Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze’s clones delayed Libra long enough for Giant Overlord to confront him, but Libra escaped. Qin Ze learned from Fairy that Libra, Aquarius, and Capricorn were working together and had at most half a month left in that world, and he decided the final battle was approaching.

• Qin Ze’s clones attacked Libra with cannon-launched self-destructions, buying time as Libra destroyed them.
• Giant Overlord arrived and struck Libra with a red beam, but Libra injured his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and fled.
• Qin Ze arrived after the fight and asked whether the Spirit had been Aquarius or another Zodiac Sign.
• Gwenni reached the industrial district with a patrol, recognized that a clash had begun, and ordered a knight to stay by her side.
• Qin Ze contacted Fairy, who identified the Spirit as Libra and said Libra, Aquarius, and Capricorn worked together and would have to leave within half a month.
• Qin Ze told the Mist Lord that they had exposed themselves to create urgency and that the final battle was coming.

Libra devoured the prince’s soul and welcomed him into the spirits within his body. Aquarius learned that outsiders had arrived, but chose to continue her plan and hold the wedding in three days; Qin Ze later heard the wedding news.

• Libra hesitated outside the prince’s residence and contacted Aquarius before deciding what to do.
• Aquarius learned that unfamiliar martial artists, including a Level Seven Martial Artist, had arrived and suspected the Preacher had returned with reinforcements.
• Aquarius rejected the maid’s suggestion to withdraw and ordered her to proceed with the plan to hold the wedding in three days.
• Libra judged the prince’s soul, found it nearly devoid of goodness, and devoured him, adding him to the spirits inside his body.
• The prince awoke in a new body and began adjusting to it.
• Qin Ze heard from Thousand Faces that the prince’s wedding was set for three days later.

Qin Ze established a world for the Illusion Race’s Spirit Walkers and began cultivating them as believers. Three days later, he prepared to attend the prince’s wedding and coronation, which he expected to be the final battle.

• Qin Ze learned that the prince planned to marry, suspected Aquarius was behind the sudden wedding, and decided the wedding day would be the final battle.
• Qin Ze entered the world formed around the World Stone, inspected its stable environment, and allowed Miss Sword Case to release the Illusion Race’s Spirit Walkers there.
• The director and the Spirit Walkers knelt and thanked Qin Ze, becoming his believers and strengthening him slightly through their Power of Faith.
• Qin Ze left Daydream Seeds for the Spirit Walkers, obtained their cultivation method, and formed another Spirit Walker Cultivation Group for his clones.
• Three days later, Qin Ze dressed for the prince’s wedding and coronation in the subdued royal capital and prepared to attend the feast.

At the prince’s wedding, Aquarius revealed her healing power and promised to cure the royal capital’s epidemic, while Qin Ze and his clones watched from the feast. The healed patients suddenly began coughing and convulsing, leaving the apparent miracle in doubt.

• Aquarius arrived at the palace wedding, while Libra searched the venue for outsiders and waited as bait in the trap.
• Qin Ze and his clones attended the feast in disguise and argued over the food as the wedding ceremony began.
• The prince declared Aquarius an envoy of the gods and announced that she would cure the epidemic.
• Aquarius summoned falling ice crystals, and the rot on more than a dozen patients healed before the guests’ eyes.
• The guests knelt to Aquarius as she promised to treat the city, but the patients suddenly began coughing and convulsing.

Aquarius’s attempt to prove her divine power collapsed when the empress returned and the Circus exposed the impostors. As Aquarius fought back, the Captain plunged the Flying Circus Man through the Gate of the Abyss and charged at the advancing wreck ships.

• A Bing’s Crying Face Pollen worsened the patients’ symptoms, leaving Capricorn unable to heal them and Aquarius scrambling to maintain the guests’ faith.
• The empress arrived with a masked man, and Dharma King ordered the guests to bow as she declared that the gods had saved her and would cure the city.
• A Bing’s Smiley Face Pollen healed the residents and patients, and the empress ordered the knights to arrest the false divine envoys.
• Libra fled, while Dharma King subdued the knights; Aquarius raised herself on ice and ordered them to kill the empress.
• The Captain piloted the Flying Circus Man through the Gate of the Abyss as a blizzard sank the nearby vessels and shipwrecks advanced toward the royal capital.
• The Captain ordered the Flying Circus Man alongside the wreck ships despite Paopao’s advice to attack from range.

Captain and the Flying Circus Man destroyed Libra’s skeletal fleet before the Circus disrupted Aquarius’s wedding and confronted her. As Brother Devour and Qin Ze closed in on Aquarius, night fell and she revealed that the darkness was part of her plan.

• Captain led the Flying Circus Man through Libra’s skeletal fleet, blasting apart the warships and boarding the survivors’ ships.
• Captain ordered the ship toward the palace despite running out of cannonballs, while Libra decided to warn Aquarius to retreat.
• At the wedding venue, Qin Ze introduced the Circus performance, then purified the fanatics as Dharma King cleared the guests from the hall.
• Aquarius attacked the Circus with ice and snow, but Qin Ze, Brother Devour, and Dharma King fought back while Capricorn battled Dharma King.
• As Brother Devour and Qin Ze prepared to strike Aquarius from both sides, night fell over the royal capital and Aquarius declared that she had been waiting for it.

Aquarius used moonlight, blood, and ice to transform into a powerful winged form and battle Qin Ze. Qin Ze broke through her spatial restraint and drove his club toward her face.

• Aquarius's moonlight pinned Qin Ze and Brother Devour, then twisted Brother Devour until Qin Ze used Void Traversal to pull him away.
• Giant Overlord joined the fight as Aquarius cut open her back and drew moonlight into herself through the ice platform.
• Aquarius emerged from the blizzard with blood-red ice weapons, wings, and chains, while Qin Ze prepared to summon a god if needed.
• Qin Ze fought back with his enhancements, but Aquarius's moonlight halted his advance.
• Qin Ze broke free of the moonlight's restraint and thrust his huge club toward Aquarius's face.

Qin Ze and his allies fought Aquarius, whose moonlight-powered strength and Absolute Zero nearly froze Qin Ze. Qin Ze broke free and unleashed a devastating combination attack, but Aquarius survived, reclaimed her stolen Power of Faith, and declared the world hers.

• Qin Ze used the Fog of War to block the moonlight sustaining Aquarius, but she froze him with Absolute Zero.
• Aquarius stabbed Brother Devour and wounded Giant Overlord, while Brother Devour recovered enough to restrain her at the cost of his own life.
• Qin Ze escaped the ice using deep blue flames and struck Aquarius with a massive sword attack that shattered the Fog of War and Zero-Degree Domain.
• Thousand Faces stole Aquarius's Power of Faith, so she pulled a gemstone-set cane from her spine and erased the stealing hands.
• Aquarius fused the cane with her ice blade and declared that no one would lay a finger on her world.

Qin Ze was trapped by Libra’s Scales of Judgment, but his Spirit overwhelmed Libra’s and exposed how the ability worked. Libra broke the scales to escape, sacrificing much of his Spirit, and released the Spirits he had kept inside himself as Qin Ze’s dragon attacked.

• Aquarius told Libra to stall Qin Ze while she summoned the god, and Libra trapped Qin Ze on the Scales of Judgment and weakened his Spirit.
• Libra declared that the scales would weigh Qin Ze’s soul, but Qin Ze deduced that they actually compared the strength of each side’s Spirit.
• Qin Ze’s Spirit outweighed Libra’s, and Qin Ze’s giant hands began tearing at Libra’s Spirit.
• Libra shattered the scales to end the judgment, saving himself but falling from Peak of Level Eight to Early Level Eight.
• Qin Ze sent a great dragon after Libra, who released most of the Spirits he had been holding inside himself.

Qin Ze countered Libra’s horde of Spirits by summoning more than three hundred Spirit Walker clones, who overwhelmed them in battle. As the Spirits were defeated, Qin Ze formed a spiritual blade and prepared to face Libra.

• Libra’s Spirits swarmed and shattered Qin Ze’s dragon, then moved to surround him.
• Qin Ze opened Miss Sword Case and summoned more than three hundred Spirit Walker clones.
• The Spirits and Spirit Walker clones joked together and delayed fighting until Qin Ze forced them to clash.
• The Spirit Walker clones’ Self-Destruct Squad destroyed many low-level Spirits, and the experienced clones routed Libra’s forces.
• Qin Ze fixed his gaze on Libra and formed a spiritual blade in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

Qin Ze drove Libra to flee while Aquarius completed a ritual to summon her god, and Thousand Faces summoned Bull Head in response. As the two gods’ forces began clashing, the Captain arrived with a sailing battleship and opened fire on Bull Head’s Wandering Corps.

• Qin Ze’s mental blade pierced Libra as he escaped through a spatial gate, wounding him, while the Spirit Walker clones captured Big Bro.
• Aquarius completed her ritual, opened a giant spatial gate, and called on her lord to defeat the Circus intruders.
• Thousand Faces summoned Bull Head and claimed he had nearly died protecting his lord’s name, prompting Bull Head to send more Wandering Corpses through the gate.
• Aquarius and Thousand Faces’s Wandering Corps formed small Tides and began fighting before either god descended.
• The Captain arrived aboard a sailing battleship, fired on Bull Head’s Wandering Corps, and called on everyone to destroy the heretics.

The Flying Circus Man and its sailors attacked Bull Head’s forces while Thousand Faces fought them to buy time for Bull Head’s arrival. After Bull Head emerged through the spatial gate, He promoted Thousand Faces from Preacher to Battle General.

• The Flying Circus Man bombarded the Wandering Corpses as its sailors leapt into battle, shouting their loyalty to the president.
• Thousand Faces charged the sailors, who staged a fierce fight against him while Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case helped make the battle look real.
• The Captain ordered the sailors to retreat as Bull Head finished emerging, and the empress wondered whether the outsiders could save the Sea of Glaze.
• Bull Head praised Thousand Faces for his loyalty and announced that He would strengthen him and make him a Battle General.

The president confronted Bull Head, revealing a range of Zodiac abilities as they fought across the royal capital. Bull Head appeared to gain the upper hand and summoned a ring of flesh-like mountains around them.

• Thousand Faces pledged his loyalty to Bull Head as the president arrived through a spatial gate.
• Bull Head annihilated the area around the president, but a dark green glow shielded the president and Aquarius from his power.
• The president attacked Bull Head with abilities marked by the Pisces, Aries, and Taurus symbols, prompting Qin Ze to suspect the president had granted the Zodiac members their powers.
• Bull Head pierced the president's arms with a black-thread blade, but the president used Virgo's ability to make Bull Head pause and then countered with Aquarius's ice blades.
• The empress and Gwenni watched from outside the evacuated capital as Bull Head gained the advantage and raised a ring of flesh-like mountains around the fighters.

Bull Head defeated the president’s stitched-together Zodiac form and destroyed his projection, while Aquarius and Capricorn escaped through the closing spatial gate. After Bull Head ordered Thousand Faces to find his guide, Qin Ze launched a surprise attack on the royal capital.

• The president absorbed the Twelve Zodiac patterns and fought Bull Head in close combat, but Bull Head ultimately bound him and tore his projection apart.
• Aquarius fled through the spatial gate, and Capricorn teleported to it and slipped through just before it closed.
• Bull Head found a black bone among the president’s remains, swallowed it, and told Thousand Faces to find his guide.
• Qin Ze announced that it was time for his performance and descended from the clouds as a blue-flamed, six-armed giant wielding a bone sword.
• Thousand Faces tried to block Qin Ze’s attack, but Qin Ze swept him into the Sea of Glaze, enraging Bull Head.

Qin Ze defeated Niuniu and saved the Sea of Glaze, then planned to turn it into a Land of Faith. Meanwhile, the president learned that the Circus had appeared in another world and ordered Aquarius and Capricorn to visit Otherworld No. Zero after the others returned.

• Qin Ze split Niuniu in two, dispelled the gray fog, and saved the royal capital as the empress and knights praised him as a god.
• Qin Ze collected another piece of cowhide, while his clones joked about Niuniu and argued over whether to make soup with it.
• Thousand Faces left for the Abyss after meeting Qin Ze and the Captain, and Qin Ze told the Circus crew he planned to develop the Sea of Glaze into a Land of Faith.
• The president heard Capricorn's account of encountering the Circus, wondered whether Qin Ze had survived, and told Aquarius and Capricorn to rest before visiting Otherworld No. Zero when the others returned.

After saving the Sea of Glaze, Qin Ze left the empress with instructions to rebuild and defend her realm, then investigated reports of an anomaly in Otherworld No. Zero and the Spirit Clan’s forbidden book. He suspected the book’s scattered pages were connected to the missing portion of the Chronicle of Time, but remained unable to investigate in person.

• Qin Ze promised to protect the Sea of Glaze, marked the empress as his believer, and assigned her work to rebuild the capital, strengthen defenses, and train martial artists.
• Qin Ze read the Hunters’ chat group and learned that Penglai City had reassigned troops to Otherworld No. Zero after an unexplained anomaly.
• Qin Ze worried that the God of the Underworld might have awakened, but decided to trust that the situation was under control and focus on growing stronger.
• Qin Ze contacted Zi Yue on the Myriad Races Forum and learned that the Spirit Clan’s forbidden book consisted of scattered pages and that its contents could not be trusted.
• Qin Ze asked Zi Yue to tell him if the forbidden book was unsealed again and suspected it was connected to the missing portion of the Chronicle of Time.

After twenty days of secluded cultivation, Qin Ze reached Level Eight and reflected on the Sea of Glaze’s recovery and the progress of his allies. In the Abyss, Captain’s crew encountered a strange flying furnace whose workers appeared to be catching the wind.

• Qin Ze emerged from the Shelter Space as a Level Eight Martial Artist, while his exhausted clones complained about their cultivation workload.
• Qin Ze noted the Sea of Glaze’s rebuilding, Outpost City’s completion, the Illusion Race’s growing city, and the guarded entrance to Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze thought of Brother Yuanzi at the Hall of Stars and lost his appetite for the seafood feast.
• Captain led the Flying Circus Man’s crew through the Abyss, where they cleared nearby exotic beasts and collected Soul Orbs.
• Captain heard hammering in a canyon and ordered the crew to battle stations before a giant flying furnace came into view.
• Captain watched the furnace’s workers swing empty nets through the air and asked if they were catching the wind.

The Flying Circus Man encountered Zhu Shi’s Molten Steel Civilization exploration team in the Abyss, and the Captain agreed to escort them to Outpost City for a trade. Qin Ze recognized the danger posed by the powerful visitors, while Zhu Shi and his brother planned to gather ore and leave, still hoping to return home.

• The Flying Circus Man and the Molten Steel Civilization’s giant furnace spotted each other, and the Captain prepared the crew for a possible fight.
• Zhu Shi introduced himself and said his team meant no harm, then asked to trade food and ore for forged equipment.
• The Captain consulted Qin Ze, who approved the trade and ordered preparations at Outpost City; the Flying Circus Man turned back with the furnace following.
• Zhu Shi reported to his brother that the Captain was the only apparent threat, and his brother told him to fill the ore warehouse before leaving.
• Qin Ze assessed the Molten Steel Civilization’s exploration team as powerful enough to overwhelm the Sea of Glaze and warned himself that he would take their furnace if they acted dishonestly.

The empress visited the Molten Steel People’s furnace to inspect their weapons and discuss trade. Zhu Shi found the Sea of Glaze’s forces weak, but the empress refused to accept inferior equipment and declared that their god’s protection would let them survive in the Abyss.

• The empress ordered Gwenni to prepare a delegation and check the Sea of Glaze’s ore reserves for contact with the arriving civilization.
• Zhu Shi told his elder brother that the empress would tour the furnace, and suggested they could demand ore without paying; his brother insisted the Molten Steel People would follow their own code and leave once their stores were full.
• The empress crossed to the furnace with ministers, Gwenni’s knights, Captain, Dharma King, and clones, then introduced herself to Zhu Shi.
• Zhu Shi showed the delegation the furnace, its firebox, and its forges, explaining that the Molten Steel People could mass-produce Mid-Tier Martial Artifacts.
• Zhu Shi urged the empress to arm her weak army with the furnace’s weapons, but she rejected the equipment as junk and said the Sea of Glaze had a god’s protection.

Qin Ze and the Dharma King set out to pressure the Molten Steel people after Zhu Shi demanded excessive ore for their weapons. As a beast tide approached Outpost City, Qin Ze prepared a divine display, and thunderclouds gathered over the furnace.

• Miss Sword Case recognized the furnace fire as the Fire of the Five Elements and urged Qin Ze to find her fire-attribute flying sword.
• Qin Ze decided to give the Molten Steel people a shock of divinity, and the Dharma King left to carry out his plan.
• Zhu Shi showed the empress higher-grade weapons at steep prices, while the empress hesitated over the trade until Qin Ze told her to wait.
• A beast tide approached Outpost City, and the Dharma King revealed that he had driven about a hundred exotic beasts toward it.
• The empress declined Zhu Shi's offer to help defend the city, and thunderclouds gathered above the furnace as Qin Ze's golden lightning appeared.