Recaps

After the frost bird destroyed the broadcasting building and killed the university president and most administrators, Jiang Wang agreed to lead the panicked survivors at Yunhai University. Lan Qin proposed that they leave for a military shelter the next day, making Jiang suspect she knew more than she had revealed.

• The frost bird froze the broadcasting building, leaving Yunhai University without its president and most of its administrators.
• Lan Qin, vice president of the Martial Arts Club, asked Jiang Wang to lead the survivors until help arrived.
• Jiang Wang accepted and asked Lan Qin and her club members to help gather survivors, food, and supplies and settle the injured.
• Lan Qin said the stadium was the best place to stay temporarily, but urged the group to leave for a military shelter the next day.
• Jiang Wang questioned why they should travel instead of waiting for rescue and suspected Lan Qin knew something.

Lan Qin told Jiang Wang that a disaster from the fallen mountain would strike Yunhai University by the following night, and revealed she had precognition and believed he had an ability too. When the students rejected his plan to leave for a military resettlement site, Lan Qin began to demonstrate her power.

• Lan Qin warned Jiang Wang that danger from the fallen mountain would reach Yunhai University by the next night and revealed her precognitive ability.
• Lan Qin told Jiang Wang that a dazzling sun surrounded him and that his own ability would awaken soon.
• Jiang Wang announced to the students and lecturers that they would leave the gymnasium for a military resettlement site after lunch the next day.
• The students questioned Lan Qin's precognition and protested that they should stay in the gymnasium to await rescue.
• An inexplicable ripple passed through everyone, and Lan Qin's face took on an icy air as she chanted, "Sit enthroned in the frosted heavens!"

Lan Qin revealed her Frost Esper Ability and explained that the cataclysm was awakening powers in people. After new Espers emerged and one challenged the evacuation plan, Lan Qin defeated him, and Jiang Wang prepared to leave campus.

• Lan Qin summoned the frost longsword Ice King, transformed, and convinced the teachers and students that she had a foresight ability as well as another Esper Ability.
• Lan Qin told Jiang Wang that more people would awaken abilities and explained that the cataclysm was causing the changes.
• Lan Qin suggested Jiang Wang call for the sun's help if they encountered danger, since his ability was connected to solar power.
• Dozens of people awakened Esper Abilities overnight, and a second-year student with Metal Storm opposed the plan to leave school.
• Lan Qin defeated the Metal Storm student, preventing the other Espers from interfering with the plan.
• Jiang Wang woke early and returned to his dorm to collect his alloy sword, bow, and arrows.

After the cataclysm, Jiang Wang led teachers, students, and other survivors out of Yunhai University, fighting monsters along the way. The growing group headed toward an advancing Green-Skinned Monster army, whose crowned leader planned to capture more humans for the Storm Giant Tiger.

• Jiang Wang killed a squad of Green-Skinned Monsters and gathered their weapons before returning to the gymnasium.
• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin organized supplies and vehicles, then led several hundred teachers and students out of Yunhai University.
• The group defeated Green-Skinned Monsters and fierce beasts as more survivors joined them on the road.
• A pack of blue-furred wolves attacked the group, and Jiang Wang and Lan Qin helped kill the wolf king despite heavy casualties.
• The Yunhai University group grew to more than a thousand people as it continued through terrain altered by the world fragments.
• A Green-Skinned Monster army carrying nearly a thousand captured humans advanced toward Jiang Wang's group, and its crowned leader planned to capture more people for the Storm Giant Tiger.

Jiang Wang and Lan Qin led a charge against the Green-Skinned Monster army while two giant beasts battled over Yunhai University. Cornered by the enemy, Jiang Wang called upon the sun, which shielded him and awakened a golden power within him.

• A speed-awakened student warned Jiang Wang and the group that thousands of Green-Skinned Monsters had surrounded them in the ruins.
• Lan Qin revealed that the azure tiger and frost bird were fighting at Yunhai University, then advised Jiang Wang to kill the Green-Skinned Monster king to break the army.
• Lan Qin led the charge as Jiang Wang and roughly two hundred others fought toward the king, while many students and Espers stayed back or fled.
• The king blocked Jiang Wang's arrow with an azure shield, and Green-Skinned Monster archers and spellcasters surrounded him.
• Jiang Wang called on the Supreme Eternal Sun, received a pillar of golden light that protected him, and transformed with golden hair, golden eyes, and a radiant sun mark on his brow.

Jiang Wang awakened a powerful Sun-aligned esper ability, killed the Green-Skinned Monster King, and helped the humans defeat the invading army. After the battle, Lan Qin revealed that she was an Apocalypse Summoner who collected enemy remains as sacrifices.

• Jiang Wang emerged unharmed from the golden light as his esper ability awakened, then attacked the Green-Skinned Monster King with golden arrows.
• Jiang Wang charged through the green-skinned army, reached the Green-Skinned Monster King, and killed him with one stroke.
• Jiang Wang raised the king’s severed head, causing the green-skinned army to panic and flee while the humans freed their captives and won the battle.
• Jiang Wang wondered whether the faint voice he heard during his awakening had belonged to his father, then spoke with Lan Qin after the battle.
• Lan Qin asked for the Green-Skinned Monster King’s corpse and revealed that she was an Apocalypse Summoner who used such remains as sacrifices.

Lan Qin summoned a blue-black tentacle monster using the Blue Wolf King's corpse and the Green-skinned Monster King's remains. The creature felt drawn to Lan Qin, but Jiang Wang's Sunmark overwhelmed it when it tried to confront him.

• Jiang Wang asked Lan Qin about Apocalypse Summoners and how to become a Professional, but she said she knew little about the future.
• After the group reached a deserted residential complex and settled in for the night, Lan Qin drew a summoning Magic Formation.
• Jiang Wang brought the Blue Wolf King's corpse and the Green-skinned Monster King's remains to the formation as offerings.
• Lan Qin summoned a person-sized, blue-black spherical monster with dozens of tentacles and decided to form a contract with it.
• The monster turned toward Jiang Wang to challenge him, but his Sunmark made it unable to keep its eyes open.

Jiang Wang and Lan Qin joined the Yunhai City Garrison and were sent to rescue professors and scientists trapped at the old campus. They found the campus controlled by more than a dozen One-Eyed Giants, with teachers and students held captive beneath a pot piled with bones.

• The garrison accepted Jiang Wang’s refugee column, organized its Espers into military squads, and placed Jiang Wang in command of one.
• The next day, Jiang Wang and Lan Qin received orders to rescue trapped professors and scientists at Yunhai University’s old campus and a research institute.
• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin spotted the wounded Storm Azure Tiger recovering near the gymnasium, surrounded by Green-Skinned Monsters holding human captives.
• Jiang Wang led his demoralized squad around the Fallen World mountain and reached the old campus after half a day.
• Jiang Wang found more than a dozen One-Eyed Giants occupying the teaching-building ruins, with teachers and students packed onto a wooden table beneath a giant bronze pot.

Jiang Wang and Lan Qin rescued Yunhai University’s captured teachers and students, then returned to Yunhai Garrison Base with scientists and research materials. Months later, as the city settled into an uneasy peace, Lan Qin asked Jiang Wang to help her find several important people.

• Jiang Wang’s squad attacked the One-Eyed Giants, rescued Pei Lanji and the other captives, and killed several Giants.
• At Pei Lanji’s guidance, Jiang Wang’s group found several thousand more teachers and students and brought them back toward Yunhai Garrison Base.
• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin collected the mission’s scientists, documents, and equipment before returning safely to the base.
• Over the following months, Yunhai Garrison Base became home to hundreds of thousands of refugees, while the city’s factions and creatures settled into an uneasy peace.
• Lan Qin told Jiang Wang she planned to leave Yunhai City to find several important people and asked him to help.

Jiang Wang and Lan Qin left Yunhai City to search for someone and spent their first year crossing a transformed, dangerous world. They learned their destination was a refugee camp ruled by a powerful Esper.

• Jiang Wang agreed to leave Yunhai City with Lan Qin after discussing the dangers and preparing the refugee camp for their absence.
• Jiang Wang gave instructions to his friends and subordinates and explained the journey to Pei Lanji, who had awakened a healing ability.
• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin set out west from Yunhai City, then traveled south toward Guangze and other places.
• During their first year, Jiang Wang rescued humans in danger as they encountered many kinds of Fallen World creatures.
• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin learned that most refugee camps remained under official administration, though some had been taken over by powerful Espers.
• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin discovered that the person they sought was in a refugee camp ruled by a powerful Esper.

Jiang Wang and Lan Qin overthrew Wang Dazhu’s rule in Guangze, rescued Ruan Ruo, and helped restore the refugee camp before continuing their search. In the second year, they reached Mountain City Refuge Camp and learned that the Earth Federation had been founded.

• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin executed Wang Dazhu and his accomplices on Guangze’s Execution Platform, ending Wang Dazhu’s rule.
• Lan Qin and Jiang Wang rescued Ruan Ruo from imprisonment after defeating Wang Dazhu and his Mutant Pig Legion.
• The people of Guangze chose new espers to govern the refugee camp and reestablished contact with Kyoto.
• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin stayed in Guangze for seven days to help eliminate nearby Fallen World forces, then left with Ruan Ruo to continue their search.
• In the second year of their search, Jiang Wang, Lan Qin, and Ruan Ruo arrived at Mountain City Refuge Camp and heard that the Earth Federation had been founded.

Jiang Wang, Lan Qin, and Ruan Ruo arrived at Mountain City to recruit Gu Youxuan, whose brother, the city's powerful general, challenged Jiang Wang before allowing her to leave. After traveling for three years and finding three more promising Espers, Lan Qin's group returned to the Sea of Clouds.

• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin entered Mountain City Refuge Camp as people celebrated the Earth Federation, while Lan Qin questioned how united humanity really was.
• Gu Youxuan told her brother that she had foreseen a Sun, an Ice Phoenix, and a lotus arriving, and decided to leave with them to help avert future disasters.
• Lan Qin asked Gu Youxuan to come with her, and Gu Youxuan's brother challenged Jiang Wang to a fight to decide whether she could leave.
• Jiang Wang and his three companions left Mountain City seven days later, after golden firelight and purple lightning lit the city during their fight.
• Over the next three years, Lan Qin led the group to find three more Espers with outstanding potential before they returned to the Sea of Clouds.
• Lan Qin told the others that their character and will would make them powerful leaders when the Career Era arrived.

After the second World-Fall Calamity brought emperor-rank creatures to Yunhai City, Jiang Wang and its defenders faced an overwhelming beast tide led by the Heaven-Conquering Eagle. As the eagle prepared to kill Jiang Wang, a sword descended from the sky and a woman announced the arrival of the Heavenly Court.

• Jiang Wang and Lan Qin returned to Yunhai, helped reclaim the city, and spent twenty years strengthening its refuge and opening routes to other cities.
• The second World-Fall Calamity unleashed emperor-rank Fallen World creatures, and the Heaven-Conquering Eagle led a vast beast tide against Yunhai City.
• Jiang Wang ordered Gu Youxuan to evacuate the others through underground passages while he stayed behind to hold off the attack.
• After hours of fighting, Jiang Wang faced the charging Heaven-Conquering Eagle and prepared to die defending the city.
• A longsword fell from the sky and forced the eagle away from Jiang Wang as a woman declared herself the Heavenly Court's Longevity Emperor Lord, come to deliver them from disaster.

The Heavenly Court's Longevity Emperor Lord saved Yunhai from the Fallen World creatures and explained that the Heavenly Court had returned to protect humanity. After Jiang Wang introduced her to Lan Qin and the others, the Emperor Lord and Lan Qin recognized each other by name.

• The Longevity Emperor Lord beheaded the enormous eagle and killed the remaining Fallen World creatures attacking the humans.
• Jiang Wang thanked the white-dressed woman, who explained the Heavenly Court's history and its duty to protect the eastern world.
• The Emperor Lord told Jiang Wang that several powerful Heavenly Court members could help fight the Fallen World creatures, though humanity still needed to resist together.
• Lan Qin arrived after the battle, and Jiang Wang introduced the Emperor Lord to her and the human warriors.
• The Emperor Lord and Lan Qin each cried out in surprise, calling each other Bai Weiwei and Lan Qin Qin.

Bai Weiwei reunited with Lan Qin and explained that she had traveled to the ancient Qin Dynasty, while Lan Qin revealed that she had returned from the future. After seeing Jiang Wang's swordsmanship and learning his father's name was Jiang Yang, Bai Weiwei recognized him as her master's offspring and began treating him like family.

• Bai Weiwei told Jiang Wang and Lan Qin that she and Lan Qin had been childhood classmates, and offered to clear the Emperor-Rank creatures around Yunhai City.
• Bai Weiwei told Lan Qin that she had traveled to the ancient Qin Dynasty and met her master, the Heavenly Emperor, while Lan Qin revealed that she had returned from the future on the night Bai Weiwei disappeared.
• The next day, Bai Weiwei watched Jiang Wang practice swordsmanship and asked who had taught him.
• Jiang Wang said his father, Jiang Yang, had taught him the swordsmanship but had been missing for years.
• Bai Weiwei connected Jiang Wang's swordsmanship, powers, appearance, and surname to her master, then told him to call her Sister Bai.

Bai Weiwei revealed that Jiang Yang had been her teacher and praised Jiang Wang’s parents, while the Heavenly Court supported Jiang Wang as its influence spread. Years later, a potion made from Fallen World Creatures ushered in the age of Professionals, with Jiang Wang becoming the Sun Lord and Lan Qin advancing to Abyss Summoner.

• Bai Weiwei told Jiang Wang that Jiang Yang was her teacher and she was Jiang Wang’s senior sister, then showed him his father’s swordsmanship.
• Bai Weiwei stayed in the Sea of Clouds for a month before heading south, and Lan Qin later left with her teammates.
• The Heavenly Court sent people and resources to Cloudsea City to support Jiang Wang as its reputation and the Longevity Emperor Lord’s fame spread across the East.
• The Heavenly Court, the Knight Temple, and Human Civilization worked together to limit the damage from the second Fallen World cataclysm and preserve humanity’s major cities.
• Scientists discovered a substance in the creatures that could be made into a strength-enhancing potion, and Human Civilization named the resulting cultivation paths Professionals.
• Jiang Wang became the human world’s Sun Lord after taking the potion, while Lan Qin advanced from Apocalypse Summoner to Abyss Summoner.

In the third World-Fall Calamity, Ania’s squad recovered Extinguished Spear King Ai’s Heroic Spirit from a ruined city near Kyoto. Before they could leave, a boy trapped beneath the rubble asked them to rescue his companions, and Ania promised to help.

• In Year 128 of the Federation Calendar, the third World-Fall Calamity devastated Human Civilization despite aid from the Heavenly Court and Knight Temple.
• Ania and her black-robed squad arrived at a ruined city near Kyoto, where Extinguished Spear King Ai had died fighting a Two-Headed Giant Bear.
• Ania ordered the squad to prepare to awaken Ai’s Heroic Spirit and quietly wondered when Human Civilization’s suffering would end.
• After recovering Ai’s Heroic Spirit, Ania spotted a wounded boy crawling from beneath a collapsed steel door and asking her to save his trapped companions.
• Ania remembered her own first meeting with Jiang Yang, smiled at the boy, and promised to get everyone out.

Ania healed seven children rescued from the ruins despite her squad’s concerns about interfering with the past. She took the children toward Cloud Sea City, while the black-haired boy and Jiang Yang both whispered their thanks.

• Ania refused her squad members’ warnings and used her power to heal the seven rescued children.
• Ania and Yaya watched the children eat and discussed finding them somewhere safe.
• Ania sent the rest of the squad back to the Heroic Spirit Throne and decided to take the children to Cloud Sea City with Yaya.
• Ania took the black-haired boy by the hand and prepared to leave with the children.
• The boy whispered, “Thank you,” and Jiang Yang, seated in the Sun’s core, whispered the same words.

Jiang Wang celebrated reuniting with his mother, Ania, and learned that he was born to two gods and belonged to the Divine Clan of the Fifth Epoch. Ania told him his father, Jiang Yang, watched over him through the Sun, but warned that Earth faced a future enemy who might threaten them even beyond his father's protection.

• Jiang Wang welcomed Ania back to Cloudsea City and agreed to have the city lord's residence care for the seven children she had brought.
• Ania told Jiang Wang that he was a Fifth Epoch human of the Divine Clan, with both parents being gods.
• Jiang Wang realized that Jiang Yang had been inside the Sun and watching over him all along.
• Ania warned Jiang Wang not to let his divine heritage diminish his reverence for life and death or his courage, because Earth faced a great enemy in the future.
• Jiang Wang told Ania that he understood.

After Ania left, Jiang Wang reclaimed territory around Cloud Sea City and welcomed his daughter Jiang Lingyan, whose birth marked the beginning of a powerful solar bloodline. A young man from Cloud Sea City rose to fame, while humanity and its allies endured the fourth World-Fall Calamity; the fifth calamity began in the year 1000.

• Ania left Cloud Sea City, and Jiang Wang became more confident and began launching attacks to reclaim the city's former territory.
• Pei Lanji gave birth to Jiang Wang's daughter, Jiang Lingyan, and Jiang Wang presented her to the people of Cloud Sea City as Jiang Yang blessed his descendants with the Sunmark bloodline.
• The boy Ania had rescued grew into a renowned Wayfarer, defeated the strongest young fighters across the world, and returned to the East as the uncrowned king of his generation.
• The fourth World-Fall Calamity erupted in Federation year 500, and the Earth Federation joined forces with Demon Emperor Di Jun and the Demon Race to defeat the Fallen World beings after a century of war.
• The fifth World-Fall Calamity began in Federation year 1000, and Demigods from the Kunlun, Luo River, Asgard, and Olympus Divine Courts emerged to help humanity.

In Federation Calendar year 3152, Ania’s adopted son became the first Human King, a profession unique to the Sixth Epoch, and his rise made Cloudsea City the strongest human power in the world. He declined Jiang Wang’s offer to become the city lord and instead became Chief Justice, sharing rule of the Sea of Clouds with Jiang Wang.

• Jiang Lingyan and later Jiang Lingjun traveled to Wushan Demon City, where the Lord of the Clouds welcomed them as descendants of the Demon Emperor, before they journeyed through the Demon Realm.
• Jiang Lingjun married the daughter of the Western Capital’s Radiant Sun Holy Sword, beginning the continuation of the Jiang family, the Sun Royal Clan.
• Human Civilization discovered ancient battlefields and Divine Clan ruins, confirming that the gods were survivors of the previous epoch and that Demigods descended from unions between gods and humans.
• In Federation Calendar year 3152, Ania’s adopted son became the Human King, and strange phenomena spread throughout heaven and earth.
• Jiang Wang offered the Human King the lordship of Cloudsea City, but he declined and accepted the position of Chief Justice instead.
• Jiang Wang and the Human King jointly presided over the Sea of Clouds as Cloudsea City became the world’s strongest Human Civilization power.

The chapter recounted the rise of Kelin, the Knight King, and the Human King’s growing influence as they defended human civilization and surpassed their rivals. By Federation year 6000, a sixth fallen-world catastrophe had begun, but the supreme sun’s dazzling radiance left human civilization untouched.

• In Federation year 3541, Kelin inherited the ancient Knight King’s legacy and became a unique transcendent class holder.
• Kelin defeated Dark Holy Spear, rescued 3,561 women from a Goblin Nest, and earned recognition from the Knight Temple.
• The Knight King challenged the Human King several times and was repeatedly defeated, eventually accepting him as the strongest fighter in human civilization.
• After the Thirty-Nine Tribes attacked Kyoto, the Human King led fighters north, defeated them, and stayed to guard the city.
• When the Human King disappeared for three hundred years, Jiang Lingyan, Bai Weiwei, and Lan Qin guarded Kyoto until his return, when he had reached the fourth step of the Imperial level.
• In Federation year 6000, the sixth fallen-world catastrophe erupted, but the supreme sun flared with dazzling radiance and the catastrophe did not affect human civilization.

The sixth World-Fall Calamity began as five enormous worlds appeared poised to fall toward Earth, terrifying humanity with the prospect of destruction beyond the previous disasters. The Human King ordered Jingdu to prepare, while Jiang Wang wondered whether his father would intervene if humanity could not withstand the catastrophe.

• Zhao Huaiyin saw a Great Thousand World overhead and realized that five great worlds were falling toward Earth.
• People across the globe panicked as they faced a calamity far greater than the previous five World-Fall Calamities.
• The Human King reassured Jingdu's officials and ordered the garrison and transcendent warbands to maintain order and execute anyone causing trouble.
• Cloudsea City activated its energy shield and mobilized its armies and transcendent warbands as Jiang Wang wondered whether his father would help humanity.
• Major human cities and factions worldwide sounded alarms and prepared for battle.

Five world lords descended toward Earth and tried to seize Jiang Wang, who called for his father. A radiant figure appeared in the ancient sun as a bell froze life across the Solar System and myriad worlds.

• Five great worlds descended toward Earth, and their lords emerged to discuss their arrival.
• The world lords agreed to seek information from Earth's humanoid inhabitants, and one chose Jiang Wang in Cloudsea City as their target.
• The martial-attired world lord sent a Heaven-Seizing Hand toward Jiang Wang, who shouted for his father as the hand threatened the city.
• A bell rang across the Solar System and myriad worlds, freezing all living beings in place while a golden sun appeared in many worlds.
• A majestic figure manifested within the ancient sun at the Solar System's center, standing upon the Imperial Bell with a longsword at his waist.

After nearly six thousand years of cultivation, Jiang Yang won the recognition of the Fifth Epoch’s divine civilization and prepared to enter the river of time to complete his breakthrough to the Supreme realm. His gaze loosened the restraints across the heavens, and Jiang Wang realized the majestic figure in the sky was his father.

• Jiang Yang revealed his unique solar Dao mark and prepared to claim the Supreme position of the Fifth Epoch’s divine civilization.
• He opened a passage to Sky Divine City, where the gods honored him as Lord of Civilization and proclaimed that he would become Supreme.
• The spirits of humanity throughout the Fifth Epoch gathered along a silver river to sing as a divine crown formed above Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang stepped from the sun to the space beyond Earth and summoned the river of time to begin his final breakthrough in his true body.
• Before entering the river, Jiang Yang glanced at Earth and freed beings across the heavens and Earth's spacetime from their restraints.
• Atop the Solar Tower in Cloudsea City, Jiang Wang recognized Jiang Yang as his father.