Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye used Xiatelai’s transformation into the Chenqing saber to exploit the sacred tree’s weakness and strike at the Truth Sacred Tree. The chapter ended with his opponent realizing the saber could kill him.

• Shen Ye blocked the sacred tree’s blade by drawing on the power of the two combatants’ decisive battle, but the sacred tree reclaimed that power using Return to the Root.
• Shen Ye recognized that the sacred tree still suffered from the decisive battle and used Behind-the-Scenes Figure to briefly make it indecisive.
• Shen Ye called Xiatelai’s saber-shaped dharma form to him and clashed with the sacred tree, while the void announced that Xiatelai had become a future truth construct and gained the Chenqing trait.
• Shen Ye revealed that destroying History Fragments had given him a way to reach the future and that Chenqing’s entropy-eradication power could terminate the sacred tree.
• The Truth Sacred Tree realized Chenqing could kill it and hurriedly asked what the saber was.

Shen Ye destroyed the Golden Seed, the Truth Land’s ruling construct, and discovered that the two combatants in the void were not its creations. He used the Wind Gate to redirect their attacks and left them facing a threat of his own.

• Shen Ye struck the Golden Seed with Return to Silence, destroying the Truth Land’s buried constructs and gravely wounding the seed.
• The Golden Seed withdrew its threads and feigned death, leaving Shen Ye and Xiatelai exposed to the two combatants’ escalating clash.
• Shen Ye opened the Wind Gate to the Golden Seed’s hiding place, redirecting the combatants’ attacks and forcing the seed to endure their shock waves.
• Good Duckie sent Norton, Micteticashiva, Mother Earth, Kalula, Xiao Mengyu, Song Yinchen, Xu Xingke, and Nangong Sirui back through the Wind Gate, but the combatants sensed them and unleashed greater power.
• Shen Ye used the Wind Gate to isolate the Golden Seed’s path and, with Xiatelai’s blade, destroyed it; the seed’s final words revealed no explanation for the combatants or the endless battle.
• Shen Ye redirected the combatants’ spellcraft through the Wind Gate and used his Doppelganger to force both of them to defend, then warned them that his next attack could catch them mid-strike as the Golden Seed reached Terminus.