Chapter Summaries

Liu Di revealed that Gu Xiao’s apparent battle and Ning Xiang’s death had been staged to make Gu Xiao confront his true feelings. Gu Xiao accepted Liu Di as his future brother-in-law, chose to leave Spring Tower Street, and promised to remain with Ning Xiang.

• Liu Di revealed that the slain fighters, courtesans, and fallen horses had all been part of a performance arranged with Zhao Dakan, Zhuo Bao, and the Gu Family Iron Cavalry.
• Ning Xiang woke and asked whether Gu Xiao meant his promise to keep her by his side for life, while the courtesans congratulated him on finding love.
• Gu Xiao realized Liu Di had used the staged crisis to make him face his feelings and accepted defeat.
• Liu Di explained that the test had been meant to make Gu Xiao understand himself, and Gu Xiao accepted him as his brother-in-law.
• Gu Xiao decided to leave Spring Tower Street and spend his life with Ning Xiang, whom he said he would punish by keeping her at his side.
• Liu Di thanked the people who helped, then walked toward the Peach Blossom Grove and told Magic Child that he had trusted Ning Xiang because he understood her heart.

Liu Di and Gu Fan watched Gu Xiao announce his marriage to Ning Xiang, and Gu Fan accepted Liu Di’s implied proposal beneath the peach tree. Young Master Qingmu witnessed their closeness and sought an alliance with the T6 Ghost King, demanding that Goddess Luo become his.

• Gu Fan told Liu Di that she feared Gu Xiao would return to his womanizing ways, but Gu Xiao arrived with Ning Xiang and announced he would marry her.
• Gu Fan saw hope return to Gu Xiao and accepted his marriage to Ning Xiang, while Gu Xiao mistakenly called Liu Di his brother-in-law.
• Gu Fan took Liu Di’s hand and rested her head on his shoulder as they discussed love and their bond.
• Young Master Qingmu saw Liu Di and Gu Fan together, destroyed his letter to her, and vowed to act against Liu Di.
• Qingmu ordered a black owl to deliver his offer of cooperation to the T6 Ghost King in exchange for Goddess Luo.

Liu Di sat with Gu Fan in the peach blossom grove as she fell asleep against his shoulder, then witnessed a towering Eight-Armed Guanyin appear over T5 District. After the vision vanished, Gu Fan woke and agreed to teach Liu Di how to use mental power.

• Liu Di introduced himself to Gu Fan and said he had been searching for her for eighteen years, but she fell asleep before hearing him.
• Golden light and Buddhist chants filled T5 District as an enormous Eight-Armed Guanyin rose above the clouds, startling the residents and waking Gu Xiao.
• The Guanyin vanished just before Gu Fan awoke, and Liu Di recognized the image as the deity carved on her jade pendant.
• Gu Fan said she had dreamed of returning to reality and confirmed her mental power was immense, though weaker than the person who overturned T-2 Zone.
• Liu Di asked Gu Fan to teach him mental power, and she agreed.

Gu Fan revealed that she worked part-time as a kindergarten teacher and began teaching Liu Di about consciousness and mental power. She explained that human senses discard most information from the world, leaving Liu Di to consider whether overcoming that limitation could strengthen mental power.

• Gu Fan told Liu Di that she was a teacher whom her young students called Teacher Xiao Fa or Teacher Fa Fa.
• Liu Di realized Gu Fan taught kindergarten, while Magic Child joined their lesson from a nearby table.
• Gu Fan explained that human consciousness was made from sensory information and that the visual system retained only a tiny fraction of the information carried by photons.
• Gu Fan said humans could never reconstruct the universe's true appearance because their senses filtered out most of its information.
• Liu Di suggested that breaking through the senses' limits could expand mental power, and Gu Fan said gathering information was connected to the entire universe.

Gu Fan taught Liu Di how consciousness and information existed throughout the universe, then guided him in using that understanding to increase his spiritual power. Magic Child connected her method to the subconscious, but Liu Di had not yet demonstrated whether he could apply it.

• Gu Fan explained that consciousness arose from information and that living things, plants, and even stones possessed consciousness.
• Magic Child agreed with Gu Fan and cited experiments showing that plants reacted to people who had harmed them.
• Gu Fan revealed that she had studied consciousness after her younger brother fell unconscious and began teaching Liu Di to sense and merge with the world around him.
• Gu Fan guided Liu Di to remember the Peach Blossom Grove and feel the consciousness of all things, while warning him not to look at her.
• Liu Di identified Gu Fan's method as a way to access the subconscious, and Magic Child explained that it could process far more information than the conscious mind.

Liu Di strengthened both sides of his brain and learned to let his mental power take shape through perception rather than force. After reaching an expansive view of the Brain Realm, he tried to alter the T-2 Zone, causing the citylike region to shake.

• Liu Di used Magic Child and Mo Yu’s research to strengthen his left brain, but he could not sense the subconscious.
• Liu Di decided that his right brain suited his needs better and told Magic Child to spend all remaining mental power strengthening it.
• With Gu Fan’s guidance, Liu Di relaxed and gained a vast perspective that let him perceive most of the Brain Realm.
• Liu Di tried to change the Brain Realm by erasing a memory of turning over a leaf in the real world and sending an ethereal thought toward T-2.
• The T-2 Zone shook, and its residents feared the world was about to turn upside down again.

Liu Di’s meditation sharpened his perception of the Brain Realm, and he realized Magic Child had developed into a fully conscious being. Magic Child connected Liu Di’s New Human stages to spiritual power and suggested that training in the Brain Realm could eventually let Liu Di wield godlike power in reality.

• Yan Hongxin and Liu Manwen felt the T-2 Zone tremble as Liu Di’s awakening disturbed the city.
• Liu Di opened his eyes in Peach Blossom Grove and found he could perceive extraordinary detail and sense awareness in grass and rocks.
• Liu Di spoke with Gu Fan about his meditation, and she promised to keep teaching him spiritual power.
• Liu Di saw Magic Child’s lifelike appearance and understood that his clearer perception had changed how he saw the AI.
• Magic Child proposed that Stage Three involved simulating all things and that Stage Four could manipulate spiritual energy and matter.
• Magic Child concluded that Liu Di might bring spiritual power into reality and become godlike, while Super Artificial Intelligence would serve as his assistant.

Liu reflected on the mysteries surrounding his growth, then spent nine months with Gu Fan in the Peach Blossom Grove as T5 prepared for Gu Xiao’s wedding. As T6 attacked during the celebrations, Gu Fan faced the invaders alone beside a soulless phantom of Liu, believing she might not survive.

• Liu discussed the secrets of technology, time, and the universe with Magic Child before choosing to spend a year in the Brain Realm.
• Liu and Gu Fan guarded T5 together for nine months while Teacher Fa Fa’s lessons continued and the district went without rain.
• T5 celebrated Gu Xiao’s wedding to Ning Xiang, while Gu Fan sent an avatar with Liu and stayed behind with a phantom of him.
• Gu Fan revealed that T6 had agreed to attack T5 on the wedding day and that Qingmu had tamed the Sky-Piercing Giant Ape.
• Snow fell over T5 as castles rose in T6 and the giant ape advanced with Qingmu on its shoulder; Gu Fan wept beside Liu’s phantom.

Gu Fan said goodbye to Liu Di and faced the approaching T6 demons as T5’s residents rallied behind her. She sealed T5 behind a barrier and prepared to fight, while Qingmu’s accusation that Liu Di was Di Ba turned the crowd against him.

• Gu Fan embraced Liu Di, said goodbye, and walked away through the snow.
• T6 rose toward T5 as the Sky-Piercing Giant Ape approached, and Gu Xiao charged toward Gu Fan with the frightened residents following him.
• Gu Fan shielded T5, its residents, and Liu Di behind a transparent barrier before summoning the armed phantom of Eight-Armed Guanyin.
• Over ten thousand T6 demons gathered, and Gu Fan recognized them as people consumed by fifty years of resentment in the Brain Realm.
• Qingmu accused Gu Fan of secretly being involved with Di Ba, and Gu Xiao demanded to know what Liu Di was trying to do.

Gu Fan prepared to sacrifice her psychic power to destroy Qingmu’s forces and save T5, while Liu Di finally moved to intervene. He stopped her power from detonating and revealed that he had heard her poem.

• Qingmu revealed that he had fallen into depravity and taken the place of the T6 Ghost King, then sent vengeful spirits and the Sky-Piercing Giant Ape against Gu Fan and T5.
• Gu Fan protected herself and the Eight-Armed Guanyin behind a golden barrier as the vengeful spirits attacked and the giant ape battered T5’s glazed barrier.
• T5’s residents refused to flee, while Gu Fan decided to detonate her psychic power and destroy the attackers at the cost of her life.
• Liu Di rose from the snow, crossed the battlefield as the vengeful spirits dissolved near him, and entered Gu Fan’s golden light.
• Liu Di gathered Gu Fan’s released psychic power back into her body, stopped the Eight-Armed Guanyin, and told her he had heard her poem.

Liu Di returned from behind the golden barrier as the Red Back Dragon King awakened and annihilated the Heaven-reaching White Ape. Liu Di then destroyed T6 with a single punch and turned back toward the stunned residents of T5.

• Liu Di emerged from the golden light, dispelled the vengeful souls, and approached T6 through the air.
• The Redback Hound transformed into the Red Back Dragon King with the Furball Chicken atop its head, terrifying everyone in T5.
• Qingmu recognized the dragon as Redback and urged the giant ape to flee, but the Dragon King incinerated the ape with its flames.
• Liu Di struck T6 from a distance with one punch, tearing the district apart and reducing it to dust.
• Liu Di withdrew his fist and turned back as the Red Back Dragon King soared behind him and tens of thousands of T5 residents looked up.

Liu Di erased Qingmu and restored T5 after the battle, then took Gu Fan’s hand and asked Gu Xiao to attend their wedding. With the catastrophe over, Gu Xiao resumed his wedding procession, boasting about his powerful brother-in-law.

• The Man in White told Gu Fan he had erased the source, and the Red Back Dragon King shrank into a wolfhound beside Liu Di.
• Qingmu emerged from the ashes as a demon made of wronged souls and attacked T5, but Liu Di compressed him into dust and destroyed him.
• Liu Di repaired the scarred land and revived the Peach Blossom Grove, leaving the citizens stunned by his power.
• Liu Di took Gu Fan’s hand and asked Gu Xiao whether he could attend the wedding, and Gu Xiao agreed.
• The gongs and drums resumed as Gu Xiao rode toward Brothel Street and boasted that his brother-in-law was Di Ba.

After T6 was destroyed, Liu Di told Gu Fan he still intended to reach T7 and obtain the final authority. Gu Fan agreed to go with him but asked that they return to T5 if they could not overcome T7’s Death Warriors, while Liu Di added that she must return to T5 if the 283 War Gods did not stop him.

• An old man on T5 City’s gate tower wrote “Fierce” on the wall after recalling the Man in White’s battle in the sky.
• Zhang Buzai woke Zhang Weiguo to see the fireworks, and they realized T6 had been destroyed.
• T5’s citizens celebrated T6’s destruction and praised Di Ba as they drank in the streets.
• Liu Di told Gu Fan that he would continue to T7 and seek the final authority despite the dangers ahead.
• Gu Fan proposed that they return to T5 if they could not overcome T7’s Death Warriors, and Liu Di accepted with the condition that she return if the 283 War Gods did not block him.

Gu Fan and Liu Di set out from T5 for T7, while Gu Xiao tried to join them as their protector. They traveled through a tunnel that revealed T7 was twenty-five light-years from T5, and arrived in a new world.

• Gu Fan packed Peach Blossom Cakes for the journey, and she and Liu Di left the Peach Blossom Grove hand in hand.
• Gu Xiao announced he would accompany them to face T7's Death Warriors, while Ning Xiang tearfully supported him.
• Gu Fan and Liu Di entered a colorful vortex and departed without Gu Xiao, who realized they had already gone.
• As Liu Di and Gu Fan traveled through a dark tunnel, Magic Child explained that space folding could make distant places appear close.
• Magic Child timed their journey at twenty-five seconds and determined T7 was twenty-five light-years from T5 before Liu Di and Gu Fan entered a new world.

Liu Di and Gu Fan explored T7, where Liu Di discovered the consciousnesses of 283 Death Warriors frozen in the Brain Realm. Their search was interrupted by an enormous, technologically advanced flying ship descending from the sky, whose arrival left them stunned.

• Liu Di and Gu Fan walked across T7's frozen landscape, and Liu Di admired its reflections while reassuring her.
• Liu Di and Gu Fan found 283 Death Warriors standing among the ice, each with a trail of black smoke above them.
• Liu Di realized the Death Warriors' other consciousnesses had remained in the Brain Realm and hoped to return them to reality.
• Gu Fan pulled Liu Di back and warned him that she could not fight the Death Warriors if they awakened.
• Liu Di and Gu Fan saw a massive flying ship descend, and Magic Child identified its advanced spatial technology.

Liu Di watched aliens investigate the frozen Death Warriors and learned they believed the giants were extinct fossils. General Er Dai attacked one, awakening it, and ordered an assault after the giant threw him aside.

• Magic Child identified the black-clad figures as aliens and translated their brainwave conversation, giving their leader the codename Almond and his subordinate the name General Er Dai.
• General Er Dai ordered his team to investigate the planet’s resources and disparaged the frozen giants as low-level lifeforms.
• General Er Dai fired an electrical blast at a giant, cracking the ice covering its body.
• The giant awakened, seized General Er Dai by the neck, and hurled him more than a hundred meters away.
• General Er Dai survived in his protective suit, stood up furious, and ordered Almond to attack.

General Er Dai's weapons failed against the 283 Death Warriors, who appeared to exist in another dimension and destroyed his spaceship after it crossed their boundary. He then spotted Liu Di and Gu Fan and decided to capture them to learn about the higher-dimensional beings.

• General Er Dai fired a singularity weapon at a Death Warrior, but all 283 figures remained unharmed as the blast vaporized the ice around them.
• Almond concluded that the Death Warriors belonged to a higher dimension, and Liu Di realized they possessed knowledge of forces beyond humanity's understanding.
• The Death Warriors advanced, and one grew to enormous size and smashed the front half of General Er Dai's spaceship after it crossed a red boundary.
• The Death Warriors returned to their positions, and the Men in Black fled beyond the boundary, realizing the beings would not attack them there.
• General Er Dai spotted Liu Di and Gu Fan, identified them as civilians of the dimension, and decided to capture them himself.

Liu Di and Gu Fan encountered alien visitors on T7, where Liu Di drove them off and discovered that the Brain Realm existed within the universe. General Er Dai escaped and classified Liu Di and the comet as forbidden threats before planning another expedition to M34.

• General Er Dai mistook Liu Di and Gu Fan for specimens, but Liu Di revealed he understood their language and kicked Er Dai through the ice.
• Er Dai ordered his crew to retreat, while Liu Di exposed Almond’s alien form and Almond froze in the low temperatures.
• The remaining visitors escaped in a craft that vanished through a spacetime tunnel, leaving Liu Di and Gu Fan to consider the connection between consciousness and reality.
• Aboard the escape pod, Er Dai classified the comet as a Forbidden Zone and Liu Di as a taboo, then ordered preparations to travel to M34.
• An officer noticed that a lifeform in M34’s signal resembled Liu Di, but Er Dai dismissed it as coincidence.

Liu Di and Gu Fan explored the alien spacecraft, where Magic Child uncovered evidence that aliens had intercepted Earth’s signals and were heading toward Earth. Magic Child left a clone aboard to study the ship’s technology while Liu Di took Gu Fan to meet his brother.

• Liu Di took Gu Fan into the crashed spacecraft to inspect its interior and reached the central control room.
• Liu Di connected to the ship’s living circuits while Magic Child entered its system and activated the basic facilities.
• Magic Child discovered that the aliens had intercepted Earth’s radio signal and were traveling toward Earth, though they were at least two years away.
• Magic Child found that the spacecraft was deleting its information and decided to leave a clone behind to crack its system over the next three years.
• Liu Di left the spacecraft with Gu Fan and said he would take her to meet his brother.

Liu Di and Gu Fan crossed the red line and awakened the 283 Tian Luo Death Warriors, who recognized Liu Di as their old comrade. As Liu Di set out for T8, the warriors followed him, while Gu Fan stayed behind.

• Gu Fan confessed that the 283 figures frightened her, but followed Liu Di across the red line.
• The 283 Death Warriors awoke and surrounded Liu Di and Gu Fan before greeting Liu Di as Mr. Liu.
• Chi Mei recognized Gu Fan as Mrs. Liu, and Liu Di embraced him and recalled how the Tian Luo Warriors had fought beside him.
• Gu Fan accepted Liu Di’s brothers and agreed to return as he continued toward T8.
• Liu Di began walking toward T8, and all 283 Death Warriors followed him, leaving Gu Fan behind.