Chapter Summaries

The [Void Zerg] developed faster-than-light communication and new applications for [Zerg Law] and [Insect Force], but lacked the resources to put their advances into practice. The [King] prepared to return to the Crimson World with a hundred thousand new Zerg, while Baldy encountered an unexpected ghost in a [Ghost Domain].

• The [Void Zerg] used the [King]'s shared intelligence to develop faster-than-light communication, [One Mind, Many Beings], and [Field Assimilation].
• The [King] judged that the [Void Zerg] needed resources and ordered a hundred thousand new Zerg to prepare to return to the original world.
• Su Luo tested the communication system and found that its signals traveled at 250 times the speed of light after a ten-second startup.
• Su Luo continued remotely managing the Xiao Xiao Luos until their advancement reached a critical stage, then returned to his original body.
• Baldy's incarnation sensed an unexpected presence in a [Ghost Domain] and exclaimed that it was a ghost.

Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, used a Blood Moon ghost to collect Killing Rules and survived the World Will’s retaliation after leaving a Ghost Domain Game. After learning that Joyce might be advancing through the game, he chose a cautious plan to recruit more Kin and eventually turn against the natives.

• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, transformed Pi Wang into a Blood Moon ghost and used it to clear Ghost Domain Games, plunder Killing Rules, and build up its attributes.
• The World Will attacked Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, with overwhelming malice and a planet-wide lightning barrage, but he remained unharmed and gathered energy.
• Another Kin Xiao Xiao Luo arrived with five Killing Rules and a strange soul-assimilating element taken from a ghost.
• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, traced the element’s causal trail to Adrian Academy and suspected Joyce had acted ahead of his students.
• Kin Number Two, Xiao Xiao Luo, decided to ask Master for more Kin and advance cautiously before turning against the natives.

Number Two and the dependent Xiao Xiao Luos repeatedly destroyed the planet, forcing its World Will to rewind time through 108 world-ending crises before it sought help from a powerful being. Meanwhile, Yun Xiaoxiao, Shang Yang, and Baldy entered a Reality Ghost Domain and explored the remains of a city where millions had been killed.

• More than ten Xiao Xiao Luos arrived with copied abilities taken from the protagonists, and Number Two refused to release Zerg to destroy the planet.
• Number Two released a Hidden Quantum Probe Cluster that rapidly restrained the planet’s living beings and pulled out their souls.
• The World Will repeatedly rewound time and changed the rules to stop the Xiao Xiao Luos’ attempts to destroy the world, but faced 108 different crises.
• The World Will turned the timeline back much further and offered itself to a magnificent being in exchange for help.
• Yun Xiaoxiao, Shang Yang, and Baldy left the work-study students and entered a Reality Ghost Domain to explore a ruined city.

Yun Xiaoxiao and her companions collected Killing Rules in a Reality Ghost Domain before discovering that the Knocking Ghost could resist the world's time rollback. The Knocking Ghost shed its shell and revealed a figure resembling the Alchemical Puppet described by the Scholar.

• Yun Xiaoxiao captured a wind chime carrying the Killing Rule [Cannot Be Heard], while Shang Yang deduced that another rule prevented people from touching each other.
• Yun Xiaoxiao, Shang Yang, and Baldy collected dozens of Killing Rules before a Knocking Ghost began following them and suppressing the other Ghosts.
• The knocking trapped Shang Yang and Baldy in repeated actions as the world rolled back, but Yun Xiaoxiao struck the Knocking Ghost between rollbacks.
• Yun Xiaoxiao realized the Knocking Ghost's thoughts were largely unaffected by the rollbacks, unlike those of the other Ghosts.
• After Shang Yang escaped with the Adjudication Sacred Dragon, Yun Xiaoxiao and Baldy saw the Knocking Ghost shed its shell and reveal a powerful figure resembling the Scholar's Alchemical Puppet.

Yun Xiaoxiao and Su Luo confronted Joyce’s Alchemical Puppet as it revealed the Knocking Ghost’s Killing Rules and began creating its own Ghost Domain Game. After a sword immortal’s apparition rescued the bald man and drove them to retreat, Su Luo left the Laboratory and asked [Chilie] about the Weird Side.

• Yun Xiaoxiao summoned Su Luo’s consciousness when the Knocking Ghost’s shell peeled away and the Alchemical Puppet emerged.
• The Alchemical Puppet absorbed the city and its ghosts to build a Ghost Domain Game, while Yun Xiaoxiao attacked it with Su Luo’s Heartfire.
• The Alchemical Puppet adapted to the Heartfire and trapped Yun Xiaoxiao with Lockdown, then attacked the bald man with its decomposition field.
• A sword immortal apparition emerged from the bald man and cut through the Alchemical Puppet’s defenses, allowing the bald man and Yun Xiaoxiao to flee.
• Su Luo left the cultivation pod and asked [Chilie] whether he was interested in the Weird Side; [Chilie] warned him that it was dangerous.

[Chilie] recounted how a Weird Side being had erased itself and its world, then agreed to lend Su Luo money for an investigation. Meanwhile, after the Kin Xiao Xiao Luos destroyed the world 108 times without provoking its World Will, Joyce arrived at the Reality Ghost Domain as a Demigod and was asked what the students should do next.

• [Chilie] told Su Luo that a Weird Side being had turned his old friend into a puppet and vanished along with its world, and Su Luo invited him to investigate a weak Weird Side being targeted by a Visiting Lecturer.
• [Chilie] agreed to lend Su Luo thirty billion and let him use the vacant Laboratory next door.
• The Kin Xiao Xiao Luos noted that their 108 world destructions and the World Will’s time rewinds had produced no Karma, then prepared to destroy the world again.
• A Demigod aura appeared inside the Reality Ghost Domain, and the Work-Study Students recognized it as Joyce’s arrival.
• Joyce received the students’ uploaded data and was asked what they should do next in the Ghost-Catching Operation.

Joyce completed the [Imitation Ghost Domain Game] and invited the students inside, but the students died instantly and a pale hand caught the last Work-Study Student. Meanwhile, Su Luo modified Kin Xiao Xiao Luo Number Two into a powerful Blood Moon Ghost and prepared to leave with it.

• Joyce completed the [Imitation Ghost Domain Game] and let the students enter, warning them to leave before she used it again.
• The Work-Study Student saw fourteen red dots on the [Life Lamp], realized the students had died, and tried to escape, but a pale hand caught his shoulder and asked him to become fuel.
• Su Luo reviewed the one hundred and fifty Killing Rules collected by the Kin Xiao Xiao Luos, then decided to pursue power directly and began modifying Kin Xiao Xiao Luo Number Two.
• Su Luo completed Kin Xiao Xiao Luo Number Two’s transformation into a new Blood Moon Ghost form, while Yun Xiaoxiao watched and asked for the same treatment.
• Su Luo refused Yun Xiaoxiao and used the [Space Fruit Position] to make the Small World ripple as he prepared to depart with Kin Xiao Xiao Luo Number Two.

Su Luo studied the [Ghost Domain Game] and then descended in his true body to confront the [Alchemical Puppet]. He seized it from the [Pseudo-Ghost Domain Game] and pulled it into the [Ghost Domain Game].

• Su Luo tested the Small World's weak spatial [Rule Layer] and explained the [Ghost Domain Game] to Yun Xiaoxiao.
• Su Luo caught the [Ghost Domain Game] and studied its underlying code, while noting that the [Pseudo-Ghost Domain Game] was merely a physical object in the sky.
• Su Luo told Yun Xiaoxiao he was going to fight, and her doubts gave way to enthusiasm after he reminded her of the twenty billion he had given her.
• Su Luo descended from the Dreamscape in his true body, overwhelming the world with his presence as a [Demigod].
• Su Luo tore through space, seized the [Alchemical Puppet] inside the [Pseudo-Ghost Domain Game], and dragged it into the [Ghost Domain Game].

Su Luo dragged the Alchemical Puppet into the [Ghost Domain Game], where his battle with it began to devastate the game’s many floors. The Alchemical Puppet summoned its true body, the [Universal Life Container], and expanded until space itself collapsed around it.

• In a primeval forest, a young player claimed he was a [Protagonist] who could hear the final [Ghost]'s thoughts and said clearing its nine-rule game would save the world.
• A meteor struck the forest, destroying more than a thousand square kilometers and leaving only the young player and the final [Ghost] alive.
• As he died, the young player saw an unknown figure appear beyond the sky, towering over mountains and towns.
• Su Luo wondered why the [Ghost Domain Game] was shaking after he threw the Alchemical Puppet into one of its upper floors.
• The game's Killing Rules sent white chains toward Su Luo, but black flames consumed them as his Ten Thousand Laws Domain decomposed the floors, [Ghosts], and surroundings into Source Essence.
• The Alchemical Puppet summoned its true body, the [Universal Life Container], whose pale metal expanded through the game and caused space to collapse.

Su Luo and the Alchemical Puppet fought across the Ghost Domain Game, trading attacks and adapting to each other’s abilities. Their battle ended when the Ghost Domain’s true self appeared and impaled both of them with its Killing Rules.

• Su Luo’s Heartfire burned the Alchemical Puppet’s Pure Soul, while the Alchemical Puppet forged a blade that attacked with hundred-billion-degree slashes.
• The Alchemical Puppet’s attacks pushed through Su Luo’s Ten Thousand Laws Domain, but Su Luo’s Heartfire adapted to their heat as the two sides’ soul defenses and attacks evolved.
• The Alchemical Puppet realized his probing was helping Su Luo grow stronger, stopped testing him, and used Alchemy: Imitation God Corpse Bones to increase his Constitution and advance.
• As Su Luo prepared to hide, the Ghost Domain’s true self appeared above the game, replacing the sky with merciless eyes and indestructible Killing Rules chains.
• The chains pierced Su Luo and the Alchemical Puppet, shattering the Alchemical Puppet’s newly forged bones, as the Ghost Domain declared, “Erase everything I dislike.”

Su Luo and the Alchemical Puppet fought inside the [Ghost Domain Game] while a [Ghost Domain] agent tried to erase them. After Yun Xiaoxiao drove off the agent, Su Luo rebuilt his body and faced the puppet’s devastating attack, leaving both combatants badly damaged.

• The [Ghost Domain] agent erased Su Luo’s and the Alchemical Puppet’s external powers, but their true bodies and abilities resisted its control.
• Su Luo recognized the eye in the sky as an agent rather than [Ghost Domain]’s true body and ordered Yun Xiaoxiao to attack it.
• Yun Xiaoxiao crossed space to confront the agent, which vanished, ending its interference in the fight.
• Su Luo reconstructed his body from scattered remains while the Alchemical Puppet restored its [Alchemy: Imitation God Corpse Bones] form and charged him.
• The Alchemical Puppet struck Su Luo with [Alchemy: Star-Sky Shattering], reducing most of his body to powder and tearing its own fist into scrap.

Su Luo and the Alchemical Puppet fought a devastating battle, with Su Luo's Ten Thousand Laws Domain eventually overwhelming and consuming the Alchemy Domain. After absorbing its knowledge and abilities, Su Luo recognized the Alchemical Puppet's skill in alchemy and decomposition.

• Su Luo's Heartfire evolved and tore away part of the Alchemical Puppet's pure soul, while their domains continued fighting across the Ghost Domain.
• Su Luo's body was badly damaged and lost two-tenths of its energy, but he healed within moments and examined his Constitution attribute.
• The Alchemical Puppet returned to the top floor and raised a wall of light as Su Luo's Ten Thousand Laws Domain steadily drove back the Alchemy Field.
• After more than ten minutes, Su Luo's domain swept across a hundred thousand floors, leaving the Alchemy Domain confined to eight thousand floors.
• Su Luo's Ten Thousand Laws Domain devoured the Alchemy Domain, absorbing its knowledge and abilities, and Su Luo praised the puppet's grasp of alchemy and decomposition.

Su Luo trapped the Alchemical Puppet in Evolution Purgatory, but it unleashed a World-Destroying Weapon that collapsed the laws and erased the Ghost Domain Game. Yun Xiaoxiao escaped, and Xiao Xiao Luo, speaking with Su Luo’s voice, told her to return to the academy.

• The Alchemical Puppet revealed its true form, disrupted Su Luo’s senses, and used its alchemical domains to attack him.
• Su Luo countered by trapping the Alchemical Puppet in Evolution Purgatory, where the Heartfire began consuming it.
• Su Luo sensed a strange sphere containing a pure glueball, but the sphere opened before he could escape.
• The sphere’s attack disrupted fundamental forces and destroyed everything in the Ghost Domain Game, including Su Luo and the Alchemical Puppet.
• Yun Xiaoxiao fled the collapsing Ghost Domain Game and searched for Su Luo before Xiao Xiao Luo emerged and told her to return to the academy.

Xiao Luo survived by emerging from Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo and recovered the [Ghost Domain Game]'s [Agent] and its killing rules. He built a new parallel layer using the Space Fruit Position, assigned Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo to serve as its [Agent], and left Yun Xiaoxiao to return to the academy as the world emerged from the Ghost Domain's influence.

• Xiao Luo emerged from Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo after Yun Xiaoxiao fled, then questioned her about running away.
• Xiao Luo extracted the [Agent] and 1,240 killing rules from the Kin clone, while Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo suggested using the [Agent] to build a copy of the [Ghost Domain Game].
• Xiao Luo rejected the [Agent] as a foundation and used the killing rules and Space Fruit Position to create a new [Ghost Domain Game] parallel layer.
• Xiao Luo placed Kin Number Two Xiao Xiao Luo and the remaining Kin Xiao Xiao Luos inside the new layer to serve as its [Agent] and support its operation.
• Xiao Luo gave Yun Xiaoxiao the ancient scroll, the [Agent]'s world-will light, and data, then vanished; Yun Xiaoxiao returned to the academy.
• The Ghost Domain disappeared from the world, natural sunlight returned, and survivors discovered that its vengeful ghosts and items had vanished.

News spread that the apocalypse had ended, but a grieving man killed himself before hearing the broadcast. Huachenzi and Joyce investigated the deaths of academy students and concluded that the Ghost Domain had killed them by accident.

• A man listened to a radio announcement that the apocalypse had ended, then shot himself in the mouth.
• Time froze across the planet as Huachenzi and Joyce appeared to investigate the deaths of academy students.
• Huachenzi identified traces of a sword aura, Black Flame, and an unknown aura, then examined academy transmission records.
• Huachenzi found that Scholar had visited the world after her student failed to super-transmit, but his records did not connect her to the students' deaths.
• Huachenzi determined that the Ghost Domain had killed fifteen students almost instantly, and he and Joyce concluded the deaths were an accident.

Huachenzi traced an unfamiliar aura to a connection with the Truth-Wizard Path, then opened an ancient bamboo tube and received knowledge that exposed flaws in his cultivation. After Joyce explained the Wizards’ pursuit of truth, Huachenzi restored the planet and warned Joyce that the deaths of all fifteen students would bring severe consequences.

• Huachenzi asked Joyce to identify the unfamiliar aura, and Joyce recognized it as belonging to a Wizard and described the Truth-Wizard Path.
• Huachenzi restored order to the minor plane, extracted remnants of the collapsed Ghost Domain Game, and found an ancient bamboo tube inscribed with Immortal Dao Alchemy—Structure Chapter.
• Huachenzi opened the bamboo tube and was overwhelmed by knowledge of new cultivation principles that revealed errors in his own practice and understanding.
• Joyce explained that Wizards pursued truth as an evolving principle and used it as authority to interpret and alter the world.
• Huachenzi warned Joyce that he would face blame and inquiries because all fifteen students had perished, then released the planet from temporal freeze and returned home.

Su Luo returned to the academy after defeating the Alchemical Puppet, discarded its strange Spatial Alchemy scroll, and decided to focus on experiments and consolidating his strength while leaving Joyce alone. At the laboratory, he found Cameron and other work-study students gambling in a bizarre way.

• Yun Xiaoxiao returned Su Luo’s belongings, including Xiao Luo’s work log, the sealed incomplete world will, and the Spatial Alchemy scroll.
• Su Luo sent Spatial Alchemy into the Eye of Guixu and isolated his Decomposition Alchemy knowledge, wary of potentially dangerous mystical knowledge.
• Su Luo told Yun Xiaoxiao he would stay at the academy, send Xiao Xiao Luo to help, and leave Joyce alone for now.
• Su Luo considered how the Alchemical Puppet’s plan might have unfolded and wondered what Joyce stood to gain.
• At the laboratory, Su Luo found Cameron and several work-study students gambling; they explained that the loser had to have sex with himself.

Su Luo considered how to advance Number One, the kin Xiao Xiao Luo, and decided to give him an independent Great Holy Spirit so he could develop without threatening Xiao Luo’s control. He then arranged payments and planned his next steps to obtain knowledge, strengthen himself, and gather resources.

• Su Luo kicked out the group gathered for an orgy, then prepared an experiment to advance Number One, the kin Xiao Xiao Luo.
• Number One reported that his [Consciousness Strength] and [Control] had reached 320, making him eligible to become a [Demigod].
• Xiao Luo warned that Number One’s [Attribute Allocation System] could undermine her authority over the Great Holy Spirit, so Su Luo decided to give him an independent Great Holy Spirit to develop.
• Yun Xiaoxiao suggested sending Number One to the myriad worlds for training, but Su Luo rejected the idea and asked how much money she had left.
• Su Luo told Yun Xiaoxiao to withdraw 3.6 billion, keep 100 million in reserve, and use 100 million to pay Baldy and Shang Yang for their errands.
• Su Luo planned to borrow money from places around the academy to buy knowledge, continue his experiments, and seek resources for his remaining paths.

Su Luo met Huachenzi, an invited lecturer investigating the Ghost Domain operation, and told him about the alchemical creation and Joyce. Huachenzi handed Su Luo a strange bamboo tube tied to the battlefield, which Su Luo immediately stored in the Eye of Guixu.

• Su Luo reviewed his options for obtaining resources and leaving Adrian Academy, then went to the elemental laboratory to run experiments.
• Chilie introduced Huachenzi, who invited Su Luo to the Library to discuss the Ghost Domain operation.
• Huachenzi said fifteen of the seventeen students had died and asked about the two survivors and any unusual phenomena; Su Luo told him the survivors needed rest and described the alchemical creation that had killed one of his avatars.
• Su Luo advised Huachenzi to investigate Joyce, whose work involved the Truth-Wizard Path.
• Huachenzi showed Su Luo a bamboo tube labeled Immortal Dao Alchemy—Structure Chapter, explaining that it provoked an irresistible thirst for knowledge and seemed bound to return to him if discarded.
• Su Luo took the bamboo tube from Huachenzi and put it into the Eye of Guixu.

Su Luo left Huachenzi without the bamboo tube, while dependent Number Two considered how to strengthen the new [Ghost Domain Game]. Dependent Number One arrived instead of Su Luo and received a plea from the World Will, while mysterious beings in another Small World prepared to wait for Su Luo’s arrival.

• Su Luo told Huachenzi that his hand had slipped and claimed he had handed the bamboo tube to a neighboring institute’s vice dean, then left as Huachenzi failed to divine its location.
• Dependent Number Two considered raising ghosts and invading other worlds to strengthen the new [Ghost Domain Game] and gather research data for Master.
• Dependent Number Two and the other dependents waited two days for Su Luo, but dependent Number One arrived instead and startled them.
• The World Will contacted dependent Number One and offered everything it wanted in exchange for driving out the [Ghost Domain Game]; dependent Number One asked if it could have the World Will.
• A black-robed figure and a being in black fog concluded that Su Luo would eventually come and decided to wait, convinced he had come to hunt the Alchemical Puppet for [Alchemical Truth].