Chapter Summaries

Su Wen learned that the Remnant Clan had killed this space-time’s God of Wealth by sending a costly devouring power during his attempted ascension to True Godhood. He saw the death as progress in confronting their ultimate enemy, while the Star God and Theater God recalled the fallen God of Wealth’s fearless outlook; the Theater God’s return was interrupted by the Battle God’s questions.

• The Star God explained how the Remnant Clan used a devouring power to kill the God of Wealth during his ascension to True Godhood.
• The Theater God reasoned that the Remnant Clan must have paid a heavy price and questioned why they had waited so long to strike.
• Su Wen called the death a good thing because it showed the Remnant Clan had finally acted and let him experience their power firsthand.
• The Star God and Theater God recalled the God of Wealth’s words about facing death freely and feeling refreshed despite his fate.
• Su Wen urged the two gods to cheer up and welcomed the Theater God back, while the Theater God joked that he would rather have stayed in deathly silence.
• The Battle God arrived and asked the Theater God what it felt like to die and come back to life.

The Theater God returned and joined Su Wen and the Star God as they prepared to confront the traitors, while the Battle God continued luring the Trickster toward a rendezvous. At the battlefield’s edge, the Battle God sensed someone approaching and gouged out the Trickster’s eye as he challenged him to a direct fight.

• The Battle God appeared as an avatar, noticed the Theater God had returned, and vanished when the Theater God threatened to teach him about death.
• Su Wen asked the Theater God to keep the Battle God away from him, and the Theater God promised to distract him after the fight.
• The Star God warned that the Trickster’s actions could lead to an attack on the Ninth Epoch Divine Mandate Bearers, and the Theater God vowed to punish the traitors in his legion.
• The Trickster lured the Battle God and the True God puppets to a rendezvous point, expecting an ally to arrive and trap the Battle God.
• The Battle God sensed an approaching presence behind the Trickster, struck out with his spear, and gouged out the Trickster’s right eye while challenging him to fight.

The Battle God overwhelmed the Trickster, but a man in white intervened and revealed himself as a traitor, drawing the Star God and other Divine Mandate Bearers into a confrontation. He summoned fifteen True God-level traitors and announced that he would bring about the gods’ fall.

• The Battle God destroyed the Trickster’s true body and surrounded his fleeing clones with Battle Avatars.
• A man in white appeared, reclaimed the Trickster, and froze the surrounding void while taunting the Battle God for being a Demigod.
• The man in white challenged the Star God to reveal himself, and the Star God arrived with the Wind God, Shadow God, God of Fate, God of Freedom, God of Zealotry, and other Divine Mandate Bearers.
• The man in white summoned fifteen powerful True Gods, including twelve from the Theater God Legion, and the Star God recognized them as traitors.
• The man in white declared that his seventeen allies were enough to defeat the Divine Mandate Bearers and promised them a twilight song of the gods’ fall.

Su Wen and the Theater God watched the battle while discussing the suspected traitors and the Heaven God Legion’s distrust. Ye Guanzhi revealed himself as a Remnant Clan spy, but Mo Qingrou and Shangguan Ruo arrived with supplies and a message that the universe had not lost yet.

• Su Wen and the Theater God agreed to watch for hidden traitors and wondered whether the Heaven God Legion had been unfairly suspected by the Eighth Epoch’s Shadow God.
• Mo Qingrou and Shangguan Ruo emerged from a passage and accused Ye Guanzhi of betraying the Theater God Legion and serving the Remnant Clan.
• Ye Guanzhi closed the passage and questioned how the two Heaven God Legion commanders had reached the Main Realm safely.
• Mo Qingrou and Shangguan Ruo greeted the Shadow God and the other gods, then offered supplies and said they could hold Ye Guanzhi off despite being Dao bodies.
• Shangguan Ruo privately told the Star God that the Heaven God could make up for the God of Wealth’s possible death and urged them not to give up, leaving the Star God wondering what secret method she had in mind.

The Star God confronted Ye Guanzhi and exposed his knowledge of Ye Guanzhi’s ties to the Eighth Epoch, while the Theater God Legion prepared to fight. The Star God called on the True Gods to defect, and Su Xia joined him just as the Theater God appeared and challenged them.

• The Star God accepted Mo Qingrou and Shangguan Ruo’s gift, sealed it, and warned that the Theater God Legion’s betrayal would be difficult to prove while the Heaven God Legion remained under suspicion.
• Ye Guanzhi revealed that the Theater God had fallen and claimed the Ninth Epoch’s divine positions could no longer suppress the rebels.
• The Star God summoned old god-slaying weapons, and Ye Guanzhi answered by deploying the Theater God Legion’s own military formations.
• The Star God asked the True Gods to join him, and Su Xia, commander of the Star God Legion’s Seventh Legion, crossed over to his side.
• A bronze-bell sound rang out, and the Theater God appeared, asking whether the Star God could withstand him.

The Theater God reappeared and killed the Trickster by suppressing him with his divine position, then joined the battle against the traitors. The Star God and Mo Xiao Su used fifteen True God puppets to sever the traitors’ escape route to the Main Realm.

• The Theater God attacked and annihilated the Trickster, then stopped the heavens’ mourning phenomena by declaring him a traitor.
• The Theater God, Star God, Battle God, Wind God, and Li Wenze engaged the traitors as Ye Guanzhi confronted the Theater God and Star God.
• The Star God withdrew the starlight across the battlefield, allowing Mo Xiao Su to claim the darkness as her shadow domain.
• Mo Xiao Su positioned fifteen True God puppets around Ye Guanzhi’s apparatus, and the Star God detonated them.
• The puppets’ explosions dispersed the spatial passage linking the Frontier Battlefield and the Main Realm, cutting off the traitors’ escape route.

Su Wen revealed the Battle God War Banner, and its aura awakened the First Epoch Battle God's surviving subordinates across the realms. They gathered at the boundary between the Domain Battlefield and the Main Realm, believing their Excellency had returned and needed their help.

• The Star God suspected Ye Guanzhi was hiding a trump card and coordinated with the Battle God to prepare for possible developments.
• Su Wen summoned the Battle God War Banner, spreading the First Epoch Battle God's aura across space and time.
• An elderly swordsman in the Domain Battlefield sensed the banner, regained his youthful form, and unleashed a devastating attack on nearby Remnant Clan units.
• An old woman in the Battle God Legion sensed the aura, regained her beauty, and left her secluded home.
• Survivors of the First Epoch Battle God gathered near the Main Realm, and Rui urged them to sneak through the restriction to rescue their Excellency.

Gu led a group of ancient ancestors and legion commanders to the Theater God Legion to open a secret passage to the Main Realm, where they intended to find the returned Battle God. The Theater God Legion’s commander-in-chief was bound and taken along, while the group sensed something was seriously wrong within the legion.

• Gu explained that the group would travel through a secret passage using avatars so their true bodies could keep guarding the Frontier Battlefield.
• The Star God and Battle God Legion commanders summoned the other legion commanders, and the ancestors led everyone toward the Theater God Legion.
• Mo Qingrou and Shangguan Ruo hoped the ancestors would witness the Theater God Legion’s conduct at the Beyond Heaven Battlefield and expose Ye Guanzhi.
• Gu demanded that the Theater God Legion’s commander-in-chief open the passage, but the commander-in-chief cited the legion commander’s order forbidding it.
• Gu bound the commander-in-chief with chains of rules and led the group to the passage, where they sensed a serious problem within the Theater God Legion.

Gu and Rui discovered signs that the Theater God Legion had been contaminated and that its commander had betrayed the universe. After learning that Ye Guanzhi and his forces were attacking the Ninth Epoch’s Divine Mandate Bearers, Gu began repairing the secret passage so the ancestors could respond.

• A powerful ancestor noticed traces of Remnant Clan spellcasting at the Theater God Legion’s headquarters, and the Shadow God Legion’s commander explained the legion’s research and contamination screenings.
• Rui incapacitated the four True God guards at the secret passage, then sensed that the Theater God Legion had been contaminated while its commander was absent.
• The imposing ancestor angrily silenced the Shadow God Legion’s commander for making excuses, and Gu identified a disturbance in the secret passage’s stabilizing formation.
• Mo Qingrou told Rui and Gu that Ye Guanzhi and more than a dozen True Gods had betrayed the universe and were attacking the Ninth Epoch’s Divine Mandate Bearers.
• Gu ordered Chen, Xu, and Zi to form the Three Talents Divine Formation and channel its power to him so he could repair the secret passage within one minute.

The Remnant Clan and the Frontier Battlefield prepared for another major clash as four sets of rules resonated across the universe. On the Beyond Heaven Battlefield, Su Wen’s military flag failed to summon the Battle God Legion, and he turned to gathering resources while hoping the fighters could withstand the Theater God Legion’s betrayal.

• Gu’s three named venerable seniors unleashed their power, setting off alarms across both sides of the battlefield and signaling preparations for a major war.
• Rui rebuked the Shadow God Legion commander and threatened to investigate whether any of them had helped bring down this epoch’s Incumbent God of Wealth.
• Su Wen activated his military flag without response and concluded that the Battle Master’s forces from the First Epoch might all be dead.
• Su Wen judged the Theater God Legion to be compromised and reflected that, unlike the old man Theater God, he faced betrayal from nearly everyone under the God of Wealth and from the demigod races.
• Su Wen watched the battle and hoped the defenders could overcome the traitors, then entered the Star God’s resource repositories to harvest Wealth Source.

Ye Guanzhi revealed his Remnant Clan power and faced the Star God, who overwhelmed him with strength far beyond that of an ordinary True God. As the rebels were defeated, Ye Guanzhi explained how he had defected, and the Star God accused him of killing the God of Wealth.

• Ye Guanzhi unleashed the Remnant Clan’s sinister power and claimed he had defected because the Remnant Clan’s offers became too tempting to refuse.
• The Star God killed the True God fighting him, then struck Ye Guanzhi with a devastating attack that revealed his overwhelming strength.
• The Theater God joined the battle, and the allied gods quickly wiped out the True God rebels.
• The Battle God and others wondered whether the Star God was burning himself up, while the Theater God urged them to trust him.
• Ye Guanzhi recalled how he had abandoned his convictions and accepted the Remnant Clan’s offer of a second form and a new life if their universe lost.
• The Star God asked Ye Guanzhi whether he had been the one who used Remnant Clan power to kill the God of Wealth.

The Star God and the First Epoch Battle God Legion confronted Ye Guanzhi, then Rui asked the Ninth Epoch Battle God about the First Epoch Battle God. The Battle God revealed that the God of Wealth had taken a wisp of his divine position’s aura, and Rui’s group demanded to know where the supposedly fallen God of Wealth was.

• The Star God cut Ye Guanzhi in two, and Gu and the First Epoch Battle God Legion arrived to pin him down.
• Gu recognized the Star God and urged him to withdraw the power that did not belong to him.
• Rui asked the Star God about the First Epoch Battle God, and he directed her to question the Battle God standing nearby.
• Rui questioned the Battle God, who said the God of Wealth had taken a wisp of his divine position’s aura.
• Rui and a swordsman were surprised the God of Wealth was alive, and the swordsman demanded to know where he was.

The returned gods confronted their legion commanders over the legions’ failures and the Main Realm’s infiltration while Su Wen refined resources in reserve vault No. 18. The Star God brought a group of visitors to see Su Wen, interrupting his plans to grow stronger and prepare for the aftermath of the battle.

• Lai Wusheng greeted the Battle God, who asked why the Battle God Legion’s people had not been the others he had just seen; Lai Wusheng explained that his legion only cared about following the Battle God into battle.
• Mo Xiao Su accused An Shuoran of failing to stop the Theater God Legion’s betrayal and demanded he explain himself or face execution.
• Gongsun Pan admitted that he had suspected a Wind God Legion commander of wrongdoing and told the Wind God he would improve the legion’s monitoring system.
• Su Wen refined the resources in reserve vault No. 18 into Wealth Source and considered how to strengthen his Sub-Space-Time comrades and handle the Battle God’s possible defeat.
• The Star God appeared before Su Wen with a group of visitors and announced that someone had come to see him.

Su Wen met the first epoch’s Battle Master’s surviving subordinates and learned that Rui had long loved and missed the Battle Master. Rui gave Su Wen a powerful sword pill and entrusted him with a message, while Zhan asked him to find out whether Dou was safe and could return.

• The Star God introduced Su Wen to the first epoch’s Battle Master’s subordinates, and Su Wen showed them the war banner entrusted to him by the Battle Master.
• The group knelt to acknowledge Su Wen as their High Eminence after he explained that he had met the Battle Master’s divine thought.
• Rui told Su Wen she missed the Battle Master and recalled his promise to marry them after the Remnant Clan was pacified.
• Su Wen called Rui his Mistress and accepted her sword pill, which could unleash a first strike capable of slaying a God King.
• Zhan introduced himself as Dou’s longtime guardian and asked Su Wen to learn whether Dou was well and could return; Rui urged Su Wen to call Zhan Grandmaster.

Su Wen met Battle Master's old companions, gained a sword talisman from Zhan, and learned that Gu had guided Star Gods across the epochs. Gu warned that the Star God was using a power that did not belong to him, and the Star God said a crystal would reveal the truth after Su Wen left.

• Su Wen respectfully called Zhan Grandmaster, and Zhan gave him a talisman containing a world of swords that could also injure a God King.
• Su Wen promised to relay Zhan's message to Battle Master and used Rui's introductions to befriend Battle Master's other companions.
• Rui introduced Gu as a disciple of the First Epoch Star God and the teacher of the Second Epoch Incumbent Star God.
• Gu told Su Wen that he and the others would not question his origins, asked him to convey their longing to Battle Master, and warned the Star God against using an alien power.
• Su Wen asked what was happening, and the Star God said the crystal he had given Su Wen would explain everything after he left.

The Star God explained how he had borrowed the Eighth Epoch Star God’s power to defeat Ye Guanzhi and admitted that repeated use could cost him his identity. Su Wen realized the Star God’s despair came from something beyond the betrayal, but the Star God dismissed his concern without revealing what was wrong.

• Rui sealed the resource repository and left Su Wen and the Star God alone to talk.
• The Star God explained that he had used the Ancient Star Arts to borrow the Eighth Epoch Star God’s power and kill Ye Guanzhi.
• The Star God admitted that borrowing the power too often could cause him to stop being himself, but he believed the Eighth Epoch Star God might find a way forward for everyone.
• Su Wen challenged the Star God’s willingness to give up his identity and asked whether the Eighth Epoch Star God had intended to return through him.
• The Star God said he had understood the possibility from the beginning and saw it as a last resort if the Ninth Epoch had no future.
• Su Wen suspected the Remnant Clan’s power had driven the Star God to despair, but the Star God blamed stress and frustration instead.

The Star God explained that the Ninth Epoch Insect Spirit Clan seemed too weak to cultivate, until Su Wen revealed he had recovered their First Epoch power method and might trigger an ancient Phantom Beast contingency. The Star God agreed the method was worth trying and suspected the Remnant Clan’s plot against the God of Wealth began before the Seventh Epoch.

• The Star God described how experiments using Wealth Source had failed to make the Insect Spirit Clan strong enough to match their other forces.
• Su Wen suggested the Insect Spirit Clan had lost its ancient inheritance and said he had recovered it, prompting the Star God to ask about their potential and the method behind their power.
• Su Wen explained that the First Epoch Current Battle God had given him the complete transformation method, and the Star God argued that its original, brutal form might suit the Ninth Epoch better than later refinements.
• The Star God proposed visiting the Insect Spirit Clan, and Su Wen described a plan to trigger a First Epoch Phantom Beast contingency by killing the clan.
• The Star God said the Phantom Beast clans were absent from the Eighth Epoch Star God's memories and speculated that the Remnant Clan's plot against the God of Wealth had started before the Seventh Epoch.

Su Wen and the Star God planned the Insect Spirit Clan’s growth using early Phantom Beast cultivation methods, while considering how knowledge of the Ninth Epoch might spread through trades. In the Beyond Heaven Battlefield, Gu’s group captured Ye Guanzhi, and Gu inferred the identities of those behind the Remnant Clan’s schemes from Ye’s reaction.

• Su Wen proposed using First Epoch Phantom Beast cultivation methods to raise the Insect Spirit Clan’s strength.
• Su Wen and the Star God set a goal of more than a hundred thousand fully formed Phantom Beasts before the God of Wealth left.
• Gu confronted the captured Ye Guanzhi and explained that the First Epoch’s elders had gathered for a day of remembrance.
• Gu asked Ye Guanzhi to identify the Remnant Clan True Kings behind him, but Ye closed his eyes and refused to speak.
• Gu said Ye’s darting eyes had revealed enough for him to identify who had been directing the schemes.

Gu stopped Simu’s cross-universe attack on Ye Guanzhi, questioned him, and took his memories before Ye died. The Star God reclaimed command of the Star God Legion and denied Xing Tianxue’s hope that he was the former Star God returned.

• Rui blocked Simu’s attack on Ye Guanzhi, losing an arm that she quickly restored.
• Gu questioned Ye Guanzhi, then had him leave behind his memories before the divine formations killed him.
• Gu collected Ye Guanzhi’s memory crystal and assured Lai Wusheng that he would handle the matter of Ye Guanzhi’s accomplices.
• Xing Tianxue returned the Star God Legion’s scepter to the Star God, who questioned her about the legion and the Frontier Battlefield.
• Xing Tianxue asked whether the Star God had returned, and he told her he was not him and believed the former Star God could not come back.

Su Wen learned that the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother might still be imprisoned by the Remnant Clan and could perhaps be summoned through the God of Wealth’s divine position. Rui stayed behind to protect and train him, while Zhan and Li departed, leaving Su Wen to consider the Battle God’s daunting role and Rui’s devotion to Dou.

• The Theater God commiserated with Su Wen, who lamented that he had no God of Wealth Army Corps, and Rui recalled the phantom beast race’s strength and the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother’s disappearance.
• Rui explained that the First Epoch’s God of Wealth had met with misfortune and suggested Su Wen might someday use his divine position to call the Insect Mother from the Remnant Clan’s suppression.
• Rui chose to remain in the Main Realm to protect and train Su Wen, while also hoping to learn more about Dou through him.
• Zhan left because the Will of the Universe was rejecting the avatars, and Li departed by dispersing his power.
• Rui warned Su Wen that Li’s innocent manner concealed a cunning and brutal veteran, then described the First Epoch’s devastating battles and Dou’s victory over the former Remnant Clan Lord.
• Rui fell silent while discussing the Battle God of Su Wen’s generation, and Su Wen resolved to do his best while worrying about how Rui would react to the Battle God’s eventual death.