Chapter Summaries

The Form Emperor pushed past his limits to shrink the Yun Emperor enough to enter the Emperor Lord’s ear, and the Celestial forces believed they had found a path to victory. Inside the skull they found no brain, however, and as the Time Emperor died, the Emperor Lord awakened and declared that adults had no dreams.

• The Yun Emperor and the Heavenly Emperors attacked the frozen Emperor Lord’s eardrum, while the Yun Emperor ordered the Form Emperor to shrink him enough to enter.
• The Form Emperor remembered how his childhood classmates’ dreams had failed and nearly admitted that their battle was already lost.
• Remembering his wish to return alive and tell his old classmates that he had saved the world, the Form Emperor broke through his limits and shrank the Yun Emperor to soybean size.
• The Yun Emperor entered the Emperor Lord’s ear, and the Form Emperor encouraged the Heavenly Emperors as they celebrated their apparent chance of victory.
• The Yun Emperor found a liquid-filled space instead of a brain, and the exhausted Time Emperor died as the Emperor Lord’s will awakened.
• The Emperor Lord looked at the Yun Emperor and said that there were no dreams in the adult world.

Yun Emperor led the Heavenly Emperors in a desperate assault on Xu Zhi’s mind, sacrificing their lives and talents to reach and shatter his demonic core. Xu Zhi revealed that they had been trapped in a dream inside his brain, then prepared to return to the underworld and end it by closing his eyes.

• Yun Emperor identified Xu Zhi’s demonic core and attacked it from within his brain, believing Xu Zhi could not bring his full body to bear there.
• Xu Zhi summoned a Dao technique golden body that overwhelmed Yun Emperor, but Yun Emperor rallied the surviving Heavenly Emperors to unleash their strongest attacks.
• Yun Emperor used a sacrificial link to damage both himself and Xu Zhi’s spiritual body, then struck Xu Zhi with Dimensional Paper-Cutting.
• Yun Emperor broke through Xu Zhi’s defenses and shattered the demonic core, prompting the remaining Heavenly Emperors to celebrate their apparent victory.
• Xu Zhi revealed that the battle had been a dream inside his brain and that the Heavenly Emperors’ souls were trapped there.
• Xu Zhi decided to return to the underworld and close his eyes, which would destroy the dream and cast their souls out.

In Xu Yingluo’s vision, Yun Emperor and his allies appeared to defeat the Reincarnation Governor, but the real-world battle ended with Emperor Lord crushing them and leaving Yun Emperor’s faction apparently annihilated. The Epoch Bodhi Tree treated the devastation of the Celestial Path as a victory, while the chapter closed with a record proclaiming Emperor Lord the greatest person of all time.

• In the dream, Yun Emperor, Cloud Sovereign, and Form Emperor celebrated their victory, mourned the fallen, and faced the short lifespans left by the battle.
• Cloud Sovereign found the reincarnation of the woman who had once called him a hero, confessed his feelings, and found happiness with her.
• Form Emperor reunited with his old classmates, while Yun Emperor spent his remaining days governing and arranging the succession.
• At Zhang Xiao’s grave, Yun Emperor wondered whether their victory was only an Illusory Bubble before a pair of eyes appeared in the sky and honored the heroes.
• Xu Yingluo awoke and cried that Yun Emperor had lost after Emperor Lord had beaten the Ultimate Lifeform and apparently annihilated Yun Emperor and the others.
• The Epoch Bodhi Tree considered the Celestial Path’s ruin a victory, and a record dated Celestial Human Year 548, June 7, declared Emperor Lord the greatest person of all time.

After the Underworld’s existence was exposed, Shangguan Man died and returned to her role as Meng Po, while the defeated Heavenly Emperors arrived to face judgment. Xu Zhi ordered punishments for the rebels and their allies, leaving the Animal Path poised for major changes.

• The Underworld and the Reincarnation Governor’s identity became known across the Six Paths, and Shangguan Man killed herself to return to the Underworld.
• On the Road to the Underworld, Shangguan Man reunited with Yun Emperor and Cloud Sovereign, and the dead Heavenly Emperors realized they had been outmaneuvered.
• Yun Emperor admitted his crimes before the Judge and accepted that he should be sent to Avici Blazing Hot Hell.
• Xu Zhi reassured Shangguan Man, then ordered Yun Emperor and Cloud Sovereign sent to Avici Hell and the other participating Heavenly Emperors reincarnated into the Animal Path.
• Shangguan Man left to carry out Xu Zhi’s orders, and Xu Zhi went to check the internet.

The Online Forum erupted as screenshots showed You Mountain Governor exposing the Reincarnation Governor’s identity and declaring that he would kill him. You Mountain Governor’s hidden plan drew the Heavenly Emperors into an attack, but the Reincarnation Governor remained calm as the battle began.

• Netizens studied screenshots of You Mountain Governor identifying the Reincarnation Governor and manipulating the teahouse’s Heavenly Emperors into doubting their enemy.
• Forum users praised You Mountain Governor’s boldness when he declared that he would kill the Reincarnation Governor and create a miracle.
• You Mountain Governor revealed Zhang Taiyuan as another trump card while someone outside the teahouse announced that the divine source sealing two Celestials had been sabotaged.
• The Heavenly Emperors surrounded the Reincarnation Governor, who stood up calmly and said he no longer knew how strong he was.
• Netizens argued over whether You Mountain Governor or the Reincarnation Governor was the greater threat as the battle began.

Netizens watched Yun Emperor and the other Heavenly Emperors combine their talents and battle Emperor Lord, briefly believing they had achieved a miracle before Emperor Lord effortlessly crushed them. Mount Akina Speed named him the Miracle Crusher, and the story left the viewers stunned by the end of their hopes.

• Reincarnation Governor reflected Yun Emperor and the others’ attacks, but Yun Emperor and his allies faked their deaths and escaped.
• Yun Emperor fused over sixty Heavenly Emperors into a nearly indestructible super-being, yet their battle with Reincarnation Governor continued.
• Yun Emperor and Form Emperor pushed through their limits and shrank enough to enter Emperor Lord’s brain, inspiring netizens to believe in miracles.
• Emperor Lord casually dug the soybean-sized attackers out of his ear and left, declaring that adults had no dreams.
• Mount Akina Speed called Emperor Lord the Miracle Crusher.

The forum celebrated the fall of the Celestial Path and the start of a new era, while players speculated about entering the underworld and facing powerful bosses. Xu Zhi checked on the newly formed hells and prepared for Stone Planet’s coming meteor crisis, which was about to become real.

• Mount Akina Speed explained that Miracle Crusher had calmly watched the ancient beings’ efforts before effortlessly killing them, and the forum praised his overwhelming power.
• Players discussed the end of the old era, the rise of the Buddhist and Taoist Golden Age, and the new opportunities awaiting the Animal Path and Asura Path.
• Mao Tiao reported that the dead Great Emperors had crowded the underworld, where Meng Po planned to recruit temporary workers and assign players hidden quests.
• Xu Zhi observed Yun Emperor, Cloud Sovereign, and other souls in Arcade Avici Blazing Hot Hell, where the dead were beginning to form a new society.
• Xu Zhi calculated that Stone Planet would soon reach the simulated meteor crisis, with Zack expected to defeat future Cell and destroy the meteor.
• Xu Zhi considered bringing players to visit Caroline’s world but decided to wait until its light-source radiation and Innate Qi systems had fully developed.

Xu Zhi reviewed his immense combat strength and energy bottleneck before answering Caroline’s summons to the Small Universe World. There, Caroline showed him its developing civilizations and revealed an unusual naturally evolved planet inhabited by bodiless, radiation-based lifeforms.

• Xu Zhi reflected that his combat abilities were nearly unmatched in the Heavenly Emperor Realm, but his lack of energy prevented him from cultivating martial arts in his main body.
• Xu Zhi entered the Small Universe World after sensing that Caroline had summoned him.
• Caroline showed Xu Zhi the seventeen planets and described the flourishing civilizations on Zack’s world and Cybertron Planet.
• Xu Zhi and Caroline compared the Small Universe World’s separate planets to the distinct domains of the Ancient Lava Great Domain.
• Caroline proposed an exchange with the Six Paths of Reincarnation World and told Xu Zhi that a strange planet had appeared.
• Caroline showed Xu Zhi a crimson iron planet whose lifeforms had no physical bodies and formed from special radiation light frequencies.

Caroline showed Xu Zhi the history of a planet where a rare hybrid between a Paramecium and Whole Clan Cells gave rise to a new species. The descendants lost their fixed genetic forms and became pixel-like organisms, which were now evolving into block-shaped creatures and fighting across the planet.

• Caroline explained how Whole Clan Cells lacked a genetic bank and showed Xu Zhi the planet's two-hundred-year history.
• A Paramecium mated with the planet's Whole Clan Cells, and the planet gave birth to a ceramic Paramecium.
• The ceramic descendants reproduced with the planet, grew stronger, and lost their original bodies and genetic structures.
• The species devolved into organisms made of roughly a hundred thousand large cells, appearing like pixel creatures.
• The pixel organisms abandoned spherical cells for interlocking squares and octagons, then began waging wars across their block-shaped world.

Xu Zhi and Caroline watched the Pixel Tribes evolve through wars, crossbreeding, and assimilation until nearly all life on the planet became pixel creatures. Seeing the tribes grow powerful but remain savage, Xu Zhi proposed bringing the Asura Path to the planet to provoke conflict and force the Pixel civilization to develop.

• The defeated Cube Tribe produced offspring with a vacuum plant, creating Pixel Seeds and eventually square Pixel Trees, while Caroline explained that the tribes lacked genetic isolation and could combine with other lifeforms.
• The Cube Tribe spread by combining with animals and plants, while the Octahedron Tribe assimilated ores and crystals; their rivalry escalated into a long war that transformed nearly all living creatures into pixel structures.
• The Pixel Tribes developed upright-walking people and rapidly growing intelligence, but the Cube Tribe remained eager to capture unfamiliar creatures and turn them into pixels.
• Xu Zhi and Caroline descended to the planet and decided the tribes needed disasters to spur civilization, since their conflict was nearing a standstill.
• Xu Zhi proposed bringing the Asura Path to the planet so war would erupt between them and the Pixel Tribes, and Caroline warned that the tribes might try to reproduce with their guests.

Xu Zhi and Caroline observed the primitive civilizations of Digital Pixel Planet and decided to send Asura Path Warriors there for an exchange. The selected players arrived in the other world, where the First Priest under the All God welcomed them.

• Xu Zhi persuaded Caroline that Asura Path Warriors would eagerly help develop Digital Pixel Planet, and they explored its peaceful Cube Tribe and Octahedron Tribe civilizations.
• Ten thousand Newbie Players entered the Animal Path as a new open beta began, and a recording feature was added to the forum.
• Bai Xiaojun escaped to the Animal Path, where a messenger recruited him for Reincarnation Governor’s new stage.
• Mao Tiao announced that Reincarnation Governor would select three hundred players who reached Third-Order cultivation and studied both Buddhism and Taoism.
• Meng Po revealed that the selected players would visit another world as an exchange delegation, then led them to a vast planetary universe.
• The First Priest under the All God welcomed the players to the new world.

Meng Po and the players toured the First Priest’s vast planetary universe before he left them on a blocky planet as their trial. The players struggled under its intense gravity, while researchers on Earth began investigating the game company and its possible connection to the real world.

• The First Priest showed Meng Po and the players the immense universe, explaining that the All-God had created every planet and that high priests repaired them.
• The players recorded the planets they passed and celebrated their encounter, while researchers analyzed the footage and speculated about links to Earth’s ancient world.
• The First Priest brought the group to a pixelated planet and left with Meng Po, naming it their trial.
• The players discovered that the planet’s heavy gravity and block-like creatures made survival difficult, and Bai Xiaojun warned that even powerful wild beasts could threaten him.
• Researchers ordered an investigation into the game company, suspecting it might be run by aliens, and asked about its future updates.

Bai Xiaojun urged the players on the Digital Planet to treat its pixel-block world as a path to mastering decomposition and synthesis, eventually reaching the Ninth-Order Road. His theory spread beyond the planet, where researchers confronted the game developers to ask how they had made the workbench.

• Bai Xiaojun assessed the planet’s dangerous native life and led the players to chop down trees and build a wooden shelter.
• He argued that the players’ next task was to create a workbench by studying the block-like particles that made up the planet’s trees.
• Bai Xiaojun claimed that mastering the workbench’s decomposition and synthesis could lead the Farming Stream players toward Ninth-Order power.
• Footage of Bai Xiaojun’s explanation spread online and alarmed major research institutes.
• A white-haired scientist questioned the game developers about how they made the workbench.

Bai Xiaojun’s players interpreted the workbench and furnace as principles of particle creation and transformation, gaining the tribe’s trust and developing basic tools. Their peaceful progress ended when they encountered another Cube Tribe, beginning a planetary war.

• The research institute launched the Workbench Plan after concluding that pixel life might be decomposed and synthesized into tools.
• Bai Xiaojun described the workbench as the Physics Buddha and the furnace as the Chemistry Dao, convincing the players that their game reflected ancient Huaxia cultivation paths.
• The players accepted Bai Xiaojun as their tribal leader and made tough wooden swords, crude grills, and expanding wooden fortifications.
• Xu Zhi watched the players develop their new system and fortress while remaining apart from other Cube Tribes across the vast planet.
• A pixelated block person entered the players’ forest territory, and the Cube Tribe sounded the horn of war.

Bai Xiaojun and the players repelled successive Pixel Tribe attacks with traps, crossbows, and a collapsing wall, but the tribes adapted quickly and exploited the wall’s opening. The chapter ended as a hidden squad of Pixel People stormed into the bunker, leaving the players facing imminent capture.

• Bai Xiaojun led the players in pretending to charge, then let the Pixel Tribe cavalry plunge into a concealed spike trap.
• Bai Xiaojun questioned the captured leader, who warned that seven stronger tribes lived nearby.
• The Pixel Tribe returned with logs to probe and bridge the traps, but Bai Xiaojun’s crossbows cut down the attackers.
• The next assaulting force used huge shields, so Bai Xiaojun dropped a section of the wooden wall and crushed them.
• As the wall was raised, a hidden squad rushed through the opening with Stone Knives, catching the players off guard.

The Pixel Tribe People defeated the players in the Fourth Pixel War, capturing most of them and leaving Bai Xiaojun in the hands of the tribes. After enduring a strange fusion and hearing from Yuan Qinghua and his girlfriend, Bai Xiaojun accepted his new situation and stepped outside as the chief's bandit chief's wife.

• The allied Cube Tribe chiefs attacked the players, and the players fled by hydrogen-powered flight, but Stone Knives brought most of them down.
• The Pixel Tribe People captured most of the players, including Bai Xiaojun, and later generations remembered the battle as a mythic war against mysterious aliens.
• Players mocked Bai Xiaojun online after learning he had been captured and made to undergo a strange fusion.
• Bai Xiaojun received encouraging messages from Yuan Qinghua and Study Medicine Little Sweetie, who accepted the prospect of more children.
• Bai Xiaojun left the wooden house and saw the tribes treating him peacefully as the chief's bandit chief's wife.

After the Fourth Pixel War, captured players discussed life among the tribes and described their intimate relationships with Pixel People as a novel form of love and reproduction. Their idea of “Mosaic-style Love” spread across the internet and became a trending topic.

• More than forty players died, over 220 were injured and captured by different tribes, and the survivors exchanged news about their situations.
• Captured players said they were being treated well and described their relationships with Pixel People in unexpectedly positive terms.
• The players speculated that Pixel People reproduced by exchanging fundamental structural blocks rather than using human methods.
• Netizens, scientists, celebrities, and bloggers joined the discussion as “Mosaic-style Love” rose to the top of trending searches.

The players accepted their new lives among the Cube Tribe, where Bai Xiaojun planned to rule through influence and the next generation. He advised the escaped players to seek out the underground Octahedron Tribe, while Xu Zhi prepared to visit a neighboring planet and observe another possible species fusion.

• The players watched a Pixel Creature offspring appear after Pixel Fusion and began raising the babies while returning to their work among the tribes.
• Bai Xiaojun outlined a plan to gain power through their children and ultimately control the Cube Tribe.
• The escaped players debated whether to keep wandering or surrender, and Bai Xiaojun presented the Cube Tribe and the Octahedron Tribe as their options.
• Bai Xiaojun explained that the Octahedron Tribe lived underground, worshiped the earth, and was known to the Cube Tribe as the Land of Gems.
• Xu Zhi anticipated that a new species would emerge through environmental adaptation and decided to visit a neighboring planet.

Xu Zhi and Caroline completed the simulated history of Stone Planet, while Shangguan Man witnessed their arrival and learned how vast the universe’s civilizations were. Xu Zhi then visited a primitive planet where the Lam people worshipped the fallen Cell, who spoke to him from a stone statue.

• Xu Zhi reflected that Pixel Planet would eventually face conflict with more advanced civilizations, while native life forms remained central to the universe’s development.
• Xu Zhi and Caroline appeared on Stone Planet as history had foretold and spoke with Zack, Android 18, and the Great Elder about preparing for future crises.
• Shangguan Man and the First Priest watched the gods’ arrival, and Shangguan Man was shaken by the revelation of their power and the many failed parallel histories.
• Xu Zhi and Caroline left Stone Planet, and Caroline set off for Cybertron Planet to complete the closing of its simulated era.
• Xu Zhi arrived on a primitive ice planet where the Lam people worshipped Cell, who had fallen there after drifting through space, and Cell addressed Xu Zhi from his stone statue.

Cell confronted Xu Zhi over his defeat and learned that Xu Zhi’s intervention had helped him become a complete lifeform, though Cell still vowed to surpass him. As the four planets began developing rapidly, Xu Zhi considered how to connect the mature sandbox worlds and turned to exploring Rank Nine, only to find Caroline questioning whether the Asura Path Warriors were players.

• Cell asked Xu Zhi why he had interfered in his war, and Xu Zhi explained that Cell’s instinct for slaughter had changed as he developed a fuller personality.
• Cell declared that he wanted to become as powerful as Xu Zhi, then erupted in anger when Xu Zhi left and fell unconscious after exhausting himself.
• Cell relived his past attack on a family and renewed his vow to defeat Zack and Xu Zhi.
• Xu Zhi reviewed the rapid growth of the four planets and the mature divine civilizations, then considered how to connect the worlds and advance toward Rank Nine.
• Xu Zhi visited Cybertron Planet and found Caroline showing him its technology; she asked whether the Asura Path Warriors were players from a game.