Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye and Hera traveled back forty-five minutes to rescue Xu Xingke, then learned from God that the Saint Tower would be destroyed and produce the first future Trait. Shen Ye triggered the destruction while Hera used the Secret Card to preserve the tower’s inhabitants, and they reached the top floor as the entropy-extinction power formed a sphere of light.

• Hera used Karma to locate a way back in time through Shen Ye’s phone, and Shen Ye set its clock backward forty-five minutes.
• Shen Ye found Xu Xingke shackled in the tower, received a Secret Card from him, and left Hera behind to use it if needed.
• God told Shen Ye that the Saint Tower and its History Fragment would be destroyed in half an hour, producing a future Trait, and warned that Twisted Sanctuary’s monsters would arrive in fifteen minutes.
• Shen Ye learned that Xu Xingke killed several hundred devils every hour and had been doing so for centuries, then used his sword technique to make the History Fragment and its inhabitants believe in different outcomes.
• As the real Saint Tower began to collapse, Hera activated the Secret Card to create an imitation tower and protect its living beings.
• Shen Ye opened a gate for Hera, and they arrived on the top floor as a sphere of entropy-extinction power appeared.

Hera claimed the future Trait and left Shen Ye’s team, then betrayed him after he chose not to kill her. Shen Ye received the split Trait “Most” and prepared to let it join with “Hymn Songstress,” while he also revived Sabi and promised to save the Natural Guardian Clan.

• Hera swallowed the white orb, gained the future Trait “Most Victorious,” and left the Slaughter Squad.
• Shen Ye refused God’s advice to kill Hera, and Xu Xingke explained that his choice had made a stronger future Trait possible.
• Shen Ye revived Sabi and promised to help save the Natural Guardian Clan, earning the honorary Trait “Great Sabi.”
• Shen Ye received messages saying Hera had betrayed him for personal gain, so he left Sabi and headed to the top floor.
• A future Trait appeared above Shen Ye and split “Most Victorious” between him and Hera, awarding Shen Ye “Most” and telling him to unite it with “Hymn Songstress.”

Shen Ye refused Mi’s offer to join the Twisted Sanctuary and fought her as the cultists prepared to summon the Lord of Twisting. As Shen Ye and Mi summoned their Dharma Forms, his trait fusion completed and granted him the Future Trait “Supreme Saint.”

• Mi, chief adjudicator of the Twisted Sanctuary, invited Shen Ye to join and offered to help him kill Hera, but Shen Ye refused and defended Hera.
• Mi attacked Shen Ye with specters, and he held them back while avoiding the use of his full power.
• Mi and the Twisted Sanctuary cultists began a summoning, but Shen Ye used Demon Subduing to sever their fingers and disrupt their Spell Seals, stopping the Lord of Twisting from descending.
• Mi began forming another Spell Seal, and Shen Ye and Mi summoned their Dharma Forms against each other.
• Shen Ye’s trait fusion completed, granting him the Future Trait “Supreme Saint.”

Shen Ye used a Super S-Rank Dharma Form to stall Mi and the Lord of Twisting while rescuing Sabi’s clan, then escaped to The Other Shore. There, Hera demanded the Future Trait he had promised her.

• Shen Ye enhanced his Dharma Form to Super S-Rank and trapped Mi and the Lord of Twisting within an endlessly restored 30-second span, buying time while they destroyed the White Bone Palace.
• Shen Ye returned to the Saint Tower, resurrected the Natural Guardian Clan, and sent Sabi and his people to a weak History Fragment for safety.
• Seventh Uncle gave Shen Ye a blood-red ring that absorbed damage using the life force the Lord of Twisting spent attacking the palace.
• Mi gave Shen Ye a white rose and warned him to be careful, explaining that her injured hand would prevent her from summoning her master for a while.
• Shen Ye went through a Gate to The Other Shore, where Hera asked him to hand over the Future Trait he had promised her.

Shen Ye refused Hera’s attempt to settle their dispute with a dream and a bargain, then discovered she had lured Historical Hunters to ambush him. He slaughtered the hunters and killed Hera after she apologized, leaving their conflict ended in blood.

• Hera asked Shen Ye to return the future trait, then tried to appease him by trapping him in a karma dream; Shen Ye killed her there and rejected her offer of pleasure.
• After they returned to the grassland, a warning said an S-Rank watcher was approaching, and Shen Ye tried to leave rather than fight Hera.
• Hera summoned the Historical Hunters, who revealed they intended to capture Shen Ye and take the future trait.
• Shen Ye used Frost-Snow Little Plum to restore a skill and trapped the group inside the White Bone Palace, where his life force and destructive flames let him kill the hunters.
• Hera apologized to Shen Ye, but after he told her he did not accept the apology, he beheaded her.

After wiping out the Historical Hunters, Shen Ye chose increased strength and returned to a bleak holding cell, where he discovered a new ability and waited for his Traits to recover. When Hera’s lover attacked him, Shen Ye easily struck him down, and a quest appeared calling on Shen Ye to defeat D District’s experts and become its Spokesperson.

• Shen Ye chose D-grade treatment for three days and a boost in strength, then woke in a holding cell with his strength raised to A-Rank Lower Tier.
• Shen Ye fed a biscuit to a rat and temporarily acquired Su Su’s heart-eroding seed, which revealed information and weaknesses through goodwill.
• Shen Ye claimed to be investigating something, and the middle-aged man and his men left him alone after learning he belonged to the Slaughter Squad.
• Shen Ye waited for Victory to fuse with Supreme Saint while Big Skeleton and Seventh Uncle described the deadly ocean outside the cell.
• Hera’s lover confronted Shen Ye, admitted he wanted to kill him, and was knocked back by Shen Ye’s blade.
• A quest appeared, directing Shen Ye to defeat D District’s experts and become its Spokesperson, with a reward meant to awaken Su Su.

Shen Ye learned from God's gift that The Other Shore was carrying its passengers into the future and that the Deep Cavern Lord had arrived in D District to kill everyone. When the Deep Cavern Lord attacked, Shen Ye used a gate and the Netherglow Blade to steal his possessions, but the enemy remained outside the gate.

• Shamaness Cai revealed that cursing her target would cause her to die while he survived, and she warned the gathered Professionals to get along with him.
• Shen Ye used the Netherglow Blade to retrieve a phone hidden inside the holding room's indestructible wall and learned from God that the ship was called The Other Shore.
• God's gift warned Shen Ye that the Deep Cavern Lord would kill every being in D District before The Other Shore left the History Fragment.
• The Deep Cavern Lord killed the approaching Professionals and told Shen Ye he wanted to remain aboard The Other Shore without other people around.
• Shen Ye opened a gate to escape the Deep Cavern Lord's attack, then slashed through it with his blade and stole the man's belongings.
• The Deep Cavern Lord tried to enter the gate, but Shen Ye's rule barred anyone he had not permitted from passing through.

Shen Ye teamed up with Zhao Ge and Shamaness Cai to destroy the Lord of Illusions, then persuaded the two powerful Weird Ones to recognize him as D District’s Spokesperson. After defeating Zhao Ge in a sparring match, Shen Ye completed his assignment and gained the ability to awaken Su Su and wield her Heart-Eroding Seed.

• The Lord of Illusions tried to command D District’s Professionals, but Shen Ye’s door followed him and mocked him until Zhao Ge and Shamaness Cai arrived and killed him with a combination spell.
• Shen Ye revealed his identity as the Hanged Man and told Zhao Ge and Shamaness Cai that he needed to become D District’s Spokesperson as an assignment from the Slaughter Squad.
• Shen Ye used Behind-the-Scenes Figure to grant Shamaness Cai the Soon-to-advance trait, then agreed to spar with Zhao Ge.
• Shen Ye struck Zhao Ge three times during their match, stealing his clothes and gear, and Zhao Ge conceded that Shen Ye had won.
• Shamaness Cai and Zhao Ge acknowledged Shen Ye, completing his assignment and increasing his All Attributes; he could now awaken Su Su and use her Heart-Eroding Seed.

Shen Ye improved conditions in D District, recruited Shamaness Cai and Zhao Ge into the Slaughter Squad, and discovered a sealed room containing rings of living species that he placed in the Place of Exile. After learning that a hole in the hull concealed a terrifying creature, he faced an armored investigator from C District who demanded answers about it.

• Shen Ye learned that D District lacked food and faced frequent calamities, then sent Zhao Ge to deal with two B-rank calamities after offering him fresh orange juice.
• Shen Ye gave Shamaness Cai wine and four gold ingots to repair D District's failing facilities, then used Su Su's dharma form to uncover information about the district.
• Shen Ye opened a sealed room with his Gate Ability, found rings containing species and natural resources, and placed them in the Place of Exile for Big Skeleton to manage.
• Shen Ye recruited Shamaness Cai into the Slaughter Squad and described its purpose as ensuring the continuation of species and civilization, while advising her to leave the hole in the hull alone.
• Zhao Ge returned bruised after a man from C District attacked him, and a gold-armored investigator demanded that Shen Ye and the others answer questions about the hole; Shen Ye denied knowing anything.

Shen Ye killed a golden-armored Mountain and Sea Society agent who tried to seize control of D District, then discovered Zhao Ge was a longtime spy for the same organization. As the Mountain and Sea Society withdrew from Shen Ye’s offer of goodwill, a judgment began that would expose a weakness on their side.

• Shen Ye confronted the golden-armored man, who activated his Soul-Seizing Blood Axe Dharma Form and attacked; Shen Ye survived the blow and killed him with a Fate Blade Art.
• Shen Ye interrogated the dead man with Dark Whisper and learned he belonged to the Mountain and Sea Society, which planned to investigate the hole and take control of D District.
• Shen Ye contacted the Mountain and Sea Society through the dead man’s earring and offered not to interfere with its exploration, but an unknown Eerie Shadow severed the connection after extracting information.
• Zhao Ge boasted to the Mountain and Sea Society that the Slaughter Squad had two S-rank fighters, so Shen Ye suspected him of being a spy and cut him apart.
• Shen Ye used Dark Whisper on Zhao Ge and the golden-armored man’s heads, confirming they had known each other for a long time; Shamaness Cai accepted that Zhao Ge had betrayed them.
• A judgment triggered after the Mountain and Sea Society accepted Shen Ye’s goodwill and then severed the relationship, and the glowing text warned that it would expose a weakness.

After discovering that the Soul-Possessing Ball devoured souls and created impostors, Shen Ye neutralized its tracking trait and was ordered to kill everyone in D District. He stalled for time with Shamaness Cai, learned of a conscious History Fragment that might help them, and gained the Future Walker trait just as he agreed to visit it.

• Shen Ye learned that the Soul-Possessing Ball devoured souls to make impostors, then fused its tracking trait with Great Sabi to create Pull-Bi and prevent the assassin from locating him.
• The Soul-Possessing Ball’s representative demanded that Shen Ye kill everyone in D District in exchange for intelligence and help with a cave, giving him two hours to decide.
• Shen Ye refused to kill humans for a monster and shared hot pot with Shamaness Cai while buying time.
• Shamaness Cai explained that a conscious History Fragment had made the cave and could help them if they offered something it needed.
• Shen Ye agreed to visit the History Fragment, and the Supreme Saint and Victory finished fusing into his new Future Walker trait, which could temporarily raise one ability or item to Super S-Rank for 30 seconds.

Shen Ye negotiated with the History Fragment in D District, then discovered that the Mountain and Sea Society had used him and confronted the Soul-Possessing Ball. After the Soul Devourer invited him into its alliance to sacrifice History Fragments and strengthen the ship, Mi appeared and secretly warned him to stay by her side.

• Shen Ye persuaded the History Fragment to join forces against the Mountain and Sea Society, and it erased everyone in D District.
• Shen Ye contacted the Mountain and Sea Society, but its members arrived and revealed they had used him to provoke the History Fragment.
• Shen Ye killed the five Professionals with his beyond-S-rank Entropy-Extinction Blade Art, then confronted the Soul Devourer.
• The Soul Devourer explained that its alliance sacrificed History Fragments to strengthen the ship and offered Shen Ye a place as a vanguard and scout.
• Mi appeared, proposed serving alongside Shen Ye against the History Fragment, and privately warned him to stay near her as a new Contract appeared on his Gate Ability.

Shen Ye and Mi entered a world to investigate a History Fragment, but the Netherglow Blade’s powers and Cassandra’s intervention turned their alliance into a disastrous romantic entanglement. The Fragment’s purgatory brought Xiao Mengyu face-to-face with Mi, who now claimed to be Shen Ye’s maid.

• Shen Ye signed a contract with Mi and followed her into the ship’s inner cabin while the monsters mocked him.
• Young Shen Ye used the Super S-rank Gatekeeper cage to trap the monsters in painful parallel fates, then Cassandra warned that Mi’s love for Shen Ye could provoke Annie.
• Cassandra snapped the Fate Line between Shen Ye and Mi, but Mi revised their contract into a master-servant and romantic relationship, while the Netherglow Blade’s backlash made her love him even more.
• Shen Ye summoned the History Fragment, which declared it would make him experience purgatory, and Xiao Mengyu arrived on a Flying Sword.
• Mi knelt against Shen Ye and called herself his maid, prompting Xiao Mengyu to gather killing intent as Shen Ye realized what kind of purgatory awaited him.

After Xiao Mengyu left him the Lord of Time's Hourglass, Shen Ye returned to the moment the History Fragment was about to be destroyed and devised a way to preserve it. He fused its scattered remains into the Corpse of History, gaining the power to summon the deceased beings and things of history.

• Xiao Mengyu explained that the future's appearance let people from past History Fragments reach The Other Shore Great Ship, then left Shen Ye with the Lord of Time's Hourglass as the monsters moved to attack the fragment.
• Shen Ye crushed the hourglass and returned to the start of the History Fragment, where he met its Will and learned it had only minutes left before the monsters destroyed it.
• Shen Ye asked the Will to end its own life, then used Mandala Ouroboros to fuse its scattered remains before the fragment's inhabitants were teleported away.
• The repaired fragment became the Corpse of History, granting Shen Ye the power to summon deceased beings and things from history.

Shen Ye survived the monsters’ probing by bluffing about the Slaughter Squad’s strength, then repaired the Other Shore Great Ship’s hole with the History Fragment Corpse and gained authority over D District. The Soul-Possessing Ball appeared behind him, impressed by the resources he had spent.

• Mi appeared and told Shen Ye that his girlfriend had severed their connection, but she ignored his request to terminate their Contract.
• The returning monsters tested Shen Ye for information about the Slaughter Squad; he used careful half-truths and Ya Ya’s display of power to convince them the squad had at least four S-Ranks.
• The monsters agreed to leave D District to the Slaughter Squad if it repaired the ship’s hole, and Good Duckie signed the crew protocol restricting human subordinates.
• Shen Ye killed a concealed monster that attacked him, then recovered with food from Seventh Uncle and used Return to Silence to eliminate hidden intruders in his cabin.
• Shen Ye repaired the hole by merging the History Fragment Corpse and a vast amount of gold into the ship, receiving the Inner Cabin (D District) ruling-authority Card.
• The Soul-Possessing Ball applauded Shen Ye’s repair and remarked that the Slaughter Squad must be very rich.

After repairing D District, Shen Ye used his authority to make his Place of Exile ability work on the ship, imprisoning four S-Rank monsters who threatened the Slaughter Squad. Mi arrived as the Lord of Twisting summoned her, offered Shen Ye her Gate of Decay, and he refused the summons and began fusing their two Gate Abilities.

• Shen Ye read D District's card and learned that his authority let him designate an ability for The Other Shore to accept within the district.
• The Soul-Possessing Ball demanded resources for a Sacrifice Ritual, but Shen Ye refused and lured it and three other S-Rank monsters into separate Inner Cabins using Place of Exile.
• Shen Ye locked the monsters inside the ship and decided to kill one to deter further threats against the Slaughter Squad.
• Mi arrived and warned Shen Ye not to let the Lord of Twisting summon her away.
• Mi offered Shen Ye her Gate of Decay through their Master-Servant Contract, and Shen Ye refused the summons to keep her.
• Shen Ye used Mandala Ouroboros to begin fusing Place of Exile and Gate of Decay, then went to wait in an Inner Cabin with Mi.

Shen Ye discovered that gold-funded upgrades to D District could reveal hidden threats, allowing him to uncover and remove the Lord of Twisting’s influence over Mi. Mi reclaimed her true identity as the Virgin Mary and offered Shen Ye a privileged place in the Divinity Faction, which he eagerly accepted as her godson.

• Shen Ye explained that monsters could gain authority by controlling districts, and many left D District to compete for the territories of the imprisoned leaders.
• Mi explained that districts could be upgraded with resources, so Shen Ye spent gold to install a candle whose light revealed her Shadow of Distortion trait.
• Shen Ye used Mandala Ouroboros to remove Mi’s trait and transfer it to a cola can, where the Lord of Twisting descended and demanded C District in exchange for the Soul-Possessing Ball’s death.
• Shen Ye refused to make a deal, and Mi crushed the cola can before revealing that the Lord of Twisting had planted its shadow in her during her recovery from a decisive battle.
• Mi returned to her dwelling as the Virgin Mary and offered Shen Ye a position as the Holy Son, with free access to the Divinity Faction’s resources; Shen Ye accepted and called her Godmother.

Shen Ye used airtight Contracts and his exile ability to manipulate the trapped monsters into fighting, while keeping them from escaping and stealing their identities. As battles in the chambers neared their end, he prepared to kill the monsters himself, and Maria concluded that God had been right to wait for him.

• Shen Ye learned that Maria was an S-Rank focused on support and chose to intervene in the fighting in C District rather than wait for his Gate Ability to finish fusing.
• Shen Ye offered the Soul-Possessing Ball its freedom in exchange for killing a fellow prisoner, and they signed a binding Contract.
• Shen Ye revealed that his other two doppelgangers had made matching deals with the other prisoners, then used his exile ability to rescue a three-headed monster from danger and gain its Transformation Card.
• Shen Ye rescued the Soul-Possessing Ball from danger as well and gained its Identity Card, while the monsters returned to fight each other.
• Shen Ye told Maria that he planned to save the monsters when they were badly wounded and kill them himself, and Maria said God had been right to wait for him.

Shen Ye killed two S-Rank monsters and manipulated the Soul-Possessing Ball into accepting a new contract, but a vast dark shape threatened The Other Shore Great Ship. After escaping its influence with Maria’s sacred Cross, Shen Ye chose to strengthen the ship by building D District.

• Shen Ye fused the Truth Phone with his two gates after receiving a message from the Omniscient and Omnipotent Lord, then killed two wounded S-Rank monsters with Return to Silence.
• Maria sensed an approaching evil and urged Shen Ye to hide; he went to investigate the ship’s uproar but retreated after seeing a colossal dark shape beyond the Observation Deck.
• The sacred Cross Maria gave Shen Ye transformed into living meat and took the danger’s impact, so Shen Ye threw it beyond The Other Shore Great Ship through a gate.
• Shen Ye returned to the Soul-Possessing Ball, staged one monster killing another, and offered the trapped Soul-Possessing Ball freedom in exchange for killing a monster in the Fifth Room.
• As The Other Shore Great Ship shuddered, Shen Ye decided its survival mattered more than hiding his wealth and began building D District.

Shen Ye completed the evolution of his gate ability and confronted a future-born dwarf whose Dharma Form threatened everyone aboard the Other Shore Great Ship. After persuading it that the ship belonged to it and claiming to be its father, Shen Ye left the dwarf and its enormous shadow calling him “Father.”

• Shen Ye upgraded D District’s lighting, released the Soul-Possessing Ball after voiding their Contract, and kept another monster locked up while the Ball headed toward C District.
• Maria warned Shen Ye that the flesh creature had grown stronger, then revealed that the future had gone dark as Shen Ye’s gate ability evolved into Spirit Ruins Gate.
• A scarlet Dharma Form enveloped the ship, and the dwarf killed two elected monster representatives before Shen Ye was teleported to the deck.
• Shen Ye survived the dwarf’s Word Spirit Art because he possessed the future trait, then convinced the dwarf that the Other Shore Great Ship belonged to it.
• Shen Ye claimed to be the dwarf’s father, triggering his Pull-Bi trait; the dwarf resisted the urge to attack him, its Dharma Form collapsed, and a vast shadow called Shen Ye “Father.”