Chapter Summaries

Lumian completed the battle against Cheek, transformed the Special Mirror World into his divine kingdom, and returned to the Protected Zone. He reported to Mr. Fool, who said the Apocalypse was at least a month away and described a possible future form for Lumian before convening an ad hoc gathering.

• Lumian discovered that the Witch apotheosis ritual involved enduring corruption from the Chaos Sea and concluded that Cheek’s sealed face had fulfilled it for him.
• Lumian conquered the Special Mirror World and shaped it into a divine kingdom, briefly making it reflect Cordou Village before returning to reality.
• Lumian thanked Franca, Madam Magician, and the others for their help, and they returned to the Protected Zone.
• Franca spoke with Anthony about remaining optimistic for Lumian and Jenna, while Lumian went to report to Mr. Fool.
• Lumian told Mr. Fool he could travel to the City of Calamity if needed or take a month to stabilize, and Mr. Fool said there was at least another month before the Apocalypse and described a possible second form for Lumian.
• Mr. Fool told Lumian that his future standing would not suit the Tarot Club, suggested Franca could replace him as a Major Arcana card, and convened an ad hoc gathering.

After becoming a dual-Pathway True God, Lumian offered the Tarot Club members favors and arranged exchanges for their help, then asked to borrow the Box of the Old One. The meeting ended with Xio asking Leonard whether she could trade Solomon's Mask for a Grade 0 Judge Pathway artifact.

• Lumian thanked the Tarot Club and promised to help its members in the future; Derrick accepted his offer of assistance with the Sun Pathway advancement ritual.
• Lumian asked Sharon to exchange Crimson Calamity for the Abomination Beyonder Characteristic he expected to obtain from Farbauti, and she agreed.
• Lumian arranged to exchange Crimson Calamity for New Silver City's Earth's Gift; Derrick agreed, and Lumian promised to pass the artifact to Audrey after using it.
• Lumian offered Fors access to living Special Mirror Worlds so she could spread his faith, and promised Cattleya help with digesting her potion and the Queen of Mysteries' Sage potion.
• Lumian promised Pallez and Xio favors, then asked Fors to lend him the Box of the Old One to address the danger on its third layer; she agreed.
• Xio asked Leonard whether she could exchange Solomon's Mask for a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact of the Judge Pathway.

At the Tarot Club, Xio chose to remain on the Justiciar Pathway, Alger chose to become a Profane Presbyter, and the Major Arcana members prepared for the apocalypse expected in about a month. Back in the real world, Lumian explained the Great Ones to Franca, who planned to explore the Western Continent with him if they survived, before he brought out the Box of the Old One.

• Xio chose to pursue the Justiciar Pathway, and she and Leonard exchanged Solomon's Mask and the Harsh Stone Pillars.
• Mr. Fool offered Alger several options for becoming an Angel, and Alger chose the Secret Supplicant Pathway's Profane Presbyter while Lumian offered to provide the supplementary ingredients.
• Lumian offered to answer Emlin's summons so Emlin could digest his Summoning Master potion, and Mr. Fool warned the Major Arcana that the apocalypse was roughly a month away.
• Lumian explained the Great Ones and the world's destruction to Franca, who said she wanted to travel the Western Continent with him, Aurora, and Jenna if they survived.
• Lumian summoned Ludwig to the sitting room and revealed the silver-black, gem-studded Box of the Old One.

Lumian tested Ludwig’s connection to the Box of the Old One and learned that Ludwig might eventually be able to consume the danger inside it. Lumian fed Ludwig a Weather Warlock Beyonder Characteristic, restoring him to the angel level, and Ludwig named his Sequence.

• Franca sensed the Box of the Old One’s presence, and Lumian brought everyone into his Divine Kingdom before questioning Ludwig about it.
• Ludwig sensed the power of Primordial Hunger inside the box and warned that opening it might cause it to devour everything, including rules and concepts.
• Lumian asked whether Ludwig could eat the danger inside the box, and Ludwig said he would need to recover his original level and receive help from another Great One.
• Lumian offered Ludwig a choice of Beyonder Characteristic and let him eat the Weather Warlock characteristic in his arm.
• Ludwig resisted breaking the God of Knowledge and Wisdom’s seal, then said he wanted to experience an ordinary human life if he survived the apocalypse.
• Lumian asked Ludwig for his Sequence name, and Ludwig answered that it was the Angel of Devouring.

Ludwig demonstrated the Angel of Devouring’s ability to consume rules and concepts, while Lumian explained the Box of the Old One and offered Franca a way to resurrect through a Sleeping Mirror in his Divine Kingdom. The story then shifted to Emlin preparing a formal summoning before the Sanguine as he worked toward digesting his potion.

• Ludwig demonstrated that he could devour the rule of sunlight and the concept of gold, while explaining the limits and effects of his abilities.
• Lumian restored the sitting room’s gold and explained the Box of the Old One’s layers and the unpredictability of its transfers.
• Franca learned that Lumian would place one of her Sleeping Mirrors in his Divine Kingdom so she could resurrect under certain conditions.
• Lumian left to help Mr. Moon digest his potion, while Franca planned to tell her subordinate that the Witch Sect was finished.
• In Backlund, Emlin prepared a formal summoning before Aulmer’s grave and the assembled Sanguine Marquises, then announced that he was beginning.

Moon Emlin summoned the Primordial Witch’s successor, who revealed himself as a newly ascended Dual-Pathway True God, while Franca told Niseya that the Witch Sect had been destroyed and gave her a month to enjoy herself. The chapter left Niseya bewildered by Franca’s revelations and unexpected permission.

• Moon Emlin completed the summoning ritual, and the entity who emerged caused the Sanguine Marquises and Aulmer to fall into a hallucinatory state.
• Moon Emlin confirmed that he had fully digested the Summoning Master potion and told Aulmer that he had summoned a newly ascended Dual-Pathway True God.
• Franca visited Niseya and revealed that she had become a Calamity Witch Angel.
• Franca told Niseya that the Primordial Witch had perished and the Witch Sect had effectively been destroyed, adding that she had helped destroy it.
• Franca told Niseya to rest for a month, said the Primordial Witch’s honorific name now referred to the existence she followed, and urged Niseya to enjoy herself.

Derrick Berg completed the Lightseeker ritual with Lumian’s help, and Lumian secured the Abomination Beyonder characteristic and traded for Crimson Calamity. The chapter ended with Lumian asking Derrick to trade him Earth’s Gift as Giddas appeared from Cheek’s mirrored face.

• Derrick drank the Lightseeker potion, followed the Sun through a vision, and completed his ritual with Lumian’s Chaos Whirlpool Face as his beacon.
• Lumian asked Naporidisli for the Abomination Beyonder characteristic ahead of schedule, and Naporidisli agreed to provide it.
• Abomination Farbauti gave Lumian the characteristic, while Naporidisli explained how the Chained pathway’s Mythical Creature Form took shape.
• Lumian traded the Abomination characteristic to Renette Tinicol and Sharon for Crimson Calamity.
• Lumian returned to Derrick and asked to trade for Earth’s Gift, as Giddas emerged from Cheek’s mirrored face.

Lumian exchanged the Crimson Calamity for Earth’s Gift and moved the ancient tree into his Divine Kingdom while Derrick went to free Proof of Glory. In the Ruined World, Lumian and Franca encountered Madame Pualis, whose farewell revealed that the Fallen Mother Goddess needed her Sequence 1 characteristic as the red moon began to rise.

• Derrick agreed to replace Earth’s Gift with the Crimson Calamity, and Lumian sealed the artifact in a mirror with strict safeguards before Derrick flew to lift Proof of Glory’s suppression.
• Lumian used Cheek’s Fascination to draw Earth’s Gift close, then had Giddas drag it into the Special Mirror World, his Divine Kingdom.
• After Lumian’s latest rampage in the Ruined World, Franca joined him to return to the Protected Zone, but Madame Pualis appeared and said she was going back to the Great Mother’s embrace.
• Lumian recognized that Madame Pualis was a Sequence 1 Goddess of Beauty, but she merged into the moonlight before Cheek’s Fascination could stop her.
• Franca realized the Fallen Mother Goddess needed a Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristic to complete her merger with the Brood Hive as vegetation erupted and a blood-red moon rose on the horizon.

As the Fallen Mother Goddess neared completion of Her accommodation of the Brood Hive, Lumian went above the gray fog and prepared with Mr. Fool and Earth Mother Lilith to turn his symbolic role as the Mother against Her. The chapter ended as Lumian struck at Lilith and Ombella’s remains while acting as the Fallen Mother Goddess.

• Franca learned the Fallen Mother Goddess would soon accommodate the Brood Hive, and Lumian told her to take Anthony and Ludwig to Madam Magician while he sought Mr. Fool.
• Bernadette summoned the Genie, who warned that they had trusted destiny’s revelations too blindly and failed to act quickly enough.
• Lumian told Mr. Fool that the Fallen Mother Goddess would finish accommodating the Brood Hive within half an hour, and Mr. Fool said they would proceed with a less favorable opportunity.
• Earth Mother Lilith arrived in Mr. Fool’s divine kingdom and accepted that Lumian would kill Her, thanking him and urging them to begin.
• Lumian sat in The World’s seat with the Mother card, Giddas, and Ombella’s remains, reinforcing his role as the Fallen Mother Goddess’s symbolic mother.
• Lumian rose and swung colorless and black flames at Earth Mother Lilith and Ombella’s remains, intending to kill his daughter while playing the Fallen Mother Goddess.

Lumian and Mr. Fool killed Lilith, delaying the Fallen Mother Goddess’s fusion with the Brood Hive, but the Astral World Barrier began to fail under the Outer Deities’ assault. Klein fused with Gehrman Sparrow and became the Lord of Mysteries, leaving the story at the moment his return disrupted the assault.

• Lilith allowed Lumian’s Flames of Destruction to destroy Ombella’s remains and her own body, and her true body outside the Astral World Barrier was destroyed as well.
• The Brood Hive’s hatred revived its dissipating consciousness, and the Fallen Mother Goddess’s fusion with it was delayed as the Crimson Moon began to fall toward the Protected Zone.
• Eight Outer Deities pressed against the weakened Astral World Barrier, which began to crack, while Will Auceptin and Azik Aegis sensed death approaching.
• Klein’s preparations and his completed fusion with the Celestial Worthy were revealed, along with the plan he and Lumian had made to protect the barrier and stop the Fallen Mother Goddess.
• Klein merged with Gehrman Sparrow at the Astral World Barrier, and gray-white fog spread through the worlds, disrupting the Outer Deities’ pressure for several seconds.
• Klein emerged from the darkness in his black trench coat as the Lord of Mysteries, and the ruler of the Spirit World returned.

Klein became the Lord of Mysteries, stabilized the Astral World Barrier, and delayed the Fallen Mother Goddess’s fusion with the Brood Hive. With Earth still in danger, Lumian began his final attempt to accommodate the City of Calamity by letting Naporidisli enter his mind.

• Klein concealed the cracks in the Astral World Barrier and used an ancient chime to stabilize it against the Old Ones’ pressure.
• Klein sent billions of marionettes to attack the blood-red moon, distracting the Fallen Mother Goddess and delaying her fusion with the Brood Hive; Ombella died in the process.
• Fors told Franca, Xio, Ludwig, and Anthony that Klein had become the Lord of Mysteries, but warned that they would still need to relocate if Lumian failed to accommodate the City of Calamity in time.
• Alger and Leonard set out on missions under the crimson moon, while Lumian gave Giddas a lump of soil formed from the purified Mother of Depravity’s gift power to take to Miss Justice.
• Lumian returned to his villa and began his last chance to accommodate the City of Calamity as Naporidisli dissolved into black liquid and entered his body and mind.

Lumian reached the Sinful Dragon at the bottom of the blood-colored ocean as the Celestial Master and other powerful beings strengthened the Dragon-Locking Well’s seal. When the Sinful Dragon refused to submit, Lumian removed his mask and accepted its challenge to fight.

• Lumian used the gray amber candle to enter the City of Calamity and reached the barrier around the Sinful Dragon’s prison.
• The Celestial Master, the Holy Monk, the head of Haoli, and the Master of the Dark Hut gathered at the Dragon-Locking Well and reinforced its seal, allowing Lumian to pass through the weakened barrier.
• Lumian found the Sinful Dragon, whose body and three heads embodied the entwined City of Calamity, and realized that a stable accommodation required three forces rather than a complete union of yin and yang.
• Lumian tried to persuade the Sinful Dragon to merge with him, but it declared that a true dragon would not take orders from a wild dog and demanded that he defeat it.
• Lumian removed the dark-gold mask covering the chaos head and laughed as he agreed to fight the Sinful Dragon.
• In the Ruined World, a heartbeat sounded from within the blood-red moon as the Fallen Mother Goddess suppressed the Brood Hive.

Lumian used the Eye of Omniscience to expose the Sinful Dragon’s foreign consciousness and force it into an instinctive state, but its calamity attack shattered the Grafting protecting his internal balance. He survived the first collapse, though his three heads began acting independently as he tried to control Cheek’s face.

• The Brood Hive’s resistance weakened after a brief heartbeat sounded from within the Blood-Red Crimson Moon.
• Lumian removed the Dark-Gold Mask, and the Sinful Dragon tried to break free before the Dragon-Locking Chains and evil ghosts restrained it.
• Lumian used the Chaos Whirlpool Face to identify the Sinful Dragon’s problem: generations of worshippers had shaped its consciousness and inclinations.
• Lumian’s Visionary power made phantoms separate from the Sinful Dragon, returning it toward a primal state and unleashing its instinctive destructive will.
• The Sinful Dragon’s calamity attack reached Lumian through his Mirror Substitute and caused his internal powers to clash, but Grafting shielded him from one catastrophic collapse.
• Lumian’s three heads turned independently, and he barely controlled Cheek’s face and raised one of his right arms.

Lumian attacked the Sinful Dragon with chaos, but the clash triggered his latent madness and a sequence of cosmic calamities. A prepared virtual persona kept him fighting, and he used a sacrifice to the instinct-driven Sinful Dragon to escape a black hole’s pull, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Lumian’s chaos whirlpool broke through the seal with help from the Celestial Master, the Holy Monk, and the other Western Continent High-Ranking Beings, destroying Evil Ghosts, Dragon-Locking Chains, and part of the Sinful Dragon’s body before both forces annihilated each other.
• Lumian lost control as the Sinful Dragon’s latent calamity triggered his madness, but a Visionary virtual persona took over his body.
• A supernova erupted before Lumian, and he survived by transforming into light and then a chaos whirlpool.
• A black hole pulled Lumian toward its rotating disk, so he used the Red Priest’s sacrificial ability to call on the instinct-driven Sinful Dragon for help.
• The Sinful Dragon’s response dispelled the black hole, and Lumian activated a Contract Mark.

Lumian used a contract with Gehrman Sparrow to reach the Sinful Dragon’s sealed region, then rallied the evil ghosts to launch a devastating attack. The Sinful Dragon’s body was destroyed but quickly began to reform, leaving Lumian prepared to fight Him through their consciousnesses.

• Lumian activated his contract with Gehrman Sparrow and opened a door into the region where the Sinful Dragon was sealed.
• Lumian asked the evil ghosts guarding the Dragon-Locking Chains to help him end the calamity, and they joined his army of mirror selves.
• Lumian combined his powers with the evil ghosts’ attacks and borrowed River of Eternal Darkness water to create a gloomy longsword of destruction.
• The high-ranking beings of the Western Continent lifted the seal, allowing Lumian’s attack to cross from the Mirror World into reality.
• Lumian plunged the longsword into the Sinful Dragon’s necks, and the resulting collapse swallowed the Dragon, chains, and evil ghosts before exploding.
• The Sinful Dragon’s body began reforming from the City of Calamity, and Lumian prepared for a battle of consciousnesses.

Lumian entered the City of Calamity’s consciousness space and used the divided consciousnesses within him to disrupt the Sinful Dragon’s rebirth while attempting to accommodate the city. The confrontation ended with Lumian and the Sinful Dragon face-to-face, unable to retreat.

• Lumian summoned his body from the Protected Zone, entered the Dragon-Locking Well, and pulled the City of Calamity into himself.
• The Fallen Mother Goddess’s followers returned to the blood-red full moon to help her bear the burden of fusing with the Brood Hive.
• Soea and Tirya began a ritual with Tolzna, the Bound God, as its primary sacrifice so the Mother Tree of Desire could descend within the barrier.
• Lumian split into six consciousnesses and withdrew several of them while Cheek and Alista Tudor briefly reunited to freeze and recreate the Sinful Dragon’s dark universe.
• Lumian, Aurora, and Jenna brought the Chaos Whirlpool Face and the Sinful Dragon’s chaos head together, stopping the Primordial One in the mirror from being born.
• The Chaos Whirlpool Face and the Sinful Dragon’s chaos head drew together, leaving Lumian and the Sinful Dragon close enough to confront each other directly.

Lumian weakened and devoured the Sinful Dragon by restoring the Dragon’s fused consciousnesses, using Fooling, and deceiving Him about the consequences of resisting. Meanwhile, the Fallen Mother Goddess’s special heartbeat made the Astral World Barrier vanish and brought the apocalypse, as Klein briefly restored the barrier from history and grafted most of the Western Continent into the Protected Zone.

• Lumian returned the consciousnesses once unified with the Dao of the City of Calamity to the Sinful Dragon, confusing Him and weakening His control.
• Soea and Tirya mistook the Chaos Primordial Fetus’s heartbeat for the Fallen Mother Goddess’s help, but Klein redirected their sacrifice toward himself and grafted its mass Above the Gray Fog.
• Lumian used Fooling to freeze the Sinful Dragon, tore apart His bodies, and began devouring them.
• Lumian lied that Medici and other cultivators could accommodate the City of Calamity after his death, then truthfully warned the Sinful Dragon that waiting would let Him take over.
• The Chaos Primordial Fetus’s special heartbeat submerged the Brood Hive and made the Astral World Barrier disappear, bringing the apocalypse.
• Klein pulled the barrier out of history to delay the crisis for seconds and grafted most of the Western Continent and its living environments into the Protected Zone.

As the Outer Deities pressed toward the world, Klein opened the Western Continent and the gods sacrificed themselves to protect the Protected Zone. Lumian accommodated the Sinful Dragon, briefly restoring Aurora and Jenna, while the chapter ended with a crimson meteor descending on the blood-colored moon.

• The Fallen Mother Goddess tried to reclaim the Moon and Mother pathway characteristics as Klein removed the Western Continent's seal and faced the approaching Rulers of the Old One.
• Herabergen destroyed himself and merged with Grisha Adam to help him resist the Primordial Witch God, while Leodero charged the Fallen Mother Goddess and the blood-colored moon.
• Lumian swallowed the weakened Sinful Dragon, briefly restoring Aurora and Jenna through their imprints; they accepted the coming sacrifice, and Lumian prepared to complete his accommodation.
• Klein redirected two bursts of Leodero's lightning toward the cross above the Protected Zone, and Amanises left to stake her life.
• A crimson meteor struck toward the blood-colored moon and the enormous figure as crimson flames filled the sky at the end of July, 1360.

Lumian’s calamities and Leodero’s attack weakened the blockade of the Western Continent, giving the gods time to prepare for the apocalypse. Klein borrowed the Black Emperor Uniqueness to strengthen the Nation of Disorder, while Amanises and Stiano began their respective arrangements with the Haoli lineage and the Celestial Master.

• Lumian’s summoned calamities briefly disrupted the Outer Deities, and Klein used the opening to send the Black Emperor Uniqueness and other items to the figure seated as Heavenly Emperor.
• Bernadette learned that Klein had borrowed the Black Emperor Uniqueness to strengthen the Nation of Disorder, while Empress Roselle explained its limits and described her hope for the Mirror World.
• Leodero’s suicidal attack and the Doomsday Calamity broke the Fallen Mother Goddess’s blockade, allowing Amanises and Stiano to reach the Dragon-Locking Pagoda.
• Amanises swore an oath to strengthen the Haoli lineage before the River of Eternal Darkness, and the Underworld Daoist made her the sect leader as she resisted the river’s chaotic consciousness.
• Stiano chose to join the Celestial Master’s formation rather than use the Shangqing Register, and the Celestial Master named him Fuzhen and granted him a register.

Lumian used the Fallen Mother Goddess’s Rebirth influence to make himself symbolically equivalent to her, then prepared to stab himself with a sword of destruction and chaos. Klein waited for the Old Ones to breach the barrier before evacuating humanity, while the chapter ended as Lumian challenged the Fallen Mother Goddess to kill him and risk killing herself.

• Will Auceptin and Ouroboros joined the giant Buddha, while the Holy Monk returned to the Buddha Kingdom and merged with him.
• The Master of the Dark Hut and Naporidisli agreed to work together and walked into the Shadow World with Farbauti.
• Lumian’s Fascination drew him and his companions toward the Fallen Mother Goddess, whose Rebirth influence revived the weakened consciousnesses within him and loosened the Sinful Dragon’s suppression.
• Klein watched the illusory barrier crack and waited for the Old Ones to rush in before transferring the hundreds of millions of people in the Protected Zone.
• Lumian realized that the Fallen Mother Goddess’s Rebirth had made him symbolically equivalent to her, swallowed a phoenix egg, and formed a black-flame sword to stab himself.