Chapter Summaries

Su Wen learned why the Wind God and the Seventh Divine Maiden had not ended up together and reconsidered how much weight to give the Theater God's dramatic hints. He decided to study at the Martial Dao Exploration Office on the Beyond Heaven Battlefield and asked the confused Battle God to meet him there.

• The Wind God told Su Wen that his relationship with the Seventh Divine Maiden had soured because her clan pressured her to manipulate him and tried to use his connections to influence Huaxia's military.
• Su Wen accepted that the Wind God and the Seventh Divine Maiden would make their own choices in the Main Space-Time, then confirmed that their relationship had not followed the events of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai."
• The Battle God said he would postpone choosing a partner until after the war, while the Star God cautioned that the Theater God's dramatic hints were unreliable at their current strength.
• The Star God explained that Su Wen had arranged books, experts, and study facilities at the Martial Dao Exploration Office for his arrival two hundred years later.
• Su Wen agreed to study at the office and told the Battle God to wait for him there, leaving the Battle God puzzled because Su Wen had just warned him to stay away.

Su Wen arranged to gather future technological data from the Star God's space-time and learned the precise events needed to ensure Bai Zijun's birth. He left to study the space-time's Martial Dao theories and technology, with the Star God preparing a comprehensive archive for him to take back.

• The Star God explained that Little Wind had to visit the Nine-Tailed Clan on May 10, 2042, and accompany the Seventh Divine Maiden on the Life Lock Journey on May 25, so Bai Zijun would be born after their June 11 accident.
• The Wind God accepted the plan, and Su Wen understood that Bai Zijun's Martial Dao talent had changed the Star God's views on Little Wind's marriage.
• The Star God told Su Wen that Li Wenze wanted to meet him because the God of Fate's erased memories had returned.
• Su Wen asked the Star God to compile technological data from 2023 onward, especially military and materials technology, organized with 2023's technological level in mind.
• Su Wen confirmed he could carry the data back in his real body, and the Star God agreed to prepare it.

Su Wen visited the Martial Dao Exploration Office and studied Du Guowei’s theories and speeches on the changing direction of Martial Dao. He had just begun absorbing the new research when the Battle God arrived in response to his summons.

• Su Wen entered the Martial Dao Exploration Office, whose intelligent brain cleared the way to protect him.
• Su Wen asked the central intelligent brain to retrieve Du Guowei’s profile, work, and latest speech about Martial Dao reform.
• Su Wen reviewed Du Guowei’s research and reflected that change in Martial Dao was unavoidable.
• Su Wen began studying the new Martial Dao theories, but the Battle God arrived and asked why Su Wen had called him.

Su Wen used a wisp of space-time power to awaken the Battle Master's power within the Battle God, then contacted the Battle Master through a Sub-Space-Time. The Battle Master recognized Su Wen's progress and began preparing their second stage of training.

• Su Wen bought a wisp of Black River's space-time power and used it to awaken the Battle Master's power in the Battle God.
• The Battle God gave Su Wen the awakened power, then sealed off the Martial Dao Database so no one would disturb him.
• The Star God questioned the Battle God about the disruption, and the Battle God explained that he had acted on Su Wen's instructions.
• Su Wen used the Battle Master's power as an anchor to activate his Trading Divine Ability and meet the Battle Master in a Sub-Space-Time.
• The Battle Master confirmed Su Wen's combat instinct had reached perfection and asked him to recount their first meeting during their training.

The Battle Master taught Su Wen to temper his Heart of Battle by believing without hesitation that his choices in war were right, even when they demanded terrible sacrifices. After showing him the first epoch’s battlefield, the Battle Master asked whether he would sacrifice his closest companions to save the universe, and Su Wen said he would if victory could bring everything to a perfect ending.

• The Battle Master explained that the Heart of Battle required unwavering conviction and the willingness to destroy enemies without reservation.
• Su Wen connected the lesson to the Remnant Clan’s attempts to undermine their resolve, and the Battle Master agreed that mercy could not guide an Incumbent True God’s decisions.
• The Battle Master transformed the blood waves into the first epoch’s Frontier Battlefield, displaying the gods’ battle standards and the armies under the Battle God’s command.
• The Battle Master asked Su Wen whether he would sacrifice his friends and family if doing so were necessary to win the war.
• Su Wen answered that he would sacrifice them without hesitation because victory in the final battle could give everything a perfect ending.

Su Wen and Battle Master compared their dealings with the River of Space-Time and discussed Su Wen's willingness to take extreme measures if the Ninth Era became impossible to save. Battle Master advised him on absolute leadership and offered help involving surviving veterans of the First Era's Battle God Legion.

• Battle Master warned Su Wen against assuming that Little River could revive all his fallen comrades after victory.
• Su Wen suggested that Battle Master's Little River was a tributary of the River of Space-Time, and Battle Master recalled that Little River had claimed to be a newly appointed Fate Seat.
• Su Wen said his comrades would resent him if he refused to let them sacrifice themselves when necessary.
• Su Wen admitted that he had considered killing the Ninth Era's Battle God to allow Battle Master's true self to return if the situation became impossible to save.
• Battle Master challenged Su Wen's judgment of hopelessness and told him that a combat heart and firm leadership were necessary to carry out his decisions despite opposition.
• Battle Master produced a blood-red, six-sided crystal and asked whether any veterans of the First Era's Battle God Legion remained in the Ninth Era.

Su Wen learned to condense the First Epoch Battle Master's command battle flag and heard how the Battle Master lost all his comrades in the war against the Remnant Clan. The chapter ended with the Battle Master asking whether the Ninth Epoch's Battle God had problems Su Wen could not control.

• The Battle Master created a red command battle flag and explained that the First Epoch Star God had urged him to leave it as a contingency.
• Su Wen studied the flag's intricate details and learned the basics of its condensation method over a month.
• Su Wen asked how many comrades had survived to the First Epoch's final battle, and the Battle Master said he had been the only one left.
• The Battle Master recalled the Remnant Clan killing his comrades, including Little Star, and described his revenge against the clan.
• The Battle Master asked Su Wen whether the Ninth Epoch's Battle God had problems he could not keep under control.

Su Wen entered the Battle Master's trial and relived the First Era's final war as the Current Battle God, whose desperate charge destroyed both universes. The Battle Master questioned Su Wen's readiness to die, leaving him to confront why he valued victory over his own survival.

• Su Wen and the Battle Master discussed the differences between the Battle God of the First Era and the Battle God of the Ninth Era.
• The Battle Master began a trial to temper Su Wen's Heart of Battle by plunging him into a battlefield simulation.
• Su Wen took command of the Current Battle God's forces and received urgent reports from several fronts.
• Su Wen failed to manage the widespread war, then burned his power and charged into the Remnant Clan Universe, causing both universes to collapse.
• The Battle Master told Su Wen the trial was meant to test his command and asked why he had such a strong desire for death.

Su Wen learned why the Ninth Epoch fought more desperately than the First Epoch and began another, unpredictable battle trial under the Battle Master's guidance. Meanwhile, the Star God found no future in which the God of Wealth survived and wondered if his death was necessary for everyone else to live.

• Su Wen asked why the First Epoch had failed to exploit its advantages, and the Battle Master apologized for leaving the Ninth Epoch to face a desperate war.
• The Battle Master urged Su Wen to fight rationally, protect his soldiers, destroy the Remnant Clan, and bring his compatriots home.
• The Battle Master placed Su Wen in a different battle scenario, and Su Wen adapted his tactics while the Current Battle God charged the enemy with a blood-colored spear.
• The Star God divined the future from the Sub-Space-Time and found no trace of the God of Wealth surviving, even after his arrival changed the future.
• The Star God wondered whether the God of Wealth had to die for everyone else to survive.

The Star God endured the backlash from repeatedly observing space-time and considered the cost of the coming struggle as the Trickster arrived at the Beyond Heaven Battlefield. As the Battle God fought the Trickster, the Star God mobilized his forces and prepared a countertrap after Li Wenze warned that the enemy had a contingency for him.

• The Star God reflected that the only chance of survival ended with the death of the one who contributed the most, and wished he could die in the God of Wealth's place.
• The Trickster appeared above the Beyond Heaven Battlefield and challenged the Star God, but the Battle God charged in and struck him away.
• The Trickster considered killing the Battle God, but an unknown powerful voice warned him that the Battle God must not die.
• The Star God deployed the Star Dao Guardian, True God puppets, and other defenses while relaying the Trickster's weaknesses to the Battle God.
• Li Wenze appeared beside the Star God and warned him that the enemy had a contingency waiting; the Star God said he was preparing a surprise in return.

Li Wenze and the Star God prepared to trap the Trickster on the Beyond Heaven Battlefield, while Su Wen’s Heart of Battle took shape in the Trading Space. The Battle Master revealed the origins of the Phantom Beast population, leaving Su Wen to ask whether they were also known as the Insect Spirit Clan.

• Li Wenze said he would use the path of fortune to make everything go against the Trickster, and the Star God agreed to act according to circumstances.
• The Star God’s preparations began taking effect across the Beyond Heaven Battlefield as he vowed to prevent the Trickster from escaping.
• The Battle Master praised Su Wen’s newly formed Heart of Battle and said it could eventually let him defeat the Battle God of his epoch.
• Su Wen asked about the divine beasts serving the God of Wealth, and the Battle Master identified them as the Phantom Beast population.
• The Battle Master explained that the Phantom Beasts had been bred with powerful survival abilities and descended from the Chaos Creature, the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother.
• Su Wen asked whether the Phantom Beast population was also called the Insect Spirit Clan.

Battle Master explained that the Insect Spirits and Phantom Beasts descended from the same race and that hidden reserves had been prepared to preserve them. After Su Wen described the weakened Insect Spirit Clan and its Evil Spirit Insect Swarm, Battle Master suspected the Remnant Clan had engineered the branch and urged Su Wen to nurture the clan using his Wealth Source power.

• Battle Master explained that Phantom Beast was a title for powerful Hundred Spirits, while weaker ones were called Insect Spirits, and learned that Su Wen's era had only weak Insect Spirits.
• Battle Master described how the First Era had created the Phantom Beast race from the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother's adaptable genes and prepared a hidden reserve force of Insect Spirits.
• Su Wen asked whether destroying the Insect Spirit Realm would awaken the reserve, then explained that he had visited the clan and received its Treasure Bowl.
• Su Wen told Battle Master about the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm and the Snow Soul Clan's alleged role in its emergence.
• Battle Master concluded that the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm was likely a Remnant Clan scheme and urged Su Wen to nurture the Insect Spirit Clan with his Wealth Source power.

Su Wen learned from the Battle Master how Wealth Source could enlighten Insect Spirits and transform them into Phantom Beasts. Their discussion of the Eighth Epoch’s God of Wealth left Su Wen suspecting that something beneath its Main Realm had required protection or suppression.

• Su Wen considered using Wealth Source to influence the Remnant Clan and planned to negotiate with the River of Space-Time and the River of Fate.
• The Battle Master asked whether Su Wen could enlighten the Insect Spirit Clan, then passed him detailed knowledge of the Insect Spirit and Phantom Beast transformation methods.
• Su Wen wondered why records of the Insect Spirit Clan were missing and resolved to ask the Star God about its history and connection to him.
• The Battle Master questioned why the Eighth Epoch’s God of Wealth had needed to oversee the rear and handle logistics when Little Star’s avatars could manage those tasks.
• Su Wen suggested that something beneath the Eighth Epoch’s Main Realm might have required its God of Wealth to hold the center and protect or suppress it.

Su Wen questioned Battle Master about the Eighth Epoch before learning how to create and transform Phantom Beast battle groups. After three months of training, Battle Master began to fade, leaving Su Wen to continue on his own.

• Battle Master told Su Wen he could not explain the Eighth Epoch’s affairs and advised him to ask its Divine Mandate Bearers, then learned Su Wen had already met the Incumbent Shadow God.
• Battle Master shifted the training to Phantom Beasts and demonstrated their races, abilities, and transformations for Su Wen.
• Su Wen quickly learned to fuse, adjust, transform, and strengthen Phantom Beasts, and marveled at the power he could create.
• Three months later, Battle Master finished teaching Su Wen the final transformation formation for a true dragon Phantom Beast and began to disappear.
• Su Wen said he would meet Battle Master in the next space-time and wondered whether he might one day gain the power to restore him.

After Battle Master disappeared, Su Wen studied two centuries of Martial Dao research in the future space-time and found hope in humanity’s emerging geniuses. He left Battle God’s protective barrier and was recognized by researchers as the long-lost Martial God.

• Battle Master vanished after wishing Su Wen happiness and saying he hoped his help would spare him future suffering.
• Su Wen reflected on the Current Battle God’s past battles and left the Trading Space, finding Battle God’s energy still protecting him.
• Su Wen used Forbidden Magic to memorize the latest Martial Dao theories and learned that researchers had advanced Spirit Martial Arts and Martial Dao Secret Medicine.
• Su Wen read Bai Zijun’s theory that divine wills and deities might develop within the organs, and decided humanity should rely on many future geniuses rather than only Divine Mandate Bearers.
• Su Wen memorized two hundred years of Martial Dao research, then stepped out of the barrier and stunned the gathered researchers, who recognized his Martial God’s robes and mask.

Su Wen reunited with the Star God after the Battle God’s clumsy attempt to keep him undisturbed had drawn a crowd to the Martial Dao Database and exposed that the God of Wealth was alive. On the Beyond Heaven Battlefield, Su Wen asked the Star God to help gather 18.8 billion in Wealth Source so he could resurrect the Theater God.

• A white-haired researcher accused Su Wen of impersonating the dead God of Wealth, but the Star God appeared and said the gathered researchers could be trusted with the truth.
• The Star God took Su Wen away, while a researcher shouted that the God of Wealth was alive and the white-haired man ordered an investigation into him as a suspected traitor.
• On the Beyond Heaven Battlefield, Su Wen asked why researchers had been waiting outside the Martial Dao Database, and the Star God explained that the Battle God’s barrier had cleared the nearby departments.
• Su Wen called the Battle God a fool for drawing attention to his seclusion, and the Star God remarked on the Battle God’s individualistic behavior.
• Su Wen told the Star God he could resurrect the Theater God but needed 18.8 billion in Wealth Source, and asked for help collecting it.

The Star God worried that resurrecting the Theater God would drain the Main Space-Time’s resources, but Su Wen explained the River of Space-Time would not charge a crossing fee. The Star God gave Su Wen a protective violet-red crystal and, after Su Wen challenged his claim that it cost little to make, filled the air with thousands of them.

• The Star God asked whether Su Wen would abandon resurrecting the Theater God if the cost threatened the Main Space-Time’s development.
• Su Wen explained that the River of Space-Time had no right to charge for refining Wealth Source during his crossing.
• The Star God warned Su Wen to protect himself from the Battle God and sent a violet-red crystal into his mind as a safeguard.
• Su Wen confirmed he could take items back to his space-time and said he had asked the Star God to collect scientific and technological information for Huaxia.
• After Su Wen questioned whether making the crystal had strained him, the Star God produced several thousand more and asked whether Su Wen was under too much pressure.

Su Wen prepared to revive the Theater God while the Star God and Battle God coordinated a plan to counter their enemies. The Trickster remained trapped in battle, and Luobao appeared with a greeting from the River of Fate.

• The Star God encouraged Su Wen by recalling how the various Sub-Space-Times had grown stronger and invited him to witness the Theater God's rite.
• The Trickster, surrounded by the Battle God and twelve True God puppets, called for help as his escape attempts failed.
• The Trickster changed course to lure the Battle God toward the outskirts of the Beyond Heaven Battlefield, but the Battle God recognized the plan and agreed with the Star God to play along.
• The Star God gave Su Wen a spatial bracelet holding currencies from allied races and asked him to consult the River of Space-Time about reviving the Theater God discreetly.
• Luobao appeared before Su Wen and said the River of Fate had asked him to give the God of Wealth its regards.

Su Wen learned that the River of Fate had secretly established a presence in the Sub-Space-Time and could now trade with him near the Star God. The River of Fate offered to resurrect the Theater God for two billion Wealth Source, including an upgrade that would make him a near-True God, while Su Wen considered bringing the two rivers to an agreement.

• Luobao appeared and told Su Wen that the River of Fate had established a presence by borrowing a wisp of the Star God's power, allowing Su Wen to use Money Breaks Yin and Yang near the Star God.
• Luobao suggested that Su Wen use his large Wealth Source order to persuade the River of Fate and the River of Space-Time to cooperate.
• The River of Fate contacted Su Wen and quoted 1.88 billion Wealth Source to resurrect the Theater God, or two billion for a discreet resurrection package.
• The River of Fate offered to make the resurrected Theater God a powerhouse who had completed his ascension ritual and knocked on the gates of True God for an extra 100 million Wealth Source.
• Su Wen noticed that the River of Fate's message sounded much like the River of Space-Time's sales pitch.

Su Wen paid the River of Fate to resurrect the Theater God, but the River of Space-Time arrived and drove its rival's power away. The Theater God returned as a True God, and Su Wen began asking the Star God about the future death of his counterpart.

• Su Wen paid 2.1 billion units of Wealth Source for the River of Fate to resurrect the Theater God and conceal the resulting upheaval.
• The River of Space-Time interrupted the River of Fate's messages, leaving Su Wen unable to contact it and prompting the Narrator to scold him for accepting a scam.
• The Theater God awakened at the True God rank and asked the Star God whether the God of Wealth in their space-time had died.
• The Star God explained that a gray devouring force beyond a True God's power had killed the God of Wealth on the battlefield beyond the heavens.
• Su Wen asked how the force had appeared and what his future self had endured, revealing that no one had told him the details of his death.