Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Hei San, reforged as a diligent Black Iron Man, secretly regains his memories and plans to resign.
• Hei San transfers to a new post, still doing manual labor, and decides to learn technical skills.
• Hei San secretly gathers like-minded Black Iron Men, forming a Technology Association.
• They study Bronze Men's technology, aiming to master it and surpass the Silver Men.
• Hei San and his followers discover the Gear World's principles and the existence of the Gold Men.
• Wenren Sheng intervenes, introducing examinations and robots to improve conditions for Black Iron Men.
• Bronze Men complain about the improved treatment of Black Iron Men, but their protests are ignored.

Character Developments

• Hei San: Becomes a diligent worker, secretly regains his memories, and organizes a rebellion. He remains suspicious of the new rules, even after they benefit him.
• Bronze Men: Degenerate over time, losing motivation to learn and advance. Some remain dissatisfied with the improved treatment of Black Iron Men.
• Black Iron Men: Initially resigned to their fate, they gain motivation and start learning technical skills. Most accept the new rules and stop supporting Hei San's rebellion.

Significant Themes

• Resentment and its source: Unfulfilled wishes lead to Resentful Energy, which can cause catastrophe.
• Motivation and stagnation: The Bronze Men's lack of motivation leads to stagnation, while the Black Iron Men's desire to rise drives their advancement.
• Order and change: The fixed order of the Gear World is challenged by Hei San's rebellion, and later by Wenren Sheng's reforms.

Character Interactions

• Hei San interacts with Bronze Men, initially through work, then through the Technology Association. He also gathers and interacts with like-minded Black Iron Men.
• Bronze Men interact with each other, expressing their dissatisfaction with the improved treatment of Black Iron Men.
• Hei San's followers interact with him, initially supporting his rebellion, but later leaving him due to the new rules introduced by Wenren Sheng.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wenren Sheng, the creator, realizes that his artificial world needs a civilization to sustain itself, but this also produces Resentful Energy, leading to a contradiction.
• He decides to build a Dinosaur Planet, a Mechanical World with low-intelligence creatures to maintain self-circulation and avoid excessive Resentful Energy.
• The Gear People, inhabitants of the Dinosaur Planet, face a crisis as new births have low intelligence and the clan's future is threatened.
• Hei San, a Bronze Man, rallies the clan to find a solution, seeking the Gold Man's help to spread hope among the people.
• Wenren Sheng sends ten questions to the Gear World, challenging them to solve them within a hundred years to enter a New World.

Character Developments

• Wenren Sheng: The creator, he understands the contradiction of his world and decides to build a Dinosaur Planet to maintain balance.
• Hei San: A Bronze Man who takes initiative to save his clan, demonstrating leadership, determination, and wisdom.
• The Gold Man: Initially reluctant to help, he is moved by Hei San's story and agrees to spread hope among the Gear People.

Significant Themes

• Contradiction: The tension between maintaining a world's sustainability and avoiding excessive Resentful Energy.
• Hope and Despair: The Gear People's struggle between accepting their fate and striving for a better future.
• Leadership and Initiative: Hei San's actions highlight the importance of leadership and taking initiative in the face of crisis.

Character Interactions

• Hei San and the Gold Man: Their interaction leads to the Gold Man agreeing to help Hei San spread hope among the Gear People.
• Hei San and the Bronze Man: Their meeting results in Hei San selecting those willing to work hard to find a solution to their clan's crisis.
• Wenren Sheng and the Gear People: Wenren Sheng's decision to send ten questions challenges the Gear People to prove their worth and potential.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Hei San starts gathering people to solve the ten questions given by the gods to prevent the world's destruction.
• The problems are found to be extremely difficult, with no progress made in fifty years.
• Panic and despair spread among the people as the deadline approaches.
• Some people claim to have solved three problems, but the answers are rejected by the Gold Man.
• A hundred-year countdown ends with no problems solved, but many tools and scattered issues resolved.
• A door to the New World appears, but only those who enter before it closes can go through.
• One-third of the people remain behind, choosing not to enter the New World.
• The remaining Gear People realize their regret as the world falls into dead silence.
• Wenren Sheng returns to the Eastern Continent and decides to restore it.
• He repairs the spatial rifts, removes strange entities, and reverts cities to their original appearance using Time Regression.
• Some people who remained on Earth witness the transformation.

Character Developments

• Hei San, the leader of the problem-solving initiative, dies of old age but is reborn in a new Black Iron Man.
• Wenren Sheng, the main character, returns to the Eastern Continent to restore it, demonstrating his god-like powers.
• Ouyang Tian, Wenren Sheng's cousin, is conflicted about the world's return but ultimately accepts an administrator role in the New World.

Significant Themes

• The struggle of humanity against insurmountable odds and the consequences of their choices.
• The power of persistence and the importance of making the right decisions.
• The responsibility of creators and the impact of their creations on others.
• The theme of homecoming and the desire to return to one's roots.

Character Interactions

• Hei San and the other Gear People work together to solve the problems but face insurmountable challenges.
• Wenren Sheng interacts with his cousin Ouyang Tian, who is conflicted about the world's return.
• Wenren Sheng witnesses the shock and awe of the people who remained on Earth as he restores the world.

Key Plot Points and Events

• After a great catastrophe, Earth is restored to its original state.
• Wenren Sheng sends a message to Old Liu and others, inviting them to return to Earth.
• Many people return to Earth, emotional and grateful for their homeland's restoration.
• Wenren Sheng reveals his plan to reincarnate deceased people in the World Tree World.
• Wenren Sheng meets with old acquaintances, including Ouyang Tian, Ji Zhengyan, and Li Shuangyue.
• Wenren Sheng offers Ouyang Tian the role of a sage and others the role of inspectors, granting them immortality and important roles in the world's records.
• Wenren Sheng leaves Earth to continue exploring the void and its mysteries.

Character Developments

• Wenren Sheng: He has grown significantly in power and understanding, able to restore Earth and grant immortality to his friends. He remains humble and focused on his mission to learn and protect.
• Ouyang Tian: He is offered the role of a sage by Wenren Sheng, a position of great responsibility and power.
• Old Liu and others: They return to Earth, emotional and grateful for their homeland's restoration. They are also offered important roles by Wenren Sheng.
• Ji Zhengyan and Li Shuangyue: They meet with Wenren Sheng and are offered roles as inspectors, granting them immortality.

Significant Themes

• Gratitude and Homecoming: The emotional return of the characters to Earth after its restoration highlights the theme of gratitude and the importance of home.
• Power and Responsibility: Wenren Sheng's offer of immortality and important roles to his friends raises questions about power, responsibility, and the ability to handle such gifts.
• Continuous Learning and Growth: Wenren Sheng's decision to leave Earth to continue learning and exploring emphasizes the theme of continuous learning and growth.

Character Interactions

• Wenren Sheng and Ouyang Tian: Their cousin relationship is strengthened as Wenren Sheng offers Ouyang Tian the role of a sage, showing trust and confidence in him.
• Wenren Sheng and Old Liu and others: Their reunion is filled with emotion and gratitude, and Wenren Sheng offers them important roles, showing his care and consideration for his old friends.
• Wenren Sheng and Ji Zhengyan and Li Shuangyue: Their meeting is filled with nostalgia and respect, and Wenren Sheng offers them roles as inspectors, showing his appreciation for their wisdom and experience.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wenren Sheng discovers a mass of black gas (Resentful Energy) threatening his Eastern Continent World, which is protected by Firewall Worlds.
• The black gas infects the Dinosaur World, causing dinosaurs to become aggressive but ultimately being digested and neutralized.
• Wenren Sheng learns about world aging, a common world disaster, from an elder in exchange for mysterious knowledge.

Character Developments

• Wenren Sheng demonstrates his wisdom and understanding of worlds by helping a creator and discussing advanced knowledge with an elder.
• The elder shows fairness and willingness to share knowledge, inviting Wenren Sheng to observe the treatment of an aging world.

Significant Themes

• The importance of understanding and addressing world disasters, such as the Resentful Energy calamity and world aging.
• The value of knowledge exchange and learning from others, as seen in Wenren Sheng's interactions with creators and elders.

Character Interactions

• Wenren Sheng interacts with a naive female creator, guiding her to understand her world's needs.
• He exchanges knowledge with an elder, learning about world aging and observing the treatment of an aging world.
• Wenren Sheng's interactions with creators and elders highlight his wisdom and willingness to learn, as well as the fair-mindedness and willingness to share knowledge among the elders.

Key Plot Points and Events

• An elder offers Wenren Sheng a sick Cultivation World to treat, providing two methods: a direct, crude approach, or a more ingenious one.
• The world is a small, family-centric Cultivation World on the brink of collapse, with a single family monopolizing resources and enslaving the population.
• The family's head, Hiding Water True Lord, is a True Pill cultivator who prioritizes pleasure and short-term gains over the world's well-being.

Character Developments

• Wenren Sheng: He understands the world's problem, decides to treat the root cause, and infiltrates the family to initiate change.
• Hiding Water True Lord: He is revealed to be shortsighted, selfish, and unwilling to change despite knowing the world's decline.

Significant Themes

• Degeneration and Corruption: The family's degeneration leads to the world's decline, reflecting the theme of power corruption and the dangers of unchecked authority.
• Shortsightedness vs. Long-term Vision: Hiding Water True Lord's focus on immediate pleasures contrasts with Wenren Sheng's long-term, world-saving approach.
• Uncertainty and Change: The family's resistance to change and uncertainty contributes to their downfall.

Character Interactions

• Wenren Sheng and Hiding Water True Lord: Their interaction highlights the conflict between Wenren Sheng's desire for change and Hiding Water True Lord's resistance to it.
• Wenren Sheng and the Clever Man: Their interaction suggests potential alliance and support for Wenren Sheng's plans within the family.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wenren Sheng meets Clever Man, who reveals the Lu family's secret about the True Pill Old Ancestor's cultivation and the Spirit Vein.
• Clever Man suggests killing the Old Ancestor and replacing him to change the family's dynamics.
• Wenren Sheng agrees to help, and they plan to use a hallucinatory mist to cause the Old Ancestor's cultivation deviation and death.
• Wenren Sheng poisons the third-tier Spirit Vein for over a year.
• The True Pill Old Ancestor suffers a cultivation deviation and dies, and Clever Man becomes the new True Pill Old Ancestor.
• However, Wenren Sheng modifies the world's settings, causing Clever Man's cultivation to dissipate unless he upgrades the Spirit Vein and promotes cultivation for others.

Character Developments

• Wenren Sheng: He shows his cunning and manipulative side, agreeing to help Clever Man but also setting a trap for him. He understands the importance of balance and adaptability in a world with supernatural power.
• Clever Man: He reveals his ambition and desire for power, willing to do whatever it takes to become the new True Pill Old Ancestor. However, he underestimates Wenren Sheng and ends up trapped in a cycle of work to maintain his cultivation.

Significant Themes

• Power and Ambition: The characters' desire for power drives their actions, leading to manipulation, betrayal, and ultimately, a cycle of work to maintain that power.
• Balance and Adaptability: Wenren Sheng understands that a world with supernatural power requires balance and adaptability, and he implements changes to reflect this.
• Consequences of Actions: The characters' actions have consequences, both intended and unintended, shaping their future and the world around them.

Character Interactions

• Wenren Sheng and Clever Man: They form an uneasy alliance, with Clever Man underestimating Wenren Sheng's true intentions. Their interaction leads to Clever Man's downfall and entrapment.
• Wenren Sheng and the Elder: The elder appears briefly, providing insight into the nature of supernatural power and the Heavenly Dao's role in maintaining balance.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The True Pill Old Ancestor, Cangdi Zhenjun, struggles with the responsibilities and constraints of his new power, leading to his frustration and disillusionment.
• Wenren Sheng, having treated the world, exchanges knowledge with elders and learns about a Maze World that could help him gain more Mystery Points.
• Wenren Sheng enters the Maze World and encounters a Corporate Slave and a woman who have been pulled into the maze as Transmigrators. They are given a choice of four Golden Fingers.
• The Corporate Slave chooses a hint-based Golden Finger and survives his first encounter, while the woman chooses self-enhancement, becomes a peerless beauty, but dies after encountering Pig Eight Precepts.
• Another woman appears in the maze, doubting the authenticity of her transmigration and the Golden Finger.

Character Developments

• Cangdi Zhenjun: Struggles with the responsibilities and limitations of his power, leading to frustration and disillusionment.
• Wenren Sheng: Continues to explore and learn, seeking out new knowledge and experiences.
• Corporate Slave: Shows self-awareness and makes a rational choice, surviving his first encounter in the maze.
• Woman (Peerless Beauty): Chooses self-enhancement, becomes a peerless beauty, but dies due to poor luck.
• Woman (Professional Attire): Shows skepticism and critical thinking, preparing to make a choice.

Significant Themes

• The responsibilities and limitations of power.
• The role of luck and preparation in survival and success.
• The consequences of poor decision-making and lack of critical thinking.

Character Interactions

• Wenren Sheng interacts with the elders, exchanging knowledge and learning about the Maze World.
• The Corporate Slave and the woman (Peerless Beauty) interact with the Golden Finger and make their choices, leading to different fates.
• The woman (Professional Attire) interacts with the Golden Finger, showing skepticism and preparing to make a choice.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Female Employee chooses a self-enhancement Golden Finger, receiving the Clone Stream ability.
• She explores the Maze World, facing various challenges and dangers, using her clones to navigate and survive.
• The Corporate Slave faces a difficult choice at room 999, ultimately choosing a Sci-fi type danger.
• Inside the Sci-fi world, the Corporate Slave faces the threat of dimensional reduction and tries to escape by transforming into a soul state and using a jade stone to travel faster than light.

Character Developments

• Female Employee: She becomes more ruthless and adaptable, understanding the detachment of controlling clones rather than acting herself. She also learns to balance ruthlessness with mercy.
• Corporate Slave: He demonstrates resourcefulness and quick thinking, using his hints and skills to attempt escape from the dimensional reduction threat.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation and Ruthlessness: The Female Employee learns to adapt to harsh environments and make tough decisions, understanding the necessity of ruthlessness in survival.
• Detachment and Control: Controlling clones allows the Female Employee to act without the same emotional burden as if she were acting herself, highlighting the theme of detachment and its impact on decision-making.
• Resourcefulness and Innovation: The Corporate Slave shows his ability to think outside the box and use his resources creatively to attempt escape.

Character Interactions

• Female Employee and Villagers: The Female Employee's interactions with the villagers in the feudal farmstead highlight her struggle with ruthlessness and mercy, ultimately leading her to spare those who pose no threat.
• Corporate Slave and AI: The Corporate Slave's actions are monitored by the Solar System Management Center's AI, which identifies his unusual behavior and attempts to analyze it.

Key Plot Points and Events

• A mysterious person, later revealed to be a Corporate Slave, appears in the Solar System without any identity information.
• The AI system detects the anomaly and assigns a traceback thread.
• The third duty officer realizes the gravity of the situation and dispatches AI to investigate.
• Thousands of military spaceships are deployed to pursue the Corporate Slave.
• The Corporate Slave's jade stone begins to teleport, evading capture.
• People aboard the pursuing spaceships begin praying to the jade stone, appealing to it for salvation.
• The jade stone stops and allows people to approach, but it remains intangible.
• The Corporate Slave reveals that the only way to survive the impending apocalypse is to transform into beings of spirit or ghosts.

Character Developments

• The Corporate Slave: Initially indifferent to humanity's fate, he becomes moved by the prayers of innocent people and decides to help them. He reveals that he knows a method for transforming into ghosts to survive the apocalypse.
• The third duty officer: Recognizes the seriousness of the situation and takes immediate action to investigate the anomaly.

Significant Themes

• Hope and desperation in the face of impending doom.
• The consequences of collective choices and the responsibility of elites.
• The struggle between self-preservation and the greater good.
• The potential for redemption and change, even at the eleventh hour.

Character Interactions

• The Corporate Slave interacts with the people praying to him, ultimately deciding to help them.
• The third duty officer communicates with his superiors and dispatches AI to investigate the anomaly.
• The people aboard the pursuing spaceships interact with each other, expressing their regrets and fears about the impending apocalypse.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Corporate Slave realizes the potential of absorbing souls from the tens of billions of people in the Solar System to gain power.
• The people, facing imminent death, willingly transform into ghosts to enter the jade, absorbing their soul power.
• The Corporate Slave absorbs their soul power, becoming powerful, and leaves the Solar System with the jade.
• The Female Employee faces four doors in the 999th room, with each leading to a different type of danger. She enters an eerie-type world and encounters an Oil Lamp that kills by exposure to its light.
• She discovers the rule behind the killings and uses her clones to find a solution, eventually extinguishing the lamp.

Character Developments

• The Corporate Slave: Realizes the potential of absorbing souls for power, becomes powerful, and leaves the Solar System.
• The Female Employee: Shows resilience and adaptability, using her clones to solve the Oil Lamp puzzle, but struggles with luck and decision-making.

Significant Themes

• Survival vs. Civilization: People choose survival over maintaining their civilization, highlighting the primacy of survival instincts.
• Luck and Decision-Making: Both characters face challenges due to their luck and the choices they make, with the Female Employee's poor decisions leading to setbacks.

Character Interactions

• The Corporate Slave and the people: The Slave manipulates the people into willingly becoming ghosts, highlighting his manipulation and their desperation.
• The Female Employee and her clones: She uses her clones to solve the Oil Lamp puzzle, showcasing her resilience and adaptability.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Two Transmigrators, a Corporate Slave and a Female Employee, fail their trials due to arrogance and underestimating the dangers of their chosen worlds.
• A warlord Transmigrator, guided by a hint-type Golden Finger from Wenren Sheng, successfully clears the first 4,000 stages but faces a difficult choice at the 4,001st stage.

Character Developments

• The Corporate Slave becomes overconfident after his initial successes, leading to his downfall in the Primordial World.
• The Female Employee's arrogance and desire for love in the Journey to the West world lead to her demise.
• The warlord Transmigrator demonstrates strategic thinking and caution, successfully clearing the first 4,000 stages.

Significant Themes

• Arrogance and overconfidence lead to failure and downfall.
• The importance of understanding and respecting the rules and dangers of each world.
• The role of luck and personal ability in survival and success.

Character Interactions

• Wenren Sheng observes and judges the Transmigrators, providing Golden Fingers to those he deems worthy.
• The Corporate Slave and the Female Employee interact with their respective worlds' inhabitants, leading to their failures.
• The warlord Transmigrator interacts with various worlds' inhabitants and challenges, successfully navigating them with the help of his Golden Finger.

Key Plot Points & Events

• The protagonist, an ambitious tyrant, faces a series of doors, each offering a different fate. He chooses the second door, which promises power and longevity in exchange for losing loved ones.
• He enters a post-apocalyptic world with no food or water, surviving by using his Golden Finger Hint Tool to find decayed organic matter.
• He establishes a dynasty, develops technology, and maintains power through strategic alliances and restrictions on technology.
• He searches for the Undying Drug to avoid aging and death, but fails due to lack of crucial information.
• He divides power among several people and uses Eunuchs to maintain control, but eventually faces death due to old age.
• He understands that his life won't be taken by time, only by his own choice, and jumps off a mountain to reach the next checkpoint.

Character Developments

• The protagonist, initially ruthless and ambitious, becomes more strategic and cunning as he maintains his dynasty and searches for immortality.
• Modern Wu Zetian, a formidable woman, clears checkpoints rapidly using her Golden Finger and various methods, showcasing her shrewdness and determination.

Significant Themes

• Power and its cost: The protagonist gains power but loses loved ones, and ultimately faces death despite his efforts to avoid it.
• The passage of time: Time wears down even the strongest and wisest, making it the ultimate enemy.
• The impact of a true Female Lead: Modern Wu Zetian's actions demonstrate the immense influence and determination of a true Female Lead.

Character Interactions

• The protagonist interacts with various people, including his followers, meritorious officials, and Eunuchs, using them to maintain power and control.
• Modern Wu Zetian interacts with powerful medical experts, defeating them to gain control over the greatest power in her world.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Modern Wu Zetian faces a new challenge: a transmigrated doctor with a medical system and rebirth ability.
• Li Yingyuan, the transmigrated doctor, encounters Wu Zetian and loses his reputation and life due to a treatment error.
• After rebirth, Li Yingyuan plans to outsmart Wu Zetian and treats a tycoon's son, knowing the true nature of the illness.
• Wu Zetian and Li Yingyuan meet again during a consultation for the tycoon's son, with Wu Zetian insisting the illness doesn't need treatment.

Character Developments

• Modern Wu Zetian: Starts facing a more challenging opponent and remains confident in her medical skills.
• Li Yingyuan: Becomes more cunning and strategic after rebirth, seeking revenge against Wu Zetian.

Significant Themes

• The power of medical knowledge and skill.
• The consequences of hiding or revealing the truth in medicine.
• The struggle between personal gain and professional ethics.

Character Interactions

• Wu Zetian vs. Li Yingyuan: Their indirect conflict escalates as they both know the truth about the tycoon's son's illness, with Wu Zetian insisting on revealing it while Li Yingyuan wants to keep it hidden.
• Wu Zetian and other doctors: They question Wu Zetian's diagnosis and her use of the "Thirty-Six Forms of the Nine Mysteries Hell's Adversary Golden Needle Technique."

Key Plot Points and Events

• Modern Wu Zetian is confident in her diagnosis, while Li Yingyuan remains silent.
• The group of doctors discusses the troublesome case of Lin Xiaoye, with Modern Wu Zetian proposing a non-treatment approach, and Li Yingyuan suggesting a pretend-treatment strategy.
• The Lin Family, displeased with the treatment plan, threatens the hospital and forces Li Yingyuan and Modern Wu Zetian to treat Lin Xiaoye.
• Lin Xiaoye, the Lin Family's heir, apologizes to Li Yingyuan and Modern Wu Zetian and punishes the Lin Family Head for his rude behavior.

Character Developments

• Modern Wu Zetian: Shows confidence in her diagnosis and judgment, but remains humble and does not force herself into the spotlight.
• Li Yingyuan: Struggles with his role as the most famous doctor, trying to navigate the complex situation while avoiding becoming a scapegoat. He also begins to seek out the Lin Family's rivals.
• Lin Xiaoye: Demonstrates his ruthless and overbearing nature, punishing his own family member for their rude behavior.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics: The struggle for power and influence between the Lin Family and the hospital, as well as within the Lin Family itself.
• Reputation and responsibility: Li Yingyuan's struggle with his reputation as the most famous doctor and the responsibility that comes with it.
• The consequences of arrogance: The Lin Family's overbearing attitude leads to internal conflict and external threats.

Character Interactions

• Modern Wu Zetian and Li Yingyuan: Despite their differing opinions on treatment, they work together to find a solution to Lin Xiaoye's case. Modern Wu Zetian does not hold a grudge against Li Yingyuan for his initial skepticism.
• Li Yingyuan and the Lin Family: Li Yingyuan feels pressured by the Lin Family's influence and seeks to avoid becoming a scapegoat. He also begins to work against the Lin Family by seeking out their rivals.
• Lin Xiaoye and the Lin Family Head: Lin Xiaoye punishes the Lin Family Head for his rude behavior, demonstrating his ruthless and overbearing nature.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yingyuan, enraged by Lin Xiaoye's cruelty, stabs him with golden needles and takes him hostage.
• They escape in a helicopter, with Modern Wu Zetian supporting Li Yingyuan's actions.
• The Lin Family is hesitant to act due to Lin Xiaoye's safety.

Character Developments

• Li Yingyuan: Reveals a violent side, takes Lin Xiaoye hostage to escape and rebuild his reputation.
• Modern Wu Zetian: Supports Li Yingyuan's actions, prepared to activate her plans.
• Lin Xiaoye: Shows fear when his life is threatened, maintains a calm demeanor despite the situation.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics and corruption within the Lin Family.
• The consequences of disregarding one's reputation and status for personal gain.
• The Intelligence Reduction Halo, a plot device that makes characters act against their interests.

Character Interactions

• Li Yingyuan and Lin Xiaoye: Enemies, with Li Yingyuan taking Lin Xiaoye hostage to escape.
• Modern Wu Zetian and Li Yingyuan: Allies, with Wu Zetian supporting Li Yingyuan's actions.
• Lin Xiaoye and the Lin Family: Despite being threatened, Lin Xiaoye maintains a calm demeanor, while the Lin Family is hesitant to act due to his safety.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yingyuan, a doctor, kidnaps Lin Xiaoye, a wealthy young man, after being pushed too far by his arrogance and oppression.
• Modern Wu Zetian, another doctor, assists Li Yingyuan, using her medical skills and a mysterious golden needle technique to help them escape.
• They escape by helicopter but are pursued by the Lin Family. Modern Wu Zetian uses her golden needles to fend off sniper attacks.
• Li Yingyuan turns Lin Xiaoye into an idiot to prevent him from being rescued, but this action seals their fate as the Lin Family will now hunt them down.
• They take the helicopter pilot hostage, promising to save his sister if he helps them escape. They later abandon him, but he is recaptured by the Lin Family and joins forces with Li Yingyuan and Modern Wu Zetian to take revenge.
• The trio flees to a wasteland, where they establish a base and fight off the Lin Family's pursuers using their medical knowledge and the harsh winter conditions to their advantage.

Character Developments

• Li Yingyuan: Initially driven by rage and desperation, he becomes more calculating and determined as they escape. He shows remorse for his impulsive actions but remains focused on revenge.
• Modern Wu Zetian: She demonstrates exceptional medical skills, strategic thinking, and ruthlessness. She uses the pilot to prove her moral bottom line to Li Yingyuan but later abandons him, showing her willingness to sacrifice others for her goals.
• Lin Xiaoye: His arrogance and entitlement lead to his downfall. He is turned into an idiot by Li Yingyuan and later killed by Modern Wu Zetian.
• The Pilot: Initially cooperative due to fear for his sister's life, he later tries to escape and betray the duo but is recaptured and joins their cause out of revenge.

Significant Themes

• Revenge and its consequences: Li Yingyuan's desire for revenge drives the plot, but it also leads to the destruction of Lin Xiaoye and the involvement of the pilot and his family.
• The power of reputation and public conduct: Modern Wu Zetian's reputation as a skilled doctor influences the pilot's decision to trust her, even after she betrays him.
• Survival and adaptation: The trio must adapt to their new circumstances, using their medical knowledge and the harsh winter conditions to survive and fight off their pursuers.

Character Interactions

• Li Yingyuan and Modern Wu Zetian: They initially work together out of necessity but grow more united as they face common enemies. Modern Wu Zetian manipulates Li Yingyuan, using the pilot to prove her moral bottom line and later abandoning him.
• Li Yingyuan and the Pilot: They initially take the pilot hostage, but after he is recaptured by the Lin Family, he joins their cause out of a desire for revenge. Li Yingyuan shows remorse for involving the pilot and his family but remains focused on their shared goal of taking down the Lin Family.
• Modern Wu Zetian and the Pilot: She uses the pilot to prove her moral bottom line to Li Yingyuan but later abandons him, showing her willingness to sacrifice others for her goals.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The trio (Modern Wu Zetian, Li Yingyuan, and Pilot) survive in the wilderness, with Wu Zetian using her Golden Finger, the Hint Tool, to gather resources.
• They establish a base and prepare for a long stay, much to the others' dismay.
• The Lin Family sends ten elite hunters to kill them, led by a Captain.
• The trio uses traps and Wu Zetian's Hint Tool to defeat two of the hunters, a Butcher and Lies.
• The remaining hunters realize their information has been leaked and face an intelligence disadvantage.
• The Gu Family intervenes, and a messenger informs the trio that they want to capture the Lin Family's Supreme Elder by luring him out.

Character Developments

• Modern Wu Zetian: She demonstrates her wisdom, patience, and survival skills, proving herself to be the most capable among the trio. Her Hint Tool gives her a significant advantage in combat.
• Li Yingyuan: He begins to accept his situation and acknowledges Wu Zetian's superiority. He regrets killing Lin Xiaoye impulsively and hopes to end the ordeal soon.
• Pilot: He is eager to counterattack and join forces with others to capture the Lin Family's Supreme Elder.

Significant Themes

• Survival and Endurance: The trio must endure harsh conditions and the threat of the Lin Family's hunters, testing their resilience and resourcefulness.
• Intelligence and Information: The trio's ability to gather and use information gives them a significant advantage in combat, while the hunters suffer due to their intelligence disadvantage.
• Alliances and Cooperation: The Gu Family's intervention shows the importance of alliances and cooperation in overcoming powerful enemies.

Character Interactions

• Modern Wu Zetian and Li Yingyuan: Wu Zetian's competence and Li Yingyuan's growing acceptance of her leadership improve their dynamic, though Li Yingyuan still harbors regrets.
• The trio and the Lin Family's hunters: The trio uses their combined strengths and the element of surprise to defeat the hunters, demonstrating their ability to work together effectively.
• The trio and the Gu Family: The Gu Family's intervention and offer of cooperation hint at potential alliances and shared goals.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The group decides to cooperate with the Lin Family Tai Shang to eliminate Lin Xiaoye's grandfather to free up resources.
• Lin Xiaoye's grandfather arrives and offers a compromise: help him find a Longevity Bear's heart for a longevity drug in exchange for overlooking his grandson's death.
• The group sets out to find the Longevity Bear, which is incredibly powerful and has mastered medicine to regenerate its limbs.

Character Developments

• Li Yingyuan: Shows naivety in understanding the ruthlessness of the human heart and the necessity of eradication in dealing with grudges.
• Wu Zetian: Demonstrates strategic thinking and the ability to face troubles head-on, using the Hint Tool to guide her decisions.
• Lin Family Tai Shang: Reveals his cunning and manipulative nature, using his medicine skills to gain an advantage.

Significant Themes

• Ruthlessness and compromise in high-ranking individuals.
• The consequences of avoiding trouble.
• The power of medicine and its applications.

Character Interactions

• Li Yingyuan, Wu Zetian, and Lin Family Tai Shang work together to find the Longevity Bear but face challenges due to the bear's power and the Tai Shang's manipulative nature.
• Wu Zetian and Li Yingyuan clash with the Tai Shang over his demands and methods, leading to a tense dynamic.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The group (Wu Zetian, Li Yingyuan, and Tai Shang of the Lin Family) encounters four powerful Longevity Bears while gathering ingredients for the Longevity Drug.
• They manage to kill the bears and harvest their hearts, but are then attacked by a flock of giant eagles attracted by the medicine's scent.
• Tai Shang reveals that they need Thousand-Year Ginseng and Ten Thousand-Year Ganoderma to complete the drug, luring Li Yingyuan into helping him find these ingredients.
• As they prepare the drug, they are surrounded by major powers who have learned about it, including Pilot, who had betrayed them.
• Wu Zetian and Li Yingyuan decide not to fight for the drug, and Tai Shang reveals he has a clone who has already transferred the drug elsewhere.
• The Maze World shifts the Timeline, making Tai Shang act foolishly to provide a proper trial for Wu Zetian.

Character Developments

• Wu Zetian remains calm and strategic, choosing to avoid conflict and shift the danger onto others.
• Li Yingyuan begins to understand the necessity of a hard heart and ruthlessness in surviving this world.
• Tai Shang of the Lin Family is revealed to be cunning and manipulative, using his clone to deceive everyone.
• Pilot betrays the group, showing that even those who seem loyal can turn against them.

Significant Themes

• The importance of ruthlessness and strategic thinking in survival.
• The manipulation of events by the world consciousness to provide trials for Wu Zetian.
• The theme of betrayal and the unreliability of allies.

Character Interactions

• Wu Zetian and Li Yingyuan work together to gather ingredients but later choose to distance themselves from Tai Shang when danger approaches.
• Tai Shang manipulates Li Yingyuan into helping him find rare ingredients, showing his cunning and deceitful nature.
• Pilot betrays the group, highlighting the theme of betrayal and the unreliability of allies.
• The major powers surround and attack the group, leading to a chaotic fight over the Longevity Drug.