Arc 28The Saint Tree's Escape

Shen Ye's struggle for control of The Other Shore Great Ship led him to uncover the monsters' attempts to reach the future and the Saint Tree's plan to escape through humanity. After exchanging identities with the Saint Tree, Shen Ye gathered the power of the ongoing decisive battle and prepared to fight it.

  • Shen Ye imprisoned rival S-Rank monsters, freed Mi from the Lord of Twisting's influence, and evolved his gate ability into Spirit Ruins Gate.
  • Shen Ye survived the future monster's attacks with Song Yinchen's help, escaped to a parallel ship, and awakened and upgraded it before fusing it with the enemy vessel.
  • Young Shen Ye sent Good Duckie through the Partition Gate to sever the future's influence, and Good Duckie fused with Mandala Ouroboros and forced the Dharma Realm to accept his guidance.
  • Shen Ye learned that his world was an experimental site and discovered that the monsters' attempts to replace humans and escape the Entropy-Extinction Era had caused it.
  • Shen Ye bargained for humans' safety through boarding requirements and located the hidden battle between the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional and Doomsday inside the Saint Tree.
  • Shen Ye refused to free the Saint Tree after learning that it had directed the Poem of Eternity's missions, and he and Good Duckie redirected its summoned monsters into the past.
  • Shen Ye copied Life-Stripping Heart-Devouring and exchanged identities with the Saint Tree when it tried to replace him and seize his fate.
  • Shen Ye confronted the Saint Tree after it refused peace and used Reincarnation Snake Lock, Dharma Realm Ruler to collect the decisive battle's aftershocks for his attack.
Chapters 677–701 Vol. 7 Read

Ch. 677Gate and gate

After repairing D District, Shen Ye used his authority to make his Place of Exile ability work on the ship, imprisoning four S-Rank monsters who threatened the Slaughter Squad. Mi arrived as the Lord of Twisting summoned her, offered Shen Ye her Gate of Decay, and he refused the summons and began fusing their two Gate Abilities.

  • Shen Ye read D District's card and learned that his authority let him designate an ability for The Other Shore to accept within the district.
  • The Soul-Possessing Ball demanded resources for a Sacrifice Ritual, but Shen Ye refused and lured it and three other S-Rank monsters into separate Inner Cabins using Place of Exile.
  • Shen Ye locked the monsters inside the ship and decided to kill one to deter further threats against the Slaughter Squad.
  • Mi arrived and warned Shen Ye not to let the Lord of Twisting summon her away.
  • Mi offered Shen Ye her Gate of Decay through their Master-Servant Contract, and Shen Ye refused the summons to keep her.
  • Shen Ye used Mandala Ouroboros to begin fusing Place of Exile and Gate of Decay, then went to wait in an Inner Cabin with Mi.

Ch. 678The Holy Mother broke free!

Shen Ye discovered that gold-funded upgrades to D District could reveal hidden threats, allowing him to uncover and remove the Lord of Twisting’s influence over Mi. Mi reclaimed her true identity as the Virgin Mary and offered Shen Ye a privileged place in the Divinity Faction, which he eagerly accepted as her godson.

  • Shen Ye explained that monsters could gain authority by controlling districts, and many left D District to compete for the territories of the imprisoned leaders.
  • Mi explained that districts could be upgraded with resources, so Shen Ye spent gold to install a candle whose light revealed her Shadow of Distortion trait.
  • Shen Ye used Mandala Ouroboros to remove Mi’s trait and transfer it to a cola can, where the Lord of Twisting descended and demanded C District in exchange for the Soul-Possessing Ball’s death.
  • Shen Ye refused to make a deal, and Mi crushed the cola can before revealing that the Lord of Twisting had planted its shadow in her during her recovery from a decisive battle.
  • Mi returned to her dwelling as the Virgin Mary and offered Shen Ye a position as the Holy Son, with free access to the Divinity Faction’s resources; Shen Ye accepted and called her Godmother.

Ch. 679They All Have to Die

Shen Ye used airtight Contracts and his exile ability to manipulate the trapped monsters into fighting, while keeping them from escaping and stealing their identities. As battles in the chambers neared their end, he prepared to kill the monsters himself, and Maria concluded that God had been right to wait for him.

  • Shen Ye learned that Maria was an S-Rank focused on support and chose to intervene in the fighting in C District rather than wait for his Gate Ability to finish fusing.
  • Shen Ye offered the Soul-Possessing Ball its freedom in exchange for killing a fellow prisoner, and they signed a binding Contract.
  • Shen Ye revealed that his other two doppelgangers had made matching deals with the other prisoners, then used his exile ability to rescue a three-headed monster from danger and gain its Transformation Card.
  • Shen Ye rescued the Soul-Possessing Ball from danger as well and gained its Identity Card, while the monsters returned to fight each other.
  • Shen Ye told Maria that he planned to save the monsters when they were badly wounded and kill them himself, and Maria said God had been right to wait for him.

Ch. 680The Black Shadow

Shen Ye killed two S-Rank monsters and manipulated the Soul-Possessing Ball into accepting a new contract, but a vast dark shape threatened The Other Shore Great Ship. After escaping its influence with Maria’s sacred Cross, Shen Ye chose to strengthen the ship by building D District.

  • Shen Ye fused the Truth Phone with his two gates after receiving a message from the Omniscient and Omnipotent Lord, then killed two wounded S-Rank monsters with Return to Silence.
  • Maria sensed an approaching evil and urged Shen Ye to hide; he went to investigate the ship’s uproar but retreated after seeing a colossal dark shape beyond the Observation Deck.
  • The sacred Cross Maria gave Shen Ye transformed into living meat and took the danger’s impact, so Shen Ye threw it beyond The Other Shore Great Ship through a gate.
  • Shen Ye returned to the Soul-Possessing Ball, staged one monster killing another, and offered the trapped Soul-Possessing Ball freedom in exchange for killing a monster in the Fifth Room.
  • As The Other Shore Great Ship shuddered, Shen Ye decided its survival mattered more than hiding his wealth and began building D District.

Ch. 681Father?

Shen Ye completed the evolution of his gate ability and confronted a future-born dwarf whose Dharma Form threatened everyone aboard the Other Shore Great Ship. After persuading it that the ship belonged to it and claiming to be its father, Shen Ye left the dwarf and its enormous shadow calling him “Father.”

  • Shen Ye upgraded D District’s lighting, released the Soul-Possessing Ball after voiding their Contract, and kept another monster locked up while the Ball headed toward C District.
  • Maria warned Shen Ye that the flesh creature had grown stronger, then revealed that the future had gone dark as Shen Ye’s gate ability evolved into Spirit Ruins Gate.
  • A scarlet Dharma Form enveloped the ship, and the dwarf killed two elected monster representatives before Shen Ye was teleported to the deck.
  • Shen Ye survived the dwarf’s Word Spirit Art because he possessed the future trait, then convinced the dwarf that the Other Shore Great Ship belonged to it.
  • Shen Ye claimed to be the dwarf’s father, triggering his Pull-Bi trait; the dwarf resisted the urge to attack him, its Dharma Form collapsed, and a vast shadow called Shen Ye “Father.”

Ch. 682You head for Xiaoxiang, I for Qin

Shen Ye convinced the future being to accept him as its father, then rescued Maria from its searching Flesh Art by summoning a powerful old-days being. He continued inspecting the ship and summoned Song Yinchen, who revealed that God had accepted her suggestion to evolve the Spirit Ruins Gate.

  • Shen Ye claimed to be the dwarf’s father, and the dwarf killed the monsters aboard the ship and left their heads as a gift before departing through the Cross.
  • The Cross’s Flesh Art began searching the ship for Maria, so Shen Ye summoned the Artist to cut out the wall bearing her mural and hid it inside his Dharma Form.
  • Shen Ye used a screen to conceal the mural from the Flesh Art, then continued inspecting the ship while the art searched Section D.
  • Shen Ye summoned the person who had suggested fusing the Truth Phone with the Spirit Ruins Gate and discovered that it was Song Yinchen.

Ch. 683An extremely dire situation!

Shen Ye used Song Yinchen’s insights to comprehend the future skill Void Fate-Creation and empowered her memory-manipulating characteristic to SSS-Rank. When the flesh humanoid summoned its master, Shen Ye altered its memories, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

  • Shen Ye merged himself with the mountain of meat so Song Yinchen could experience its art, then visited his future son in the mists and gave him an improved meatball.
  • Song Yinchen realized the final battle had given everything intelligence, and Shen Ye prepared to fight as the flesh humanoid found him.
  • Shen Ye trapped the flesh humanoid in his White Bone Palace, but it nearly destroyed the Dharma Form before Song Yinchen shared her understanding with him.
  • Shen Ye comprehended Void Fate-Creation and raised Song Yinchen’s characteristic to SSS-Rank so she could alter memories.
  • The flesh humanoid summoned its master, but Shen Ye made it see an elephant and then appeared to it as a beetle claiming they were going home for a language test.

Ch. 684The Lord of the Higher-Dimensional and the Lord of Doomsday!

Shen Ye used Song Yinchen’s SSS-Rank trait to confuse the future monster, which then transformed The Other Shore Great Ship with powerful Life-Creation Art. As powerful beings began converging on the ship, Shen Ye learned more about the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional and discovered a hidden refuge beneath the deck, but he was left alone after Doomsday returned to history.

  • Song Yinchen’s trait made the future monster’s memories and perceptions unreliable, and it destroyed the flesh humanoid before vanishing.
  • The monster summoned Main History, searched for Shen Ye, and used Life-Creation Art to transform The Other Shore Great Ship as History Fragments revealed the past, present, and future at once.
  • As the ship began turning into a living city and powerful beings approached, Shen Ye sent Song Yinchen away and summoned a powerful ally through the Spirit Ruins Gate.
  • The Lord of the Higher-Dimensional appeared, left to witness the future’s power, and later attacked Shen Ye, but Doomsday blocked her strike and explained that she could not board the ship.
  • Doomsday revealed that the stairway Shen Ye uncovered led to a Parallel World where the ship was safe, then returned to history so he could continue opposing the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional.
  • Shen Ye remained alone aboard the transformed ship, facing the dangers ahead.

Ch. 685The final mission of the Poem of Eternity

Shen Ye escaped into a parallel version of The Other Shore, recovered, and fused two Marias into the True Virgin Mary, who gave him the final mission: survive the true ship and find its hidden gate. After learning the modified ship would dissolve him with entropy, he awakened the parallel ship to gather intelligence and prepare a way forward.

  • Shen Ye’s bad luck repeatedly stopped him from advancing, and he fell down the stairs into a parallel world aboard an unmodified The Other Shore.
  • Seventh Uncle fed Shen Ye until his injuries and strength recovered.
  • Shen Ye fused the two Marias, creating the True Virgin Mary, who activated the final mission, “Awakening,” and explained that Shen Ye alone had reached the Dharma Realm’s highest point.
  • The Virgin Mary told Shen Ye that fighting the modified ship would dissolve him with entropy, even if he recovered his strength.
  • After two days of thinking, Shen Ye used Void Fate-Creation to awaken the parallel ship of The Other Shore.

Ch. 686Madman!

Shen Ye faced a powerful living ship that had broken through the Parallel World barrier, using money from his allies and summoned Professionals to buy time. After sneaking aboard, he fused the ship with his own and learned the route to its Captain's Cabin, where the sealed Gate Ability was hidden.

  • Shen Ye awakened The Other Shore Great Ship, gave it a battle trait that let gold upgrade it, and sent Fei Lun to improve it as an enemy ship approached.
  • Shen Ye raised his attributes and called on the Nightmare World’s races and Good Duckie’s wealthy customers for money, finishing the ship’s upgrades just as the enemy attacked.
  • Shen Ye and Young Shen Ye summoned Professionals through the Spirit Ruins Gate; Boss drew the enemy ship away while Shen Ye used concealment to board it.
  • Shen Ye merged his access privileges, became the ship’s first mate, and used Void Fate-Creation to give Mandala Ouroboros SSS-Rank power and consciousness.
  • Shen Ye fused The Other Shore Great Ship with the enemy vessel and asked the ship to reveal the Captain’s Cabin’s location.

Ch. 687The First Gate!

Shen Ye and his allies faced a powerful Soul-Possessing Ball while Good Duckie entered the Secret Chamber and inherited the Partition Gate. After Maria tried to use the gate to fix the present and unleash the Dharma Realm’s future malice, Shen Ye kicked Good Duckie through it, severing the future’s influence on this moment.

  • Shen Ye and his younger self were trapped in the Soul-Possessing Ball’s Dharma Realm, where it summoned numerous powerful fighters to kill them.
  • Shen Ye used summoned figures of the Lord of Doomsday and the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional to repel the attackers, but a trait exposed his deception.
  • Good Duckie entered the Secret Chamber using the Silver Little Snake and discovered the Partition Gate, the Dharma Realm’s first Gate ability.
  • Maria explained that the sentient Dharma Realm had created the gate to separate the past from the future, and Good Duckie inherited it with all his attributes raised to S-Rank.
  • Maria restrained Good Duckie and forced him to open the gate, intending to determine the present and allow the future Dharma Realm to destroy the past.
  • The young Shen Ye kicked Good Duckie through the gate, cutting off the future’s influence on this moment, then told Maria that God had fired her.

Ch. 688Endless Serpent Ring, Harmonizer of All Dharmas!

Good Duckie survived the Dharma Realm’s attacks, fused with Mandala Ouroboros, and used their shared life to make the Dharma Realm experience his pain. He began guiding the Dharma Realm toward the City, where it reluctantly accepted him as its second father.

  • The Dharma Realm crushed Good Duckie, but he revived through Dark Flames and realized that destruction could not destroy him in the future.
  • Good Duckie fused with Mandala Ouroboros, becoming Endless Serpent Ring, Harmonizer of All Dharmas, and used his new ability to merge with the Dharma Realm.
  • Good Duckie stabbed himself to make the Dharma Realm share his pain, warning that he could keep dying until the Dharma Realm’s power decayed.
  • The Dharma Realm agreed to let Good Duckie guide it through larger cities, and a new Living Dad trait appeared above Good Duckie.
  • After Good Duckie replayed the pain of being stabbed, the Dharma Realm called him its second father, and they continued walking toward the City.

Ch. 689Maria's Stone Coffin

Shen Ye signed a contract with Maria and entered the Stone Coffin, where he saw the corpse-tree that Maria identified as the real world beyond their constructed experimental worlds. After learning that God’s sacrifice had kept the monsters from reaching the future, Shen Ye argued that Doomsday’s will was another power the monsters did not control.

  • Maria’s power faded when the Partition Gate severed the future from the present, and God descended through Shen Ye to strip her of her divine status and offer her survival through a contract.
  • Maria and Shen Ye signed the contract, then she led him to an empty stone coffin in the church’s secret chamber and told him it could reveal the truth.
  • Shen Ye entered the coffin and saw a vast corpse-covered world, with a tree made of corpses bearing coffins as its fruits; Maria called it the real world and their world an experimental site.
  • Maria explained that the monsters outside created history fragments to seek a path to the future, and that God had used a drop of his blood to conceal his intervention and help Shen Ye cut off that path.
  • A wounded Shen Ye arrived and said the Soul-Possessing Ball had nearly killed him; Maria warned that reopening the Partition Gate would alert the monsters, while Shen Ye declared that Doomsday’s will remained beyond their control.

Ch. 690The third Shen Ye's choice

Young Shen Ye evaded the monsters aboard the Big Ship while receiving memories from Good Duckie and the younger Shen Ye, learning that the Spirit Ruins Gate could connect him to his future self through dreams. He escaped to a history fragment with help from an anti-monster organization, while the Soul-Possessing Ball and a human ally decided to pursue his knowledge of the future.

  • Young Shen Ye hid from the Soul-Possessing Ball and the pursuing monsters by opening gates between rooms, while a possessing being helped create distractions with phones.
  • Young Shen Ye received Good Duckie's and the younger Shen Ye's memories in a dream and learned the Spirit Ruins Gate could communicate with his future self.
  • Young Shen Ye ended the possessing being's summoning and waited as the monsters breached the rooms, then an unknown fighter intercepted the Soul-Possessing Ball.
  • Young Shen Ye met a human member of an organization fighting the monsters, who gave him dice that teleported him to a history fragment.
  • The human told the Soul-Possessing Ball that Young Shen Ye had found clues about the future, and they agreed to seek his knowledge rather than kill him.

Ch. 691His blade and his path

Shen Ye escaped his pursuers aboard the Other Shore Great Ship, then spent a month practicing his blade in a peaceful History Fragment. When professionals tried to recruit him for a new assignment, he refused and demonstrated that his swordsmanship had become overwhelming.

  • Shen Ye made the Other Shore Great Ship faster and created an SSS-Rank Void Spirit Wraith to hold off the pursuing enemy ship.
  • In a peaceful History Fragment, Shen Ye rejected Pierre’s invitation to meet powerful officials and spent his month-long vacation practicing his blade over the deep sea.
  • When professionals arrived to take Shen Ye back for a new assignment, he refused, saying he would keep practicing until he became strong enough to reach the future.
  • The professionals tried to capture Shen Ye and extract information, but he struck with his blade and defeated them, leaving their leader’s severed head in his hand.

Ch. 692Dissecting the Ox

Shen Ye challenged the bartender, whom he recognized as the world’s hidden leader, and used a future skill to raise his traits to SSS-Rank before striking him with Dissecting the Ox. The bartender only realized after Shen Ye left that the seemingly harmless slash had cut off his head, and his body began to split apart.

  • Shen Ye defeated the person in the tree in a brief duel, then escaped four monsters who appeared to hunt him and returned to the bar.
  • Shen Ye revealed that he had identified the bartender as the strongest being in the world and demanded that he take a blade strike before discussing the future.
  • The bartender agreed to face Shen Ye, who activated Void Fate-Creation and raised his strength to SSS-Rank.
  • Shen Ye struck the bartender with Dissecting the Ox and left, while the bartender believed the slash had not harmed him.
  • The four demons returned and revealed that the bartender’s head had been severed; the bartender realized the truth as cracks spread across his head.

Ch. 693High peaks and deep valleys

Shen Ye learned that he could summon the Primordial Demon and used knowledge linking the past, present, and future to gain the Future Prophet Trait. On the ship of The Other Shore, he developed a way to make his attacks capable of killing the monsters permanently, then offered the monsters a place in the future if they became his sons.

  • Shen Ye summoned the Primordial Demon, fought it, and discovered that it could revive repeatedly without losing strength.
  • Shen Ye told the Primordial Demon that the future held only humans, Elves, Orcs, and Undead, and the Future Prophet Trait confirmed his words as true.
  • The Primordial Demon left with the Four Demons after realizing Shen Ye’s claim could not be dismissed as a lie.
  • Aboard the ship of The Other Shore, Shen Ye recognized that the Entropy-Extinction Era could permanently end even higher-dimensional monsters and infused entropy annihilation into his swordsmanship.
  • Shen Ye boarded the monsters’ ship, where the Primordial Demon warned that he could not be killed because he was the only human in the Entropy-Extinction Era.
  • Shen Ye invited the monsters to become his sons so they could have a place in the future.

Ch. 694A running battle!

Shen Ye learned that the Primordial Demon planned to replace humanity and began a fight to escape a History Fragment filled with powerful monsters disguised as people. After destroying the fragment, he reached another space-time, where Xiatelai consumed the marker that exposed him as the original human.

  • In the future, the Soul-Hosting Orb revealed that it had locked time and said the past would determine the present, while the monsters let Shen Ye retreat to his ship.
  • Half a month into the past, the Primordial Demon offered Shen Ye a deep-blue marker and explained that monsters were replacing humans to claim the lone human’s place aboard The Other Shore.
  • The Primordial Demon’s announcement made the city’s inhabitants attack Shen Ye, who discovered that the marker identified him as the only original human in the History Fragment.
  • Shen Ye cut through the History Fragment and escaped into another space-time, earning the upgraded Future Trait Fate Creator.
  • Shen Ye found he could not touch the marker, but Xiatelai reached from his Dharma Form, ate it, and fell asleep again.

Ch. 695Only One Chance!

Shen Ye discovered that monsters disguised as humans had destroyed the main historical timeline, bringing on the Entropy-Extinction Era, and learned from God that the enemy could restore the History Fragments. After provoking the Primordial Demon and beginning to destroy fragments, Shen Ye uncovered humanity’s fourth mission: find the History Fragment containing a battle that never happened.

  • Shen Ye saw the monster ship behind him destroyed by entropy annihilation, then used the Other Shore ship’s cannons to blast away the Soul-Possessing Ball.
  • In a past History Fragment, Shen Ye observed monsters adapting to human bodies and lying in coffins instead of continuing human civilization, triggering the destruction of the main historical timeline.
  • Shen Ye realized the monsters’ attempt to escape the Entropy-Extinction Era had caused it, and he collected gold rather than reveal his knowledge by attacking the History Fragments openly.
  • God warned Shen Ye that the monsters could restore every fragment and told him he had only one chance to change the situation, while withholding the fourth mission’s details.
  • The Primordial Demon confronted Shen Ye, who began destroying History Fragments and gained notice among the enemy for his actions.
  • Shen Ye asked Maria what she did not know, and she identified the nonexistent final battle between the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional and the Doomsday King of the Worlds, activating the fourth mission, Eternal Night.

Ch. 696They're out!

Shen Ye struck a bargain with the Soul-Possessing Ball to rescue any beings who met his criteria for humanity, then sought a way to uncover the sentience behind the doomsday flames. He awakened the flames, while a monster transformed into a human was struck by his partner after insulting their newborn.

  • Shen Ye offered the Soul-Possessing Ball passage aboard The Other Shore Great Ship for humans in exchange for sparing them in the History Fragments, and they agreed.
  • Shen Ye announced human boarding criteria requiring success in games, proficiency in pleasurable pursuits, and romance, reproduction, and child-rearing; monsters began imitating these behaviors.
  • Shen Ye left the Primordial Demon and sought Xiao Mengyu's master, but Xiao Mengyu did not know the master's name, so they summoned Song Yinchen to investigate the dark flames.
  • Song Yinchen said the flames lacked enough power to reveal their memories, so Shen Ye used Void Fate-Creation to give the doomsday destruction flame sentience and raise its doomsday characteristic to SSS-Rank.
  • In another History Fragment, a transformed man insulted the human race while his partner held their newborn, and she struck him before admitting she did not know why.

Ch. 697Stop the fight? No, watch it!

Humans and monsters turned competitive gaming into a real-world struggle, while Shen Ye awakened a human-shaped version of Doomsday and discovered the Saint Tree’s record of the final battle. After advancing in power, Shen Ye accepted a quest to stop the battle but chose to study the combatants’ techniques first.

  • Humans used cigarettes to stay focused while gaming, then began attacking rivals in the real world to damage their rankings, and gaming competition spread across worlds with increasingly underhanded tactics.
  • Monsters struggled with their final challenge of falling in love and having children, including a couple who tried to follow a scripted courtship.
  • Shen Ye’s Void Fate-Creation art gave the Dark Flames his appearance and intelligence, and Song Yinchen used Memory Activation Art to locate the final battle inside the monsters’ Dharma Form.
  • The Doomsday version of Shen Ye opened a passage to the Saint Tree, but only Shen Ye could enter because of compatibility, and the Doomsday flames flew toward the tree’s crown.
  • Shen Ye found the History Fragment showing the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional fighting Doomsday, completed the Eternal Night quest, and gained a major rank in all abilities and skills.
  • The Poem of Eternity issued Shen Ye the Cease War quest, and he climbed toward the battle before choosing to watch and learn from the two combatants.

Ch. 698Truth Land and the Wind Gate!

Shen Ye entered the Saint Tree to find a way to stop the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional and the Destruction Doomsday, and discovered the tree’s true nature and its plan to escape. As Truth Land took control of him and forced him toward the Wind Gate, Xiatelai intervened, and Shen Ye revealed his newly advanced class skill.

  • Shen Ye fused with the Saint Tree and learned that defeating its teleporting Guardian would let him serve it and gain its support.
  • The Saint Tree revealed that its experimental human bodies had trapped it, and asked Shen Ye to stop the two beings fighting outside in exchange for making him its master.
  • Shen Ye advanced his Spirit Ruins Gate into the Saint-rank Wind Gate, but decided not to use it to free the Saint Tree.
  • Su Su, Seventh Uncle, and the Spirit-Capturing Net revealed that they were all part of Truth Land and took control of Shen Ye to force him to open the gate.
  • Xiatelai stopped Shen Ye and explained that her independent personalities kept Truth Land from controlling her; Shen Ye then revealed his level-three Future Professional class, Fate Creator, and its Void Saint-Making skill.

Ch. 699You've Gone Beyond the Syllabus

Shen Ye used the Dharma Realm and Wind Gate to redirect the Saint Tree’s arrival in the future back to the past, preventing it from escaping its prison. As the Saint Tree attacked, he empowered himself and Xiatelai, then fused with his other self to prepare for a fight beyond Xiatelai’s understanding.

  • Shen Ye learned that the Saint Tree had issued the Poem of Eternity’s missions to make humanity evolve and help it escape, and he decided not to free it.
  • On the Other Shore Great Ship, Shen Ye forced the Soul-Possessing Ball and the disguised humans to acknowledge him as their Shipmaster by threatening to destroy the ship.
  • The Saint Tree used the powers of the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional and Doomsday to shatter the Partition Gate and connect the past, present, and future.
  • Good Duckie and the Dharma Realm prepared a trap for the Saint Tree, while Shen Ye revealed that the Dharma Realm’s Wind Gate would send anything arriving in the future to the past.
  • The Saint Tree’s summoned monsters were redirected to the past, leaving it trapped in the future with the two combatants still battling at its crown.
  • As the Saint Tree arrived in the past and began destroying the Void, Shen Ye raised his and Xiatelai’s strength to U-Rank, then fused his two bodies into Super Saiya Duck.

Ch. 700Devour!

Shen Ye was trapped by the Truth Sacred Tree’s Holy Art, Life-Stripping Heart-Devouring, which let the Saint Tree replace him and experience his fate. After comprehending the art, Shen Ye used it to become the Saint Tree instead, leaving his opponent in a dangerous identity and power swap.

  • The Truth Sacred Tree bound Shen Ye with light shackles and sent him back through time to relive his past.
  • The Saint Tree, disguised as Shen Ye, explained how Life-Stripping Heart-Devouring would replace Shen Ye and take everything from his fate.
  • Shen Ye comprehended the Holy Art and cast it on the Saint Tree, swapping their identities before the Saint Tree could obtain the Partition Gate.
  • The real Shen Ye, now possessing the Saint Tree’s power, attacked Saint Tree Shen Ye and warned that switching back would prevent him from reaching the future.

Ch. 701Charge! Saint Tree versus Saint Tree!

The Saint Tree took over Shen Ye’s life, manipulated events across worlds, and tried to claim his powers, while the real Shen Ye struggled to stop the decisive battle between the Lord of the Higher-Dimensional and Destruction Doomsday. Shen Ye confronted the Saint Tree and began drawing on the battle’s aftershocks, preparing to fight it.

  • The Saint Tree replaced Shen Ye at work, arranged for his department head and the manager’s faction to be fired, then moved through Shen Ye’s past and killed Zhao Yibing and Skinner.
  • Shen Ye realized he had become the Saint Tree but retained his abilities, and he used the Wind Gate as a shield while trying unsuccessfully to stop the two combatants’ battle.
  • Shen Ye used the Wind Gate to return to the moment before the Saint Tree obtained the Partition Gate and confronted the Saint Tree in his own path.
  • The Saint Tree refused Shen Ye’s offer of peace and explained that it wanted to kill the combatants and everyone they protected to make its suffering worthwhile.
  • Shen Ye chose to fight despite the battle’s pain, then used the trait “Reincarnation Snake Lock, Dharma Realm Ruler” to form a field that collected the battle’s aftershocks.
  • Shen Ye prepared to attack the Saint Tree, and the trait “Turbocharged Duck” appeared above his head as the power of the decisive battle strengthened him.
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