Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan swept through the maze, claimed its treasures, and reached a powerful angel guarding the deepest chamber. After battling her for two hours, he agreed to stop and demanded the truth about her identity and the real reward.

• Wang Zhifan gave Hank the Shining Crown to sell for his younger siblings’ treatment, then left him behind when Hank insisted on following him.
• Wang Zhifan defeated the fanatical adventurers and claimed the Epic Tier Purgatory Throne, then continued through the maze and collected its treasures.
• Wang Zhifan reached a chamber of ghostly blue flames, where an angel warned him to leave and claimed there were no treasures.
• Wang Zhifan challenged the angel, and they fought fiercely for two hours as she countered his techniques and her blue flames diminished.
• The angel conceded and asked Wang Zhifan to stop, but Wang Zhifan called the fight a draw and demanded to know who she was, where the real reward was, and why she was there.

Wang Zhifan freed Seraph Jilupo from her centuries-long imprisonment in exchange for her Lawsense Crystal, then assimilated it and made a major breakthrough in the Space Law. The crystal also evolved his Supreme Blood to legendary rank, bringing him closer to mastering the All-Time-Space Eternal Freedom Scripture.

• Jilupo told Wang Zhifan that she was a Seraph imprisoned beneath the labyrinth, and Wang proposed freeing her in return for a treasure.
• Jilupo offered her legendary Seraph Sword, but Wang asked instead for her knowledge of the Spacetime Law.
• Wang called upon the Vermilion Bird, whose power let him shatter the suppression placed on Jilupo by the Lord of Radiance.
• Jilupo gave Wang her legendary Lawsense Crystal, then tore open space and left the Purgatory World.
• Wang returned to his villa on Earthstar, assimilated the crystal, and gained the ability to influence the Space Law.
• Wang checked his personal panel and discovered that his Supreme Blood had risen from epic to legendary rank.

Wang Zhifan shared dinner with Chu Wei, who described worsening Ash Domain crises and the dangers of her recent dungeons. Before they parted, he secretly gave her an exceptional-grade necklace suited to her summoning class and disappeared before she could refuse it.

• Wang Zhifan ate the meal prepared by Yilin and Yali, praised their cooking, and then accepted Chu Wei's invitation to dinner.
• Chu Wei treated Wang Zhifan to dinner using bonuses from the Second Bureau, and he asked about her work.
• Chu Wei told Wang Zhifan that Ash Domains were spreading internationally, foreign players were entering the country, and the bureau was preparing a border defense plan.
• Chu Wei recounted how she had led her team through Nightmare Street after ghosts injured or killed several teammates, while Wang Zhifan shared his own dungeon experiences.
• Wang Zhifan gave Chu Wei his exceptional-grade Commander's Heart necklace, telling her to treat it as a loan, then vanished before she could refuse.

Wang Zhifan gave Chu Wei an exceptional-grade necklace, then moved the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode to the Phantom-Phase Planet world to cultivate the Time Law. He entered All-Time-Space Eternal Freedom Scripture, gained powerful spacetime abilities, and began testing how far he could develop them.

• Wang Zhifan gave Chu Wei the Commander's Heart necklace and wondered how she and the Administration would respond.
• Wang Zhifan moved the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode to a meteor near the temporal loop in the Phantom-Phase Planet world and began studying the Time Law.
• Wang Zhifan combined his influence over the Time and Space Laws to meet the entry requirement for All-Time-Space Eternal Freedom Scripture and advanced it to Lv1.
• Wang Zhifan discovered that he could move himself briefly through time and gained a major increase in his attributes, especially Spirit.
• Wang Zhifan tested his improved spatial control by teleporting, cutting through space with the Azure Emperor Saber, and traveling through a spatial passage.
• Wang Zhifan began developing Spatial Slash and Spatial Defense as he planned to expand his spacetime abilities.

Wang Zhifan entered a ruined-city instance, chose the Martial Artist identity for its bonus experience, and weighed whether to join a team. Other players crowded around to recruit him after recognizing him as a rare melee fighter, but he realized they wanted him to serve as a front-line shield.

• Wang Zhifan returned from the Void Realm, replied to the Chen Ming brothers about meeting later, and entered the day's instance.
• Wang Zhifan arrived in a ruined city and read the objective: obtain an Emissary Core from an Envoy and deliver it to a researcher outside Bamo City.
• Wang Zhifan compared the available identities and chose Martial Artist for double experience, accepting that fleeing would draw nearby enemies' aggro.
• Players gathered to form teams, while Wang Zhifan considered going alone and watched two lone players leave for the city.
• Players from several groups approached Wang Zhifan to recruit him as a Warrior, and he realized they wanted him to take hits at the front while they attacked from safety.

Wang Zhifan explored ruined Bamo City while Little Red hacked into a local network and uncovered information about the Envoys and the city. He learned that the Envoys periodically attacked the city and that a research facility forty kilometers northeast collected their cores.

• Wang Zhifan refused several players' invitations to join their teams and continued exploring alone.
• Wang Zhifan asked Little Red to search local networks for information about the Envoys and the researcher collecting Emissary Cores.
• Little Red hacked a local network terminal and deciphered data as Wang Zhifan headed toward Bamo City's center.
• Wang Zhifan watched decora punks flee when Silver Falcon, a Peace Walker, intervened in their staged gunfight; Silver Falcon refused to discuss the Envoys and left.
• Little Red told Wang Zhifan that the Envoys attacked Bamo City every ten days to one month and that a research group collecting their cores operated forty kilometers northeast.
• Little Red explained that Bamo City's 370,000 residents lived underground after the Envoys destroyed the former metropolis.

Wang Zhifan entered underground Bamo City and discovered that his Combat Association identity gave him access to the wealthy district. After killing a group that tried to frame him, he demanded a match against the association president and learned he had gained the authority to challenge.

• Wang Zhifan froze and killed three Turkey Gang robbers on the surface after Little Red identified them as garbage-dump guards.
• Wang Zhifan entered underground Bamo City using his existing identity as a Combat Association fighter and headed for the association building.
• Wang Zhifan exposed a flower seller's attempted theft, then froze the inspector and his subordinates when they tried to arrest him, and killed them all.
• Wang Zhifan told Little Red to erase his network records and dispose of the bodies before entering the Combat Association.
• Wang Zhifan demanded a match against the president, and the receptionist discovered that he had gained the authority to challenge.

While other players explored Bamo City and searched for intelligence, Wang Zhifan relaxed in an apartment and arranged to challenge the Combat Association president through a clone. Unable to learn much about the mysterious Envoys, he decided to investigate the research institute outside the city himself.

• A Korean player spotted Wang Zhifan in mechanical armor leaping between buildings and set out to approach him for intelligence.
• A United States team escorted a surviving NPC toward the underground city entrance and sent a toy soldier called Jack to deal with threats outside.
• A beggar-like researcher dismissed a lone player following him, changed his appearance, and rode a motorcycle northeast while a fly trailed him.
• Wang Zhifan learned from Little Red that the Combat Association president had accepted his publicly announced challenge, and he planned to send a clone to fight in his place.
• Little Red showed Wang Zhifan footage from a research institute where staff argued over the difficulty of studying Envoy materials, but the footage revealed little useful information.
• Wang Zhifan decided to travel to the research institute to investigate the Envoys, leaving his clone and Little Red to handle matters beneath Bamo City.

Korean players captured Peace Walker Silver Falcon with specialized equipment, but his samurai sword broke the cage and helped him escape. Elsewhere in Bamo City, a foreign team began violently dominating the civilian district as Xia Kingdom players debated avoiding them and investigating the mysterious Envoys.

• A narrow-eyed player lured Peace Walker Silver Falcon into an ambush, where a female player restrained him and the group locked him in a metal cage.
• Silver Falcon's samurai sword suddenly freed itself, cut through the cage, and distracted the players long enough for him to escape; the group decided to rig the sword with a bomb and discard it.
• A foreign team entered Bamo City's civilian district and used ghostly hands to attack the hostile NPCs gathered around them.
• The tall white woman refused to let her teammate feed on the NPCs and ordered her team to seize control of the district, gather information about the Envoys, and prepare to fight them.
• A bespectacled Xia Kingdom player urged Aweng and the others to relocate and avoid conflict, explaining that the powerful, unusually large player lineup and the inaccessible information about the Envoys made the dungeon seem suspicious.

Wang Zhifan infiltrated an underground research institute to investigate the Envoys, but found its researchers knew little. After the Azure Emperor Saber helped him break a rule that isolated Little Red from the institute’s network, Little Red uncovered a top-secret recording about how the Envoys’ information had been hidden.

• Wang Zhifan overheard a disguised player hypnotizing the institute’s director, while a powerful fly outside the laboratory also appeared to be another player’s spy.
• Wang Zhifan reached the institute’s mainframe, where an unknown force cut off Little Red’s connection whenever he entered the server room.
• Wang Zhifan used the Azure Emperor Saber to detect and sever a rule restricting the flow of information.
• Little Red regained access to the institute’s systems, defeated the database defenses, and found a top-secret file concerning the Envoys.
• Little Red played a recording explaining that the institute had encrypted its Envoy research so completely that even its recorder could not decrypt it, then described the Envoys as beings beyond the physical world whose descents destroyed life and matter.

Wang Zhifan learned from a recovered file about the emissaries’ deadly powers and concluded that they were high-level entities whose hidden rules had shaped the world. After one such restriction was broken, researchers began recovering suppressed memories, while Wang Zhifan resolved to hunt emissaries directly despite the dungeon’s extreme danger.

• Little Red played Wang Zhifan a file describing the Descents and the powers and dangers of Emissaries No. 1 through No. 10, before its final recorder revealed that the account was supposedly fabricated.
• Wang Zhifan asked Little Red to search for more emissary intelligence and reasoned that the file explained the world’s strange organizations and compulsions as effects of emissary rules.
• At the research institute, a laboratory director decided to observe emissaries, while a researcher remembered that a group photograph showed missing personnel who had died fighting them and rushed to recover their information.
• Wang Zhifan realized that breaking a hidden emissary rule had allowed people to recover memories previously suppressed by it.
• Wang Zhifan considered how dangerous the emissaries would be for other players, then set aside his worries and began planning a direct hunt for them.

Wang Zhifan used his position as Bamo City Combat Association president to challenge the rule-bound culture of the fighters and experiment with writing laws of his own. He managed to create a fragile rule that weakened envoys against him while strengthening them against others, and began considering how to make it hold.

• Wang Zhifan convened his first Combat Association assembly and announced that members could refuse unreasonable challenges and choose their opponents.
• Wang Zhifan challenged the fighters to oppose him, then his clone easily defeated every attacker and silenced the hall.
• The former president admitted Wang Zhifan had held back during their match and supported reform, prompting the surviving fighters to reconsider their reckless traditions.
• Wang Zhifan tried several times to write rules that would weaken envoys, but failed because he lacked sufficient power and support.
• Wang Zhifan successfully wrote a fragile rule that halved an envoy's power when facing him and doubled it when facing anyone else.

Wang Zhifan’s effort to remove the Envoys’ rules altered the Peace Organization, causing its imprisonment of four Korean players to turn deadly, while other players planned alliances and betrayals without realizing how dangerous the Envoys were. The chapter left the players preparing to fight one another even as Wang Zhifan focused on the threat they underestimated.

• Four Korean players surrendered to the Peace Organization after weeks of conflict, hoping to gather intelligence and rest in its prison.
• Wang Zhifan began severing the Envoys’ rules, inadvertently removing the constraints that kept the Peace Walkers peaceful; only two of the four Korean players escaped the prison alive.
• A six-player team led by a white woman discussed conflicting intelligence about the Envoys and learned that researchers were decrypting a significant old file.
• The white woman negotiated alliances with other teams to fight the Envoys but privately planned to eliminate rival players and keep the Emissary Cores for her team.
• The other players focused on competing with one another, while Wang Zhifan alone understood the Envoys’ danger through the information he had uncovered.

When the Envoys descended on Bamo City, Wang Zhifan used the rules he had spent half a month constructing to battle them remotely while players fought the visible threats. After driving off a second Envoy and helping Envoy Number One leave, he turned his attention to the weaker triangular Envoy and prepared to destroy its core.

• The Envoys descended on Bamo City, and the cross-shaped Envoy Number One erased soldiers, beasts, and part of the underground entrance building.
• Players led by a tall white woman and a sword cultivator attacked Envoy Number One while Wang Zhifan fought it from his underground apartment with constructed rules and projected attacks.
• A second, invisible Envoy affected players and soldiers, turning some into half-bodied beings, then entered the underground city and targeted Wang Zhifan.
• Wang Zhifan redirected Envoy Number One's annihilation attack onto the second Envoy, making its presence vanish, then weakened his resistance so Envoy Number One would leave the world.
• Three more Envoys appeared, and Wang Zhifan changed the triangular Envoy's laughter rule before engaging it across space and deciding to destroy its core.

Wang Zhifan defeated the triangular Envoy and claimed its Emissary Core, but discovered that other players had kidnapped the researchers to extort it from him. After refusing their demands, he traced the player behind the threat and set off to retaliate.

• Players attacked the Envoys: the blue-lined Envoy copied their attacks and chased them, three Indian players were killed after crossing the red trail, and Evil Country players joined the assault on the triangular Envoy.
• Wang Zhifan lifted the rule suppressing the triangular Envoy, then used spatial attacks and the Azure Emperor Saber to break its shell and take its Emissary Core.
• Wang Zhifan went to the underground research facility and found the researchers missing; a phantom demanded that he bring the core east in exchange for their return.
• Wang Zhifan used Little Red's surveillance footage to confirm that shadows had taken the researchers, then headed to the meeting place with the core stored away.
• Wang Zhifan refused to surrender the core without proof that the researchers were safe, and traced the phantom's connection to the player threatening him.
• Wang Zhifan identified the player's location near Bamo City and vanished to confront him.

Wang Zhifan searched for the abducted researchers and found that the surviving candidates were dead, so he revived two researchers and handed them the Emissary Core. The instance settlement appeared just as other players approached, and Wang Zhifan received his rewards.

• Wang Zhifan found and tortured a white man's flesh-and-blood clone, but learned the real player had killed nearly all the researchers and kept one hostage.
• AI Little Red led Wang Zhifan to two researchers who had left the institute, but he found them dead beside a street near Bamo City's central exit.
• Wang Zhifan brought the corpses to the institute and tested whether their bodies or summoned souls could trigger settlement, but neither attempt worked.
• Wang Zhifan repaired the researchers' souls, revived their bodies, and placed the Emissary Core in their hands.
• Wang Zhifan saw the instance settlement appear as players approached, granting him a level, a class advancement function, and a choice of rewards.

After returning to Earthstar, Wang Zhifan chose three Legendary Tier rewards, equipped them, and reviewed his greatly improved status. He decided to remain a Blademaster rather than change classes, though he considered taking a second class in the future.

• Wang Zhifan returned to his villa in Dongjiang City and chose Infinity, the Thinker Necklace, and Eternity, passing over Annihilation.
• Wang Zhifan equipped the new items, stored Aura's Radiance, and kept the Demon King's Battle Armor and Formless Specter Garment.
• Wang Zhifan checked his status panel and saw his attributes rise sharply, his Spirit reach 500, and many skills reach Lv12.
• Wang Zhifan considered the challenges facing the other players still in the Envoys instance and judged that they would struggle to clear it.
• Wang Zhifan weighed changing classes against the losses to his established equipment and decided to continue as a Blademaster, possibly taking a second class later.

After returning to Wind-Snow Tower, Wang Zhifan dealt with visiting sects and discovered that the Great Dream Divine Sect and Pure Yang Sect also existed in this world. He met the Great Dream Divine Sect’s Cui Ruyan, who revealed that she had summoned him into a dream space to discuss an important matter.

• Wang Zhifan chose to visit Tigerhead Town during his break and saw how the Heavenly Venerable Church and Wind-Snow Tower had grown in his absence.
• Wang Zhifan learned that many righteous sects had come to Wind-Snow Tower to build ties after his victory over the Demon Gate, and he hosted them with help from Xiong Tianli.
• Wang Zhifan asked Wu Xun about Peaceful Stockade, but Wu Xun had never heard of it.
• Wang Zhifan visited Cui Ruyan of the Great Dream Divine Sect and recognized that she cultivated the Great Dream Saber Scripture.
• Wang Zhifan exposed Cui Ruyan as a clone, and she invited him into a dream space where her true body awaited.

Wang Zhifan met Cui Ruyan in her dream world and agreed to join the next expedition into the Dark Cloud Realm after learning it contained the Immortal Ruins. Cui Ruyan left after treating him as a fellow disciple and asking him to cover her inn expenses, while Wang Zhifan prepared to meet other sect leaders without revealing his cultivation of their arts.

• Cui Ruyan welcomed Wang Zhifan into her dream world, and they exchanged tea and Paradise Fruits before she explained her mission to recruit experts.
• Cui Ruyan told Wang Zhifan that the Dark Cloud Realm held the Immortal Ruins and was filled with dangerous Calamities, and he agreed to join the expedition planned for next month.
• Cui Ruyan gave Wang Zhifan a map to the Dark Cloud Realm and asked which predecessor had taught him the Great Dream Saber Scripture, so he claimed he had found it in a secret realm.
• Cui Ruyan called Wang Zhifan her senior brother, then left through a dream and asked him to pay her inn bill.
• Wang Zhifan decided to meet the Pure Yang Sect elder and the young island lord of Celestial Star Island while concealing his cultivation of the Pure Yang True Art.

Wang Zhifan secured an investment to develop Tigerhead Town, then joined Chen Ming and Chen Can to explore Advanced Ash Domains in a dangerous country. After choosing three targets, the group reached a pitch-black cave, where Wang Zhifan led them safely past an unseen monster.

• A wealthy nobleman invested thirty thousand taels of silver in Tigerhead Town, and Wang Zhifan agreed with him on development plans and training opportunities at Wind-Snow Tower.
• Wang Zhifan met Chen Ming and Chen Can in a neighboring country, where their guide A Biao showed them information about three possible Advanced Ash Domains.
• Wang Zhifan chose the three Advanced Ash Domains, while A Biao secretly called accomplices and gave them the group's route.
• The Chen brothers and Wang Zhifan drove past several Solidified Ash Domains before their guide dropped them at a cave leading toward the nearest Advanced Ash Domain.
• Wang Zhifan led Chen Ming and Chen Can through the cave without encountering its unseen monster, explaining afterward that it had let them pass.