Chapter Summaries

Meng Mei led Hu Haihan and All Knowing Scholar into the Magic Potion World, intending to hide from Medusa while planting dragon veins and infiltrating the Church of Light. As Meng Mei went to find her online friends, Xu Zhi planned to explore the world separately using a Mirror Image Clone.

• Meng Mei explained to Hu Haihan that worlds could end in destruction or merge through war, then proposed hiding in the demon realm to seek a solution.
• Meng Mei led the group through the World Gate into the Magic Potion World, disguised them as locals, and planted dragon veins with Azure Vine.
• Xu Zhi realized Medusa had anticipated Meng Mei’s arrival and considered sending a Mirror Image Clone to explore while avoiding Ermin.
• Meng Mei decided to pose as a Saintess of the Church of Light and went to seek a token from its founders.
• Meng Mei gave All Knowing Scholar an umbrella as a veiled warning, then pretended to sleep and left to find her online friends, leaving Hu Haihan and the scholar in the carriage.

Xu Zhi escaped from the carriage while Meng Mei slept, leaving her to discover her swollen face and decide to search for the Light Holy Book. Elsewhere, Ermin and Phoenix played Go and discussed how the war between their worlds would turn on which side produced the next god.

• Hu Haihan stopped the carriage at a lake to bathe, and Xu Zhi pinched Meng Mei's sleeping face before slipping away.
• Meng Mei learned from Little Brain Tiger Goes Down the Mountain where the Light Holy Book was, then found Xu Zhi gone and her face swollen into a pighead.
• Little Fox guessed Xu Zhi had used Meng Mei's face to practice combat techniques, and Meng Mei decided to find him and seek the Light Holy Book.
• Ermin and Phoenix played Go and recalled their past battles, discussing how All Knowing Scholar had helped Medusa become a god.
• Ermin and Phoenix considered which world might produce the next god and recognized that this would decide the balance of their war.

As ancient Monarch Great Emperors awakened and war spread across the world, Xu Zhi retrieved the preserved Messiah body to explore the Seventh-Order path. After breaking through to Seventh-Order body cultivation, he began searching for his own truth and Dao heart.

• The Saintess of Light traveled across the land with the Book of Light and Truth, inspiring people with speeches about humanity.
• Xu Zhi found Messiah’s ancient body hidden in a deep-sea cave and placed his mirror image inside it.
• Xu Zhi returned to the edge of the Wizard World and used energy from his main body to cultivate Messiah’s body.
• After seven years of secluded cultivation, Xu Zhi broke through to Seventh-Order body cultivation.
• Xu Zhi recalled how Hu Renong, Dao Changsheng, and Liu Wenjian found their paths and wondered what his own truth and Dao heart were.

Xu Zhi questioned his Dao Heart and concluded that a Creator should be a laid-back observer who quietly steered worlds when needed. He traveled to the Wizard World as Messiah, where Hila and her father encountered him carrying a writhing Magic Plant to cook.

• Xu Zhi decided that his true heart was to live quietly and watch civilizations rise and fall, intervening only when necessary.
• Xu Zhi imagined that a leisurely trip to the Wizard World might help him understand himself further.
• Hila traveled with her father Mohank's merchant caravan through Black Mist Forest, which had grown safer after magical beasts left for the Ancient Wilderness World.
• Xu Zhi emerged from Black Mist Forest carrying a writhing Magic Plant and asked the caravan to lend him seasonings so he could cook it.
• Hila panicked at the sight, but Mohank cautiously instructed caravan members to help Messiah roast the Magic Plant.

Xu Zhi traveled with Mohank’s caravan, then settled in a remote bar to cultivate and learn from its customers. Ten years later, the war between the Wizard World and the Ancient Wilderness World remained deadlocked, and Xu Zhi listened as patrons discussed the battle and its fighters.

• Mohank mistook Xu Zhi for an inheritor of the Gourmet profession, and the caravan traded stories about the legendary Messiah and his supposed legacies.
• Xu Zhi traveled with Mohank’s caravan, cooked for its members, and learned that they traded between two cities.
• With Mohank’s help, Xu Zhi opened a small bar called Phoebe, where he cooked, cultivated, and spoke with customers to temper his Dao heart.
• Ten years passed as the war reached a stalemate and casualties mounted.
• Customers discussed the Ancient Wilderness World’s powerful fighters, including Hu Renong, Wen Liujian, and the disciples of Shu Mountain, while Xu Zhi listened and pictured the distant battles.

After years of observing lives in Ville City, Xu Zhi offered Hila refuge when assassins pursued her, and announced he would tell the lost Sumerian creation myth. Hila recognized Xu Zhi as the legendary Messiah Monarch Great Emperor, and he confirmed her suspicion, leaving the bar’s customers stunned.

• Xu Zhi watched Mohank rise to power and die, after which his caravan split apart and Hila was driven from its leadership.
• Xu Zhi rescued Hila from three assassins and offered her work and protection at Phoebe Bar, though he refused to kill her enemies himself.
• Hila accepted the dangerous offer, and Xu Zhi gave her a sign announcing a tale about Sumerian Ancient Mythology and the creation of Heaven and Earth.
• Hila realized Xu Zhi might be the legendary Messiah Monarch Great Emperor and asked him directly.
• Xu Zhi confirmed he was Messiah Monarch Great Emperor and recalled that he had told Hila and her father years earlier.

Xu Zhi, revealed as the Messiah Monarch Great Emperor, began telling Ville City residents the myths of Ancient Sumerian Civilization at his bar, drawing crowds with his account of Gilgamesh and the Wisdom Giant Beast. As the stories spread, Xu Zhi continued with later eras, determined to preserve history and correct false records of his own Messiah Era.

• Hila learned that Xu Zhi was the ancient Messiah Monarch Great Emperor and stayed with him at the bar.
• Word spread through Ville City that Xu Zhi would tell the story of Ancient Sumerian Civilization, and a crowd gathered the next day.
• Xu Zhi recounted the creation era, the Wisdom Giant Beast's gifts to Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh's aging, and his return to power after drinking Blood of Power.
• The listeners clamored for more after Xu Zhi stopped at the end of the first chapter, and rumors of the bar drew visitors from neighboring cities.
• Xu Zhi continued telling the Sumerian City-State Era and the Era of the Three Kings, aiming to preserve history and correct records of his Messiah Era.

As Xu Zhi recounted the Sumerian Civilization’s history, he revealed that Gilgamesh had confronted the God of Creation, then conjured images of the era’s three Hero Kings. When Yuke challenged him and demanded proof, Xu Zhi summoned the ancient Hero King, who struck at Yuke with the Holy Sword of Humanity.

• Xu Zhi revealed that the Wisdom Giant Beast had been the God of Creation and said Gilgamesh had asked three questions after learning the truth.
• Yuke accused Xu Zhi of fabricating history and charged at him, intending to beat him.
• Xu Zhi conjured Ishtar leading her army and the Sumerian Forest King choosing death for the sake of gratitude and righteousness.
• Xu Zhi showed Gilgamesh leaping toward the giant, leaving Yuke shaken by the apparent historical figures.
• Xu Zhi summoned an ancient being wielding the Holy Sword of Humanity, and it swung at Yuke.

Xu Zhi summoned Gilgamesh’s remnant soul to demonstrate the forbidden death art and recounted how Medusa created the spell. He then continued the Sumerian tale, leaving Youke convinced that Xu Zhi was the Messiah Monarch Great Emperor.

• Xu Zhi summoned Gilgamesh, whose sword strike overwhelmed Youke and shattered glassware throughout the bar.
• Xu Zhi explained that Medusa had forged Gilgamesh’s remnant soul into a forbidden spell and used it against the Alchemy Great Emperor Grantham.
• The bar’s guests questioned how Medusa could have lost, and Xu Zhi deferred that story to a later chapter of history.
• Xu Zhi continued with Gilgamesh’s three questions to the God of Creation and the coming Great Flood, leaving the guests stunned.
• Youke bowed to Xu Zhi and addressed him as Messiah, the final Wizard Monarch Great Emperor of the Babylon Myth Era and first Monarch Great Emperor of the Magic Potion Era.

Xu Zhi continued telling the history of the Sumerian Civilization, and Youke apologized for doubting him before joining the audience. As news of Xu Zhi’s stories spread, Hila served the powerful guests who gathered to hear him and resolved to seek their help.

• Youke apologized to Xu Zhi, who forgave him and continued recounting the story of Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood.
• Youke listened to Xu Zhi’s tale with awe, and Xu Zhi announced that he would tell the story of the Babylon Tribe the next day.
• News of the ancient Messiah Monarch Great Emperor’s storytelling spread across Magic Potion Land, drawing crowds and powerful figures to Ville City.
• Xu Zhi described the Three Witches and displayed an ancient mural as Hila served food and wine to guests including Andre, Bika, and Youke.
• Hila remembered Xu Zhi’s advice that her chances to cultivate and find help depended on her, and she resolved to work hard.

Xu Zhi told the story of the Three Witches while Hila gained powerful allies, became a second-tier professional, and took revenge on her enemies. As Xu Zhi waited for Ermin to send opponents to challenge him, Ermin instead suspected that Messiah was All Knowing Scholar and the God of Wisdom Hermes.

• Xu Zhi recounted the Three Witches’ sacrifices and the miracles God of Wisdom Hermes bestowed after their deaths, astonishing the powerful figures gathered around Ville City.
• Hila told the powerful figures about her circumstances, gained a quasi-emperor of the Human Empire as her master, and advanced to the second tier with their guidance and resources.
• The powerful figures encouraged Hila to take revenge, and she later killed her enemies before returning in grief.
• Xu Zhi rested and expected Ermin to send Monarch Great Emperors to challenge him, while Ermin received Albert’s report that Messiah had reappeared.
• Ermin refused to capture Messiah and wrote to Medusa that she suspected Messiah was All Knowing Scholar and Hermes.

Medusa read Ermin’s theory that Messiah and All Knowing Scholar were remnants born from the corpse of God of Wisdom Hermes, and that their identities explained the Wizard World’s history. She was left stunned, believing the theory revealed the truth behind the world’s ancient eras.

• Medusa assessed the war between the Magic Potion World and the Barren Ancient World and reflected on Earth Mother Azure Vine’s scheme involving All Knowing Scholar.
• Medusa received Ermin’s letter reporting that All Knowing Scholar had been found with Messiah Monarch Great Emperor.
• Medusa read Ermin’s evidence that Messiah’s appearance and knowledge mirrored God of Wisdom Hermes’s role at the end of the Wizard Era.
• Ermin proposed that Messiah was an intelligent life born from Hermes’s corpse and that All Knowing Scholar was the wisdom left behind by the same god.
• Medusa was shocked by the theory’s explanation of the Wizard World’s history and concluded that Messiah himself was true history.

Ermin's account led Medusa to conclude that All Knowing Scholar and Messiah were the two halves of God of Wisdom Hermes, now reunited, and she considered the stakes of the two worlds' war. At Ville City, Xu Zhi explained his mortality to Hila and learned that Ermin and Medusa's theories had accidentally supplied him with a convincing identity and history.

• Medusa connected Ermin's account to the disappearances of God of Wisdom Hermes and the Land of the Gods, and realized All Knowing Scholar and Messiah had reunited as Hermes.
• Medusa recognized that Hermes's history and influence could make him crucial to the conflict between the two worlds, and wondered what to do about Messiah Monarch Great Emperor.
• Xu Zhi urged Hila to take up her own life after her revenge, but she insisted she wanted to stay with him rather than inherit Old Man Mohank's caravan.
• Hila asked whether Xu Zhi had lived for a thousand years, and he explained that he had hibernated and that even gods could die, while the Origin Demon God could still be killed.
• Hila inferred that Xu Zhi was drawing powerful figures to the bar and waiting for them to find him, and he told her he was anticipating an encounter with fate.
• Xu Zhi learned that Ermin and Medusa had secretly developed a theory about him, then decided to adopt their version of events and claim he was born from God of Wisdom Hermes's corpse.

Xu Zhi continued recounting the hidden history of the Magic Potion Era, revealing that Grantham had defeated and imprisoned Medusa. The revelation spread fear through Ville City, while Xu Zhi calmly waited for Medusa to come after him.

• Xu Zhi accepted that provoking a breakthrough through combat had failed and decided to finish his history-telling before leaving.
• Xu Zhi told the tavern that Grantham had used alchemy to defeat Medusa and imprison her on Gorgon Alchemy Island.
• The quasi-emperors feared that Medusa would punish Xu Zhi for exposing her defeat, and many fled the tavern.
• Rumors spread through Ville City, turning Xu Zhi into a legendary seeker of historical truth and predicting that ancient emperors would attack him.
• After the tavern closed, Hila urged Xu Zhi to stop, but he said he would continue telling the history and wait for Medusa.

Xu Zhi recounted the Alchemy Emperor’s death and the tragic Cthulhu Evil God Era, revealing how Ermin became a god and Medusa became the Origin Demon God. He announced that the next tale would cover the beginning of the Magic Potion Era and his own era, leaving the listeners wondering who Messiah Monarch Great Emperor really was.

• Xu Zhi finished recounting the Alchemy Emperor’s death in Babylon Kingdom Year 804 and described how even Medusa honored his funeral.
• The tavern listeners asked about God of Wisdom Mercury and the Land of the Gods, but Xu Zhi declined to tell a fabricated version of their mysteries.
• Xu Zhi spent the following days describing the Cthulhu Evil God Era and the sacrifices of Ermin, Emery, Circe, and Charlotte.
• Xu Zhi revealed that Ermin became a god and defeated the Cthulhu Evil God, while Medusa took its body and became the Origin Demon God.
• Xu Zhi announced that he would tell the story of the Magic Potion Era’s beginning, Messiah, and the listeners wondered who he really was.

Xu Zhi recounted how Messiah arrived during humanity’s near extinction and began unifying the land, while listeners hoped to learn his secrets. As Albert appeared in the tavern, the crowd feared he had come on Medusa’s orders to confront Messiah.

• Xu Zhi told Hila that he would leave the tavern after finishing Messiah’s history and said the ancient Monarch Great Emperors were unlikely to attack him.
• Xu Zhi recounted how Orc King Brom’s invasion toppled the royal capital, drove Monarch Great Emperor Wesley into flight, and brought humanity close to extinction.
• Xu Zhi described Messiah’s arrival during the crisis and his decision to unify the land, leaving listeners frustrated that he narrated without revealing his origins.
• Xu Zhi said Messiah pacified the era but wandered the world instead of ruling, enjoying fine wine and amusement parks.
• Albert appeared in the tavern, and Xu Zhi greeted him after a thousand years apart.
• The crowd panicked, believing Albert had come on Medusa’s orders to demand an explanation from Messiah.

Albert delivered Medusa Demon God's message to Xu Zhi, revealing that Medusa and Ermin each claimed a part of him and asking whether their side could win the war. Xu Zhi warned that either victory or defeat was possible, then set out with Hila for the front lines to witness the coming clash between the worlds.

• Albert arrived at the bar and asked Xu Zhi whether he remembered the nights beneath the stars, but Xu Zhi denied knowing Medusa.
• Albert relayed that Medusa claimed Xu Zhi's heart while Ermin claimed Xu Zhi himself, and Xu Zhi refused their arrangement.
• Albert asked whether they could win the war, and Xu Zhi answered that victory and defeat were both possible.
• Albert left to report Xu Zhi's warning, and the quasi-Emperors hurried out of the bar.
• Xu Zhi headed for the Blood Domain Great World to see the war's decisive events, and Hila followed him.

Xu Zhi took Hila toward the Blood Domain Great World to witness the impending war and explained why powerful beings welcomed a deadly struggle as a chance to transcend history. As the players began plotting against Medusa, Xu Zhi learned that someone was searching for the Zerg Mother Empress's orchard.

• Xu Zhi told Hila that they were heading to the Blood Domain Great World to witness the present history of a world-changing conflict.
• Xu Zhi explained that powerful beings welcomed war because they hoped to transcend and escape the flow of history, while Hila realized that even the strongest could die.
• Hila asked Xu Zhi about his connection to the Demon God and his true identity, but he said she was not ready to know.
• Xu Zhi watched the Spore Evolution forum as the players posted a declaration of war against Medusa and began plotting in secret.
• The Intelligent Sub-brain informed Xu Zhi that someone was searching for the location of the Zerg Mother Empress's orchard.

Meng Mei reflected on her extraordinary luck and sensed that it was drawing her toward the south, raising the possibility that she could find Xu Zhi’s orchard. Xu Zhi asked the Intelligent Sub-brain about her fortune and learned that collective belief could form a planetary consciousness that favored certain people.

• Meng Mei described how her real-life good fortune had followed her into the game, where she had become Azure Vine Earth Mother and gained the Dragon Vein’s blessings.
• Meng Mei sensed an invisible pull toward the south and considered traveling there to follow it.
• Xu Zhi worried that Meng Mei’s luck might lead her to his orchard and asked the Intelligent Sub-brain whether destiny existed.
• The Intelligent Sub-brain explained that the thoughts and offerings of a planet’s inhabitants could form a collective consciousness that favored Children of Destiny.
• The Intelligent Sub-brain said that on extraordinary worlds, a planet’s consciousness could become a self-aware ionic life form.

Xu Zhi learned that Earth had a weak planetary consciousness whose fortune had helped Meng Mei prosper in the Barren Ancient World, and he decided she might be useful to watch. Meanwhile, Meng Mei rallied the players for a coming war against Medusa and prepared to livestream their plan to save their world.

• Xu Zhi learned from the Intelligent Sub-brain that Earth had a weak consciousness and that Meng Mei's good fortune came partly from Earth's favor and the Barren Ancient World's incense.
• Xu Zhi decided not to interfere with Meng Mei and considered how her growing power might let him make use of Earth's consciousness.
• Meng Mei posted on the forum that the Wizard World was invading and urged players to prepare for war against Medusa.
• Players worried that Medusa's forces outnumbered them and that the Magic Potion System had become too advanced to exploit.
• Meng Mei announced their plan, framed it as learning to save another world, and said the over-nine-hundred-year-old players would risk their lives to defend the Barren Ancient World.
• Meng Mei started a livestream and posted an image announcing that the war had begun.