Chapter Summaries

Liu Di nearly tried to sneak into the Monster Circus but Song Yu invited him inside. The show began with a winged performer, then revealed Liu Yi performing a dangerous steel-bar act.

• Liu Di waited outside the Monster Circus, short of cash and nearly ready to sneak in, until Song Yu found him and offered him a ticket.
• Liu Di accepted Song Yu's invitation and joined the crowded audience inside the tent.
• A masked woman with huge white wings flew above the audience, astonishing the spectators.
• Liu Di recognized Liu Yi as the next performer when he appeared onstage and announced a steel-bar act.
• Liu Yi lay beneath a five-centimeter-thick steel plate as a giant struck it with an axe, leaving Liu Di stunned.

Liu Di watched Witch Ghost’s performance and volunteered to stop her from drugging an audience member, but she rejected him because his mental strength was too weak. A young woman took his place, drank a controlled dose of medicine, and Witch Ghost appeared to pull her soul from her sleeping body.

• Witch Ghost appeared onstage and announced that her performance required an audience member to die for three minutes.
• Liu Di volunteered to participate, but Witch Ghost rejected him, citing his weak mental strength.
• Witch Ghost selected the young woman Liu Di had met at the ticket booth, and she eagerly stepped onto the stage.
• Witch Ghost gave the young woman a measured dose of medicine, and the woman fell into a deep sleep.
• Witch Ghost reached toward the sleeping woman and pulled a human-shaped figure from her body, shocking the audience.

Liu Di recognized the circus’s earlier spectacles as ability-based tricks, then watched ringmaster Ming Wan teach meditation as a method for developing mental power. The chapter ended when Ming Wan predicted a fatal blood clot in a heckler’s brain, and the man collapsed moments later.

• Liu Di and Magic Child concluded that the old woman used carbon particles to create the illusion of separating a woman’s consciousness.
• The young woman woke unharmed, and Song Yu reassured Liu Di that the circus acts were small-scale performances.
• Ringmaster Ming Wan introduced meditation and described its first realm as separating the soul from the body to achieve Inner Vision.
• Liu Di tried to meditate while the audience grew impatient and a wealthy man mocked Ming Wan’s claims.
• Ming Wan said he was in the seventh realm and identified a fatal blood clot forming in the wealthy man’s right brain.
• The wealthy man collapsed in convulsions, and Ming Wan told the audience to call an ambulance.

At Ming Wan’s circus performance, Liu Di witnessed the ringmaster use powerful spiritual abilities to manipulate the audience and conjure stones. As Song Yu hypnotized the spectators to make them forget the show, Liu Di noticed a child had vanished and pursued Ming Wan backstage.

• After Gold Chain was taken away in an ambulance, Ming Wan resumed the meditation demonstration, and a young magician accused him of staging the earlier incident.
• Ming Wan exposed the magician’s wife’s hidden gemstone necklace and made it float, prompting the couple to argue and leave the tent.
• Ming Wan gave the audience an experience of inner vision and made a stone appear in each spectator’s palm, while Liu Di realized the stone would disappear rather than merge into their bodies.
• Liu Di noticed the boy who had lit the crystal ball was missing, while the boy’s mother remained unaware of his absence.
• Song Yu hypnotized the audience and told them to forget the performance as Ming Wan slipped backstage, and Liu Di chased after him to find the child.

Liu Di followed the strange sounds to the Monster Circus’s RVs and mistook a tuition meeting for an attack, damaging Ming Wan’s vehicle as he rushed to intervene. He learned that the boy was merely asleep during a test of his mental talent and realized how lucrative Ming Wan’s teaching business was.

• Liu Di slipped behind the tent and cautiously searched the eerie RV camp, where he sensed powerful figures and heard a woman crying.
• Liu Di saw Ming Wan reaching toward the wealthy young wife and her unconscious son, mistook the scene for an attack, and charged through the RV.
• Liu Di discovered that Ming Wan had been reaching for a bank card while the young wife thanked him for accepting her son as a disciple.
• The young wife explained that Ming Wan had put the boy to sleep to test his mental power, then offered ten million as the first month’s tuition.
• Liu Di watched Ming Wan accept the payment and recognized the teaching arrangement as a lucrative business.

Liu Di tried to buy his way into Ming Wan’s meditation training, but Ming Wan refused because he judged Liu Di’s mental-power potential to be poor. Liu Di offered two billion for a chance to touch the Crystal Ball, and the chapter ended as he prepared to test himself.

• Liu Di realized Ming Wan’s circus used cheap tickets, hypnosis, and a screening process to recruit wealthy disciples and profit from tuition fees.
• Liu Di asked Ming Wan to accept him as a disciple and offered increasing sums, but Ming Wan refused, calling him rotten wood and saying he was too old to develop his mental power.
• Ming Wan showed Liu Di the Crystal Ball and explained that it could test mental-power potential, revealing that the child Xiao Bao had passed the test before entering.
• Liu Di offered two billion for the chance to touch the Crystal Ball, and Ming Wan agreed to let him try.
• Liu Di approached the Crystal Ball, determined to prove that he had mental-power talent.

Liu Di failed to awaken psychic power when Ming Wan tested him, leaving him convinced he could not access the Consciousness Particles or find Liu Zhengqing and Xiao Jie. After Ming Wan drove him away, Liu Di discussed determination with Magic Child and resolved to keep searching for another way.

• Liu Di grabbed Ming Wan's crystal ball, but it remained unchanged; Ming Wan then used a Windmill Pendant to hypnotize Xiao Bao, whose psychic power lifted objects around the RV.
• Xiao Bao woke and the objects fell, while Liu Di struggled with his failure and nearly lost control before backing down from Volcano.
• Liu Di paid Ming Wan three million and asked whether another possibility existed, but Ming Wan called him rotten wood and ordered him to leave.
• On a transmission tower outside Kyoto, Liu Di told Magic Child he could not understand psychic power, and Magic Child asked him to explain determination.
• Liu Di defined determination as continuing through every difficulty, then spotted Ming Wan's RV on the mountain road and told Magic Child they were going.

Ming Wan climbed to his master Whitebrow’s mountain temple and offered him three million from a failed disciple’s attempt to touch a Crystal Ball. Whitebrow took the money and showed off a golden radio gifted by the Grandmaster, leaving Ming Wan eager to see the legendary elder and handle the treasure.

• Ming Wan left Volcano at the mountain’s foot and climbed the sheer slope to the temple.
• Four bald monks attacked Ming Wan when he entered the courtyard, but stopped after he asked them to spare him.
• Ming Wan greeted Whitebrow and his four senior brothers, then paid Whitebrow a thousand for help and offered him a bank card containing three million.
• Whitebrow scolded Ming Wan for charging too little, then took the card and praised him for the windfall.
• Whitebrow revealed that the golden radio had been given to him by the Grandmaster, while Ming Wan asked to touch it again.

Liu Di returned to Reincarnation Temple to seek guidance and discovered that Whitebrow knew him as the Grandmaster whose teachings had shaped Whitebrow and Ming Wan. Whitebrow hid Liu Di’s future identity while forcing Ming Wan to return the three million, leaving Liu Di puzzled by the monks’ sudden deference.

• Liu Di arrived at Reincarnation Temple, where a sweeping monk panicked and fled at the sight of him.
• Ming Wan rebuked Liu Di and said he would throw him out, but Liu Di greeted Whitebrow as a senior.
• Whitebrow kicked Ming Wan into a flowerpot after learning that Ming Wan had rejected Liu Di and taken three million from him.
• The four monks of Harmony Brings Wealth greeted Liu Di as Senior Brother, while Whitebrow privately worried about revealing Liu Di’s identity.
• Whitebrow claimed he had known Liu Di for years and ordered Ming Wan to return the money, then kicked him toward the fallen bank card.
• Ming Wan picked up the bank card and handed it back to Liu Di, confused by Whitebrow’s behavior.

Liu Di persuaded Whitebrow to make Ming Wan teach him meditation, then began training on a mountain summit. After Ming Wan explained the levels of meditation, Liu Di asked what level a world of dazzling colors represented.

• Liu Di refused to return the money and used Whitebrow’s fear of his lifelong regret to secure meditation lessons from Ming Wan.
• Whitebrow agreed to the lessons, ordered the monks to prepare Liu Di’s favorite food, and threatened Ming Wan into teaching him properly.
• Liu Di asked to meditate on a mountain summit, and Whitebrow overruled Ming Wan’s objections and led the group there.
• Ming Wan explained that meditation trained spiritual power and described black, white, blue, and red meditation worlds as increasing levels of ability.
• Liu Di asked Ming Wan what level a world of dazzling colors belonged to.

Liu Di described seeing a multicolored mental space and sensing a controllable world inside a transparent cube, leaving Ming Wan to explain the impossible claims under Whitebrow’s threat. Ming Wan cited the Tao Te Ching, and Liu Di seemed to gain insight from his explanation.

• Liu Di described a vivid multicolored world and vast colored waves within his consciousness.
• Liu Di said he sensed a transparent cubic space containing a world he could see and control, like a five-dimensional being observing three dimensions.
• Whitebrow threatened Ming Wan into encouraging Liu Di, despite Ming Wan believing Liu Di’s claims sounded like insanity.
• Ming Wan told Liu Di that multidimensional spacetime was real and quoted the Tao Te Ching about the usefulness of emptiness.
• Liu Di solemnly accepted Ming Wan’s explanation and said he had gained insight.

Liu Di interpreted Ming Wan’s improvised lesson on space as a theory of parallel material and consciousness universes, then used Magic Child’s scan to create a detailed mental model of the mountaintop. He briefly believed he had trapped Ming Wan and Whitebrow with mental power, but saw through their act and concluded he had accomplished nothing himself.

• Ming Wan claimed Liu Di’s supposed spatial ability could be understood through the Tao Te Ching’s description of the usefulness of emptiness.
• Liu Di developed a theory that the universe contained material and consciousness layers, and suggested mental power could have thirty realms.
• Ming Wan told Liu Di to imagine and control the space around them, while Whitebrow worried that Ming Wan was making things up.
• Magic Child built a precise, one-to-one mental model of the mountaintop for Liu Di, including Ming Wan, Whitebrow, and Volcano.
• Liu Di imagined a transparent cage over the mountaintop and claimed he had restrained Ming Wan and Whitebrow, who pretended to struggle before Liu Di realized they were acting.

Liu Di left the mountain believing he still needed to find another path to gain spiritual power, unaware that his immense power had caused Volcano’s breakthrough and trapped Whitebrow and Ming Wan in a spiritual barrier. Whitebrow recognized Liu Di as the Thunder God whose attacks miss their targets, but the two were left imprisoned as Liu Di walked away.

• Volcano’s spiritual power suddenly surged from Level 2 to Level 6 after Liu Di’s imagined wave struck him, astonishing Volcano and Ming Wan.
• Liu Di asked whether Liu Zhengqing was stronger than him, then resolved to pursue spiritual power through technology and modification before leaving the mountain.
• Whitebrow told Ming Wan that Liu Di’s vast spiritual power had accidentally struck Volcano because Liu Di’s aim was poor.
• Ming Wan and Whitebrow discovered that Liu Di’s area-wide spiritual barrier kept returning them to the mountaintop whenever they tried to leave.
• Whitebrow called after Liu Di to release them, but Liu Di did not hear and disappeared down the mountain.

Mo Yu visited the Mohist School’s secret base beneath Weishan Lake and inspected his hundreds of cloned bodies and the living brain that preserved his consciousness. Mo Jiuli revealed that Liu Di had once threatened to blow him up 235 times, leaving Mo Yu afraid Liu Di knew his secret and could destroy every spare body.

• Mo Yu arrived at the hidden base beneath Weishan Lake and asked Mo Jiuli to count his remaining bodies.
• Mo Yu learned that one of his identical bodies had been irreparably damaged and found the living brain of the Ninth Generation Giant, Mo Yu, preserved in a computing chamber.
• Mo Jiuli reported that 235 cloned bodies remained, including Mo Yu.
• Mo Jiuli reminded Mo Yu that Liu Di had mentioned his shirt cost 235 yuan and had threatened to blow him up 235 times if he discovered Mo Yu had deceived him.
• Mo Yu feared Liu Di had uncovered his secret and could destroy all his spare bodies, while Mo Jiuli suggested the number might be a coincidence.

Mo Yu discovered that Steel Di Qi had infiltrated the Mohist Weishan Lake Base and was summoned to Liu Di’s Experimental Graveyard. Liu Di studied his own brain and searched for a scientific explanation of mental power, but found no breakthrough.

• Mo Yu spotted Steel Di Qi among the Modification Pods and tried to deny his identity when the robot aimed its energy cannon at him.
• Steel Di Qi ordered Mo Yu to meet at the Experimental Graveyard, disabled the base’s control panel, and flew out through the lake’s surface valve.
• Mo Jiuli warned Mo Yu that his trip would be perilous, and Mo Yu asked for a bulletproof vest before vowing to resist Liu Di.
• Liu Di studied his brain data while Magic Child searched for information about mental power, but neither found a useful explanation.

Song Yu told Liu Di that Ming Wan and Volcano had vanished, and Liu Di flew to Xiuxiang Mountain to find them. He rescued Ming Wan, Whitebrow, and Volcano after they had been trapped and starving for three days, then returned with them to Reincarnation Temple.

• Song Yu asked Liu Di for help finding the missing Ming Wan and Volcano.
• Liu Di realized Ming Wan might have spiritual abilities he could study, then flew toward Xiuxiang Mountain.
• Whitebrow and Ming Wan despaired on a nearby mountain, where they had been trapped without food for three days and wrote wills.
• Liu Di arrived and broke the spiritual barrier, freeing Whitebrow, Ming Wan, and Volcano.
• Liu Di escorted the three men back to Reincarnation Temple, where the cook brought a basin of stew and set it before Liu Di.

Liu Di collected blood from Ming Wan and Whitebrow, then returned to remind Ming Wan to contact his circus troupe. Ming Wan noticed something extraordinary about Liu Di and revealed that mental power cultivators ultimately pursue life and death.

• Liu Di asked Ming Wan for blood, and Whitebrow pressured Ming Wan to cooperate.
• Liu Di used his black katana to draw two drops of Ming Wan's blood, then took two drops from Whitebrow as well.
• Whitebrow and Ming Wan recovered from the frightening blood draws while Volcano called Liu Di steady and measured.
• Liu Di returned and urged Ming Wan to contact the worried circus troupe.
• Ming Wan examined Liu Di and asked about the ultimate pursuit of mental power cultivators, then answered that they pursued life and death.

Ming Wan warned Liu Di that he seemed connected to the City of Judgment and might be near death, but admitted his claims came from a book he had written. Returning to the Experimental Graveyard, Liu Di found Mo Yu apparently stabbed to death, recognized the scene as a staged fake, and left Mo Yu lying in the rain.

• Ming Wan told Liu Di that his soul seemed connected to the City of Judgment, which he described as hell and a sign of impending death.
• Ming Wan revealed that his warnings came from his own book, and Whitebrow struck him for making up the claims.
• Ming Wan explained that he had seen black smoke above Liu Di, but suspected that entering hell might not be bad for someone as powerful as him.
• Liu Di returned to the Experimental Graveyard and found Mo Yu lying in the rain with a dagger in his chest.
• Liu Di noticed the honey in the fake blood and realized Mo Yu had staged his death, then went inside and left him outside.

Liu Di brought the terrified Song Yu into the Experimental Graveyard after she mistook him for a murderer disposing of Mo Yu’s body. When Mo Yu unexpectedly stood up alive, Liu Di demanded that he explain what had happened.

• Song Yu saw Liu Di tasting Mo Yu’s blood beside a gas can and feared he had killed Mo Yu.
• Liu Di ushered Song Yu into the Experimental Graveyard and revealed he was analyzing blood samples from Ming Wan and Senior Whitebrow, the previous Savior, He Cang.
• Song Yu spotted Mo Yu standing with a knife in his chest and thought he had returned as a ghost.
• Liu Di ordered Mo Yu to explain his apparent return to life, and Mo Yu said the ground had been too cold.

Liu Di pressured Mo Yu into revealing that the young body before them was a remotely controlled clone linked to Mo Yu’s living brain through a spinal interface. Mo Yu mocked Liu Di for fishing for his secrets, but Liu Di threatened to use Mo Yu’s brain as a snap pop unless he explained more.

• Song Yu mistook Mo Yu’s appearance for a resurrection, and Mo Yu claimed the body was his clone, prompting Liu Di to demand an explanation.
• Mo Yu revealed a Spinal Interface attached to the clone’s neck and explained that it controlled the body’s movements through the spinal nerves.
• Mo Yu said his original body had aged but his brain remained alive, and that he controlled the clone while appearing as his eighteen-year-old self.
• Liu Di compared Mo Yu’s technology with his own Hell’s Little Leather Armor 2.0 and pressed him to explain how he decoded brain commands.
• Mo Yu accused Liu Di of using Song Yu to ask about his core technology, so Liu Di gave him ten seconds to explain or threatened to turn his brain into a snap pop.