Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi considered creating a foundational spell formula to describe burning, but Yao Yingqian interrupted him to return the Lock of the Heavens and report on a recent War Mode. After realizing Yao Yingqian was struggling for money, Chen Yi asked whether he knew players who used firearms or bombs, and Yao Yingqian eagerly claimed he could find them.

• Chen Yi reflected on creating a new spell formula that would explain burning from its foundation.
• Yao Yingqian returned the Lock of the Heavens and told Chen Yi that he had been hunted as a heretic during a two-month War Mode involving seven battlefields.
• Chen Yi considered whether the fighting was training for larger conflicts and warned Yao Yingqian that he was weak.
• Yao Yingqian realized his Devouring Ant feared Chen Yi, then asked him for help because his gu insect business was failing.
• Chen Yi asked whether Yao Yingqian knew players who used firearms or bombs, and Yao Yingqian claimed his gu insects could identify them.

Chen Yi arranged for Ningguang and Yao Yingqian to sell his Demon Break Stone, earning enough to cover his initial investment and buy nuclear fuel for Xiao E. He then checked the Chains of Heaven’s upgraded attributes and decided to visit Nino Tudi to finish its improvement and collect the Fire Dragon’s armor.

• Chen Yi offered Ningguang and Yao Yingqian Demon Break Stone at 25 Copper Coins per gram and left the sales process to them.
• Ningguang bought 30 million Copper Coins’ worth of ore, and Yao Yingqian bought 15 million’s worth.
• Chen Yi spent 20 million Copper Coins on nuclear fuel, and Xiao E excitedly began eating again.
• Chen Yi checked the Chains of Heaven and found that its resentment effect had increased its binding speed and durability by 30%.
• Chen Yi saw that the Chains of Heaven still lacked the spirituality needed to evolve and planned to visit Nino Tudi.

Chen Yi brought damaged equipment to Nino Tudi for repairs, and Nino Tudi forged a powerful armor for Fire Dragon. Chen Yi also had the Chains of Heaven reforged with spatial materials, leaving them able to withstand spatial rifts briefly.

• Chen Yi and Fire Dragon visited Nino Tudi, who agreed to repair seven damaged pieces of equipment for 2.7 million Copper Coins.
• Nino Tudi gave Chen Yi the Armor of Arrogance, which greatly increased Fire Dragon’s health and reduced her stamina consumption.
• Fire Dragon equipped the armor, raising her HP to 211,368.
• Chen Yi paid Nino Tudi 13 million to reforge the Chains of Heaven with high-grade spatial materials.
• The Chains of Heaven gained spatial adaptability, allowing them to resist being torn apart inside a spatial rift for a short time.

Chen Yi experimented with the Chains of Heaven and Void Heart Fire, then spent two and a half years studying and living with his power sealed to better understand his spells. He left the chapter teaching Fire magic under the Bodhi Tree, where Ma Fei learned eagerly while Wang Zhanbo and Ailan struggled to pay attention.

• Chen Yi used the Chains of Heaven with Void Heart Fire to make the chains emerge through space, giving the defensive fire some offensive potential.
• Chen Yi asked Zhang San whether his guild could bring Dream World corpses out, but Zhang San explained that they could bring out only knowledge.
• Chen Yi repaired God's Cry and continued studying his Fire spells and Card Master inheritance.
• Chen Yi sealed his power and spent more than a year living like an ordinary person to reconsider his flames and spells from that perspective.
• Chen Yi taught Fire spells beneath the Bodhi Tree; Ma Fei grasped the lessons, while Wang Zhanbo slept, complained, and asked about lunch.

Chen Yi taught Wang Zhanbo about the dangers of the fifth and sixth tiers, then revealed his growing control over flame and helped Ma Fei suppress the death power harming his body. As Wang Zhanbo and his companions left, Chen Yi’s seals began breaking and his ominous aura intensified.

• Chen Yi admitted that he had made the flames in Ma Fei’s hand burn Wang Zhanbo’s comic and milk tea, then explained that power over time and space should not make Wang Zhanbo lose himself.
• Chen Yi revealed that his Flame Will had reached level 50 and that his Monarch trait let him control flames without will.
• Chen Yi ended the lessons and told Ailan to supervise Wang Zhanbo’s meditation using a method he had developed for Fire Dragon.
• Chen Yi placed a seal on Ma Fei that temporarily suppressed the death power eroding his body, and gave Ailan blood she could use to summon him in a crisis.
• As Wang Zhanbo, Ailan, and Ma Fei left, Chen Yi’s seals broke one after another, intensifying the dangerous aura around him.

Chen Yi fought Vicky Gomez, a vampire who confessed her interest in him before the match began. He overcame her time-slowing defense and landed a devastating blow, but she reversed her own time and returned fully healed.

• Chen Yi entered the arena against Vicky Gomez, who asked whether he was available for marriage and said she would prove herself in battle.
• Chen Yi attacked with blazing swords and Lock of the Heavens, but Vicky Gomez slowed time around herself to hold them back.
• Chen Yi used Candle Flame Extinguishes Fate to damage Vicky Gomez's soul, then weakened her further with Seal.
• Chen Yi's Dharma Manifestation struck Vicky Gomez with Flame Severance and a massive flaming palm, leaving her badly injured.
• Vicky Gomez reversed her own time and healed herself, then reappeared before Chen Yi and asked, "Did you miss me?"

Chen Yi defeated Vicky Gomez in the arena after overcoming her time-based techniques with Fire Dragon, Void Heart Fire, and Chuka’s Hammer of Repentance. Vicky returned to her world, broke the shackles of her oath to grow stronger, and vowed to appear before Chen Yi again.

• Vicky Gomez accelerated her time and attacked Chen Yi’s Fire Dragon at extreme speed, but Fire Dragon endured her blows and struck back.
• Chen Yi used Candle Flame Extinguishes Fate, and Vicky Gomez countered with four clocks that formed a time domain.
• Chen Yi used the Flame Guard Sealing Sword and Void Heart Fire to help Fire Dragon cross the domain and reach Vicky Gomez.
• Vicky Gomez’s time techniques could not keep pace with her injuries, and Chen Yi’s mirror attack caused her Mental Damage but did not trap her in Genjutsu.
• Chen Yi activated a seal core, and Chuka shattered the Hammer of Repentance to pause Vicky Gomez long enough for Fire Dragon to land several punches and secure victory.
• Vicky Gomez left the tower with red eyes, broke the shackles of her oath to transform into an adult woman, and vowed to return to Chen Yi.

Chen Yi reviewed how to counter the Time System vampire he had defeated, then entered another Arena match and faced Diarmuid, who had risen to rank two. Diarmuid used a spatial ink painting to make Chen Yi’s attacks vanish, and Chen Yi searched for his real body rather than waste Origin Heart Fire on a false one.

• Chen Yi concluded that draining the vampire’s Mana and striking vital points were key to defeating her, then checked his recovered Soul Power and remaining fatigue.
• Chen Yi reviewed the rankings and noticed that Chou Zhongsheng had stalled while San Hua and Yao Yingqian had climbed during his recovery.
• Chen Yi was matched against rank-two Diarmuid, who greeted him with pride and praised his Deity’s blessing.
• Diarmuid painted the battlefield with spatially charged ink, making Chen Yi’s fiery sword vanish and producing silver blades in the corresponding scroll.
• Chen Yi recognized that Diarmuid might be a painted false body and searched for the True Body instead of using Candle Flame Extinguishes Fate.

Chen Yi and Diarmuid battled as Diarmuid’s scroll absorbed attacks and turned his paintings into weapons. Fire Dragon and the Flame Demon Phantasm damaged the scroll, letting Chen Yi regain control of his attacks, while Diarmuid escalated with divine lightning.

• Diarmuid used his scroll to absorb the Flame Demon Phantasm’s meteors and created four enormous painted giants to attack Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi sent Fire Dragon against the giants, and Void Heart Fire tore through the scroll, freeing two giants from its space.
• Fire Dragon struck down one of the freed giants, while The Left Hand of the Flame God damaged the scroll and restored Chen Yi’s control over his technique.
• Diarmuid acknowledged Chen Yi’s danger and summoned golden divine lightning, which the phantasm blocked with mirrors.
• Diarmuid turned a painted giant into a Lightning Giant, who filled the area with lightning as Diarmuid pursued Chen Yi with Spatial Fluctuation.

Chen Yi fought Diarmuid in the painting and discovered that Diarmuid’s power was linked to pollution, so he decided to conceal his strength and make the battle look like a loss. Though Diarmuid’s attacks barely harmed him, Chen Yi kept up the act as the giant struck him again.

• Chen Yi transformed Flame Demon Phantasm into Warrior Form to withstand Diarmuid’s lightning, but a lightning strike caused Spirit Shock and exposed him to pollution.
• Chen Yi realized the fight could not be won outright and let his Silver Flame die down, abandoning his plan to locate and kill Diarmuid’s True Body.
• Diarmuid’s lightning nail shattered Flame Seal Sword and left Chen Yi looking badly injured, but Chen Yi judged the damage to be minor and gauged his strength against Diarmuid’s.
• Chen Yi summoned Chuka and called for healing, then grabbed her as Diarmuid’s giant attacked and shattered his barrier.
• The giant’s fist hit Chen Yi, costing him more than 4,000 health, and Chen Yi made himself spray blood to maintain the appearance of being gravely wounded.

Chen Yi improved his Sealing True Meaning and opened two Treasure Chests, gaining a Legendary pair of boots and an Epic ring that could summon a Rank 7 daydreamer’s final memory as a true projection. The chapter left him considering the ring’s powerful one-time effect.

• Chen Yi kept his Arena Rank at 49 and left with Fire Dragon and Chuka after deciding to strengthen himself rather than risk his life on luck.
• Chen Yi spent 54 million and five Primal Crystals to raise Sealing True Meaning to level 41, increasing Chibaku Tensei’s pulling force.
• Fire Dragon opened a Legendary Treasure Chest and obtained Silver Wing Boots.
• Chen Yi opened an Epic Treasure Chest and obtained the Ring of the Daydreamer, whose Last Song effect could project a Rank 7 daydreamer’s final memory before destroying the ring.

Chen Yi used nine Tier 6 players’ lives to create ten clusters of Void Heart Fire, strengthening his defenses against time and space abilities. He then evolved Elemental Materialization Bestowal+++ and entered the fifth floor of the Time and Space Hut with Fire Dragon to understand it, where fifty versions of himself began thinking in parallel.

• Chen Yi asked Zhang San to find Tier 6 players specializing in space, then bought a life from each of nine players to create ten clusters of Void Heart Fire.
• Chen Yi tested the Void Heart Fire with Chuka and found that it prevented her Tier 4 spatial methods from affecting the space around him.
• Chen Yi used three Skill Evolution Scrolls to upgrade Elemental Materialization Bestowal to Elemental Materialization Bestowal+++ and spent the following weeks studying its framework beneath the Bodhi Tree.
• Chen Yi took Fire Dragon to the fifth floor of the Time and Space Hut, paying 18 million Copper Coins for half an hour.
• Chen Yi used the Hut’s fifty mirrors to think through Elemental Materialization Bestowal+++ in parallel and began to understand its framework.

Chen Yi failed to combine Elemental Materialization Bestowal with most of his techniques, though The Left Hand of the Flame God grew significantly stronger. After settling a payment at the Pokemon Shop and checking on Xiao E, he began making cards to advance his Card Master level.

• Chen Yi and Fire Dragon left the Arena after months of accelerated training, and Chen Yi warned Fire Dragon to resist the illusion of false power.
• Chen Yi’s attempts to combine Elemental Materialization Bestowal with his techniques produced a bloated Scorching Sword and Flame Sparrows, so he set aside the project while noting that The Left Hand of the Flame God had grown more powerful.
• Chen Yi planned to spend his remaining Copper Coins on Fire's Finale, Antuen's Last Wish, magic-eye research, and his Base Stats, then paid the Pokemon Shop 26.89 million Copper Coins for materials.
• Chen Yi warned Xiao E not to damage the electricity-generating button, and Xiao E checked the device before rubbing against him to ask for forgiveness.
• Chen Yi studied his new Card Master inheritance beneath the Bodhi Tree and began making cards to gain proficiency and work toward Card Master LV8.

Chen Yi converted two high-level Enchantment Cards into orbs, enhanced Fire Dragon’s armor, and began evolving Fire’s Finale with three Sun Cores. While the evolution proceeded, he prepared to dissect the Ice Demon Eye with help from the Time-type player Fried Rice.

• Chen Yi finished imprinting his materials into cards, raised his Card Master proficiency, and kept the Legendary Dragon’s Stance card for himself.
• Chen Yi paid an enchanter 3.9 million Copper Coins to turn two cards into orbs, then enchanted Fire Dragon’s armor with Dragon’s Stance.
• Chen Yi saved Antuen’s Last Wish for later and began Fire’s Finale’s evolution using three Sun Cores and more than 6 million Copper Coins.
• Chen Yi prepared to dissect the Ice Demon Eye and arranged for Fried Rice to reverse time on it between experiments.
• Fried Rice explained that time reversal could restore an experiment but could not create missing matter or revive the truly dead without World Source.

Chen Yi exhausted his Soul Energy seeking a way to create Demon Eyes and decided to rely on luck to choose among his experimental methods. After divination and Tonight Eat What’s selection, he prepared to pursue the approach marked by “Break and then Stand.”

• Chen Yi reviewed his failed Demon Eye experiments and used all 9,698 Soul Energy to develop new research ideas.
• Chen Yi decided to gamble on one of his methods for creating Demon Eyes and asked the Fire Dragon to invite Tonight Eat What over.
• Chen Yi offered incense to the Game World, temporarily removed its protection, and used God's Cry to divine his course; the tortoiseshell revealed “Break and then Stand.”
• The Fire Dragon brought Tonight Eat What to Chen Yi, who agreed to let the Fire Dragon and Chuka accompany him for a week in exchange for his help.
• Tonight Eat What randomly chose one of Chen Yi’s five experimental approaches, and Chen Yi prepared to follow it.

Chen Yi prepared to absorb the Ice Demon Eye’s origin into his eyes, but the procedure triggered a violent rejection and drew his mirror ghost into the experiment. With help from the Game World, he endured a Mirror World revival and left with the origin reshaped by mirror concepts and rules.

• Chen Yi sold Demon Break Stones to Ningguang and Yao Yingqian, then ordered inducement potions and mirror equipment while preparing to extract and absorb the Ice Demon Eye’s origin.
• Chen Yi and his Fire Clone arranged a mirror Magic Array, branded a pattern onto his eyeballs, and used a potion to induce the origin to take on mirror properties.
• The origin rejected Chen Yi’s Chakra, causing his eyes to explode and making the mirror ghost Chen Yi appear in nearby mirrors; the ghost’s synchronized eyes also burst.
• Chen Yi used Candle Flame Extinguishes Fate to strengthen his connection to the Anchor Point, and the Game World granted him permission to receive support.
• Chen Yi experienced the mirror ghost’s revival through the Anchor Point as his mirror equipment shattered and mirror concepts and Mirror World rules reshaped the origin in his eye sockets.

Chen Yi’s failed attempt to awaken True Demon Eyes left him blind without reflective surfaces while new eyes slowly formed. After resting for five days, he found that Fire’s Finale had finished evolving, granting him stronger fire attacks and new ways to weaken enemies.

• Chen Yi learned that destruction was the prerequisite for rebirth, thanked Tonight Eat What, and gave Fire Dragon and Chuka a week off.
• Chen Yi slept for five days while his spirit, soul, and life force nourished his unborn eyes.
• In the Mirror World, 'Chen Yi' envied Chen Yi’s progress and vowed to create a power greater than Ten Directions Ember.
• Chen Yi added an Enchantment Orb to Fire’s Finale, raising it to +3 and gaining stronger fire effects, soul strength, Spirit Defense reduction, and Mana-burning damage.
• Chen Yi tested Fire’s Finale by piercing a reinforced Lava Earth Wall with a Scorching Sword.

After a major boost in strength, Chen Yi accepted a year-long mission to eliminate guilds suspected of betraying the Game World. He disguised himself and his followers for the hunt, then prepared to begin despite their limited supplies.

• Chen Yi assessed his recent gains and concluded that he could challenge Tier 6, though he had spent nearly all his money.
• Chen Yi accepted the Qing Daofu mission to eliminate thirty-two guilds in exchange for reducing his World Source debt.
• Chen Yi, Fire Dragon, and Chuka received disguises and Cognitive obstruction, then inspected their transformed appearances.
• Chuka complained about being disguised as a low-grade slime, but accepted Turbid Spirit Crystals from Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi checked his remaining combat materials and potions and decided they would have to kill enemies before replenishing supplies.

Chen Yi arrived in Brave World and announced that he would purge Redemption Guild because most of its players had become Demon Race informants. San Yi Niu Meng urged his guild to resist, and Chen Yi's giant lightning-wreathed hand struck their protective barrier.

• San Yi Niu Meng prepared Redemption Guild for danger and proposed an alliance with Southern Peanut of Butter Guild and Expired Milk of Three Star Guild.
• Chen Yi arrived with a slime on his head and a griffin as the Protective Shields vanished, and the world's gravity killed more than 40,000 low-level players.
• San Yi Niu Meng tried to win Chen Yi's favor by offering help from all three guilds, but Chen Yi identified himself as Qing Daofu and declared that he would purge Redemption Guild.
• Chen Yi revealed that 70.23% of Redemption Guild's players had become Demon Race informants, and he rejected their protests by saying he had come to purge, not investigate.
• San Yi Niu Meng urged Redemption Guild to rebel and flee to the Demon Race, and its players cried out to kill Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi summoned a giant lightning-wreathed hand that struck Redemption Guild's protective barrier, nearly breaking it and sinking the ground beneath it.

Chen Yi crushed the Redemption Guild’s forces after shattering their protective barrier and trapping their players in a massive Chibaku Tensei. When the survivors revived, they begged for mercy, but Chen Yi’s second palm strike silenced them.

• San Yi Niu Meng urged the Redemption Guild players to transform and attack Chen Yi, while the Butter Guild and Three Star Guild stayed aside.
• Chen Yi’s Flame Demon Phantasm raised mirrors to block the attacks as the Fire Dragon battered the barrier and Chen Yi’s meteors broke it.
• Chen Yi used Chibaku Tensei to lift the players and the earth beneath them, then dropped the enormous mass and killed large numbers of players.
• After waiting nearly a minute, Chen Yi struck again, and San Yi Niu Meng and the other players pleaded to surrender.
• The Butter Guild and Three Star Guild players also begged for mercy, but Chen Yi’s palm fell and ended their cries.