Chapter Summaries

During Jiang Wang’s graduate and doctoral studies, strange creatures and apparent supernatural abilities began appearing around the world, though governments concealed many incidents. Gabriel and Gael left Yunhai, and Gabriel gave Jiang Wang a white jade feather said to heal someone who was dying.

• Jiang Wang saw reports of strange creatures appearing worldwide, practiced swordsmanship and archery, and heard Gabriel and Gael planned to leave the East.
• Nine Palaces You visited Jiang Wang in Yunhai, lost another swordsmanship match, and later returned to Tokyo without him seeing her off.
• Jiang Wang entered a doctoral program while videos of people displaying unusual abilities spread online.
• Gabriel and Gael left Yunhai for their old home in the West, and Gabriel gave Jiang Wang a white jade feather that could heal a dying person.
• Jiang Wang lost contact with Gabriel and Gael after they left Yunhai City.

During his second year of doctoral studies, Jiang Wang investigated hidden footage of supernatural awakenings and tried unsuccessfully to awaken a power himself. He eventually returned to his astronomy research, accepting his future as an astronomical scientist for the moment.

• Jiang Wang noticed that the world had grown unusually peaceful, but his instincts told him that things were not as simple as they seemed.
• Jiang Wang searched removed videos and confirmed that people around the world had awakened supernatural abilities, though their awakenings had no clear common cause.
• Jiang Wang read claims about churches and ancient bloodlines, then watched a livestreamer awaken an electrical power by shocking himself.
• Jiang Wang tried to awaken water, earth, and wind abilities by soaking in a bathtub, burying himself, and enduring fierce winds, but none of his efforts worked.
• Jiang Wang concluded that he might lack talent, adjusted his mood, and returned to his astronomy research.

A planet-sized black-robed figure appeared above the Solar System, and one of the ten blue rings behind him shattered before he vanished. Dao Ancestor Taishang discussed the First Supreme and the Dawn Era of the Sixth Epoch, while Jiang Wang watched from his classroom as something new appeared in Earth's skies.

• A black-robed figure appeared across the world above the Solar System, and a blue ring behind him fractured and vanished.
• Dao Ancestor Taishang and his three disciples discussed the First Supreme, whose presence seemed weaker than before.
• Tai Shang said the Dawn Era of the Sixth Epoch had begun and wondered whether Jiang might help more human powerhouses emerge.
• Jiang Wang and his students watched the black-robed figure disappear, then saw something unexpected appear in Earth's skies.

Countless bubble worlds appeared in the sky as Earth expanded and its spiritual energy began to recover. Jiang Wang spotted one world falling toward Yunhai City, evacuated his students to the playing field, and found that it had not yet landed.

• Vast numbers of bubble worlds appeared above Earth, revealing unfamiliar lands and intelligent beings inside them.
• The bubble worlds became wrapped in seven-colored light and began plunging toward Earth as the planet expanded and spiritual energy recovered.
• Jiang Wang saw a bubble world falling toward Yunhai City and shouted for his students to get downstairs and reach the playing field.
• The students fled the classroom in an orderly rush, and Jiang Wang followed after the last female student left.
• Jiang Wang reached the playing field and realized that the bubble world had not yet crashed down.

Bubble Worlds crashed into Earth, bringing mountains, animals, and hostile green-skinned beings to Yunhai University. After Jiang Wang and other students fought off the attackers, a frost-breathing giant bird silenced the campus broadcast, leaving the survivors afraid to gather.

• The Bubble Worlds broke into fragments that crashed into Earth, splitting the ground, collapsing buildings, and causing casualties.
• A mountain filled with fleeing animals appeared beside Jiang Wang and the Yunhai University students, and Green-Skinned Dwarfs attacked them with bamboo javelins.
• Jiang Wang found a fire axe and joined other students in fighting the Green-Skinned Dwarfs, while a Blue-Clad Girl rallied the crowd; together they killed the attackers.
• The university president ordered students to assemble at the central sports field and said the state had been notified and would send help.
• A White Giant Bird flew toward the broadcast source and froze it with its breath, stopping the announcement and preventing the students from heading to the central field.

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.