Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan let Chen Ming and Chen Can fight the Ash Domain boss while a foreign group launched a planned ambush. After the attackers seemed to kill Wang and the brothers, the bald soldier discovered he had been manipulated and became trapped in the forest.

• Wang Zhifan watched as Chen Ming and Chen Can battled the Two-Headed Griffin, then noticed four foreign players approaching to attack them.
• The bald soldier fired at Wang Zhifan and the brothers, while Cai Wa charged the boss, the short-haired woman attacked Chen Ming, and the Muay Thai fighter killed Chen Can.
• The bald soldier appeared to slit Wang Zhifan's throat and searched his body, but realized the Epic Tier items he found were fakes.
• The four attackers fought the Two-Headed Griffin for over an hour, but the boss would not die, so the bald soldier shot his three companions and called for Wang Zhifan to reveal himself.
• The Two-Headed Griffin lunged at the bald soldier, who tried to flee and discovered he was lost in the endless forest.

Wang Zhifan left the Ash Domain after helping Chen Ming and Chen Can defeat its boss, then traveled to Wind-Snow Tower to join the expedition to the Immortal Ruins. He learned that the Great Dream Divine Sect would lead the recruited experts into the dangerous Dark Cloud Realm within three days.

• Wang Zhifan secretly killed four foreign players who had entered the Ash Domain to attack his companions, then concealed their bodies and took their loot.
• Chen Ming and Chen Can defeated the Two-Headed Griffin, found only modest rewards, and agreed to handle ordinary Ash Domains themselves.
• Wang Zhifan checked his messages and traveled through the Interworld Rift to Wind-Snow Tower, where he learned that Cui Ruyan had already left.
• Wang Zhifan entered the Great Dream Divine Sect and learned that its master planned to lead the recruited experts to the Dark Cloud Realm entrance within three days.
• Xiao Yue visited Wang Zhifan, and their conversation revealed that the Dark Cloud Realm's inhabitants now guarded the passage to the Immortal Ruins.

Wang Zhifan accepted the Great Dream Divine Sect Master's appointment as Protector and led the sect's forces toward the Dark Cloud Realm. As the sects broke through the spatial barrier and entered the passage, Wang Zhifan eased the pressure on his companions with a display of temporal and spatial power.

• Wang Zhifan met Cui Ruyan, then agreed to join the Great Dream Divine Sect and was appointed Protector leading its forces into the Dark Cloud Realm.
• Wang Zhifan gathered intelligence from Cui Ruyan and joined more than two hundred sect members as they traveled through a Gate of Dreams to the barrier's location.
• Wang Zhifan and the Great Dream Divine Sect's force met the other sects, including the Demon Gate, while their leaders coordinated the invasion.
• The sect leaders jointly broke through the spatial barrier, and the forces entered the passage toward the Dark Cloud Realm.
• Wang Zhifan used Spatial Slash to lessen the passage's pressure on his companions, surprising Cui Ruyan and drawing Xiao Yue's thanks.

Wang Zhifan helped the sect alliance survive the Dark Cloud Realm’s initial attacks and march toward the Immortal Ruins, while concealing how little effort his strongest saber strikes took. The journey ended when a familiar ghost-face calamity appeared overhead, and Wang Zhifan spotted what looked like a palace inside its mouth, possibly the Immortal Ruins themselves.

• The Great Dream Divine Sect and the other sects entered the Dark Cloud Realm and fought off waves of humanoid monsters and powerful calamities, with Wang Zhifan’s saber strikes clearing vast numbers of enemies.
• Wang Zhifan withdrew from the front line after Cui Ruyan urged him to conserve his strength, and the gathered sects defeated most of the attacking force.
• The sect alliance marched toward the Immortal Ruins through a day of stealth attacks, suffering casualties as Wang Zhifan limited his protection of the group.
• The Great Dream Divine Sect master let the rear sects take the lead as the darkness and oppressive atmosphere intensified near the ruins.
• All the torches went out, a terrifying laugh killed weaker members, and a huge ghost face appeared overhead; Wang Zhifan noticed a palace-like structure inside its mouth and asked whether it was the Immortal Ruins.

Wang Zhifan led the Great Dream Divine Sect toward the Immortal Ruins after a blood-colored calamity swallowed the palace and blocked the sects’ way in. The calamity suddenly split apart, and the sects entered the ruins; Wang’s group passed through a space-linked stone door into the Stone Buddha Forest.

• The Great Dream Divine Sect Master confirmed that the calamity had trapped the Immortal Ruins in its mouth and left to confer with the other sect masters.
• The sect masters attacked the calamity, but Wang Zhifan realized it was using the Immortal Palace as a shield while the sects argued over how to proceed.
• The blood-colored face cracked and vanished, leaving the Immortal Palace exposed; Wang Zhifan led the Great Dream Divine Sect toward it while Cui Ruyan suspected he had secretly destroyed the calamity.
• Wang Zhifan and the other sects entered the ruins and gathered in a vast hall, where the Great Dream Divine Sect Master chose a stone door for his group.
• The Great Dream Divine Sect entered the Stone Buddha Forest, where the Divine Sect Master said Buddhist scriptures were hidden inside the stone Buddhas.

Wang Zhifan discovered that Mind-Viewing Lake could not summon an opponent for him, then left the group to explore the Immortal Ruins alone. He arrived at a hall where sect experts were trying to shatter a bronze bell and the painting of an old man striking it, apparently to claim the old man’s treasures.

• The Great Dream Divine Sect's Sect Master revealed the Crouching Dragon Secret: Upper Volume and led the group to Mind-Viewing Lake, where challengers fought enemies formed from their memories and could gain cultivation insights.
• A twin-saber outsider defeated a water-formed Demon Gate expert and broke through his cultivation realm, encouraging more people to challenge the lake.
• Wang Zhifan entered Mind-Viewing Lake twice, but it failed to form an opponent for him, leaving the Sect Master and the others baffled.
• After Xiao Yue entered the lake and faced an enchanting woman, Wang Zhifan decided to investigate the ruins alone and vanished using spatial movement.
• Wang Zhifan reached a hall where sect experts were attacking a bronze bell, and he deduced that breaking it would shatter a painting and expose the old man and his valuable possessions.

Wang Zhifan solved a Bagua forest puzzle with the Ring of Fate and obtained a powerful Brass Bagua Mirror. He then reached a treasure hall where sects fought over platforms and learned that each platform had to be held uncontested for an hour to claim its treasure.

• Wang Zhifan used the Ring of Fate to discover that the forest puzzle’s solution was to place all the black shadows on one side of the Bagua and a tree on the other.
• Wang Zhifan obtained the Brass Bagua Mirror and discovered its powers of suppression, storage, and time manipulation.
• Wang Zhifan explored the Immortal Ruins by following Fate Lines to find opportunities and arrived at a hall filled with treasure platforms contested by several sects.
• Wang Zhifan tried to take a jade gourd directly, but the platform’s protection intensified and threatened to destroy it, so he withdrew into the void as the Clear River Sword Sect and Demon Gate attacked.
• Wang Zhifan used Insight on a captured fighter and learned that a platform had to remain occupied by one party for an hour without anyone stepping onto it before its treasure could be claimed.

Wang Zhifan disguised himself as the White-Haired Mad Demon and slaughtered the sect experts who challenged him, then devised a plan to defeat his own disguise and gain the sects’ trust. He staged a fierce battle with a clone while Cui Ruyan and the arriving sect leaders watched, leaving the Great Dream Divine Sect’s Sect Master quietly suspicious.

• Wang Zhifan used the Bagua Mirror and his time-and-space powers to kill the experts who ambushed him, then left a clone guarding their piled corpses.
• Cui Ruyan and Xiao Yue discussed the White-Haired Mad Demon’s killings and hoped Wang Zhifan could help defeat him, inspiring Wang Zhifan to stage the demon’s eventual downfall.
• Wang Zhifan appeared before Cui Ruyan and Xiao Yue, claimed the demon was the breakthrough opportunity he sought, and entered the dangerous area to fight him.
• Cui Ruyan sent a clone to observe Wang Zhifan’s staged battle with his White-Haired Mad Demon clone, then told the arriving sect leaders not to interfere.
• When several sect leaders tried to enter, Wang Zhifan’s staged battle aftershocks wounded and drove them back, while the Great Dream Divine Sect’s Sect Master watched and began to suspect something.

Wang Zhifan continued exploring the Immortal Ruins after secretly claiming the platform treasures, then found the Immortal Path Codex in a hidden gate. When a malicious being inside the jade slip tried to flee, he caught it and exposed its scheme to possess him.

• Wang Zhifan used his White-Haired Mad Demon avatar to take every treasure from the platforms while making others believe the demon had escaped with them.
• Wang Zhifan left the Great Dream Divine Sect members and continued exploring the Immortal Ruins alone as the other sects began withdrawing.
• After half a month, Wang Zhifan broke through the laws guarding the White Jade Light Gate and found the Immortal Path Codex inside.
• Wang Zhifan read the jade slip, sensed a hidden presence, and used Insight and his Spacetime Law power to seize a gray little man trying to escape.
• Wang Zhifan revealed that the little man had intended to invade his soul and possess his body, but had fled rather than challenge his overwhelming mental power.

Wang Zhifan learned the history of the gray Immortal primordial spirit and refined it to absorb some of its power. After gathering treasures and returning to Gaia Star, he found that the Land of Iris Flowers could reduce his breakthrough time to a little over two years, though he remained tempted to seek more opportunities instead of cultivating.

• Wang Zhifan used Insight to uncover how the gray figure had pursued an Immortal legacy, crossed worlds through a Spacetime Vortex, and built the Immortal Palace to find a suitable body to possess.
• Wang Zhifan used the Ring of Fate to choose a profitable course, refined the figure, separated its powers, absorbed some spacetime law and Immortal cultivation energy, and stored the rest in the Bagua Mirror.
• Wang Zhifan cultivated briefly, learned that he still needed about eight years to break through, and decided to return to Gaia Star.
• Wang Zhifan searched the Immortal Ruins for treasures and studied the Spacetime Vortex before crossing the Interworld Rift to Gaia Star.
• Wang Zhifan checked his Fate Line in the Land of Iris Flowers and found that his breakthrough would take a little over two years, leaving him inclined to seek another opportunity rather than cultivate in seclusion.

Wang Zhifan learned that Chu Wei and her team were stranded in a dungeon, then used the Blessed Holy Grail to locate her across worlds. He reached Chu Wei in an underground tunnel and called out to her.

• Wang Zhifan learned from Yilin and Yali that Chu Wei and seven Administration players had gone missing in a dungeon, with five confirmed alive.
• Wang Zhifan told the Dongjiang Second Bureau secretary that he had no dungeon designation items, then considered finding a way to reach the stranded team himself.
• Wang Zhifan cleared an Advanced Blood Battle Dungeon and chose the Blessed Holy Grail, which could apply a blessing across worlds.
• Wang Zhifan used Chu Wei's belongings to help the Blessed Holy Grail lock onto her, then followed its direction through the Interworld Rift to her dungeon world.
• Wang Zhifan searched the ruined wasteland world, found Chu Wei moving through a tunnel a thousand meters underground, and appeared in front of her to call her name.

Wang Zhifan reunited with Chu Wei in the stranded wasteland instance and learned that a rogue player had destroyed Hope Hub, leaving the survivors unable to clear the task. He rewound the ruined site and restored Hope Hub, then stopped Chu Wei from delivering the Biological Essence until he could deal with the bomber.

• Wang Zhifan convinced Chu Wei that he was real, and she tearfully told him how her team had become trapped in the instance after a foreign player blew up Hope Hub.
• Chu Wei explained that she and her teammates had spent over eight months in the hostile wasteland, with the Biological Essence divided among several survivors and the quest unable to progress without Hope Hub's robots.
• Wang Zhifan teleported with Chu Wei to the original Hope Hub crater and used his time-space power to rewind the area, restoring the building and its robots.
• Chu Wei recognized the restored Hope Hub and ran to deliver the Biological Essence, but Wang Zhifan stopped her and recovered the bomb that had destroyed the site.
• Little Red determined that the bomb had no linked remote-control device, so Wang Zhifan disabled it and resolved to find the rogue player before allowing the instance to clear.

Wang Zhifan helped Chu Wei clear the ruined instance, then learned that the Supernatural Game had announced an upcoming World Battle between worlds. He remained undecided about joining Earthstar’s team while weighing the battle against his own plans.

• Wang Zhifan used the Cursed Holy Grail to find the madman player’s remains, and Chu Wei explained that the man had destroyed the Hope Hub because he wanted everyone to die with him.
• Chu Wei turned in the required item, cleared the instance, and returned to Earthstar with Wang Zhifan’s help restoring the Hope Hub.
• Wang Zhifan met Chu Wei and three of her surviving teammates at the Dongjiang Second Bureau, where they thanked him for rescuing them; four other teammates remained missing.
• An Administration secretary told Wang Zhifan that players from different worlds would fight in a World Battle in three months, with disasters threatening the losing world.
• The secretary invited Wang Zhifan to a capital training camp and explained that Xia Kingdom was selecting five players; Wang Zhifan expressed interest but did not commit.
• Back at his villa, Wang Zhifan considered whether to join the battle while prioritizing reaching level 50, advancing his cultivation, reuniting with Dragon Girl, and resurrecting Rou Che.

Wang Zhifan reflected on the Supernatural Game and caught up on affairs across the worlds he managed before meeting Huang Neng and other players to trade equipment. The chapter left him distributing powerful Excellent Tier gear with ease, while a possible request from the seraph Jilupo in Purgatory World offered another high-level opportunity.

• Wang Zhifan read a forum post connecting the World Battle to the destruction of player civilizations and suspected the Supernatural Game had caused the ruin of worlds he had visited.
• Huang Neng contacted Wang Zhifan to resume their equipment trade, and they arranged to meet in Golden Forest City.
• Wang Zhifan learned from Yilin and Yali that the seraph Jilupo had returned to Purgatory World seeking to speak with him, and he praised the Hershians' War Matrix.
• Wang Zhifan met nearly twenty high-level players at the Golden Forest City teahouse and gave a bespectacled young man a Caster's Garb.
• Wang Zhifan produced three Excellent Tier guns for a bald middle-aged player, astonishing the other people at the table.

Wang Zhifan used an illusory Epic Tier pistol and mental manipulation to punish a wealthy buyer who demanded gear and fired at him, then sold Excellent Tier equipment and gathered information about the World Battle. After Wang Zhifan left Earthstar for Ringworld and Purgatory, the buyer reported him to a crime boss, who ordered an investigation and planned to steal his supposed Epic Tier gear.

• A wealthy bald man demanded Epic Tier equipment from Wang Zhifan, and Wang Zhifan produced an illusory golden pistol that made the man pull the trigger and become temporarily foolish.
• Wang Zhifan explained the pistol’s supposed mental backlash, refused to sell it, and resumed trading Excellent Tier equipment while Huang Neng watched.
• Wang Zhifan secretly used Dream Transformation of Myriad Realms to create the pistol and alter the bald man’s mind, then traded for money, assets, and black special-dungeon cards.
• Wang Zhifan discussed the World Battle with high-level players, learned about the potential strengths of players from other worlds, and left Earthstar for Ringworld and Purgatory.
• The bald man reported Wang Zhifan’s supposed Epic Tier gear to his boss, who ordered Four-Eyes to investigate and planned to kill Wang Zhifan to take his equipment.

Wang Zhifan met with Jilupo in Purgatory World and agreed to help her escape Supreme Heaven by taking her to other worlds. He introduced her to Gaia Star and Earthstar, leaving her as a potential ally whose character he still needed to assess before the coming war between worlds.

• Wang Zhifan entered Jilupo's temporary space, where she asked him to take her to the plane ruled by Vermilion Bird so she could find protection and freedom.
• Jilupo explained that Supreme Heaven had imprisoned her for refusing to cleanse a plane, and she refused to betray its secrets despite Wang Zhifan's interest in opposing it.
• Wang Zhifan offered to take Jilupo to other worlds in exchange for help with matters that did not violate her principles, and she agreed to visit them before choosing where to stay.
• Wang Zhifan brought Jilupo through the gaps between worlds to Gaia Star, where they met Ying and Jilupo agreed to hide her wings outside of battle.
• Wang Zhifan took Jilupo to Earthstar and showed her his villa and Dongjiang City, keeping her duties open while he learned more about her.

Wang Zhifan entered the Ten Thousand Demons Calamity dungeon and followed the Fate Line to a mountain where a man was turning living people into weapons. After Wang Zhifan disrupted the man's technique, the black coffin revealed itself as a monster and challenged him.

• Wang Zhifan chose the Ten Thousand Demons Calamity dungeon and arrived in a quiet, ancient-style land.
• Wang Zhifan declined two travelers' invitation to join Demon-Slaying Manor and used the Ring of Fate to locate a battlefield.
• Wang Zhifan found a middle-aged man planting frozen people into a mountainside and demanded that he release them.
• The man launched the frozen people at Wang Zhifan, but Wang Zhifan severed his control and sealed the black coffin with spatial power.
• The black coffin transformed into a monster, swallowed the middle-aged man, absorbed the surrounding energy and bodies, and challenged Wang Zhifan.

Wang Zhifan destroyed the Coffin Demon with the Azure Emperor Saber, then learned from the Demon-Slaying Manor’s memories that the world called Homeland was created and protected by an Immortal. He discovered that demon invasions were growing more frequent and numerous, leaving Homeland at risk of a full-scale invasion.

• The Coffin Demon attacked Wang Zhifan with sinister energy, a tongue, a vortex, and its Infinite Torment Coffin Prison, but he endured its attacks and destroyed it with one strike of the Azure Emperor Saber.
• Wang Zhifan noticed powerful locals approaching, then vanished to avoid them and reconsidered how casually he had handled the battle.
• The Manor Lord and four companions arrived at the ruined mountain, where the Manor Lord said the Coffin Demon was gone but a more powerful demon had descended on their homeland.
• Wang Zhifan froze the five locals and their black-haired dog with Time Stop, then used the Legendary Thinker's Necklace to enter the Manor Lord’s memories.
• Wang Zhifan learned that an Immortal had created Homeland and left protections and demon-slaying treasures for its people, but invasions had increased from one demon every few years to two or three at a time.

Wang Zhifan searched Homeland for more external demons while its defenders debated an ominous divination. A demon god launched an invasion of tens of thousands of demons, leaving Wang Zhifan to race across the world and fight them.

• Wang Zhifan sent thousands of Dream Self clones to search Homeland, but they found no demons beyond the Coffin Demon he had killed.
• Demon-Slaying Manor’s lord ordered Falling Rain to perform a major divination, which produced the words “Great Misfortune, Great Fortune.”
• The demon god watched Wang Zhifan and the divination, then breached Homeland’s defenses and sent tens of thousands of demons inside.
• Demons attacked villages, a lake, a town, and the wilderness, slaughtering people and spreading monstrous transformations.
• Wang Zhifan used his clones to locate the invaders and his real body to travel between them, killing each demon with the Azure Emperor Saber.

Wang Zhifan rescued Demon-Slaying Manor and traveled across the Homeland, killing demons and ending the suffering of people beyond saving. When the Demon God began to descend against him, it withdrew, so Wang Zhifan charged into the heavens to pursue it.

• Demon-Slaying Manor faced destruction as more than a dozen powerful demons overwhelmed its defenses, and the old manor master ordered the defenders to clear the corrupted main hall.
• Wang Zhifan killed demons across the Homeland, ended the suffering of townspeople who could not be saved, and arrived at Demon-Slaying Manor just before its survivors were wiped out.
• Wang Zhifan destroyed the demons surrounding the manor, then told the grateful manor master that he was not the Immortal and vanished to help elsewhere.
• The Demon God watched Wang Zhifan and began a plan to descend against him while preparing a separate scheme to torment Demon-Slaying Manor.
• Wang Zhifan waited for the Demon God's anomalous form to take shape, but it withdrew; he armed himself with Old God's Edge, called on Vermilion Bird, and charged into the heavens.