Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan followed Jack’s letter to a mysterious bookstore, where an illusory descendant of Agulaslode warned him to keep the Evil Greatsword from the Demon King and use the Shadow-Banishing Cloak. As the Demon King’s emergence drew near, the chapter revealed that the high-level player Lizard Tamer had joined the duke’s forces and was promising to fight the Demon King.

• Wang Zhifan enjoyed the circus in the outer city until a courier delivered him a letter from Jack directing him to a bookstore with information about the Demon King.
• Wang Zhifan suspected a trap and sent a clone into the bookstore, where it found an illusory shopkeeper and learned about the Demon King’s history, the Evil Greatsword, and the Shadow-Banishing Cloak.
• The shopkeeper identified himself as a descendant of Agulaslode, urged Wang Zhifan to keep the sword from the Demon King and use the cloak, then vanished without attacking him.
• Wang Zhifan recalled his clone, wondered how others had learned about his equipment, and decided to cultivate while waiting for the final battle.
• Lizard Tamer, a famous Indian player named Raji, gathered with powerful humans in the royal capital and claimed he could hold back or destroy the Demon King.

After the Demon King Morpheus escaped his seal and began corrupting the sea, Grand Duke Agulaslode mobilized high-level professionals to defend the Pitch-Black Tower. He secretly sent Wang Zhifan to guard the Dungeon, where Wang suspected Morpheus might seek the Undying Hell Dragon’s power and decided to warn Yicui Si.

• Morpheus broke free from his prison beneath a vast sea, corrupted a passing ship and its passengers, and declared that he would eradicate humanity.
• A phantom confronted Morpheus and warned that he had lost his immortality and would be defeated without help, but Morpheus tore the phantom apart and flew toward the continent in human form.
• Grand Duke Agulaslode summoned nearly ten powerful professionals, announced that Morpheus was likely heading for the Pitch-Black Tower, and sent Raj and the others there through a portal.
• Agulaslode sent Wang Zhifan a magical carrier pigeon with a private warning that Morpheus might target either the Pitch-Black Tower or the Dungeon, leaving the Dungeon to him.
• Wang Zhifan considered that Morpheus might seek the Undying Hell Dragon’s power of immortality and decided to warn Yicui Si, whose allegiance to the Demon King was uncertain.

Wang Zhifan tried to persuade Yicui Si to join the humans against the Demon King, offering her a chance to negotiate for her people’s future. Meanwhile, the Demon King arrived at the Pitch-Black Tower, broke through the defenders’ formation, and fought the undying Lizard Tamer as it raced to recover its equipment.

• Wang Zhifan warned Yicui Si that the Demon King had escaped its seal and urged her to ally with the humans, but she argued that she might side with the Demon King to protect her people.
• Wang Zhifan offered to introduce Yicui Si to human leaders for peaceful negotiations, while warning that refusal could bring another fight between them.
• The Demon King revealed itself to the professionals guarding the Pitch-Black Tower, smashed through the Lizard Tamer’s giant lizard, and entered the tower.
• The Grand Duke ordered the professionals to hold their positions, but Raji pursued the Demon King into the tower alone.
• The Demon King killed Raji repeatedly, but Raji reassembled himself with his undying power and kept attacking.
• The Demon King decided to leave Raji alive for the moment and raced deeper into the tower to retrieve its former equipment.

Raji escaped the Demon King and claimed he had nearly defeated it, while the Demon King sought to recruit Kor, the Red Dragon, and recover its old equipment. Kor rejected the Demon King, joined the human camp, and urged them to summon the strongest human; after finding its weapon missing and learning a human had cleared the High Tower at a terrifying speed, the Demon King suspected it had found its true opponent.

• Raji withdrew from the High Tower before his ability reached its limit, then told the waiting professionals that he had nearly killed the Demon King.
• The Demon King tried to recruit Kor, the Red Dragon, but Kor refused and warned that a human stronger than the Demon King was coming for it.
• Kor transformed into a red-haired woman, left the High Tower, and offered to join the human camp if they let her go.
• Agulaslode recognized that Kor meant Wang Zhifan, informed her that he had summoned him, and asked Kor to help hold the Demon King back.
• The Demon King reached the High Tower's highest floor, discovered its weapon was missing, and found records of a human clearing the tower at an extraordinary speed.
• The Demon King suspected that the human Kor had described was the one who had cleared the High Tower.

The Demon King emerged from the Pitch-Black Tower and overwhelmed the professionals waiting outside, including Kor and the players who had joined the encirclement. The grand duke briefly restrained it while everyone attacked, but the Demon King broke free and unleashed Annihilation Light upon them.

• The grand duke supplied the professionals guarding the Pitch-Black Tower, while players infiltrated the convoy and gathered nearby to join the fight.
• The grand duke allowed the players to take positions around the tower, and Kor waited with the professionals for the Demon King and Wang Zhifan.
• The Demon King's avatar emerged from the tower, transformed into its true body, and struck down the professionals blocking its path as Raji retreated.
• The grand duke trapped the Demon King in a translucent purple cube, and professionals and players unleashed their attacks against it.
• The Demon King endured the barrage, broke free, rose into the sky, and used Annihilation Light against everyone below.

Wang Zhifan used the Blade of Time and the Great Dream Saber Scripture’s Life Is a Dream to annihilate the Demon King and the beings assisting it, ending the attack on the Grand Duke’s formation. The players received dungeon completion rewards, while the people nearby were left stunned and unsure what had happened.

• The Grand Duke’s purple formation held back the Demon King’s Annihilation Light as the class-holders fled, and Wang Zhifan arrived with Yicui Si.
• The Demon King used Space Law to kill Yicui Si and trap Wang Zhifan among terrifying phantoms.
• Wang Zhifan activated Time Stop and used Life Is a Dream to erase the phantoms, the Demon King, and their spatial power.
• The Annihilation Light vanished, allowing the Grand Duke’s formation to prevail, while nearby observers struggled to understand the sudden change.
• The players received a settlement notification confirming the Demon King’s defeat, awarded Wang Zhifan the Hero title, and offered dungeon rewards.

Wang Zhifan chose his rewards after killing the Demon King, then prepared to leave the instance. Before returning to reality, he urged Grand Duke Agulaslode to give Yicui Si a chance to rule peacefully and entrusted Little Flying Elephant with a ring and a message for Jack.

• Wang Zhifan selected one Legendary and two Epic rewards, while the NPCs searched for the vanished Demon King and Raji falsely claimed credit for its defeat.
• Wang Zhifan told Little Flying Elephant that the Demon King was dead and warned it to collect valuable items that might drop when he left.
• Grand Duke Agulaslode asked Wang Zhifan about the power that destroyed the Demon King, and Wang Zhifan urged him to let Yicui Si prove herself as the new Demon King.
• Wang Zhifan gave Little Flying Elephant a silver ring for Jack and asked it to wish Jack and Alice a happy life together.
• Wang Zhifan confirmed his return to reality on the Pitch-Black Tower's lowest floor and disappeared.

After returning from a dungeon, Wang Zhifan replaced his equipment, inspected the legendary Pitch-Black Tower, and reviewed his improved status. He began a High Tower trial to test his strength, effortlessly killing the first monster with a single strike.

• Wang Zhifan confirmed that the Evil Greatsword and Shadow-Banishing Cloak had vanished, but Little Flying Elephant's modification to his ring remained.
• Wang Zhifan equipped the Hero's Demon-Slaying Gauntlets and Demon King's World-Destroying War Armor, keeping the Formless Specter Garment for disguises.
• Wang Zhifan enlarged the Pitch-Black Tower, explored its top-floor bedroom, and teleported to its lowest floor to start a trial.
• Wang Zhifan checked his status panel and noted his Hero title and greatly increased attributes.
• Wang Zhifan blocked a charging monster's axe with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend, then shattered the weapon and split the monster in two with a stronger strike.

Wang Zhifan tested the Pitch-Black Tower’s monsters and equipment, then studied its reward list and monthly production limits. He decided the tower could help cultivate trusted subordinates, potentially using believers from his stalled faith-gathering plan.

• Wang Zhifan defeated the first-floor monsters and left behind a Rare Savage Helm while asking the Pitch-Black Tower to summon a stronger opponent.
• Wang Zhifan fought a powerful Blood Count, whose bats were destroyed by the Demon King's Battle Armor’s Annihilation Aura, and claimed an Excellent Blood Count's Thorn.
• Wang Zhifan reviewed the tower’s reward list, including Rare and Excellent equipment, potions, and summoned creatures, but found few items that would greatly increase his strength.
• Wang Zhifan learned that the tower could produce one set of Excellent equipment and ten sets of Rare equipment each month, among other supplies, but decided against becoming an equipment merchant.
• Wang Zhifan considered using the Pitch-Black Tower to train trusted subordinates and saw his believers as a way to put the tower to use and strengthen his faith-gathering plan.

Wang Zhifan visited Urban Planet to inspect and learn to pilot his new spaceship, bought firearms and ammunition, and checked on the mecha search. He then took the frigate to Gaia Planet, where its scans revealed abundant resources and inspired him to consider developing the planet for profit.

• Wang Zhifan summoned Little Red and learned that his Universal SIII-class Frigate was waiting in Berth 1 of his building.
• Wang Zhifan completed the ship's immersive flight training, piloted the frigate, and purchased ballistic pistols, laser pistols, ammunition, and battery packs.
• Little Red told Wang Zhifan that Catherine had contacted seven mecha manufacturers and was preparing a list of models.
• Wang Zhifan transferred himself and the frigate to Gaia Planet and began scanning its landscapes, creatures, and minerals.
• Wang Zhifan discovered that the scans had covered about 0.01% of Gaia Planet's information and considered establishing an industry on Urban Planet to develop its resources.

Wang Zhifan assigned Yilin and Yali to gather fruit on Gaia Star and train in a spacecraft, then went to the Limitless Sect and accepted leadership of Wind-Snow Tower. He agreed to let Xiong Tianli’s disciples Xun'er and Qing'er manage the tower and gain experience, with Xiong hoping Wang would guide them.

• Wang Zhifan taught Yilin and Yali how to use the spacecraft’s training cabin, demonstrated how to gather fruit on Gaia Star, and warned them not to fly the ship or confront dangerous beasts.
• Wang Zhifan traveled to the Limitless Sect, where Xiong Tianli announced that Wang would become the master of Wind-Snow Tower with the support of other sect leaders.
• Xiong Tianli asked Wang to let his disciples Xun'er and Qing'er help manage Wind-Snow Tower and Tigerhead Town, but they protested that they would rather stay at the sect.
• Wang Zhifan accepted Xiong Tianli’s proposal and said the disciples could take charge of the tower’s affairs.
• Xiong Tianli explained that he wanted Xun'er and Qing'er to gain combat and management experience, help stabilize Tigerhead Town, and receive guidance from Wang Zhifan.

Wang Zhifan formally took over Wind-Snow Tower in Tigerhead Town and began learning about its personnel while planning to turn the town into a source of Faith Power. After hearing about the Demon Gate threat and the tower's looted supplies, he prepared to use the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book to identify spies within the tower.

• Wang Zhifan and Xiong Tianli completed the transfer of Wind-Snow Tower with Old He and discussed the town's unsettled people and the Demon Gate threat.
• Wang Zhifan advised Old He to encourage townspeople to pray for comfort, while Xiong Tianli warned him to guard against the Demon Gate's rites.
• Wang Zhifan insisted on searching for Demon Gate forces immediately and told Xiong Tianli he would root out their hideouts.
• Old He showed Wang Zhifan Wind-Snow Tower's layout and explained that members of Dharma Zen Temple and the Quicksand Sword Sect had taken valuables and emptied much of its library and storerooms.
• Wang Zhifan asked Old He to summon people from a list, then returned to the hall with the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book and ordered it to calculate every spy in Wind-Snow Tower.

After divining that Wind-Snow Tower was riddled with Demon Gate spies, Wang Zhifan gathered everyone under the pretext of a grand meeting and called out those he had identified. He confronted the disguised Mo Ji as Huo Huannian and thrust a blade toward her to test his accusation.

• Wang Zhifan used the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book to uncover Demon Gate spies and other threats inside Wind-Snow Tower.
• He ordered Old He to summon everyone except the hidden guards, while Xiong Tianli warned him that imprisoned Demon Gate members had tried to escape.
• More than a hundred Wind-Snow Tower members gathered, and Wang Zhifan called out over a dozen people whose identities his divinations had exposed.
• Wang Zhifan confronted Huo Huannian, told him he suspected he was the Demon Gate witch Mo Ji in disguise, and thrust a blade toward his chest.

Wang Zhifan exposed multiple Demon Gate infiltrators during the assembly, earning the trust and admiration of those present. He ended by ordering his subordinates to raid a Demon Gate hideout in Tigerhead Town.

• Wang Zhifan's preparations caught the disguised Demon Gate woman posing as Huo Huannian, and Xiong Tianli exposed her true form.
• Wang Zhifan accused Sun Xiang of being a spy and produced a letter in Sun Xiang's handwriting that proved his betrayal; he ordered Sun Xiang detained for interrogation.
• Wang Zhifan cleared Qu E of suspicion and used his Ice Source Power to kill and remove the gu worm the Demon Gate had planted in her body.
• Wang Zhifan presented evidence as he exposed the backgrounds of the other people he named, strengthening the assembly's trust in him.
• Wang Zhifan gave his subordinates intelligence about a Demon Gate hideout in Tigerhead Town and ordered them to lead teams there to destroy it.

Wang Zhifan assigned Wind-Snow Tower forces to strike Demon Gate hideouts, then used the imprisoned spies to gather combat data for the Pitch-Black Tower Localization Project. After pushing Mo Ji to display her techniques, he killed her and decided to seek more local opponents.

• Wang Zhifan sent Old He, Wu Xun, and Yang Qingqing to attack Demon Gate locations around the city.
• Xiong Tianli asked where Wang Zhifan had obtained his intelligence, but Wang refused to reveal his confidential sources, and Xiong departed reassured about the Wind-Snow Tower.
• Wang Zhifan took the bound Demon Gate spies to the underground prison and fought them one by one to record their abilities for the Pitch-Black Tower.
• Wang Zhifan let Mo Ji attack and attempt to escape, forcing her to reveal her demonic arts and combat techniques.
• Mo Ji tried to destroy herself, but Wang Zhifan restrained the blast; after she fainted, he killed her and decided to find more local opponents.

Wang Zhifan configured enemies and rewards for the Pitch-Black Tower, then directed his sole believer to travel to Tigerhead Town before using the Universe Lord Badge to visit another world. He explored a village and tavern there, where he encountered a powerful swordsman but could not understand the locals.

• Wang Zhifan customized Demon Gate and Righteous Assembly Gate enemies as tower mobs and bosses, and planned rewards including healing potions, equipment, guns, and cultivation techniques.
• Wang Zhifan sent his village-girl believer a message telling her to travel from Pingwu City to Tigerhead Town for further guidance.
• Wang Zhifan left instructions for Old He and Wu Xun, then activated the Universe Lord Badge and appeared in a field in an unfamiliar world.
• Wang Zhifan entered a village, where a red-haired child fled from him and a wary, silver-haired swordsman spoke to him in an incomprehensible language.
• Wang Zhifan entered a tavern, found that he could not communicate with its patrons, and drank his own rice wine while observing them.

Wang Zhifan discovered that the Universe Lord Badge translated spoken and written language, then met a witcher named Gate and joined him on the road to Novi Town. Gate mistook Wang Zhifan for a wizard and warned him that a witch hunt might be underway there.

• Wang Zhifan realized the badge gradually translated local speech and writing, then left Red-Nosed Tom Tavern after its landlady expelled him for bringing his own alcohol.
• Wang Zhifan watched farmers refuse to pay a witcher for killing drowners and insult him as he left the village.
• Wang Zhifan asked whether the witcher was Jernot and whether he had a daughter named Ciri, but the man said his name was Gate and that witchers could not reproduce.
• Wang Zhifan summoned his Crimson Deer Horse and agreed to travel with Gate to Novi Town after Gate mistook him for a wizard.
• Gate told Wang Zhifan that supernatural power had declined over the past century and that kingdoms were persecuting people with supernatural abilities.

Wang Zhifan followed Gate into the forest, where Gate hunted Daywalking Wraiths before a Griffin attacked them. When the Griffin threatened Wang Zhifan’s Crimson Deer Horse, Wang Zhifan killed it with a single sword strike, leaving Gate stunned by his power.

• Gate detected nearby monsters and led Wang Zhifan into the forest to hunt Daywalking Wraiths.
• Gate prepared his silver sword with special oil and killed the Wraiths while Wang Zhifan watched.
• A Griffin swooped down and chased Gate through the forest as his Signs failed to stop it.
• Gate tried to lure the Griffin toward his horse, but it targeted Wang Zhifan’s Crimson Deer Horse instead.
• Wang Zhifan appeared above the Griffin and beheaded it with one sword strike, astonishing Gate.

After Gate recognized Elena among two women condemned to be burned, Wang Zhifan urged him to act and promised to help. Gate chose to attack the execution, but the black-robed elder launched fireballs at the pyres as guards moved to stop him.

• Gate thanked Wang Zhifan for killing the griffin, and Wang Zhifan stored its body and head in his spatial ring before they rode toward Novi Town.
• Gate disguised himself with a hood and eyepatch, and the pair entered the bustling town without trouble.
• At the town square, Wang Zhifan saw two women bound to iron frames above oil-soaked pyres, and Gate recognized one of them as Elena.
• Wang Zhifan sent a Dream Self clone after Gate and told him to act rather than live with regret, promising to help.
• Gate used Frost Seal to extinguish the guards’ torches, drew his sword, and charged toward the pyres to rescue both women.
• The black-robed elder ordered the guards to stop Gate and hurled two fireballs at the pyres.

Wang Zhifan rescued the two women from execution, escaped with Gate to a hidden inn, and used Time Law Power to restore them completely. After witnessing the miracle, Gate and the women listened as Wang Zhifan introduced them to the lord he claimed to worship.

• Wang Zhifan’s clone fought the black-robed old man while Gate battled guards, and Wang Zhifan teleported to the pyre and rescued the two women.
• Wang Zhifan froze the old man, the guard captain, and others connected to the execution, then joined Gate and the women as they fled the scene.
• Gate led the group to a hidden inn, where he comforted Elena and the other woman while Wang Zhifan prepared to heal them.
• Wang Zhifan performed a makeshift prayer ritual and reversed the women’s injuries with Time Law Power, restoring their tongues and bodies.
• Gate marvelled at the complete recovery, and Wang Zhifan told the women that his lord had answered his prayer and began introducing them to the lord’s grace.