Chapter Summaries

Preacher unleashed Wandering Corpses and gray fog across Snow City, prompting Qin Ze and Saber King to fight back. Qin Ze and the Hunters contained the fog’s spread while Saber King continued his battle with Preacher.

• Saber King cut down Wandering Corpses pouring from a painting, but they reassembled as the gray fog spread from the factory toward Snow City.
• Qin Ze discovered that the Wandering Corpses carried the gray fog and that stopping them stalled its advance.
• Qin Ze used Miss Sword Case to smash the Wandering Corpses and held the fog at bay while Saber King fought Preacher.
• Slacking on the Sidelines, the Hunters, and the inspectors arrived, then formed a defensive line and restrained fanatics who became infected.
• Lu Tongtong helped Qin Ze’s group cut down Wandering Corpses, and Qin Ze prepared to join Saber King in the fight against Preacher.

The Preacher explained his plan to use the Lord’s power to kill the Saber King and the human world’s incomplete god, then leave the clone to continue his mission. The clone learned that the plan depended on an exceptionally hidden connection to the Divine Domain.

• The Saber King pressed the Preacher in battle while Wandering Corpses continued emerging from the painting, and the Preacher refused to let him reach it.
• The Preacher told the believer clone that he would sacrifice the collected Power of Faith, borrow the Lord’s power, and return to the Divine Domain afterward.
• The Preacher explained that he had discovered the human world’s incomplete god and intended to kill him and the Saber King before making the clone his successor.
• The clone pretended to accept the mission and asked how the Preacher planned to slay a god.
• The Preacher revealed that the Lord’s power required an active connection to the Divine Domain, and the clone silently noted the weakness.

The Preacher transformed into a towering Abyss-like beast using the power granted by the lord and battled the Saber King. Though the Saber King nearly split him apart, the Preacher trapped him in draining tentacles, just as Qin Ze arrived to help.

• The Preacher invoked the lord’s power and transformed as the Saber King attacked through his defenses.
• The Saber King fought the Preacher’s monstrous form, broke through his body, and nearly severed his head.
• The Preacher revealed hidden tentacles rooted underground, trapped the Saber King, and began draining his energy while healing.
• Qin Ze called out and plunged toward the Preacher like a golden meteor.

Qin Ze and Saber King fought Preacher amid the gray fog, trying to overcome his rapid regeneration and uncover his connection to the Divine Domain. Qin Ze finally knocked Preacher aside and got a clear view of the floor-length painting.

• Qin Ze struck Preacher with Miss Sword Case and stunned him with golden lightning, giving Saber King a chance to escape the tentacle cage and slash Preacher's head.
• Preacher's exposed head revealed a mass of wriggling dark red worms, but the gray fog quickly repaired his wound as he attacked Qin Ze and Saber King with thorny tentacles.
• Qin Ze and Saber King coordinated their attacks, and Qin Ze used Gigantification to smash Preacher's head, destroying many of the worms and weakening his regeneration.
• Qin Ze moved toward the floor-length painting, but Preacher blocked his way with tentacles and turned to shield the painting.
• Qin Ze coated Miss Sword Case in golden Divine Markings and hurled her into Preacher, knocking him aside and revealing the painting.

Qin Ze discovered that dark red maggots flowing from the painting connected the Preacher to the Divine Domain and powered his regeneration. He severed the connection, leaving the Preacher pinned and badly weakened while the clone received a wooden walking stick.

• Qin Ze realized the Preacher's head healed more slowly than his limbs, and he told the Saber King to destroy it.
• The Saber King cracked open the Preacher's head, confirming that its regeneration slowed when the dark red maggots inside were damaged.
• Qin Ze spotted chains of maggots flying from the painting into the Preacher's brain and told the Saber King to pull him away from it.
• Qin Ze smashed the maggot formation with Miss Sword Case, cutting off the Preacher's connection to the Divine Domain.
• The Saber King pinned the weakened Preacher with relentless attacks while Qin Ze destroyed the incoming maggots.
• The Preacher told the clone that Qin Ze had found his connection, then gave the clone a wooden walking stick.

The believer clone accepted the Preacher’s ruby-topped cane and was carried out of the gray fog in a black egg, while the Preacher stayed behind to fight Qin Ze and the Saber King. The Preacher unleashed a final attack with exploding bugs, and Qin Ze heard the Lord ask whether the Star Gate had been reshaped.

• The Preacher gave the believer clone the cane and named him the new Preacher, but Thousand Faces and the others warned him not to absorb the Lord’s mark until Qin Ze could protect him.
• The believer clone persuaded the Preacher to let the black egg carry him away, then promised to pass on his loyalty to the Lord as he escaped toward the Ring Mountains.
• The Saber King tore into the Preacher while Qin Ze destroyed the bugs emerging from the painting, and the Preacher admitted that Qin Ze had discovered his weakness.
• The Preacher’s bugs swarmed over him and self-destructed, blasting the Saber King back and pushing Qin Ze toward the painting.
• Qin Ze blocked the bugs with a wall of lightning, then heard a voice ask whether the Star Gate had been reshaped as he looked into the painting’s blood-red eyes.

Qin Ze resisted the evil god’s attempt to seize him through the painting and struck it hard enough to escape its gray-fog realm. As the fog withdrew, Preacher lost control and exploded, while Saber King shielded Qin Ze from the blast.

• The evil god dragged Qin Ze’s Spirit into a gray-fog realm, questioned how he had obtained Divinity, and warned that its forces would attack again.
• Qin Ze activated his buffs and struck the evil god with a divine-powered punch, cracking the realm and returning to Miss Sword Case.
• The painting stopped releasing bugs, the fog receded, and the Wandering Corpses could no longer revive.
• Qin Ze told Preacher that his master had abandoned him while Saber King fought the giant slime-like follower.
• Preacher broke down, then swelled and exploded; Saber King stepped in front of Qin Ze as the blast closed in.

Qin Ze and the Saber King defeated the Preacher, and Qin Ze received the Relic that appeared from the Preacher’s body. After promising to purify the fanatics Law Enforcement had gathered, Qin Ze learned that the World Overlord was growing more active and returned to the Circus’s base with the Relic.

• The Saber King protected Qin Ze from the Preacher’s blast, and the Preacher died as the area was reduced to a crater.
• The Saber King gave Qin Ze the Preacher’s Relic and explained that he trusted him because the Grand Consul had vouched for him.
• The Saber King said Law Enforcement had tracked down people exposed to the Preacher and sent suspected fanatics to Snow City for Qin Ze to purify.
• Qin Ze met Lu Tongtong and the Hunters, told them the Preacher was dead, and asked the Taoist to alert him when the World Overlord showed signs of awakening.
• The Hunters split up to return to their duties, while Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A decided to visit Penglai City.
• Qin Ze returned to the Circus’s base with the Relic and found the believer clone showing off a cane.

Qin Ze absorbed the Preacher’s Relic and read more of the Chronicle of Time, learning that the gods were losing their war against the Strange Beast gods. The latest entry revealed that Old Huang had been imprisoned.

• The Believer Clone rallied the other clones around the Preacher’s staff while Qin Ze returned and went upstairs with Miss Sword Case.
• Miss Sword Case asked Qin Ze to stop using her as a weapon, but he persuaded her that fighting alongside him would bring her closer to the Land of Origin.
• Qin Ze absorbed the Preacher’s Relic, raising the Source of God’s progress from fifty-five percent to sixty percent.
• Qin Ze read the Chronicle of Time and learned that the gods were losing the war against the Strange Beast gods and conscripting living beings from many worlds.
• Qin Ze turned to the next entry and read that Old Huang had been imprisoned in divine calendar year 2455.

Qin Ze read the Desolate God's diary and learned how the gods imprisoned him for proposing to destroy the Star Gate. After escaping with the God of War's key, the Desolate God shattered it, but its fragments gathered and formed a Sword Case.

• The Desolate God recorded that Strange Beast Gods were spreading and that the gods rejected his proposal to destroy the Star Gate, then imprisoned him.
• The Desolate God described years of isolation, while the God of War told him Strange Beasts were searching for the Land of Origin and the Goddess of Life had disappeared there.
• The God of War fell asleep by the door with the key on his belt, allowing the Desolate God to escape the Cage.
• The Desolate God reached the Star Gate, defeated its guards, and shattered it with ten punches.
• The Star Gate's fragments gathered together and gave birth to a Sword Case.

After reading the Chronicle of Time, Qin Ze connected Miss Sword Case to the Star Gate and reconsidered the Desolate God’s role in the coming calamity. He went downstairs to deal with the Preacher’s cane and discovered that it irresistibly tempted him with the power inside it.

• Qin Ze concluded that Miss Sword Case had been born from the Star Gate and that the evil god’s references to “him” meant the Desolate God.
• Qin Ze speculated that the Desolate God had done something beyond destroying the Star Gate, and that the current Calamity of the Myriad Races might be the evil gods’ planned revival.
• Miss Sword Case said she might regain abilities if Qin Ze helped her find the Five Elements Flying Swords, so Qin Ze planned to visit the Myriad Races Black Market.
• Qin Ze punched the Believer Clone through the door after it interrupted his reading, then went downstairs to retrieve the Preacher’s cane.
• Thousand Faces handed Qin Ze the cane, and Qin Ze felt an irresistible craving for the power inside it.

Qin Ze gave the Preacher's staff to Thousand Faces after deciding the Believer Clone could not withstand its evil-god imprint. Thousand Faces became the staff's new Preacher and returned with a warning that the new god was too powerful to confront.

• Qin Ze decided the Believer Clone could not use the staff because of the evil-god imprint, and consoled him by promising to consider him for the next S-rank Soul Orb.
• Thousand Faces volunteered to test the staff, and Qin Ze handed it to him while Brother Devour and Dharma King prepared to intervene if anything went wrong.
• The staff's ruby sent a mental shockwave into Thousand Faces and surrounded him with gray fog that resonated with his strange-beast body.
• Thousand Faces's Spirit reached the Divine Domain, where the bull-headed evil god accepted him as a Preacher and gave him power in exchange for gathering faith.
• The evil god warned Thousand Faces to leave his world and avoid the new god, then Thousand Faces returned and introduced himself as the legendary Preacher.

Thousand Faces became a clearheaded Preacher and set out to hunt the evil god’s other Preachers. Qin Ze decided to head for the Myriad Races Black Market to find the Five Elements Flying Swords, and a forum reply suggested someone might have one.

• Thousand Faces demonstrated that he could command fanatics through his cane, and Qin Ze purified a clone who had been made to worship the evil god.
• Thousand Faces explained that the evil god’s mark had merged with his consciousness, letting him retain his personality and cleanse believers of Corruption.
• Thousand Faces sensed the locations of Niuniu God’s other two Preachers and left alone to hunt them and collect their Power of Faith.
• Qin Ze chose to visit the Myriad Races Black Market before the lost world because the Five Elements Flying Swords might be sold there.
• Qin Ze posted anonymously on the Myriad Races Forum seeking five-element flying swords, and Daoist Miao replied that he had one.

Qin Ze arranged to inspect Daoist Miao’s water-attribute flying sword and then traveled to the Abyss with Miss Sword Case to search for her Five Elements Flying Swords. At Penglai City, he found the city under beast-tide attack and headed to Sector C2 to visit Lu Tongtong and the other members of the professional team.

• Qin Ze arranged to meet Daoist Miao at the Myriad Races Black Market to inspect the water-blue flying sword.
• Qin Ze told Lao Dao that the Corruption of the fanatics had been dealt with, while the Captain described helping another race repel a beast tide and collecting Soul Orbs.
• Qin Ze promised the clones he might take them to visit the Captain if they trained and behaved, then set out with Miss Sword Case to find her Five Elements Flying Swords.
• Qin Ze entered the Abyss using the Grand Consul’s token and reached Penglai City, where soldiers were fighting a beast tide.
• Qin Ze learned that Lu Tongtong’s internship team was at Sector C2 and found two familiar figures among the interns there.

Qin Ze arrived at the forward positions on the Grand Consul’s orders to investigate an epidemic spreading among soldiers. After finding no cause among the quarantined patients, he discovered Fatty and the rest of the Professional Team in a tent.

• Huai Xu and Wen Jing hauled exotic beast corpses to be burned, then learned Qin Ze was investigating the epidemic for Law Enforcement.
• A soldier escorted Qin Ze to the commander, who reported that the illness had spread rapidly across the positions and was worse at the front.
• Qin Ze questioned the commander about the patients’ symptoms and began investigating with the troops’ cooperation.
• Qin Ze examined several quarantined patients but found only cold-like symptoms and nothing abnormal with the Source of God.
• Qin Ze entered another tent and found Fatty lying sick in bed with Lu Tongtong and the other members of the Professional Team gathered around him.

Qin Ze investigated Fatty’s illness at the forward positions, but found no sign that it came from an evil god and learned that exotic beasts did not carry human-affecting viruses. The cause remained unknown until Huai Xu revealed that he had heard a strange sound in the sky at dawn for the past week.

• Qin Ze examined Fatty and used divine light on him, but found nothing unusual and only gave him temporary relief.
• Lu Tongtong and Wen Jing urged Fatty to return to Penglai City, but he refused and chose to stay at the forward positions.
• Qin Ze questioned Miss Sword Case and Saber King about the epidemic, but neither gave him a lead.
• Qin Ze asked Daoist Miao whether exotic beasts carried viruses, and Daoist Miao said they did not.
• As artillery sounded during another exotic beast attack, Huai Xu told Qin Ze he had heard a strange sound in the sky at dawn for the past week.

Qin Ze investigated Huai Xu’s report of a strange sound at dawn and uncovered signs linking the regular exotic beast attacks, an unusual breeze, and the spreading epidemic. As dawn arrived, Qin Ze and the professional team waited to hear the sound, but artillery fire broke out at the front.

• Huai Xu told Qin Ze that his Eagle Eye ability let him hear a strange sound at dawn that others could not detect.
• Qin Ze questioned soldiers at the front and learned that a gentle wind and regularly timed exotic beast attacks had appeared in recent days.
• The officer told Qin Ze that critically ill patients in Penglai City had begun recovering without treatment and that more Hunting Beasts had appeared near the positions.
• Qin Ze suspected the epidemic and the strange signs were connected to the exotic beasts, then returned to the position and asked Huai Xu to wait for dawn with him.
• Lu Tongtong, Wen Jing, and Fatty joined Qin Ze and Huai Xu, but as dawn broke, artillery fire from the forward position shattered the stillness.

Qin Ze discovered that Hunting Beasts had been opening hidden spatial passages above the position to spread an illness among the martial artists. After exposing the scheme, he warned that an all-out attack was approaching and set out to find the exotic beast responsible.

• Huai Xu heard a faint noise above the position, and Qin Ze recognized it as the sound of Hunting Beasts traversing the void.
• Qin Ze intercepted a Hunting Beast in a spatial passage and killed it after predicting where it would reappear.
• Qin Ze struck the sky with Miss Sword Case, breaking open hidden spatial passages and revealing several fleeing Hunting Beasts.
• Qin Ze explained that exotic beasts had used the passages to spread a disease that weakened martial artists' immune systems.
• The commander said he would report the scheme to Penglai City, and Qin Ze said they needed to find the hidden exotic beast.

Qin Ze searched for the S-rank beast spreading illness around Penglai City while his clones scouted the surrounding area. After Brother Devour realized the beast might be in the sky, a clone reported finding an old beast acquaintance.

• Qin Ze told Saber King what he had learned, and Saber King tasked him with finding the beast and holding out until reinforcements arrived.
• Qin Ze left Lu Tongtong, Fatty, Wen Jing, and Huai Xu to rest, then flew off to hunt the beast.
• Qin Ze placed wards around Penglai City and sent his clones to search in every direction.
• As night fell, the clones had found no sign of the beast, and Brother Devour suggested it might be in the sky.
• A clone announced that he had encountered an old beast acquaintance.

Qin Ze tracked the little octopuses that had been killing his clones and forced their hidden SS-rank parent to reveal itself. The giant octopus then used its power to surround Qin Ze with an enormous horde of exotic beasts.

• A clone reported encountering a familiar little octopus before it exploded against his face and killed him, leading Qin Ze to investigate.
• Qin Ze found the clone’s bloodstain, and clones nearby reported that little octopuses had killed them as well; Miss Sword Case and Qin Ze sensed they were being watched.
• Little octopuses attacked Qin Ze, but he destroyed them and the low-level exotic beasts drawn by the battle.
• Qin Ze challenged the hidden giant octopus to reveal itself, and it emerged from ripples in space as an SS-rank exotic beast.
• The giant octopus spread ripples around Qin Ze and made countless exotic beasts appear, surrounding him on the plain.