Chapter Summaries

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.

Qin Ze fought Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen in a vivid dream where they mistook him for the tower guardian. As the forest went berserk and someone approached, Miss Sword Case realized that the intruders were not people from Qin Ze's dream.

• Zi Yue attacked Qin Ze, who caught her kicks and blocked her strikes with Miss Sword Case before Zi Liangchen appeared and joined the fight.
• Zi Yue weakened Qin Ze while Zi Liangchen attacked with a scythe, but Qin Ze dispelled the effect, dodged through space, and struck back with blue flames.
• Zi Yue mistook Qin Ze's abilities for those of the tower guardian, and the Night Clan girl darkened the surroundings with Night Falls.
• Qin Ze unleashed a wave of blue fire that tore through the darkness, while his clones criticized the move.
• Zi Liangchen returned carrying an unconscious red-eyed man and warned the others to get into the tower as the forest went berserk.
• Miss Sword Case realized that Zi Yue and the others were not people from Qin Ze's dream.

Qin Ze discovered that everyone shared a dream linked to the Spirit Energy Tower, then fought an Evil God's projection attacking it. The dream ended at dawn, leaving Qin Ze unsure whether he had truly awakened.

• Miss Sword Case explained that Qin Ze and the others were sharing a dream connected to the Spirit Energy Tower.
• Zi Liangchen and the girls attacked Qin Ze, but the Spirit Energy Tower swept their attacks away.
• A demon's claw emerged from the forest and struck at the tower, and the Dream God warned Qin Ze to stop an Evil God's revival.
• Qin Ze and Zi Liangchen worked together to crush the claw while the girl blessed them.
• The dream collapsed as dawn arrived, and Qin Ze woke beneath a tree and asked Miss Sword Case whether he was awake.

Qin Ze learned that the Illusion Race’s enemies planned to sacrifice their world to open a passage to the Land of Origin, and set out for the cathedral to meet Reborn Number Two. Meanwhile, Thousand Faces arrived at the Sea of Glaze and joined the Captain and Dharma King to investigate a suspected Preacher.

• Qin Ze questioned whether the Dream God had been absorbing the villagers’ soul power to heal his wounds, while Miss Sword Case said she did not know the god.
• Qin Ze contacted Reborn Number Two, who revealed that the enemies had connected through the Dominator to the Goddess of Life and planned to sacrifice the Illusion Race’s world to reach the Land of Origin.
• Reborn Number Two told Qin Ze to head north from the Spirit Energy Tower and reach the cathedral before dark so they could stop the enemies from entering the tower.
• Qin Ze set off north with Miss Sword Case on his back, while she said she might remember why she wanted to reach the Land of Origin once they arrived.
• Thousand Faces reached the Sea of Glaze, where the Captain and Dharma King asked him to help investigate suspected fanatics, and he sensed a Preacher in the royal capital.

Qin Ze reached the cathedral where Reborn No. 2 had been captured and found Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen waiting to ambush him. He broke their spatial confinement and attacked them, intending to force the three to cooperate and settle the previous night’s score.

• Qin Ze sent clones to search the northern ruins as the forest grew increasingly active around him.
• Qin Ze crossed a hellish forest, blinded its watching eyes with a flash, and punched through a wall of eye-covered ivy.
• Qin Ze found Reborn No. 2 bound to a cross inside a cathedral, where the captive managed to warn him to run.
• Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen appeared and trapped Qin Ze with spatial confinement, but Qin Ze broke free through sheer physical strength.
• Qin Ze struck the upside-down red-eyed girl with a fist blast, then swung Miss Sword Case into Zi Liangchen and prepared to attack Zi Yue.

Qin Ze subdued Zi Liangchen, Zi Yue, and the red-eyed girl, then questioned them about their nights and their search for the Land of Origin. The red-eyed girl revealed that the missing birdman had gone to the Land of Origin.

• Qin Ze emerged unharmed after the group attacked him, then tossed Zi Liangchen and the red-eyed girl into a pit and made Zi Yue jump in after them.
• Qin Ze questioned the group while holding a boulder over them, and Zi Yue explained that her Martial Artifact helped people dream safely at night.
• The red-eyed girl said they had discovered the second reincarnator's body had been taken over after he left the Martial Artifact's range, and that they had pretended not to notice.
• Zi Yue said they had come to find a path to the Land of Origin after learning the Dominator had awakened, but she was unsure whether they had opened a path.
• When Qin Ze asked where the Cloud Clan birdman was, the red-eyed girl revealed that he had gone to the Land of Origin.