Chapter Summaries

Su Wen met Du Guowei after his lecture and heard about Star God, Battle God, and the fallen God of Wealth. Du Guowei’s account left Su Wen reflecting on Battle God’s lost companions and the God of Wealth’s forgotten life.

• Du Guowei ended his lecture early, then led Su Wen to a secluded place and asked if he was Martial God.
• Su Wen neither confirmed nor denied his identity and asked Du Guowei about Star God and Battle God.
• Du Guowei explained that Star God guarded the increasingly dangerous Mountain and Sea Main Battlefield, while Battle God oversaw battlefields across Huaxia.
• Du Guowei recalled that Battle God had once been lively, but grew quiet after Theater God and Martial God fell, Wind God defected, and Star God took charge of the main battlefield.
• Du Guowei told Su Wen that Battle God had called the days when their companions were together the happiest days of his life.
• Du Guowei said he knew little about the God of Wealth, who had been killed before he joined the journal and was later never mentioned by the other God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers.

Su Wen learned more about his past as the God of Wealth and contacted Wealth Spirit through Du Guowei. Wealth Spirit agreed to come to Suzhou and Hangzhou Martial Arts University, expecting to confront Du Guowei if the summons was not important.

• Su Wen concluded that his identity as the Martial God had helped him survive for over ten years and recalled persuading the River of Space-Time to destroy 195 Arrow Realms.
• Du Guowei tried to contact the Star God, but only reached his adjutant, then received no answer from the Battle God.
• Su Wen asked Du Guowei to look up Wealth Shadow and learned that Wealth Shadow had been killed by five King Rank outsiders in Year 30.
• Su Wen discovered that Wealth Spirit was still alive and told Du Guowei to summon him to Suzhou and Hangzhou Martial Arts University.
• Wealth Spirit, recovering from injuries at home, agreed to come and see why Du Guowei had spoken to him so imperiously.

Su Wen met Wealth Spirit in the future and revealed that he had crossed the timeline from the past, explaining that he lacked the Wealth Source to help Wealth Spirit advance immediately. Wealth Spirit offered his accumulated treasures as a way to obtain the needed Wealth Source, leaving Su Wen to decide whether to help him.

• Wealth Spirit arrived at Suzhou and Hangzhou Martial Arts University with a dramatic entrance, then concealed it and posted a modest explanation online after spotting Su Wen.
• Su Wen asked Du Guowei to accompany him elsewhere, and Wealth Spirit transported them to his manor and a hidden chamber of treasures.
• Wealth Spirit asked Su Wen to approve his advancement to Three-Ascension King, but Su Wen explained his identity and limited Wealth Source instead of agreeing at once.
• Wealth Spirit led Su Wen to a deeper vault filled with valuables and asked whether they could provide the Wealth Source needed for his advancement.
• In his diary, Su Wen credited a mysterious power and supportive readers for increasing his Wealth Source, then vowed to seek extra chapters from Xiamu.

Su Wen discovered that the River of Space-Time took nearly all the Wealth Source he absorbed from the future, leaving him to spend twenty Wealth Source to help Wealth Spirit advance. Wealth Spirit’s advancement benefited the beings he had summoned and revealed how his cultivation blessings bound them to him.

• Su Wen absorbed treasures from Wealth Spirit’s treasury but received only tiny amounts of Wealth Source.
• Sycee explained that the River of Space-Time charged a steep fee on wealth crossing from the future, and Su Wen realized the loss was nearly 99.999 percent.
• Sycee warned Su Wen not to complain to the River of Space-Time, and Su Wen said he knew better than to confront it while weak.
• Su Wen accumulated twenty Wealth Source, used the God of Wealth’s authority to permit Wealth Spirit to advance, and saw summoned beings benefit from the advancement.
• Su Wen learned that Wealth Spirit used money to link with beings from other worlds and cultivation blessings to keep them serving as his vanguard.

Wealth Spirit ascended to Three-Ascension King, and Du Guowei realized that the supposed Martial God was actually the God of Wealth in disguise. After refusing Wealth Spirit’s request to gather treasures from other Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearers, the God of Wealth learned how they had sacrificed themselves trying to avenge him and was asked to secretly help them.

• Wealth Spirit completed his ascension, and Du Guowei deduced that the Martial God was the God of Wealth in disguise.
• Wealth Spirit asked to summon the other Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearers so they could offer treasures in exchange for help ascending, but the God of Wealth explained the River of Space-Time’s handling fee instead.
• Wealth Spirit argued that the other bearers would gladly spend their savings to ascend because the path to wealth had been severed, then kowtowed as he pleaded for their help.
• Wealth Spirit recounted how Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearers had repeatedly sacrificed themselves in failed attacks against Wind God after the God of Wealth fell.
• After hearing their story, the God of Wealth was asked to secretly help the Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearers in the future space-time.

Su Wen chose to help the Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearers, hoping to give them and future sub-space-times hope despite the risk and uncertainty. With Du Guowei’s instruction, he learned to prepare the Martial Dao Secret Medicine, then turned his attention to Wealth Ghost’s treasures.

• Su Wen decided to spend his time in the future helping the Wealth Dao Heavenly Mandate Bearers and warned Wealth Spirit to keep his identity secret.
• Wealth Spirit summoned Wealth Ghost, who rushed over after sensing Su Wen’s presence and then left to gather his treasures.
• Du Guowei told Su Wen about recent Martial Dao developments and taught him the Martial Dao Secret Medicine formula and preparation method.
• Wealth Ghost returned with his treasures, laid them out separately from Wealth Spirit’s stash, and prepared for Su Wen’s use of them.
• After many attempts, Su Wen successfully mixed his first cup of Martial Dao Secret Medicine.
• Su Wen remembered Wealth Ghost and began reaching for the treasures he had brought.

Su Wen learned from Cai Meng that the future Shadow God had suffered a traumatic childhood and asked her for details that might let him find and save the boy in the past. As Su Wen considered intervening, Du Guowei announced that Star God had called back.

• Wealth Ghost and Wealth Spirit contacted their Wealth Dao friends, while Cai Meng hesitated to tell Su Wen what troubled her.
• Cai Meng told Su Wen about the Shadow God, a powerful Heavenly Mandate Bearer whose childhood misfortunes had left him hating society and killing human traffickers and corrupt officials.
• Su Wen realized he might be able to travel into the past and prevent the Shadow God's suffering, and he asked Cai Meng for identifying details.
• Cai Meng said the Shadow God was born around Shaoxing and awakened as a Heavenly Mandate Bearer around age twelve, after already enduring many misfortunes; she begged Su Wen to save him.
• Du Guowei rushed over and told Su Wen that Star God had called back.

Su Wen told Star God that local powers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were abusing the young Shadow God, Mo Xiao Su, and Star God urged him to rescue her. As Star God and Theater God learned the details, their anger rose and the office fell into a deathly silence.

• Star God told Su Wen that Mo Xiao Su had endured years of abuse and persecution, and asked him to hurry to rescue her.
• Su Wen went to Star God's office and reported that a Yin-Yang Sorcerer was trying to enslave the undetected God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearer, Shadow God.
• Star God became visibly unsettled by Su Wen's report, and Theater God noticed his anger.
• Theater God entered the office and asked why Star God had abandoned his usual calm.
• Star God explained the Yin-Yang Sorcerer's attempt to enslave Shadow God, and Theater God's insulated cup burst as the room fell into silence.

The Theater God and Su Wen rushed to save the newly awakened Mo Xiao Su from human traffickers who were acting on her adoptive father's orders. They rescued her before she was further harmed, while her despair awakened the Shadow God’s power.

• The Theater God learned that yin-yang sorcerer Huang Liang intended to enslave a God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearer, and Su Wen revealed Mo Xiao Su’s traumatic past.
• The Theater God and Su Wen arrived as human traffickers prepared to cripple Mo Xiao Su and sell her.
• Mo Xiao Su, drugged and overwhelmed by despair, awakened a shadowy aura and wished for the world to be destroyed.
• The Theater God killed the traffickers, while Su Wen carried Mo Xiao Su to safety in the Theatrical Phenomena World.
• The Theater God promised to comfort Mo Xiao Su when she woke and watched the sky with a blood-red light flickering in his eyes.

Su Wen learned from the Star God that the Wind God's rebellion had likely been genuine, since neither he nor the Battle God had known of any plan and the Theater God had died fighting. The Star God also revealed that the Theater God had been even stronger before his death, leaving Su Wen to confront how much his sacrifice had cost Huaxia.

• Su Wen reflected on saving Mo Xiao Su from the events that could have turned her into the Shadow God, and the interface confirmed she would become an ally in the next timeline.
• Su Wen asked the Star God whether the Wind God's rebellion had been genuine or staged.
• The Star God said he had known nothing about the rebellion and judged it real, citing the Wind God's contact with nonhumans, the Theater God's death, and the absence of any warning to him or the Battle God.
• The Star God recounted how Su Wen and the Theater God had destroyed Arrow Realms before dying in battle, helping keep Huaxia's situation from worsening further.
• Cai Meng asked how strong the Theater God had been, and the Star God said he had been even stronger before his death than he was now.

Su Wen learned that the Wind God’s rebellion was genuine and that the “Injustice to Dou E” script referred to the Wind God’s unjust death in another spacetime. The Theater God then tried to restore the unconscious Mo Xiao Su’s damaged state of mind with the Theatrical Phenomena World.

• The Star God explained that the Theater God’s failure to kill the Wind God had raised questions, but Su Wen’s account of the “Injustice to Dou E” script showed it concerned an unjust killing in another spacetime.
• Su Wen concluded that the Wind God had truly rebelled in this spacetime, though he felt troubled by the discovery and by the Wind God’s likely future contributions to Martial Dao research.
• Su Wen decided to share his concerns about the Wind God’s body-tempering method with the Star God.
• The Theater God appeared and found that Mo Xiao Su remained unconscious after suffering overwhelming fear and despair.
• The Theater God used the Theatrical Phenomena World to nourish Mo Xiao Su’s soul and said the child’s psychological problems should be manageable.

The Theater God and Star God tried to stabilize Mo Xiao Su’s prematurely awakening shadow-path divinity, while Su Wen sought advice from the Star God of the future spacetime. After hearing the detailed guidance, the Star God began gathering the stars’ power to help complete her awakening.

• The Theater God deduced that Mo Xiao Su’s shadow-path divinity was awakening early and might be incomplete, then sent Su Wen to summon the Star God.
• The Star God entered the Theatrical Phenomena World and drew on starlight to heal Mo Xiao Su and stabilize her soul while the Theater God tried to draw out her shadow-path divinity.
• Su Wen realized the Star God of the future spacetime might know how to help and received detailed instructions for using stellar power, the four great constellations, and the sun’s energy.
• Su Wen relayed the future Star God’s advice, and the Star God began gathering the stars from across the heavens.

The Star God and Theater God completed Mo Xiao Su’s Shadow Dao awakening and learned from Su Wen about the brutal future she had escaped. The Battle God then reported a massacre of Heavenly Mandate Bearers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not realizing the killer was Mo Xiao Su.

• The Star God and Theater God used the Star Grand Array and Theater Dao power to help awaken Mo Xiao Su’s Shadow Dao divinity, then placed her on a Dream Star Bed to soothe her.
• The Star God and Theater God discussed Mo Xiao Su’s severe childhood trauma and asked Su Wen what she had become in the future he observed.
• Su Wen described how Mo Xiao Su had witnessed her mother’s death, endured torture by human traffickers, and later fought off officials trying to enslave her after her awakening.
• The Battle God arrived and reported that a brutal killer had slaughtered Heavenly Mandate Bearers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, including a sixth-rank Yin-Yang Warlock.
• The Battle God asked who the girl on the bed was and noticed that her aura seemed unusual.

Theater God revealed that he had killed the yin-yang sorcerer who harmed Mo Xiao Su, and Star God sent Battle God to investigate and punish dangerous Heavenly Mandate Bearers nationwide. Su Wen raised concerns about traitors and learned that he could bring future Star God's insights into the main timeline by spending Wealth Source to appease the River of Space-Time.

• Theater God told Battle God that he had carried out the killing, and Su Wen explained what had happened to Mo Xiao Su.
• Battle God erupted with killing intent, but Theater God suppressed it and Star God gave Battle God information on dangerous Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• Star God sent Battle God to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to begin a nationwide inspection.
• Su Wen asked Star God whether traitors might exist among the Heavenly Mandate Bearers, and Star God suggested they discuss Shadow God and the matter privately.
• Su Wen checked the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface, where Sycee explained that he could transfer future Star God's insights to the main timeline by spending Wealth Source.

Su Wen learned that bringing the Star God's future insights back would incur a steep fee from the River of Space-Time, then heard about two hidden supreme treasures belonging to the Layi Clan. He told the Star God he had information about the treasures.

• Su Wen learned that the River of Space-Time would appraise the Star God's insights and charge Wealth Source to bring them back.
• Su Wen learned his first future item had been free because it was insignificant and he had only just begun using Wealth Disrupts Space-Time.
• The Star God began gathering his insights and told Su Wen that the Layi Clan possessed two hidden supreme treasures: the Spring of Life and the Layi Divine Sword.
• The Star God explained that the Layi Clan's secret vault lay a hundred thousand meters underground and had allowed the clan to recover its strength.
• Su Wen stood up and offered to tell the Star God about the Layi Clan's supreme treasures.

Su Wen told the Star God about the Layi Clan’s two supreme treasures and learned the Star God would fund his power. After Mo Xiao Su woke, the Star God comforted her and gave her the Dream Star Bed, leaving her gradually willing to speak.

• The Star God offered to cover the money Su Wen needed, and Su Wen agreed.
• Su Wen told the Star God that the Layi Clan possessed the Spring of Life, the Layi Divine Sword, and a hidden vault of reserves.
• The Star God asked whether Su Wen could absorb the Layi Clan’s valuables, and Su Wen said he could absorb anything of value.
• Mo Xiao Su woke on the Dream Star Bed and curled up in fear as the Theater God reassured her that her abusers had been punished.
• The Star God offered Mo Xiao Su the Dream Star Bed, which transformed into the Heart of the Stars, and she accepted it.
• The Star God spoke gently with Mo Xiao Su until she began answering, while the Theater God and Su Wen praised his kindness.

The Theater God and Su Wen discussed the Star God’s gift to Mo Xiao Su, then arranged a body-tempering method deal with Britain through the God of Magic. After the Star God introduced Mo Xiao Su to them, Su Wen and the Theater God cheered her up, leaving her laughing with them.

• The Theater God explained that the Heart of the Stars had once protected the Star God and might now protect the Shadow God.
• The Theater God offered Su Wen a welcome gift and agreed to sell the body-tempering method to Britain for ten billion pounds, with the God of Magic’s spellbook as a possible alternative payment.
• The Star God introduced Mo Xiao Su to the Theater God and Su Wen, explaining that they had come to save her from danger.
• The Theater God and Su Wen promised Mo Xiao Su that their home was hers and that they would protect her.
• The Theater God teased Su Wen for copying his comforting words, and Mo Xiao Su laughed as the two kept bickering.

Su Wen learned that bringing the Star God’s twenty years of insights across space-time would cost 10,000 Wealth Source, so the Star God urged him to seek treasures locally first and warned him about danger in Huaxia. Su Wen went with Du Guowei and three subordinates to the Martial Dao General Journal headquarters to view videos left by his Sub-Space-Time self, where a black box flew toward them and an image of the masked God of Wealth appeared.

• The Star God left to prepare for the Layi Clan, and Su Wen returned to his office after finding the Star God busy making a Star Weapon.
• The Sycee revealed that it had kept quiet in the Theater God’s Theatrical Phenomena World, and Su Wen reassured it that its intelligence was not a problem.
• The River of Space-Time valued the Star God’s insights at 10,000 Wealth Source and warned that transferring them would greatly affect space-time order.
• The Star God proposed gathering valuable treasures in the Sub-Space-Time instead of disrupting the main space-time, then left to suppress the invasion at the Mountain and Sea Main Battlefield.
• Su Wen took Du Guowei and Wealth Spirit, Cai Meng, and Wealth Ghost to the Martial Dao General Journal headquarters to find the sealed videos left by the Sub-Space-Time God of Wealth.
• A black box flew toward Su Wen in the editor-in-chief’s office, and an illusory image of him wearing a God of Wealth mask began to appear.

A future God of Wealth explained why the Arrow Realm races hunted him, warned against awakening Money Breaks Yin and Yang, and revealed why he had refused to advance to the seventh tier. He ended by cursing the Dragon Abyss Clan and other enemies, leaving the main timeline with a warning and a final wish to broadcast his message.

• The future God of Wealth said the Arrow Realm races pursued him for his wealth luck, which could eliminate cultivation bottlenecks, and that they could sever their ties to an Arrow Realm after killing him.
• He said divination and curses could no longer find them because of the River of Space-Time, and warned the listener to hide Bestowal until the Martial Dao's upper limit passed the sixth tier.
• The future God of Wealth and Star God had suspected Money Breaks Yin and Yang might resurrect the dead, but Theater God warned that the Dragon Abyss Clan's successor could inherit the ability after his death.
• The future God of Wealth said he had stayed at the sixth tier until he died to prevent the Dragon Abyss Clan from gaining Money Breaks Yin and Yang.
• He cursed the other races and Dragon Abyss Clan, mocked them for inheriting an incomplete God of Wealth divine position, and urged the listener to broadcast his words.

Su Wen promised his future self that he would avenge humanity and discussed how the Martial Dao’s growth could enable a counteroffensive against the Arrow Realms. The recording then explained the God of Wealth’s disguise as the Martial God, offered warnings about Earth Deities and Heavenly Officials, and called for Du Guowei.

• Su Wen vowed to destroy the other races of the Arrow Realms and said he would try Money Breaks Yin and Yang once the Martial Dao’s upper limit advanced.
• Su Wen reasoned that the Martial Dao might soon reach the sixth tier and allow humanity to launch a major counteroffensive.
• The recorded future self explained that Old Master Theater God used Theater Dao to imitate the Martial Dao and create a Martial God Mask, concealing the God of Wealth’s identity and fortune.
• The recorded future self warned Su Wen about hostile Earth Deities, identified several friendly ones, and said Heavenly Officials would help conceal him and offer divine artifacts through quests.
• The recorded future self advised Su Wen to treat the Heavenly Officials well, noted that Old Master Theater God could be helpful but might warrant suspicion, and asked Du Guowei to come forward.