Chapter Summaries

Liu Di and the Tian Luo Warriors entered T8, a zone resembling China in the 1980s or 1990s, where mutilated residents begged for help from a mad scientist. Liu Di suspected the people were not real and continued toward the experiments, ending by tasting a sweet potato sold by an elderly woman who defended the experiments.

• Liu Di led 283 Tian Luo Warriors into T8 and found a quiet, old-fashioned city whose residents ignored their arrival.
• A bleeding middle-aged man begged Liu Di for help, but died after Liu Di asked his real name.
• Liu Di noticed that the residents ignored the corpse and appeared uniformly gloomy, then stepped around a girl whose skull had been cut open.
• Liu Di saw more surgically mutilated residents and heard an elderly woman say that experimental subjects should have expected the consequences.
• Liu Di tasted one of the elderly woman's roasted sweet potatoes and called it tasteless.

Liu Di reached the Haishi Crematorium in the Brain Realm and confronted Color Joker, who revealed that he had been Xiao Jie and Lennard, a test subject burned alive during Teacher’s consciousness-separation experiment. Color Joker attacked Liu Di with a massive building, but Liu Di dissolved it with his mental power.

• Liu Di saw burning victims along the path to the Haishi Crematorium and watched the dead experimental subjects return to a white research building.
• Liu Di entered the crematorium courtyard and confronted a shape-shifting figure sitting atop a platform of urns.
• The figure identified himself as Xiao Jie and Color Joker, then changed into Lennard and claimed he had volunteered for Teacher’s experiment before being burned alive.
• Color Joker blamed Liu Di for obstructing his revenge and insisted Liu Di was also a laboratory-raised test subject meant to help Teacher complete the experiment.
• Color Joker uprooted a massive building and hurled it at Liu Di, who used his mental power to turn it to dust.

Color Joker revealed his past as Lin Xiaojie and explained how he brought Liu Zhengqing’s former students into the Brain Realm. The chapter ended with Liu Di recognizing the seven gods as the researchers from the family photo and realizing Color Joker had killed the Second World institute members, including his adoptive parents.

• Color Joker stopped his attack and recounted how Lin Xiaojie lost his parents, was expelled from Haishi University, and was turned away from the Qiming Institute of Technology before Liu Zhengqing took him in.
• Color Joker explained that Liu Zhengqing’s research on Consciousness Particles had made the Brain Realm a refuge for the research team, and vowed to stop Liu Di from threatening his teacher.
• Color Joker revealed that seven other gods were in T8 Zone, and the surroundings transformed into a black expanse as the seven figures appeared beside him.
• Liu Di recognized the seven researchers from the family photo found in Liu Zhengqing’s underground base.
• Color Joker admitted that he had killed the members of the Second World brain research institute and taunted Liu Di about meeting his adoptive parents.

Liu Di confronted Color Joker and the tortured researchers in the Brain Realm, but the Tian Luo Warriors began to disappear as their treatment in reality took effect. He learned Mo Yu had removed the Toxoplasma from their brains and watched the warriors return to reality.

• The researchers reminded Liu Di that they had raised him, triggering childhood memories and a severe headache.
• A researcher transformed into a resentful spirit and attacked Liu Di, but Chi Mei punched it away.
• Liu Di accused Color Joker of torturing the researchers, and Color Joker admitted he had kept them unable to live or die.
• Chi Mei and the Tian Luo Warriors attacked, but their bodies began dissolving into particles and rising through five-colored light.
• Color Joker revealed that the warriors were recovering in reality and no longer belonged to the Brain Realm.
• Liu Di realized Mo Yu had removed the Toxoplasma, then watched Chi Mei and all 283 Tian Luo Warriors vanish as they returned to reality.

Xiao Jie and the researchers used a special-frequency wave to attack Liu Di’s brain, draining his psychic power and leaving him helpless. Just as Li Clan lunged to kill him, Master Supreme arrived and cut the ground apart with a devastating sword technique.

• Xiao Jie revealed that the researchers knew the frequency that could destroy Liu Di because they had helped create and modify him.
• Xiao Jie and the researchers overwhelmed Liu Di’s brain with chaotic voices, making his psychic power reserves and level fall to zero.
• Li Clan transformed into a resentful ghost and pounced on the helpless Liu Di.
• Master Supreme emerged from the ground on his bamboo-pole-supported bed and announced that he would demonstrate his secret manual.
• Master Supreme unleashed the Two Shores, Three Blades Style, cleaving the ground and striking at Li Clan.

Liu Di’s allies arrived and turned the fight against Color Joker and the resentful ghosts, but Color Joker incapacitated Striving Youth and revealed that the research institute had constructed the world. He identified himself as Lin Xiao Jie, the Pluto Hades who oversaw its cycle of life and death.

• Master Supreme claimed exhaustion after one blade and revealed that Liu Di’s allies would continue the fight.
• Kubo Taiichiro arrived as Lu Bu and struck the resentful Li Clan, while Zhang Buzai stabbed Color Joker and Zhang Weiguo summoned swords against the researchers.
• Redback arrived with the Furball Chicken and transformed into a dragon, burning Color Joker and the seven resentful ghosts.
• Color Joker healed his wound, separated Striving Youth’s soul from his armor, and let pale hands drag him underground.
• Color Joker told Liu Di that the Second World had constructed the world and the Brain Realm, then named himself Lin Xiao Jie, Pluto Hades.

Liu Di realized his mental power had been limited by the Brain Realm’s rules and shattered the watch that embodied them. He then began controlling the world itself, restoring his companions and confronting Xiao Jie.

• Xing Shu and the other researchers revealed their identities as world designers and stripped Zhang Buzai, Zhang Weiguo, Redback, Master Supreme, and Color Joker of their powers.
• Xiao Jie attacked Zhang Weiguo and explained that the researchers could shape the world without using weapons, while Liu Di struggled through a severe headache and mental interference.
• Liu Di recognized that his sense of separation from the world had limited him, and he shattered the mental power watch on his wrist.
• Liu Di recovered Zhang Weiguo and Zhang Buzai, opened the abyss to release Striving Youth, and restored Redback to its former strength.
• Xiao Jie panicked when Liu Di began controlling the Brain Realm, and Liu Di declared that the world seemed to have been born for him.

Liu Di tested his combat strength against Color Joker and his allies, then let Zhang Buzai, Striving Youth, Master Supreme, and Zhang Weiguo take over the fight. He entered the Brain Realm’s hidden depths and found a white-coated figure writing at a desk, apparently the true Lord of the Brain Realm.

• Liu Di unleashed tens of thousands of demon blades on Color Joker and his group, then stopped when they had endured the assault.
• Liu Di shifted the battlefield’s balance toward Zhang Buzai and the others, who attacked the enemy while he walked through the chaos.
• Striving Youth accidentally pierced Liu Di with his halberd, and Liu Di vanished into the Brain Realm.
• Liu Di passed through the gigantic phantom at the edge of T-9 and searched the black mist for Liu Zhengqing.
• Liu Di emerged into a small room of bookshelves and found a bespectacled figure in a white lab coat writing at a desk.

Liu Zhengqing explained to Liu Di how the Brain Realm reflected his consciousness and how cognition shaped its boundaries. He revealed that his consciousness had expanded across the universe, leaving Liu Di with a new understanding of the Brain Realm.

• Liu Zhengqing told Liu Di that the figures he had met across the Brain Realm represented parts of his will and had guided him toward his mission.
• Liu Di asked how Liu Zhengqing had died, but Liu Zhengqing argued that identity rested in subjective consciousness and said he was not dead.
• Liu Di asked what the Brain Realm was, and Liu Zhengqing explained that consciousness expanded through the boundaries of cognition.
• Liu Zhengqing revealed the universe around them and said his consciousness had expanded through it, while the Brain Realm's continents lay separated across a distance of twenty-five light-years.

Liu Zhengqing showed Liu Di the vastness and dangers of the universe, then gave him the Brain Realm as a starting point for his Consciousness Universe before entering the black hole Sagittarius A*. Liu Di was left alone at the center of the Milky Way, realizing there was no need to ask whether Liu Zhengqing could return to reality.

• Liu Zhengqing showed Liu Di galaxies colliding and explained how little humanity understood about the universe and its dangers.
• Liu Zhengqing warned Liu Di that higher civilizations might control galaxies and said he intended to keep exploring.
• Liu Zhengqing described the Law of Entropy Increase and told Liu Di he believed Liu Di could become a variable capable of changing everything.
• Liu Zhengqing gave Liu Di the Brain Realm as a small Fifth Dimension World and told him to select new guards before it attracted attention beyond T7.
• Liu Zhengqing entered Sagittarius A*, leaving Liu Di alone at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Liu Di returned to T9 and discovered that Liu Zhengqing had been waiting for him to take the throne as the Lord of the Brain Realm. As the Brain Realm’s residents welcomed him, Liu Di accepted his father’s unconventional role and his new position.

• Liu Di found himself back in T9 after his consciousness left the Brain Realm continent, and the Brain Realm began to rumble.
• The smoky figure above T9 revealed Liu Di’s appearance, and Liu Di realized the giant on the throne mirrored his movements.
• Liu Di understood that Liu Zhengqing had brought him to T9 so he could claim the throne, and he accepted that his father was a godlike being.
• Residents across the Brain Realm recognized Liu Di as Di Ba and knelt to welcome their Lord.
• The seven Mo Yu hurriedly retracted City Lord Tower, while Yan Hongxin, Liu Manwen, and Xie Dong reacted to Liu Di’s rise.

Liu Di became the master of the Brain Realm and discovered he could perceive and reshape every part of it. He sent a restored continent into the universe and assigned Lin Xiaojie and the seven wraiths to guard T7 before preparing to fulfill the Brain Realm’s final purpose.

• Purple Moon, Officer Duan, Gu Fan, Zhang Buzai, Zhang Weiguo, and others reacted to Liu Di’s ascension, while Striving Youth congratulated him on dominating the server.
• Liu Di tested his new authority by reversing a drop of dew’s fall and restoring the shattered T6 zone as a continent capable of developing life.
• Liu Di detached the restored continent from the Brain Realm and sent it into the universe to see whether a new ecosystem could develop.
• Liu Di told Lin Xiaojie that her actions had been part of his trial but condemned her twisted mentality and willingness to use any means.
• Liu Di sent Lin Xiaojie and the seven wraiths to T7, froze them there, and ordered them to guard it against invading lifeforms.
• Liu Di prepared to fulfill the final wish for which he had created the Brain Realm.

Liu Di returned to reality from the Brain Realm, leaving Redback and Furball Chicken behind as its guardians while Yan Hongxin and Liu Manwen remained there. At Yingzhi Group, he discovered a powerful barefoot man approaching, who identified himself as Liu Di’s older brother, Liu Shang.

• Liu Di sent Gu Fan, Gu Xiao, Duan Hua, Zhang Buzai, and others back to reality, but learned that too many departures could destabilize the Brain Realm.
• Liu Manwen and Yan Hongxin chose to remain in the Brain Realm, and Liu Di left Redback there as its guardian with Furball Chicken occupying the throne.
• Liu Di woke in a hospital room at Yingzhi Group, where Yan Qingwen told him that the Punishers had arrived to protect the building.
• Using the Heavenly Eye, Liu Di spotted a barefoot man in white linen scattering armored vehicles as he approached Yingzhi Group.
• The man met Liu Di’s gaze and introduced himself as Liu Shang, Liu Di’s older brother.

A barefoot man in linen devastated Brightlight Street and advanced toward Yingzhi’s headquarters, where Liu Di realized the intruder might be his missing brother, Liu Shang. The chapter ended as Liu Di and the man met each other’s gaze across the distance.

• A barefoot man in linen walked through traffic on Brightlight Street, wrecking cars and injuring the Dragon Might augmented humans who tried to stop him.
• The man continued toward Yingzhi’s headquarters, and news reports identified him as Di Wu, prompting confusion about a possible Ghost Island split.
• Qiu and Jian Xu arrived, followed by Xia and Black-Clad, while media crews broadcast the unfolding crisis.
• Liu Di watched the man from Yingzhi’s top floor and wondered whether he was Liu Shang, the frail brother who had disappeared from the hospital.
• Liu Di and the barefoot man locked eyes across the distance.

A barefoot intruder overpowered the Punishers outside Yingzhi Tower and threatened Yan Qingwen, prompting Liu Di to jump from the building and reveal his glowing purple eye. The crowd recognized him as the real Di Wu, who had arrived to confront the intruder.

• Yan Qingwen warned Liu Di that the barefoot man seemed to be after her biochemical research results and urged him to leave.
• Jian Xu attacked the barefoot man with Phosphorite Runes, but the man escaped the flames and shattered Jian Xu’s sword with a single punch.
• Kun Sang and Little Xia attacked the barefoot man while Little Qiu fired an armor-piercing round to distract him, but he caught the bullet and suppressed their fighting spirit with fear.
• The barefoot man threatened Yan Qingwen and demanded that Liu Di stop hiding, while Yan Qingwen urged Liu Di to escape.
• Liu Di shattered the tower’s tempered glass and leaped from the sixtieth floor, landing in a burst of purple light.
• The reporters recognized the purple-eyed newcomer as the real Di Wu, arriving to confront the mysterious intruder.

Liu Di battled the barefoot man, who countered his attacks and exploited Liu Di’s urge to save someone trapped in a collapsing building. As Liu Di lost his right arm, a tiny blade appeared beside the barefoot man’s face.

• Liu Di sent Kun Sang and Little Xia back, then transformed into his black-armored form and attacked the barefoot man.
• The barefoot man blocked Liu Di’s rapid punches, and Liu Di increased his strength by merging Little Xia’s DNA and used Magic Child to predict the man’s movements.
• Liu Di’s predictions revealed openings, but the barefoot man changed his movements and blocked every attack.
• The barefoot man caused a nearby commercial center to collapse, and Liu Di rushed to save the person trapped inside.
• The barefoot man struck Liu Di as he tried to rescue the person, crushing Liu Di’s right arm, but a leaf-sized blade appeared beside the barefoot man’s face.

Liu Di protected a boy named Mu Lie while facing the barefoot man, who wounded him and demonstrated the power to vanish through a Time Breakpoint. The man promised to return at an impossible time to kill Liu Di, leaving Liu Di unsure when the attack would come.

• Liu Di rescued Mu Lie from the collapsing building and shielded him from rubble despite losing an arm.
• Liu Di told Mu Lie he would be safe, while the barefoot man approached and acknowledged that Liu Di had injured him.
• The barefoot man said Liu Di had 44 hours and 83 minutes before he came to kill him, then attacked in the form of a monstrous beast and vanished.
• Magic Child concluded that the barefoot man's disappearance involved a Time Breakpoint, and Liu Di realized the man could return at any moment.

After defeating the barefoot attacker at great cost, Liu Di faced the reporters as Di Wu and restored his severed arm, preserving the image of an undefeated guardian. His enemies and foreign powers learned he could be hurt, but the chapter ended with his body fully regenerated before the crowd.

• Liu Di helped the boy Mu Lie to his feet, and the two promised to remember each other.
• Kun Sang and Little Xia discovered that Liu Di had lost his right arm, while reporters began rushing to publicize his injury.
• Little Xia ordered Jian Xu to silence the reporters, but Liu Di allowed them to see his wound so his enemies would learn the truth.
• Leip watched the reports, realized Di Wu could be injured, and ordered his forces to find and support the barefoot attacker.
• Liu Di decided that Di Wu’s reputation as the East’s undefeated guardian had to endure, even if Liu Di himself could fall.
• Liu Di regenerated his severed arm with his Black and White Joker DNA and covered it with liquid metal, leaving the crowd astonished.

After regenerating from his injuries, Liu Di helped evacuate Sea City as the ground collapsed into a vast pit from the force of his battle with Liu Shang. Liu Di flew toward the European Nation, still wondering why Liu Shang had spared him and where he had gone.

• Leip watched Emperor Four's regeneration and agreed to his request to join a Buddhist sect in the Unified Nation.
• Liu Di ordered the Punishers to evacuate Sea City, then the ground beneath the battle site collapsed into a huge, bottomless pit.
• Liu Di explained that he had redirected some of the battle's force underground, while the barefoot man had allowed the rest to damage the area.
• Liu Di threw Kun Sang into the pit to deal with the broken underground utilities, and Kun Sang shouted that he was the Universe's Number One Expert as explosions erupted below.
• Liu Di wondered why Liu Shang had spared him and how Liu Shang controlled time, then boarded the Silver Shuttle and flew toward the European Nation.

Mr. Leip and General Cooper waited on a Northern California highway, where Leip explained his confidence in Cooper and his wish to see him fight the Tian Luo Group. The chapter ended with Leip revealing that Liu Di was about to arrive.

• Mr. Leip arrived in Northern California with General Cooper, his cybernetically enhanced bodyguard and a retired member of Death at Night.
• Leip said he felt safe with Cooper guarding him, except when Liu Di was around, and Cooper objected to his doubts about European Nation technology.
• Cooper vaporized a lizard with a laser weapon after Leip mistook it for a biochemical weapon.
• Cooper said he wanted to fight the Tian Luo Group, and Leip promised to help him gather its members.
• Leip recalled Liu Di summoning 283 Tian Luo during a military exercise and told Cooper that Liu Di was about to arrive.