Chapter Summaries

Shen Yuan created a tiny creature from the blood of the four great Old Gods, and the sages planned to accelerate its growth with the Hourglass of Time in the Caverns of Time. As they prepared to attack the Bronze Dragons’ stronghold, Merlin suggested they name the creature first.

• Shen Yuan combined the blood of Y'Shaarj, C'Thun, Yogg-Saron, and N'Zoth, producing a small, tentacled creature with the powers of all four Old Gods.
• Shen Yuan explained that the creature would need tens of thousands of years to mature, but Kairoz said the Hourglass of Time could accelerate its growth in the Caverns of Time.
• Kairoz offered to guide the sages into the Caverns of Time, and the group agreed to attack the Bronze Dragons with Naiser's Purgatory Legion serving as cannon fodder.
• Merlin proposed that the sages choose a name for the creature before they set out.

Shen Yuan named the combined Old God Overlord and assured the Council of Sages that genetic commands would keep it from harming them or disobeying him. The group then prepared to invade the Caverns of Time with Naiser's demon army, while Kairoz explained how they planned to prevent the defenders from hiding it in another timeline.

• Shen Yuan explained that Overlord combined the control abilities of all four Old Gods, and Xiao Yu and Medivh worried it might turn against its creators.
• Shen Yuan revealed that he had genetically bound Overlord to protect the Council of Sages and obey his orders, easing the group's concerns.
• Naiser and Medivh built a permanent Abyssal Gate, and fifty thousand demons gathered in the desert near the Caverns of Time.
• Kairoz explained that the bronze dragonflight's Time Barrier could hide the Caverns of Time in another timeline, so he and another sage would infiltrate and kill the overseer during the attack.
• Kairoz said the Council of Time consisted of twelve bronze dragons, though only about a third were usually present at the Caverns of Time.

Xiao Yu used Shen Yuan’s test-item mask to disguise himself as a level 60 human mage and entered the Caverns of Time with Kairoz. They reached the cavern’s main hall, where Xiao Yu saw the bronze dragons’ formidable presence as they prepared to head for the Time Barrier’s control room.

• Naiser declined to accompany Kairoz because he had to command the demon army, so Xiao Yu agreed to go instead.
• Shen Yuan gave Xiao Yu an Adventurer’s Mask, which let him create a level 60 human mage identity with mage equipment and abilities.
• Xiao Yu put on the mask and traveled with Kairoz, who transformed into a bronze dragon and carried him to the Caverns of Time.
• The mask let the pair pass through the bronze dragon guards’ camp and enter the Caverns of Time without raising suspicion.
• Xiao Yu and Kairoz walked past frozen scenes from history and reached the main hall, where they saw many elite dragonkin guards and adult dragons.

Xiao Yu and Kairoz infiltrated the Time Barrier control room and killed its bronze dragon guards as Naiser’s demon army attacked the Caverns of Time. The demons broke through the entrance, and the Council of Time realized the barrier had not been activated.

• Kairoz explained that Maijiaer guarded the Hourglass of Time, and warned Xiao Yu that stealing it would provoke the Bronze Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yu and Kairoz entered the monitoring room, where the bronze dragon monitors spotted Naiser’s demon army approaching.
• Kairoz attacked one monitor while Xiao Yu killed the other and froze and shattered the dragonkin guards.
• Xiao Yu summoned giant stone elementals to block the passage while he and Kairoz prepared to hold the control room.
• Naiser cut down the bronze dragon warlord and ordered the Purgatory Legion to storm the Caverns of Time.
• Three members of the Council of Time questioned why Draka and Dewala had not activated the Time Barrier.

Chromie led bronze dragons to investigate the attack on the Caverns of Time, but Kairoz and Xiao Yu’s fight caused the Time Barrier’s energy reserve to explode. Xiao Yu was swept into a strange white world, where he found a gate overlooking a cavern and saw a figure identical to himself.

• Chromie ordered the bronze dragons to defend the Caverns of Time and teleport into the monitoring room after stone elementals blocked their way.
• Chromie arrived in the monitoring room and confronted Kairoz, who revealed that he planned to seize the Hourglass of Time with the outsiders.
• Xiao Yu attacked Chromie, and other bronze dragons teleported in and restrained him with Time Shackles.
• Xiao Yu unleashed Elemental Storm, forcing the dragons to defend themselves and shattering the container holding the Time Barrier’s reserve energy.
• A silent explosion engulfed Xiao Yu and the others, leaving Xiao Yu alone in a boundless white world.
• Xiao Yu found an iron gate overlooking a cavern and saw a figure with his own appearance approaching in the distance.

Xiao Yu escaped the time storm with help from his future self, who warned him that Shen Yuan was hiding another scheme and gave him an Hourglass of Time to pass along. After Shen Yuan’s forces seized a second hourglass from Maijiaer, Xiao Yu gave Shen Yuan the one with fewer Sands of Time.

• Xiao Yu recognized the white realm as the Prison of the Gods and failed to convince his past self to release him from cell thirteen.
• Xiao Yu’s future self appeared, warned him about Shen Yuan, and gave him an Hourglass of Time to hand over later.
• The Hourglass of Time’s Time Shield let Xiao Yu break free of the time storm and return to the Time Barrier’s main control room.
• Naiser killed Maijiaer during the battle, and Xiao Yu picked up the hourglass that Maijiaer had dropped.
• Xiao Yu chose the hourglass with fewer Sands of Time and handed it to Shen Yuan at the abandoned temple.

Shen Yuan raised the Overlord and assembled forces for an eventual attack on the Pantheon, then summoned major heroes and villains to an abandoned temple. He promised to reveal the truth behind their questions, leaving the gathered figures waiting for his explanation.

• Shen Yuan found only a little over a thousand Sands of Time in the Hourglass of Time, then planned to raise the Overlord in the Twisting Nether and attack the Pantheon after seven days.
• Xiao Yu found the battle at the Elemental Throne locked in a costly stalemate and assembled an army of more than two million for the coming assault.
• A week later, the Council of Sages saw the fully grown Overlord, whose power unsettled them, and Shen Yuan said he intended to use it against the adventurers.
• Shen Yuan invited the sages to an abandoned temple on the night of the full moon, where Illidan, Arthas, Maiev Shadowsong, Jaina, Sylvanas, Varian Wrynn, Azshara, Onyxia, Thrall, and other important figures appeared.
• Shen Yuan descended before the gathered heroes and villains and promised to reveal the truth behind the questions and confusion in their lives.

Shen Yuan revealed that the heroes and villains were being controlled by a predetermined story, then showed them a book detailing their pasts and future fates. The gathering ended with the characters reacting to their predicted deaths, betrayals, and other disasters, while Shen Yuan claimed they could still change what happened.

• Shen Yuan told the gathered heroes and villains that an invisible force had shaped their choices and destinies.
• Azshara admitted she had acted under outside influence, and Ner'zhul appeared to explain that he had escaped the force controlling him.
• Naiser revealed that even the Burning Legion was following orders, and Xiao Yu said he had destroyed Stormwind and Orgrimmar under orders.
• Shen Yuan gave each person a copy of the Sky World Plot Design Outline, which recorded their pasts and future fates.
• Arthas, Illidan, Kael'thas, Sylvanas, Jaina, and others reacted to their predicted deaths, betrayals, and tragedies.
• Shen Yuan said most of the book's events would happen if things continued as they were, but that they could still be stopped.

Shen Yuan explained that fate would thwart attempts to change the future and warned that adventurers were an overlooked, seemingly endless force. He exposed impossible population growth among blood elves and orcs, leaving Thrall and the others questioning where their people had come from.

• Kael'thas asked how they could prevent the future, while Arthas suggested killing Tirion Fordring or taking the Ashbringer.
• Shen Yuan said Arthas could not easily kill Tirion because fate protected important characters, and explained that destiny would keep arranging heroes and adventurers to defeat Arthas.
• Arthas realized he had never considered adventurers, and Shen Yuan pointed out that their numbers and apparent immortality made them a threat.
• Shen Yuan questioned how the blood elves could have over a million adult adventurers when their total population was around a million.
• Shen Yuan asked Thrall how many orcs he had brought to Kalimdor, then traced their losses through wars and asked how their population had grown to several million in less than ten years.

Shen Yuan told the gathered heroes and villains that the Hand of Fate had manipulated their histories and futures, identifying him as the God of Holy Light. He arranged for Lilith to summon the god’s projection so he could confront him, and the God of Holy Light appeared in a pillar of light.

• Shen Yuan explained that the Hand of Fate had distorted population numbers and arranged the characters’ pasts and futures.
• Onyxia asked whether the Hand of Fate was a person, and Shen Yuan identified him as the God of Holy Light.
• Varian rejected Shen Yuan’s claim, while Shen Yuan insisted he would prove it.
• Shen Yuan called Lilith forward and asked her to summon the God of Holy Light’s projection.
• Merlin raised a Fate Field to hide the confrontation from the others, and Lilith prayed to summon the god.
• The God of Holy Light appeared before Shen Yuan as an image within a huge pillar of light.

Shen Yuan confronted Li Mingfei, the God of Holy Light, and pretended to seek a job in Sky World in exchange for revealing hidden secrets. As Li Mingfei grew suspicious and threatened to have him imprisoned, the holy light vanished, leaving the encounter unresolved.

• Lilith introduced Shen Yuan to the God of Holy Light, who recognized him as Li Mingfei and threatened legal action for entering Sky World.
• Shen Yuan reminded Li Mingfei that they had created Sky World together and argued over whether its NPCs should follow a fixed plot or choose freely.
• Shen Yuan offered to work for Li Mingfei and disclose hidden secrets in Sky World, and they haggled over his salary.
• Onyxia, Arthas, Maiev Shadowsong, and Illidan reacted with disbelief as the gathered figures realized the God of Holy Light had helped design their world and its fates.
• Li Mingfei noticed that the abandoned hall was unnaturally clean, suspected Shen Yuan was plotting something, and threatened to send him to prison.
• Li Mingfei left, and the holy light faded away.

Shen Yuan revealed that the God of Holy Light, Li Mingfei, and the adventurers came from another world and had shaped Sky World’s events as a story. Enraged by the revelation, leaders from both the Alliance and Horde agreed to join Shen Yuan’s assault on the Pantheon, set to begin at dawn under the code name Twilight of the Gods.

• After the God of Holy Light vanished, Shen Yuan explained that he and the adventurers were beings from a higher dimension who entered Sky World through projections.
• Shen Yuan revealed that Li Mingfei and other gods had written the Book of Fate and arranged the world’s tragedies and destinies for dramatic stories.
• Kael'thas, Arthas, Azshara, Maiev Shadowsong, and Illidan confronted Shen Yuan about the suffering and betrayals written into their lives.
• Shen Yuan offered to lead them against the Pantheon and promised to free Sky World from its scripted fate, saying he had at most three days before Li Mingfei sent him to prison.
• Maiev Shadowsong, Illidan, the Forsaken, Azshara, and representatives of the Alliance and Horde pledged to join the attack.
• Shen Yuan ordered the allies to gather their armies and announced that the assault would begin at dawn under the code name Twilight of the Gods.

A vast coalition entered the Divine Realm through Medivh and Lilith’s Gate of Heaven to attack the Pantheon. Xiao Yu’s forces overwhelmed its guards and split up to target Elune and the divine guardians, while the game company mobilized to respond.

• Medivh and Lilith’s Gate of Heaven opened, allowing millions of troops from Sky World’s factions and the World Destruction Legion to enter the Divine Realm.
• Xiao Yu chose to assault the Pantheon directly and assigned forces to fight Elune and her four guardians on the seventh floor.
• The coalition marched through the mist and defeated the Pantheon’s guards at its gates.
• The army reached the Moon Goddess Temple, divided its forces among the assigned targets, and sent the main force toward Elune.
• The game company erupted into an uproar, and Li Mingfei logged into the game after repeated calls.

Li Mingfei woke to find the Pantheon dungeon under attack as the allied monster army reached Elune, Moon Goddess. Xiao Yu and the other bosses began fighting her, and Xiao Yu realized that his Spirit of Chaos Empowerment might help them overcome her defenses.

• Players spread news that the monster army had entered the Pantheon, but Li Mingfei learned of the attack only after waking and logging in.
• Li Mingfei saw that Elune's guards were nearly defeated, and the final Moon Knight's death brought forth Elune, Moon Goddess.
• Xiao Yu assessed Elune's powers and recognized that chaos damage could bypass her Holy Armor.
• Azathoth called for Elune's death, and the monster army attacked her as she unleashed Divine Moonfire and destroyed scores of minions.
• The hero bosses surrounded Elune and dealt damage, while Xiao Yu considered using Spirit of Chaos Empowerment to strengthen an ally.

Xiao Yu’s forces overwhelmed Elune, and the Moon Goddess fell, weakening the Pantheon and affecting the world. Li Mingfei responded by ordering an emergency defense of the God of Holy Light and violently silencing Zhang Xinghun’s objection.

• Xiao Yu used Mass Spirit of Chaos Empowerment to strengthen his melee forces, heroes, bosses, and elite units against Elune.
• Elune unleashed powerful area spells, but the enormous army kept attacking until her health ran out and she vanished in a burst of light.
• A world announcement declared Elune’s fall, and the moon dimmed as druids lost access to Moonfire and related skills weakened.
• Li Mingfei realized the God of Holy Light could be the next to fall and ordered contingency plan 645, summoning contracted players and adventurers to defend the Pantheon.
• Zhang Xinghun questioned whether gathering former enemies made sense for the story, so Li Mingfei beat him unconscious and ordered everyone else to act.

Shiqian and his guildmates answered the God of Holy Light’s call and joined the defenders gathered at the Pantheon. As the enemy reached the gate, Li Mingfei prepared the heroes and adventurers for battle, knowing Odin had already fallen.

• Shiqian’s dungeon party received the God of Holy Light’s summons and abandoned their run to teleport to the Pantheon.
• Shiqian and his friends arrived in the vast temple as hundreds of thousands of adventurers, heroes, and monsters gathered to defend it.
• The God of Holy Light announced that Elune had fallen and granted the defenders buffs that allowed adventurers to revive after death.
• Shiqian’s party rushed toward the gate, where a world announcement reported that Odin had fallen and the Pantheon’s faction rating had dropped to “invincible.”
• Jiang Zeyan told Li Mingfei that the police were on their way to arrest Shen Yuan, while Li Mingfei dismissed concerns about Xiao Yu and vowed to defeat them.
• As the enemy blasted the bronze gate, Li Mingfei urged the company’s heroes and bosses to fight for Sky World, and the gate opened.

The adventurers charged into a seemingly endless monster army, but their numbers and willingness to respawn let them hold the line as Shen Yuan moved toward the hall. Deathwing attacked the adventurers and was trapped by the God of Holy Light, then accused him of a plot, startling Li Mingfei.

• The adventurers rushed through the bronze doors, recoiled at the monster horde, and then fought back as guild formations and rear-line spellcasters held the monsters at bay.
• Xiao Yu worried that Li Mingfei had gathered adventurers as cannon fodder, while Shen Yuan said he would deal with them once more arrived.
• Shen Yuan rode Overlord into the hall to confront the God of Holy Light.
• Deathwing charged through the adventurers, killing thousands with his flames, but the God of Holy Light trapped him in a pillar of light.
• Deathwing accused the God of Holy Light of a revealed plot and rejected madness and destruction as his fate, leaving Li Mingfei shocked that Deathwing knew about his design.

Shen Yuan and the other bosses confronted Li Mingfei, the God of Holy Light, over the truth about Sky World and the control of their destinies. After Deathwing launched the first attack, the final battle began, with the major heroes and bosses splitting into matchups while Li Mingfei, Shen Yuan, and Xiao Yu held back.

• Thrall, Varian Wrynn, Kael'thas, Illidan, Sylvanas, and Arthas accused Li Mingfei of manipulating their fates, and Li Mingfei realized Shen Yuan had revealed the truth.
• Shen Yuan urged Li Mingfei to surrender and log out, while Xiao Yu and Naiser explained why they had joined the rebellion; Li Mingfei dismissed Shen Yuan's warnings and trusted his immortal adventurers.
• Deathwing attacked with dragonfire, triggering both sides to begin the final battle, and Shen Yuan and Li Mingfei ordered their forces to fight.
• Jaina and Medivh faced Esmehalda and Feierdenan, Thrall and High Overlord Saurfang fought Ox and the orc heroes, and Arthas and Ner'zhul confronted Samat and the Necrolord.
• The Dragon Covenant clashed with Deathwing, Onyxia, and Nefarian, while Alliance heroes fought Varian; Kael'thas faced Elena, and Illidan and his council fought the Demon Lord and his servants.
• The battle spread into a fierce melee across the battlefield, while Li Mingfei, Shen Yuan, Xiao Yu, and several other key figures remained still.

Shen Yuan’s forces gained the upper hand in the Pantheon, but the adventurers’ endless resurrection threatened to overwhelm them. He revealed that the Overlord could seize control of adventurers’ game permissions, and the chapter ended as the God of Holy Light summoned the Scepter of All Gods.

• Illidan slew the Demon Lord, Arthas and the other Lich King defeated the Necromantic Lord, and Deathwing killed Sirod the Ancient Black Dragon while other battles continued.
• Adventurers overwhelmed the monsters, prompting Xiao Yu to ask Shen Yuan whether they should send more troops; Shen Yuan said the Overlord could solve the problem.
• The Overlord rose into the air and released purple streams that transformed adventurers into his servants, and their protective skills could not stop the control.
• Shen Yuan explained that the Overlord had seized the adventurers’ game permissions, leaving them unable to log out or use private messages, and ordered them to attack the God of Holy Light.
• The God of Holy Light sent the other bosses to attack the Overlord and summoned the Scepter of All Gods as the enemy army surrounded him.

Shen Yuan explained that the Scepter of All Gods held the scattered godhood power and could grant divine offices, while concealing his plans to use it to gain control of Sky World. Xiao Yu doubted Shen Yuan would keep his promise and logged out to contact a trusted associate about a major deal.

• Kairoz asked Shen Yuan how the gathered heroes and bosses could become gods, and Shen Yuan explained the role of godhood in granting divine power.
• Shen Yuan revealed that the Scepter of All Gods contained the godhood fragments and could bestow divine offices on qualified targets.
• Shen Yuan privately considered how taking the scepter could give him control over the game system and optical computer resources.
• Xiao Yu grew suspicious of Shen Yuan and imagined using the scepter to claim power and pursue his own ambitions.
• Xiao Yu logged out and called a trusted contact, offering to make a very big deal.