Chapter Summaries

Su Wen welcomed his students for New Year’s and prepared to grant them Heavenly Mandate Professions, while warning them to stay on the academy’s Martial Dao path. The chapter left Du Guowei asking whether the Martial Dao techniques circulating in society were flawed.

• The Star God told Su Wen that foreign Divine Mandate Bearers were visiting to discuss forming the Human Alliance, then left to receive them.
• Du Guowei and the other students arrived to pay Su Wen New Year’s respects, and Cai Chulin joked by asking for a red envelope.
• Su Wen teased Cai Chulin about sending him away, then announced that he would give the students Heavenly Mandate Professions suited to their temperaments.
• Su Wen told the students not to cultivate Martial Dao techniques outside the academy’s teachings, even when stronger methods became available.
• Du Guowei asked Su Wen whether the Martial Dao methods circulating in society had a problem.

Su Wen gave the students gifts and made arrangements for their studies while keeping the future Martial Dao masters’ role in developing Martial Dao secret from Zhao Tianhan and Huang Tianqi. Elsewhere, after the gods agreed on plans for the Human Alliance, the God of Freedom privately asked the Star God to divine what had happened to the missing God of Darkness.

• Su Wen sealed the area and explained the future role of Martial Dao to Du Guowei, Du Baihua, and the other prospective masters, while Zhao Tianhan and Huang Tianqi remained unaware.
• Su Wen promised Zhao Tianhan and Huang Tianqi spirit fruits, spirit rice, holy spirit tea, and course materials for their next semester.
• The Star God, the God of Freedom, the God of Commerce, and the God of Ice and Snow settled on the timing for establishing the Human Alliance and issuing a joint statement.
• The God of Freedom stayed behind with the Star God and asked him to investigate the missing God of Darkness, including whether he was alive and who might have killed him.

The Star God told the God of Freedom that Huaxia had killed the God of Darkness, and Su Wen revealed evidence that he had conspired with the Arrow Realm to murder Huaxia’s Shadow God. After seeing the proof, the God of Freedom condemned the God of Darkness as deserving death.

• The God of Freedom asked the Star God to consult the Theater God about the matter and offered the Gaul authorities’ promised rewards.
• The Star God told the God of Freedom that Huaxia had killed the God of Darkness.
• Su Wen explained that the God of Darkness had conspired with the Arrow Realm to murder Huaxia’s Shadow God.
• Su Wen showed a Space-Time Projection proving that Arrow Realm creatures had conspired with the God of Darkness in Gaul.
• The God of Freedom watched the evidence and declared that the God of Darkness deserved to die.

The God of Freedom copied the projection exposing the God of Darkness’s conspiracy with Arrow Realm, while the Star God urged Su Wen to support the God of Freedom and the God of Magic. Later, Su Wen used the Trading Divine Ability and rescued an intelligent white monkey, which began learning to speak as he asked where it came from.

• The God of Freedom copied the Space-Time Projection and left to address the God of Darkness’s collaboration with Arrow Realm.
• The Star God advised Su Wen to help the God of Freedom and the God of Magic grow stronger, and Su Wen agreed to keep it in mind.
• Su Wen returned to the Martial God's office and activated the Trading Divine Ability, bringing a badly injured little monkey into the Trading Space.
• Su Wen healed the little monkey with lightning power, revealing its snow-white fur, and it woke to thank him with a gesture.
• The little monkey repeated Su Wen’s words and quickly learned to form phrases as he taught it to speak.
• Su Wen introduced himself as the God of Wealth of the Ninth Epoch and asked which epoch the little monkey came from.

Su Wen discovered that Shi Kong came from the Seventh Era and bestowed on him a combat-focused Heavenly Mandate Profession. He asked Shi Kong to tell the Seventh Era’s Star God or God of Wealth that the Ninth Era’s Incumbent God of Wealth had sent him, then asked how Shi Kong had been injured.

• Shi Kong told Su Wen he was born in the Ancient Yao Kingdom and recalled the Wind God being welcomed there as a Grand Excellency.
• Su Wen realized Shi Kong came from the Seventh Era and considered how the earlier eras’ preparations and the Remnant Clan’s knowledge might relate to the Ninth Era.
• Su Wen bestowed a Wealth Attendant Heavenly Mandate Profession on Shi Kong, transforming his fur and eyes golden.
• Shi Kong introduced himself as Shi Kong and thanked Su Wen for the opportunity.
• Su Wen asked Shi Kong to relay his identity to the Seventh Era’s Star God or God of Wealth and keep it secret if possible.
• Su Wen asked Shi Kong what had happened before he arrived and why he was so badly injured.

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.