Recaps

The empress agreed to relay Zhu Tie’s plea for help to the god, who appeared through Miss Sword Case and promised to save the Molten Steel World with a projection of his power. Qin Ze arranged who would remain in the Sea of Glaze and who would travel to the Molten Steel World, and Miss Sword Case departed aboard the Furnace as the delegation prepared to leave.

• Zhu Tie asked the empress to convey the Molten Steel People’s plea to the god, and she promised to pass it along when she next received instructions.
• Miss Sword Case appeared in a golden pillar of light, convincing Zhu Tie that the Sea of Glaze’s god was real.
• The empress told Zhu Tie that the god would intervene, while Qin Ze reassured her that he would remain in the Sea of Glaze and could solve the crisis with a projection.
• Qin Ze assigned Giant Overlord and Captain to stay behind, then ordered Dharma King to stay as well after he mocked Giant Overlord.
• Zhu Tie escorted Miss Sword Case aboard the Furnace, where the Molten Steel People revered her and prepared to depart after replenishing their ore.

As the Molten Steel People carried Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case back through the Abyss, Qin Ze noticed that exotic beasts had become scarce across the region and worried that a larger crisis was brewing. After sixteen days, the furnace reached an Abyss Gate, while Qin Ze planned to investigate the missing beasts once he obtained a fire-attribute flying sword.

• The Molten Steel People left the Sea of Glaze with a supply of ore, and Gwenni and the Outpost City troops saw them off.
• Qin Ze made the clones cultivate during the journey and stopped Miss Sword Case from leaving her room so she could maintain her disguise.
• Qin Ze explored the furnace and learned that it housed over ten thousand Molten Steel People in its living quarters, forging area, and firebox.
• Qin Ze found that the Myriad Races Forum had little reliable information about the Ancient Race's Land of Origin post, while Zi Yue remained out of contact.
• Qin Ze and the key chat group discussed the decline in exotic beasts and unrest in Otherworld No. Zero; Qin Ze decided to investigate the beasts himself later.
• On the sixteenth day of the voyage, Qin Ze saw an Abyss Gate leading to a world.

The Molten Steel People returned to their world aboard the Furnace, bringing power from Qin Ze that they hoped could save it from the flames consuming it. The chief agreed to meet Qin Ze, while the cause of the world’s crisis and the price of divine help remained unresolved.

• The Molten Steel People returned through their Gate of the Abyss, a passage surrounded by the Fire of the Five Elements that Zhu Tie pushed aside with his power.
• Qin Ze observed the burning, barren world and wondered how the Molten Steel People had advanced without a world will.
• The Furnace arrived at a city beneath the gate, where the Molten Steel People were still building furnaces and forging metal.
• Zhu Tie told the chief that the people had found a way to resolve their world’s crisis with power granted by a god.
• The chief hesitated over the cost of divine intervention, then agreed to meet Qin Ze and followed Zhu Tie aboard the Furnace.

Qin Ze used Miss Sword Case to pose as a god before the Molten Steel People and learned how the Furnace Fire had destroyed their world. He then sent her toward Furnace Mountain, where she sensed the fire-attribute flying sword was waiting.

• Qin Ze made Miss Sword Case shine with golden light as the patriarch and Zhu Tie came to meet the supposed god.
• The patriarch explained that the Furnace Fire had erupted three hundred years earlier, eventually burning the world and forcing the Molten Steel People to flee aboard Furnaces into the Abyss.
• Qin Ze learned that the first Advanced Martial Artist had appeared around the time of the eruption with help from a god who later departed.
• The patriarch pointed out Furnace Mountain, and Qin Ze told him the fire would soon be extinguished before Miss Sword Case flew toward it.
• Miss Sword Case sensed her sword near Furnace Mountain, opened herself to let Qin Ze out, and drove the Furnace Fire away from him.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case discovered a time cage around Furnace Mountain and used the water-attribute flying sword to fight the Five Elements fire, though Qin Ze remained trapped. Elsewhere, Sanmu kept a powerful flesh-like Strange Beast imprisoned around a scarlet flying sword as the beast claimed it would soon escape.

• Miss Sword Case identified an unusual force intensifying the Fire of the Five Elements, and Qin Ze realized the way to Furnace Mountain was trapped in a repeating second.
• Qin Ze's Void Traversal failed to escape the time cage, so he had Miss Sword Case use the water-attribute flying sword to extinguish part of the fiery canopy.
• The flying sword's water broke through the cage and clashed with the fire, but Qin Ze could not follow its path out, so Miss Sword Case sent huge waves crashing against Furnace Mountain.
• Sanmu restrained a flesh-like Strange Beast that celebrated the sword's disturbance and claimed its divination foretold its imminent freedom.
• Sanmu rebuked the Strange Beast for destroying seven worlds, while the beast revealed it had taken precautions against Sanmu's time rule and began laying out divination cards.

Flesh and Blood revealed that the Fire of the Five Elements could let people enter the blood-colored space and free him, while Qin Ze used the fire to escape the Cage of Time. He and Miss Sword Case entered Furnace Mountain and found a shifting maze blocking their path to the fire-attribute flying sword.

• Flesh and Blood told Sanmu he had hidden a way into the blood-colored space inside the Fire of the Five Elements and planned to escape.
• Qin Ze asked Miss Sword Case to draw the Fire of the Five Elements around him, then let it pull him out of the Cage of Time.
• Miss Sword Case followed Qin Ze through the fire into a space inside Furnace Mountain.
• Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case headed toward the mountain's center, where they believed the fire-attribute flying sword was located.
• A maze rose around Qin Ze, barred flight, and began shifting its walls and exits.

Qin Ze tried to break through the shifting maze by smashing its walls, but spatial rules forced him to send clones along its paths instead. As the sun, moon, and stars sent strange lights into the maze and transformed or harmed his clones, Miss Sword Case said she recognized them.

• Qin Ze smashed through the maze walls until he saw endless repetitions of himself, then realized he could not bypass the maze's spatial rules.
• Qin Ze sent clones out to map the maze while he cooked instant noodles and watched them explore.
• The sun sent down lights that first strengthened nearby clones and then transformed others into ordinary animals.
• The moon sent lights that made several clones' Spirits leave their bodies and then struck the maze with a mental shock that affected the other clones.
• Qin Ze found that his fist passed through the sun, moon, and stars, then let the sun's light hit him and watched his arms turn into metal.
• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze she thought she had seen the sun, moon, and stars before.

Qin Ze learned that the strange effects in the maze might come from the Demigod Level Strange Beast Spirit Divination Stick, whose rule randomly granted abilities. As the clones searched the maze and endured increasingly destructive light streams, one of them found the exit.

• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze that Spirit Divination Stick used the rule of randomness to draw abilities and might still be alive.
• Qin Ze concluded that Spirit Divination Stick was likely alive but hiding, and he continued sending clones into the maze as the sun and moon bestowed random effects.
• Qin Ze noticed that sunlight affected the body, moonlight affected the mind and soul, and blue abilities seemed stronger than green ones.
• The star sent a golden stream of light that exploded into a massive firestorm, killing nearly all the clones except those with strong fire resistance.
• After Qin Ze sent more clones into the maze, a clone announced over the Local Area Network that he had found the exit.

After clearing the maze, Qin Ze tried to leave with his clones, but a golden streak of light swallowed him and transported him to a passage deeper inside Furnace Mountain. A mysterious voice told him to overcome every obstacle and keep going upward, promising they would meet eventually.

• Random Bro celebrated receiving a Demigod Level Soul Orb while Qin Ze gathered the clones who wanted to leave the maze.
• As the maze began shifting, a golden streak of light engulfed Qin Ze near the exit and carried him away, leaving Random Bro behind.
• Qin Ze emerged alone in a narrow passage and realized he was still inside Furnace Mountain.
• Miss Sword Case said her intuition told her the fire-attribute flying sword was nearby, but Qin Ze had no map or clear route.
• A mysterious voice told Qin Ze to break through the obstacles, continue upward, and meet it eventually.

Qin Ze blasted his way upward through passages filled with white chrysanthemum-shaped monsters and suspected Furnace Mountain was inside Spirit Divination Stick’s body. He reached a chamber where Sanmu was holding Flesh and Blood captive, and Sanmu immediately attacked him.

• Qin Ze heard a mysterious god speak, then decided to ignore the maze’s passages and smash upward through the ceiling.
• Qin Ze killed the white, eyeless monsters that attacked him and realized the passages and living black lines might be inside an exotic beast’s body.
• Qin Ze burned a column through the passages and continued upward, determined to discover whether the being above was a god or an exotic beast.
• Flesh and Blood told Sanmu that Qin Ze was approaching and boasted that his believer would free him.
• Qin Ze broke through the ground into Sanmu’s chamber, and Sanmu struck at him with a sword attack.

Qin Ze discovered that Sanmu, a Fire Element Sword Bearer, had been waiting for Miss Sword Case and the Fire Keeper. Sanmu confirmed that the five elemental Sword Bearers and their swords were tied to Strange Beasts, leaving Qin Ze wondering what had happened to the beast once suppressed by the water-attribute flying sword.

• Qin Ze dodged Sanmu’s sword qi and struck it apart with Miss Sword Case, revealing Sanmu above him beside a scarlet fire-attribute flying sword embedded in a mass of flesh and blood.
• Miss Sword Case recognized the fire-attribute flying sword as her child but could not call it back, while Spirit Divination Stick revealed himself as the god who had shaped the Molten Steel People’s martial arts system to bring a Fire Keeper into Furnace Mountain.
• Sanmu identified himself as the Fire Element Sword Bearer and said he had made the sun, moon, and stars to keep outsiders from entering.
• Sanmu confirmed that Sword Bearers of the other four elements existed, that each flying sword suppressed a Strange Beast, and that he had been born in the age of the gods.
• Miss Sword Case said she did not remember Sanmu, and Qin Ze wondered where the Strange Beast suppressed by the water-attribute flying sword had gone.

Qin Ze took the fire-attribute flying sword from Sanmu’s guarded site and learned that it, Miss Sword Case, and the Soul Orbs of five suppressed Strange Beasts were key to ending everything. The Desolate God’s message pointed him toward Underworld Mountain.

• Qin Ze questioned Sanmu, who said the Desolate God had ordered him to guard the sword and told him to take it and slay Spirit Divination Stick.
• Spirit Divination Stick offered Qin Ze divinations and friendship in exchange for his freedom, but Qin Ze refused and said he would take his Soul Orb.
• Miss Sword Case sealed Qin Ze to the fire-attribute flying sword, and its sword intent resonated with his blue flames.
• Qin Ze saw a remnant of the Desolate God’s will, which said the five Strange Beasts, their Soul Orbs, and Sword Case were key to ending everything and directed him to Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze pulled the fire-attribute flying sword from Flesh and Blood.

Qin Ze and Sanmu fought Spirit Divination Stick after discovering he had amassed the Power of Faith, but his true body rose from Furnace Mountain when the sealing formation began to fail. Spirit Divination Stick tried to persuade Sanmu to abandon the fight, and Sanmu answered with a streak of cyan sword light.

• Qin Ze stabbed Spirit Divination Stick's Flesh and Blood with the fire-attribute flying sword, but Spirit Divination Stick unleashed the Fire of Faith and healed his wound.
• Sanmu revealed that Spirit Divination Stick had gained faith over more than a thousand years after teaching martial arts, and the two prepared to fight him alongside Miss Sword Case.
• As the Fire of Faith weakened the sealing formation, Sanmu teleported Qin Ze out of Furnace Mountain, which then rose as Spirit Divination Stick's true body.
• The Molten Steel People saw Furnace Mountain stand and wondered whether the revealed monster was their god, while Qin Ze realized the Flesh and Blood they had pierced had been its heart.
• Spirit Divination Stick urged Sanmu to leave the fight and praised him in his god's place, but a cyan sword light suddenly shot into the sky.

Qin Ze and Sanmu fought Spirit Divination Stick, whose lucky card draws gave him powerful abilities and a clone. Qin Ze joined the battle and used the Fog of War to summon an approaching Strange Beast, which Spirit Divination Stick mistook for an ally.

• Sanmu attacked Spirit Divination Stick after learning that Spirit Divination Stick had destroyed his home, and Spirit Divination Stick failed to talk him down.
• Spirit Divination Stick drew a gold card that created a copy of himself, then used cards to debuff and immobilize Sanmu.
• Qin Ze protected Sanmu from Spirit Divination Stick's fire attack, revealed the Source of God, and struck Spirit Divination Stick with the Sword Case while Sanmu fought the clone.
• Spirit Divination Stick drew more cards to strengthen himself and his clone while sealing Qin Ze's vital energy and poisoning him.
• Qin Ze cleansed the debuffs and spread the Fog of War, then Spirit Divination Stick spotted an approaching Strange Beast and welcomed it as a supposed ally.

Spirit Divination Stick used powerful cards to rewind the battlefield and raise a horde of corpses, but Qin Ze’s clones and allies fought them to a standstill. As the battle continued, Qin Ze learned that Spirit Divination Stick’s Fire of Faith could sustain his life, while Random Bro emerged from the passage beside a massive mass of flesh and blood.

• Brother Devour and Dharma King attacked Spirit Divination Stick, who trapped Brother Devour and turned Dharma King into a rooster with his cards.
• Spirit Divination Stick played a powerful card that rewound the surroundings to shortly after the Molten Steel People's settlement near Furnace Mountain was destroyed, then struck Qin Ze away.
• Sanmu told Qin Ze that Spirit Divination Stick’s random abilities had time limits and consumed his Source of Life, while the corpse soldiers rose to fight for him.
• Qin Ze summoned his clones, who joined his allies in battling the corpse horde until they stabilized the fighting.
• Spirit Divination Stick kept his distance and used cards to fend off Qin Ze, who learned from Sanmu that the Fire of Faith could replace the Source of Life.
• Random Bro fought his way out of a passage and found a huge pulsating mass of flesh and blood before him.

Random Bro reached the enemy’s fountain, and Qin Ze prepared him to use entropy stones when Spirit Divination Stick’s Fire of Faith weakened. Spirit Divination Stick drew another three-aspect card, transforming the battlefield into a blood-soaked, fog-covered land filled with monstrous figures.

• Random Bro offered to self-destruct inside the enemy’s fountain, but Qin Ze told him to save his entropy stones and wait for a signal.
• Qin Ze and Spirit Divination Stick continued fighting as the blue sun card slowed Spirit Divination Stick, while his attacks forced Qin Ze back.
• Qin Ze taunted Spirit Divination Stick about his dwindling forces and fading clone, urging him to draw another three-aspect card.
• Spirit Divination Stick drew the card, shrank to Qin Ze’s size, and transformed the surrounding land into rotting flesh beneath a vast gray fog.
• Enormous, misshapen figures began appearing within the fog.

Qin Ze used Random Bro’s entropy stone to interrupt Spirit Divination Stick’s attack, then struck him down with the Sword of the Three Phases. Spirit Divination Stick vanished, leaving a Soul Orb as Qin Ze pondered his warning that the rules would return to their places.

• Gray-mist projections of a battlefield from the war of the gods flooded the area, and Sanmu warned Qin Ze that they would soon disappear and could not be destroyed.
• Qin Ze pursued Spirit Divination Stick through the mist and struck him with Miss Sword Case as Spirit Divination Stick tried to flee toward the Gate of the Abyss.
• Random Bro detonated two tons of entropy stone inside Spirit Divination Stick, extinguishing the Fire of Faith at the core of his heart.
• Qin Ze brought down the Sword of the Three Phases, killing Spirit Divination Stick and carving a vast chasm through the battlefield.
• Qin Ze summoned Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb and remembered his warning that the rules would return to their places.

After Spirit Divination Stick’s clone fell, Sanmu confirmed the Soul Orb proved the original was dead and advised Qin Ze to pursue faith as a path to godhood. Sanmu then chose to wander the jianghu, while Qin Ze was left wondering where the surviving gods had gone.

• Random Bro emerged badly burned, demanded the Soul Orb, and waited for the battle to end after Qin Ze refused to hand it over.
• Sanmu cut Spirit Divination Stick’s clone in half, ending the battle and restoring the Ancient Battlefield as its projection vanished.
• Dharma King returned to normal, unleashed lightning, and got scorched by the five elements’ fire while the clones mocked him.
• Sanmu saw Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb and confirmed that he was truly dead, then told Qin Ze he had guarded him since before the Star Gate shattered.
• Sanmu advised Qin Ze that faith was important and might help him become a god; Qin Ze considered his existing and potential believers.
• Sanmu said he planned to wander the jianghu.

Sanmu said goodbye to Qin Ze and left to spend his remaining time exploring the new era. Qin Ze extinguished the fire above the Molten Steel World and brought rain, winning the Molten Steel People’s devotion, while their future forging offered him an idea.

• Sanmu told Qin Ze that his life was nearing its end, then bade farewell to him and Miss Sword Case before departing through the Gate of the Abyss.
• Qin Ze absorbed the Fire of the Five Elements from the sky, revealing sunlight over the Molten Steel World, then summoned rain that the Molten Steel People celebrated as a miracle.
• The Molten Steel patriarch declared that his people would follow the god, appointed Zhu Tie as their ambassador to the Sea of Glaze, and ordered the stranded Furnaces called home.
• Miss Sword Case gave the patriarch and Zhu Tie a flame seed so the Molten Steel People could keep forging without the sky fire.
• After hearing the Molten Steel People offer their forging skills, Qin Ze wondered whether Niuniu’s hide could be forged.

Qin Ze gave the patriarch two pieces of cowhide to forge into portable defensive demigod artifacts and marked him so he could make contact through divine power. Back outside the Shelter Space, Qin Ze guarded Random Bro as he absorbed the first Demigod Level Soul Orb, and Random Bro emerged as a Level Seven Martial Artist.

• Qin Ze asked the patriarch to forge two pieces of cowhide into easy-to-carry defensive equipment and ordered him to send the finished artifacts to the Sea of Glaze.
• Qin Ze left a divine mark in the patriarch's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness so the patriarch could contact him about important matters.
• Qin Ze praised Miss Sword Case's performance, then called Random Bro out to absorb Spirit Divination Stick's Soul Orb.
• Random Bro swallowed the Soul Orb, and the sun, moon, and stars surrounded him as its power washed over him.
• After absorbing the Soul Orb for a day and a night, Random Bro opened his eyes and released the aura of a Level Seven Martial Artist.

Random Bro gained Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb and became a Level Seven Advanced Martial Artist, but his first attempt at using his new random abilities turned him into a colorful rooster. Qin Ze learned how the Soul Orb’s card abilities worked and tried to contact Yan Miao, whose fate remained uncertain.

• Random Bro became a Level Seven Advanced Martial Artist after receiving Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb, and the clones jokingly proposed names for him.
• Random Bro named himself Magician, then transformed into a colorful rooster when his first Sun Card made him disappear.
• Qin Ze received Magician’s abilities and learned about the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Three-Phase Cards, including the Three-Phase Card’s power to reveal a random glimpse of fate.
• Magician said Spirit Divination Stick’s rule would return to him, while Miss Sword Case mistook the transformed Magician for a chicken and tried to clean and roast him.
• Qin Ze messaged Yan Miao on the Myriad Races Forum to ask about the water-attribute flying sword and the strange beast it had suppressed, but Yan Miao did not reply.
• Magician suggested that Qin Ze ask Second Sister at the Myriad Races Black Market to find out what happened to Daoist Miao.

Qin Ze tried to use the Magician’s divination to locate the missing flying swords, but the cards showed only mist and nearly drained the Magician’s life. Qin Ze set out with Miss Sword Case for the Myriad Races Black Market, where they planned to ask about her missing swords, while the Magician proposed a faster way to travel.

• Qin Ze asked the Magician to divine the locations of the missing flying swords, and the Magician’s cards revealed only swirling mist.
• The Magician’s divination consumed his life force until Qin Ze crushed the card, then gave him a Source Crystal to recover.
• Qin Ze told Miss Sword Case they were heading to the Myriad Races Black Market to ask about her missing swords, and she rode on his back as they left through the Gate of the Abyss.
• The clan chief watched Qin Ze depart, then ordered the Molten Steel People to fire up the furnace and begin smelting two cowhides.
• Qin Ze found an Abyss Puppet outside the Molten Steel World and used it to travel toward the Myriad Races Black Market.
• The Magician suggested drawing a teleportation skill to shorten their journey.

Magician opened a random spatial gate that dropped Qin Ze and the others into a vast exotic-beast horde. As they fought to escape, an SS-rank beast began devouring Mist Lord’s fog, while Spirit Clan scouts spotted them and sent a report to their superiors.

• Qin Ze gave Magician a Source Crystal, and Magician drew a spatial gate that took the group to an unknown location.
• Qin Ze and the others found themselves above a huge gathering of exotic beasts, which swarmed toward the Abyss Puppet.
• Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Mist Lord fought off the pursuing beasts as the Abyss Puppet charged through the horde.
• Qin Ze spotted an SS-rank toad-like beast devouring Mist Lord’s Fog of War and realized the group faced a grave threat.
• Two Spirit Clan scouts watched the group, and one of them went to report the outsiders controlling an Abyss Puppet.

Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings fought off swarms of exotic beasts while trying to keep the Abyss Puppet airborne. The Magician’s Star Cards repeatedly strengthened their enemies, and the chapter ended with an octopus explosion shattering most of the Abyss Puppet.

• Qin Ze enclosed the Abyss Puppet in the Shelter Space, but sound waves and Hunting Beasts battered it until he dropped the barrier and counterattacked.
• Qin Ze shielded the Heavenly Kings from a mental attack, then used a mental tsunami to expose and drive off the buzzing S-class exotic beast.
• Qin Ze used Void Traversal to move the Abyss Puppet, but the group remained trapped amid endless flying and ground-based exotic beasts.
• The Magician turned many flying exotic beasts into giant, plague-resistant creatures with a blue Sun Card, making the battle harder.
• Octopuses flew beneath the Abyss Puppet and began detonating themselves, while the Magician’s Star Card strengthened them and an explosion destroyed most of the platform.

Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings fought through the exotic beast tide after the Abyss Puppet was disabled, but hidden high-level beasts forced them into a ground battle. As they neared the edge of the territory, an SSS-rank humanoid exotic beast confronted Qin Ze about breaking an agreement.

• The Mist Lord shielded himself behind Brother Devour while the group fled the ground beasts’ fire, and Qin Ze’s first Skill of the God draw taunted the beasts into attacking A Bing.
• The Heavenly Kings discovered they were being drawn toward the ground, but a gravity attack pinned everyone except Qin Ze and crushed the nearby beasts.
• Qin Ze and the group fought their way across the ground, with Brother Devour leading, A Bing healing, and Dharma King clearing the air.
• A gravity field stopped the group near the territory’s edge, where the buzzing exotic beast and an SSS-rank humanoid beast appeared.
• The humanoid exotic beast addressed Qin Ze and asked whether he intended to break their agreement.