Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan chose the Epic Many Faces mask, then teamed up with Huang Neng to enter an investigation dungeon whose objective was to learn an Old God's true name. The chapter ended with Huang Neng waking in the dungeon and reacting in terror to an Old God.

• Wang Zhifan chose the Many Faces mask as his Blood Battle Dungeon reward and tested its disguise abilities.
• Wang Zhifan returned to Earth, left the healing Black Eagle with Yilin and Yali, and learned that the Chen brothers were fighting in the Ash Domain with the mech he had selected for them.
• Wang Zhifan met Huang Neng in Golden Forest City, and Huang Neng performed a luck-changing ritual before they entered a dungeon together.
• Wang Zhifan and Huang Neng entered a modern-era dungeon that required players to learn an Old God's true name, and Wang Zhifan considered the available identities before leaving his choice unselected.
• Huang Neng regained consciousness beside Wang Zhifan and cried out in shock about an Old God.

Wang Zhifan persuaded Huang Neng to investigate the Old Gods dungeon with him, and they split up to gather clues. After finding no useful name at the church, Wang Zhifan learned about an Old God researcher named Rod and reunited with Huang Neng to compare their findings before they set out again.

• Huang Neng warned Wang Zhifan that Old Gods were deadly and wanted to avoid the dungeon, but Wang Zhifan offered to investigate alone and changed Huang Neng’s mind.
• Wang Zhifan and Huang Neng agreed to search separately, with Wang Zhifan heading to a church and Huang Neng investigating a police station.
• Wang Zhifan found the Holy Mother’s supposed name, Maria, in a scripture, but it did not trigger a dungeon-clear prompt.
• A priest directed Wang Zhifan to a library and to Rod, an elderly Old God researcher, while Wang Zhifan sensed something suspicious about the priest.
• Huang Neng reported strange cases and cultist activity from police records, and Wang Zhifan told him about Rod before they agreed to help each other if either ran into trouble.

Wang Zhifan investigated Rhod’s lakeside hut, discovered that Rhod was a transformed servant of Dagon, and learned that ordinary names for ancient gods were not their true names. After researching and meeting Huang Neng, Wang Zhifan resolved to seek a cautious way to contact an ancient god, while Huang Neng agreed to keep cooperating.

• Wang Zhifan found Rhod’s hut empty and discovered strange bloody writing and nonhuman bones inside.
• Rhod emerged from the lake, attacked Wang Zhifan, and transformed into a fish-like monster before Wang Zhifan subdued him.
• Wang Zhifan invaded Rhod’s mind, learned about his service to Dagon and the hidden altar, then killed him and disposed of his remains in the lake.
• Wang Zhifan researched ancient gods at the library and concluded that their human-given names were not their true names, which might only be learned through direct contact.
• Wang Zhifan met Huang Neng, who revealed that the cultists worshipped Melkian but had not uncovered its true name.
• Wang Zhifan explained that they might need to contact an ancient god, and Huang Neng continued cooperating after Wang Zhifan said he would handle it himself.

Wang Zhifan selected an Archaeologist identity and used his new academy position to recruit four students for an expedition to investigate Ancient God ruins. He left the planning underway and told Huang Neng to arrange funding for the team.

• Wang Zhifan chose the Archaeologist identity, gaining archaeological knowledge and connections in the instance world.
• Wang Zhifan entered an academy as Professor Wang and introduced Huang Neng as his personal assistant when four students arrived.
• Wang Zhifan assigned Luke and Marina new research work and recruited Alice and Allen for a long expedition, offering each student 3,600 Silver Yal per month.
• Wang Zhifan told his students the expedition would investigate ruins associated with ancient deity worship and arranged for Huang Neng to join as their assistant.
• Wang Zhifan explained to Huang Neng that the students could help research Ancient Gods and perform rituals, then asked him to raise funds for the expedition.
• Huang Neng agreed to seek money by finding people he could fleece.

Wang Zhifan warned his archaeology students about supernatural dangers and rejected several ruin sites after Marina mysteriously warned that something was about to awaken. He chose the Melkian Underground Temple as a compromise, then teleported the group from the institute to the mountains.

• Wang Zhifan demonstrated ice magic and explained that ancient gods and occult powers were real.
• Allen recommended several sites, but Marina suddenly warned everyone not to go because something was about to awaken.
• Wang Zhifan rejected the students' suggested locations and agreed to investigate the Melkian Underground Temple after Huang Neng described it as relatively safe.
• Wang Zhifan and his four students prepared to leave, while Allen suggested bringing weapons and guards.
• Wang Zhifan teleported the group from his office to the mountains, shocking Huang Neng.

Wang Zhifan equipped his students and Huang Neng with powerful gear before leading them into the temple of the ancient god Melkian. After uncovering how the cultists could summon Melkian’s will, he prepared to perform the dangerous ritual and seek the god’s true name.

• Wang Zhifan teleported the group near Boloni City, then gave his four students powerful equipment and Huang Neng an Excellent Tier dagger.
• Wang Zhifan warned Huang Neng that Marina’s message might mean an ancient god would awaken, while Huang Neng doubted they would face one directly.
• Huang Neng led the group to the mountain cave that housed Melkian’s temple, and Wang Zhifan teleported everyone inside instead of sneaking in.
• Wang Zhifan froze a patrol of cultists, ordered his students to document the temple, and searched the captives’ minds for information.
• Wang Zhifan learned that the Withering Altar could summon part of Melkian’s will through a sacrificial ritual, and decided to use it to seek the god’s true name.

Wang Zhifan led his companions into Melkian’s temple, where he discovered that the heretics’ Withering Altar consumed sacrifices but had failed to summon the Old God. After his own ritual also produced no response, he began considering how else to contact an Old God and clear the instance.

• Wang Zhifan and his companions defeated a second group of attackers in the caverns, and he learned from the black-cloaked heretic that the man served another Old God.
• Wang Zhifan found the temple sealed by a cyan-glowing boulder and teleported his group inside, where he froze the attacking heretics while leaving the praying figures untouched.
• Allen recognized the heretics’ activity as a sacrificial ritual, and Wang Zhifan withdrew his companions as the boulder absorbed the frozen heretics and began reaching for the black-robed worshippers.
• Wang Zhifan teleported half of the black-robed figures to the boulder, then captured another and learned that the heretics had repeatedly sacrificed people to the Withering Altar without receiving a response from Melkian.
• Wang Zhifan directed the students to perform the summoning ritual and added more sacrifices, but Melkian still did not appear, so he ended the attempt and considered contacting Dagon instead.

Wang Zhifan led his students and Huang Neng in rebuilding a lakeside altar to summon Dagon. After stopping a group of priests and officers who came to arrest him, he sent Huang Neng and the students away and prepared to attempt the ritual alone, using Dagon’s captured high-ranking servant as leverage.

• Wang Zhifan froze the lake and showed his students the crude altar to Dagon beneath it, then directed them in rebuilding it.
• Wang Zhifan and his students completed the altar’s main structure, while the students wrote ancient hymns in blood on its pillars.
• Huang Neng investigated an approaching group of priests and officers, but Wang Zhifan stopped them and discovered that the bearded Priest was a high-ranking servant of Dagon seeking revenge for Rhod.
• Wang Zhifan froze and relocated the priest, officers, and other newcomers, then warned Huang Neng about the danger of summoning Dagon.
• Wang Zhifan sent Huang Neng and the four students back to town after they finished the altar, and prepared to begin the ritual alone with the captured Priest.

Wang Zhifan summoned Dagon’s will at an underwater altar and fought off its attack, then seized a fragment of the Old God’s will to learn its true name. The dungeon ended with Wang Zhifan reaching Lv44 and choosing from a set of rewards.

• Wang Zhifan revived the Dagon kin priest and forced him to summon Dagon at the altar beneath the lake.
• Wang Zhifan’s clone monitored the priest as Dagon’s will descended, and Wang Zhifan asked to learn the Old God’s true name.
• Dagon’s will attacked Wang Zhifan with a giant hand of clouds, which Wang Zhifan shattered with the Azure Emperor Saber.
• Wang Zhifan used Insight against Dagon’s will, then cut off a fragment with the Azure Emperor Saber before the will withdrew.
• Wang Zhifan analyzed the fragment for an hour and discovered the Old God’s true name, completing the dungeon and reaching Lv44.

Wang Zhifan equipped three Mythic Tier rewards and discovered that his new status, Transcendence, barred him from regular instances while giving him up to 1095 days to challenge the final stage. He accepted the restriction and headed for a nearby town, only to find it devastated and nearly devoid of survivors.

• Wang Zhifan chose the Ring of Fate, Azathoth's Girdle, and Old God's Edge from the Mythic Tier rewards.
• Wang Zhifan used Azathoth's Girdle to create a basketball-playing rooster and a basketball, then released them into the world.
• Wang Zhifan checked his panel and saw his attributes had surged and his status had changed to Transcendence, allowing him to challenge the final stage but preventing him from entering regular instances.
• Wang Zhifan removed his new Mythic Tier equipment to try to reverse the status change, but the panel remained unchanged, so he re-equipped everything.
• Wang Zhifan went to a nearby town and found its buildings shattered and nearly all its residents dead after the battle's aftershocks.

Wang Zhifan restored a town destroyed by his battle with the Old God's will, empowered his students, and returned to Earthstar to plan around the Supernatural Game's restrictions. He then began preparing to upgrade his Succubus maids and offered Ying the chance to regain a physical body.

• Wang Zhifan healed his students and used Rewind to restore the town, then granted Luke, Allen, Alice, and Marina supernatural abilities before leaving them with a warning.
• Wang Zhifan adjusted the world's fate so the Old Gods would fall dormant, then returned to Earthstar and parted ways with Huang Neng, who reported receiving three Excellent items.
• Wang Zhifan considered ways to enter regular dungeons despite his Transcendent status and resolved to seek information about the Lv100 final challenge.
• Wang Zhifan asked Yilin and Yali how they wanted to grow stronger, and they requested to become Succubus Queens; he planned to wait until his law power recovered before transforming them.
• Wang Zhifan visited Ying on Gaia Star and offered to create a physical body for her so she could return to human life.

Wang Zhifan helped Ying regain a human body, then broke through his cultivation realm on Gaia Star before investigating why the Overlimit State barred him from dungeons. After Chu Wei brought him to Dongjiang Second Bureau to explore special-dungeon resources, he examined several high-difficulty dungeon cards.

• Wang Zhifan gave Ying a physical body and helped her merge her consciousness with it, then advised her to learn the Urban Planet's language and writing.
• Wang Zhifan used the Ring of Fate and Iris Blessing to siphon power from the Supreme Heavenly King's Way light sphere, breaking through the All-Time-Space Eternal Freedom Scripture to Lv4 before switching to safer cultivation.
• Wang Zhifan searched the Player Forum, found no information about the Overlimit State, and posted a reward seeking access to advanced special dungeons.
• Wang Zhifan failed to enter a dungeon alone or with Chu Wei, and Chu Wei told him about a player whose dungeon ban coincided with terrible misfortune.
• Wang Zhifan and Chu Wei visited Dongjiang Second Bureau, where its secretary described the bureau's special dungeons and offered high-difficulty dungeon cards for Excellent Tier items.
• Wang Zhifan declined the bureau's High Tower dungeon and asked to inspect the dungeon cards before deciding whether to trade.

Wang Zhifan received seven high-difficulty special dungeon cards from the Dongjiang Second Bureau in exchange for sharing information after clearing them. He chose Interstellar Battlefield and secured advanced equipment from the Hershi Civilization before entering the dungeon.

• Wang Zhifan asked Chu Wei and the secretary about the special dungeon cards, then chose to pursue a black-card dungeon despite Chu Wei's warnings.
• Chu Wei assessed the black-card dungeons and recommended Listen to the Demon, while Wang Zhifan considered Interstellar Battlefield his strongest option.
• The secretary gave Wang Zhifan all four black cards and three red cards in exchange for information about the dungeons after he cleared them.
• Wang Zhifan reviewed forum warnings about special dungeons and wondered whether their rewards could include Legendary Tier equipment.
• Wang Zhifan visited the Hershi Civilization, borrowed advanced equipment, returned to Earthstar, and entered Interstellar Battlefield.

Wang Zhifan survived the destruction of A12 Fleet, but the Empire’s military court imprisoned the surviving pilots for their defeat. In prison, he used Little Red to breach the facility’s controls and began considering how to build a network of allies for the war ahead.

• Wang Zhifan dodged the enemy’s unseen long-range attacks and regrouped with the few surviving ships of A12 Fleet.
• Wang Zhifan followed orders to return to the orbital station, where an Imperial military court condemned the fleet’s defeat but spared its members from execution and sent them to prison.
• Wang Zhifan befriended Dennis and John in their cell, then revealed that Little Red had compromised prison control and was working toward access to the whole station.
• Wang Zhifan used Little Red to open the cell door and let Dennis and John leave to retrieve things while he monitored the prison and considered recruiting allies.

Wang Zhifan recruited prisoners and used Little Red to gain control over the space station while trying to enlist a military official to send him and other survivors back to the front. After issuing the official an ultimatum, Wang Zhifan learned that his War Matrix had already built a massive fleet, leaving him eager to confront the Alien Empire while still keeping his power hidden.

• Wang Zhifan gathered prisoners under his command and told them they would soon be sent to the battlefield, while Little Red helped him control the station’s robots and gather leverage over its administrators.
• Wang Zhifan met with a bespectacled military official, revealed that he had survived the battle against the Alien Empire, and urged the official to send survivors to the front lines.
• Wang Zhifan incapacitated the official’s bodyguards and gave him one day to cooperate, warning that he would expose the official if he refused.
• The bespectacled official decided to temporarily comply and planned to eliminate Wang Zhifan later, while Wang Zhifan explored the station and considered abandoning his ordinary-soldier approach.
• Wang Zhifan asked Little Red for an update and learned that the War Matrix had already built thousands of warships and millions of frigates, with a star-destroyer flagship nearing completion.

Wang Zhifan led humanity to destroy the Alien Empire with the War Matrix, then chose an Overlord-Class War Fortress as his instance reward and left the world after erasing his fleet. Back on Earth, he resolved to uncover the Supernatural Game’s secrets and upgraded Yilin and Yali before considering his next move.

• Glasses arranged for space pirates to attack Wang Zhifan’s fleet, but the War Matrix’s super warships destroyed them.
• Wang Zhifan uncovered the Alien Empire’s subspace technology, returned with alien wreckage, and earned command of an expanded fleet.
• Wang Zhifan used the War Matrix’s tens of millions of ships to defeat the Alien Empire and selected an Overlord-Class War Fortress as his reward.
• Wang Zhifan erased the Hershi warships, transferred command to Dennis and John, and disappeared from the Human Empire flagship.
• Wang Zhifan returned to Earth, vowed to uncover the Supernatural Game’s secrets, healed Black Eagle, and raised Yilin and Yali to Succubus Queens.

Wang Zhifan returned to the world where he had once established an empire, hoping to find Rou Che, and discovered that many years had passed. He reunited with the aged Shenfengzi, who told him that Feng Xian was dead, leaving Wang Zhifan to ask about Rou Che.

• Wang Zhifan empowered Yilin and Yali into succubus queens and healed Black Eagle, then told them and Black Eagle what duties they would have at the villa.
• Wang Zhifan used the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book to cross the Interworld Rift and enter the world where he had cleared the national war dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan reached the capital and recognized it as the empire he had founded, but could not sense Rou Che's aura.
• Wang Zhifan secretly entered the palace, saw an emperor who resembled him, and heard the court discuss a drought in Gui Prefecture.
• Wang Zhifan found the aged Shenfengzi beside the Dragon Qi Cauldron, and Shenfengzi summoned Ling'er, Feng Xian's great-granddaughter.
• Shenfengzi told Wang Zhifan that Feng Xian was dead, and Wang Zhifan began asking what had happened to Rou Che.

Wang Zhifan learned that Rou Che had waited for him for decades and died after defending the Great Feng Empire, then discovered he could not yet resurrect her. He left the world determined to grow stronger, visit Mieyue Xi, and eventually return to Rou Che.

• Shenfengzi gave Wang Zhifan the box containing Rou Che’s letters and told him where her grave was.
• Wang Zhifan visited Rou Che’s tomb and read her letters, learning about her years ruling Great Feng, Feng Xian’s rebellion and death, and the many descendants she left behind.
• Wang Zhifan tried to resurrect Rou Che, but the Netherworld Will told him her soul had dispersed beyond his current power to restore.
• Wang Zhifan secretly visited his descendants, then sensed the distant location of the Calamity Realm and worried about Mieyue Xi.
• Wang Zhifan resolved to enter secluded cultivation until he advanced two realms, hoping to reach the Calamity Realm sooner.

After a month of cultivation, Wang Zhifan broke through to the fifth level of the All-Time-Space Eternal Freedom Scripture but discovered the next breakthrough could take decades, so he returned to deal with his affairs. He reviewed Yilin and Yali’s reports, reconnected with people on Earthstar, and arranged to help the Chen brothers and sell equipment to Huang Neng.

• Wang Zhifan broke through to Lv5 after cultivating for a month, then learned his next realm might take more than twenty years to reach.
• Wang Zhifan visited Ying, confirmed that Yilin and Yali had cared for her, and accepted that she needed more time before entering a new world.
• Wang Zhifan returned to Earthstar, comforted Black Eagle, and read reports describing Yilin and Yali’s activities across several worlds.
• Wang Zhifan reviewed messages from Earthstar and contacted Chu Wei, Chen Ming, Chen Can, Li Zhenguo, and Huang Neng.
• Wang Zhifan promised to help the Chen brothers clear three Advanced Ash Domains and agreed to arrange equipment sales for Huang Neng and his friends.

Wang Zhifan upgraded East City Villa, caught up with his maids, and sold exceptional-tier equipment to Chen Ming and Chen Can before joining them in an Advanced Ash Domain. As they began clearing it, a tattooed man and three powerful hired players prepared to attack them.

• Wang Zhifan used Chaos Distortion to give East City Villa formidable strength and sentience, then told Yilin and Yali to keep their borrowed equipment and monitor the worlds they visited.
• Yilin reminded Wang Zhifan of his appointment with the Great Dream Divine Sect, and he recognized that it was time to visit the Immortal Ruins.
• Wang Zhifan met Chen Ming and Chen Can, offered them exceptional-tier equipment at a discount, and sold several items while refusing to sell epic-tier gear.
• The three entered an Advanced Ash Domain, with Wang Zhifan agreeing to let the brothers test their new equipment first.
• A tattooed man watching footage of their entry argued with his hired fighters, who demonstrated their abilities and forced him to lead them to the Ash Domain to attack the Xia Kingdom players.