Chapter Summaries

The empress’s display of divine power wiped out most of the approaching beast horde and convinced Zhu Shi and the molten-steel people to reconsider their deal with Outpost City. As Qin Ze wondered what the forge’s people were planning, the furnace fire surged toward the Shelter Space, drawn to Miss Sword Case.

• The empress’s forces watched lightning and meteors destroy more than a hundred exotic beasts, while the empress claimed the gods had protected them and ended negotiations with Zhu Shi.
• Several clones argued over who would jump into the furnace, and one leaped in; the others discussed the painless experience and told a bewildered muscleman that the clone had slipped.
• Zhu Shi asked a meditating muscleman whether gods existed, and the man warned him to consider the price of asking one to act.
• The muscleman ordered Zhu Shi to revise the deal, offer the Martial Artifact equipment the empress needed, and investigate whether the Sea of Glaze had a god’s protection.
• Qin Ze overheard the conversation and wondered what the molten-steel people would choose as their mineral reserves dwindled.
• The furnace fire suddenly surged into serpents and rushed toward Qin Ze’s Shelter Space, while Miss Sword Case said she could not control it.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case triggered an uncontrollable surge of furnace fire that he carried away from the Molten Steel People’s furnace. Convinced that a powerful god protected the Sea of Glaze, Zhu Shi’s elder brother decided to seek an audience with the empress and ask to meet that god.

• Miss Sword Case explained that the fire snakes were drawn to her and could not be kept away without a flying sword.
• The fire snakes erupted from the furnace and chased Miss Sword Case, causing panic among the Molten Steel People.
• Qin Ze lured the fire snakes above the clouds, dispersed them, and returned to Outpost City while the sky over the city burned.
• Zhu Shi’s elder brother recovered part of the furnace fire by channeling it back into the furnace, but the effort left him badly weakened.
• Zhu Shi’s elder brother concluded that a powerful god protected the Sea of Glaze and ordered Zhu Shi to arrange a visit with the empress.

Qin Ze returned to the Sea of Glaze and agreed to meet the Molten Steel People about a new trading arrangement while preparing to search for fire-attribute flying swords with Miss Sword Case. The Molten Steel delegation reached the royal capital, learned that a god and His Apostles had defeated an evil god, and was ushered before the empress as Qin Ze watched from the Shelter Space.

• Qin Ze left his clones to keep watch in the Abyss and returned alone to the Sea of Glaze, where Thousand Faces announced that his class-change trial was about to begin.
• The Captain told Qin Ze that the Molten Steel People had requested an audience with the empress, and Qin Ze agreed to meet them to discuss replacing the Sea of Glaze's equipment.
• Qin Ze promised Miss Sword Case they would search for fire-attribute flying swords that day.
• The Fire Keeper and Zhu Shi led a delegation through the Abyss Gate and were welcomed by Gwenni, who guided them toward the palace.
• Gwenni told the Fire Keeper that an evil god and its minions had invaded the Sea of Glaze and that the god who sheltered it and His Apostles had slain the invaders.
• The Fire Keeper and the delegation entered the palace to meet the empress while Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case watched from the Shelter Space.

Zhu Tie renegotiated the Molten Steel People's trade with the empress, offering to mine seabed ore and forge equipment for the Sea of Glaze. Qin Ze later saw a post announcing the Ancient Clan Alliance's Myriad Races Grand Tournament and its planned journey to the Land of Origin, while the Molten Steel People began mining and transporting ore.

• Zhu Tie offered the empress ten Mid-Tier Martial Artifacts per ton of ore and proposed that the Molten Steel People mine nearby seabed veins, handing over the extracted ore.
• Qin Ze urged the empress to accept the trade and said the Molten Steel People might earn a chance to meet the god if they did well.
• Qin Ze read a forum post claiming the Ancient Clan Alliance would hold a Myriad Races Grand Tournament and select a team to travel to the Land of Origin.
• Qin Ze found that most forum users did not know what the Land of Origin was and left the claim unconfirmed.
• The Molten Steel People brought mining equipment to the Sea of Glaze, excavated seabed ore, and transported it through the Abyss Gate to the furnace while Zhu Shi supervised.

Zhu Tie brought the Molten Steel People's completed equipment to the empress and revealed that a spreading furnace fire was consuming their world. Qin Ze learned that the Molten Steel World might be the source of the crisis and prepared to investigate it in search of the fire-attribute flying sword.

• Zhu Tie poured his strength into the furnace fire while Zhu Shi confirmed the Molten Steel People would finish forging the requested equipment within a week.
• The Molten Steel People supplied Outpost City with weapons, built new defenses, and upgraded the royal capital's factories, accelerating its reconstruction.
• Qin Ze and his companions noticed that exotic beasts had grown scarce before Zhu Tie and Zhu Shi arrived through the Gate of the Abyss.
• Zhu Tie told the empress that the furnace fire had spread from a volcano across the Molten Steel World, leaving little room for his people to live.
• Qin Ze suspected the fire-attribute flying sword was in the Molten Steel World, and Miss Sword Case urged him to go find it.

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.