Chapter Summaries

The Monkey King’s planned rebellion was exposed as a scheme to lure the God of Wealth into Monkey King City, but the Leopard King’s unexpected arrival forced the monkeys to improvise. Su Wen realized they were using the Leopard King’s attack to make the city appear undefended and draw the God of Wealth inside.

• The Monkey King ordered his forces to stop fighting and march out to meet the Leopard King, leaving the gravely wounded Na Nulie behind.
• The Monkey King recalled the three staged performances intended to lure the God of Wealth into hunting the wounded generals and spirit vein masters before they sprang their trap.
• The Leopard King arrived expecting to exploit the apparent rebellion and attack the Monkey Kingdom, but was surprised when the Monkey King and his fighters rallied against him.
• The Monkey King and the kingdom’s top fighters unleashed bloodline-burning techniques and charged into battle, making their fight against the Leopard King look like a desperate last stand.
• Su Wen realized the rebellion had been staged and concluded that the monkeys were using the Leopard King’s attack to entice the God of Wealth into the city.

Su Wen activated the Star Weapon in the white chess piece and approached Monkey King City to strike the Golden Light Monkey from a distance. As the Monkey King and Leopard King escalated their staged battle into a real fight, Su Wen launched Star Strike and prepared to return.

• Su Wen activated the white chess piece and learned that it held one Star Strike, ten uses of Sword Falls upon the Stars, and one hundred uses of Star Sword Qi.
• Su Wen decided to use Star Strike on the Golden Light Monkey from outside the city and return immediately, suspecting the Monkey Kingdom’s apparent rebellion might be aimed at him.
• The Monkey King noticed Su Wen stop near the city gate and worried that he suspected the battle with the Leopard King was staged.
• The Ancient Fan Monkey urged the Monkey King to make the fight convincing, so the Monkey King and his generals burned their lives and fought in earnest.
• The Leopard King and his generals responded by burning their lives and attacking the Monkey Kingdom’s forces.
• Su Wen sent the white chess piece toward the Golden Light Monkey’s location, and the sky above the palace began to change as Star Strike descended.

Su Wen returned from the Training Arrow Realm as the Star Weapon destroyed Monkey King City, and the realm began assessing his training. The Heavenly Official of the God of Wealth's training realm then began to intervene.

• Su Wen left the Training Arrow Realm, and the Monkey King gave up fighting the Leopard King after realizing Su Wen would not enter Monkey King City.
• A pillar of starlight from the Star Weapon destroyed the Monkey King's palace and devastated Monkey King City.
• The Leopard King recognized that he had been caught up in a conflict between the Monkey Kingdom and another force, then retreated with his troops.
• Su Wen saw his training record list the destruction of Monkey King City and received an outstanding assessment as a zero-rank God of Wealth.
• A notification announced that the Heavenly Official of the God of Wealth's training realm was intervening, and an illusory figure appeared before Su Wen.

Su Wen’s borrowed Star Weapon unexpectedly raised his God of Wealth trial rating to Unprecedented through the ages, earning him the exclusive divine artifact Sycee. After returning home, he accepted the Star God’s invitation to join his organization and was told to adopt the God of Wealth as his sole public identity.

• The Heavenly Official adjusted Su Wen’s trial rating, which rose from Perfect to Unprecedented through the ages after praising his use of borrowed power and his actions against the Monkey Kingdom.
• Su Wen accepted the rating, and the trial interface awarded him the exclusive divine artifact Sycee before returning him home.
• The Star God welcomed Su Wen back and explained that he had waited at Su Wen’s home in case the trial lasted up to three days.
• The Star God invited Su Wen to join his state-affiliated organization, and Su Wen agreed.
• The Star God gave Su Wen a God of Wealth mask and instructed him to use that identity in all future dealings, leaving Su Wen’s real identity separate from it.

Su Wen accepted the Star God's mask and learned that concealing his identity as the God of Wealth was vital to his safety. After the Star God erased and covered up records of Su Wen, they discussed the three million Li Wenze had lent him, leaving Su Wen to consider repaying the favor someday.

• Su Wen put on the God of Wealth mask, and the Star God explained that powerful Heavenly Mandate Bearers with god professions were targets who needed to hide their identities.
• The Star God said the mask concealed Su Wen's identity, aura, and strength, and that he had erased or altered the police bureau's memories and records of Su Wen.
• Su Wen asked whether the Star God had repaid the three million Li Wenze had lent him, and learned that Li Wenze no longer remembered the loan.
• The Star God explained that Li Wenze's erased memories would lead him to rationalize the missing money as something he had spent himself.
• The Star God suggested Li Wenze had knowingly traded the three million for a favor from the God of Wealth, and Su Wen acknowledged that Li Wenze was a good person.

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.