Recaps

Su Luo declined to bring his Sanctuary and entered the career advancement dungeon, where he was assigned the identity of an Outsider and tasked with graduating from Adrian Academy. He arrived in Adrian, a strange city whose rules compressed his soul, and was taken away by psychiatric hospital staff as a crowd of locals offered their professions.

• Su Luo decided to leave his Sanctuary behind because the dungeon environment might destroy it and his other resources offered greater benefits.
• The Survival System teleported Su Luo to the dungeon, assigned him the identity of an Outsider, and gave him the mission to graduate from Adrian Academy.
• Su Luo found that Adrian's unusual rules had compressed his soul and limited his perception, though his strength remained unrestricted.
• Locals mistook Su Luo for a naked Outsider, and psychiatric hospital staff arrived to take him away after bystanders called the police.
• During the ride, Su Luo learned he was in Adrian and that the psychiatric staff would evaluate him, while others aboard introduced themselves as organ sellers and brothel keepers.

Su Luo learned that [Adrian] concealed outsiders’ strength and made local currency essential, then entered a free psychiatric evaluation. The doctor ended the interview by declaring that Su Luo had a mother complex and explaining his supposed motives for exposure.

• Su Luo asked why he could not appraise anyone’s strength, and the man in the white coat explained [Adrian]’s cognitive shielding.
• A man in a suit told Su Luo that [Adrian Academy] issued the local currency and offered him a loan with wildly worsening daily repayments.
• Su Luo rejected the loan offer and went into a white room for a psychiatric evaluation.
• Su Luo gave [Scholar] as his name and gender, then answered the middle-aged doctor’s questions.
• The doctor accused Su Luo of having a mother complex and claimed it drove him to seek intimacy through exposure.

Su Luo learned that [Adrian] was a high-energy artificial world centered on [Adrian Academy] and began conducting [Psychiatric Evaluations] after the doctor left. After Shang Yang described an impossible fourth roommate and paid Su Luo, a furious woman arrived looking for a missing patient and two hundred thousand in cash.

• Su Luo intimidated the middle-aged doctor into ending his evaluation, and the doctor declared him mentally healthy before leaving for the bathroom.
• Su Luo examined the terminal and learned about [Adrian], its dangerous conditions, and the importance of [Psychiatric Evaluations].
• Shang Yang told Su Luo he had been expelled from [Adrian Academy] after seeing only three people in a dorm room that supposedly held four.
• Shang Yang gave Su Luo two hundred thousand, and Su Luo completed his evaluation and told him to wait for his certificate.
• A woman in a white coat entered, complained that a patient called Baldy had run off, and said she had lost two hundred thousand; Su Luo smiled at the gathering of experts.

Su Luo explored Adrian’s psychiatric hospital with Shang Yang, then joined Shang Yang and a bald man for a meal that ended in an academy-enforced duel. The bald man planned to leave Adrian after explaining that his mother’s constant supervision kept him from pursuing his goals.

• Su Luo showed Shang Yang his mental evaluation certificate, and Shang Yang agreed to guide him around Adrian in exchange for money.
• Su Luo and Shang Yang found a workshop selling fake certificates, then met a bald man who had failed his evaluation and invited them to dinner.
• The bald man admitted he had no money to pay the restaurant’s bill, and Shang Yang summoned a black cat that incapacitated him through Adrian Academy’s conflict system.
• Shang Yang paid the bill, and the bald man thanked him because he had used his last life and could now leave Adrian.
• The bald man told Su Luo and Shang Yang that he had come to enroll at Adrian Academy but wanted to escape his mother’s supervision elsewhere.

Su Luo learned that earning enough to enter [Adrian Academy] would be difficult, so he searched for ways to make money and asked Shang Yang for advice. He rejected Shang Yang’s suggested companion-service scheme, then asked whether he could enter the academy through a free exam, only for Shang Yang and the bald man to dismiss the idea.

• Su Luo paid the bald man to let him try solving the bald man’s problem and gave him a Career Panel, which the bald man used to play mother-son pornography aloud.
• Su Luo bought necessities, a robe, and a phone, then learned that [Otherworlders] usually needed months of work to earn enough for admission to [Adrian Academy].
• Su Luo asked Shang Yang what work he planned to do, and Shang Yang explained that he had been expelled and needed to earn his way back into the academy.
• Shang Yang told Su Luo to offer risk-free companion services as a way to make quick money, but Su Luo refused to sell himself.
• Su Luo asked whether [Adrian Academy] offered a free entrance exam, and Shang Yang and the bald man insisted that learning required money.

Su Luo learned that admission to Adrian Academy required a costly, comprehensive assessment that even Shang Yang and the bald man had failed. After reaching the academy’s teleportation point, Su Luo reshaped its appearance through his perception and arrived at the vast complex, where he asked Shang Yang how large it was.

• The bald man explained that applicants paid a two-hundred-thousand registration fee and faced an assessment covering advanced knowledge across their supernatural systems, including how to advance to Demigod.
• Su Luo proposed borrowing money from Shang Yang and the bald man to enroll first and help them get admitted later, but the three discovered they had only two hundred and seventy thousand between them.
• At an Adrian Academy teleportation point, Su Luo saw the spatial rift as a Black Hole, then changed it into a gate of light through a shift in perception.
• Su Luo stepped through the gate and arrived at a seemingly world-spanning complex of white stone buildings, then asked Shang Yang how large Adrian Academy was.

Su Luo reached Adrian Academy and began registering for its entrance examination, learning that applicants needed a Demigod guarantor. Unable to name one, he left the field blank and entered the academy with Shang Yang and the bald man.

• Shang Yang explained that Adrian Academy was vast and that its entrance was called the [Back Door], a prestigious route for examination-passing geniuses.
• The bald man gave Su Luo a registration form and explained the exam choices and the privileges granted to [Work-Study Students].
• Su Luo chose Mana's [Analysis Faction], entered [Primordial Mana] as his cultivation Source, and saw that the form required a Demigod guarantor.
• Su Luo considered possible guarantors but left the field blank, saying he wanted to look around first.
• Su Luo, Shang Yang, and the bald man passed through the [Back Door] and arrived in a quiet white-stone hall with a cat at the reception desk.

Su Luo passed Adrian Academy’s entrance exam and entered as a Visiting Lecturer, while Shang Yang and the bald man were left to handle their own enrollment. After reclaiming the money he had lent them, Su Luo rented a faculty dormitory, bound and refined the Omnipotent Scepter, and began settling into academy life.

• Shang Yang left before the exam began, while Su Luo privately spoke with the white cat and stayed to take the examination.
• More than an hour later, Su Luo emerged with the bald man and revealed that he had been admitted; he gave each companion one million before heading to Adrian Academy.
• Su Luo entered through the Mentorship Gate and learned that he had been hired as a Visiting Lecturer with five million in Adrian currency and an Omnipotent Scepter.
• Finding that the faculty dormitory required a five-million deposit, Su Luo stopped Shang Yang and the bald man and took back the two million he had lent them.
• Su Luo rented a faculty dormitory, bound the Omnipotent Scepter to it, and refined the scepter after sensing its power to alter the dormitory’s fundamental parameters.

After binding the [Omnipotent Scepter], Su Luo entered the [Real World] and adjusted its parameters so he could survive and strengthen his Mental Singularity. He made Zuo Guxian his teaching assistant and began planning how to earn money at [Adrian Academy], where he intended to work as a teacher rather than a student.

• Su Luo deactivated [Cognitive Manifestation], switched to the [Real World], and adjusted its physical parameters to keep his soul from collapsing.
• Su Luo released Zuo Guxian, who thought the world was perfect for using his skills until Su Luo altered the parameters and knocked him down.
• Su Luo reshaped the [Omnipotent Scepter] into a bookmark and tried to inscribe its effects with [Genli Zhi Mo].
• Su Luo designated Zuo Guxian as a [Teaching Assistant] and decided to earn money before studying and conducting experiments.
• Su Luo reviewed the academy’s teaching rules and found that staff had broad freedom and high status, with penalties for misconduct toward students.

Su Luo accepted a difficult, high-paying mana-analysis course at Adrian Academy and quickly prepared to teach it. After giving his students the course knowledge and answering their questions, he realized some of them seemed not to have developed sapience.

• Su Luo chose the Mana-Type Particle Thermal-State Perception course, which paid 800,000, and accepted the teaching assignment.
• Su Luo reviewed the course material, practiced its experiments in the Dreamscape, and prepared to earn startup money before bringing in Zuo Guxian and another person.
• Su Luo entered the classroom, concealed his image, muted the thirty-two students, and infused the course knowledge directly into their souls.
• Su Luo let the students ask questions simultaneously and answered them one by one.
• Su Luo reacted to the students' questions and said some of them sounded as if they had not developed sapience.

Su Luo paused his lecture, revealed his students’ appearances, and questioned them about their backgrounds and confusion over Generalized Thermodynamics. He explained the concepts and criticized their poor understanding, then concluded that the students had not developed their intellect as far as they should have.

• Su Luo turned off the students’ [Image Concealment] and asked a student in white to identify himself and repeat his question about Generalized Thermodynamics and entropy.
• The student in white introduced himself as a Forbidden Spell archmage from [Senluo Weiduo Castle], sent by [Esmond] to study [Adrian]'s magic, and asked why adding energy could lower entropy.
• Su Luo surveyed the class and realized that many students, including [Demigods], struggled because their backgrounds and levels of knowledge varied widely.
• Su Luo explained Generalized Thermodynamics and told a student from [Moon God's Immortal Tears] that his [Otherworld Academic Ace System] was wrong about particles moving rapidly near absolute zero.
• Su Luo defended systems and other advantages as forms of cheats that changed with civilization’s development, then continued answering students’ questions.
• Su Luo felt the class had improved somewhat, but judged that the students had not reached the intellectual limits they should have achieved.

Su Luo delegated his first class to Zuo Guxian while he studied spacetime and methods of advancing to Demigod. After arranging an appraisal for the Aberrant Element, he accepted more teaching work and decided Zuo Guxian would teach nine more classes before they reconsidered their plans.

• Su Luo left his students to study independently and assigned Zuo Guxian to answer their questions as teaching assistant.
• Su Luo used the classroom and Dreamscape time acceleration to study spacetime theory and review methods of advancing to Demigod.
• After class, Zuo Guxian complained that he had handled the lesson while Su Luo stayed quiet, and Su Luo asked whether the students had learned anything.
• Su Luo submitted the Aberrant Element for an expedited appraisal report, paying an 800,000 deposit toward the expected fees.
• Su Luo checked the Teaching System and told Zuo Guxian to teach nine more classes before they decided whether to continue teaching or pursue their own studies.

Su Luo reviewed Demigod advancement paths while helping Zuo Guxian teach at Adrian Academy, and Zuo Guxian agreed that the String Civilization should formally enter the Sun System. After recording a resurrection point, Su Luo left to explore the academy and study the first advancement method, Body Foundation Advancement.

• Su Luo asked Zuo Guxian how he felt after teaching five classes, then offered him technology-based courses instead of difficult supernatural-system lessons.
• Zuo Guxian agreed with Layton’s proposal for the String Civilization to enter the Sun System and outlined plans to resume construction, deal with nearby civilizations, contact the Butterfly Civilization, and use a hidden Dark Star as a weapon.
• Su Luo forwarded Zuo Guxian’s proposals, gave Shang Yang and the baldy money for enrollment, and told them to enroll at Adrian Academy.
• Su Luo postponed his class, placed an upgraded Physical Configuration Backup Pod in the staff dormitory, and recorded a Resurrection point before leaving to explore the academy.
• Su Luo studied his Advancement Outline and began reviewing Body Foundation Advancement, which required all three Attributes to reach 32 points for complete Demigod advancement.

Su Luo studied the routes to [Demigod] advancement and chose to keep gathering knowledge rather than rush into advancement. At [Adrian Academy], he arranged for Yun Xiaoxiao to receive [Adrian's Blessing] so she could act as his adjudicator, then took his companions to the Library to study.

• Su Luo recorded the many ways to advance Strength and explained that [Transcendent Path Advancement] was far safer than [Body Foundation Advancement].
• Zuo Guxian asked whether Su Luo would pursue [Body Foundation Advancement] or the Mana side of [Transcendent Path Advancement], and Su Luo said their goal was to gain knowledge.
• Su Luo bought an [Adjudication Slot], but found that his clones and Observer could not serve as his designated Vassal.
• Yun Xiaoxiao volunteered, transformed into a silver-white cat under [Adrian's Blessing], and landed on Su Luo's shoulder.
• Su Luo loaded one million into [Adjudication] and teleported the group to the Library, where he sorted through purchased materials.
• Baldy asked why Su Luo had bought so many materials, and Su Luo told Yun Xiaoxiao to stop licking her fur in the Library.

Su Luo assigned Shang Yang and the bald man to infiltrate the work-study students and find research projects related to Demigod advancement, with Yun Xiaoxiao and Adjudication backing them. He then resumed studying advancement methods, focusing on the distinctions between technological and transcendent paths before turning to Mana advancement.

• Su Luo ordered Shang Yang and the bald man to investigate work-study students' Demigod advancement research projects because he needed resources and hoped to earn money.
• Shang Yang and the bald man doubted they could handle the work-study students, and they argued over the intelligence of people and dogs.
• Su Luo assigned Yun Xiaoxiao's Adjudication to accompany them, then used his authority to eject the three from the Library.
• Yun Xiaoxiao said whipping them had cost thirty thousand, while Shang Yang and the bald man complained about the beating.
• Su Luo reopened the Advancement Outline and reviewed how technological advancement related to the transcendent path, then moved on to Mana advancement methods.

Su Luo studied advancement paths across mana and Martial Dao, finding that many shared underlying principles despite their different forms. An unexpected visitor appeared across from him in the Library of [Adrian Academy] and asked him to explain his view of their similarities.

• Su Luo reviewed the mainstream Mana—Elemental Orthodoxy Path and judged its risk of elemental assimilation to be flawed.
• Su Luo studied the Mana—Self-Consistent Path, also called [Secondhand Cup], and connected its Small World concept to the Heavenly Dao and the forty-nine Fruit Positions.
• Su Luo examined Martial Dao advancement paths, including Resonance and Idealist, and noted how their principles differed from or remained unknown to him.
• A stranger appeared in the seat across from Su Luo, despite every Library seat being an independent space and Su Luo having driven everyone out.
• Su Luo explained that different advancement paths resembled trails up the same mountain, then recognized the stranger and felt a cold sweat trickle down.

Su Luo met Notherland in the Career Advancement Dungeon and learned that the [Eye of Guixu] was a form of identification. After she vanished, he decided to contact Joyce of the West Thirty-Fourth Courtyard and resumed reviewing advancement paths, finding the Cultivation-Enlightenment Path promising.

• Su Luo found Notherland waiting across from him in the Career Advancement Dungeon and asked what the [Eye of Guixu] did.
• Notherland said the [Eye of Guixu] was a form of identification and told Su Luo to contact Joyce of the West Thirty-Fourth Courtyard.
• Notherland vanished, and Su Luo inferred that the Morningstar Wizard might be connected to Joyce and that the [Eye of Guixu] had not caused the white cat to mistake him for an expert.
• Su Luo asked Yun Xiaoxiao to find Joyce, then returned to reading the Advancement Outline.
• Su Luo examined the Cultivation-Enlightenment Path and concluded that it could lead to the Cultivation-Self-Consistent Path.

Su Luo studied cultivation and faith-based paths, learning that faith required World Authority and that the gods of Divine Court World had monopolized most of it. After spending nearly all his funds, he told Yun Xiaoxiao the sobering news, and she sent Shang Yang and Baldy to gather information at the West Thirty-Fourth Courtyard without giving them money.

• Su Luo studied several cultivation paths, including Merit and Karma, then compared the Elder Gods and New Gods faith paths.
• Su Luo concluded that faith required World Authority, and learned that the fifteen chief gods of Divine Court World had monopolized nearly all the world's powers.
• Su Luo found that he could not afford more research after spending nearly all his 1.34 billion, so he informed Yun Xiaoxiao and went to class.
• Yun Xiaoxiao told Shang Yang and Baldy to gather information at the West Thirty-Fourth Courtyard, where they planned to use her lecturer's authority to disguise themselves.
• When Shang Yang asked for funding, Yun Xiaoxiao refused and told them to support themselves, leaving them joking that they might as well sell themselves.

Yun Xiaoxiao, Shang Yang, and Baldy sought money and a route to the West Thirty-Fourth Courtyard, while Su Luo asked Zuo Guxian about developing Source Essence through the Mana—Elemental Orthodox Path. The group set out to investigate Work-Study Students’ advancement and find someone assigned by the Scholar, as Su Luo described a plan to combine multiple Paths.

• Shang Yang proposed borrowing money after Yun Xiaoxiao revealed she had only nine hundred and seventy thousand, and Baldy joked about finding other ways to earn it.
• Shang Yang led Baldy and Yun Xiaoxiao to the Adrian Heaven and Earth Bank, where the floating book barred Shang Yang and Baldy as new students.
• A Work-Study Student named Mendel offered Shang Yang and Baldy a loan, then fled when someone accused him of lending research funding.
• Yun Xiaoxiao borrowed ten million, and Shang Yang found a teleportation route to the West Thirty-Fourth Courtyard for their search into Work-Study Students’ advancement and the Scholar’s assigned person.
• Su Luo asked Zuo Guxian about using Source Essence for the Mana—Elemental Orthodox Path, then outlined a plan to combine several Paths and pursue the Mana—Self-Consistent Path.

Su Luo reviewed his advancement plans and the Dreamscape’s growing capabilities, then began using a simulated world to investigate the Self-Consistent Path. The chapter ended as he created a lightless world and left its evolution to unfold.

• Zuo Guxian questioned whether Su Luo had the resources to advance along so many Paths, and Su Luo said he intended to gather resources and advance all at once.
• Zuo Guxian continued the lecture and reflected on Su Luo’s theories of Source and Transmigration, connecting them to quantum mechanics and the nature of the world.
• Xiao Luo reported that Su Luo had reached the seventh level of the Ruin Dream Technique with thirteen million Dreamscape Depth, while the Great Holy Spirit’s capabilities and Xiao Xiao Luo Kin continued to grow.
• Su Luo tested the Dreamscape Small World, set its simulation to maximum accuracy with one planet, and ordered the world’s Evolution to begin.
• Su Luo summoned a vast Fixed Star-level soul and formed a lightless, high-pressure world from Dreamscape rules, leaving its Evolution to determine what happened next.

Jiang Mengrui confronted Yunxiao Immortal Emperor in the [Boundless Sea], where he challenged her to a contest over their futures. As they watched the contest begin, Jiang Mengrui reflected on the limits and cost of luck, leaving her wary of powerful beings who could distort fate.

• Jiang Mengrui said the [Boundless Sea] Career Advancement Dungeon required her to control a region, but she sensed something important was happening there.
• Yunxiao Immortal Emperor arrived in the [Boundless Sea] and dismissed it while eyeing Jiang Mengrui as a potential victim.
• Jiang Mengrui proposed wagering their lives on a coin toss, but Yunxiao Immortal Emperor refused and demanded a contest to reclaim his future.
• Jiang Mengrui used the sea’s rules to send their fates into a false worldline where they would compete from the same starting point.
• Jiang Mengrui considered how luck altered probability and feared that powerful beings who could distort causality might exploit her.

Jiang Mengrui waited for the misfortune that balanced her extraordinary luck, while Tali Lang redefined his faith and became the Lord of Contracts. Su Luo reviewed Survivors’ advancement Dungeons and shared his Mana-side guide as Silver Badges debated how difficult it was to advance along an extraordinary path.

• Jiang Mengrui corrected the false worldline’s scales of victory and waited for her own misfortune to arrive.
• Tali Lang reflected on the meaning of Contracts and rejected a faith in which only believers were bound to fulfill obligations.
• Tali Lang declared that he would deny his God and define a new Lord, becoming the Lord of Contracts at the lost altar.
• Su Luo reviewed reports from class advancement Dungeons and arranged for the Mutual Aid Association to share his guide to extraordinary paths.
• Silver Badge Survivors discussed whether they could enter an advancement Dungeon before a Large Dungeon and complained about the time required to advance along the Elemental Path.

Su Luo took the Lecturer Free-Course Test at Adrian Academy so he could offer courses on advancement and potentially reach work-study students. He began answering the exam’s difficult questions, while Zuo Guxian wondered why the academy’s white cat treated him with respect.

• Su Luo watched Survivors discuss long-term growth and concluded that they finally had time to think beyond immediate survival.
• After Demigod Zuo finished his ten lectures, Su Luo went to take the Lecturer Free-Course Test to qualify to offer courses of his choice.
• The white cat receptionist recognized Su Luo and respectfully directed him to the test.
• Su Luo examined the challenging sandbox exam, which tested knowledge, creativity, and inspiration across multiple transcendent paths.
• Zuo Guxian asked why the white cat treated Su Luo so well, and Su Luo began answering questions about advancement concepts.

Black Ghost and the other debt-ridden Enshrined Ones entered London Ete's Theater Box, where an Outer God and a powerful actor transformed the city into an endless stage. The Enshrined Ones revealed their true forms and prepared to fight.

• Black Ghost read the mission briefing, which required the Enshrined Ones to kill three stage protagonists, lead the ending toward tragedy, and expel an Outer God.
• Black Ghost asked Song Shige how many missions he had left, but Song Shige did not answer.
• The Enshrined Ones arrived in the rainy streets of London Ete's Theater Box and noticed that the mission differed from their usual deployments.
• Black Ghost and the others spotted a top-hatted actor in the fog and a green eye watching from beyond the world.
• The actor attacked, transforming the city into an immense theater stage as the Enshrined Ones revealed their true forms.
• The battle began three seconds after the Enshrined Ones and the actor met.

After completing his mandatory quests, Song Shige waited in the Gray Fog and considered how to advance his powers. At Adrian Academy, Shang Yang and Baldy tried to meet work-study students at a bar while Su Luo prepared a course to attract them.

• Black Ghost watched the Evil God flee, asked the Demon King whether his debt was paid, and was teleported out after completing his quests.
• Song Shige reviewed his gains and considered pursuing true damage as a path to advancing his Strength.
• Shang Yang and Baldy went to the Yin-Yang Dojo to seek work-study students, while Yun Xiaoxiao left to investigate a visiting lecturer.
• Su Luo passed Adrian Academy’s qualification exam and gained permission to offer courses freely.
• Su Luo opened a course on unorthodox, infinite-stacking Mana advancement for work-study students, then told Zuo Guxian to go to class.