Chapter Summaries

Tina sent Lu Xiao and the others through the Omniscient Mirror, while revealing her identity as Shub-Niggurath, the original Mother and source of life. Inside the mirror, they encountered Amilia, who revealed himself as Nyarlathotep, an avatar of Reality whose eye was the mirror.

• Tina sent Lu Xiao and the others into the Omniscient Mirror after explaining that Chaos awaited them inside.
• Tina recalled that she was once Shub-Niggurath, the source of birth and reproduction, and that the Witch was her descendant.
• Lu Xiao and the others found Amilia kneeling at Lu Xiao's feet and acting as his devoted servant.
• Antie recognized that Amilia's face resembled the hideous face that had appeared on the mirror.
• Amilia declared himself Nyarlathotep, Reality's lackey, and revealed that the Omniscient Mirror was one of his eyes.
• Weidiya recognized Nyarlathotep's name from the Mother Goddess's divine oracles, while Lu Xiao and the others realized the mirror was part of a powerful being.

Amilia explained the origins of Chaos, Procreation, Key, and Time, and revealed that Time stole his Authority from the sleeping Truth and was the only being capable of waking him. He recounted how Gehros’s song nearly awakened Truth, until Amilia’s Original Body disrupted it and plunged the universe into chaos.

• Amilia named Chaos as Nyarlathotep, Procreation as Shub-Niggurath, and Key as Yog-Sothoth, then told Ding Dan he was only a key and not yet worthy of the name.
• Amilia revealed that Time was born naturally among the first beings and stole the Authority of time from Truth.
• Amilia explained that Time alone could awaken Truth because of a higher-level entanglement tied to his unique Authority.
• Amilia said Gehros tried to awaken Truth with a song that spread through the universe and drew ancient gods into its chorus.
• Amilia’s Original Body roared to disrupt the song, driving the ancient gods mad and triggering destruction across stars, planets, and galaxies.

Amilia explained how the ancient gods’ clash created the Woll Galaxy and how the divine hall’s curses prevented Gehros from waking Truth. As Gehros’s alarm rang across the universe, Technology revealed how he had prepared a vast void around the Milky Way and brought Earth into the present by reversing cause and effect.

• Amilia recounted that Gehros’s clash with Nyarlathotep devastated the Woll Galaxy, and that her original body hid Truth in a divine hall and cursed Gehros to keep him away.
• Amilia explained that the ancient gods’ imprisoned souls disrupted the causality in Gehros’s alarm, while Time had forgotten his mission.
• Gehros wondered why Truth had not responded to his alarm as Technology confronted him from atop the Steel Heavenly Dragon.
• Technology revealed that he had used Chasing Stars, the Star Chasers, and the Universe Logistics Company to establish access to the Woll Galaxy and uncover its secrets through Fantasy and Tina.
• Technology explained that he had transformed a region more than two billion light-years across into a low-energy void to block the alarm and keep advanced civilizations away.
• Technology revealed that he had pulled Earth from the past into the present by reversing cause and effect, and had glimpsed Time in the process.

After Draco activated, "Time" traveled into the past to disrupt "Technology's" plan by destroying the Milky Way, only to find it replaced by a universe-level life-form. Trapped there and cut off from his other selves, "Time" faced permanent death while "Technology" watched from the future, knowing the trap had worked.

• "Time" used his authority to travel into the past and reach the Milky Way, hoping to disrupt "Technology's" arrangement by destroying it.
• "Time" found the Milky Way gone and a gigantic, many-eyed starfish surrounded by Beacons in its place.
• "Fate" set down the last Beacon, completing the setup that had checkmated "Time".
• The universe-level life-form locked onto "Time," severing his connection to his other selves across the timelines.
• "Time" realized that his future self's death would leave him with no future and ultimately cause his permanent death.
• On the future timeline, "Technology" watched Gehros vanish and knew "Time" had taken the bait; Draco combined the laws of 'time' and 'space' but was not a weapon.

After Gehros vanished, Draco returned to the Species Ranking Tournament as Lu Xiao entered a strange realm and ascended to become a Great Old One. Lu Xiao learned that his new 3.5-dimensional existence changed how he understood authority, knowledge, and other Old Ones.

• After Gehros vanished, the Steel Heavenly Dragon teleported to the Species Ranking Tournament and took the star-sized sphere into its mouth.
• A strange gate appeared before Lu Xiao and his group, and Lu Xiao stepped through it despite Antie's concern.
• Inside the gate, Lu Xiao found countless saplings whose leaves contained empty worlds and heard whispers coming from one of them.
• Lu Xiao's accumulated divinity completed his transformation, raising his life level to that of a Great Old One.
• Lu Xiao realized that Great Old Ones existed in 3.5 dimensions and that their appearance in three-dimensional space depended on how others understood higher dimensions.
• Lu Xiao understood that knowledge, rather than authority alone, helped higher-dimensional beings control their power and avoid madness.

Lu Xiao explored a chaotic realm where timelines grew like branches and parallel universes like leaves, and realized an advanced civilization might be pruning them. He discovered a universe-level life-form hunting every version of “Time” and met a man resembling himself who identified himself as Fate, though only vaguely.

• Lu Xiao watched a withered leaf dissolve and the sapling grow, leading him to understand the Doctor’s time-tree theory as a system tended by a supercivilization.
• Lu Xiao found a nursery of numbered saplings and saw that in the Seventh Universe, a giant starfish swallowed “Time.”
• Lu Xiao inspected another parallel universe and saw the same attack freeze all matter, life, and light after “Time” was swallowed.
• Lu Xiao met a man who looked like him, asked if he was Fate, and heard that “Time” would perish only if every version of Him across all points in time were erased.
• Lu Xiao asked where Fate had come from, and Fate pointed to a sapling marked twenty-one.

Lu Xiao learned why he had become an Old One and heard the plan to transform the Milky Way into a four-dimensional civilization. The other man revealed that Lu Xiao was the perfect candidate to become king and would ascend with the Milky Way as its World Will.

• Lu Xiao asked whether the other man had been the template used to create him, and the man confirmed that the description was close.
• The man explained that entering the place made Lu Xiao half of Truth and that Old Ones born into existence received knowledge from the start.
• Lu Xiao inferred that the group wanted Time to perish and become a rule, but the man said Time had refused to cooperate and Life had become their partner.
• The man said their goal was to replace Truth, separate the Milky Way from the universe, and raise it from three dimensions to four.
• The man revealed that he had traveled to other universes and found Lu Xiao, whom he called the perfect candidate to become king.
• The man told Lu Xiao he would become the World Will of a four-dimensional world and ascend with the Milky Way.

Technology confronted Procreation in interstitial space after successfully digesting its authority, while Procreation revealed that Yog-Sothoth had never left. Meanwhile, races gathered in the Milky Way and the human contestants returned to Earth as the tournament’s next steps remained unclear.

• Draco appeared beneath the City of Ten Thousand Races, then carried the enormous sphere through a Space Teleportation Gate while Fantasy and Lightline traveled to the Milky Way.
• Fantasy and Lightline discussed collecting the races’ superior genes to preserve their civilizations, while beings from many races crowded the Milky Way.
• Bai Xuedong told Liu Guang that Technology had brought the human contestants and support staff back to Earth before leaving, and he suspected the invasion had prompted Li Liangren to act sooner than planned.
• Technology entered interstitial space and resisted Procreation’s influence after it had successfully digested the authority of Procreation.
• Technology said Gehros was trapped in the past, and Procreation vowed to gestate a new version of him.
• Procreation explained that it could not master time because Father would not allow it, then identified Father as Yog-Sothoth and said he had never left.

Technology realized Yog-Sothoth was involved in the plan to create a new Time, and Calamity delivered Time’s consciousness to Life. The story then returned to Earth, where Old Feis lay motionless as Feis, Technology, Fantasy, and Lightline gathered around him.

• Technology concluded that Yog-Sothoth had tacitly approved the plan and that Life was gestating a new Time using Gene Fragments of Time.
• Calamity arrived with a translucent eyeball containing Time’s consciousness, and Life took it into His body.
• Calamity asked Technology to take him out, and the two appeared above Earth beside Old Feis’s motionless, rotting body.
• Feis cried that his dad seemed a little dead as the human warships and allied gods stood helplessly around Old Feis.
• Hu Haichao, Fantasy, and Lightline arrived in Orange Taxis, joining Technology at the scene.
• Calamity explained that Death had tasked him and Old Feis with retrieving Time’s consciousness and promised to set them free if they succeeded.

Calamity recounted how he and Old Feis retrieved Time’s consciousness before Technology restored Old Feis in a new metal body. As Technology’s long-planned arrangements neared completion, a beacon at the universe’s northern edge drew the Neutral Faction’s creatures, and a huge white entity answered their whispers with a shriek.

• Calamity told Technology that Time transferred most of his consciousness into an eye, which he pulled free before Old Feis fled with it through subspace and Death rescued them from the pursuing starfish.
• Technology explained that Yog-Sothoth had likely faced the starfish, then told Feis that his father was dead before revealing Old Feis could still be restored.
• Technology forged Old Feis a durable metal body and implanted his preserved consciousness, reuniting him with Feis.
• A tendrilled creature placed a beacon at the universe’s barren northern edge, then left.
• The beacon distorted space and brought towering figures through, while their whispers attracted a star-sized white creature that shrieked and stirred distorted sounds across the region.

“Technology” trapped the Neutral Faction and the invaders in a starfield with the ancient gods, but Cosmos’s arrival overwhelmed the plan. Lu Xiao transformed into the universe itself, confronted Cosmos, and left the universe restored after destroying it.

• The invaders fled into subspace, but “Technology” used Beacons to pull them into the Neutral Faction’s starfield, where the ancient gods attacked them amid chaotic rules and a white hole.
• Cosmos descended into the starfield, preventing “Technology” from banishing it and leaving the universe’s supreme beings in despair.
• In the Mirror World, Lu Xiao received a voice’s encouragement and formed a miniature universe in his consciousness, absorbing its knowledge as his body transformed.
• Li Liangren merged his authorities and consciousness into Draco to carry the Milky Way and the universe’s Gene Bank, called the Spark, toward subspace while Life entered the sealed starfield to buy them time.
• The transformed Lu Xiao intervened when Cosmos seized Draco, froze and hurled a galaxy into the sealed starfield, then dragged Cosmos out and tore it in half.
• The universe recovered after Lu Xiao and Cosmos vanished, and the stars shone again as black holes began clearing away the battle’s remaining filth.

The author reflected on writing and ending the 3.2-million-character novel, explaining how the story’s ending changed from the original outline. The author also introduced the premise of the new book and announced that an extra story about Lu Xiao would be uploaded the next day.

• The author said the book took more than five hundred days to write and that the Hell arc was added after the original outline was expanded.
• The author explained that Icarus and Doctor were spared, and the other characters’ originally tragic endings were changed.
• The author described losing a completed extra story about Lucilla Oravi and struggling through personal upheaval and discarded drafts.
• The author said the new book would follow the Unfinished God, a recovered product of an aborted project, on an adventure involving anomalies.
• The author announced an upcoming extra story about Lu Xiao and his group after Lu Xiao became Cosmos.

Lu Xiao spent an exhausting day keeping appointments with Dolores, Ruiqi, and Alice while the Human Faction wandered subspace in search of a new universe. The chapter ended with Doctor Li reporting that the advance party had reached a developing universe and broadcast laws that included the demand for civilization to survive and expand.

• Doctor told Lu Xiao that his day was packed with appointments, and Nellie drove him to Dolores after revealing that Gambler had complained about her.
• Old Feis and Calamity watched Lu Xiao meet Dolores and argued over which of his companions should get more time with him.
• Lu Xiao gave Dolores pendants set with a tiny patch of starry sky, watched a romance movie with Ruiqi, and attended Alice's candlelit dinner before returning home exhausted.
• Doctor outlined Lu Xiao's appointments for the next day, while Luolin urged him to log on and party.
• In subspace, Doctor Li reported that the probe had reached a developing universe and broadcast the laws that matter remained constant, light speed could not be exceeded, and civilization needed to survive and expand.
• The boy accompanying Fantasy, Chasing Stars, and Lightline called Doctor Li rotten after hearing the broadcast.