Chapter Summaries

The Battle God reached the God King Realm and killed a Remnant Clan True King before the Lord of the Immortal Clan arrived and addressed the leaders of both sides. He welcomed the Star God, then told Su Wen that they shared a peaceful, economy-focused philosophy.

• The Battle God became a God King and pursued the black-robed figure who had mocked him.
• The Battle God killed the black-robed True King of the Remnant Clan, causing the Remnant Clan Universe to wail in grief.
• The Lord of the Immortal Clan appeared and introduced himself to the Battle God, Star God, and God of Wealth.
• The Lord of the Immortal Clan welcomed the Star God and rewarded Qianling for contacting him.
• The Lord of the Immortal Clan approached Su Wen and claimed they were both pacifists who valued the economy.

Su Wen rejected the Lord of the Immortal Clan’s calls for peace as hypocritical, then paid the River of Space-Time to intervene. The River descended over the battlefield and began its punishment, leaving the Lord’s fate unclear.

• The Lord of the Immortal Clan proposed that he and Su Wen join forces to build a peaceful world where both sides could live.
• Su Wen dismissed the Lord’s ideals as hollow, arguing that only superior force could restrain violence in their war for survival.
• The River of Space-Time offered to punish the Lord, first asking for one billion Wealth Source and then lowering the price to ten million.
• Su Wen accepted the offer, and a vast mechanical white eye appeared above the battlefield.
• The River of Space-Time declared a punishment for disrupting space-time and sent a huge silvery-white iron net descending over the battlefield.

The River of Space-Time suppressed the Lord of the Immortal Clan while trying to persuade Su Wen to invest his wealth source in its new bonds. After the Remnant Clan withdrew, Su Wen realized the River of Space-Time’s intervention had caused history to deviate and wondered whether Main Space-Time was the true cause.

• The River of Space-Time suppressed the Lord of the Immortal Clan, leaving him unable to move or escape.
• Su Wen questioned why the suppression was so swift, and the River of Space-Time offered him a paid spectacle and several investment bonds.
• Su Wen recognized the River of Space-Time’s pitch as a scheme to profit from his wealth source and mockingly compared it to robbing people.
• An aged voice ordered the Remnant Clan True Kings to withdraw, and they left after looking at Su Wen.
• Battle God ended his total combustion, but the exertion left him visibly aged and weakened.
• Su Wen concluded that the River of Space-Time had changed the course of history and wondered whether Main Space-Time was responsible.

Su Wen explained the Main Space-Time’s influence over its extensions and questioned the secrets surrounding the Wealth Source, Sycee, and Luobao. He then brought the First Epoch veterans to the God of Wealth’s office and revealed that he came from the Main Space-Time’s past and was its God of Wealth.

• Su Wen realized that the Main Space-Time was the root and that its Sub-Space-Times tended toward predetermined outcomes unless the root intervened.
• Su Wen questioned the purpose of the Wealth Source and the relationship between Sycee, Luobao, the River of Space-Time, and the River of Fate.
• The Battle God interrupted Su Wen’s thoughts, and Su Wen decided to share some of them during a future spar.
• Gu and the First Epoch veterans arrived, seeking answers and hope, and Su Wen led them to the God of Wealth’s office.
• Su Wen revealed that he could cross space-time, that his battlefield weapons and formations came from another space-time, and that he was the God of Wealth of the Main Space-Time’s past.

Su Wen revealed that he had met Dou across other space-times and could communicate with and influence the past through his Trading Divine Ability. The others sent records and Insight Air Masses to their past selves, but Su Wen warned that changing the First Epoch could not alter their present without creating a time paradox.

• Gu realized the Star God's betrayal had been an undercover effort to help the future.
• Su Wen confirmed that he had met Dou many times and that Rui had trained him in other space-times.
• Su Wen explained that his Trading Divine Ability could communicate with the past, summon people from it, and affect events there.
• Zhan wondered whether the First Epoch could still win, and Gu and the others gave Su Wen memory crystals and Insight Air Masses to pass to their past selves.
• Su Wen cautioned that a First Epoch victory could not change their present, since their existence depended on the Ninth Epoch.

Su Wen answered the First Era veterans’ questions about the Sub-Space-Time and accepted their gifts as they recognized him as the God of Wealth. After the veterans left to return to the Frontier Battlefield, Su Wen set out to find the Battle God and then visit the Battle Master.

• Su Wen explained what he could about the Sub-Space-Time while withholding the Battle Master’s private history.
• The First Era veterans gave Su Wen gifts, and Zhan wrote a letter to the Current Battle God before the others followed suit.
• Rui and the veterans said they wanted to stay in the Main Realm, but changed their minds and chose to return to guarding the Frontier Battlefield after Su Wen described its importance.
• The veterans thanked Su Wen and gave him their personal tokens before leaving.
• Su Wen reflected on the First Era beings’ long isolation and decided to find the Battle God, then visit the Battle Master.

Su Wen visited the Battle Master in Sub-Space-Time and brought him letters and projections from people in his past. The Battle Master recognized Zhan’s letter, wrote replies for his old companions, and left Rui a brief reassurance.

• Su Wen brought the Battle God’s aura into the Trading Space and summoned the Battle Master.
• Su Wen showed the Battle Master Rui’s projection, but the Battle Master barely remembered her and said he had avoided romance with his subordinates.
• Su Wen gave the Battle Master a letter from Zhan, and the Battle Master read it carefully and agreed to write back.
• Su Wen told the Battle Master that he had told Zhan he was still alive, and the Battle Master accepted that this was probably the right choice.
• The Battle Master wrote replies to his followers, including Rui, whose letter he answered with, “All is well. Don’t worry about me!”

Battle Master taught Su Wen the Battle-Style Secret Art over five years, using Su Wen’s Wealth Source to help him master its many techniques. Before they parted, Battle Master asked Su Wen to warn his true self to beware of their own Will of the Universe as well as the Remnant Clan’s.

• Battle Master grieved that only forty-five people from the First Epoch remained and blamed himself for their deaths.
• Battle Master tested Su Wen’s combat ability, then crushed him in a sparring match.
• Su Wen used Wealth Source to extend his time with Battle Master by four years so he could learn the Battle-Style Secret Art.
• Battle Master broke the secret art into its component techniques and trained Su Wen, who could use Wealth Source to perfect them after returning to the Main Space-Time.
• Battle Master asked Su Wen to warn his true self to be wary of their own Will of the Universe and to erase it if necessary.

Su Wen returned from the Trading Space with the Battle Master's replies and delivered letters to the First Epoch veterans, then offered to teach the Battle God secret techniques. The chapter left the Battle God agreeing to hear Su Wen’s request to fight him at the Demigod tier.

• Su Wen left the Trading Space and contacted the First Epoch veterans to tell them he had returned with the Battle Master's replies.
• Su Wen distributed the letters, including Rui’s; Rui smiled after reading hers and disappeared in a shower of peach blossom petals.
• Zhan thanked Su Wen and gave him a new letter to deliver, while the other veterans also asked him to carry their replies.
• The Battle God arrived and asked why the First Epoch veterans treated Su Wen with such respect.
• Su Wen offered to teach the Battle God secret techniques that would enhance his abilities and asked him to suppress his tier and fight at the Demigod tier.

Su Wen trained the Battle God in the Battle-Style Secret Art, and the Battle God began to sense a response from his Law of Combat. In Year 380 of the God of Wealth calendar, purges exposed traitors in several legions, while the Battle God Legion remained untouched and the Wind God questioned the Battle God’s unexpected insight.

• Su Wen sparred with the Battle God to teach him the Battle-Style Secret Art, and the Battle God said his Law of Combat was resonating with what he saw.
• In Year 380 of the God of Wealth calendar, the Shadow God advanced to the God King Realm and began transforming the Shadow God Legion, uncovering officials who had made deals with the Remnant Clan.
• The Shadow God Legion's commander-in-chief resisted enforcement in his Remnant Clan form, and Azure Hou and Soul Devourer killed him on Mo Xiao Su's orders; connected relatives and cultivators who had received benefits were also punished.
• The Theater God led a self-inspection that found many officials tied to the Remnant Clan; Ye Guanzhi was honored, and the Theater God took over as legion chief at the God of Wealth's instruction.
• The Wind God Legion was held accountable for lax monitoring, and the God of Sleep Legion and God of Fate Legion began their own investigations, while the Battle God Legion remained unaffected.
• The Battle God said the God of Wealth's trust in his legion amounted to thinking its members were stupid, and the Wind God asked how he had arrived at that conclusion.

Su Wen learned that Bai Zijun’s Organ Martial Dao research needed chaotic conditions to break the demigod bottleneck, which explained why the world would fall into disorder in the future. He decided to investigate the cost and begin addressing the crisis.

• The Battle God and Wind God joked about the Battle God Legion’s loyalty before Su Wen redirected the conversation to the Wind God’s advancement.
• Su Wen urged the Wind God to reach the God King Realm as soon as possible, and the Wind God agreed to aim for fifty years.
• The Wind God reported that Bai Zijun’s research had brought Organ Martial Dao close to breaking the demigod bottleneck, but it needed irregular factors from a chaotic mortal world.
• Su Wen realized that future social disorder had been deliberately used to advance Martial Dao, and he resolved to investigate and act.

Half a year after Su Wen’s policy reform spread chaos and the spirit of the jianghu through the Main Realm, Theater God reassured him and volunteered to bear the blame for the contradictory policies. Battle God then revealed that Star God had planned for him to die after a coming battle, leaving Su Wen shocked that he had kept the plan secret.

• Theater God questioned whether Su Wen’s pursuit of strength and reform was worth abandoning his true self.
• Theater God supported Su Wen’s choice and offered to become the sinner blamed for the contradictory policies.
• Su Wen resolved that he and his comrades would win as Battle God arrived in his courtyard.
• Battle God explained that he had sent a clone with ninety-nine percent of his power to fight True King Qunyan of the Remnant Clan.
• Battle God asked Su Wen to review his plan to die and revealed that Star God had told him to keep the plan secret.
• Su Wen concluded that Star God expected Battle God to fall after the battle and asked why Battle God had not told him sooner.

Su Wen learned why the Battle God had kept the Star God’s plan and the Current Battle God’s death from him, then reviewed the Battle God’s plan to confront the Remnant Clan. The Battle God had grown much more capable through Su Wen’s combat teachings, but he still doubted he could defeat a Remnant Clan True King outright.

• Su Wen was stunned that the Battle God had waited nearly a hundred years to tell him about the Current Battle God’s death, but the Battle God explained that the Star God had wanted him uninvolved in the plan.
• The Battle God told Su Wen he had come to check whether his plan to go to his death could endanger the Star God’s undercover mission among the Remnant Clan.
• Su Wen realized the Battle God had understood why he was kept out of the plan and asked why the Battle God’s thinking had become so sharp.
• The Battle God said he had been controlling a clone in battle while talking, and Su Wen encouraged him to keep challenging Remnant Clan True Kings.
• The Battle God credited Su Wen’s secret combat arts with making his fighting style more versatile and said he could adapt the techniques to exploit opponents’ weaknesses.
• Su Wen asked whether the Battle God could kill the Current Battle God if he used his full strength, but the Battle God doubted it because the opponent might be concealing his power.

Su Wen revised the Battle God's plan to fake his death, while the Star God confronted the Immortal Clan's curved scimitar and high priest. The chapter ended with the Star God asking whether the high priest was dying.

• Su Wen criticized the Battle God's decades-old plan and helped him remove schemes that assumed the Remnant Clan trusted the Star God.
• Su Wen added the River of Space-Time's offer to arrange the Battle God's fake death and considered what might happen if the Current Battle God's corpse returned.
• The curved scimitar told the Star God that the high priest wanted to see him, then blamed him for the Remnant Clan's losses.
• The Star God threatened the curved scimitar and dismissed the claim that the Immortal Clan had taken him in.
• The high priest asked why the Star God had betrayed the Divine Fate Universe and what he intended to accomplish with the Immortal Clan.
• The Star God asked the high priest whether he was dying.

The Star God explained to the Immortal Clan's high priest that he had betrayed the Divine Fate Universe to seize the God of Wealth’s origin when the Main Space-Time version arrived in his true body. He urged the high priest to join him in gambling on this chance to transcend, leaving the high priest to consider the proposal.

• The high priest threatened to take the Star God with him when he died, then sent away the bystander so they could speak privately.
• The Star God said the Will of the Universe had contributed to his betrayal, but the God of Wealth was the main reason.
• The Star God revealed that the God of Wealth could communicate with the Space-Time Maintainer and that Li Yan had been suppressed by space-time because of him.
• The Star God explained that the Main Space-Time God of Wealth would descend in his true body in a little over a hundred years, giving them a chance to capture and kill him in this space-time.
• The Star God told the high priest he wanted to transcend and invited him to join the plan, revealing that he had made arrangements in both universes and still had agents among the Divine Fate Universe.

Star God persuaded the Remnant Clan High Priest to join him in killing the God of Wealth, offering a path to transcendence before the God of Wealth’s true body arrived. The high priest made Star God his prospective successor, and news of the appointment shocked both universes.

• Star God explained his plan to the Remnant Clan High Priest, who tested his claims and confirmed they were true.
• The high priest, fearing death and tempted by the chance to transcend, agreed to cooperate with Star God against the God of Wealth.
• The high priest refused to involve others yet and gave Star God a token granting him authority to command the Immortal Clan’s True Kings.
• The high priest announced he would step down and named Star God his successor, though Star God still needed recognition and the transfer of the high priest’s power.
• News that Star God had become the Remnant Clan’s Prospective High Priest spread through both universes and stunned their inhabitants.

Zhe objected to the Star God becoming Remnant Clan High Priest, while Su Wen and Du Xuehan publicly treated him as a traitor and ordered a universe-wide hunt. Su Wen then visited the Theater God, who was drinking with the God of Magic at the Theater God Legion’s encampment.

• Zhe protested the Star God’s appointment as High Priest, but the Remnant Clan Council raised no objections, and Cai told him the High Priest had already secured his support.
• The Battle God brought Su Wen a revised plan, and Su Wen decided they would proceed with changes despite the Star God’s new position.
• Du Xuehan asked whether the Star God could be trusted, and Su Wen ordered a warrant and a kill order against him.
• Du Xuehan concluded that the Star God might have been brainwashed by the Remnant Clan and insisted that he could not be allowed to live.
• Su Wen arrived at the Theater God Legion’s encampment and teased the Theater God about the God of Freedom crying.

Su Wen publicly severed ties with the Star God as the Star God's operations inflicted devastating losses on the Divine Fate Universe. A retaliatory expedition ended in an apparent costly victory, but the supposedly fallen Battle God stood secretly beside Su Wen, leaving the truth behind the conflict unresolved.

• Su Wen revealed his kill order against the Star God, and the Theater God advised him to give the God of Freedom time off.
• The Wind God advanced to God King, while Gu uncovered the Star God's plan to seal the Battle God and Su Wen publicly severed their friendship.
• The Star God's attacks gravely wounded the Heaven God Du Xuehan, cost the Wind God an arm, and killed many Divine Fate Universe powerhouses.
• Su Wen gravely wounded the Star God, and the Battle God led a group into the Remnant Clan Universe to intercept his retreat.
• The Battle God advanced to God King during the ensuing battle, killed two Remnant Clan True Kings, and sent the Wind God and the Theater God home before reportedly falling alongside four other God Kings.
• Gu mourned the costly victory and questioned the Star God's loyalty, while Su Wen voiced regret beside the Battle God, who remained concealed by spacetime power.

Su Wen and the Ninth Era Divine Mandate Bearers discussed Star God's apparent betrayal and the expected return of Battle God's corpse. They learned it could arrive within ten years, and Su Wen confirmed that the group planned to use its attacks to draw out the Will of the Universe while keeping Battle God's survival secret.

• Gu and Theater God said Star God's actions had convinced the Remnant Clan to trust him, even though the soldiers he had harmed would see him as a traitor.
• Su Wen warned the group that Battle God's fall meant the Current Battle God's corpse would return and could destroy the world.
• Su Wen said a reliable source placed the corpse's return within about ten years, prompting the group to discuss the danger.
• Gu asked whether Su Wen and Star God planned to use the corpse's attacks to draw out the Will of the Universe, and Su Wen confirmed it.
• Su Wen kept Battle God's survival secret from everyone, including Star God, as a possible trump card.

Su Wen concealed the Battle God and collected memory crystals from the others, then reached the end of the memory inheritance. The River of Space-Time offered to extend the experience for a huge fee, but Su Wen refused and burst the space-time illusion.

• Su Wen told the hidden Battle God that he was wary of Gu and wanted to keep their plans secret.
• Su Wen asked everyone for memory crystals to deliver to their counterparts in the Main Space-Time, but told Gu Sheng he already had the First Epoch’s crystals.
• Su Wen hid the crystals around the Martial God's office.
• The River of Space-Time announced that the memory inheritance had ended and offered to show the Battle God's death for 99.9 billion in Main Space-Time Wealth Source.
• Su Wen refused the offer and burst the space-time illusion with a poke.