Chapter Summaries

The Sixth Prince’s forces carried out a meticulously prepared coup and seized control of the Song palace, leaving him to claim regency before the court. He began purging corrupt officials, starting with Prime Minister Liu Zhengyi, as more high officials were brought to account.

• The coup plotters infiltrated the palace at night, bribed or bypassed the guards, and seized the Supreme Emperor, the Empress, and the Grand Empress Dowager.
• The next morning, the Sixth Prince sat on the throne and announced that he would serve as regent because the senior royals had fallen ill.
• Prime Minister Liu Zhengyi challenged the Sixth Prince, who presented witnesses accusing Liu of stealing farmland and military honors and abusing his office.
• The Sixth Prince compared Liu to Qin Hui, stripped him of his posts, and ordered an investigation rather than accepting his offer of support.
• The Sixth Prince then began summoning other officials, including the Grand Commandant, to answer for their crimes.

The Sixth Prince’s reforms made the Song court more efficient and prosperous, changing the future and leaving Fa Hai to face the consequences of his obsession. Fa Hai sank into the sea and became a turtle as Xiao Qing reflected on how his actions had helped bring about the upheaval.

• The Sixth Prince imprisoned protesting old ministers, and the court continued to function more efficiently without them.
• The Song Dynasty stabilized, improved supplies for commoners, and grew powerful enough to begin an offensive.
• Buddha told Fa Hai that his obsession had caused Buddhism’s decline and changed the course of the world.
• Fa Hai accepted responsibility, sank into the sea, and became a turtle.
• Xiao Qing blamed Fa Hai’s unfair attempt to make her nephews become monks and observed that the Sixth Prince had ushered in the Abdication System.

Wenren Sheng left Xu Xian World and entered a neighboring Wasteland World where everyone had game-like attributes, meeting its struggling protagonist, Zhang Si Shui. He agreed to act as Zhang Si Shui’s old grandpa, though he offered little practical help, and left the matter of helping with an accounting exam undecided.

• Wenren Sheng saw that Xu Xian World had grown stronger and was assimilating nearby worlds, including a game-like Wasteland World.
• Little Illusion asked Wenren Sheng to give her vastly boosted attributes before entering the game, and he promised the boosts in ten years.
• Wenren Sheng found Zhang Si Shui, a transmigrator forced to grind for food and train his attributes because he had no money.
• Wenren Sheng asked Zhang Si Shui what he would do if he could not survive, and Zhang Si Shui said he would destroy the world before clarifying that he had only been venting.
• Wenren Sheng identified himself as Zhang Si Shui’s old grandpa but refused to provide game advice or help him level up.
• Zhang Si Shui asked Wenren Sheng to help him cheat on an accounting exam so he could become the town’s clerk, and Wenren Sheng said they would see.

Zhang Si Shui failed to become a clerk because the town’s exam was rigged, then refused Old Wang’s offer to work for the Dog Flourish Gang and was blacklisted from local jobs. Wenren Sheng declined to intervene, leaving Zhang Si Shui to face the gang’s growing pressure alone.

• Zhang Si Shui answered the accounting exam correctly, but Wenren Sheng predicted that his lack of connections would keep him from getting hired.
• Zhang Si Shui received no acceptance notice and found his name missing from the public list, while Old Wang and other gang members celebrated their appointments.
• Old Wang offered Zhang Si Shui work under exploitative terms, and Zhang Si Shui refused, prompting Old Wang to threaten him and the onlookers to dismiss his chances.
• Zhang Si Shui asked Wenren Sheng for help defeating the Dog Flourish Gang, but Wenren Sheng told him to seek mysterious events or objects if he wanted assistance.
• Zhang Si Shui left determined to make his way through the beginner period, but the next day Old Wang prevented locals from hiring him by invoking the Dog Flourish Gang’s authority.

Zhang Si Shui, starved and harassed by the Dog Flourish Gang, set out to surrender before encountering Little Flower, a powerful visitor who arrived to challenge the Plesiosaur. Little Flower kicked the monster out of the water in one blow, leaving Zhang Si Shui awed and his feud with the gang temporarily forgotten.

• Old Wang and the Dog Flourish Gang stole Zhang Si Shui’s collected scrap and prevented him from finding work, until hunger forced him to consider apologizing to them.
• Zhang Si Shui saw Little Flower arrive in Evil Dog Town with a grand procession and followed her as the crowd asked her to defeat the Plesiosaur.
• Little Flower led the crowd to the river, where the Plesiosaur emerged and threatened them.
• Little Flower kicked the Plesiosaur clean out of the water, stunning Zhang Si Shui and winning the crowd’s worship.
• Zhang Si Shui praised Little Flower as the true standard for a big shot, and a Dog Flourish Gang underling agreed with him.

After Little Flower’s victory transformed the town, Wenren Sheng rewarded Zhang Si Shui for persevering with honest work, but Zhang chose a Golden Finger he already possessed: immortality through the Game World. Years later, he learned that his survival still depended on retaining his player identity, and he concluded that Wenren Sheng had protected him from losing it.

• Little Flower split the serpent-dragon into eight pieces, and the town’s gangs shared its meat while the Dog Flourish Gang stopped targeting Zhang Si Shui.
• The gangs cleaned the town and removed its dangers as river profits grew, while Zhang returned to steady work and training.
• Wenren Sheng offered Zhang a choice of Golden, Silver, or Iron Finger, and Zhang chose immortality, only to learn that every player already revived in the Game World.
• Zhang accepted that his player identity made him effectively immortal and trained diligently until he became a big shot decades later.
• Zhang saw Old Wang die after losing his player identity and confronted Wenren Sheng about the limits of his immortality.
• Wenren Sheng pointed out that Zhang still could not die, and Zhang thanked him, believing Wenren Sheng had protected him from being reduced to a farmer.

Wenren Sheng gave Zhang Si Shui the Bronze Finger, multiplying his attributes tenfold, and Zhang Si Shui rose to rule a major city through overwhelming force. After indulging in power and isolating himself, he was cursed into paranoia and imprisoned, where Wenren Sheng made him confront how few people genuinely cared about him.

• Zhang Si Shui chose the Bronze Finger, surrendered his previous Immortality Golden Finger, and learned that Silver and Gold would have multiplied his attributes by one hundred and one thousand.
• Zhang Si Shui used his tenfold attributes to progress through the game, reach its highest-level city, kill its gang leader permanently, and force the city’s administrator and residents to accept his rule and taxes.
• Zhang Si Shui lived in luxury and crushed challengers, while Wenren Sheng observed him becoming increasingly indulgent and isolated.
• An enemy used an ancient Mental Attack and a curse to drive Zhang Si Shui into paranoia, then captured and locked him away.
• Zhang Si Shui begged Wenren Sheng to free him, but Wenren Sheng asked whether anyone would risk their life to save him, prompting Zhang Si Shui to realize he had few genuine friends.

After Wenren Sheng freed Zhang Si Shui, Zhang Si Shui survived another assassination attempt and built Night Rain Tower to hunt his enemies. The tower’s conflict with the Seven Cities Alliance escalated into a struggle over monster nests and logistics, and its Twelve Gold Medal Assassins debated how to destroy the alliance’s chamber of commerce without incurring game-system punishment.

• Wenren Sheng taught Zhang Si Shui that his failure came from lacking a system to protect and sustain his power, then freed him from his chains and poison.
• Zhang Si Shui survived an attack by apparent rescuers, escaped another poison attempt with Wenren Sheng’s help, and hunted down his enemies from the shadows.
• Zhang Si Shui founded Night Rain Tower, which recruited elite assassins and became a powerful organization in the area.
• The Seven Cities Alliance retaliated against Night Rain Tower by destroying monster nests, forcing the tower to defend its supply of monsters.
• Night Rain Tower’s assassinations failed to break the Seven Cities Alliance, whose leaders hid and shifted their businesses to non-player proxies.
• The Twelve Gold Medal Assassins discussed their Bro’s order to destroy the Seven Cities Alliance Chamber of Commerce and rejected a tactic that would bring game-system punishment.

Zhang Si Shui reorganized Night Rain Tower into the Tzu Chi Society after Little Flower stopped its massacre, then followed her to a high-level Battleship Commander instance and became a destroyer captain. When his first mission ordered him to intercept a torpedo aimed at an M Country battleship, he faced the prospect of sacrificing himself.

• Zhang Si Shui watched Night Rain Tower slaughter the Seven Cities United Commerce Association until it surrendered, and Wenren Sheng judged that his darkness made him unsuitable to be a protagonist male lead.
• Little Flower confronted Night Rain Tower over the lifeless towns, and Zhang Si Shui bowed to her demand to reorganize the group as the Tzu Chi Society.
• Zhang Si Shui tracked Little Flower to an ocean warship instance, recognized its Captain role as a way to experience commanding a system, and qualified to command a warship.
• Zhang Si Shui received a destroyer and was immediately ordered to shield a flagship from incoming torpedoes during a World War II naval battle.
• Zhang Si Shui recognized the torpedo as part of a historic J Country attack on an M Country battleship and hesitated to risk his life intercepting it.

Zhang Si Shui rebelled against the navy after his carrier-focused proposal led to his demotion, stole an enemy submarine, and became a pirate. He occupied an island to build facilities for repairs, leaving the captured submarine crew trapped and forced to work for him.

• Zhang Si Shui saved his destroyer from a torpedo, then submitted a proposal arguing that future naval warfare should center on aircraft carriers.
• After his superiors mocked his proposal and reassigned him to a Torpedo Boat, Zhang Si Shui decided to become a pirate and acquire a submarine.
• During a harbor raid, Zhang Si Shui and seven or eight sailors captured a submarine under repair and forced its technical crew to teach them how to operate it.
• Zhang Si Shui and his men escaped in the submarine and began raiding shipping routes, mostly targeting J Country while avoiding M Fleet.
• Zhang Si Shui occupied a small island and forced the captured submarine crew to work on building basic industry, despite having promised to release them after they taught him to operate the submarine.

Zhang Si Shui built a pirate base and grew his strength by raiding wartime shipping, but a trap led to his submarine being surrounded by M Country's fleet. With depth charges imminent, he asked Wenren Sheng for a way to survive, and Wenren Sheng told him to surrender or break through the blockade.

• Zhang Si Shui organized his captives into a workforce, rewarding labor and punishing escape attempts as he established a pirate base on the island.
• A Short Beard Man offered Zhang Si Shui money and women to fight M Country, and Zhang Si Shui agreed to raid its transport convoys while pretending to cooperate with J Country.
• Zhang Si Shui looted ships for supplies and engineers, then robbed a cruise ship to obtain a long-range radio and radar, which his captives installed on the submarine.
• A general aboard the cruise ship ordered a hunt for Zhang Si Shui, and M Country's fleet used a decoy transport ship to lure him into a trap.
• Sixty destroyers surrounded Zhang Si Shui's submarine and prepared to search with Active Sonar, prompting him to ask Wenren Sheng how to escape.
• Wenren Sheng advised Zhang Si Shui to surface and surrender, or to break through the destroyers' blockade.

Wenren Sheng convinced Zhang Si Shui to use his enhanced physical abilities underwater, and Zhang Si Shui launched himself from the submarine to disable the destroyers pursuing it. As he crippled ship after ship, the submarine’s crew discovered a gap in the encirclement and reconsidered surrendering.

• Wenren Sheng told Zhang Si Shui to use his tenfold strength and speed to attack the destroyers underwater and exploit their reliance on Depth Charges.
• Zhang Si Shui had the First Mate fire him from a torpedo tube, then swam toward the destroyers faster than a torpedo.
• Zhang Si Shui threw a military dagger into a destroyer’s propeller, shattering it and leaving the ship powerless.
• Zhang Si Shui disabled several more destroyers by damaging their propellers, then used water pressure to break propeller-shaft bearings when he ran out of daggers.
• The Sonar Operator reported that a destroyer had stopped searching and the encirclement had a gap, making the submarine’s crew reconsider surrendering.

After Zhang Si Shui overwhelmed a destroyer squadron and transformed his warship instance into a realm of mechanical combat, Wenren Sheng sent him back to his original world. Zhang Si Shui discovered that his tenfold cheat remained, then went with Aunt Liu to spar with her son as he prepared for martial academy admission.

• Zhang Si Shui drove off a destroyer squadron, and his submarine crew celebrated him as a divine being.
• Zhang Si Shui developed his abilities and built a fast, heavily armored machine that let him dominate the warship instance.
• Wenren Sheng sent Zhang Si Shui back to his original world, where he woke in his cramped rental room.
• Aunt Liu asked Zhang Si Shui to spar with her son in exchange for waiving a month's rent, and Wenren Sheng confirmed Zhang Si Shui still had his tenfold cheat.
• Zhang Si Shui followed Aunt Liu to her family home, where her son challenged him to spar, stirring Zhang Si Shui's anger.

Zhang Si Shui passed Tianheng Martial Academy’s entrance tests and rose to become its top student, while Wenren Sheng observed his growing strength and brutality. The headmaster summoned the academy’s ten strongest students and told them it was time to fulfill their duties as Supernatural Beings.

• Zhang Si Shui sent Aunt Liu’s son flying with a punch, and Aunt Liu took him to Tianheng Martial Academy to recommend him for its entrance test.
• Zhang Si Shui passed the strength and speed tests, registered, and joined the academy’s Beginner Class.
• After half a year of training, Zhang Si Shui became the academy’s number one and killed the managers and boss at his former company.
• Wenren Sheng learned that Zhang Si Shui had developed nine martial skills and a way to convert life force into energy, which let him use his abilities more often than other students.
• The headmaster summoned the academy’s top ten students to a conference room and told them to fulfill their duties as Supernatural Beings.

Zhang Si Shui and the other supernatural students learned that they were expected to fight the underground Insect Race, and the dean forced them into combat training by controlling the supernatural energy in their bodies. In the passage, Zhang Si Shui killed an Ambusher with ease, but another student was badly wounded before the dean healed him, leaving Wenren Sheng to recognize that the Institute treated the students as cannon fodder.

• The dean explained that the Black Armored People were an Insect Race and that supernatural humans were expected to fight them, then used his control over their supernatural energy to make the protesting students submit to battlefield rules.
• The dean led Zhang Si Shui and the other nine students to a guarded base and explained that they had to clear the underground passage to keep the Insect Race from multiplying and emerging.
• Zhang Si Shui stayed at the back of the group, where an Ambusher attacked him and he kicked it to pieces, prompting a girl who had mocked him to apologize.
• The dean warned the group that Ambushers could pierce beginner defensive skills, and a second Ambusher wounded a male student before the dean killed both creatures and healed him.
• Zhang Si Shui realized that supernatural energy could strengthen his regeneration, while Wenren Sheng concluded that the Institute regarded the students as bait and cannon fodder.

Zhang Si Shui and the other trainees were led by the dean through dangerous insect-filled passages, where Zhang Si Shui repeatedly demonstrated overwhelming strength. The dean recognized him as an unusual asset, while Wenren Sheng continued to guide his choices and the group pressed on toward more powerful bugs.

• Zhang Si Shui rescued a trainee from the Tank Worm’s spikes, then smashed the beetle and received a hundredfold attribute boost after Wenren Sheng offered him another Golden Finger choice.
• The dean led the trainees onward, intending to use them as offerings to settle the bugs, and warned them about a swarm of deadly flying insects.
• When a trainee’s defense failed, Zhang Si Shui swept the flying insects away, revealing Master Level attack power and drawing the dean’s greed and suspicion.
• The dean received a warning that No. 2 Cave was stirring and was urged to use a Flame-Spraying Worm against Zhang Si Shui.
• Zhang Si Shui killed the Flame-Spraying Worm with one punch, blasting apart the lava pool and leaving the dean to reconsider how badly he had underestimated him.

Zhang Si Shui killed the Bugs in the underground passage and uncovered the headmaster’s attempt to feed students to them. After defeating the Silver Armor King Bug and retrieving a cultivation technique, he returned to the surface with the headmaster and two students, while the headmaster remained unable to kill him.

• Zhang Si Shui killed the assassin Bug in the lightless cave, learned that Bugs had appeared fifty years earlier, and continued through the underground passage with the headmaster.
• Zhang Si Shui killed several more Bugs with single punches as the headmaster and his companion worried that he was disrupting their plan to feed him to the Bugs.
• The headmaster urged Zhang Si Shui to cross an underground river, but Zhang Si Shui jumped in and swam ahead while the two students stayed behind with the headmaster.
• Zhang Si Shui returned with the Silver Armor King Bug’s carapace and said he had killed the Master Level Bug and found a cultivation technique in its stomach.
• Zhang Si Shui, the headmaster, and the two students returned to the surface; only four of the eleven people who entered had survived, and the headmaster thought Zhang Si Shui had to die despite being unable to defeat him.

After discovering that the dean had arranged the sniper attack, Zhang Si Shui killed him and fought through the forces sent to capture him, growing stronger with Wenren Sheng’s help. A Black Shadow offered him immortality, and Wenren Sheng revealed that the man had orchestrated the Bugs and Supernatural Beings to harvest supernatural energy and cure his illness.

• Zhang Si Shui caught a sniper’s bullet, and Wenren Sheng identified the dean as the one who had summoned the sniper.
• Zhang Si Shui killed the dean, escaped the passage guards, and fought the pursuers who accused him of betraying his benefactor.
• Wenren Sheng boosted Zhang Si Shui’s power as he defeated the gathered fighters, a mage, and a Grandmaster.
• When the survivors offered wealth and power, Zhang Si Shui demanded immortality, and a Black Shadow claimed he could provide it.
• Wenren Sheng revealed that the Black Shadow had created the Bugs and Supernatural Beings to harvest supernatural energy and treat his severe illness.

Zhang Si Shui bargained with Black Shadow for immortality, but their fight destroyed the small world and left Zhang Si Shui near death. Wenren Sheng restored the world after Zhang Si Shui agreed to investigate its secrets, and Zhang Si Shui gained the mystery of crossing dimensions before becoming the Artifact Spirit of a magic treasure in a larger world.

• Black Shadow agreed to make Zhang Si Shui immortal in exchange for learning the secret of his power, but transformed him into a spider and attacked when Zhang Si Shui objected.
• Zhang Si Shui's rage, amplified a thousandfold, caused him to explode and destroy the world inside Black Shadow's treasure.
• As the world collapsed, Zhang Si Shui's soul began fading, and he begged Wenren Sheng for help after agreeing to investigate every secret.
• Wenren Sheng restored the world and Zhang Si Shui, while Black Shadow gave him power that revealed the mystery of crossing dimensional worlds.
• Zhang Si Shui followed a dimensional thread and arrived in a larger world as the Artifact Spirit of a ceramic jar, which its owner picked up and carried away.

Han Haitao fled with his jar while Wenren Sheng realized that his world was nested inside another world. He watched Shi Tian struggle to cash in gold produced by his Glass Fish Tank, and Shi Tian ended the chapter after being scammed while trying to buy an abandoned gold mine.

• Han Haitao worried that his repaired artifact might no longer extract extraordinary energy and ran off to seek a way to repair his Dantian.
• Wenren Sheng saw a modern giant observing the forest and realized that his world was part of a nested reality.
• Shi Tian found gold flakes on his Glass Fish Tank and worried that his repeated gold exchanges had attracted attention.
• Wenren Sheng judged that Shi Tian could profit more safely by using knowledge from the Small World, but Shi Tian asked its forum how to sell his gold legally.
• Shi Tian followed advice to buy an abandoned gold mine, spent 500,000 yuan on a fake company, and discovered that its mining rights were fraudulent.