Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiao entered the Cabin in the Woods World, where ancient gods used human sacrifices to sustain a cycle of fear and desire. He restrained the World Will and scattered power-granting Seeds of Desire worldwide to spark a conflict between humanity and the gods, hoping to gather desire and ascend to godhood.

• Xu Xiao surveyed the world, identified the ancient god beneath the earth, and disguised himself from the gods.
• Xu Xiao concluded that the ancient gods maintained humanity as a pasture of desire and decided to turn their limited game into a global apocalypse.
• Xu Xiao used the Heavens World-Crossing Gate to restrain the World Will, knowing he could not act while maintaining the restraint.
• Xu Xiao created Seeds of Desire containing fragments of six powers and sent five thousand seeds across the world to give humans a chance to resist the ancient gods.

After students at Z University dismissed an online warning about ancient gods, supernatural creatures emerged across the university town as the gods retaliated against humanity. The chapter ended with Liu Sandao seeing a zombie at his dorm balcony.

• Liu Sandao showed his roommates screenshots claiming an ancient god had fought the U.S. military and warning that retaliation was coming, but the students dismissed the post as fake.
• After nightfall, a hole opened in the back mountain of Z University, and a zombie climbed out and headed toward the dormitories.
• Black holes appeared elsewhere in the university town, releasing ghosts and other evil creatures as the ancient gods began their retaliation.
• Liu Sandao stayed online in dorm room 108, then heard a crash and saw a rotting face peering over the balcony.

Zombies attacked the Z University dormitory, and Liu Sandao watched his roommates die while hiding beneath a bed. A mysterious voice gave him the Ultimate Desire System, which rewarded his desire to survive with five years of internal cultivation.

• Liu Sandao spotted a zombie breaking into the dormitory and tried to wake his roommates.
• The zombie leaped at Liu Sandao, but he dodged and hid beneath a bed.
• The zombie seized Li Zhi and drank his blood while the other students were too frightened to help.
• The zombie killed the chubby roommate when he tried to open the dormitory door.
• Liu Sandao accepted power from a mysterious voice and received the Ultimate Desire System.
• The system completed Liu Sandao's survival mission and granted him five years of internal cultivation.

After awakening a system that granted him Internal Energy and a martial art, Liu Sandao escaped a zombie attack as the apocalypse erupted across the world. More than two months later, humanity prepared to fight the ancient gods underground, setting the stage for the world’s end.

• Liu Sandao received three years of Internal Energy and the Burning Wood Saber Technique after his system assigned him a mission to raise two desires above 10 points.
• Liu Sandao hurled a bunk bed into a zombie, escaped through the balcony, and left his dormmates behind as the creature attacked them.
• Liu Sandao fled across rooftops and walls, then resolved to use his system to become the king of the apocalypse.
• Zombies and other legendary monsters spread worldwide, while Desire Pursuers grew stronger by following their amplified desires.
• Xu Xiao’s five thousand seeds of desire gathered power for the evil gods and transformed their recipients into tools for the Dao of Desire.
• More than two months after the ancient gods’ revenge began, surviving humans gathered their strength to fight the gods underground, beginning the world’s end.

Marshal Gao gathered Huaxia’s Demigods and other Desire Pursuers to enlist them in a joint plan against the strengthening Ancient Gods. When the warlords questioned whether the government would sacrifice them, he pledged his life and offered Major General Lin Xiao’s help to evacuate them during a nuclear strike.

• Marshal Gao warned that the Ancient Gods were growing stronger and urged the Desire Pursuers to join the government army’s extermination plan.
• Liu Sandao attended as a Demigod after receiving the system’s final mission to drive away the Ancient Gods in exchange for becoming a god.
• Madman and Liu Qingqing accused the government of using cooperation as a pretext to send them to their deaths.
• Marshal Gao admitted the Demigods would need to hold the Ancient Gods in place for nuclear weapons to target them, and promised Major General Lin Xiao would teleport them away.
• Marshal Gao offered to place his own life on the line if the Desire Pursuers doubted his sincerity, shocking the hall.

Liu Sandao and Liu Dabiao demanded that Huaxia’s leaders and their descendants stake their lives to prove the government’s sincerity in fighting the ancient gods. Marshal Gao accepted the terms, and the meeting moved on to the battle plan.

• Liu Sandao argued that Marshal Gao’s life alone was not enough to earn the demigods’ trust and demanded that senior leaders and their descendants be included as stakes.
• Liu Dabiao rejected Lin Xiao’s pressure and said the government needed the alliance more, warning that the demigods feared being betrayed after helping defeat the ancient gods.
• Marshal Gao agreed to bind the lives of major department leaders and their descendants to the alliance.
• Lin Xiao objected, but Marshal Gao explained that Huaxia’s leadership had already accepted the risk to unite against the growing ancient-god threat.
• Marshal Gao asked the room to hear the battle plan, and no one objected.

Liu Sandao and Huaxia’s forces launched a massive artillery strike on Mount Tai to attack Yanluo. The bombardment drew Yanluo from underground, where he rose unharmed as a towering ancient god.

• Liu Sandao learned that intelligence had located Yanluo near Mount Tai and prepared to lead the strike.
• Strategic bombers and rocket units bombarded Mount Tai, destroying many ghostly creatures and Yin soldiers.
• Wang Que used Telekinesis to destroy a thousand Yin cavalry, then left the remaining Yin soldiers to the troops and advanced toward the ancient god.
• Yanluo emerged from beneath the ruined Mount Tai, towering more than three hundred meters above the battlefield, apparently unharmed by the bombardment.

Liu Sandao confronted Yanluo, the Ancient God who had killed his family, but was overwhelmed when Yanluo unleashed his domain and army of yin soldiers. Liu Sandao lured Yanluo away from Mount Tai to a chosen location, where several allies appeared to join the fight.

• Liu Sandao charged Yanluo with a fire-wreathed blade, but Yanluo blocked his strike with a sweep of his spear.
• Liu Sandao demanded that Yanluo answer for killing his family, and Yanluo mocked him over the people Liu Sandao had killed.
• Yanluo revealed a domain of death, summoned his yin soldiers, and battered Liu Sandao with attacks empowered by the domain.
• Liu Sandao drew Yanluo away from Mount Tai until they reached the designated position, then called on several figures to attack together.

The Demigods combined their abilities to stagger and wound Yanluo, but the Ancient God recovered and fled. They let him run, confident their preparations had accounted for his escape.

• Lin Xiao tore open a path through Yanluo's wind barrier, and Wang Que's flying swords struck the Ancient God's chest and made him stagger.
• Liu Dabiao enlarged his body and punched Yanluo in the face, knocking him down, then continued attacking until Yanluo's death Qi forced him to retreat.
• Liu Sandao and Li Li launched a coordinated fire-and-wind attack while Liu Qingqing used her spiritual power to momentarily halt Yanluo.
• Yanluo withdrew his domain to heal his severe facial wound, then unleashed slashes of death Qi at the six Demigods.
• Yanluo turned and fled, while the Demigods remained prepared for the next stage of their plan.

Yanluo fled toward Mount Tai, where Feng Bujue and the other Demigods trapped him in a sealing formation and humanity unleashed repeated nuclear strikes. As Yanluo was reduced to a shattered head, a more powerful presence seized his essence, revealing that the Ancient God had been only a piece in a greater game.

• Yanluo raced back toward Mount Tai, intending to retreat into his alternate space and recover from his injuries.
• The Demigods ambushed Yanluo at Mount Tai, and Feng Bujue bound his leg with a Chakra chain before summoning twelve rune-covered stone pillars.
• Feng Bujue activated the modified Five Elements Seal Grand Formation, whose five Chakra dragons dragged Yanluo into the seal while the other Demigods attacked.
• Feng Bujue completed the seal and Lin Xiao carried him away as the Demigods fled the area.
• Humanity bombarded the sealed Yanluo with successive nuclear strikes, reducing his body to a shattered head.
• Yanluo sensed a more powerful presence, which reached from the void and seized his fundamental essence.

The Primordial Demon emerged from its underground refuge after sensing Yanluo’s death and called the Ancient Gods to unite against humanity. Ancient Gods launched devastating attacks around the globe, leaving humanity facing a campaign of extermination.

• Three American fighter jets spotted the earth splitting open, but the Primordial Demon destroyed them with lava before they could finish their warning.
• The Primordial Demon emerged and, fearing Yanluo’s death showed that the Ancient Gods could be defeated, sent a message calling the others to destroy humanity.
• An eight-headed serpent unleashed eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and acid rain across a Pacific island nation, while a colossal plant entity spread a green mist and monsters through East Asia.
• A yellow-sand giant devastated cities in Cairo, and Ancient Gods attacked regions across the world.
• After Huaxia killed Yanluo, the other Ancient Gods within its borders awakened and led demons and monsters in an all-out assault on survivors.

Ancient Gods launched coordinated attacks across Huaxia after Yanluo's death, and a tentacled Ancient God attacked the central command room while offering to spare humanity in exchange for information about the ascendants. Marshal Gao refused to betray humanity, transferred nuclear launch authority to Major General Lin Xiao, and stayed behind to draw the attacker away as two Desire Pursuers escaped.

• Reports told Marshal Gao that Ancient Gods and their beasts were attacking regions across Huaxia and the island nation had been annihilated.
• Marshal Gao rallied the command room by reminding everyone that humanity had already killed Yanluo.
• A tentacled Ancient God broke into the command room, demanded to know how Yanluo had been killed, and offered to protect some humans if they revealed the ascendants.
• Marshal Gao rejected the offer, and the tentacles slaughtered the people in the command room before attacking the protective glass.
• Marshal Gao transferred nuclear launch authority to Major General Lin Xiao, gave two Desire Pursuers the launch-base information, and ordered them to gather the remaining forces.
• Marshal Gao lured the Ancient God into the command center while the two soldiers fled through another passage.

After Huaxia’s last nuclear force killed a fifth Ancient God, Lin Xiao and the surviving Demigods prepared to hunt down the eight Ancient Gods left on Earth. Feng Bujue ascended to godhood, while Xu Xiao watched from the void and awaited the final battle.

• Lin Xiao and Liu Sandao watched the fifth Ancient God fall, learned that Huaxia’s remaining nuclear launch force had been wiped out, and counted the cost of the seven-day campaign.
• Feng Bujue received the system’s final mission reward and ascended to godhood as Natural Energy transformed his Chakra into Senjutsu Chakra.
• Wang Que questioned the system’s purpose, and Lin Xiao proposed that the survivors seek out and kill the remaining Ancient Gods.
• Wang Que, Liu Sandao, Liu Dabiao, and the other surviving Demigods agreed to join Lin Xiao in the final battle.
• Xu Xiao monitored the world from the endless void, then vanished to wait for the battle’s conclusion.

Liu Sandao, Liu Dabiao, and their allies cornered and severely wounded the Eight-Headed Serpent, but it revealed that the hunt was a trap. The Lord of the Abyss and other powerful beings arrived as the hunters gathered.

• Liu Dabiao grappled with the fleeing Eight-Headed Serpent underwater and carried it through Lin Xiao's spatial rift to land.
• Liu Sandao struck the serpent with Yazi and used his Nascent Soul's saber slash to sever its lower body from its soul and inflict Karmic Fire.
• The wounded Eight-Headed Serpent sacrificed one of its heads to restore its dwindling presence and declared that it had lured the hunters into gathering and exhausting themselves.
• The Primordial Demon, the Blood Ancestor, the Lord of Yellow Sand, the Feathered Serpent Corpse Monster, and other beings appeared around the hunters, led by the Lord of the Abyss.

Seven Ancient Gods joined the restored Eight-Headed Serpent, turning the humans’ advantage into a stalemate, and the two sides began fighting. As Xu Xiao watched from the void, he revealed his plan to conquer worlds and unite their laws to ascend to godhood.

• Wang Que recognized the Lord of the Abyss as the Ancient God who had killed Marshal Gao and attacked it with her Heaven-Severing Shuttle, but its black mist corroded her Telekinesis and disabled her flying swords.
• The Lord of the Abyss questioned Lin Xiao and the other Ascendants about how they had obtained the chance to become gods, while the Ancient Gods surrounded the humans.
• Lin Xiao rejected the Lord of the Abyss’s demand, struck it with spatial shattering, and wounded its body.
• The eight Ancient Gods attacked, and the battle shook the Asian tectonic plate as the human demigods fought back.
• Xu Xiao watched from the endless void and planned to conquer worlds, unite their laws, and use the World-Crossing Gate to find more worlds to invade.

Humanity’s last fighters neared defeat against the Ancient Gods when Xu Xiao appeared and revealed that he was the system who had granted them their powers. He dismissed Liu Sandao’s questions about the apocalypse, reclaimed his power, and left Sandao’s body lifeless.

• Liu Sandao saw humanity’s remaining fighters near defeat as the Lord of the Abyss demanded the secret of ascension.
• Lin Xiao refused to reveal the secret and attacked the Lord of the Abyss alongside Feng Bujue.
• Xu Xiao appeared over the battlefield, admitted that he had given humanity its power, and called the conflict an experiment.
• Liu Sandao questioned Xu Xiao about the apocalypse, but Xu Xiao denied responsibility and blamed humanity for failing to stop it.
• Xu Xiao reclaimed the seven-colored seed from Liu Sandao, draining his vitality as the others cried out his name.

Xu Xiao reclaimed his power and took control of the emptied Cabin in the Woods World. He forged an Innate divine avatar named Xu Xuanpin and prepared to use it to gather the world's desires and ascend to godhood.

• Xu Xiao recovered the Seeds of Desire and power he had bestowed, then turned on the surviving Ancient Gods.
• Xu Xiao extracted the essence of the remaining Ancient Gods, leaving no living creatures in the Cabin in the Woods World.
• Xu Xiao used the World-Crossing Gate to absorb the world's World Authority and began forging a body from the essence of thirteen Ancient Gods.
• Xu Xiao split off part of his true spirit to animate the new body, then named the avatar Xu Xuanpin.
• Xu Xiao sent Xu Xuanpin to gather the world's desires and transferred his Dao of Desire insights to him as a foundation for forging divinity.

Xu Xiao ascended to godhood with the Divinity of Desire and cast his divine light across the worlds he controlled. In the Great Tang Twin Dragons World, his son Xu Tianci began transforming as Xu Xiao’s bloodline carried divine power.

• Xu Xiao merged with Xu Xuanpin and used the World-Crossing Gate to spread his divine light throughout his controlled worlds.
• In Chang'an, Xu Tianci sensed his father's return while Wang Yuyan walked with him through the palace.
• The divine light entered the Great Tang Twin Dragons World, empowering Xu Xiao's statues and awakening divine power in his children.
• Xu Tianci rose into the air as golden light transformed him, and Xu Xiao's God Projection appeared to reassure Wang Yuyan.
• Xu Xiao explained that Xu Tianci's bloodline would stabilize at the Martial Dao's Innate realm, then planned to rebuild the War God Temple Grotto-Heaven into a divine kingdom.

Xu Xiao entered the X-Men world during Apocalypse’s resurrection and decided to use the Mutant’s body to act without drawing attention. After assimilating Apocalypse’s primary consciousness with a Seed of Desire, he left his original self to observe from the shadows and set out to collect Mutant genes.

• Xu Xiao arrived in Egypt and sensed the world’s many powerful laws and potential sources of power.
• Xu Xiao detected Apocalypse awakening underground and traveled there before the Mutant could escape.
• Xu Xiao suppressed Apocalypse and used a Seed of Desire to assimilate his primary consciousness.
• Xu Xiao took control of Apocalypse’s body while his original self remained hidden to observe.
• Apocalypse agreed to collect Mutant power genes and teleported to a street in Egypt.

Apocalypse, empowered by the Seed of Desire and guided by Xu Xiao’s knowledge, recruited Storm after rescuing her from merchants in Egypt and decided to unite Mutants against humanity. He then appeared at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and attacked Charles and the others, calling them traitors to Mutantkind.

• Apocalypse found Storm being cornered by merchants and killed the men who threatened her.
• Apocalypse asked Storm why she had not fought back, and she said she feared humans would retaliate and kill her.
• Apocalypse invited Storm to help create a world led by Mutants, and she agreed.
• Apocalypse and Storm gathered information before he used a spatial jump to reach Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
• Charles sensed a powerful Mutant at the school and warned the students as Cyclops, Beast, and Phoenix prepared to defend them.
• Apocalypse turned the building to sand, confronted Charles and the others, called them traitors to Mutantkind, and attacked.