Chapter Summaries

The World Serpent attacked the nine strata, but Jian Yang’s hidden power of Destruction destroyed its World Worms while Chen Nian attacked it from the Ninth Stratum. After joining forces to destroy the serpent’s body there, Chen Nian and Ling Wu set out to fight their way back to the First Stratum.

• The World Serpent released millions of World Worms, but Jian Yang’s planted power of Destruction shattered them before they could devour the world.
• Jian Yang and the others used Protection to block the World Serpent’s Annihilating Crimson while Chen Nian attacked the serpent from the Ninth Stratum.
• Chen Nian blasted apart part of the serpent with Fingertip Stars, and Ye Hongling, Zhao Yixue, and Su Jinyu joined the assault.
• Ye Hongling burned the serpent, Zhao Yixue froze it, and Su Jinyu shattered its Ninth Stratum body with the Dao of All Living Beings.
• Chen Nian drew Ling Wu to his side and set out to fight from the Ninth Stratum back to the First Stratum.

Chen Nian returned to the First Stratum and joined the Guardians in their fight against the World Serpent, using the Heavenly Eye to disperse its poisonous mist. With all nine Guardians assembled, they prepared to finish the battle together.

• The World Serpent spread poisonous mist across the world, while Rika worried over Chen Nian and the academy mourned the dead.
• Chen Nian appeared in the Second Stratum, reassured Rika, and burned the World Serpent with the Sun Divine Art before flying toward the First Stratum.
• The World Serpent petrified all the Guardians except Jian Yang, but Chen Nian arrived and pierced its right eye, ending the attack.
• Chen Nian opened his Heavenly Eye in the sky and used its divine sunlight to clear the poisonous mist.
• Chen Nian thanked Jian Yang for holding back, and the two joined the other Guardians as all nine assembled to fight the World Serpent.

Chen Nian and his companions weakened the World Serpent with coordinated attacks and countered its deadly pursuit. Chen Nian destroyed the serpent’s body and crushed its hidden escape form, leaving the World Tree’s battle over.

• Chen Nian, Jian Yang, and the others attacked the World Serpent, while Ling Wu restrained it and Wangchen erased a severed section of its body.
• Mo Ning warned the group about the serpent’s poisonous offspring, and Chen Nian protected her as Yue Si swallowed the swarm.
• The World Serpent targeted Chen Nian with Destined Death, but Ling Wu used Mo Ning’s artificial puppet to take the fatal blow in his place.
• Chen Nian pinned the weakened serpent with his Stars Divine Sword as the group attacked, then used Sovereign and Heavenly Brilliance Divine Light to burn it away.
• Chen Nian spotted the serpent’s tiny escape form with his Heavenly Eye and crushed it underfoot.

After the World Serpent's death, Chen Nian recovered Luo Yueyao's final corporeal soul, then faced Jian Yang in a final battle over Jian Yang's plan to reshape the world. Chen Nian defeated Jian Yang, who acknowledged his loss as the sky cleared.

• Chen Nian gathered Luo Yueyao's final corporeal soul, completing the collection of her three spiritual souls and seven corporeal souls.
• Jian Yang refused to abandon his plan to reshape the world, and he and Chen Nian agreed to settle their opposing positions in battle.
• Chen Nian and Jian Yang fought with their swords and then their divine powers, while Mo Ning and the others stabilized the world around them.
• Chen Nian used his sun, moon, and stars domains to break Jian Yang's destructive domain and protective barrier.
• Jian Yang transformed into a black dragon and collided with Chen Nian's Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, then fell from the sky and admitted defeat.

After defeating Jian Yang, Chen Nian watched him sacrifice himself to preserve the links between the nine strata, then reunited with the people he cared about and waited ten years for Luo Yueyao to awaken. The story ended with Yueyao opening her eyes beside Chen Nian, while the chapter also showed the changed lives of the other characters.

• Chen Nian defeated Jian Yang, who performed Corpse Liberation to preserve the World Serpent’s rifts and connect all nine strata; his power also helped restore the Ninth Stratum.
• Mo Ning sentenced Jing Long and Yue Si to a hundred years of confinement and agreed to reconstruct Luo Yueyao’s body; Chen Nian later reunited with his friends and family across the strata.
• Ten years later, Chen Nian went to the Second Stratum’s great library, where Luo Yueyao’s body and souls had been restored, and waited for her to awaken.
• Mo Ning took in the orphaned boy Merlin, Wangchen joked with his daughter Taxue about pursuing her reincarnated mother, and Ling Wu used divine power to make Jian Yang’s reincarnation confess to the girl who had once admired him.
• Luo Yueyao opened her eyes, and Chen Nian welcomed her back.