Recaps

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.

Moon Shadow killed Mizuno Shu, ending the fight and preventing the Angel Descent Plan. Zhang Qiren abandoned the Black Dragon Society and returned to writing, hoping Moon Shadow would give him a chance to know her again.

• As the Magic Circle and Angel Descent Plan collapsed, most fighters fled, leaving Azhong's forces and Mizuno Shu's loyal followers to battle.
• Zhang Qiren realized his actions had ruined the plans he and Azhong had built in Japan, and quietly apologized to Azhong.
• Moon Shadow defeated Mizuno Shu by cutting through his air-pressure defense and killing him with the Shadow Blade.
• Moon Shadow offered to help Zhang Qiren rebuild his organization, but he refused and asked her to help Azhong subdue the remaining enemies.
• Zhang Qiren said he was leaving Japan to write books and hoped to move wherever Moon Shadow settled so they could get to know each other again.

As summoning formations activated around the world, Carl became the vampire progenitor Cain and flew toward Huaxia, where Chu Jiangliu intercepted him. Chu Jiangliu revealed that he had tracked Cain and prepared defenses, while Chu Ge watched from the book as the battle began.

• Chu Jiangliu coordinated Esper teams worldwide and focused Huaxia’s forces on stopping the High-Ranking Angels expected to appear there.
• Bill left North America after bringing Zhong Yi to the building, then activated a summoning formation in South America, where Carl transformed into Cain.
• Cain flew toward Huaxia but could not teleport past an invisible barrier, and Chu Jiangliu revealed that he had tracked him through a transformed ring.
• Chu Jiangliu told Chu Ge to find the hidden formations by observing changes in Spiritual Energy from the book, while Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji watched the confrontation.
• Cain charged at Chu Jiangliu, but the Azure Dragon erupted from the sea and struck him; Chu Jiangliu then hinted that other defenses were also in place.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji joined Black Tortoise in the North Sea, where Chu Ge killed the archangels Gabriel and Raphael and restored Black Tortoise’s final foot. Chu Ge explained that the Four Symbols could close Heaven and Earth, leaving the group poised to stop the gate from opening in the Central Plains.

• Chu Ge sensed that the enemy’s final gate would open in Huaxia and identified the Central Plains as the largest vortex of accumulated deaths and resentment.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji left to help Black Tortoise, who was fighting angels in the North Sea.
• Gabriel and Raphael attacked Black Tortoise and mocked him for missing a foot.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji blocked the archangels’ swords, and Chu Ge killed both with a single strike of Sword Qi.
• Chu Ge restored Black Tortoise’s final foot with Ao’s Feet and explained that the Four Symbols could reverse the Four Extremes and close Heaven and Earth.

After the Dao Venerable died, Chu Ge restored the Jade Ruyi and established a new Daoist tradition, then arranged the realms' new order. At the Yellow River, he investigated the threat behind the other world's invasion and learned that Zhu Mengmeng might help locate its source.

• Chu Ge revived the shattered Jade Ruyi as a new Dao Venerable, who greeted him as Father God.
• Chu Ge assigned Dabei, Yan Qianlie, and the others to establish the Underworld and guard the new order, promising not to interfere with their world.
• Chu Ge brought Vermilion Bird and White Tiger to the Yellow and Luo Rivers, where he sensed a force gathering beyond the world's barrier.
• Vermilion Bird reported that Michael's Soul Orb revealed a fanatical devotion to God and a plan to open the dimensional barrier, but gave no clue to the church's headquarters.
• Vermilion Bird suggested asking her friend Zhu Mengmeng, who could see and cut Threads of Fate, to help find the church's source.

Zhu Mengmeng helped Qiu Wuji trace the fate connections sustaining the other world while Chu Ge and the Four Symbols confronted its God. Chu Ge destroyed the passage and seemingly brought the other world to ruin, then collapsed as Qiu Wuji caught him.

• Zhu Mengmeng detected Qiu Wuji's approach, and Qiu Wuji praised her cultivation before asking her to locate the strongest fate connections to the other world.
• Chu Ge formed a Five Phases Four Symbols Formation and solidified a passage to the other world, then clashed with its God and declared that he intended to destroy that world.
• Qiu Wuji took Zhu Mengmeng to a town where they destroyed a church tied to the other world, and Zhu Mengmeng severed the remaining thin connections with the soul orb.
• As those connections weakened, Michael felt his power and presence fade, and the God fighting Chu Ge also lost strength.
• Chu Ge reversed the Four Symbols' power of creation, shattered the passage, and caused the other world to begin collapsing.
• The eclipse ended, the exhausted Four Symbols plunged into the Yellow River, and Chu Ge passed out in Qiu Wuji's arms after glimpsing distant worlds and three men playing a board game.

After recovering from the battle, Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji confirmed that her original body had crossed into his world and decided to marry. They resolved the Gu God’s fate, finished the novel’s ending, and began a new chapter together as they prepared for their wedding and twins.

• Qiu Wuji comforted Chu Ge after he woke afraid their life together was a dream, and they decided to marry after realizing the passage between worlds was already stable.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji met Zhong Yi in California, then heard the Gu God explain how he had escaped the book and chosen mortal life to become his own person.
• Chu Ge agreed to let the Gu God go, and the Gu God departed after congratulating the couple on their coming wedding.
• Chu Ge completed the novel’s ending, describing the Cloudreach Sect’s rise and Chu Tiange and Ye Xiaozhu’s life as emperor and empress.
• Nearly half a year later, Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji prepared to marry on Qixi while expecting twins, and Qiu Wuji began writing a continuation of her autobiography titled “What Do I Do When the Heroine Runs Out of the Book?”