Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi unleashed Ten Directions Ember in the Mirror World, killing Nana repeatedly before she escaped by triggering a mass self-destruction. On the Imperial Capital battlefield, Chen Yi slaughtered the attacking monsters, but He Liping got away, leaving the enemy’s remaining System Host unknown.

• Chen Yi formed a blazing sun with Amaterasu and used Ten Directions Ember to destroy Nana’s layered defenses and kill her repeatedly.
• Nana summoned monsters from the Imperial Capital and commanded them to self-destruct within a spatially sealed magic array.
• Nana escaped just before the explosions by replacing herself with a scarecrow, while Chen Yi and Little Black retreated into Heart Fire Space.
• He Liping seized the chance to flee after Chen Yi sent Nana into the Mirror World.
• Chen Yi used the Flame Demon Phantasm: Singer Form to rain silver flames across the Imperial Capital battlefield, killing monsters and reaching level 55.
• Chen Yi concluded that the battle had revealed the identities and methods of two enemy hosts, but the remaining Space System user made them difficult to defeat.

After the battle, Zuo Hua, Nana, and He Leping planned to move the next outbreak into Imperial Capital Genter to find the World Heart, while Nana recovered. In the capital, Alice rewarded the adventurers and began reconstruction as Chen Yi left to study with mages on the Arad Continent.

• Chen Yi considered his defensive mission in the Game World and decided to take it one step at a time.
• Nana returned from the Heart Fire, punched Zuo Hua, and demanded clothes; Zuo Hua then gathered her and He Leping to plan their next move.
• Zuo Hua concluded that the World Heart or related information was in Imperial Capital Genter and told He Leping to shift the outbreak there while Nana recovered.
• Alice rewarded the adventurers, and San Hua tried to extort 500,000 Copper Coins from Chen Yi before Chen Yi ignored him.
• Alice arranged access to powerful mages' book collections for Chen Yi, who left the palace as she began reconstruction and learned the capital could not withstand another Calamity of the Mad Beasts.

Chen Yi spent two months on the Arad Continent learning about Elemental Reinforcement before returning to the Heavenly Realm to prepare for the enemies who might soon recover. He found that Chuka had been roaming freely and lending Heart Fire to people who sought power, while he hoped to learn from their knowledge of flames.

• Chen Yi exchanged ideas with Ice Binders, Elemental Bombers, Battle Mages, and other mages, learning how their methods used special organs, Orbis, or elemental creatures to reinforce attacks.
• Chen Yi returned to the Heavenly Realm after two months, deciding he could not risk delaying his mission, and concluded that Nana was still alive because his War Merit had not increased.
• Chen Yi assigned his free Limit-Breaking Attribute Points to Intelligence and strengthened his spellcasting ability.
• Chen Yi asked Fire Dragon to return and check on Chuka, who had disappeared while exploring the strange forest.
• Chuka gave Letter Paper to young men seeking power, letting them borrow Heart Fire through contracts that could drain their life force if they lacked Mana.

Chuka continued rescuing caravans and responding to the stars, while Chen Yi returned to the Heavenly Realm to investigate the adventurers and prepare for the renewed campaign against Antuen. The chapter ended with Nibel briefing the adventurers on the plan to capture the four power plants and cut off Antuen’s energy supply.

• Chuka rescued merchant caravans from goblins, gained a favorable reputation, and increased her Limit-Breaking Intelligence by responding to the stars.
• Chen Yi returned to the Heavenly Realm with Fire Dragon, created a Fire Clone, and sent his two bodies to the industrial district and imperial capital.
• Chen Yi searched the military camp for adventurers with abnormal auras, but he and Fire Dragon found none.
• Players in another world complained about the long mandatory story segment, though many picked up their virtual reality helmets again despite talking about quitting.
• Nibel told the adventurers that Antuen was dormant and ordered them to seize the industrial district by first cutting off the four major power plants.
• Nibel explained that adventurers should collect Blue Energy Balls from defeated monsters, and Chen Yi examined the machine made to capture them.

Chen Yi prepared to counter the spatial System Host while the adventurers fought to shut down the power plant, and he continued investigating ways to improve the Heavenly Realm’s firepower. He learned that Demon Break Stones could explode with force tens of thousands of times their mass, leaving him stunned.

• Pella Vien considered using Blue Energy Balls as energy carriers, while Chen Yi waited for adventurers to bring some back so he could study their formation.
• Siyue explained to Jura why Chen Yi had stopped searching for enemies once the battle began, and she reported that the Space Jamming Devices could distort space within five hundred meters but consumed enormous energy.
• Chen Yi gave Siyue five Space Jamming Devices, told her to warn Alice not to wear a mirror, and ordered Rui to keep searching for the three hidden System Hosts.
• Three days later, adventurers returned with ten devices containing captured Blue Energy Balls, and Chen Yi spent four more days writing before asking Nibel to help him understand his work.
• Chen Yi failed to explain the book to Nibel, then overheard Pella Vien’s video call reveal that Demon Break Stones could explode with the force of tens of thousands of times their mass, and he tore his book in shock.

Chen Yi tested a Demon Break Stone and discovered that Mana triggered its immense explosion, then considered using the ore to create powerful weapons. After he vanished from the military camp, Zuo Hua prepared a trap for the Fire Mage and asked Nana to hold him off, provoking her fury.

• Chen Yi triggered a Demon Break Stone with Mana, survived its crimson explosion, and healed his injured hand with Reverse Fire.
• Chen Yi concluded Demon Break Stones could greatly improve firearms and that Antuen might provide a stable supply.
• Chen Yi spoke with Melvin Richter about the stones, then left the camp and disappeared along with his Fire Clone.
• Zuo Hua warned Nana and He Liping that Chen Yi might have found their trail and proposed trapping him with a suppressive tower and He Liping's dungeon.
• Zuo Hua asked Nana to restrain Chen Yi for three minutes, and she summoned monsters and angrily challenged the request.

Chen Yi disguised himself as He Liping and entered Antuen to reach its heart and let the Digital Egg absorb its information. After surviving an ambush by Talutan assassins, he persuaded the suspicious Talutan to let him meet Agnes.

• Chen Yi brought Fire Dragon to Antuen and planned to approach its heart through the volcanic crater guarded by the Talutan race.
• Chen Yi used the Mask of the God of Deception to disguise himself as He Liping and imitated He Liping’s fishing rod and spatial abilities.
• Three Talutan assassins attacked Chen Yi, but he sensed their killing intent, captured them with a spirit fishing line, and repelled the Spirit Sorcerers’ beams.
• An elderly Talutan Spirit Sorcerer asked Chen Yi to spare the captives, and Chen Yi claimed he needed a hiding place because hunting dogs were pursuing him.
• Agnes arrived, assessed Chen Yi, and ordered him to come with her.

Chen Yi remained hidden beside the magma lake while the Heavenly Realm cut off Antuen’s energy supply and discovered that Demon Break Stones could harm him. After Alice ordered war, the Heavenly Realm’s forces launched a campaign against the Apostle, with the nation’s survival at stake.

• Chen Yi spent fifteen days fishing beside the magma lake while Mataga and Agnes watched him and discussed Antuen’s energy shortage.
• Adventurers and the people of the Heavenly Realm breached the four Power Stations and destroyed the monsters in the Industrial Zone, cutting off Antuen’s electricity supply.
• Pella Vien and Melvin used Demon Break Stones to make weapons and bombs, then confirmed that explosions could damage Antuen.
• Alice ordered the Heavenly Realm to go to war, and fleets and fighters set out to attack the Apostle as Imperial Capital Genter strengthened its defenses.

The Heavenly Realm forces brought Antuen down by destroying its four legs, giving them time to advance onto its body. Chen Yi approached Mataga and asked the Tartar Descendants to use Antuen’s power to hatch his Digital Egg, leaving Mataga to consider the request.

• The adventurers defeated the Tartar Descendants generating the Black Mist, and the Heavenly Realm forces sucked up the mist to reveal Antuen.
• The Heavenly Realm forces bombarded Antuen’s four legs with Demon Break Stone weapons until it crashed into the sea.
• Chen Yi pulled an exhausted creature from beneath the lava and headed toward the volcano as his observer vanished in Silver Flame.
• Tartar Descendant assassins stopped Chen Yi, who asked to speak with someone able to make decisions, so Mataga came to meet him.
• Chen Yi showed Mataga his Digital Egg and asked Lord Antuen to hatch it with the power of blood and vitality near his heart.

Chen Yi helped Mataga prepare Antuen’s heart to hatch the Egg of Numbers, then returned to the lava lake to wait for the adventurers. As Zuo Hua anticipated the next disaster, a group of poorly skilled players stalled the advance, while Chen Yi’s allies reported that these System Host players carried many Resurrection Coins.

• Mataga’s Spirit Masters found no danger in the altar’s sealing formation, and Chen Yi and Mataga exchanged benefits before parting ways.
• Mataga used his influence over Antuen to open a passage to its heart, where Antuen nourished the Egg of Numbers with its heart’s blood and accelerated its growth.
• Chen Yi returned to the lava lake, intending to use his System Host role to kill players and reduce their resources, while deciding not to oppose Hilder or save Antuen.
• Zuo Hua watched the great wheel’s needle move and predicted that the adventurers’ rebellion would follow the Antuen campaign.
• Players with little combat skill remained deadlocked against elite Tartar Descendants, forcing other adventurers to turn back and delay their advance.
• Gongye Zaolong reported that the System Host players had low Base Stats despite being Rank 5 and possessed more than ten Resurrection Coins each.

Chen Yi fought the arriving adventurers and their player-controlled allies, using underground Heart Fire threads and a space-based domain to kill or remove the players. He left the real adventurers alive and resumed fighting them while the players revived and prepared to attack again.

• Chen Yi read the guild leaders’ messages about Soul Projection and modified equipment, then closed the channel as the adventurers arrived.
• The players sent their tank builds forward, but Chen Yi bound them with silver threads from underground and used Heart Fire Burn to kill many of them.
• The players attacked with class skills, but Chen Yi dodged their rigid attacks and avoided the Sword Sect players’ space-cutting strike.
• Chen Yi used Domain Expansion to pull the players inside, where they vanished, while he deliberately left the real adventurers unharmed.
• Chen Yi reappeared and pretended to be exhausted as he fought the adventurers, while the revived players called him a freak and prepared to attack again.

Chen Yi took the Digital Egg from Mataga, completed its contract, and then attacked Mataga, revealing that their alliance had ended. Mataga’s reflection shield and repeated Flash movements made him a dangerous opponent, and the battle continued with Fire Dragon joining Chen Yi.

• Chen Yi withdrew from the adventurers after buying enough time for the Talutan people to revive, then met Mataga at Antuen’s crater.
• Mataga asked Chen Yi to retrieve the Digital Egg, and Chen Yi placed the enlarged egg in Heart Fire Space to complete the contract.
• After returning from Heart Fire Space, Chen Yi attacked Mataga with Blazing Swords and Flame Severance, but Mataga reflected the Fire Ring’s damage through his shield.
• Mataga struck the Flame Demon Phantasm and forced Chen Yi to defend himself, while Chen Yi countered by summoning Fire Dragon.
• Mataga Flash-attacked the phantasm from behind, but Fire Dragon caught and threw him; Mataga survived and declared that the battle had only just begun.

Chen Yi and Fire Dragon fought Mataga as he summoned an Evil Thought Body and attacked through space. Chen Yi exploited the connection between them to trigger Mataga’s backlash, then Fire Dragon killed him, leaving Chen Yi’s side victorious.

• Chen Yi defended against Mataga’s lightning while Fire Dragon exchanged blows with him.
• Mataga summoned an Evil Thought Body, whose fear attack was swallowed by the Malice Worm before Chen Yi’s phantasm and Fire Dragon fought it and its phantoms.
• Mataga repeatedly attacked Chen Yi’s phantasm, but a Magic Array redirected its flight and Chen Yi’s seals and Heart Fire left Mataga vulnerable.
• Chen Yi summoned Fire Dragon back and waited for the Evil Thought Body’s death to inflict severe backlash on Mataga through their connection.
• Fire Dragon shattered Mataga’s chest with a punch, and Chen Yi’s blazing swords pierced his abdomen before the Heart Fire Space swallowed his corpse.

Chen Yi killed Antuen and the Heavenly Realm celebrated, while Zuo Hua concluded that the Antuen campaign had disrupted his plans to control fate. Zuo Hua prepared a dungeon intended to seal Chen Yi and turned his attention to the coming Adventurer's Rebellion, as Genter remained on alert.

• Chen Yi cut out Antuen's heart, and the creature collapsed as its body erupted into a volcano; Chen Yi and Fire Dragon escaped from its heart.
• The Heavenly Realm's people and adventurers cheered Antuen's death, while Nibel complained that Chen Yi had not shared his plan.
• Zuo Hua studied his fate roulette and decided that the Antuen campaign had shifted fate more than expected, so he would focus on the Arad Continent and stir up the Adventurer's Rebellion.
• He Liping generated a dungeon from the players' battle, failed to notice that its final boss resembled himself, and gave the dungeon sphere to Zuo Hua.
• Zuo Hua merged the dungeon sphere with a pagoda and prepared to use it to seal Chen Yi, while Genter stayed on alert despite the celebrations.

Chen Yi harvested Lingering Embers from Antuen’s corpse and prepared for a coming clash with the System Hosts. While traveling toward the imperial capital, he was ambushed by Nana and another Host, and deduced that an enemy had a prophecy or divination ability.

• Chen Yi burned part of Antuen’s corpse to obtain two Epic quality Lingering Embers, then inscribed them with the Ten Directions Ember technique.
• Chen Yi stored his preparations in Fire's Finale and flew toward the imperial capital with the Fire Dragon under a Mimicry Magic Array.
• Nana called out to Chen Yi from atop a giant octopus, so Chen Yi sent a projection onward while he and the Fire Dragon flew away unseen.
• He Liping attacked Chen Yi with a fishhook through space, but the Fire Dragon knocked it aside and Chen Yi activated a spatial disruptor.
• Chen Yi questioned Nana and inferred that another System Host could locate him through prophecy or divination, then sent the intelligence to the Chat Public Screen.

Nana summoned her trump-card pets to fight Chen Yi, but he killed her twice before her life-transfer spell revived her. Chen Yi destroyed the Void Mantis and avoided Night Nether Emperor’s attacks, then completed a spell as his defenses began to fail.

• Nana summoned the Gargoyle King, Night Nether Emperor, and Void Mantis, then used Life Link to strengthen their chances of surviving.
• Chen Yi’s Fire Dragon blinded Nana and her gargoyles with an exploding blazing sword, then killed Nana with a punch and a Battle Qi attack.
• The Void Mantis cut through Chen Yi’s barrier and severed the Flame Demon Phantasm Singer’s arm, but Chen Yi trapped it with a sealing mirror and sliced it in two with Flame Severance.
• Nana used a life-transfer spell to revive herself by sacrificing the Void Mantis, leaving her alive while the mantis was restored.
• Chen Yi maneuvered past Night Nether Emperor and cast a ten-thousand-meter palm as his mirrors shattered and his barrier nearly collapsed.

Chen Yi overwhelmed Nana’s monster forces and captured her, expecting a hidden spatial System Host to intervene. Nana revealed that she had come alone and had deliberately endured the fight to lure Chen Yi into her grasp.

• Chen Yi’s silver-flame attack killed the Void Mantis again, while Fire Dragon shattered the Gargoyle King’s head and Nana resurrected it.
• Chen Yi suspected the spatial System Host was waiting for an opportunity and used Chibaku Tensei to draw the monsters into the air.
• Chen Yi’s blazing sword pierced Nana’s damaged fortress, and the Flame Demon Phantasm seized her to send her into the Mirror World.
• Nana opened her eyes in the Flame Demon Phantasm’s grasp and told Chen Yi that she had finally caught him, revealing that no other opponent had come.

Nana ambushed Chen Yi with an Extreme Thunderstorm Bomb and a horde of self-destructing monsters, but Chen Yi survived and trapped her in Genjutsu. He escaped into Heart Fire Space after blinding the eye monsters, then left Nana to face another Silver Sun blast.

• Nana detonated an Extreme Thunderstorm Bomb, destroying Chen Yi's Flame Demon Phantasm and sealing off his attempt to enter Heart Fire Space with two eye monsters.
• Chen Yi survived the Spirit Lightning's execution effect by using Lingering Embers, and his Fire Dragon survived behind the Gargoyle King.
• Nana summoned a thousandfold self-destructing monster array to trap Chen Yi, but he pulled her into Genjutsu with his mirror.
• Chen Yi used Flame · Flash to make the eye monsters look away, entered Heart Fire Space, and unleashed a Silver Sun blast on Nana and the self-destructing monsters.

Nana trapped Chen Yi and Fire Dragon in the Space Tower, where the Antuen Instance turned the prison into a deadly battlefield. As Chen Yi fought off waves of enemies, Zuo Hua and He Leping began spreading a warning that impostors had infiltrated the Heavenly Realm.

• Nana sealed Chen Yi and Fire Dragon inside the Space Tower, then merged the Antuen Instance into it.
• Chen Yi used a Space Jamming Device and black-hole mirrors to test the tower's defenses, but chose to save his remaining rings and keep Chuka's plan hidden.
• The tower's gravity increased, and Talutan race Spirit Masters attacked; Chen Yi and Fire Dragon defeated the first wave while conserving their strength.
• Chen Yi led Fire Dragon toward the tower's center, entered the instance, and used Chibaku Tensei against a mass of approaching enemies.
• Zuo Hua met He Leping outside the imperial capital, and He Leping pinned a system-wide warning that impostors had attacked the Heavenly Realm.

He Liping and Zuo Hua launched Adventurer’s Rebellion, turning players across the Heavenly Realm against its citizens while Alice and the defenders fought to protect the imperial capital. The capital still resisted, and Luowen remained trapped in a Space Tower as Zuo Hua waited for the uprising to break the Heavenly Realm’s resolve.

• He Liping transformed Heavenly Realm citizens into monsters in the players’ eyes, and the players began killing them as Jura and Alice organized resistance.
• Alice learned that Luowen had survived a battle with Nana but was trapped inside a transparent tower, then ordered troops to repel adventurers across the nation.
• System players overran the imperial capital, where Gongye Zaolong, Gundam, and San Hua defended the palace despite the attackers’ resurrection abilities.
• San Hua fought for hours, killing waves of players while they repeatedly revived and used their strongest attacks.
• Zuo Hua told He Liping to keep pressing the rebellion until the Heavenly Realm’s citizens lost their defiance, while Nana remained mentally exhausted and Luowen stayed trapped.