Chapter Summaries

After the president warned Qin Ze that their next meeting might end in a fight to the death, Qin Ze asked Star Eyes about the Ancestral Land and learned how its Divine Beast Heroic Spirits worked. Qin Ze ended the conversation by preparing for an unavoidable war against an unknown Strange God.

• The president questioned Qin Ze about the Mystery in the Womb, then departed after warning that their next meeting might be a fight to the death.
• Qin Ze asked Star Eyes about the Ancestral Land, and Star Eyes explained that it was the Abyss’s first world and that the Goddess of Life had used it as a template for other worlds.
• Star Eyes told Qin Ze that Divine Beast Heroic Spirits formed from ancient people’s hopes and chose people whose qualities matched them, explaining why the Xiezhi Heroic Spirit had chosen the Grand Consul, Number Three, and Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze realized that the Grand Consul’s Law Character Art and the Xiezhi Heroic Spirit had helped the World Will break Mingzhi’s authority.
• Qin Ze thanked Star Eyes for helping defeat a Higher Strange God and said that war with an unknown Strange God was unavoidable and they could only win.

Qin Ze learned from Star Eyes that Demigod was a state beyond the limits of humanity rather than a true cultivation level, then prepared for the Chaos Egg’s revival and visited Penglai City. After capturing Mingzhi’s Preacher, Qin Ze set out to confront the Human Race’s Level Nine Martial Artists and make clear that he could take back the power the Human Race had granted them.

• Star Eyes explained that reaching Demigod required pushing the body, spirit, or qi and blood beyond human limits, and Qin Ze ordered his clones to train harder.
• Qin Ze visited Penglai City, where the First Legion welcomed him and he told Lao Dao that he led the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Thousand Faces brought Qin Ze Mingzhi’s Preacher, whom he had captured after the man helped bring Penglai City close to falling.
• Qin Ze stopped Lao Dao from killing the Preacher and said he would keep him alive for a purpose.
• Qin Ze told Lao Dao that his connection to the World Will would alert him to threats entering the human world.
• Qin Ze learned that most Level Nine Martial Artists had arrived and went to confront them, warning that the Human Race could reclaim what it had given them.

Qin Ze arrived at the Human Race’s gathering of Level Nine Martial Artists and established his authority by executing Baldy for treason. He then ordered Lao Dao to kill Wang Mingduo, who resisted, and Qin Ze’s black threads cut him into pieces.

• The Level Nine Martial Artists argued over who should lead the Human Race, while Elder Wang sought the Tree Keeper’s support and was told Xu Baichuan would not interfere.
• Qin Ze arrived with Lao Dao, Thousand Faces, and Baldy, then warned the gathered Martial Artists to serve the Human Race and threatened traitors with death.
• Thousand Faces brought Baldy forward, and Qin Ze accused him of colluding with a Strange God and causing the Corruption of Snow City and casualties in Penglai City.
• Lao Dao beheaded Baldy, and Qin Ze declared that was the fate of a double-crosser.
• Qin Ze ordered Lao Dao to kill Wang Mingduo, accused him of forming cliques, embezzling military funds, and smuggling, and cut him apart with black threads when he resisted.

Qin Ze reshaped the Company faction and allied forces, then visited the dying Tree Keeper and received broken images from the Desolate God's past through the World Tree. He left Snow City after urging the Tree Keeper to stay alive, looking toward the Hall of Stars and asking someone to wait for him.

• Qin Ze sent eight Level Nine Martial Artists from the Company faction to Penglai City, but ordered Lao Dao to kill one who challenged his authority.
• Qin Ze appointed a new sole consul for the Law Enforcement Department and directed three others to recruit martial artists for the allied forces.
• Qin Ze told the Tree Keeper that he was dying and offered him the few tree fruits he had left.
• Qin Ze touched the World Tree and saw broken memories from the Desolate God's life, including a sorrowful figure atop Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze urged the Tree Keeper to stay alive, then left with Lao Dao and saw the Hall of Stars above the Ring Mountains.

At the Ring Mountains, Qin Ze told the Hunters about the Abyss’s awakening Strange Gods and the Myriad Races Alliance, then assigned roles for the coming crisis. He took Little Deer and Yan Miao to the Maka Race to begin a major diplomatic undertaking.

• Qin Ze gathered the Hunters beneath the Hall of Stars and explained the Abyss’s danger and the formation of the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Qin Ze assigned Little Deer, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A to a mission, while Taoist, Scholar, and Brother Biao received other duties; he told Fairy to stay behind until she reached Level Nine.
• Qin Ze took Little Deer to Penglai City, where Yan Miao boasted about killing a thousand exotic beasts in his first battle.
• Qin Ze brought Little Deer and Yan Miao to the Maka Race, announcing that they would undertake a major diplomatic mission.

Qin Ze arrived in the Maka Race's capital and discovered that its emperor had been replaced by a Preacher who had corrupted the palace. After Qin Ze and Yan Miao killed the impostor and restrained his followers, they learned the real emperor was imprisoned and headed to free him.

• Qin Ze explained that the many outsiders in the Maka Race's cities were wanderers and brought Yan Miao and Little Deer to the royal capital to recruit underlings.
• Qin Ze entered the palace expecting to meet his friend Zhan Li, but a beastman Preacher appeared in his place and tried to corrupt Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze ordered Yan Miao to attack the beastman, and Yan Miao burned away the Preacher's corruption before killing him with help from Qin Ze's shadow.
• Qin Ze revived the beastman briefly by using the Preacher's Cane, then destroyed the cane and killed him permanently.
• Qin Ze restrained the palace fanatics and learned from the cane that Zhan Li was imprisoned, then led Yan Miao and Little Deer to the imperial prison.

Qin Ze rescued Zhan Li, secured the Maka Race’s support for the Myriad Races Alliance, and began coordinating its forces. Back at the Forest Clan, Star Eyes proposed a formation beneath the Chaos Egg to ambush the Strange God, and Qin Ze asked about the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation’s drawbacks.

• Qin Ze and Yan Miao freed Zhan Li from prison after Qin Ze revealed that he had killed the beastman Preacher.
• Zhan Li explained that the ancestral temple’s power had protected him from infection, then agreed to join the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Qin Ze assigned Scholar and Thousand Faces to help organize the Maka Race and sent Yan Miao and Little Deer to their new duties.
• Qin Ze transported a spatial portal to Torch City, where Thousand Faces and Scholar arrived to begin work with the Maka Race.
• Star Eyes told Qin Ze that he planned to place a formation beneath the Chaos Egg to catch the Strange God off guard, and Qin Ze asked about using the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation.

Qin Ze learned that the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation depended on a target willingly submitting to suppression, then had Star Eyes prepare a similar formation for the awakening Strange God. Magician awakened in a strange place beyond the Red Shell’s reach as the surrounding world distorted and Captain reported that the Chaos Egg was beginning its deployment.

• Star Eyes explained that the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation required a target to enter willingly, and Qin Ze suspected it had been created to imprison impurities.
• Qin Ze asked Star Eyes to devise a similar formation, then ordered Scholar and Brother Biao to assemble a Second Legion under Yan Miao.
• Magician awakened in a desolate place, and Qin Ze failed to reach him with the Red Shell.
• Magician began exploring, but the sky and earth distorted around him and he saw four colossal figures in the distance.
• A white rift split the sky as the space shook, and Captain warned that the Chaos Egg was about to begin its deployment.

Qin Ze mobilized the Myriad Races Alliance after the Chaos Egg began cracking, preparing to meet the Strange Gods with Star Eyes’s newly completed formation. As a huge beast tide advanced toward them, the First Legion stood ready outside Outpost City for the coming battle.

• Qin Ze ordered Brother Devour to assemble the First Legion and sent Lao Dao to take charge of the Forest Clan’s defenses.
• Qin Ze told Second Sister and Little Deer that the war had begun, then brought Little Deer to the battlefield to livestream the Alliance’s preparations.
• Dharma King hosted the livestream as Brother Devour rallied the First Legion and Star Eyes explained that his Time Domain and sealing formations could hold a newly deployed Strange God for about half a minute.
• Qin Ze’s scout reported that two hundred thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand beasts were gathering a hundred li away and heading toward the Alliance.

The First Legion fought the Strange God's opening beast tide while Qin Ze recognized the giant octopus as a returning enemy. Brother Devour lured the octopus into a trap and battered it, just as the Chaos Egg's deployment began over Outpost City.

• The First Legion charged into the beast tide and halted its advance with coordinated attacks.
• The giant octopus's tentacles erupted from the ground and killed allied soldiers, prompting Qin Ze to recognize it as the enemy he had fought before.
• Star Eyes warned Qin Ze that the octopus might be bait, so Qin Ze ordered Brother Devour to deal with it instead.
• Brother Devour endured the little octopuses' explosions, trapped the giant octopus, and blasted a huge wound through its body.
• Brother Devour pulled the octopus out of the ground and slammed it repeatedly as the Chaos Egg's purple patterns spread across the sky above Outpost City.

A spatial vortex unleashed exotic beasts behind the allied forces, but Yan Miao and the Second Legion helped stabilize the battlefield as the Chaos Egg began to hatch. Qin Ze and nearly two hundred Level Nine Martial Artists attacked the emerging purple light, but Star Eyes sensed something wrong and shouted for them to stop.

• A spatial vortex appeared near the Chaos Egg and poured out exotic beasts that attacked the allied forces from behind while others targeted the array.
• Yan Miao led the Second Legion through Outpost City's portal, used Blazing Sun Fire to clear a path, and helped the soldiers counterattack.
• Dharma King introduced Yan Miao as General Blazing Sun and Qin Ze as the Alliance's first god, while the livestream Hunters began to believe the Strange God might be defeated.
• The Chaos Egg cracked open, and Qin Ze transformed as Star Eyes activated the Time Domain to trap the purple light while two sealing arrays formed around it.
• Qin Ze ordered the Level Nine Martial Artists to attack the purple light, but Star Eyes sensed something unusual and shouted for everyone to stop.

Star Eyes stopped time to reveal Yue Sheng, a battle Star God who erased the invading beast tide with his music. After the Alliance celebrated and ended its livestream, Yue Sheng introduced himself to Qin Ze as Higher Star God, Positive Sequence Twenty-Seven.

• Star Eyes expanded the Time Domain to freeze the Level Nine Martial Artists’ attacks, and Qin Ze nearly struck the dark purple light before Star Eyes told him its occupant was an ally.
• Yue Sheng emerged from the light, and Star Eyes identified him to Qin Ze as a powerful battle Star God.
• Yue Sheng played his multi-piped instrument and dissolved hundreds of thousands of exotic beasts, ending the invasion without leaving any Soul Orbs.
• The allied soldiers celebrated, Dharma King ended the livestream, and Little Deer reported that viewers were eager to join the Alliance.
• Yue Sheng came back to his senses and introduced himself to Qin Ze as Higher Star God, Positive Sequence Twenty-Seven.

Qin Ze recruited Yue Sheng into the Myriad Races Alliance and learned that the god used scientific principles to annihilate exotic beasts. Yue Sheng could not preserve their Soul Orbs, but agreed to think about a solution.

• Qin Ze invited Yue Sheng to join the Myriad Races Alliance, and Yue Sheng agreed.
• Yue Sheng demonstrated his Elemental Control authority and explained that his Chain Water Molecule Hydrogen Bond Ablation Technique had erased the exotic beasts.
• Qin Ze asked Yue Sheng to leave Soul Orbs intact in future battles, but Yue Sheng explained that his technique destroyed them too.
• Yue Sheng agreed to consider how he might preserve Soul Orbs.

After Yue Sheng’s attack helped the Alliance win a battle, Qin Ze welcomed him as its chief scientist and rallied the soldiers. Back at the Forest Clan, Qin Ze considered Magician’s mysterious disappearance and prepared to turn more pages in the Chronicle of Time.

• Yue Sheng and Star Eyes warned Qin Ze that exotic beasts could counter the Chain Water Molecule Hydrogen Bond Ablation Technique, and Qin Ze named Yue Sheng the Alliance’s battle mage and chief scientist.
• Qin Ze announced Yue Sheng’s arrival to the Alliance soldiers and declared that more Star Gods would join their fight.
• Qin Ze, Yue Sheng, and Star Eyes left the battlefield while the Alliance carried its wounded and fallen back to Outpost City; Yan Miao returned to the Forest Clan with the Second Legion.
• Magician chased four fading figures but was swallowed by gray fog, and Thousand Faces remarked that young people slept well.
• At the Forest Clan, Qin Ze told Second Sister that Yue Sheng would oversee the library project, wrote Miss Sword Case’s name in the Chronicle of the Myriad Races, and pulled out the Chronicle of Time.

Qin Ze learned more about Master Desolate’s discovery of Heaven and the strange bird Bai Bai, then received an urgent call from Honest Man and Giant Overlord, who were trapped in an impossible world beyond a vanished Abyss Gate. He delayed rescuing them to inspect Yan Miao’s Second Legion, while the stranded group set out to explore their upside-down surroundings.

• Qin Ze reviewed Master Desolate’s diary and connected Bai Bai to the Northern Heaven Gate, while wondering whether Master Desolate had hidden something in the bird.
• The Alliance continued developing peacefully as the Forest Clan and Sea of Glaze waited for the strange beasts’ next move, Star Eyes searched for Meng Die, and Yue Sheng gathered histories for a library.
• Honest Man contacted Qin Ze and explained that he, Giant Overlord, and their companions were trapped in a living world after its Abyss Gate vanished behind them.
• Sophist warned Qin Ze that the world was dangerously abnormal, but Qin Ze postponed the rescue until after his scheduled inspection of Yan Miao’s Second Legion.
• In the inverted world, Giant Overlord and the others explored the solid sky while Sophist ordered two ordinary clones to lead the way and check for danger.

Honest Man’s group explored the bizarre upside-down world, captured a local after he interrupted their attempt to catch a Death-Omen Bird, and learned that escaping through the Abyss Gate was unlikely. The local agreed to explain the world and its False Humans, but suggested they find a safe place to talk first.

• The clones traveled through the cloud banks and found a strange forest of hybrid plants and birds with baby faces.
• Honest Man sent a clone to catch a Death-Omen Bird, but a man in green appeared and warned them about it.
• The clones seized and tied up the man, then Honest Man freed him and offered him crystals as an apology.
• The man explained that the Abyss Gate appeared randomly and that most newcomers were eaten by False Humans.
• Honest Man offered another crystal in exchange for information, and the man proposed finding a safe place to talk because night had fallen.

A strange man led Honest Man, Giant Overlord, and the clones through a bizarre forest while explaining its lawless day and night and warning them about False Humans and Death-Omen Birds. As the group hid among giant flowers, a uniformed man followed a trail of crystal fragments toward them.

• The man rescued Honest Man and the others from the area after warning that False Humans would search for them.
• A uniformed man arrived with a Death-Omen Bird, found crystal fragments, and followed the trail they formed.
• Giant Overlord and the others hid inside a giant rose while one clone sneezed from pollen and another nearly gave away their position.
• The man explained that the world had no sun or predictable day-night cycle and that False Humans hunted people like them.
• The man warned the group to flee or hide whenever they saw a Death-Omen Bird, and Honest Man compared their situation to a rules horror story.

The man hid with the outsiders in a flower while he explained how the False Humans hunted at night and humans hunted them by day. When the False Humans found him, the outsiders watched from safety as he fought their uniformed fighter, who gained the upper hand.

• The man warned the outsiders to hide until dawn because Death-Omen Birds alerted nearby False Humans, while Honest Man and Giant Overlord discussed testing whether his claims were true.
• A clone enhanced the man's hearing, allowing him to detect approaching Death-Omen Birds and warn that they had been discovered.
• The man fled the flower and was trapped in a net, but he tore it apart with bone spikes as a uniformed man emerged from the forest.
• The uniformed man demanded that the man hand over the outsiders, but the man refused and attacked him while the clones watched and cheered.
• Giant Overlord and Honest Man observed that the uniformed fighter was level four and the man was level five, and Giant Overlord noted that night seemed to strengthen False Humans.
• The uniformed man severed one of the man's bone spikes and declared that he was going to die.

A wounded man transformed into a powerful bone-covered creature when the world’s light vanished, killing the False Human who had nearly killed him. As the forest began overlapping with strange buildings and voices, the man welcomed the clones to Lightless Day.

• The False Human wounded the man and demanded he reveal a Source Land entrance, while the clones watched without helping.
• The light vanished without warning, and the man announced that daytime had arrived as his body grew into a bone-covered form.
• The transformed man overpowered and killed the False Human, then consumed some of his blood and flesh.
• Giant Overlord noticed that the False Humans had withdrawn and speculated that the forest itself threatened them.
• The forest warped and overlapped with buildings, a sky, and a cacophony of voices, and the transformed man welcomed the clones to Lightless Day.

Sophist and the clones learned that Source Land and the False Humans’ world overlapped in daylight, then met the king, who invited them to stay after hearing about the Strange Gods’ revival. The chapter ended with the king leaving their future choice open.

• The mutated man explained that Source Land and the False Humans’ world occupied separate spaces at night and overlapped during daylight, allowing his people to attack.
• The man led the clones through the overlapping space into Source Land and said adults were forbidden to return there except in special circumstances.
• The clones saw False Humans being sold and slaughtered in the town, while the man claimed they were treated as their people were treated by the False Humans.
• The man brought the clones to the king, whom Giant Overlord identified as a Level Nine cultivator.
• Sophist told the king about the Strange Gods’ revival, and the king invited the clones to stay in Source Land before deciding whether to remain or leave.