Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang and Ania returned to the Snow and Ice Plateau after finding no survivors in Yanghai City, and Li Xiaowa urged them to keep working to reclaim the world from the monsters. As Jiang Yang rested and reflected on humanity’s collapse and the Seven Kings of Doomsday, someone knocked at his door and called to him.

• Jiang Yang and Ania flew back to the Snow and Ice Plateau base after fighting monsters in the ruins.
• Survivors welcomed them, and Jiang Yang gave Yuanyuan a kaleidoscope.
• Li Xiaowa asked whether they had found survivors, and Jiang Yang said Yanghai City was overrun by monsters.
• Ania and Li Xiaowa encouraged the survivors to clear the monsters and restore humanity.
• Jiang Yang rested and recalled the alien ship, humanity’s retreat, and the rise of the Seven Kings of Doomsday.
• Someone knocked on Jiang Yang’s door and asked whether he was asleep.

Years after the Apocalypse began, Jiang Yang and Ania became a couple, and humanity’s last seven shelters met to plan their future. With the monsters beginning to feed on other creatures under the control of the intelligent Super Beast Nidhogg, Chen Ping’an called for a final assault on Antarctica using the ultimate weapon Gungnir.

• Jiang Yang accepted Ania’s proposal to be with him after the Apocalypse ended.
• Years later, Jiang Yang left Ania to attend a meeting of the seven shelters, where Li Xiaowa told him about an email he had missed.
• Chen Ping’an announced that the alien spaceship had left and many monsters had begun returning to the sea.
• Chen Ping’an revealed that Super Beast Nidhogg was keeping the monsters on land, organizing their food chain, and encouraging them to eat plants and other animals.
• Chen Ping’an proposed gathering humanity’s forces and using Gungnir to kill Nidhogg in Antarctica, and the assembled leaders vowed that humanity would endure.

Jiang Yang led two thousand Great Snowfield Shelter warriors and the Seven Human Transcendent Kings into a desperate assault on Nidhogg, the Super Beast controlling the monsters. Odin assigned the Kings their targets as the attack began.

• Jiang Yang accepted Ania's decision to join the expedition, and the two promised to return safely.
• Yuan Jing addressed the assembled warriors, and Jiang Yang led them in a vow to destroy the Super Beast or die trying.
• The Seven Human Transcendent Kings gathered above Antarctica, where Yisha teased Jiang Yang about Ania.
• Odin revealed Nidhogg and its three Alpha-class guards, then assigned Yisha, Brahma, and Ra to fight the guards while he, Zeus, Mar, and Jiang Yang held off Nidhogg.
• Odin said a spatial ability user would wield Gungnir to seek a chance to kill Nidhogg, and the Kings cried out before launching the attack.

Ania rallied the human warriors against Nidhogg, but an Alpha-class Giant Beast struck her down as she handed Gungnir to Jiang Yang. Odin carried Gungnir into Nidhogg and destroyed it, yet Jiang Yang vanished after humanity's victory, while Ania was sealed in ice in hopes of reviving her.

• Ania watched Jiang Yang and the other warriors battle Nidhogg while human forces suffered heavy casualties.
• Jiang Yang and Odin wounded Nidhogg to create an opening for a spatial awakened warrior to use Gungnir, but a small monster knocked the warrior unconscious.
• Ania picked up Gungnir and rallied the despairing human warriors, then an Alpha-class turtle-shaped Giant Beast struck her through the chest.
• As Ania fell, she threw Gungnir to Jiang Yang, who passed it to Odin; Odin plunged into Nidhogg's mouth and destroyed the super beast from within.
• The humans celebrated their victory, but they could not find Jiang Yang, and Isa sealed Ania in ice in hopes of reviving her.

After the monsters retreated, Chen Ping'an faced humanity’s collapse and chose to revive the population by breeding new humans from the Human Gene Bank. A thousand years later, golden eyes opened beneath the Antarctic ice, and Jiang Yang awakened.

• On the Antarctic ice sheet, a woman in a white dress said she would take Ania and hoped Jiang Yang would find her if he was alive.
• After Nidhogg’s death, most monsters withdrew into the sea, while attacks on shelters left humanity with only fifty thousand people across the Seven Great Refuges.
• Under Chen Ping'an’s leadership, the Seven Great Refuges cleared most remaining land monsters, and Li Xiaowa became the eighth Transcendent King, the King of the Earth.
• Chen Ping'an activated the Human Gene Bank and introduced new humans across the world, beginning the era later known as the Sixth Era.
• A thousand years later, golden eyes opened beneath the ice of the Antarctic Continent, and Jiang Yang declared himself the King of Flame.

A thousand years after defeating Nidhogg, Jiang Yang awakened beneath the Antarctic ice and flew to the Great Snowfield Shelter to learn what had become of the world. He found a thriving Earth inhabited by strange new humans who called him a Lord God, and continued toward the Refuge for answers.

• A thousand years after Jiang Yang destroyed Nidhogg, he awakened fully healed beneath the Antarctic ice and remembered his past.
• Jiang Yang melted through the ice, saw that Antarctica was empty, and concluded that the Nidhogg calamity had ended.
• He flew across the ocean and found Earth restored, with scattered tribes of unusually powerful humans living among its renewed wilderness.
• Jiang Yang approached a tribe, whose golden-haired, vertical-pupiled people knelt and called him Lord God.
• Puzzled by the new humans and their familiar language, Jiang Yang flew toward the Refuge, leaving the tribe wondering why he had brought no food.

After awakening from more than a thousand years of frozen sleep, Jiang Yang returned to the Great Snowfield Shelter and learned that most of his old companions had died and humanity had changed. He discovered that he and Li Xiaowa had both reached Emperor-Rank, then asked what threat still required Gungnir.

• Jiang Yang reunited with Li Xiaowa and Qing Fengxi at the transformed Great Snowfield Shelter and learned he had slept for over a thousand years.
• Li Xiaowa told Jiang Yang that Yuan Jing and Chen Ping'an had died, the shelter held only a few hundred people, and Ania remained frozen in the Arctic after Yisha failed to revive her.
• Qing Fengxi explained that altered genes had produced new humans with golden hair and eyes, whom Chen Ping'an had named the Golden Humans.
• Li Xiaowa revealed she had advanced to Emperor-Rank, and Jiang Yang demonstrated that he had reached the same rank.
• Jiang Yang showed Li Xiaowa and Qing Fengxi that he still had Gungnir, and Li Xiaowa said it would help with an unexplained matter.

Li Xiaowa and Qing Fengxi explained that Gilgamesh, the rebellious Golden King, had defeated several powerful challengers and threatened the human shelters. Jiang Yang agreed to travel to the Sumerian Shelter and confront him, with Gungnir as his weapon.

• Li Xiaowa told Jiang Yang that Gilgamesh was a powerful Emperor-Rank king born from an old human and a new human who sought to rule humans and gods.
• Qing Fengxi explained that the old humans had to control the new humans as their gods to preserve civilization, and Jiang Yang accepted his role in that effort.
• Li Xiaowa described Gilgamesh's strength and said he had defeated Mar, Ra, and Brahma, while Zeus, Odin, and Yisha were unavailable to help.
• Li Xiaowa said Jiang Yang could face Gilgamesh with Gungnir, and Jiang Yang agreed to go to the Sumerian Shelter by plane.

Jiang Yang returned to the Sumerian Shelter, where Mar explained that Gilgamesh had become powerful enough to threaten the Sumerian gods. When Enkidu arrived to demand their submission, Jiang Yang revealed himself as the Sun God and asked to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk.

• Jiang Yang arrived at the Sumerian Shelter and reunited with Mar, who admitted Gilgamesh had defeated him and killed the Bull of Heaven.
• Kyle reported that Enkidu had come to demand the Sumerian gods submit to Gilgamesh or face an attack.
• Mar and Jiang Yang went outside to confront Enkidu, who defended Gilgamesh’s claim to rule gods and humans.
• Jiang Yang stepped forward with a display of power and asked Enkidu to take him to Gilgamesh.
• Mar introduced Jiang Yang as the newly awakened Sun God, and Enkidu respectfully agreed to escort him to Uruk.

Enkidu took Jiang Yang to Uruk, where Jiang Yang praised Gilgamesh’s prosperous rule but rejected his ambition to defy the gods and rule over gods and humans. The two prepared to meet Gilgamesh, with Jiang Yang insisting that he would not lose.

• Enkidu carried Jiang Yang toward Uruk and told him how he and Gilgamesh had become friends after fighting.
• Jiang Yang chose to tour Uruk instead of going straight to the royal palace, and he saw its busy streets and prosperous people.
• Jiang Yang praised Gilgamesh’s governance but said he would beat the king awake for defying the gods and seeking to rule them.
• Enkidu challenged Jiang Yang’s confidence and asked him to have the Divine Clan submit if the Sun God lost.
• Jiang Yang told Enkidu to take him to Gilgamesh, and Enkidu agreed.

Jiang Yang confronted Gilgamesh in Uruk, and their clashing auras gave way to a battle that shook the Mesopotamian Plain. The two kings fought across the earth and into the sky, with neither gaining the upper hand.

• Enkidu brought Jiang Yang to Gilgamesh’s palace, where the Golden King dismissed Jiang Yang and called the gods homeless wretches.
• Jiang Yang ignored Gilgamesh’s taunts and admired the palace murals, irritating Gilgamesh as their auras began to clash.
• Warriors across the surrounding city-states sensed the confrontation, while Mar admired Jiang Yang’s strength from the Sumerian Shelter.
• Jiang Yang declared Gilgamesh a rebel and challenged him to answer for his crimes before the gods.
• Jiang Yang drew a Platinum Longsword, and Gilgamesh summoned a Spiral Sword before they fought from the ground into the sky.

Jiang Yang defeated Gilgamesh after the king transformed into a Golden Dragon and unleashed his full strength. Jiang Yang entered a forbidden combat state, and the chapter ended with the fallen Gilgamesh beneath him as a mysterious woman recited the tale of his defiance.

• Jiang Yang overpowered Gilgamesh in battle, and Gilgamesh asked the Sun God his name before deciding to use all his strength.
• Gilgamesh transformed into a Golden Dragon and revealed that he had reached the second step of Emperor-Rank, while Jiang Yang recognized his path beyond Emperor-Rank.
• Gilgamesh repeatedly charged Jiang Yang, who evaded him and struck back despite the dragon's near-impenetrable scales.
• Jiang Yang entered a forbidden combat state, wounded Gilgamesh until the Golden Dragon fell onto the palace, and stood atop him in victory.
• A black-haired young woman and a man in white watched from Uruk, discussing the Heroic Spirit Throne and the need to retrieve Gilgamesh for a future catastrophe.
• The young woman recited how Gilgamesh defied the gods and was defeated by Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang defeated Gilgamesh, who refused to submit to the Gods and transformed his people into dragons with his blood. The white-clad man and the black-haired girl then set out to summon Gilgamesh’s Heroic Spirit before he dissipated.

• Jiang Yang demanded that Gilgamesh surrender and beg the God King’s forgiveness, but Gilgamesh insisted that humans were people, not cattle ruled by Gods.
• God King Mar arrived and offered Gilgamesh a place among the Gods, but Gilgamesh declared himself the Human King and claimed he had heard that the Gods were remnants of an old age.
• Gilgamesh refused to surrender even after defeat and transformed into a Golden Dragon, turning his body into golden light that drenched the Golden Humans in his blood.
• The blood transformed the Golden Humans into dragons, with Enkidu becoming a powerful green dragon, and Gilgamesh created a new race.
• The black-haired girl recited the story of the Gods’ rule and Gilgamesh’s defeat, while the white-clad man decided they had to summon Gilgamesh’s Heroic Spirit before he dissipated.

Gilgamesh accepted the future humans’ invitation to join the Heroic Spirit Throne and fight for humanity. In Uruk, Jiang Yang sent Enkidu and the newly formed Dragon Clan west to find a home, while a purple-haired girl in the distant future watched Jiang Yang on a screen.

• A bespectacled man and a black-haired girl invited Gilgamesh to join the Heroic Spirit Throne, and he agreed after learning it gathered heroic spirits to protect humanity from a future catastrophe.
• Jiang Yang learned that Enkidu and the other transformed humans could not remain in human territory, and he directed them to an island west of the Mesopotamian plain.
• Enkidu named the transformed people the Dragon Clan and led them west to seek a new home.
• Jiang Yang wondered whether the dragons would hate them for Gilgamesh’s death, and Mar said their resentment was natural.
• In the distant future, a purple-haired girl watched Jiang Yang’s image on a screen and spoke his name.

Months after Gilgamesh’s defeat, Jiang Yang left Uruk and learned about a plan to breed humans more like the former civilization. As he traveled through the newborn world, he considered how to surpass emperor-rank strength and decided to visit the Olympus shelter region.

• Mar thanked Jiang Yang for helping preserve the gods’ standing after Gilgamesh’s rise, and Jiang Yang said he had acted as a former human and comrade.
• Mar told Jiang Yang that Odin’s research department had found Golden Humans with normal eyes and was carrying out Leader Chen Ping'an’s human race selection plan to breed a race closer to the old humans.
• Jiang Yang left Uruk to travel the world, and he and Mar agreed that the monster-free world was a promising new era.
• A few days later, Jiang Yang reflected on Gilgamesh’s golden dragon form and concluded that he needed a stronger body and a fitting manifestation to advance beyond emperor-rank strength.
• Jiang Yang decided to see how Odin and Zeus made their breakthroughs and set out to visit the Olympus shelter region.

Jiang Yang found a Golden Humans tribe terrorized by the emperor-rank beast Sphinx, which demanded offerings and planned to eat Filiya. He revealed himself and confronted Sphinx, which mistook him for Zeus.

• After months of traveling west, Jiang Yang reached a Golden Humans tribe where the people were gathered in fear around a wounded girl named Filiya.
• A tribesman told Jiang Yang that a powerful monster was coming, then the tribe prostrated itself as Sphinx approached.
• Sphinx demanded its offerings, learned that Filiya was the only child with the features it sought, and announced its intention to eat her in revenge against the Olympian Gods.
• Sphinx ate the prey offerings, noticed Jiang Yang standing without kneeling, and threatened to kill everyone in the tribe.
• Jiang Yang threw back his hood, revealed his golden eyes, and confronted Sphinx in the air.
• Sphinx sensed Jiang Yang's dangerous aura and asked whether he was Zeus, the God King Poseidon had mentioned.

Poseidon and Apollo worried about an emperor-rank beast in the Olympian Region while Zeus remained in seclusion. When detectors reported a possible emperor-rank battle to the east, Poseidon set out with Apollo to investigate.

• Apollo told Poseidon that Zeus had gone into seclusion after watching Jiang Yang fight Gilgamesh and would not emerge until he reached the emperor-rank second step.
• Poseidon refused Apollo’s suggestion to ask other shelters for help, hoping to avoid making the Olympian Shelter look weak.
• Poseidon remembered that Jiang Yang was expected to visit and suggested asking him for help if needed.
• A golden-armored warrior reported large-scale energy readings to the east and suspected an emperor-rank fight.
• Poseidon picked up his trident and went to investigate with Apollo despite his injuries.

Jiang Yang fought the Sphinx in the eastern lands and defeated him after the beast tried to flee. The Sphinx fell unconscious, still believing Jiang Yang was Zeus, while Jiang Yang clarified that he was not.

• Jiang Yang battled the Sphinx with flaming Sword Qi against the beast’s wind-and-sand attacks, steadily wounding him.
• Jiang Yang demanded that the Sphinx surrender so he could learn how the beast could speak.
• The Sphinx, convinced he could not win, threatened to return and fled north on his wings.
• Jiang Yang activated Forbidden Domain, appeared on the Sphinx’s back, and struck him unconscious.
• Jiang Yang told the Sphinx that he was not Zeus, and the unconscious beast wondered who he was.

Jiang Yang reunited with Poseidon and Apollo after defeating the emperor-rank beast Sphinx, and learned that Artemis had wept when she heard he was alive. As Sphinx began to wake, Jiang Yang prepared to take the talking beast back with them.

• Poseidon and Apollo arrived and recognized Jiang Yang standing atop the unconscious Sphinx.
• Jiang Yang greeted them, and Apollo explained that Zeus had entered seclusion to pursue the emperor-rank second step.
• Poseidon told Jiang Yang he had saved a thousand-year-old wine for their reunion, prompting a playful argument with Apollo.
• Apollo said Artemis had cried all night after learning Jiang Yang was alive, and Jiang Yang remembered her close friendship with Ania.
• Jiang Yang said he planned to take Sphinx back with them, and Apollo noticed that the beast was waking.

Jiang Yang forced the Sphinx to submit to his Divine Clan and took the title Sword King. As the group prepared to return, he remembered someone else he needed to bring along.

• The Sphinx awoke, refused to submit to Jiang Yang's Divine Clan, and rose to fight.
• Jiang Yang entered his Forbidden Domain and threatened to kill the Sphinx with a sword strike.
• The Sphinx surrendered just before Jiang Yang's Sword Qi reached its forehead.
• Jiang Yang withdrew his power, promised the Sphinx equal status with the gods, and named himself the Sword King.
• As Jiang Yang, Poseidon, Apollo, and the Sphinx set off, Jiang Yang remembered someone he needed to take with them.