Recaps

Su Wen learned that Shi Kong’s Ancient Yao Kingdom had been destroyed by humans, but Shi Kong still promised to support Su Wen and protect him in the Ninth Epoch. After Shi Kong returned to his own epoch, the River of Fate advised Su Wen to summon trading partners gradually, promising the most valuable partner during his twelfth-month summoning.

• Shi Kong told Su Wen that human armies had destroyed the Ancient Yao Kingdom and nearly killed its ruler, and thanked Su Wen for saving him.
• Su Wen considered how Shi Kong’s grudge against humanity might make him useful against the Remnant Clan, while expecting his Heavenly Mandate Bestowal to strengthen Shi Kong’s loyalty.
• Shi Kong promised to follow Su Wen’s instructions and stand by him in the Ninth Epoch, and their transaction was established as Shi Kong was returned to the Seventh Epoch.
• Su Wen questioned how Shi Kong’s promise counted as a transaction and prepared to choose another trading partner.
• The River of Fate advised Su Wen to summon a partner once every two months, then once a month after three summons, and promised the most valuable trading partner during the twelfth month.

Su Wen wondered whether the River of Fate could fulfill wishes, then left the Trading Space as unseen forces began to shift. At a Lantern Festival gathering, the organization celebrated Battle God reaching King Rank Peak while he lamented being weaker than everyone else and denied planning to challenge Wind God.

• Su Wen wished he could trade with several powerful figures, then left the Trading Space as hidden factors changed.
• Wind God toasted Battle God for reaching King Rank Peak and teased him as the organization's weakest member.
• Battle God reflected that the Battle God Air Masses had offered little help beyond perfecting his divine abilities, leaving the Law of Combat as an obstacle to advancement.
• Su Wen praised Battle God's future potential, while Wind God pointed out that Battle God was thinking about dueling him someday.
• Battle God denied wanting a duel and appealed to Su Wen, who privately recognized that Battle God was too much of a burden to help.

At the reunion dinner, Su Wen prepared to face a bleak future on the Space-Time Battlefield, while the others wished him well and offered their support. Before leaving to experience an extraordinary future, he warned Wind God that the Nine-Tailed Clan might bring him a bride, and Mo Xiao Su offered to help him claim her.

• Su Wen wished everyone a bright future as Star God and Theater God toasted him and promised their support.
• Theater God left to study Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai for ideas to improve the rules of his Theatrical Phenomena World.
• Su Wen told Wind God to watch for the Seventh Divine Maiden of the Nine-Tailed Clan and bring her home if she appeared.
• Su Wen left to experience an extraordinary future, and Star God departed to prepare for becoming an Immortal Demigod and search for the Eighth Epoch's resources.
• Wind God asked Mo Xiao Su whether Theater God had been hinting at him, and she offered to go with him to snatch his bride if the Nine-Tailed Clan tried to marry her off to someone else.

Wind God decided to reach the Immortal Demigod realm before visiting the Nine-Tailed Clan over the Seventh Divine Maiden’s arranged marriage, while Battle God vowed to grow stronger. Su Wen prepared to travel to the future in his true body, relying on the River of Space-Time to protect him.

• Wind God and Battle God agreed to visit the Nine-Tailed Clan, but Wind God said he would first enter seclusion and advance to an Immortal Demigod.
• Battle God offered to join the rescue, but Wind God told him to focus on improving his strength so he would not become a burden.
• Battle God left to fight, while Mo Xiao Su watched him go and wondered about the power of the Immortal Demigod realm.
• Su Wen considered traveling to the future in his true body, and Sycee warned him that dying in a Sub-Space-Time could prevent his return.
• Su Wen and Sycee discussed how the River of Space-Time could protect him, even if the Battle God on duty destroyed the world, in exchange for Wealth Source.
• Su Wen accepted the River of Space-Time’s protection and prepared to enter the future.

Su Wen arrived in the Sub-Space-Time two hundred years in the future and discovered that his true body felt free of the River of Fate’s influence. After confirming he was in Zhongyuan Province, he summoned the Star Grand Array’s sentient controller, who pledged to protect him.

• Su Wen arrived in the future with Sycee and Luobao, while Ao Xiu chose to sleep, and remarked on the freedom he felt traveling in his true body.
• Sycee and Luobao argued over whether Su Wen’s sense of freedom came from escaping the River of Fate or from traveling through space-time, then teased each other about their personalities.
• Su Wen stopped their bickering and asked Sycee to confirm their location; Sycee identified it as Zhongyuan Province two hundred years in the future.
• Su Wen activated a detection spell and summoned the Star Grand Array’s core controller, Star Spirit.
• Star Spirit told Su Wen that it had gained sentience eighty-two years earlier and promised to protect him with the array’s enhanced capabilities.

Su Wen learned that only the Theater God and the God of Magic had died in the past two hundred years, while the other Divine Mandate Bearers were locked in a stalemate on the Beyond Heaven Battlefield. Star Spirit recounted how the Human Alliance built its defenses and uncovered a powerful traitor, the Theater God Legion’s commander-in-chief.

• Su Wen sensed the Wealth Source within Star Spirit and entrusted the rest of the journey to her.
• Star Spirit told Su Wen that the Theater God and the God of Magic were the only other Divine Mandate Bearers to die.
• Star Spirit explained that the Star God, Battle God, Wind God, Shadow God, and others were stalemated with the enemy on the Beyond Heaven Battlefield.
• Star Spirit recounted how the Human Alliance started the war early, gained the Arrow Realm and Demigod clans as allies, and established the Beyond Heaven defensive line.
• Star Spirit explained that the Star God used eighty-one True God puppets to wound an attacker from beyond the horizon in 2072.
• Star Spirit revealed that the attacker was identified as the Theater God Legion’s commander-in-chief, a True God and Eighth Epoch Heavenly Mandate Bearer with the Trickster profession.

Su Wen learned that the Theater God had been killed by traitors after the Remnant Clan infiltrated the Main Realm, while the Heaven God Legion’s promised justice never came. He asked where the Theater God was buried and arrived at his grave to pay his respects.

• Su Wen asked Star Spirit to notify only the Star God if possible and learned the Divine Mandate Bearers were fighting on the Beyond Heaven Battlefield.
• Star Spirit told Su Wen that the Star God and Shadow God had become True Gods, the Wind God had advanced after breaking the limit eight times, and the Battle God remained an Immortal Demigod despite his formidable strength.
• Star Spirit recounted how traitors and Remnant Clan Anomaly auras had surrounded and killed the Theater God before his breakthrough, and how the Heaven God Legion had promised justice for the Divine Mandate Bearers.
• Su Wen doubted that the Heaven God Legion’s account would be trusted and reflected on the betrayal and conflict surrounding the Theater God.
• Su Wen asked where the Theater God was buried, and Star Spirit transported him to the Theater God’s grave by the Luo River.

Su Wen learned that Li Wenze was the God of Fate and heard how the Battle God’s beating had awakened his divine position in the Sub-Space-Time. Star Spirit also revealed that the Heaven God had been taken to the Domain Battlefield, while the God of Sleep remained unidentified among two candidates.

• Su Wen confirmed with Star Spirit that Li Wenze was the God of Fate and asked how he had awakened.
• Star Spirit explained that the Battle God’s beating had made Li Wenze feel so aggrieved that his divine position awakened, and that the God of Fate later repaid him with several days of bad luck.
• Sycee and Luobao suggested arranging for the Battle God to provoke and beat Li Wenze in the Main Space-Time, and Su Wen agreed to consult the Star God about the plan.
• Su Wen wondered why the God of Fate instinctively disliked the Battle God and decided to ask the Battle Master about their past connection.
• Star Spirit reported that the Heaven God was Du Xuehan, who had been taken to the Domain Battlefield after awakening, and that the God of Sleep had not been found despite two centuries of searching.

Su Wen learned how the Star God and allied gods planned to identify the God of Sleep and fight crime, then visited the Theater God's grave. There, he met the silver-haired seventh-generation descendant of the Wind God, who mistook him for a top-tier expert, and he questioned her about the state of the Martial Dao.

• Star Spirit explained that two missing girls matched the God of Sleep and that the Star God, Theater God, and Shadow God had formed an anti-crime organization supported by the Star Grand Array.
• Su Wen reflected on the Heaven God's awakening and the need to use the Star Grand Array to support justice, while Star Spirit created a statue of the Main Space-Time God of Wealth as a source of hope.
• A silver-haired Martial Dao Master arrived at the Martyrs' Cemetery and found Su Wen worshipping at the Theater God's tomb in ancient Martial God attire.
• The woman introduced herself as the seventh-generation descendant of the Wind God and questioned Su Wen's presence, while he wondered whether his descendant came from his relationship with the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan.
• After her device detected no other living beings nearby, the woman concluded Su Wen was a top-tier human expert, and Su Wen asked about Martial Dao research, her age, and the Martial Dao Master badge.

Su Wen met Bai Zijun, who mistook him for Du Guowei and praised his martial dao theories, before he encouraged her and departed. Bai Zijun awakened as a Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearer, while Su Wen told Star Spirit to keep her alive and let events unfold.

• Bai Zijun met Su Wen while visiting Ancestor Theater God and mistook him for Senior Du Guowei, praising his Ten Great Outlines of the Martial Dao.
• Bai Zijun explained her theory of the five possibilities of organs attaining divinity, and Su Wen recognized its potential to lead martial dao toward True Godhood.
• Su Wen corrected Bai Zijun’s mistaken identity and encouraged her to trust her own talent and continue developing the martial dao.
• After Su Wen vanished, Bai Zijun awakened as a Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearer and suspected that he had caused it.
• Star Spirit asked whether to monitor Bai Zijun, and Su Wen ordered her kept alive while the rest was left to take its course.

Su Wen questioned why the River of Space-Time and the River of Fate coveted the Wealth Source he refined, then considered whether it came from the merging origins of two universes. Luobao explained the Ninth Epoch’s decisive battle, and Star Spirit asked to record the discussion for Star God.

• Star Spirit connected a fraction of the Star Grand Array’s computing power to Bai Zijun’s personal AI and ordered it to protect Bai Zijun unless her life or health was threatened.
• Su Wen considered using his Wealth Source to have the River of Space-Time resurrect Theater God and wondered whether he could seek aid from the Battle God Legion or Star God Legion.
• Su Wen asked Sycee why the River of Space-Time and the River of Fate wanted his Wealth Source, and Sycee said they could not yet understand the forces behind it.
• Luobao explained that the two universes had undergone eight rounds of fusion and that the Ninth Epoch would bring a final decisive battle, prompting Su Wen to suspect their merging origins produced the substance he refined as Wealth Source.
• Star Spirit asked Su Wen for permission to record Luobao’s explanation so she could inform Star God later.

Su Wen read the River of Space-Time’s warning that resurrecting the Theater God would cost 18.8 billion Wealth Source because his true-body journey could disrupt the Sub-Space-Time. The River also warned that an evil unwelcome guest had entered without permission, and Su Wen suspected it meant the River of Fate.

• Sycee and Luobao argued over whether the River of Space-Time had deliberately arranged events, while Su Wen asked Star Spirit to record their debate for Star God.
• The River of Space-Time demanded 18.8 billion Wealth Source to resurrect the Theater God and explained the cost reflected the danger of disturbing space-time order.
• The River of Space-Time urged Su Wen to explore the Beyond Heaven Battlefield and said its treasures would help him understand the price.
• The River of Space-Time warned Su Wen that an evil unwelcome guest had secretly entered the Sub-Space-Time and advised him not to make a deal with it.
• Su Wen laughed at the warning and suspected the unwelcome guest was the River of Fate, which might have entered to profit from his plans.

Su Wen arrived in the Sub-Space-Time and reunited with a weary Star God and the unusually powerful Battle God. Wary of the Battle God’s spear, Su Wen asked him to keep his distance, especially during battle.

• Star Spirit told Su Wen that the Star God had asked whether he had arrived, and Su Wen told her to answer truthfully.
• The Star God appeared and greeted Su Wen, whose concern grew after noticing the Star God’s hoarse voice and dejected appearance.
• The Star God said the Battle God was happy to hear Su Wen had come and that he would arrive shortly.
• The Battle God appeared with his transformed blood-red spear and greeted Su Wen cheerfully.
• Su Wen told the Battle God to stay far away from him, especially in battle while carrying the spear.

Su Wen reunited with Battle God, Star God, Wind God, and Mo Xiao Su in this space-time, while learning how the Shadow God from Sub-Space-Time No. 01 had protected Mo Xiao Su’s mother. He considered whether beings from many Sub-Space-Times could unite against the Remnant Clan, then wondered why Battle God had still failed in the first epoch.

• Su Wen warned Battle God to stay out of danger, but Battle God insisted he was worthy of trust.
• Star God told Su Wen that Wind God and Mo Xiao Su had arrived, and their avatars appeared.
• Mo Xiao Su placed a True God-rank shadow general in Su Wen’s shadow to protect him and told him the Shadow God from Sub-Space-Time No. 01 had died protecting her mother.
• Star God confirmed that the Shadow God had helped protect the Main Realm and taken much of the force aimed at the Star Grand Array.
• Su Wen considered whether beings from many Sub-Space-Times could unite to fight the Remnant Clan, then questioned how Battle God had still failed or been exiled despite such help.

Mo Xiao Su thanked Su Wen for saving the Shadow God’s Sub-Space-Time, and a strange lightning phenomenon suggested a succession between the Shadow God and Su Wen as True Gods on duty. After the River of Space-Time prompted Su Wen to spend at its newly advertised Space-Time Shop, Su Wen praised Bai Zijun’s martial theory and learned that the Wind God wanted his matchmaking efforts with the Seventh Divine Maiden to stop.

• Mo Xiao Su bowed to thank Su Wen, explaining that her mother had regarded the Shadow God as a daughter and sometimes felt she was Mo Xiao Su.
• Black and golden lightning flashed across the horizon, and the River of Space-Time described the event as a possible succession between the Shadow God and Su Wen before promoting its Space-Time Shop.
• Mo Xiao Su reiterated her gratitude to Su Wen for helping her across the Sub-Space-Times.
• Su Wen praised Bai Zijun’s contributions to Martial Dao theory, and the Wind God said he had protected her with an avatar in her ring because of her talent and the Theater God’s affection for her.
• Su Wen asked whether Bai Zijun was descended from the Wind God and the Seventh Divine Maiden, prompting the Wind God to ask him to stop trying to arrange their relationship.

Su Wen learned why the Wind God and the Seventh Divine Maiden had not ended up together and reconsidered how much weight to give the Theater God's dramatic hints. He decided to study at the Martial Dao Exploration Office on the Beyond Heaven Battlefield and asked the confused Battle God to meet him there.

• The Wind God told Su Wen that his relationship with the Seventh Divine Maiden had soured because her clan pressured her to manipulate him and tried to use his connections to influence Huaxia's military.
• Su Wen accepted that the Wind God and the Seventh Divine Maiden would make their own choices in the Main Space-Time, then confirmed that their relationship had not followed the events of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai."
• The Battle God said he would postpone choosing a partner until after the war, while the Star God cautioned that the Theater God's dramatic hints were unreliable at their current strength.
• The Star God explained that Su Wen had arranged books, experts, and study facilities at the Martial Dao Exploration Office for his arrival two hundred years later.
• Su Wen agreed to study at the office and told the Battle God to wait for him there, leaving the Battle God puzzled because Su Wen had just warned him to stay away.

Su Wen arranged to gather future technological data from the Star God's space-time and learned the precise events needed to ensure Bai Zijun's birth. He left to study the space-time's Martial Dao theories and technology, with the Star God preparing a comprehensive archive for him to take back.

• The Star God explained that Little Wind had to visit the Nine-Tailed Clan on May 10, 2042, and accompany the Seventh Divine Maiden on the Life Lock Journey on May 25, so Bai Zijun would be born after their June 11 accident.
• The Wind God accepted the plan, and Su Wen understood that Bai Zijun's Martial Dao talent had changed the Star God's views on Little Wind's marriage.
• The Star God told Su Wen that Li Wenze wanted to meet him because the God of Fate's erased memories had returned.
• Su Wen asked the Star God to compile technological data from 2023 onward, especially military and materials technology, organized with 2023's technological level in mind.
• Su Wen confirmed he could carry the data back in his real body, and the Star God agreed to prepare it.

Su Wen visited the Martial Dao Exploration Office and studied Du Guowei’s theories and speeches on the changing direction of Martial Dao. He had just begun absorbing the new research when the Battle God arrived in response to his summons.

• Su Wen entered the Martial Dao Exploration Office, whose intelligent brain cleared the way to protect him.
• Su Wen asked the central intelligent brain to retrieve Du Guowei’s profile, work, and latest speech about Martial Dao reform.
• Su Wen reviewed Du Guowei’s research and reflected that change in Martial Dao was unavoidable.
• Su Wen began studying the new Martial Dao theories, but the Battle God arrived and asked why Su Wen had called him.

Su Wen used a wisp of space-time power to awaken the Battle Master's power within the Battle God, then contacted the Battle Master through a Sub-Space-Time. The Battle Master recognized Su Wen's progress and began preparing their second stage of training.

• Su Wen bought a wisp of Black River's space-time power and used it to awaken the Battle Master's power in the Battle God.
• The Battle God gave Su Wen the awakened power, then sealed off the Martial Dao Database so no one would disturb him.
• The Star God questioned the Battle God about the disruption, and the Battle God explained that he had acted on Su Wen's instructions.
• Su Wen used the Battle Master's power as an anchor to activate his Trading Divine Ability and meet the Battle Master in a Sub-Space-Time.
• The Battle Master confirmed Su Wen's combat instinct had reached perfection and asked him to recount their first meeting during their training.

The Battle Master taught Su Wen to temper his Heart of Battle by believing without hesitation that his choices in war were right, even when they demanded terrible sacrifices. After showing him the first epoch’s battlefield, the Battle Master asked whether he would sacrifice his closest companions to save the universe, and Su Wen said he would if victory could bring everything to a perfect ending.

• The Battle Master explained that the Heart of Battle required unwavering conviction and the willingness to destroy enemies without reservation.
• Su Wen connected the lesson to the Remnant Clan’s attempts to undermine their resolve, and the Battle Master agreed that mercy could not guide an Incumbent True God’s decisions.
• The Battle Master transformed the blood waves into the first epoch’s Frontier Battlefield, displaying the gods’ battle standards and the armies under the Battle God’s command.
• The Battle Master asked Su Wen whether he would sacrifice his friends and family if doing so were necessary to win the war.
• Su Wen answered that he would sacrifice them without hesitation because victory in the final battle could give everything a perfect ending.

Su Wen and Battle Master compared their dealings with the River of Space-Time and discussed Su Wen's willingness to take extreme measures if the Ninth Era became impossible to save. Battle Master advised him on absolute leadership and offered help involving surviving veterans of the First Era's Battle God Legion.

• Battle Master warned Su Wen against assuming that Little River could revive all his fallen comrades after victory.
• Su Wen suggested that Battle Master's Little River was a tributary of the River of Space-Time, and Battle Master recalled that Little River had claimed to be a newly appointed Fate Seat.
• Su Wen said his comrades would resent him if he refused to let them sacrifice themselves when necessary.
• Su Wen admitted that he had considered killing the Ninth Era's Battle God to allow Battle Master's true self to return if the situation became impossible to save.
• Battle Master challenged Su Wen's judgment of hopelessness and told him that a combat heart and firm leadership were necessary to carry out his decisions despite opposition.
• Battle Master produced a blood-red, six-sided crystal and asked whether any veterans of the First Era's Battle God Legion remained in the Ninth Era.

Su Wen learned to condense the First Epoch Battle Master's command battle flag and heard how the Battle Master lost all his comrades in the war against the Remnant Clan. The chapter ended with the Battle Master asking whether the Ninth Epoch's Battle God had problems Su Wen could not control.

• The Battle Master created a red command battle flag and explained that the First Epoch Star God had urged him to leave it as a contingency.
• Su Wen studied the flag's intricate details and learned the basics of its condensation method over a month.
• Su Wen asked how many comrades had survived to the First Epoch's final battle, and the Battle Master said he had been the only one left.
• The Battle Master recalled the Remnant Clan killing his comrades, including Little Star, and described his revenge against the clan.
• The Battle Master asked Su Wen whether the Ninth Epoch's Battle God had problems he could not keep under control.

Su Wen entered the Battle Master's trial and relived the First Era's final war as the Current Battle God, whose desperate charge destroyed both universes. The Battle Master questioned Su Wen's readiness to die, leaving him to confront why he valued victory over his own survival.

• Su Wen and the Battle Master discussed the differences between the Battle God of the First Era and the Battle God of the Ninth Era.
• The Battle Master began a trial to temper Su Wen's Heart of Battle by plunging him into a battlefield simulation.
• Su Wen took command of the Current Battle God's forces and received urgent reports from several fronts.
• Su Wen failed to manage the widespread war, then burned his power and charged into the Remnant Clan Universe, causing both universes to collapse.
• The Battle Master told Su Wen the trial was meant to test his command and asked why he had such a strong desire for death.

Su Wen learned why the Ninth Epoch fought more desperately than the First Epoch and began another, unpredictable battle trial under the Battle Master's guidance. Meanwhile, the Star God found no future in which the God of Wealth survived and wondered if his death was necessary for everyone else to live.

• Su Wen asked why the First Epoch had failed to exploit its advantages, and the Battle Master apologized for leaving the Ninth Epoch to face a desperate war.
• The Battle Master urged Su Wen to fight rationally, protect his soldiers, destroy the Remnant Clan, and bring his compatriots home.
• The Battle Master placed Su Wen in a different battle scenario, and Su Wen adapted his tactics while the Current Battle God charged the enemy with a blood-colored spear.
• The Star God divined the future from the Sub-Space-Time and found no trace of the God of Wealth surviving, even after his arrival changed the future.
• The Star God wondered whether the God of Wealth had to die for everyone else to survive.

The Star God endured the backlash from repeatedly observing space-time and considered the cost of the coming struggle as the Trickster arrived at the Beyond Heaven Battlefield. As the Battle God fought the Trickster, the Star God mobilized his forces and prepared a countertrap after Li Wenze warned that the enemy had a contingency for him.

• The Star God reflected that the only chance of survival ended with the death of the one who contributed the most, and wished he could die in the God of Wealth's place.
• The Trickster appeared above the Beyond Heaven Battlefield and challenged the Star God, but the Battle God charged in and struck him away.
• The Trickster considered killing the Battle God, but an unknown powerful voice warned him that the Battle God must not die.
• The Star God deployed the Star Dao Guardian, True God puppets, and other defenses while relaying the Trickster's weaknesses to the Battle God.
• Li Wenze appeared beside the Star God and warned him that the enemy had a contingency waiting; the Star God said he was preparing a surprise in return.