Chapter Summaries

Shen Hui discovered that the armored crocodile monster was itself a level-nine Creation World, which connected to the Death World and sent out its sword-and-magic civilization to invade. Its five Hero Units prepared to devour Shen Hui’s world and restore their fallen civilization.

• The Death World began eroding the armored crocodile monster, but its world power formed a passage between the two worlds.
• The monster’s rocky body opened, releasing tens of thousands of soldiers, mages, special monsters, and dragons from a level-nine sword-and-magic civilization.
• Shen Hui recognized the newcomers as a mixed civilization and identified Jin, Shuang, Ling, Xu, and Li as its Hero Units.
• Jin and his companions discussed the strange world, dismissing Shen Hui as weak and declaring their intent to devour the Death World and escape the broken universe.

Shen Hui learned that Jin's civilization had defeated other creators and used a Divine Power formation to lead five armies into the Death World. Shuang's force crossed a frozen wasteland and glimpsed a vast, ominous ice mountain range before she ordered her army to destroy it.

• Shen Hui heard the invaders discuss creators, their previous victories over them, and their goal of escaping a damaged universe, but he had no time to investigate further.
• Jin used a greatsword and Divine Power to bless his forces, then ordered five armies to split up and destroy every civilization in the Death World.
• Shen Hui warned the Death World's civilizations, which began mustering their forces as the invaders advanced into its territory.
• Jin's blessing protected the invading armies from the Death World's mist, deathly aura, and negative emotions, allowing them to continue through the hostile land.
• Shuang led her army across a frozen plain and briefly saw a vast black mountain range looming through the mist.
• Shuang ordered her army to advance and destroy the ice mountain range.

Shuang led her army through the Mountains of Madness and discovered a vast, strange civilization hidden beyond an ancient stone formation. After destroying the formation and exposing the settlement, Shuang and her forces encountered its inhabitants.

• Shuang led her army toward the snowy mountains, where the Mountains of Madness began affecting them despite Jin's blessing.
• Shuang ordered her mages to destroy an ancient stone formation, revealing tunnels that led into the mountain.
• Shuang's dragon blasted apart a peak, uncovering a vast complex of bizarre black buildings beyond it.
• Shuang and her army saw the unsettling architecture, and the madness in the warriors' and mages' eyes grew.
• A group of strange, tentacled, winged creatures appeared among the buildings, bringing the two civilizations face to face.

The Elder Things lured the invading mages into an attack, while SCP-682 emerged to face them. After surviving their combined magic, the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile adapted to it and began his counterattack among their troops.

• The Elder Things flew into the air, and the flying magical beasts that attacked them withered into corpses upon approaching.
• Shen Hui revealed that SCP-682 was with the Elder Things, and the creature rushed from the snowy mountain into the battlefield.
• Shuang and her mages blasted SCP-682, mangling his body, but he regenerated completely and displayed scales engraved with magical runes.
• The Hard-to-Destroy Reptile adapted to magic, flew into the troops, and detonated the surrounding magical energy.

Shuang tried to take control of the battle against the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile as madness turned the army against itself, but her attempt to freeze the battlefield was interrupted by a powerful presence beneath the mountain. The ice began to crack as the Shoggoth’s madness spread.

• The Hard-to-Destroy Reptile healed from the warriors’ attacks while madness drove them to attack phantoms and one another, and Shuang used magic to restore some of their sanity.
• The restored warriors succumbed to the horror of what they had seen, while their corpses sank into the black rock beneath the battlefield.
• Shuang froze her dragon’s mind and sent it to fight the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile as she prepared a powerful ice spell.
• The Elder Things summoned a multicolored crystal connected to the Shoggoth, while Shuang’s spell froze the army, the dragon, the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile, and the Elder Things.
• Shuang celebrated her apparent victory until the mountain shook and the Shoggoth’s madness broke through the ice.

Shuang unleashed the power stored within her to begin transforming into a deity, but the living mountain range awakened as a Shoggoth and overwhelmed her with madness. The Shoggoth then transformed further, radiating divinity as countless eyes fixed on Shuang.

• The mountain range began pulsing and releasing white mist that spread madness through Shuang and the frozen army.
• Shuang realized she could not escape and used a magic array to draw power from the trapped mages and warriors, unlocking a divine power within herself.
• Shen Hui saw Shuang beginning to transform and considered overwhelming her with madness before the change was complete.
• The mountain range rose alive, revealing the black, flowing Shoggoth beneath its rocky surface.
• The Shoggoth swallowed and crushed the frozen army, while Shuang's divine power struggled against the madness.
• The Shoggoth radiated divinity, shifted into dazzling colors, and formed countless eyes that stared at Shuang.

Shen Hui's forces defeated Shuang when the Shoggoth swallowed her, while the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile escaped the transformed mountain. Elsewhere, Li's army was overwhelming the Skaven Ratmen until they cried that the Grey Seer had brought the Lord of Decay.

• Shuang lost herself to the Shoggoth's madness, and it swallowed her, ending the eternal freeze.
• Shen Hui noted the cost of the battle and realized the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile was missing.
• The Hard-to-Destroy Reptile burst out of the Mountains of Madness as blue divine power escaped the Shoggoth and vanished; Jin showed a hidden blue glimmer in his eyes.
• The Skaven Ratmen attacked the invading army in overwhelming numbers, but Li transformed into a half-dragon and scorched them with lava.
• The Skaven Ratmen shouted that the Grey Seer had brought the Lord of Decay.

The Skaven Ratmen used their bell and mass deaths to summon the Great Horned Rat, while Li unleashed another divine power in response. The chapter ended with both deities’ manifestations enveloping the battlefield.

• Li slaughtered the Skaven Ratmen as their leaders emerged from the ruined city.
• The bell of creation rang, and the Skaven Ratmen cheered as they sacrificed themselves while Li continued killing them.
• Repeated bell tolls accelerated the corpses’ decay, and the twelfth toll spread the Great Horned Rat’s divine power across the battlefield.
• Li sensed a deity’s presence and unleashed a vast burst of flames, destroying nearby soldiers and Skaven Ratmen alike.
• Shen Hui noticed a second divine power, and the thirteenth toll gathered the battlefield’s rotting flesh and blood into a huge sphere as two deities’ manifestations descended.

Shen Hui witnessed the birth of a flame dragon deity and the Great Horned Rat, whose power of decay overwhelmed the battlefield. The Great Horned Rat advanced toward the survivors as their protections failed and their bodies began to rot.

• A radioactive blaze gathered into a giant flame dragon infused with Divine Power.
• The Skaven Ratmen’s corpse sphere cracked open, and the Great Horned Rat emerged from its heartlike cocoon.
• The Great Horned Rat declared, "All things must rot!" and his presence devoured the sphere’s remaining shell.
• The flame dragon attacked with fire, but the Great Horned Rat’s decay consumed the flames.
• The Great Horned Rat walked toward the surviving soldiers and mages, while their protections vanished and their bodies rotted.

Li’s flame dragon deity clashed with the Great Horned Rat’s decay divine power, annihilating the armies caught on the battlefield as the contest began to favor Li. Shen Hui remained confident and watched as Abomination emerged from the Ratmen's Ruined Capital and headed toward the fight.

• Li’s flame dragon deity unleashed boiling divine power that vaporized the Skaven Ratmen and revealed a vast array of fiery magic circles across the battlefield.
• Shen Hui observed that the arrays combined into a larger formation and saw that the Death World’s runes had been forced into view without damaging its foundation.
• The Great Horned Rat chanted curses and spread decay divine power, withering many of the falling red lotus flowers created by Li’s array.
• Li’s red lotus flowers began breaking through the Great Horned Rat’s weakening power and spreading flames across the battlefield.
• Shen Hui trusted that he could support the Great Horned Rat if needed, while Abomination emerged from the Ratmen's Ruined Capital and strode toward the battlefield.

Abomination joined the battle at the Ratmen's Ruined Capital and used his spreading rot to destroy Li, the flame dragon. Shen Hui noticed that Li’s divine power vanished in the same strange way as the power of previous opponents, while Jin reflected on the deaths of Shuang, Xu, and Li as Jin and Ling began encountering beings from the Death World.

• Abomination charged through the flame dragon’s red lotus inferno, grew into a vast collective of flesh, and extinguished the flowers with his spreading rot.
• Abomination’s decay covered the flame dragon, extinguishing its fire and causing Li’s body to dissolve into the ocean of flesh.
• Shen Hui watched a red beam of divine power escape Abomination and vanish without a trace.
• Jin noted that Shuang, Xu, and Li had died, and three colors briefly appeared beneath his eyes before gold covered them again.
• Jin and Ling began encountering things from the Death World in separate places.

Jin’s army entered the Deadwood Forest, where Siren Head and Sadako attacked from the shadows as a butcher awaited them in a ruined factory. Meanwhile, Ling’s army searched barren mountain ridges for an unfamiliar life force.

• Jin cleaved through much of the Deadwood Forest, but the trees reappeared and left the strange well intact.
• Jin ordered his army into the forest, where the space seemed vast and the dead trees continually regrew.
• Siren Head attacked the troops with a piercing sound and a crushing blow, then returned after its remains revived from a corpse.
• Sadako appeared in the woods and infected soldiers with fear, driving them to attack their companions.
• Jin’s vanguard reached a ruined factory, where a voice announced that it had fresh ingredients for new stock.
• Ling led her army through barren mountains, following a rare and unfamiliar life force.

Ling led her army into a canyon where flesh-like vegetation grew from corpse-fed soil and discovered a writhing mountain of Tomie corpses. After the corpses’ bewitching beauty drove many male creatures to rush in and fight over them, Ling decided the place had to be destroyed and attacked with a flower-filled arrow.

• Ling followed the source of life into a canyon filled with grotesque vegetation growing from fat-like ground.
• Ling and her army discovered a writhing mountain of corpses made entirely of Tomie, whose remains nourished the canyon.
• The sight of Tomie’s bewitching faces overwhelmed most of the male creatures, who charged the corpse pile and fought over its parts.
• Ling recognized the corpses’ influence, declared that the place must be destroyed, and fired an arrow that transformed into a sea of flowers.

Ling’s attempt to cleanse the corpse-filled land with a sea of flowers instead causes Nurgle’s Garden to awaken, producing countless Tomies and unleashing pestilent plants and monsters. As the Tomies slaughter one another and their rotting bodies feed explosive growth, Ling becomes fascinated by the garden’s immense vitality.

• Ling’s flowers drained the Tomie corpse mountain and bloomed into a giant flower that began spreading spores to create another sea of flowers.
• Tomie’s faces appeared across the giant flower, which burst open and released naked Tomies from its petals.
• Ling made all the surrounding buds bloom, but each contained a Tomie, and millions of them emerged around her.
• The flesh-bearing plants attacked the remaining army with pestilence while hordes of rotting-flesh monsters charged out, bringing Nurgle’s Garden fully to life.
• The Tomies began attacking and killing one another, and their rapidly decaying bodies nourished new vegetation across the land.
• Ling marveled at the garden’s vitality and thought about mastering the life force it represented.

Jin confronted Sadako, Siren Head, and the Pig-headed Butcher in a withered forest, where their attacks threw his army into chaos. After his golden aura began to crack under their combined assault, Jin unleashed more divine power and froze the surrounding area.

• A horde of strange pigs poured from a dilapidated building and attacked Jin's army, while Sadako, Siren Head, and the Pig-headed Butcher appeared.
• Jin released golden divine power that eased the army's fear and formed a protective halo around himself.
• Sadako attacked Jin with fear and Psychokinesis, but he pursued her and struck with his greatsword before the Pig-headed Butcher and Siren Head joined the fight.
• The Pig-headed Butcher hurled Jin through the air, and Siren Head's sound waves cracked Jin's golden halo.
• Jin declared that the fight could end early, transformed with surging divine power, and spread ice across the surrounding area.

Jin used the Divine Power of four deities to overcome Shen Hui's Death World and kill Sadako, the Pig-headed Butcher, and Siren Head. After gaining another power, he led the surviving army onward, while remnants of the slain monsters began to stir behind them.

• Jin's Divine Power froze the summoned monsters, and Sadako, the Pig-headed Butcher, and Siren Head failed to harm him with their attacks.
• Jin unleashed the powers of four deities, froze the three defenders, and killed them with three waves of sword qi.
• The surviving soldiers cheered Jin as the frozen battlefield returned to normal.
• A green light entered Jin, merging with the other Divine Powers, and he led the army onward in search of greater power.
• After the army left, the Pig-headed Butcher's mask, a piece of Siren Head, and the lingering negative emotions began to gather on the battlefield.

Ling summoned a World Tree in Nurgle's Garden and bound herself to it, using its roots to absorb the garden's vitality and matter. As the garden vanished, Ling neared a mysterious power, while her subconscious perceived grotesque changes taking place within the tree.

• Ling charged her bow and fired a green energy arrow into the ground, causing a gigantic World Tree to grow from her Divine Power.
• Ling linked herself to the World Tree, ensuring she would survive as long as it remained intact.
• The World Tree's roots spread through Nurgle's Back Garden and absorbed its flesh plants, vitality, and matter.
• The garden became barren, and Tomie vanished as Ling sensed she was close to grasping a power within the land's life force.
• As the World Tree absorbed the last nutrients from the soil, strange sounds and fleshy, fluid-leaking lumps appeared on its trunk in Ling's subconscious perception.

Ling believed she had mastered the World Tree’s power after affirming that she loved all forms of life, but her senses shifted and revealed the tree and its offspring as rotting, grotesque things. As Ling’s body decayed and her consciousness sank into despair, a green light of divinity left the World Tree, though she remained with it after rotting.

• As the World Tree’s growths burst and released foul fluid, Ling mistook the liquid pooling beneath it for water of life and drank some.
• Ling welcomed the creatures emerging from the World Tree’s fruit and reached into the void, where vine-like plants appeared on her hand as she grasped a powerful life force.
• A voice asked Ling whether she loved all forms of life, and she answered yes before her vision blurred and her senses changed.
• Ling realized that the pool was putrid liquid and saw that her body had become covered in pus-filled sores and blisters.
• The creatures surrounding Ling revealed Tomie’s face beneath their wounds, and the World Tree showed her life’s cycle of birth, death, and decay.
• As Ling’s body rotted and her consciousness dissolved into despair, a green light of divinity departed from the World Tree, but Ling remained with it.

Jin arrived in the Death World and revealed power vast enough to revive its dead and freeze the entire world, forcing Shen Hui to consider fully awakening Cthulhu. Before Jin and the awakened forces could clash, the Tide of Void Annihilation appeared, and Jin withdrew with his army.

• People across the Land of New Life gathered in churches under emergency orders as the sky filled with sunlight, lightning, and storm clouds.
• Jin approached the Death World, revealed five-colored Divine Power, and transformed into a godlike being whose power astonished Shen Hui.
• Jin revived the dead of the Death World, replaced Shuang, Ling, Li, and Xu with four new followers, and declared that the world would change hands.
• Jin froze the Death World with his greatsword, drawing Wandering Doom and Sky Tentacle into view as Shen Hui prepared to awaken Cthulhu.
• The Tide of Void Annihilation shook the Death World, so Jin withdrew with his army and the armored crocodile monster severed its connection to the world.

Shen Hui saw the Tide of Void Annihilation sweep through the Chaos Forbidden Domain universe and pursued the fleeing armored crocodile monster, hoping it knew where to hide. When the monster vanished near the Black Death Star and the waves closed in, Shen Hui remembered the Frozen World near the enormous hole.

• Shen Hui felt the Tide of Void Annihilation erupt from a rupture and saw it grind away nearby world fragments.
• Shen Hui chased the armored crocodile monster through the advancing waves of destruction.
• The armored crocodile monster vanished near the Black Death Star, leaving Shen Hui unsure how it had disappeared.
• As the Tide of Void Annihilation reached him, Shen Hui recalled the Frozen World near the enormous hole.