Chapter Summaries

Su Luo molded a new body and rebuilt its Source Essence circulation system while considering his impending Demigod advancement. Afterward, he prepared Xiao Xiao Luo for mana-assisted advancement in the laboratory.

• Su Luo concluded that the [Ten Thousand Worlds] panel had certified him as a Demigod in advance because he was a [Fallen God] on the verge of advancing and possessed Demigod knowledge.
• Su Luo planned stronger paths for his Constitution and Spirit, then spent four or five hours constructing a complex Source Essence circulation system in his body and soul.
• Su Luo emerged from the experiment chamber after using thirty-seven experiments' standard allotment of mass-energy and reducing his mana reserves from 72% to 24%.
• Wang Fujian and Cameron confirmed that they had recorded Su Luo's advancement process, though the Work-Study Students realized most of its data could not help [Limit Breakers].
• Su Luo placed Xiao Xiao Luo in the experiment chamber and began preparing Kin Number One for mana-assisted advancement.

Su Luo tested a stripped-down version of the Mana-Infinite Life Path, then used Causal Salvage to discover that Audrey had also observed the Ten Thousand Worlds panel. After Su Luo left the laboratory, the Work-Study Students discussed recruiting him as a research advisor and started a card game.

• Su Luo explained the Mana-Infinite Life Path and tested it on Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo, whose body exploded and formed a Ten Thousand Laws Domain.
• Wang Fujian questioned the difficulty of the ascension method, while Su Luo set the experiment to run and left to rest in the Dreamscape.
• Su Luo used Causal Salvage on observations of the Ten Thousand Worlds panel and found evidence that someone besides him had recently watched it.
• Su Luo realized Audrey had been watching the panel and wondered why she had looked puzzled.
• After Su Luo and Audrey left, the Work-Study Students discussed inviting Su Luo to join their research group as an advisor.
• Cameron proposed a card game with a wager involving shit, and the Work-Study Students enthusiastically negotiated the terms.

Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo used the Great Holy Spirit and the Attribute Allocation System to ascend into a planet-sized body, sharing the agony with millions of its fellow beings. As its body neared Demigod-level power, Xiao Xiao Luo endured pain so extreme that it began to awaken an extraordinary potential.

• Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo entered the experimental chamber and drew knowledge and power from the Great Holy Spirit to begin its ascension.
• Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo shared the transformation's pressure with three million Xiao Xiao Luo, while the Zerg suffered as it gathered points through a newly unlocked method.
• A planet-sized body formed from mass-energy and began fusing with Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo under layers of Constant Spells.
• Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo endured agony that repeatedly neared the collapse of its consciousness, passing the pain among its fellow beings.
• Kin Number One, Xiao Xiao Luo felt a wave of pleasure amid the torment and seemed to awaken extraordinary potential.

After Xiao Xiao Luo died during the failed [Demigod] experiment, Su Luo preserved its shattered consciousness and left the Laboratory to continue his work. In the Dream World, Su Luo and Xiao Luo began using a vast simulated [False World] to drive endless Zerg slaughter and evolution in pursuit of extraordinary mutations.

• Xiao Xiao Luo spent all 9.4 billion points raising its Attributes, but died before it could advance to [Demigod].
• The Great Holy Spirit preserved Xiao Xiao Luo's shattered consciousness, while Wang Fujian concluded that the experiment had produced useful data despite the test subject's failure.
• Su Luo emerged from the Dreamscape with Xiao Xiao Luo's consciousness, told Wang Fujian to transfer the money, and hurried to the Library.
• Wang Fujian turned back to the Work-Study Students, who were gambling and celebrating by eating shit, while Cameron refused to let a losing student leave.
• Su Luo and Xiao Luo filled a vast crimson [False World] with Zerg and resources, intending to drive endless slaughter and evolution until rare mutations produced powerful individuals.

In the scarlet world, [King] led a Zerg faction that pursued scientific research despite repeated failures and pressure to follow faster paths to power. She chose to take her faction into the void to create a new civilization and offer the [Creator] a surprise.

• The Zerg researcher reported that the 194th [Quark-Stripping Experiment] had failed because the world's interference prevented even preliminary work.
• [King] considered the risks of leaving the world and the possibility of attracting the [Creator]'s displeasure.
• A Zerg leader argued that scientific research was a dead end and described rival factions pursuing evolution, demonic bloodlines, mutation, and faith.
• [King] declared that her faction would not win the struggle for the world, so it would create value for the [Creator] by bringing a new civilization into being.
• [King] ended the meeting and decided that her faction would enter the void.

Shang Yang and the bald man told Yun Xiaoxiao they had joined a research group through a laboratory tour, while Yun Xiaoxiao shared her findings on Visiting Lecturer Joyce with Su Luo. After reviewing Joyce’s exceptional rise from ordinary student to Demigod and lecturer, Su Luo and Zuo Guxian suspected Joyce was a cheater.

• Shang Yang shared the Scholar’s message that the research group matter had been handled and they should focus on investigating Joyce.
• The bald man revealed that he and Shang Yang had joined a research group by applying for a tour of a laboratory comparing Demigod combat paths.
• Shang Yang, Yun Xiaoxiao, and the bald man chose different laboratory zones to visit.
• Yun Xiaoxiao sent Su Luo information showing Joyce had advanced to Demigod unusually quickly and become a Visiting Lecturer six months later.
• Su Luo asked Zuo Guxian what he thought of Joyce’s record, and Zuo Guxian called Joyce a cheater.

Su Luo accepted a position as a supervising lecturer in a research group and tasked Zuo Guxian with studying the Void Zerg. After decades of accelerated evolution, the Zerg world had produced a branch that might help Su Luo create a new set of physics.

• Su Luo learned that Yun Xiaoxiao had advanced through a research group and that Shang Yang and Baldy had infiltrated one of its exhibition halls.
• Wang Fujian offered Su Luo payment, laboratory access, and a supervising lecturer position, and Su Luo agreed to attend the group's meeting.
• Su Luo gave Zuo Guxian a lesson on underlying particles and told him to guide the Void Zerg after he had learned it.
• Su Luo observed that decades of accelerated evolution had produced a distinctive Zerg branch with potential for scientific research.
• Zuo Guxian studied Su Luo's particle knowledge and concluded that the Void Zerg might be able to develop a new set of physics.

Su Luo assigned Zuo Guxian to help the Void Zerg develop technology based on the [Zerg Law], then went to an extravagant dinner with Wang Fujian and other academy staff. The gathering ended with Wang Fujian ordering the penniless Mendel to leave rather than pay for his meal.

• Su Luo explained the [Quarks] and [Sub-Attometer] technology levels and told Zuo Guxian to help the Void Zerg reproduce the [Insect Force].
• Su Luo disguised Zuo Guxian as a researcher under the Void Zerg's [King] and lifted the dream void's suppression of the Void Zerg.
• Su Luo spent his remaining money at the academy library, then went to the outer city to meet Wang Fujian and the others.
• Su Luo met supervising lecturer [Chilie] and several laboratory heads at a lavish restaurant, where he used soul perception and altered his cognition of the guests.
• Wang Fujian noticed that Mendel had no food because he could not afford to split the bill, then told the waiter to make him leave.

Su Luo learned about the research group’s projects and the society of Adrian, where eternal life was cheap but rarely granted universally. Finding that the group lacked several supernatural fields he wanted to study, he considered moving to another research group.

• Chilie invited Mendel back to eat, then made him sit and watch while the others ate.
• Su Luo sampled Demigod-grade dishes and learned that Adrian offered inexpensive eternal life, while many advanced civilizations restricted it to avoid social stagnation.
• Su Luo asked Zuo Guxian about String Civilization and learned it was nearing the point where eternal life could become universal.
• Wang Fujian explained that the nine laboratories focused on mana, Martial Dao, and their fusion, prompting Su Luo to question whether the group had resources in other supernatural fields.
• Wang Fujian recommended the Nancun Groupmates Bully My Weak Chicken Research Group, whose person in charge was the mother of a vice dean from the neighboring academy.

Su Luo discovered that Audrey had secretly given him an enhanced Crimson Throne, a relic that might help him infer the interval between Survival Games, and arranged to confront her. Meanwhile, Yun Xiaoxiao and her companions toured the exhibition laboratories, where she spotted an unfamiliar Truth-Wizard Path beside the Faith Side Demigod.

• Su Luo found the Crimson Throne in his pocket and recognized it as an enhanced deployable structure left by a Survivor.
• Su Luo reasoned that the throne might reveal the interval between Survival Games, though he could not determine how to measure time across worlds.
• Su Luo contacted Audrey and arranged to meet her at the Library to ask her directly about the throne.
• Yun Xiaoxiao, Baldy, and Shang Yang toured the exhibition laboratories and reached the peak display area, where they saw a Faith Side Demigod enclosed in a Small World.
• Yun Xiaoxiao claimed the Faith Side Path was strongest because it had the most devoted followers, then noticed the unfamiliar Truth-Wizard Path.

Yun Xiaoxiao and her companions explored the academy’s exhibition of Transcendent Paths, where she learned about powerful and unusual examples, including a captured Faith Side Demigod and a Mana Self-Consistent Path. The vague display for the Truth-Wizard Path prompted Baldy to reveal that Wizards had been erased from history by a Supreme Powerhouse, and Yun Xiaoxiao began connecting that secret to evidence from the Land of Darkness.

• Yun Xiaoxiao examined a captured Faith Side Demigod that had refined a Small World into a Mobile Divine Kingdom, learned it was a war criminal imprisoned as a test subject, and joked about adopting it.
• Baldy skipped past the Demigod, and Yun Xiaoxiao found a Mana Self-Consistent Path whose bearer had refined a damaged world into an internal Small World.
• Yun Xiaoxiao studied the Pure Technology—Ascension Body exhibit and was surprised that Adrian Academy treated a civilization-like being as a Path.
• Baldy paused at the Truth-Wizard Path, and Yun Xiaoxiao reported it to Su Luo, who sent her information about traces of Wizards in the Land of Darkness.
• Baldy said his Dao Harmonizer mother had told him that a Supreme Powerhouse erased the concept of Wizards long ago, leaving gaps in ancient languages.
• Yun Xiaoxiao connected the Wizard traces, organized writing, and Mana Side evidence in Area Dungeons to Su Luo’s information.

Su Luo investigated the connection between [Wizards], [classes], and previous generations of Survivors, then questioned Audrey about the [Crimson Throne] and the history of [Wizards]. He invited Audrey to develop elsewhere and said he would leave within a month, while privately admitting he had guessed at the answers he gave her.

• Yun Xiaoxiao questioned the bald man about [Wizards], but his memories failed to provide much information as their related cause and effect seemed to be disappearing.
• Su Luo reviewed Yun Xiaoxiao’s memories, linked the [Truth Wizard] class skills to [Paths], and decided to investigate the history of [Wizards] after reaching [Demigod].
• Audrey asked Su Luo about his right eye, the Survivors, and how to find her path forward, while Su Luo gave her cryptic answers.
• Audrey explained that the [Crimson Throne] came from an ancient Relic unearthed in the Ruined World and described [Wizards] as a conceptual facet of a powerful being.
• Su Luo urged Audrey to develop somewhere else and said he would leave within a month; afterward, he admitted to Yun Xiaoxiao that he had made up his answers based on a feeling.

Su Luo speculated about Audrey’s pursuit of True Spirit, then told Yun Xiaoxiao to track Joyce while he advanced toward Demigod. Meanwhile, the Void Zerg’s King oversaw the development of antimatter technology, unaware that Zuo Guxian had supplied the project’s key materials.

• Yun Xiaoxiao realized Su Luo’s visitor was a powerful figure, and Su Luo confiscated her Career Panel after she started shipping them.
• Su Luo theorized that Audrey had reached beyond Spiritual Light but was stuck in her pursuit of True Spirit.
• Su Luo told Yun Xiaoxiao to monitor Joyce and try to get two Work-Study Students into Joyce’s research group, then teleported to the Laboratory to accelerate his Demigod advancement.
• The Void Zerg’s King reassured its chief researcher that their quark experiments would succeed because the Creator had guided them.
• The Void Zerg completed an extensive antimatter project, and the King concluded that Zuo Guxian’s disguised researcher had been aided by the Creator.

Zuo Guxian took over the Void Zerg’s research and set their first goal as developing faster-than-light communication using the newly bestowed Insect Force. Meanwhile, Su Luo visited a laboratory studying the Elemental Ascension Path and offered to become its test subject.

• The previous research chief reported the Void Zerg’s progress studying Quarks and methods for harnessing Quark Confinement.
• With the King’s approval, Zuo Guxian became research chief and directed the researchers to develop faster-than-light communication.
• Su Luo watched the Void Zerg’s research advance with help from his [Max-Level Expert Descends the Mountain] ability and the pencil from Adrian Academy.
• Chilie suggested arranging a fight between their Demigod companions, but Su Luo declined and criticized the slow Elemental Ascension experiment.
• After Chilie asked what solution he had in mind, Su Luo volunteered to become the experiment’s test subject.

Su Luo worked to advance his [Source Essence Circulation Technique] by exhausting [Source Essence]'s possible forms and seeking a way to generate it without Mana. Meanwhile, Yun Xiaoxiao joined Shang Yang, Baldy, and Work-Study Students on a [Ghost-Catching Operation] to capture test subjects for the Weird Side.

• Su Luo explained that he needed to generate [Source Essence] directly and continued testing its forms while discussing how elements related to the rules of their originating worlds with [Chilie].
• Su Luo estimated that [Source Essence] had no more than thirty million forms and believed removing Mana-conversion mechanisms could raise his technique to the gold tier.
• Yun Xiaoxiao met Shang Yang, Baldy, and several Work-Study Students on a desolate road and asked what their expedition involved.
• Shang Yang told Yun Xiaoxiao that the research group had sent them to capture Weird Side test subjects in an operation the official website called [Ghost-Catching Operation].
• Shang Yang said academy staff were scarce and [Joyce] had not applied for any, while [Adrian Academy] was affected by a war between two major forces.

Yun Xiaoxiao and the others entered a world besieged by Ghost Domains to capture Weird Side specimens and investigate Joyce’s aims. As Yun Xiaoxiao prepared to contact the Ghost Domain’s main body, Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, found a person whose information identified them as the protagonist of a strange invasion story.

• Yun Xiaoxiao learned that she could use the power of [Adjudication] within [Adrian]’s ten thousand rings, then accepted three hundred million from the Scholar to investigate the Weird Side.
• After reading Shang Yang’s mission briefing, Yun Xiaoxiao and the others sent human-looking avatars and Vassals into the world to investigate the [Ghost Domain].
• Su Luo told Yun Xiaoxiao to contact the [Ghost Domain]’s main body, build up enough karma, and uncover [Joyce]’s secrets before [Joyce] descended.
• Yun Xiaoxiao told Shang Yang that the Scholar wanted them to get rid of Tang Sanzang and his disciples.
• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, volunteered for the assignment, equipped information-gathering skills, and identified a nearby karmic cocoon as a protagonist.
• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, used [Information Integration] and found the title [Weird Invasion: I Can Dig Up Ghost Fortune].

Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo gave Pi Wang [Dragon-Tiger Power] just before the young man was pulled into a [Ghost Domain Game]. Pi Wang discovered that the power let him overcome the ghost, while the chapter ended with him noticing a strange butterfly icon on one of his teammates.

• Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo selected Pi Wang as a nearby [Protagonist] and prepared to approach him as the [Ghost Domain] drew near.
• Pi Wang, alone in a depopulated world, ate grass roots and cooked a rat and cat before Kin Number Two appeared in his house.
• Kin Number Two bestowed [Dragon-Tiger Power] on Pi Wang, turning into a dragon-and-tiger tattoo on his arm.
• A ghostly hand emerged from Pi Wang's bathroom and pulled him into a [Ghost Domain Game] with six or seven other people.
• Pi Wang noticed butterfly icons on the ghost and one teammate, then used [Dragon-Tiger Power] to defeat the ghost.

Pi Wang discovered that he could restrain ghosts, but his new power also exposed him to a horrifying corpse and then drove him into a violent pursuit of the ghost. When the Ghost Domain ended, he regained consciousness beside his terrified teammates, only for a monstrous arm to erupt from his shoulder and seize his head.

• Pi Wang restrained the disguised ghost, whose true form was a rotting corpse, and the ghost escaped by dissolving into the ground.
• A surviving player explained that the killing rule required remaining in darkness without light for at least a minute, and that the Ghost Domain would last until daybreak.
• Pi Wang discovered that he could turn into a shadow and gain strength in the dark, while Xiao Xiao Luo analyzed the ghost and secretly flooded Pi Wang's blood with aphrodisiac.
• Xiao Xiao Luo directed Pi Wang to pursue the ghost for data collection, and Pi Wang's frenzied training nearly killed him.
• When the Ghost Domain ended, Pi Wang woke beside his three surviving teammates and a pile of bloody remains as a muscular arm burst from his shoulder and clamped onto his head.

Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, pulled Pi Wang’s soul from his body and sent it into the Dreamscape, where Su Luo’s stars of knowledge overwhelmed him. Su Luo examined Pi Wang, considered how he might appear as a Mystery Side existence, and approved Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo’s request concerning the Blood Moon before turning his attention to the [Small World ud6734ejjdm45].

• Pi Wang resisted Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo’s attempt to control his body, but his arm tattoo activated and dragged his soul out.
• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, refined Pi Wang’s body and modified it for more than ten minutes before receiving a message from the Great Holy Spirit.
• Pi Wang drifted through the void, saw the Dreamscape’s stars and immense consciousnesses, and lost himself in their knowledge.
• Su Luo found Pi Wang cognitively overloaded in the Dreamscape, examined him, and cast him aside as material.
• Su Luo reflected on the Mystery Side and approved Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo’s request for the Blood Moon.
• Su Luo turned his attention to the [Small World ud6734ejjdm45] and judged the [Ghost Domain] a powerful but flawed [Demigod].

Su Luo studied Small World programming and used its rules to devise a plan to infiltrate the Ghost Domain Game and reach the Ghost Domain’s original body. After the Small World’s Will cursed him for taking its chosen Protagonist, Su Luo welcomed the Karma as a resource and sent his other Xiao Xiao Luos to steal more Protagonists.

• Su Luo checked his original body in the Laboratory, formed a dream Clone, and studied Small World Programming in the Dream Library.
• Su Luo concluded that the Ghost Domain Game was an undefended System Layer anchor and that he could exploit it to reach the Ghost Domain’s original body.
• Su Luo authorized Kin number two, Xiao Xiao Luo, to modify a Protagonist and disguise the incomplete Blood Moon as a Ghost that could invade the game.
• The Small World’s Will sent a black torrent of Karma toward Su Luo after noticing that he had taken its chosen Protagonist.
• Su Luo welcomed the Karma as a resource for cultivating the Cultivation-Merit and Karma Path, then ordered his other Xiao Xiao Luos to steal more Protagonists.