Chapter Summaries

Su Luo traded for an Epic soul weapon and gave an incomplete Epic system to a Xiao Xiao Luo before delegating his research and other responsibilities to Zuo Guxian. He left Zuo Guxian to help Yun Xiaoxiao and manage the work while he focused on studying and enhancing items for the next District War.

• Su Luo traded loot with Song Shige for the Spirit Pivot Soul-Slaying Orb, an Epic item suited to his soul attacks.
• Su Luo gave the incomplete Epic Attribute Allocation System to Xiao Xiao Luo No. 9432, which began imagining its new life with a cheat.
• Su Luo assigned Zuo Guxian responsibility for his experiments, materials, communications, and helping Yun Xiaoxiao if needed.
• Su Luo explained that his investments in other Survivors would help cover the Survival Coins needed to enhance his items.
• Su Luo left Zuo Guxian with Xiao Xiao Luo No. 9432 and told him to encourage Yun Xiaoxiao.

Hawthorne told Dylan that their Survival World would be shut down unless enough Silver Badges advanced to Gold, and urged him to help by letting them kill him. Dylan refused to resist when Hawthorne and more than forty Silver Badges attacked his Sanctuary, beginning a wave of Silver Badges trying to kill Gold Badges.

• Hawthorne told Dylan their world had failed the selection criteria and proposed that Silver Badges kill Gold Badges and clear Career Advancement Dungeons before the next District War.
• Dylan dismissed the plan as nearly impossible and said he would not help, while Hawthorne argued that Dylan was an easy target and could inspire others to fight.
• Hawthorne asked Dylan to go to his death, and fleets of Silver Badges gathered outside Dylan’s Sanctuary.
• More than forty Silver Badges fired on Dylan, and he narrowed his eyes but did not resist.
• The attacks began a wave of Silver Badges challenging Gold Badges across Survival Worlds.

Zuo Guxian returned home with Xiao Xiao Luo and recovered much of her power in the familiar world. Meanwhile, the Survivors revealed that the mysterious Butterfly Civilization had ordered them to leave the Milky Way, leaving Zuo Guxian to consider how it had sent its message.

• Zuo Guxian brought Xiao Xiao Luo home, where Yun Xiaoxiao welcomed her and offered to take care of her.
• Zuo Guxian awakened after more than thirty minutes and announced that she had recovered to sixty percent of her power.
• Yun Xiaoxiao brought Zuo Guxian to meet the Zone 76 Survivors, who explained that new observations had revealed civilizations throughout the nearby stars.
• The Survivors told Zuo Guxian that an anomalous gravitational-wave message had appeared near the Sun three days earlier, identifying itself through a butterfly shape and ordering them to leave the Milky Way.
• Zuo Guxian wondered how the Butterfly Civilization had shaped spacetime into a butterfly and transmitted its message without a Gravity Source.

Zuo Guxian concluded that the [Butterfly Civilization] had detected the Survivors through mass-energy losses in the Sun System and had ordered them to leave the Milky Way. After Xiao Xiao Luo suggested that the Scholar would run away, the group decided to do the same while she tested her Attribute Allocation System.

• Zuo Guxian proposed that Layton's spatial travel or the Survivors' removal of resources from the Sun System had exposed them, and judged the mass-energy loss more likely.
• Zuo Guxian explained that the [Butterfly Civilization] might consider the Survivors' advanced abilities evidence of another powerful civilization and had only expelled them because it was relatively mild.
• Yun Xiaoxiao asked what the Scholar would do, and Xiao Xiao Luo answered that he would run away immediately.
• Xiao Xiao Luo spent 30,000 points to upgrade her identity to [[Scholar]'s first Kin (+1)], increasing her status and abilities within the Great Holy Spirit.
• Xiao Xiao Luo unlocked the [Energy recovery], [Stamina], and [Energy circulation] attributes, then mused about becoming a strict father to the Zerg.
• Zuo Guxian agreed that the group should run away rather than risk provoking the [Butterfly Civilization].

Su Luo weighed the threat posed by the powerful [Butterfly Civilization] and told Zuo Guxian that the [String Civilization] could develop in the Sun System at its own risk. He then focused on forging his Mental Singularity, nearing the threshold for becoming a [Demigod].

• Zuo Guxian gathered information for Consultant Su while considering bringing his civilization to develop in the Land of Darkness.
• Yun Xiaoxiao told Su Luo that an advanced civilization had used space to create a butterfly, and Zuo Guxian said it could rank among the strongest in the late interstellar era.
• Su Luo considered how much the [Butterfly Civilization] might know about Little Broken Ball and the [Survival Game], but admitted that speculation could be arrogant.
• Su Luo told Zuo Guxian the [String Civilization] could develop in the Sun System if it accepted the risk, then put him into the System Space.
• Su Luo prepared to forge his Mental Singularity using a growing stockpile of souls, and the Xiao Xiao Luos started the soul-infusion apparatus as he lay inside Lilith's Little Home.

Heavenly Soul and the surviving Chief Gods escaped the shattered [Divine Court] as Order collapsed across the Three Thousand Worlds. After Heavenly Soul returned control to Ming Yuanwu, Hecate recognized the catastrophe as an [Ascension Ritual], and a [Veil] was drawn aside.

• The [Demon King] destroyed the [Divine Court] and killed most of its Gods, leaving Heavenly Soul, the Goddess of Light, and Hecate among the survivors.
• Hecate recalled that she had once encountered the Night Chief God, while Heavenly Soul searched for meaning in his burned Fortune and the modified Career Panel.
• Heavenly Soul returned control of Ming Yuanwu's body, and Ming Yuanwu decided to become Lord Scholar's dog and invited the two Chief Gods to join him.
• Hecate said the Scholar's forces had already vanished and that nobody could escape, then identified the destruction as an [Ascension Ritual].
• About ten minutes later, a [Veil] was drawn aside with power rooted in the Night Chief God's Origin Authority.

Song Shige uncovered the hidden real world beneath the Divine Court World’s false surface, revealing fifteen powerful beings and a civilization radically different from the one he had investigated. He confronted a woman who looked exactly like Hecate, and she asked why he had interrupted her advancement Ritual.

• Song Shige searched the Divine Court ruins for the Second-generation Gods and concluded that the world’s history and succession of divine positions might conceal a vast lie.
• Song Shige prepared to destroy the Divine Court and the Three Thousand Mortal Realms, but a dark radiance tore away the world’s false surface and exposed the Real World.
• The Divine Court World transformed as its realms rose, its inhabitants’ attributes surged, and the tampered Career Panel merged into the Celestial Rail System.
• Song Shige sensed fifteen powerful beings in the Void and examined the true Divine Court and the pale, contaminated worlds beneath them.
• A woman resembling Hecate appeared before Song Shige and asked why he had disrupted her advancement Ritual.

Song Shige killed the Night Chief God's Clone, then faced her true body and its world-shaping authority. After using his Talent to resist her power, he was pulled into a false world as other ancient Gods awakened.

• The Night Chief God attacked Song Shige through a heart wound, but Song Shige killed her Clone with a flurry of slashes.
• Song Shige looked toward the Gods above the world and suspected they were using a false world to lure and hunt transmigrators.
• The Night Chief God's true body froze the world and used her authority to kill Song Shige, but he revived through his sea of blood.
• Song Shige activated his Talent and formed a blood-colored Small World, resisting the Night Chief God's authority to erase him.
• The Night Chief God opened a gate to a false world and dragged Song Shige inside as other ancient Gods awakened.

While advancing his career, Su Luo investigated the Divine Court World and sent Xiao Xiao Luo No. 9432 and Yun Xiaoxiao to retrieve Ming Yuanwu and the Goddess of Light and test Celestial Rail authority. No. 9432 crossed the world’s membrane and entered a silent, white expanse inside the Divine Court World.

• Su Luo learned that Song Shige had entered his Career Advancement Dungeon after being sent by the Main God Space to fight in a Plane Landing War.
• Su Luo studied the Divine Court World, questioned the whereabouts of three Chief Gods, and ordered Xiao Xiao Luo No. 9432 and Yun Xiaoxiao to capture Ming Yuanwu and the Goddess of Light.
• Xiao Xiao Luo No. 9432 and Yun Xiaoxiao found Ming Yuanwu and the Goddess of Light, who explained that Hecate had thrown them out before the Demon King killed her Clone of the Night Chief God.
• No. 9432 cured Ming Yuanwu’s madness, arranged transport for the three, and tested Celestial Rail authority, finding that its power was greatly diminished and could not be transferred by killing inside the real Divine Court World.
• No. 9432 led a group of Kin through the Divine Court World’s membrane and found a vast, white, lifeless expanse.

Su Luo revived Xiao Xiao Luo No. 9432 and explained that the Divine Court World had trapped him in a False World to feed him false information. After uncovering the Divine Court’s scheme to turn outsiders and their achievements into tools for the Gods’ ascension, Su Luo discarded the world’s suspect resources and entered his Career Advancement Dungeon.

• Xiao Xiao Luo No. 9432 awoke in the Physical Configuration Backup Pod, and Su Luo told him he had died in the Night Chief God’s False World.
• Su Luo explained that the Divine Court World had no intention of expanding beyond its borders and would weaken outside them, while Zuo Guxian teased him about challenging its Demigods.
• Su Luo resumed probing the Goddess of Light and concluded that the False Divine Court had turned its divine rulers, including Hecate, into puppets.
• Su Luo reasoned that the Chief Gods had used the world and its inhabitants to lure in people from other worlds and harvest the victor’s achievements.
• Su Luo killed his Zerg, stripped Ming Yuanwu of his Career Panel and Godhead, and threw the Godhead into the Eye of Guixu.
• Su Luo opened his Career Advancement Dungeon and received Adrian Academy as his destination.

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.