Chapter Summaries

Medusa considered how her aggregate body differed from ordinary Ninth-Order beings, then agreed to intervene when the Netherworld’s imprisoned demons began breaking free. She subdued the demons in the Styx River and uprooted Shu Mountain’s Demon Suppression Tower, carrying both toward the heavens as the Three Realms’ calamity unfolded.

• Medusa reflected that her body contained 129,600 living organisms, each cultivating different systems, and that reaching Ninth-Order could make each one a Ninth-Order lifeform.
• Ermin’s confidants begged Medusa to save the Three Realms from the demons breaking their seals, and she agreed because she feared Ermin would return and lecture her.
• Medusa entered the Netherworld and realized that the attackers had exploited the fear stirred by the Peach Banquet to awaken the imprisoned demons.
• Medusa struck the Styx River and knocked unconscious more than a thousand demons, then lifted the river and carried it away in a waterskin made from her skin.
• At Shu Mountain, the Demon Suppression Tower shook as its imprisoned demons attacked, and the elders suspected the All Knowing Scholar had spread fear by using information stolen from the tower.
• Medusa uprooted the Demon Suppression Tower, wore it as a bronze hairpin, and charged into the heavens.

Beautiful Dream God used the Monstrosities’ replenished energy to inspect the deepest dreams of several powerful beings and uncovered secrets reaching back to the ancient eras. It then entered Earth Mother Azure Vine’s dream, where the Land of Origin of All Things appeared, leaving it terrified.

• Beautiful Dream God gained enough energy to hold its captives for seven minutes and began examining their deepest dreams.
• It saw Ermin’s dream of a joyful wedding and Blood Emperor’s dream of defeating and marrying Medusa, discovering a secret he would want hidden.
• It witnessed Dao Changsheng’s memory of fighting Di Qi and encountering a mysterious Woodcutter Saint who repaired the heavens with the World Tree.
• It saw Medusa’s memory of a vast being called the God of Creation, whose arrival distorted time across the Wizard World.
• Beautiful Dream God recalled ancient legends of beings ordered to create Heaven and Earth, then looked into Earth Mother Azure Vine’s dream and saw the Land of Origin of All Things.

Beautiful Dream God discovered Earth Mother Azure Vine’s dream of the Eternal Life Home and saw the God of Creation’s true body, triggering its destruction. As it vanished, Earth Mother appeared in the dream and offered the God of Creation a washed apple.

• Beautiful Dream God witnessed life evolving across ages in Earth Mother Azure Vine’s courtyard and realized it was the origin of all life.
• Beautiful Dream God saw the God of Creation watching legendary beings evolve and understood that the courtyard was His true home.
• Beautiful Dream God tried to look more closely at the God of Creation, whose gaze shattered its consciousness and began erasing it.
• Beautiful Dream God realized it was being erased completely, beyond the usual revival of demon gods.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine emerged from the farmhouse, offered the God of Creation a red fruit, and said, “Dear, your apple has been washed.”

Medusa descended on the Peach Banquet, but All Knowing Scholar used a Time Worm to force her into dormancy and revealed his plan to trigger her deadly self-protection and wipe out everyone present. After he wounded the sleeping demon god, nothing happened, leaving the fate of the Peach Banquet uncertain.

• Medusa arrived at the Peach Banquet and attacked the five enemies, while Lin Hongfeng warned that All Knowing Scholar could not restrain her true body.
• All Knowing Scholar summoned a Time Worm, which spent its life accelerating Medusa's aging and put her to sleep.
• All Knowing Scholar revealed that he had brought the three thousand demons not to rescue them but to kill them by provoking the sleeping Medusa.
• All Knowing Scholar explained that Medusa's self-protection would kill everyone who heard her voice, and urged the Heavenly Emperors to feel hatred and despair.
• All Knowing Scholar struck Medusa with a ray of light, leaving a wound that bled, but no catastrophe followed.

Medusa shut down her defenses to foil All Knowing Scholar’s plan, but he turned to killing her and triggering panic in the Demon Realm. The Heavenly Emperors and Monstrosities battled inside her body to find her hidden core, while Xu Zhi explored and dealt with the Beautiful Dream God spying on the Queen Zerg.

• Medusa sealed her defensive mechanisms and indescribable terror, preventing All Knowing Scholar from using her to slaughter the gods and release the three thousand great demons.
• All Knowing Scholar ordered the Monstrosities to kill the defenseless Medusa, hoping her death would destabilize the Demon Realm, and the Heavenly Emperors moved to stop them.
• The Monstrosities and Heavenly Emperors raced through Medusa’s sleeping cells, searching for her core and fighting over the fate of the Three Realms.
• Xu Zhi entered Medusa’s body and leisurely examined its organs and cells while the others searched in haste.
• The Intelligent Sub-brain warned Xu Zhi that the Beautiful Dream God was spying on the Queen Zerg, and Xu Zhi killed the intruder and erased its memories.

Xu Zhi explored Medusa’s body and collected samples while All Knowing Scholar searched for Medusa’s core. All Knowing Scholar mistook Xu Zhi’s inaction for a hidden plan that had helped turn the Peach Banquet attack around, and the two prepared to settle their conflict in battle.

• Xu Zhi studied Medusa’s snake tail and bone marrow, collecting samples and gaining ideas for Mechanical Armor.
• All Knowing Scholar found Xu Zhi and identified him as another portion of the original All Knowing Scholar and former God of Wisdom Hermes.
• All Knowing Scholar explained that he had accounted for Xu Zhi and believed Xu Zhi’s restraint had helped Medusa survive the attack.
• Xu Zhi put away his Alchemy Table as All Knowing Scholar accused him of blocking the search for Medusa’s core and called for a battle.
• Pan Xuexian and Luo Caiwei watched from hiding, mistook Xu Zhi’s inaction for a secret master plan, and decided to attack All Knowing Scholar.

Xu Zhi, posing as Messiah Great Emperor, fought All Knowing Scholar and tested his strength against an old-era Heavenly Emperor who cultivated three systems. Ermin intervened and killed All Knowing Scholar, leaving Xu Zhi to recognize how much his own combat power had grown.

• All Knowing Scholar sealed off his hearing and sight before challenging Messiah Great Emperor, while Pan Xuexian and Luo Caiwei watched from hiding.
• Xu Zhi and All Knowing Scholar exchanged powerful Dao arts, then transformed into muscular Wu Clan True Bodies and fought at close range.
• All Knowing Scholar revealed his mastery of Dao, body, and martial arts and pressed the battle against Xu Zhi, who awakened his magic core power.
• Ermin descended from the void and tore All Knowing Scholar apart, explaining that Beautiful Dream God had died and that she would pursue the other four Monstrosities.
• Pan Xuexian and Luo Caiwei celebrated Ermin's emergence, while Xu Zhi returned to normal and concluded he could now fight top second-tier existences.

Xu Zhi survived his clash with All Knowing Scholar, though his body was fatally wounded, and returned to the Peach Banquet as the Three Realms mourned its fallen Heavenly Emperors. The Martial God Palace mistook his inaction for a deep strategy and asked him to guide them, but Xu Zhi said he would soon fall asleep.

• Xu Zhi reflected that his lack of combat experience had made his battle with All Knowing Scholar nearly end in mutual destruction, then collected scattered Heavenly Emperor tissue to study.
• Xu Zhi learned that seven Heavenly Emperors had died and more than ten were wounded, while the survivors discussed asking Earth Mother to resurrect the dead with incense.
• Lin Hongfeng and the Martial Emperors praised Xu Zhi, believing he had deliberately stayed out of the battle to thwart All Knowing Scholar's plans.
• Lin Hongfeng asked Xu Zhi to become the Martial God Palace's guiding teacher, but he said the Three Realms' calamity might not be over and that he would soon fall asleep.

After All Knowing Scholar’s failed assault, the Peach Banquet resumed and the Three Realms were told the disturbance had been defeated. Medusa’s actions drew widespread praise, but she remained in danger, and players questioned why Emperor Messiah had not intervened.

• Lin Hongfeng suggested consulting the Origin Demon God about Emperor Messiah’s Blood of Eternal Life, and Xu Zhi agreed.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine announced across the Three Realms that the Monstrosities had been slain and the Peach Banquet would continue.
• Players discussed All Knowing Scholar’s near-victory and celebrated Medusa’s counter to his plan, while worrying that she might die.
• Players wondered why Emperor Messiah, despite his earlier display of strength, had not acted.

Online viewers watched Messiah Monarch Great Emperor help defeat All Knowing Scholar’s conspiracy, then plotted to make the unsung hero’s identity and contribution known at the Peach Banquet. Xu Zhi watched their antics in disbelief as a young Heavenly Emperor approached to question why he had not acted earlier.

• Online viewers followed the System Distributor and Luo Caiwei as they discovered All Knowing Scholar secretly contending with Messiah Monarch Great Emperor, who had anticipated his plan.
• Messiah and All Knowing Scholar fought directly, and a descending divine arm helped end the battle and shatter All Knowing Scholar’s conspiracy.
• Messiah returned to the Peach Banquet without seeking recognition, and viewers admired his quiet, unassuming conduct.
• Viewers devised a plan to have Heavenly Emperors mock Messiah so Thunder Emperor and Wu Ming could reveal his seniority, followed by Earth Mother publicly thanking him.
• Xu Zhi watched the viewers’ plans with alarm as a young Heavenly Emperor approached and asked why he had not acted.

At the Peach Banquet, Xu Zhi quietly thwarted the players’ plan to help Messiah Great Emperor show off, while the forum mistook his calm response for brilliant foresight. Earth Mother Azure Vine then began her ascension to godhood, and Meng Mei was pulled into a transformation that left her unable to log out.

• Ermin asked Earth Mother Azure Vine how Beautiful Dream God had died, and Azure Vine claimed her fiancé’s imprint had destroyed it when it saw him.
• Meng Mei assessed the growing powers of the Three Realms and agreed with the players that their lineage needed to become gods.
• Thunder Heavenly Emperor approached Xu Zhi to help him show off, but Xu Zhi instead gave the Ancient Clan Heavenly Emperor cultivation advice and sent Thunder Heavenly Emperor back.
• Meng Mei posted a screenshot of the failed intervention, and the forum praised Messiah Great Emperor for supposedly anticipating the players’ plan.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine began her godhood breakthrough as Ermin, Blood Emperor, and the Heavenly Dao protected her, while Xu Zhi watched without interfering.
• Meng Mei’s soul was drawn into her Inner World, where she discovered that she could no longer log out.

Meng Mei accepted the Creator's warning and became the Earth Mother's true god, exchanging her mortal life for an eight-thousand-year divine existence. She then returned to her Earth body with a fraction of her power and discovered she could wield second-rank mental power.

• Xu Zhi asked Meng Mei whether she had decided to become a god and explained that she would abandon her former life and truly die if she perished.
• Meng Mei chose godhood, declaring that she would become a future saint, and Xu Zhi departed as she completed her transformation.
• At the Peach Banquet, Meng Mei acknowledged the deities who had supported her and withdrew to a private room to log out.
• Meng Mei returned to her Earth body and restrained her divine power, then formed a small whirlwind with her second-rank mental power.
• When Meng Mei's mother knocked and asked about the noise, Meng Mei claimed she was watching a disaster movie.

Meng Mei discovered that her supernatural powers were real on Earth, then returned to the Peach Banquet as Earth Mother and announced she would establish a new realm called the Void Realm, also known as Return to Ruin. Her declaration shook Heaven and Earth.

• Meng Mei's mother urged her to marry and find someone capable of inheriting her father's business, and Meng Mei pushed her out of the room.
• Meng Mei conjured a crimson fireball and realized she had brought real supernatural power to Earth.
• Xu Zhi told Meng Mei that she was the second human to bring supernatural power into the real world and that she had helped create the cultivation system.
• Meng Mei returned to her body at the Peach Banquet and resumed her place on the Queen Mother's throne after four or five days had passed.
• Earth Mother recounted her history of protecting living beings and described Ermin's vow to establish the Netherworld.
• Earth Mother announced that she would establish the Void Realm, also called Return to Ruin, and thunder shook Heaven and Earth.

At the Peach Banquet, Earth Mother Azure Vine ascended to godhood and established Guixu, a thought-born realm that gathered the Three Realms’ evil thoughts and Monstrosities. As the great figures began entering it to train and fight, Xu Zhi explored the new realm and considered its purpose as a battlefield.

• Lin Hongfeng explained that Earth Mother Azure Vine’s dragon veins had gathered the Incense of All Living Beings and would transform when she became an eighth-rank deity.
• Earth Mother Azure Vine announced that dragon veins would channel evil thoughts into the Void Realm, where cultivators could enter to fight Monstrosities at the risk of damaging or losing their Divine Sense.
• Mirrors appeared across the Three Realms and revealed Guixu, a vast, dark world where the evil thoughts of all living beings converged.
• The heavenly emperors and members of the Female Martial God Palace entered Guixu with their thoughts to explore and train.
• Xu Zhi entered Guixu through the dragon vein network and recognized it as a battlefield where cultivators could eliminate Monstrosities before they became stronger fiends.

Xu Zhi examined the newly created Void Realm and considered how its Monstrosities might be contained and used. At the Peach Banquet, Meng Mei told the other players that becoming gods would bind them to their characters, then discussed their limited lifespans and chances of reaching the Ninth-Order.

• Xu Zhi explored the Void Realm, explained how it gathered the dark thoughts of living beings, and considered turning its Monstrosities into Magic Tools or purifying their energy.
• Lin Hongfeng recognized the Void Realm as a training ground for the Martial God Palace, while Xu Zhi described its potential and the danger of malice accumulating there.
• Meng Mei told Thunder Emperor, One Sword Turtle Breath, Dragon No Name, Bell, and Pan Xuexian that she had met the God of Creation and gained Second-Order power in reality.
• Meng Mei warned the three players nearing godhood that they would lose the ability to restart as spores and would have only three months of real-world life alongside eight thousand years in the three realms.
• Meng Mei compared their prospects for reaching the Ninth-Order and suggested that obtaining the Blood of Eternal Life could extend their lives; the others eyed Pan Xuexian as a potential protector.

Meng Mei revealed that Guixu was the Void Serpent, a causality weapon that imprisoned Monstrosities and enforced contracts, ushering the Three Realms into the Void Era. Decades later, All Knowing Scholar confronted Monarch Great Emperor Midsa and left him alive with his heart exposed, urging him to remember his fear and seek revenge.

• Meng Mei explained that Guixu was an enormous Monstrosity formed from the evil thoughts of beings across the Three Realms, and Pan Xuexian learned that Meng Mei had secretly created it as her natal weapon.
• Meng Mei described Guixu’s contract system, which punished oathbreakers and let people exchange knowledge without fearing betrayal.
• The Three Realms entered the Void Era, and contracts and Void battlefields helped Monstrosities decline while martial arts and new disciplines flourished.
• All Knowing Scholar hunted Monarch Great Emperor Midsa through a forest and criticized him for giving in to despair.
• All Knowing Scholar stabbed Midsa in the heart, left it exposed and beating, and told him to remember the fear and come seek revenge.

All Knowing Scholar revived and spread fear across the demon realm, while Xu Zhi observed the changing world and visited the Female Martial God Palace. The chapter ended with Xu Zhi joining their bizarre hotpot meal, which included spiritual creatures and a heating hard drive.

• Monarch Great Emperor Midsa survived his encounter with All Knowing Scholar and vowed to find and kill him, though fear and hatred had made him a believer in fear.
• All Knowing Scholar’s revival alarmed the demon realm’s churches, whose leaders debated how to stop him as tales of Taunas, “Wisdom Upon the Mountains,” spread.
• Xu Zhi reflected on All Knowing Scholar’s revival and observed an amnesiac Beautiful Dream God hiding in a schoolboy’s shadow while Monstrosities formed around the boy and his classmates.
• Xu Zhi returned to the Female Martial God Palace and found Pan Xuexian and the others preparing a hotpot from spiritual creatures, with System Sister heating a pan beside them.
• Xu Zhi joined the group at the table after seeing the strange ingredients and hearing how they had turned their companions into hotpot and teppanyaki.

Xu Zhi agreed to guide the Female Martial God Palace as they sought to defeat All Knowing Scholar and gain faith on the path to godhood. He began their training by teaching them about Gene Locks and making Pan Xuexian’s system chip calculate human genes while the other sisters tested their spiritual-medicine hotpot.

• The Female Martial God Palace explained that its sisters cultivated by combining their bodies into nourishing spiritual medicine, then asked Xu Zhi to help them defeat All Knowing Scholar.
• Xu Zhi said Hermes could contend with All Knowing Scholar, but agreed to help the sisters strengthen their system and refine their cultivation methods.
• Xu Zhi recognized that the Martial God Palace hoped to defeat All Knowing Scholar, win the faith of living beings, and become gods, and he warned that his training would be harsh.
• Five days later, Xu Zhi taught Pan Xuexian that Gene Locks required analyzing genetic sequences and ordered her to begin with human genes.
• Xu Zhi put a heavy pot on Pan Xuexian’s chip to make it calculate while the other sisters jumped into the pot to retest and improve their spiritual-medicine formula.

Xu Zhi studied the Martial God Palace’s thirteen demon clans as a pill-refining formula and used knowledge from the Gourmet World to improve their Martial God Soup. He left the group with a successful new recipe and instructions to refine it further.

• Xu Zhi compared cooking with pill refinement and ordered the chip to heat the giant pot while the thirteen demon clans soaked inside.
• Xu Zhi arranged the ingredients’ vital energy in stages, starting with Lin Hongfeng and adding a white lotus and narcissus vines to fuse their medicinal properties.
• Over half a month, Xu Zhi tested ingredients and precise energy ratios until he created a second version of Martial God Soup whose thirteen auras blended into one.
• The finished soup produced radiant phenomena, and the women who tasted it felt powerful medicinal effects and a cleansing of their Martial Dao Will and Divine Sense.
• Xu Zhi taught Lin Hongfeng and the others the principles behind the recipe, then told them to continue experimenting while he returned to inspect their progress.

Xu Zhi left the Martial God Palace after sharing a meal with its residents, who recommitted themselves to training and pursuing godhood. He explored the Wizard World and turned his attention to rebuilding the expanded Gourmet World, wondering whether to introduce humans as its next era’s protagonists.

• Xu Zhi shared a hot-pot meal with Luo Caiwei, Mu Yuling, Bai Xiaoshu, and the others at the Martial God Palace.
• Xu Zhi announced his departure, and Lin Hongfeng reminded the group not to delay their teacher before leading them back to training.
• Xu Zhi entered a shopping mall, bought long johns, and reflected on the rise of martial arts and the conflict between the Monstrosities and orthodox gods.
• Xu Zhi considered rebuilding the expanded Gourmet World and introducing humans after its other species had developed.
• Xu Zhi boarded a bus and wondered what kind of world he should create.