Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu struggled to find a way to control Erasure while privately using Du Zhong and native pawns to shield himself from the World Consciousness. Meanwhile, the Investigation Bureau brought Wen Jingyan to its headquarters and realized something was wrong when he said he had lost his memory.

• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong observed the world collapsing as Erasure wiped out reality and resisted Hu Jiu's supernatural powers.
• Hu Jiu explained that he suspected the World Consciousness could only influence events indirectly, so he let Du Zhong and native pawns carry out the destruction while he stayed cautious.
• Du Yan found Wen Jingyan wandering the street, brought him to the Investigation Bureau, and learned that he did not recognize him because he had lost his memory.
• Cheng Linzhou welcomed Wen Jingyan at the headquarters and noticed that his behavior seemed unusual.

Wen Jingyan told Cheng Linzhou and Du Yan that he had lost ten years of memories, leaving the Investigation Bureau unsure how to handle him as supernatural incidents escalated worldwide. As people fled and stockpiled supplies, a livestreamer named Pinshishi claimed that high-purity gold could help people survive the apocalypse.

• Wen Jingyan told Cheng Linzhou and Du Yan that he remembered drowning as a college student and waking up ten years later with no memories of the intervening years.
• Wen Jingyan privately suspected he had transmigrated into a parallel world, but he kept the idea to himself to avoid being taken for research.
• Cheng Linzhou sent Du Yan to find Wen Jingyan a place to stay and considered using his apparent naivety to recruit him as a bodyguard.
• People around the world stocked up on supplies or fled as governments dismissed the growing supernatural incidents as rumors or harmless phenomena.
• A husband told his wife that his hometown village would be safer, and she found Pinshishi livestreaming advice that high-purity gold could fight the apocalypse.

As disappearances spread worldwide, governments failed to stop the supernatural apocalypse, and people struggled to survive amid collapsing roads, panic, and betrayal. At the hospital, Su Yu saw a viral video suggesting that a Supernatural Item could protect someone from being disappeared, though it was consumed in the process.

• Leader A ordered helicopters to spray a golden Revealing Agent over disappearance sites, but it failed to reveal the source, and the helicopters vanished despite leaving the gold particles behind.
• A family fleeing Jing City became trapped in a highway pileup, and a grandfather forced his granddaughter out of their van under the pretext of buying chocolate for Yaozu.
• A government meeting produced no practical countermeasures as officials faced the prospect of society's collapse and the loss of capable leaders.
• Su Yu stayed covered in gold-containing protective gear while recovering from injuries at a crowded hospital.
• Hospital patients watched a video of a middle-aged woman surviving a disappearance incident with a red bridal veil, which Su Yu suspected was a single-use Supernatural Item.

When the sun abruptly vanished from view, a Patrol Medical Record Cart appeared in Su Yu’s hospital, turning the ward and corridors into a deadly supernatural incident. Protected by gold-thread clothing, Su Yu tried to escape and discovered a second cart in the stairwell.

• The sun suddenly disappeared, and Su Yu saw the sky turn unnaturally black from her hospital bed.
• A Patrol Medical Record Cart entered the corridor, and an old woman became a Ghost Slave after looking outside.
• Su Yu stayed hidden from the cart, then slipped out of her ward while it was distracted by injured patients.
• Su Yu triggered a fire alarm and sprinklers to give a young nurse a chance to flee from a Ghost Slave and the cart.
• Su Yu found a second Patrol Medical Record Cart on the stairs, but her gold-thread clothes protected her as it passed.
• Su Yu hurried toward the hospital entrance, hoping to escape before a Ghost Domain formed.

Feng Qian discovered that the Investigation Bureau’s contained Fierce Ghosts had escaped and learned that Cheng Linzhou was releasing them to resist “Erasure.” As the Bureau stripped gold from containment rooms to build a supernatural defensive line, Feng Qian questioned his own mysterious luck and feared the disaster was worsening faster than expected.

• Feng Qian found the containment rooms empty except for the room holding the “Space Chaos Cube,” then confronted Cheng Linzhou, who claimed he already knew the Fierce Ghosts had escaped.
• Feng Qian found a report linking Fierce Ghosts to resistance against “Erasure,” visited Wen Jingyan, and learned the Bureau was still detaining him after he lost his memories and the ghost inside him.
• Feng Qian found Cheng Linzhou dismantling containment rooms for their gold and learned that grade B and higher supernatural entities could resist or delay “Erasure.”
• Cheng Linzhou explained that he was releasing Fierce Ghosts as a defensive line and taking the gold to protect his chosen survivors, while Feng Qian challenged his priorities.
• Feng Qian wondered about the origin and cost of his Koi Constitution, then warned Cheng Linzhou that the supernatural disaster was worsening faster than expected.

As supernatural disasters spread, America discovered that erasure voids could open onto alien, scarlet spaces, while Su Yu rescued a little girl and killed a Ghost Tamer who threatened them. Su Yu and the girl then found a strange opening above a ruined high-rise, as a food-factory survivor base tried to preserve order.

• American officials learned that [Erasure] had devastated Africa and that bizarre spaces were appearing inside voids across the country.
• Su Yu rescued a quiet little girl from falling debris and gave her bread while they searched for food.
• A two-mouthed Ghost Tamer threatened Su Yu and the girl, so Su Yu killed him and his lackey with her gold-containing blade and a brick.
• The little girl took Su Yu’s hand, then pointed out a hole in the air that revealed a scarlet wasteland and a dim red sphere.
• At a food-processing plant, an elementary school teacher led a survivor base that let newcomers keep their food and expected them to obey the law.
• An older man warned armed would-be usurpers that the government could hold them accountable if order returned.

After entering the Ghost World through a hole created by Erasure, Bai Mingchuan reached the Bronze Giant Tree and met the dying explorer Lin Wanyue, who warned him about the Red Moon and the tree. Unseen by Bai Mingchuan, two figures in the tree’s crown discussed how Erasure had connected worlds and brought living people into the Ghost World.

• Bai Mingchuan entered the dark red wasteland through a hole in the erasure-ravaged world and struggled through its distorted space toward the Bronze Giant Tree.
• Bai Mingchuan found Lin Wanyue beneath the tree, where she told him that the Red Moon and Bronze Tree were two ghosts and warned him to avoid moonlight and resist praising the moon.
• Lin Wanyue explained that the Investigation Bureau had sent her on an exploration mission and that she had learned the survival rules at the cost of human lives.
• Lin Wanyue fell unconscious, and Bai Mingchuan realized she was close to death and that the Ghost World held no magic or other people he could see.
• Two unseen figures in the Bronze Giant Tree’s crown said Erasure had opened holes between worlds and brought living people into the Ghost World.

Feng Qian entered Cheng Linzhou’s fortified safe house as the outside world vanished, then watched his Koi Constitution repeatedly turn accidents into solutions for the survivors. The chapter ended with Feng Qian’s luck freeing a jammed module in the safe house’s defense array, leaving the engineers convinced he was somehow responsible.

• Cheng Linzhou brought Feng Qian into his safe house and introduced him to his wife, Liu Man, and his father, Cheng Yuanshan.
• Feng Qian’s accidental chair movement coincided with a spilled thermos and the energy core’s backup pump returning to normal.
• Feng Qian tripped near the cultivation room, and discarded culture media splashed onto medicinal plants that had been wilting, restoring their vitality.
• Feng Qian’s cart jolted a crate of missing high-energy food into view, resolving a warehouse inventory shortage.
• Feng Qian reached toward a jammed scanning probe module as spilled cleaning solvent caused it to pop free and reset, astonishing the engineers.

Cheng Linzhou discovered that Feng Qian’s good fortune appeared to damage the safe house and draw on the fortune of the group around him. After the Imperial Seal cracked when Feng Qian touched a doorframe, Cheng confronted him with evidence and accused him of consuming the fortune of the Investigation Bureau and even the nation.

• Feng Qian became known as the safe house’s lucky charm, while Cheng Linzhou noticed that minor problems kept resolving around him and began secretly monitoring him.
• Cheng Linzhou linked Feng Qian’s lucky incidents to tiny fluctuations in the safe house’s systems, including moisture in a gold sealing pipe and damage to a sealed protective suit.
• When Feng Qian steadied himself on the study doorframe, the Imperial Seal in Cheng Yuanshan’s hands developed a hair-thin crack, alarming Cheng Yuanshan and Cheng Linzhou.
• Cheng Linzhou led Feng Qian to a classified tactical analysis room and showed him surveillance footage and timeline data from his lucky incidents.
• Cheng Linzhou accused Feng Qian of drawing on the fortune of the groups around him, including the Investigation Bureau and the nation, while Feng Qian rejected the accusation.

Hu Jiu’s attempt to take supernatural power from Erasure failed when it continued expanding after destroying its world and began erasing the Ghost World itself. He fled with Du Zhong through a spatial passage as the void swallowed stars and worlds, leaving the scale of the disaster unknown.

• Hu Jiu tested Erasure with curse power and found that it erased his attack without a trace.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong watched the world’s safe houses and their inhabitants vanish, while Hu Jiu absorbed the destruction’s power.
• The Red Moon fled as Erasure expanded beyond the destroyed world and began erasing the Ghost World.
• Hu Jiu tore open a passage through space and time and escaped with Du Zhong as Erasure erased the Ghost World and nearby stars.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong argued while fleeing through the darkness, with worlds disappearing behind them.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong arrived in an apocalyptic world and learned that they had been pulled into a Horror Game survival instance. After Hu Jiu triggered the instance’s fear-based killing rule and found a strange game item, Du Zhong questioned why this world’s language and civilization so closely resembled those of other worlds.

• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong escaped the erasing universe through a stable spatial anchor and arrived in a silent world of ruins.
• Hu Jiu searched the area, found a person, and made Du Zhong a body before they approached him.
• A young man told them they had been chosen by the Horror Game and described the dangers of its survival instance.
• Hu Jiu beat the young man until he revealed that anything a player feared would materialize and hunt them.
• Hu Jiu caused the young man’s childhood fear of a chainsaw killer to manifest, and the killer split him in two before vanishing.
• Du Zhong examined a box of unusual matches and questioned why different worlds shared nearly identical races, languages, civilizations, and histories.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong encountered Nie Zheng’s group in a Horror Game instance, where Hu Jiu exposed Nie Zheng’s cruelty and discovered that Nie Zheng feared Sirius. Fake Sirius killed Nie Zheng and remained in the world, seemingly reborn as a living person.

• Nie Zheng’s team defeated a fear-born black bear after he waited for others to weaken it, and Hu Jiu and Du Zhong arrived soon afterward.
• Hu Jiu killed a lackey who tried to bring them to Nie Zheng, then struck Nie Zheng and destroyed his Sirius pendant’s protective gem.
• Ms. Chu appeared, but Hu Jiu snapped her neck and concluded that she could be defeated with physical attacks.
• Nie Zheng shot Hu Jiu with his silver pistol, but Hu Jiu examined the bullet unharmed as Nie Zheng fled with his group.
• Fake Sirius manifested from Nie Zheng’s fear, and Nie Zheng revealed that he had stolen Sirius’s items and eliminated him after resenting his superiority.
• Fake Sirius took Nie Zheng’s gun and killed him, then examined his body as he began to feel alive.

Hu Jiu, Du Zhong, and the resurrected Qin Lang escaped the closing horror instance and entered a world nearly identical to the ones Hu Jiu had encountered before. After creating new identities, Hu Jiu and Du Zhong set out to investigate the Horror Game’s supernatural system, while Qin Lang left to pursue his own path and seek revenge on Nie Zheng.

• Qin Lang recovered his memories and learned that he had returned from death as a being bound to both the supernatural and the instance’s rules.
• Hu Jiu tore open the collapsing instance, and he, Du Zhong, and Qin Lang crossed into reality.
• Hu Jiu recognized that the new world closely resembled other worlds he had seen and fabricated identity documents for himself, Du Zhong, and Qin Lang.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong parted ways with Qin Lang, who left the alley resolved to take revenge on Nie Zheng.
• Du Zhong explained that the Horror Game was gradually bringing supernatural powers into reality, and he located Zhao Kun, a player and member of the Blood Rose guild.
• Hu Jiu entered Zhao Kun’s VIP room at the Blues Bar and erased a lackey’s face after the man cursed at him.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong hunted Horror Game players in the real world, draining their powers and gathering information while investigating an unfamiliar extraordinary system. After killing several targets, they left the arena and continued their cautious search for other players.

• Hu Jiu froze Zhao Kun and the other players’ attacks, drained their powers, and killed them; Du Zhong took valuable items from their bodies.
• Hu Jiu interrogated Zhao Kun’s consciousness and learned that Chen Mingyuan, the B-rank player called Scholar, worked at the city library.
• Hu Jiu overwhelmed Chen Mingyuan, absorbed information and energy from an ancient book taken from a Horror Game instance, and drained Chen Mingyuan’s power after discovering the book claimed Lu Bu was a double ★.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong went to an underground fighting arena, where Du Zhong used the Space Chaos Cube to trap Lei Gang, the A-rank player called Bloodaxe.
• Hu Jiu drained Lei Gang’s power and killed him, then explained that he and Du Zhong were proceeding cautiously to learn about the unfamiliar system without revealing their own information.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong left the arena, and Lei Gang’s gruesome death soon stirred the Horror Game player community.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong lured the horror game’s top players to an auction aboard the Heart of the Ocean, then trapped them in a supernatural nightmare. The ship vanished into gray mist after the players were slaughtered, leaving the survivors in the real world terrified.

• Hu Jiu impersonated Horton and staged two successful auctions to persuade powerful players that the third auction was safe.
• Hu Jiu announced that the grand auction would take place aboard the Heart of the Ocean, while Du Zhong promoted it and later impersonated Horton onstage.
• More than a hundred top players gathered aboard the ship as Du Zhong presented the supposed Phoenix Tear and Hu Jiu spread supernatural power through the vessel.
• The Phoenix Tear turned into a deadly fake, Du Zhong vanished, and the ship transformed into a distorted horror scenario filled with undead and manifestations of the players’ deepest fears.
• The gray mist swallowed the Heart of the Ocean and its passengers, and news of the top players’ deaths sent fear through the remaining players.

Hu Jiu traced the Horror Game’s mass player deaths to its pale-brained core, then invaded the core and destroyed it while extracting a powerful crystal. He left with the crystal, while Qin Lang remained in the real world and the nature of the stolen power was still unknown.

• The Horror Game’s pale giant brain detected the mass loss of player terminals and scanned the real world for the cause.
• Hu Jiu sensed the brain’s probe, traced it to the Horror Game core hidden in the Abyssal Echoes instance, and used Qin Lang to locate it through the power protecting him.
• Hu Jiu blasted a passage into the core space and entered with Du Zhong as the brain activated its emergency defenses.
• Hu Jiu ignored the brain’s attacks, stripped a crystal core from it, and destroyed it before its self-destruction protocol could finish.
• Hu Jiu pocketed the crystal and told Du Zhong it was probably this world’s God, while admitting he did not know exactly what it was.

Hu Jiu destroyed the pale brain, causing the horror game and its simulated world to collapse, then accelerated the destruction before leaving with Du Zhong. They arrived in a world where transmigrators were common and an apocalypse governed by rules had begun, while Qin Lang was left behind to die with his world.

• Hu Jiu tore out the pale brain's core, triggering the collapse of the horror game, its dungeons, and players' powers and items.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong returned to Earth Onlion and discovered that its simulated world was breaking apart to reveal an apocalyptic wasteland beneath it.
• Du Zhong estimated the world would disintegrate in 3.7 days, and Hu Jiu unleashed power that rapidly annihilated its data-based structures and inhabitants.
• Qin Lang tried to escape through a spatial fissure but could not enter, as a voice told him the son of destiny had to live and die with his world.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong emerged on a busy street in another world, where a woman explained that transmigrators had appeared for six months and that the apocalypse had begun seven days earlier.
• The woman told Hu Jiu and Du Zhong that the apocalypse followed rules and that people would be safe if they obeyed them.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong explored a world where laws and morality had become rules enforced by lightning, making society orderly but fearful and stagnant. They concluded that ordinary people gained protection while the privileged class saw its power—and the old institutions of government—overthrown.

• A young woman explained that breaking the world’s rules brought lightning punishment, and Hu Jiu and Du Zhong were repeatedly struck for their actions and thoughts.
• Hu Jiu investigated the city through his intangible form while Du Zhong blended in, and they observed the polite, spotless streets and near-total elimination of crime.
• Du Zhong and Hu Jiu learned that conflicting laws were enforced according to the strictest standard, while authorities and online platforms promoted the new order and suppressed criticism.
• Du Zhong warned that censorship had removed entertainment and other outlets for ordinary people’s stress, and further investigation revealed that fear had halted innovation, art, and honest expression.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong concluded that the rules protected ordinary people but destroyed the privileged class’s ability to wield power, reducing governments and other institutions to figureheads.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong learned from transmigrators how different apocalypses had destroyed their worlds, then saw how Thunder Punishment was overwhelming hospitals and destabilizing society. They decided to hasten this world’s collapse by manipulating the Santos United Emirates into enacting extreme laws that would become part of the rules.

• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong secretly contacted transmigrators and heard accounts of apocalypses caused by runaway technology, depleted magic, supernatural revival, and a consciousness-uploading trap.
• The transmigrators warned that this world’s orderly rules could be a prelude to disaster, and Hu Jiu declared that he would make the world collapse.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong inspected hospitals overwhelmed by lightning-strike victims and recognized that injuries, labor shortages, and mounting anxiety were creating a vicious cycle.
• Hu Jiu proposed changing legal standards so the rules would enforce harsher laws, and Du Zhong agreed to target the Santos United Emirates.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong planned to push Santos toward absurdly cruel laws and headed there to begin their scheme.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong turned Santos into a fanatical legal state, and the rule made its cruel code universal, killing millions and paralyzing society. Hu Jiu expanded the laws to cover all living things, triggering worldwide ecological devastation, while the pair watched the apocalypse unfold and noted that a few survivors remained.

• Hu Jiu brainwashed Santos and made its leaders pass the Sacred Order Code, imposing brutal restrictions and punishments on the population.
• The rule elevated the Sacred Order Code into universal international law, causing mass deaths and bringing human society to a standstill.
• Hu Jiu issued Natural Ecology Supplementary Regulations, and the rule adopted them, subjecting plants, animals, and microorganisms to lethal punishments.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong watched lightning devastate the world as the ecosystem collapsed and effective human activity fell to zero.
• As the storms weakened, Hu Jiu noticed survivors, and Du Zhong warned that environmental destruction would soon make the world unfit for carbon-based life.