Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng accepted gold to trap Zhang Meng in a dream where he had to solve the Goldbach Conjecture, while the burly man planned to kill him and silence Wenren Sheng. Zhang Meng’s dream eventually drew in his battlefield rivals, who began solving the problems, leaving him with a possible way out.

• A burly man paid Wenren Sheng 100 kilograms of gold to make Zhang Meng forget how to command battles, and Wenren Sheng put Zhang Meng to sleep in a dream.
• Zhang Meng found himself in his high-school classroom facing the Goldbach Conjecture and tried to solve it as a test of his inner demon.
• Li Cang entered the dream to warn Zhang Meng, but the Mathematics Teacher transformed into a Spider and beat him; Zhang Meng kept trying and became trapped in a loop lasting more than ten thousand repetitions.
• The burly man left with Wenren Sheng, then tried to shoot him; Wenren Sheng turned the bullets back on him in an endless loop.
• Wenren Sheng reasoned that the opposing commander should also be asleep, and Zhang Meng saw his battlefield rivals appear in the classroom and begin solving the problems.

Wenren Sheng sent the burly man home after trapping him in a death-loop dream, then entered Zhang Meng’s dream. Zhang Meng defeated and sealed the savage woman, learned that the dream’s challenge was to bring peace to a chaotic world, and began questioning whether the little thug’s organization could be trusted with a world-destroying weapon.

• Wenren Sheng sent the burly man out of the doctor’s office and entered Zhang Meng’s dream.
• After escaping one dream, Zhang Meng found himself in a new world and fought the savage woman, who transformed into a Black Dragon.
• Zhang Meng restrained the savage woman with Frost Chains and sealed her soul using the Art of Ice and Flame.
• The Cool Woman asked Zhang Meng to spare the savage woman so she could serve as a Doctor, and Zhang Meng agreed to keep her sealed.
• The little thug asked Zhang Meng why he had come, and Zhang Meng claimed he would pursue world peace by creating a strategic weapon capable of destroying half the world.
• Zhang Meng challenged the little thug to explain how his organization could maintain peace when it treated others as inferior, leaving the thug unable to answer.

In a dream, Zhang Meng learned that immense power could turn his desire for peace into destruction, then awoke in the Siheyuan world with his strength gone and a new Attribute System. After taking a Marrow Cleansing Pill, he met Chen Dasheng, whom he suspected was key to escaping the Secret Realm.

• Zhang Meng exterminated the dream world's ability users, then destroyed all its inhabitants and recognized how easily power could make him abuse his intentions.
• Wenren Sheng chose another world to test Zhang Meng, who awoke in the Siheyuan as a disgraced former technical department director.
• Zhang Meng recovered the original owner's memories and vowed to take revenge on Liu Haizhong, Xu Damao, and Sha Zhu for framing him.
• Zhang Meng activated the Attribute System, received a beginner's gift pack, and used the Marrow Cleansing Pill to strengthen his body.
• Chen Dasheng, the logistics director of Zengsheng Steel Rolling Mill, visited Zhang Meng, who suspected Chen was connected to the Secret Realm's exit.

After escaping the Siheyuan dream realm, Zhang Meng returned to his life with Ellie and exploited Side A’s missing commanders to win battles for Side B. Suspecting that Wenren Sheng was the Deity behind the dreams, he reached the psychologist’s office but hesitated over whether to confront him.

• Zhang Meng left the Siheyuan dream realm after living to over 190 years old, and Ellie told him he had been dazed for several days.
• Ellie explained that both fleets’ top commanders had vanished, so Zhang Meng ordered Side B to attack Side A’s logistics bases and won several battles before Side A appointed a new commander.
• Golden Pig praised both sides and split the bounty between them, leaving Zhang Meng disgusted that the battle had served someone else’s amusement.
• Ellie credited Wenren Sheng with helping Zhang Meng recover, and Zhang Meng suspected the psychologist was the Deity after hearing that his opponents had fallen into unexplained sleep.
• Zhang Meng went to Wenren Sheng’s office but hesitated to ask whether he was the Deity.

After Zhang Meng visited Wenren Sheng, he resolved to live for his family, while his six-year-old son Zhang Yizhi remembered a past life and set out to become a hero. Zhang Yizhi earned first place on his exam and decided to use his wish from Aunt to help Xiao Ge and her grandmother.

• Zhang Meng thanked Wenren Sheng for treating him, realized he should first care for his wife and children, and resolved to live well before pursuing greater ambitions.
• Zhang Yizhi awoke with memories of his previous life and decided that gaining immortality and becoming Justice Superman were his goals.
• Zhang Yizhi befriended Xiao Ge and promised to protect her, then confidently predicted he would place first on their midterm exam.
• Teacher Han announced that Zhang Yizhi had scored 98 in Chinese and 100 in math, while Zhao Zhi placed second and resolved to beat him next time.
• Zhang Yizhi told Xiao Ge he would use his promised wish from Aunt to help her grandmother start a food stall.

After struggling to match gifted classmates, Zhang Yizhi woke in a demonic sect as the Reincarnation Heavenly Devil Body and discovered his supernatural cultivation. When the sect’s factions fought over him, he escaped an ambush and used his newfound strength to kill his attackers.

• Zhang Yizhi improved his grades and asked Zhang Meng whether Supermen existed, but his attempt to excel at Math Olympiad problems failed.
• Zhang Yizhi woke in a palace hall and learned that the Blood Demon Society’s Madam Su intended to accept him as a disciple because he possessed the Reincarnation Heavenly Devil Body.
• The Grand Elder and Fierce Devil interrupted the ceremony, disputed who would claim Zhang Yizhi, and began fighting while the Grand Elder’s disciples surrounded them.
• A maidservant led Zhang Yizhi into a courtyard, trapped him with four disciples, and offered him a Heart Control Demon Pill so he would acknowledge the Grand Elder as his master.
• Zhang Yizhi discovered that he had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, killed the attacking disciple and maidservant, then defeated the other three disciples with single palm strikes.

Zhang Yizhi survived an attempted devouring in his dream world, destroyed the Blood Demon Society, and learned that he could cultivate there while retaining only knowledge and memories in his waking life. As he and Zhang Meng uncovered the artificial nature of their city and the limits of their power, they chose patience over rebellion, leaving the family still searching for a way forward.

• In Another World, Zhang Yizhi killed the girl in white after his memories caused her devouring sword to explode, then used the Broken Sword of Devouring to defeat the Grand Elder and destroy the Blood Demon Society.
• Wenren Sheng observed Zhang Meng and Zhang Yizhi across five years, during which Zhang Meng trained his Super Constitution and Zhang Yizhi slowly cultivated through his dreams.
• Zhang Yizhi followed Zhang Meng beyond the city and learned that their home was an artificial environment, while the real world forced people to fight from birth.
• Zhang Yizhi revealed his dream-world cultivation to Zhang Meng, who mistook it for inherited power and warned him to keep it secret.
• After another five years, Zhang Yizhi reached the third level of Qi Refining, while Zhang Meng grew strong enough to withstand bullets and artillery but still refused to rebel.
• Fifty years later, Zhang Yizhi reached Foundation Establishment using Zhang Meng's Super Constitution blood, but Zhang Meng maintained that rebellion would only plunge the world into chaos.

Zhang Meng and Zhang Yizhi used illusion spells to take control of powerful managers and tried to uncover the force behind the Intelligent System. After Zhang Meng transformed the Battlefield World, a new mission and a rat experiment revealed that the hidden force sought to preserve human Civilization in limited space.

• Zhang Meng put his wife and daughter into hibernation, and he and Zhang Yizhi began planning how to change the Battlefield World.
• Zhang Yizhi used illusion spells and the Six Degrees Theory, with Zhang Meng protecting him, to control thirteen high-ranking people.
• The group searched for a supposed Backstage Black Hand, unaware that it was a virtual persona created by the Intelligent System to give itself purpose.
• As Zhang Yizhi neared the end of his life, Zhang Meng used Illusion Arts to remove lethal battlefields, turn combat missions into cooperative drills, and erase the world's past history.
• The Intelligent System issued a mission to ensure the continuation of population and Civilization, then showed Zhang Meng how an enclosed rat colony collapsed despite having abundant resources.
• Zhang Meng realized the hidden force aimed to preserve human Civilization in cramped conditions.

Zhang Meng tried to create endless virtual worlds to give people purpose, but his attempt to impose that future led to rebellion and a battle in the Battlefield World. Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion intervened, offering everyone a passage to other worlds in exchange for revealing the changes in their hearts.

• Zhang Meng created virtual worlds with the Intelligent System and sent people into them as Transmigrators, then entered one himself while keeping his memories.
• Zhang Meng woke in a bedroom, mistook his life for another dream, and used spinning tops to conclude that he was still dreaming; he returned to the Battlefield World.
• Zhang Meng’s former followers surrounded him, accusing him of hypnotizing them and planning to control their lives through virtual worlds, and he challenged them to a game.
• Zhang Meng and his followers fought with summoned monsters, weapons, the Intelligent System, and hypnosis until he discovered their brains were hidden elsewhere and their bodies were robots.
• Wenren Sheng watched the battle, then Little Illusion appeared as Wenren Sheng across the world and offered everyone passage to other worlds in exchange for revealing their inner changes.

Zhang Meng fought demons that poured into the Urban World after a passage opened, while Hong Jun eventually closed it and explained that the world had suffered the same disaster before. The demons were cut off from their power source, but Zhang Meng believed people would eventually forget the lesson.

• Zhang Meng sensed his Super Constitution and powers growing, then found demons pouring through a crack into a metropolis and mocked his former confidants for bringing about the disaster.
• Zhang Meng and aircraft attacked the demons and drew many toward the outskirts, while Hong Jun watched from the Intelligent System's control room and hesitated to close the passage.
• Officials who knew about Hong Jun failed to enter the sealed control room, and Hong Jun finally pressed the emergency button as the demons frantically attacked the city.
• Zhang Meng rescued a mother and her child, the passage closed, and the demons dwindled and went dormant after losing their power source.
• Hong Jun appeared before the survivors, recounted an earlier disaster caused by opening a door to an unknown world, and urged them to learn from their mistake.
• Zhang Meng agreed that Hong Jun was right but expected people to forget the lesson within a few hundred years.

Wenren Sheng traveled to the Jiajing-era Great Ming and discovered that numerous Transmigrators were competing to change history. He watched a Transmigrator army armed with Minié Rifles rout a much larger Classical Military force, as the battle’s first volleys sent the enemy fleeing.

• Wenren Sheng rewound the Battlefield World, let Zhang Meng choose to remain there, and traveled with Little Illusion to Ming Dynasty 1565.
• Wenren Sheng explored Jiangnan and noticed Transmigrators among scholars and merchants, including a young gentleman with a Dual-Travel Gate who advocated rebellion.
• Wenren Sheng overheard Transmigrators debate whether to build support gradually or quickly raise an army with Minié Rifles.
• Wenren Sheng observed the Transmigrators’ Chapped Army face a larger Classical Military force, supported by war elephants and traditional weapons.
• The Transmigrators’ musketeers opened fire from long range, killing many soldiers and driving the Classical Military into a panicked retreat.

The Transmigrators’ New Army defeated the Classical Military, but Wenren Sheng warned that victory would bring only more complex warfare. In a separate gathering, aging Transmigrators debated passing their cause to their children and recognized that their conflict with the natives ultimately came down to winning Popular Support.

• The Supervisory Team and cavalry tried to stop the Classical Military’s soldiers from fleeing, while Rifled Guns picked off the supervisors and elite archers counterattacked with volleys of arrows.
• The New Army held formation, fought off close assaults, and used skirmishers to target enemy Officers and messengers until the Classical Military routed and its soldiers surrendered.
• Wenren Sheng reflected that the Transmigrators’ victory was temporary and that mass-produced Gunners could wear down opponents, but their arrogance risked their eventual assimilation.
• Transmigrators celebrated their victory, then discussed their fading enthusiasm, their aging, and whether their children should carry on their cause.
• The Transmigrators concluded that they could not end warfare in their generation and turned their attention to challenging entrenched ideas; Wenren Sheng contrasted their covert pursuit of advantage with the natives’ open coercion and linked their success to greater Popular Support.

Wenren Sheng observed the Transmigrators’ island stronghold, where modern farming, schooling, and respectful treatment were changing the lives of native villagers. At the Great Ming court, Jiajing heard officials debate whether to admit the southerners and became keenly interested in their rumored life-restoring medicines.

• Wenren Sheng saw villagers using a Transmigrator-built Windmill Well and expressing gratitude for the changes the newcomers had brought.
• A Transmigrator demonstrated efficient plowing to villagers, while Wenren Sheng considered how machinery could free labor from farming and reshape the economy.
• A female Transmigrator taught village children modern Pinyin and equality, and villagers later shared food and music with the newcomers around a bonfire.
• Xu Jie told Jiajing that the southerners had useful skills and medicines, while the Ministers of War and Rites warned about their intentions and ideas.
• Jiajing listened to the court debate and focused on the southerners’ rumored medicine, hoping to live beyond sixty.

Emperor Jiajing ordered a Cabinet-managed institution to oversee the southerners, while Hanlin Academician Li Hancheng was sent to supervise their workshop. His clashes with Zhao Tiezhu over hierarchy and equality left Li questioning whether the southerner’s arguments could help Great Ming address its decline.

• Emperor Jiajing established an institution under Minister Xu to learn from and monitor the southerners, and resolved to supervise it himself.
• The Transmigrators began seeking access to Great Ming’s markets and labor, and Zhao Tiezhu’s workshop received Li Hancheng as its court-appointed supervisor.
• Li Hancheng objected to the workshop’s egalitarian practices, while Zhao Tiezhu argued that hierarchy prevented industrial growth and let powerful officials seize people’s work.
• Li Hancheng returned to the workshop and publicly condemned equality as a threat to Confucian order, while Zhao Tiezhu challenged his claims that Great Ming was prosperous.
• After debating Zhao Tiezhu, Li Hancheng walked home reflecting on famine, taxation, and how equal treatment might curb landowners’ ability to evade taxes.

Wang Shan kidnapped Li Hanlin to learn about the southerners, then used money and his system to secure an army post as he pursued his plan to become emperor. Meanwhile, Zhang Ming used his Dual-Travel Gate to make money between worlds, but Wang Shan captured him and proposed an alliance that would leave Wang Shan in control.

• Wang Shan's men beat Li Hanlin until he revealed that the southerners believed equality was necessary for industrialization, then forced him to fingerprint three proclamations.
• Wang Shan abandoned the idea of taking the jinshi examination and paid to become an eighth-rank Record-Keeping Official in the army.
• Zhang Ming traveled between Great Ming and the modern world, sold porcelain, and carefully profited from exchanging silver for gold.
• Zhang Ming returned to a Great Ming county town to buy an identity but was knocked unconscious and captured by Wang Shan.
• Wang Shan recognized Zhang Ming's Dual-Travel Gate as a source of unlimited supplies and proposed that they cooperate, with Wang Shan claiming the East and offering Zhang Ming the West.

Wang Shan and Zhang Ming cautiously established a cross-world trading partnership after discovering that only Zhang Ming could use the Dual-Travel Gate. Five years later, their limited arrangement contrasted with another group of Transmigrators, who had built a vast Southeast Asian state.

• Wang Shan coerced Zhang Ming into agreeing to divide their efforts, but Zhang Ming escaped through the Dual-Travel Gate after Wang Shan learned the system would not let him leave his spacetime.
• Zhang Ming rejected Wang Shan’s poison threat, then resumed contact by sending a note through the gate and proposing that they trade without meeting in person.
• Wang Shan requested armor, medicine, and gunpowder, while both men sought to secure the land around their respective sides of the gate.
• Zhang Ming set up a handicraft factory using cheap Ming-era labor, and he and Wang Shan later compromised on trading modern fireworks instead of firearms.
• Wang Shan urged Zhang Ming to develop influence and sent him ten kilograms of gold, but Zhang Ming ignored the advice.
• Five years later, Wenren Sheng observed their trading model, while another group of Transmigrators had already ruled Southeast Asia with a population exceeding thirty million and a large civil service.

Wang Shan learned that the Transmigrators were marching north, so he faked his death and hid in the mountains while they conquered Great Ming. Years later, Zhang Ming rejoined the Transmigrators and exposed Wang Shan’s supposed grave as a fake.

• Wang Shan abandoned his plan to oppose the Transmigrators after they assembled 200,000 people and began their northward advance toward the Capital City.
• Zhao Tiezhu cured Jiajing’s pneumonia with Penicillin, but Jiajing imprisoned him and sent agents to abduct a Transmigrator in search of an Undying Drug.
• After confirming that the southerners had no Undying Drug, the Transmigrators prepared for war and began their campaign to conquer Great Ming.
• Wang Shan resigned, staged his death with a sunken ship and a substitute corpse, and hid in a remote mountain forest with a thousand deathsworn left behind.
• The Transmigrators captured Jiajing and his family, then took Great Ming’s strongholds as Wang Shan received news from hiding.
• Zhang Ming reappeared among the Transmigrators, led them to Wang Shan’s grave, and opened the coffin to mock him.

Wang Shan endured decades in the mountains while Zhang Ming rose to become the Southerners’ chief and Great Ming’s ruler. After the Transmigrators aged, Wang Shan finally left seclusion and began rebuilding his influence, posing as a learned recluse to approach the third generation of Southerners.

• Wang Shan hid in the mountains with his deathsworn and spent decades studying and waiting while Zhang Ming helped the Southerners develop Great Ming.
• Zhang Ming became Great Ming’s chief, visited Wang Shan’s grave, and later died after living to old age; Wang Shan learned that the Transmigrators were aging and decided to leave the mountains.
• Wang Shan found that many deathsworn had died, but used the surviving families to create a plausible identity as a recluse descended from loyal subjects who had fled into the mountains.
• Wang Shan entered a provincial capital, secured an internal position through his connections, and rose rapidly over five years.
• Wang Shan met a Nan San on a blind date, presented his fabricated ancestry and demonstrated his mastery of traditional arts, dispelling her suspicion that he was a Transmigrator.

Wang Shan’s neglect of Zhang Weiwei and their growing conflict led him to order her death during a planned cruise-ship disaster. After her reported drowning, he returned to the Zhang Family, where Zhang Ming accused him of killing her.

• Zhang Weiwei grew dissatisfied with Wang Shan’s long absences and confronted him about prioritizing his career.
• Wang Shan threatened to kill Zhang Weiwei, and he and his dead soldiers discussed arranging her death as an accident.
• After Zhang Weiwei opposed his business trip and smashed his trophy, Wang Shan left and ordered a death warrior to carry out the Nirvana Plan.
• The death warrior arranged a cruise banquet that ended in a staged disaster, and Wang Shan received a telegram saying Zhang Weiwei had drowned.
• Wang Shan returned to the Zhang Family to mourn, but Zhang Ming calmly asked whether he had killed her.

Wang Shan was arrested for the suspected murder of Zhang Ming’s granddaughter, lost his position, and endured twenty years in hiding. He later founded Great Xing on an uninhabited island, triggering a system reward that granted him a thousand years of life and a thousand Undying Warriors.

• Zhang Ming accused Wang Shan of killing his granddaughter, and investigators detained and questioned him despite lacking direct evidence.
• Wang Shan’s death warriors spread rumors that intensified tensions between natives and Southerners, while the Southerners debated how to expose him.
• After a month, Wang Shan was released but lost his Prefect position through impeachments, then returned to the mountains to wait out the scrutiny.
• Twenty years later, Wang Shan descended from the mountain in disguise but found his criminal record blocked him from starting over.
• Wang Shan founded the Great Xing Kingdom on an uninhabited island, and his system rewarded him with a thousand years of life and a thousand Undying Warriors.