Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze used a Spirit Tree leaf connected to Zi Yue to unlock the path up Underworld Mountain and found her asleep inside its core. After Miss Sword Case woke her, Zi Yue recognized Qin Ze and said she had dreamed of him again.

• Brother Devour reasoned that the light at Underworld Mountain's summit was in a locked core area, and Qin Ze tested several powers without success.
• Miss Sword Case suggested Qin Ze try something connected to Bai Chi, and the Spirit Tree leaf he had received from Zi Yue floated into the summit's light.
• The light blossomed into a golden lotus containing the sleeping Zi Yue, and a shockwave cleared the fog as steps appeared up the mountain.
• Qin Ze found a powerful force rampaging through Zi Yue and stopped himself from interfering after Brother Devour warned him to leave things unchanged for now.
• Miss Sword Case planted a Daydream Seed to wake Zi Yue while Qin Ze prepared to suppress the force, and Zi Yue smiled when she saw him.

Qin Ze reunited with Zi Yue on Reversed Underworld Mountain and learned that her mission was to deliver the Pearl to the prophesied savior and guard the mountain. He realized that the divine power within her would replace the core after he took it, and prepared to receive the Pearl.

• Qin Ze suppressed the berserk power inside Zi Yue and learned that an Oracle had brought her to Reversed Underworld Mountain to wait for him.
• Zi Yue explained that every Spirit Clan Divine Maiden was tasked with safeguarding the Pearl and handing it to the prophesied savior.
• Qin Ze and Brother Devour concluded that Zi Yue's divine power would become a new core to keep the Tomb of the Gods suppressing its prisoners after Qin Ze took the old core.
• Zi Yue said she did not know where the rest of her people were, and Qin Ze told her he could not take her away from her mission.
• Zi Yue asked Qin Ze if he was ready to receive the Pearl, and he agreed.

Qin Ze met the Desolate God inside the core and passed his test of resolve, after which the Desolate God’s essence merged into Qin Ze’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. His sea of consciousness ignited with streaks of blood-red light.

• The core transported Qin Ze to a black-and-white ink world, where he met a man who looked like him.
• Qin Ze recognized the man as the Desolate God and learned that the place was where the Desolate God had cultivated and ascended through the Star Gate.
• The Desolate God tested whether Qin Ze still had the resolve to fight Heaven, and Qin Ze’s answer convinced him that he did.
• The Desolate God condensed the ink world into a drop that struck Qin Ze’s forehead and merged with his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
• Qin Ze’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness caught fire, and streaks of blood-red appeared within it.

Qin Ze recovered from Master Desolate’s final divine thought and investigated four glowing and dormant marks on the gods’ bodies, wondering how they related to the Soul Orbs. After Qin Ze let Magician sit on the Goddess of the Dark Night’s mark, the resonance opened a path toward the Abyss and drew Heaven’s will into the Tomb of the Gods.

• Qin Ze awoke from the white world, felt his spiritual power had been strengthened, and reconnected with his clones through the Local Area Network.
• Magician found a glowing mark on the Goddess of the Dark Night’s chest, and A Bing explained that it resonated with Magician’s Soul Orb.
• Qin Ze found similar but dormant marks on the other three gods, then examined Zi Yue and found no matching mark on her.
• After Brother Devour argued that the God of Machinery’s plan was worth trying, Qin Ze allowed Magician to sit on the mark.
• Magician activated his Soul Orb, completing the resonance and linking the Tomb of the Gods to the Abyss.
• A pillar of blue light pierced the dome, revealing an irregular geometric solid and an emotionless eye; Heaven’s will froze the Tomb of the Gods, and the God of the Sky urged the gods to keep Him out.

Qin Ze helped seal the breach in the Tomb of the Gods, while the Goddess of the Earth unleashed the power of her final molt to destroy the arena and its occupants. She vanished after giving Qin Ze the power to continue, leaving the outcome in his hands.

• Qin Ze used Miss Sword Case and the Pillar Gods' power to drive Heaven's Chaos back and seal the Tomb of the Gods.
• The Goddess of the Dark Night warned Qin Ze to prepare for the Goddess of the Earth's gift.
• Meng Die realized the Goddess of the Earth had baited the Strange Gods with her final molt and ordered her allies to break the arena.
• Meng Die began deploying her Dimensional World as the Mist Lord attacked and the Goddess of the Earth's power gathered.
• The Goddess of the Earth's power destroyed the arena and swept through the Tomb of the Gods, melting its inhabitants while leaving Qin Ze unharmed.
• The Goddess of the Earth embraced Qin Ze, said she did not regret her choice, and dissolved into starlight.

After the Goddess of the Earth sacrificed herself, Qin Ze absorbed the Source of the Strange Gods and completed his Divinity, becoming the Radiant God. He declared war on Chaos and left the Myriad Races united behind him as new forces took notice of his rise.

• The Goddess of the Earth destroyed the Strange Gods trapped in the Tomb of the Gods and sent their Source to Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze absorbed the Source of the Strange Gods, completed his Divinity, and became the Radiant God.
• Qin Ze used his connection to the Abyss to reach its people and declared war on Chaos in the name of the Circus and the Myriad Races Alliance.
• The Sea of Glaze, Molten Steel Civilization, Maka Race, Forest Clan, Amethyst Civilization, and Otherhuman Race pledged their loyalty or support to Qin Ze.
• Lao Dao celebrated the Radiant God's appearance, while Echo cursed Qin Ze and Communion decided his Deduction could end.
• Hundred Eyes recognized Qin Ze as a new variable, and the Goddess of Life awoke in the Land of Origin after hearing the names Desolate and Radiance.

Qin Ze witnessed Master Desolate’s memories and learned how the Goddess of Life helped him separate from the Five Elements and Two Realms so he could escape Heaven’s gaze. The memories revealed that Heaven created and controlled the Chaos Worlds and their inhabitants, while the Land of the Gods was also destined for destruction.

• Qin Ze gained a vast amount of Power of Faith as the Myriad Races celebrated Radiant God, and the girl’s power stabilized the collapsing Tomb of the Gods.
• Qin Ze saw Master Desolate ask the Goddess of Life about the true enemy, and she explained that he must separate himself from the Five Elements and Two Realms to escape Heaven’s gaze.
• The Goddess of Life gave Master Desolate a method to strip away Five Elements Matter, World Matter, and Chaos Matter, and told him to become a god through faith.
• Hundred Eyes, calling himself Time, warned Master Desolate that the Goddess of Life intended to use him as her substitute before sending him to meet Heaven.
• Master Desolate touched Heaven’s cube and saw that Heaven created Chaos Worlds and encoded the lives and futures of their inhabitants.
• Qin Ze learned that the Land of the Gods was made with power stolen from Heaven but was still fated to be destroyed as Heaven fell ill.

Qin Ze witnessed Master Desolate discover that the world was governed by Heaven’s calculations and receive a Spark from Hundred Eyes. Master Desolate escaped with it, but Hundred Eyes warned him to keep it secret from the Goddess of Life and urged him to test her intentions.

• Qin Ze watched Master Desolate learn that Heaven controlled the world and everything within it.
• Hundred Eyes guided Master Desolate to retrieve a Spark capable of creating anything, then fled with him when Heaven noticed.
• Master Desolate grabbed a white point of light before Hundred Eyes transported him near Bai Bai.
• Hundred Eyes warned Master Desolate not to reveal the Spark to the Goddess of Life and suggested he tell her he knew the truth of the world to judge her response.
• Hundred Eyes said he was trying to save Heaven, while Master Desolate wondered whether the Spark could help him do so.

Master Desolate returned from Chaos and learned that the Goddess of Life had hidden the truth from him about the Land of the Gods and his role in saving it. Hundred Eyes revealed a plan to gather the five Chaos Pearls and use Master Desolate to hide the Land of the Gods from Heaven, and Master Desolate agreed to cooperate.

• Master Desolate returned to the Land of Origin and told the Goddess of Life that Heaven was the true Creator and that the Land of the Gods was being annihilated.
• The Goddess of Life urged Master Desolate to recondense his Divinity, and he realized she had lied about her intentions.
• Hundred Eyes told Master Desolate that the Goddess of Life could not halt annihilation, but that the Land of the Gods could be pushed out of Heaven's sight.
• Hundred Eyes explained that Master Desolate needed to gather five Chaos Pearls and use them with the Five Elements of Creation and the Spark to separate the Land of the Gods from Chaos.
• Hundred Eyes said the Chaos Pearls would return to Heaven afterward, and Master Desolate agreed to partner with him.

Master Desolate revealed the secret plan he had made with Hundred Eyes and asked the Goddess of Life to trust him and suppress herself with the wood-attribute flying sword. The chapter ended as she agreed to cooperate, leaving his path to save the world still concealed.

• Qin Ze doubted Hundred Eyes’ account and suspected he could have taken the Soul Orb without Master Desolate’s help.
• Master Desolate recovered a mysterious mass of light in the Land of Origin, studied it, and resolved to follow his own plan.
• Master Desolate and Hundred Eyes agreed to pretend the Five Elements Flying Swords had suppressed the Chaos Pillar Gods so Master Desolate could obtain the Goddess’s Soul Orb.
• Master Desolate asked Miss Sword Case to part from her children temporarily, then gave flying swords to the four Sword Bearers and the Goddess of Life.
• The Goddess of Life revealed that she had created the Land of the Gods as a way to investigate Heaven, while Master Desolate said his own plan could solve the problem at its source.
• The Goddess of Life trusted Master Desolate and asked how to cooperate, and he asked her to suppress herself with the wood-attribute flying sword.

Master Desolate gathered the gods, took their Hearts of God, and asked them to sacrifice themselves to create an era without gods and seal the Strange Gods. He then gave part of the King Engine and his Source to the Divine Tree, before the story shifted to a final standoff between the Strange Beasts and the Myriad Races.

• Master Desolate used the Divine Tree’s branch to persuade the gods to surrender parts of their Hearts of God, and the gods agreed.
• Master Desolate asked the gods to die so he could create an era without gods and use the Star Gods’ power to seal the Strange Gods.
• The God of Machinery warned Old Huang that separating impurities could not eliminate them, and Old Huang said the decisive move would come in a second playthrough after long ages.
• Master Desolate gave part of the King Engine and most of his Source Power to the Divine Tree, asking it to pass the Source to him when it had a chance.
• Qin Ze saw the origins of the golden Source of God, then watched Black God challenge the Four Pillar Gods to settle the war.

Qin Ze witnessed memories of the ancient war, in which Master Desolate unleashed a reversing vortex that dragged both armies into Chaos before the Goddess of the Earth sealed the Land of the Gods. Back in the present, Qin Ze faced the figures in the gray mist and challenged A Niu as the second playthrough began.

• The Strange Beasts and the warriors of the Myriad Races fought while Chaos poured into the Land of the Gods.
• Master Desolate expanded the pillar of Chaos, then used a reversing vortex to pull gods and beasts from both sides into Chaos.
• Master Desolate sent Bai Bai into the vortex and was devoured by king-rank Strange Beasts after declaring that he would meet them in the second playthrough.
• Chaos froze Niuniu and the remaining gods, while the Goddess of the Earth sealed the spilled Chaos and the battlefield fell silent.
• Qin Ze finished viewing the memories and challenged A Niu, declaring that the second playthrough had begun.

Qin Ze learned that his memories of being Master Desolate were locked, though he had regained his Divinity as Radiant God and the faith of the Myriad Races. After meeting with the four gods, he learned he needed to gather the remaining Chaos Pearls and Five Elements Flying Swords, but he chose to deal with Black God first.

• Qin Ze considered whether Master Desolate or another god had locked away parts of his memories, while Brother Devour proposed the two possibilities.
• Qin Ze revealed his Abyss-based authority and his newfound standing as the Star God of the Myriad Races.
• The God of the Sky brought Qin Ze to meet the Goddess of the Dark Night, the God of War, and the God of Machinery.
• Qin Ze learned that Hundred Eyes and the Goddess of Life still held Chaos Pearls, and that Star Eyes might be able to pursue Hundred Eyes through the time storm.
• The God of Machinery told Qin Ze to collect the remaining Chaos Pearls and Five Elements Flying Swords and take them to Underworld Mountain and the Reversed Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze said he would deal with Black God before continuing the plan.

Qin Ze learned that killing Niuniu while the Black God remained sealed would weaken the Tomb of the Gods, so he set out to gather the remaining Chaos Pearls, Soul Orbs, and Five Elements Flying Swords. After rescuing Unit Zero, he healed the survivors of Beacon Island No. 11 and rallied the Alliance, whose stand marked a turning point in the Abyss.

• The Goddess of the Dark Night and the other gods warned Qin Ze that the Tomb of the Gods depended on the sealed strange gods to restrain Heaven, so he could not kill Niuniu yet.
• Qin Ze resolved to seek the remaining Chaos Pearls and Soul Orbs, questioned the God of Machinery about his impurity, and decided he urgently needed to find Bai Bai and the point of light inside him.
• Qin Ze found Unit Zero still alive after the Goddess of the Earth's attack and carried him out of the Tomb of the Gods.
• At Beacon Island No. 11, Yan Miao and the few surviving soldiers watched the beast tide retreat after the Second Army suffered ninety-percent casualties.
• Qin Ze healed the wounded with Healing Pollen and praised their courage, while the soldiers rallied behind him and the Alliance emerged as the Abyss's backbone.

After the battle, Qin Ze sought Old Xing’s help to enter the Time Storm and find Hundred Eyes. Old Xing explained that entering was easy but returning was difficult because time kept moving, and Hundred Eyes could not get lost there because the storm was his home.

• At the former Fairness Arena, Meng Die and Mummy survived the destruction while Curse Extinction and Dark Tide died, and Mummy chose to seal himself back in his coffin instead of joining her.
• The Alliance commemorated the dead, rebuilt the Second Legion, and received applications from over a hundred civilizations as Qin Ze recovered and considered how to cleanse the corruption within him.
• Qin Ze visited Second Sister and Little Deer, then met A Sheng and Old Xing to ask for help entering the Time Storm to find Hundred Eyes.
• Old Xing described the storm as a constantly flowing river of time and warned Qin Ze that finding the way back to the correct point would be difficult.
• Old Xing explained that Hundred Eyes would not get lost in the Time Storm because time itself was his home.

Qin Ze learned that Old Xing might be able to locate Hundred Eyes precisely in the storm, then searched the Abyss for the elusive creature. He found a flash of white and prepared to track it down.

• Old Xing explained that his time authority had let him escape the storm, but anchoring to the right node took so long that an epoch passed.
• Old Xing proposed a plan requiring Little Deer’s help, and Qin Ze left to retrieve the stupid bird while Star Eyes revealed Hundred Eyes had recently returned to the node before slipping back into the storm.
• Qin Ze visited Echo in the Desolation-Imprisoning Formation, claimed he had killed Black God, and coaxed Echo into admitting he had traded with Hundred Eyes for Chaos Source.
• Qin Ze abandoned Echo and used the Abyss to search for Hundred Eyes, soon spotting a flash of white in a corner.

Bai Bai enjoyed a comfortable life among the Abyss’s gullible natives until Qin Ze found him and subjected him to his usual rough treatment. Qin Ze failed to locate the hidden speck of light and began investigating how it might be activated, ending with a question about Bai Bai’s apparent power to make someone fly.

• Bai Bai ordered the natives to bring him meat and dismissed a man who presented him with makeshift flying equipment.
• Qin Ze arrived, grabbed Bai Bai, swung him around, and took over his throne.
• Qin Ze searched Bai Bai but found no white speck of light, prompting Brother Devour to suggest the object might be hidden or require an activation switch.
• A native wearing wooden boards took flight, and Qin Ze asked Bai Bai whether he had the God of the Sky’s authority.

Qin Ze learned that the Blue-Skinned People could make anything they sincerely believed come true, and he considered whether the Divine Tree had guided him to their world. He sent Bai Bai to summon the tribal chief so he could investigate the origin of their ability.

• Bai Bai explained that a teleportation from the Land of Origin had brought him to the Blue-Skinned People, who worshipped him as a god.
• Qin Ze learned that the Blue-Skinned People’s sincere beliefs could reshape reality, but their knowledge and doubts limited how far their civilization could develop.
• Brother Devour suggested that the world might be a clue or activation switch connected to the Divine Tree’s teleportation, and Qin Ze agreed to investigate the ability’s origin.
• A pilot thanked Bai Bai for granting his flying equipment its power, then worried that Bai Bai was dying; Qin Ze warned Bai Bai to deny it before the belief could come true.
• Qin Ze kicked Bai Bai and urged him to ask the pilot to bring the tribal chief over.

Qin Ze questioned the tribe chief about a forgotten treasure and discovered a hidden doorway within the ancient stone statue. He stepped through and heard a mysterious voice urging him to open his eyes as the World Key resonated with the space.

• Qin Ze asked the chief whether the tribe had a writing system, and learned that the people feared writing as a mind devil and passed knowledge down by word of mouth.
• The chief told Qin Ze that an ancient god had left a treasure and a stone statue in the world, but the tribe had lost the rest of the story.
• Qin Ze searched the world for the treasure, then went with Bai Bai to examine the worn-down stone statue.
• Qin Ze sent Bai Bai close to the rocks, and Bai Bai's ankle ring activated a hidden doorway charged with the Space Rule.
• Qin Ze stepped through the doorway, where the World Key resonated with the unknown space and a voice repeatedly told him to open his eyes.

Qin Ze heard the Human Race’s World Will and watched countless visions of alternate lives in which he fought Heaven alongside familiar companions, searching for something and dying each time. The visions left him questioning who he was as cracks spread across his Spirit, threatening to split him apart.

• Qin Ze heard the World Will tell him to open his eyes, and the white space around him broke into mirrors showing his face.
• Qin Ze watched a life in which he grew up with a different family before Heaven split the sky and destroyed the world.
• Qin Ze saw alternate versions of himself die fighting exotic beasts, sometimes alongside Little Deer, Qin Yu, Brother Yuanzi, and other Hunters.
• Qin Ze watched a version of himself reach Demigod strength, confront Heaven, and die while claiming he had found what he was searching for.
• Qin Ze realized every mirror showed him fighting Heaven with people he knew, then questioned his identity as cracks spread across his Spirit.