Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze endured repeated deep descents while Brother Devour proposed exposing the Strange Gods by destroying their soul-power storage point. After Star Eyes’ intervention failed, Qin Ze learned that Meng Die was forbidden to attack him because it could awaken the Sword Case, and Thousand Faces reported he had news.

• Brother Devour advised Qin Ze to find and puncture the Strange Gods’ temporary soul-power storage point in the dream.
• Qin Ze suspected several Strange Gods were in Outpost City and asked Thousand Faces to discreetly check whether they had left the defensive line.
• As the deep descents accelerated, Qin Ze confronted Meng Die, who continued to avoid attacking him.
• Star Eyes stopped time with a giant eye, but the sky shattered the eye, and a giant python swallowed Qin Ze to begin another descent.
• Meng Die told the snake woman that Qin Ze remained unusually resilient, and the snake woman ordered her not to attack in case she awakened the Sword Case.
• Qin Ze began another descent with everyone else in Outpost City unconscious, and Thousand Faces announced that he had news.

Qin Ze exploited the Strange Gods’ absence from the first two defensive lines and sent Brother Devour’s First Army to seize them. Meanwhile, Meng Die and Snake Woman trapped him in a layered dream, where Snake Woman revealed that Qin Ze himself was the true dream node.

• Thousand Faces told Qin Ze that the Strange Gods had left the first and second defensive lines for a secret mission, and Qin Ze ordered Brother Devour to take those lines.
• Thousand Faces reported that Upper Gods had consumed newly awakened non-Sequence Strange Gods for experience, and Qin Ze resolved to pressure Meng Die into attacking him.
• Qin Ze confronted Meng Die, but she avoided his provocation and triggered another Deep Descent through a spiritual shock.
• Qin Ze used the Reversed Rule of Darkness to search the dream for dimensional flaws, but found none.
• Meng Die told Snake Woman that Qin Ze might have deduced their combined powers, and Snake Woman revealed that Qin Ze himself was the real dream node.
• Snake Woman began refining the dream’s soul power while Meng Die agreed to cover her and hurry their plan to kill Qin Ze.

Meng Die and Snake Woman plunged into the dream to break the stalemate as Brother Devour led the First Legion through the first and second defensive lines. The Alliance’s Star God drove back a Strange God, but the First Legion faced encirclement, while Qin Ze unsettled Meng Die by revealing that he knew the lines had fallen.

• Meng Die learned that the first outer defensive line was under attack and entered the dream with Snake Woman to end the stalemate.
• Brother Devour led the First Legion through a weak point in the first defensive line, using information Niuniu had provided.
• The First Legion broke through the second defensive line, then stopped to clear nearby points rather than rush toward Strange Gods on the third line.
• A Strange God approached the First Legion, but the Alliance’s Star God rose from the ground and punched back its shadow.
• Thousand Faces warned Brother Devour that a vast force of exotic beasts was surrounding them and urged him to prepare to retreat.
• Qin Ze taunted Meng Die during Deep Descent and asked whether the first two defensive lines had fallen, leaving her wondering how he knew.

Meng Die hesitated to kill Qin Ze while the First Legion attacked the defensive lines, and Qin Ze's Spirit survived another Deep Descent. With the battle still at a stalemate, Qin Ze decided to try hurting himself to force Meng Die to act.

• Meng Die recalled how she and the snake woman had made Qin Ze the node for their nested authorities, then grew wary that he had stayed conscious through repeated Deep Descents.
• The snake woman summoned Meng Die away just before Deep Descent began, and the black python swallowed Qin Ze to start another round.
• Brother Devour reported that the First Legion had secured the first two defensive lines and that the Goddess of the Earth was holding the third, while the Son of the Version returned with New Land's strange beasts.
• Qin Ze learned that Sophist's passive had kept his Spirit intact, then ordered Clown to split into two forces and attack Niuniu.
• Qin Ze decided to injure himself to provoke Meng Die, but she respawned before he could act and suspected that something was wrong when his Spirit remained untouched.

Qin Ze escaped the deepest layer of Meng Die’s dream by cutting his throat, but found himself still trapped in her dimensional space. With Miss Sword Case awake and unable to break the dream by force, they began searching for its core.

• Meng Die decided Qin Ze had to die because Deep Descent could no longer weaken his Spirit, but agreed to wait three more rounds while Snake Woman finished absorbing soul power.
• Meng Die offered Qin Ze eternal life as her Battle General, and Qin Ze slashed his own throat to force himself out of the deep dream.
• The dream collapsed, and Qin Ze awakened with his neck intact, though he remained inside Meng Die’s dimensional space.
• Miss Sword Case woke and tried to destroy the dream with Daydream Seeds, but learned that the dream was too stable for them to break.
• Miss Sword Case warned Qin Ze that killing himself in this layer would be fatal, then set out with him to find the dream’s core.
• Snake Woman realized Deep Descent had ended and Sword Case had awakened, while Meng Die explained that Qin Ze had slit his own throat.

Meng Die and Snake Woman tried to absorb Outpost City's soul power while hunting Qin Ze, but he found them and fought back with Miss Sword Case's help. Snake Woman finished absorbing the souls and revealed herself as the Higher Strange God Nightmare.

• Meng Die proposed retreating after the defensive lines fell, but Snake Woman insisted they kill Qin Ze and keep Many-Eyed Freak from interfering while she absorbed the city's soul power.
• Snake Woman explained that the Sword Case was shielding Qin Ze from Meng Die's authority, then asked Meng Die to guard her while she absorbed the souls.
• Qin Ze found them and attacked, using the Balance Rule to disrupt their authorities before Miss Sword Case struck at them.
• Snake Woman's black python blocked Miss Sword Case's attack and knocked Qin Ze back, while Meng Die assaulted him with black butterflies and folded space.
• Qin Ze escaped Meng Die's attacks as Snake Woman swallowed the remaining soul power and declared herself Higher Strange God, Reverse Sequence Twenty-Eight, Nightmare.

Nightmare trapped Qin Ze in her dream and overwhelmed him with her mental power, while Meng Die controlled the dream’s space. Old Xing intervened, but Nightmare and Meng Die countered him as the Captain arrived with the results of his research.

• Nightmare attacked Qin Ze with huge snakes linked to her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, suppressing him and threatening the others trapped in the dream.
• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze that destroying Nightmare’s Spirit could end the dream and save Little Deer and the others.
• The Captain said he was heading to the Illusion Race to retrieve a weapon from the Dream Management Department that could counter Nightmare.
• Old Xing used his authority to rewind the dream, but Nightmare’s higher Sequence interrupted him before he could reverse her absorption of the soul power.
• Meng Die twisted and folded space, forcing Qin Ze to evade chaotic vortices as the Captain announced that his research was ready.

Qin Ze used Captain’s Second-Generation Eternal Life Spirit Bomb to cripple Nightmare and break her control over the dream. He killed Nightmare as the dream collapsed and awoke in the Leader’s residence.

• Captain introduced a Spirit bomb made from fragments of millions of people’s Spirits and explained that it could trigger a devastating chain reaction.
• Nightmare trapped Qin Ze in black serpents and claimed her authority over the dream made resistance futile.
• Qin Ze ordered Captain to send the bomb into his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, and it detonated through the serpents, unleashing a psychic storm that battered Nightmare and destabilized the dream.
• Miss Sword Case scattered Daydream Seeds while Qin Ze used the Balance Rule to suppress Meng Die and regain control.
• Meng Die left the dream as butterflies, and Qin Ze split Nightmare in two with his white greatsword, releasing the soul power she had absorbed.
• The Abyss spread as the dream collapsed, and Qin Ze awoke in the Leader’s residence beside Miss Sword Case.

Qin Ze and the others recovered from the dream and joined Yue Sheng’s battle against Curse Extinction, Meng Die, and Nightmare. Meng Die and Curse Extinction escaped, while Qin Ze killed Nightmare and discovered she had dropped a Relic.

• Qin Ze found Second Sister and Little Deer awake, then learned from Star Eyes that Yue Sheng was fighting outside the city.
• Curse Extinction battled Yue Sheng with elemental attacks as Meng Die arrived with the badly injured Nightmare and called for a retreat.
• Qin Ze and Star Eyes joined Yue Sheng, but Meng Die turned into black butterflies and escaped while Curse Extinction fled through folded space.
• Meng Die threw Nightmare toward Qin Ze, leaving her behind to face Qin Ze’s Blazing Sun Fire and Yue Sheng’s meteor.
• Qin Ze killed Nightmare with Miss Sword Case’s greatsword and extinguished the flames, revealing an eyeless wooden snake carving: a Relic.

Qin Ze claimed Nightmare's Relic and joined A Sheng on the battlefield, where the Alliance's forces struggled against the Strange Gods and their exotic beasts. As Meng Die and Curse Extinction arrived, Meng Die realized Qin Ze's scheme had put them in danger and decided to flee.

• Qin Ze took Nightmare's Relic after A Sheng and Old Xing refused their shares, then left Old Xing behind and traveled with A Sheng to the battle.
• Brother Devour fought two king-class exotic beasts as the First Legion suffered heavy losses across the second defensive line.
• Devouring Song told Qin Ze he could not hold on, and Qin Ze promised to come to his aid.
• Meng Die and Curse Extinction appeared above the battlefield, where the Strange God from the third defensive line demanded that they reclaim the second line.
• Meng Die saw the Goddess of the Earth's projection fighting the Strange God and decided to flee, suspecting Qin Ze had lured them into a trap.

Meng Die ordered the Strange Gods to retreat after realizing Qin Ze had prepared for their attack, and Qin Ze halted the Alliance’s advance after a costly battle. A Strange God then flooded the battlefield, trapping the Alliance behind an immense sea, and Qin Ze asked Yue Sheng how they could cross it.

• Meng Die recognized that the Strange Gods could not win and ordered Curse Extinction and the other Strange God to retreat.
• Qin Ze and Yue Sheng arrived as the enemy forces withdrew, and Yue Sheng used his instrument to destroy a little over ten thousand exotic beasts.
• Qin Ze called off plans to attack more defensive lines after seeing the First Army’s heavy casualties and ordered the troops to clean up the battlefield.
• A massive flood surged toward the Alliance, and Qin Ze and Yue Sheng formed a wall of fire and ice to shield the soldiers.
• Yue Sheng identified the sea as a Strange God’s creation, and Qin Ze asked if he could help them cross it.

Qin Ze discovered that Dark Tide’s seawater dissolved anyone who touched it and blocked the Alliance’s route across the sea, while the flood devastated the first and second lines of defense. He tasked Thousand Faces and Yue Sheng with finding a way forward, then rallied the First Army by promising to honor their fallen and declaring his belief in a future victory.

• Qin Ze tested Dark Tide’s seawater with a clone and watched it dissolve in less than a second.
• Thousand Faces reported that the first and second lines of defense had been flooded, killing the exotic beasts and First Army soldiers unable to retreat.
• Yue Sheng explained how the gods had once crossed the sea at great cost, and told Qin Ze that the water’s spatial seal would prevent a portal from reaching its depths.
• Qin Ze asked Thousand Faces to investigate Dark Tide’s weaknesses and tasked Yue Sheng with finding a way out of the deadlock.
• Qin Ze promised the First Army that the fallen would be remembered on a monument and urged the soldiers to witness the day the Strange Gods were defeated.

After the battle against Nightmare, Qin Ze arranged for the Second Army to relieve the exhausted First Army and began absorbing Nightmare's Relic. The Relic drew him into tormenting dreams before Miss Sword Case woke him, but Nightmare left a black spot in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

• Qin Ze returned to the Forest Clan, reassured Second Sister and Little Deer that Nightmare was dead, and promised Little Deer she could join him next time.
• Qin Ze found Yan Miao at the training ground and ordered him to send the Second Army to relieve the First Army at the ice wall.
• Qin Ze told Yan Miao about the battle, and Yan Miao eagerly set out to muster his legion.
• Qin Ze began absorbing Nightmare's Relic, but Nightmare's lingering power pulled him into a series of crushing dreams.
• Miss Sword Case used the Daydream Seed to shatter Qin Ze's dream after the Relic turned to powder.
• Qin Ze discovered that Nightmare had left a black spot in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness that even the Tree of Mind could not remove.

Qin Ze read Master Desolate’s account of the Goddess of Life, who had created the Land of the Gods to investigate Heaven’s collapse and protect it from destruction. The Chronicle of Time stopped just before its ending, leaving Qin Ze to await further revelations as the Land’s old wounds began reopening.

• Qin Ze absorbed Nightmare’s Relic, became further corrupted, and saw his Source of God progress exceed ninety percent.
• Qin Ze read that Master Desolate had built the Northern Heaven Gate to seal a breach through which Chaos sent power, Strange Beasts, and Strange Gods.
• Master Desolate recorded that the Goddess of Life had grown weak and confessed she might die to end the danger facing the Land of the Gods.
• The Goddess of Life explained that she had stolen authority and Heaven’s core power to create the Land of the Gods and repeatedly investigate Heaven’s collapse.
• Master Desolate learned that the Land of the Gods would eventually perish if the Goddess died, and he rejected that outcome while searching for another way.
• Qin Ze reached the Chronicle’s final unfinished pages and reflected that Master Desolate’s temporary solution had only stitched the Land’s wounds shut.

After the First Legion suffered devastating losses in Dark Tide, Qin Ze organized reinforcements and created a clone-led Raptor Legion for dangerous missions. He distributed Soul Orbs to strengthen the army and key allies, then went to see A Sheng about crossing the sea.

• Brother Devour reported the First Legion's heavy casualties, and Qin Ze ordered martial artists from the Sea of Glaze and Molten Steel recruited as reinforcements.
• Qin Ze formed a five-thousand-clone Beasts of Burden Corps under Dharma King, and the clones settled on the name Raptor Legion.
• Qin Ze allocated ten thousand Soul Orbs to the new legion and ordered the rest purified for the First Army.
• Qin Ze assigned high-rank Soul Orbs to Brother Devour and Dharma King, reserved a King-Level orb with an external-avatar ability, and promised Onmyoji his share later.
• Qin Ze asked Brother Devour to send Second Sister the report, then left to ask A Sheng how to cross the sea.

Yue Sheng devised island-hopping tactics to move the Alliance’s forces across Dark Tide’s sealed sea, while Qin Ze oversaw preparations and the Alliance’s growing army. The chapter ended when Clown showed Qin Ze a familiar Magic Conch and Qin Ze asked where it had come from.

• Yue Sheng raised islands across the sea and proposed placing spatial portals on them so the main force could advance toward the third line of defense.
• Qin Ze ordered the Steel Melters to forge at least twenty-five portals, while Yue Sheng went to inspect the ice wall.
• Qin Ze learned that Meng Die was gathering tens of thousands of exotic beasts each day as the New Lands joined together, while Brother Devour replenished his troops.
• The Wing Clan and Fishman Civilization joined the Alliance, and Qin Ze assigned Mist Lord and A Bing to help assemble the Third Army.
• Clown summoned Qin Ze through the Local Area Network and showed him a deep-blue Magic Conch, prompting Qin Ze to ask where it came from.

Qin Ze examined the dormant Magic Conch Clown had found and questioned him about the Amethyst Clan world. After the Royal Guard searched Clown’s quarters for something the emperor had lost, Xiao Su invited Clown to her teacher’s birthday banquet, and Qin Ze grew interested in the invitation.

• Qin Ze recognized Clown’s conch as one of Echo’s Magic Conches, though it was dormant, and set out to trace its owner and investigate Echo’s plans.
• Clown told Qin Ze about the Amethyst Clan, its emperor, the three princes, and the chief court mage, whose disciple had brought him there.
• Qin Ze asked whether Clown suspected anyone, but Clown said he barely knew the princes or mage and had no reason to suspect them.
• Xiao Su arrived with Royal Guard soldiers, who searched Clown’s quarters as part of a citywide hunt for something the emperor had lost.
• Xiao Su gave Clown an invitation to her teacher’s one hundred and thirtieth birthday banquet and left for the Mages’ Association.
• Clown told Qin Ze that Xiao Su was the world’s Chosen One and the archmage’s daughter-in-law, and Qin Ze asked to see her invitation.

Qin Ze investigated the Magic Conch’s possible owner and the reason it had been left with Clown, then searched the royal palace and discovered that the dying emperor had ordered the citywide search. The second prince was carrying out that order, while Qin Ze remained concerned about Echo’s purpose and the purple crystals stored in the Amethyst Tower.

• Clown defended Magic Young Married Woman, explaining that she had helped him train at the Magic Academy’s sacred ground, while Qin Ze questioned whether she could be involved.
• Brother Devour suggested that whoever left the conch might be trying to use Clown, as someone close to Pretty God, to deal with Echo or the conch’s owner.
• Qin Ze asked Clown about the purple crystals and learned that they were kept in the royal palace’s Amethyst Tower, then left to explore the capital.
• Qin Ze sensed powerful auras at the palace and outside it, saw the Amethyst Tower, and found the gravely ill emperor in his bedchamber.
• The second prince entered the emperor’s room and said he had searched the city as ordered; Qin Ze realized the emperor had initiated the search, and Miss Sword Case worried that Echo’s deal could harm Qin Ze too.

Qin Ze discovered that the Amethyst Tower stored the dead amethyst people’s faith, which the ailing emperor had never used, then visited the royal capital’s magic academy to investigate its unusual stream. The Sunlight Fish swarmed him and drew something from his body, leaving half the water black.

• Qin Ze learned that the second prince was expected to inherit the throne and wondered whether the emperor had ordered the amethyst people’s deaths.
• Qin Ze slipped into the Amethyst Tower and found hundreds of millions of amethysts containing the dead people’s fervent faith in the emperor.
• Qin Ze realized the amethysts stored faith for the emperor, though the dying emperor had not used it, and he left the palace after finding nothing else unusual.
• Qin Ze visited the magic academy and passed Xiao Su, who sensed his presence but did not see him.
• Qin Ze sat in the academy stream, where Sunlight Fish appeared and kissed him, drawing something from his body until the water turned black.

Qin Ze drained the Magic Academy’s holy stream while the sunfish cleansed and strengthened him, then left the academy’s leaders to discover the stream had vanished. That night, Clown attended the archmage’s birthday banquet as Qin Ze delayed his arrival after finding something interesting.

• Sunfish swarmed Qin Ze, drawing Corruption from his Spirit and repeatedly cleansing his body as his attributes increased.
• The Magic Young Married Woman, the chief court mage, and the headmaster gathered outside the holy land, but the archmage told them to wait while Qin Ze remained inside.
• After the stream turned completely black and the sunfish stopped appearing, Qin Ze left and the Blazing Sun Fire he had placed in the water burned away the stream and its Corruption.
• The archmage called the destruction an accepted welcoming gift and told Xiao Su to help prepare for the birthday banquet that night.
• Clown arrived at the crowded banquet, where Xiao Su welcomed him and seated him near the place of honor across from the three princes.
• Clown asked Qin Ze through the Local Area Network when he would arrive, and Qin Ze replied that he had found something interesting.