Chapter Summaries

The Theater God revealed that he knew the Azure Eye Clan had once been the Azure Shadow Clan, followers of the previous Shadow God. As Su Wen consulted the Sub-Space-Time Shadow God, she identified an azure shadow creature as a former Azure Shadow Clan elder and one of her remaining subordinates.

• The First Royal Duke presented the Theater God with supplies from the Azure Eye Clan and its allies, and the Theater God accepted them.
• The First Royal Duke began to make a request, but the Theater God told him not to bother; the Third Royal Duke then took over the conversation.
• The Theater God revealed that the Azure Eye Clan had once followed the Shadow God and explained that he had learned this from the clan's library.
• The Third Royal Duke said the Azure Shadow Clan had served as the Shadow God's blade before changing its name after losing contact with her and many experts.
• Su Wen asked the Sub-Space-Time Shadow God about the Azure Shadow Clan, and she identified an azure shadow creature as its former seventh elder, now an Emperor Rank High Stage subordinate.

Su Wen relayed the Shadow God's account of the Azure Eye Clan's transformation and the destruction of her Shadow Legion, then the Star God offered the clan a way to escape the fate tied to their Arrow Realm. The Third Royal Duke and the Azure Eye clanspeople pledged themselves to the Shadow God, though most did not understand their clan's history or what lay ahead.

• The Shadow God explained that the Azure Eye Clan could become the Azure Shadow Clan by merging their souls with her Shadow Kingdom, and that the God of Darkness had nearly destroyed her Shadow Legion.
• Su Wen comforted the Shadow God and resolved to bring the Battle God to punish the God of Darkness, while the Shadow God promised to protect him in the next Sub-Space-Time.
• Su Wen used Mental Wave to tell the Star God that the Azure Eye Clan could be trusted, and the Star God told the Third Royal Duke to prepare to move his realm and take its resources.
• The Third Royal Duke warned that Arrow Realm beings would die if their realm were occupied or its core destroyed, but the Star God claimed he had a solution if they followed the Shadow God.
• The Shadow God agreed to follow the Theater God's instructions, and the Third Royal Duke knelt before her and pledged the Azure Shadow Clan's obedience.
• The First Royal Duke and the other Azure Eye clanspeople followed the Third Royal Duke in kneeling, trusting him despite not knowing why their clan was tied to the Shadow God.

After the Azure Eye Clan joined their side, Theater God and Star God suspected that the clans across the Training Arrow Realms might once have followed the God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers. They planned to investigate the Holy Spirit Clan, potentially using Xiao Ying’s Shadow Legion to surround it and uncover the truth.

• The Azure Eye Clan settled resource arrangements with Theater God and Star God, then left through a teleportation Star Array.
• Theater God and Star God discussed whether the Arrow Realms were training grounds and whether their clans had once been subordinate followers of the God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• Theater God warned Battle God that the Arrow Realms might be spying or divining their conversations, and Star God explained their theory to him.
• Theater God proposed investigating the Holy Spirit Clan to see whose arrival changed its behavior, while warning them not to act recklessly.
• Star God suggested waiting until Xiao Ying had fully developed her Shadow Legion, then surrounding the Holy Spirit Clan and searching its ancestral grounds for answers.

Su Wen learned that the Holy Spirit Clan might be tied to the Theater God's past deal, then watched the Shadow God defend herself against twenty-eight Emperor Rank Limit enemies. After refusing to pay the River of Space-Time to intervene, Su Wen was killed by the Shadow God at her request, and the River began guiding his soul back to his own time.

• Su Wen memorized the Shadow God's books on Heavenly Mandate Bearer techniques before the Shadow God pulled him into her damaged Shadow Kingdom.
• The Narrator urged Su Wen to pay the River of Space-Time to defeat the attackers, but Su Wen refused and suspected it was trying to exploit his Wealth Source.
• Su Wen saw a projection of the Shadow God fighting twenty-eight Emperor Rank Limit figures in golden feather robes and suspected they belonged to the Holy Spirit Clan.
• The Shadow God told Su Wen the attackers were suppressing their power to capture him alive and asked him to self-destruct because the Battle God was unavailable.
• Su Wen shared his suspicion about the Holy Spirit Clan, and the Shadow God crushed him with her shadow power.
• The River of Space-Time rejected Su Wen's soul as belonging to another time, then contacted his own River of Space-Time to guide him back.

Su Wen spent his remaining Wealth Source credit to obtain battle scenes of his fallen companions, then paid nearly all his remaining points for an immortal true spirit. Back in his own time, he invited the Theater God to watch the projection clips.

• Su Wen welcomed the River of Space-Time's offer to show how the Theater God, Wind God, and Star God died, and spent his remaining credit on the scenes.
• The River of Space-Time offered to make Su Wen's true spirit immortal and impossible to trace for 79,999 Wealth Source Points, and Su Wen accepted.
• The River of Space-Time transformed Su Wen's true spirit, leaving him with one Wealth Source Point and protection from those who tried to investigate him.
• Su Wen realized the Spirit Tempering Method had returned with him and anticipated a breakthrough in his Martial Dao rank.
• Su Wen told the Battle God he was happy, then asked the Theater God whether he wanted to watch projection clips; the Theater God eagerly agreed.

Su Wen used Sycee’s Space-Time Projection to show the Theater God being hunted by beings who called themselves Theater Dao Guardians. The gods debated whether the guardians were stealing the Theater God’s divine position or whether the Heavenly Mandate Bearers really were thieves, while the Battle God suggested attacking them first.

• Su Wen asked Sycee to project the Theater God’s demise, and Sycee displayed the future scene.
• The projected Theater God killed one guardian but was captured by five more, who destroyed his body and sealed his soul.
• The Theater God concluded that the guardians had used the Theater Dao’s rules to suppress his Theatrical Phenomena World.
• The Theater God speculated that the guardians might want to seize his divine position, while the Star God warned that the Heavenly Mandate Bearers might truly be thieves.
• The Battle God proposed giving the guardians a taste of his spear if they met them, leaving the Theater God and Star God bewildered.

Su Wen showed Star God and Shadow God their death projections, revealing the ambushes that killed them and identifying the clans involved. Battle God had no death projection, leaving him disappointed as Su Wen prepared to save Little Wind's for later.

• Su Wen began playing Star God's death projection as the purple clock circled beside him.
• The projection revealed that nine concealed figures had teleported Star God to a deadly region, and Star God resolved to investigate the Demon Prison Clan when it was safe.
• Su Wen showed Shadow God's projection, which revealed that the Holy Spirit Clan's Emperor Rank Limit experts had killed him while targeting the God of Wealth.
• Battle God asked to see his own death projection, but Su Wen told him he had none and said Little Wind's projection could wait until he returned.
• Battle God felt disappointed that everyone else seemed to have a death projection except him.

Su Wen proposed expanding a national program to cultivate promising young people, and Star God agreed. Huang Tianqi then received an unexpected recommendation for graduate study at the National University of Defense Technology and called his mother with the news.

• Theater God, Star God, Su Wen, and Shadow God discussed the Holy Spirit Clan’s possible motives while Battle God worried that he might be the sole survivor in the death projections.
• Theater God began analyzing the lengthy death projections with Star God.
• Su Wen proposed gathering promising candidates who had not yet awakened and cultivating them in advance, and Star God agreed to expand the national plan.
• An invisible ripple carrying Star God’s will reached the political center.
• At Eagle City Academy, the dean summoned Huang Tianqi and a man in black gave him an entrance-exam-free recommendation to the National University of Defense Technology.
• Huang Tianqi returned to class in disbelief, then called his mother to share the news.

Sun Yunwei and many others received state-arranged places and jobs connected to the National University of Defense Technology, with officials requiring them to keep the reasons secret. Back at the organization’s office, Wind God explained that a call from the wind had led him to the Hidden Kill World, where he had triggered an unfinished Heavenly Mandate Quest.

• Sun Yunwei learned she had qualified for guaranteed admission to the National University of Defense Technology, and her parents signed confidentiality agreements after officials explained that the matter was a state secret.
• Special Operations Security Bureau teams carried out a nationwide operation, offering students admission and workers positions connected to the National University of Defense Technology.
• Wind God returned alone to the office, assumed everyone was exploring the Arrow Realm, and started playing games while waiting for them.
• Theater God, Star God, Shadow God, Battle God, and Su Wen returned, and Theater God questioned Wind God about his training and experience gains.
• Wind God told Star God and Theater God that he had entered the Hidden Kill Clan’s ancestral land to complete a Heavenly Mandate Quest involving three giant formless stones.
• Wind God explained that the wind had called him away from the Jade Pupa World and led him to the Hidden Kill World.

The Wind God watched his death projection as the others analyzed how the Hidden Kill Clan had manipulated him and set a trap. The Battle God identified signs of mental interference and hidden attacks, leaving the Wind God to face the likelihood that his Heavenly Mandate Quest was a dangerous scheme.

• The Theater God warned the Wind God that the Hidden Kill Clan might be luring him into danger and asked Su Wen to show him his death projection.
• Su Wen showed the Wind God his projection, and the Theater God shielded everyone with a barrier while they watched.
• The Wind God noticed that the Hidden Kill Clan had fought beside him in the projection but had paused at crucial moments and cast suspiciously weak spells.
• The Battle God replayed key moments and explained how a red-robed gaseous life-form had likely used mental interference against the Wind God.
• The Battle God pointed out more concealed attacks and battlefield mistakes, concluding that the Wind God's Heavenly Mandate Quest was likely a trap.

Su Wen gave the Theater God and Star God their Insight Air Masses, prompting them to prepare for long periods of seclusion. He also provided a sealed portion of the Shadow God’s insights for Xiao Ying, but had no Insight Air Mass for himself.

• Su Wen praised the Battle God’s exceptional ability to spot combat traps and anticipate attacks during the death review.
• Su Wen handed the Theater God his Insight Air Mass, and the Theater God vanished to absorb it behind protective barriers.
• The Star God warned Su Wen to act cautiously while he and the Theater God secluded themselves, then received his own Insight Air Mass from Su Wen.
• Su Wen gave Xiao Ying the Shadow God Air Mass, and the Star God sealed most of its insights so she could absorb them safely.
• Su Wen said he had bought Insight Air Masses for everyone but himself, and the Star God sighed at the Martial God’s lack of funds.

Su Wen fused the Spirit Guidance Technique with the Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0 to create a stronger technique and became the world's first Fourth Rank martial artist. After using Wealth Source to strengthen his treasures, he started a new Wealth Disrupts Space-Time.

• Su Wen fused the Transformation Realm Spirit Guidance Technique and Basic Body Tempering Method 3.0 into the Basic Body Tempering Method 4.0, then replaced the older technique.
• Su Wen's blood and qi power combined with his spiritual force, breaking his bottleneck and making him the world's first Fourth Rank martial artist.
• The magic book and four talisman treasures concealed the breakthrough's energy and received five hundred Wealth Source from Su Wen.
• Sycee told Su Wen that Wealth Source could fundamentally improve supreme treasures but that nurturing them was inefficient compared with nurturing the Treasure Bowl.
• Su Wen told Little Sycee to begin a new Wealth Disrupts Space-Time.

Su Wen arrived thirty years in the future at a martyrs' cemetery and found his own tombstone, where he learned that the Battle God had killed him. He was left baffled by the cause of death and continued reading the tombstone's information to find out why.

• Su Wen's Wealth Disrupts Space-Time sent him thirty years into the future, and Sycee brought him to a martyrs' cemetery in the Imperial Capital.
• Su Wen searched the cemetery and found a towering tombstone as a white-haired old man repeatedly swept the already spotless grave.
• Su Wen asked the old man who he was, but the man gestured for him to read the tombstone and resumed sweeping.
• Su Wen read that the tomb belonged to the Martial God, who had died at age thirty-five after the Battle God forcibly killed him at the Heavenly Mandate Bearer Headquarters on August 15, 2034.
• Su Wen struggled to believe the Battle God had killed him and decided to keep reading to learn why.

The tombstone records traced the Martial God’s contributions to the Martial Dao and the Battle God’s supposed murder of him, followed by the Star God’s pursuit of the Battle God. After reading the account, the God of Wealth doubted its details and decided to question the grave-tender about his identity and the events behind the feud.

• The records credited the Martial God with creating the Martial Dao cultivation systems and described how other masters developed them further.
• The records said the Battle God murdered the Martial God after an emotional misunderstanding and the Battle Fury Priest’s instigation.
• The Star God reportedly pursued and defeated the Battle God, then stripped him of his citizenship as the Battle God disappeared.
• The God of Wealth suspected the Star God and Battle God’s feud had concealed a secret operation and doubted the records about the fight and the Star God’s white hair.
• The God of Wealth decided to question the grave-tender, whom he suspected might be the Battle God.

Su Wen realized Battle God might have sent him from the Main Space-Time without warning, then questioned the grave-tending old man and confirmed he was Battle God. Battle God admitted the events on Martial God's tombstone were true and explained how the Arrow Realm's Holy Spirit Clan and Dream Aspect Clan had manipulated him into killing Martial God.

• Su Wen reasoned that Battle God might have sent him to the Sub-Space-Time to improve their efficiency, and decided to guard against Battle God learning he could cross space-time.
• Su Wen questioned the grave-tending old man about his identity, Martial God's death, and Battle God's disappearance.
• The old man broke down, knelt before Su Wen, and admitted that he was Battle God and that the tombstone's account was true.
• Battle God said his emotional misunderstanding, rashness, and a despicable person's instigation had led him to kill Martial God, and confirmed that Star God had truly pursued him.
• Battle God explained that the Holy Spirit Clan and Dream Aspect Clan had created and manipulated Si Mengxue to exploit his romantic fantasies and target him.

Su Wen realized that the Holy Spirit Clan and Dream Aspect Clan had exploited a rule hidden in Si Mengxue’s soul to make the Battle God fall in love with her and kill him. The Battle God’s account revealed that he regained clarity only after killing Si Mengxue, and Su Wen resolved to accelerate the growth of the Martial Dao.

• Su Wen reasoned that the clans had designed Si Mengxue to exploit the Battle God’s feelings and make him kill Su Wen.
• Su Wen considered how difficult it would be to protect the Battle God without interfering with his freedom to love.
• Su Wen wondered whether diviners from the Arrow Realms had died from backlash when trying to divine his fate.
• Su Wen decided to travel farther into the future next time and help the Martial Dao advance faster.
• The Battle God said that after killing Su Wen, he killed Si Mengxue, causing the rule characteristic in her soul to dissipate and restoring his clarity.

Su Wen comforted the aged Battle God, who explained that jealousy and deep inferiority had made him vulnerable to the enemy’s scheme. Su Wen then asked why the Holy Spirit Clan and Dream Aspect Clan had targeted him, wondering whether he needed another identity.

• Su Wen reflected on how his actions had changed people’s fates across space-times and resolved to keep confronting the dangers those changes brought.
• Su Wen tried to comfort the Battle God by saying he had been killed by him many times before, leaving the elderly Battle God silent.
• The Battle God said he had killed Su Wen out of jealousy rooted in his own inferiority, which the Dream Aspect Clan and Holy Spirit Clan had exploited.
• Su Wen wondered whether the Battle God’s envy of him and love for Si Mengxue had fueled his suspicions after the Battle Fury Priest’s provocations.
• Su Wen asked why the two clans had targeted him and considered changing identities to evade the Arrow Realm’s schemes.

The Battle God explained how the Holy Spirit Clan and Dream Aspect Clan manipulated events to make him kill the Martial God, leaving him overwhelmed with guilt. He described how his powers made him unable to die in combat and urged the God of Wealth to keep trusting the Star God.

• The Battle God explained that the clans had targeted him primarily and chosen the Martial God as a secondary target because of his status, influence, and apparent weakness.
• Unable to go mad or escape his guilt, the Battle God tried to die at the Star God's hands and burned his powers to destroy threats across Huaxia and slaughter the Dream Aspect Clan.
• The Battle God reached the Holy Spirit Realm, but its seal trapped him, and his attempt to die failed because the Law of Combat continuously healed and strengthened him during battle.
• The Battle God told the God of Wealth that the Star God had turned white-haired and become extreme after killing the Martial God, and that the Star God's grief—not suspicion of the future Martial God—had driven his actions.
• The Battle God asked the God of Wealth not to doubt the Star God, insisting that the Star God remained worthy of his trust.

Su Wen considered the Star God's sacrifices and the threat posed by the mysterious Holy Spirit Clan, wondering whether they could be controlled and how to learn their true strength. Meanwhile, the elderly Battle God sought forgiveness for killing the Martial God and proposed that the Main Space-Time Battle God atone for him by letting Su Wen beat him.

• Su Wen reflected that the Star God had protected him and considered how vulnerable they would be without the Star God holding the fort.
• Su Wen speculated that the Holy Spirit Clan might fear the God of Wealth's control and that learning their power could reveal how to counter them.
• The elderly Battle God repeatedly admitted his mistakes and tried to kowtow, but Su Wen stopped him and urged him not to humiliate himself.
• The elderly Battle God told Su Wen that his hope of meeting someone from the Main Space-Time had been the only light in his heart and that he wanted Su Wen's forgiveness before he died.
• The elderly Battle God proposed that the Main Space-Time Battle God atone in his place, asking Su Wen to beat him as severely as possible.

The Star God proposed using the elderly Battle God’s entire power to give the God of Wealth temporary peak combat strength against the Holy Spirit Clan’s schemes. The River of Space-Time said it could prevent the resulting disruption for five hundred thousand Wealth Source, but warned that each use would consume some of the Battle God’s power.

• The elderly Battle God suggested atoning by having his counterpart in the main space-time beaten, and the Star God arrived to offer another plan.
• The Star God explained that he had prepared to transfer the elderly Battle God’s body, soul, combat traits, and rules into the God of Wealth’s sea of consciousness as a reserve of power.
• The Star God said the plan would let the God of Wealth unleash the Battle God’s peak strength, enough to strike down an Earth Deity, despite not breaking through to the Seventh Rank.
• The God of Wealth worried that the elderly Battle God would die and that two versions of him could not coexist in one space-time.
• The River of Space-Time offered to resolve the disruption for five hundred thousand Wealth Source, while warning that the Battle God’s power would diminish with every use.