Chapter Summaries

As the Chord Civilization and Deep Sea Civilization attacked the Clock Tower with their law weapons, Jiang Yang realized the strikes were aimed at the structure rather than him. He gathered his remaining strength and prepared to strike the Clock Tower as part of it was exiled.

• The Chord Civilization used its law weapon, Superstring Strike, against the Clock Tower.
• Jiang Yang sent Tathagata's Golden Ship of Deliverance beyond the Milky Way to protect Human Civilization's last seeds.
• Jiang Yang merged his ten million suns and selves into one and formed a bow from the Platinum Longsword, nocking the Black-Gold Long Spear.
• The Deep Sea Civilization unleashed Microcosm Exile, causing part of the Clock Tower to collapse and vanish.

The Deep Sea Civilization and Chord Civilization leaders explained why they had turned against the Enforcer Civilization and revealed that Jiang Yang had helped disable the Clock Tower’s Time Rewind. The Enforcer Civilization realized the Clock Tower had already been destroyed once.

• The Enforcer Civilization confronted the imprisoned leaders of the Deep Sea Civilization and Chord Civilization over their rebellion.
• The Chord Civilization and Deep Sea Civilization leaders recalled how they had lost their empires and become bound to the Clock Tower under the Enforcer Civilization’s control.
• The two leaders said they had rebelled because they wanted to return home and saw Jiang Yang as their chance to free their civilizations.
• The Enforcer Civilization claimed the rebels could not harm it, but the Chord Civilization revealed that they had shut down Time Rewind.
• The Enforcer Civilization looked at Jiang Yang and realized that the Clock Tower had already been destroyed once.

Jiang Yang destroyed the Clock Tower and sealed an eternal pact with the Deep Sea Civilization and the Chord Civilization. The three leaders then eradicated the Enforcer Civilization and its means of resurrection and inheritance.

• The Chord Civilization leader revealed that the Clock Tower had been destroyed nearly a trillion times and that the Enforcers’ memories had been erased after each death.
• Jiang Yang struck the Clock Tower with golden flames, killed the Enforcer Civilization leader, and sealed off the surrounding area’s memories.
• The Deep Sea Civilization and the Chord Civilization agreed to leave the Milky Way and never wage war against humanity in exchange for an eternal pact.
• Jiang Yang claimed the Clock Tower’s time-reversal weapon, and the three leaders sealed their agreement into subspace.
• Jiang Yang, the Deep Sea Civilization, and the Chord Civilization killed the Enforcer Civilization’s remaining members and destroyed its resurrection concepts, inheritance, and core technology.

Jiang Yang finally destroyed the Clock Tower after enduring 956.8 billion Time Rewinds. With the Deep Sea Civilization and the Chord Civilization’s plan, he exhausted the weapon’s stored energy and defeated the Enforcer Civilization.

• Jiang Yang emerged from the ruined Clock Tower and removed its stopped gigantic clock.
• Three minutes before the Clock Tower was destroyed, Jiang Yang used the Prologue of Time and received information about the Enforcer Civilization’s weapons and weaknesses.
• The Deep Sea Civilization and the Chord Civilization cut off the Clock Tower’s weapons’ energy supply for three seconds, limiting Time Rewind to its remaining energy.
• Jiang Yang repeatedly destroyed the Clock Tower and severed its leader memory concept until Time Rewind ran out of energy.
• After 956.8 billion Time Rewinds and attacks, Jiang Yang shattered the Clock Tower and defeated the Enforcer Civilization.

After the Clock Tower fell, Jiang Yang watched the Deep Sea Civilization and Chord Civilization prepare to leave for their distant home worlds. The two civilizations departed through Hyperspace Gates, and Jiang Yang kept watch as they receded into the distance.

• Jiang Yang surveyed the shattered Clock Tower and the changes in the Clock Star System.
• The Deep Sea Civilization and Chord Civilization combined forces to destroy the Enforcer Civilization's forces and life.
• The two civilizations transformed their Planetary Constructs into starships and their young leaders nodded to Jiang Yang.
• The Deep Sea Civilization and Chord Civilization opened Hyperspace Gates and began their long journey home.
• Jiang Yang watched the civilizations depart and quietly let out a sigh of relief.

After destroying the Clock Tower, Jiang Yang sentenced the subordinate civilizations, sealed their escape routes, and ordered them not to harm anyone in the Solar System. Human Civilization celebrated its victory as distant survivors wondered whether they had been saved, and Jiang Yang summoned the Imperial Bell from the Solar System.

• Jiang Yang declared that civilizations which invaded the Solar System or served the Enforcer Civilization would be executed, while the others would serve Human Civilization for one hundred million years.
• Civilizations spared execution attacked those condemned, and Jiang Yang burned away hyperspace routes to prevent their escape.
• Jiang Yang warned that any civilization harming a human would be exterminated, prompting the spared civilizations to intensify their resistance.
• Humans across the Solar System celebrated the victory, while the hidden First Era Star Clan wondered whether Chief Shi's plan had succeeded.
• Aboard the Golden Ship of Deliverance, Tathagata vowed to return to the Milky Way Galaxy and sped the ship toward distant galaxies.
• Jiang Yang beckoned the Imperial Bell, which left the Solar System and flew toward him.

Jiang Yang fused the Imperial Bell with a time-reversal Law Weapon, using the True Deep-Space Sun and three million years of accelerated refining to transform it into Human Civilization’s first Law Weapon. The newly named Divine Emperor Bell demonstrated its power by reversing time in the area by one second.

• Jiang Yang watched the surviving Subordinate Civilizations near the end of their war and promised to free them after a hundred million years of service to Human Civilization.
• Jiang Yang removed law materials and a blue Transdimensional Matrix cube from the shattered Clock Tower, then cast the True Deep-Space Sun into the Imperial Bell.
• Jiang Yang used the clock-shaped law materials, the Transdimensional Matrix cube, and the Law Weapon: Time Reversal to begin merging the weapons.
• Jiang Yang accelerated time around the fusion with the Prologue of Time, letting three million years of refining pass in three seconds.
• Jiang Yang named the transformed weapon the Divine Emperor Bell, and it reversed time in the area by one second when he struck it.

Jiang Yang used the Divine Emperor Bell to turn back time and resurrect the Supremes who had sacrificed themselves. As humanity watched and prayed, the Human Emperor and the other four Supremes returned.

• Jiang Yang carried the Divine Emperor Bell to the place where the Supremes had fallen and set their divine artifacts before him.
• Jiang Yang repeatedly struck the bell with his sword, growing paler as its power rewound time.
• Ye Qushang realized Jiang Yang was resurrecting the Supremes, and the news spread as humans across the universe watched and prayed.
• The First Supreme, Shi, emerged from the Civilization Crown, followed by the Dao Ancestor, the Heavenly Lord, and the Ghost Clan Queen.
• The Human Emperor stepped out of the Black-Gold Long Spear, completing the Supremes’ return.

After Jiang Yang defeated the enemy, the five Supremes returned and celebrated Human Civilization’s victory. As they discussed rebuilding and expanding across the Milky Way, Jiang Yang noticed that Fallen Worlds had crowded the Solar System and disrupted its workings.

• The five Supremes returned, and Jiang Yang explained how the Deep Sea Civilization and Chord Civilization had rebelled against the Clock Tower’s side.
• The Supremes praised Jiang Yang’s victory and agreed to remain wary of the two Level Nine Civilizations that had made a pact with Human Civilization.
• Shi refused Jiang Yang’s offer to return the mantle of Supreme Concept Sovereign, saying Jiang Yang needed it to protect Human Civilization.
• The Supremes discussed developing technology and spreading humanity’s influence across the Milky Way after the universes merged.
• Jiang Yang noticed that Fallen Worlds had filled the region around the Solar System and were disrupting its original workings.

After Human Civilization’s victory, Jiang Yang proposed combining the Solar System’s planets with the Fallen Worlds of All Heavens to create a transcendent superworld and a foundation for humanity’s expansion. The Supremes agreed, and they named the new world Primordial Chaos.

• The Supremes discussed the Solar System’s congested state and rejected taking Fallen Worlds separately because those worlds could not withstand their full power.
• Jiang Yang proposed merging the Fallen Worlds within the Solar System with Earth and the other planets to create a transcendent world and fortress for Human Civilization.
• The Human Emperor, Dao Ancestor Taishang, Shi, the Heavenly Lord, and the Ghost Queen all agreed with Jiang Yang’s plan.
• Jiang Yang proposed temporarily moving all living beings out of the Solar System before remaking it.
• Dao Ancestor Taishang suggested naming the new world Primordial Chaos, and the others praised the name.

The six Supremes transformed the Solar System into the Primordial Land and assigned territories to the Six Great Human Civilizations. The land’s natural environment was complete, and its central region remained under joint control.

• The Supremes established the Milky Way Humans Civilization Alliance Council, while Shi relocated living beings from the Solar System and brought back spacecraft and habitable-planet coordinates.
• The six civilizations cataloged resources across the worlds in the Solar System over three thousand years.
• The Supremes smelted the Solar System’s worlds and planets around Earth to create a supercontinent ten times the size of the original Solar System.
• Jiang Yang placed the Sun above the Primordial Land, and the Heavenly Lord forged Taiyin from the Moon, planets, and other worlds’ moons.
• Over the following forty-eight thousand years, the civilizations formed the Primordial Land’s environment, including its seas, rivers, mountains, and artificial stars.
• The Supremes divided the Primordial Land among the six civilizations, scattered most inhabitants of the Fallen Worlds across East Sea islands, and placed the central lands under joint control.

In Year 157,000 of the Dawn Calendar, Human Civilization occupied most of the Milky Way and Primordial Chaos had become its capital and sacred land. The chapter describes how the major human civilizations divided and developed Primordial Chaos, which served as the center of galactic government, research, education, tourism, and defense.

• Human Civilization used the Dawn Calendar as its territory expanded across most of the Milky Way and its technology surpassed the First Era.
• The Divine Clan transformed the sky above Primordial Chaos into the Thirty-Three Heavens, where Jiang ruled as Divine Emperor and was revered as the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Human Emperor divided eastern Primordial Chaos into the Nine Provinces and established a super-university in each, earning the title Master of Teaching.
• The Heavenly Lord turned western Primordial Chaos toward entertainment while Gabriel built an extraordinary starship yard there.
• The Immortal Clan made northern Primordial Chaos a free tourist destination, while Shi established major research institutes and the galaxy’s largest library in the south.
• The Supremes created the Netherworld beneath Primordial Chaos for the Ghost Clan, salvation organizations, special forces, and a gigantic prison, while the central lands housed the Alliance government and command offices.

Li Xiaowa and Qing Fengxi visited the Thirty-Third Heaven to borrow the Divine Emperor Bell, but Jiang Yang was away secretly protecting Jiang Youyou on her adventure. They left Cai'er with Ania and Xuanming while they traveled to the Nord Starfield for an experiment.

• Li Xiaowa and Qing Fengxi arrived at the Thirty-Third Heaven with Cai'er and asked Ania and Xuanming where Jiang Yang was.
• Ania said Jiang Yang had gone to secretly protect Jiang Youyou, despite her traveling aboard an advanced starship and carrying his Platinum Divine Sword.
• Xuanming said Jiang Youyou was well-behaved and had her brothers' support for her adventure in another galaxy.
• Li Xiaowa explained that she and Qing Fengxi needed the Divine Emperor Bell for an experiment in the Nord Starfield.
• Li Xiaowa left Cai'er with Xuanming so she could play with Chen'er, and Ania teased Li Xiaowa about traveling without her daughter.

Jiang Youyou and her companions encountered an unfamiliar civilization in the Andromeda Galaxy, but were captured before they could make contact. Their insectoid captors asked whether they had come looking for the Clock Tower after discovering its ruins.

• Li Xiaowa mentioned that Ji Xian had joined Jiang Youyou's adventure, and Ania and Xuanming smiled at the thought of his feelings for her.
• Jiang Youyou and five companions found a gigantic Ferris-wheel-like structure in the Andromeda Galaxy and approached it to establish contact.
• A blue flash transported the group into a cage, where they found themselves surrounded by intelligent insectoid beings.
• Ji Xian panicked, while Jiang Youyou held her sword and her companions prepared to defend themselves.
• The insectoid leader used a device to let them understand its speech and asked whether they were looking for the Clock Tower.
• The leader explained that the insectoids had come to find the Clock Tower after discovering the ruins of a God-Level Civilization.

Jiang Yang enjoyed a tavern on Waystation Planet Nine until the warning in his Platinum Longsword revealed that Youyou was in trouble. He tore open space and left to reach her, stunning the tavern patrons.

• Jiang Yang drank in the Sand King Tavern and listened as adventurers discussed exploring the Starsea and visiting the Andromeda Galaxy.
• Lina approached Jiang Yang and invited him to share a drink.
• The warning in Jiang Yang’s Platinum Longsword alerted him that Youyou was in trouble.
• Jiang Yang apologized to Lina, tore open space, and stepped through to leave.
• The tavern patrons realized Jiang Yang was a powerful cultivator, while Lina learned she had nearly charmed a major figure.

Jiang Youyou and her companions were captured by the Insect Civilization, whose leader demanded to know the Clock Tower’s location and asked about ruins of a god-level civilization. Jiang Youyou claimed Human Civilization had destroyed the Clock Tower, but after her sword was trapped by the Insect leader’s Law Weapon, she called for her father to save her.

• The Insect Civilization leader asked Jiang Youyou where the Clock Tower was and questioned her about Human Civilization’s claim to have destroyed it.
• Jiang Youyou boasted that her imperial father had destroyed the Enforcer Civilization, prompting the Insect Race to dismiss Human Civilization as a primitive Level Eight Civilization.
• The Insect Civilization leader ordered the six young humans erased, and Jiang Youyou broke the blue-light cage with her Platinum Longsword.
• The Insect Race recognized the sword’s power as comparable to Level Nine weaponry, but the Ferris Wheel Creation blocked its strike with a thousand defensive barriers.
• The Insect Civilization leader used the Law Weapon Heavenly Net to knock the Platinum Longsword away and trap it in the void.
• Jiang Youyou shouted for her father to come save her.

Jiang Yang confronted the Insect Civilization’s Ferris Wheel Celestial Body and secured the release of Jiang Youyou and the others. After confirming that Human Civilization had destroyed the Clock Tower, he declared that he alone could speak for his civilization.

• The Insect Civilization saw Jiang Youyou call for her father, then noticed Jiang Yang attacking their Ferris Wheel Celestial Body from outside.
• Jiang Yang demanded that the Insect Civilization release his people or face battle.
• The Insect Civilization’s leader ordered the captives freed so the two sides could talk rather than fight.
• Jiang Youyou and the others were released, and the Platinum Longsword vanished from the void.
• Jiang Yang confirmed that Human Civilization had destroyed the Clock Tower and agreed to discuss it after his people were freed.
• When the Insect Civilization asked to speak with Human Civilization’s governing council, Jiang Yang said he alone represented it.

Jiang Yang revealed his overwhelming power to the Insect Civilization and agreed to cooperate with them in exploring the God-Level Civilization’s ruins. After reuniting with Jiang Youyou and the other youths, he scolded them for their recklessness and sent them back to the Heavenly Court’s Thirty-Three Heavens to reflect.

• Jiang Yang released his power before the Insect Civilization, whose members agreed to cooperate with him in exploring the God-Level Civilization.
• The Insect Civilization returned Jiang Youyou and five other youths to Jiang Yang in deep space.
• Jiang Yang reprimanded Jiang Youyou for leading her friends into an unexplored region and warned the group about the danger they had faced.
• Jiang Yang punished Jiang Youyou with a thousand years in the Primordial Chaos and sent all the youths to the Heavenly Court’s Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Jiang Yang asked the Insect Civilization to take him to the God-Level Civilization’s ruins and promised to share anything he discovered.

Jiang Yang joined the Insect Civilization aboard the Skyscraping Celestial Body and traveled with them to the God-Level Civilization Ruins. They arrived at a star that contained a miniature universe, where nine spiral galaxies held pocket-sized stars, planets, and some intelligent life.

• Jiang Yang accepted the Insect Civilization's invitation and boarded the Skyscraping Celestial Body.
• Jiang Yang learned that the Insect Civilization governed three extragalactic galaxies through a council of nine leaders.
• The Insect Civilization learned that Jiang Yang had single-handedly crushed the Clock Tower and marveled at his strength.
• The Skyscraping Celestial Body crossed the Insect Civilization's territory and reached the God-Level Civilization Ruins after several days.
• Jiang Yang saw that the ruins contained a miniature star region with nine spiral galaxies and planets, some of which supported intelligent life.

Jiang Yang discovered that the supposed God-Level Civilization ruin was the Enforcer Civilization’s hidden refuge, then destroyed its forces and their pocket universe’s attacks. He freed the captive civilizations and declared the Enforcer Civilization annihilated.

• Jiang Yang entered the pocket starfield and recognized it as a universe formed from a singularity, with a chaotic higher dimension like the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens Universe.
• Jiang Yang found the Enforcer Civilization hiding in the higher dimension, and its members confronted him.
• The Enforcer Civilization linked its pocket universe to the Great Universe’s laws and launched three thousand law-based attacks against Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang summoned three thousand immortal bodies and cut down the attacks, the Enforcer Civilization’s enormous eyeballs, and the azure lotus.
• Jiang Yang freed the pocket universe’s captive inhabitants, announced that he had slain the Enforcer Civilization’s remnants, and declared humanity’s enemy completely annihilated.