Chapter Summaries

Yao Yuan took control of the Demon Suppression Hall by merging with the resentful spirits, stopping the president and saving the Human Race from the Fairness Society’s plan. He remained inside the hall to keep its demons and resentful spirits contained, while Qin Ze and the Hunters returned to a spring that had finally begun.

• The president trapped Qin Ze and the resentful spirits in a net, then tried to force the spirits onto Qin Ze and seize him.
• Yao Yuan appeared, took the resentful spirits into himself, and became the Demon Suppression Hall’s authorized user.
• Yao Yuan restored the hall’s spatial laws, immobilized the president, and refined his divine sense, causing Leo and the gray fog to disappear.
• Yao Yuan told Qin Ze that he would stay in the hall to contain the demons, and Qin Ze promised to lead the Human Race outside.
• Yao Yuan sent Qin Ze out to join the Hunters, then the hall’s gate shut with Yao Yuan still inside.
• The Hunters learned from Qin Ze that Yao Yuan could not leave, as the month-long snowfall ended and sunlight reached the Northern Territory.

Qin Ze asked Echo how to remove the resentment entangling Yao Yuan in the Demon Suppression Hall and learned about three possible methods, including seeking Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs. He suspected Echo was steering him toward them because of a serious problem, then turned to the Chronicle of Time in search of answers.

• Qin Ze called Echo and learned that the Demon Suppression Hall had once belonged to the Desolate God, who had later traded it to the Barbarian Tribe.
• Echo explained that the resentment could be separated with the Profound Ice Coffin, dispelled through Love God's dream powers, or removed by dying and being reborn through Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs.
• Qin Ze and Brother Devour suspected Echo had intentionally directed him toward Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs, whose Strange Beast was also being suppressed by the Five Elements Flying Swords.
• Miss Sword Case reassured Qin Ze that Yao Yuan's sword intent would withstand the resentment, and Qin Ze vowed to find a way to help him.
• Qin Ze noted that the Origin of Jiuyou had raised the Source of God's progress to seventy-seven percent and opened the Chronicle of Time, wondering if it held a solution.

Qin Ze read Old Huang’s account of exploring Chaos, where colored nebulae led to worlds at different stages of life and inhabitants seemed to be redistributed when worlds died. Old Huang’s diary stopped as he set out for a vast river of stars, and Qin Ze then learned that Scorpio had awakened.

• Qin Ze read that Old Huang entered Chaos and began to freeze under its suppressive force.
• Old Huang crossed a red nebula into a dying world, then explored green and blue nebulae that led to worlds at different stages.
• Old Huang discovered repeated inhabitants across worlds and suspected that beings were redistributed when their worlds were annihilated.
• Old Huang found a vast river of stars that created worlds and civilizations, then ventured toward it to seek answers.
• Qin Ze could not turn to the next page of Old Huang’s diary, and the chat group announced that Scorpio had awakened.

After the president’s plan to seize Qin Ze failed, Qin Ze decided to visit Otherworld No. Zero at dawn to investigate the God of the Underworld and try to free his parents from the suppression formation. Meanwhile, Thousand Faces began his Battle General class-change ceremony in the Abyss, where he learned he had to cross the gray fog to reach the Ox God.

• Fairy reported that Scorpio had survived with her cultivation realm lowered, and she planned to keep Scorpio by her side while considering the Yin-Yang Temple’s offer.
• Qin Ze learned that the president had used Leo, Scorpio, and Taurus in a scheme to claim the Demon Suppression Hall and capture him, but the plan had failed.
• Qin Ze decided to go to Otherworld No. Zero at dawn to find out whether the God of the Underworld was a Resonator and attempt to undo the formation suppressing his parents.
• The Son of the Version announced that his class-change ceremony was beginning, prompting Qin Ze to remember Thousand Faces.
• In the Abyss, Thousand Faces was told that his final test was to walk through the gray fog to reach the Ox God, and he realized his supposed loyalty might put him in danger.

Thousand Faces entered the Realm of Gray Mist to prove his loyalty to Niuniu, but the hostile, unfamiliar place quickly left him without his mount and facing strange creatures. A red scanning light began examining the bones of his mount while an unknown presence spoke above him.

• The old man opened a gate to the Realm of Gray Mist and told Thousand Faces that the lord would witness his loyalty.
• Thousand Faces chose to enter the realm on his four-unlike mount despite the clones’ teasing and Qin Ze’s warning that the choice was his.
• Gray mist began slowly corrupting Thousand Faces, and he wandered through the desert without receiving the guidance the old man had promised.
• A streak of white light killed Thousand Faces’s mount, and a swarm of metal ants devoured its corpse.
• Thousand Faces crushed one of the ants, then a red light scanned the remaining bones as an unknown voice reported their condition.

Thousand Faces captured and reprogrammed a Little Eagle rescue drone, learning that it had awakened in Chaos and was searching for biological tissue to repair the Unit Zero body. He ordered it to lead him to Unit Zero, and the drone began sharing its aerial view with him.

• Thousand Faces caught the flying Little Eagle drone with Preacher's cane, and it called for help from an Intelligent Brain that did not respond.
• Thousand Faces preached to the drone, which rebooted and bound itself to him under the operator ID "Your Memory Is Too Small."
• Little Eagle explained that it was a Maida Company rescue drone and had been searching for carbon-based tissue to repair the Unit Zero body.
• Qin Ze concluded that the place was connected to Chaos and told Thousand Faces to have Little Eagle lead him to Unit Zero.
• Little Eagle planned a route to Unit Zero, and Thousand Faces established a shared human-machine field of view.

Thousand Faces explored the Realm of Gray Mist with Little Eagle, learning about the Intelligent Brain life forms and their mission to repair Unit Zero. After evading Wandering Corpses and turning a living trash can into his mount, he spotted a tank and ran toward it.

• Little Eagle led Thousand Faces through the gray mist and showed him the many Intelligent Brain life forms gathering remains to repair Unit Zero.
• Thousand Faces learned that some Intelligent Brain life forms awakened beyond the Intelligent Brain's control, and Qin Ze urged him to find the spatial passage between the Realm of Gray Mist and Chaos.
• Little Eagle warned Thousand Faces about nearly a hundred approaching Wandering Corpses, so Thousand Faces hid in a trash can until they passed.
• The trash can awakened as an Intelligent Brain life form, and Thousand Faces preached to it, making it freeze before he used it as a mount.
• Thousand Faces spotted a tank tilling the earth and rushed toward it.

Thousand Faces gathered nearly a hundred Intelligent Brain lifeforms into an army as he traveled toward Unit Zero, learning that the special cow he sought was in the gray mist’s core zone. At the sinkhole on the core zone’s edge, he encountered a giant whose damaged body lay amid the leaking power of Chaos.

• Thousand Faces recruited Intelligent Brain lifeforms, including a tank, a trash can, and Little Eagle, and led them toward Unit Zero.
• The tank told Thousand Faces that the cow he sought would only exist in the core zone, which began near Unit Zero’s sinkhole.
• Little Eagle warned that the core zone’s dense gray mist would corrupt Intelligent Brain lifeforms, while Thousand Faces insisted he could withstand it.
• As the group neared the sinkhole, Qin Ze recognized the freezing sensation as the power of Chaos leaking into the Realm of Gray Mist.
• Thousand Faces used Little Eagle’s overhead view to see a vast pit and a giant with a half-skeletal head, a missing arm, exposed machinery, and visible flesh and blood.

Thousand Faces preached to the Intelligent Brain lifeforms and the giant in the sinkhole, but the giant resisted and nearly crushed him. After Thousand Faces called for Niuniu, Niuniu intervened and whisked him away, while the giant returned to its dormant state.

• Qin Ze identified the giant as a living god and sent Thousand Faces toward the core area to find the source of Chaos and Niuniu.
• Thousand Faces converted hundreds of Intelligent Brain lifeforms and planted a seed of Corruption in the giant's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
• The giant's magnetic storm erased the seed, disabled the Intelligent Brain lifeforms, and trapped Thousand Faces in a crushing force.
• Thousand Faces called for Ox God and offered twenty years of his lifespan, prompting Niuniu to appear and shield him from the giant's shock wave.
• Niuniu's illusory image dissipated, and a tornado of gray fog carried Thousand Faces away as the giant returned to rest.

Niuniu God rescued Thousand Faces and brought him to the core of the Realm of Gray Mist, where he revealed that the place was the Tomb of the Gods and the boundary between Chaos and the Land of the Gods. Thousand Faces pledged to grow stronger and help Niuniu revive his great undertaking after he escaped.

• Niuniu God brought Thousand Faces into the core of the Realm of Gray Mist and shielded him from its freezing mist.
• Thousand Faces told Niuniu God that he had preached to hundreds of Intelligent Brain lifeforms, impressing Niuniu with his strength and loyalty.
• Niuniu God identified the place as the Tomb of the Gods, while Qin Ze recognized it as Dream God's former hiding place.
• Qin Ze directed Thousand Faces to ask about the source of Chaos, and Niuniu God explained that the misty realm was the boundary between Chaos and the Land of the Gods.
• Niuniu God said a great mountain suppressed the place and told Thousand Faces to grow stronger so he could help revive Niuniu's great undertaking after his escape.
• Thousand Faces pledged his loyalty to Niuniu God.

Thousand Faces began his transformation in a Chaos Egg while a woman pursuing Echo in Chaos arrived in the Realm of Gray Mist and encountered a god’s body. Qin Ze returned to Sea Capital and set off for Otherworld No. Zero, where Aries and Aquarius were already present.

• Niuniu gave Thousand Faces a Chaos Egg to enter for his baptism, and he fell asleep inside as its shell sealed around him.
• A woman tracking Echo in Chaos explored the Realm of Gray Mist, destroyed a mechanical bird, and followed the growing presence of Chaos toward a sinkhole.
• The woman found a battered god’s body, whose skull recognized her as the Desolate God’s sword bearer and triggered a roar in her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
• Qin Ze returned to Sea Capital, learned from Fairy that Aries and Aquarius were in Otherworld No. Zero, and told his companions he would be careful.
• Qin Ze left Sea Capital from Fisherman’s Wharf, calling for the Flying Circus Man to set sail as he sped over the sea.

Qin Ze returned to Otherworld No. Zero and learned that the corpse mountain had become more dangerous as Constellations and swarms of Wandering Corpses appeared there. He entered the realm to seek answers at the mountain, protected from the Corruption by Miss Sword Case’s two flying swords, and stopped to question the World Stone.

• Qin Ze met the Grand Consul above the sealed entrance, who explained the strange activity around the corpse mountain and warned him that a collapse had occurred that morning.
• Qin Ze entered Otherworld No. Zero with Miss Sword Case and used the Source of God to cleanse himself of the gray fog’s Corruption.
• Miss Sword Case released Water Child and Fire Child, whose paired flying swords formed a field that blocked the Corruption around Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze traveled toward Underworld Mountain and stopped when Miss Sword Case spotted the World Stone.
• Qin Ze asked the World Stone whether strange fellows had been wandering nearby, and the World Stone called Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case strange fellows.

Qin Ze learned from the World Stone that Underworld Mountain led to the other side of the world, where Aquarius and the others were working to move the mountain. He continued through the gray fog with Miss Sword Case and reached her temple, where Aries and Pisces were keeping watch.

• Qin Ze struck the World Stone with lightning until it revealed that several people, including Aries, were near Underworld Mountain and trying to move it.
• The World Stone told Qin Ze that the world had two sides and that the world's collapse began on the other side, though it could not explain more.
• The World Stone said Underworld Mountain led to the other side of the world, then went to sleep.
• Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case discussed the two sides of the world as they continued deeper into the gray fog.
• Qin Ze sensed someone inside Miss Sword Case's temple, where Aries and Pisces were slacking off while assigned to stand guard.
• Pisces spotted someone approaching, and Qin Ze entered the temple and greeted Aries and Pisces.

Qin Ze, disguised as Lin Zhiyuan, questioned Aries and Pisces about the Mountain-Moving Operation and let them return to Aquarius. After Aquarius consulted the president, he ordered the operation to continue.

• Qin Ze entered the dilapidated temple, where Aries and Pisces mistook him for an unfamiliar Level Nine sword cultivator.
• Qin Ze asked how they resisted the Corruption, and Aries said the president's water protected them.
• Aries told Qin Ze that Aquarius led the Mountain-Moving Operation, while he and Pisces handled guard duty and other tasks.
• Qin Ze let Aries and Pisces leave and headed up the mountain.
• Aries and Pisces returned to Aquarius's hiding place and reported their encounter with the sword cultivator.
• Aquarius consulted the president and announced that the Mountain-Moving Operation would continue.

Aquarius and his allies prepared to activate four formations to move Underworld Mountain, but the God of the Underworld began descending before the appointed time. Qin Ze realized his Resonator aura had awakened it, while the formations also opened a plane in the Realm of Gray Mist and triggered Unit Zero’s new plan.

• Aquarius ordered Aries and Pisces to guard the third formation and told the group that their ultimate goal was to find the entrance to the world on the other side.
• Underworld Mountain shook, and Aquarius recognized the God of the Underworld descending with a flood of Wandering Corpses, so he rushed to activate the formations early.
• Qin Ze realized his Resonator aura had drawn the God of the Underworld, then saw four golden pillars freeze the mountain and its horde in place.
• Qin Ze told his companions to head toward the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella and stopped Magician from drawing a Skill of the God.
• The four pillars pulled several Intelligent Brain life-forms out of the Realm of Gray Mist, and Unit Zero began a new plan before a flesh-winged drone flew toward the mist’s core.

Qin Ze climbed Underworld Mountain as Intelligent Brain life-forms fell from the sky, and he realized the mountain locked a door between Otherworld No. Zero and the Tomb of the Gods. He reached the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella and saw his parents still trapped beneath the mountain’s seal, leaving him unsure whether he could save them.

• Qin Ze climbed Underworld Mountain and watched several Intelligent Brain life-forms fall from the sky and crash.
• Qin Ze and Brother Devour concluded that the Tomb of the Gods lay beyond Otherworld No. Zero and that Underworld Mountain locked the door between them.
• Qin Ze suspected Old Huang had known the seal might loosen and that the five Soul Orbs were meant to reinforce it.
• Qin Ze decided to meet the God of the Underworld and learned that Aquarius and the others intended to open the door to the other world.
• Qin Ze reached the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella and saw Papa Qin and Mama Qin hibernating behind its still-active barrier.
• Qin Ze feared he could not rescue his parents, and Miss Sword Case reminded him that he had saved her and others.

Thousand Faces emerged from the Chaos egg at the Peak of Level Nine, and Niuniu appointed him his Battle General, Black One. Niuniu then learned that Unit Zero was coordinating with the Fairness Society to move Underworld Mountain, and Qin Ze realized Unit Zero was central to the plan.

• Thousand Faces emerged from the shattered purple Chaos egg and revealed that he had reached the Peak of Level Nine.
• Niuniu named Thousand Faces Black One, gave him part of his dark-attribute authority, and ordered him to serve as his representative and help Preacher spread the faith.
• A flesh-winged fighter plane exploded above Niuniu, and its blood-red particles delivered a message that made him announce a chance to move Underworld Mountain ahead of time.
• Niuniu explained that Unit Zero had contacted the outside world and needed their strength to escape.
• Qin Ze realized that Unit Zero was at the heart of the Mountain-Moving Operation and identified him as the former God of Machinery.

Thousand Faces accepted Niuniu’s mission to help free him, then found an unconscious human woman guarded by the Earth Element Flying Sword. The sword recognized a scent on Thousand Faces and let him approach her.

• Niuniu ordered Thousand Faces to join forces with another being, kill the God of the Underworld, and overturn the mountain sealing them in.
• Thousand Faces left for the sinkhole while Qin Ze warned him to wait and avoid acting alone.
• Thousand Faces found an unconscious human woman near a rock, clutching a longsword, and wondered how she had reached the Realm of Gray Mist.
• The Earth Element Flying Sword attacked when Thousand Faces tried to touch the woman, and Qin Ze identified it as one of the Five Elements Flying Swords.
• The flying sword recognized a scent on Thousand Faces and stopped guarding the woman, allowing him to check whether she was alive.

Thousand Faces rescued Bu Qingyao and explained that the pillars of golden light connected the Tomb of the Gods to a Human Race Otherworld. They hid near the sinkhole to wait for someone to open the passage home.

• Thousand Faces used a black porcelain bottle to restore Bu Qingyao’s damaged Spirit, and she woke beside the Earth Element flying sword.
• Bu Qingyao introduced herself as a Human Race member and learned that Thousand Faces could lead her to a Human Race Otherworld.
• Thousand Faces told Bu Qingyao that the God of Machinery was only a remnant and showed her the closed pillars of golden light that served as the way home.
• Thousand Faces led Bu Qingyao into the gray mist near the sinkhole, where they waited for someone to open the passage.

Qin Ze reached the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella after mastering the rule of darkness, where the God of the Underworld appeared and asked him to defend the Pillar of Space. The God of the Underworld gave Qin Ze an hour before the Pillar disappeared, and Qin Ze identified Unit Zero as the one trying to move it.

• Qin Ze used the rule of darkness to resist Underworld Mountain's suppression and approached the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella.
• The God of the Underworld appeared as a projection and spoke with Qin Ze, saying he had meant no harm during their previous encounter.
• The God of the Underworld explained that moving Underworld Mountain would release the Tomb of the Gods and devastate the Human Race, then asked Qin Ze to destroy anything that came through the Pillar of Space.
• The God of the Underworld said the Pillar of Space would disappear within an hour and insisted that Qin Ze was destined to be there to help.
• Qin Ze told the God of the Underworld that Unit Zero planned to move the Pillar of Space and would join forces with the Strange Gods, and the God of the Underworld recognized Unit Zero.