Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng watched humanity rebuild without metal resources, then created a memory-retaining reincarnation system to help preserve talent across generations. A man who drowned in shallow water reincarnated as a miner in another world, where he and Lao Zhang learned that their low life evaluations had earned them hard labor.

• Humanity turned to timber, stone, flowing water, and cultivated Ironwood after finding no usable coal or metal deposits.
• Wenren Sheng established reincarnation with memories intact and made everyone brothers and sisters across lives, while setting penalties for grave crimes and repeated low evaluations.
• A man who drowned in a thirty-centimeter-deep riverbed died and arrived as a soul in a room on the Mysterious Tree.
• A staff member explained that the man could reincarnate without losing his memories, but warned him about the rules and the consequences of low scores.
• The man reincarnated as an adult and became a miner, where the foreman introduced him to Lao Zhang and revealed that they were mining ore from another world.
• Old Liu and Lao Zhang compared their previous lives, complained about mining, and discussed earning enough contribution to eventually leave.

Old Liu and Lao Zhang discovered that mining could lead to missions and reincarnations, while Wenren Sheng’s relaxed world continued to develop. He watched Mi Heng enter a war-torn city-state world, where Mi Heng vowed to save others and confronted soldiers threatening Mountain City.

• Old Liu explained missions to Lao Zhang, and the two learned that mining rare ores could send them into other lives before returning to the mines.
• After experiencing reincarnated lives, Old Liu argued that repeated chances with memories gave people a fair opportunity to improve, while Wenren Sheng’s world grew through research and exploration.
• Wenren Sheng observed Mi Heng enter a world of warring city-states, where a powerful state’s soldiers demanded food and people from Mountain City.
• Mi Heng refused to abandon Mountain City, declaring that he would save others because the gods had saved him.
• Wenren Sheng gave Mi Heng triple attributes, and Mi Heng knocked a mounted soldier from his horse with a thrown stone, prompting the enemy general to order an attack.

Mi Heng tried to save a small city from a great city-state’s army, but its people handed him over and the enemy betrayed their promise, teaching him that promises meant nothing without the power to enforce them. After Wenren Sheng empowered him to break free, Mi Heng drove off the invaders and continued helping small city-states, learning that they were left unprotected because natural disasters made ruling them unprofitable.

• Mi Heng reached the small city’s wall, offered to help defend it, and inspired its people until the enemy commander threatened to spare the city only if they handed him over.
• The Garrison Commander warned the people not to trust the enemy, but they tied Mi Heng up and lowered him from the wall; the general captured him and ordered the city attacked anyway.
• As the city fell and its people faced slaughter, Wenren Sheng gave Mi Heng greater strength, enabling him to escape, kill the attacking soldiers, and rally the townspeople until the enemy fled.
• After vomiting from the battle, Mi Heng refused the Garrison Commander’s offer to become city lord and continued traveling, defending other small city-states from larger armies.
• A captured general explained to Mi Heng that gods assigned each Child of God a city, while unprotected small cities were vulnerable to natural disasters, making them costly and risky to govern.

Mi Heng uncovered how gods used temples, faith, and natural disasters to keep city-states divided and ordinary people powerless. Determined to challenge the gods, he began secretly investigating them in a prosperous coastal city.

• Mi Heng learned that small city-states lacked divine protection because they could not afford temples, and that gods punished their Children through prophecies and supposedly coincidental deaths.
• The captured general explained that conquering great cities brought divine favor and let victors plunder temple power; Mi Heng declared he would become a god above gods, then snapped the general’s neck.
• Over ten years, Mi Heng discovered that gods depended on temples, believers, and mountains or rivers, and that disasters helped preserve humanity’s division into city-states.
• Mi Heng learned that small cities arose from people driven out of great cities and survived through wilderness resources, but remained vulnerable to disasters and conquest, often paying protection money for peace.
• Angered by commoners’ harsh lives, Mi Heng disguised himself as a merchant and entered a large coastal city that had avoided disasters for centuries.

Mi Heng studied how temples generated divine power, then built an efficient shrine and used its power to establish a rapidly growing city-state. When five neighboring city lords ordered him to cap his population and surrender people and craftsmen, he decided to fight them, trusting his city’s far greater divine-power efficiency.

• Mi Heng investigated the temple’s immense costs and discovered that sacrifices required large crowds, a lengthy process, and jade to store divine power.
• With Wenren Sheng shielding his experiments, Mi Heng found that ninety-nine people worshipping jade atop a ninety-nine-meter mound generated divine power, which he absorbed and used to transform his body.
• Mi Heng established a city-state that grew to more than three hundred thousand people while Wenren Sheng protected it from natural disasters.
• Five neighboring city lords agreed to limit Mi Heng’s population to three hundred thousand and demanded yearly tribute of people and craftsmen because they depended on his city’s goods.
• Mi Heng rejected the demands and chose to wage war, relying on his temple’s divine-power production being thirty times more efficient than theirs.

Mi Heng rejected No. 1 City’s demands, rallied his citizens, and prepared to attack, believing he could isolate his nearest rivals. As he marched on City One, Wenren Sheng anticipated that the other city states would unite against him, while City One’s lord confidently led his guard out to crush Mi Heng.

• Mi Heng studied the five city states and planned to conquer No. 1 and No. 2 first, then turn against the others.
• Wenren Sheng recognized that Mi Heng had underestimated the city states’ ties and expected them to form a coalition as soon as he attacked.
• Mi Heng rejected No. 1 City’s demands and stirred the citizens’ anger by reminding them of past abuses and the demand for people from his city.
• Mi Heng assembled fifty thousand people, selected one thousand elite Soldiers, sent messengers to No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5, and marched to attack City One.
• The city lord of City One became furious at Mi Heng’s refusal and led the City Lord’s Guard out, confident the encounter would be a simple hunt.

Mi Heng defeated No. 1 City Lord and his elite guard, then killed the Child of God despite threats of divine retaliation. He led his army to No. 1 City and demanded its surrender, while ten thousand followers deserted along the way.

• No. 1 City Lord marched out with 500 elite guards and demanded that Mi Heng kneel and pay tribute.
• Mi Heng revealed his divine power, killed all 500 guards, and fought No. 1 City Lord in the air.
• Mi Heng overwhelmed No. 1 City Lord, who was abandoned by his fleeing elephant and begged for mercy.
• Mi Heng killed No. 1 City Lord with one punch, while the gathered citizens reconsidered their fear of the Children of God.
• Mi Heng led forty thousand people toward No. 1 City, but ten thousand deserted before he reached its walls.
• Mi Heng displayed No. 1 City Lord's corpse and called on No. 1 City to surrender.

Mi Heng captured No. 1 City State and used his efficient, innovative command of divine power to ambush and conquer No. 2 and No. 3 City States. As he advanced on No. 4 and No. 5, their Deity appeared to stop him, and Mi Heng’s attack showed that he could shake the god’s phantom.

• Mi Heng led the people of No. 1 City State in a revolt, captured the city, and restrained them from massacring its civilians.
• After No. 5 City Lord and the other surviving rulers swore revenge, Mi Heng took No. 1 City State’s temple and organized its five hundred thousand people to pray to him.
• Mi Heng used reconnaissance and divine power to locate No. 2 and No. 3 City Lords’ forces, then attacked their camps at night and killed the commanders.
• Mi Heng captured No. 2 City and No. 3 City State in rapid succession, taking their temples to replenish his divine power.
• When Mi Heng advanced toward No. 4 and No. 5 City States, their Deity appeared and struck him down, but Mi Heng’s attack had made the god’s phantom sway.

Mi Heng defeated the Giant God and seized control of five city-states, then used divine power, jobs, and food distribution to build a prosperous territory. When the Deities copied his methods to destroy him, their priests’ self-serving implementation failed, setting the stage for another divine war.

• Mi Heng outmaneuvered the Giant God, killed City Lord Number Four and City Lord Number Five, and unified six city-states under his rule.
• Mi Heng responded to land shortages by developing rainfall techniques, trading Divine Power Pills for grain, issuing currency, and creating public jobs to distribute food and wages.
• Mi Heng expanded his territory and population until it exceeded fifty million, then marched toward a major city-state.
• The Deities formed the All Gods Allied Army, revealed they had learned Mi Heng’s methods, and withdrew to apply them in their own city-states.
• Mi Heng recognized that the priests’ greed and disregard for ordinary people would ruin their copied systems, and another divine war began.

Mi Heng defeated the deities by absorbing their avatars’ divine power and making them suffer the pain they had inflicted on mortals, but the Thunder Mountain God’s Illusion Arts turned him against his purpose. After centuries as God King, Mi Heng briefly saw how badly he had failed, then hosted a feast for the gods and told them he was satisfied with their conduct.

• The deities sent avatars to fight Mi Heng, who grew stronger by absorbing them and retaliated by inflicting their former punishments upon them.
• The deities disguised new avatars as humans, but Mi Heng attacked their cities and forced the Thunder Mountain God to descend in its true form.
• The Thunder Mountain God used Illusion Arts to convince Mi Heng that he had no reason to help mortals, and Mi Heng accepted the gods’ offer to become their God King.
• Mi Heng initially kept policies that benefited the people, but centuries of indulgence allowed the Priests Group to resume exploiting them.
• Mi Heng came to his senses and saw the ruin his rule had caused, then arranged a feast and told the gods he was satisfied with their conduct.

Mi Heng remembered his identity and rejected the gods’ exploitation of ordinary people, but after sealing the gods and witnessing people beg for their return, he destroyed the world. Back in his own world, Mi Heng recognized that he had been unfit to wield divine power, while Wenren Sheng observed a new group of daring world explorers.

• Mi Heng recalled that he was a Transmigrator and condemned the gods for exploiting ordinary people, then showed a leopard Deity the suffering its victims endured.
• Mi Heng defeated the World Serpent and the other gods, sealed them away, and watched people turn against the priests before praying for the gods to return.
• Mi Heng decided the world was too boring and destroyed it, prompting Wenren Sheng to criticize his failure to control his power and emotions.
• Mi Heng returned home without divine power, admitted to his friend that he had become a god, and realized he had gained power too quickly; they ended up working at a restaurant to pay their bill.
• Wenren Sheng checked his Mystery Points and noticed the World Exploration Team recruiting curious, courageous members to explore other worlds.

Wenren Sheng watched the World Exploration Team recruit candidates through dangerous tests designed to find people with courage and curiosity, then gave the interviewers tenfold comprehension. Ten recruits joined the ninety-ninth class and learned the team’s grim history and binding rules, while Wenren Sheng discovered all ninety-nine classes had consisted of the same ten people.

• Wenren Sheng watched the interviewers test candidates with realistic dangers, rejecting those who lacked genuine courage or curiosity.
• A fearless young girl passed a Cthulhu-world test without losing her sanity, and the interviewers recruited her alongside other talented applicants.
• Wenren Sheng recognized that the interviewers had gained Mysterious Power through their explorations and granted them tenfold comprehension.
• The interviewers welcomed ten recruits into the ninety-ninth class and revealed that earlier members had gone mad, become idiots, or tried to withdraw.
• The recruits learned they had to explore fifty worlds or earn fifty thousand points to leave, and that their memories would be erased upon withdrawal.
• Wenren Sheng realized the three interviewers had lied: all ninety-nine classes had been made up of the same ten people, none of whom had escaped.

The three interviewers put ten candidates through mental and skill training before sending them into a wealthy urban world to find its protagonist and seize his system or Golden Finger. The group identified Lan Tianyan as their main suspect and discovered that his parents appeared to have a spending-reward system.

• The Female Interviewer assigned the candidates numbers and put them through mental-resilience illusions; No. 3 recovered in two days, while the other nine needed a month.
• The ten candidates quickly learned advanced skills, then received mysterious beads that burrowed into their bodies as Wenren Sheng realized their memories had been erased.
• The interviewers brought the ten into a lavish urban world and told them to find the protagonist, steal his system or Golden Finger, and claim the gods’ rewards.
• The candidates searched online and narrowed their suspects to the One-Eyed Dragon King, Young Master Ye, and Lan Tianyan.
• The group investigated Lan Tianyan and concluded that he had no system, but his parents likely had one that rewarded their spending.

Ten visitors decided not to target the prodigal tycoon, whose spending helped ordinary people, and instead went after Xue Qinglin, the Door-to-Door Son-in-Law. After No. 3 killed Xue Qinglin’s humiliating family and freed him from their influence, the group discovered Xue Qinglin’s Golden Finger was an unstealable identity—and that it had attached itself to No. 3.

• The ten learned that the prodigal tycoon’s spending improved workers’ lives and provided affordable food and healthcare, so several refused to take his Golden Finger.
• The group chose to investigate Xue Qinglin, believing his hidden wealth and humiliating family were tied to an Intelligence-Suppressing Halo.
• At a birthday gathering, No. 3 attacked Xue Qinglin’s nominal wife, grandmother, and relatives, and the others subdued Xue Qinglin after he retaliated.
• Xue Qinglin realized he had already repaid the family’s favor and forgave the visitors, while they identified his Golden Finger as the city’s Script Child identity.
• No. 3 sensed something had attached to him, and the others suddenly felt compelled to insult and attack him.

The thirteen explorers escaped a world that had noticed their theft of its authority and returned to the Inner Court World, where they rested before entering a robot-ruled world. They found shelter in the Great Mother's oasis sanctuary, where the kindly robot administrator welcomed them as children and promised to care for them.

• The ten explorers beat Number Three, and the interviewers gained one Mystery Point after seizing a portion of the world's authority.
• An airplane crashed near the café, prompting the Female Interviewer to warn that the world would turn deadly, so the group escaped through the underground passage to the Inner Court World.
• During seven days of rest, the ten explorers trained and learned that the interviewers explored worlds by stealing valuable things from them.
• The thirteen entered a robot-ruled world, joined people fleeing robot Gunners, and learned that friendly robots protected humans in a desert sanctuary.
• The newcomers were registered as mountain wild men and brought to the Great Mother, who assigned them lakeside villas and Machine Servants and told them they could simply live happily.

Thirteen newcomers met six residents of Great Mother's desert refuge and agreed to help strengthen its defenses against hostile robots. As the ten straightforward newcomers worked on new technologies and settled into a comfortable life, Wenren Sheng and the three interviewers saw through the residents’ claims and kept their suspicions to themselves.

• Six neighbors visited the thirteen with food and claimed that only nineteen dignified humans remained in the world.
• The neighbors led the thirteen to a hidden underground base and explained that other robots threatened Great Mother and treated most humans as livestock.
• The six described Great Mother's military resources and urged the newcomers to help improve its reconnaissance, missile defenses, and weapons.
• The ten newcomers began researching technologies to strengthen Great Mother, while the three interviewers avoided the work and secretly watched events unfold.
• Over several months, Great Mother provided the ten with comfortable homes and ideal Machine Servant partners, and they began calling the refuge heaven.
• Wenren Sheng recognized that the three interviewers understood the deception, and they privately planned to reveal themselves as the winners at the end.

No. 3 invented an Energy Force Field that gave the Great Mother a powerful new defense, while the Middle-Aged Leader tried to recruit him to help humanity resist the Robots. The Great Mother began covering the desert with solar panels and Particle Shields as the Leader secretly pursued control of Robot swarms.

• No. 3 developed the Energy Force Field, and the Great Mother praised him and promised to build a society where people could live in comfort.
• The Middle-Aged Leader secretly met No. 3 and argued that humans could use the technology to reclaim their land, but No. 3 warned that they lacked the resources and manufacturing capacity to compete with Robots.
• No. 3 suggested that humans would need control of a central Robot, and the Middle-Aged Leader proposed developing a program to control Robot swarms.
• The Great Mother began building a vast Protective Shield over the desert and dispatched one million robots to lay Solar Panels for its energy supply.
• The Middle-Aged Leader secretly approached others and focused on winning No. 3 over, while considering introducing him to a match.

No. 3 developed an Aerial Mothership to help the Great Mother drive hostile Robots from the desert, then began exploring biotechnology as a way to turn his inventions into usable power. He left his companions impressed by his Golden Finger and started researching ways to transform themselves into biological production hubs.

• The Great Mother warned everyone to stay in the oasis because the Great Mountain Society wanted the Particle Shield technology and might attack.
• After the Great Mother handed over the Particle Shield technology under pressure, No. 3 developed an Aerial Mothership, which helped her drive the hostile Robots out of the desert.
• No. 3 explained that his Golden Finger filled his mind with garbled code and a monkey that assembled it into technology, then asked how inventions could be put to practical use more quickly.
• No. 2 proposed using controllable, replicable Robots to turn technology into productive power, and No. 9 suggested that the group could replicate themselves biologically.
• No. 1 described genes as programs that controlled cell division, prompting No. 3 to begin researching biotechnology and the possibility of becoming Queen Ants or brood nests.

No. 3 expanded his biotechnology by creating removable biological attachments, but his small group could not keep pace with the Robots’ ability to copy and scale new technologies. An intelligent microorganism gave the Middle-Aged Leader a rare advantage, and he began working with it inside his body.

• No. 3 developed extensive biological modifications and converted them into removable attachments after his companions rejected his altered appearance.
• The interviewers discussed how the Robots could quickly copy his biotechnology, while No. 3’s small group lacked the scale to compete.
• No. 3 accidentally created an intelligent microorganism that could manage microbes, corrode substances, and decompose organic matter, but he abandoned it because teaching it would take too long.
• The Middle-Aged Leader found No. 3’s research notes, obtained the microorganism’s parent strain, and recognized that it could not be reproduced for more than a decade.
• The Middle-Aged Leader communicated with the microorganism and reached a cooperative arrangement inside his body.

The Middle-Aged Leader partnered with the intelligent microorganism Little Wei, redesigning his body and developing colonies that could sense, communicate, and attack Robots. Little Wei then spread rapidly through the surrounding environment, building a hidden network and beginning to challenge the Robots from within their own territory.

• The Middle-Aged Leader named the intelligent microorganism Little Wei and directed it to develop mutations that would keep him alive and heal his body.
• He had Little Wei replace his stomach and intestines, then gained weight over a month so his body could store a vast colony of microorganisms.
• The Middle-Aged Leader used Little Wei's colonies to sense activity kilometers away and destroy a hostile Robot by infecting its central processing unit.
• He and Little Wei developed radio-wave communication, allowing Little Wei to control its distant microbial colonies with minimal delay.
• The Middle-Aged Leader ordered Little Wei to spread, absorb nutrients, and build specialized microbial cities and forces that could attack Robots.
• Robot scientists noticed unusual microbial activity but mistook it for an accidental phenomenon, unaware that an intelligent colony was spreading around them.