Chapter Summaries

Random Bro reached the enemy’s fountain, and Qin Ze prepared him to use entropy stones when Spirit Divination Stick’s Fire of Faith weakened. Spirit Divination Stick drew another three-aspect card, transforming the battlefield into a blood-soaked, fog-covered land filled with monstrous figures.

• Random Bro offered to self-destruct inside the enemy’s fountain, but Qin Ze told him to save his entropy stones and wait for a signal.
• Qin Ze and Spirit Divination Stick continued fighting as the blue sun card slowed Spirit Divination Stick, while his attacks forced Qin Ze back.
• Qin Ze taunted Spirit Divination Stick about his dwindling forces and fading clone, urging him to draw another three-aspect card.
• Spirit Divination Stick drew the card, shrank to Qin Ze’s size, and transformed the surrounding land into rotting flesh beneath a vast gray fog.
• Enormous, misshapen figures began appearing within the fog.

Qin Ze used Random Bro’s entropy stone to interrupt Spirit Divination Stick’s attack, then struck him down with the Sword of the Three Phases. Spirit Divination Stick vanished, leaving a Soul Orb as Qin Ze pondered his warning that the rules would return to their places.

• Gray-mist projections of a battlefield from the war of the gods flooded the area, and Sanmu warned Qin Ze that they would soon disappear and could not be destroyed.
• Qin Ze pursued Spirit Divination Stick through the mist and struck him with Miss Sword Case as Spirit Divination Stick tried to flee toward the Gate of the Abyss.
• Random Bro detonated two tons of entropy stone inside Spirit Divination Stick, extinguishing the Fire of Faith at the core of his heart.
• Qin Ze brought down the Sword of the Three Phases, killing Spirit Divination Stick and carving a vast chasm through the battlefield.
• Qin Ze summoned Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb and remembered his warning that the rules would return to their places.

After Spirit Divination Stick’s clone fell, Sanmu confirmed the Soul Orb proved the original was dead and advised Qin Ze to pursue faith as a path to godhood. Sanmu then chose to wander the jianghu, while Qin Ze was left wondering where the surviving gods had gone.

• Random Bro emerged badly burned, demanded the Soul Orb, and waited for the battle to end after Qin Ze refused to hand it over.
• Sanmu cut Spirit Divination Stick’s clone in half, ending the battle and restoring the Ancient Battlefield as its projection vanished.
• Dharma King returned to normal, unleashed lightning, and got scorched by the five elements’ fire while the clones mocked him.
• Sanmu saw Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb and confirmed that he was truly dead, then told Qin Ze he had guarded him since before the Star Gate shattered.
• Sanmu advised Qin Ze that faith was important and might help him become a god; Qin Ze considered his existing and potential believers.
• Sanmu said he planned to wander the jianghu.

Sanmu said goodbye to Qin Ze and left to spend his remaining time exploring the new era. Qin Ze extinguished the fire above the Molten Steel World and brought rain, winning the Molten Steel People’s devotion, while their future forging offered him an idea.

• Sanmu told Qin Ze that his life was nearing its end, then bade farewell to him and Miss Sword Case before departing through the Gate of the Abyss.
• Qin Ze absorbed the Fire of the Five Elements from the sky, revealing sunlight over the Molten Steel World, then summoned rain that the Molten Steel People celebrated as a miracle.
• The Molten Steel patriarch declared that his people would follow the god, appointed Zhu Tie as their ambassador to the Sea of Glaze, and ordered the stranded Furnaces called home.
• Miss Sword Case gave the patriarch and Zhu Tie a flame seed so the Molten Steel People could keep forging without the sky fire.
• After hearing the Molten Steel People offer their forging skills, Qin Ze wondered whether Niuniu’s hide could be forged.

Qin Ze gave the patriarch two pieces of cowhide to forge into portable defensive demigod artifacts and marked him so he could make contact through divine power. Back outside the Shelter Space, Qin Ze guarded Random Bro as he absorbed the first Demigod Level Soul Orb, and Random Bro emerged as a Level Seven Martial Artist.

• Qin Ze asked the patriarch to forge two pieces of cowhide into easy-to-carry defensive equipment and ordered him to send the finished artifacts to the Sea of Glaze.
• Qin Ze left a divine mark in the patriarch's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness so the patriarch could contact him about important matters.
• Qin Ze praised Miss Sword Case's performance, then called Random Bro out to absorb Spirit Divination Stick's Soul Orb.
• Random Bro swallowed the Soul Orb, and the sun, moon, and stars surrounded him as its power washed over him.
• After absorbing the Soul Orb for a day and a night, Random Bro opened his eyes and released the aura of a Level Seven Martial Artist.

Random Bro gained Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb and became a Level Seven Advanced Martial Artist, but his first attempt at using his new random abilities turned him into a colorful rooster. Qin Ze learned how the Soul Orb’s card abilities worked and tried to contact Yan Miao, whose fate remained uncertain.

• Random Bro became a Level Seven Advanced Martial Artist after receiving Spirit Divination Stick’s Soul Orb, and the clones jokingly proposed names for him.
• Random Bro named himself Magician, then transformed into a colorful rooster when his first Sun Card made him disappear.
• Qin Ze received Magician’s abilities and learned about the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Three-Phase Cards, including the Three-Phase Card’s power to reveal a random glimpse of fate.
• Magician said Spirit Divination Stick’s rule would return to him, while Miss Sword Case mistook the transformed Magician for a chicken and tried to clean and roast him.
• Qin Ze messaged Yan Miao on the Myriad Races Forum to ask about the water-attribute flying sword and the strange beast it had suppressed, but Yan Miao did not reply.
• Magician suggested that Qin Ze ask Second Sister at the Myriad Races Black Market to find out what happened to Daoist Miao.

Qin Ze tried to use the Magician’s divination to locate the missing flying swords, but the cards showed only mist and nearly drained the Magician’s life. Qin Ze set out with Miss Sword Case for the Myriad Races Black Market, where they planned to ask about her missing swords, while the Magician proposed a faster way to travel.

• Qin Ze asked the Magician to divine the locations of the missing flying swords, and the Magician’s cards revealed only swirling mist.
• The Magician’s divination consumed his life force until Qin Ze crushed the card, then gave him a Source Crystal to recover.
• Qin Ze told Miss Sword Case they were heading to the Myriad Races Black Market to ask about her missing swords, and she rode on his back as they left through the Gate of the Abyss.
• The clan chief watched Qin Ze depart, then ordered the Molten Steel People to fire up the furnace and begin smelting two cowhides.
• Qin Ze found an Abyss Puppet outside the Molten Steel World and used it to travel toward the Myriad Races Black Market.
• The Magician suggested drawing a teleportation skill to shorten their journey.

Magician opened a random spatial gate that dropped Qin Ze and the others into a vast exotic-beast horde. As they fought to escape, an SS-rank beast began devouring Mist Lord’s fog, while Spirit Clan scouts spotted them and sent a report to their superiors.

• Qin Ze gave Magician a Source Crystal, and Magician drew a spatial gate that took the group to an unknown location.
• Qin Ze and the others found themselves above a huge gathering of exotic beasts, which swarmed toward the Abyss Puppet.
• Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Mist Lord fought off the pursuing beasts as the Abyss Puppet charged through the horde.
• Qin Ze spotted an SS-rank toad-like beast devouring Mist Lord’s Fog of War and realized the group faced a grave threat.
• Two Spirit Clan scouts watched the group, and one of them went to report the outsiders controlling an Abyss Puppet.

Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings fought off swarms of exotic beasts while trying to keep the Abyss Puppet airborne. The Magician’s Star Cards repeatedly strengthened their enemies, and the chapter ended with an octopus explosion shattering most of the Abyss Puppet.

• Qin Ze enclosed the Abyss Puppet in the Shelter Space, but sound waves and Hunting Beasts battered it until he dropped the barrier and counterattacked.
• Qin Ze shielded the Heavenly Kings from a mental attack, then used a mental tsunami to expose and drive off the buzzing S-class exotic beast.
• Qin Ze used Void Traversal to move the Abyss Puppet, but the group remained trapped amid endless flying and ground-based exotic beasts.
• The Magician turned many flying exotic beasts into giant, plague-resistant creatures with a blue Sun Card, making the battle harder.
• Octopuses flew beneath the Abyss Puppet and began detonating themselves, while the Magician’s Star Card strengthened them and an explosion destroyed most of the platform.

Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings fought through the exotic beast tide after the Abyss Puppet was disabled, but hidden high-level beasts forced them into a ground battle. As they neared the edge of the territory, an SSS-rank humanoid exotic beast confronted Qin Ze about breaking an agreement.

• The Mist Lord shielded himself behind Brother Devour while the group fled the ground beasts’ fire, and Qin Ze’s first Skill of the God draw taunted the beasts into attacking A Bing.
• The Heavenly Kings discovered they were being drawn toward the ground, but a gravity attack pinned everyone except Qin Ze and crushed the nearby beasts.
• Qin Ze and the group fought their way across the ground, with Brother Devour leading, A Bing healing, and Dharma King clearing the air.
• A gravity field stopped the group near the territory’s edge, where the buzzing exotic beast and an SSS-rank humanoid beast appeared.
• The humanoid exotic beast addressed Qin Ze and asked whether he intended to break their agreement.

Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings were surrounded by exotic beasts led by a faceless triple-S-class king, but Qin Ze used his divine power to force them to let the group pass. After they left, the king and a small octopus recognized Qin Ze from New Land and argued over whether to pursue him while guarding the Chaos Egg.

• The faceless exotic beast accused Qin Ze of violating an agreement, while the surrounded Heavenly Kings debated how to escape.
• Brother Devour warned Qin Ze that the beasts were wary of them and might be protecting something fragile in their territory.
• Qin Ze deduced that the beasts were guarding something and threatened to fight, revealing the Divine Markings in his eyes and summoning the Abyss Puppet as a show of force.
• The faceless exotic beast ordered the herd to clear a path, and Qin Ze led the Heavenly Kings out of the territory.
• After Qin Ze's group departed, a small octopus identified him as the person it had fought in New Land and urged the faceless exotic beast to prioritize their mission to guard the Chaos Egg.

Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings escaped the exotic beast horde with a large haul of Soul Orbs, then encountered three Spirit Clan observers who revealed that their leader, Tree Bearer, was on his way. The chapter ended as Tree Bearer emerged from a spatial door to meet them.

• The Spirit Clan observers watched Qin Ze and his companions emerge safely from the beast horde, and the bald captain decided they could not let them leave before Tree Bearer arrived.
• Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings rode the Abyss Puppet away, collected 231 low-level and 190 mid-level Soul Orbs, and gave them all to Brother Devour.
• Brother Devour consumed the Soul Orbs but remained at the Peak of Level Eight, while Magician argued that he deserved help to advance.
• Qin Ze detected an Ancient Race signal competing for control of the Abyss Puppet and guided it to the three Spirit Clan observers.
• The bald captain said Tree Bearer knew why the exotic beasts had gathered, and Tree Bearer arrived through a spatial door.

The Tree Bearer discovered that Qin Ze could control an Abyss Puppet without a Spirit Clan key and invited him and the Heavenly Kings to visit the Spirit Clan. Qin Ze arrived in the Spirit Clan’s lush world and recognized its giant trees from the Lost World.

• The Tree Bearer met Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings, learned they had encountered the faceless king-level exotic beast, and ordered them not to trespass in the sealed area again.
• Qin Ze claimed to be Lin Zhiyuan, a friend of Lady Zi Yue, and asked why the exotic beasts had gathered and what agreement they had with the Spirit Clan.
• The Tree Bearer demonstrated a green key’s weak control over the Abyss Puppet, but Qin Ze severed the connection and made the puppet perform aerial tricks under his command.
• The Tree Bearer, astonished by Qin Ze’s control, invited him to visit the Spirit Clan, and Qin Ze accepted before following him through a spatial gate with the Heavenly Kings.
• Qin Ze arrived in a lush, primitive world and recognized its thousand-meter-tall trees from the Lost World where the God of Machinery had descended.

Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings followed Tree Bearer through the Spirit Clan’s city to its oldest Spirit Tree, which Miss Sword Case recognized from a half-remembered visit. After waiting outside the clan leader’s hall, Qin Ze saw Zi Liangchen emerge and called out to him.

• Tree Bearer led Qin Ze and the Heavenly Kings through the Spirit Clan’s bustling treehouse city while Magician embarrassed himself by teasing passersby.
• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze that the place seemed familiar and recalled a huge tree whose top could not be seen.
• Tree Bearer showed the group the Spirit Clan’s ancient tree, and Miss Sword Case excitedly recognized it.
• Qin Ze sensed powerful Level Nine Martial Artists guarding the tree as Tree Bearer led the group on foot to the clan leader’s hall.
• After waiting outside the hall, Qin Ze saw Zi Liangchen emerge and shouted that sword cultivator Lin Zhiyuan was there.

Qin Ze discovered that Zi Yue had fallen into a deep sleep after losing half her Spirit in the forbidden land. He waited three days for the Spirit Clan leader to return with an oracle, then decided to enter the forbidden land himself.

• Qin Ze reunited with Zi Liangchen in the Spirit Clan and learned that Zi Liangchen guarded the Divine Maiden, Bai Zi Yue.
• Zi Liangchen took Qin Ze to see Zi Yue, who lay unconscious with half her Spirit missing after entering the forbidden land.
• Qin Ze insisted that Zi Yue's missing Spirit had to be recovered, but Zi Liangchen said the clan leader was seeking an oracle at the Oracle Holy Temple.
• Qin Ze agreed to wait three days for the clan leader, and he and the Heavenly Kings rested under watch in a nearby courtyard.
• On the evening of the fourth day, Qin Ze announced that he was going to the forbidden land.

Qin Ze sneaked into the Spirit Clan's forbidden land with Miss Sword Case to investigate what lay beneath its glowing center. When Qin Ze used his divine power to search the ground, the forbidden land was sealed off and an enormous page began rising.

• Qin Ze refused to bring the Heavenly Kings or Brother Devour, left a clone behind, and escaped unseen through the Shelter Space with Miss Sword Case.
• Qin Ze followed the tree trunk to the forbidden land, where a tree worm bit the Shelter Space and a guard squad killed it.
• Tree Bearer detected traces of spatial fluctuations and concluded someone had gone toward the forbidden land.
• Inside the forbidden land, Miss Sword Case recalled burying something there with a friend, whom Qin Ze suspected was Old Huang.
• Qin Ze searched the ground with divine power, triggering a tremor and a black barrier that sealed the forbidden land as an enormous page rose from below.

A new barrier appeared around the Spirit Clan’s forbidden area, trapping Qin Ze inside with the missing pages of the Chronicle of Time. As the pages revealed that the recorded method led to Chaos rather than the Land of Origin, they began turning rapidly and a force started pulling at Qin Ze’s soul.

• Tree Bearer and the Spirit Tree’s Advanced Martial Artists gathered outside the forbidden area, but an invisible force repelled anyone who tried to touch the barrier.
• Qin Ze realized he could see the people outside while they could not see him, then recognized the floating pages as part of the Chronicle of Time.
• Qin Ze and his companions discovered that the pages described a route to Chaos, not the Land of Origin, and Brother Devour suggested that “reach the origin” referred to a world on the verge of death.
• Qin Ze learned from Miss Sword Case that she had once been to the icy, lifeless Chaos, while Zi Yue had unknowingly opened a path there in search of the goddess.
• The pages began flipping rapidly, a patch of black spread across them, and a powerful force started tugging at Qin Ze’s soul.

Qin Ze discovered that the black mass in the Chronicle of Time led to Chaos, where Zi Yue's Spirit might be, but clones vanished as soon as they entered. He withdrew after calming the portal and escaped the collapsing barrier, only to see the tree begin to glow with blood-red lines.

• Qin Ze resisted the force pulling at his Spirit and realized the black mass was a portal to Chaos, where part of Zi Yue's Spirit might be.
• Qin Ze sent several clones into the portal, but each disappeared almost immediately, leaving them unable to see Chaos.
• Brother Devour advised Qin Ze to wait for the clan leader's oracle before deciding whether to enter Chaos, and Qin Ze agreed.
• Qin Ze used the Chronicle of Time to stop the pages and shrink the black mass until it vanished.
• Qin Ze entered the Shelter Space with Miss Sword Case and retraced his route as the barrier dissolved, then saw red, bloodlike lines glowing across the tree's bark.

Qin Ze returned from the Shelter Space while the Heavenly Kings kept Zi Liangchen from entering his room, then revealed himself and heard that the patriarch had failed to obtain the oracle. The chapter left the oracle’s meaning and the consequences of the patriarch’s failure unresolved.

• The Spirit Tree glowed and rang a bell as Qin Ze descended through the Shelter Space, while Tree Bearer found the forbidden land unchanged and ordered martial artists to keep watch.
• Zi Liangchen came to the Heavenly Kings’ courtyard looking for Lin Zhiyuan, and Mist Lord and the others blocked him from reaching Qin Ze’s room.
• Brother Devour punched through the void and sent Zi Liangchen flying, while the Heavenly Kings surrounded him with their abilities.
• Qin Ze returned through his window during Dharma King’s display of lightning, then dismissed his sleeping clone and pretended he had just woken up.
• Qin Ze welcomed Zi Liangchen into his room, and Zi Liangchen told him that the patriarch had failed to obtain the oracle.

Qin Ze learned that the Spirit Clan leader had failed to obtain an oracle and that Zi Yue had once successfully entered the Oracle Holy Temple. After sleeping under Zi Liangchen’s watch, Qin Ze went to meet the clan leader and discovered that she was a woman.

• Zi Liangchen explained that the Spirit Tree signaled success or failure when someone left the Oracle Holy Temple, which had opened six times with only two successes.
• Zi Liangchen suspected Qin Ze was connected to an eruption in the forbidden land, but Qin Ze denied involvement and asked whether Zi Yue’s Spirit could have survived it.
• Zi Liangchen revealed that Zi Yue had successfully left the Oracle Holy Temple after twelve days, though only she knew which oracle she had obtained.
• Qin Ze decided to sleep while Zi Liangchen kept watch, then woke the next morning and went with him to meet the clan leader.
• Tree Bearer brought Qin Ze and Zi Liangchen through a portal to the grand hall, where Qin Ze saw that the clan leader was a mature woman.