Chapter Summaries

The Lord of Hell broke through to Second-Step Eternity, transformed the Nine Hells into ninety thousand layers, and opened the Gate of Myriad Worlds to launch an invasion of the Astral Realm. The Devils of Hell annihilated the Star Speakers in three minutes and continued toward more civilizations as the wider Astral Realm reeled.

• The Lord of Hell transcended space-time and fate, and the gods in the Divine Realm realized that Asmodeus had become a threat to them.
• The Lord of Hell vowed to watch the vista for the seven Original Sin Demon Gods and try to resurrect them, even if he had to destroy the Astral Realm.
• The Nine Hells expanded into ninety thousand layers, and the Lord of Hell opened the Gate of Myriad Worlds and ordered the devils to devour and destroy.
• The Devils of Hell poured through the gate and invaded three lower Astral Realm-level civilizations, destroying the Star Speakers and killing or capturing their people.
• The Devils of Hell advanced toward further civilizations, including those of the middle Astral Realm level.

The Devils of Hell Clan swept through the Astral Realm, destroying civilizations from the Emerald Star Domain Federation to the Firmament Council and besieging the Star Sea Divine Court. As the Star Sea Divine Court faced a war of attrition, the Divine Realm chose to target the Spirit Saint Domain before confronting Hell, leaving the other civilizations to fend for themselves.

• The Devils of Hell Clan overwhelmed the Emerald Star Domain Federation with their vast horde and destroyed it after seven days.
• The Firmament Council fought back with its fleets and the Eye of the Firmament, but the Eye went mad under the curse of gluttony, and the council fell after three months and seven days.
• The Devils of Hell Clan attacked the Star Sea Divine Court, whose five Supreme Gods deployed the Eternity Barrier and inflicted heavy losses on the vanguard.
• The Star Sea Divine Court's emperor recognized that his civilization could only delay defeat while the endless devil army continued pouring through the Gate of Myriad Worlds.
• In the Pantheon, the Lord of Radiance persuaded the gods to pursue the Spirit Saint Domain's method for purifying the Power of Faith before dealing with Hell, leaving Astral Realm civilizations to face the invasion alone.

As the super-civilizations focused on their own conflicts and ambitions, Hell unleashed a vast invasion across the Astral Realm, destroying civilizations and gathering souls to resurrect the seven Original Sin Demon Gods. The chapter ended with the Astral Realm’s survivors abandoned to the devils, while Hell’s resurrection—and the Lord of Hell’s rise toward Third-Step Eternity—continued.

• The Northern Spirit Empire, Primogenitor Mountain, and Adrian Federation chose not to intervene in Hell’s expansion, each prioritizing its own goals.
• The World Alliance retreated to support the Ancestral Tree of Life’s breakthrough, while the Bottomless Abyss remained occupied by the Demon Realm of the End and the Black Prison Realm.
• The Gate of Myriad Worlds stabilized, and trillions of devils poured into the Astral Realm, destroying civilizations and shattering cosmic planes.
• The devils harvested souls and converted them into the Power of Original Sin, sending the strongest souls to help resurrect the seven Original Sin Demon Gods.
• The Lord of Hell sensed the seven Demon Gods awakening as Hell’s forces ravaged hundreds of cosmic domains and broke the Star Sea Divine Court’s defenses.
• The surviving civilizations prayed for help, but no super-civilization came to their rescue.

Gustavo absorbed the Sealing Source Cards, fused the laws of devouring and sealing, and reached the level of a Peak Supreme God. Answering the Abyss Will’s call for despair, he attacked the Floating Light Civilization and destroyed its defensive fleet in seconds, leaving its leaders facing his overwhelming power.

• Gustavo digested the Sealing Source Cards and gave birth to a unique law formed from devouring and sealing.
• The Abyss Will called on Gustavo to harvest despair and offered him the Heart of the Abyss, which could help him cross the barrier of Eternity.
• Gustavo emerged from his cocoon with the Ancient Sword of the Abyss and set his sights on the Floating Light Civilization to repay the Aslant Civilization’s karma.
• The Lord of Floating Light convened an emergency council and ordered the civilization to prepare for the Supreme God-level threat approaching them.
• Gustavo appeared outside the Floating Light Civilization’s homeworld, swallowed its fleet’s attacks, sealed its systems, and annihilated the fleet in three seconds.

Gustavo sealed the Floating Light Civilization, killed its three Main Gods, and devoured its people and territory over several days. He then began a wider hunt through the Astral Realm, while Angley, God of Wisdom, vowed to destroy him after reaching Eternity.

• Gustavo trapped the Floating Light Civilization and sealed a Main God who tried to escape, then killed the Lord of Floating Light and the last Main God.
• Gustavo devoured the Floating Light Civilization’s planes and population, erasing the advanced civilization from the Astral Realm within seven days.
• Gustavo identified Angley, God of Wisdom, as the mastermind behind the attack on the Aslant Civilization and marked her as his future prey.
• Angley watched Gustavo leave and vowed to crush him after she advanced to Eternity.
• Gustavo began hunting across the Astral Realm, opening Gates of the Abyss that pulled beings, planes, and universes into the Abyss.

Gustavo devoured the Heart of the Abyss and advanced to Half-Step Eternity, then set out to consume more of the Astral Realm to reach Eternity. Meanwhile, the Lord of Time sealed more than twenty Supreme God-level True Dragons in the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm and began drawing their power into himself.

• Gustavo destroyed civilizations across the Astral Realm, raising his Abyss Affinity and earning the Abyss Will's favor.
• The Abyss Will gave Gustavo the remaining half of the Heart of the Abyss, and Gustavo swallowed it.
• Gustavo broke through to Half-Step Eternity but remained short of reaching Eternity, so he launched himself toward more worlds to devour.
• The Lord of Time held more than twenty Supreme God-level True Dragons captive in the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm.
• The Lord of Time shattered their time-crystal pillars and began absorbing the dragons, their souls, blood, and origins.

The Lord of Time devoured the Dragon Clan’s Supreme Gods and refined their remnant souls to fuel his transformation into an Eternity Dragon Body. His attempt to reach Second-Step Eternity stalled at eighty percent when the Fire of Eternity ran out, and the Mother of the Stars arrived to declare his failure.

• The Lord of Time devoured the Platinum Dragon God, the Mother of Evil Dragons, Heavenly Heart Suli, and more than twenty Supreme God-level True Dragons.
• He burned the dragons’ lingering souls in the Fire of Time, absorbing their laws and power until he believed he had enough strength to advance.
• The Lord of Time ignited the Fire of Eternity and began forging an Eternity Dragon Body, but the flames suddenly extinguished when his bloodline power ran out.
• He discovered that the Mother of the Stars had concealed the Dragon Emperor’s bloodline power inside Thirty-Eight Paradise Pterosaur, leaving him unable to complete his transformation.
• The Mother of the Stars descended as a projection into the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm and told the stranded Lord of Time that he had failed.

The Mother of the Stars recruited the Lord of Time to help the Lord of Nightmares seize the Fantasy Dimension, promising him the Dragon Clan bloodline power he needed to reach Second-Step Eternity. After accepting, the Lord of Time left the ruined Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm and headed to Primogenitor Mountain, where he confronted the Lord of Nightmares.

• The Mother of the Stars told the Lord of Time that she had concealed the Thirty-Eight Paradise Pterosaur's bloodline power and proposed that he help the Lord of Nightmares breach the Fantasy Dimension's defenses.
• She promised the Lord of Time the Dragon Clan bloodline power and help reaching Second-Step Eternity if he struck the Lord of Nightmares the instant he succeeded.
• The Lord of Time accepted her terms and received the Chaos Stele control token, then remained alone with regret over devouring the True Dragon Clan and despair at his failed breakthrough.
• The Mother of the Stars withdrew, revealing that her true goal was Third-Step Eternity and control over the entire Astral Realm, while the Thirty-Eight Paradise Pterosaur accepted his fate as a future sacrifice.
• The Lord of Time left the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm, saw that the Ancestral Tree of Life possessed his White Feather of Time, and decided not to retrieve it.
• The Lord of Time arrived at Primogenitor Mountain and called out to the Lord of Nightmares.

The Nightmare Hydra began spreading Nightmares Mist through the Fantasy Dimension after the Lord of Time agreed to help him seize it in exchange for aid hunting a Chaos Behemoth. In the Emerald Dream Plane, Aierwen Chengge and the Emerald Guards fought to protect the Emerald Falls as the mist and its Nightmares Beasts overwhelmed the plane.

• The Nightmare Hydra questioned the Lord of Time about his failed breakthrough, and the Lord of Time blamed a weak foundation and backlash from the Nine-Faced Dragon God.
• The Lord of Time asked the Nightmare Hydra to help him hunt a Chaos Behemoth after the Fantasy Dimension was taken, and the Nightmare Hydra agreed.
• The Nightmare Hydra released the Nightmares Mist, which crossed the dimensional boundary and spread into the Fantasy Dimension.
• In the Emerald Dream Plane, Aierwen Chengge warned of contamination as the mist appeared within the plane and Nightmares Beasts broke through its defenses.
• Aierwen ordered the surviving Emerald Guards to defend the Emerald Falls, but the mist eroded their final barrier as it devoured the surrounding plane.

The Nightmare Hydra’s mist devoured the Emerald Dream Plane and overwhelmed the Thousand Swords Plane, while the Lord of Time watched without intervening. The chapter ends as the mist began replacing the Dream Conches’ consciousnesses in the Glazed Sea Plane.

• Aierwen ordered the Emerald Guard to awaken the sleepers and detonate their dream crystals, destroying the Emerald Dream Plane in a rainbow shockwave that warned the Fantasy Hall.
• The Lord of Time saw the Nightmare Hydra consume the plane and chose not to act, knowing the Mother of the Stars intended to swallow the Astral Realm.
• The old Sword Lord and Lieyan led the Thousand Swords Plane’s swordsmen against the Nightmares Mist, but the mist gradually overcame their defenses.
• Lieyan sacrificed himself to send a sword ray to the Fantasy Hall, and the old Sword Lord sealed the Thousand Swords Plane for three years before becoming a stone statue.
• The Nightmares Mist spread across the Fantasy Dimension, and in the Glazed Sea Plane it began replacing the Dream Conches’ consciousnesses.

The Nightmare Hydra’s Nightmares Mist devastated planes across the Fantasy Dimension, while the Lord of No Void explained that the threat had grown from dormant seeds planted within the dimension. He ordered fantasy travelers to return and prepare to save the remaining planes, as Dusk Star began briefing them on the crisis.

• The Nightmares Mist turned the Eternal Night Theater’s plays into tragedies and corrupted the worlds painted in the Starry Sky Gallery until the plane fell.
• Elariel, Dusk Star, reported to the Lord of No Void that more than thirteen thousand distress signals came from planes afflicted by the origin of nightmares.
• The Lord of No Void revealed that the Nightmare Hydra had awakened seeds of power already planted inside the Fantasy Dimension and ordered all travelers to return.
• The Lord of No Void dispatched the dimension’s origin power across the planes and resolved to save as many as possible while weakening the Nightmare Hydra.
• Dusk Star, Balevi, Gelong, Elena, and the returned travelers gathered in the Fantasy Hall, where Dusk Star began explaining the unprecedented crisis.

Dusk Star’s mission to the Starlight Plane revealed that the Nightmare Hydra had an ally wielding the power of time, while the Lord of No Void discovered the Hydra feeding on the Fantasy Dimension’s heart and confronted him. The Lord of No Void raised a spear of fantasy power and demanded that the Nightmare Hydra leave, ending the chapter before his ultimatum was completed.

• Dusk Star and the other travelers chose missions to defend invaded planes, and she led a squad to the besieged Starlight Plane.
• Dusk Star found the Star Crown Tower in ruins and tried to save a wounded Starborn archmage, who warned that another being wielded the power of time before he was erased from the timeline.
• Dusk Star ordered her deputy to warn the Lord of No Void that the Nightmare Hydra had a suspected Eternity-realm accomplice.
• The Lord of No Void traced the Nightmare Hydra’s true body to the heart of the Fantasy Dimension and found him feeding on its dreams.
• The Lord of No Void confronted the Nightmare Hydra and demanded that he leave the dimension, relinquish the invaded planes, and surrender his buried Nightmares seeds.

The Lord of No Void confronted the Nightmare Hydra in the Land of the Heart, while Fantasy Travelers fought to weaken the Hydra across the Fantasy Dimension. As the Astral Realm’s powers hesitated to intervene, the Astral Spirit Kingdom Lord named the Lord of Endless as the ally who might help stop Primogenitor Mountain.

• The Nightmare Hydra threatened to destroy the Fantasy Dimension if the Lord of No Void fought at full strength, then revealed that its ally was using the power of time to target the Fantasy Hall.
• The Lord of No Void declared that Fantasy Travelers were weakening the Hydra by clearing the Nightmares Mist, while travelers across several planes fought to preserve hope and resist the invasion.
• The Lord of Time met with the Nightmare Hydra at Primogenitor Mountain, then secretly sent a wisp of consciousness to speak with the Mother of the Stars about the Hydra’s plans.
• The Astral Spirit Kingdom Lord and Distant Song Orosa discussed how to oppose Primogenitor Mountain, and the Astral Spirit Kingdom Lord proposed seeking the Lord of Endless.

The Astral Spirit Kingdom Lord offered the Star Crown to strengthen the Lord of Endless against the God of War of the Astral Realm. As their battle began in the Void, Lancelot countered the God of War’s attacks, but the God of War unleashed a devastating assault from the Hall of Heroes.

• The Astral Spirit Kingdom Lord removed the Star Crown and decided to lend it to the Lord of Endless, while Orosa agreed to help.
• Lancelot faced the God of War of the Astral Realm in the Void, whose power had reached the Eternal level through the Northern Spirit Empire’s power of Civilization.
• Lancelot erased the God of War’s first energy attack with the Spear of Destruction, but the God of War revived it and reshaped it into chains.
• Lancelot used the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying to stop the chains before they could reach him.
• The God of War sent a pillar of golden light from the Hall of Heroes toward Lancelot, threatening to destroy his body and absorb his soul.

Lancelot fought the God of War of the Astral Realm while drawing on the Endless Continent, its gods, and its inhabitants, but his opponent’s strength and endurance kept him at a disadvantage. With the Star Crown’s support, Lancelot gained insights into countless stellar laws and touched the barrier between Supreme God and Eternal, advancing his Law System.

• Lancelot summoned the power of the Endless Continent and its gods, then clashed with the God of War of the Astral Realm, who was empowered by the Northern Spirit Empire and the Hall of Heroes.
• Lancelot used the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying to trap his opponent, but the God of War of the Astral Realm seized the Immortal-Execution Sword until Lancelot severed his hand with the Spear of Destruction.
• As they fought across the Void, Lancelot adapted to the God of War of the Astral Realm’s attacks and grew stronger, while both sides suffered damage and the surrounding celestial bodies were destroyed.
• The Astral Spirit Kingdom Lord offered Lancelot the Star Crown, and Distant Song Orosa and the Void Whale experts intervened to prevent the God of War of the Astral Realm from stopping him.
• Lancelot put on the Star Crown and absorbed insights from the stars, touching the barrier between Supreme God and Eternal and advancing from borrowing laws toward becoming the laws.

Lancelot unified his three systems and defeated the God of War of the Astral Realm, leaving his opponent gravely wounded before he departed to pursue Eternity. The Mother of the Stars then warned Lancelot of an approaching Destruction Tide and began to offer him the Spirit Ruins as a place to advance.

• Lancelot reached the threshold of Eternity, combined his three systems, and used their power to defeat the God of War of the Astral Realm.
• The God of War of the Astral Realm accepted his defeat, promised to face Lancelot again, and withdrew with the Hall of Heroes and the Northern Spirit Empire's fleet.
• Lancelot completed the unification of his three systems and declared that he would pursue Eternity.
• The World Tree and the Ancestral Tree of Destruction observed Lancelot's breakthrough while the World Tree considered the other rising powers, including Logo and Gustavo.
• The Mother of the Stars contacted Lancelot, warned that a Destruction Tide from the Chaos Sea threatened the Astral Realm and surrounding realms, and began to propose the Spirit Ruins as a place for his advancement.

The Mother of the Stars sent Lancelot to the Spirit Ruins with the promise that the Chaos Ruin could help him reach Eternity, while secretly planning to take control of the Astral Realm in his absence. After returning the Star Crown, Lancelot refused to help defend the Fantasy Dimension and began to suspect that the Mother of the Stars was deliberately weakening the Astral Realm Will.

• The Mother of the Stars gave Lancelot the Spirit Ruins’ coordinates and array instructions, urging him to go there because the Destruction Vortex was expanding rapidly.
• Lancelot agreed to visit the Spirit Ruins and decided to bring Gustavo so they could use its resources to advance their laws.
• The Mother of the Stars secretly expected Lancelot to spend centuries in the Spirit Ruins while she took control of the Astral Realm.
• The Mother of the Stars explained that she could not leave the Chaos Tide and regarded the Astral Realm’s suffering as preparation for the coming destruction.
• Lancelot returned the Star Crown to the ruler of the Astral Spirit Kingdom and refused Orosa and Nova’s request to lead resistance in the Fantasy Dimension.
• After hearing the ruler warn that the Fantasy Dimension’s collapse would weaken the Astral Realm Will, Lancelot suspected the Mother of the Stars had deliberately allowed the invasions to weaken it.

Lancelot realized that the Mother of the Stars was behind the Astral Realm’s turmoil and intended to subdue its World Will, then chose to advance to Eternity before dealing with the Fantasy Dimension. At the Spirit Ruins, Gustavo began devouring its Spirit Wisdoms in hopes of reaching the Eternal realm, sending them fleeing deeper inside.

• Lancelot concluded that the Mother of the Stars was seeking control of the Astral Realm by subduing its World Will.
• Lancelot left to pursue his breakthrough, while the Astral Spirit Kingdom Lord and the Void Whale clan headed to the Fantasy Dimension to delay the Nightmare Hydra.
• Lancelot and Gustavo traveled to the Spirit Ruins, where Lancelot opened a breach during the Breath of Chaos.
• Gustavo entered the Domain of Fragments and used the Law of Devouring to absorb vast numbers of Spirit Wisdoms.
• The Spirit Wisdoms sensed Gustavo’s threat and fled toward the depths of the Domain of Fragments.

Gustavo devoured the Spirit Wisdom and the heart of the Spirit Ruins, using their power to break through the barrier of Eternity and become an eternal existence. After consuming the collapsing ruins, he sensed that he had forgotten something, just as a commanding voice called for him to wake up.

• Gustavo sealed and devoured the Spirit Wisdom in the Domain of Fragments, gaining insights that strengthened his laws.
• Gustavo entered the Domain of Laws and devoured its law crystals, advancing his understanding and nearing Eternity.
• Gustavo discovered that the Spirit Ruins had collapsed from internal contradictions and used the Law of Devouring to dissolve the barrier protecting its heart.
• Gustavo swallowed the heart of the Spirit Ruins, broke through the barrier of Eternity, and transformed his Laws of Devouring and Sealing.
• Gustavo returned to the Chaos Sea and swallowed the collapsing Spirit Ruins, then sensed something was wrong and heard a voice order him to wake up.

Lancelot awakened Gustavo from an illusion cast by the Spirit Ruins, and the two joined forces to destroy the ruins and absorb their true core and accumulated power. They both ascended to Eternity and planned to return to the Astral Realm to summon and transcend the River of Space-Time.

• Lancelot revealed that the Spirit Ruins had trapped Gustavo in an illusion, though the Spirit Wisdoms Gustavo devoured and the insights he gained were real.
• Lancelot and Gustavo agreed to combine their laws to devour the Spirit Ruins and began sealing the ruins while Lancelot searched for their true core.
• Lancelot found the core, and Gustavo devoured its source power, sharing half of the power with Lancelot and the Endless Continent.
• Lancelot suppressed the Spirit Ruins' will with a Divine Authority Edict, while Gustavo devoured the core and the two absorbed the remaining Spirit Wisdoms and fragments.
• After the Spirit Ruins vanished, Gustavo and Lancelot both ascended to Eternity and prepared to return to the Astral Realm to transcend the River of Space-Time.