Chapter Summaries

After parting from He Cang and Wan Yi, Liu Di encountered a young Mo Yu at the train station and realized the boy was a younger version of the ancient figure. Liu Di hypnotized Mo Yu with a trigger phrase, then left after making him kneel and call Liu Di “Daddy.”

• Liu Di watched He Cang and Wan Yi leave together, accepting responsibility for bringing He Cang into the era.
• Liu Di saw a conductor throw a young Mo Yu off a train for riding without a ticket.
• Mo Yu claimed to be a probationary Giant Son of the Mohist School and tried to persuade Liu Di to lend him money for a ticket to Russia.
• Liu Di noticed Mohist School disciples secretly watching over Mo Yu and used his hypnotic ability to plant a trigger phrase in Mo Yu’s memory.
• Liu Di said “Bian Guan Station,” causing Mo Yu to kneel and call him “Daddy,” then disappeared before the Mohist disciples could find him.

Liu Di returned to a restored 2021 and confronted Cao Yuan about causing the apocalypse by wounding young He Cang with a Time Halberd. After a vision warned that killing Cao Yuan would bring another apocalypse, Liu Di spared him and ordered him to reform the Time Group; Xing Yang’s memories then gained a new image of Liu Di.

• Liu Di returned to 2021, checked on his family and friends, and saw that Sea City and its projects had returned to normal.
• Liu Di wounded Cao Yuan with the Golden Trident and confronted him about the matching scar on He Cang’s back.
• Cao Yuan confessed that he had wounded young He Cang with a Time Halberd to create more missions for himself and the Time Group.
• Liu Di saw a vision of another apocalypse if he killed Cao Yuan, so he spared him and ordered him to rebuild the Time Group according to its rules.
• Cao Yuan pledged to reform the Time Group, then returned with Xing Yang and Hua Yue to Xing Yang’s era, where Xing Yang’s memories were refreshed with Liu Di’s image.

Liu Di returned to Xiuxiang Mountain and reunited with Whitebrow, who revealed that Wan Yi had lived a full life before passing away. When the Time Group came to kill Whitebrow for exceeding his lifespan, Liu Di overpowered its two enforcers and demanded to speak with whoever was in charge.

• Liu Di arrived at Xiuxiang Mountain and found Whitebrow and Ming Wan having tea.
• Whitebrow recognized Liu Di as his master, knelt before him, and showed him a photograph of Wan Yi, explaining that she had died peacefully after living out her natural lifespan.
• Whitebrow told Liu Di that he had returned to his hometown and built the temple, while Ming Wan struggled to understand that Liu Di was Whitebrow's master.
• Two Time Group successors arrived to correct Whitebrow for violating the rules of time, and Ming Wan failed to stop them.
• Liu Di caught the slender successor's blade and crushed it, then used his mental power to darken the clocks in both enforcers' eyes and demanded they summon their leader.

Liu Di drove off the Time Group’s acting captain and confronted Hua Yue when she arrived to handle the dispute. Recognizing him as an old friend, Hua Yue tried to end the conflict, but Liu Di refused, leaving her to wait while her disciples struggled to understand their history.

• Liu Di told the two Time Group members to bring their leader, then knocked their acting captain back down Xiuxiang Mountain with a chess piece.
• The two disciples complained about their constraints and summoned their master, Hua Yue, through a Golden Clock.
• Hua Yue arrived and reprimanded her disciples for falling behind the other groups, then went to confront Liu Di herself.
• Hua Yue recognized Liu Di, lowered her head, and called him an old friend, telling her disciples to let the matter end.
• Hua Yue asked Liu Di to wait, but he refused, and she stepped aside without further explanation.

Liu Di defended He Cang after Xing Yang arrived to enforce the Time Group’s rules, then confronted the group’s founder, Cao Yuan. The chapter ended with Liu Di demanding an explanation for the Time Group’s arbitrary killings.

• He Cang warned Liu Di that Xing Yang was coming, while Liu Di continued their Gomoku game and claimed a thirty-eight-in-a-row victory.
• Xing Yang appeared in a Golden Clock and declared that He Cang had broken the rules by living beyond the permitted age.
• Liu Di announced that He Cang was his disciple and kicked Xing Yang back into the Golden Clock, leaving the elder injured and terrified.
• Cao Yuan, the Time Group’s one-armed founder, arrived on foot and bowed to Liu Di, apologizing for his descendants’ actions.
• Liu Di returned to the chessboard and asked Cao Yuan whether the Time Group killed whoever it wanted.

Liu Di forced Cao Yuan and the Time Group members to submit, then placed Liu Shang in charge of the group and its Time Halberd before leaving Reincarnation Temple. Afterward, Cao Yuan disciplined the elders and disciples and learned that Xing Yang’s team had killed all two hundred-plus bodies of Mo Yu, whom Whitebrow said was Liu Di’s friend.

• Liu Di summoned the Golden Trident, making Cao Yuan, Xing Yang, Hua Yue, and the two junior members kneel and punish themselves.
• Liu Di rejected Cao Yuan’s offer to dissolve the Time Group and ordered that Liu Shang take control of its affairs and the Time Halberd.
• Liu Di entered a black vortex and left Reincarnation Temple, while Cao Yuan reassigned Xing Yang and sentenced the two juniors to forty years of time-loop training.
• Cao Yuan asked what else the elders had done, and Xing Yang admitted that he had sent a team to kill the Giant Son of the Mohist School.
• Xing Yang revealed that all two hundred-plus bodies of Mo Yu had died, and Whitebrow said Mo Yu was a good friend of his Master, shocking the Time Group members.

Cao Yuan led the panicked Time Group to the Mohist School after learning they had killed Liu Di’s friend two hundred times. At the Mohist Weishan Lake Base, Slow Life and Slow Death confronted Mo Yu after slaughtering his clones, while Mo Yu tried to stall them.

• Cao Yuan activated the Golden Trident and took the Time Group to the Mohist School, apologizing to Whitebrow as they left.
• The chapter explained how Cao Yuan found the Time Halberd, learned it could control time, and founded the Time Group.
• Slow Life and Slow Death slowed time across the Mohist Weishan Lake Base and killed more than two hundred Mo Yu clones.
• Slow Life and Slow Death accused Mo Yu of violating human rights and declared that they would end his life.
• Mo Yu invoked the Mohist School’s contributions to China and offered to explain them, but a Time Group member recognized that he was delaying for time.

Mo Yu faced execution by two Time Group members whose time-slowing abilities had overwhelmed him and the Mohist School disciples. A monstrous figure emerged from behind an alloy door, tore through their time barriers, and killed them, leaving Mo Yu’s fate uncertain.

• Two Time Group members cornered Mo Yu and dismissed his claim that his friend Liu Di could save him.
• Mo Yu accepted his apparent death and urged the frozen Mohist School disciples to develop technology and eventually master time.
• An explosion tore open a thick alloy door, and a monstrous figure emerged as Mo Yu recognized it and the Time Group members identified it as Liu Di.
• The monster broke through repeated time-slowing barriers and tore Slow Life in half.
• Slow Death hurled his dagger toward Mo Yu, but the monster sliced him into pieces before the attack’s outcome was revealed.

Mo Yu confronted the monstrous clone he had created, which escaped after destroying the Clone Center and set off to find Liu Di. Mortally wounded, Mo Yu crawled to the Mohist ancestral shrine, where he revealed a hidden reserve of 2,500 clones and asked Mo Jiuli to save him.

• Mo Yu's failed clone revealed that it had been conscious all along, then declared it would find Liu Di and escaped after wrecking the Clone Center.
• Mo Yu discovered Slow Death's dagger had pierced his heart and crawled toward the Mohist ancestral shrine, telling the disciples not to avenge him.
• Cao Yuan and the Time Group arrived, were attacked by the Mohist disciples, and fled; Cao Yuan failed to use the Time Halberd to change Mo Yu's death.
• Mo Yu entered the ancestral shrine with Mo Jiuli and revealed a hidden chamber filled with cultivation tanks and 2,500 prepared clones.
• Mo Yu asked Mo Jiuli to save him using the clones.

Mo Yu hid from Liu Di by faking his death, while Liu Di entered the River of Time and encountered a figure who looked like himself. The figure absorbed Liu Di in a stream of blue light, leaving his fate unknown.

• Mo Jiuli revived Mo Yu in a nutrient pod after Mo Yu staged his death to avoid Liu Di.
• Mo Yu claimed he was not afraid of Liu Di, then spotted a white-clad figure watching him before it vanished.
• Mo Yu asked Mo Jiuli to prepare two years of supplies so he could hide until Liu Di dealt with the berserk clone.
• Liu Di entered the River of Time and wondered why his Time Halberds had stopped evolving and lost one of them.
• Liu Di approached a mysterious figure in the River of Time and saw that it had his own face and purple light in its right eye.
• Liu Di asked if the figure was his future self, then condensed into blue light and was absorbed into it.

Liu Di recovered the missing Time Halberd and his complete memories, awakening the Six-Dimensional Overlook ability and learning that he had completed the Hell Dungeon across time. He arrived at the moment the old man assigned him the mission, proved it was done, and left the old man stunned with his explanation that higher dimensions began with zero-dimensionality.

• Liu Di realized that he was the missing fourth Time Halberd and that every version of him across the River of Time had been his original body.
• Magic Child upgraded to Fifth Sequence and named Liu Di’s new ability, which let him observe and exist across multiple spacetime coordinates, Six-Dimensional Overlook.
• Liu Di decided to find Gu Fan, then used the ability to travel to Kunyang City at the end of the Western Han and meet the old man who had assigned the Hell Dungeon.
• Liu Di told the old man he had already completed the Hell Dungeon, and the old man secretly checked the past before returning in shock.
• When the old man dismissed Liu Di’s claims about dimensions, Liu Di explained that time could be treated as zero and that understanding higher dimensions began with the Zero-Dimensional.

Liu Di explained how he had watched Mo Yu’s apparent death and revival across time, then deduced that Gu Fan’s selected years encoded Four-Dimensional Village’s location. The old man denied Liu Di’s conclusion, leaving his deduction unconfirmed.

• The old man failed to understand Liu Di’s remarks about time and dimensions, while Cao Yuan arrived and confessed to killing Mo Yu and his clones.
• Liu Di used his higher-dimensional overview to watch events at the Mohist Weishan Lake Base across thirty days, seeing Mo Yu’s apparent death and eventual revival.
• Back in Kunyang City, Liu Di told Cao Yuan he believed him but said he could not have killed Mo Yu.
• The old man refused to reveal Four-Dimensional Village’s address and insisted Liu Di would need to pass more trials to meet Gu Fan.
• Liu Di deduced that Gu Fan had encoded the village’s address in the years she gave him, and the old man was left speechless.

Liu Di reached the Four-Dimensional Village after finding its address, then encountered a grandmother who appeared in dozens of projections. After she applied ointment to his temples, the mist surrounding the village cleared.

• Liu Di used the Golden Trident to test over forty million number combinations and found the address of the Four-Dimensional Village.
• Liu Di vanished from the Western Han, leaving Cao Yuan behind, and arrived in a small, lush village beyond a barrier.
• Liu Di met an elderly grandmother who appeared in multiple places and brought him water and food with her little yellow dogs.
• The grandmother explained that the villagers used Three-Dimensional Projection and applied ointment to Liu Di's temples.
• Liu Di looked up and saw the white mist surrounding the village disperse.

Liu Di discovered that Four-Dimensional Village was an immense network of identical villages and learned about its conference for entering the fifth dimension. After hearing that Gu Fan would marry whoever achieved that, he rushed to find her, but a four-dimensional maze blocked his way, prompting him to use his abilities to search for a path.

• Liu Di learned from the old grandmother that the villages were projections in a vast four-dimensional system and that her grandaunt's nephew was the old immortal he had encountered.
• The grandmother explained that the village's Dimensional Ascension Conference would test young villagers for entry into the fifth dimension and that the winner could marry Gu Fan.
• Liu Di learned Gu Fan was the Village Chief's daughter and hurried toward the village, declaring that he had come to compete.
• Liu Di realized that each step shifted him into another cube, trapping him in a four-dimensional maze.
• Liu Di activated five Time Halberds and used his Sixth Dimension overview to search the village, startling the Village Chief and the elders.
• The Village Chief sent five elders to stop Liu Di, but the old man volunteered to take one group himself.

Four-Dimensional Village’s elders failed to observe Liu Di’s past and realized he had advanced toward the Sixth Dimension. As Liu Di’s countless clones strained the four-dimensional world, the old man set out to stop him himself.

• The four elders tried to observe Liu Di’s history but found his traces unobservable, and the old man warned that the village would never be able to observe him again.
• The old man explained that Liu Di had reached the edge of the Sixth Dimension and that his clones could occupy countless points in the past at once.
• Liu Di’s rapid traversal shook Four-Dimensional Village, so the old man sent the four elders into separate cubes to stop him without acting recklessly.
• The Village Chief admitted he could no longer understand Liu Di, while the old man said the Village Chief had misunderstood what mattered.
• The old man projected himself before every pavilion as he moved to stop Liu Di, leaving the Village Chief stunned.

Liu Di continued searching Four-Dimensional Village for Gu Fan, patiently yielding to a schoolteacher and repeatedly settling a dispute while encountering strange loops. The chapter left him wondering about the Judge’s capacity as the same grievance kept returning.

• Liu Di reflected on spending eighty years searching Four-Dimensional Village and hoped to reunite with Gu Fan.
• Liu Di repeatedly made way for identical schoolteachers and youths crossing a Single-plank Bridge, receiving handfuls of wheat grains from the youths.
• Liu Di entered a courtroom and was asked by the Judge to hear a case before the Judge hurried off to the latrine.
• Liu Di resolved a dispute by telling a farmer to buy a distilling vat for a woman whose fermentation starter the farmer had stolen.
• The grievance drum sounded again as another identical pair entered, and Liu Di patiently handled hundreds of repeated hearings.
• Liu Di wondered how much capacity the Judge had as the grievance continued to recur.

Liu Di repeatedly faced wedding invitations and a long Go match while traveling through Four-Dimensional Village, responding with patience and courtesy. At the village center, Elder Xiao Liang reported that Liu Di had passed the test of benevolence.

• Liu Di encountered hundreds of wedding processions, offered each couple an ivy decoration as a blessing, and collected their return-gift pouches.
• Liu Di waited five hours as a boy played Go against the Bridge Officer, then accepted a gourd after the boy won and crossed the lowered bridge.
• Gu Beijiang watched from the Fifth Dimension Conference arena but could no longer understand or observe Liu Di’s actions.
• Elder Xiao Liang told Gu Beijiang that Liu Di had remained humble, courteous, and considerate during eight hundred Bridge tests, and declared that he had passed the test of benevolence.

The Village Chief and the elders accepted that Liu Di had passed four virtue tests, but the Village Chief insisted he still had to pass the test of trust before he would approve Liu Di’s relationship with Gu Fan. Carrying the goods he had earned through the tests, Liu Di encountered a soot-covered old man who wanted him to brew wine.

• Lord Judge, the bride in red, and the child reported that Liu Di had shown righteousness, etiquette, and wisdom, lighting the corresponding ancestral statues.
• The Village Chief remained opposed to Liu Di marrying Gu Fan until he passed the final test of trust, while Elder Yun Hong admitted she hoped to marry Liu Di herself if Gu Fan could not.
• Liu Di reunited his three avatars and discovered he had brought back wheat, fermentation starter, spices, and a wine gourd.
• Liu Di found Little Yellow, the village granny’s lost dog, and carried it along as he continued onward.
• A soot-covered old man emerged from a clay stove and revealed that he lacked the supplies and skill to brew wine.
• Liu Di realized the old man wanted him to brew wine with his supplies, and the two challenged each other over whether Liu Di knew how.

Liu Di saw through Gu Gu Gu’s attempt to get him to brew wine and learned that the black pavilion held a sealed Sacred Object said to contain the future. Gu Gu Gu opened its door for Liu Di, though it appeared the incantation had done nothing.

• Liu Di deduced that Gu Gu Gu had arranged the previous tests to gather ingredients for wine and refused to brew him a gourd.
• Gu Gu Gu boasted that he was Four-Dimensional Village’s top expert and the only person to enter the Fifth Dimension, but Liu Di suspected his offer was a trap.
• Gu Gu Gu revealed that the village’s black pavilion was an ancestral relic containing a Sacred Object he believed could show the future.
• Gu Gu Gu claimed the Sacred Object could let Liu Di’s clones enter the future and return with knowledge of the best choices, and offered it in exchange for wine and his support of Liu Di’s relationship with Gu Fan.
• Liu Di demanded to see the Sacred Object before agreeing, so Gu Gu Gu chanted and pushed open the pavilion door, which appeared to open with no help from the incantation.

Liu Di discovered that the Four-Dimensional Village’s sacred object was sealed inside a password-protected safe with a self-destruct system, and Gu Fan’s grandfather wanted him to help open it. Liu Di agreed to brew wine for him out of family duty, then used Fluid Metal to prepare the wheat with precise care.

• Liu Di found a numeric keypad and an alloy safe inside the pavilion, and learned that bypassing its password would trigger a self-destruct system.
• Liu Di realized that Gu Fan’s grandfather had lured him in to help crack the safe, but agreed to help after explaining that he considered the old man family.
• Liu Di began brewing wine by laying the wheat grains flat, then used Fluid Metal to crush each grain by three quarters.
• Liu Di explained how the crushed wheat and remaining husks would affect fermentation, prompting Gu Fan’s grandfather to ask him to talk properly.