Recaps

Yao Yuan fought five Level Nine Martial Artists while the Hall of Stars activated around them, revealing his plan to seal the company’s powerful allies. Elder Liu countered that the company’s Energy Gathering Tower Network could break the artifact, but Yao Yuan said the Stars were already shining.

• At the Black Mountain Biotechnology building, a middle-aged man ordered his assistant to ready the wartime support network, then canceled his order to seize two Energy Gathering Towers that had fired without authorization.
• Yao Yuan told Qin Ze to leave the Level Nine fighters to him and focus on the test subject, while Qin Ze and Fairy attacked the test subject together.
• Yao Yuan fought Elder He, Elder Liu, the burly man, and the couple, but their combined attacks left him badly wounded.
• The Hall of Stars appeared around the battlefield, sealing in the Level Nine Martial Artists and revealing that Yao Yuan had set the artifact in place the previous night to suppress the company’s allies.
• Elder Liu said the Energy Gathering Tower Network could break the Hall of Stars, and Yao Yuan replied that the Stars were already shining.

Ordinary people across the cities answered the Stars Card call and destroyed the Energy Gathering Towers, crippling the company’s support network. On the level-nine battlefield, Qin Ze brought in the Circus to reinforce the embattled Hunters, and Brother Devour and Giant Overlord began attacking the weakened test subject.

• A husband learned his wages had been cut again, then left after receiving a message on his Stars Card.
• A young bookseller and a sanitation worker joined the uprising, as Stars across the continent gathered to attack the Energy Gathering Towers.
• The Stars destroyed ninety percent of the towers, leaving the company headquarters chief furious and powerless to stop them.
• Elder Liu realized the Stars were the source of Brother Yuanzi’s confidence, while the test subject struggled after losing the towers’ support.
• Qin Ze summoned the Circus through the Fog of War, stabilizing the battlefield and driving back the Mobile Team reinforcements.
• Brother Devour absorbed the test subject’s attacks and returned the damage, while Qin Ze raised a Divine Markings greatsword to strike.

Qin Ze attacked the weakened test subject while Fairy helped him, as the Level Nine Martial Artists tried to break out of Yao Yuan’s Hall of Stars. Fairy then betrayed Yao Yuan, covering his chest with roses and causing the hall to crack as the others pressed their attack.

• Brother Devour held the test subject through his explosive blast, leaving himself badly wounded while Qin Ze and Giant Overlord survived.
• The test subject burned the Mobile Team members’ Sources of Life to restore his aura, then fought Qin Ze as Fairy’s flowers helped Qin Ze close in.
• Elder Liu, Elder He, and the other Level Nine Martial Artists attacked the Hall of Stars, while Yao Yuan used his power to keep its projection stable.
• Elder He summoned a tower that drained the attackers’ qi and blood as it pressed against the hall’s ceiling and opened cracks.
• Fairy appeared behind Yao Yuan, caused a scarlet rose to bloom on his chest, and snapped her fingers to cover him with more roses.

Fairy betrayed the Hunters and trapped Qin Ze and the others in her Domain while Yao Yuan sacrificed his heart's blood to activate the Hall of Stars. The hall vanished into the void with Yao Yuan inside, leaving the Hunters to fight their way free of Fairy's vines.

• Fairy revealed her betrayal by unleashing dormant parasitic seeds that bound Qin Ze and the test subject in dark red vines and blocked the Hunters' path.
• Scholar briefly withered the plants with his ability, but Fairy's Domain quickly restored them and trapped the Hunters again.
• Yao Yuan drove the King's Sword into his chest and used his heart's blood to refine the Hall of Stars, strengthening its suppression of the Level Nine Martial Artists.
• The fully activated Hall of Stars rose through the clouds and vanished into the void after Yao Yuan told Qin Ze to take care of himself.
• Qin Ze began burning his Source of Life to escape Fairy's vines as Dharma King and the Self-Destruct Squad joined the fight to save him.

Qin Ze and the clones sacrifice themselves in a massive explosion that destroys the test subject and blasts Fairy away, completing the world correction. The author then reflects on the volume and introduces the coming conflict among the myriad races.

• The Hunters teleport out while the clones blast through the vines and free Qin Ze, who activates Three-Second Real Man and attacks Fairy.
• Fairy suppresses Qin Ze with roses, but Thousand Faces announces a self-destruction that briefly strikes her; she emerges nearly unharmed and pins Qin Ze down again.
• The test subject begins draining Qin Ze, and Qin Ze decides to detonate his Source of God as the clones release their Sources of Life to fuel the blast.
• Brother Devour, Giant Overlord, Dharma King, and the Mist Lord give up their lives alongside the clones as Qin Ze's explosion destroys the test subject and hurls Fairy away.
• Scholar moves the survivors to safety, and the world declares the correction successful.
• The author explains that Yao Yuan's sacrifice was planned, discusses the volume's production, and previews the coming conflict among the myriad races.

After the battle, the Grand Consul confirmed that the Fairness Society would abandon the Overlord Awakening Plan, while Qin Ze and the clones who died in the fight were reborn. Qin Ze woke to the clones’ familiar chatter, relieved that they had returned with him.

• The Hunters mourned their losses and vowed to grow stronger, while Aries and Capricorn decided to head to the Abyss and Ma Yan went to question a woman.
• The Grand Consul told the old man in the gray mist that the battle was over and learned that the Fairness Society would stop pursuing the Overlord Awakening Plan.
• Sagittarius questioned whether they should let the Grand Consul leave, but the old man warned that Sagittarius was no match for him.
• An old man beneath an ice tree said the Chosen One would meet him again in a year.
• Qin Ze’s body regenerated, and he woke in a viscous liquid to find that his dead clones, including the Five Heavenly Kings, had been reborn with him.
• The clones compared their new levels and teased Thousand Faces about his self-destruction, while Qin Ze expressed relief at hearing them again.

Qin Ze was reborn in the World Tree’s fruit after three years, gaining a stronger body and higher cultivation before returning to the world. The tree keeper gave him a letter from Yao Yuan, which revealed that Yao Yuan had arranged for Fairy to help kill Qin Ze.

• Qin Ze absorbed the fruit’s energy, gained a root network that strengthened his body, and rose beyond the level 7.5 barrier.
• Qin Ze tore open the fruit, fell into the snow beneath the World Tree, and learned from the old man that three years had passed.
• The old man explained that the World Tree had used nearly all its Source of the World to refine Qin Ze, though his clones and the Five Heavenly Kings had shared the gains.
• The old man gave Qin Ze a letter from Yao Yuan, who had arranged for Qin Ze to undergo the refinement ahead of schedule.
• Qin Ze read that Yao Yuan had agreed to help Fairy become an upper seat of the Twelve Zodiac Signs in exchange for her help killing Qin Ze.

Qin Ze learned from Brother Yuanzi’s letter why the Hall of Stars plan had required his death and discovered that he was the world’s Chosen One, the Master Key. The tree keeper revealed that Brother Yuanzi was still alive inside the Hall of Stars, and Qin Ze would have to reach level nine to find and open it.

• Qin Ze learned that Brother Yuanzi and Fairy had staged the betrayal to trap the Company’s and Fairness Society’s level-nine fighters in the Hall of Stars.
• Brother Yuanzi explained that he had concealed the plan because the Fairness Society president could deduce future events, and that Qin Ze’s death would buy humanity a year to prepare for the coming Calamity of the Myriad Races.
• Qin Ze learned that the World Will had chosen him as the Master Key and that the Chosen One would anchor the approaching calamity.
• Brother Yuanzi’s letter told Qin Ze to retrieve something from the Grand Consul and hoped he would grow strong enough to cross the sea.
• The tree keeper revealed that Brother Yuanzi was still alive but being consumed by the Hall of Stars, and that Qin Ze could rescue him after reaching level nine.
• The tree keeper told Qin Ze that all nine Hunters had been born and the key’s functions were fully updated.

After returning, Qin Ze explored the Hunters’ chat group and the Myriad Races Forum, then arranged to meet Fairy on Steamed Bun Island in two days. He left the tree keeper’s refuge with his clones to see how the world had changed during his absence.

• Qin Ze reviewed the Hunters’ chat records and decided not to tell the group that he had returned.
• Qin Ze browsed the Myriad Races Forum and found Hunters discussing beast tides, trade, and worlds with complete World Wills being targeted.
• Qin Ze questioned the tree keeper about why he stayed by the ice tree, then borrowed a communication card.
• Qin Ze contacted Fairy, and they agreed to meet on Steamed Bun Island in two days.
• Qin Ze left the tree keeper and set off with his clones to see the world after three years.

A knight captain and two members of an exploration team crossed a spatial gate into the Abyss and boarded an eerie stranded ship. They discovered its crew was alive, and the Ghost Captain confronted them, demanding their valuables.

• A chestnut-haired woman emerged through the spatial gate and was attacked by F-rank beasts before a silver-haired knight rescued her with a steam-powered rifle.
• The knight captain, identified as Gwenni, led the woman and a tailcoated man across the Abyss to investigate a stranded sailing ship.
• The explorers boarded the ship and found nearly twenty masked bodies in the wheelhouse, including a pirate-dressed captain.
• The bodies awakened, revealed themselves as members of the great Circus's Abyss jungling team, and surrounded the visitors.
• Paopao blocked the door as the Ghost Captain transformed and demanded that the explorers hand over their valuables.

Three years after Qin Ze’s death, he returned to a transformed Sea Capital and saw how the human race had grown stronger under the reforms. As he reflected on the city’s changes, the Captain’s crew made contact with visitors from another world, and Qin Ze left the story recognizing that the human race was better prepared for what lay ahead.

• Qin Ze watched through the Captain’s eyes as the Captain and his crew revived and met three weak visitors from another world, then told them to make contact.
• Qin Ze flew out of the independent space, reached the Northern Territory, and took a military train from Snow City toward Sea Capital.
• Qin Ze released the Five Heavenly Kings and the clones at a freight station, then entered Sea Capital alone and saw its strengthened defenses and martial artists.
• Qin Ze overheard students discussing weekly Qi-Gathering Pills and learned from the evening news that Wen Yi had been executed and the Chamber of Commerce’s companies had been reorganized under the Alliance.
• Qin Ze spoke with the noodle shop owner, who said business had improved, and reflected that the human race’s battered ship could now withstand rougher seas.

Qin Ze watched Sea Capital’s defenses wipe out a beast tide, then returned to the Circus headquarters and reunited with the starving Big Black. In the Hunter chat group, the Hunters speculated that Beast Tamer and Senior Yao Yuan might still be alive, while Qin Ze remained silent.

• Qin Ze watched Sea Capital’s forces destroy a beast tide of nearly ten thousand exotic beasts in less than half an hour.
• Qin Ze returned to the Circus headquarters and found Big Black weakened after guarding the warehouse for three years.
• Qin Ze fed Big Black qi and blood, then sent a clone to buy him beef.
• Slacking on the Sidelines argued that Beast Tamer and Senior Yao Yuan might be alive because the Myriad Races Forum was open.
• Scholar suggested the forum might open even if some Hunters were dead, and Slacking on the Sidelines guessed Qin Ze had gone into the Abyss again.

Qin Ze collected the crystal Brother Yuanzi had left with the Grand Consul and learned that it could lead him to a weapon capable of killing a sealed World Overlord. He recognized the coordinates as a world Brother Yuanzi had once visited and set out for the Abyss to claim the Overlord’s power.

• Qin Ze read the Hunters’ chat and learned that beast tides were growing more active, possibly because of something called New Land.
• Qin Ze planned to visit the Grand Consul, travel to Steamed Bun Island, and explore the Abyss and Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze used mental power to persuade the receptionist at Sea Capital Law Enforcement to let him see the Grand Consul.
• The Grand Consul gave Qin Ze a crystal that Yao Yuan had left behind and explained that it revealed the coordinates of a world containing a weapon and a sealed World Overlord.
• Qin Ze recognized the crystal’s coordinates as the world where Brother Yuanzi had rescued Slacking on the Sidelines, then vowed not to let Brother Yuanzi down.
• Qin Ze left for the Abyss, while the Grand Consul worried that too much responsibility had been placed on him.

Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings traveled to Steamed Bun Island to meet Fairy, discovering that the open sea was filled with unusually strong sea creatures and aggressive mutants. Qin Ze waited on the island with the Five Heavenly Kings hidden nearby as Fairy arrived.

• Qin Ze bought a new storage ring, then set out with the Five Heavenly Kings to meet Fairy.
• The group noticed that Thousand Streams Island had declined and that the open sea held more and stronger creatures than before.
• Qin Ze tested a giant sea snake and found it contained chaotic energy rather than the Source of the World.
• Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings encountered numerous aggressive mutants and suspected that a new world had connected to the sea.
• Qin Ze landed on Steamed Bun Island, hid the Five Heavenly Kings in the forest, and waited for Fairy to arrive.
• Fairy appeared in the sky above Steamed Bun Island.

Qin Ze confronted Fairy and deduced that she was one half of the Twins Constellation, possibly his sister Qin Yu in another form. After Fairy defeated him with pollen, Qin Ze tricked her into lowering her guard and removed her mask, only to find an unfamiliar face beneath it.

• Fairy met Qin Ze in the woods, and Qin Ze sent the concealed Five Heavenly Kings away before questioning her about her identity.
• Qin Ze connected the necklace, Fairy's scent, and Xia Huai'an's actions to conclude that Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an were both Twins Constellation.
• Fairy confirmed she was Twins Constellation but denied being Qin Ze's sister.
• Qin Ze tried to remove Fairy's mask, but she countered his attacks with petals, vines, and pollen that weakened him.
• Qin Ze pretended to remain incapacitated, then sprang up and removed Fairy's mask, revealing a face he had never seen.

Qin Ze met Fairy, learned she had not betrayed Yao Yuan, and received an update on the dangers in Otherworld No. Zero. After Qin Ze departed, Fairy revealed that she had already acknowledged him.

• Qin Ze removed Fairy's mask, saw her true face, and exchanged teasing remarks with her before both put their masks back on.
• Fairy explained that Yao Yuan was alive and that she had joined Law Enforcement to suppress the Fairness Society, not to betray him.
• Fairy said she walked alongside the light and told Qin Ze that Yao Yuan had asked her to brief him on Otherworld No. Zero.
• Fairy described the growing corruption in Otherworld No. Zero, warned Qin Ze to stay inside for no more than half an hour, and pointed him toward its entrance.
• Qin Ze left for Otherworld No. Zero, and Fairy said she had already acknowledged him.

Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings entered Otherworld No. Zero and discovered a barren, pollution-filled realm that did not seem to be an ordinary Otherworld. Qin Ze used the Source of God to resist the pollution and set out to uncover the realm’s secrets, while the others faced a strict time limit.

• Fairy refused the lively voice’s attempt to arrange her marriage to Qin Ze, then stepped through a spatial gate to meet an old acquaintance in the gray fog.
• Qin Ze told Dharma King, Thousand Faces, and Mist Lord that he believed Fairy’s composed voice was Qin Yu, based on a secret snack shop they had visited together.
• Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings flew past groups of infected sea creatures and reached the black vortex identified as Otherworld No. Zero.
• The group plunged through the entrance and arrived in a dark red, barren world where intense pollution seeped into their bodies.
• Qin Ze found that the Shelter Space could not block the pollution, so he activated the Source of God and recalled the Five Heavenly Kings to help them endure it.
• Qin Ze headed into the realm to investigate its secrets, knowing the Five Heavenly Kings could remain there for only half an hour.

Qin Ze ventured into the corrupt depths of Otherworld No. Zero, where ruined structures and a distant mountain marked unexplored territory. Just as he prepared to turn back, he found a photograph showing a family portrait of the four of them.

• Qin Ze tested the corruption with a clone, which became infected almost instantly and attacked before Qin Ze burned it to ashes.
• Qin Ze assessed how long he could survive in Otherworld No. Zero and hurried beyond the areas previously explored by the company.
• Qin Ze and his companions examined ruins that the Mist Lord and Thousand Faces identified as likely remains of a military camp.
• The Mist Lord urged Qin Ze to turn back with time reserved for the return trip, but Qin Ze went to investigate a glowing point nearby.
• Qin Ze dug a photograph out of the dirt and saw a family portrait of the four of them.

Qin Ze found a family portrait in Otherworld No. Zero and learned from a talking rock that his parents had been there and planned to climb Underworld Mountain. He wondered whether they were Demigods as the rock revealed that the God of the Underworld was on the mountain.

• Qin Ze found a small copy of his family portrait and wondered whether Qin Yu or his parents had dropped it in Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze considered the possibility that his parents were Demigods and decided to ask Qin Yu about them after leaving Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze discovered that the rock he had been sitting on could speak Spirit Language and questioned it about the photo.
• The rock said Qin Ze's parents had sat on it, looked at the portrait, and planned to climb Underworld Mountain.
• The rock told Qin Ze that the God of the Underworld was on Underworld Mountain.

Qin Ze questioned a talking stone about his parents’ journey toward Underworld Mountain, then followed its directions to a ruined temple. There he met a sentient sword case that claimed it never lied.

• Qin Ze learned that the stone could not discuss other gods, but it described his parents fleeing wandering corpses toward Underworld Mountain after dropping the photograph.
• The stone said it had not seen Qin Ze’s parents again, and Brother Devour suggested they might have left Otherworld No. Zero by another route.
• The stone directed Qin Ze to a dilapidated temple where a sword case could verify its story, and Qin Ze traveled there after warning the stone not to lie.
• Qin Ze sent Brother Devour into the temple first to check for danger, then entered and found a black sword case on the altar.
• The sword case identified the temple’s deity as the God of the Underworld and told Qin Ze that it never lied.

Qin Ze questioned Miss Sword Case and learned that his parents had reached Underworld Mountain and were still alive, protected by a divine artifact. As he prepared to leave before the contamination infected him, Miss Sword Case warned that their artifact was nearly spent and offered to help.

• Qin Ze learned that Miss Sword Case had met his parents when they hid from wandering corpses and that they had gone toward Underworld Mountain.
• Miss Sword Case said Qin Ze's parents were still ahead, alive and protected from contamination by a divine artifact.
• Qin Ze questioned Miss Sword Case about the stone outside and whether either of them was a strange beast, while the Mist Lord warned that only ten minutes remained.
• Qin Ze decided to leave the temple rather than risk infection, but Miss Sword Case warned that his parents' divine artifact was almost at its limit.
• Miss Sword Case offered to help Qin Ze with the contamination.

Qin Ze agreed to enter Miss Sword Case after she swore an oath to the World Will, hoping she could help him rescue the two humans trapped beneath Underworld Mountain. After she transported him into her interior, Qin Ze discovered it was a void that swallowed his spiritual power, and Miss Sword Case told him not to move because it tickled.

• Miss Sword Case offered to shield Qin Ze from corruption and help him rescue the two humans if he entered her, and Qin Ze tested her durability with his bone sword.
• Miss Sword Case swore before the World Will that she meant Qin Ze no harm, then explained that splitting Underworld Mountain would free the two humans from the God of the Underworld's power.
• Qin Ze and his companions agreed to cooperate with Miss Sword Case, who claimed she could split the mountain while the God of the Underworld remained half-asleep.
• Miss Sword Case opened her sword case and used spatial power to transport Qin Ze inside her.
• Qin Ze found himself in a void that swallowed his spiritual power, and Miss Sword Case warned him not to move because it tickled.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case reached Underworld Mountain, where his parents were trapped beneath a failing divine artifact. After confirming that the artifact had cracked, Qin Ze prepared to split the corpse-built mountain and save them.

• Miss Sword Case took Qin Ze out of the temple for the first time and carried him through the fog toward Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze warned Captain to take Paopao along when visiting the female knight captain’s world, while the clones reacted with envy to Captain’s discovery.
• Miss Sword Case opened the sword case and teleported Qin Ze out beneath the gray fog at Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze used his Divine Markings to see his parents trapped on the mountainside beneath a cracked oil-paper umbrella that was keeping away the contamination.
• Miss Sword Case urged Qin Ze to split Underworld Mountain, and the corpses covering it lit their eyes red and locked onto him as he drew his bone sword.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case fought off a horde of Wandering Corpses at Underworld Mountain, with Miss Sword Case revealing her powerful Five Elements Flying Swords and Qin Ze adding his blue flames. After they cleared the corpses, Underworld Mountain began to shake as they prepared to face whatever awaited them there.

• Wandering Corpses rose from Underworld Mountain and surged toward Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case.
• Miss Sword Case released the Five Elements Flying Swords, which tore through nearly a quarter of the horde with attacks representing the five elements.
• Qin Ze unleashed a wave of blue flames, and he and Miss Sword Case destroyed the remaining Wandering Corpses in less than five minutes.
• Qin Ze tried to touch the flying swords, but Miss Sword Case pulled them away and insisted they were hers.
• Underworld Mountain began to tremble violently as Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case turned their attention to the bigger threat.

The God of the Underworld awakened and merged with Underworld Mountain, forcing Qin Ze and his companions to fight. Qin Ze’s strongest attacks barely damaged the giant, and the God of the Underworld sent him crashing into the ground.

• Miss Sword Case realized the God of the Underworld had awakened as Underworld Mountain shook and its wandering corpses surged toward the group.
• Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case attacked the mountain, but the corpses absorbed their blows with little effect.
• Qin Ze transformed into a six-armed giant, activated the Source of God, and carved a deep gash into Underworld Mountain with a golden sword aura.
• Underworld Mountain formed itself into a giant, crushed Qin Ze’s sword aura, and fully awakened as the God of the Underworld.
• Qin Ze dodged the God of the Underworld’s palm and attacked its ankle, but the giant kicked through his Black Tortoise Shield and hurled him hundreds of meters.