Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye discovered that the World Will planned to destroy Five Desires, then rushed to save Dilia as the planet was sacrificed. Stranded in an unfamiliar steel city, he faced the World Will, while the sealed Emperor Species Cosmic Insect emerged through him as Nine Tails.

• Xu Xingke told Shen Ye to hide, then summoned Mojiahou and Xiatelai to discuss a new battle plan as glowing beings announced peaceful contact.
• Shen Ye entered the Great Tomb, advanced to the Fourth Level of the Dharma Realm, and used its power to see the World Will directing its avatars and preparing to destroy Five Desires.
• Shen Ye learned that sacrificing Five Desires would force either Dilia or Lilyas to die, and opened a gate to escape with Dilia as the planet was destroyed.
• The gate brought Shen Ye to an unfamiliar deserted steel city, where Dilia absorbed Lilyas and warned him that the World Will was coming to kill them.
• Dilia temporarily released a seal within Shen Ye, and the Emperor Species Cosmic Insect emerged to face the World Will, calling himself Nine Tails.

The boy and Shen Ye fought for control of the boy’s body, then negotiated a Contract after Shen Ye agreed to ask how an Emperor Species could survive the end of the Pecking Era. The boy promised to guide Shen Ye deeper into the Great Tomb and began preparing to use a World-Type Lifeform’s body.

• The boy used Fate’s End to scramble the time power of the giant’s instant-kill spell, then punched the giant into the clouds.
• The boy demanded that Shen Ye surrender his body, but Shen Ye threatened them both with death until the boy agreed to hear his terms.
• The boy asked Shen Ye to find out how an Emperor Species could endure the final moments of the Pecking Era.
• Shen Ye and the boy sealed a Contract naming Shen Ye and the Darkness Devourer.
• The boy explained that only worlds could enter the depths of the Great Tomb and impaled the giant with the Fate’s End Banner.

Shen Ye learned that the Emperor Species’ contract could let it inherit his body if he died, so he obtained the name “Silent Baron” from the female corpse in the Dharma Realm. After discovering that his Gate had connected to the World Graveyard, he returned there as a temporary world-type lifeform and baited its dead inhabitants with nuclear weapons before escaping and asking Kunlun for its entire atomic stockpile.

• The Emperor Species told Shen Ye that it had left him a method for controlling a world’s body, then rested after their escape from the deserted city.
• Song Yinchen reported that the Otherworld deities had died, and Shen Ye saw their planets swallowed by the female corpse in the Dharma Realm, who revealed that the Emperor Species could take over his body if he died.
• Shen Ye asked how to survive the coming crisis, and the female corpse gave him the name “Silent Baron” in exchange for his promise to free her from the World-Creation Axe.
• Mojiahou and Xiatelai told Shen Ye to keep studying and grow stronger after the Five Desires World was destroyed, then left him to sleep at an inn.
• Dilia explained that Shen Ye had entered the World Graveyard, where dead worlds could devour living beings, and helped him temporarily become a world-type lifeform so he could return there.
• Shen Ye offered timed nuclear weapons to the dead world inhabitants, triggered their countdowns, escaped through a Gate, and asked Kunlun for all its atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.

Shen Ye retaliated against the World Graveyard's repeated assassination attempts with nuclear weapons and discovered that the Emperor Species had contracted its inhabitants to kill him. After he detonated 2,000 hydrogen bombs there, the surviving opponents stopped summoning him and offered an apology and peace.

• Shen Ye obtained atomic bombs from Kunlun and used gates to bombard the World Graveyard.
• Shen Ye escaped an ambush through a mirror and left another pile of atomic bombs to explode among the World-Type Lifeform Bodies.
• Shen Ye received an upgraded Silent Baron trait and used Chaluchitorik's perspective to uncover the Emperor Species' Dirty Deal contract targeting his soul.
• Shen Ye combined Guanghan Palace with I Exist in the Mirror to evade another sealing attempt, prompting several World-Type Lifeform Bodies to abandon the contract.
• Kunlun delivered 3,000 hydrogen bombs, and Shen Ye sent 2,000 into the World Graveyard for timed detonation.
• The World-Type Lifeform Bodies stopped forcing Shen Ye to sleep and sent an apology seeking peace after he identified himself as Baxter.

After gaining Chaluchitorik’s favor and a powerful new archery technique, Shen Ye returned to Death Planet and was appointed a Heavenly King-level Professional and World Policy Committee member. He then confronted the Silent Church, stopped its planned attack, and left its followers with instructions for earning their master’s favor.

• Shen Ye offered the time-wielding World Corpse to Chaluchitorik, who accepted the sacrifice and helped secure peace with the World Graveyard.
• Baxter’s reputation advanced the Vampire Kid trait into a legendary gold trait, and Shen Ye fused three archery skills into the cross-world technique Starflame.
• Shen Ye tested Starflame by shooting twelve Taiyin Divine Arrows from Death Planet into the World Graveyard, then told Xu Xingke how he had settled the conflict.
• Xu Xingke informed Shen Ye that he had been named a Heavenly King-level Professional and a member of the World Policy Committee, and sent him to the Golden Sands nightclub.
• Shen Ye confronted the Silent Church’s Chief Arbiter and stopped the group from attacking the World Government building by displaying his Heavenly King badge and cosmic-level power.
• Shen Ye told the Silent Church followers how he had gained Chaluchitorik’s recognition, then left them to hold a harmless dance party.

Shen Ye learned that Nine Forms had awakened his memories and was searching for Dilia, then returned to a reformed school where Mojiahou became his group's teacher. During their first combat assignment, Shen Ye persuaded Mojiahou to abandon his former prison-guarding mission and settle on the planet.

• Iron Man told Shen Ye that his planet's victory over a world possessing the law of time would attract other worlds' attention.
• Dilia warned Shen Ye to conceal her existence because Nine Forms had awakened his memories and wanted to kill her as the remaining cage capable of suppressing him.
• Shen Ye rested at the Panda Agency and gained a twelve-hour effect that made reasonable arguments inspire Wholehearted Conviction.
• Shen Ye and his classmates crossed a square guarded by replica Human Effigies, then received new teaching assignments that grouped him with Nangong Sirui and Xiao Mengyu.
• Mojiahou introduced himself as Teacher Mara, took the three students into the mountains, and ordered them to eliminate an insect race that had slaughtered a village.
• Shen Ye urged Mojiahou to leave the destroyed prison and its monster behind, and his temporary effect convinced Mojiahou to consider settling on the planet.

Xiatelai recovered her memories and left to challenge the Black King, while Shen Ye and the others waited as the universe’s powerful figures rushed to witness the battle. Dilia later told Shen Ye that Nine Forms had died, and Shen Ye’s class transformation completed.

• Xiao Mengyu returned from a swift fight, and Mojiahou advised her to consolidate her swordsmanship before making further breakthroughs.
• Xiatelai revealed that she had devoured the heavens of the previous epoch, then flew to the center of the universe to challenge the Black King and gave Shen Ye the legacy Spellcraft End of the Dream.
• Mojiahou told the gathered experts that Xiatelai was the strongest being of the previous epoch, and they hurried away to watch her battle with the Black King.
• Shen Ye learned from Xiao Mengyu that classes could transform, then saw a notice that his Deathless Soul Lord class was changing.
• An earthquake shook the school as Dilia told Shen Ye that Nine Forms had lost to the Black King and died.
• Shen Ye saw the message that his class change was complete.

Shen Ye learned that Mojiahou and the other spectators had died, then brought Dilia into the planet’s alliance. In the Great Tomb, he suspected Dilia was one of Nine Forms’ personalities, and the Creator confirmed that Shen Ye and Nine Forms were competing holders of the Deathless Soul Lord class; Nine Forms still did not know Shen Ye held it.

• Kunlun summoned Shen Ye to an emergency meeting, where Cang Nanyan announced that every spectator at the battle between the universe’s strongest had died, including Mojiahou.
• Shen Ye invited Dilia to join the planet’s forces, and the assembled experts welcomed her as a powerful ally while agreeing to seek a way to free her from her shackles.
• After leaving the meeting, Shen Ye went to the Great Tomb and reasoned that Nine Forms might have used separate personalities, including Dilia, to deceive others and escape the Black King’s attention.
• Shen Ye used Chaluchitorik’s power to learn that Dilia’s shackles would break only when all four Prison Wardens were dead, and that Shen Ye was the last one.
• Chaluchitorik revealed that the Deathless Soul Lord class had stalled because Shen Ye and Nine Forms both held it, and warned that Nine Forms’ true strength surpassed the Ninth Level of the Dharma Realm.
• Shen Ye concluded that Nine Forms still did not know he was the second Deathless Soul Lord, because their separate personalities could not share memories.

Shen Ye resurrected Xiatelai while fleeing Nine Forms' awakened main personality, who pursued him across worlds and began destroying the World Graveyard. Xiatelai gave Shen Ye the Deathless Soul Lord class and went to confront Nine Forms, leaving Shen Ye responsible for catching her if anything went wrong.

• Dilia's body awakened as Nine Forms' main personality, and he killed the Cunning Traitor before deciding to question Shen Ye about the Lifeless Lord.
• Shen Ye activated End of the Dream and learned that Xiatelai had hidden her heart inside a head in the Undead Marchioness's Mansion as a way to return to life.
• With Song Yinchen's help, Shen Ye reached the mansion, retrieved the head, and escaped Nine Forms' main personality using Time Fluid and Gate.
• Nine Forms' main personality followed Shen Ye to the World Graveyard and began making it decay, forcing Shen Ye to flee through the Panda Agency and return to the Great Tomb.
• Shen Ye used Xiatelai's Resurrection Secret Art to bring her back, and she gave him a dark-gold Nightmare Crystal containing the Deathless Soul Lord class.
• When Nine Forms arrived at the Great Tomb, Xiatelai vanished to confront him and told Shen Ye to catch her if anything went wrong.

Shen Ye learned that Nine Forms and Xiatelai were fighting within a black cocoon beneath the river, while Nine Forms destroyed a hidden planet with a single strike. Hearing Xiatelai call for help through Nine Forms’ tooth, Shen Ye entered her past and tried to prevent her trauma from creating more personalities, ending with her asking him to take control of her body during fights.

• Xiatelai and the faceless man agreed that one of them had to survive, then merged into a black cocoon that sank beneath the river.
• Shen Ye explained Nine Forms’ survival to Xu Xingke and the others, and Nine Forms’ attack destroyed a concealed planet before the group dispersed.
• At Song Yinchen’s house, Shen Ye received the purple fate-type trait Scourge and heard Xiatelai calling for help through Nine Forms’ tooth.
• Shen Ye followed the tooth into a memory of Xiatelai as a child in a pain-tolerance laboratory and saw the children who had died during the tests.
• Shen Ye steered Xiatelai away from the room containing the children’s bodies and taught her the Frost Bite kicks as the laboratory collapsed.
• Xiatelai asked Shen Ye, whom she called Baxter, to take control of her body during fights and not let another personality take over.

Shen Ye helped Lanci escape the Flying Fortress, kept her from seeing the dead children, and used her abilities to survive in the forest. After soldiers tracked her down and took her back, her personality shifted to Xiatelai, whom Shen Ye urged to endure the coming fight and face the organization.

• Shen Ye discovered that the supposed earthquake came from damage to a Flying Fortress thousands of meters above the ground, then helped Xiatelai jump out before the facility could be cleared.
• As Lanci fell toward the forest, Shen Ye synchronized with her, taught her the Deer Walk Beneath the Moon, and helped her use Gate and Astrological Shift to land safely.
• Lanci used her ability to communicate with animals to summon a brown bear, and Shen Ye helped her make a warm shelter, cook fish, and rest.
• Armed soldiers tracked Lanci by the chip in her arm, sedated her, and carried her back toward the base while Shen Ye waited to learn how they had found her.
• Xiatelai awoke aboard the aircraft and told Shen Ye she had connected to the White World; he urged her to pretend to sleep and prepare to return to the base to address the tracker.
• Shen Ye encouraged Xiatelai to endure pain and fight, and she accepted that she could not run away, while the Leader mistook her behavior for madness.

Shen Ye helped Xiatelai escape the flying fortress, then learned that her inner struggle had temporarily ended with Dilia in control and that a hidden personality had changed his fate so he could no longer rely on powerful allies. The World Policy Committee sent Professionals into the Great Tomb to seek the Nightmare Art, while Shen Ye entered its second level alone and defeated its strongest guardian, reaching the stairs to the third level.

• Shen Ye merged with the little girl and used an Ice Prism Mirror to help Xiatelai escape before new chips could be implanted; he teleported them to the snowy forest, where a hidden personality threatened to strip away his powerful allies unless he abandoned her.
• Xiatelai refused to give in, and the personality battle paused when Dilia took control; Shen Ye returned to Song Yinchen’s home and learned that Dilia’s power had risen beyond the Ninth Level of the Dharma Realm.
• The Female Spell Spirit urged Shen Ye to retrieve and strengthen the Nightmare Art in the Great Tomb, so the World Policy Committee voted to send Professionals there while Song Yinchen stayed behind to protect the surface.
• Shen Ye reached the Great Tomb’s second level with Big Skeleton, defeated two Human Effigies with the Guanghan Bow, and followed the passage to a giant metal guardian blocking the third level.
• Shen Ye used his Dharma Form, the Mythical Trait Wei True Person, and the Hongying Blade to defeat the giant metal Human Effigy and claim a small box; he then saw the stairs to the third level ahead.

Shen Ye used the Reincarnation Saint Elixir to transform his Lifeless Lord profession, then found himself trapped in a snowbound world with Xiatelai as Nine Forms' Personality War began. Peaso revealed that Shen Ye's fate remained sealed but granted him Stars' Guiding Forked Road, which showed the dangers of both staying put and fleeing immediately.

• Shen Ye claimed the Tomb General waist token, learned that a Fate Art had severed his Immortal Path, and received the Reincarnation Saint Elixir in place of Immortal guidance.
• Shen Ye used the elixir to transform his Lifeless Lord profession and fused Fate's End with his Guanghan Palace Dharma Form, gaining a new resurrection effect but learning the profession could not be changed.
• Nine Forms' power transformed the surface world, and Song Yinchen was transported into the Great Tomb, where she agreed to fight the Human Effigies for a chance at immortality.
• Shen Ye found Xiatelai in a snowy forest, helped her shelter inside a hollow tree, and watched as Peaso, the Astrologer Poet, took control of her body.
• Peaso told Shen Ye that the Demon of Fear had sealed his fate and granted him Stars' Guiding Forked Road, which warned that staying or fleeing would each endanger Xiatelai.

Shen Ye used a new prophecy skill to learn that nuclear weapons would soon destroy the forest, then helped Lanci escape back to the Flying Fortress. After Lanci reunited with Sophie and learned the truth about the facility, she escaped the fortress, but an experimenter caught up with her and triggered the emergence of a dark personality.

• Shen Ye fused the Sect Leader's Treasure Manual with The Forking Path Guided by the Stars, creating The Hanged Man's Admonition, which warned him that twelve nuclear weapons would strike the area.
• Shen Ye synchronized with Lanci, used Bane to destroy the searching Mecha with a meteor, and guided her through the Mirror World back to the Flying Fortress.
• Inside the fortress, Shen Ye activated the Danger trait against its Central Control AI, while malfunctions triggered chaos and the commander began the self-destruct sequence.
• Xiatelai met Sophie, who revealed that the facility was not a school and helped her escape by parachute before the Flying Fortress exploded.
• An experimenter followed Lanci in an aircraft and admitted he had managed her experiments; as Lanci vowed to kill him, a dark personality began to form and Shen Ye manifested his Dharma Form.

Shen Ye defeated the fortress commander inside his Dharma Form, then helped Xiatelai escape and find shelter in an inn. As she slept, the Demon of Fear appeared and tried to make him abandon her, but Shen Ye refused and vowed to defeat it.

• Shen Ye used his Dharma Form, Big Skeleton, and Fate's End to defeat the commander and claim a credit ring containing ten million credits.
• Shen Ye and Xiatelai reached a town, where she bought clothes and food before they found a hidden room in an inn for the night.
• Xiatelai used Heavenly Shadow to evade two men who called her merchandise, then broke their knees with lightning.
• After Xiatelai fell asleep, a featureless woman in red appeared outside the sixth-floor window and revealed herself as the Demon of Fear.
• The Demon of Fear threatened to strip Shen Ye of his ability to obtain powerful Names unless he abandoned Xiatelai, but Shen Ye mocked it as Boss Jumble and vowed to defeat it.

Shen Ye used the Hanged Man's Gate to learn about his enemies and sent sleeping Xiatelai through the Otherworld Gate to earn a Trait for her. After exploring Dusk Star and escaping a Mythical creature on Terminus, he returned to find Xiatelai had gained the Sleeping Beauty Trait while he received a curse Trait.

• The Demon of Fear cursed Shen Ye's Gate ability and warned that the real world and Nightmare World had merged into Nine Forms' memory world.
• Shen Ye fused his prediction powers into the Hanged Man's Gate, learned the Human Evolution Association would hunt Lanci, and discovered the worlds had changed.
• At midnight, Shen Ye and Xiatelai entered the Otherworld together, allowing her to receive a Trait while he explored the newly connected world.
• Shen Ye arrived on Dusk Star, learned that it was nearing Terminus's deadly Abyss Zone, and chose to fish in the Madness Zone instead.
• Shen Ye hid inside a mirror while Big Skeleton lowered him onto Terminus, where he encountered a Mythical creature and escaped by logging off.
• Shen Ye returned to the inn and accepted the curse for himself; Xiatelai gained the Sleeping Beauty Trait, while he received the Despicable Substitute Trait and chose to devour it.

Shen Ye tested how to use the black Trait, then helped Xiatelai travel ahead of schedule to Gaia City after learning the city faced a nuclear threat. As they neared her home, ominous shadows gathered around Xiatelai and the Demon of Fear appeared, warning Shen Ye that the battle for Nine Forms was nearly decided.

• Shen Ye used his future Trait to take Despicable Substitute from a black cat and store it in his Dharma Form.
• Xiatelai woke with increased strength, and Shen Ye learned she remembered her home in Gaia City; they left for the train station.
• On the train, Xiatelai broke three thugs' arms after they harassed a female student, while Peaso contacted Kunlun through a game and learned an AI-controlled enemy could destroy a city with a nuclear weapon.
• Shen Ye used Kunlun's warning to get Xiatelai onto a plane bound for Gaia City, where she arrived before the enemy's investigation team set out.
• As Xiatelai ran toward home, humanoid shadows resembling her surrounded her, and the Demon of Fear appeared to warn Shen Ye that it was about to become the true Nine Forms.

Shen Ye helped Lanci reunite with her parents and repeatedly disrupted the Artificial Intelligence’s control by detonating hydrogen bombs in space. After the bombs ran out, Lanci escaped with him, but a soldier confronted them; Xiatelai emerged and unleashed a vast Dharma Form that overwhelmed the soldier.

• Shen Ye discovered that Lanci’s parents were in apartment 1701 and used a hydrogen bomb to destroy the space station, disrupting the Artificial Intelligence’s communications and letting Lanci reach them.
• Lanci reunited with the Guardian and the Incubator, who told her they had sold their organs and worked to save money so they could bring her home.
• When the Artificial Intelligence began controlling her parents, Lanci asked Shen Ye for help, and he repeatedly detonated hydrogen bombs in space to interrupt its signal while she stayed with them.
• After Shen Ye warned that they had run out of bombs and the enemy was coming, Lanci left her parents and escaped through his Gate with him.
• A soldier with a powerful Dharma Form arrived to capture Lanci, but Xiatelai emerged and summoned an immense host of Dharma Realm spirits with the words, “Dharma Form Descent: One Person, Ten Thousand Lives.”

Shen Ye and Xiatelai thwarted the Demon of Fear’s attempt to force the past back onto its original course by splitting reality into parallel worlds, but the Demon sent powerful enemies after Shen Ye’s world. Shen Ye escaped a giant hand’s attack by entering the Dharma Realm in a boat, leaving the story with him preparing to infiltrate the altered world.

• Peaso explained that Xiatelai’s exhausted younger self had summoned the Dharma Realm’s aether to create countless beings and destroy the enemy, and Shen Ye fled with her on Big Skeleton’s transformed turtle body.
• At Lanci’s parents’ building, Shen Ye encountered the Demon of Fear’s version of the past and learned that it was using the art Living Soul Establishes Fate to restore events to their intended course.
• Xiatelai appeared at Field Ridge, created parallel worlds with the Demon of Fear, and revealed that One Person, Myriad Lives had replaced all life in the Demon’s world with versions of herself.
• The Demon of Fear warned Xiatelai that her negative personalities were attacking the other world, while Shen Ye narrowly escaped a giant hand and hid at the Panda Agency.
• After Peaso warned that they could not remain outside the memories for more than seven hours, Shen Ye used his Dharma Form and future-type Trait to cross back toward Field Ridge in a boat that entered the Dharma Realm just before the giant hand struck.

Xu Xingke and Song Yinchen entered a dangerous civilization within the Great Tomb to seek the Nightmare Art, while Shen Ye and Lanci confronted a deadly amusement-park Dharma Form. By helping Lanci ride the Ferris wheel with Sophie, Shen Ye fulfilled her deepest wish and restored Sophie and the tested children to life.

• Song Yinchen returned to the Great Tomb and told Xu Xingke that Shen Ye was trapped in a powerful world, so she led Xu Xingke and the others inside to find the Nightmare Art.
• Shen Ye’s new negative trait became “The Emperor in New Clothes,” and Peaso explained that the amusement-park Dharma Form could be weakened by riding its Ferris wheel.
• Shen Ye used his Dharma Form and coordinate points to distract the Faceless One, while Lanci entered the gift shop, started the Ferris wheel, and helped Big Skeleton defeat the shop’s erasing monster.
• Shen Ye and Lanci restored the Ferris wheel’s power and drew the Faceless One away, allowing Lanci to ride with Sophie and fulfill the promise she had made to her friend.
• Lanci’s Great Wish Art transformed the amusement park into reality, resurrected Sophie and the tested children, and absorbed the power of the Dharma Form.