Chapter Summaries

Fang Jun survived the Anomalous Instance by resurrecting in the real world, then discovered the BOSS had followed him and killed him a third time in front of Alliance Guild members. The onlookers were left terrified, unsure whether the BOSS would attack them next.

• Fang Jun awoke at home after dying in the Instance and realized an item had resurrected him without costing him experience points.
• Fang Jun vowed to take revenge on the BOSS in the upcoming Special Instance, then sensed its chilling aura in his home.
• Fang Jun activated his distress signal, and his elder and other Alliance Guild members gathered as he told them the BOSS was nearby.
• Fang Jun sensed imminent danger and shattered into pieces before the gathered guild members could help him.
• The witnesses realized an Instance BOSS could kill a player in the real world and feared it might target them next.

Shen Hao killed Fang Jun and the escaped Demigods, then explored the Three Lives Stone to learn about his reincarnation. He discovered that the Lord of the Netherworld had sent him into the future and given him a second life in the mortal world.

• Shen Hao ordered the Demigods to kill themselves, and they obeyed out of fear.
• Shen Hao controlled Yu Fei and Pei Yunfei, killed them, and sent them to Avici Hell by changing the judgment in the Book of Life and Death.
• After completing his tasks, Shen Hao stayed in the Instance to touch the Three Lives Stone, which showed him his past but no definite future.
• Shen Hao saw that a blurry figure had frozen time during his reincarnation and sent his soul into the mortal world.
• Shen Hao used the Eye of Cause and Effect to identify the figure as the Lord of the Netherworld, who had arranged his second life in the mortal world.

Shen Hao used the Three Lives Stone and the Eye of Cause and Effect to learn how the Lord of the Netherworld rose from a deceived mortal to a god who created reincarnation. He resolved to prevent another god from descending, then left to explore the hells and add them to his Demon Domain.

• Shen Hao saw that the Lord of the Netherworld had once been a poor man who believed noble lords' lies about reincarnation and died starving while trusting he would be reborn wealthy.
• After learning the truth in the Netherworld, the Lord of the Netherworld grew powerful by devouring souls, established the Land of Reincarnation, and became a god.
• Shen Hao learned that players were helping a god from another world destroy the Lord of the Netherworld's divine authority so the Supreme Will could descend.
• Shen Hao decided to stop the god's arrival and establish a new order in the Netherworld without allowing a new god to rule over him.
• Shen Hao failed to uncover the Demons' secrets with the Three Lives Stone, but concluded that Demons were connected to the Lord of the Netherworld and were no lesser than him.
• Shen Hao left to explore the hells, hoping to enrich his Demon Domain and earn better player reviews.

Shen Hao absorbed all Eighteen Levels of Hell into his Demon Domain, then returned to the real world and discovered that his constitution had exceeded the game system’s display limit. The game system invited him to the Special Instance, where a group of players planned to challenge him, and left him to choose whether to accept.

• Shen Hao absorbed Knife Mountain Hell and the other hells, including Avici Hell, into his Demon Domain.
• Shen Hao returned to his room, raised his level to 40, and found that his constitution was at least 20,000 despite the panel showing only 9,999.
• Shen Hao checked the news and forums but found no reports about the Land of Reincarnation Anomalous Instance or the deaths of its players.
• The game system invited Shen Hao to the Special Instance and asked him to accept or ignore the players’ challenge.

Shen Hao accepted the challenge to enter the Special Instance and went out to buy food and supplies. When monsters from the Netherworld invaded several cities, he watched the slaughter and collected Fear Points while wondering what had caused the invasion.

• Shen Hao accepted the challenge, knowing he needed to stop the players from bringing a new god into the world.
• Shen Hao noticed that people in the city remained shaken by the recent upheaval, then ate noodles and went shopping.
• A monster attacked people in the supermarket, but it sensed Shen Hao's aura and fled without attacking him.
• Shen Hao discovered that monsters and evil spirits were rampaging through the city and nearby cities, while he collected Fear Points.
• Shen Hao suspected the weakened divine authority of the Lord of the Netherworld had allowed the monsters to invade, but he stayed out of the chaos.

Shen Hao watched monsters overrun the world and gave up trying to save humanity, until a vast holy light appeared and destroyed the monsters while restoring the damage. The survivors embraced the light as their new god, and Shen Hao suspected the Supreme Will had engineered the rescue to win their faith.

• Shen Hao concluded he could not stop the worldwide monster attack and continued gathering human fear as the Alliance Guild's Ability Users struggled against the creatures.
• Shen Hao searched for the source of the monsters with Mental Perception and the Eye of Cause and Effect but found no answers.
• A huge orb of holy white light appeared in the sky, frightened the monsters, and disintegrated them wherever its rays reached.
• The light healed the dead and restored the ruined world, leading people to pray to it and accept it as their new god.
• After the light vanished, Shen Hao wondered whether the Supreme Will had timed the rescue to gain believers and called it a clever move.

Shen Hao learned that a deity from another world was being summoned to the human world, and resolved to disrupt the deity’s arrival through Instances before it could threaten him. After weeks without a match, he was finally sent into a Special Instance prepared especially for him.

• The Alliance Guild announced that the Lord of the Netherworld’s power had awakened and that a deity from another world would descend to protect humanity.
• Shen Hao recognized the announcement as a performance, realized the deity would target him because of his connection to the Lord of the Netherworld, and resolved to stop the descent.
• Shen Hao gained 70,000 Fear Points from the day’s events, bringing his total to 380,000, but judged himself too weak to challenge the deity directly.
• Shen Hao waited half a month without being matched to an Instance and regretted making them so dangerous that high-level players avoided entering.
• After another week, Shen Hao was matched with a new Instance, which turned out to be the Special Instance prepared especially for him.

Shen Hao learned that the Special Instance was a stronghold where players planned to erase the Lord of the Netherworld’s divine authority and prepare for an Outer God’s descent. As he prepared to sabotage them, the players’ forum turned against someone who warned that the Lord of the Netherworld could still fight back.

• Shen Hao read the Instance briefing and learned that he had to destroy the players’ preparations and prevent the Outer God from descending.
• Shen Hao searched online and found that the Alliance Guild had announced the Special Instance, whose participants would receive clearance rewards even if they died.
• Players on the forum celebrated the chance to welcome their god and prayed for the participants’ success.
• One player warned that the Lord of the Netherworld remained a true god and that recent Anomalous Instances might be his counterattack.
• Furious players called the commenter a blasphemer and threatened to kill him publicly, including one who said he had once been the commenter’s friend.

Shen Hao read online comments in which believers organized to hunt down and punish people accused of blaspheming against the New God. The denunciations escalated into calls to report relatives and anyone whose faith seemed uncertain, leaving Shen Hao convinced that everyone had gone mad.

• Believers called for a judgment party to find and livestream the punishment of a player accused of blasphemy.
• Commenters identified a second alleged blasphemer and arranged a gathering to capture the accused.
• A commenter reported that someone had called the New God’s rescue an illusion and demanded that the person be killed.
• A believer reported his younger sister for saying that no god existed and comparing the god to Netherworld monsters.
• Commenters turned on a person who suggested the sister might reform, accusing him of blasphemy and demanding his punishment.
• Shen Hao read the comments and felt that the world had changed and everyone had gone mad.

In the days before the Special Instance opened, the Outer God’s influence drove humanity into religious madness, and Shen Hao enjoyed the resulting chaos. Once inside the Instance, he learned he had to destroy the believers’ holy city and prevent the Outer God’s descent; he spotted the newly arrived players gathering to defend it.

• The Outer God’s influence gave rise to the Judges, who executed people for blasphemy as society collapsed into fanaticism.
• Shen Hao welcomed the terror and disorder, though he knew he had to stop the Outer God from descending.
• Shen Hao entered the Special Instance and found a barren wasteland steeped in the dead Lord of the Netherworld’s resentment.
• The game system revealed that the believers were building a holy city to bring down the Outer God, and tasked Shen Hao with destroying it and finding the Demon’s left arm.
• Shen Hao used Mental Perception to locate the players, who had gathered by the holy city and resolved to fight for their god.

Fifty top players entered the Holy City Instance to defend a temple built to welcome a new god, and most believed the mission would be easy. A seventy-year-old follower assigned them their task: stop the Demon from preventing the god's arrival.

• The players arrived at the Holy City and learned that they had to protect the temple from a Demon.
• The players debated the danger, with some dismissing the threat and others warning that the Demon had killed Fang Jun and defeated previous challengers.
• The players reassured themselves that the god's power, the temple's arrays, and their large numbers would protect them.
• A temple follower came out to meet the players and revealed that the god's blessing had kept him looking young at seventy.
• The follower told the players to stop the Demon and ensure that the god arrived safely.

A man assigned fifty top-tier players to defend the temple from the Demon and destroy the Lord of the Netherworld's remaining arm, which could hasten their god's arrival. After the players prepared to act, the man told the High Priest that their god would descend in about three days, and the High Priest checked that he had warned them to stay out of the underground area.

• The man showed the players the temple, its protective barrier, and formations, then charged them with keeping the Demon from entering.
• The man told the players to destroy the Lord of the Netherworld's remaining arm beneath the temple, promising that success could hasten their god's arrival.
• The players learned that the god was expected in about a month and agreed to plan their defense and search for the arm.
• The man returned inside and told the High Priest that he had made arrangements for the players.
• The High Priest said their god would descend in about three days and asked whether the man had warned the players not to go underground.

Shen Hao possessed a man leaving the temple and learned that the deity would descend in about three days, while the temple’s ritual left its followers unable to notice what happened outside. The players chose four volunteers to enter the underground in search of the Lord of the Netherworld's arm, and the chapter ended as they passed through the entrance.

• Shen Hao used Possession on a man outside the temple, gained his memories, and learned about the ritual, the deity’s imminent descent, and the Demon's left arm.
• Shen Hao controlled the possessed man to sit inside the temple while his real body observed the players outside.
• The players discussed how to search underground while guarding the temple and agreed to send a small first group.
• A woman volunteered to lead the first group and urged the others to act out of devotion to their deity.
• The woman chose three companions, and the four opened the underground entrance and went inside.

Xu Ya and three companions found the Lord of the Netherworld's arm beneath the temple and tried to pull it from the divine light restraining it. The arm devoured two companions, then seized a third as Xu Ya stood aside, revealing that he had been tricked.

• Xu Ya led the group through the passage and located the withered arm floating within their god's white light.
• Xu Ya urged the others to help remove the arm, despite one man's warning that they should leave it sealed.
• Xu Ya and two companions grabbed the arm and struggled to pull it free, while the hesitant man stayed back.
• The arm unleashed a suction force and drained the man and woman until they died as dried corpses.
• The arm seized the remaining man as he reached for it, and he realized Xu Ya had deceived him.

Xu Ya lured nine players underground and persuaded them to channel their power through her so she could remove the Lord of the Netherworld's arm. The arm drained energy from the entire group, and the players realized too late that Xu Ya might actually be the Demon.

• The Lord of the Netherworld's arm absorbed the life force of three players, and Xu Ya hid their corpses before returning outside.
• Xu Ya told the waiting players that an evil ghost had killed the three and that she had found the arm, then selected nine players to accompany her underground.
• Xu Ya led the group to the arm and claimed that their combined power could help her pull it free.
• The players formed a chain and transferred their power into Xu Ya as she grasped the arm.
• The arm's suction drained energy from Xu Ya and the players, trapping them as they realized they had been deceived and suspected Xu Ya was the Demon.

Shen Hao let the Lord of the Netherworld’s arm drain nine people, then watched it break free of its seal. After confirming it was the Demon's Left Arm, he carried it out of the temple so it could absorb more life force.

• Xu Ya remained unaffected as the Lord of the Netherworld’s arm drained nine people, leaving them as desiccated corpses.
• The arm broke through the white curtain of light and unleashed its power, shaking the area and alerting the players outside and the temple’s followers.
• The High Priest decided the Demon had appeared and led the temple’s followers outside to investigate.
• Shen Hao controlled Xu Ya’s body, grasped the arm, and received confirmation that it was the Demon's Left Arm.
• Shen Hao left the underground with the arm, intending to let it devour more life force.

Xu Ya brought the Lord of the Netherworld's arm back, but it escaped and began draining the players who tried to restrain it. As the arm seized a powerful Divine System Ability User, the high priest emerged from the temple and demanded to know what had happened.

• Xu Ya returned from underground with the Lord of the Netherworld's arm and said the others had sacrificed themselves to obtain it.
• The arm escaped Xu Ya's grasp, drained several players who grabbed it, and turned them into dried corpses.
• Xu Ya urged the others to sacrifice themselves to restrain the arm, but a Divine System Ability User warned that feeding it would make it stronger.
• The arm attacked the Divine System Ability User, pursued him despite his teleportation, and seized him by the neck to drain his strength.
• The temple doors opened, and the high priest arrived with many of God's believers and demanded to know why the arm had been let loose.

The high priest and the players fled into the temple after the Lord of the Netherworld’s arm killed more than twenty people outside. Inside, Zhou Kang accused Xu Ya of being possessed by the Demon as the group prepared to identify the traitors and reseal the arm.

• The high priest realized the Demon had caused his messenger to give the players false instructions, and the freed arm attacked him but was blocked by the temple entrance.
• The arm guarded the temple entrance and drained more than twenty people, while about half the group managed to reach safety inside.
• The high priest said the god’s descent could be delayed until they resealed the arm, and promised he would attempt the sealing again.
• Zhou Kang warned that the Demon might still possess people among them and accused Xu Ya of being controlled.
• The players circled Xu Ya as she denied the accusation, while Zhou Kang claimed he had evidence against her.

Xu Ya was accused of being possessed, but the demon-controlled players ambushed one another and left the High Priest alone. After receiving the god’s blessing, the High Priest restored the players and began using divine power to revive the dead, determined to continue the ceremony.

• Zhou Kang accused Xu Ya of being possessed, and the High Priest allowed him to kill her.
• As Zhou Kang and the others attacked, the demon made them turn on their companions, killing seventeen or eighteen people and forcing the High Priest to flee.
• The High Priest prayed before the god’s statue and received a powerful divine blessing.
• The High Priest returned to the players, dispelled the demon’s possession, and told them what had happened.
• The High Priest led the players back to the corpses and cast sacred light over them, declaring the god’s power.

The high priest revived the dead and rallied them to control the Lord of the Netherworld's arm with the temple's four formations. He used their power to strike the restrained arm, leaving it cracked and close to breaking.

• The high priest revived the corpses and persuaded the newly restored people that their god would bring them back to life whenever they died.
• The high priest led everyone outside and revived more people, then urged them to make amends for releasing the Lord of the Netherworld's arm.
• The high priest sent everyone the method for controlling the four formations and restrained the arm with threads of sacred light.
• Everyone took their positions and activated the formations, suppressing the arm so it could no longer move.
• The high priest drew on everyone's power and launched a concentrated strike that cracked the arm, prompting the crowd to believe a few more strikes could destroy it.