Recaps

Su Wen chose to join the Star God's organization and met the Theater God, who welcomed him as its fifth member. He then met a boy called Little Wind, who introduced himself as the Wind God.

• The Star God offered to repay Li Wenze's favor, but Su Wen declined and said he would repay it himself.
• Su Wen chose to go with the Star God to the organization rather than stay behind with his friends.
• The Star God brought Su Wen to the organization, where the Theater God welcomed him as its fifth member.
• The Theater God discussed traditional opera with Su Wen and questioned Little Wind about a script he had promised to read.
• Little Wind greeted Su Wen and introduced himself as the Wind God.

Su Wen met the child Wind God and learned that he could sense people’s feelings through the wind, while Theater God reassured him about the young Heavenly Mandate Bearer. Star God then showed Su Wen recordings of his body-strengthening movements and proposed sharing them with the public, but Su Wen advised against promoting them.

• Su Wen questioned whether the child Wind God could really be the traitor who had tricked his future self to death, while Wind God sensed Su Wen’s aversion to him.
• Theater God interrupted Wind God, then told Su Wen that Wind God was a good kid who sensed goodwill and ill will through the wind.
• Theater God showed Su Wen his spacious private office and explained that the organization’s members received excellent treatment.
• Star God apologized for recording Su Wen’s body-strengthening movements, showed that they had been analyzed, and proposed promoting them to improve people’s health.
• Su Wen said he had planned to give the movements to the country but advised Star God not to promote them.

Su Wen told the Star God that the physical strengthening routine was outdated and demonstrated the original method and Basic Body Tempering Method 1.0. The Star God approved testing the new version, while Su Wen revealed that version 2.0 was already complete.

• Su Wen clarified that he meant to replace the outdated routine with its latest version, and the Star God asked him to demonstrate it.
• Su Wen demonstrated Basic Body Tempering Method 1.0, and the Star God praised its effectiveness but said it lacked the flashes of inspiration he had felt from the original.
• Su Wen reasoned that the original method had incorporated the Star God's future insights, which explained why it had sparked those inspirations.
• The Star God said he would send the new method for testing and asked Su Wen what to call it; they settled on the Basic Body Tempering Method, with the revisions numbered 1.0 and 2.0.
• Su Wen revealed that Basic Body Tempering Method 2.0 was already finished, leaving the Star God astonished by his ability.

Su Wen demonstrated the Basic Body Tempering Method 2.0, which impressed the Star God with its potential to help ordinary people gain transcendent strength. Su Wen then proposed an unexpectedly lucrative way to make money and asked to take the organization’s entire monthly budget, leaving the Star God to protest that they needed money for expenses.

• Su Wen demonstrated Basic Body Tempering Method 2.0, and the Star God recognized its promise for transforming ordinary people and the military.
• Su Wen told the Star God to keep studying the method in hopes of regaining his feeling of inspiration.
• Su Wen said he had thought of a profitable way to make money, and the Star God offered access to the organization’s funding.
• Su Wen learned the organization received ten billion a month and asked to take it all, while the Star God insisted they reserve funds for daily expenses.

Su Wen discussed using Wealth Source Points to rapidly increase his strength, and Star God explained the economic risks of absorbing large amounts of money. They agreed to pursue foreign income by selling the Basic Body Tempering Method while avoiding unnecessary disruption in Huaxia, and Su Wen learned why the country rapidly monitors newly awakened Heavenly Mandate Bearers.

• Su Wen asked whether he could absorb a hundred million, and Star God investigated the unusual way he used money.
• Star God described a Wealth Spirit in Qindu whose money absorption caused economic turmoil, and warned that Su Wen absorbing billions could trigger a nationwide storm.
• Su Wen proposed selling the Basic Body Tempering Method abroad to earn foreign currency and spread martial cultivation, and Star God approved the plan.
• Su Wen said he wanted to avoid destabilizing Huaxia, while Star God agreed that they could test absorption limits gradually and prepare contingencies.
• Su Wen asked whether Heavenly Mandate Bearers could throw the country into chaos, and Star God explained that the Star Grand Array helped the country detect and supervise them quickly.

Su Wen learned about the organization for Heavenly Mandate Bearers with god titles and received the Star God’s advice about the Theater God. He used the Sycee to shorten the River of Space-Time’s gaze, then activated Wealth Disrupts Space-Time and saw his Wealth Source Points fall to 11.4.

• The Star God explained that Heavenly Mandate Bearers with god titles generally joined the organization, and that Huaxia had seen only five in twenty years.
• The Star God advised Su Wen to consider the Theater God’s words, especially about theater, before leaving to handle the Basic Body Tempering Methods.
• Su Wen looked up the Theory of Supreme Emotion and wondered whether the Theater God’s remarks foretold a future romance, but focused instead on surviving.
• Su Wen used the Sycee to reduce the River of Space-Time’s gaze from over four hours to one minute and thirty seconds, leaving the artifact to recover.
• After the gaze disappeared, Su Wen activated Wealth Disrupts Space-Time and saw a vision describing his increased power and lavish use of wealth source.
• Su Wen checked his status and found that his Wealth Source Points had dropped from 12.4 to 11.4.

Su Wen crossed ten years into a future where the imperial capital had been destroyed and found humanity struggling against a deadly insect swarm. He approached a ruined fortress after the swarm left, hoping to uncover information about the catastrophe.

• Su Wen realized that each increase in his God of Wealth rank multiplied the Wealth Source cost of crossing space-time tenfold, and resolved to avoid unnecessary crossings.
• Su Wen arrived in the future at the ruined imperial capital and chose to follow human footprints southwest.
• Su Wen found a giant-tree fortress under attack by winged insects and hid rather than intervening.
• A giant worm emerged inside the fortress, and the insects massacred its human defenders before leaving.
• After waiting to ensure the swarm was gone, Su Wen cautiously approached the fortress to search the dead defenders' belongings for information.

Su Wen read a resistance fighter’s diary describing how a sudden global power failure and humanity’s defeats led to Huaxia’s collapse in the Dark Calendar. The diary ended with a question about the founder of the Martial Dao, leaving Su Wen to wonder whether he himself had caused the catastrophe.

• Su Wen read that a global power failure in the first year of the Dark Calendar disabled technology and weapons, and that the Imperial Capital and Demon Capital battlefields fell.
• The resistance fighter recorded meeting Yun during the flight from an insect tide, then training under her protection and advancing through the ranks of martial artists.
• Yun died protecting the resistance fighter from an evil spirit in the fourth year of the Dark Calendar.
• The resistance fighter joined one of 127 suicide squads sent to explore the fallen Imperial Capital and bring back information.
• Su Wen found the diary’s damaged ending, which questioned what kind of person the founder of the Martial Dao was, and wondered whether he had caused the world’s collapse.

Su Wen worried over Huaxia’s collapse and chose to follow a map toward a human shelter rather than search the dangerous imperial capital for survivors. After refining three flying insects in the future, he discovered he could earn Wealth Source Points there and began viewing nearby insects as resources.

• Su Wen considered why the Star God and other fighters had not left the Mountain and Sea Main Battlefield, then wondered whether the Wind God’s death had contributed to Huaxia’s fall.
• Su Wen chose to follow the hand-drawn map toward a human shelter, despite struggling to read it and navigate without electronic devices.
• Su Wen fled the imperial capital, killed three flying insects that attacked him, and refined their corpses for 0.0001 Wealth Source Points.
• Su Wen realized he could earn Wealth Source Points while traveling through the future and became excited about recovering the cost of Wealth Disrupts Space-Time.
• Su Wen set his sights on nearby flying insects as mobile Wealth Source resources.

Su Wen monitored his future self hunting flying insects while speaking with the newly arrived Battle God, who eagerly tried to recruit him as a drinking companion. In the future space-time, a giant insect began pursuing Su Wen’s fleeing self, leaving him trapped without a movement technique.

• Su Wen’s future self lured and killed flying insects, earning small amounts of Wealth Source Points.
• The Battle God introduced himself and invited Su Wen to drink, explaining that he had been waiting for a drinking companion.
• Su Wen said he did not like alcohol, and the Battle God agreed to drink while Su Wen had a soft drink.
• Su Wen chatted with the Battle God while monitoring his future self and learning about the organization’s members.
• A giant insect noticed the fighting, and Su Wen’s future self fled at full speed, burning qi and blood while trying to escape.
• The pursuing insect forced Su Wen’s future self off the map’s route, and he regretted not having mastered a movement technique.

Su Wen improved Monkey Leap through memories from the past spacetime, while the Battle God watched and the Star God warned that the God of Wealth was important. In the future, Su Wen escaped the giant worms but found himself at the Battle God's Tomb.

• Su Wen upgraded Monkey Leap to the beginner stage and demonstrated the movement technique for the Battle God.
• Past-spacetime memories helped Su Wen evade a giant worm, but it summoned others, so Su Wen upgraded Monkey Leap to the proficient stage.
• The Battle God took Su Wen to an underground jungle training ground, where Su Wen tested his improved speed.
• The Star God appeared, watched Su Wen, and said the God of Wealth was very important before leaving to calculate the movement technique.
• In the future, Su Wen used his movement technique and qi and blood to outrun the giant worms, then followed a voice to a ruined tombstone marked “The Battle God's Tomb!”

Su Wen learned about the Theater God's disturbing theory from the Battle God, then saw a future account of the Battle God's death after allied clans betrayed humanity. The chapter ended with Su Wen asking whether the Battle God would trust other races in a future war.

• Su Wen reflected on the deaths of the Battle God and other god-titled Heavenly Mandate Bearers, prompting the Battle God to ask whether he could predict the future.
• The Battle God warned Su Wen that the Theater God's talk about the theater of cruelty could signal something horrifying, and described how it had left him sick.
• The Battle God offered to show Su Wen photos and videos from the Arrow Realm, but Su Wen firmly refused.
• Future captions showed Su Wen reading that the allied Weili Clan and Flower Calamity Clan betrayed humanity during the East Sea defense, leading to the Battle God's fatal wounds and sacrifice.
• Su Wen asked the Battle God whether he would trust other races as allies in a future war.

Su Wen learned that the Battle God’s closest friends were Feisi of the Weili Clan and Lan Xin of the Flower Calamity Clan, the same clans that would betray him in the future. He warned the Battle God, who promised to be more cautious, before a vision showed Su Wen fleeing from a shaking tombstone and discovering a more refined way to use time and space to kill future enemies.

• The Battle God explained that he trusted allies from other clans and named Feisi of the Weili Clan and Lan Xin of the Flower Calamity Clan as his closest friends and sworn siblings.
• Su Wen realized that the Battle God’s two closest friends belonged to the clans that would betray him during the future Battle for the Defense of the East Sea.
• Su Wen warned the Battle God that there was something wrong with the Weili Clan and the Flower Calamity Clan, and the Battle God agreed to pay closer attention.
• The Battle God inferred that Su Wen’s warning came from a special ability, comparing him to the Star God’s cryptic hints about the future.
• A vision showed Su Wen watching the Battle God’s tombstone tremble, fleeing as an unseen force lifted him into the air, and realizing he could use time and space to strike future enemies in the past.

Su Wen spoke with the Battle God’s remnant thought and revealed that he had come from the past using his ability to disrupt spacetime. The Battle God explained that eighteen races had coordinated a plot that killed Su Wen, leaving him to question the Wind God’s role in his previous journey through time.

• Su Wen listened to the Battle God recount his exploits while wondering at the contrast between his rough manner and delicate appearance.
• Su Wen chose to tell the Battle God’s remnant thought that he had come from the past and could disrupt spacetime with wealth source.
• The Battle God revealed that Su Wen had died on August 13, year 23, during an uprising in the Imperial Capital's Arrow Realm No. 02, slain by the Ghost Chaos King.
• The Battle God said at least eighteen races had coordinated uprisings to draw away the organization’s Heavenly Mandate Bearers and target Su Wen.
• Su Wen realized the Star God’s deployment of the Star Grand Array against the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm had left the Ghost Face Clan free to attack him.
• Su Wen wondered why the Wind God had killed Li Dong and restrained him during his last journey through time.

Su Wen learned that his warning had led the Battle God to kill the Wind God in this timeline, though he now suspected the Wind God might have been innocent. The Battle God's remnant urged Su Wen to verify what he learned on future journeys through time, reminding him that this abandoned sub-timeline was real to everyone living in it.

• The Battle God mistook Su Wen's troubled expression for a warning about the Flower Calamity Clan and began praising the Weili Clan instead.
• Su Wen learned that before his death he had told the Battle God to suspect the Wind God, prompting the Battle God and Star God to identify and kill the Wind God in October 2023.
• Su Wen questioned whether the Wind God had truly been a traitor and realized the Wind God's survival might have prevented the East Sea defensive line from falling and the Great Dark Age from arriving.
• The Battle God misread Su Wen's sigh as a warning about the Weili Clan and hurried off to get a physical examination.
• Su Wen told the Battle God's remnant the truth about his suspicions, and the remnant asked him to treat the Wind God better if he proved innocent.
• The Battle God's remnant urged Su Wen to verify his conclusions before leaving each timeline, stressing that this timeline was real and precious to those living in it.

Su Wen discussed the risks of crossing spacetime with the Battle God's remnant thought, then learned how the Star God had revised the martial arts foundation in the future. The chapter left Su Wen cautious about revealing his ability and with new knowledge of the Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0.

• The Battle God's remnant thought explained that each spacetime crossing abandoned a timeline and cost countless lives, but said he still hoped the sacrifices would help the main spacetime reach a bright future.
• The Battle God's remnant thought suggested Su Wen reveal his ability to the Star God and the nation so they could prepare future knowledge for him, but Su Wen refused because he feared a spy within the organization or government.
• The Battle God's remnant thought said Su Wen could trust the Star God but advised caution, and suggested using a longer future timeline to check whether anything was wrong.
• The Battle God's remnant thought warned Su Wen not to tell him important secrets because he might let them slip, and Su Wen privately labeled him a loudspeaker.
• The Battle God's remnant thought described how the Star God added star power to the Basic Body Tempering Method, helping martial artists fuse it with qi and blood to reach the third tier.
• The Star God revised the method into the Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0 to raise the number of third-tier martial artists, incorporating suggestions from the Battle God.

Su Wen learned the Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0 from the Battle God's remnant will, who urged him to recruit the past Battle God into the Martial Dao before killing him to end the timeline. Su Wen devised a plan to test the Star God in another timeline, then the Star God called for his help.

• The Battle God's remnant will demonstrated the Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0, and Su Wen quickly learned it.
• The Battle God's remnant will asked Su Wen to persuade his past self to help revise the method with the Star God and join the Martial Dao.
• A violent consciousness arrived, and the Battle God's remnant will killed Su Wen with a slap, ending Wealth Disrupts Space-Time.
• Su Wen planned to test the Star God in a sacrificed timeline by revealing his ability to travel through time and observing the Star God's response.
• The Star God asked Su Wen to come up and help with something.

Su Wen told Battle God that the Flower Calamity Clan and Weili Clan would betray him in a future war, after Theater God discovered a Mental Gu Seed planted in Battle God's Huiyin acupoint. The chapter ended with Battle God cursing the two clans and learning that he would die covering the army's retreat.

• Theater God used divine sense to find a Mental Gu Seed hidden in Battle God's Huiyin acupoint, which Star God identified as the Flower Calamity Clan's work.
• Star God explained that his divination had misleadingly suggested the Flower Calamity Clan could be trusted, and Su Wen advised him to consider whether distorted results might mean the opposite.
• Star God asked Su Wen what he had seen about Battle God's future, and Su Wen revealed that the Weili Clan and Flower Calamity Clan would attack him during a future war.
• Su Wen said Battle God would be badly wounded, unable to escape, and burn himself to help the army retreat, but Theater God and Wind God confirmed that Su Wen showed no signs of backlash.
• Theater God released Battle's God speech restriction, and Battle God cursed the Weili Clan and Flower Calamity Clan for betraying him.

The Star God and Theater God explained that the Flower Calamity Clan’s Mental Gu Seed could turn loyal people into hidden spies, leaving the Battle God guilty and unsure how to protect them. Su Wen realized the Gu Seed might explain the Wind God’s past actions, and the Wind God sensed Su Wen’s guilt toward him.

• The Star God and Theater God advised the Battle God to maintain ties with the Flower Calamity Clan and the Weili Clan while secretly searching for people altered by the Mental Gu Seed.
• The Battle God realized that loyal patriots might have been turned into spies without knowing it and wondered whether the corruption could be purged.
• Su Wen considered that the Mental Gu Seed might explain the Wind God’s actions and felt guilty that his words could have led to the Wind God’s death.
• Su Wen and the Battle God sighed at the same time, making the Battle God suspect Su Wen had withheld something.
• The Wind God sensed Su Wen’s guilt toward him, and the Star God and Theater God turned to question Su Wen.

Su Wen realized that the Theater God had used The Injustice to Dou E to warn him that the Wind God had been wrongly suspected and might die in a future conflict. The Star God put the organization's funds under Su Wen's control, and Su Wen's first absorption of five hundred million triggered economic disruptions across several cities.

• The Theater God stopped the Wind God from chatting and reminded him to finish his homework and fulfill their wager by reading The Injustice to Dou E.
• Su Wen connected the play's title and Dou E's three vows to the Wind God's unjust suspicion, the Battle God's fall, and Huaxia's possible future collapse.
• The Star God proposed putting the organization's funds under the God of Wealth's control, and the Battle God, Theater God, and Wind God agreed.
• Su Wen explained that his divine powers required enormous amounts of money, and the Star God said he could absorb up to five hundred million as a cautious test.
• Su Wen absorbed five hundred million from the organization's account, raising his Wealth Source Points from 8.5 to 58.5.
• Officials reported stock market fluctuations in the Imperial Capital, Demon Capital, and Guangshen, along with bad debt activity at a state-owned enterprise in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Su Wen revealed that he had derived Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0 and advanced from the second tier to the third while the Star God watched. The Star God entered an epiphany, leaving the Battle God wondering whether Su Wen could help him experience one too.

• The Star God explained that the disappearance of Su Wen's five hundred million had caused unexpected disruption and said the country would adjust while preparing to sell the Basic Body Tempering Method abroad.
• The Star God asked Su Wen to record an altered-appearance demonstration of the technique for foreign buyers.
• Su Wen showed the others his new insights, replaced Basic Body Tempering Method 2.0 with Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0, and began advancing to the third tier.
• The Star God formed a barrier around Su Wen as nearby energy gathered to help complete his transformation.
• The Battle God noticed the power of the stars appearing on Su Wen and tried to speak, but the Theater God restrained and silenced him so he would not interrupt the Star God's epiphany.
• The Battle God asked whether Su Wen could help him experience an epiphany, and the Theater God mocked him as a brute who only knew how to fight.

Su Wen and the gods discussed trading the Basic Body Tempering Method for foreign technology and using future technology against the Arrow Realm creatures. After reaching tier three, Su Wen planned to travel to the future again and tell the Star God he would return in July of year 32.

• The Star God asked Su Wen whether he could direct the Basic Body Tempering Method’s deductions toward the stars, and Su Wen explained that the technique would lean toward whatever received the most attention.
• The Star God proposed exchanging the Basic Body Tempering Method for foreign technology, supplies, and money, and Su Wen agreed.
• The Star God said he had requested that future foreign exchange transactions be credited to the organization’s account so Su Wen could use the funds directly.
• Su Wen considered whether technique-transmission talismans could bring future technological information back to the present.
• Su Wen noted that he had reached tier three after spending 43.5 Wealth Source Points on Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0.
• Su Wen decided to travel to the future again and have his counterpart warn the Star God that he would return in July of year 32.

Su Wen traveled ten years into the future and found the Imperial Capital peaceful, then visited a memorial for Huaxia’s fallen heroes. He discovered that the Star God had died, leaving him unsure what to do next.

• Su Wen arrived ten years in the future and saw that the Imperial Capital had escaped destruction.
• Su Wen passed the Martial Dao Library Headquarters and chose to explore the city before entering.
• Su Wen visited a memorial and read accounts of fallen heroes who had died in battles across Huaxia.
• Su Wen joined the line of mourners and entered the memorial building with a flower.
• Su Wen saw a statue and personal information for the Star God and realized his trusted comrade had died.

Su Wen read the Star God’s biography and learned that the Star God had died after avenging the God of Wealth and defending Huaxia. The account ended by announcing an audio recording of the Star God, provided by the Battle God.

• Su Wen wondered why the Star God had died and whether learning of Su Wen’s future descent had changed his fate.
• Su Wen read that the Star God had led Huaxia’s forces, strengthened its defenses, developed star-based martial arts, and established a merit system for Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• After the God of Wealth was murdered, the Star God launched a devastating campaign against the other races, destroying multiple Arrow Realms.
• The Star God faced a siege alone, killed forty-three King Rank and five Emperor Rank enemies, destroyed nine Rule Arrow Realms, and died after returning his remaining power to the Star Grand Array.
• The committee recognized the Star God as a great historical figure, and the account announced an audio recording supplied by the Battle God.

Su Wen listened to Star God's recording and realized that Star God had learned the future could be changed, then chosen to act without restraint in this timeline. The recording's meaning remained disputed among later listeners, though most interpreted it as encouragement for warriors fighting for their country.

• Su Wen heard Star God apologize for acting alone and explain that he wanted to pursue his own path while helping secure a peaceful future.
• Su Wen understood that Star God had let loose because Huaxia would eventually win in the changing timelines and Star God could begin again after dying.
• Su Wen considered how Star God's power and ruthlessness, along with those of Battle God, Wind God, and Theater God, had deterred the beings of Arrow Realm from pressing humanity too hard.
• Su Wen welcomed the prospect of his allies killing until the nonhumans feared humanity.
• Later listeners debated whether Star God's dear comrade-in-arms meant Su Wen or the warriors fighting for their country, while Du Guowei's interpretation won broad agreement.