Chapter Summaries

Giant Overlord and the clones became wary of their unusually welcoming hosts, suspecting the natives were waiting for time to work in their favor. Their suspicions deepened when False Humans launched an unprecedented daytime attack on the city, leaving the clones ready to intervene.

• Qin Ze told Sophist he could not come to retrieve them until after several Alliance duties, and urged him to treat the stay as a vacation.
• Giant Overlord reasoned that the natives were either genuinely kind or were waiting for time to give them an advantage, while Brother Devour warned that they were interested in the outsiders’ bodies.
• The clones returned to their room, and Giant Overlord recognized the sound of Death-Omen Birds before explosions shook the city.
• False Humans attacked the royal palace and other parts of the city, prompting the man who had escorted the clones to tell them to remain inside while the guards fought back.
• After the man left, the duck-sitting clone asked whether it was time for them to take the stage.

As the city’s fighting subsided, Giant Overlord’s clone found a dying False Human and discovered that his body had no heart or lungs, confirming suspicions that False Humans were walking corpses. The group remained under lockdown, and as they questioned why the False Humans had come, Dark Night descended.

• The duck-sitting clone left the residence in a Shelter Space and found a gravely wounded False Human holding a broken-winged Death-Omen Bird.
• The False Human died after asking the clone to care for the bird, and the clone found that his organs had rotted away and no Soul Orb remained.
• Giant Overlord concluded that False Humans were walking corpses, and the clone burned the body and brought the Death-Omen Bird back to the residence.
• A man sent by the king checked on the group, while the clone concealed the bird in the toilet and revived it with a fragment of Source Crystal.
• Sophist and Giant Overlord discussed whether the False Humans had come to save them, and Dark Night suddenly descended.

At night, the Source Land drained the life force of Giant Overlord and his companions, while its king tried to devour them. Qin Ze arrived in time to kill the king and his guards, then realized the world's rules had fallen out of balance; Miss Sword Case sensed the child nearby.

• Giant Overlord and Sophist heard whispers as night fell, and everyone else in the room collapsed into sleep.
• The Source Land began draining Giant Overlord's life force, and he realized that death lay within the nature of the living.
• The king and his guards entered to eat the weakened outsiders, but Giant Overlord transformed and brought the building down around them.
• The king's twisted power redirected Giant Overlord's death rays, leaving him too weak to maintain his beast form.
• Qin Ze arrived through blood-colored spatial ripples, killed the king with a fire-attribute flying sword and Blazing Sun Fire, then wiped out the guards and the man.
• Qin Ze recognized that the world's rules had lost their balance, and Miss Sword Case told him she could sense the child.

Qin Ze rescued the clones from the chaotic Source Land and met the False Humans, who revealed that their First Prince had planned the rescue. He followed them through a hidden gate into a high-tech facility, where the chapter left him puzzled by the civilization’s advanced technology.

• Qin Ze shielded Giant Overlord from the chaotic rules, moved the ruins aside, and revived the injured clones with tree fruits.
• Qin Ze gathered the clones and transported them out of the Source Land as the False Humans prepared to leave.
• Qi Yuan told his men that the research institute had survived underground and that the False Humans were ready to confront the Theocratic Church.
• Qin Ze demanded that Qi Yuan take him to the First Prince, and Qi Yuan led the group to a hidden spatial gate inside a tree.
• Qin Ze and his companions entered a white room fitted with alloy walls, sentry guns, and infrared security beams.

Qin Ze discovered that Great Cang’s Black Crystals worked like weakened Soul Orbs and learned that their long-term use had turned the people of Great Cang into zombies. The First Prince asked him to save their collapsing world by slaying a god.

• Qi Yuan led Qin Ze and his group through the Nightshade Research Institute, where Qin Ze broke into a laboratory and took a Black Crystal from Doctor Octopus.
• Qin Ze had a clone eat the unpurified Black Crystal; the clone survived, gained a weak object-enhancement ability, and gave Qin Ze cultivation and ability feedback.
• Qi Yuan explained that people in Great Cang consumed Black Crystals from birth, and Qin Ze concluded that the crystals’ side effects caused their zombie-like mutations.
• Qin Ze met the First Prince, who described how the Nightshade Research Institute sheltered outlanders and used their technology to fight heretics.
• The First Prince knelt before Qin Ze and asked him to save Great Cang by slaying a god.

His Highness explained Great Cang’s history and asked Qin Ze to help kill the Day God with Nightshade’s god-killing weapon. Qin Ze suspected the balance exotic beast was impersonating both gods and wondered whether the weapon was meant to kill the Sword Bearer.

• His Highness recounted how the Day God and Dark God had appeared, how the Theocratic Church had gained power, and how he had secretly preserved and developed Nightshade.
• His Highness asked Qin Ze to fight the Day God, saying Nightshade had made a god-killing weapon, and argued that both gods had to die for order to return.
• Qin Ze left to consider the proposal, then asked his companions for their thoughts in the institute lounge.
• Brother Devour compared Great Cang to the Abyss, and Qin Ze suspected the balance exotic beast had been playing both gods to harvest faith.
• Brother Devour suggested that the balance exotic beast had allowed Nightshade to develop the weapon because its true target might be the Sword Bearer.

Qin Ze and Brother Devour considered whether the Sword Bearer was alive and devised a plan to expose the Balance Aberrant Beast by disrupting the conflict between Great Cang and the heretics. Qin Ze rejected preserving the world as a model for studying the Abyss, prioritizing the Balance Aberrant Beast’s Soul Orb, and prepared to approach the eldest prince.

• Qin Ze and Brother Devour reasoned that the Sword Bearer might be posing as a god, possibly the Day God, and outlined plans for both possibilities.
• Qin Ze decided to inflame the conflict between Great Cang and the heretics so the hidden Balance Aberrant Beast would be forced to intervene.
• Qin Ze said he would tell the eldest prince that he had decided to help and use the opportunity to learn whether the Sword Bearer was dead.
• Brother Devour suggested preserving the world as a miniature model of the Abyss, but Qin Ze rejected the idea because obtaining the Balance Aberrant Beast’s Soul Orb came first.
• A clone who had eaten a black crystal asked for a name, but the Dharma King and Thousand Faces mocked his weak ability.

Qin Ze agreed to help the eldest prince attack the Theocratic Church at Sun Lake the next night, though he cared only about obtaining the balanced exotic beast's Soul Orb. While Qin Ze and his clones waited at the research institute, he followed Yue Sheng's investigation into a mysterious ancient stele, and after seven days, night finally fell.

• The eldest prince showed Qin Ze a map of Sun Lake and explained his plan to attack the Theocratic Church with the God-Slaying Cannon, either to confront the Day God or destroy the church.
• The eldest prince offered Qin Ze the position of chancellor and promised Great Cang would reclaim its lost territory, but Qin Ze left without interest in his promises.
• The eldest prince told the research institute to prepare the God-Slaying Cannon and privately questioned whether Qin Ze was strong enough to support the plan.
• Qin Ze asked Dharma King about A Sheng's research and learned that Yue Sheng had found a wordless stone stele beneath the seabed at the entrance to Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze and the others waited at the research institute, and after seven days of sunlight, night fell.

Qin Ze and His Highness led Nightshade’s force to attack the Theocratic Church at Sun Lake, but the battle turned into an ambush when heretics poured from the Source Land. The grand pontiff emerged as Nightshade’s forces were surrounded, and Qin Ze suspected a traitor had exposed their operation.

• Nightshade’s hundred elite combatants arrived at Sun Lake, where His Highness explained the sun’s connection to the lake and ordered the God-Slaying Cannon prepared.
• His Highness led the charge toward the church, while Qin Ze warned that the undefended approach seemed suspicious.
• Believers poured out of the church, and Nightshade’s forces pushed them back toward the doors as Day God remained absent.
• The Source Land opened above the lake, and heretics joined the believers to surround Nightshade’s fighters.
• Qin Ze concluded that someone in the institute had betrayed them, and the grand pontiff emerged from the church.

Qin Ze fought the archbishop while the First Prince activated the God-Slaying Cannon, sacrificing lives to power it. After the cannon failed to harm Qin Ze, he destroyed the forces gathered at Sun Lake and challenged the hidden Balance Aberrant Beast to appear.

• The First Prince asked Qin Ze to hold off the archbishop while the God-Slaying Cannon charged, and Qin Ze confronted the archbishop at Sun Lake.
• Qin Ze wounded the archbishop, who revealed he knew the First Prince’s plan and used a ring to resist the cannon’s life-draining effect.
• The First Prince expanded the cannon’s range to drain a distant city and charge its shot, while the archbishop teleported away from its path.
• Qin Ze stopped the cannon’s purple beam with his hand, then unleashed Blazing Sun Fire and killed the gathered church, heretic, and royal forces.
• Qin Ze called for the Balance Aberrant Beast, and Sun Lake began to boil.

Qin Ze entered the Balance Aberrant Beast’s sunlit domain and met Communion, who calmly revealed that he was both the beast and its own Sword Bearer. After confirming there was no separate Sword Bearer and retrieving the Soul Orb, Qin Ze was asked what he thought of the world.

• Qin Ze and the clones entered the sun through a door that opened after its strange images lit up.
• Qin Ze found the metal-attribute flying sword, which joyfully reunited with Miss Sword Case.
• Communion welcomed Qin Ze, identified himself as the Balance Aberrant Beast, and claimed he was also its Sword Bearer.
• Miss Sword Case confirmed that no separate Sword Bearer had appeared, and Communion pointed Qin Ze to the Soul Orb in a cabinet.
• Giant Overlord retrieved the Soul Orb, and Communion asked Qin Ze what he thought of the world.

Communion explained to Qin Ze that Great Cang was a social experiment studying how a civilization fared after its god disappeared, and its results warned that an alliance needed a powerful leader and safeguards against internal conflict. He then led Qin Ze into a secret chamber, where three colored stars circled above a platform.

• Communion told Qin Ze he had recreated a miniature Abyss to simulate whether Chaos or the native civilization would win after the god fell.
• Communion showed Qin Ze Great Cang’s history and explained that the civilization’s infighting stemmed from struggles over divine authority and human ambition.
• Communion concluded that a threatened civilization needed a strong leader who could preserve stability even if he fell, and Qin Ze recognized the warning for his Alliance.
• Communion led Qin Ze into a secret chamber, where he saw green, blue, and red stars chasing one another above a raised platform.

Communion gave Qin Ze the Spark, the source that created everything, and explained how Heaven’s illness and the Goddess of Life’s escape led to the conflict between the Star Gods and exotic beasts. Qin Ze left with the crystal ball and a clearer account of the past, while Communion greeted Miss Sword Case.

• Communion showed Qin Ze the three-colored Spark, sealed it in a crystal ball, and handed it to him.
• Communion said he had acted to test whether someone bound by fate could escape destiny, and explained that he and the other four were rules born in Chaos rather than exotic beasts.
• Communion told Qin Ze that Heaven was ill and that the Goddess of Life had stolen power from Heaven and the others to create her own world.
• Communion explained that he and the others had been ordered to kill the Goddess of Life, but that their power was suppressed after they entered the new world.
• Communion admitted that he had falsely told Master Desolate the rules would return to their places when the group died, and said Master Desolate had later suppressed them with the Five Elements Flying Swords.
• Communion said he and Master Desolate had reached an agreement to combine their powers, then greeted Miss Sword Case.

Qin Ze learned more about the Chaos Gods and Communion warned him that obtaining the other Soul Orbs would depend on understanding what their owners wanted. Communion gave Qin Ze a record of four world resets, then stayed behind to watch Great Cang’s story unfold as Qin Ze departed with Miss Sword Case.

• Miss Sword Case denied knowing Communion, who revealed that she had once been born of chaos alongside him.
• Communion explained that the Chaos Star Gate had drawn prodigies from many worlds, but the cycle of reincarnation and destruction had prevented any new Chaos Gods from being born.
• Communion warned Qin Ze that Echo and Hundred Eyes would not give up their Soul Orbs easily, and suggested Qin Ze offer each of them what they wanted most.
• Qin Ze told Communion that the Goddess of Life had separated the authorities of Creation and Destruction, and Communion questioned why she had broken their agreement.
• Communion gave Qin Ze a black diamond recording four resets of the world and confirmed that someone had stolen the Spark, which held all his hope.
• Qin Ze left with Miss Sword Case, who sent Communion a wooden keepsake depicting herself and a sword.

After returning to the Forest Clan, Qin Ze learned that Star Eyes had found traces of Meng Die and warned him not to pursue them yet. He then visited Yue Sheng, who revealed a mysterious stone stele that drained Qin Ze’s life force when it tasted his blood.

• Qin Ze left the Great Cang Race’s world, gave Sophist supplies, and parted ways with Sophist and Giant Overlord as they continued their journey.
• Star Eyes told Qin Ze that he had found distorted Space Rule traces left by Meng Die and suspected she had deliberately lured them to the mountains.
• Qin Ze told Star Eyes to stay away from the mountains for now, then agreed to check on Yue Sheng, who had been shut in seclusion.
• Qin Ze found Yue Sheng looking deathly pale and discovered that he had surrounded a stone stele with layers of imprisonment arrays.
• Yue Sheng cut Qin Ze’s palm and let his blood fall on the stele, which absorbed it and began draining Qin Ze’s Source of Life until the elemental array stopped it.

Yue Sheng’s experiments revealed that the Rubik’s Cube Stele could absorb vast amounts of Source of Life, so Qin Ze took it to the God of the Underworld, who insisted it be returned to the Otherworld entrance. Qin Ze restored it there under Bu Qingyao’s watch, while Yue Sheng stayed to study and guard it until the coming hunt for Meng Die.

• Yue Sheng told Qin Ze that the stele’s range and appetite had grown as it absorbed Source of Life, though an elemental array could suppress its power.
• Qin Ze warned Yue Sheng to recover his Source of Life because the battle against Meng Die was approaching, then went to Otherworld No. Zero and told the God of the Underworld about the stele.
• The God of the Underworld identified it as the Rubik’s Cube Stele and ordered Qin Ze to return it, claiming it was almost time for its purpose; privately, he admitted it had nothing to do with the Mystery in the Womb.
• Qin Ze asked Bu Qingyao to watch the stele at the Otherworld entrance, and she agreed.
• Qin Ze returned the Rubik’s Cube Stele to its original place, and Yue Sheng stayed there to oversee it until the hunt for Meng Die.

Qin Ze gave Communion's Soul Orb to a Level Seven clone, whose breakthrough to Level Nine brought Qin Ze close to Demigod Level and granted him the ability to disrupt or harmonize rules. After testing the ability with Star Eyes, Qin Ze planned to use it against Meng Die and agreed to bring Yue Sheng back because Old Xing had a bad feeling.

• Qin Ze returned to the Forest Clan's Outpost City and gave Communion's Soul Orb to a Level Seven clone, who absorbed it and broke through to Level Nine.
• The newly advanced clone argued that the beasts of burden deserved the Soul Orb, then declared himself Onmyoji and clashed with Dharma King and Thousand Faces over his new name.
• Qin Ze received feedback on Onmyoji's balance ability, which could throw rules into disorder or make them complement one another.
• Qin Ze used the ability to make Star Eyes float by disrupting the rules around them, and Star Eyes warned that opponents could adapt once they understood what was happening.
• Qin Ze and Star Eyes discussed trapping Meng Die by disrupting her control of dimensional space, with Qin Ze volunteering to act as bait again.
• Star Eyes asked Qin Ze to call Yue Sheng back because he had a bad feeling, and Qin Ze agreed.

Qin Ze investigated strange behavior among the Forest Clan before a massive beast tide overwhelmed Outpost City and Meng Die swallowed him in the form of a black python. A white light then engulfed Qin Ze, and he heard the tree-fruit seller’s familiar greeting again.

• Qin Ze checked Yan Miao, who reported dizziness and a growing heaviness, but Qin Ze found nothing wrong with him.
• Qin Ze found Second Sister and Little Deer asleep past noon, then left Old Xing to meditate undisturbed.
• Qin Ze rushed to Outpost City’s wall as an enormous beast tide attacked and noticed the soldiers falling asleep.
• Qin Ze fought Meng Die with the Balance Rule, but she vanished and a giant black python swallowed him.
• Qin Ze found himself in darkness inside the python, then a white light engulfed him and he heard the tree-fruit seller’s greeting again.

Qin Ze realized the Forest Clan's Outpost City had been trapped in a time loop as a Strange God attack rendered its residents helpless. Meng Die and a snake woman swallowed the entire city, while Qin Ze was pulled into another deep descent.

• Qin Ze accepted the tree fruit from the transport leader again and realized the city was looping, while Brother Devour reported that the spatial gate had closed.
• Qin Ze found Yan Miao, Miss Sword Case, Second Sister, Little Deer, and Star Eyes affected by the loop or unable to respond, and concluded he was the only one who remembered it.
• A beast tide attacked as Outpost City's exhausted soldiers fell asleep, and Meng Die appeared to challenge Qin Ze.
• Meng Die revealed that Qin Ze had noticed the anomaly by the second repetition, then snapped her fingers and let a black python swallow him into the next game.
• Meng Die and a snake woman discussed the third deep descent and Star Eyes, then watched a rift open as Curse Extinction welcomed a guest.
• The snake woman summoned an enormous black python that swallowed the entire Forest Clan's Outpost City.

Qin Ze realized that a Strange God had trapped Outpost City in repeating dreams and was stealing the residents’ soul power. As the repetitions accelerated, Brother Devour reasoned that the stolen power remained inside the dream, where Star Eyes might still be able to interfere.

• Qin Ze discovered that the city’s residents, including Yan Miao, Second Sister, and Little Deer, were falling into an unnatural sleep that his Smiley Face Pollen and divine power could not dispel.
• Qin Ze recognized the situation as a repeating dream, found that a piece of his Spirit had been stolen, and connected the exhaustion to the loss of soul power.
• Exotic beasts attacked Outpost City, and Meng Die appeared before the giant black python swallowed Qin Ze, restarting his life as Head of State.
• Qin Ze endured increasingly rapid repetitions in which the soul-power theft became more brazen and no one called out to him at the start.
• Brother Devour suggested that each Deep Descent pushed Qin Ze deeper into the dream and that the stolen soul power remained there, giving Star Eyes a chance to act before the Strange God consumed it.