Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan learned that the City of a Thousand Stars had sent False Gods to attack Arcane Academy City and that Lin You was searching for something there. He boarded the Train to rescue the Golden Race Girl and pursue a Demon Card, while Monrojina resolved to survive her latest attempt to claim the King's Authority Pathway.

• Ye Qiyan surveyed the fighting in Arcane Academy City and learned that the False Gods and Artificial Humans were overwhelming the magic-focused defenders.
• Monrojina told Ye Qiyan that most of the invading False Gods had been forcibly manufactured and warned him that Lin You was emotionally unstable and searching for something.
• Monrojina revealed that the City of a Thousand Stars' Think Tank had analyzed Ye Qiyan and wanted to force him to fail so they could take something from him.
• Ye Qiyan dismissed Monrojina's warning, boarded the Train, and said he intended to save the Golden Race Girl and investigate the false Demon Card.
• Monrojina stayed behind, determined not to fail her eleventh attempt at the King's Authority Pathway and to repay the Karma she owed Ye Qiyan.

Pei Yong attacked Yulia’s ring with the Life-Switching Gun, intending to take her Golden Race bloodline, while the Assassins of the City of a Thousand Stars confirmed Ye Qiyan had arrived. Aloflis tried to stop Pei Yong but was nearly killed before Ye Qiyan intervened and took control of her Mecha.

• The Assassins of the City of a Thousand Stars reported that their first attack on Ye Qiyan had failed and discussed his defenses.
• Pei Yong reached Yulia’s ring and used the Life-Switching Gun to try to melt it and switch their races and bloodlines.
• Pei Yong dismissed Aloflis’s challenge, wounded her train Mecha, and trapped her attack with an invisible force field.
• Ye Qiyan used the Overlord’s Ring to restart Aloflis’s Mecha and make it dodge Pei Yong’s strike.
• Ye Qiyan appeared with the Demon Card: Pride as the cameras turned toward him.

Ye Qiyan faced Pei Yong and the City of a Thousand Stars' mass-produced clones, which were designed to counter his malice. He summoned the Red Lotus Knight, whose special attack targeted kindness, as the battle continued.

• Pei Yong admitted that the Slothful feared geniuses and had helped seal the Imperial Sequence's Angel, then threatened to kill Ye Qiyan.
• The City of a Thousand Stars' Assassins attacked Ye Qiyan, but he opened Wandering Hell and burned their goodwill-wielding leader to ashes.
• Pei Yong revealed that the Think Tank had cloned a deceased Top-Level Train Conductor a hundred million times to counter Ye Qiyan's powers.
• Ye Qiyan said the Think Tank's analysis only covered powers he had shown in livestreams, then joined hands with an unseen woman.
• Ye Qiyan summoned the Red Lotus Knight, whose special attack was aimed at kindness.

Ye Qiyan sent the Red Lotus Knight and four allies through an Anchor Point to fight a hundred million replicas, then confronted Pei Yong on the Heavenly Ladder. He revealed he knew the tragedy behind her past and vowed never to abandon his companions before unleashing a death attack on her.

• Ye Qiyan ordered the subdued Red Lotus Knight to destroy the replicas of the good people, and used an Anchor Point to hold open a gate so Nephthys, White Bear, Augustine, and the Decision Demon Mech could accompany it.
• Pei Yong questioned how Ye Qiyan had subdued an entity from the Unknown Era as he climbed the Heavenly Ladder and faced her.
• Ye Qiyan expanded his Mental Limit and transformed as his weapons and cards gathered around him, while Pei Yong insisted he should be nervous.
• Ye Qiyan confronted Pei Yong with the truth that she had survived a Level 12 Platform World after her companions sacrificed themselves, and she trembled as he promised never to abandon his own companions.
• Ye Qiyan shattered the King of Corruption’s Crown, empowered [Death Omen] with its fragments, and sent death aura toward Pei Yong as he guaranteed she would die.

Ye Qiyan fought Pei Yong and endured her escalating stamina-draining effects while their allies held off the City of a Thousand Stars’ forces. After Pei Yong revealed her analysis of his weakness, Ye Qiyan used his Survivor module and Immunity to neutralize accelerated fatigue and restore his stamina.

• Pei Yong attacked Ye Qiyan with her Whip Sword while Eve, Lisette, and Hunt joined his assault.
• Ye Qiyan's allies held off the Assassins and False God Apostles as the battle split across three fronts.
• After nearly three hours, Ye Qiyan's stamina fell to 3 because Pei Yong's accelerated fatigue effect worsened throughout the fight.
• Pei Yong boasted that the City of a Thousand Stars' Think Tank had analyzed Ye Qiyan's limits, but she realized she had remained under Bewitchment.
• Ye Qiyan activated Survivor and Immunity, making accelerated fatigue permanently ineffective against him and restoring his stamina to 773.

Ye Qiyan turned the battle against Pei Yong after Yulia woke and gave him a mark that could grant the Demon Lord’s kingly authority. Pei Yong was left bound and struck by Ye Qiyan and his allies.

• Ye Qiyan revealed that Pei Yong’s strategy relied on him staying in his ordinary Transcender state, while she continued to trust the City of a Thousand Stars’ Think Tank.
• Aloflis helped Yulia wake, and Yulia gave Ye Qiyan the Crown · Sephirah · Demon Lord mark she had kept safe for him.
• Pei Yong abandoned the Think Tank’s plan and lunged for Yulia, hoping to use the Life-Switching Gun to take her bloodline.
• Ye Qiyan used Judgment Enforcer to arrest Pei Yong, then Hunt restrained her as she tried to resist.
• Lisette, Eve, and Ebony attacked Pei Yong together while Ye Qiyan aimed his handgun at her forehead and fired.

Ye Qiyan forced Pei Yong to relive her past with the Memory Cube, reviving the powerful Train Conductor and driving her to attack Lanmen Academy. As Pei Yong wagered all six of her remaining resurrections on one final strike, Ye Qiyan prepared his own judgmental finishing blow.

• Ye Qiyan used Yulia as bait and amplified Pei Yong's Greed, allowing him and Ebony to kill her apparent body with a series of attacks.
• Pei Yong resurrected, revealed she had been awakened from her slumber, and accused Ye Qiyan of using the Memory Cube to make her relive her past.
• Pei Yong chose revenge over retreat, attacked Ye Qiyan, and used her whip sword to turn Lanmen Academy into a massive serrated weapon.
• Pei Yong realized the earlier fight had concealed Ye Qiyan's strength and declared that she would sacrifice all six of her remaining resurrections for one final strike.
• Ye Qiyan fused Light and Shadow Sword techniques, invoked Infinite Finality and Judgment Enforcer, and prepared to strike Pei Yong.

Ye Qiyan defeated Pei Yong with his Judgment Enforcer-charged sword strike, leaving Arcane Academy City devastated. Pei Yong died beside her eternally bound Whip Sword, and Ye Qiyan promised to kill the weaklings of the City of a Thousand Stars.

• Ye Qiyan invoked the Judgment Enforcer and charged Pei Yong with stagnation, then named his sword strike Finality.
• Pei Yong fought back with her Whip Sword as their attacks collided and the impact devastated Arcane Academy City.
• A surviving Focus Guild member resumed the livestream and revealed that Ye Qiyan had won and Pei Yong had been cut in two.
• Pei Yong acknowledged Ye Qiyan's strength, threw one last ineffective strike with the Whip Sword, and died after telling him to kill the weaklings of the City of a Thousand Stars.
• The Whip Sword's Artifact Spirit died alongside Pei Yong, and the System confirmed that Ye Qiyan had killed her.

Ye Qiyan learned that a Golden Race Hero novel described resurrecting the dead, then investigated the missing fake Demon Card and the strange absences in Arcane Academy City. Yulia presented him with a crown she had created using Golden Race technology and sephirah, leaving him to question its connection to him.

• Lisette found a story in Pei Yong’s book in which a Golden Race Hero used the Seven Virtues to resurrect a dead companion.
• Ye Qiyan respected Pei Yong’s determination, restored his stamina with a Golden Apple and Survivor, and searched for the missing Assassins and fake Demon Card.
• Ye Qiyan realized Arcane Academy City seemed to lack its mayor, academy heads, and Lin You, then sent Villain back to the train.
• Yulia gave Ye Qiyan the item named [Crown · Sephirah · Demon Lord], and he asked why it bore his name.
• Yulia said she had used Golden Race technology and sephirah from a toppled tree to make a monarch’s crown for Ye Qiyan alone.

Yulia told Ye Qiyan how she entered the world of the fallen Fate-Reversing Tree and crafted a crown from its seven remaining sephirah seats. She explained that the upright and inverted trees were remnants of a war between twenty Sephirah Kings, then offered Ye Qiyan the Demon Lord’s Crown, declaring that it and the Golden Race belonged only to him.

• Yulia presented Ye Qiyan with an Inverted Cross and explained that she had used a beacon called [Crown Branch] to enter the world of the Fate-Reversing Tree.
• Yulia recounted how she had visited the Tree of Life as a child and learned that its worlds had ended and its ten crown sephiroth were empty.
• Yulia said the upright and inverted trees predated the Golden Race and that their twenty Sephirah Kings had lost an ancient war, leaving some dead and others seeking successors or resurrection.
• Ye Qiyan connected Yulia’s account to Shaya’s possession by the remnant of [Atheism] and to the war represented by the Ancient Battlefield.
• Yulia revealed that she had made Ye Qiyan a Demon Lord’s Crown from the seven remaining sephirah seats and said the crown and Golden Race belonged only to him.

Ye Qiyan suspected that an unknown being had infiltrated Yulia and used the Reverse Ten Crown to draw it out. He shot Yulia, who rose unharmed and insisted that she had never lied to him.

• Zhuxing Tu warned Ye Qiyan that Lin You might die in Arcane Academy City, and Ye Qiyan suspected Lin You would confront Helen.
• Ye Qiyan questioned Yulia about the sephiroth used to make the Reverse Ten Crown, while the Demon Card [Bewitchment] signaled that someone was lying.
• Ye Qiyan seized the crown, summoned his Demon Cards, and shot Yulia to force the unknown being hiding within her to reveal itself.
• An illusory consciousness emerged from Yulia's Sea of Consciousness and linked to the crown, accusing Ye Qiyan of killing his lover.
• Yulia rose unharmed and told Ye Qiyan that her words had been true, even if some of her desires had been amplified.

Ye Qiyan exposed Lust's hidden connection to the Reverse Ten Crown and learned the crown would bind its wearer as a Sephirah King. He shattered it, leaving its consciousness trapped and hinting that he might forge the fragments into a ring.

• Ye Qiyan revealed that he had used a reversed bullet to restore Yulia's mental energy instead of killing her.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to expose the consciousness hiding in Yulia's Sea of Consciousness and learned it was Lust, one of the sephirah of the Fate-Reversing Tree.
• Lust admitted it had amplified Yulia's desire for Ye Qiyan and connected itself to the Reverse Ten Crown to survive.
• Ye Qiyan showed Lust a phantom of the Ancient Battlefield, terrifying it, and learned that the war had been the end of everything, though Lust could not remember its cause.
• Lust revealed that wearing the crown would make Ye Qiyan a Sephirah King but bind him to the Throne forever.
• Ye Qiyan shattered the Reverse Ten Crown and said its fragments could make a fine ring.

Ye Qiyan rejected Yulia’s Crown and shattered it, preventing the Fate-Reversing Tree from being restored and freeing Lust from his fading existence. He kept the ring embryo and resolved to pursue a difficult King's Authority Pathway so he could surpass Heinz’s Happiness.

• Lust begged Ye Qiyan to wear the Crown and become the first Sephirah King, but Ye Qiyan refused and said he preferred his flower and freedom.
• Ye Qiyan reassembled the Crown’s fragments into a Fate-Reversal Ring Embryo and gave it to Mingming to hang on his flower of Miracle.
• After Ye Qiyan shattered the Crown, Lust realized the Fate-Reversing Tree could never return and lamented the loss of its Sephirah hollows.
• Ye Qiyan showed the rings of Glory King (Hod) and King of Cruelty (Asmodeus), then used his mind and deep blue flames to consume Lust’s remaining consciousness.
• Before vanishing, Lust recalled that a human had helped Atheism escape and said he envied Ye Qiyan for living in an age without war.
• Ye Qiyan decided to set himself the hardest King's Authority Pathway he could, hoping to surpass Heinz’s Happiness.

Helen and the other academy heads kept Arcane Academy City safe by using a chained dragon girl to suppress the dark creatures beneath it, while Chels secretly sent the dragon girl’s location to Monrojina. Monrojina began her eleventh attempt to complete the Karma Sovereign Ring by turning Carlot Academy into a ritual altar.

• Helen and the other five academy heads secretly replenished the spell nodes that used the dragon girl’s magic to quiet the dark pit beneath Arcane Academy City.
• Helen resolved to defend the city at any cost and keep Imperial Sequence’s Dragon Lord from finding the dragon girl.
• Chels used his system authority to secretly send Monrojina information about Helen and the dragon girl.
• Monrojina sent a Wooden Kite to tell young Ye the information, leaving it to him whether to tell Lin You.
• Monrojina began her eleventh attempt to complete the Karma Sovereign Ring, transforming Carlot Academy into an altar with the Ritual Card Turn Effect into Cause.

Ye Qiyan learned that Helen had stolen Lin You’s daughter and sent Lin You her location in exchange for a favor. Lin You attacked Helen in Arcane Academy City, and their battle began as Ye Qiyan watched.

• Ye Qiyan learned from Monrojina’s intelligence that Helen had stolen Lin You’s daughter and was exploiting her magical ability.
• Ye Qiyan realized Lin You might die fighting Helen, but chose to send him Helen’s location in exchange for a favor.
• Lin You accepted the debt and used Ye Qiyan’s coordinates to summon hundreds of thousands of dragons into Arcane Academy City.
• Helen defended her hidden space with a super forbidden spell and refused to return Lin You’s daughter until she had stabilized the Darkness Pit.
• Lin You attacked Helen with his dragons and thirteen Dragon Cards, while Ye Qiyan watched with Lisette and asked her to record the fight.

Lin You fought Helen in Arcane Academy City, using his Dragon Cards to withstand her spells while Ye Qiyan prevented her from moving the battle elsewhere. Helen unleashed Transcendence Magic and set out to kill Lin You within three hours, leaving the city facing a catastrophic clash.

• Lin You’s dragons clashed with Helen, shattering the Power Pendulum and causing damage to Arcane Academy City as Helen used Forbidden Spells to attack them.
• Helen offered to return Lin You’s daughter if he left, but Lin You refused and pressed his attack.
• Lin You used Dragon Card · Rebirth to revive eighty thousand slain dragons as newborns and Dragon Card · Dragon Blood to preserve and empower the others.
• Ye Qiyan used his domain and a hyperspace attack to shatter Helen’s dimensional spell and keep the battle inside Arcane Academy City.
• Helen decided she could no longer hesitate, declared Lin You’s daughter to be magic material, and unleashed Transcendence Magic · Clamor.

Lin You and Helen’s conflict weakened Arcane Academy City’s defenses as False Gods invaded, but Ye Qiyan arrived with his converted creatures and Eve’s firepower to attack the Anti-Magic Stone forces. He targeted the Rank A False God’s hidden Divine Kingdom and planned to capture Anti-Magic Stone creatures for research and resources.

• The False God A-04 heard Ye Qiyan’s death-omen bird and prepared to test the power of the Numbered Weapon bestowed by the Void.
• Ye Qiyan’s converted lifeforms attacked the Anti-Magic Stone creatures at Lanmen Academy’s Summoning Department.
• Eve deployed her weapons and fired on the Anti-Magic Stone creatures, while marking humans as targets under her instructions.
• Ye Qiyan arrived aboard the Super-Order Anchor and identified the Anti-Magic Stone creatures as valuable resources.
• Ye Qiyan located the Rank A False God’s hidden Divine Kingdom and said he would capture creatures to raise and obtain a divinity shield for Villain.

Ye Qiyan hunted the A-Rank False Gods threatening the Summoning Department while Stasia pursued the Magic Mirror God. He entered the Anti-Magic Stone God’s Divine Kingdom and unleashed overwhelming calamities, then banished the God after it tried to counter his Blasphemy Cards.

• Stasia recruited Ye Qiyan to hunt False Gods while Lin You and Helen’s battle drew their attention, and Ye chose the Anti-Magic Stone God as his target.
• Ye Qiyan sent his companions to defeat Apostles and collect Anti-Magic Stone while he and Lisette approached the God’s Divine Kingdom.
• Ye Qiyan flooded the Divine Kingdom with the Imaginary Number Sea and unleashed his Calamity Cards alongside Infinite Finality, devastating the world and replenishing his mental energy with Ebony’s Plunder.
• The Anti-Magic Stone God confronted Ye Qiyan with an experimental Anti-Blasphemy Code Sword, but Ye used Anchor and its Banishment ability to make the God disappear.

Ye Qiyan banished the Anti-Magic Stone God to the Wasteland, where the Train System erased it, then returned to the battle on the Anti-Magic Stone world. He received an Anti-Magic Mechanism God Divinity Core intended for Villain.

• Ye Qiyan used his Blasphemy Card to banish the Anti-Magic Stone God to the Wasteland, where the Train System judged and erased it.
• The Train System confirmed the Anti-Magic Stone God's death, raised Ye Qiyan's Godslaying Count to 56+1EX, and stopped Anti-Magic Stone creatures from producing Counterfeit Divinity Monsters or pursuing Divinity.
• Ye Qiyan collected the Anti-Blasphemy Number weapon, but it crumbled to ash in his hand.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Anti-Magic Stone world, where its creatures were fighting frantically after their god's death.
• Miatila told Ye Qiyan to check his Mailbox, where he found an Anti-Magic Mechanism God Divinity Core recommended for Villain.

Lin You continued fighting Helen to recover his daughter as the battle threatened Arcane Academy City’s seal and Helen prepared a spell capable of erasing the world. As Lin You faced her attack with his Dragons, Ye Qiyan intervened just as time and space seemed to freeze.

• Helen pressed Lin You to retreat, but he refused and demanded that she return his daughter; Helen admitted she viewed both of them as materials for Arcane Academy City.
• Lin You’s Dragons blocked Helen’s spells as his stamina surged and his mental strength dwindled under her spell Clamor, which filled his mind with accusations.
• Lin You ate his daughter’s favorite candy, declared he would keep fighting, and charged Helen on White Dragon, knocking her toward the remaining land.
• Helen combined fourteen Transcendence Magic Arrays and drew on Arcane Academy City’s magic and the mental strength of its Magic Mages to unleash World Erasure.
• As Gray Fog sensed a threat to his existence and Lin You prepared one last charge, Ye Qiyan spoke in Lin You’s mind and appeared to freeze time and space.