Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze learned that Zi Yue and her companions had opened a passage to the Land of Origin, where a demon claw attacked the Spirit Energy Tower, and questioned Reborn No. 2 about the Illusion Race’s past. At night, Qin Ze used the red-eyed girl and Reborn No. 2 to draw the Dominator’s attention, entered the dream, and rushed toward the tower.

• Zi Yue told Qin Ze that a passage to the Land of Origin had appeared the previous night and that a demon claw attacked them as they tried to activate the Spirit Energy Tower.
• Qin Ze revealed he was not an Illusion Race member and questioned Reborn No. 2, who said he had entered the tower before the hunting plan and followed orders to activate the rebirth program.
• Reborn No. 2 explained that the Dream Management Department head and other Spirit Walkers had entered the tower but had not told them what was happening outside.
• Zi Yue said the passage vanished at dawn after a birdman entered and the black claw emerged, leading Qin Ze to suspect the passage existed in the dream.
• At night, Qin Ze tied the red-eyed girl and Reborn No. 2 to a cross, used them to attract the Dominator, then entered the dream and rushed out of the cathedral toward the Spirit Energy Tower.

Qin Ze reached the Spirit Energy Tower with Miss Sword Case and the Zi siblings, but a complete spatial passage opened above it and unleashed an attack from the Land of Origin. As the Dominator’s shadows fought the invading animal corpses, Birdman descended and confronted the hidden Love God.

• Qin Ze searched the forest for the passage and found the Zi siblings barred from entering the Spirit Energy Tower.
• A spatial vortex opened over the tower, and ability-wielding animal Wandering Corpses poured out as a voice called the hidden Love God to surrender.
• The Dominator’s ghostly shadows attacked the animal corpses, while Qin Ze rescued Zi Yue from the fighting and used the eye to show he had authorization to enter the tower.
• Zi Yue told Qin Ze the gate should have closed after someone crossed it, and Qin Ze surmised that Birdman had betrayed her by entering alone.
• Birdman descended from the vortex, blocked the Spirit Energy Tower’s soul-power attack, and declared that he would grant the Love God death.

The Dominator used the world’s rules to freeze everyone, but Miss Sword Case freed Qin Ze, Zi Yue, and Zi Liangchen by removing the blood-red eyes spreading across them. As the black angel fought the Dominator, Qin Ze entered the Spirit Energy Tower with the Dream God’s help, and Zi Liangchen and Zi Yue followed, leaving the red-eyed girl behind.

• The black angel’s scepter sealed the Spirit Energy Tower, and the Dominator rose from a vortex to confront him.
• The Dominator invoked the world’s rules, freezing the battlefield and causing blood-red eyes to grow across Qin Ze, Zi Yue, and Zi Liangchen.
• Miss Sword Case remained unaffected and gouged out the eyes on Qin Ze, then freed Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen; the eyes on the birdman burst and destroyed his body.
• The black angel reappeared, called the Dominator his creator, and unleashed a magic array that began melting the World Overlord.
• The Dream God told Qin Ze that his Source of God could break the tower’s seal, and Qin Ze opened the barrier and vanished into the tower’s beam of light.
• Zi Liangchen used his spatial ability to take Zi Yue into the beam, while the red-eyed girl arrived too late and cried out to be let in.

Qin Ze learned from the last director of the Dream Management Department why the Illusion Race had abandoned its plan to activate the Spirit Energy Tower and discovered that the Dream God had concealed the consequences. After Qin Ze threatened the survivors, the director agreed to take him to the sealed Dream God.

• Seven members of the Dream Management Department confronted Qin Ze, but his strength forced them to stand down.
• The director explained that killing the Dominator would also destroy the Illusion Race’s world, and that the Dominator had awakened early because so many people’s bodies had died.
• The director revealed that the Dream God had concealed the truth, and that the Illusion Race had imprisoned Him and used His power to cultivate.
• The director refused to take Qin Ze to the Dream God because opening the seal could doom them all.
• Qin Ze threatened the group with a dragon of blue flames, and the director agreed to lead him to the sealed place.
• The director led Qin Ze deeper into the tower’s world, where Qin Ze saw many young Spirit Walkers.

Qin Ze and the director met the Dream God beneath the Spirit Energy Tower and learned why the god had concealed the truth about the Dominator. The Dream God revealed that the Desolate God had entrusted them with a mission and gave Qin Ze a preserved, beating heart.

• The director told Qin Ze that the Illusion Race was proud of hunting the Dominator and would have resisted even if they had known the cost.
• Qin Ze and the director used a teleportation array to reach the Dream God beneath the Spirit Energy Tower.
• The Dream God apologized for hiding the truth, explaining that they feared the Illusion Race would abandon its hunt for the Dominator.
• The Dream God mistook Qin Ze for the Desolate God, then explained that they needed the Dominator's Relic to preserve something and had escaped from the Tomb of the Gods.
• The Dream God said they could finally complete the Desolate God's mission and presented Qin Ze with a beating heart.

Qin Ze absorbed the mysterious heart entrusted to the Dream God by the Desolate God, strengthening his body without learning its origin. The Dream God identified the Black Angel as the Goddess of Life and sought Qin Ze's help to save the Spirit Walkers with Miss Sword Case's aid.

• The Dream God explained that the Desolate God had left the unidentified heart for a future recipient and that Miss Sword Case marked Qin Ze as that recipient.
• Miss Sword Case vaguely recognized the heart and felt sorrow, but could not remember where she had seen it.
• Qin Ze absorbed the heart through the Source of God and gained a stronger physical body without advancing his cultivation or the Source of God's progress.
• The Dream God said the heart might be the key to ending everything and explained that the Spirit Energy Tower and his divine power could collapse the spatial passage.
• The Dream God identified the Black Angel as the Goddess of Life and admitted that he had slept through the events that transformed the Land of the Gods into the Abyss.
• The Dream God said the awakened Dominator had doomed the world and asked Qin Ze to help save the Spirit Walkers, explaining that Miss Sword Case made their rescue possible.

Qin Ze agreed to help the Illusion Race escape the Spirit Energy Tower by placing them in Miss Sword Case’s dreams until he could give them a new world. After the Dream God sacrificed his remaining divine power and vanished, Qin Ze became the Spirit Walkers’ new god and prepared to take them away.

• The Dream God explained that Miss Sword Case could hold the Spirit Walkers in a dream and that a World Stone could eventually create a small world for them.
• The Dream God spent his remaining divine power on the Spirit Walkers, then disappeared after telling Qin Ze that the Calamity of the Myriad Races was “a new beginning.”
• Qin Ze promised to take the Spirit Walkers away, and the department head declared him their new god.
• Miss Sword Case used a Daydream Seed to draw more than a hundred thousand Spirit Walkers into her sword case.
• Qin Ze reassured Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen, then invited the siblings to follow him while he dealt with trouble outside.

Qin Ze and Black Angel fought while Qin Ze’s allies held back a horde of mutated animal corpses. Qin Ze pulled the Spirit Energy Tower from the ground, preparing to use it against the spatial passage.

• Black Angel sealed the World Overlord inside a peach-tree array, then attacked Qin Ze when he refused to hand something over.
• Black Angel’s gray mist mutated the animal corpses, while Zi Liangchen teleported himself and his sister away and Qin Ze summoned the Mist Lord, Heavenly Kings, and clones to fight.
• Black Angel launched a time- and space-imbued spear at Qin Ze, but Brother Devour caught it and survived its strike before Giant Overlord sent it back.
• Qin Ze transformed into his exotic beast form and began pulling the Spirit Energy Tower from the ground, while Brother Devour and the clones shielded him from Black Angel’s spear rain.
• With Miss Sword Case’s blessings, Qin Ze finally tore the Spirit Energy Tower free of the earth.

Qin Ze fought the Black Angel while his allies weakened the World Overlord and helped him regain control of the world. He drove the Black Angel into the spatial passage and used the Spirit Energy Tower to seal it, but the enemy left him with a chilling warning.

• Qin Ze hurled the Spirit Energy Tower at the spatial passage, but the Black Angel blocked him with her laws and forced him out of Void Traversal.
• Qin Ze achieved sainthood in the flesh and broke through the spatial laws, while his clones and Brother Devour fought the respawning animals.
• Zi Yue revived the plants in the gray mist Domain, and Brother Devour unleashed pure white energy that destroyed the peach tree and weakened the World Overlord.
• Qin Ze struck the Black Angel's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, allowing the Dominator to reclaim control of the world's laws.
• Miss Sword Case used rushing water to destroy the blood-red eyes, and Qin Ze shoved the Black Angel and Spirit Energy Tower into the spatial passage.
• Qin Ze released the tower's soul power and the Dream God's power, collapsing the passage as the Black Angel warned that he could not protect anything.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case defeated the World Overlord and claimed its Relic. He learned that Thousand Faces had been incapacitated during an operation in the royal capital and prepared to go to the Sea of Glaze.

• Miss Sword Case protected Qin Ze while he summoned her bone sword and split the World Overlord's Domain with a powerful strike.
• Qin Ze's sword intent destroyed the World Overlord, leaving behind a black slime Relic that Qin Ze collected.
• Qin Ze praised Brother Devour as the operation's MVP, and Miss Sword Case happily accepted Qin Ze's explanation of the title.
• Captain reported that Thousand Faces had been struck stiff and would not wake, while Dharma King suspected a royal family traitor had helped the Preacher.
• Qin Ze ordered the clones to protect Thousand Faces, told Dharma King to take the World Stone into the Abyss, and planned to go to the Sea of Glaze.
• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze that daybreak had come and he was about to wake up.

Dharma King moved the World Stone toward the Abyss while the Captain took the unconscious Thousand Faces to the ship. Qin Ze escaped the collapsing Illusion Race world with Reborn No. 2 and sent its homeless villagers toward the Sea of Glaze, then turned to address the brother and sister.

• Dharma King shocked Thousand Faces with Palm Thunder, then he and the Captain carried him to the military harbor and moved the World Stone toward the Abyss.
• The prince watched the World Stone leave and learned that the woman beside him had made a move; she agreed to help him claim the throne while privately showing her disdain.
• Qin Ze woke in the collapsing Illusion Race world, escaped the cathedral with Reborn No. 2, and used Void Traversal to get them out before the world vanished.
• The shaman and villagers asked Qin Ze for guidance, and he gave them the Sea of Glaze's coordinates so they could find refuge there.
• Qin Ze dismissed the Local Area Network's silly suggestions for his divine name, and the shaman led the villagers toward the Sea of Glaze.
• Qin Ze turned to the brother and sister and told them it was their turn.

Qin Ze questioned Zi Yue about the forbidden book that taught her how to open a spatial passage to the Land of Origin, then left with new suspicions about its origins. As he headed toward the Sea of Glaze, Miss Sword Case asked whether they could still reach the Land of Origin.

• Zi Yue recognized Qin Ze, but he insisted he was the sword cultivator Lin Zhiyuan and denied knowing her.
• Zi Yue revealed that a sealed forbidden book in the Spirit Clan had briefly shown her how to open a spatial passage to the Land of Origin, and Qin Ze offered her a favor for investigating its origins.
• Zi Yue explained that she had opened the passage with help from a World Overlord, and Qin Ze warned her not to risk opening unknown passages again.
• Qin Ze had Reborn No. 2 leave the red-eyed man's body, and Miss Sword Case swallowed the Spirit Walker so the man could recover.
• Qin Ze told Zi Yue to contact him through the Myriad Races Forum, then left as Zi Yue and her companions returned home empty-handed.
• While traveling toward the Sea of Glaze, Qin Ze wondered whether the forbidden book was connected to another god's Chronicle of Time, and Miss Sword Case asked if they could still go to the Land of Origin.

Qin Ze weighed the risks of reopening the path to the Land of Origin, consumed the Illusion Race Dominator's Relic, and continued reading the Chronicle of Time. The diary revealed the Desolate God had created the Abyss Puppets and planned to reforge the Star Gate to counter the growing Strange Beast Gods.

• Qin Ze decided not to test Zi Yue's method of opening the spatial passage because it might require sacrificing a world, and he worried that the rabbit could damage the Divine Tree.
• Qin Ze ate the Illusion Race Dominator's Relic, raising the Source of God's progress from sixty-five to seventy percent.
• Qin Ze found ten pages missing from the Chronicle of Time between year 2,700 and year 12,800, including the Desolate God's decision about the Goddess of Life.
• Qin Ze read that the Desolate God had designed the Abyss Puppets, whose repeated revivals came from the Goddess's divine power.
• Qin Ze learned that the Desolate God intended to reforge the Star Gate because the Strange Beast Gods were multiplying by harvesting faith.

Qin Ze read the Desolate God's notes about reforging the Star Gate into a passage for the myriad races and traced the risks and experiments behind its screening system. The notes ended with the Desolate God announcing that he had found a successful method.

• Qin Ze read that the Desolate God planned to use the Sword Case as the new Star Gate's foundation and enlist the goddess to create its operating rules.
• Qin Ze deduced that the Desolate God may have made himself the gate's screening rule, and suspected Strange Beasts later destroyed the completed Star Gate.
• The Desolate God met the Dream God and used a Daydream Seed to lure him away while studying a dream-based screening method.
• The Desolate God discovered that a Strange Beast with an ability like the Love God's could disrupt dream control, making the method unreliable.
• The Desolate God recorded that he had developed a successful screening method for the Star Gate.

Qin Ze and his companions withdrew from the Sea of Glaze after suspecting enemies had infiltrated the royal family, then reunited with the Flying Circus Man. Qin Ze rescued Thousand Faces from a drop of water placed in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, and Thousand Faces woke up.

• Qin Ze reviewed clues about the gods and wondered about Daoist Miao while his heart restored his Source of Life.
• Dharma King told Qin Ze that the group had left the Sea of Glaze to avoid their hidden enemy, and Qin Ze agreed with the retreat.
• Qin Ze learned that the empress and some ministers had urged the group to stay, while the Captain waited for Qin Ze to return and help confront the suspected fanatics.
• Two days later, Qin Ze reunited with the Flying Circus Man and went with the Captain to check on Thousand Faces.
• Qin Ze found an evil-god drop of water suppressing Thousand Faces's Spirit, then sent a small golden dragon to consume it and free him.
• Thousand Faces woke up and asked whether someone had been barbecuing in the cabin.

Qin Ze and his allies returned to the Sea of Glaze to track down a level-nine Preacher, only to find the royal capital devastated by an epidemic. Qin Ze identified Capricorn as the source and suspected other members of the Twelve Zodiac Signs were involved.

• Thousand Faces described his failed fight against a level-nine female Preacher, whom he could no longer track after she learned he was a Preacher.
• Qin Ze ordered Captain and the Flying Circus Man to remain behind as support while he led the others through the Gate of the Abyss into the Sea of Glaze.
• Qin Ze and his group found the royal capital deserted and its factories silent, while Captain mourned the city’s decline.
• At a tavern, Qin Ze learned that an epidemic had spread through the capital since the outsiders’ ship left and that the Empress was gravely ill.
• The legendary Preacher told Qin Ze that the patients carried Disease Spores, and Qin Ze recognized Capricorn’s involvement and suspected Aquarius and other old enemies might also be there.

Qin Ze sent Thousand Faces to deliver Smiley Face Pollen to the infected empress while Capricorn and Aquarius prepared to seize control of the royal capital. The empress received the flowers, unaware that they might offer a cure.

• Qin Ze told Thousand Faces to visit the empress and bring her a bouquet, then left to challenge Capricorn and the others at long range.
• Aquarius ordered the shape-shifting Spirit to help with her plans, while Capricorn reported that his disease would soon give them control of the royal capital.
• Aquarius and Capricorn outlined their plan to make her empress by curing the people after the royal family had been eliminated.
• The empress, weakened by Capricorn's disease, dismissed her physicians and suspected a powerful enemy had come to the Sea of Glaze.
• A palace maid brought the empress a bouquet of flowers, each with a smiling face at its center.

The empress recovered from the plague after receiving a strange flower from the outsiders and agreed to fake her death to draw out those behind the outbreak. As her funeral began, Qin Ze and the Captain prepared to act against the force controlling the royal capital.

• The empress saw the flower cure her pustules, found the message “play dead” in its vase, and realized the outsiders had returned with a plan.
• The empress summoned Gwenni, told her the outsiders wanted her to fake her death, and ordered her to arrange a funeral that would keep everyone away.
• The palace announced the empress’s death, and mourners filled the streets of the royal capital.
• Qin Ze told the impatient Captain to wait while Thousand Faces confirmed that A Bing’s pollen had cured the empress and that she had summoned Gwenni.
• Qin Ze decided to help the enemy seize control of the royal family’s upper ranks and wondered whether they would install a puppet or take the throne themselves.

Qin Ze and Thousand Faces planned to summon Bull Head against the president after Aquarius revealed her Martial Soul True Body, while Qin Ze sent his clones out disguised as women. After the empress died unexpectedly and the wedding was postponed, Aquarius ordered the Spirit to take care of the prince.

• Thousand Faces explained that the president had stolen his power and agreed to summon Bull Head using the Power of Faith he had saved.
• Qin Ze told Thousand Faces to prepare the summoning ritual for after he forced Aquarius to reveal her Martial Soul True Body.
• Qin Ze let his clones leave the inn in women's clothes so they could scout without drawing attention to their height.
• A Spirit told Aquarius that the empress had died, and Capricorn admitted that his Disease Spores had caused her death.
• A maid told Aquarius that the prince had postponed the wedding, and Aquarius ordered the Spirit to take care of him.

Aquarius ordered Spirit to kill another target, then promised to consider sharing some of her Spirit so he could break through. On his way to the prince’s residence during the citywide curfew, Spirit encountered a group of clone girls who attacked him, and they launched one of their own at him from a cannon.

• Aquarius froze Spirit until he agreed to carry out one last killing, then said she would consider giving him some of her Spirit afterward.
• Capricorn left to prepare for the wedding, while Aquarius scarred her own back with an icicle in the frost-covered room.
• Spirit drifted toward the prince’s residence as the curfew left the city deserted and the voices inside him bickered.
• Spirit collided with a strange woman, who called him an elite mob and blew herself up to alert her allies.
• More than a dozen clone girls surrounded Spirit, and after he blasted apart the front attackers, they fired one of their own at him from a cannon.