Chapter Summaries

After curfew began, Liu Di discovered that eating demonic beast crystal cores increased his mental power and learned that the Brain Realm might help him advance to the fourth stage of the New Human constitution. Suspecting the game system was targeting him, he used the Imaging Cloak to sneak back into the curfew and investigate.

• Cong Liang's squad agreed to guard the crystal cores left on the mountain until morning, while Liu Di and his companions returned to the warehouse for curfew.
• Liu Di ate a demonic beast crystal core and gained 50 mental power, bringing his level to 1 at 18%.
• Magic Child explained that the Brain Realm was connected to the New Human constitution and could help Liu Di reach its fourth stage.
• Striving Youth proposed hunting Beast Mountain's BOSS for its crystal cores, but Liu Di decided to investigate whether the game system was plotting against him first.
• Liu Di put on the Imaging Cloak and slipped out through the warehouse window into the curfew, stunning Zhang Weiguo and the others.

The seven city lords plotted to sabotage Liu Di by erasing the beast crystal cores he had collected and forcing him back to Ginseng Mountain. Liu Di discovered the scheme, confronted the City Lord Tower, and escaped when aircraft converged on him.

• The seven city lords blamed Boss Zhao for failing to track Liu Di and ordered him to steer Liu Di back toward Ginseng Mountain by seizing his loot.
• Liu Di followed the patrol aircraft to Beast Mountain and watched them erase more than half of his scattered beast crystal cores.
• Magic Child warned Liu Di not to charge the aircraft, so Liu Di headed for the City Lord Tower instead.
• Liu Di spotted Boss Zhao's locked bicycle outside the tower and concluded Boss Zhao had been colluding with the city lords.
• Liu Di kicked the tower and demanded his crystal cores back, then cloaked himself and escaped as a floodlight and aircraft targeted him.

Liu Di and Striving Youth headed to Beast Mountain to face the BOSS after the system appeared to reclaim their crystal cores, while the City Lords secretly strengthened the BOSS to eliminate him. At the mountain, Cong Liang revealed that the Spear Squad had gathered nearly ten thousand crystal cores for Liu Di, leaving him surprised and uncertain about what had happened.

• The City Lords panicked when Liu Di appeared at their tower, returned the crystal cores, and ordered Number Five to make the Beast Mountain BOSS brutally strong.
• Liu Di told Striving Youth they would have to fight the BOSS, then spent the night studying Master Supreme's saber manual.
• Liu Di let Zhang Weiguo set out to collect money and went toward Beast Mountain with Striving Youth.
• The Spear Squad blocked the mountain path, but Cong Liang recognized Liu Di and showed him nearly ten thousand crystal cores arranged across the plain.
• Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Buzai celebrated among the crystal cores as Liu Di wondered whether he had misunderstood the system.

Liu Di entered Beast Mountain with Striving Youth to hunt the Sky Tiger, gaining mental power from crystal cores along the way. After rejecting Boss Zhao’s rigged map route, Liu Di led them through territory where the beasts feared him, and Striving Youth discovered that they could be frightened further.

• Liu Di sent Cong Liang to collect crystal cores while he and Striving Youth entered Beast Mountain to find the Sky Tiger.
• Striving Youth explained what he knew about the Sky Tiger and showed Liu Di a map from Boss Zhao, while Liu Di ate crystal cores and raised his mental power to Level 40.
• Boss Zhao reported to the City Lord that Liu Di was heading toward traps on the western route, but Liu Di distrusted Boss Zhao and went east instead.
• Liu Di and Striving Youth entered hyena and wild boar territory, where the beasts hid from Liu Di in fear.
• Striving Youth pretended to shoot at the beasts, startling them into fleeing and laughing that beasts could suffer psychological trauma.

Liu Di and Striving Youth encountered three purple-haired women who mistook Liu Di for a corrupt T-one young master and declared their intention to kill the Boss and seize power. After the women demonstrated their strength and vanished, Liu Di suspected they came from another world, leaving Striving Youth to wonder if they were connected to the eight continents overhead.

• Striving Youth offered Liu Di a beast crystal core, but an arrow shattered it and narrowly missed Liu Di as a purple-haired woman emerged from the forest.
• The purple-haired woman accused Liu Di of enslaving Striving Youth and invited him to join her group, but Striving Youth chose to stay with Liu Di.
• The woman announced that she intended to kill the Boss, take the T-one city lord position, and redistribute Liu Di's property after Striving Youth described Liu Di as wealthy and powerful.
• The wounded wild boar charged the woman, who detonated the arrow embedded in it and blasted it apart with her alloy bow.
• The three women sped into the forest, and Striving Youth told Liu Di the leader had immense mental power; Liu Di said they were probably from another world.

Liu Di and Striving Youth found the mutated Ginseng Mountain BOSS, a gigantic winged tiger that was overwhelming three purple-haired women. After rescuing them from its attacks, Liu Di assessed the beast as far stronger than himself, while Striving Youth urged him to summon Gatling.

• Liu Di and Striving Youth heard the BOSS roar and followed the sound to a huge winged tiger whose attacks sent the surrounding Beasts fleeing.
• The tiger shrugged off bombs and knocked one of the purple-haired women through the air, so Liu Di and Striving Youth rushed to help.
• The women crashed into Liu Di and Striving Youth, who carried them away from the tiger’s next attack and retreated into the bushes.
• The leading purple-haired beauty explained that the tiger had grown tenfold and become violently aggressive, while Liu Di judged it to be X-Class against his own B-Class rank.
• Striving Youth asked Liu Di to summon Gatling and mow down the mutated BOSS.

Liu Di used the Hand of God to replicate the Tiger BOSS and let the two beasts weaken each other, then searched the valley for what the original tiger had been guarding. He opened a hidden stone entrance beneath the BOSS’s resting place, revealing a vast underground passage.

• Boss Zhao warned the City Lord that none of the western ridge’s traps had been triggered, and the City Lord said Liu Di would still face the strengthened BOSS.
• Liu Di scanned the Tiger BOSS with the Hand of God and printed a replica that immediately attacked it.
• The two Tiger BOSSES fought until both were badly wounded, allowing the three purple-haired beauties to kill the survivor.
• Liu Di reasoned that the tiger had been guarding something and searched beneath its grassy resting place.
• After finding no drops from the dead tigers, Liu Di moved a massive bluestone and revealed two stone doors opening into a huge underground entrance.

The seven City Lords watched Liu Di’s battle with the Sky Tigers and discovered that both powerful BOSSes had died, leaving them alarmed that he might uncover their secret. As they rushed to impose curfew, three purple-haired women saw Liu Di and his servant disappear through a closing underground entrance and decided to wait.

• City Lord Number One showed the other City Lords footage of the Sky Tiger’s ruined territory, expecting to see Liu Di defeated.
• The City Lords discovered that two Sky Tigers lay dead and wondered how Liu Di had overcome them.
• The City Lords spotted three women from Zone T-3 and feared that Liu Di had entered a place hiding their secret.
• City Lord Number One ordered an immediate curfew so they could investigate.
• The three purple-haired women saw Liu Di and his servant disappear underground and chose to wait outside.

Liu Di and Striving Youth discovered a vast wooden machine inside Beast Mountain and identified it as the Mohist Mechanical City, an ancient construction that had been moved into the Brain Realm. Liu Di realized the city was damaged and recognized that Mo Yu’s modern version had relied on substitutes rather than the original techniques.

• The cave entrance shut behind Liu Di and Striving Youth, and the two followed the tunnel to a huge cavern.
• Striving Youth panicked over the possibility of traps, but Liu Di walked through the tunnel and reached its end first.
• Liu Di and Striving Youth found a colossal wooden mechanical core with a glowing red crystal and arms extending into the mountain.
• Magic Child analyzed the machine, and Liu Di identified it as the legendary Mohist Mechanical City, which someone had brought into the Brain Realm.
• Liu Di deduced that the Mechanical City was damaged and found a plaque explaining that its essential techniques had been lost.
• Liu Di recalled Mo Yu’s modern Mechanism City and realized it used modern substitutes instead of the original Mohist craftsmanship.

Liu Di identified the mechanical core’s mainspring lock and began crafting keys after reasoning that Mozi and Luban may have jointly built its mechanism. Meanwhile, Young Master Huo ambushed Zhang Weiguo and Cong Liang at Beast Mountain and demanded that Number Eight appear.

• Magic Child explained that the ancient mechanical core was powered by a mainspring that could not be wound because its intricate lock remained unopened.
• Liu Di examined the wooden activation box and suggested Mozi and Luban had created it together, drawing on their shared history and craftsmanship.
• Liu Di carved two keys from a wooden plaque, saying that success would change the lord of T-one City.
• Young Master Huo stunned Zhang Weiguo with an electric baton while more than thirty Black-Clad bodyguards stood with him.
• A Man in Black shot Cong Liang in the shoulder, and Young Master Huo grabbed a short-haired girl and demanded that she bring Number Eight to him.

Liu Di activated Beast Mountain’s hidden mechanical core, causing the mountain to transform into a colossal moving machine. As it charged forward, one of its arms struck the spot where Young Master Huo and his bodyguards were fleeing.

• Young Master Huo’s bodyguards subdued the crystal-core collectors and security squad, and Young Master Huo threatened to kill them.
• Boss Zhao told Young Master Huo that Number Eight had gone into Beast Mountain to fight the BOSS, and Young Master Huo decided to wait for him.
• Young Master Huo threw Zhang Buzai to the ground and prepared to assault her.
• Liu Di inserted his wooden keys into the mechanical core and pressed the Qian position on its Eight Trigrams Disk, activating Beast Mountain’s gears and waterwheel.
• Ten giant mechanical arms burst from Beast Mountain and lifted it into motion as the purple-haired beauties realized Liu Di had activated it.
• Beast Mountain charged after Young Master Huo and his bodyguards, and one mechanical arm slammed down where they were fleeing.

Liu Di activated Beast Mountain, accidentally burning Young Master Huo to death, then learned Zhang Buzai had defended herself by cutting off Huo’s manhood. He interrogated Boss Zhao about T-one’s lord and left him confessing that seven identical youths in white robes had appeared.

• Beast Mountain’s mechanical legs attacked a golden rat, which transformed into Young Master Huo and burned to ashes.
• Liu Di found Zhang Buzai wounded and learned she had cut off Young Master Huo’s manhood when he tried to molest her.
• Striving Youth celebrated activating Mechanical Beast Mountain while Liu Di approached the suited Boss Zhao.
• Liu Di threatened Boss Zhao with grenades, and Boss Zhao confessed that he had seen seven identical youths in white robes who were the city lord.

Liu Di used Beast Mountain to halt the City Lord Tower’s rise and stomp it back into the ground, reversing the curfew and confronting the seven figures inside. He stopped just before crushing them, leaving T-one’s residents stunned by the power he had revealed.

• Two grenades exploded without harming Liu Di, and the seven youths in white robes were implicated.
• As an unusually early curfew began, Liu Di climbed Beast Mountain and headed toward the rising City Lord Tower.
• The seven figures saw Beast Mountain approach and realized Liu Di had activated their ancestors’ machinery.
• Liu Di used Beast Mountain’s mechanical foot to halt the tower, then stomped it back into the ground and drove away the curfew.
• Liu Di stopped Beast Mountain’s final stomp above the seven figures, while T-one’s residents watched in astonishment.

Zhang Weiguo awoke to learn that Zhang Buzai had survived an attack and that Number Eight had crushed the City Lord Tower with Beast Mountain. Liu Di confronted seven Mo Yu puppets in T-one, learned how their discarded consciousnesses had shaped the district, and faced their plea to stop disrupting their world.

• Zhang Buzai told Zhang Weiguo that she had cut off an attacker’s manhood and Number Eight had crushed him with Beast Mountain.
• Zhang Weiguo saw Beast Mountain floating above T-one and Liu Di standing over the ruined City Lord Tower.
• Number One revealed that he and the other six youths were consciousnesses discarded from Mo Yu’s puppets and had created the T-one district as a game.
• Number One accused Liu Di of causing Number Two and Number Three’s deaths and of killing him while he tried to save Liu Di.
• Number One and Number Three pleaded with Liu Di to spare their world, and Liu Di realized they were trying to preserve their game.

Liu Di learned that the T-one City Lords could not return him to reality, so he prepared to travel through a passage to another zone and received a powerful item to help him. Outside, Striving Youth, Zhang Weiguo, and Zhang Buzai confronted the City Lord over Number Eight Sang, and Liu Di challenged Number One Mo Yu to honor his promise to resign if someone built a structure taller than his tower.

• The seven Mo Yus told Liu Di that T-one was a genuine Consciousness World they had imagined, but they could not send him back to reality or let him enter T-two voluntarily.
• Number One Mo Yu offered to open a passage between zones, and Liu Di asked what spiritual power levels did before agreeing to go.
• Number One Mo Yu gave Liu Di a golden-crystal BOSS Sky Tiger that would raise his spiritual power by 100 levels and grant him 200,000 spiritual power points.
• Striving Youth arrived with Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Buzai, demanding that the City Lord return Number Eight Sang.
• Liu Di asked Number One Mo Yu whether he would keep his promise to give up his position if someone built a structure taller than the City Lord Tower, and Number One looked at Beast Mountain.

Liu Di appointed Mo Yu Number One acting city lord of T-one, then entered a gray vortex while Zhang Buzai and Zhang Weiguo stayed behind. After the Mo Yus revealed they had sent Liu Di into a looping passage, he returned, took their Crystal Ball containing their stored mental power, and left them unconscious.

• Liu Di made Mo Yu Number One acting city lord of T-one and set rules for how he should govern.
• Liu Di left Zhang Buzai, Zhang Weiguo, and the Creator behind while the seven city lords opened a gray vortex for him.
• Striving Youth offered Liu Di a BOSS crystal core, and Liu Di entered the vortex with it.
• After Liu Di left, the Mo Yus admitted they had sent him into a Mobius Ring and expected him to get lost.
• Liu Di returned, took another BOSS crystal core, and secretly borrowed the Crystal Ball holding the Mo Yus' mental power.
• The seven Mo Yus discovered the Crystal Ball was gone and passed out in shock.

Liu Di escaped the Mobius Ring into an inverted version of T-two District, where he was mistaken for a new arrival and taken to register. After claiming he could perform every job on the survey, he received a zero technical score and was stamped as having no social value.

• Liu Di ate Mo Yu's clone's mental-power crystal and explored the Mobius Ring with Magic Child, who said they could recreate an exit if needed.
• Liu Di found a bright exit and stepped into an upside-down, modern T-two District.
• Human-resources agents swarmed Liu Di, mistook his mention of Guide Envoys for expertise from T-one, and dragged him to a registration hall.
• Liu Di registered under the name Di Ba and answered yes to more than 150 questions about his skills.
• The receptionist marked Liu Di's technical ability as zero and stamped his form as having absolutely no social value.

Liu Di was judged to have no social value, but when the reception desk's network failed, he used the chance to demonstrate his extraordinary computer skills. He secretly began creating an entry point for Magic Child, while the receptionist and company executives reconsidered their judgment of him.

• Liu Di received an evaluation stamped "of no social value," and the nearby executives lost interest in recruiting him.
• The receptionist photographed Liu Di for the identity system, but her computer and the reception network suddenly crashed.
• The receptionist asked Liu Di to fix the network and promised to reevaluate him if he succeeded.
• Liu Di accessed safe mode and rapidly wrote code, secretly building an entry point for Magic Child instead of repairing the system.
• The receptionist and executives watched Liu Di's astonishing typing and concluded that he was a master.

Liu Di explored the Brain Realm’s reception system while pretending to help Xiao Zhao fix its computers, then left after the machines failed and the HR directors gave up on recruiting him. Outside, a salesman from New Hope Suicide Company offered Liu Di his services.

• Magic Child complained that the Brain Realm lacked internet and public databases while Liu Di examined resident records in the reception hall’s system.
• Liu Di told Xiao Zhao he had found the problem but could not fix it, then suggested restarting the computers.
• The computers blacked out before Xiao Zhao could restart them, and she blamed Liu Di for ruining them and demanded payment.
• The HR directors left without signing Liu Di, while Xiao Zhao revealed she had an outer-circle qualification for the city lord’s banquet.
• Liu Di walked out of the hall and met a man who introduced himself as a suicide specialist from New Hope Suicide Company.

Liu Di learned that this world ranked people by money and executed those who fell below the required wealth level. He recognized the new City Lord from the posters and learned that the City Lord was getting married.

• Two salesmen tried to sell Liu Di painless suicide services, but a disheveled man drove them away.
• The disheveled man told Liu Di that money determined a person’s status and that the Purger mutilated or killed people who became too poor.
• The man explained that a business genius had replaced the previous City Lord ten years earlier but had not changed the Purger’s rules.
• Liu Di recognized the new City Lord on posters throughout the city.
• Fireworks and airships announced the City Lord’s wedding celebration.