Chapter Summaries

Su Wen and the Star God concluded that Li Wenze needed to remove the Eighth Epoch God of Fate’s restriction to access the Incumbent God of Fate’s reserves. Meanwhile, the Theater God negotiated with the Descenders as the eastern frontier battlefield prepared for war, and the Descenders learned that the Shadow God’s Undying Legion was taking their resources.

• Su Wen argued that the River of Fate’s examination report was more trustworthy than the Eighth Epoch Theater God’s claim, and the Star God agreed.
• The Star God explained that Li Wenze could access the Incumbent God of Fate’s reserves once he removed the restriction, then proposed taking back the God of Sleep and gathering information about the dimensional small world.
• The Theater God used moral blackmail against the Star God on behalf of the Descenders, while Su Wen, the Battle God, and the Star God played along as seasoned actors.
• The Theater God returned seventy percent of the resources the Descenders had given him, then offered to ask the Shadow God to intercede if they paid for her high-grade resources and promised him another batch.
• A Descender told the Zither Saint that the Shadow God was furious and her Undying Legion was seizing Descender resources, causing some worlds’ cores to shatter.

The Zither Saint and the Descenders bribed the Shadow God to arrange a meeting with the Star God, hoping to negotiate peace. After accepting their resources, the Shadow God agreed to help, and the Theater God planned to take the treasures to the God of Wealth for appraisal.

• The Descenders concluded that the Shadow God might be receptive to gifts and decided to bribe him, but their envoy was barred from his military camp.
• After the Theater God accepted their resources, he brought the Zither Saint and his party to meet the Shadow God.
• The Zither Saint offered the Shadow God increasingly valuable treasures, including a slaughter-rule halberd, a chaos-born mirror, and four resonating flags.
• The Shadow God accepted the Descenders' money power and agreed to arrange a meeting with the Star God, though he made no promise that peace talks would succeed.
• After the Descenders left, the Shadow God and the Theater God decided to have the God of Wealth appraise the resources and determine how much more money was needed.

The Star God began a third round of negotiations with the Descender Universe while Su Wen arranged for the Battle God to fake his death and fight the Remnant Clan. The Battle God attacked the Remnant Clan Grand Elder, drawing the High Priest and the Star God to the scene.

• The Star God summoned the Zither Saint to prepare for a third round of negotiations, and the Zither Saint decided to demand more resources from the other gods.
• Su Wen discussed the timing of the Battle God's death with him and gave him an upgraded fate buff that would let a few gods see him after he faked his death.
• The Battle God eagerly set out to kill the Remnant Clan Grand Elder, and Su Wen warned that he might not return to normal soon.
• The Battle God stormed into Remnant Clan territory and smashed through the Grand Elder's upgraded defenses.
• The High Priest confronted the Star God about the Battle God's attack, and the Star God claimed that negotiations had distracted him.

Star God stalled the high priest’s negotiations while Theater God defended Battle God’s attack on the Immortal Clan. Su Wen asked the River of Fate about traveling to the Third Epoch in his true body and learned that the journey came with a vast range of costly protective services.

• The high priest challenged Battle God’s attack on the Immortal Clan, and Theater God argued that Battle God was retaliating for his grandson’s death and offered compensation.
• Star God moved the high priest into a house to discuss the matter, leaving Theater God outside so he could prolong the negotiations himself.
• Su Wen asked the River of Fate whether he would travel to the past in his true body and learned that it had prepared contingency plans for his journey to the Third Epoch.
• The River of Fate warned Su Wen that the River of Space-Time had withheld information about its safety measures and promoted insurance and other travel services.
• Su Wen realized that the River of Fate made money through numerous spin-off products attached to its fate-tunnel service.

Su Wen reviewed fate contracts while news spread that the Battle God had fallen after severely wounding three Remnant Clan leaders. The Star God prepared for war and demanded resources from the Descender Universe, whose leaders agreed to pay and planned to withdraw from the conflict.

• Su Wen carefully read the River of Fate’s insurance documents while studying Martial Dao theory.
• News spread that the Battle God had fallen after taking the Remnant Clan Grand Elder down with him and wounding the Remnant Clan Speaker and Lord of the Remnant Clan.
• The Star God learned of the Battle God’s death, ordered the High Priest to prepare for war, and gave the Zither Saint one month to provide resources at one and a half times the proposed price.
• The Zither Saint agreed to provide the resources so the Descender Universe would not become a sacrifice in the conflict.
• The Descender Universe’s leaders decided to trade for the needed resources, seal their realm gate after the Divine Fate Universe withdrew, and let the Divine Fate Universe and Immortal Clan fight.

The Star God and Su Wen arranged for the Descenders to hand over resources, while secretly planning to use the deal to their advantage. After the Descenders delivered the resources, Su Wen refined them and waited for the Current Battle God’s body to return.

• The Star God explained that the Descenders had agreed to their demands and that the promised contract would not stop him from redirecting forces against the Remnant Clan.
• The Descenders delivered the requested resources in less than half a month, prompting the Star God and Su Wen to wonder if they had asked for too little.
• Su Wen told the Battle God to investigate the Descender Universe’s leaders and gave him a strand of spacetime power before he left.
• The Battle God handed Su Wen the bloody aura that had appeared in his divine seat.
• Su Wen refined all the delivered high-grade resources and said they were ready to meet the Current Battle God once his body returned.

Su Wen told Rui that the Current Battle God, Dou, was on his way back, then warned her to keep the news secret until his return was secure. Rui deliberately struck her head to suppress what she had learned and resumed waiting for Dou, leaving Su Wen confused by her reaction.

• Star God asked Su Wen whether they should tell the First Era veterans, especially Rui, about the Current Battle God’s return.
• Star God summoned Rui, and Su Wen revealed that he came from another Space-Time after Rui sensed his strange connection to time.
• Su Wen told Rui that Dou, her beloved and Su Wen’s combat teacher, was coming back soon.
• Rui’s aura erupted with excitement, alarming the Descender Universe, and Theater God explained that a senior had reacted to news about Battle God.
• Su Wen urged Rui to keep Dou’s return secret, and Rui agreed without asking questions.
• Rui struck her own head, apparently suppressing the news, then thanked Su Wen for giving her hope that Dou was still alive.

The Star God explained to Su Wen why he kept his mask and identity hidden, contrasting his choice with the other God Kings who eventually revealed themselves. He left Su Wen with the reasons he avoided personal obligations and complications by remaining only the Star God.

• Rui remained by Su Wen’s side after her self-altered memories led her to believe he had received guidance from the Battle God and to call her his master's wife.
• The Star God invited Su Wen to learn about the military and political system developed over two thousand years, then explained that the Theater God sometimes handled meetings he wanted to avoid.
• The Star God recounted how the Battle God, the Wind God, and eventually Xiao Ying removed their masks, while the Theater God kept his because of the Remnant Clan’s fear of Baili Chaoge’s slaughter.
• Su Wen praised Baili Chaoge for devastating the Remnant Clan and said he wanted to speak with him in a future Sub-Space-Time.
• The Star God said he hid his face and name to keep family obligations, favors, and former power brokers from interfering with his work.

Su Wen agreed to learn political wisdom and began gaining experience through a disguised government-office avatar in Jiang City. Three years later, the Battle God's corpse returned, and Su Wen brought the Battle Master's remnant thought into the Trading Space to tell him the River of Fate would help resurrect him.

• The Star God explained why Su Wen would benefit from learning political wisdom and offered to arrange practical experience at a government office.
• Su Wen agreed, and the Star God arranged for his disguised avatar to take a division-level cadre position in Jiang City.
• Three years passed, and Su Wen sensed that the Battle God's corpse had returned.
• Su Wen used the Battle God's aura to bring the Battle Master's remnant thought into the Trading Space.
• Su Wen told the astonished Battle Master that the River of Fate would help him return to life.

Su Wen used the River of Fate to bring the Battle Master back to life, and the revived Current Battle God immediately confronted Immortal Dao. As the battle began, a miniature version of the Battle God slipped away toward the Divine Fate Universe to recover.

• Su Wen paid the River of Fate to pull the Battle Master's incarnation out of the Trading Space, and Rui learned that he had returned.
• The River of Fate disrupted the laws of order and causality as the Battle Master's corpse revived outside the Remnant Clan Universe.
• The Current Battle God awoke, subdued one of Immortal Dao's Faceless One avatars, and challenged Immortal Dao to fight without a weapon.
• As the battle began, a miniature Current Battle God concealed his aura and hurried toward the Divine Fate Universe to recuperate and meet Su Wen.

Su Wen and the Star God met the Current Battle God, who recognized their ties and learned that Su Wen had already experienced their cross-space-time connection. The Battle God questioned why they had summoned him in a Sub-Space-Time, since his actions there might not help them in the Main Space-Time.

• The Current Battle God located Su Wen and the Star God, appeared before them, and sealed Rui aside when she greeted him affectionately.
• The Battle God explained that he had altered his divine-sense avatar's memories so it would not know about his ties with Su Wen, and Su Wen connected those ties to their trade of the Space-Time Crystal.
• The Battle God deduced that Su Wen had used his ability to cross space and time to pass on a message, then admitted that a past romantic mistake had led to the loss of tens of thousands of border-defense worlds.
• The Battle God sensed the Star God's mocking thoughts, prompting the Star God to suppress them and turn the conversation toward their urgent business.
• The Battle God asked Su Wen whether summoning him in a Sub-Space-Time had been unwise, since anything he did there might not affect the Main Space-Time.

Su Wen discussed using powerful Sub-Space-Time allies to help the Main Space-Time and agreed to put in a good word for the Battle Master's Little River. The River of Space-Time then demanded three hundred billion Main Space-Time Wealth Source to promote Little River, leaving Su Wen convinced it was manipulating the Battle Master's feelings to get money.

• Su Wen proposed copying answers from the Sub-Space-Time and suggested its powerful figures might one day help defend the Main Space-Time.
• The Battle Master described his old idea of gathering powerful experts from altered space-times, but explained that Little River lacked the authority to make it happen.
• The Battle Master asked Su Wen to put in a good word so Little River could become a full employee, and Su Wen agreed.
• The River of Space-Time offered to promote 1008511 early in exchange for three hundred billion Main Space-Time Wealth Source.
• Su Wen suspected the River of Space-Time had contacted the Current Battle God to exploit his affection for Little River and pressure Su Wen for money.

The Current Battle God explained that he would recover, destroy the savage consciousness inside him, and eventually overcome the Remnant Clan Will Universe. Su Wen reassured him that the Ninth Epoch Battle God had survived, while the Battle God confronted the gap between his own abilities and the Current Battle God’s.

• The Current Battle God outlined his recovery and said the weakened Remnant Clan would no longer threaten him once he was ready.
• The Star God left Su Wen and the Battle Master to compare historical accounts, but the Battle Master soon departed with Rui to avoid Su Wen’s gossip.
• Su Wen told the Battle God that the Battle-Style Secret Art had been created by the Battle Master and might have flaws, prompting the Battle God to reflect on the Current Battle God’s strength.
• The Current Battle God asked whether the Ninth Epoch Battle God had died to welcome him back, and Su Wen explained that the successor was alive but invisible for a special reason.
• Su Wen offered to arrange a meeting between the Current Battle God and his successor, but the Current Battle God questioned why a Battle God would study the Battle-Style Secret Art.

Su Wen received the Battle God’s inheritance and helped him absorb it while the Divine Fate Universe and Descender Universe spent decades disputing and renegotiating their treaty. The Star God withdrew his forces with a fresh payment of resources, and the army turned toward the Frontier Battlefield to confront the Remnant Clan.

• The Battle Master gave Su Wen the nine-colored crystal containing the Battle God’s inheritance, and Su Wen passed it to the Battle God to absorb.
• Over forty years, the Descender Universe publicized accusations against the Star God and his allies, but its efforts failed to sway the Divine Fate Universe’s forces or public opinion.
• After nearly thirty years of further negotiations and conflict, the Descender Universe agreed to provide more high-grade resources, and the Star God led the Divine Fate Universe’s army out.
• The Star God told the Battle God that he had demanded fresh compensation because the Descenders had more wealth than expected and had exhausted their reserves.
• The Current Battle God urged the Star God to withdraw the army toward the Frontier Battlefield and prepare to fight the Remnant Clan.
• The Zither Saint watched the Divine Fate Universe withdraw but chose not to attack, despite the apparent opening in its defenses.

The Current Battle God returned and launched an assault on the Remnant Clan, whose hidden elders awakened believing the final battle had begun. He confronted the current Lord of the Remnant Clan and vowed to repay the clan for its past crimes.

• The Current Battle God returned, asked where Lin Mo was, and proposed visiting the Remnant Clan to avenge fallen Battle Gods.
• Lin Mo agreed to watch from the sidelines as the Current Battle God donned divine armor and took up his spear.
• The Current Battle God crossed into the Remnant Clan Universe and shattered its border defenses, prompting its hidden elders to emerge and sublimate themselves.
• The Remnant Clan's elders realized the final battle had not begun and that the Current Battle God had returned.
• The Current Battle God killed a Remnant Clan True King and declared that he would repay the clan for its sins.
• The Current Battle God confronted the current Lord of the Remnant Clan and said he would join his predecessor at the universe's barrier.

The Current Battle God rampaged through the Remnant Clan, while observers in the Divine Fate and Descender Universes considered the threat he posed and the state of their own Wills of the Universe. As the Immortal Dao manifested to confront him, the Current Battle God challenged it to prove it could stop him.

• In the Divine Fate Universe, Star God suggested that God of Wealth meet Heaven God and try to communicate with their Will of the Universe before leaving.
• In the Descender Universe, Cloud Saint and the crowned man discussed the Current Battle God, the Immortal Dao, and the dangers facing their universe.
• The crowned man warned that they might someday face the Current Battle God and urged everyone to study his power.
• The Current Battle God killed Remnant Clan True Kings and other high-ranking figures as observers across multiple universes watched.
• Three thousand Faceless Ones appeared in the Remnant Clan's core region, with the Immortal Dao's three thousand rules manifesting behind them.
• The Current Battle God taunted the Immortal Dao and declared that its familiar ability could not defeat him.

Su Wen asked Du Xuehan to help him contact the Will of the Universe and learned that her authority had been weakened by a problem in their mother universe. The Will of the Universe appeared before him, apologized, and urged him to ask his questions quickly while their brief meeting lasted.

• Su Wen asked the Star God to summon Du Xuehan while the Current Battle God fought the Remnant Clan's Will of the Universe.
• The Star God gave Su Wen Li Wenze's memory crystal and relayed Li Wenze's wish to break the restrictions on his own.
• Du Xuehan arrived, was startled to see Su Wen alive, and said she could not contact the Will of the Universe because her authority had been affected by a problem in their mother universe.
• Su Wen asked Du Xuehan to try communicating with the Will of the Universe, and she entered a wondrous state that carried him to a strange place.
• The Will of the Universe appeared to Su Wen, apologized for the tense situation, and warned that they had little time to speak.
• Su Wen asked the River of Fate to extend his conversation with the Will of the Universe.

Su Wen consulted the Will of the Universe while the River of Fate and the River of Space-Time competed to influence him and sell him help. The Will revealed that the Second Epoch’s Incumbent Star God was still alive and explained that incumbent Divine Seats preceded ordinary ones, though only one Incumbent True God could arise per epoch.

• The River of Fate urged Su Wen to leave the Sub-Space-Time soon, offering him ten free minutes and warning that other Wills might attack the area.
• The River of Space-Time offered to verify the Will of the Universe’s statements for five hundred million Wealth Source and promised Su Wen a grand gift if he completed two transactions.
• Su Wen accepted the River of Space-Time’s deal and asked the figure of light and shadow whether its power had changed.
• The figure sensed that Su Wen could call upon power from chaos and said the Incumbent Star God had not died.
• The Will of the Universe explained that the Incumbent Star God’s plans had kept the universe from progressing beyond the Second Epoch and that incumbent Divine Seats came before ordinary ones.
• The Will said that only one Incumbent True God could be born in each epoch because of its limited power or governing rules.

The Will of the Universe explained how the Incumbent Star God devised a plan to strengthen the Divine Fate Universe before it was forced into the Supreme Space, where universe wills battled. Su Wen questioned why the Ninth Epoch continued after the Incumbent God of Wealth died and whether his role was simply to die.

• The River of Space-Time claimed the Will of the Universe had lied about the divine seats and offered to reveal why for fifty billion Main Space-Time Wealth Source.
• The Will of the Universe said the Incumbent Star God devised a secret method to communicate with it and planned to absorb other universes to strengthen the Divine Fate Universe.
• A super-universe will lured several universe wills into the Supreme Space, but the Incumbent Star God warned the Will of the Universe before it was forced to enter.
• The Will of the Universe recognized that Su Wen came from another space-time and asked him to convey its regards to its Main Space-Time counterpart.
• Su Wen asked why the Ninth Epoch continued after the Incumbent God of Wealth had died and whether his purpose as Incumbent God of Wealth was to die.

Su Wen questioned the Will of the Universe, learned from the River of Space-Time that its words contained a falsehood, and warned Star God about hidden enemies. As Su Wen prepared to leave the Sub-Space-Time, a colossal figure appeared, but the Current Battle God destroyed it and challenged its unseen allies.

• The River of Space-Time warned Su Wen that the Will of the Universe had lied, then offered to analyze its every word for one trillion in Main Space-Time Wealth Source.
• Su Wen asked the Will of the Universe about the Space-Time Maintainer and revealed that he could also contact the Fate Maintainer, leaving the Will of the Universe bewildered.
• Su Wen ended the conversation, returned to the central conference room, and told Star God what had happened and that the River of Space-Time had judged the Will of the Universe's words false.
• Su Wen appeared in distant starry space and summoned a towering figure as his final gift to Star God's Sub-Space-Time.
• A colossal figure forced its way into the Sub-Space-Time, but the Current Battle God appeared beside Su Wen, destroyed it with his spear, and challenged its allies to fight.