Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang watched the history of the Sixth Epoch unfold as he advanced along the River of Time, pausing to witness the Human Emperor become a Supreme in Federation year 411,355. He admired the Human Emperor’s power as it protected the Solar System.

• Bai Weiwei, Jiang Wang, Lan Qin, and the other first-generation human superpowers broke through to the sixth step, and Jiang Wang traveled to the Divine Realm with Pei Lanji.
• Humanity survived the eighth World-Fall Calamity with fewer losses, then overcame the ninth with help from Angelica, Illya, and the extraordinary witches of the Witch Forest.
• After returning from five thousand years of travel through the myriad worlds, the Human Emperor reached the Seventh Rank of Professionals and decreed that Sixth Epoch humanity would abandon the Human Realm and remain on Earth.
• Jiang Yang crossed ten steps along the River of Time, then continued until he reached the thirtieth step and paused at Federation year 411,355.
• The Human Emperor became a Supreme above Earth, and his power enveloped the Solar System in protection.
• Jiang Yang admired the Human Emperor’s achievement.

Jiang Yang watched the three great world-saving organizations take shape and consolidate their role across the timelines. The chapter ended with the young Human Emperor repeatedly visiting the Heroic Spirit Throne, most recently bringing a dying Divine Clan woman frozen in ice.

• After the Human Emperor became a Supreme, he established the Heroic Spirit Throne, the Sacred Stele Throne, and the Green History Platform in both timelines.
• In the year 420,000 of the Federation calendar, the three organizations were formally established, led by Ye Qushang, Zhou Wenshi, and Adelia.
• In the year 440,000, the Immortal Lord proposed adding Immortal Clan members to the organizations, and Jiang Yang approved the proposal.
• In the year 540,000, the young Human Emperor arrived at the Heroic Spirit Throne after apparently taking a wrong turn during time travel, and Ye Qushang met him.
• The young Human Emperor visited the Heroic Spirit Throne several more times over the following millennia, eventually bringing a Divine Clan woman frozen near death.

Isa reunited with the healed Ania as Jiang Yang advanced along the River of Time toward the Dao Ancestor’s fall. In Federation Calendar Year 600,036, the great enemy from beyond the Solar System arrived.

• Isa crossed through the passage on Pluto to reach the Heroic Spirit Throne, found that Ye Qushang had healed Ania, and returned to the Divine Realm relieved.
• Ania remained at the Heroic Spirit Throne and worked under the name Niya.
• Jiang Yang continued along the River of Time as the two timelines converged, and the Heroic Spirit Throne’s display changed from a tiny fraction to “X.”
• The Sacred Stele Throne sent the Demon Star Corps’ 356 human warriors into the past to save the Supreme, and Jiang Yang ordered their descendants to be cared for.
• By Federation Calendar Year 600,000, the Solar System had been fortified with warships, super cannons, a Dyson Sphere, and Starry Sky Fortresses.
• In Federation Calendar Year 600,036, countless alien spacecraft and mechs entered the Solar System from beyond it.

An alien civilization overwhelmed humanity’s first Solar System defense line and attacked the second, revealing technology capable of devastating human forces and restraining even the Human Emperor. Dao Ancestor Taishang blocked the next dimensional strikes, but the alien fleet trapped and grievously wounded him.

• The alien fleet destroyed humanity’s eastern Kuiper Belt defenses, annihilating defending forces and nearly ten billion people before Ming alerted the Earth Federation government.
• The Human Emperor reached the second defensive line, identified the enemy’s dimensional-reduction technology, and smashed one Supreme-level starship and nearby forces with a punch.
• The alien commanders ordered their forces to capture the Human Emperor, then trapped him in a blue cube formed by planetary-class ships.
• Dao Ancestor Taishang appeared and used the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to block the alien fleet’s dimensional attacks on the second defensive line.
• Three planetary-class ships trapped Dao Ancestor Taishang, and a hundred Supreme-level warships struck him with dimensional attacks, grievously wounding him.

The Human Emperor, Dao Ancestor Taishang, the Heavenly Lord, and the Ghost Queen faced the alien fleet while the human defensive line buckled under its attack. As human forces despaired, the Ghost Clan, Immortal Clan, angels, and gods arrived as reinforcements, uniting in a battle cry for humanity.

• The Heavenly Lord and Ghost Queen arrived, allowing Dao Ancestor Taishang to break free of the blue cube and recover.
• The Human Emperor escaped the restraints of the deep-blue planetary megaships and joined the other leaders in confronting the alien forces.
• Alien civilizations overwhelmed the second defensive line, leaving human warriors fearing for their families and the future of humanity.
• The Ghost Clan emerged from a spacetime gate before Uranus and charged into battle.
• Immortal armies and Gabriel's angelic legion came through gates near Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon to reinforce the human side.
• Six gods, hundreds of gods, and thousands of True Kings of the Divine Realm emerged beyond Pluto and joined the united cry: “Humanity shall never perish, its radiance shall endure forever!”

The four allied civilizations stabilized humanity’s second defensive line, allowing human forces to gain ground until the alien Supreme fleet joined the battle. The Human Emperor, Dao Ancestor Taishang, the Ghost King, and the Heavenly Lord countered the new assault and divided their efforts to protect humanity and destroy the enemy’s leading warships.

• The Ghost Clan, Immortal Clan, Angel Clan, and Divine Clan reinforced humanity’s second defensive line and helped human forces gain the upper hand against the subject civilizations.
• An intelligent being aboard a planet-sized warship judged the subject civilizations unreliable and ordered the alien Supreme forces to attack.
• The alien fleet deployed deep-blue cubes, dimensional-reduction strikes, and illusory planet-sized warships against the human Supremes.
• The Human Emperor shattered a blue cube and split a planet-sized warship with his punches, while Dao Ancestor Taishang shielded the battlefield with the Yin-Yang Great Dao Diagram.
• The Heavenly Lord trapped several dozen warships with formations of light, and the Ghost Queen attacked them with shadowy spears of law.
• The four human Supremes divided their roles: Dao Ancestor Taishang protected humanity’s soldiers and attacked the hundred Supreme starships, while the Human Emperor, Ghost King, and Heavenly Lord targeted the alien leaders’ planet-sized warships.

Jiang Yang watched the alien invasion threaten to kill Dao Ancestor Taishang earlier than in the history he knew. He descended onto the battlefield ahead of schedule to try to save Taishang and change the course of the battle.

• Jiang Yang waited above the River of Time for the crucial moment to intervene, knowing that Taishang’s fall had resisted previous attempts to change it.
• The Human Emperor, Heavenly Lord, and Ghost Queen pushed back the alien warships as Pan-Human Civilization gained ground across the battlefield.
• Three thousand Moon-sized biological mechas appeared behind Taishang and engulfed him in pale flames that burned through time.
• The three Supremes realized the attack differed from history, while Jiang Yang recognized that the invaders had moved Taishang’s fall forward by more than one cycle.
• Jiang Yang linked the timelines early and descended onto the battlefield to change Taishang’s fate.

Dao Ancestor Taishang held back a hundredfold-enhanced dimensional-reduction strike from reaching the Solar System, even as the three thousand moon mechs burned him toward death. As humanity wept over his apparent fall, he smiled at Earth and told them not to cry, believing that dawn had already arrived.

• Surviving human warriors watched as three thousand moon mechs trapped Taishang and pale flames consumed his body, while the Immortal Lord fought through enemy mechs but could not reach him.
• The apparent defeat of Taishang crushed human morale and rallied the alien fleets, whose hundred deep-blue Supreme-class warships began charging toward the Solar System.
• Taishang unfolded the Yin-Yang Great Dao Diagram and stopped the warships’ enhanced Dual Vector Foil from reducing the Solar System to two dimensions.
• Taishang’s body grew even more ruined as blood-red signs of his impending fall spread through the laws of Yin and Yang.
• Taishang turned toward Earth, smiled at the grieving warriors, told them, “Do not cry, do not cry,” and silently thought that dawn had already arrived.

A change in spacetime rewrote the Solar System’s history, bringing Jiang Yang into the battle as the mysterious Divine Emperor Supreme. He summoned ten thousand manifestations of himself, leaving the alien forces stunned as the fight for the Solar System’s frontier continued.

• A shift in spacetime changed memories and the battlefield, while Jiang Wang and others appeared in the altered timeline.
• Jiang Yang emerged from Pluto as Heavenly Emperor Jiang and declared that he would defend the Solar System’s frontier.
• Humanity’s memories changed to recognize Jiang Yang as the Supreme of the Fifth Epoch, and Satan’s past was erased.
• Jiang Yang arrived on the stellar battlefield as the Hymn of Glory and a river of stars accompanied him.
• Jiang Yang summoned ten thousand radiant copies of himself, each bearing a platinum sword and standing on an Imperial Bell.
• The alien forces realized the timeline change had brought an existence they had not anticipated.

Jiang Yang rang the Imperial Bells and led ten thousand versions of himself in a devastating attack that destroyed the alien forces threatening Dao Ancestor Taishang. By embedding his future timeline into human history, he completed his reversal and gave the Human Emperor in the future a reprieve.

• Jiang Yang swung his longsword, and ten thousand Divine Emperors raised their swords as the Imperial Bells rang across the Solar System.
• Jiang Yang and his copies charged the enemy formation, destroying one hundred dark-blue warships and smashing dozens of planetary megaships.
• The other Jiang Yangs encircled the three thousand lunar mechs attacking Dao Ancestor Taishang and burned them and six thousand hidden mechs to ash.
• Jiang Yang embedded the timeline in which he attained supremacy into human civilization's timeline, completing his reversal and relieving pressure on the future Human Emperor.

Humanity won its first war against an alien invasion after Jiang Yang and the Supremes defeated the invading forces. With history changed and Dao Ancestor Taishang saved, Jiang Yang and Taishang set out through time to rescue the Heavenly Lord and Ghost King and reach the future.

• Dao Ancestor Taishang recovered from his wounds, and human forces pursued the fleeing alien fleets and mechas beyond the Kuiper Belt.
• The Jiang Yangs rang the Imperial Bell, destroying the remaining alien forces and ending the battle in humanity’s victory.
• Taishang praised Jiang Yang for changing history, and the five Supremes agreed that their next task was to save the fallen Heavenly Lord and Ghost King.
• Jiang Yang instructed his allies and sons to protect their families, while Taishang gave orders to the Immortal Clan’s five Quasi-Supremes.
• Jiang Yang and Taishang entered the dimension of time to travel toward the next points in history.

Jiang Yang traveled down the River of Time with Tai Shang, learning from the Dao Ancestor as his strength grew. At the second alien invasion, Jiang Yang intervened to save the surrounded Heavenly Lord, changing the historical battle once again.

• Jiang Yang and Tai Shang traveled through the River of Time together and discussed the Dao.
• Tai Shang shared his insights with Jiang Yang, helping his strength rise rapidly.
• At year 900,000 of the Federation Calendar, the Human Emperor and Ghost Queen fought invading forces while the Heavenly Lord was besieged by cosmic organisms.
• Jiang Yang and Tai Shang emerged from the River of Time onto the battlefield.
• Jiang Yang rang the Imperial Bell, summoning thousands of divine emperors who destroyed the invading Supreme-level forces and saved the Heavenly Lord.

The Supremes learned that the Human Emperor had intercepted enemy forces at the end of time, where a much greater crisis was gathering. Jiang Yang, Dao Ancestor Taishang, and the Heavenly Lord traveled to the third Star Sea Invasion Battlefield and saved the Ghost Clan Queen, leaving the Human Emperor to await them in the future.

• The Human Emperor warned the Supremes that Supreme-level enemies had appeared at the end of time, the Myriad Worlds were rapidly collapsing, and a great upheaval threatened the Solar System.
• Jiang Yang, Dao Ancestor Taishang, and the Heavenly Lord set out along the River of Time to stabilize another temporal anchor.
• At the third Star Sea Invasion Battlefield, Jiang Yang arrived with the Hymn of Glory as the Human Emperor fought three thousand Supreme Mechas.
• Jiang Yang and the arriving Supreme Gods saved the Ghost Clan Queen from the mechas, then Jiang Yang and the Human Emperor destroyed the remaining enemies.
• The five Supremes reunited after the battle, and the Human Emperor told them he would wait for them in the future as they promised to fight side by side.

Jiang Yang reunited with his family and friends after more than a million years apart, then set out with Tai Shang, the Heavenly Lord, and the Ghost Queen for the era of the Human Emperor’s desperate battles. As they traveled toward the end of time, the branching timelines converged into a single future in which humanity would either survive or perish.

• Jiang Yang learned that Li Xiaowa had regained the Quasi-Supreme realm and that his friends and family had risen to prominence across the civilizations.
• Jiang Yang embraced Gabriel and reunited with Ania and Xuanming, comforting the two women after their long separation.
• Jiang Yang said farewell to the Human Emperor and entered the dimension of time with Tai Shang, the Heavenly Lord, and the Ghost Queen.
• The four Supremes traveled downstream through history, while the years they left behind held only the Human Emperor.
• As the Supremes neared the end of time, countless timelines converged into one, leaving humanity with only survival or extinction as possible outcomes.

As alien civilizations overwhelmed the Solar System, the weakening Human Emperor and the defenders faced seemingly hopeless odds. The peoples of the Solar System sang a hymn calling for the Heavenly Emperor, and Jiang Yang heard it while traveling upstream in the River of Time.

• Alien forces surrounded the Solar System, and human civilization fought alongside beings from the shattered worlds of the heavens.
• The Human Emperor weakened and bled while battling nearly a hundred thousand Supreme-level alien weapons, deepening the defenders’ despair.
• A human warrior called on the defenders to believe in the Heavenly Emperor and sing a hymn to guide him through spacetime.
• Billions of humans, gods, immortals, ghosts, angels, and heavenly beings joined the song across the Solar System.
• Jiang Yang heard the hymn as he traveled upstream in the River of Time toward the end of time.

Jiang Yang, the Ghost Clan Queen, Dao Ancestor Taishang, and the Heavenly Lord traveled down the River of Time toward a desperate human battlefield. In the Solar System, alien forces prepared to crush humanity and lure out the Celestial Emperor as the fighting intensified.

• Jiang Yang and his companions witnessed humanity's fearless song at the end of time and vowed to join the battle.
• Jiang Yang cleaved through the dimension of time with his sword, and the group sped downstream.
• In the Kuiper Belt, alien beings discussed the Human Emperor's power and their preparations to stop the Celestial Emperor.
• The alien beings decided to increase pressure on humanity, while warriors from the five great era civilizations and the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens charged into battle.

As humanity’s last reserves fought a seemingly endless alien assault, a new wave of enemy forces surged in from the Kuiper Belt, plunging the battlefield into despair. Jiang Yang emerged from the River of Time and arrived to face the war, declaring that its end would be his battlefield.

• Across the Solar System, human warriors from every people and realm died fighting the alien civilization as humanity committed its last fighting forces.
• The aliens sent a vast new fleet of spacecraft, warships, mechs, and insect machines from the Kuiper Belt, terrifying the exhausted human defenders.
• Human warriors cried out in grief and despair as the alien assault continued without pause.
• A vast rift opened in the Starsea, and a resonant toll and a commanding voice reached the battlefield, promising to hold up humanity’s shattered world and reveal the dawn.
• Jiang Yang stepped onto the battlefield from the River of Time, standing on a bell with a sword in hand as golden radiance filled the sky.
• Jiang Yang surveyed the battlefield and declared, “At the end of time shall be my battlefield!”

Jiang Yang emerged from the river of time and joined the Human Emperor in destroying the Supreme fleets attacking the Solar System. The allied forces celebrated their victory, while the Human Emperor went to the edge of the Kuiper Belt to face the unseen enemy beyond the Solar System.

• Jiang Yang appeared on the battlefield, inspiring human forces across the Solar System to fight on.
• Jiang Yang summoned tens of thousands of radiant selves and destroyed the ambush of a hundred thousand Supreme warships in the Kuiper Belt.
• Jiang Yang and the Human Emperor wiped out the fleets besieging the Human Emperor, then joined the other Supremes in defeating the remaining alien forces throughout the Solar System.
• The Solar System alliance celebrated victory and sang the hymn that had accompanied Jiang Yang's arrival.
• The Human Emperor traveled to the edge of the Kuiper Belt and faced the unseen enemy beyond the Solar System.

The Supremes learned that the Human Emperor had died ten thousand years earlier, sustained only by Miracle and his will as he endured time’s backlash and fought the enemy. His fall spread grief throughout the Solar System, while the threat beyond it remained.

• Tai Shang asked the Human Emperor what he had seen beyond the Solar System, but Jiang Yang sensed something ominous and approached him.
• Jiang Yang saw blood flowing from the Human Emperor’s mouth and realized that the life within his body had already ended.
• Tai Shang examined the Human Emperor and revealed that he had endured countless Great Dao wounds and time’s backlash for ten thousand years.
• Tai Shang explained that the Human Emperor had died fighting a hundred thousand Supremes, but Miracle and his will had kept him battling until the enemy was destroyed.
• The Human Emperor’s death became known across the Solar System, and humanity mourned him as the realm still stood.

The Human Emperor died fighting for humanity, and Jiang Yang silently vowed to continue his path. Ye Qushang recovered memories revealing that the Human Emperor had changed history to save him and that they had loved each other; the revelation left Ye Qushang weeping.

• The Human Emperor died in battle, and Jiang Yang mourned him while promising to follow his path to the end.
• Ye Qushang received a flood of memories and realized this was the second time he had changed history.
• Ye Qushang remembered that he had died during the Sixth World-Fall Calamity and that the Human Emperor had altered history so he could survive and lead the Heroic Spirit Hall.
• Ye Qushang recalled the Human Emperor telling him to wait for his return before the Sixth Fallen World War.
• Ye Qushang wept as he understood that the Human Emperor had told him he loved him a million years ago.