Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye was forced into a King-level Cage Battle against a blond monster, while using a performance to trick the old blind man into revealing the enemy’s abilities. He landed Years Slash but was struck down, and the monster sensed its subordinate nearby as the old blind man remained trapped.

• Good Ducky upgraded the defensive cannons and gave Black Flame City multiple illusions, but King Spellcraft pierced them and forced Shen Ye into a Cage Battle.
• Shen Ye was transported to an arena, where he faced a blond monster seeking Augustus and claiming he could kill Shen Ye effortlessly.
• Shen Ye used Hot-Blooded Comrades to borrow Nangong Sirui’s Best Actor power and impersonated the blond monster to question the old blind man inside the Dharma Form.
• The old blind man revealed that Shen Ye’s opponent wore armor that concealed his movements and used a devastating fist technique, while Shen Ye stalled the monster with a tongue twister.
• Shen Ye endured two blows with his shields, used Years Slash to cut the monster’s exposed hair, and survived another strike with the Lord of the Multilayered Universe’s Battle Armor, which then shattered.
• The blond monster sensed its subordinate nearby and left the old blind man behind, refusing to save him.

Shen Ye learned that the Blond-Haired Man concealed his true abilities and threatened anyone who might kill him, while his allies fought to slow the man down. After Shen Ye lured the Blond-Haired Man into the Dharma Form, he began using the man’s strength to grow more powerful, and Good Duckie searched the monster horde for a stronger opponent.

• Xiatelai explained that the Blond-Haired Man’s hidden trait made his powers and past actions impossible to identify, while the Destruction Boat, Seventh Uncle, and Annie attacked him and failed to suppress him.
• Su Su touched the Blond-Haired Man and revealed his Unknowable Mistwalker trait, including his plan to learn how Shen Ye’s slash worked and then kill him.
• Young Shen Ye joined the Suicide Squad’s assault on World D, and his Years Slash sent monsters into his Dharma Form as Good Duckie continued fighting with his saber.
• The Blond-Haired Man and Augustus found Shen Ye pinned beneath a mountain; the Blond-Haired Man pushed it aside, allowing Shen Ye to escape and absorb the power released in battle.
• Shen Ye claimed that monsters held portions of his Gate Ability and led the Blond-Haired Man toward them, while Good Duckie sent a powerful monster into the Dharma Form as the Yellow Wind Monster.
• The Blond-Haired Man prepared to attack the monster, while Good Duckie charged deeper into the horde, demanding an even stronger opponent.

Shen Ye fought the blond man, who revealed a king-level true form capable of overwhelming Shen Ye’s Dharma Form and rendering his Blade Art ineffective. After deducing that the creature could not destroy destruction itself, Shen Ye summoned the Endless Destruction Throne, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• The blond man unleashed a spell that threatened to destroy the world, but Shen Ye redirected its impact to kill Augustus and deceive him.
• The blond man killed the Old Blind Man after Shen Ye and Green Brain manipulated the battle, then confronted Shen Ye directly.
• Shen Ye and his younger self combined their attacks, wounded the blond man, and discovered that he could regenerate and transform into a vast tentacle.
• Xiatelai and the other truth constructs urged Shen Ye to use their power, but he instead reasoned that the blond man could not destroy destruction.
• Shen Ye opened a gate and summoned the Endless Destruction Throne.

Shen Ye completed the fusion of his Gate Ability and Dharma Form, then used his new Revolving Lantern blade art to drag the Blond-Haired Man into his Underworld World. The Blond-Haired Man returned to the hospital and discovered that his body was dead and that he was now a spirit.

• Shen Ye stalled the Blond-Haired Man until his Dharma Form and Gate Ability fused into Two Polarities Commanding Souls.
• Shen Ye struck the Blond-Haired Man with Revolving Lantern, pulling him into his Dharma Form despite being gravely wounded.
• Shen Ye absorbed the power that had injured him, expanded his Underworld World, and returned the Blond-Haired Man to the hospital at an earlier moment.
• The Old Blind Man led the Blond-Haired Man through the mist and warned him that he was not dead yet and must leave.
• The Blond-Haired Man returned to the hospital's second basement, found his own bloodstained tentacle on a morgue bed, and realized he was dead.

After winning the Cage Battle, Shen Ye became lord of Black Flame City and discovered that the blond king’s soul fragment had brought its memories and techniques into his Dharma Form. Distrusting the Destruction Faction’s attempts to claim his spoils, he left Black Flame City and chose the Nightmare World as his domain, becoming the Nightmare King.

• Shen Ye won the Cage Battle, gained a king-level trait, and was given Black Flame City as his territory.
• Kailong offered Shen Ye another city in exchange for the blond king’s soul fragment, but Shen Ye concealed that it remained inside his Dharma Form.
• The blond man awoke in the real world with the monster’s memories and techniques, and Shen Ye realized the soul fragment was his true prize.
• Kailong tried to provoke Shen Ye into a fight, but a Causality spellcraft suddenly carried Kailong away.
• Shen Ye refused to guard Black Flame City, opened a gate to the Nightmare World, and designated it as his domain.
• The Ten Thousand Worlds recognized Shen Ye as the Nightmare King and declared that his territory could not be invaded unless another king defeated him.

Kailong learned from the Destruction Cathedral’s mural that he was destined to lose to Shen Ye and reluctantly joined three other Main Gods to hunt him in Truth World. Shen Ye secured Nightmare World, gained the king-level Calamity-Bringing Demon Eye, and began using a soul fragment’s knowledge through Alois, who set out with Brother Shen Ye to explore ancient ruins.

• Kailong confronted the mural after it revealed that its protection had vanished to ward off his defeat, then learned that Shen Ye would outmaneuver him with the powers of multiple worlds.
• Three Main Gods persuaded Kailong to cooperate, and the four Destruction Supreme Gods crossed into Truth World to search for Shen Ye.
• The Spirit-Capturing Net’s human body sensed the four auras and transported Earth’s humans to mining sites in Truth Land to awaken stronger beings.
• Shen Ye made Nightmare World inaccessible without his permission, learned about Void Saints, and discovered his king-level Calamity-Bringing Demon Eye.
• Shen Ye refused to merge with the soul fragment and said he had already begun using another method; Alois then agreed to explore ruins at sea with Brother Shen Ye.

Shen Ye’s group saved Shen Ye from a sea monster, and Alois earned King Norton’s trust by sharing powerful techniques and information about Destruction. Meanwhile, Shen Ye faced Kailong and the three Destruction Supreme Gods, turning their ambush into a deadly trap before leaving Kailong alone before the Void Maw.

• Alois and Shen Ye drove off a sea monster, but Shen Ye was gravely wounded, so Alois called for help from an approaching human ship.
• Alois met King Norton, who tested him with sword techniques; Alois supplied seven ways to counter them, and Norton secretly sent the knowledge to Shen Ye.
• Shen Ye learned that the Destruction Supreme Gods had found his dream world and accepted their king-tier invasion challenge in his young body.
• Aojia, Silas, and Xilun ambushed Shen Ye with Requiem of All Spirits, but Shen Ye summoned the Void Maw, which caused the three brothers to vanish.
• Kailong accused Shen Ye of hiding the brothers, but Shen Ye killed his own body and left Kailong alone to face the Void Maw.
• Norton showed Alois a recording of Requiem of All Spirits, and Alois began writing down its secrets while Norton concealed a Magic Letter from Shen Ye.

Shen Ye’s blade art left the Destruction Supreme Gods shaken, while he advanced to Truth First Tier and sought time to strengthen himself. He used Life’s Revolving Lantern on himself to enter a three-hundred-year dream devoted to comprehending blade techniques.

• Aojia restored Kailong and showed the brothers how Shen Ye’s blade art had trapped them in a death premonition that blurred reality and illusion.
• The Destruction Supreme Gods realized they had no clear way to stop Shen Ye from drawing his blade, and Aojia resolved to learn how to counter the technique.
• Shen Ye reached Truth First Tier, gained constant attributes and a continuing supply of Eternal Source Power, and recognized that he needed time to grow.
• Norton invited Shen Ye and Alois to join the Holy Violet Empire after the priests completed Shen Ye’s treatment.
• Shen Ye stabbed himself with Life’s Revolving Lantern and entered a dream in which he would spend three hundred years comprehending blade techniques.

Shen Ye was pulled from Revolving Lantern into a confrontation with Kailong and Aojia, who sealed his Revolving Lantern with a time Spellcraft. He killed Kailong with Blade Art: Flower Scatter and summoned the Many-Brained River to attack Aojia.

• Shen Ye spent two hundred years fighting the old blind man and refining his swordsmanship before a king-level Spellcraft dragged him back to the Nightmare World.
• Kailong and Aojia demanded that Shen Ye hand over his swordsmanship, but Shen Ye disrupted their attack by pretending to agree and then refusing.
• Aojia reversed Shen Ye's timestream and sealed Revolving Lantern, leaving Kailong to attack him while Aojia's Spellcraft was still being cast.
• Shen Ye killed Kailong with Blade Art: Flower Scatter, then used his Dharma Form and a Trait to collect Kailong's corpse and soul.
• Shen Ye summoned the Many-Brained River of D-0314 World, and the old blind fellow charged at Aojia.

Shen Ye used his Dharma Form to trap Aojia in an immense sequence of illusions, disrupting Aojia’s time-sealing Art as the Destruction Supreme God tried to escape. After flying through countless worlds for 199 years, Aojia used a causality seal to force Shen Ye into the same body, leaving them to confront each other within it.

• Aojia used his Battle Armor and time Art to counter Shen Ye’s Blade Arts, then followed him into his Dharma Form with a causality doll attached to Shen Ye.
• Aojia’s hammer shattered Shen Ye’s apparent body, but Shen Ye’s illusion drew Aojia through worlds inspired by stories and history, where Aojia repeatedly tried to break free.
• Aojia realized the illusions’ differing time flows prevented his time Art from finding a reference point, then destroyed world after world while searching for the boundary.
• After flying for 199 years through Shen Ye’s vast illusions, Aojia used the Puppet Secret Art—Dual Union Body Seal to bind Shen Ye and himself into one body.
• Shen Ye appeared inside Aojia’s body, and Aojia demanded that he let them both out.

Shen Ye gathered Alois’s knowledge before erasing the Soul Fragment’s memories and sending him through a gate to explore the myriad worlds, then continued battling Aojia while they shared a body. A Destruction Calamity forced Aojia into a King’s Battle against Silas and Xilun, where Shen Ye’s claim that he and Aojia were together passed a lie-detection Art.

• Shen Ye decided that Alois’s memories and skills were essential to the fight, and he made a cut near Alois to buy time while his other self collected them.
• After more than two hundred years in the illusory world, Alois left through a gate, and Shen Ye used the Huntian Art to turn Alois’s past into a dream and erase its memories.
• Shen Ye and Aojia hurt each other through their shared body, then received a notice that refusing the King’s Cage Battle would destroy the world behind the king.
• Shen Ye prevented Aojia from completing an Art, and the teleportation sent Aojia to an arena before Silas and Xilun.
• Aojia warned Shen Ye that exposing himself could make them both impossible to resurrect, so Shen Ye claimed they were together, and the lie-detection Art confirmed his words as true.

After training for thirteen hundred years inside his illusion, Shen Ye forged his own Blade Art, then used a King Challenge to absorb the Source Power of Destruction and evolve his Mandala Ouroboros Trait. The arena battle escalated into a Destruction Faction ambush, leaving the badly wounded Aojia and his brothers surrounded by Kailong and three allies.

• Shen Ye trained for thirteen hundred years in his illusion and gained insight that advanced Scattering of Flowers and Revolving Lantern into a Blade Art of his own.
• Shen Ye and Aojia defeated Silas and Xilun in the King Challenge, and Shen Ye absorbed their Source Power of Destruction through his Destruction Primordial Spirit.
• Kailong revealed that the figure trapped in Shen Ye's Dharma Form was a fake created with a King-level One-of-a-Kind Mask, while Shen Ye used the Carrot Chicken Oddity to conceal himself.
• Aojia fused with Silas and Xilun to perform Aojia's Judgment as Shen Ye spent the absorbed power to upgrade Mandala Ouroboros beyond the pinnacle of Truth Traits.
• Kailong lured Aojia into attacking, then revealed three full-strength Destruction Supreme Gods waiting with him to ambush the injured brothers.

Shen Ye watched Aojia turn the battle against Kailong and the other Destruction Supreme Gods, then used his Calamity-Bringing Demon Eye to summon a deadly disaster and disrupt their standoff. The Main Gods were transported onto a gigantic Metal Ship, where Shen Ye spoke through Aojia and claimed he had planned to kill them all.

• Aojia sacrificed Xilun and then Liam, absorbing their power and turning the tide against Kailong and his allies.
• More Destruction Supreme Gods arrived, and their leader called for a ceasefire as the gathered gods feared Aojia might devour them next.
• Kailong provoked Aojia and attacked, but Aojia stopped himself from using Main God's Lament after realizing that the other Main Gods might unite against him.
• Shen Ye and Kailong’s interests aligned, and Shen Ye used Battle-Dance Songstress to enhance his Calamity-Bringing Demon Eye.
• Shen Ye’s pupil technique transported the Main Gods onto a gigantic Metal Ship, and he spoke through Aojia, claiming he had planned to kill them all.

Shen Ye escaped Aojia by tricking him with Revolving Lantern, then made a temporary alliance with Kailong to oppose Aojia aboard the deadly ship. Adrian targeted Shen Ye with Destruction Blood Sacrifice, forcing him to rely on a summoned human champion, and Xu Xingke appeared to fight for him.

• Shen Ye used Revolving Lantern to escape Aojia without leaving Aojia’s body, while Aojia learned that the ship’s doors summoned deadly disasters and began searching for the other Main Gods.
• Shen Ye met Kailong, explained the ship’s danger, and signed a Contract with him to cooperate against Aojia.
• Kailong brought Shen Ye’s information and their Contract to Adrian, who decided to target Shen Ye before confronting Aojia.
• Adrian struck Shen Ye with Destruction Blood Sacrifice, which required Shen Ye’s companions to fight for him or he would become Adrian’s slave.
• A White-Haired Elder summoned a duel against Shen Ye, and Xu Xingke appeared to fight him.

Shen Ye’s allies fought Adrian’s magically supplemented forces while Shen Ye exchanged abilities to help Xu Xingke, Xiao Mengyu, and Nangong Sirui. As Aojia and Adrian pursued Shen Ye, he unleashed the ship’s calamities and forced Kailong to reveal that humanity had arisen in a new era and produced four civilizations with separate missions.

• Adrian’s side received extra warriors, but Shen Ye exchanged abilities with Xu Xingke, who defeated them and executed the White-Haired Elder after discovering his name was false.
• The rules added fifteen more opponents, so Shen Ye gave Xu Xingke the Eternal Brain’s Source Power; Xu Xingke used a city-wall shield to turn enemy spells back before being teleported away.
• Xiao Mengyu and Nangong Sirui replaced Xu Xingke, and Shen Ye lent them his Blade Art so they could defeat their opponents before the rules forced another substitution.
• Kailong told Shen Ye that Aojia and Adrian had not fought, and Shen Ye realized they had reached an agreement; he fled as the two appeared and unleashed a monster from the ship to hold them back.
• Shen Ye activated the Calamity-Bringing Demon Eye, bringing powerful calamities out of the ship, and threatened to let them kill every Destruction Supreme God unless Kailong revealed what he knew.
• Kailong revealed that humans were a new-era species of the Ten Thousand Worlds, had given rise to four civilizations, and that the Eternal Brain’s mission of eternity had ended; elsewhere, another Shen Ye continued training with a bamboo knife.

Shen Ye met the Time Saint, who demanded that he place all humans in his time stream, and rejected the demand while seeking allies among powerful factions. As the battle against the Destruction Supreme Gods continued, Shen Ye rescued Kailong and sustained Revolving Lantern with Eternal Power, leaving Aojia trapped in its illusions.

• Shen Ye's blade art drew the Time Saint's avatar, which asked questions about him and demanded that he move all humans into his time stream after the battle.
• Shen Ye refused to imprison humanity in his blade art, and Xiatelai offered him three emblems representing the Dream Realm, Death Gods, and an Ancient God; Shen Ye ended up holding the Colorful Butterfly Emblem.
• Kailong revealed that the Destruction Calamity had destroyed the Eternal World and was weakened, then urged Shen Ye to save him under their contract.
• Shen Ye opened a gate and pulled Kailong away from Adrian, while Aojia's attempt to pursue them was caught in Revolving Lantern's illusion.
• Shen Ye used Eternal Power to keep Revolving Lantern from fading, and Adrian recognized that Aojia remained trapped by the blade art.

Shen Ye used illusion, traits, and careful tactics to make Aojia believe he had killed him and won the battle, while secretly trapping Aojia in an eight-hundred-year dream. When the illusion ended, Shen Ye revealed that his swordsmanship had evolved and killed Aojia with the blade that had been lodged in him all along.

• Shen Ye’s Mandala Ouroboros suppressed the enemies’ traits, and he taunted Aojia into attacking while Adrian and Kailong fought the monsters.
• Aojia survived Shen Ye and Kailong’s assault, but a monster pierced him when Shen Ye combined illusion with reality to mislead him.
• Adrian unleashed his destruction spear, and Shen Ye distracted the Main Gods long enough for Kailong to hold the spear back while he attacked Aojia.
• Aojia seemingly killed Shen Ye, devoured Kailong and the other Main Gods, and took all twelve Main Gods’ Source Power of Destruction.
• After eight hundred years, Aojia tracked his draining power to the old battlefield and realized Shen Ye’s blade had kept him trapped in a dream.
• Shen Ye revealed that he had spent three thousand years refining the sword strike, then cut Aojia in two.

Shen Ye ended the battle with the Destruction Faction by killing Aojia and persuading Adrian that the conflict had been a personal dispute, then merged with his other self and was drawn into the Dream Realm World. After discovering that he had to break through seven layers of dreams to leave freely, Shen Ye began testing his mastery of dream rules, while a duck set off for the Control-Side World.

• Shen Ye killed Aojia, then told Adrian that Aojia had hunted him to steal his Blade Art and that he had only defended himself; Adrian ended the battle and left with the other Destruction Supreme Gods.
• Shen Ye gained the Mandala Chant trait, and Kailong warned him that Adrian could combine the Main Gods' power before sharing news about the Dream Realm, Death God, and the Ancient God.
• Shen Ye merged with his other self and arrived at the Dream Realm entrance, where Xiatelai warned him that two Grand Dream Realm Lords were at war.
• A Colorful Butterfly token brought Shen Ye into the Dream Realm World, where a guide assigned him a mission to fight for three stars of military merit and earn access to Dream Realm Power.
• Shen Ye saw through the first layer of dreams but learned he would need to break through seven layers to escape; he began studying the dream rules.
• A duck hidden beneath the Truth Land decided to travel to the Control-Side World.

Shen Ye challenged the Dream Realm’s seven-layer trial to free his Blade Art from its control, then used Su Su’s help and a disguise to gain permanent permission to wield Dream Realm Power. After the trial expelled him and the Dream Realm appeared to be invaded by gray mist that erased anything it touched, he fled into a secret passage just as an enormous creature arrived.

• Shen Ye rejected the Dream Realm’s rules and passed the first layer by turning its monster overseer’s trial into a dream and threatening it with his blade.
• Shen Ye and the Chaos Boat destroyed the second dream layer with a shell transformed into dream matter, then Shen Ye restored the layer with a slash that made its destruction vanish as a dream.
• After the Dream Realm expelled Shen Ye, Su Su helped him enter its reverse side, where Peaso identified gray mist that erased anything entering it as a likely invasion by another world of rules.
• Shen Ye disguised himself as Young Shen Ye, posed as the summoner Fei Lun, and bribed a winged staff member to send him to a nearly finished battle for Dream Realm permission.
• The staff member granted Shen Ye a World Emblem and permanent access to Dream Realm Power, but the battlefield was empty and the staff member told him to die in peace as gray mist approached.
• Su Su guided Shen Ye into an underground passage, where he encountered the staff member again and escaped through a gate as an enormous creature broke in.

Good Duckie entered the Entropy Saint Realm and took a factory inspection job to earn intelligence about the Dream Realm World. Meanwhile, Shen Ye learned that Dream Traits could preserve his Dream Realm Power and entered Dream Realm Castle, where the Castle Gate secretly asked him to kill the Gatekeeper of Nightmare and Reality.

• Good Duckie presented its token, joined the Entropy Saint Realm, and began inspecting constructs to earn rewards.
• Shen Ye and Su Su escaped the Secret Passage after the Dream Realm staff member was killed, and Shen Ye made the Dream Realm Emblem irreparable.
• Su Su revealed that Dream Realm beings needed a Dream Trait to preserve their power, and Shen Ye decided to seek one through a trial battlefield.
• Shen Ye reached Dream Realm Castle, passed its gate, and was invited to a banquet as Mr. Baxter the vampire.
• The Castle Gate secretly gave Shen Ye a message asking him to kill the Dream Realm Gatekeeper of Nightmare and Reality.