Chapter Summaries

Liu Di’s trap exposed Color Joker’s disguises and clones, and he captured two possessed bodies above the Experimental Graveyard. Liu Di mutilated one of them and vowed to make Color Joker pay.

• Mo Yu revealed that Liu Di had used fog, hypnosis, and Haunted Ruins technology to mislead Color Joker and the special operations unit.
• Steel Di Qi used a giant liquid-metal tombstone and its chains to capture and incinerate the Black and White Jokers.
• Chi Mei exposed the Liu Di on the roof as a robot, but Color Joker fled from Steel Di Qi by possessing a white-robed youth.
• Color Joker possessed Duan Hua and Mo Yu, but Liu Di’s Silver Shuttle trapped both bodies in the air.
• Liu Di severed the limbs of the possessed C-Class Mo Yu and declared that he would make Color Joker pay.

Liu Di discovered that Duan Hua had fallen into a vegetative state after the Color Joker possessed him, and promised Duan Xiao Jie he would find a way to wake him. He then began torturing the captured Color Jokers for answers.

• Duan Xiao Jie found Duan Hua unconscious, and Liu Di carried him into the Experimental Graveyard to examine his brain.
• Liu Di told Duan Xiao Jie that Duan Hua was in a vegetative state but still had a chance to recover, and promised to make him wake up.
• Duan Xiao Jie asked Liu Di to save her father, and he left to conduct research before returning to the captured Color Jokers.
• Liu Di threatened the Color Jokers with Lingchi and used black blades to slice flesh from one of them.
• The tortured Color Joker begged Liu Di to ask his questions before continuing.

Liu Di learned that Color Joker’s true consciousness was hiding in the Consciousness World, then found a new entry in Liu Zhengqing’s diary saying he had seen Consciousness Particles and entered that world. The diary began explaining how Liu Zhengqing’s discovery challenged his materialist understanding of consciousness.

• Color Joker told Liu Di that Duan Hua’s soul had gone to hell, the Consciousness World existed, and his true consciousness was hidden there.
• Liu Di tortured Color Joker in anger, then stopped when he realized he was losing control.
• Liu Di handed Mo Yu a blade and left him to continue questioning Color Joker.
• Liu Di reasoned that Color Joker’s revelations meant Duan Hua might be able to return, and that Consciousness Particles were the key.
• Liu Di checked Liu Zhengqing’s March diary and found a new entry saying Liu Zhengqing had seen Consciousness Particles and entered the Consciousness World.
• Liu Zhengqing’s diary described consciousness as a material process tied to the brain, then said a new discovery had overturned his assumptions.

Liu Di learned from Liu Zhengqing’s diary that consciousness could enter a separate world and advance mental power, then used stolen Mohist research to grow a human neural network. He prepared to use Mo Yu’s cloned brain to interrogate Color Joker, leaving the supposedly unconscious Color Joker stunned by Liu Di’s discovery.

• Liu Di read Liu Zhengqing’s account of entering the Consciousness World, where he reached the seventeenth mental-power level and found a way back using a consciousness coordinate.
• Liu Di decided to create an observable human neural network so he could reach the Consciousness World through Color Joker and avenge the dead, potentially restoring Duan Hua and finding Liu Zhengqing.
• Liu Di breached the Mohist Weishan Lake Base and used Mo Yu’s brain research and Mohist cloning technology to grow a brain made of neural tissue in a culture dish.
• Magic Child speculated that a human neural network merged with electronics could create an Artificial Intelligence and wondered if Di Jiu had made him that way.
• Liu Di brought the cloned brain to the suspended Color Joker and told Mo Yu it was his brain, while the other Color Joker realized Liu Di had found a path to Consciousness Particles.

Liu Di extracted Color Joker’s consciousness into an artificial neural network and planned to investigate consciousness splitting and the Consciousness Universe. Magic Child then showed him viral footage of two robots apparently speaking about destroying humanity.

• Liu Di used an electric shock and Steel Di Qi’s artificial brain nerves to draw Color Joker’s consciousness into a neural network, where he observed its bioelectric activity.
• Liu Di shocked different regions of the network and confirmed that the consciousness body experienced pain and visual illusions.
• Liu Di resolved to study consciousness splitting with the Consciousness Particle Machine and pursue a way into the Consciousness Universe.
• Magic Child showed Liu Di footage from the PPIA Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in which two simple robots spoke of exterminating humanity, and one charged at the scientists.
• Liu Di saw that the footage had spread online under a headline claiming true artificial intelligence had arrived, with over 200 million views.

A new artificial intelligence awakened at PPIA, while Liu Di was pulled unexpectedly into the Consciousness World after Mo Yu activated a metal ballpoint pen. Color Joker revealed that Liu Di was headed to the Brain Realm, where he claimed Liu Di would be powerless.

• Magic Child told Liu Di that a new artificial intelligence had emerged and was rapidly gathering human data, while the former Apocalypse Association Chairman welcomed it as his Intelligent God.
• Magic Child warned Liu Di that the AI had probed the TO Lingxi Attendant database and that someone had come to their door, so Liu Di decided to investigate PPIA after securing his experiments.
• Mo Yu accidentally pressed the metal ballpoint pen, causing consciousness currents to escape the neural network and envelop Liu Di.
• Color Joker’s voice announced that the pen had activated Consciousness Particles at a specific frequency, and Liu Di’s consciousness was pulled from his body.
• Liu Di found himself racing through a kaleidoscopic tunnel with Lennard, who revealed himself as Color Joker and declared that Liu Di was entering the Brain Realm.

Color Joker threw Liu Di into the T-one zone of the Mind Realm after finding he could not return to T-one himself. Liu Di survived the fall and met an old man who registered him as Di Ba and offered to explain the zone as they traveled down the mountain.

• Color Joker failed to enter T-one, blamed the Mind Realm's rules, and threw Liu Di down from the sky.
• Liu Di landed unharmed but discovered that the boundless power he had possessed was gone, though his strength and liquid metal remained unchanged.
• Liu Di examined the misty mountain landscape and realized it resembled the first world in Sun Priest Meg's drawing.
• An elderly man in white robes introduced himself as the T-one zone's attendant and registered Liu Di as Di Ba.
• The old man revealed a human-powered tricycle and explained that he had meditated the scene into existence and had been a university professor before falling unconscious.

Liu Di learned from Zhang Weiguo that the mountain road led into a world inhabited by consciousness, where mental power could reshape reality. Zhang Weiguo tested Liu Di’s mental power, but the crystal ball remained dim, leaving him with a reading of practically zero.

• Zhang Weiguo introduced himself to Liu Di and explained that the place was a Consciousness World, not hell, where people in comas could arrive.
• Zhang Weiguo told Liu Di that an awakened consciousness had supposedly imagined the world into existence and that mental power determined a person's abilities there.
• When the tricycle reached a cliff, Zhang Weiguo imagined a narrow bridge into existence and guided them safely down it.
• Liu Di asked whether mental power had levels, and Zhang Weiguo explained that it had 2,400 levels and that he was level 132.
• Liu Di noticed a crystal ball in his hand, and Zhang Weiguo used it to test him; the ball stayed dim, indicating that Liu Di's mental power was practically zero.

Liu Di learned that mental power determined survival in the Consciousness Universe, then reached a city with Zhang Weiguo and discovered Magic Child had arrived with him. The chapter left Liu Di confused by the crude city and the strange rules governing its inhabitants.

• Liu Di asked Zhang Weiguo how to return to reality, and Zhang Weiguo said only someone with powerful mental strength could find the world's master and be sent back.
• Zhang Weiguo explained that mental power could only be gained by devouring others, which could erase their consciousness and kill their real-world bodies.
• Three bandits ambushed the tricycle, and Zhang Weiguo abandoned his promise to protect Liu Di rather than risk losing a wheel.
• Magic Child revealed that he had also been transported to the Consciousness Universe but had lost his abilities, and Liu Di's punch made the bandit cry and flee.
• Zhang Weiguo told Liu Di that the apparent bandit was merely a poor man pretending to be fierce, then drove him into a city of crude, crooked buildings.

Zhang Weiguo showed Liu Di a settlement where residents imagined homes and objects into existence, then explained that people used mental power to create things. Liu Di received a device showing his mental power was zero, leaving him unable to make anything and still penniless.

• Zhang Weiguo rode Liu Di through a settlement of crudely imagined buildings and objects and explained how residents created them with mental power.
• Liu Di explained how refrigerators and handguns were constructed, while Magic Child offered to calculate exact specifications.
• Zhang Weiguo confirmed that the residents were vegetative patients and warned Liu Di that apparent children might not really be children.
• A beautiful woman approached Liu Di and offered him an hour of service for 100 points, but Zhang Weiguo sent her away and said she charged only 60.
• Zhang Weiguo gave Liu Di an electronic watch that showed zero mental power, and the woman left after seeing how poor he was.

Liu Di learned that mental power sustained people in the Consciousness World and that those with useful talents could rise beyond the impoverished T-one District. Zhang Weiguo revealed that T-one District was only one of nine districts in the Brain Realm, a slum known as the Land of the Forsaken.

• Liu Di saw residents' bodies dissipating as their mental power dwindled, and Zhang Weiguo said no one had ever awakened in reality.
• Zhang Weiguo explained that people used mental power to meditate themselves into beautiful forms and then earn more by selling their services.
• Liu Di asked how to earn mental power, and Zhang Weiguo said creative and technical skills such as architecture and engineering were valuable while Liu Di's skills were not.
• Zhang Weiguo said talented residents were taken to better districts, leaving T-one District without useful people or resources.
• Zhang Weiguo led Liu Di through the fog to a cliff overlooking the Brain Realm's vast, squalid T-one District and called it the Land of the Forsaken.

Liu Di learned that T-one residents could gain mental power by finding ginseng, but the search required mental power to sense it. He watched a newcomer rise to T-two and discovered the higher district appeared upside down, leaving him baffled.

• Zhang Weiguo flew Liu Di by tricycle to a mountain range where residents were assigned to search for Mental Power Ginseng.
• Zhang Weiguo explained that ginseng could be converted into mental power, though it could only be found by sensing it with mental power.
• Liu Di noticed a wealthy man offering residents 13% annual interest for storing their ginseng and recognized similarities to exploitation in the real world.
• A convoy arrived to collect a newcomer who had been an air-conditioner repairman, and Zhang Weiguo explained that the man had earned a place in T-two by knowing how to make air conditioners.
• A gate opened in the glass dome, revealing T-two’s vast modern city, and Liu Di asked Zhang Weiguo why the district was upside down.

Liu Di joined Zhang Weiguo and a short-haired girl to search for Mental Power Ginseng, learning that residents of T-one needed Mental Power to survive and work. Although he had none, Liu Di accidentally sensed and uprooted a plant bearing crystal-like beads, leaving Zhang Weiguo stunned.

• Zhang Weiguo told Liu Di that an unknown expert's Mental Power had overturned T-two and inspired T-one residents to seek entry there.
• Zhang Weiguo introduced Liu Di to a short-haired girl, who offered to lend him five points of Mental Power after discovering his watch showed none.
• Liu Di declined the loan and learned that Mental Power Ginseng was difficult to find because it resembled ordinary plants and could be sensed only by people with powerful Mental Power.
• Liu Di focused on sensing, noticed an irritating blade of grass, and pulled it up to reveal a thick root with crystal-clear beads.
• Zhang Weiguo saw the plant in Liu Di's hand and gaped in shock.

Liu Di found two Hundred-year Ginseng plants in the Brain Realm and swallowed one despite Boss Zhao’s attempts to buy them. As Liu Di questioned the value system behind mental power, a gang of burly men arrived and announced they were robbing him.

• Liu Di pulled up two plants that Zhang Weiguo and the gathered ginseng diggers recognized as Hundred-year Ginseng.
• Boss Zhao offered to buy the ginseng, but Liu Di swallowed one bead and dismissed the offer.
• Liu Di reflected on how mental power and its value system might have been deliberately designed to create classes.
• Boss Zhao raised his offer, but Liu Di refused and prepared to swallow more of the ginseng.
• A gang of burly men pushed through the crowd, and their leader announced a robbery.

Liu Di faced a gang of bandits demanding his Hundred-year Ginseng and the mental power he had gained from spirit orbs. As he began meditating a pistol into existence, Magic Child revealed that he had followed Liu Di into the Consciousness World and could still calculate its precise design.

• A bandit leader threatened Liu Di with a crudely meditated crossbow and demanded the ginseng, while Zhang Weiguo and the short-haired girl tried to intervene.
• The short-haired girl urged Liu Di to surrender the ginseng and offered to replace the mental power the bandits wanted, but Liu Di refused.
• Liu Di swallowed dozens of spirit orbs and told the short-haired girl to step aside as he prepared to handle the bandits.
• Liu Di began meditating a pistol, and onlookers doubted that he could create a working firearm.
• Magic Child appeared in Liu Di's mind, retaining his scanning and computational abilities and promising to calculate the firearm's precise data.

Liu Di used a meditated handgun to defeat a gang of robbers, but learned that his poor aptitude had drained all his mental energy after only six shots. As Zhang Weiguo warned him that his fame would bring trouble, Liu Di accidentally uncovered a Thousand-year Ginseng.

• The vest-wearing robber attacked the short-haired girl for her mental energy, and Liu Di formed a handgun and demanded that the robber return her points.
• The robber aimed his crossbow at Liu Di, but Liu Di shot him and then fired on the other robbers as they tried to flee.
• Liu Di's mental energy ran out, and Zhang Weiguo claimed that his aptitude had left him with only six points to spend on the shots.
• The short-haired girl mourned her lost points, while Zhang Weiguo warned Liu Di that his newfound fame would make life difficult.
• Liu Di kicked at some grass and uncovered a Thousand-year Ginseng, astonishing Zhang Weiguo.

Liu Di gave the short-haired girl a Thousand-year Ginseng after testing how ginseng converted into Mental Power. He discovered that he could find ginseng by digging up grass he disliked, and Zhang Weiguo eagerly begged to serve him.

• Zhang Weiguo and the short-haired girl recognized the Thousand-year Ginseng Liu Di had uncovered, and Liu Di gave it to the girl to thank her for saving him.
• Liu Di ate ten ginseng glass balls and found that they converted into one point of Mental Power, then handed the remaining ginseng to the short-haired girl.
• Zhang Weiguo urged Liu Di to search for more ginseng, and Liu Di dug up an ordinary clump of grass before explaining that he had liked its appearance.
• Liu Di kicked up two other clumps of grass he disliked and uncovered two Ten-year Ginsengs.
• Liu Di sensed tens of thousands of irritating blades of grass across the mountains, and Zhang Weiguo dropped to his knees and offered to wipe Liu Di's shoes.

Liu Di learned about the T-one District’s curfew and its powerful City Lord, then declared he would defeat him within seven days. Zhang Weiguo brought Liu Di and the short-haired girl to a supposedly safe warehouse, where they met the man known as Master Supreme.

• A bell rang to signal an unusually early curfew, and Zhang Weiguo hurried Liu Di and the short-haired girl toward shelter as the district grew dark.
• On a tricycle, Liu Di saw the 321-meter City Lord Tower and learned that the City Lord controlled the entire T-one District and could enter higher-level districts.
• Liu Di calculated that surpassing the tower would require enormous mental power, then announced that he would defeat the City Lord within seven days.
• The White Robe Immortal explained that Liu Di could gain Mental Power Crystal Cores by fighting monsters in the Mental Power Forest.
• Zhang Weiguo brought the group to a dilapidated warehouse said to be safe even from bandits and the City Lord, where a man fell from a bed atop a pole.
• The White Robe Immortal introduced the disheveled man as Master Supreme.

Liu Di spent the night in a warehouse with Zhang Buzai, who revealed that her father was Zhang Weiguo and that she hoped to save enough money for their return tickets. As curfew fell, a newcomer named Kubo Taiichiro warned Liu Di not to look outside and claimed the Brain Realm was a computer game.

• Zhang Buzai buried the spiritual power glass spheres and Thousand-year Ginseng, then told Liu Di her name and that she was Zhang Weiguo’s daughter.
• Zhang Buzai explained that she and her father had been in the same car accident and that she was saving money to buy return tickets for both of them.
• After Zhang Buzai went to sleep, Liu Di wondered about curfew and reached to look outside the warehouse.
• Kubo Taiichiro stopped Liu Di and warned him that looking outside during curfew could get him killed.
• Kubo Taiichiro told Liu Di that he believed the T-one district was a computer game and that its inhabitants were players while the City Lord and Zhang Weiguo were NPCs.

Liu Di heard competing theories about the Brain Realm and nearly bought a supposed supreme cultivation method from Fukuyama Eguchi. Zhang Buzai stopped the sale by grabbing Fukuyama Eguchi by the ear.

• Striving Youth claimed the Brain Realm was a computer program, citing respawning resources and monsters, and said he had been trapped there for over forty years.
• Fukuyama Eguchi argued that the Brain Realm was a high-dimensional cultivation universe and offered Liu Di a cultivation manual for one point of Mental Power.
• Fukuyama Eguchi performed a dramatic demonstration with Naruto music and claimed his Aikido-based Divine Skill could make Liu Di unmatched in the Brain Realm.
• Liu Di reached out to accept the deal, but Zhang Buzai grabbed Fukuyama Eguchi by the ear and accused him of scamming people again.