Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye chose to remain human, defeated Valhalla, and absorbed the power of his five truth constructs without taking on his Weird identity. Back in the desert, he resurrected the little girl, while the Lord warned him that Weird beings would hunt him and urged him to continue the Poem of Eternity.

• The Lord met Shen Ye in the Human World and explained that Valhalla was a Weird being created to replace him, then warned Shen Ye that Valhalla’s truth constructs would make him a target.
• Shen Ye chose to carry on the Poem of Eternity as a human, saying that he valued ordinary human pleasures and existence.
• During the sword rain, a duck used the place of exile to save Valhalla, then dispersed it and gained a gate to Valhalla’s memory world and a transformation card.
• Shen Ye returned Valhalla to the sword rain, where the ancient sword killed him, then used the card to summon and absorb the five truth constructs while retaining his human form.
• Back in the Ghost and God Society historical fragment, Shen Ye resurrected the little girl and prepared to revive her mother.
• The Lord warned Shen Ye that Weird beings would hunt him and urged him to continue the Poem of Eternity; Shen Ye also explained how to make the Lord’s instant noodles less spicy.

Shen Ye entered a war-torn historical fragment after his Sequence advanced to Godslayer IV, whose Divine Mantle disguised his powers and sent most of his earnings to the Lord. At a camp, he saved White and faced the Outer God Nyarlathotep, removing its Observed Trait from everyone as the encounter began.

• Xiatelai remained asleep after absorbing Valhalla’s power, while Shen Ye confirmed that the Small Town and its residents had been restored.
• Shen Ye completed the Poem of Eternity’s second Mission, and his Exiled Emperor Sequence became the Olden Sequence Godslayer IV with the Divine Mantle skill.
• Shen Ye rode through the rain-soaked historical fragment and reached a camp where a mage and archer were guarding the injured White.
• Seventh Uncle’s yellow wine healed White, and the Lord took seventy of the hundred gold coins the mage offered Shen Ye.
• White explained that the group was pursuing an Outer God’s apostle, but blood rain revealed Nyarlathotep’s gigantic eye above their camp.
• Shen Ye used his power to add “Not” to the Observed Trait over each of the four people, making the traits disappear.

Shen Ye survived an Outer God’s council and learned that the Godslayer Sequence was a Classical Natural Sequence concealed among artificial sequences. With Weird monsters due to attack Star-Moon City the next day, he recruited Xu Xingke and turned the Church into a restaurant to complete a Sequence Mission.

• An Outer God killed the female archer and mage, while the council spared Shen Ye and White after judging their roles in Valhalla’s death.
• White explained how the failed quest to recruit holy believers cost him his lover, then took Shen Ye to the shabby Church in Star-Moon City before leaving the Godslayer Sequence.
• Shen Ye learned that Godslayer was secretly a Classical Natural Sequence and recruited Xu Xingke to obtain information and raise his Sequence Level.
• Xu Xingke explained that humanity’s attempts to build sequences with artificial intelligence had produced flawed Super-Modification Emergence Sequences and Outer Gods.
• Shen Ye agreed to complete Xu Xingke’s mission to open for business, cleaned the Church, renamed it Sacred Restaurant, and introduced the Holy Cat, whom he called Seventh Uncle.

Shen Ye and Xu Xingke defended the Holy Church from the Blood-Burning Cyborgs, and Xu Xingke became a full-fledged Godslayer Sequence member after they made their first sale. As the Cyborgs prepared to retaliate, a series of disasters drove them away, and the Godslayer Sequence awakened with a blessing for Shen Ye and Xu Xingke.

• Shen Ye and Xu Xingke confronted the Blood-Burning Cyborgs, who demanded protection money, and Shen Ye killed the collectors when they threatened them.
• Xu Xingke displayed the collectors’ heads outside the Holy Church while Shen Ye sold healing broth to a wounded professional, completing Xu Xingke’s mission and advancing him in the Godslayer Sequence.
• A robot leader and an army of robots arrived to confront Shen Ye and Xu Xingke, but warnings of an earthquake, a volcano, and an approaching asteroid disrupted the standoff and forced the robots to retreat.
• Shen Ye and Xu Xingke received the Godslayer Sequence’s basic blessing, God Is with You, and the metal coins from their first sale disappeared from the tray.

As the siege of Star-Moon City began, Shen Ye and Xu Xingke survived a citywide binding attack and uncovered evidence that the city’s Sequences were allied with the weird monsters. The chapter ended with Xu Xingke manifesting the Myriad-Era Spirit God Effigy against Outer God Nyarlathotep.

• Xu Xingke used his gold ingot to learn that the siege would begin at 22:59, while Shen Ye’s offering revealed Star-Moon City’s Sequence hierarchy and the Lord’s instructions.
• Shen Ye learned that his mission was to help the true holder of the Godslayer Sequence survive, and Xu Xingke prepared for his one-hour survival mission.
• A citywide weird shadow bound Shen Ye and Xu Xingke, but Shen Ye’s trait made their attacker’s gun explode, Xu Xingke’s trait repeatedly pulled the man back, and Su Su helped Shen Ye kill him.
• Shen Ye identified the attacker as a member of the Blood-Burning Cyborgs’ Old Order Faction, then collected the Falling Stars Cannon shot with his Dharma Form after the binding wore off.
• Outer God Nyarlathotep demanded that Shen Ye and Xu Xingke abandon the Godslayer Sequence, and Shen Ye accused the Sequences of conspiring with the weird monsters.
• Shen Ye and Xu Xingke pretended to be afraid while Xu Xingke completed Immortal Barrier; Shen Ye enhanced it into the Myriad-Era Spirit God Effigy and drew the Netherglow Blade.

A duck with a divine trait restored a dying sentry’s mechanical body and heard that the Sequences controlled humanity, while Shen Ye chose open war against the Sequences and Outer Gods. As Outer God Nyarlathotep called for help, Shen Ye summoned a strengthened Reincarnation Warden and prepared to strike.

• A girl bought a duck from Kade and brought it to her father, a sentry whose body was failing.
• The duck’s Behind-the-Scenes Figure trait restored the sentry’s body, and he told the duck that the Sequences monitored humanity before collapsing and dying.
• Shen Ye rejected the options to lead a revolution or seek an alliance and declared the Mission “Slay Every Enemy Demon.”
• Shen Ye used Upside-Down Sun Shadow to wound Outer God Nyarlathotep and steadied Xu Xingke’s Dharma Form.
• Nyarlathotep called for Yoke Soul Eclipsing Desire as Shen Ye recalled his Doppelgangers and summoned the Unique Dharma Form Reincarnation Warden.

Shen Ye tracked White to the Boiling-Blood Bar, killed him and the Divine Nest consul Dark Soul Lucifer, and learned that the Myriad Gods Nest Mother ruled Star-Moon City’s fourth layer. He then set out to confront her while Xu Xingke and Shen Ye’s other self prepared elsewhere.

• Shen Ye used Dark Whisper to learn that White had betrayed Aeris and arranged for the Outer God to kill him, then used the Lord’s help to locate White.
• Shen Ye killed White at the Boiling-Blood Bar after the patrons learned White had betrayed Aeris, and discovered White had been chosen for his exceptionally pure soul.
• Shen Ye killed a purple-haired Divine Nest woman who questioned him, then confronted Dark Soul Lucifer, the Divine Nest consul.
• A dead woman named the Myriad Gods Nest Mother as the ruler of the Fourth-Layer Old-Day Sequence before Dark Soul Lucifer swallowed her corpse.
• Shen Ye killed Dark Soul Lucifer with a Space-Time Blade technique, learned that the Nest Mother sought an Eerie Companion, and set off to find her.
• Xu Xingke summoned his Dharma Form and prepared to fight a giant while Shen Ye’s other self waited to return to his place.

Shen Ye accepted the Myriad Gods Nest Mother's decisive Sequence battle to save Star-Moon City and prevent their Sequences from deciding humanity’s fate through a rigged history. He summoned human and Undead armies to face Valhalla, the Almighty, as the intact eldritch being rose to challenge him.

• Shen Ye wounded the Outer God Nyarlathotep with his new Dharma Form, but a Sequence restored it, and A Good Duck resurrected him after an instant-death attack.
• The Myriad Gods Nest Mother warned that Shen Ye’s strongest sword move could destroy the fragile History Fragment, and Shen Ye and Xu Xingke chose to wait until Xu’s one-hour survival mission ended.
• The Lord revealed the Heavenly Kingdom, and Xu Xingke departed to spread the orthodox Godslayer Sequence among humanity while Shen Ye completed his mission and prepared to leave.
• The Myriad Gods Nest Mother transported Shen Ye to a version of Star-Moon City under siege and revealed a decisive battle whose outcome would determine whether their rival Sequences survived.
• Shen Ye deduced that the Myriad Gods Nest Mother had sacrificed humans to Valhalla rather than saving the city, then accepted the battle and summoned Norton’s human army and Micteticashiva’s Undead forces.
• Valhalla rose from its Throne and challenged Shen Ye as his armies prepared to fight.

Shen Ye wounded Valhalla by exploiting a paradox, then died and confronted him again in Hell. After Shen Ye used Valhalla’s ignorance to make him leave for the Human World, the accelerated timeline carried Valhalla toward his predetermined death in Sword Rain, and Shen Ye won the decisive Sequence battle against the Myriad Gods Nest Mother.

• Shen Ye stole Valhalla’s treasures and used the stolen goods to stop him from reversing time, then wounded Valhalla with a blade embedded in his own heart.
• Valhalla killed Shen Ye, followed his soul to Hell, and questioned him about his supposed weakness.
• Shen Ye told Valhalla that curiosity and ignorance were his weaknesses, and Valhalla confirmed that Shen Ye’s warning about his coming death was true.
• Valhalla decided to destroy humanity and the History Fragment, but a voice from the Church identified him as Major “Secret Fire” and confronted him.
• Shen Ye told Valhalla about the Church, prompting him to leave Hell for the Human World while pinning Shen Ye’s soul in place.
• Faint Glowing Text revealed that Valhalla had entered the accelerated timeline leading to his death in Sword Rain and that Shen Ye had won the decisive Sequence battle.

After Shen Ye defeated Valhalla, his Sequence devoured the Myriad Gods Nest Mother’s Sequences, and God guided him through strange actions to shape the power it would gain. Shen Ye’s show of weakness earned him the Prisoner ability just as the masters of several History Fragments arrived to attack, leaving him and Valhalla facing them together.

• God warned Shen Ye that other Sequence Lords would challenge him and guided him through jumps, eating noodles with a black cat, and kicking himself to prevent his Sequence from generating undesirable abilities.
• Shen Ye merged the Lord of White Impermanence trait into his Sequence as God explained that he could not remain and advised Shen Ye to show weakness to obtain the strongest ability.
• In a memory of his younger world, a three-meter-tall black man offered to buy the Ghost and God Society History Fragment and threatened that its rulers would attack if Shen Ye refused.
• Shen Ye claimed he would sell the fragment for a job, then revealed that he wanted to employ others under an extreme schedule, provoking Black Man’s outrage and satisfying the conditions for a show of weakness.
• Black Man summoned the masters of several History Fragments to attack Shen Ye, who summoned Valhalla to fight beside him and obtained the Sequence function Prisoner.

Shen Ye fused his abilities into the unprecedented Gatekeeper Cage · Acting Bone Temple and fought a coalition of powerful Weird Life beings, using Valhalla as his prisoner and eating calmly through their attacks. After the enemies suppressed his cage’s protection and fled from his borrowed strength, Shen Ye learned that his fame had soared and Mandala Ouroboros was about to level up.

• The angels received a divine revelation that an unknown power had been born, and Shen Ye read God’s message warning that Prisoner was already at the limit.
• Shen Ye fused Hot-Blooded Comrades, Yin-Yang Fate Warden, and Prisoner into Gatekeeper Cage · Acting Bone Temple, whose prisoners fought for him and whose occupants could borrow one another’s abilities.
• Shen Ye summoned the cage, let Valhalla battle the powerful beings, and defeated an eerie monster while remaining protected from attacks until Valhalla fell.
• As Valhalla fought, Shen Ye relaxed at Seventh Uncle’s Breakfast Shop, then resurrected Valhalla after the enemies used a taboo art to kill him.
• The black man and the other enemies merged their powers to suppress Shen Ye’s cage, but Shen Ye borrowed Valhalla’s strength and forced them to flee.
• After Shen Ye finished eating, a message announced that Baxter had defeated the combined forces of seven Weird Life beings and Mandala Ouroboros was about to level up.

Shen Ye learned why Valhalla had sabotaged their battle and transformed him into an omnipotent siege cannon he could control. After claiming the Ghost and God Society History Fragment, Shen Ye received a letter directing him to the Ghost and God Battlefield and decided to investigate.

• Shen Ye asked Valhalla to explain the Weird's strength rankings, then confronted him for deliberately holding back in their battle.
• Shen Ye turned Valhalla into an omnipotent heavy siege cannon, and the White Emperor eagerly took it for a test.
• Shen Ye defeated the sequences guarding Star-Moon City and became the lord of the History Fragment, which then vanished into a void.
• A black man demanded that Shen Ye develop the Ghost and God Society with his faction, but Cannibal Ghost killed him and announced he would eliminate witnesses.
• Cannibal Ghost gave Shen Ye a letter about the Ghost and God Battlefield, and Shen Ye decided to follow its message and investigate.

Ya Ya joined Mountain King and a band of beast demons trying to reach the Royal City, only to discover that their route was a trap and face an encirclement by giants and an unseen Art Master. He survived the enemy’s sealing spell by challenging it in the field of human cuisine, then fought back with White Emperor and the Myriad Beasts Staff.

• Mountain King led the beast demons into a fallen border city, where Ya Ya extinguished a living demonic fire and the group received an order to relieve the Royal City.
• A tentacled monster attacked the relay station, and Ya Ya secretly used White Emperor’s cannon to destroy most of it.
• Mountain King revealed that the mission was a trap, but Ya Ya stopped the group’s attempted escape as four gray-skinned giants surrounded the relay station.
• Ya Ya obtained a historical mission and fused the beast demons into the Myriad Beasts Staff, then challenged the hidden enemy after it erased the city and sealed his skills.
• Ya Ya defeated the sealing spell by declaring that duck tasted better than the enemy, restoring his skills as White Emperor fired and the staff’s Random Calamity made the four giants bleed from their noses.

Shen Ye used the intelligence gained from Good Duckie’s failed attempt to defend the Royal City and joined Xiao Mengyu to investigate why its defenders had not returned. At Cloud-Climbing Stronghold, Xiao Mengyu invoked the Royal City Central Scepter and forced the leaders to order their forces back to the city.

• Good Duckie defeated four giants, escaped to the Royal City, and learned from the central scepter that its guardians had fled, leaving the city undefended.
• Ya Ya lured the enemy’s attack away from the Royal City with its scepter, then returned to Shen Ye and became the identity card “You Who Came Before.”
• Shen Ye entered the timeline himself, met Xiao Mengyu, and took her through a Gate to Cloud-Climbing Stronghold to find out why the defenders had not returned.
• Xiao Mengyu used the Royal City Central Scepter to order the stronghold’s forces to reinforce the city, but its leaders questioned her authority.
• Shen Ye identified the leaders’ factions, and Xiao Mengyu killed the bearded leader who resisted; the old man then recognized her Iron Sword Blocks the River technique and ordered the army to return.

Shen Ye sensed impending danger, saved the Professionals from the Royal City's destruction, and battled the delicate-featured man who had destroyed it. He returned to the ruins with Xiao Mengyu and used his Bone Temple and the Professionals he had bound to ambush their enemy, ending with a mysterious trait rising from the bones.

• Shen Ye delayed the teleportation, bound the assembled Professionals with Chilly Spring, and stayed behind as the others were sent toward the Royal City.
• Shen Ye discovered the Royal City had been flattened and confronted the delicate-featured man, whose Eerie Shadow could reflect attacks at double power.
• Shen Ye reached the ruins with Xiao Mengyu, raised his Bone Temple as a stand-in for the Royal City, and transformed himself into her to lure the enemy into an ambush.
• Shen Ye summoned the bound Professionals from the Bone Shadow Coffin, and they attacked the delicate-featured man together.
• The enemy struck into the Bone Temple but found no corpse, while the trait “It's Ya Ya Ya!” rose from the bones.

Shen Ye used a newly enhanced gate ability to escape the History Fragments and reach the real present era, while Lü Man and a giant Eerie Shadow threatened the Place of Exile. A girl welcomed Shen Ye and offered to take him to the remaining humans, revealing that the world had entered the Entropy-Extinction Era.

• Lü Man introduced himself as the Crimson Loom of the Twisted Sanctuary, and his Dharma Form attacked Shen Ye while Xiao Mengyu completed her mission and vanished into the past.
• Shen Ye escaped into the Place of Exile as Lü Man transformed into a giant and severed his connection to Valhalla.
• The giant tried to locate and command the Place of Exile, so Shen Ye used Hymn Songstress to create the temporary gate ability Elysium of the Other Shore.
• Shen Ye realized Elysium was separating the group from history, and they fell out of the Dharma Realm into the real present.
• Shen Ye opened a door onto a grassland and met a pink-haired girl, who welcomed him and explained that the remaining humans lived in the Entropy-Extinction Era.

In the Entropy-Extinction Era, a girl showed Shen Ye her self-aware Eerie Shadow and promised to teach him how to awaken his own. After surviving a History Fragment and defeating an attacker with a newly fused Dharma Form, Shen Ye learned the girl had not returned and set out to rescue her.

• The girl explained that Terminus had ended all life and introduced her Eerie Shadow, the Fallen Rabbit God, whose ability had detected Shen Ye’s arrival.
• Bai Xue warned that a History Fragment was approaching, and the girl promised to explain how to awaken an Eerie Shadow if Shen Ye survived until the fire went out.
• Shen Ye escaped the History Fragment’s history with Elysium of the Other Shore, then discovered that his Truth Constructs and other companions had fallen into a deep sleep.
• A man attacked Shen Ye with a self-aware lightning Dharma Form, while Big Skeleton briefly held it off and warned Shen Ye not to deploy his own Dharma Form.
• The girl’s message revealed that an Eerie Shadow gained consciousness by fusing with a Truth Construct, and Shen Ye fused Seventh Uncle into his Dharma Form to repel the attacker.
• The attacker fled, and the girl’s message asked Shen Ye to rescue her; after learning their bond carried a causal reward, Shen Ye set out to find her.

Shen Ye entered the Tomb of Seals disguised as a deer-headed guardian, learned that Doomsday and the Higher-Dimensional battle had loosened the seal, and found the girl he had come to rescue. When a Professional attacked her, Shen Ye summoned Seventh Uncle’s new Dharma Form to block the strike.

• Shen Ye received the Firebearer trait and gained Doomsday’s destructive blazing flames, then fused with a Natural Clan statue’s deer head to disguise himself.
• Shen Ye discovered that the deer-headed guardians mistook him for Sabi, the Natural Clan’s strongest warrior, and learned from the revived statue that the final battle had loosened the seal in the Tomb of Seals.
• Shen Ye led a squad of Deer People to a confrontation between Professionals, where the disguised girl hinted that a Future-Type trait could let its owner travel to the future.
• The girl told Shen Ye she could not fight and asked him to save her when a tall, thin Professional attacked her.
• Shen Ye summoned his Dharma Form, and Seventh Uncle blocked the attack while the new Eerie Shadow’s sacrifice rules appeared.

Shen Ye defeated Su Heng with Hera’s karmic intervention, recruited her as an ally, and gained a mission to form a team on The Other Shore. As the History Fragment began moving and the Twisted Sanctuary tried to stop them, Shen Ye and Hera escaped through his gate and set out to find the Future-Type Trait, leaving their team unnamed.

• Shen Ye took Hera away from Su Heng, then killed him in their duel after Hera caused his hand to cramp through karmic retribution.
• Shen Ye fused Su Heng’s Flower-Slasher with the Netherglow Blade, then gave Hera the stolen Storage Ring as payment for her help.
• Shen Ye received the Recruitment mission, and he and the Guardians sheltered in an underground chamber as the History Fragment began moving through the Entropy-Extinction Era.
• Hera asked Shen Ye to help her obtain the Future-Type Trait, and he agreed to let her claim it; they were then confronted by a doll representing the Twisted Sanctuary.
• Shen Ye destroyed the doll, and he and Hera used his gate to escape to the grassland before signing an Alliance Contract.
• Shen Ye and Hera agreed to form a team, but they could not settle on a name and postponed completing the mission while they searched for the Future-Type Trait.

Shen Ye and Hera fought their way through the Saint Tower as Hera sought the Future Trait, while Shen Ye killed Lü Man with the help of his allies. Back on The Other Shore, a message from Xu Xingke revealed a plan to travel back forty-five minutes and seize the trait before the Lord of Twisting could claim it.

• Hera explained that Shen Ye had inherited the Guardians’ karmic burden, and the Guardians recognized him as Sabi after he killed their attacker and avenged them.
• Shen Ye killed a Twisted Nun and five more who were performing a sacrifice ritual, then Hera slipped away to pursue the Future Trait while he drew attention.
• Lü Man confronted Shen Ye, who summoned Big Skeleton and Seventh Uncle to help defeat him with his upgraded swordsmanship.
• Hera returned with a phone and took Shen Ye back to The Other Shore, where a video from Xu Xingke warned that the Future Trait could annihilate entropy and must be kept from the Lord of Twisting.
• Xu Xingke instructed them to return to the Saint Tower and use a Time Gate in its third basement compartment to travel back forty-five minutes and seize the trait.