Chapter Summaries

Su Wen returned to the Main Space-Time after using the Current Battle God to expose the Wills of the Universe, then told Star God he had discovered Heaven God's position. He revealed that they had resurrected the Current Battle God with Wealth Source gathered from the Remnant Clan and the Descenders, leaving Star God astonished by the cost.

• The Current Battle God protected Su Wen from the Wills of the Universe, then charged at them as Su Wen escaped back to the Main Space-Time.
• Su Wen returned to his Martial God office and found Battle God restrained in midair by Wind God's wind after raiding Wind God's snack cabinet.
• Su Wen freed Battle God and gave him a memory crystal containing the Current Battle God's inheritance.
• Star God met Su Wen, and Su Wen said he had learned where Heaven God stood.
• Su Wen told Star God that they had resurrected the Current Battle God with Wealth Source gathered with help from Star God's future self, and that the Descenders were extraordinarily wealthy.

Su Wen gave the Star God a memory crystal covering two thousand years, and the Star God analyzed the Descenders’ attacks and the possible future conflict between the Incumbent True Gods and the Will of the Universe. Su Wen then left to deal with the Spirit of Order’s corruption, while the Star God prepared to distribute the memories and new-era Martial Dao research.

• Su Wen handed the Star God a memory crystal containing two thousand years of experiences, which the Star God absorbed.
• The Star God identified the sudden personality changes in Britain as the Descender Universe’s first probing attacks and offered to handle the Descenders’ Wealth Source problem.
• The Star God theorized that the Incumbent True Gods might eventually struggle against the Will of the Universe after their common enemies were defeated.
• Su Wen considered how the Incumbent Star God might unite all nine Incumbent True Gods against future threats, including the Will of the Universe.
• Su Wen entrusted the memory crystals and new-era Martial Dao research to the Star God, then went to address the Shadow Chain, the Spirit of Order.

Su Wen arranged for the Rivers to remove King Yao’s corruption from the Spirit of Order, then purchased the River of Fate’s insurance and traveled to the Third Era. The journey began violently, leaving him to realize that fate transit was far rougher than traveling through space-time.

• Su Wen asked the River of Space-Time to treat the Spirit of Order’s corruption in exchange for a chance to meet an incumbent in the next Sub-Space-Time.
• The River of Space-Time struck the Spirit of Order with space-time lightning, removing the Remnant Clan’s corruption, and Su Wen told her to follow the Star God while he was away.
• Su Wen rested on Mount Tai and then asked the River of Fate to take him to the Third Era.
• Su Wen bought the River of Fate’s insurance after comparing its benefits with the River of Space-Time’s prices.
• The River of Fate built a tunnel to the Third Era and carried Su Wen away, jolting him so violently that he recognized the difference between fate travel and space-time travel.

Su Wen arrived in the Third Era’s Main Realm, explored its prosperous capital, and visited a Phantom Beast training base. He asked its Insect Spirit Clan leader to contact the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother.

• Su Wen complained about the River of Fate’s rough travel service after arriving in the Third Era’s Main Realm.
• Su Wen disguised himself, sampled local food, and released a trace of his God of Wealth aura as he explored the capital.
• A woman who headed Phantom Beast Training Base No. 375 contacted Su Wen and invited him to visit.
• Su Wen toured the training base and praised its systematic methods.
• Su Wen asked the Insect Spirit Clan leader whether she could contact the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother.

Su Wen revealed his God of Wealth power to the Phantom Beast clan and summoned the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother, prompting the Third Epoch's God of Wealth to investigate. When Su Wen met him, the Wealth Dao sided with Su Wen, leaving the two Gods of Wealth and the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother baffled.

• The Phantom Beast leader accused Su Wen of impersonating the God of Wealth, but recognized his pure God of Wealth power and agreed to contact the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother.
• The Third Epoch's God of Wealth learned that someone claiming to be him was at Training Base No. 375 and sent an incarnation there with the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother.
• The Third Epoch's God of Wealth recognized Su Wen as a young True God and assumed he had used a ruse to attract attention.
• Su Wen revealed his golden robes and divine treasures, and the Wealth Dao sided with him when their powers clashed.
• The Hundred Spirits Insect Mother sealed the area and wondered why the apparent false God of Wealth seemed more authentic than Yun Yan.

Su Wen revealed that he was the ninth-epoch Incumbent God of Wealth and told Yun Yan that the God of Wealth Army Corps had vanished by his time. The revelation left Yun Yan facing the dire state of the future.

• Su Wen identified himself as the Incumbent God of Wealth and proved it by showing Yun Yan his distinctive Wealth Source power.
• Su Wen told Yun Yan that he came from the ninth epoch and explained that his abilities let him cross space-time and manipulate fate through money.
• Su Wen said he had come to meet Hundred Spirits Insect Mother because she went missing during a war in the eighth epoch.
• Hundred Spirits Insect Mother reasoned that she would have stayed with the God of Wealth lineage through the ninth epoch to see its final Incumbent God of Wealth.
• Yun Yan asked how many God Kings remained in the God of Wealth Army Corps, and Su Wen revealed that the corps no longer existed and that he had no soldiers of his own.

Su Wen told Yun Yan and the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother how badly the Ninth Epoch had fared, then met the Third Epoch Star God. He revealed that he had come to ask about resurrecting the Ninth Epoch's Incumbent God of Sleep, leaving the Star God stunned.

• Yun Yan and the Hundred Spirits Insect Mother learned that the Ninth Epoch had lost its Phantom Beast clans and that the Insect Spirit Clan had been suppressed to King Rank.
• Su Wen told Yun Yan that Arrow Realm clans and subordinate races had repeatedly plotted against him and that the Shadow God had nearly been enslaved.
• Yun Yan said he would inform the Third Epoch Star God, who soon appeared and asked Su Wen why he had come.
• Su Wen insisted that he needed to speak with the Incumbent God of Sleep, then said his main purpose was to see whether he could resurrect the Ninth Epoch's Incumbent God of Sleep.

Su Wen proved to the Third Epoch Star God that he could call upon the River of Fate’s power, convincing him to wake the God of Sleep. Reassured that changes in the Third Epoch would not erase him or his friends, Su Wen decided to act boldly against the Remnant Clan.

• Su Wen used the River of Fate’s Precision Strike power on the Third Epoch Star God, who felt that even his distant true body would be destroyed by it.
• Su Wen explained that his Wealth authority could bribe the Rivers of Space-Time and Fate, and the Third Epoch Star God agreed to prepare to wake the God of Sleep.
• Su Wen told the Third Epoch Star God about the Ninth Epoch, including that its Incumbent Star God was still alive, leaving him stunned.
• The River of Fate explained that Su Wen’s actions in the Third Epoch would not create a space-time loop because he had arrived through the Fate Tunnel.
• Su Wen worried that changing the past might alter the future, but the River of Fate assured him that he and his protected friends and family would still appear.
• Su Wen welcomed the chance to change events and resolved to take revenge on the Remnant Clan without holding back.

Su Wen met the Third Epoch’s Incumbent God of Sleep and offered to help revive the Ninth Epoch’s God of Sleep while strengthening the Third Epoch and defeating its enemies. The Incumbent God of Sleep eagerly accepted his offer, and the two prepared to join forces.

• The Third Epoch Star God erased the 375 Training Base members’ memories and took Su Wen to the Incumbent God of Sleep’s residence.
• The Incumbent God of Sleep appeared, and Su Wen explained his reasons for visiting the Third Epoch and proposed working together against the Remnant Clan and Descender Universe.
• Su Wen described how he could use the River of Fate, grant Heavenly Mandate Bearer templates, aid cultivation, and obtain products through the River of Space-Time.
• The Incumbent God of Sleep became excited and called for them to begin, deciding that Su Wen’s help made their previous restraint toward the Remnant Clan unnecessary.

Su Wen told the Incumbent God of Sleep that she might survive the Third Epoch by following the Incumbent Star God's example, then explained that he wanted her help against the Wills of the Universe threatening the Ninth Epoch. The group discussed the potential of Heavenly Mandate Bestowal, leaving Yun Yan struck by the vast gap between himself and Su Wen.

• Su Wen suggested that the Incumbent God of Sleep might avoid death by following the Incumbent Star God's example, and revealed that he had resurrected the Current Battle God.
• The Third Epoch Star God asked why Su Wen had traveled to the past if the Current Battle God had been resurrected, and Su Wen explained that multiple Wills of the Universe had entered the conflict.
• Su Wen said he hoped the Incumbent God of Sleep would help fight a Will of the Universe, while she cautioned that combat was not her specialty.
• The Incumbent God of Sleep proposed that Su Wen advance to God King and raise his Heavenly Mandate Bearers to God Kings through Heavenly Mandate Bestowal.
• Su Wen explained that Heavenly Mandate Bestowal was tied to the Wealth Dao and recalled granting a mandate to a little monkey who later left the universe to seek opportunities.
• Yun Yan realized that Su Wen's abilities far surpassed his own, and the others considered the potential of Su Wen's power in the Third Epoch.

Su Wen used his Incumbent God of Wealth power to strengthen Yun Yan’s troops, triggering breakthroughs and winning their devotion. Yun Yan then revealed Su Wen’s future identity as the God of Wealth from the Ninth Epoch.

• Su Wen offered Yun Yan ten million Wealth Source to distribute among the God of Wealth Army Corps and the Phantom Beast clans.
• Yun Yan distributed the Wealth Source, and the Third Epoch’s Wealth Spirit broke through first.
• The army’s other members also broke through and praised Yun Yan, while Yun Yan felt both joy and regret for those who had fallen in battle.
• Yun Yan quieted the gathering and introduced Su Wen as the Honorary Chief and the Incumbent God of Wealth from the Ninth Epoch.

Su Wen took charge of the God of Wealth Army Corps and rapidly strengthened it with the Wealth Source Blessing. After a month of breakthroughs among its ranks, Yun Yan learned Su Wen had given the Current Battle God the power to cross space and time and begged him to grant it to him as well.

• Yun Yan revealed that Su Wen was the future God of Wealth and persuaded the army corps' upper ranks to pledge loyalty to him.
• Su Wen took authority over the God of Wealth Army Corps and ordered its members to raise their cultivation by at least one level.
• Su Wen issued the army corps tasks to prepare for war after the Wealth Source Blessing's transformation was complete.
• One month later, Yun Yan reported that fifteen God Kings had broken through and three True Gods had advanced to God King.
• Su Wen told Yun Yan he had granted the Current Battle God the ability to cross space and time, and Yun Yan eagerly asked him to grant it to him too.

Su Wen agreed to help Yun Yan rise in power in exchange for Yun Yan gathering Wealth Source, then summoned the Incumbent Star God for a conversation. He began to explain the future, revealing that he was currently in the Third Epoch, during the God of Sleep’s tenure.

• Su Wen and Yun Yan agreed that Yun Yan would gather Wealth Source while Su Wen tried to help him advance.
• Yun Yan departed, and Su Wen entered the Trading Space to summon the Incumbent Star God.
• The Incumbent Star God arrived with a starry feast and said he had long been waiting for Su Wen’s visit.
• Su Wen offered to describe the Ninth Epoch and the Star God’s future, then corrected him by revealing that he was in the Third Epoch.

Su Wen told the Incumbent Star God about his journey from the Ninth Epoch and asked why he differed so much from other Gods of Wealth. The Incumbent Star God could not explain Su Wen’s unusual nature, but he raised the possibility that incumbent authority was a glimmer of hope granted by chaos to the Will of the Universe.

• Su Wen told the Incumbent Star God that he had been in the Third Epoch for a little over a month and had met its God of Wealth.
• Su Wen described how Gods who inherited the same Divine Seat resembled one another, while the Gods of Wealth from different epochs were unlike him.
• The Incumbent Star God said he did not know why Su Wen was different and advised him to seek the truth by becoming stronger.
• Su Wen recounted what the Will of the Universe had told him about the Ninth Epoch, and the Incumbent Star God concluded that he had chosen a particular path and had not fallen.
• The Incumbent Star God explained that incumbent authority came from the Will of the Universe but might also be a glimmer of hope granted by chaos.

Su Wen and the Incumbent Star God discussed whether the Will of the Universe was sacrificing its Incumbent True Gods to secure its own Transcendence, and whether future victories should strengthen their universe or themselves. Su Wen revealed that he had already treated the Will of the Universe as a potential enemy, leaving the Star God aware of his distrust.

• Su Wen questioned whether the Will of the Universe needed the Incumbent True Gods’ faint chance of survival to achieve Transcendence, and the Incumbent Star God agreed that every Will sought an escape from its fate.
• The Incumbent Star God showed Su Wen a map of several allied universes and explained that the Ninth Epoch would need to divide their alliance through diplomacy.
• The Incumbent Star God warned that the Will of the Universe might turn against them after it devoured defeated universes and regained strength.
• The Incumbent Star God advised Su Wen not to let the Will of the Universe absorb defeated universes’ origins, but to claim that power for themselves.
• Su Wen said he was willing to defend the universe but would not surrender his freedom, and revealed that he had already made the Will of the Universe his hypothetical enemy.

The Incumbent Star God prepared Su Wen to stop him if the Will of the Universe corrupted him, and urged him to resurrect the Incumbent Heaven God. Before completing their transaction, Su Wen asked the Star God for information about the universes and their rivalries.

• The Incumbent Star God taught Su Wen about secret techniques designed to counter him and the Will of the Universe, and asked Su Wen to perfect them and use them if he changed.
• Su Wen asked whether he should resurrect the Incumbent Heaven God, and the Incumbent Star God said she could help keep the Will of the Universe in check.
• Sycee relayed the River of Space-Time's complaint about being compared to the Will of the Universe, and Su Wen told it to get lost.
• The Incumbent Star God explained that he would oppose the Will of the Universe if his suspicions proved true, even if they both perished.
• As the Incumbent Star God began condensing a star crystal, Su Wen stopped him and asked about the universes, their alliances, their grudges, and any useful rumors.

Su Wen received the Second Epoch Incumbent Star God's memories and spent a year helping strengthen the Divine Fate Universe's nine legions. With the Incumbent God of Sleep asleep and the Third Epoch Star God ready, Su Wen prepared to launch their operation against the Remnant Clan.

• The Incumbent Star God gave Su Wen a modified memory crystal containing all his memories and inheritances before vanishing from the Trading Space.
• Over the next year, Su Wen used the Third Epoch's resources to strengthen the Frontier Battlefield's nine legions and was appointed Honorary Commander-in-Chief.
• The Third Epoch Star God explained that the Remnant Clan's defense mechanism took at least ten minutes to activate fully and outlined a plan to attack while it was only partly active.
• The Third Epoch Star God handed the Incumbent God of Sleep the attack plan, and she immediately fell asleep to begin the operation.
• The Third Epoch Star God told Su Wen that the Incumbent God of Sleep had fallen asleep, and Su Wen began communicating with the River of Fate as Fate Strike came into position.

Su Wen used the River of Fate’s perspective to target the Remnant Clan’s reserves and unleash a Fate Strike, destroying a tenth of their territory and crippling their defenses. He and the Third Epoch Star God then launched the Divine Fate Universe’s offensive, while neighboring universes fortified themselves amid speculation about the attack.

• Su Wen learned Fate Perspective came with the insurance package and used it to locate the Remnant Clan’s reserves in the Lord of the Remnant Clan’s territory.
• The River of Fate struck the selected region, wiping out a tenth of the Remnant Clan Universe and killing everyone in range, including powerful hidden beings.
• Su Wen and the Third Epoch Star God agreed that the Remnant Clan’s defenses were weakened and began the war.
• The Divine Fate Universe launched a fierce offensive while the Remnant Clan and nearby universes were stunned by the sudden attack.
• Experts in neighboring universes doubted that a true god could command such power but strengthened their defenses in case the claim was true.

Su Wen used his Wealth Source power to support the war against the Remnant Clan while planning to pressure the Will of the Universe and eventually devour nearby Aging Universes. The Third Epoch Heaven God then reported that the Will of the Universe had ordered a ceasefire, and Su Wen rejected the idea.

• Su Wen explained to the Third Epoch Star God that he wanted to spread his remaining fate strikes across multiple fronts rather than destroy the Remnant Clan outright.
• Su Wen said he planned to put their own universe under life-or-death pressure so its Will would not devour the neighboring Aging Universes before they could.
• The Third Epoch Star God agreed to arrange Su Wen's plan and asked whether Su Wen would soon leave.
• The Third Epoch Heaven God arrived and reported that the Will of the Universe wanted hostilities suspended after the Remnant Clan's Will had explained the situation.
• Su Wen objected to the ceasefire, arguing that they should exploit their advantage and stop the Remnant Clan from recovering.

Su Wen defied the Will of the Universe’s warning and took control of the Divine Fate Universe’s war strategy, arranging for the Third Epoch Star God to be placed under house arrest. The Divine Fate Universe then opened a second front against the Descender Universe, leaving its own forces questioning the decision.

• The Third Epoch Heaven God delivered the Will of the Universe’s warning, then left the decision about continuing the war to the commanders-in-chief.
• Su Wen learned from the Third Epoch Star God that the Heaven God was a solitary figure, and admitted that the future Star God had killed her.
• Su Wen told the Third Epoch Star God to let himself be placed under house arrest, and news spread that Su Wen had seized control of the war strategy.
• The Battle God woke the God of Sleep, who agreed to Su Wen’s war decisions after Su Wen offered him the choice of letting Su Wen leave or letting him direct the battlefield.
• The Divine Fate Universe launched an attack on the Descender Universe while still fighting the Immortal Clan, prompting discontent among its own powerhouses.