Chapter Summaries

Xu Zhi took over a Church of Light bookstore in Card Town and examined the rapidly evolving Gourmet World. He also watched Miraki secretly feed the Beautiful Dream God, whose influence was awakening inner evil gods in ordinary people.

• Xu Zhi took over the Church of Light bookstore and considered what genes to use for new humans while reviewing the Gourmet World's accelerated evolution.
• Xu Zhi observed that creatures in the Gourmet World evolved through different paths, but their accelerated transformations shortened their lifespans and intensified competition.
• Miraki entered the bookstore after closing and secretly read an adult book to let the Beautiful Dream God absorb the lingering thoughts left by readers.
• Miraki admitted that the Beautiful Dream God's influence was causing ordinary people around him to produce weak evil gods from their suppressed desires.
• Miraki recalled that the class president had produced a Phantom Cat and Sia had produced a Heavy Crab, despite both being ordinary students.

Xu Zhi observed how Beautiful Dream God’s influence created Monstrosities from people’s hidden pain and watched the residents of Card Town begin forming alliances to control them. When Earth Mother Azure Vine arrived to investigate, Miraki recruited another student into his group, whose training method left Meng Mei stunned.

• Miraki told Xu Zhi that Sia’s burdens had formed Heavy Crab, which absorbed her body weight, and Xu Zhi recorded the Monstrosity’s traits.
• Miraki reported that the class president’s regret over a dead cat had created Phantom Cat, which took control of her body at night.
• A criminal with an explosive Monstrosity murdered women and removed their hands, so Xu Zhi urged Miraki to gather companions and grow stronger.
• Miraki brought the class president and Sia together to read books and strengthen their Monstrosities as the town’s hosts began forming factions.
• Meng Mei arrived with Hu Haihan, and Xu Zhi told her the outbreak’s source was Miraki and warned her not to interfere.
• A school beauty entered the bookstore with an invisibility Monstrosity, and Miraki invited her to join the group and handed her a book to read.

Meng Mei watched Miraki and his classmates grow stronger by reading books, then realized the bookstore offered a way for good people to nourish their Accompanying Evil Gods while evil people gained power by spreading fear. She suspected the new Beautiful Dream God’s outbreak was tied to All Knowing Scholar’s plan to establish a church, and ended the chapter privately pleased that her claim about her fiancé had startled Xu Zhi.

• Miraki and three Misoya high school students read books in Xu Zhi’s bookstore and absorbed residual nourishment that strengthened their evil gods.
• Meng Mei confronted Xu Zhi about letting the students read, and he said everyone had the right to pursue their dreams.
• Meng Mei sensed people across town committing crimes to feed their evil gods and concluded the bookstore helped good people keep pace with the evil faction.
• Meng Mei told Hu Haihan that killing the town’s people would release their evil gods, while the Beautiful Dream God could revive elsewhere after death.
• Meng Mei reasoned that All Knowing Scholar had intended to summon the Beautiful Dream God and build an evil god church, but the previous Beautiful Dream God’s death had disrupted his plan.
• Meng Mei claimed her fiancé had killed the Beautiful Dream God, saw Xu Zhi react with surprise, and felt smug about having unsettled him.

Meng Mei and Xu Zhi observed the spread of Accompanying Evil Gods in Card Town as ancient powers began watching and restraining one another. The high school students continued growing stronger, but Meng Mei searched for a safer, sustainable way for people to absorb dark energy.

• Meng Mei concluded that the new evil god system was spreading and considered how people with Accompanying Evil Gods might develop without harming others.
• As supernatural abilities spread from Miraki’s school into the adult population, a shadowed ancient evil god warned the Red Stone Warlock Church bishop not to interfere.
• A righteous god sent by Hermes appeared and identified the shadowed being as Delusion Witch Vinachi before vanishing.
• Xu Zhi watched the students gathering at the bookstore while Meng Mei noted that their dwindling supply of dark emotions had driven them to absorb energy from old antiques.
• Meng Mei decided that people needed a proper way to absorb dark energy and other emotions without committing evil, and projected her consciousness onto the forum to check its discussions.

After logging out, Meng Mei began training her real body while monitoring the forum for ideas on collecting negative energy. The players proposed an online casino, but Xu Zhi muted Mount Akina Speed before the plan could proceed.

• Meng Mei left the shop, logged out, and decided to try cultivating her real body through martial arts.
• Meng Mei cleared space in her room and began doing push-ups while browsing the Spore Evolution forum with her divine sense.
• Forum users discussed ways to collect negative emotions without making people commit evil, including bookstores, beast-fighting arenas, and gambling houses.
• Mount Akina Speed proposed using the dragon vein to imitate the internet and create an online Macau casino.
• A player volunteered to build the website, but Xu Zhi muted Mount Akina Speed, prompting laughter across the forum.

Meng Mei struggled to find a way for ordinary people to gain power before Third-Order, while Xu Zhi watched the escalating conflict in Card Town and urged Earth Mother Azure Vine to remain neutral. Miraki’s group faced the choice of using fear to grow stronger, as All Knowing Scholar and Hermes treated the town’s fate as part of their larger contest.

• Meng Mei considered using a dragon-vein network to help ordinary people access Guixu World, but recognized that it could not solve the problem for those below Third-Order.
• Meng Mei realized her real body was rapidly growing stronger and resolved to pursue a Divine Avatar that could cultivate while she controlled Earth Mother.
• Xu Zhi observed Card Town, where rioters terrorized residents and imprisoned them to harvest fear, while Miraki’s companions urged him to imitate their methods.
• Miraki struggled with whether his group could frighten people without becoming like the rioters, as Xu Zhi and Earth Mother Azure Vine watched without intervening.
• Xu Zhi advised Earth Mother Azure Vine to stay neutral and accepted the possibility of an Evil God Era, while All Knowing Scholar predicted Miraki would fall and Hermes warned that the outcome remained uncertain.
• All Knowing Scholar and Hermes’s followers recognized that the conflict in Card Town had become a contest between the gods, with any direct intervention risking greater consequences.

Miraki revealed that the Evil Gods had been born because of him and went alone to face the people terrorizing Card Town. After he was captured, the Beautiful Dream God emerged from his shadow, leaving the captors and townspeople shaken as Murderer Adrian turned to confront it.

• Miraki told his companions that their Evil Gods and the disasters in Card Town were connected to him, then urged them to flee while he handled the attackers.
• Miraki rejected Sia’s suggestion to capture people and harvest their fear, saying he would take responsibility for the suffering himself.
• Miraki walked into the crowd and was captured by the thugs, while his companions escaped through the bookstore’s back door.
• Inside the residential compound, Miraki explained that the Beautiful Dream God had suppressed the birth of any other Evil God within him.
• A black shadow surged from Miraki, terrifying the prisoners and captors, and Murderer Adrian turned toward it in alarm.

Miraki revealed that he had created the evil gods inside Card Town’s residents by planting them in people’s minds, then used the Beautiful Dream God to plant two more seeds. Horrified, Adrian and the others fled, while All Knowing Scholar, Hermes, Xu Zhi, and Meng Mei recognized Miraki’s victory as a psychological triumph.

• Miraki told the residents that their evil gods had been born from his encounters with evil gods and named the people he had planted them in.
• Miraki confessed that he had pursued evil gods since he was thirteen and secretly placed their offspring in Adrian and other Card Town residents.
• Miraki announced that he would plant more evil gods and used the Beautiful Dream God to make a man and a woman in the crowd conceive seeds.
• Adrian realized Miraki could reproduce the process that had created their evil gods and led his group to retreat.
• All Knowing Scholar and Hermes praised Miraki’s victory, while Xu Zhi and Meng Mei recognized the Beautiful Dream God’s ability.

Miraki claimed responsibility for creating the evil gods in the townspeople’s minds, turning their fear toward himself and strengthening Beautiful Dream God. Sia and the others stood by him, while Xu Zhi warned that the panic had only been delayed and that worsening conditions could make it return more violently.

• Miraki told the townspeople he had put evil gods into their minds and left them terrified and suspicious of one another.
• As he walked away, Miraki felt the town’s fear gather around him and strengthen Beautiful Dream God’s ability to spread.
• Sia and the others caught up with Miraki, praised his choice to bear the blame, and resolved to get stronger and find Adrian.
• Pan Xuexian dreamed of a like-minded organization and urged the girls to continue training.
• Xu Zhi and Meng Mei discussed the suppressed panic, and Xu Zhi noted that a cold, rainy spell was approaching Tongcheng.

As a world-ending Frost Rainstorm approached, the gods made the Beautiful Dream God a neutral part of the Three Realms and established the Evil Race system. Just as All Knowing Scholar prepared to spread Evil Race power, Earth Mother introduced a virtual-reality online game with ten thousand closed-beta slots.

• A black cloud gathered over the Demon Realm as the approaching Frost Rainstorm threatened to last thirty years and destroy life across the land.
• The gods secretly discussed the Beautiful Dream God and the coming calamity, and Meng Mei proposed creating an online game to help the Demon Realm resist the disaster.
• The gods made the Beautiful Dream God the God of the Mortal Realm and established it as the neutral progenitor of the Evil Race system.
• Miraki mourned losing control of the Beautiful Dream God, while All Knowing Scholar welcomed the chance for righteous and evil factions to compete on equal terms.
• As All Knowing Scholar prepared to spread Evil Race power among mortals, a virtual-reality game called "Virtual Reality" appeared in households with ten thousand closed-beta slots.

All Knowing Scholar watched Peter enter the Guixu World through an alchemical helmet and discovered that the new evil race system operated like an online game, with characters, quests, levels, and monster hunting. He recognized the game as a way to help mortals cultivate and decided to attract more players to the Evil God Camp with rewards.

• All Knowing Scholar and the evil god Heavenly Emperors observed Peter create a dog-headed character, choose the Good God Camp, and receive quests from Novice Village Chief Miraki.
• Peter repeatedly died while hunting monsters, then enlisted his friends to speed his character’s resurrection and eventually completed his novice quest.
• All Knowing Scholar realized the helmets let mortals enter the Guixu World and cultivate through gameplay, while Miraki and other evil gods served as NPCs.
• All Knowing Scholar learned that players entered a Game Main City after reaching Level 10 and sent Vinachi to establish one as its mayor.
• After finding few players in the Evil God Camp, All Knowing Scholar arranged posters promising five thousand gold coins and a Dragon Slaying Treasure Blade to players who chose it.

Xu Zhi discovered that Meng Mei had turned the Demon World's Evil Faction into an online-game cultivation system, astonishing the natives and saints of the Three Realms. Meng Mei explained that its endlessly reviving players could become a vanguard army against the Three Pillar Gods' viral invasion, and the chapter left the saints considering the legion’s future power.

• Xu Zhi saw advertisements for the Evil Faction game and realized Meng Mei had built an online-game system inside Guixu.
• Players on the forums reacted with shock as the Evil Faction offered quests, character progression, and a way to bring game growth into reality.
• The Demon World's inhabitants and the Mortal Realm's Daoists praised the system, while the saints recognized quests as contracts that could turn players into an immortal mercenary force.
• The saints discussed how a revived player legion might eventually serve as a vanguard in wars across the Myriad Realms.
• Meng Mei warned that Ancient Lava Land’s Three Pillar Gods could unleash a virus capable of infecting the Three Realms, and argued that the Demon World's immortal, virus-resistant legion could fight back.

Peter and the Sacred Tulip Guild escorted Miraki and Sia into Bominse Canyon, where they encountered a bar full of dancing Monstrosities. Xu Zhi arrived, defeated the creatures, and freed Miraki, leaving the players enchanted as he spoke with the village chief about his hidden identity.

• Peter and the Sacred Tulip Guild accepted Miraki and Sia’s hidden quest to investigate unrest in the southern region.
• The guild encountered a suited Monstrosity that forced nearby players to dance, but Peter’s trait disrupted its enchantment and the group killed it.
• The party found a bar filled with suited Monstrosities, which enchanted the players, Miraki, and Sia into dancing.
• Xu Zhi entered the bar, killed attacking Monstrosities, and demanded that the survivors serve him food and drink.
• The Monstrosity king revealed that young women had once beaten its group to death after it criticized their dancing, and Xu Zhi had it release Miraki and the others.
• Xu Zhi spoke with Miraki about his identity and his past possession of the Beautiful Dream God while Peter and the players remained enchanted.

Xu Zhi gathered the evil gods’ abilities and dreams to study their law-like characteristics, then prepared his worlds for the approaching Frost Rainstorm. The storm struck the Demon World, causing massive floods and deaths, and Xu Zhi saw that a winter lasting more than ten thousand years had begun.

• Xu Zhi asked Miraki to collect players’ entry dreams and characteristics, offering alchemy materials as mission rewards.
• Miraki agreed and said the evil race expected to raise three hundred thousand players above level forty within ten years, before the thirty-year Frost Rainstorm.
• Xu Zhi announced server maintenance, prepared his orchard, and placed a small protective barrier over the Wizard Community and Evolution Sandbox.
• Ermin and the ancient saints shielded the Wizard World from the storm’s impact, then directed torrents through channels that flooded the land and submerged cities.
• Peter, his group, and evil race members rushed to rescue people as the cold flood swept through the Demon World.
• The next morning, Xu Zhi saw that the Demon World’s population had fallen by thirty percent and concluded that a winter era lasting over ten thousand years had begun.

After a devastating thirty-year frost rain, Xu Zhi opened the Evolution Sandbox to a new winter environment and watched the players adapt in unexpected ways. Alchemy Emperor returned and began experimenting with spore evolution through alchemy, while Xu Zhi studied materials for his new Gourmet World.

• Xu Zhi surveyed the land after the frost rain and reflected on the deaths, hardship, and exhaustion left by the disaster.
• Xu Zhi removed the barrier around Evolution Sandbox, and players logged in to find the ground cold and the winter version online.
• The players built shelters, lit fires, and boiled water to keep their species warm and evolve spores in heated vats.
• Alchemy Emperor announced his return, logged in as a spore, and transformed into his familiar octopus form.
• Li Shengjiang set up bottles, jars, and a vat to combine alchemy with spore evolution, while Xu Zhi studied Miraki's materials and watched his experiments.

Li Shengjiang spent two months developing a rudimentary martial arts cultivation system in reality before returning to the Sand Table to research new species through alchemy. Xu Zhi then prepared to turn the Zerg Mother Empress’s mechanical guards into New Humans and create a system of reincarnation.

• Li Shengjiang used alchemy and electrical monitoring to develop a crude method of martial arts cultivation in reality, though he expected progress to take decades.
• Li Shengjiang returned to the Sand Table and began evolving organisms in a vat while studying potential species as alchemical materials.
• Players watched Li Shengjiang’s experiments, speculated about his goals, and considered using potions to create new evolutionary paths.
• Xu Zhi examined the Evil God's data and concluded that aggregates of living beings’ thoughts could become intelligent lifeforms with powerful traits.
• Xu Zhi dismantled the Mechanical Armor into a black ring infused with Meng Mei’s Incense Dragon Vein Array and declared that he would create reincarnation for the six hundred thousand mechanical guards.

Xu Zhi began an experiment to create souls by using the thoughts of the Mechanical Cubes to give them successive lives and awaken their intelligence. Cube 19476 developed its own characteristic and sense of self, and Xu Zhi prepared to send it into a third life as an animal.

• Xu Zhi surveyed Gourmet World and decided to reshape it by creating souls from the collective thoughts of the Mechanical Cubes.
• Xu Zhi began the experiment with the Fourth-Order Cubes, giving one a life as a tree surrounded by animal neighbors.
• The tree longed to speak and protect its neighbors, watched a bird and its chicks die, and was eventually chopped down and burned.
• Cube 19476 awoke in a mysterious temple, where a being consulted the Book of Life and Death and discovered that the Cube had developed a characteristic through reincarnation.
• The being offered Cube 19476 a bowl of soup to erase its memories and chose an animal for its third life.

19476 remembered fragments of three past lives with the same beloved, and learned his obsession let him resist reincarnation’s memory-wiping soup. The mysterious being sent him to the Human Path, where he was born a boy in a primitive tribe.

• 19476 was reborn as a bird and reunited with a fish, but hunters shot them down while they flew over a peach grove.
• The mysterious being told 19476 that his past lives had been grass and flower, tree and bird, and bird and fish, and that his obsession preserved his memories.
• 19476 learned that the fish did not consciously remember their past, though she felt an instinctive affection for him.
• The mysterious being explained that time flowed differently across the world’s three layers and offered 19476 rebirth as a human.
• 19476 drank the soup and was born a boy in a tribe’s Wooden House as his mother and the tribespeople celebrated.

Li Sansheng’s memories of his past lives returned as he learned about the White Emperor, the friend he had once been, and the human history they had shared. The chapter left him in class, still unaware of why the fragments had resurfaced, as he challenged the teacher’s account of the ancient battles against celestials.

• A'Da died after a lifetime of striving, then repeatedly reincarnated as a human, beast, and tree while seeking the woman he had never met again.
• After the mysterious being offered him a chance to become a celestial or help manage reincarnation, he chose to reincarnate as a human so he might remain near her.
• As Li Sansheng, he attended school and heard the teacher describe the White Emperor’s rise, defeat by a celestial, and regret over losing a friend.
• Li Sansheng remembered helping the White Emperor train his imperial aura, then blurted out that the historical figures who raised their blades against celestials had been beaten to death.

Xu Zhi reviewed how the Underworld’s reincarnation system worked and how repeated lives could strengthen the innate traits of its inhabitants. After realizing that the Three Lives Stone’s growing archive was straining the system, he went to buy more storage, leaving customer service wondering if he was opening an Internet Cafe or cloud service.

• Xu Zhi examined Li Sansheng’s trait and reviewed the six hundred thousand souls recorded in the Book of Life and Death.
• Xu Zhi explained that reincarnation let souls retain and strengthen their innate traits across lives, gradually forming the power of the Reincarnation artifact.
• Xu Zhi considered the immense time required for the reincarnating Cthulhu Evil God to cultivate both its original system and faith.
• Xu Zhi explained that the Three Lives Stone stored short clips of each soul’s past lives and needed more capacity as the Underworld’s population grew.
• Xu Zhi went to his computer and ordered storage equipment on Taobao, startling the customer service representative with the size of his purchase.