Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi studied increasingly affordable Fire Mage Magic Books and refined his techniques, while his companions pursued their own training. The chapter ended with Chen Yi collecting Clear Sight Reagent and heading to see San Hua.

• Chen Yi read several expensive Magic Books but could not meet their casting requirements, so he turned to cheaper books such as Frenzied Hell and Blazing Spear for reference.
• Chen Yi tested adjustments to his techniques and improved the Flame Seal Sword's barrier and the durability and speed of techniques like Scorching Sword, but made no breakthrough with the Demon Eye.
• Chuka repeatedly attempted to create a small space and died when it collapsed, finally succeeding after the fifty-first collapse.
• Fire Dragon tried to adapt ideas from Armament Haki to Reverse Scale but made no progress, though its control over Battle Qi improved.
• Chen Yi collected Clear Sight Reagent for himself and Fire Dragon, then took the reagents to find San Hua.

Chen Yi entered an Arena match against Cecil Kara, an Angel whose attacks and apparent elementalization made him suspect she was using a light-based Genjutsu. The fight remained unresolved as he tried to determine which of her three streaks of light was real.

• Chen Yi found that his Arena Rank had risen to third after the previous top-ranked players died, while Sima Yuxie, Ge Feifei, and Elementary School Student waited for him to leave fourth tier.
• Sima Yuxie and Ge Feifei argued at the Arena entrance and admitted they were waiting for Chen Yi to move up before pursuing first place.
• Cecil Kara used feather-like beams and the Sword of Judgment to fight Chen Yi's Blazing Sword, Fire Dragon, and other fire techniques.
• Fire Dragon struck Cecil Kara, but she was torn apart by spatial rifts and her pieces turned into specks of light when Chen Yi attacked them.
• Chen Yi used Chibaku Tensei, but three streaks of light escaped its pull; after questioning Fire Dragon, he suspected a light-based Genjutsu triggered by the feathers' flash.

Chen Yi discovered that Cecil Kara’s attacks were part of a Genjutsu cast by three Light Elemental spirits and broke free by using pain, flame, and Sealing Jutsu. He returned to the real battlefield, confirmed the illusion was gone, and left Chuka to help the Fire Dragon fight Cecil Kara.

• Chen Yi questioned whether the Fire Dragon and the three miniature Cecil Karas were real, then defended himself against their attacks while suspecting Genjutsu.
• Chen Yi stabbed himself and burned himself with Silver Flame, causing the illusion to glitch and revealing that it did not synchronize touch.
• Chen Yi used his blood to form a pattern beneath the sand and sealed the three Light Elemental spirits, shattering the illusion.
• Chuka escaped Cecil Kara and reached Finale of Fire, while the Fire Dragon continued fighting Cecil Kara.
• Chen Yi burned the surrounding area to confirm he was back in reality, apologized to Chuka, and sent her to help the Fire Dragon.

Chen Yi defeated Cecil Kara in the Arena by combining Fire Dragon’s attacks, Flame Sparrows, and sealing techniques, raising his record to 230 wins and no losses. He then matched with Chou Zhongsheng, the long-standing first-ranked player, for a battle both had been waiting to fight.

• Fire Dragon and Cecil Kara exchanged blows as Chen Yi’s Flame Sparrows overwhelmed Cecil Kara’s sword slash.
• Fire Dragon hurled Cecil Kara toward Chuka, who trapped her in a small space before spatial rifts swallowed it.
• Chen Yi’s Blood Sparrows exploded across Cecil Kara’s wings, forming seals that weakened her as holy light descended and she launched a Feather Barrage.
• Chen Yi pierced Cecil Kara with a blazing sword and won, reaching Arena rank two with 230 wins and no losses.
• Chen Yi reflected on the fight’s sealing techniques, his Flame Sparrows, and ways to counter light-based Genjutsu.
• Chen Yi matched with Chou Zhongsheng, who had waited more than ten days for a chance to fight him.

Chen Yi and Chou Zhongsheng fought in the city, with their summoned companions battling alongside them. Chen Yi’s blood seal weakened Chou Zhongsheng, but the fight remained unresolved as Chou Zhongsheng blocked the Flame Demon Phantasm’s devastating strike.

• Chou Zhongsheng used his speed and saber skill to overwhelm the Fire Dragon, cutting through its defenses and wounding its arms.
• Chen Yi unleashed waves of Blazing Swords, and Chou Zhongsheng redirected them before retreating from the final Explosive Sword’s blast.
• Chou Zhongsheng summoned a tiger and a Green Snake, while Chen Yi assigned the Fire Dragon and Chuka to fight them and healed the Fire Dragon with Lingering Embers.
• Chou Zhongsheng located Chen Yi as he emerged from space and cut through his defenses, striking his shoulder.
• Chen Yi’s blood wrapped around Chou Zhongsheng and sealed him, lowering his power, before the Flame Demon Phantasm struck him with a Blazing Sword that he managed to block.

Chen Yi and Chou Zhongsheng fought inside their opposing domains, with Chen Yi using the Flame Demon Phantasm and Lingering Embers to withstand Chou Zhongsheng’s attacks. Chou Zhongsheng endured the burning heat and seals, then appeared directly before the Flame Demon as Chen Yi’s Scorching Swords closed in.

• Chen Yi and Chou Zhongsheng shattered each other’s small spaces, then exchanged attacks as the Flame Demon Phantasm battled Chou Zhongsheng at close range.
• Chou Zhongsheng used Three-Body Slash to cut through the Flame Demon’s Sword Qi, and Chen Yi opened his Flame Domain while Chou Zhongsheng deployed his Frenzied Slaughter Domain.
• Chou Zhongsheng’s domain battered the Flame Demon’s shell, while Chen Yi’s phantasm countered with Scorching Sword strikes, Fire Rings, and Explosive Swords.
• Chen Yi spent another Gold Quality Lingering Embers to maintain the Flame Domain as Chou Zhongsheng’s body showed signs of burning and his defenses weakened.
• Chou Zhongsheng sensed Chen Yi’s location, rushed directly in front of the Flame Demon, and faced the Scorching Swords arriving from the Fire Rings.

Chen Yi fought Chou Zhongsheng through a second round, using Chibaku Tensei and successive fire attacks to overcome his opponent’s slashes. Chen Yi won the match and retained the arena’s top rank.

• Chou Zhongsheng’s powerful slash broke through the Flame Demon Phantasm and Chen Yi’s defenses, but the fighters returned to the ruined city with Chou Zhongsheng badly wounded.
• Chen Yi and Chou Zhongsheng began their second exchange, and Chen Yi’s Explosive Swords ignited Chou Zhongsheng’s wounds.
• Chen Yi used Chibaku Tensei to lift Chou Zhongsheng and the surrounding ground into the sky, while Chou Zhongsheng cut through the forming Earth Sphere and tried to evade its pull.
• Chen Yi sent Flame Sparrows to attack Chou Zhongsheng’s wounds and fired repeated blazing swords as the Earth Sphere drew him in.
• Chou Zhongsheng avoided being buried by cutting apart the soil around him, but Chen Yi unleashed a massive pillar of flame at his location.
• Chen Yi defeated Chou Zhongsheng and reached 231 wins with no losses, remaining Arena Rank 1.

After his Arena battle with Chou Zhongsheng, Chen Yi reviewed the Flame Demon Phantasm’s weaknesses and considered new ways to strengthen his fire-based path. He earned first place in Rank 4 matchmaking and set his sights on obtaining the Rising Star title, while Fire Dragon and Chuka pursued their own training.

• Chen Yi reflected on the Flame Demon Phantasm’s fixed control position and noted that a seal might hide his aura from opponents.
• Chen Yi considered using Teyvat’s Demon God Residue as firewood for Lingering Embers and removed Blood Burning Technique from his combat system.
• The Game World announced Chen Yi’s first-place Rank 4 Arena result and offered him the Rising Star title if he maintained his ranking for a month and fought at least five battles.
• Chen Yi’s Arena victory drew attention from major factions and players, including the Demon race, Gui Xu Lou, the gods, and Sima Yurén.
• After returning home, Chen Yi decided to focus on improving his techniques rather than spend Copper Coins to overload himself with Legendary Lingering Embers.
• Fire Dragon trained in the courtyard after Chou Zhongsheng nearly severed his arm, while Chuka went to the Main City library.

Chen Yi examined the obsessions clinging to his soul and reflected on Flame Domain’s role as the strongest expression of his burning flames. He planned to use his improved mana efficiency and the Flame Demon Phantasm to expand the domain’s potential.

• Chen Yi studied the obsessions around his soul, burned away tens of thousands of them, and wondered how they had found him.
• In the Mirror World, 'Chen Yi' researched a way to counter the technique that blurred Anchor Points while Amaterasu and Little Black stood by.
• 'Chen Yi' continued to benefit from Little Black’s help in erasing the Shadow Clan’s curse from his shadow.
• Chen Yi used a Fire Clone to research Observation Haki while his main body planned how to improve Flame Domain and the Flame Demon Phantasm.
• Chen Yi concluded that Flame Domain best embodied his burning flames, but his mana and Base Stats limited its continuous use across its vast area.
• Chen Yi saw new potential for Flame Domain after Talent and the Mask of the God of Deception reduced his mana consumption.

Chen Yi completed his Arena mission undefeated, earned the Star of the Newcomer title, and bought the final piece of Chuka’s Silence Set. After preparing supplies, he, Fire Dragon, and Chuka began their next breakthrough.

• Chen Yi defeated Sima Yurén, Ge Feifei, and Cecil Kara in Arena battles, advancing his title mission.
• Chen Yi defeated Chou Zhongsheng twice, first by wearing him down and later by targeting his summons, while incurring repair debts to Fire Dragon.
• Chen Yi maintained first place with a final Tier 4 record of 236 wins and 0 losses, completing the mission and equipping the Star of the Newcomer title.
• Chen Yi received 4.6 million Copper Coins from the Pokemon Shop, repaid Fire Dragon, and bought Tears of Silence for 1.6 million Copper Coins.
• Chen Yi replenished supplies and kept 1.72 million Copper Coins in reserve before choosing to undergo a breakthrough with Fire Dragon, Chuka, and the Game World.

Chen Yi arrived in Constantinople, a world where dreams and reality overlapped and sanity was as vital as health. After learning about its monsters, power systems, and rival organizations, he chose to replace the Director of the Inquisition.

• Chen Yi discovered that his arrival was real rather than a dream and received a mission to obtain the Book of the Dead (Projection).
• Chen Yi learned that Constantinople’s inhabitants risked madness and transformation into monsters, and that his sanity was unusually high.
• Chen Yi summoned Chuka and the Fire Dragon, checked their sanity, and decided to limit the Fire Dragon’s activity in the dangerous world.
• Chen Yi learned how potions granted power through advancement Sequences and how the Inquisition, Containment Facility, and Empire balanced one another.
• Chen Yi selected the Director of the Inquisition as his replacement identity.

Chen Yi faced Leandro Kruk, the Inquisition Director, after the Game World transported him to an unknown place and assigned him a costly identity. Their battle revealed Leandro’s ability to return injuries to his attacker, and the chapter ended with Chen Yi’s Flame Snake swallowing him before Chen Yi used Chibaku Tensei.

• The barrier around Chen Yi vanished after he paid a Copper Coin, and Leandro Kruk appeared and attacked him.
• Chen Yi sent Fire Dragon away, inspected Leandro’s attributes, and countered his volcanic flames with Scorching Swords.
• Leandro used a strange dagger to slow Chen Yi’s attack, then was torn apart by Chuka’s spatial rifts and activated Disaster Counterattack, inflicting matching wounds on Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi healed with Reverse Fire and a Gold Quality Lingering Embers while Leandro reassembled himself using his gold watch.
• The two fighters exchanged attacks again, and Chen Yi’s Flame Snake swallowed Leandro before Chen Yi activated Chibaku Tensei.

Chen Yi endured Leandro Kruk’s attacks with a polluted, living tentacle and ultimately defeated him. Leandro died, leaving behind a necklace, Copper Coins, and a Turbid Spirit Crystal.

• Chen Yi’s attacks failed to stop Leandro Kruk, who used a flaming heart and pitch-black tentacle to inflict physical and mental pollution.
• Chen Yi contained the pollution in his Spirit Space and reclaimed control of his body as Leandro’s heart beat again.
• The Flame Demon Phantasm crushed the heart, and the bloodstained Lock of the Heavens sealed the tentacle, weakening the pollution.
• Leandro Kruk used his dagger to slash the Flame Demon Phantasm, but the counterattack pierced him with blazing swords and killed him.
• A pink-glowing necklace, Copper Coins, and a Turbid Spirit Crystal dropped where Leandro Kruk died.

After surviving the contamination, Chen Yi recovered and took control as the Inquisition’s new Director while fighting nearby monsters. Examining a powerful necklace led him to suspect that God's Blessing borrowed power from the Old Gods, though he remained unsure why the Game World had brought him to this planet.

• Chen Yi burned away the contaminating flesh buds, healed himself and Chuka, and learned that the world’s memories now identified him as the Inquisition’s Director, Luowen Yi.
• Chen Yi hurled a Silver Flame-covered Earth Sphere at the approaching monsters and examined Corpse Incinerator’s Necklace, whose ritual could create scarecrows and attract the Old Gods’ attention.
• Chen Yi refused to bind the necklace because he did not want to draw the Old Gods’ notice while he was still Tier 4.
• A sense of déjà vu reminded Chen Yi of God's Blessing, and he theorized that its members used the Game World’s name to trade faith for knowledge and power from the Old Gods.
• Chen Yi suspected the planet belonged to the Game World but could not tell whether his mission was a trial or a sudden anomaly.

Chen Yi sealed the black tentacle and two Contained Objects, then reunited with the Inquisition in the White Mist Wasteland. When deputy director Babro’s madness threatened the group, Chen Yi subdued him in the Flame Domain, leaving Babro clear-minded but badly injured.

• Chen Yi reinforced the seal around the black tentacle with several Magic Arrays and High-Energy Batteries, then moved it into Heart Fire Space and sealed the gold watch and dagger.
• Chen Yi gained Sealing True Meaning, restored his HP, and received a polluted Legendary Quality Lingering Embers.
• Chen Yi traveled northeast through the White Mist Wasteland and found Carlos, Babro, and the other Inquisition members.
• Babro’s Puppet Master ability emerged as he began controlling people with invisible threads, so Chen Yi burned the threads with Silver Flame.
• Chen Yi dragged Babro into the Flame Domain and returned with him subdued, clear-minded, and bearing a fist-shaped dent in his chest.

Chen Yi led Tribunal members through the White Mist Plains after learning that evil god cults had contributed to the monsters’ strange movements. After two days, the group escaped the mist, which continued expanding toward Constantinople.

• Babro apologized to Chen Yi, described the rise of evil god cults, and asked whether his injuries counted as work-related; Chen Yi refused.
• Chen Yi ordered the Tribunal team to return and had Carlos lead them through the White Mist Plains while Babro rested.
• The group encountered thousands of Mist Arm Ghosts, and Chen Yi lost one point of sanity when they turned toward him.
• Carlos and the Tribunal members defeated the monsters, yielding four pieces of Extraordinary Matter, including one Carlos claimed as her spoils.
• After two days, Chen Yi and the team left the White Mist Plains and saw that the living white mist was expanding toward Constantinople.

After returning to Constantinople, Chen Yi investigated the city's Deities and Contained Objects, finding no information about the black tentacle he suspected came from an evil god. He reviewed the artifacts taken from Leandro Kruk and began searching for the Book of the Dead required by his mission.

• Chen Yi and the Inquisition members returned to Constantinople, where he examined the green flames and learned they burned monster corpse oil.
• Chen Yi asked Carlos for recent intelligence and information on Contained Objects, then studied the seven righteous Deities and their symbols.
• Chen Yi found no records of the black tentacle in the Inquisition office and worried that discovery of it could obstruct his breakthrough mission.
• Chen Yi reviewed the records for the Time Gold Watch and rusty dagger, deciding both artifacts were of little use to him.
• Chen Yi began searching the Contained Object records for information about the Book of the Dead.

Chen Yi investigated the lost Screenwriter's Book, then hunted a monster and discovered that Sweet Dream Coins could restore his sanity. He burned down the previous Director of the Inquisition's residence to destroy anything connected to the evil god.

• Chen Yi read the Screenwriter's Book's file and decided to ask Levan Grosso to borrow it, while suspecting it had not really been lost by accident.
• Chen Yi left the Inquisition and killed a monster disguised as a utility pole, collecting a Copper Coin.
• Chen Yi used a Sweet Dream Coin and restored one point of sanity, realizing he needed many more to maintain his combat strength.
• Chen Yi burned down the previous Director of the Inquisition's residence so that neither of the other factions could use the items inside as leverage.

Chen Yi uncovered a hidden stash of Sweet Dream Coins and learned it had been left by believers of Breeding. The next day, he offered a huge reward for information about Breeding believers and book-type Contained Objects, sending the Inquisition into a frantic nationwide search.

• God's Cry told Chen Yi that his fortune had temporarily risen, so he waited until Heart Fire exposed a hidden passage beneath a boulder.
• Chen Yi killed the monster guarding the passage, collected its Copper Coins and Extraordinary Matter, and found five thousand Sweet Dream Coins along with a letter from believers of Breeding.
• Chen Yi's sudden crackdown on Evil God Believers angered the Inquisition members returning from the White Mist Wasteland, but they quieted when Deputy Director Babro announced a 30% wage increase.
• Chen Yi offered a personal reward of one thousand Sweet Dream Coins for leads on Breeding believers or useful book-type Contained Objects, then sent Carlos to the palace to request money from the king.
• The Inquisition members rushed out to hunt for leads, and their suspicion spread across the country as they searched for possible Evil God Believers.

Chen Yi and Levan Grosso confronted Gilmer Constantine at the royal palace, with the Inquisition and Containment Facility both requesting hundreds of elite Sequence users. Their coordinated demands aimed to pressure the king and give Chen Yi a pretext to inspect where Sweet Dream Coins were produced.

• The Inquisition searched Black Hand Street and the Red Light District for Evil God Believers, refusing bribes and the madam's attempts to claim familiarity.
• Aini told Levan Grosso that the Inquisition's boss had gone to the royal palace, and Levan led the Containment Facility's strongest members there.
• Gilmer Constantine asked Chen Yi and Levan Grosso why they had come, while their subordinates glared at each other.
• Carlos told Gilmer that the Inquisition wanted 500 elite Sequence users and additional personnel, citing rising royal palace spending and staffing.
• Aini requested 600 elite Sequence users and additional personnel for the Containment Facility, citing increased Evil God Believers and seven new Contained Objects.
• Levan Grosso understood Chen Yi's plan and agreed to join him in pressuring Gilmer Constantine.