Recaps

Thousand Faces and the clones attacked the Wandering Corpses guarding the spatial gate while Qin Ze fought Daoist Miao near the altar. With Giant Overlord guiding him over the Local Area Network, Thousand Faces defeated the giant beast and left the old man stunned.

• The blonde woman spotted the spatial gate and realized an evil god was projecting its power through it.
• The masked Circus members charged the gate, and the Self-Destruct Squad blasted through the Wandering Corpses’ defenses with Entropy Stones.
• Thousand Faces countercharged the clones, helping drive back the vanguard while pretending to fight for the old man’s cause.
• Giant Overlord emerged from the gray fog and guided Thousand Faces through his death-ray barrage over the Local Area Network.
• Thousand Faces shattered Giant Overlord’s bone club and punched a bloody hole through his chest, sending him into the fog.

Thousand Faces and Dharma King staged a dramatic battle while the altar ritual continued, then Thousand Faces destroyed the altar with a delayed electrical blast. The Bull-Headed God’s arrival was cut short as the spatial gate began to close.

• Giant Overlord withdrew after his brief fight, and Light Prayer healed his chest wound.
• Dharma King descended amid thunder and fought Thousand Faces while their allies and the Wandering Corpses battled below.
• Thousand Faces and Dharma King coordinated a staged defeat, with Dharma King blasting the ground behind Thousand Faces so he fell beside the altar.
• The Bull-Headed God emerged from the spatial gate, and Thousand Faces collapsed after greeting him.
• Electricity gathered on Thousand Faces and exploded, destroying the altar and statue and causing the spatial gate to close.

The Bull-Headed God forced half of his projection through the closing portal and overpowered Daoist Miao while Qin Ze watched. After the High Priest asked about Qin Ze’s Source of God, Qin Ze revealed his divine body and prepared to enter the fight with Miss Sword Case.

• The Circus clones retreated after destroying the altar and statue, and the Bull-Headed God tore half his body free as the portal closed.
• Daoist Miao attacked the Bull-Headed God, but the god trapped him with soul chains and black threads.
• The blonde mature beauty tried to lead the Holy Temple Army to help Daoist Miao, while Qin Ze and the dying High Priest watched from the ruins.
• The High Priest asked where Qin Ze’s Source of God came from, and Qin Ze answered that it came from the Star Gate.
• Qin Ze transformed into a six-armed giant, and his blue flames consumed the High Priest as he died.
• Qin Ze picked up Miss Sword Case and used Void Traversal to make his entrance.

Qin Ze fought Bull Head, whose divine Domain controlled invisible threads that restrained and tore at his enemies. After Miss Sword Case revealed how to sever them, Qin Ze freed himself, rescued Daoist Miao, and struck down Bull Head.

• Qin Ze entered the battle as a six-armed giant and struck Bull Head with Miss Sword Case, but Bull Head shattered Qin Ze’s attacks with his spoken command to perish.
• Bull Head used invisible threads to bind Qin Ze and swallowed Daoist Miao, claiming victory inside his Domain.
• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze to sense the threads with mental power and said she could cut them.
• Qin Ze opened the Sword Case, and its aqua-blue flying sword severed Bull Head’s threads.
• Qin Ze pinned Bull Head with Miss Sword Case, cut open his belly, rescued the nearly shattered Daoist Miao, and split Bull Head’s skull.

Qin Ze defeated the bullhead, but the high priest revealed he was merging with the Land of Faith and turning it into an offering. As the world collapsed and the survivors fought their way toward the city wall, Fairy and Ma Yan reached the cemetery and discovered it looked different under Fairy’s new power.

• Qin Ze killed the bullhead, who explained that the Land of Faith had been anchored in the Abyss by a World Stone.
• The bullhead identified the high priest as the one sacrificing the world, then vanished and left behind a bullhide that Qin Ze collected.
• The high priest appeared atop a mountain of corpses and declared that he would merge with the world and use the evil god’s divine power and Qin Ze’s Sources of God as offerings.
• The land shattered, Wandering Corpses attacked, and the old man carried the unconscious Thousand Faces toward the city wall while Dharma King sent clones to help clear a path.
• The high priest told Qin Ze that destroying him meant destroying the world, while Qin Ze pulled Miss Sword Case from the ground.
• Fairy and Ma Yan reached the cemetery, where Fairy used her staff to reveal black flames in place of the open coffins.

Fairy, Ma Yan, and the Mist Lord entered the burning cemetery to uncover the high priest’s hidden truth and found the real tomb of the Sun God Land of Faith. The Spirits inside revealed that their god had died.

• Fairy said the high priest had lied about the believers and claimed the truth lay inside the cemetery, while Ma Yan urged them to find a way out before the world sacrifice was complete.
• The Mist Lord appeared and used his Domain to suppress the black flames, leading Fairy and Ma Yan into the cemetery.
• Fairy struck the Golden Crow statue with her cane, breaking a seal and revealing a chamber containing a tombstone covered in names.
• The tombstone released many Spirits, who recoiled from Fairy’s Preacher identity as she demanded to know what had happened.
• The Spirits’ vision shifted to a worried old man, who told them that their god had died.

The Mist Lord and his companions witnessed the Land of Faith’s history, from the high priest’s betrayal of the old priest to his transformation of the dead into Soul Breath. The visions ended with the high priest waiting for an inheritor, while the Mist Lord wondered how he had gained Power of Faith.

• The old priest concealed the suspected death of God to prevent unrest, while the high priest and others plotted to escape the sealed Land of Faith.
• The high priest helped spread unrest, then killed the old priest and led the protesters to victory over the devout believers.
• The high priest sealed everyone’s Spirits in the graveyard, replaced the God of War as their object of worship, and discovered he could not open the world before ten thousand years had passed.
• After failing to obtain the inheritance and facing death, the high priest detonated everyone’s World Imprints, turning their resentful Spirits into Soul Breath to prolong his life.
• The visions ended, and the Mist Lord questioned why the high priest possessed Power of Faith despite not being a god.

Fairy and the former high priest organized a two-pronged attack to kill the high priest who had merged with the world, while Qin Ze and his allies searched for the World Stone. The chapter ended with Dharma King striking the World Stone, which woke up and shouted at him.

• Fairy learned that killing the high priest required destroying both his Spirit and the world at the same time, and the former high priest explained how to do it.
• Mist Lord summoned Brother Devour, who used his physical strength to crack the Spirit-Suppressing Stele while Fairy and Ma Yan prepared to free the Spirits.
• Qin Ze fought the high priest and kept him away from the Spirits as Dharma King and Giant Overlord searched for the World Stone.
• Giant Overlord launched Dharma King through the Wandering Corpses, and Dharma King struck the World Stone with lightning.
• The World Stone woke up and yelled at Dharma King instead of shattering.

The Dharma King convinced the World Stone to leave its world and carried it to the foreign race’s world, destabilizing the realm. Qin Ze and his allies escaped the collapsing Spirit Suppression Space as the Spirits destroyed the high priest, ending the Land of Faith.

• The Dharma King failed to damage or move the World Stone, but the stone agreed to leave after he offered it a peaceful place to sleep.
• The World Stone uprooted itself, revealed a body as large as an Underworld Mountain, and followed the Dharma King out of the world.
• The World Stone’s departure destabilized the realm, prompting the Preacher, Thousand Faces, and other martial artists to flee while the Holy Temple Army advanced on Qin Ze.
• Brother Devour shattered the Spirit-Suppressing Stele, and Fairy opened the Shelter Space so the group could escape the black flames as the Spirits flew free.
• The Spirits set the mountain of corpses ablaze and consumed the high priest, while the former high priest’s Spirit thanked Qin Ze and hinted that the old god’s plan had begun.
• Qin Ze struck the burning mountain, causing it to collapse and ending the high priest’s Spirit and the ten-thousand-year history of the Land of Faith.

Qin Ze rescued Yan Miao and learned that the Ancient Races were investigating Void Beasts to uncover the Star Gate, while no one seemed to remember the Desolate God. The Blazing Sun Clan’s grand elder recognized the God of War’s source as having returned to its place, and the chapter ended with the God of Machinery learning the God of War had returned.

• Qin Ze brought the gravely injured Daoist Miao out of the collapsing world, and the blonde beauty revived him with a bottle of molten liquid before giving Qin Ze the Blazing Sun Clan’s emblem and a favor.
• Qin Ze asked the blonde beauty about Void Beasts and the Desolate God; she said Void Beasts were linked to the Star Gate, but she had never heard of the Desolate God.
• The Holy Temple’s grand elder arrived, declared that the Source of God of War had returned to its place, and invited Qin Ze to the Holy Temple, but Qin Ze declined.
• The grand elder removed a broken bug from the blonde beauty’s hair and asked her to recount everything about Qin Ze, beginning with the Myriad Races Black Market.
• At the Myriad Races Black Market, a mechanical man reported that the God of War had returned to its place.

Qin Ze left Fairy and Ma Yan after learning that the Fairness Society's president had made them Preachers using an evil god's remains. As he traveled toward the Lost World, Qin Ze reflected on the gods' plans, examined his spoils, and prepared to write in the Chronicle of Time.

• Fairy and Ma Yan told Qin Ze that the Fairness Society's president had found an evil god's remains and made Fairy, Sagittarius, and Aquarius Preachers.
• Qin Ze gave Ma Yan the false name Lin Zhiyuan, then recalled his clones and rode an Abyss Puppet toward the Lost World.
• Qin Ze wondered whether Yan Miao was the God of War and whether the Desolate God had chosen him for Impure World Reincarnation, while Miss Sword Case explained that the Source of God of War remained complete despite Qin Ze holding part of it.
• Qin Ze examined the damaged cowhide he had taken from Bull Head and dismissed the Stinking Cobblers' suggestions to eat it.
• Qin Ze told Thousand Faces to prove his loyalty, then opened the Chronicle of Time to begin writing.

Qin Ze read the Desolate God's diary and learned that Miss Sword Case was born from the shattered Star Gate and could strengthen gods through her five elemental swords. The diary also revealed that Strange Beasts were using Corruption to control believers and become gods, leaving Qin Ze to realize the gods might be facing their end.

• Qin Ze read that the Desolate God had been imprisoned after the Star Gate shattered and that the Goddess of Life was expected to judge him.
• Qin Ze learned the Star Gate had once helped gods become gods and strengthen their divine bodies, but its destruction left them weakening.
• The Desolate God described Miss Sword Case's ability to send people into dreams and the five elemental flying swords that formed her true power.
• Qin Ze realized Miss Sword Case was a portable Star Gate and decided to prioritize finding her missing flying swords.
• Qin Ze read that Strange Beasts were spreading Corruption to control believers and become gods, prompting the Desolate God to fear the end of the gods.

Qin Ze read the Desolate God's diary up to the Goddess of Life asking him to kill her, then wondered about the origins of the Void Beasts and whether the Desolate God had killed her. At the Sea of Glaze, the Captain welcomed an old friend who arrived on a flying mountain.

• Qin Ze read that the Goddess of Life had asked the Desolate God to kill her, but the Chronicle of Time would not turn to the next page.
• Qin Ze questioned whether the Desolate God had killed the Goddess of Life and where the Void Beasts had come from.
• The Dharma King told Qin Ze that he and Stone had arrived.
• At the Sea of Glaze, the Captain and Captain Gwenni waited near the harbor as a flying mountain emerged from an Abyss rift.
• The Captain welcomed a masked figure who arrived on the flying mountain, calling them an old friend.

The Dharma King arrived in the Sea of Glaze and effortlessly stopped the World Stone from causing a tsunami, while a woman persuaded the prince to secretly build his own force against the outsiders. Days later, Qin Ze reached the Lost World's entrance and spotted Bai Chi arriving by flying boat.

• Captain Gwenni welcomed the Dharma King and the Captain on the Empress's orders.
• The Dharma King ordered the World Stone to settle beneath the Abyss rift, then used lightning to stop the waves it unleashed.
• The prince agreed to let the woman secretly build a force of their own without the Empress finding out.
• Qin Ze traveled for several days on the Abyss Puppet and reached the Lost World's entrance.
• Qin Ze saw Bai Chi among the people emerging from a steel flying boat.

Qin Ze entered the lost world after Zi Yue and her group, expecting a dead land controlled by the World Overlord but finding a lush forest instead. As he searched for the ultimate weapon, someone in the forest intercepted him and said they had come to welcome him.

• Qin Ze spotted Zi Yue, Zi Liangchen, and three others opening a rift to the lost world and waited until they had entered before following them with his key.
• Qin Ze emerged into a dense forest and found no sign of the World Overlord, even after punching a path through the trees.
• Qin Ze confirmed that the crystal ball's coordinates matched his location and set out to find the ultimate weapon, which was supposed to be in a conspicuous place.
• Qin Ze heard footsteps in the forest and attacked, but the stranger easily deflected his punch and told him they meant no harm and had come to welcome him.

Qin Ze entered a world through a spatial gate and was welcomed by three powerful long-armed natives, who escorted him to their village before nightfall. As he noticed the village’s diverse inhabitants and considered Zi Yue’s earlier arrival, he was left wondering what brought them all there.

• Qin Ze met three level-seven long-armed men, and their leader welcomed him as a traveler from the Abyss.
• The leader explained that the natives cleared a landing area for visitors, believed Abyss beasts could not enter, and had not seen a traveler in a long time.
• Qin Ze realized Zi Yue and her companions had arrived earlier, possibly using a compass to teleport to a random location and avoid detection.
• The long-armed man warned Qin Ze that the forest became extremely dangerous at night, while Qin Ze refused his clones’ requests to explore it.
• Qin Ze followed the long-armed man through a village surrounded by a faint power and saw villagers from different civilizations and races.

Qin Ze arrived in a settlement built by Abyss wanderers and met its shaman, who said the world was protected by a god and warned him to stay out of the forest at night. At the villagers’ bonfire gathering, their song lulled Qin Ze to sleep after he glimpsed a tower rising in the forest.

• The long-armed man led Qin Ze to the shaman’s stone house and arranged an empty room for him.
• The shaman welcomed Qin Ze, explained that the villagers were Abyss wanderers who had rebuilt the world, and said a god protected it from exotic beasts.
• Qin Ze returned to his room, wondered about the god and the villagers, and decided to explore outside the village the next day.
• Qin Ze joined the villagers at their bonfire, where the shaman led them in singing and the long-armed man encouraged Qin Ze to join.
• The villagers’ song made Qin Ze drowsy, and he saw a tower rise in the distant forest just before he fell asleep.

Qin Ze learned that a mysterious force in the village had stolen soul power from the villagers during their dreams, while another force threatened the village from the forest at night. After exploring the forest and returning before twilight, he examined a flowerpot from the forest and discovered that eyes had grown on his face.

• Qin Ze woke after dreaming of a peaceful family reunion and learned from Miss Sword Case that the village's mysterious force had stolen a small amount of everyone's soul power during the night.
• Qin Ze heard that a villager who stayed in the forest after dark had disappeared, and he set out to explore before twilight.
• Miss Sword Case explained that the forest's force tried to invade the village at night, but the soul-stealing force had stopped it.
• Qin Ze sent his clones east to investigate the forest and searched the vast green wilderness himself, but found nothing useful before returning to the village.
• Qin Ze traded a deer leg to a child for a flowerpot dug up near the stream, and Miss Sword Case watered its flowers with a flying sword.
• Qin Ze's face grew unbearably itchy, and Miss Sword Case saw that eyes had grown on it.

Qin Ze discovered a parasitic eye on his cheek after meeting the shaman and uncovered clues about the villagers’ unusual world. When the village’s song put everyone to sleep, he stayed awake and watched their soul power flow toward a tower that Miss Sword Case could not see.

• Qin Ze found a living eye on his cheek and suspected the shaman had planted it during their meeting in the forest.
• Qin Ze examined a flowerpot and read a message about an eighteenth life-death anniversary and becoming a Spirit Walker to slay an unknown threat.
• Qin Ze suspected the shaman was the Preacher and reasoned that an evil god had invaded the world.
• Qin Ze used his Divine Markings to resist the shaman’s song while the villagers fell asleep.
• Qin Ze watched the villagers’ soul power gather and drift toward a tower in the forest, but Miss Sword Case could not see it.

Qin Ze and his clones encountered the forest’s deadly eye power, and he survived its attack by entering a dream with Miss Sword Case’s help. By morning, he discovered that the strange eye he had removed could speak and was calling for help.

• Qin Ze watched the starry tower vanish, then shifted his attention to clones who had found ruins in the forest.
• Eyes grew across the clones and nearby trees, driving the clones mad and killing all thirty-odd of them as the forest turned hostile.
• Qin Ze’s eye-spirit attacked his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, where he swallowed it, then gouged the eye from his face.
• The forest’s force attacked the village, but Brother Bull Head protected the sleeping villagers with the power of dreams before the forest targeted Qin Ze’s house.
• Miss Sword Case planted a Daydream Seed on Qin Ze, and together they fought off the forest’s dream-born assault until daylight.
• Qin Ze restored the shriveled eye with vitality, then heard a voice from it calling out to a reborn one for help.

Qin Ze learned that a Spirit had been reborn in Zi Yue’s squad and that the reborn ones were seeking the Spirit Energy Tower. After the shaman refused to receive him but promised to meet him at the tower, Qin Ze left the village and found the remains of a building marked “Dream Bureau.”

• Qin Ze used the eye to speak with a reborn Spirit who said only the two of them had successfully taken hosts and that the Illusion Race planned to protect the Spirit Energy Tower.
• Qin Ze concluded that Spirits had likely tried to possess the old fellows in the forest, but the forest had consumed them before the takeovers finished.
• Qin Ze decided to investigate the tower and seek the shaman, but the long-armed man told him the shaman would not receive visitors.
• Qin Ze told the long-armed man to thank the shaman for sheltering him and announced that he was leaving the village.
• The long-armed man relayed that the shaman would wait for Qin Ze at the tower and tell him what he wanted to know.
• Qin Ze entered the forest, saw that its creatures had returned after nightfall, and later found a half-signboard reading “Dream Bureau” near the ruins where his clones had been destroyed.

Qin Ze explored the buried Dream Management Department and discovered records linking the Illusion Race’s Spirit Walkers to the Dream God’s ceremonies. He found a plan to hunt a World Overlord, but the chapter ended before he could learn its details.

• Qin Ze entered the ruined structure and saw a painting of the shaman addressing the local natives from a tower.
• Qin Ze found a black slab that recorded the provisional candidates for the fifty-seventh batch of Spirit Walkers, all of whom were eighteen years old.
• Qin Ze realized the candidates were expected to die on their eighteenth birthdays.
• Qin Ze read damaged instructions for the fifty-seventh God-Worshipping Ceremony, which said the Dream God would appear and bless the chosen children.
• Qin Ze picked up another slab and saw that it contained the eleventh version of a plan to hunt a World Overlord.

Qin Ze discovered that the Illusion Race had designed the Spirit Energy Tower to hunt the World Overlord and free Spirit Walkers from dependence on the Dream God. The latest blueprint revealed that the Illusion Race had also intended to imprison and kill the Dream God.

• Qin Ze read the Illusion Race's plan to hunt the World Overlord, which called for using the Spirit Energy Tower and generations of Spirit Walkers without the Dream God's aid.
• Qin Ze realized Brother Yuanzi had given him the tower's activation key instead of using its power himself, and told Miss Sword Case that Brother Yuanzi was his teacher.
• Qin Ze read research describing how the Illusion Race had learned to separate Spirits from their bodies and connect them through shared dreams using the Spirit Energy Tower.
• Qin Ze examined the new Spirit Energy Tower blueprint and learned that it could gather and release soul power efficiently enough to imprison and slay the Dream God.

Qin Ze learned that the Illusion Race had built psionic towers to imprison the Dream God and preserve spirit walkers, then found he could not reach the tower. As dusk fell, he learned a Preacher might be corrupting the Sea of Glaze and prepared to contact the reborn spirit.

• Qin Ze read a damaged tablet describing the Illusion Race’s plans to trap the Dream God beneath a psionic tower and use it to preserve spirit walkers for rebirth.
• Qin Ze concluded the Dream God was imprisoned in the tower and the forest likely belonged to the World Overlord, leaving him a chance to obtain two Relics.
• Qin Ze tried to reach the psionic tower by flying and walking but found the distance to it would not diminish, so he waited for night to speak with the reborn spirit.
• Captain and Dharma King told Qin Ze that suspected fanatics had appeared in the Sea of Glaze, and Captain suspected a Preacher had entered the world.
• Thousand Faces offered to help hunt down the Preacher in the Sea of Glaze, and Captain reluctantly agreed to let him go.
• After sunset, Qin Ze injected mental power into the eye and called out to Number Two.

Qin Ze spoke with Number Two, who warned him about the forest and revealed that people near the cathedral were experimenting on the Dominator. After entering a dream, Qin Ze found himself in the forest beside the Spirit Energy Tower and encountered Zi Yue.

• Number Two warned Qin Ze to stay in the village and said the people near the cathedral had awakened the forest while experimenting on the Dominator.
• Qin Ze watched the Spirit Energy Tower draw soul power from the village, then asked Miss Sword Case to put him into a dream.
• Qin Ze dreamed that he was in the forest, where blue flames kept the ghostly figures away.
• Qin Ze approached the Spirit Energy Tower and realized it was appearing in his dream, though Miss Sword Case could only sense it.
• Zi Yue emerged from the forest into Qin Ze's dream, and they stared at each other in surprise.