Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye and Mojiahou endured the First Calamity while Shen Ye maneuvered Mojiahou into bearing its danger, then the Raging Sand Calamity began after Mojiahou swallowed a spoiled Reincarnation Heaven Pill. They were transported to a desert, where the pill’s mental contamination made Mojiahou curse uncontrollably, and they reached a blood-reeking inn to seek answers.

• Shen Ye warned Mojiahou about the Curse-Talisman Snakes, but Mojiahou attacked one and was drawn into the First Calamity’s repeated teleportation trials.
• Shen Ye lured the remaining snakes away while Mojiahou endured increasingly dangerous battles, and Mojiahou eventually returned badly injured and missing an arm.
• The female Spell Spirit warned Shen Ye that the Raging Sand Calamity would begin in three hours, while Mojiahou showed off a Reincarnation Heaven Pill from his Tomb Soldier room.
• Shen Ye cautioned Mojiahou not to take the pill until they were safe, but Mojiahou swallowed it and triggered the next calamity, transporting them both to a desert.
• Mojiahou began uncontrollably cursing because the pill had spoiled, and he and Shen Ye headed toward a distant inn.
• Shen Ye pushed open the inn’s door and noticed a strong reek of blood.

Shen Ye entered a murderous inn, where he refused to trade Mojiahou’s secrets and chose to face a gauntlet of challengers. After discovering the desert was made of dangerous insects and testing a gate that could let him escape, he returned to the inn to train his new Blade Art and use his Danger trait; the chapter ended with Blood Fiend Demon becoming his disciple.

• The innkeeper separated Mojiahou from Shen Ye and offered Shen Ye a choice between revealing Mojiahou’s secrets or surviving a fifteen-minute gauntlet; Shen Ye chose the gauntlet.
• Shen Ye killed his first challenger with the Blade Art Thinking of You, then left the inn rather than continue fighting.
• Shen Ye discovered the desert was formed by countless insect-like creatures and confirmed that his Gate ability could open a passage to the Nightmare World, but he returned to face the calamities.
• Shen Ye used Danger to defeat two more challengers, earning gold and a spell spirit while practicing his Blade Art.
• Blood Fiend Demon accepted Shen Ye’s offer of treatment, triggering a mythic contract that made him Shen Ye’s disciple and prompted him to ask for cultivation instruction.

Shen Ye saved Mojiahou from the innkeeper’s Wheel Battle by unleashing the Rabbit Spell Spirit, then spent his winnings to heal him. As the second calamity began, they escaped aboard a flying inn, but the ship was engulfed by a vast swarm of insects, leaving Shen Ye and the others fighting for survival.

• Shen Ye accepted restricted Wheel Battles to save Mojiahou, but summoned the Rabbit Spell Spirit to defeat Butcher Zhao and deter further challengers.
• The innkeeper brought Mojiahou upstairs, and Shen Ye used his gold winnings to pay for an elixir that put his master into a healing sleep.
• The inn transformed into a Giant Flying Ship and fled ahead of the approaching Sand Disaster, while Shen Ye learned that the storm was made of insects.
• A second Flying Ship was destroyed by the insect swarm, and Shen Ye’s ship sped away as its powerful Professionals fought to clear a path.
• Shen Ye offered the Wind Crest to increase the ship’s speed, securing permission for Mojiahou to remain out of the fight.
• The insects engulfed the ship and attacked its Spirit Shield, so Shen Ye ordered the Blood Fiend Demon to defend them as the swarm poured inside.

Shen Ye escaped the insect swarm with Mojiahou, who revealed his Eighth Layer power and destroyed the swarm’s leader. Afterward, Mojiahou traded with Nine Forms for Shen Ye and Rosalia, and Shen Ye began serving him instead.

• Shen Ye and the Skeleton King fought off insects aboard the flying vessel until the upper-level experts abandoned the lower deck, forcing Shen Ye to escape with Mojiahou on the Ghostfire Motorcycle.
• Mojiahou revealed that he was at the Dharma Realm Eighth Layer Peak, transformed his Dharma Form, destroyed the pursuing vessel and swarm, and killed the powerful insect underground.
• Mojiahou returned Shen Ye to the Great Tomb corridor, then went to Hell and traded three ancient Professional corpses to Nine Forms for Shen Ye and Rosalia.
• Mojiahou brought Shen Ye to Hell, where Shen Ye inferred that Mojiahou and Nine Forms were allies and helped end the conversation before Nine Forms revealed his secrets.
• Nine Forms left Shen Ye in Mojiahou’s service, and Mojiahou took over Shen Ye’s missions; Shen Ye refused to see his elder brother in Evernight City.

Shen Ye learned that Mojiahou’s Dark Gold Name, Poem of Death Prophecy, had exposed Taiyan and Tianluo’s conspiracy, and that Mojiahou could soon use it again to find and kill him. To escape notice, Shen Ye had Song Yinchen keep him unconscious for a day; Mojiahou’s prophecy then described Baxter as doing nothing, leaving Shen Ye temporarily safe.

• Mojiahou told Shen Ye to search Evernight City for clues to the Earth Mother and the Nightmare Weapon left by the Death World’s Will.
• Shen Ye examined a Nightmare Crystal Tianluo had left behind and found a sealed steel box containing a voice that explained Mojiahou’s Poem of Death Prophecy had revealed Taiyan and Tianluo’s conspiracy.
• The voice warned that Mojiahou could use the prophecy again in less than an hour, prompting Shen Ye to flee to Song Yinchen and ask her to keep knocking him unconscious for a day.
• Song Yinchen hid Shen Ye in her pavilion and repeatedly knocked him unconscious while placing the Song Family on high alert.
• Mojiahou activated his prophecy and read that Baxter spent the day asleep in a lover’s embrace, mistakenly dismissing him as idle.

Shen Ye stayed unconscious through the day foretold by the death prophecy while Song Yinchen and Xiao Mengyu guarded him, and Underworld Lord Micteticashiva warned them that a powerful enemy could arrive if their cover failed. After Mojiahou’s messenger checked on Shen Ye, Shen Ye escaped to continue his secret mission, leaving the two girls behind.

• Mojiahou sent the Baxters, who had died and fallen into Purgatory, aboard a ship called Tenderness Haven, where a zombie promised to keep them safe.
• Song Yinchen answered Xiao Mengyu’s call while Shen Ye was unconscious, and the two girls nearly fought until Shen Ye’s Dharma Form appeared and Underworld Lord Micteticashiva warned that an enemy at the Dharma Realm Eighth Layer Peak could kill them all.
• Shen Ye woke as the day of the prophecy ended, and he and the girls staged a fight to make him appear distracted when Mojiahou’s messenger arrived to check on him.
• Mojiahou accepted the messenger’s report that Baxter was caught up in women fighting over him, then ordered his subordinates to summon Nine Forms.
• After the messenger left, Shen Ye convinced Song Yinchen and Xiao Mengyu that he had a secret assignment from Xu Xingke, who confirmed the story by phone and reassured them about the Eighth Layer god.
• Shen Ye left through a door to resume his mission, while Xiao Mengyu departed and Song Yinchen tried unsuccessfully to learn Dharma Realm Traversal from Weilan.

Shen Ye learned that Earth Mother was sealed in an iron box and uncovered the Nightmare World's origins and Nine Forms' hidden role as the monster imprisoned by the Five Desires guardians. He set out to rescue Kalula and resurrected Rosalia while Nine Forms' Snake Woman personality went to visit Kalula in Evernight City.

• Shen Ye spoke with Earth Mother through the sealed iron box and learned that Jade Terrace was hidden in Kalula's ring, while Nine Forms had captured Kalula and taken her to Evernight City.
• Earth Mother revealed that the Nightmare World had been created by the dying Desolate Ancient Tomb-Guarding God and that Nine Forms was the imprisoned monster whose escape required the deaths of all four guardians.
• Shen Ye decided to find Nine Forms and rescue Kalula, then ordered the Five Desires Guardsmen in Evernight City to spread word that Long Wu of the Baxter Family was coming and that other Baxters should leave.
• After Rosalia reported that explorers had found a Hell full of gods in Ymir's Chasm, Shen Ye asked whether she wanted to live and had Big Skeleton cast Undead Resurrection on her.
• The resurrection drew attention across Hell and advanced Shen Ye's Vampire Kid Trait toward its Legendary evolution; meanwhile, Nine Forms killed subordinates who delayed his investigations and the Snake Woman personality took control of his body to visit Kalula.

Shen Ye fused Tactical Disguise Daggers into the Shadow-Shining Sting, then secretly reached Prince Norton in Evernight City and steered him toward the Regent. After Norton sent a gift to Marchioness Xiatelai, Shen Ye entered her castle to find Kalula and heard her flute.

• Shen Ye sent Rosalia to Evernight City to investigate the deaths of powerful figures and report her findings to Lord Mojiahou.
• Shen Ye fused sixteen Tactical Disguise Daggers into the purple-quality Shadow-Shining Sting, which let him choose a death disguise and remain conscious while feigning death.
• Shen Ye mailed himself to Prince Norton’s diplomatic mission by hiding inside a mirror, then tested Norton’s combat ability and learned that his bloodline awakening was still incomplete.
• Shen Ye warned Prince Norton to earn the Regent’s goodwill and advised him to mention his friendship with Baxter, while Norton agreed to send Marchioness Xiatelai a gift.
• Shen Ye entered Marchioness Xiatelai’s castle through a golden mirror and followed the sound of Kalula’s flute after the Earth Mother sensed her nearby.

Shen Ye secured Kalula and the Jade Terrace, only for the Jade Terrace to drain the Nightmare World’s power and unleash a long-prepared attack. A voice revealed that the attack targeted the Emperor Species Cosmic Insect as the World Will’s revenge from ten thousand years ago.

• Shen Ye disguised himself as Baxter and persuaded Xiatelai, the Nine Forms Combatant, to take him back as a subordinate in exchange for six ancient corpses.
• At Mojiahou’s palace, Norton told Mojiahou that Long Wu Baxter had persuaded him to submit, while Xiatelai concealed that every Baxter was Shen Ye and claimed Songstress Baxter for herself.
• Rosalia brought Mojiahou Tianluo’s Divine Box, prompting him to question why the Five Desires world was called a prison.
• Shen Ye learned from Kalula that the Earth Mother was imprisoned by Tianluo, gained Xiatelai’s recognition, and secretly took a tablet computer from Kalula’s ring.
• The Jade Terrace activated and drained power from the Nightmare World, so Xiatelai carried Shen Ye to safety in the Five Desires world.
• A spear of light pierced Shen Ye, and a voice explained that the World Will’s attack had awakened to kill the Emperor Species Cosmic Insect.

Shen Ye negotiated a ceasefire with Xu Xingke, then worked with him and Micteticashiva to break the Earth Mother's seal. Jade Terrace merged into the Dharma Realm and named Shen Ye the one who had earned the power to guide the coming era.

• Jade Terrace warned Shen Ye that its attack on the Insect would resume in half an hour and urged him to free the Earth Mother, while Xiatelai sent him back to Mojiahou and struggled with missing memories.
• Mojiahou accepted Kalula as Shen Ye's companion and assigned Shen Ye to negotiate with the Death Planet; after Shen Ye was teleported onto the battlefield, Kalula attacked the professionals who had sent him there.
• Shen Ye revealed his identity to Xu Xingke, who halted the fighting and agreed to return to the aristocratic families with news of the gods in Hell.
• Shen Ye showed Xu Xingke the Earth Mother's Sealing Box, and Xu Xingke, Micteticashiva, and the Earth Mother shattered it together.
• Jade Terrace triggered a manifestation of the Dharma Realm, showed Shen Ye the history of the Human Race and his own deeds, then merged into the realm and declared that he had earned the power of the future.

Shen Ye gained the future-type trait “Meet You Beneath the Moon at Jade Terrace,” which let him evolve his Guanghan Palace Dharma Form by absorbing powerful items. After using it to sabotage Elvis’s Dharma Form, Shen Ye returned to Mojiahou and exposed servants who had undermined his mission, leaving Mojiahou to punish them.

• Jade Terrace merged into the Dharma Realm and granted Shen Ye the unique trait “Meet You Beneath the Moon at Jade Terrace,” which he concealed from others.
• Earth Mother and Underworld Lord Micteticashiva left to merge the Nightmare World with its original world, while Xu Xingke returned to Death Planet with the others.
• Shen Ye absorbed the gold-grade armor Embrace of the Four Kings into his Guanghan Palace, transforming it into Four Kings Beneath the Moon, whose phantoms could infiltrate and sabotage enemy Dharma Forms.
• Elvis demanded half the credit for the negotiations, so Shen Ye sent the four kings to destroy Elvis’s Dharma Form; Kalula then killed Elvis, and Rosalia joined Shen Ye.
• Mojiahou returned and questioned Shen Ye about the negotiations and the deaths among his subordinates; Shen Ye explained that jealous attendants had disrupted the mission.
• Mojiahou identified and killed seven or eight attendants who had plotted against Shen Ye, warning the others not to let resentment interfere with their work.

As the Nightmare World began merging with Death Planet, Shen Ye gained authority in the Five Desires world and returned to the Great Tomb to find Lilyas. Lilyas revealed that she was the true World Will of the Five Desires world and that Nine Forms was only a clone of the monster’s true body.

• Song Yinchen suppressed the Emperor Species’ body, studied it, and learned to control it while Shen Ye and Xu Xingke were unreachable.
• Xiatelai used Mojiahou’s elixir to stabilize her personalities but found that it made her speak in an unusually cute, angry manner; Mojiahou summoned her to investigate the Nightmare World’s disappearance.
• Mojiahou and Xiatelai granted Shen Ye authority as a prison warden, and their Art revealed that the Nightmare World was merging with Death Planet.
• Shen Ye realized Lilyas might still be alive, left the Five Desires world, and sent Kalula and Rosalia to their own business before heading deeper into the Great Tomb.
• Shen Ye found Lilyas alive as the Nest Banner and learned that she claimed to be the Five Desires world’s true World Will, while Nine Forms was the monster’s clone.
• Shen Ye sent the Four Kings to retrieve valuables from Lilyas’s Dharma Form, and they returned carrying a heavy wooden chest.

Shen Ye learned from Dilia that the Curse Statue was tied to the Vortex, a cosmic being connected to the destruction of the Five Desires World, and chose to follow its instructions. After invoking the Black King and opening his Gate, he received a Black Invitation from beyond the door.

• Shen Ye's four kings brought the Weeping Demon Prison City Wall into his Dharma Form, granting it the Frost Prison Flowing Flame effect, while Shen Ye kept Lilyas talking and contained her in the Great Tomb.
• Lilyas revealed that Dilia, imprisoned in her Dharma Form, knew the secret of the Curse Statue, and Shen Ye met Dilia after entering the Great Tomb to train his saber arts.
• Dilia explained that the Vortex had given the original Curse Statue to the monster imprisoned in the Five Desires World and instructed it to spread soul-devouring copies, while promising a reward for someone who destroyed the original and awakened an ability from the Next Era.
• Dilia warned Shen Ye to avoid the Vortex, but Shen Ye decided to follow its instructions and recited the words about the irresistible Black King.
• Shen Ye opened a Gate into a cosmic expanse, where a voice addressed him and sent a Black Invitation bearing a vast Star Chart through the door.

Shen Ye learned that Death Planet and the Five Desires World were moving through the universe toward a dangerous confrontation, while the Black Invitation remained inaccessible until he reached Dharma Realm Sixth Layer. As Mojiahou summoned him back to the Five Desires World to discuss a response, Shen Ye had advanced his Thinking of You saber art to Dharma Realm Second Layer.

• Shen Ye identified Death Planet on the Black Invitation’s star chart and learned from Xu Xingke that the planet and its star were moving as the military prepared for war.
• Dilia warned Shen Ye that the planet could not turn back without the Black King’s permission and that they had to survive the journey through dangerous cosmic laws.
• Shen Ye resumed training in the Great Tomb, learned that Mojiahou had placed the Five Desires in strategic defense over suspected activity beneath Ymir’s Chasm, and kept the approaching planetary threat to himself.
• After the world shook violently, Mojiahou left to investigate while Shen Ye continued training and decided he needed to involve the Five Desires in the coming war.
• Shen Ye defeated the Human Effigy’s lethal assessment and advanced his Thinking of You saber art to Dharma Realm Second Layer.
• Mojiahou returned and ordered Shen Ye to go back to the Five Desires World to discuss how to respond.

Shen Ye warned the Five Desires leaders that Death Planet and their world were entering the Godfall Sea, then helped them decide to ally with Death Planet. He convinced Mojiahou and Xiatelai that his exposed identity made him unsuitable as their envoy and asked them to appoint someone else.

• Shen Ye returned to the Five Desires World and challenged the Inspection Corps' investigation after Xiatelai's projection showed Death Planet and the Five Desires World colliding with another planet.
• Xiatelai revealed the Godfall Sea's Dharma Realm, where the World-Creation Axe pinned an enormous female corpse, and Dilia warned Shen Ye that Mojiahou had regained his memories and might attack Xiatelai.
• Shen Ye interrupted the tense moment and urged Mojiahou and Xiatelai to ally with Death Planet, arguing that the Five Desires World was weakened and needed powerful allies to survive the coming war.
• Mojiahou ordered Shen Ye to lead a diplomatic delegation to Death Planet, but Shen Ye defended his qualifications by revealing that he had infiltrated it as a student at Xirang High School.
• Shen Ye insisted that he was not the human Shen Ye, persuaded the leaders that he was telling the truth, and smashed a bottle of Calamity Source Liquid to make his identity's exposure appear irreversible.
• Shen Ye asked Mojiahou and Xiatelai to appoint another envoy, claiming that sending him back to Death Planet could make their alliance seem deceitful.

After Shen Ye secured Mojiahou and Xiatelai’s trust, he helped arrange an alliance between Death Planet and the human world while his teacher covered the remaining weakness in his disguise. Just as Shen Ye settled into his new role as a student, an extraterrestrial attack struck the city, and Mojiahou, Xiatelai, and Xu Xingke intervened when a powerful armored enemy charged him.

• Shen Ye challenged the Inspection Corps’ attempts to replace him as envoy, and Xiatelai killed the old butler and his subordinates after they failed to negotiate with Death Planet.
• Shen Ye traveled to Death Planet with Mojiahou and Xiatelai, where the Nangong Family head received them and Xu Xingke negotiated an alliance with the two Five Desires powerhouses.
• Song Yinchen brought Shen Ye to Prince Norton, who gave him a Life Disguise Necklace that let him return to human form; Xu Xingke then sent him back to school while the negotiations continued.
• Shen Ye arrived at the Human Martial Arts Group Tower as the World Government warned of an approaching extraterrestrial threat, and impacts began shaking the city.
• When a flaming armored attacker swooped toward the street, Shen Ye’s pupil technique failed and he prepared to fight, but Mojiahou, Xiatelai, and Xu Xingke struck together and sent the enemy flying away as blood mist.

Shen Ye joined a student combat team and fought a spell spirit while Mojiahou and Xiatelai confronted resurrected gods. After Shen Ye acquired the Cambrian Era Sacred Flame, a powerful blast swept across the city and apparently reset time, leaving him back at the Human Martial Arts Group Tower.

• Xu Xingke rescued people in a collapsing building, assigned Mojiahou and Xiatelai to guard Yujing, and gave Shen Ye a motorcycle upgrade with access to hydrogen-bomb authorization.
• Mojiahou and Xiatelai protected Shen Ye as he flew toward Xirang High School, then attacked gods summoned through a resurrection spell while Shen Ye continued to the school assembly.
• Shen Ye teamed up with Zhang Xiaoyi and Guo Yunye, received Battlefield Teaching support and the Ten Thousand Laws Severance blessing, and traveled with them to fight a spell spirit on Beihong Road.
• Shen Ye's Four Kings recovered the monster's frostfire, which merged with his Frost Prison Flowing Flame into the Cambrian Era Sacred Flame.
• A cold flash erased Shen Ye's surroundings, and he found himself beside Qian Rushan at the Human Martial Arts Group Tower as events appeared to have restarted.

Shen Ye discovered that the enemy could reset time, and after finding Zhang Xiaoyi dead in one timeline, he refused to escape and was sent back with the reset. He warned Xu Xingke, Kunlun, Mojiahou, and Xiatelai about the enemy’s ability, and Xu Xingke welcomed the chance to turn the repeated battles into torment for the invaders.

• Shen Ye realized that the Flame of Time had merged into his Dharma Form as the Flame of Sealing, letting him perceive changes in time and travel with time Arts.
• After learning the enemies had reset time, Shen Ye rode toward the World Museum while Mojiahou and Xiatelai attacked the Flying Meteors.
• Shen Ye found Zhang Xiaoyi dead, used his Fate’s End Dharma Form and Hongying Blade to kill the monsters across the city, then refused Dilia’s order to escape before the next reset.
• Time reset, and Shen Ye found Zhang Xiaoyi and Guo Yunye alive again; he raced to the World Museum and warned his classmates not to trust their cards’ teaching mode blindly.
• Shen Ye told Xu Xingke, Kunlun, Mojiahou, and Xiatelai that the enemy could reset time to study and counter them.
• Xu Xingke said he would use each reset to break the invaders’ minds and bodies, while Kunlun agreed to coordinate the response.

Shen Ye pursued the Nightmare Art’s power in the Great Tomb, using a feigned death to evade Human Effigies and the invading gods before reaching the next floor. After realizing the enemy could also explore the tomb and reset time, he used his Gate abilities to trap them on the first floor.

• Xu Xingke used the Wary Guard card to alert him whenever time reset, while Shen Ye freed Mojiahou and Xiatelai to speak and discovered the City Slayer trait had been placed on him.
• Dilia told Shen Ye that the Nightmare Art’s power had returned to the Great Tomb, so he left the Food Warehouse patrol and entered the tomb to reclaim it.
• During his trial, Shen Ye used a fused Feign-Death Dagger to appear dead, letting Human Effigies fight off the gods while he slipped through the gate to the next floor.
• Xiao Mengyu mastered her family’s supreme sword art, Nangong Sirui ordered the family’s grand array activated, and Song Yinchen defeated monsters by copying and surpassing their spells.
• Shen Ye returned to the first floor, gave the second-floor gate the Unparalleled Method ability, and marked his Tomb Guard room door as a teleportation point to prevent the invaders from advancing.

Shen Ye advanced to Centurion, gained a powerful spatial talent from the Great Tomb, and was sent into the Four Tribulations, where a giant nearly killed him. The monsters reset time, but Shen Ye realized that he would retain his memories, knowledge, skills, and experience, leaving him able to exploit repeated runs through the Great Tomb.

• Shen Ye followed the female Spell Spirit through a secret passage to the Tombkeeper’s Room, where his waist token promoted him to Centurion and granted him another Reincarnation Heaven Pill.
• After swallowing the pill, Shen Ye reached the Fourth Level of the Dharma Realm, and Big Skeleton began adapting to his Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye unlocked a Great Tomb legacy that strengthened his archery skill and awakened the spatial talent A Whole Dragon of Heaven, which sent his targets to a world of death.
• Shen Ye tested the talent on invading gods, sending them to Purgatory, then faced the Four Tribulations and used Ten Thousand Laws Severance to silence a giant before sending its battle-axe away.
• The giant resisted Shen Ye’s spatial attack and unleashed a soul-destroying death ray; Shen Ye learned the giant had no defense while using it, but time suddenly reset to a familiar street.
• Shen Ye realized the reset would erase material gains but preserve his memories, knowledge, skills, and experience, allowing him to repeatedly exploit the Great Tomb.