Chapter Summaries

Ye Ciqing and Yan Wusheng fought in the arena formed by the giant spiders, trading bone and sound-wave attacks. Yan Wusheng gained the upper hand, but Ye Ciqing blocked his finishing blasts with a giant skeleton.

• Ye Linwan let Ye Ciqing face Yan Wusheng while she watched from a spider’s head.
• Yan Wusheng attacked with sound waves, but Ye Ciqing blocked his punch with a spine and wounded him with a bone whip.
• Yan Wusheng unleashed deceptive sound-wave slashes that cut Ye Ciqing, who formed a bone spear and charged back into the fight.
• Ye Ciqing and Yan Wusheng exchanged rapid blows until Ye Ciqing tired, and Yan Wusheng struck his abdomen with a sonic punch.
• Yan Wusheng hurled two masses of sound waves at the fallen Ye Ciqing, who raised a giant skeleton to block them.

Ye Ciqing defeated Yan Wusheng after a brutal fight, while Ye Linwan tended to his wounds and discovered Bai Yu was still alive. As she moved to kill Bai Yu, an unknown voice asked what year it was.

• Ye Ciqing and Yan Wusheng traded devastating attacks until Yan Wusheng kept punching even after he had died.
• Ye Ciqing escaped Yan Wusheng's grip, cut through his corpse, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ye Linwan helped Ye Ciqing heal and explained that Yan Wusheng may have had a special constitution with strong vitality.
• Bai Yu woke and tried to crawl away, but Ye Linwan found him beneath a giant spider.
• As Ye Linwan's spider legs rose to kill Bai Yu, an unseen person asked what year it was, making Ye Linwan's pupils contract.

Ye Linwan fought Brown, who had arrived from ten years in the past, while trying to protect Bai Yu. After Brown was wounded and trapped in her tightening web, Ye Linwan appeared to have gained the upper hand.

• Brown appeared in the snowy landscape, and Ye Linwan realized he had come from ten years earlier.
• Ye Linwan attacked Brown after he spotted the wounded Bai Yu, but Brown escaped through a space door and appeared beside his former junior brother.
• Brown cut down the giant spiders with a Space Slash, while Ye Linwan countered with spider silk, shadow legs, prayer beads, and undead.
• Brown killed an undead with a Space Slash and fought back, but Ye Linwan dodged his attacks and wounded him with pink blades.
• Ye Linwan trapped the exhausted Brown in a vast web of transparent spider silk that rapidly tightened.

Brown used his time-related ability to summon three versions of himself, and the Browns fought Ye Linwan until a mysterious voice froze the world and warned them against using the power of laws. The battle resumed, and a new Brown seized Ye Ciqing to distract Ye Linwan, leaving her wounded and charging through the shadows to save him.

• Brown summoned three versions of himself, and they surrounded Ye Linwan as she unleashed her undead power.
• Ye Linwan dodged two Space Slashes but took a beam of light head-on, then counterattacked with venom, soul slashes, shadow slashes, and spider silk.
• A mysterious voice stopped time and warned Brown that he could use the power of laws only one more time before it erased the plane.
• The Browns and Ye Linwan resumed fighting until both sides were nearly exhausted, with the Browns adapting to her attacks.
• A newly arrived Brown grabbed Ye Ciqing and used him to threaten Ye Linwan, disrupting her attacks.
• Ye Linwan was wounded by a Space Slash and charged toward Brown through the shadows as another Brown unleashed torrents of flame.

Ye Linwan fought the Browns while they used Ye Ciqing as leverage, and Ye Ciqing killed himself to keep from distracting her. Ye Yiqing and Ye Linwan both sensed his death, leaving Ye Linwan devastated as the battle continued.

• Ye Linwan killed one Brown, but the others wounded her and threatened Ye Ciqing to control her movements.
• A Brown repeatedly teleported Ye Ciqing out of Ye Linwan’s reach and severed her hand when she tried to save him.
• Ye Ciqing threw his severed hand, still holding his earrings, to Ye Linwan, who caught it and put the earrings on.
• Ye Ciqing chose suicide rather than burden his mother, and the skeletal arm crushed his head in front of Brown.
• Ye Yiqing sensed that Ye Ciqing had died and raced toward the city, while Ye Linwan saw his headless body and felt her heart shatter.

After Ye Ciqing’s death, Ye Linwan unleashed the full power of her Ghost Howl symbiote and transformed into a giant undead spider to hunt the Browns. The Browns fled one by one across timelines, leaving Ye Linwan alone with the corpse.

• Ye Linwan crushed a pink prayer bead and blasted the attacking Browns with pink blades, fatally wounding one and forcing him back to his timeline.
• Ye Linwan used Ghost Howl to strengthen herself with a million undead and transformed into a giant spider, while the Browns attacked her with Space Slashes.
• Ye Linwan spread a domain of darkness and pursued the Brown who had caused Ye Ciqing’s death, using a pink shield to pierce his abdomen.
• The Browns abandoned one another and escaped through doors to other timelines as Ye Linwan’s spiders tore into them.
• The last Brown returned to his timeline, leaving the monstrous Ye Linwan beside the corpse.

Ichika waited for Ye Ciqing to return and told her sister how much she loved him. Far away, Ye Linwan died holding Ye Ciqing’s headless corpse, and Ye Yiqing arrived at the snowfield to find them.

• Ichika told her sister that Ye Ciqing had won her heart and promised to marry her after everything was over.
• Ichika explained that Ye Ciqing had refused to have a child with her because he feared she would suffer and believed he could not have children.
• Ye Linwan’s darkness dissipated, and her injuries and soul backlash rapidly drained her life force.
• Ye Linwan reached Ye Ciqing’s corpse, held him in her arms, apologized, and died as the [Venomous Spiders] mourned her.
• Ye Yiqing arrived, saw Ye Linwan kneeling with Ye Ciqing’s corpse, and walked toward them on bloodied feet.

The chapter recounted how Ye Linwan, an orphan and gifted student, fell in love with Chen Jiabing at sixteen, left school for him, and became a mother. After moving to another city, she endured his neglect, poverty, overwork, and abuse as she raised their child, Chen Lin.

• Ye Linwan became involved with Chen Jiabing, and her grades fell as she spent more time with him.
• After Chen Jiabing was expelled and demanded that she choose between him and school, Ye Linwan dropped out and left the orphanage with him.
• Ye Linwan became pregnant and moved with Chen Jiabing to another city, where she worked while he stayed out late and dismissed her concerns.
• Ye Linwan gave birth alone and named their child Chen Lin after Chen Jiabing showed little interest.
• Ye Linwan worked multiple jobs and cared for Chen Lin while Chen Jiabing took her earnings, berated her, and sometimes beat her.

Ye Linwan endured years of abuse and forced prostitution by Chen Jiabing while raising Chen Lin and Chen Yan. After Chen Jiabing brutally beat Chen Lin, Chen Lin suddenly gained strength and killed him, then fled in horror.

• Chen Jiabing brought a white-haired man home and forced Ye Linwan to spend the night with him, then continued bringing clients to the house.
• Ye Linwan gave birth to Chen Yan and raised both children while Chen Jiabing threatened her and forced her to receive clients.
• At eleven, Chen Lin discovered what his mother endured and later saw a happy family through a window, filling him with rage and jealousy.
• Chen Lin charged at Chen Jiabing, who beat him and dragged him into an alley.
• Chen Lin suddenly gained strength, overpowered Chen Jiabing, and beat him to death with a manhole cover.
• Chen Lin realized what he had done, vomited, and fled the alley.

After Chen Lin was accused of killing Chen Jiabing, online abuse and eviction drove Ye Linwan and her sons to attempt suicide by drowning. Ye Linwan awakened an ability that saved them, and Nan Tian offered them a new life; she decided her sons would be called Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing.

• Ye Linwan rushed the badly injured Chen Lin to the hospital, where police told her he had killed Chen Jiabing and showed her surveillance footage.
• Reporters and online commentators vilified Ye Linwan and Chen Lin, while harassment, violence, and eviction left the family homeless and hungry.
• Desperate and hopeless, Ye Linwan took Chen Lin and Chen Yan to a bridge and jumped with them into the river.
• Ye Linwan awakened an ability that carried the three of them to shore, where she and Chen Lin recovered the unconscious Chen Yan.
• Nan Tian appeared and offered to help Ye Linwan save the world, and she accepted his hand.
• Ye Linwan decided her sons would begin again under the names Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing.

Ye Yiqing and Lin Wushuang found Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing dead in the snow, while Jian Luo recruited Brown to help humanity prepare for [Ultimate]. Brown took Jian Luo into his fast-moving [Room] to retrieve powerful Night Stars who had left.

• Lin Wushuang emerged from a spatial vortex, discovered Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing's corpses, and helped Ye Yiqing carry them away.
• Ye Yiqing ordered the defenses around the Tree of Terra strengthened and assigned Chi Jiu and others to protect [Ultimate]'s route.
• At Great Xia Nightwalkers headquarters, Jian Luo learned that Brown had arrived from ten years in the future and asked him to help fight [Ultimate].
• [Satellite] reported that many Night Star combatants had gathered, but Yixue, Jixue, and Xiunuosi had left.
• Jian Luo set out with Brown to bring the departed Night Stars back, and Brown opened his fast-moving [Room] for them to travel in.

Brown and Jian Luo found Yixue and Jixue in a wheat field and tried to recruit them to stop the Light God Society from destroying humanity. Yixue refused, but Jixue entered Brown’s [Room] with her, leaving their participation apparently settled.

• Jixue woke and shielded Yixue when Brown and Jian Luo emerged from a portal.
• Brown mistook Yixue for his future teammate and ordered her to help save humanity, but she refused.
• Jian Luo told Yixue that the Light God Society planned to destroy all humanity within two days, yet she still refused because Jixue would face the danger.
• Jixue carried Yixue into the [Room], accepting the invitation despite her refusal.
• Yixue called Jixue her husband and angrily told Brown to stop asking about their attempts to have children; she admitted she could not get pregnant.

Jian Luo and Brown recruited Xiunuosi for the final battle after explaining that the Light God Society’s plan could destroy humanity. At a Great Xia military base, [Satellite] showed the gathered Night Stars a live feed of [Ultimate] approaching amid devastating calamities.

• Xiunuosi mistook the younger Brown for his captain and broke down after learning that the older Brown was dead.
• Jian Luo explained that the Light God Society’s plan threatened all humanity and asked Xiunuosi to join the final battle.
• Xiunuosi initially refused, but Brown persuaded him to help, and the group returned to prepare their ultimate move.
• At Great Xia’s largest military base, [Satellite] addressed the gathered Night Stars and displayed [Ultimate] advancing through destruction.

As [Ultimate] advanced toward International Nightwalker Headquarters, [Satellite] told the Night Stars that their sacrifice was humanity’s only chance to change the coming disaster. After seeing their loved ones on screen, the fighters chose to act and prepared to set out.

• [Satellite] showed [Ultimate]’s route across Russia and assigned the Night Stars to positions along its path.
• A frightened man denounced the mission as a pointless death, and Gu Gongming forced him to his knees with his aura.
• The man tried to leave, but [Satellite] connected him and the others to their families, including his daughter Beibei and his wife.
• [Satellite] warned that everyone’s loved ones would perish within about a day and urged the Night Stars to illuminate the night with their sacrifices.
• The man shouted that he would act, the crowd joined him, and [Satellite] sent the Night Stars out.

Nan Tian found Wang Canxin in a hidden historical archive beneath the Tree of Terra, where Wang confessed to killing thousands and revealed how the five nations had been formed. Wang then claimed his actions had shown humanity its insignificance before [Ultimate], leaving Nan Tian unsure what he meant.

• Nan Tian sensed Wang Canxin a thousand meters beneath the Tree of Terra and teleported into a steel archive filled with historical artifacts and an enormous nuclear bomb.
• Nan Tian confronted Wang Canxin, who admitted he had killed 15,239 people, including 5,239 trusted subordinates, and described himself as weak and ordinary.
• Wang Canxin explained that five powerful nations had destroyed the other nations, divided their resources, and established the International Night Star Organization to end the Variants' dominance.
• Wang Canxin revealed that his grandfather had preserved evidence of that history and told him about it when he was twelve.
• Wang Canxin said he had shown humanity how insignificant it was before [Ultimate], then smiled as Nan Tian asked what he meant.

Nan Tian learned that Wang Canxin had orchestrated events to unite humanity against the Variants, but killed him before he could launch the nuclear missile. Satellite then activated the missile, destroying the area around the Tree of Terra and leaving Lin Wushuang and Ye Yiqing alive on the edge of the blast.

• Wang Canxin revealed that he had manipulated events around Hela, the Tree of Terra, and Ocean to make her join Nan Tian and to push humanity toward unity.
• Nan Tian killed Wang Canxin before he could press the nuclear missile's launch button, then found Wang's notebook detailing the Five Calamities and the factions' relationships.
• Satellite confronted Nan Tian and condemned him, then threatened his plan by pointing out that it depended on both him and the Tree of Terra.
• Satellite activated the nuclear missile, which exploded and engulfed the Tree of Terra and the surrounding Gravekeepers' residential area in flames.
• Lin Wushuang displaced himself and Ye Yiqing away from the blast, and they saw a mushroom cloud rising over the snowy landscape.

Lin Wushuang and Ye Yiqing revived Nan Tian after an explosion, and Nan Tian saw that the Tree of Terra had survived. As a second attack struck, the story shifted to Gu Gongmin finding a crying girl hiding in a military base locker.

• The Tree of Terra grew from the crater, and Lin Wushuang found Nan Tian burned and barely alive beside its roots.
• Lin Wushuang and Ye Yiqing used the tree and Ye Yiqing’s skull earrings to restore Nan Tian’s body.
• Nan Tian learned that only Lin Wushuang, Ye Yiqing, and the returning Chi Jiu remained nearby, and he promised Ye Yiqing he would resurrect his family.
• Chi Jiu reported seeing a distant mushroom-shaped cloud, and a shockwave hit the group.
• Hours earlier, Gu Gongmin entered the military base armory and found a sobbing girl hiding in a locker with a terrarium.

Gu Gongming forced Keke to join the Night Stars’ mission against the Ultimate, and the team descended into the disaster zone near Russia’s capital. Jian Luo revealed that the Ultimate only needed to reach the capital, then asked Gu Gongming about humanity’s strongest weapon.

• Gu Gongming dragged Keke onto the plane despite her protests, promising that she would not die.
• As the plane approached the Ultimate, the Night Stars heard a strange sound and saw tornadoes, fire, and lightning ravaging the ground.
• Jian Luo opened the plane’s cargo door at the team’s assigned position, and Gu Gongming and the others jumped out.
• Jian Luo pushed the frightened Keke from the plane, and she used her metal cubes to lower the group safely to the ground.
• Jian Luo said the Ultimate was about a thousand kilometers away and would reach Russia’s capital in under two minutes.
• Jian Luo asked Gu Gongming whether he knew humanity’s strongest weapon.

Jian Luo planned to stop [Ultimate] from reaching the Tree of Terra by detonating five Nation-Subduing Bombs buried beneath Russia's evacuated capital. The bombs exploded around [Ultimate], leaving a burning wasteland and a vast mushroom cloud, but the chapter did not reveal whether the creature had survived.

• Jian Luo explained to Keke and Gu Gongming that the Nation-Subduing Bombs were nearly twice as powerful as the Tsar and said he intended to detonate Russia's five bombs when [Ultimate] reached the capital.
• Jian Luo said the capital had been evacuated and that sacrificing it was necessary to protect the world from [Ultimate].
• [Satellite] activated the bombs as [Ultimate] drifted over Russia's capital, and Jian Luo watched as the countdown began.
• [Ultimate] stopped at the point where the five blasts would converge, and the bombs erupted from underground toward its height.
• The five missiles exploded simultaneously, engulfing [Ultimate] in light, fire, and shock waves and leaving a melted wasteland beneath a towering mushroom cloud.

The five nation-guarding bombs destroyed the tornadoes and left [Ultimate] in a vast crater, but the monster survived and began adapting to nuclear radiation. Jian Luo ordered the Night Stars to take protective medicine and attack, while Brown and Xiunuosi engaged [Ultimate] and a giant white wolf emerged from the mist.

• The five nation-guarding bombs obliterated the tornadoes and carved a vast crater, but [Ultimate] survived as a mass of writhing flesh.
• Gu Gongming, Jian Luo, and Keke spotted [Ultimate] regenerating, and Jian Luo realized it was using radiation to adapt.
• Jian Luo ordered the Night Stars to take their medicine and attack [Ultimate], then charged toward the crater with the others following.
• [Ultimate] grew tentacles and flung off pieces of flesh to absorb radiation faster as it recovered to the size of a truck.
• Brown severed one tentacle with a Space Slash and summoned Xiunuosi, who tore into [Ultimate] before being struck away.
• A cold mist rose around the battlefield, and a gigantic white wolf emerged and howled.