Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye used the Heaven-Piercing Art to evade the Heaven-Shaking Art, kill its caster through a parallel timeline, and explore the cursed gate in the Primordial Ruins. The Terminus Lord of All Eras then trapped Shen Ye and the Heaven-Piercing Art Spirit in a dream and challenged them to battle, as the Spirit prepared to swap Shen Ye with his future self.

• Xiatelai learned from the Huntian Art Spirit that Guanghan Palace’s inheritor had mastered two arts and threatened humanity, but she refused to intervene.
• Shen Ye used the Heaven-Piercing Art with the help of three Creators to move through time and make the Heaven-Shaking Art end in the present.
• Shen Ye changed a parallel timeline so that five Professionals abandoned the White Horse Society, while the caster of the Heaven-Shaking Art died.
• Shen Ye bypassed the gate’s curse by replacing it with its past state, then learned that the Path to Heaven required him to uncover the Primordial Ruins’ secret.
• The Terminus Lord of All Eras appeared after turning Shen Ye’s earlier victory into a dream, and the Heaven-Piercing Art Spirit prepared to swap in Shen Ye’s state from a thousand years in the future.

A future Shen Ye defeated and resealed the Terminus Lord of All Eras, then used his power to strengthen the Primordial Ruins and Spell Spirit bonds before warning Xu Xingke of an imminent invasion. After the future self vanished, Xu Xingke sent Shen Ye to the Nightmare World to recover and called on Tarot Card holders and surviving allies to prepare for the coming threat.

• A Shen Ye from a thousand years in the future trapped the Terminus Lord of All Eras in an airtight Era Seal and fused it with the Primordial Ruins.
• Future Shen Ye explained to Xu Xingke that the Giant-Walking Ghost Seed would invade in one year and that the Primordial Ruins needed to develop a Resistance Law to give the universe a chance to survive.
• Future Shen Ye strengthened the laws linking Spell Spirits and Professionals, demonstrating how Big Skeleton could merge with him and grant him an additional spell.
• The future self departed, and the exhausted Shen Ye fell asleep; Xu Xingke opened a passage to the Nightmare World so Big Skeleton could take him there to recover.
• Xu Xingke warned Tarot Card holders that the Multilayered Universe would be destroyed in one year and urged them to gather at the Primordial Ruins.
• Xu Xingke drew a battered wooden boat Card and summoned the remaining survivors of the last Multilayered Universe to meet.

Shen Ye awakened after fusing most of his traits into the powerful new Lord of the Sun Wheel trait, then used his traits to defeat the Despair Manifestor attacking the Human Race army. He obtained a Truth Soul Shard and upgraded Real Estate, which became a Martial Arts Training Floor with accelerated cultivation time.

• At the southern border, two drunken soldiers discovered a night market of faceless figures chopping meat, and one escaped while the other was killed by a monster inside the barracks.
• Shen Ye learned that his future self had fused nearly all his traits and gained Lord of the Sun Wheel, which drained a pursuing enemy’s vitality until death.
• King Norton told Shen Ye that the Despair Manifestor was slaughtering the army, and Shen Ye insisted on going to the battlefield despite his exhaustion.
• Shen Ye used Wei True Person to place the Despair Manifestor in Tribulation Transcendence and Lord of the Sun Wheel to drain its vitality while he evaded its attacks.
• The Despair Manifestor died and dropped a Truth Soul Shard, which Shen Ye used to upgrade Real Estate into a Martial Arts Training Floor that accelerated cultivation.

After the Primordial Ruins selected Shen Ye for a mission in the ruins of a destroyed Multilayered Universe, he escaped a monster by using the Heaven-Piercing Gate and learned he had to scavenge for something unusual within 24 hours. He summoned Norton as his second Spell Spirit, and Norton brought a team to the flooded refuge to resume Shen Ye’s treatment.

• The Primordial Ruins selected Shen Ye after he defeated a monster and teleported him, still injured, to occupied territory belonging to the White Night Demon Cage.
• Shen Ye hid behind the Primordial Ruins’ illusion, entered the Heaven-Piercing Gate as it vanished, and survived the monster’s attack.
• After Shen Ye survived five minutes, the Primordial Ruins identified the site as the ruined corpse of a Multilayered Universe and assigned him a 24-hour scavenging mission.
• Big Skeleton urged Shen Ye to use Norton’s Divine Scion Contract Stone, and Shen Ye completed the contract and summoned Norton as his second Spell Spirit.
• Norton and Big Skeleton nearly sank Shen Ye’s floating crate, but Norton froze the surrounding water and summoned his followers to treat Shen Ye and secure the area.

Shen Ye killed a monster that impersonated people he knew, explored a stranded freighter, and proved his era’s power to ancient constructs, earning a mysterious gem and a Truth Suffix. Back in the Nightmare World, he received a new defensive Trait, Arrogance, and considered which Trait to enhance with the suffix.

• Shen Ye recognized that the voice outside the steel shell was a monster imitating Xiao Mengyu, and his Lord of the Sun Wheel Trait killed it after it pursued him.
• Big Skeleton ate part of the monster, gained the Undead Foodie Trait, and discovered that the monster had once been human.
• Shen Ye explored the stranded freighter and used his Heaven-Shaking Art to prove that he possessed the power of the Multilayered Universe, receiving a gem from ancient constructs.
• Shen Ye returned to the Nightmare World with the gem, completed the Scavenging mission, and received a Truth Suffix that could enhance a Trait.
• At midnight, Shen Ye gained the Arrogance defensive Trait and began considering which of his Traits should receive the Truth Suffix.

Shen Ye used the Truth Suffix to create the defensive Trait Pride of the Blind, then entered the Primordial Ruins’ recreation of an ancient battle but was forced out when he could not prevent the city’s destruction. After meeting with Xu Xingke and hearing that the Saint Venerable had inherited the Terminus Lord of All Eras’ will, Shen Ye visited the sealed monster in the ruins and asked whether it had been targeted by schemes in the White Night Demon Cage.

• Shen Ye applied the Truth Suffix to Arrogance and gained the myth-grade defensive Trait Pride of the Blind.
• Shen Ye joined the Primordial Ruins’ battle simulation, survived enemy attacks while blindfolded, and retrieved the gemstone, but the simulation ended when everyone in the city died.
• Shen Ye met Xu Xingke and the gathered factions at Yujing’s western outskirts, then urged Xu Xingke to recruit Iron Man, a panda with a Gate Ability.
• Old Ox told Xu Xingke that the Terminus Lord of All Eras had a successor who possessed two of the Three Arts, and demanded they capture him alive and share the powers.
• Shen Ye recognized the successor as the Saint Venerable and asked the Primordial Ruins to let him speak with the sealed monster.
• Shen Ye asked the monster behind the palace doors whether it had been ostracized and schemed against in the White Night Demon Cage, and it answered, “So what if I was?”

Shen Ye gathered intelligence about the White Night Demon Cage, helped Song Yinchen deal with people plotting against him, and recruited Panda to aid their plans. He then sought a Tarot Card to help Xu Xingke recover, earned merit by reporting on the Saint Venerable, and discovered how to survive a dangerous Truth Mining Zone encounter to obtain the Damaged Crown of Truth.

• Shen Ye learned that the Fearless Giants and the Tower of Babylon had preceded his civilization, and that White Night Spirit Wang possessed an Eighthfold Truth trait that enslaved souls.
• Shen Ye and Xu Xingke declined to join the Resistance Army, while Cang Nanyan, Song Yinchen, and the Tower of Tarot representatives remained on Death Planet.
• Song Yinchen used her spell spirit to destroy a Universe Ship carrying people who had discussed attacking Shen Ye, and Shen Ye took the blame when Xu Xingke called.
• The Sword Maiden persuaded Panda to report to them that night by promising him nine female pandas in exchange for leaving the zoo.
• Shen Ye found the Six of Tarot on the Universe Council's reward list and earned 110 merit points by reporting the Resistance Army's plans against the Saint Venerable.
• Shen Ye used his doppelganger to survive the Truth Mining Zone monster by activating Pride of the Blind, then mined the Damaged Crown of Truth.

Shen Ye completed the Broken Truth Set, used its Glimmer to repel and tame a monster, and earned merit from the Universe Council before returning to Death Planet. He re-entered the Primordial Ruins’ war simulation, where the Giant Ship was attacked and he obtained the Fearless Giants weapon.

• Shen Ye’s Doppelganger unearthed the remaining Broken Truth Set pieces, and assembling them awakened the Glimmer of Bitter Truth, which protected the Real Estate House from the black mist.
• Shen Ye used the Glimmer to kill and resurrect a two-headed monster, then forced it to swear allegiance and guard the house.
• The Universe Council verified Shen Ye’s intelligence about the Heaven-Shaking Art and awarded him 700 merit points, which he used to redeem the Six of Tarot card Winter of Inaction.
• Shen Ye teleported to Death Planet and sent the Battle Guidance Master to deliver a special scene card to his teacher before signing up for the Primordial Ruins simulation again.
• In the altered war scenario, Xu Xingke followed Shen Ye toward the cabin but was killed by the monsters’ attack on the Giant Ship.
• Shen Ye reached a wounded elder, received the Fearless Giants weapon, and learned it was an ancient ultimate weapon whose forging and maintenance methods had been lost.

Xu Xingke broke his curse with Winter of Inaction, lifted the suppression on the Tarot Deck, and restored the Sword Maiden’s strength. In the simulation, Shen Ye survived an attack on a city, bonded with the Fearless Giant, and returned to the fake Xu Xingke, who unexpectedly gained the Dingdang Cat Trait.

• Xu Xingke used Winter of Inaction to break his curse, then activated Hidden Stairway to Heaven and lifted the Tarot Deck’s suppression across the Multilayered Universe.
• The Sword Maiden regained her strength as a Fifth-tier Truth Swordsman, became a Card, and confirmed to Xu Xingke that they were done running.
• Shen Ye fought a Truth-level armored enemy beneath the ocean, used Lord of the Sun Wheel to defeat it, and collected a large Truth Soul Shard while saving the city.
• Shen Ye handed the Fearless Giant’s gem to an officer, but the giant chose him and formed a Contract with him as its master.
• Shen Ye resonated with the Fearless Giant by asking it for BGM and cutscenes, then returned to the Nightmare World and met the fake Xu Xingke.
• Shen Ye pressed the fake Xu Xingke for travel expenses, and the man gained the Dingdang Cat Trait.

Shen Ye exploited the fake Xu Xingke’s Friendship Gate to obtain a fast cultivation guide and gather information in the Primordial simulation, where he encountered a mysterious pregnant woman and uncovered a secret that extended the next simulation. After returning, he advanced his cultivation with the guide and a new Copper Man, then learned from the Sword Maiden that the White Night Demon Cage threatened them and Xu Xingke had gone there.

• Shen Ye discovered that the fake Xu Xingke’s Dingdang Cat trait reset the number of items he could provide, so he requested and received a Fast Cultivation Guide.
• Shen Ye and the fake Xu Xingke reentered the Primordial simulation, used the Friendship Gate to disguise their submarine as a whale, and traveled into the city.
• Shen Ye split from the fake Xu Xingke, joined the soldiers, and led a squad to an underground shelter, where a holy, pregnant woman spoke to him and triggered the discovery of the simulation’s ultimate secret.
• The simulation ended and its next session was extended to five hours and twenty-two minutes; Shen Ye kept the Fast Cultivation Guide and used it to advance his cultivation to the Tenth Layer of the Dharma Realm.
• Shen Ye merged a Large Fragment of a Soul of Truth into his Real Estate Cabin, creating a Copper Man that improved cultivation and could help train his skills.
• The Sword Maiden told Shen Ye that the White Night Demon Cage had destroyed her previous Multilayered Universe, that Xu Xingke’s curse had been lifted, and that Xu Xingke had gone to the White Night Demon Cage.

Shen Ye learned that the Tower of Tarot had gone to fight the White Night Demon Cage while he was left to defend Death Planet, and he chose the Tarot Scepter to control who could hold Tarot Cards. After Lei Ming used a Pupil Technique to teleport Shen Ye into space, Song Yinchen confronted the conspirators and warned the gathered leaders not to target him.

• The Sword Maiden told Shen Ye that the Tower of Tarot would strike the White Night Demon Cage, leaving him to defend Death Planet, and gave him a choice between summoning a fighter or controlling Tarot membership; Shen Ye chose the latter.
• At the World Government meeting, Shen Ye said he would handle traitors through guidance, then left with Song Yinchen and accepted her Rest Room key.
• Lei Ming challenged Shen Ye over Song Yinchen and used the Space Extraction Pupil Technique to teleport him from Death Planet into the Universe; Shen Ye used the Tarot Scepter to expel Lei Ming from the Tarot Card sequence.
• Song Yinchen found Shen Ye missing and confronted Lei Ming, who claimed Shen Ye had lost a duel; she read his memories and erased the memories of him and several old men who confronted her.
• Song Yinchen threatened the gathered professionals, saying she would turn anyone who provoked Shen Ye and their family into idiots and destroy the planet if necessary.

Shen Ye used his Dream Deity Palace to mine the Truth Mining Zone, strengthen his cabin into a resurrection point, and name it Little Western Heaven. After waking his dream into reality, he investigated a suspected White Night Demon Cage plot and confronted its agents by summoning Fake Xu Xingke, leaving both sides facing off in tense silence.

• Xiao Mengyu agreed to return with Kalula and seek a Spell Spirit so she could grow stronger before the coming threat.
• Shen Ye's dream body dug up a coffin, turned its inhabitant into a stone statue with Bloodsucking Grandpa, and tricked the Evil God into leaving behind a Mushroom of Truth.
• Shen Ye split the mushroom between the cat and dog, improving their abilities, and Gouzi led him to a complete Soul of Truth.
• Shen Ye merged the Soul of Truth into his real estate, removing the cabin's daily resurrection limit and naming it Little Western Heaven, then declared the dream real.
• Shen Ye and Big Skeleton returned to the World Government building, where Shen Ye suspected the White Night Demon Cage was backing those who had tested him.
• Shen Ye called Fake Xu Xingke to face a group of White Night Demon Cage agents, but neither side made the first move.

Shen Ye escaped the White Night Demon Cage’s pursuit, then was drawn into a simulation where he met Su Rong, the consciousness of a destroyed Multilayered Universe. After Su Rong revised his Fast Cultivation Guide and explained the limits of his powers, Shen Ye faced an enemy blocking their route, and their battle began.

• The fake Xu Xingke used the Friendship Gate and forged mission credentials to persuade the White Night Demon Cage team to withdraw, while Shen Ye lured their pursuers into a fatal adjudication.
• After returning to reality, Shen Ye was pulled into a simulated past by Su Rong, who recognized the Three Arts within him and chose him to escort her through the underground river.
• Shen Ye summoned the Four Kings to speed their boat away from a pursuing danger, then listened as Su Rong explained that the Three Arts were truth whose full power required greater strength.
• Su Rong revised the Fast Cultivation Guide and warned Shen Ye to keep it private because every additional cultivator would strain his Universe’s limited source power.
• A saber-wielding man blocked the river route, so Shen Ye blindfolded himself and charged at him as Su Rong watched from the boat.

Shen Ye upgraded Pride of the Blind and defeated a powerful monster using the Fearless Giants’ costume-change BGM technique. Su Rong then asked him to collect her scattered corpse parts in the Primordial Ruins, and he agreed.

• Shen Ye killed Kuafu, whose Envy trait had copied his Avīci sword art, and waited until midnight to choose a reward.
• With Su Rong’s guidance, Shen Ye upgraded Pride of the Blind to threefold Truth, gaining protection from shameless acts he had not witnessed.
• A black-haired monster ambushed Shen Ye after the boat reached the jungle, but the Fearless Giants’ BGM technique prevented it from acting while he changed costumes.
• Shen Ye and his allies attacked the monster, and his Spring Rain Blade depleted its health and killed it; his Songstress trait advanced to Battle-Dance Songstress.
• Su Rong explained that White Night Spirit Wang would try to force Shen Ye into becoming his new Attendant, then gave him a Card to locate her scattered corpse parts in the Primordial Ruins.
• After the Primordial Ruins urged him to help Su Rong, Shen Ye accepted the Card and promised to gather her corpse parts.

Shen Ye faced the Corpse Demon Su Rong after she tracked the eyeball to his dormitory and demanded it. He absorbed the eyeball to evade her, then began integrating Su Rong into himself as the battle escalated.

• Shen Ye woke to find the world suppressed by Truth and learned that Su Rong had given the Professionals fifteen minutes to surrender her missing eyeball before war began.
• Shen Ye summoned the eyeball and used Bloodsucking Grandpa to integrate it into himself, gaining the Universe Truth Eye.
• Shen Ye trapped the Corpse Demon Su Rong inside his Supreme Immortal Kingdom Dharma Form, where her demons and ghosts fought the heavenly gods and their shared injuries wounded her.
• Su Rong seized Shen Ye and demanded the eyeball, but Shen Ye activated Bloodsucking Grandpa to integrate her into himself.
• The fearless giant's pact skill immobilized Su Rong with background music, and Shen Ye embraced her as the painful integration began again.

Shen Ye triggered an ancient devouring ritual to merge his Multilayered Universe with Corpse Emperor Su Rong’s universe, leaving Song Yinchen to fight three opponents on its behalf. Song Yinchen survived their escalating attacks and began resonating with Shen Ye, who allowed her to draw on the universe’s power.

• Shen Ye used the Heaven-Piercing Art and the Primordial Ruins to initiate a merger, which the ruins classified as an invasion and turned into a devouring ritual.
• Su Rong explained that the two universes would fight for the loser’s possessions, and Shen Ye chose Song Yinchen as his combatant against three warriors.
• Song Yinchen evaded the Pale Giant, Fallen Angel, and Poison Mist Demon Spider, then used her Dragon-Devouring Eye, Chaotic Spiritual Light whip, and Mental Power to counter their attacks.
• As the combatants advanced through the Dharma Realm, Song Yinchen used Yin-Yang Deification to create another Pale Giant and learned to use the Fallen Angel’s Resurrection art.
• Song Yinchen announced that the fight had only been a warm-up, began resonating with Shen Ye, and requested access to the universe’s power; Shen Ye allowed it.

Song Yinchen defeated the three monsters, while Shen Ye trapped the Shadow of the White Night Spirit King in a mutated devouring ritual. In the resulting Truth Duel, Shen Ye’s Little Western Heaven came under attack, but the Copper Man won a judgment by showing it could write novels, then struck the Blood-Colored Knight.

• Song Yinchen used the Heaven-Shaking Art with the Heaven-Piercing Art to destroy the Pale Giant, Fallen Angel, and Poison Mist Demon Spider in a single lash.
• The Shadow of the White Night Spirit King tried to claim Corpse Emperor Su Rong’s eyeball, but Shen Ye activated Bloodsucking Grandpa and fused the shadow into the devouring ritual.
• The ritual changed into a three-way battle, and Shen Ye added a rule limiting Truth Constructs to the first tier; the Spirit King’s shadow summoned the Blood-Colored Knight, while Shen Ye summoned Little Western Heaven.
• The Blood-Colored Knight killed Cat-Dog and repeatedly dismantled the Copper Man, but the Copper Man revived and continued fighting under Shen Ye’s command.
• The Blood-Colored Knight used Judgment to challenge the Copper Man, and Shen Ye chose writing novels as the criterion; the Copper Man proved superior and punched the knight away.

Shen Ye and his Truth Constructs defeated the Blood-Colored Knight, then used mining and a reflected light beam to disrupt the Shadow of the White Night Spirit King's next summoning. The Shadow raised the battle to Truth Third Tier, and Shen Ye agreed to fight while Su Rong and the Primordial Ruins prepared a decisive move.

• The Copper Man and Cat-Dog defeated the Blood-Colored Knight, and the Copper Man took its blood-colored Battle Armor.
• Cat-Dog found ore locations in the Truth Mining Zone, and Shen Ye unearthed a Truth Bomb and an Origin Crystal Greatshield.
• Shen Ye used Cat-Dog's warning, received through Song Yinchen's Dragon-Devouring Eye, to spot the runes being assembled for the Shadow of the White Night Spirit King's next monster.
• Shen Ye and the Copper Man reflected Suffering Truth's light with the Origin Crystal Greatshield, destroying the runes before the monster could form.
• The Shadow of the White Night Spirit King wagered Corpse Emperor Su Rong's head and raised the battle to Truth Third Tier.
• Su Rong revealed that his power was gathered in his head and urged Shen Ye to help him merge with the Primordial Ruins; after consulting the Primordial Ruins, Shen Ye agreed to fight.

Shen Ye used his Fate Diviner ability to choose growth paths for his Truth Constructs and transform Little Western Heaven into an underground dungeon ahead of the Threefold Truth Battle. As White Night Spirit Wang’s forces attacked, the Copper Man’s gold-fueled power defeated the Blood-Colored General, while Shen Ye’s battle against White Night Spirit Wang remained unresolved.

• Shen Ye discovered that his Fate Diviner could reveal growth paths and chose the Comedy Route for Catdog, the precious-metal path for the Copper Man, and the abyss type for Little Western Heaven.
• Little Western Heaven sank underground and became a Third Layer Truth dungeon as the devouring ritual began and White Night Spirit Wang sent two squads of Blood-Colored Knights to attack.
• Shen Ye used traps to destroy the knights, and White Night Spirit Wang sacrificed them to summon the powerful Blood-Colored General.
• Shen Ye funded the Copper Man’s special effects with gold, and the Copper Man faced the Blood-Colored General in battle.
• The Copper Man’s enhanced saber cleaved the general in two, then it tore off his head and taunted him.

Shen Ye used Fate Divination on himself and saw three possible outcomes, learning that Death Planet would soon be attacked. He rejected the predicted paths and won the Devour ritual by bringing Little Western Heaven into the Blood War Fortress and demolishing the fortress with the Copper Man and Cat-Dog.

• The Copper Man defended the passage from the Blood Mammoth while Cat-Dog survived being trampled and burned by the Three-Headed Dragon.
• Shen Ye saw three possible fates: a draw followed by Death Planet's destruction, victory too late to save it, or abandoning Su Rong's eyeball to protect the planet.
• Shen Ye chose to end the battle quickly, told the Copper Man how to stop the Blood Mammoth, and used Gate to bring Little Western Heaven inside the Blood War Fortress.
• The Copper Man and Little Western Heaven attacked the fortress while Cat-Dog distracted the Blood General, the knights, and the Three-Headed Dragon.
• Little Western Heaven returned in Hard Mode and then Abyss Mode after being demolished, while Shen Ye's forces kept attacking the fortress.
• The Copper Man completely demolished the Blood War Fortress, and Shen Ye won the Devour ritual and obtained Su Rong's head.