattered space and sent both men flying.
• Chu Tiange struck the injured Heavenly Emperor, but the Emperor shattered his Ziwei Emperor's Sword and sent him crashing down.
• Qiu Wuji plunged toward the Heavenly Emperor with Zhenwu's Sword and unleashed the Milky Way Pours from the Ninth Heaven.
• Qiu Wuji drew together her understanding of the Mortal World and the book, then told the Heavenly Emperor, "This sword... is my sword."

Qiu Wuji’s strike mortally wounded the Heavenly Emperor, who shattered the Thirty-Three Heavens in a final attack before accepting his own path and passing the throne to Chu Tiange. With the Dao Venerable injured and the heavenly realm in chaos, Qiu Wuji set out to find her husband, worried that he was still fighting.

• Qiu Wuji challenged the Heavenly Emperor’s claim to seek the self, and he tore apart the Dao Venerable’s Yin-Yang Diagram and collided the sun and moon to shatter the realm.
• The Dao Venerable sealed the Heavenly Gate and vanished as the Heavenly Emperor collapsed into the Five Signs of Decay.
• The Heavenly Emperor reflected on the life he had missed, affirmed that ruling as emperor was his own chosen path, and passed the throne to Chu Tiange.
• The Heavenly Emperor died and dispersed into the void, while Chu Tiange told the gathered Heavenly Soldiers and Generals that he had slain an Outer Realms Demon and attained the Dao.
• Chu Tiange asked Qiu Wuji what they should do about the wounded Dao Venerable and the ruined Heaven Beyond Heaven; Qiu Wuji said she would go find her husband.

Chu Ge turned the tables on Michael by drawing on the power of heaven and earth, then trapped and captured his Divided Soul with help from the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird. After stopping the beasts from attacking incoming fighter jets, Chu Ge led them into the book to handle a few final matters.

• Chu Ge explained that his rising Dao Realm let him use the power of the world, and he drove Michael back with a flurry of sword strikes.
• Michael tried to escape through Heaven’s guiding light, but the White Tiger reclaimed its body and blocked the light while the Vermilion Bird turned the hellfire against him.
• The White Tiger crushed Michael’s possessed body, and Chu Ge caught Michael’s Divided Soul and handed it to the Vermilion Bird to consume for intelligence.
• Chu Ge stopped the White Tiger from attacking the incoming fighter jets and suggested letting the conflict between the Magic Circles and undead continue without their involvement.
• Chu Ge invited the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird to enter the book with him and deal with the remaining matters there.

Chu Ge brought the Vermilion Bird and White Tiger through to the Mortal World, while the Heavenly Dao appointed Chu Tiange Emperor of the Center. After the crisis, Chu Ge reunited with the recovering Qiu Wuji, who declared she would leave the past behind and be his wife.

• Chu Ge transformed the White Tiger into a little girl and carried her and the Vermilion Bird away from approaching fighter jets.
• Chu Tiange struggled to maintain order in the Violet Star Palace while Qiu Wuji recovered from her injuries.
• The Heavenly Dao named Chu Tiange Emperor of the Center and established Four Emperors to guard the directions, prompting the gathered officials to acclaim him.
• Chu Ge entered the Violet Star Palace with the Vermilion Bird and White Tiger, who marveled that crossing between the worlds had been painless.
• Chu Ge praised Qiu Wuji for her sword and asked her not to risk herself again, and she kissed him and said she would be his wife.

Chu Ge showed Qiu Wuji how the Dao Venerable’s sealed Heaven Beyond Heaven had become the Underworld, revealing that the world’s original design had shaped events long before the characters understood it. The Dao Venerable learned that he had occupied an undeveloped realm meant to become Hell and that his intended rise to Great Luo had been delayed by his early rebellion.

• Chu Ge healed Qiu Wuji through their kiss, and she pulled away to scold him about the crisis still facing them.
• Chu Ge showed Qiu Wuji the Dao Venerable trapped in Heaven Beyond Heaven with the Golden Immortals after the Heavenly Emperor’s dying strike and the sealed Heavenly Gate.
• The Dao Venerable found the Thirty-Three Heavens transformed, with Yan Qianlie, Dabei, Kṣitigarbha, and other Golden Immortals ruling realms that had taken on the nature of Hell.
• Chu Ge told the Dao Venerable that Heaven Beyond Heaven had originally been an undeveloped Underworld realm, which he had occupied before Chu Ge had finished designing the setting.
• The Dao Venerable asked why his faction had been weakest, and Chu Ge explained that he had meant the Dao Venerable to attain Great Luo by developing the Three Pure Ones, but his early rebellion had interrupted that plan.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji left the Dao Venerable to face the Four Symbols and their allies, then recovered the Black Tortoise’s final foot and declared the story in the book complete. They investigated the Azure Dragon’s mausoleum to search the Mortal World for the missing Gu God, ending with their attention fixed on Japan and the Black Dragon Society.

• The Dao Venerable accepted that he had no regrets, and Chu Ge released the screen so the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Yan Qianlie, and Dabei could surround and attack him.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji to the Azure Dragon’s mausoleum and recovered the Black Tortoise’s last foot, reuniting the Four Symbols’ legacy.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed the story’s ending and wondered why the Gu God had disappeared without affecting the final battle.
• Chu Ge used the mausoleum’s connection to the Mortal World to view events across time and searched for the Gu God.
• Chu Ge focused his view on Japan half an hour earlier, reasoning that the Black Dragon Society’s activities there might reveal Sandru’s plans.

Zhang Qiren learned that the Black Dragon Society planned a sacrificial ritual in Nagasaki, and Gu Ruoyan recognized it as a potentially real magical threat. Moon Shadow arrived as an advance reinforcement, but the ritual began ahead of schedule, leaving Gu Ruoyan and Moon Shadow to head toward the site with their forces still on the way.

• Zhang Qiren told Gu Ruoyan that the Black Dragon Society planned a midnight ritual beneath Nagasaki's Peace Park, and she reported the threat to her superiors.
• Moon Shadow arrived in Japan from Indonesia, and Gu Ruoyan met her at the airport.
• Zhang Qiren called to warn Gu Ruoyan that the Black Dragon Society had started the ritual early.
• Zhang Qiren refused to stall the operation because it would mean risking his life in an armed clash.
• Moon Shadow offered to investigate and sabotage the ritual, but Gu Ruoyan insisted on going with her.

Gu Ruoyan and Moon Shadow uncovered the Black Dragon Society’s plan to summon God, while Zhang Qiren led his forces into Peace Park to disrupt it. Moon Shadow destroyed the summoning formation, and Zhang Qiren ended the chapter sheltered behind her as the battle raged.

• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge watched Zhang Qiren mobilize his people and head for Peace Park.
• Gu Ruoyan read Mizuno Shu’s thoughts and learned that the Black Dragon Society planned to summon God through multiple formations around the world.
• Moon Shadow prepared to cut the formation’s blood lines, but Zhang Qiren and his forces burst into the park and triggered a gunfight.
• Zhang Qiren revealed that he had turned Black Dragon Society members against Mizuno Shu and urged Moon Shadow to destroy the formation.
• Moon Shadow severed the blood lines with her Shadow Blade, stopping the summoning, then shielded Zhang Qiren from Mizuno Shu’s attack.