Chapter Summaries

Liu Di entered the T-3 Zone, a war-torn realm where two factions recruited powerful newcomers. The tester recognized Liu Di as the wanted fugitive Di Ba, whose capture carried a large reward.

• Liu Di arrived at the T-3 Zone and learned that it was a world of modified humans and superpowered individuals.
• The tester showed Liu Di two opposing armies and explained that General Lan and General Zi led rival factions competing for recruits.
• Liu Di learned that Purger forbade bloodshed during recruitment and suspected Purger enforced order in the Brain Realm.
• The tester spotted a wanted poster identifying Di Ba as the man who killed General Lan’s brother and more than thirty Blue Army fighters.
• The tester compared Liu Di to the poster and asked his name, and Liu Di answered that his codename was Di Ba.

Liu Di admitted he was Di Ba, the wanted killer of Lan Long’s brother, and the armies gathered below prepared to fight over him. The ugly old man explained that Liu Di could inherit his real-world strength in the Brain Realm, leaving him hopeful as he faced the danger ahead.

• Liu Di admitted his name was Di Ba while standing beside the wanted poster for Lan Long’s brother’s killer.
• The ugly old man secretly placed a tracking talisman on Liu Di, hoping to claim a reward if he later died.
• The Blue Faction Army recognized Liu Di and prepared to kill him for Lan Long’s favor, while Zi Ying vowed to protect him.
• The ugly old man explained that the stone platform was neutral ground, but Liu Di would face the armies once he descended the stairs.
• The ugly old man told Liu Di he could inherit his real-world abilities by replicating his memories and meditation state.

Liu Di discovered he had 650 million mental power and tried to convert it into combat strength, but the stone pillar consumed nearly all of it for only 7.99% progress. The chapter ended with Liu Di sensing something while the old man watched the pillar stall.

• The old man explained that people usually inherited only 30% to 60% of their abilities, while General Zi had inherited 100%.
• Liu Di found his mental power level was only 108, but his mental power points totaled 650 million.
• Liu Di realized that four years had passed in the Brain Realm while he was away and that his shares in T-two Zone's top conglomerates had generated enormous wealth.
• The old man led Liu Di to a stone pillar that could convert mental power into combat strength, and Liu Di touched it.
• The pillar's progress slowed to a crawl, consuming nearly all of Liu Di's mental power while reaching only 7.99%.

With only 8% of his strength restored, Liu Di overwhelmed the Blue Army and asked Zi Ying to take him to Purple Moon. General Zi revealed that she believed Liu Di had become nearly ordinary in the Brain Realm, just as he arrived in the sky above her camp.

• Zi Ying received orders from General Zi to protect Mr. Di Ba, while the Blue Army prepared to storm the stone platform.
• Liu Di declared that 8% strength was enough, then crushed the first Blue Army soldier to reach the platform and charged through the enemy ranks.
• Liu Di defeated more than a thousand Blue Army soldiers, then asked Zi Ying to lead him to Purple Moon while he explored T-3 Zone.
• Zi Ying’s unit reached General Zi’s camp, where General Zi explained that Liu Di was immensely powerful in reality but likely weak in the Brain Realm.
• Before Zi Ying could explain what Liu Di had done, Liu Di flew toward the camp, and General Zi recognized him in astonishment.

Liu Di returned to T-3 Zone and devastated a Blue Army force, alarming Officer Duan, who hurried to warn General Zi. At the Purple Army camp, Liu Di reunited with General Zi and promised to resolve whatever was troubling her.

• Officer Duan learned from Venerable Yuan that Di Ba had single-handedly attacked the Blue Army and realized that the wanted Liu Di had returned.
• Venerable Yuan said Liu Di had gone to find General Zi, so Officer Duan led his subordinates east to pursue him.
• Liu Di met General Zi at the Purple Army camp, where she said she was living well but still felt uneasy.
• Liu Di recalled that Color had possessed General Zi and destroyed her physical body, then offered to put her mind at ease.

Purple Moon explained that she had spent more than a decade resisting Lan Long, who used civilians as sacrifices to a powerful creature. Liu Di set off to attack Lan Long City without hearing her warning, while Purple Moon and Officer Duan mobilized their forces to follow him.

• Purple Moon told Liu Di that Lan Long had nearly wiped out her army but kept her alive for amusement, and she revealed that she had once served in China's Dragon Might to protect civilians.
• Liu Di pledged to support Purple Moon and leapt toward Lan Long City, intent on flattening it.
• Purple Moon warned that Lan Long was a being of Gao Deng and that the civilians had been sacrificed to a higher life form, then ordered her forces to pursue Liu Di.
• Officer Duan arrived looking for Liu Di, learned he had gone to kill Lan Long, and ordered the Purgers to march on Lan Long City.
• Blue Army soldiers tipped bound civilians into a lake, where a huge blue-eyed dragon surfaced and devoured them.

Liu Di confronted the Blue Army outside Lan Long City, where General Lan ordered his soldiers to capture more civilians to feed the Dragon King. When eight thousand soldiers charged Liu Di, he multiplied a tiny liquid-metal blade into a storm of weapons.

• General Lan emerged from a cauldron of magma and threatened his soldiers with being fed to the Dragon King if they failed to capture more civilians.
• A messenger told General Lan that Di Ba had reached the city, and General Lan ordered his men to bring back Di Ba's head if he could not reach the main city.
• Liu Di faced nearly eight thousand Blue Army soldiers at Lan Long City, and they retreated as he calmly stepped toward them.
• Liu Di used one hundred mental power points to form a tiny liquid-metal dagger and assessed his mental power at twenty-five thousand points.
• The Blue Army soldiers charged Liu Di after deciding his small dagger was no threat.
• Liu Di split the dagger into countless blades, and the blade storm severed a soldier's spear.

Liu Di single-handedly routed the Blue Army on the ten-mile approach to Lan Long City, leaving its soldiers crippled and terrified. He blasted a breach through the city wall and entered, while the arriving Purgers and Purple Moon’s five thousand soldiers followed his bloodless path and hurried after him.

• A Blue Army spearman saw Liu Di’s Fluid Metal sever his spear and tried to warn the charging troops, but the crowd drowned him out.
• Liu Di cut down the advancing soldiers’ arms and lower legs with recreated Fluid Metal, sparing most of their lives as he crossed the battlefield.
• Liu Di reached Lan Long City and kicked a ten-meter breach through its wall before stepping inside.
• The Purgers and Purple Moon’s five thousand soldiers arrived to find the Blue Army defeated and a clear path leading to the city.
• Purple Moon ordered her forces to hurry after Liu Di, warning that Lan Long would be a difficult opponent.

Liu Di confronted Lan Long in Lan Long City and endured his attacks without his Fluid Metal armor being breached. Lan Long’s confidence collapsed as Liu Di revealed that he had come to toy with him before killing him.

• Liu Di kicked Lan Long’s magma cauldron into the air and challenged him.
• Lan Long formed blue armor and charged Liu Di, who covered himself in Fluid Metal armor.
• The Purgers and Purple Moon’s army entered Lan Long City and saw Liu Di fighting Lan Long.
• Lan Long slashed Liu Di for three minutes, but his claws left only marks that quickly vanished from Liu Di’s armor.
• Lan Long heated his claws and attacked again, but they wore flat against Liu Di’s defense.
• Lan Long asked why Liu Di would not fight back, and Liu Di said he had come to toy with him before killing him.

Liu Di defeated Lan Long and the T4 dragon that came to save him, then destroyed the Blue Moon representing General Lan. As Liu Di pursued Lan Long into the lake, an even larger creature emerged, seized the dragon’s corpse, and dragged it underwater.

• Liu Di struck Lan Long with Fluid Metal, exposing his true form as a gorilla and prompting him to call for the Dragon King.
• A T4 evil dragon rose from the lake and crushed Liu Di beneath its claw, but Liu Di burst free and hurled the dragon from the water.
• Liu Di battered the dragon to death while Lan Long watched in disbelief and then tried to escape into the lake.
• Liu Di shattered the Blue Moon and approached the lake to pursue Lan Long.
• An enormous claw rose from the lake, grabbed the dead dragon, and dragged it underwater as sounds of chewing came from below.

Liu Di reunited with Duan Hua in T-3 Zone and prepared to enter the dangerous T4 Zone. He kept a promise to set off fireworks across the continents, and his missile explosions reached Zhang Buzai and Zhang Weiguo in T-1, renewing their hope that he would survive the Nine Realms.

• A monster from T4 Zone dragged the Dragon King beneath Mirror Lake, and Duan Hua warned Liu Di about the dangers beyond T-3.
• Liu Di recognized Duan Hua, and the two reunited after learning that both had died in reality and arrived in the Brain Realm.
• Liu Di handed responsibility for T-3 Zone to Purple Moon and meditated on a Stinger-35 missile to make fireworks for T-2 Zone.
• Steel Di Qi awakened at the City Lord's Mansion in T-2 Zone and fired an energy burst that filled the sky with orange light.
• Liu Di hurled the Stinger-35 missile into the sky over T-3 Zone, where its submunitions erupted in a vast display of explosions.
• Zhang Buzai and Zhang Weiguo saw the fireworks from T-1 Zone, and Zhang Buzai insisted that Di Ba would make it through the Nine Realms.

Liu Di descended through the lake he believed led to T4, discussing the limits of carbon-based life with Magic Child before charging toward a roar and a light below. He emerged in a warm, lush rainforest basin that looked peaceful and ordinary, leaving him puzzled about where he had arrived and where the monsters were.

• Duan Hua realized Liu Di had entered T4 through the lake and worried that he had gone alone.
• As Liu Di descended into the dark water, Magic Child explained that humans and animals were flawed carbon-based lifeforms and described their respective missions.
• Liu Di heard a beast roar near the lakebed, found a glowing opening, and charged toward it with a broadsword.
• Liu Di burst through the opening and surfaced in a sunlit emerald lake surrounded by rainforest-like mountains.
• Liu Di reached shore, saw no monsters or Lan Long, and stared at a red-bellied frog while wondering if this was really T4.

Liu Di explored T4, discovered that T5 hunters used it as a hunting ground, and learned that he could not return without a talisman. An old man showed him the river that led toward T5 and warned him not to cross it.

• Liu Di mistook the booming Dugee Chicken for a monster and then watched T5 hunters catch it with a net.
• The hunters told Liu Di they came from T5 District and explained that their return talismans were single-use, so Liu Di bought the chicken for ten thousand psychic power points.
• Liu Di let the Dugee Chicken follow him and saw T5 hunters capture animals across T4, repeatedly warning him not to cross the river.
• Liu Di met a white-bearded old man, who revealed a vast river dividing T4 and said the way back lay across it, but warned Liu not to cross.

Liu Di learned that a taboo existence slept beyond the river and that someone had once crossed safely, then decided to cross himself. At the riverbank, the Horse Saber Sect and Beast Sect gathered to attempt a crossing, while Zhao Dakan warned his people not to alert the far side.

• Liu Di dismissed the old man's warnings about the river, but learned that a girl without runes had once crossed from T4 to T5.
• Liu Di recognized that the old man could survive repeated scorpion stings because he had a huge reserve of mental power, and the man introduced himself as the Scorpion King.
• Liu Di told the Scorpion King that he intended to cross the river, then left without giving him anything valuable.
• Hunters gathered to watch the Horse Saber Sect and Beast Sect, led by Zhao Dakan and Zhuo Bao, prepare to cross the river together.
• Zhao Dakan kicked a dismounted sect member to the ground and ordered his group to stay quiet so they would not alert the far side.

Liu Di crossed into T4 Zone with Senior Scorpion King and considered whether the region had a city lord. Their conversation revealed the old man’s real-world background in animal and plant studies, while Liu Di remained determined to discover what lay beyond the river.

• Zhao Dakan and Zhuo Bao argued through a messenger who repeatedly garbled their whispered threats, leaving both sects stalled at the river.
• Liu Di reached the riverbank and decided to investigate the mountains across the water himself.
• Senior Scorpion King arrived on a bamboo raft, introduced himself as Boat King, and offered Liu Di a free ride across.
• As they crossed, Liu Di recalled T4 Zone’s lifelike plants, animals, and climates and wondered who had created the region.
• Senior Scorpion King said he was a scholar of plants and animals who had earned awards and titles including Animal King and Plant King.
• Liu Di asked why T4 Zone’s city lord allowed outsiders to capture its animals, and Senior Scorpion King compared it to the food chain and survival of the fittest.

After crossing the river, Liu Di joined Zhuo Bao, Zhao Dakan, and their followers as they searched for beast cubs, only to discover that the cliff was a gigantic sleeping python. The Dugee Chicken’s booming drumbeats woke the monster, leaving the group hiding in terror as it stirred again.

• Liu Di crossed the river, reclaimed the Dugee Chicken from the old boatman, and entered the dangerous northern forest.
• Zhuo Bao and Zhao Dakan crossed with their followers and invited Liu Di to join their search for fierce-beast cubs.
• Liu Di followed the group past a towering cliff to two heat-blasting caves, where wind revealed that the cliff was the scaled body of a giant python.
• The Dugee Chicken beat its belly like a drum, waking the python, whose enormous eyes opened as the group hid in the grass.
• The python began to settle back to sleep, but the Dugee Chicken drummed again, leaving everyone fearing for their lives.

Liu Di rescued Zhuo Bao and defeated a super giant snake, but a much larger creature emerged from the clouds and revealed itself as the being that had taken the Dragon King in T-3 Zone. The earth shook as the monster approached, leaving Liu Di and the others facing a threat far greater than the snake.

• Zhuo Bao rushed to save Dugee Chicken from the giant snake, and Liu Di held the snake's jaws apart long enough for him to escape.
• Liu Di burst through the snake's skull in black armor, subdued it, and let it flee.
• Zhuo Bao asked Liu Di for his name, but a huge white-furred arm reached from the clouds and seized the giant snake.
• Liu Di recognized the arm as the one that had dragged away the Dragon King in T-3 Zone.
• The earth began to quake as the enormous creature approached from beyond the horizon.

Liu Di confronted Lan Long’s enormous white-furred gorilla ancestor while Young Master Qingmu and his followers fought to hold the ape back. Liu Di killed Lan Long with a single punch, then returned to the ground as Qingmu continued battling the ape.

• The white-furred gorilla appeared with Lan Long riding on its shoulder and threatened Liu Di and the hunting parties.
• Young Master Qingmu arrived with his white-clad followers and used formations to block the gorilla’s attacks.
• The gorilla battered Qingmu’s formations, leaving him and his followers struggling to hold their ground.
• Lan Long taunted Liu Di, who flew up, knocked aside the gorilla’s arm, and punched Lan Long into a spray of minced flesh.
• Liu Di told Qingmu to continue the fight and returned to the ground.

Liu Di and the hunting squad discovered that the Sky-Piercing Giant Ape was not the legendary Redback, as the real beast king awoke beneath the north bank of the Great River. The colossal dragon revealed that the entire north bank was its body, then recognized Liu Di.

• Young Master Qingmu trapped the Sky-Piercing Giant Ape in formations and boasted that he had captured the Redback beast king.
• The north bank shifted as Beasts fled toward the Great River, and the Sky-Piercing Giant Ape shattered the formations and ran in terror.
• A gigantic black-scaled dragon rose from beneath the land, revealing itself as the true Redback.
• The dragon's roar knocked Young Master Qingmu and his group from the sky, while its gaze terrified Liu Di's companions.
• Liu Di asked the dragon whether it was Redback, and the dragon nodded.

Liu Di reunited with Redback, his old companion transformed into the Redback beast king, and set off with it toward T5 District. After Redback displayed its overwhelming power, Young Master Qingmu resolved to pursue Liu Di and bring him to justice.

• Liu Di recognized the Red Back Dragon King as Redback, the wolfdog from the Experimental Graveyard that Color Joker had possessed.
• Redback transformed back into a wolfdog and led Liu Di across the desert; Liu Di told Zhuo Bao and Zhao Dakan he would meet them in T5 District.
• The Scorpion King began restoring plants beneath the desert, while Redback followed Liu Di and unleashed a tremendous fireball over T4 Zone.
• Zhang Buzai and Zhang Weiguo watched the spectacle from T-one Zone, and Zhuo Bao and Zhao Dakan realized Liu Di was heading to T5 District with the Redback beast king.
• Young Master Qingmu woke, learned that Redback had gone with Liu Di, and vowed to pursue him and bring him to justice.