Chapter Summaries

Qin Lien revealed that she had moved Lin Xi away rather than erased her, trusting that both Lin Xi and Gu Yun would follow their unbreakable bond toward the Nine Heavens Sect and the Moon Realm. Her gamble succeeded when the two reunited at the sect, though they no longer remembered one another.

• Qin Lien showed Zhong Yi an altered version of Gu Yun’s memories in which Gu Feng was alive and Lin Xi was absent.
• Despite his changed memories, Gu Yun remained driven to join the Nine Heavens Sect and reach the Moon Realm, eventually entering the sect as an inner disciple.
• Gu Yun encountered Lin Xi at the Nine Heavens Sect after she arrived as another new recruit from Huayue Continent.
• Qin Lien explained that she had moved Lin Xi out of Gu Yun’s path, betting that their bond would lead them both toward the Moon Realm.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien watched Gu Yun and Lin Xi meet again, and Zhong Yi called it a reunion rather than a first meeting.

Lu Ze’s “To the Moon Realm” illusion moved Guo Yunfeng to tears as she watched Gu Yun and Lin Xi reunite, earning him a huge reward of Demonic Value. With the story nearing its conclusion, Lu Ze reassured the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao that his promised payment was about to come.

• Guo Yunfeng watched Lin Xi disappear through Gu Yun’s memories as the song “Everything’s Alright” intensified the Fearful Soul Entanglement Array, and a tear slipped from her eye.
• Cultivators watching at Leisure Cloud Lake debated whether Guo Yunfeng had cried while reacting emotionally to the illusion.
• Guo Yunfeng watched Gu Yun cultivate and join the Nine Heavens Sect until Lin Xi suddenly emerged from its Teleportation Array and reunited with him.
• Guo Yunfeng realized she was crying and wept openly as she watched Gu Yun and Lin Xi together again.
• Lu Ze received 9999 Demonic Value for breaking Guo Yunfeng’s emotional defenses and told the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao that the promised event was about to begin.

Zhong Yi and Qin Lien watched Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s memories culminate in their attempt to reach the Moon Realm by climbing the Nine Heavens Immortal Steps. As Gu Yun’s heartbeat failed in reality, he and Lin Xi crossed into the Moon Realm together, and the dream world went dark.

• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien watched Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s life together unfold, from falling in love to their wedding and the Nine Heavens Sect’s Century-Sealed Ascension Plan.
• The Nine Heavens Sect activated the Nine Heavens Grand Formation and raised a stairway toward the Moon Realm, where Gu Yun and Lin Xi began their ascent.
• Gu Yun and Lin Xi saw friends and family gathered at the lighthouse, where Zhang Peng, Gu Feng, and Gu Yun’s mother called out their support.
• Gu Yun and Lin Xi reached the final steps as the Twin-Life Gu’s beeps signaled that Old Master Gu was near death, and Lin Xi took Gu Yun’s hand to steady him.
• Gu Yun and Lin Xi crossed into the Moon Realm together, and the dream world fell into darkness after the final insect chirp.

After Gu Yun died, Zhong Yi returned to the Illusion Realm and relived his and Lin Xi’s memories, overwhelmed by the regrets Lin Xi had carried. At her grave, he wondered how to change the past, just as an ethereal voice recognized his regret.

• Zhong Yi woke to find that Gu Yun had died, and realized Lin Xi had never managed to make him remember their promise.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien buried Gu Yun beside Lin Xi, and Zhong Yi began New Game Plus to revisit their memories.
• Guo Yunfeng remained in the Illusion Realm after finishing it, sensing that the story’s power might help her break through.
• Lu Ze told the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao that cultivators would need to feel their regrets deeply before willingly offering spiritual energy.
• Zhong Yi replayed the story, found more fragments of Lin Xi’s memories, and buried Gu Yun and Lin Xi together again.
• When Zhong Yi wondered whether restoring spiritual energy could recover spells to change the past, Qin Lien froze, and an ethereal voice asked if that was his regret.

Zhong Yi realized that the Illusion Realm was his future self’s dream about saving Lin Xi and Gu Yun, then met Lu Ze, the founding Sect Master of the Dreamweaving Sect. Lu Ze offered to make the dream real, and the chapter ended with Zhong Yi asked to choose how much spiritual energy to send into the Azure Realm.

• A masked man appeared before Zhong Yi and made Qin Lien vanish, leading Zhong Yi to realize he was inside a dream within a dream.
• Zhong Yi concluded that his future self’s regret was failing to truly save Lin Xi and Gu Yun, and that he wanted them to be together without regrets.
• The masked man revealed himself as Lu Ze, the founding Sect Master of the Dreamweaving Sect, and stopped Zhong Yi’s attempted punch by making it hit his own eye.
• Lu Ze explained that he had the complete Dreamweaving Spell and could turn the dream into reality if they supplied enough spiritual energy.
• Lu Ze placed a butterfly on Zhong Yi’s shoulder, and a system prompt asked Zhong Yi how much spiritual energy he wished to inject into the Azure Realm.

Zhong Yi poured all his spiritual energy into Lu Ze’s Dreamweaving Grand Formation, hoping to change the fate of Gu Yun and Lin Xi, but awoke in what seemed to be the unchanged illusion realm. He discovered that the old man’s regret belonged to Gu Feng, while Gu Yun and Lin Xi were alive atop the lighthouse, and his own regret finally faded.

• Zhong Yi spent all his spiritual energy to activate Lu Ze’s Dreamweaving Grand Formation, and the dream world collapsed.
• Zhong Yi awoke beside Qin Lien at the start of their visit to a client named Gu, and realized his earlier memories of changing the story had not come true.
• Zhong Yi led Qin Lien to the lighthouse, where they found Gu Yun grieving beside a grave.
• Zhong Yi saw that the grave belonged to Chen Yue and learned that Gu Feng’s regret was forgetting the poem he had written for his late wife.
• Gu Yun and Lin Xi appeared alive on the lighthouse terrace, searching for shapes in the moon, and Zhong Yi’s lingering regret vanished.
• Zhong Yi recited a poem about sharing the moon’s beauty across a thousand miles for Gu Feng.

Lu Ze’s New Game Plus endings drew spiritual energy from cultivators across the world and restored the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s seals. Guo Yunfeng unlocked the true ending, broke through to the refining void middle stage, and thanked the Spirit Cloud Sect for its aid.

• Cultivators poured spiritual energy into the Illusion Realm after learning Zhong Yi had unlocked the hidden true ending, and the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s damaged seals were restored.
• Lu Ze explained that New Game Plus endings depended on the proportion of spiritual energy players contributed, with contributions of eighty percent or more unlocking Zhong Yi’s true ending.
• Guo Yunfeng contributed all her spiritual energy, changing the dream so Gu Feng survived and Gu Yun and Lin Xi lived together into old age.
• Overwhelmed by sorrow and fulfillment, Guo Yunfeng withdrew from the Illusion Realm and began breaking through.
• Chao Wendao and Nangong Yuan channeled spiritual energy into Guo Yunfeng as red lightning struck around her.
• After reaching the refining void middle stage, Guo Yunfeng thanked Chao Wendao, Nangong Yuan, and Lu Ze for their help.

Lu Ze won all three challenges at the Illusion Alliance gathering and received the promised Void Soul Crystal. Believing the crystal would destroy Lu Ze when he tried to refine it, [Heart Demon] planned to use the Heaven-and-Earth Four Symbols Formation to uncover the secrets behind Lu Ze’s illusions.

• Guo Yunfeng broke through to the middle stage of the Refining Void Realm after experiencing the opposing emotions stirred by Lu Ze’s “To the Moon Realm,” then bowed to him and declared him the winner of the third challenge.
• Guo Yunfeng announced that Lu Ze had won the third challenge, completing his sweep of all three challenges.
• Chao Wendao and Nangong Yuan confronted [Rakshasa], who handed Lu Ze the Void Soul Crystal after [Heart Demon] instructed him to honor the promise.
• Six hours later, [Heart Demon] told [Rakshasa] that refining the Void Soul Crystal would likely cripple or kill Lu Ze because of his poor innate aptitude.
• [Heart Demon] brought out Illusion Tower 749 and ordered the elders to activate the Heaven-and-Earth Four Symbols Formation again to investigate Lu Ze’s illusions.

Lu Ze worried that the Illusion Alliance would take advantage of him while he refined the Void Soul Crystal, so he planned a new illusion realm to keep players engaged. After Zhong Yi asked for more Slay the Immortal Spire content, Lu Ze settled on Golden Shovel Battle and considered adding Hextech Mayhem as well.

• The Illusion Alliance's gathering boosted Guo Yunfeng and the Ruthless Sect, while powerful figures across the cultivation world began paying attention to illusion realms.
• Lu Ze estimated that refining the Void Soul Crystal would take two to three months and suspected the Illusion Alliance had handed it over to distract him while they made trouble.
• Lu Ze decided to create a new game, and Zhong Yi's request for more Slay the Immortal Spire content led him to consider a long-lasting online card game.
• Lu Ze chose to develop Golden Shovel Battle with S4 units and traits alongside Hextech augments, and he considered bringing Hextech Mayhem to the game library.

Lu Ze released two new game modes before entering seclusion to refine a Void Soul Crystal and break through to the Transformation God Realm. A month later, the Beast Taming Sect's Sect Master sought Lu Ze's help with a crisis, while [Heart Demon]'s attempt to unravel the Illusion Tower's mysteries ended in a terrifying trap.

• Lu Ze completed and released Rune Brawl and Golden Shovel Battle, then entered three months of seclusion to refine a Void Soul Crystal and advance toward the Transformation God Realm.
• The new games drew players and reversed cultivators' reactions to Lu Ze's seclusion, with Golden Shovel Battle topping the Forum and Hextech Mayhem reviving Immortal-Demon Supremacy.
• A month into Lu Ze's seclusion, Nangong Yuan lost a Golden Shovel Battle match just as Chao Wendao brought Beast Taming Sect Sect Master He Muye to request Lu Ze's help with a crisis threatening his sect.
• He Muye offered Lu Ze a Void Soul Crystal if he helped, but Nangong Yuan explained that Lu Ze could not leave his crucial breakthrough seclusion, and He Muye agreed to wait.
• At the Binding Spirit Mountains, [Heart Demon] and the four Illusion Alliance Elders used the Heaven-and-Earth Four Symbols Formation to unseal the Heavenly Spirit Body and absorb the mysteries within the Illusion Tower.
• [Heart Demon] refined the resulting orb, but countless golden Heavenly Dao orbs appeared in his mind and burned incense until they overwhelmed his consciousness.

After three months in seclusion, Lu Ze emerged at the early Transformation God Realm with his Spiritual Sense greatly strengthened, then learned the Beast Taming Sect had offered a Void Soul Crystal in exchange for his help. Nangong Yuan told him Sect Master He had already returned home after receiving a secret letter.

• Lu Ze completed his breakthrough and refined the Void Soul Crystal, which strengthened only about a third of his sea of consciousness, and he planned to seek more from the Illusion Alliance.
• Lu Ze slipped through Chao Wendao and Nangong Yuan’s Barrier and appeared in the Artifact Forging Hall, where he found his acquaintances gaming.
• Zhong Yi and the others were shocked by Lu Ze’s breakthrough, and Lu Ze concealed how much of the Void Soul Crystal he had refined.
• Nangong Yuan told Lu Ze that Sect Master He of the Beast Taming Sect had offered a Void Soul Crystal for help with the sect’s calamity.
• Lu Ze eagerly offered to help, but Nangong Yuan said Sect Master He had returned a month earlier after receiving a troubling secret letter.

Lu Ze learned that the Beast Taming Sect needed an illusion realm capable of creating a genuinely new world and new spirit beasts, not merely inventing strange-looking creatures. He arrived with Nangong Yuan just as White Crane challenged the sect, and White Crane insisted Lu Ze could not meet the commission before its deadline.

• Lu Ze learned from Nangong Yuan and Zhong Yi that the Beast Taming Sect had posted a commission offering a Void Soul Crystal for an illusion realm, then decided to visit the sect.
• Nangong Yuan explained that the Beast Taming Sect was declining because spirit beasts were disappearing, a problem Lu Ze doubted an illusion realm could solve.
• At the Beast Taming Sect, White Crane accused Sect Master He Muye of rejecting his King of Ten Thousand Beasts illusion realm despite its strange, supposedly new creatures.
• He Muye explained that the creatures lacked spirit-beast souls and that the sect needed an illusion realm that created a new world.
• White Crane mocked He Muye for expecting Lu Ze to fulfill the commission, but Lu Ze arrived and greeted him, leaving White Crane stunned.
• White Crane left after warning that less than a month remained and challenging Lu Ze to meet the Beast Taming Sect's requirements.

Lu Ze learned that the Beast Taming Sect’s Void Dream Chi was nearing death because a resentful beast soul had been implanted in it, and agreed to build an illusion realm to contain the soul. He expected to finish within half a month and learned that helping the Void Dream Chi reincarnate would earn him a Void Soul Crystal, just as the system warned of impending turmoil among spirit beasts.

• He Muye showed Lu Ze and Nangong Yuan the shrinking Void Dream Chi and explained how demon cultivators had implanted a resentful beast soul inside it.
• He Muye asked Lu Ze to create a spirit-beast-focused illusion realm on a world distinct from the Tianxuan Continent so the evil soul’s curse could be transferred into it.
• Lu Ze agreed to make the illusion realm and said he expected to finish in less than half a month.
• Lu Ze asked for Void Soul Crystals, and He Muye explained that one would form when the Void Dream Chi reincarnated after its crisis was resolved.
• Lu Ze awkwardly denied suggesting that the Void Dream Chi might die in infancy, then promised to handle the illusion realm.
• The system warned Lu Ze that the Beast Taming Sect’s divine beast was near death and the world’s spirit beasts were about to be plunged into turmoil.

Lu Ze built a vast Palworld illusion realm for the Beast Taming Sect’s mission and brought the unsealed Evil Soul Dream Chi inside. By having the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao repeatedly kill it, he recovered spirit beasts’ cybersouls and prepared to give the Pals complete souls.

• Lu Ze accepted He Muye’s offer to stay at the Beast Taming Sect and create an illusion realm to divert the Evil Soul’s resentment from real spirit beasts.
• Lu Ze spent nearly a week building Palpagos Island and designing the habits and traits of tens of thousands of Pals, then realized he needed cybersouls to make them convincing.
• Lu Ze asked the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to help, then persuaded He Muye to let the unsealed Evil Soul enter the illusion realm.
• The Evil Soul Dream Chi appeared in Palworld and tried to attack the Pals, but Lu Ze captured it and had the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao kill it repeatedly.
• Lu Ze used the cybersouls released from the Dream Chi to complete the Pals’ souls, then purged their negative consciousness with the Cyber Myriad Souls Banner.

Lu Ze opened Palworld as a new Illusion Realm and drew in cultivators eager to explore its world and catch Pals. Zhong Yi and his companions entered the realm, where Mu Yawen accidentally killed a Tombat while trying to capture it.

• Lu Ze declined to ask the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to purify the Evil Soul and told He Muye that Palworld could still help the Beast Taming Sect.
• Lu Ze announced that Palworld would open the next day and prepared to attract more players.
• Zhong Yi, Zhou Qiaoling, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Yue entered Palworld together and adjusted their world settings to make the realm more difficult.
• Zhong Yi explored castle ruins, found a Rune Stone and treasure, and then headed toward the Giant Vulture Statue.
• Mu Yawen struck a Tombat too hard while trying to subdue it, killing it and leaving her distraught.

Zhong Yi discovered that Pal Spheres could capture Pals and unlocked the Technology Tree, revealing a Palworld-like crafting system. The group’s attempt to steal an islander’s rifle triggered a hail of gunfire, leaving them in trouble.

• Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen tried several ways to tame a weakened Peckipeck, but none worked.
• Zhong Yi used a Pal Sphere description to realize the creatures were called Pals and that Pal Spheres could capture them.
• Zhou Qiaoling captured the Peckipeck with a Pal Sphere and released it as her tamed companion.
• Zhong Yi unlocked the Giant Vulture Statue, reached level 2, and discovered Technology Points and recipes for crafting tools and Pal Spheres.
• Zhou Qiaoling ordered her Peckipeck to steal an islander’s rifle, prompting the islander to fire at all four cultivators.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu followed Palworld’s early quests, crafting tools and Pal Spheres before taking in the vast scenery of Palpagos Island. They began catching Pals, where Zhou Yue’s low-level character was taunted by a mischievous Tombat.

• Zhou Qiaoling mourned her defeated Peckipeck, and Zhong Yi explained that a level-two Palbox could restore Pals’ health.
• The four followed the guided quests, gathered resources, crafted tools, leveled up, and made twenty-four Pal Spheres.
• Zhong Yi handed out the Pal Spheres, and Zhou Yue rejected his suggestion that Zhou Qiaoling catch Pals for him because of his bad luck.
• The four surveyed Palpagos Island from the Giant Vulture Statue, seeing its plains, World Tree, volcano, and snowfields.
• Zhou Yue leaped off the cliff, discovered that falling caused damage, and warned the others to descend carefully.
• A level-four Tombat repeatedly taunted level-three Zhou Yue with faces and spit.

Zhou Yue caught a mischievous Tombat whose special traits made it endlessly hungry and lazy, while the group prepared to establish a base. Zhong Yi drew the short straw and stayed behind to craft Pal Spheres, but his Tombat unexpectedly helped him at the Crafting Table.

• Zhou Yue chased down and caught a Tombat, then discovered it kept demanding wild berries instead of fighting.
• Zhou Yue inspected the Tombat's traits and found Coward, Glutton, Bottomless Stomach, and Slacker, prompting him to compare it to Zhou Qiaoling.
• Zhong Yi explained that they needed someone to stay behind and gather resources and build the base, so the group drew lots.
• Zhong Yi lost the draw and stayed at the Crafting Table while the others headed out to explore and catch creatures.
• Zhong Yi's Tombat unexpectedly stood beside him and began helping craft Pal Spheres.

Zhong Yi discovered that Palworld creatures could perform base work according to their Work Suitability, then expanded the base with help from his companions. As they prepared to explore for more creatures, Zhou Yue revealed that Lu Ze had placed a level-thirty-eight Great Demon nearby.

• Zhong Yi found that Tombat and Lamball could craft Pal Spheres because they had the handiwork ability, while Peckipeck could not.
• Zhong Yi built a Livestock Ranch and saw Peckipeck produce an egg, then learned that the Palbox could be upgraded to house more creatures.
• Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen returned with new Palworld creatures and saw Zhong Yi's expanded base and working Pals.
• Mu Yawen showed Zhong Yi Teafant, Lifmunk, and Tombat, and Zhong Yi assigned Tombat to help with base work.
• Zhong Yi proposed that they go catch more creatures, but Zhou Yue warned that Lu Ze had put a level-thirty-eight Great Demon outside their home.

Zhong Yi and the others explored Palpagos Island, avoiding a powerful Forest Mammoth while catching Pals through the night. At dawn, they planned to return to their base, and Zhong Yi wondered whether the distant High Tower was the key to the Illusion Realm.

• Zhong Yi sent his Tombat to scout a safe route around the level 38 Forest Mammoth, then led the group past it to unlock another Giant Vulture Statue.
• Night fell, wild Pals went to sleep, and Zhou Yue gave everyone torches so they could keep exploring.
• Zhong Yi, Zhou Qiaoling, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen caught many different Pals and studied their habits as they traveled.
• At dawn, Zhou Yue suggested they return to their base to replenish Pal Spheres and change their teams, and Zhong Yi agreed because they could also upgrade the base.
• From a hilltop, Zhong Yi spotted a High Tower beyond a distant Giant Vulture Statue and wondered whether it was the key to the Illusion Realm.