Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye discovered the Eternal Brain’s Escape Pod, stored his brain inside to replenish its energy, and entered the City of the Demon Nest to gather intelligence. He joined the Destruction Servants and found an SSS-rank mission to observe the Destruction Abyss, while on Earth Ning Yunyu withdrew from her fight with the Spirit-Capturing Net.

• Shen Ye discovered the Escape Pod and learned that it could pierce the Destruction Abyss and cross the barrier to another world.
• Shen Ye placed his brain in the Escape Pod to replenish its energy, then left a duck to guard it while he went to investigate the Destruction Faction.
• Shen Ye entered the City of the Demon Nest, bribed a clerk, and registered as a Destruction Servant by demonstrating that he could summon a primordial spirit.
• Shen Ye applied for an S-rank mission to observe the Destruction Abyss, withdrew after its leader rebuked him, and later saw the mission return as an SSS-rank assignment.
• On Earth, Ning Yunyu left her standoff with the Spirit-Capturing Net after a drone announced that the Abyss would be observed; the human woman collapsed from her injuries afterward.

Shen Ye used his apparent lack of sense to buy damaged treasures, then turned them into powerful equipment and devised a way to raise his tier without revealing his full strength. After dominating the arena with purchased weapons and armor, he forced the Demon Nest authorities to agree that the Auction House would belong to him.

• Shen Ye bought a genuine broken evil spirit dagger, restored it with Behind-the-Scenes Figure, and sold it at auction for 349,781 Destruction Coins.
• Shen Ye bought shattered battle armor from a young man and used Mandala Ouroboros to strengthen his own armor, then learned that only combat could raise his tier.
• Shen Ye passed the newcomer beast trial by having Big Skeleton transform into a dragon, and learned that the Auction House profited from sending wealthy newcomers to fight the black dragon.
• Shen Ye won arena matches using Truth Annihilation, bombs, and Vibrating Copper Full-Body Armor, while refusing to reveal his strongest equipment.
• When officials ordered Shen Ye to fight without such items, he threatened to destroy the Demon Nest, and the authorities agreed to give him the Auction House.

While guarding the escape pod, the black duck gained the Bastard Duck trait, which Shen Ye later discovered could also affect him. In Void City, Shen Ye won the Auction House by defeating its challengers, then read about Destruction Dharma Forms before two old men confronted him in the street.

• The black duck gained the one-use Bastard Duck trait, and Faint Glowing Text explained that it would reflect an enemy’s first attack before disappearing.
• Shen Ye and City Lord Brody agreed that Shen Ye would receive the Auction House, but Brody called for challengers to test Shen Ye’s strength and establish his claim.
• Luoken’s venom attack splattered back onto his face because of Bastard Duck, and Shen Ye killed him with a slash.
• Ptolemy’s trait was suppressed by Shen Ye’s Mandala Ouroboros, but he trapped Shen Ye with golden chains and struck him with his Destruction Dharma Form; Shen Ye then killed him with Wind Demon Soul-Severing Slash.
• Brody awarded Shen Ye the second-tier Void City War Commander token and the Auction House, and Shen Ye signed a contract not to harm Void City or initiate trouble.
• Shen Ye read about constructing a Destruction Dharma Form, then two old men blocked his path; he formed a Dharma Form that destroyed the street.

Shen Ye used Threads of Fate to manipulate Brody’s greed and secure a share of the Auction House, while trying to learn more about the Destruction Faction. Brody was killed by the Main God and replaced, as Shen Ye received a mission to repair a sinkhole hiding a passage to an unknown barrier.

• City Lord Brody reported Shen Ye’s use of the Double-Slash Swordsmanship to the Main God, while Shen Ye used Threads of Fate and suffered a backlash after glimpsing futures connected to the Destruction Calamity.
• The duck tried to use Threads of Fate to see Brody’s past, found it protected, and instead gave him the Judas Trait, magnifying his desire for money.
• Shen Ye offered Brody half of the Auction House’s earnings and a chance to join his work for a Destruction Primordial Spirit, and Brody agreed to keep the arrangement secret from the Main God.
• Brody killed the registrar and ordered the people involved in an attempt on Shen Ye’s life to be killed, but he concealed his dealings from the Main God and was promptly killed.
• The Main God absorbed Brody’s soul and took his form, while Shen Ye examined the Destruction Crown and received a mission to repair a sinkhole concealing a passage to an unknown barrier.

Shen Ye completed a Destruction Calamity mission with Brody’s help, earned an upgrade to his Spirit-Communicating Gate, and received a new mission to reduce the number of Main Gods. When Brody returned and threatened him over the mission’s secret, Shen Ye used the trial Brain-Using Art to uncover and influence the Main God’s thoughts, then watched him vanish with a new intent toward the Abyss Lord.

• Shen Ye told Brody that a Main God had taught him swordsmanship and explained that the Primordial Spirit could receive secret missions from the Destruction Calamity.
• Brody supplied Xirang to fill the bottom of the Destruction Abyss, completing the mission and earning a branch of the Soul-Calming Divine Tree as his reward.
• Shen Ye chose to advance his Gate Ability, which became the Spirit-Communicating Gate and gained the ability to disguise any existence as a gate.
• The duck received a new mission to reduce the number of Main Gods by at least two and learned that its reward would be Brain-Using Art.
• Brody returned to demand the truth about the mission, and Shen Ye discovered through Brain-Using Art that Brody was a Main God who wanted to kill him.
• Shen Ye revealed the Abyss Lord’s injury and planted the thought that Brody should pursue her; Brody vanished, and Shen Ye hoped his intervention would alter events.

Duck witnessed the Destruction Calamity’s overwhelming true form while Shen Ye resisted its attempt to make him join it by relying on Su Su and the fact that he had no brain. Shen Ye died to escape the Brain-Using Art, and Duck accepted a new mission to study the dormant Withering Scepter, only to discover Augustus’s consciousness had returned inside it.

• Duck saw that the destruction tentacles were hairs on an unknowable being and received a piggy bank as a reward for Shen Ye’s progress with the Brain-Using Art.
• Shen Ye drained Void City’s treasury with Mandala Ouroboros, converted the treasures into truth source power, and used it to awaken Su Su.
• The Destruction Calamity filled Shen Ye’s mind with thoughts urging him to perform a ritual, but Su Su stopped him and reminded him that he had no brain, so the thoughts were not his own.
• Shen Ye killed himself to escape the Brain-Using Art, and Duck learned that the mission was complete and chose a new mission to research a Truth Corpse.
• A dormant Withering Scepter appeared before Duck, and the tentacles confirmed that its user had been reduced to ashes.
• Augustus’s voice came from the scepter, so Duck hid it in his Storage Ring before its awakening could draw further attention.

Nangong Sirui and Xiao Mengyu joined Xu Xingke in a five-minute Eternal World battlefield mission to strengthen themselves. Meanwhile, Shen Ye fought the Withering Scepter in the Truth Void, accused it of serving Destruction, and watched Cassandra test it with her Art before discovering her enormous combat power.

• Nangong Sirui met Xiao Mengyu and Xu Xingke in the Flesh Land, then followed them into a Time Fragment of the final battle between Destruction and Eternity.
• Xu Xingke raised an Immortal Barrier to protect Nangong Sirui and Xiao Mengyu as they fought monsters to complete an Eternal mission.
• Shen Ye revived as the Truth Human, confronted the Withering Scepter in the Truth Void, and endured its Truth Dharma Form by endlessly striking with his blade.
• Shen Ye summoned the Destruction Boat and Truth Constructs, then gave Cassandra videos about the Destruction World while accusing the Withering Scepter of serving the Great Calamity.
• Cassandra restrained the Withering Scepter and used Spirit-Capturing · Human-Shaped Prison to turn it into a human, while Shen Ye saw her combat power reach 100 million and gained the Trait “Didn't see that coming, quack!”

On Augustus’s birthday, the Withering Scepter’s destructive power revealed itself and attacked Shen Ye and Cassandra. Shen Ye used the Destruction Boat’s power to trap and absorb one of the monster’s tentacles, suspected something was hidden inside the Destruction Calamity, and gained the Body Hair Collector trait.

• The Withering Scepter forced Augustus to stab Shen Ye, then broke free of Cassandra’s control and transformed into a tentacled monster.
• Cassandra allied with Shen Ye and used her Hell on Earth Dharma Form to attack the monster, while Shen Ye was caught in its black-light spell.
• Shen Ye realized the attack might not be the Destruction Calamity itself and joined forces with the Destruction Boat to capture a severed tentacle in his Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye absorbed the tentacle’s power and proposed that an entity trapped inside the Destruction Calamity was driving it to destroy worlds.
• Shen Ye wielded destruction power to repel the monster’s attacks and received the new trait Body Hair Collector.

Shen Ye was dragged into the depths of the Destruction Calamity, escaped Augustus with the Destruction Boat, and reached a strange river that stripped away his powers. After naming the river Many-Brained River, he gained a branch to conceal his destructive aura but remained stranded in the dangerous world.

• The Body Hair Collector trait transported Shen Ye into the Destruction Calamity, where Augustus trapped him in a river and offered him slavery or death.
• Shen Ye used the Destruction Boat to withstand the river and escaped through the Endless Destruction Throne, but Augustus fled from a greater threat in the mist.
• Shen Ye left the gate and encountered a river spirit that suppressed his power and demanded a name in exchange for protection.
• Shen Ye transformed into a duck with the Mighty Duck trait, retrieved his Eternal Brain, and named the river Many-Brained River.
• Many-Brained River accepted its name and gave Shen Ye a dead branch that concealed his destructive aura, leaving him stranded and unsure how to return.

Shen Ye used the Eternal Brain’s escape pod and the Many-Brained River’s protection to hide from a deathly buzzing that controlled bodies and thoughts. After deceiving Augustus into pursuing a false lead, Shen Ye survived long enough to gain two new Traits.

• The duck hid in a cave, but a decay force and an eerie buzzing began to rot its feathers and control its thoughts.
• The duck escaped into the Endless Destruction Throne and detonated a summoned big duck against Augustus, then fled while carrying the gate.
• As the buzzing overtook him again, Shen Ye used the Heaven-Piercing Art to restore the escape pod to its state from a day earlier, then separated his brain from his body and hid deep in the Many-Brained River.
• Su Su reported that eyeballs were falling from the sky, while Augustus searched the river for the duck and Shen Ye.
• Shen Ye’s brain tricked Augustus by pointing him toward a false trail, and Augustus left the river to pursue it.
• Shen Ye gained the Traits “That Was Ducking Close!” and “The Longest-Surviving Man.”

Shen Ye joined the Many-Brained River’s fight against the raining eyeballs, earned the brains’ trust, and learned that their collective consciousness was battling a powerful enemy in the clouds. He helped dig beneath a waterfall while disguised as an Emperor Species brain, then deceived Augustus into leaving without recognizing him.

• Shen Ye used the Many-Brained River’s power to kill an eyeball and stayed to fight alongside the brains, earning the traits “So Devious Duck” and “Honored Brain, Loves Bait.”
• The brains gathered to attack the being behind the clouds, while a gray brain led Shen Ye to a secluded pool and explained that humanity remained protected by “Species Grace.”
• The gray brain teleported Shen Ye beneath a waterfall and asked him to dig through the hard stone so the river could regain access to its hidden bodies’ power.
• When Augustus approached, Shen Ye changed into a green Emperor Species brain and used Mining Factory Mecha to disguise his activity.
• Augustus asked whether the green brain had seen a human or a duck and offered to recruit it; Shen Ye denied seeing anyone and rejected the offer, so Augustus left.

Shen Ye and his companions struggled to dig through the Many-Brained River’s territory while giant eyeballs attacked from the sky. After the river empowered Shen Ye’s survival trait, he redirected a ray, absorbed its power, and infused it into the Multilayered Universe, awakening Xiatelai.

• Shen Ye used the Huntian Art to evade a giant eyeball’s ray, then combined the Mobile Battle Armor and had Su Su operate it to dig faster.
• The Destruction Boat softened the ground with destructive flames, while Seventh Uncle and the mecha helped Shen Ye keep digging.
• A giant eyeball restrained Shen Ye, but his Heaven-Shaking Art Slash’s unbound power let him evade its ray, and the Many-Brained River warned him that the enemy adapted to moves it had seen.
• The Many-Brained River empowered Shen Ye’s trait, allowing a rock to take his place when he designated it as a substitute for an incoming ray.
• Shen Ye froze the ray with the Heaven-Piercing Art, absorbed its power with Mandala Ouroboros, and infused it into the Multilayered Universe.
• Xiatelai awakened within Shen Ye’s Dharma Form.

Xiatelai gained the Many-Brained River’s abilities and joined its battle, while sharing her past with Shen Ye. After learning that Augustus had once attacked her when she was gravely wounded, Shen Ye decided they would kill him.

• Xiatelai became Shen Ye’s master, gained the Many-Brained River’s abilities, and agreed to help it fight.
• Xiatelai used her Naming Art and her One Person, Myriad Lives Dharma Form to manifest a vast array of traits and attack the giant eyes.
• Xiatelai shared memories showing how she survived in the Truth Land, observed the Eternal World, and returned to the Truth World after being cursed and gravely wounded.
• Shen Ye learned that the Withering Scepter’s consciousness became Augustus and that Augustus had attacked Xiatelai while she was injured.
• Shen Ye told Xiatelai they would kill Augustus, and Xiatelai happily agreed to stay with him.

Xiatelai led Shen Ye and Green Brain through her hidden escape passage, but Augustus tracked them down before they could reach the Truth World. Xiatelai transformed into a blade and entrusted Shen Ye with her remaining power for one decisive strike against Augustus.

• Xiatelai opened a portal and sent Green Brain and Shen Ye into her secret escape passage as the brain-covered giant emerged and defeated its enemy in D0314 World.
• Shen Ye followed Xiatelai's directions through the passage, while the giant pursued Green Brain through repeated dreamlike traps and failed to capture it.
• Augustus reached the passage and blocked Shen Ye's teleportation, then confronted Xiatelai and argued that humans were hypocritical and her path was wrong.
• Shen Ye mocked Augustus's reasoning by accusing him of discriminating against plants and humans, provoking Augustus into threatening them both.
• Xiatelai used her last strength to transform into a blade and asked Shen Ye to deliver one full-power attack, which he prepared to use to kill Augustus.

Augustus relived the morning after retrieving a corpse, then discovered that a shark’s bite sent him back again after Uncle Cheng betrayed and killed him. On his third return, he avoided another dive by claiming his legs were cramping and began plotting revenge against Uncle Cheng and his men.

• Augustus first found an officer’s corpse at West Tiger Reef, but a white-skin shark attacked him and triggered a vision of a man fighting with a blade.
• Augustus woke at the start of the day, realized he had been reborn, and returned to West Tiger Reef to retrieve the officer’s corpse.
• Uncle Cheng harpooned Augustus, admitted he planned to take the corpse and Augustus’s fiancée, and left Augustus to die in the sea.
• As Augustus died, he lured the shark toward himself and was bitten again, waking at the start of another day.
• Augustus told Uncle Cheng his legs were cramping and delayed another dive until the next day, then resolved to kill Uncle Cheng and his men.

The Many-Brained River found Augustus pinned by Blade Radiance and became fascinated by the swordsmanship shaping his fate. Augustus discovered Uncle Cheng’s role in a corpse worth a huge reward, killed him at a gambling house, and was killed in turn, only to awaken back at the noodle shop; the blind old man realized the swordsmanship had caught him too.

• The Many-Brained River found Augustus suspended on a cross of Blade Radiance, admired the trap, and vanished after touching him.
• Augustus ate noodles in the county town, where a blind old man accurately predicted Zhang Xuedi’s exam result and gave Augustus the location of Uncle Cheng’s men.
• Augustus saw a notice offering one hundred taels of fine silver for information about the corpse and resolved to kill Uncle Cheng and his men.
• Augustus went to the Silver Hook Gambling House and stabbed Uncle Cheng, but an enforcer strangled Augustus before he could escape.
• After Augustus died, the Many-Brained River found him, but another man used a sword strike that made the voices disappear.
• Augustus awoke back in the noodle shop and offered to buy the blind old man noodles, while the old man complained that the swordsmanship had caught him too.

Augustus’s attempt to escape his fate spiraled into a violent killing spree after a noodle-shop dispute, and Old Blind Man tried to free him from a mysterious sword technique by flying him beyond the sky. Augustus died in the frozen heights, reborn in the noodle shop, then fled from Old Blind Man in terror.

• Augustus realized his changed actions had altered events, but the noodle-shop owner and waiter beat him and demanded more money after he ate.
• Augustus killed the waiter and proprietor, took their money, and escaped town by hiding silver underwater and swimming east.
• Old Blind Man found Augustus and carried him into the sky, where they passed through countless heavenly realms and Augustus froze to death.
• Augustus awoke reborn in the noodle shop, saw Old Blind Man beside him, and ran to the western bridge before diving into the water.

The old blind man endured three hundred years inside Shen Ye’s blade strike before finding a way to escape and returning to his world. He then dreamed of regaining his strength and taking revenge, but woke to discover he was still trapped in the technique.

• The old blind man fought endless versions of Augustus and spent three hundred years trapped in the world created by Shen Ye’s blade strike.
• The old blind man used a Time Aspect art to return to the moment the trap began and persuaded Shen Ye to let him leave.
• Shen Ye explained why monsters hated Destruction, then told the old blind man that only three seconds had passed outside.
• The old blind man returned to the Many-Brained River, restored his strength, and planned to attack Shen Ye with Brainwave Impact: Ten Thousand Stars Fall and Perish.
• The old blind man woke in the ruined temple beside Augustus and realized that his escape and revenge had only been a dream.

After defeating the monsters in D-0314 World, Shen Ye publicized his victory and fled toward the Destruction Faction, where the power of ten thousand worlds transformed his duck trait into a King-level trait. Summoned to Black Flame City as Good Duckie, he learned the city was under threat and promised to bring a powerful figure to save it.

• Shen Ye chose to claim that he represented the Destruction Calamity, took Augustus and the Many-Brained River’s bodies, and escaped as monsters gathered in the passage.
• Shen Ye’s victory generated the power of ten thousand worlds, which advanced his duck trait into the King-level trait Number One Duck.
• Number One Duck transformed him into Good Duckie, and a summoning art transported him to Black Flame City in the Destruction Faction.
• The priest told Good Duckie that monsters had killed the city lord and that the city was losing the Destruction Calamity’s protection.
• Peaso warned that a King-level monster would kill Duck within hours, so Duck promised Black Flame City’s residents he would summon a powerful figure to save them.

Xiao Mengyu and the Sword Maiden joined forces to defeat a legendary monster, while Shen Ye helped Black Flame City bargain with the Destruction Will for protection and stronger defenses. As monsters attacked the city, Shen Ye prepared to strengthen Big Skeleton by feeding it the Many-Brained River’s brain.

• Xiao Mengyu asked Xu Xingke to summon the Sword Maiden, then taught her to join a sword formation and used their technique, Secret Sword, Painting Shadows, to defeat the monster beyond the plain.
• Good Duckie summoned Shen Ye to Black Flame City, where Shen Ye intimidated the Professionals before agreeing to defend them in exchange for the city's resources.
• Good Duckie and the Professionals performed a Sacrifice Ritual, and Shen Ye offered pieces of Augustus’s body to restore the city’s defenses and increase its combat strength.
• The Destruction Will granted Shen Ye a Destruction Protection Shield but said it had abandoned the city and would send no reinforcements.
• Shen Ye told Good Duckie to awaken the city's buildings, then persuaded Fei Lun to eat the Many-Brained River’s brain so it could transform into the creature.
• Monsters attacked Black Flame City, and Shen Ye told the defenders to hold the line while he prepared hot pot.