Chapter Summaries

Investigating Magistrate Liu captured an assassin targeting Wu Sanwen, but the assassin’s confession led the burly man to a dangerous trail connected to the capital. Liu was transferred there as a fifth-rank Investigating Magistrate under the Second Prince, and Wenren Sheng soon encountered a suspicious death in a teahouse.

• Investigating Magistrate Liu and Wenren Sheng caught an assassin who tried to kill Wu Sanwen, and Wenren Sheng stopped him from biting down to commit suicide.
• The burly man reported that the assassin claimed a wealthy household had sent him over an old grudge, but Investigating Magistrate Liu suspected the information was planted.
• The burly man traced the assassin to the Longsheng Escort Agency in the capital, nearly died investigating, and requested Investigating Magistrate Liu’s transfer there.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu learned that he served the Second Prince, gathered Constables as attendants, and traveled to the capital with Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng watched an elderly gentryman collapse and die after claiming the teahouse water was poisoned, and Constables arrived to investigate while keeping Wenren Sheng as a witness.

Investigating Magistrate Liu solved Han Yuye’s murder, helped build a hidden force of death warriors, and was assigned to investigate killings in the vast Cave Secret Passage beneath the capital. He led Wenren Sheng and his men underground, where they found numerous murdered victims, leaving the real killer’s hiding place unknown.

• Investigating Magistrate Liu identified Han Yuye’s servant Han Da as the murderer, and Han Da confessed that years of exploitation had driven him to kill his master.
• Han Da was executed, and the case prompted masters across the capital to improve their servants’ treatment or remove those they feared might seek revenge.
• A burly man ordered Investigating Magistrate Liu to replace condemned criminals with Wanderers and beggars to form a force of five hundred death warriors hidden in coal mines.
• As the Emperor’s health worsened, the two Princes’ factions tried to incite servants in rival households to rebel and bring down their masters.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu took charge of the Cave Secret Passage serial murder case and led his men underground, where they found six sets of bones bearing signs of violent deaths.

Investigating Magistrate Liu and Wenren Sheng explored the underground Cave Secret Passage, found a mass execution site, and retreated before the hidden dangers overwhelmed them. After observing how fear and alcohol affected people, Wenren Sheng witnessed Liu mislead a relative who reported his supposed secrets to the First Prince’s Residence, where an Old Butler dismissed the threat and a dead man silently harbored hatred.

• Investigating Magistrate Liu’s group found a row of executed commoners in the caverns and hurried back to the surface, fearing an ambush.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu considered the caverns’ strategic value and suspected powerful families used them as escape routes.
• Wenren Sheng watched a frightened constable drink to dull his fear and another drunken constable practice martial arts with renewed determination.
• Investigating Magistrate Liu pretended to reveal secrets while drinking with a relative, then fell asleep before giving away anything important.
• The relative sent an eagle-carried letter reporting Liu’s supposed disclosures to the First Prince’s Residence.
• An Old Butler dismissed the report as a search for an underground base, while a dead man beside him silently showed hatred.

The First Prince’s Residence was thrown into chaos by revenge killings, and similar cases soon spread to the Second Prince’s Estate. Wenren Sheng watched the princes blame each other while the disabled Third Prince secretly orchestrated the killings through paintings.

• An assassin killed the Old Butler for his role in starving disaster victims and exploiting them, while a maid’s fear of punishment delayed discovery of the body.
• Murders and attempted assassinations multiplied in the First Prince’s Residence, prompting the First Prince to hide and plan to provoke the same crisis in the Second Prince’s Estate.
• The Second Prince also withdrew to a secret residence as killings appeared among his servants, including the revenge murder of a man involved in a concealed mine death.
• Wenren Sheng observed the princes’ struggle and recognized that the Third Prince was behind the cases, though no one could prove it.
• The Third Prince painted realistic scenes that depicted future murders, using the paintings to direct revenge killings across the princes’ estates.

Wenren Sheng uncovered the Third Prince’s limited, case-creating cheat and learned that it could upgrade by changing hosts, while the prince planned to exploit it to seize the throne. As the First Prince and Second Prince began fighting underground, the Third Prince’s scheme remained poised to benefit a future host.

• Wenren Sheng watched the Third Prince use paintings to cause plausible events, then hide the paintings in a secret chamber before indulging in sweets and comic books.
• Wenren Sheng discovered that the Third Prince was a reborn Transmigrator who had crippled himself and blinded one eye to survive the palace’s deadly succession struggle.
• The Third Prince painted supernatural figures and said that enough accumulated cases would transform the world, and Wenren Sheng realized the cheat could upgrade by changing hosts.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Third Prince’s poor health and reliance on his cheat could ruin his plan to exploit the First Prince and Second Prince’s conflict and become Emperor.
• The First Prince and Second Prince escalated their rivalry into lethal underground battles, recruiting elite fighters who became cannon fodder in their struggle.

After the Third Prince survived an assassination attempt, the Emperor secretly favored him as heir and brought him into the palace while the First Prince and Second Prince prepared to fight for the throne. When the Emperor suddenly died, both princes sent troops into the palace, where the guards blocked them—but several Guardian Generals had already been bribed.

• The First Prince and Second Prince ran out of money after months of fighting, and the Third Prince laughed over his role in stirring up their conflict.
• Masked assassins attacked the Third Prince's estate, but he escaped through a secret passage as his forces were nearly wiped out.
• The Emperor punished the First Prince and Second Prince, then grew inclined to name the Third Prince his successor after the Third Prince defended his brothers.
• The Emperor brought the Third Prince into the palace under the protection of elite palace guards while the First Prince and Second Prince continued plotting.
• The Emperor suddenly died, and the First Prince and Second Prince sent their men into the palace, where the guards resisted them but several Guardian Generals had been bought over.

The Third Prince secured the throne after the old emperor revived and named him heir, while the First Prince and Second Prince mourned their father and lost their chance to seize power. As the First Prince considered one last gamble, a supernatural Ghost offered to help him become emperor, revealing that the world had begun changing into one with magic.

• Guardian Generals lowered ladders so the First Prince and Second Prince could enter the palace, where they found the Third Prince dressed in imperial robes.
• The old emperor awoke, declared the Third Prince his successor, gave him the Tiger Seal, and had him swear to treat his elder brothers well.
• The old emperor died, and the First Prince and Second Prince mourned while the Third Prince prepared to ascend the throne.
• The First Prince decided to assassinate the Third Prince, but a strategist warned that rebellion would leave him without a legitimate cause.
• A Black-Clothed Man calling himself Ghost offered to make the First Prince emperor in exchange for sacrifices, and the First Prince accepted despite his strategist’s warning.

The Third Prince’s coronation was interrupted by a Black-Clothed Man summoned by the First Prince, but the strange entity accepted a higher offer and spared the new emperor in exchange for sacrifices. The Third Prince’s bargain fueled a wave of supernatural horrors, and the chapter left him cowering as flood victims’ monsters came for him.

• The Third Prince was crowned, granted the First Prince and Second Prince princely titles, and began distributing honors to ministers and allies.
• The Black-Clothed Man entered the coronation, killed guards and officials, and pursued the Third Prince while the First Prince secretly welcomed the attack.
• The Third Prince offered ten thousand people as sacrifices, causing the Black-Clothed Man to disappear and spare him.
• The Black-Clothed Man later told the First Prince that the Third Prince had offered a higher price, then mocked him for believing one hundred sacrifices would suffice.
• The Third Prince massacred mountain strongholds and villages to fulfill his bargain, but demons and strange entities spread throughout the realm and drove him from the Imperial Palace.
• Monsters identifying themselves as people drowned in an old flood appeared beside the Third Prince’s bed, and he hid beneath his blankets.

The Third Prince tried to summon the Black-Clothed Man with a mass sacrifice, but instead unleashed a powerful monster sent by the First Prince and Second Prince to kill him. The Black-Clothed Man helped him escape by repeatedly transferring the throne to new targets, and the chapter ended with the emperor ordering everyone to live happily so the monster’s Resentful Energy would fade.

• The First Prince and Second Prince sent people to Dixiang Province to search for a powerful monster born from a massacre.
• The Third Prince gathered tens of thousands of prisoners for a sacrifice, but the monster summoned by the First Prince and Second Prince attacked him instead of the Black-Clothed Man.
• The Third Prince fled the monster until the Black-Clothed Man appeared and told him to pass the Dragon Robe and throne to a death warrior.
• The Third Prince and the Black-Clothed Man kept transferring the throne among death warriors, diverting the monster and trapping it in the outskirts.
• The Black-Clothed Man said the monster could only be worn down by the happiness of the people, so the Third Prince ordered everyone to smile and forbade mourning.

After the Third Prince died from complications caused by diabetes, a new Transmigrator took over his body and used his painting cheat to transform the Strange World into a flourishing martial arts world. He developed internal cultivation, unified the realm, and finally cured his diabetes, leaving him convinced he had achieved a major breakthrough.

• The Third Prince died after a palace maid wounded him, and a new Transmigrator took possession of his body.
• Wenren Sheng turned the complaining Transmigrator into a maggot, then restored him after he apologized and reconsidered his fortune.
• The new Transmigrator used his painting cheat to improve livelihoods, build railways, develop medicine, and steer the world away from strange phenomena.
• He created internal cultivation, established martial arts schools, enforced laws, and began reunifying the realm.
• The new Transmigrator discovered that repeated internal cultivation had completely cured his diabetes.

Wenren Sheng watched several Transmigrators die in a world that advanced by sacrificing them, then entered a Mist survival game and altered one survivor’s talent. He began observing the game’s rapid development as its players built shelters and its communication systems changed.

• The New Transmigrator was ambushed by men sent by the First Prince and Second Prince, lost an arm, and later died; his backup plan caused the Princes to kill each other.
• Transmigrator No. 3 and Transmigrator No. 4, reborn as the dead Princes, fought over the throne and eventually died after turning the realm into a battlefield.
• Wenren Sheng left the ancient world, chose a Mist survival game, and entered it disguised as an ordinary person.
• Wenren Sheng identified the Male Lead, Female Lead, and a third protagonist, then changed the third protagonist’s talent to grant a daily Critical Hit on the first item obtained.
• The Male Lead used his tenfold resource talent to upgrade his house to level 10, while Wenren Sheng observed the game’s survivors gather supplies.
• The world added separate communication channels and resource costs for World Channel messages, making trade and regional communication easier.

Wenren Sheng watched the survivors prepare for the end of beginner protection and face the first wolf attacks, comparing the Male Lead’s defenses with the Female Lead’s dungeon experience and the strength of organized teams. The chapter ended with a group using the Regional Channel to hunt wolves around other survivors’ houses and claim the valuable materials.

• The Survival World announced that beginner protection had ended and that wolf packs would spawn according to each survivor’s assessed strength.
• The Female Lead used upgraded iron equipment to explore a dungeon, while the Male Lead built a stone bunker, laid traps, and prepared weapons for an attack.
• Five wolves appeared near the Male Lead’s house, but his traps and crossbow failed to kill them, and the injured wolf quickly recovered.
• A sociable group of survivors fought and killed the wolves near their stone houses, then processed the carcasses into food and crafting materials.
• The group located survivors needing help through the Regional Channel and began killing wolf packs around their houses to collect the resources.

After the first monster wave killed 40% of the survivors, Wenren Sheng observed the protagonist’s solitary wolf-hunting strategy and the Female Lead’s carefully ranked simp team. A second trial began with hundreds of infection-carrying, tunnel-digging skeletons, and the protagonist held to his belief that solo survival had advantages that teams lacked.

• Survivors organized teams to hunt wolves, while the protagonist refused invitations, upgraded his equipment, and defeated wolf packs by resting in his house between attacks.
• Wenren Sheng saw that nearly 40% of the survivors had died and checked on the Female Lead, who recruited and ranked nineteen simps while selecting for loyalty and useful talents.
• The third supporting character was bitten to death by wolves, so Wenren Sheng returned his soul and body to the world.
• Three days later, hundreds of skeletons appeared; their attacks infected the wounded, and they could tunnel beneath unstable houses, pushing survivors to form teams or hire help.
• The protagonist resented the teams’ advantage and reasoned that playing alone prevented betrayal; Wenren Sheng agreed that anomalies would make groups especially vulnerable.

Wenren Sheng watched survivors fight over Talent Potions and monsters as the skeleton wave widened divisions between teams and lone players. After a sudden deep freeze began, the male lead used his stockpiled food and wood to trade for rare materials and upgrade his stone house into a Metal House with two concealed basement levels.

• Skeletons began dropping Talent Potions, prompting teams to compete over their distribution and survivors to fight over the valuable items.
• The Female Lead rerolled talents with help from her simps, gaining a Supreme Grade ability that let her resurrect once every 24 hours at her house, then strengthened its defenses.
• The male lead obtained tenfold attack and speed talents, swept through skeletons alone, and provoked teams by taking monsters they were fighting.
• Teams and lone survivors clashed over skeletons and Talent Potions, while rules against attacking survivors led some teams to use monsters to incapacitate them instead.
• After the skeleton wave ended, the temperature plunged to minus thirty degrees Celsius and heavy snow made food and warmth scarce.
• The male lead traded his surplus food and wood for rare materials and upgraded his stone house into a Metal House with two concealed basement levels.

Wenren Sheng tamed a bear and gathered more pets while the winter cold devastated the survivors and the Female Lead’s group fought for food. After spring’s apple harvest, Wolf Grandma appeared outside every home, forcing survivors to outwit it to keep their doors shut.

• Wenren Sheng lured a little bear with food, tamed it, and took it into the forest as a pet.
• The pet system launched, and Wenren Sheng gathered more pets while severe cold eliminated many survivors.
• The Female Lead led her organized group into a cave dungeon to collect meat and vegetables, while other teams struggled to find food and wood.
• After the cold passed, apple trees produced an abundant harvest, and survivors made plans to preserve apples as canned food.
• Wolf Grandma spawned outside every home and used disguises to trick residents into opening their doors.
• Survivors shared strategies on the Regional Channel, learned to refuse Wolf Grandma with reasonable excuses, and began seeking the baskets it left behind.

Wenren Sheng observed survivors facing Wolf Grandma, while the male lead sought a way to counter the monster and the Female Lead reconsidered how to survive. The chapter ended with the Female Lead’s followers compiling fairy tales in preparation for future encounters.

• Wenren Sheng erased Wolf Grandma by manipulating the world’s underlying rules, then observed that the male lead had survived by truthfully refusing to open the door for his absent mother.
• Survivors shared guides explaining that Wolf Grandma could kill a random person in a group but spared the homeowner, prompting lone wolves to consider teaming up.
• The male lead found a Strange Jade listed in the Trading Channel, learned it had repelled Wolf Grandma in a Little Red Riding Hood dungeon, and decided to seek one himself.
• Wenren Sheng recognized that the Strange Jade was a Dung Seal whose smell repelled wolves but might not help against other monsters.
• Wolf Grandma killed a simp protecting the Female Lead, leaving her frightened and aware that her equipment and followers could not protect her from rule-based monsters.
• The Female Lead organized her simps to prepare for future fairy tales, and several educated followers compiled stories including Andersen’s and Green’s fairy tales, Arabian Nights, and Wizard of Oz.

Wenren Sheng watched survivors organize fairy-tale strategy guides on a new forum and suspected the Game World was helping them from behind the scenes. When Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs appeared, players learned that the right response could protect their homes, though the Dwarfs’ patience made quick coordination essential.

• Players began sharing fairy tales and survival advice, prompting the Game World to add a forum with organized subforums and categories.
• Wenren Sheng inferred that the Game World had distinct developers and operators, and that someone behind the scenes was supplying help rather than simply trying to kill everyone.
• Survivors discussed cooperating and preserving lives, while some teams stopped fighting and imprisoned violent players in house dungeons.
• After another three-day cycle, the Seven Dwarfs arrived and demanded to know whether players had seen Snow White; when one man denied knowing her, they demolished his house before apologizing and leaving.
• A forum guide explained that players should offer to search for Snow White with the Dwarfs, earning equipment and access to a snowy dungeon instead of losing their homes and resources.
• Players learned that the Dwarfs’ patience depended on house quality and that someone could delay them by welcoming and entertaining them while others searched the forum for the correct answer.

The Male Lead tracked down Wenren Sheng, who revealed that the Survival World and its inhabitants were copied data, then gave him a Data Saver. Wenren Sheng saw the Female Lead’s trusted fake simp steal a crucial treasure, leading to her death and the deaths of her followers.

• The Male Lead complained about his limited cheat and searched the forums for a way to survive the Dwarves and other threats.
• The Male Lead followed coordinates to Wenren Sheng’s unusual house and asked why its owner did not gather resources or fight monsters.
• Wenren Sheng used a World Viewer to show the Male Lead that the world and its inhabitants were data, and the Male Lead resolved to become the strongest data.
• Wenren Sheng gave the Male Lead a Data Saver, then left after seeing that he would survive to the end.
• Wenren Sheng saw a fake simp steal a crucial treasure from the Female Lead’s team and use it on himself.
• Bluebeard appeared during the next three-day cycle, and the Female Lead and her simps died without the treasure.

Wenren Sheng entered a bicycle-themed New World where survival required constant riding, then rejected a suspicious team that tried to steal his bicycle. He sabotaged their linked convoy, and the team turned on itself as its members fought over the remaining bikes.

• Wenren Sheng explored the bicycle world and realized that riders needed to cooperate to rest and sleep, while hidden threats included starvation and betrayal.
• He saw large groups link their bicycles together and grow food as they traveled down the seemingly endless mountain road.
• After riding more than a thousand kilometers alone, Wenren Sheng refused to join three men and two women because they had eight bicycles, suggesting three people had died.
• The five riders attacked Wenren Sheng to take his bicycle, but he dropped banana peels and tough branches that jammed their wheels and damaged their brakes.
• The pursuers’ convoy broke apart, and the three men knocked the two women from their bicycles before chasing Wenren Sheng on the only working bike.
• The two women failed to catch up, and five minutes later Wenren Sheng heard two explosions as they were erased.

Wenren Sheng eliminated abusive modifiers and bicycle gangs, then established a Fourth Rule forbidding road occupation and requiring normal traffic behavior. The chapter ended when a cyclist who ignored the rule had his bicycle explode.

• Wenren Sheng used rocks to crash three men chasing him, then connected bicycles together to make a controllable ride.
• Three cyclists thanked Wenren Sheng and offered to form a team, but he declined and continued to a Modification Point.
• Wenren Sheng made two corrupt modifiers vanish, received an upgrade from their replacements, and left the Modification Point.
• Wenren Sheng destroyed members of two gangs who were blocking the road and enslaving newcomers, then announced the Fourth Rule against occupying the road and violating traffic regulations.
• Wenren Sheng allowed three chances for accidental violations, but a cyclist who pursued and fought another rider had his bicycle explode.