Chapter Summaries

Chen Nian and Lin Xiaomeng signed a Destined Contract that healed her and helped Chen Nian break through to Tier Seven, before Su Jinyu returned and they completed the mission by destroying the Black Obelisk Tower. Su Jinyu revealed that the Chiyou Sword contained a Divinity fragment and memories of ancient gods; after the team buried their fallen comrades, they prepared to return to the academy.

• Chen Nian signed a Destined Contract with Lin Xiaomeng, healing her and raising her strength while his own power broke through to Tier Seven.
• Su Jinyu returned after killing the other Demon God, and Chen Nian explained that he had signed the contract to save Lin Xiaomeng.
• Chen Nian and Su Jinyu destroyed the Black Obelisk Tower after defeating the remaining Calamity Beasts in the stronghold.
• Su Jinyu explained that the Chiyou Sword held a fragment of her Divinity and recounted memories of the World Tree, the World Serpent, and the divine maiden Luo Yueyao.
• Chen Nian and Su Jinyu reunited with Lin Xiaomeng, learned that A Yuan had left, and buried their fallen teammates before preparing to return to the academy.

After returning from the mission, Chen Nian reported the team’s losses and asked the headmaster about A Yuan’s unusual ability. He exchanged all his performance points for the Mountain-Splitting Axe and Fingertip Stars, learned he could advance to the senior division, and was summoned to meet World Tree Academy’s founder.

• Chen Nian reported the mission to the headmaster, who promised commendations for the fallen and said he might ask someone about A Yuan’s ability.
• Chen Nian exchanged 30 performance points for the Mountain-Splitting Axe, discovered its first-stage release made it vastly heavier, and kept it for desperate battles.
• Chen Nian spent his remaining 20 performance points on Fingertip Stars, a skill usable only while Mandate of Heaven “Stars” was active.
• Chen Nian thought about Tang Rou and resolved to apologize when she returned, then the headmaster told him he qualified to advance to the senior division.
• The headmaster revealed that World Tree Academy’s founder wanted to meet Chen Nian and described her as a sage who had first detected Calamity.

Chen Nian met Mo Ning, the academy’s founder, who revealed that A Yuan might be the guardian of the Sixth Stratum and asked him to bring her back. After learning that G-02 had sent another distress signal, Chen Nian realized Tang Rou was there and insisted on going as a reinforcer.

• The dean led Chen Nian through a hidden teleportation array to meet Mo Ning, the academy’s silver-haired founder.
• Mo Ning asked Chen Nian about A Yuan, and he hesitated to bring her because she had lost her grandfather and did not want them near her.
• Mo Ning revealed that A Yuan might be the World Tree’s guardian of the Sixth Stratum, whose dormant power and memories needed to awaken before the Great Calamity found her.
• Mo Ning assigned Chen Nian to bring A Yuan back because she trusted him, and he returned to the dean with the mission.
• The dean learned that G-02 World had sent a second distress signal and ordered that a peak Tier Seven student be sent as reinforcements.
• After Rika told Chen Nian that the academy had only one place to send someone to G-02, he remembered Tang Rou was there and demanded to go himself.

Chen Nian insisted on claiming the academy’s sole slot for the dangerous G-02 World mission, so he faced a public match against senior student Xu Qingchen. Tsuchimikado Rika defeated Xu Qingchen, then surrendered to Chen Nian, securing the slot for him and leaving him to depart for the mission.

• Chen Nian refused the dean’s request to continue his existing mission and declared he would win the slot to support G-02 World.
• The senior division chose Xu Qingchen to compete against Chen Nian in a public arena match for the only slot.
• Tsuchimikado Rika stepped in to fight Xu Qingchen so Chen Nian would not have to expend his strength.
• Rika blocked Xu Qingchen’s Startled Dragon Spear with Zero Barrier and defeated him with Heaven-Piercing Finger.
• Rika surrendered after exchanging one move with Chen Nian, giving him the slot and asking him to bring Sister Tang Rou back safely.

Chen Nian arrived in the devastated G-02 World seeking news of Tang Rou, while Mo Ning sent Jun Yi to find their missing Sixth Sister before their Eldest Brother could reach her. At the cave headquarters, Chen Nian learned Tang Rou’s team had been wiped out and demanded to know where their last battle took place.

• Before Chen Nian left for G-02 World, the academy warned him that this would be its last deployment of reinforcements because resources were scarce.
• Mo Ning told Jun Yi that their Sixth Sister had appeared and ordered him to find her, explaining that their Eldest Brother was creating the Tree of Calamity to replace the World Tree.
• Jun Yi agreed to search the Sixth Stratum, though he warned that their lucky Sixth Sister might be impossible to find if she did not want to be found.
• Chen Nian reached the ruined G-02 World, located the academy’s hidden headquarters, and asked the injured survivors where Tang Rou was.
• A dying team member told Chen Nian that his team had been wiped out and warned him not to go to their last battle site before he died.
• Chen Nian demanded that the remaining intelligence officers tell him where the team had fought, determined to find Tang Rou or avenge her.

Chen Nian infiltrated the Calamity Tree’s stronghold and rescued Tang Rou, who had been left alive to nourish the tree. After they confessed their feelings and Tang Rou recovered enough to move, Chen Nian sent her into the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast’s space and was struck down by an Origin Demon God.

• Chen Nian ignored an intelligence agent’s warnings, traveled to the Calamity Tree, and entered its territory under the Thousand Fox Mask and Hidden Shadow, Formless.
• Chen Nian found Tang Rou impaled on a branch at the Calamity Tree’s roots, killed the two Demon Gods guarding her, and freed her.
• Chen Nian’s summoned beasts fought off the Calamity Beasts while he dissolved the branch, healed Tang Rou, and promised to treat her for a lifetime.
• Tang Rou kissed Chen Nian, and the two prepared to fight their way out when an Early Tier Seven Origin Demon God arrived.
• Chen Nian sent Tang Rou into the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast’s independent space, dispelled his Judgment Domain, and was struck down by the Demon God’s attack.

Chen Nian used Black Sun to destroy most of the Calamity Tree and defeat an Origin Demon God, then fought Kui Mo while Tang Rou supported him. After Kui Mo merged with the tree, Chen Nian used the God Descent Technique and the Mountain-Splitting Axe to destroy it, and he and Tang Rou prepared to go home.

• Chen Nian activated Black Sun, which devoured the Calamity Beasts, weakened the Calamity Tree, and killed the Origin Demon God.
• Chen Nian and Tang Rou encountered Kui Mo, who injured Chen Nian with his chained-ball Demon Artifacts.
• Chen Nian wielded the Mountain-Splitting Axe and overwhelmed Kui Mo until his Physical Sanctification wore off.
• Chen Nian used Fingertip Stars to destroy Kui Mo's chained balls and defeat him, but Kui Mo merged with the Calamity Tree and bound Chen Nian with its branches.
• Chen Nian summoned a divine lord with the God Descent Technique and unleashed the Mountain-Splitting Axe's power, destroying the Calamity Tree.
• Tang Rou supported the exhausted Chen Nian, and the two set off to go home.

Chen Nian rescued Tang Rou, destroyed a Calamity Tree, and returned with her to the academy, where he was promoted and celebrated. After the Sixth Stratum's core world fell, Ye Yuan awakened as its guardian and unleashed the forces of nature against the Calamity army.

• Chen Nian returned with Tang Rou after killing two Origin Demon Gods and destroying the Calamity Tree; the intelligence officers stayed behind to gather information.
• Tang Rou asked Chen Nian to remain with her one more night, and the two spent the night together before flying back to the academy.
• Chen Nian's mission report impressed the academy, and he was promoted to the advanced division while Tang Rou reunited with her friends.
• Three days later, the academy learned that the Sixth Stratum's core world had fallen and a Calamity Tree had taken root there.
• Ye Yuan appeared before the Calamity army, revealed herself as the Sixth Stratum's guardian after sharing her fortune with all living beings, and summoned violent winds, thunder, and rain to attack the invaders.

Ye Yuan fought the Calamity army until Jian Yang, her eldest brother, arrived and revealed himself as the leader of the calamities. Jun Yi tried to rescue her, but Jian Yang stopped them and sealed Ye Yuan’s power, leaving her asleep as the calamities continued their plan to create a new Supreme God.

• Ye Yuan killed Bai Gui with wind and stopped Xue Yi’s blood spear with a dewdrop before turning it into a flood against the Calamity army.
• Jian Yang, Jing Long, and Yue Si arrived, and Ye Yuan learned that her brothers led the calamities and that Jian Yang wanted her to join their cause.
• Jing Long sent Yue Si to fight Ye Yuan; she used magma to trap him, but Jing Long freed him, and Yue Si’s punch destroyed part of the city when he stopped short of striking her.
• Jun Yi appeared, trapped Jing Long and the army with the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, and tried to take Ye Yuan away.
• Jian Yang broke free of the chessboard and sealed Ye Yuan’s power with a touch, then told Jing Long he would let her live to witness the world’s new laws.

After the Sixth Stratum fell to the Calamity Tree, Mo Ning brought the powerless Ye Yuan to the academy and asked Chen Nian to care for her. With the Fifth Stratum and Chen Nian’s home worlds now threatened, he spent his Performance Points to unlock new abilities and raise his strength.

• Jun Yi brought the unconscious Ye Yuan to Mo Ning, but his power could not break the seal Eldest Brother had placed on her.
• Mo Ning suspected Chen Nian might be the Fifth Brother because Su Jinyu possessed the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens’ Divinity and was close to him.
• Mo Ning summoned Chen Nian, explained that Ye Yuan’s power was sealed, and assigned him to look after her at the academy.
• Chen Nian realized the Fifth Stratum, including Blue Star and the worlds where his friends lived, would be the Calamity Tree’s next target.
• Chen Nian spent 20 Performance Points to unlock the Heavenly Thunder Divine Bird and 50 to upgrade the Mountain-Splitting Axe’s Divine Power Release.
• Chen Nian used his remaining 50 Performance Points to advance to middle-to-late Tier Seven, strengthen his abilities, and prepare to train with Rika and his senior.

Chen Nian sought a way to grow stronger before war preparations began, so Mo Ning gave him the qi-refining method Nine Heavens, Azure Firmament and sent him to Merlin for guidance. After seven days of training, Chen Nian faced his final assessment, leaving the result unresolved.

• Chen Nian challenged Rika to a training match, but she revealed she had reached Tier Eight and defeated him, winning a bet that made him call her Mommy in front of An Qingluo.
• Chen Nian visited Ye Yuan, who took him to Mo Ning; Mo Ning gave him the Nine Heavens, Azure Firmament qi-refining method and directed him to Merlin.
• Merlin explained that qi could enhance any attack or defense and began training Chen Nian, who had seven days to learn enough to withstand one of the headmaster’s punches.
• Chen Nian was injured by Merlin’s qi-enhanced punch on the first day, then recovered with Tang Rou’s help and continued cultivating by combining the power systems he had encountered across worlds.
• After six days of being beaten and injured during training, Chen Nian prepared for the headmaster’s final assessment on the seventh day.

Chen Nian passed the dean’s final assessment by combining Nine Heavens, Azure Firmament with his attacks, then used his newfound strength to edge out Rika in a rematch. At the mobilization assembly, the academy prepared to defend the Fifth Stratum from the Tree of Calamity, and Chen Nian’s group returned to Blue Star ahead of an invasion expected in three days.

• Chen Nian withstood the dean’s punch by infusing Dragons Battle in the Wild with Nine Heavens, Azure Firmament, passing his assessment after seven days of training.
• Mo Ning heard that Chen Nian had mastered the technique’s threshold and kept her secret plan to herself while continuing to gather information.
• Chen Nian challenged Rika to a rematch, won their clash of ultimate moves, and Rika secretly kissed him while An Qingluo’s eyes were closed.
• The dean announced that the Fifth Stratum faced a crucial battle against the Tree of Calamity, and about forty percent of the academy’s students stayed to defend it.
• Chen Nian, Su Jinyu, Tang Rou, and Rika arrived on Blue Star to prepare for the invasion, which was expected to begin in three days.

Chen Nian warned Blue Star and the nearby worlds of the coming Calamity invasion, then gathered allies and helped prepare their defenses. When the invasion began, he charged a Calamity warship and split it apart with the Mountain-Splitting Axe.

• Chen Nian and Rika warned the world leaders, and Blue Star formed emergency defenses and the Blue Star Protection Alliance.
• Chen Nian visited the Seven Great Sky Domains, where Qin Yu chose to return to Blue Star and Aila and the others prepared to fight; he also promised Lan Jing'er help.
• Chen Nian discovered that Tamamo-no-Mae had given birth to his daughter, Chen Simeng, warned her of the invasion, and visited the onmyoji faction and Lost Continent to rally their defenders.
• Chen Nian returned to Blue Star as civilians evacuated and soldiers, Transcendents, and Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace members took up positions around Linhai City.
• Calamity ships poured through spatial passages, and Chen Nian flew toward the invasion force and cleaved apart a warship carrying nearly twenty thousand Calamity Beasts.

Chen Nian, Su Jinyu, and other fighters battled the Calamity invasion across the Fifth Stratum while Rika fought the twelfth-seat Origin Demon God, Blood Pupil. After Blood Pupil survived her strongest attack and nearly killed her, Su Jinyu intervened, and Chen Nian arrived to face him alongside them.

• Chen Nian destroyed a colossal warship and slew thousands of Calamity Beasts, while Qin Yu, Su Jinyu, Ye Hongling, and Zhao Yixue fought invasions in their respective cities.
• Rika destroyed a warship and defeated three Heavenly Cascades before Blood Pupil emerged from the wreckage and wounded her.
• Rika summoned shikigami and used her cursed sword against Blood Pupil, but he lured her into an illusion Domain and began breaking through her defenses.
• Rika feigned weakness and used Zero-Heaven-Piercing Finger to blow apart Blood Pupil's head, but he regenerated with power from a Tree of Calamity sapling inside his body and seized her.
• Su Jinyu severed Blood Pupil's arm to rescue Rika, and Chen Nian arrived as Blood Pupil attacked again.

Chen Nian and his allies defeated Blood Pupil, then rushed to help stabilize the worldwide calamity. When Chen Nian reached the Lost Continent, he learned that World E-06 was the Fifth Stratum’s core world and was under an all-out assault.

• Chen Nian, Su Jinyu, and Rika destroyed Blood Pupil’s Seven-Pupil Sword and killed him, while Rika shattered his Origin Demon Core.
• The three hurried to support other locations as the battle against the Calamity Beasts continued; Ye Li and others defended Linhai City, and the wider war ended in a costly human victory.
• Chen Nian checked on Chen Simeng in the God-Demon Capital and the Seven Great Sky Domains before heading toward the world where Gu Qingyue and Shangze Sakura were.
• Shangze Sakura stumbled through the World Gate badly wounded and fainted after urging Chen Nian to go help.
• Chen Nian entered the Lost Continent and received an Academy message confirming World E-06 as the Fifth Stratum’s core world and reporting an all-out enemy assault.

Chen Nian and Gu Qingyue evacuated Changnian City after learning that E-06 was the Fifth Stratum’s core world and facing an overwhelming Calamity invasion. As Jian Yang’s hidden plan unleashed Mo Yan and corrupted gods, Su Jinyu, Ye Hongling, Zhao Yixue, and Rika arrived to reinforce the defense.

• Chen Nian reached Changnian City, rescued Gu Qingyue from an Origin Demon God, and killed it before ordering the city’s people to escape through the World Gate.
• Gu Qingyue organized the evacuation while Chen Nian, the Undead Bone Dragon, and the Heavenly Thunder Divine Bird fought off Calamity forces; she then returned to fight beside Chen Nian.
• At the planar observation platform, World Tree Academy detected the attack on E-06, and Mo Ning suspected Jian Yang had prepared for it before her awakening.
• Jian Yang told Jing Long that he had found the Fifth Stratum’s core world and corrupted its gods by sealing them with a Primordial Divine Seed.
• The Primordial Divine Seed, Mo Yan, broke free from the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone, releasing corrupted gods that rampaged across the world.
• Chen Nian and Gu Qingyue were overwhelmed by the converging enemies until Su Jinyu, Ye Hongling, Zhao Yixue, and Rika arrived to help defend the evacuation.

Chen Nian and Sun Wukong joined forces to defeat and kill the half-step Tier Nine Demon God, though the battle exhausted Chen Nian and burned out Sun Wukong’s remnant body. As Sun Wukong dissolved into golden light, the evacuation and the fate of the Fifth Stratum remained unresolved.

• Tang Rou brought Shangze Sakura, Su Jinyu, and Zhao Yixue to help with the evacuation, while Chen Nian asked Rika to seal the World Gate if the Fifth Stratum fell.
• Chen Nian fought the Demon God, and Xiao Zhu entered his body to shield him from the enemy’s intense heat.
• The Demon God shattered Chen Nian’s Cage, but Sun Wukong appeared and struck the Demon God with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Chen Nian, Sun Wukong, and the Demon God fought as giants, with Chen Nian using Dharma Heaven and Earth to join the battle.
• Chen Nian severed the Demon God’s right arm, and he and Sun Wukong struck the Demon God down and destroyed his Origin Demon Core.
• Chen Nian collapsed from exhaustion as Sun Wukong’s remnant body dissolved into golden light.

After Sun Wukong’s death, Chen Nian inherited his powers and held off the Calamity Beasts so the others could evacuate. Di Mie nearly killed Chen Nian, but Uesawa Ueki arrived at the last moment and rescued him.

• Sun Wukong’s lingering power gave Chen Nian Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, strengthened the Mountain-Splitting Axe, and raised him to early Tier Eight.
• Chen Nian used the Mountain-Splitting Axe to slaughter Calamity Beasts and then trapped himself behind a barrier so Su Jinyu, Zhao Yixue, and the others could escape.
• Rika sealed the World Gate to protect Blue Star after the Calamity Beasts caught up, leaving Chen Nian stranded in the Fifth Stratum.
• Di Mie, the Ninth Seat Origin Demon God, overwhelmed Chen Nian and prepared to kill him after Chen Nian had exhausted his strength fighting other Demon Gods.
• Uesawa Ueki struck Di Mie with a lightning-fast attack, disrupted his aim, and carried Chen Nian away.

Uesawa Ueki rescued Chen Nian from Di Mie and led him through the Calamity army and a spatial tunnel to the Barrier Domain Rangers’ refuge. Chen Nian arrived safely but feared for Blue Star now that the Fifth Stratum had fallen.

• Uesawa Ueki carried Chen Nian away from Di Mie at immense speed, but Di Mie commanded the Calamity Beasts to pursue and kill them.
• Uesawa Ueki confronted a tier eight Origin Demon God and told Chen Nian he had come to save him because Chen Nian was his rival; Chen Nian assured him Sakura was safe.
• Uesawa Ueki and Chen Nian tore through the Calamity army with lightning and plunged into a spatial rift.
• Uesawa Ueki brought Chen Nian through the tunnel to the Barrier Domain Rangers’ territory, where the residents sealed the passage behind them.
• Chen Nian met the Rangers and learned they feared the Fifth Stratum had fallen; that night, he worried about Blue Star’s chances.

After the Fifth Stratum fell, Jian Yang chose to leave its remaining worlds untouched and advance toward the Fourth Tier to avoid waking his Fifth Brother. At the Barrier Domain Rangers’ camp, Chen Nian learned Blue Star was not under immediate attack and discovered Uesawa Ueki had inherited the Wind-Chasing Ranger’s legacy.

• Jian Yang rejected Di Mie’s offer to conquer the other Fifth Stratum worlds and ordered preparations to attack the Fourth Tier.
• Merlin reported the defeat and Chen Nian’s likely death to Mo Ning, who told the academy to rest and recuperate.
• Chen Nian planned to leave the rangers’ camp, but Qiqi brought him to breakfast with Old Miao and Uesawa Ueki.
• Old Miao told Chen Nian that the Calamity army was heading for the Fourth Tier instead of attacking the other Fifth Stratum worlds.
• Qiqi praised Uesawa Ueki for inheriting the Wind-Chasing Ranger’s legacy and revealed that he often spoke of Chen Nian.