Chapter Summaries

Su Wen, the Star God, and a Heavenly Official raided the Holy Spirit Clan’s hidden treasuries while the Theater God completed his advancement to Immortal Demigod. After learning the others were still fighting in the Holy Spirit Realm, the Theater God set out to join them and pursue his own reckoning with the Arrow Realms.

• Su Wen, the Star God, and the Heavenly Official found the Holy Spirit Clan’s concealed treasury and began emptying its 128 hidden vaults, taking everything they could carry.
• The Theater God broke through his advancement cocoon and announced that he had become an Immortal Demigod, only to learn he had finished on October sixteenth, after the Heavenly Officials’ tour began.
• The Theater God mistook Mo Xiao Su’s Shadow Saber for a sinister weapon, and she explained that Su Wen had given it to her.
• After learning that Su Wen and the Star God had been gone for more than a day, the Theater God sensed the ongoing battle and departed for the Holy Spirit Realm.
• The Theater God vowed to demonstrate the power of a Divine Mandate Bearer and later settle accounts with the Arrow Realms and the Giant Ghost Realm.

After Su Wen and the Star God finished looting all 128 Holy Spirit Clan treasuries, Holy Spirit Clan elders and prodigies arrived at Treasury No. 128 to recover their clan’s foundations. They found it stripped bare and were trapped by Su Wen, the Star God, and the Heavenly Official as a prodigy accused them of being unworthy Divine Mandate Bearers.

• Su Wen and the Star God celebrated their successful collection of treasures from all 128 treasuries and joked about how the expedition might be recorded in history.
• Two Holy Spirit Clan elders brought seven prodigies through a portal and instructed them to quietly take the clan’s foundations and escape.
• The elders discovered the treasury had been emptied, and one ordered everyone to flee to the teleportation arrays.
• Su Wen, the Star God, and the Heavenly Official appeared after nine of the ten teleportation arrays exploded, and Su Wen asked whether they liked his gift.
• A Holy Spirit Clan prodigy accused Su Wen and his companions of stealing the clan’s treasures and being unworthy of the Divine Mandate.

The Heavenly Official explained why the Holy Spirit Clan had targeted Su Wen and presented evidence that it was connected to the Remnant Clan. Su Wen challenged a Holy Spirit Clan prodigy to debate him, swearing to let the clan members leave if they could convince him.

• The Heavenly Official told Su Wen that the Demon Spirit and Holy Spirit Clans had tried to capture him so they could avoid the consequences of the Heavenly Official's inspection tour.
• The Heavenly Official cited a coup, rules requiring the destruction of ancient records, and protections against soul searches as evidence that the Holy Spirit Clan had prepared for its current actions and might be connected to the Remnant Clan.
• The Heavenly Official offered to confuse the prodigies' perceptions so Su Wen could take them to Huaxia, where their memories would adjust to make them believe they were among allies.
• Su Wen decided the Heavenly Officials deserved wealth sources for their work, then accused the Holy Spirit Clan prodigy of attacking the God of Wealth despite the clan's past ties to him.
• Su Wen challenged the prodigy to defeat him in debate and swore to let the clan members leave if they convinced him, while testing whether they knew he was the God of Wealth.

Su Wen debated a Holy Spirit Clan prodigy over whether the clan’s foundations belonged to the God of Wealth, while Star learned about his Second Epoch predecessor’s Star God Law. The argument ended with Su Wen presenting Star as the Star God and claiming the authority to interpret the law.

• The Holy Spirit Clan prodigy accused Su Wen of stealing, while two elders helplessly watched because they could not move or warn him.
• Su Wen argued that the Holy Spirit Clan’s treasures belonged to the God of Wealth and accused the clan of attacking him and refusing to return his property.
• The prodigy cited the Star God Law and explained its history and provisions, giving Su Wen and Star information about the Second Epoch Star God.
• Su Wen asked the prodigy to identify the flaw in his argument, then pointed to Star and introduced him as the Star God.

Su Wen and the Star God used a Holy Spirit Clan prodigy’s legal argument to draw information from him before the Star God incapacitated the seven prodigies and killed two elders. After gaining a rank by traveling through Holy Spirit Clan territory, the Star God said he still needed experience energy to reach Emperor Rank Limit, and Su Wen asked the Heavenly Official to arrange demigods for him to kill.

• The Holy Spirit Clan prodigy abandoned debating the Star God Law and began explaining provisions of the Eighth Epoch Shadow God Law, revealing details about his clan’s history, beliefs, and Baptism Holy Gathering.
• With Su Wen steering the conversation, the prodigy used laws and precedents to argue that Su Wen had committed theft at the Holy Spirit Clan’s foundational land.
• Su Wen glanced at the Star God, who knocked the seven Holy Spirit Clan prodigies unconscious and sent them to the Heavenly Official for questioning.
• The Star God killed the two Holy Spirit Clan elders, turned their souls into soul power, and stored their Emperor Rank Limit bodies.
• The Star God told Su Wen that he had advanced from Emperor Rank Middle Stage to Emperor Rank High Stage in Holy Spirit Clan territory but still needed experience energy to reach Emperor Rank Limit.
• Su Wen asked the Heavenly Official to contact his friends and have them leave a few Holy Spirit Clan demigods for the Star God to kill.

Su Wen learned that the Heavenly Official could reveal the Holy Spirit Clan’s ties to the Remnant Clan only after Su Wen became a Demigod. As the battle against the Holy Spirit Clan continued, the Heavenly Officials recognized Mo Xiao Su as the Shadow God and gave her a grand welcome, while Su Wen suspected the Black Chains of Rules had been made by an earlier Shadow God.

• The Heavenly Official warned Su Wen that some members of the Holy Spirit Clan had ties to the Remnant Clan, but the Black Chains of Rules stopped him from explaining further until Su Wen reached Demigod rank.
• The Heavenly Officials continued defeating the Holy Spirit Clan’s forces, but began healing the four remaining Demigods so they could prolong the fight.
• Theater God arrived with Mo Xiao Su, restrained the four Holy Spirit Clan Demigods, and brought her before the Heavenly Officials.
• The seventy Heavenly Officials and guardians of the Arrow Realms bowed to Mo Xiao Su and hailed her as their Supreme Eminence, the Shadow God.
• Su Wen watched the Black Chains of Rules react to Mo Xiao Su and suggested that the eighth era’s Shadow God had created them.

Mo Xiao Su learned that the Heavenly Officials and the Shadow Chain revered her as the successor to the previous Shadow God, and they gathered Arrow Realm beings for her to kill so she could advance. She accepted their help but grieved that her inherited power had arrived too late to save her mother or spare her past suffering.

• The Star God and Su Wen explained that the Heavenly Officials respected Mo Xiao Su because the previous Shadow God had been their leader’s superior in the Eighth Era.
• The Theater God comforted Mo Xiao Su, while the Shadow Saber wondered how the Shadow God could have lost the Eighth Era despite defeating the Remnant Clan on major battlefields.
• Su Wen questioned how Xiao Ying had died in the previous Sub-Space-Time and suspected the Remnant Clan might have harmed the Shadow Chain.
• The Heavenly Officials obeyed the Shadow Chain and brought Arrow Realm holy spirits of many ranks before Mo Xiao Su, then struck them with killing intent.
• The Theater God urged Mo Xiao Su to gain experience energy, and she accepted the chance to advance while lamenting that her powerful backing had come too late to save her mother.

Mo Xiao Su blamed the Heavenly Officials’ late arrival for her mother’s death, and her dark aura alarmed those around her. Su Wen used Money Breaks Yin and Yang to resurrect Mo Caixia through the River of Fate, but as Mo Xiao Su calmed after hearing the news, the Shadow Chain awakened.

• Mo Xiao Su confronted the Heavenly Officials and released dark light and a blood-red aura, alarming Theater God, Star God, and Su Wen.
• Su Wen contacted the River of Fate and paid ten thousand Wealth Source to establish a true spirit channel, then spent one hundred thousand to retrieve Mo Caixia’s true spirit and restore her body.
• Su Wen secretly told Theater God that Mo Caixia had been resurrected and was still being reconstructed.
• Theater God told Mo Xiao Su that her mother had returned and that Su Wen knew about it, bringing her relief and joy as her blood-red aura receded.
• The sky turned blood red, and the Shadow Chain awakened.

The Spirit of Order awakened in fury after learning that the Shadow God had been abused, and ordered the Heavenly Officials to investigate and kill those responsible. She explained the Remnant Clan’s threat to Su Wen, who pressed her for answers about the Ninth Epoch’s weakness and the failures of the previous epochs.

• The Shadow Chain’s consciousness awakened in rage, and the Heavenly Officials vowed to avenge the Shadow God and pursue those who had schemed against her.
• The Spirit of Order appeared, greeted Mo Xiao Su as the Shadow God, and apologized to Su Wen for being unable to assist him fully until she transformed.
• The Spirit of Order asked Su Wen to provide Wealth Source when possible so she could complete her transformation and resist the Remnant Clan.
• The Spirit of Order explained that the Remnant Clan came from a dying cosmos and sought to devour Su Wen’s cosmos, threatening every life within it.
• Su Wen interrupted her and asked why the Divine Mandate Bearers were tier zero, why they could not use other cultivation systems, and whether the Ninth Epoch could survive after eight failures.

The Spirit of Order explained the history of the first eight epochs, the Remnant Clan’s role in the Arrow Realm, and the danger facing the ninth epoch. After warning Su Wen that he was the universe’s last hope, she departed, leaving him with unanswered questions about the Battle God and the transfer of divine positions.

• The Spirit of Order told Su Wen that the first eight epochs had many cultivation systems and that the Heavenly Mandate Bearer lineage was the universe’s attempt to save itself.
• The Spirit of Order revealed that the Arrow Realm’s inhabitants were Remnant Clan members captured, cultivated, and domesticated as resources for Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• The Spirit of Order explained that the Azure Shadow Clan had served the Shadow God, while the Holy Spirit Clan and Demon Spirit Clan belonged to the universe but had accepted Remnant Clan power and cultivation systems.
• The Spirit of Order warned Su Wen that the ninth epoch was the universe’s final chance and that the Remnant Clan would unleash every hidden method to defeat and devour them.
• The Spirit of Order said she would remain in Huaxia after clearing away the Remnant Clan’s power, apologized to Mo Xiao Su, and vanished.
• Su Wen wondered why the Battle God could not die and whether the Remnant Clan had caused the transfer of divine positions.

After the Heavenly Officials on duty in the Arrow Realm obeyed Xiao Ying instead of waiting for Su Wen’s orders, the Star God warned that the ninth era must not trust the previous eras’ forces blindly. The Star God and Su Wen returned to the office area, where they questioned the Heavenly Officials’ allegiance and the strange influence of the Holy Spirit Realm.

• The Star God left the Theater God to watch Xiao Ying, then took Su Wen and the God of Wealth's Slaughter Decree back to the office area.
• The Star God criticized the Heavenly Officials for paying respects to Xiao Ying and pursuing the matter without Su Wen’s permission, and urged Su Wen to rely on the ninth era’s own forces.
• Su Wen admitted that the Heavenly Officials’ actions had disappointed him, though he remembered that they had risked death to help him in several Sub-Space-Times.
• Su Wen wondered whether the Shadow Chain had restrained the Heavenly Officials because the Remnant Clan’s power had taken it over, and whether the Spirit of Order’s awakening might eventually free them.
• The Star God noted that every Heavenly Official on duty in the Arrow Realm came from the eighth era and asked whether that absence of officials from earlier eras proved something.

Su Wen learned that resurrecting an ordinary person cost 100,000 Wealth Source and considered whether resurrection could become a reward for heroes. In the Sub-Space-Time, Star God helped him create the Martial God Fist Technique, and Su Wen prepared to return to the Main Space-Time while Star God stayed behind to protect Huaxia.

• Su Wen left Xiao Ying's mother with Star God and reflected on the cost and fairness of resurrecting people.
• Luobao told Su Wen that the River of Fate charged 100,000 Wealth Source to resurrect an ordinary person and had reported the price as potentially unreasonable.
• Su Wen noticed he had survived for two years and five months in the Sub-Space-Time, setting a new record.
• With Star God's guidance, Su Wen fused a hundred fist techniques into Du Guowei's Tiger Fist and created the Martial God Fist Technique.
• When a mysterious will signaled that it was time to leave, Star God repeatedly interrupted Su Wen before accepting his return to the Main Space-Time.
• Star God stayed behind to protect Huaxia and carry the body, soul, and true spirit of that space-time's God of Wealth.

Su Wen received the River of Space-Time’s offer to buy the Star Grand Array 8.0 diagram and its promise of an apology gift after the River of Fate’s attack. He used 428 Wealth Source in the Treasure Bowl and was left with two sealed gift boxes whose passwords mocked the River of Fate.

• The Star God gave Su Wen a Star Grand Array 8.0 diagram that could rapidly upgrade the Main Space-Time’s array.
• The River of Space-Time assessed the diagram at fifty million Wealth Source, reduced the price to ten million for Su Wen, and offered him an apology gift.
• Su Wen suspected the River of Space-Time was using its compensation offer to compete with the River of Fate, then decided to test the gift with 428 Wealth Source.
• The Treasure Bowl produced a golden wealth box and a purple star box, both sealed and accompanied by the River of Space-Time’s letter.
• The River of Space-Time said Su Wen could remove the seals by writing “Fate is an idiot” for the wealth box and “Fate is a fool” for the star box.

Su Wen opened the River of Space-Time’s apology gifts and found a transforming armor set and a starry sword, then read the River of Space-Time’s pitch for its resurrection service. The message praised space-time’s methods and loyalty while warning him against trusting the River of Fate.

• Su Wen unlocked the Wealth Treasure Box and Star Treasure Box with the phrases from the light-colored letter.
• Su Wen donned the golden battle set, which transformed into gear suited to the Martial God and gave him a powerful boost and a field that blocked even True Gods’ perception.
• Su Wen opened the Star Treasure Box and found a divine sword forged from the colors of the stars.
• Su Wen accepted the River of Space-Time’s apology and decided to forgive it, blaming the trainee Fate Seat for their earlier trouble.
• The River of Space-Time’s message promoted its ability to resurrect people by retrieving them from the past and claimed it preserved the original better than the River of Fate.
• The message urged Su Wen to trust Sycee and the River of Space-Time, citing Sycee’s loyalty despite his greed and secret stash.

Su Wen watched Sycee win Luobao over by teaching her how to deal with the River of Space-Time and the River of Fate. Then the Star God announced to Huaxia that Su Wen had returned from a past space-time and would sacrifice himself to help the Star God advance, causing the whole nation to erupt in excitement.

• Su Wen asked Sycee whether he had paid the Narrator of the River of Space-Time to praise him, and Sycee denied it.
• Sycee criticized Luobao for deferring to the River of Fate, and Luobao admitted that she wanted his advice.
• Sycee taught Luobao the unwritten rules of the trading floor while she took notes.
• The Star God led Su Wen out of the Star Grand Array and announced that Su Wen would sacrifice himself to help him reach a higher level of cultivation.
• The Star God projected Su Wen across Huaxia and presented him as a martyr who had returned from a past space-time to forge a future for humanity.
• People across Huaxia accepted the Star God's account, and the whole nation erupted.

The God of Wealth sacrificed himself in front of the people of Huaxia to strengthen the Star God, and the nation mourned his second death. After enduring immense physical, spiritual, and true-spirit agony, he died and was carried back to his own space-time by its River of Space-Time.

• The Star God praised the God of Wealth and told him that all of Huaxia celebrated his contributions.
• The God of Wealth began the sacrificial rite, and the people of Huaxia recognized the fireworks as the sign of his sacrifice and grieved.
• Martial artists and Heavenly Mandate Bearers saluted the God of Wealth, while people also worried about the Star God receiving the sacrifice.
• The God of Wealth endured excruciating pain during the sacrifice and regretted agreeing to sacrifice himself again.
• The God of Wealth died, and the River of Space-Time of that world contacted the River of Space-Time of his own world to bring him back.
• His own River of Space-Time carried him on a life-energy-filled bed and soothed his soul and true spirit on the journey home.

Su Wen learned that the River of Space-Time had blocked the River of Fate and that Xiao Ying's mother had carried a remnant of the eighth era's fortune, explaining the high resurrection cost. The River of Fate offered to cover future true spirit channel costs in exchange for Su Wen cursing the River of Space-Time whenever he resurrected someone, and Su Wen went to deliver the Star Grand Array diagram 8.0 and Star God Air Mass to the Star God.

• Su Wen questioned why he had received the Star God Air Mass and asked Sycee about the price of the River of Space-Time's Immortal Set.
• Luobao relayed that Silent River's power had intercepted the River of Fate while Su Wen used Wealth Disrupts Space-Time, preventing it from responding or breaking through the blockade.
• Luobao explained that Xiao Ying's mother had remnants of the eighth era's fortune and divine aura, which the Remnant Clan had turned into misfortune, so the River of Fate had charged more to resurrect her.
• The River of Fate offered to cover the cost of building true spirit channels for future resurrections if Su Wen cursed the River of Space-Time once each time he resurrected someone.
• Su Wen accepted the bargain and went to give the Star God the Star Grand Array diagram 8.0 and the Star God Air Mass.

Su Wen learned that the Remnant Clan had manipulated the Shadow God's fortune and discussed the threat with the Star God, who planned to unite humanity’s Divine Mandate Bearers. After asking the River of Fate to find the most cost-effective time for a free trip through space-time, Su Wen learned that a decisive battle would come in 123 years and that traveling 130 years ahead was the best option.

• Su Wen told the Star God that the Remnant Clan had intercepted the Shadow God's fortune and prepared a contingency, and the Star God proposed gathering Divine Mandate Bearers in Huaxia.
• Su Wen declined to attend the gathering and gave the Star God a Star Treasure Box.
• Sycee reported that the River of Space-Time denied accusing it of trying to deceive Su Wen, while Luobao said the River of Fate had challenged it to a fight.
• Su Wen asked whether the Rivers of Space-Time and Fate could stage their fight for him, but the River of Space-Time demanded two hundred million in Wealth Source.
• Su Wen asked Sycee and Luobao to identify the most cost-effective time for his free journey, and Luobao said humanity would face a decisive battle in 123 years and extinction in 180 years.
• Luobao told Su Wen that traveling 130 years into the future would be the most cost-effective choice.

Su Wen followed the advice of the River of Fate and the River of Space-Time and traveled 130 years into the future to witness humanity’s defeat and decline. He arrived in a dark wilderness instead of a populated place and questioned Sycee about the landing site and the black river he had seen.

• Luobao and Sycee advised Su Wen to travel 130 years into the future, after humanity’s defeat, so he could see the roots of its decline.
• Su Wen decided to go, prepared protections, and asked the Star God to keep him safe while he traveled.
• Sycee activated Wealth Disrupts Space-Time and carried Su Wen through the barrier of space-time.
• Su Wen arrived 130 years later in barren, dark wilderness and asked Sycee why they had landed where there were no people.

Su Wen arrived in a future Sub-Space-Time and found Huaxia devastated by a recent civil war, including a battlefield marked by a God of Wealth army banner. He learned that a Rebel Army was fighting against the God of Wealth’s rule, leaving him stunned about what his future self or allies had done.

• Su Wen, Sycee, and Luobao emerged in a desolate place, and Luobao explained that he could accompany Su Wen but could no longer draw on the River of Fate’s power.
• Su Wen found a battlefield covered with corpses and ruins, identified signs of martial artists fighting, and suspected Huaxia had suffered a massive civil war.
• Su Wen discovered a golden God of Wealth army banner among the dead and wondered whether his Sub-Space-Time self had commanded the army.
• Su Wen used Forbidden Magic and Space-Time Detection to reach another battlefield, where soldiers were clearing away the aftermath.
• Su Wen questioned a wounded soldier, who said he belonged to the Rebel Army and declared its cause was to resist the God of Wealth’s tyranny.