Chapter Summaries

After the Incense Monsters were defeated, the Advisor brought the Cthulhu mythos to a remote mountain town by persuading its residents to worship a foreign Bodhisattva. Two years later, monstrous creatures emerged from a crack and began destroying the town, while Wenren Sheng watched the consequences of the monster hunters’ actions unfold.

• Liu Xing'an arrived to take up his post as County Magistrate and learned that the town’s taxes had already been collected fifty years in advance, leaving little money to extort.
• The Advisor proposed making the residents worship a Western Jade Bodhisattva, and he, Liu Xing'an, and the guard began introducing its worship to the town.
• Over two years, the Bodhisattva’s influence brought abundant harvests, and the grateful residents’ offerings enriched Liu Xing'an and his associates.
• A monster crawled from a crack in the ground, attacked the town, and summoned more creatures as residents and local officials tried to resist or flee.
• The Advisor and Guard Zhang escaped toward the city gates while Yamen Runners and residents fought the monsters, and the townspeople recognized the creatures as the lord’s return.

Lin Feng brought player priests to save the town from the monsters, but a new hybrid monster emerged from a rift and exposed the truth about the players’ deaths. The players chose to fight for the Jade Ball, and as the battle intensified, they began preparing a powerful ultimate spell.

• Three types of monsters attacked the town until Lin Feng arrived with player priests, who banished them through an exorcism ritual.
• A rift opened near the government office, and a giant spider-octopus-centipede hybrid crawled out.
• The hybrid monster told the players that each death was real and their resurrections transferred their memories into cloned bodies.
• Lin Feng promised the players the Jade Ball if they defeated the monster, and its appraisal revealed it could grow into an entire world.
• The player priests coordinated their attacks, healing and shielding their fighters as the monster’s webs, tentacles, and centipede tail battered them.
• As the monster entered its second phase, the players gathered to cast a powerful ultimate spell.

Lin Feng captured the returning three-in-one monster with the Jade Ball after the players’ greed let it trap them, and Mountain City celebrated the victory. The celebration ended when the players returned to wreak havoc, prompting the Emperor to order his robots to use force.

• The players completed their banishing spell, but the monster turned Advisor, the guard, and the County Magistrate into creatures before it was finally banished.
• The players fought over the Jade Pearl, allowing the monster to reappear and capture them, but Lin Feng used the Jade Ball to absorb it and sent the players away.
• The Emperor arrived with millions of Robots, searched Mountain City for danger, and addressed the citizens during the victory celebration.
• Ghost and the others questioned whether Lin Feng had been deceived, while Lin Feng left after explaining that fame had already brought him immortality.
• The players returned through a rift, cursed Lin Feng, and caused chaos in the square; after the Robots failed to calm them, the Emperor ordered the Robots to use force.

After the players wrecked Mountain City in anger, the GM warned them that the instance could be closed, and they apologized and helped rebuild. As the city prospered and the players pursued quests, a new monster emerged from a fissure in the central square.

• The GM warned the players that damaging the Great Ming instance could cause it to be permanently closed, and a player leader apologized before the Robots captured him.
• The emperor forgave the players for their destruction and invited them to rebuild Mountain City alongside the townspeople.
• The players and locals repaired the city, improved farming and crafts, and exchanged culture and ideas as Mountain City flourished.
• The players received the Great Ming's Rebirth chain quest and worked toward its stages while Wenren Sheng questioned what they truly understood about their mistake.
• The GM returned to Mountain City's plaza as black clouds gathered, and a Complex Eye crawled from a fissure in the ground.

Players and Ghost fought the Eye Demon, whose mind-altering powers overwhelmed the battle until a girl sacrificed herself to protect Ghost. Ghost destroyed the demon in grief, then left Mountain City after her funeral, carrying the emperor’s reward and trying to move on.

• Players gathered to fight the Eye Demon, but its colored beams drove many of them mad and forced the rest to retreat.
• Ghost arrived and used his daggers to deflect the Eye Demon’s beams, while the pink Mind Flayer began altering his Logic.
• A girl shielded Ghost from the pink eye and begged him to kill her before she became its puppet; Ghost granted her request and then struck the eye with a devastating attack.
• Ghost’s attack destroyed the Eye Demon, and a million people attended the girl’s funeral before Ghost decided to leave Mountain City.
• The emperor saw Ghost off and gave him a Dragon Head Silver Note worth three hundred thousand taels; Ghost accepted it and continued on with lighter steps.

Ghost accepted Lin Feng’s plea to fight a Goblin threat after Lin Feng promised to try to resurrect the woman Ghost had lost. They reached a forest world where Goblins were preparing to attack human settlements, and Lin Feng pointed out their Iron Age chief at an outpost.

• Ghost rejected the Multi-F System’s tasks and rewards while using an absurd Daughter’s Country to test its limits.
• Lin Feng asked Ghost to eliminate Goblins in another human world and offered to do everything possible to resurrect the woman Ghost remembered.
• Ghost agreed despite believing resurrection could not restore the original person, then visited the woman’s carefully maintained grave.
• Lin Feng explained that the rapidly reproducing Goblins were building armories and planned to attack human settlements because they needed humans for reproduction.
• Ghost and Lin Feng scouted a Goblin outpost, where they spotted a chief wielding an Iron Sword.

Lin Feng and Ghost attacked a Goblin camp to help a Forest City threatened by raids, but the Goblins soon returned in greater numbers. The chapter ends with Ghost facing a larger, more cunning force led by seven or eight Chiefs.

• Ghost questioned how the Goblins could threaten humans, and Lin Feng explained that their numbers and rapid imitation made them dangerous.
• Lin Feng secured the local chief's agreement to pay one million people in installments for dealing with the Goblins.
• Lin Feng and Ghost led a Chapped Army in a surprise attack, killing the Goblin chief and wiping out the camp.
• The local chief warned that the Goblins would return, and twenty days later a larger group appeared near the city.
• Ghost considered another decapitation strike, but the new Goblin force had seven or eight Chiefs.

Ghost and Lin Feng tried to stop the Goblins, whose strength evolved to match humanity, by trapping them in a Spiritual Domain. Their plan failed when the surviving Goblins adapted, leaving Ghost to propose sealing and feeding them instead.

• Ghost defeated successive Goblin armies with muskets and trained beasts, but the Goblins returned with matching weapons and animal traits.
• Ghost and Lin Feng investigated the Goblins’ origins and found no bloodline or legend explaining their sudden appearance alongside humanity.
• Ghost proposed dispersing humanity, then discovered the Goblins divided into tribes to match the human settlements; he instead suggested fighting them in the Spiritual Domain.
• Lin Feng created a Spiritual Domain battlefield, where Ghost and human warriors trapped and defeated a Goblin tribe without killing its members outright.
• The trapped Goblins starved, and newborns with high mental resistance escaped the Spiritual Domain’s influence; Ghost proposed sealing and feeding the Goblins so they could not evolve.

Lin Feng and Ghost used Zhao Fang’s answers to devise a way to contain the Goblins, then Lin Feng revived the girl Ghost loved in exchange for Ghost’s help. The Great Ming world celebrated her return and honored her as Heavenly Consort Niang Niang.

• Lin Feng and Ghost failed to stop new Goblins from adapting, so Lin Feng used an All Heavens Q&A System to draw answers from Zhao Fang.
• Zhao Fang hired someone to prepare a proposal that kept humans and Goblins weak enough to maintain a stalemate, and Lin Feng passed the plan to Ghost.
• Ghost used his artificial intelligence to trap forest humans in a stagnant feudal cycle, preventing either humans or Goblins from destroying the other.
• Lin Feng gave Ghost a jade bottle of world origin, and Ghost used it while sharing his longing to awaken the girl.
• The girl revived and reunited with Ghost, and the people of the Great Ming world celebrated and enshrined her as Heavenly Consort Niang Niang.

After Zhao Fang’s shared Question and Answer System made him rich but led to his death, Feng Cheng’s organization sought the supernatural and summoned Lin Feng. Lin Feng gave them access to the Spiritual Domain and extraordinary knowledge, though he urged them to rely on technology, and most ignored his warning.

• Zhao Fang used his system to help others answer questions and profit from coordinated purchases, but a woman drew out his secret, and he died during interrogation.
• Feng Cheng, Xiang Han, Xi Zi Lang, and other elites founded an organization to find supernatural people and make it safer for them to reveal themselves.
• Lin Feng received the organization’s prayer message and sent an avatar to meet its members in a secluded mountain forest.
• Lin Feng taught the members rituals and methods for entering a small dimensional space through the Spiritual Domain.
• Lin Feng warned them that technology was the safest path to power, but most members remained eager to pursue the supernatural.

After Lin Feng left, Feng Cheng and the secret organization entered the Floating Island world to obtain Extraordinary Power, but the powers’ dangerous costs split the group into Rationalists and Zealots. The Zealots defeated the Rationalists and began killing or coercing them, while keeping some alive to research fundamental theory.

• Feng Cheng and the secret organization meditated to enter the Floating Island world, where Feng Cheng learned it was a survival game offering Extraordinary Power to its last survivors.
• The organization contracted with survivors, offered them intellectual support, and received a range of extraordinary skills after the first fifty years, including abilities that could grant lifespan through slaughter or murder.
• As the members recognized that some powers could threaten civilization, they divided into Rationalists who called for cautious research, Zealots who wanted immediate use, and neutrals who stayed silent.
• Carlos organized the Zealots, and they gained support as the Rationalists’ research required more time than many members were willing to wait.
• A secret meeting escalated from arguments to gunfire and supernatural attacks, leaving most Rationalists dead and the Zealots victorious.
• The Zealots hunted down the remaining Rationalists, killing those who refused to submit and forcing those who surrendered to continue researching fundamental theory.

Wenren Sheng let Little Illusion give extraordinary power to the Zealots through a deadly Rule Game, and the first group of test players died at Eric's Animal Park. Four Zealots were then forcibly sent into the game, where Old B realized the zoo’s visitors might see the players as its animals.

• Wenren Sheng agreed to let Little Illusion give the people pursuing extraordinary power a chance to enter a Rule Game.
• Twelve Zealots sent five Wanderers into Eric's Animal Park to test it, but all five died shortly after the zoo opened.
• The Zealots debated the deaths, then the game forcibly selected Old A, Old B, Old C, and Old D to enter.
• Old A, Old B, Old C, and Old D appeared in the tiger cage and examined the rules and the previous players’ fate.
• Old C noticed that the zoo seemed to have no animals, and Old B concluded that the players themselves were the animals.

Four participants learned that humans were animals on display, but chose the wrong cage and were killed when the White Fox Keeper moved them into the predator zone. A new group correctly stayed in the male tiger cage as visitors, but the chapter ended with a male tiger hiding near a stone as closing time arrived.

• Old A and the others realized that humans were the zoo animals and hid in the primate cage, where a male tiger was killed for breaking the cage rule.
• White Fox moved the four survivors into the predator zone, where the beasts killed them; Chief posted the Rule Game online before four more participants were selected.
• Old E and the new participants concluded that humans belonged in the predator zone and stayed in the male tiger cage.
• Old E left briefly to gather information, then returned as the animal visitors entered and gathered around the cage.
• The four waited until the zoo announced closing time, then saw a male tiger hiding near a stone.

Old E and the other three men fought the male tiger that had trapped them in their cage, using tied-together clothes to subdue and kill it. They completed the mission to kill an enemy and turned to the remaining tasks of finding a safe hiding place and surviving three days.

• Old E realized the Zoo Director intended to eliminate the old animals and that the men needed to leave their cage for food and water.
• The male tiger revealed it could speak, threatened to eat the men, and began prying open their cage.
• Old E urged the men to make nets and ropes from their clothes, and a game message confirmed the tiger was no stronger than an ordinary tiger.
• The men used their clothing net and body weight to pin down the tiger, then crushed its balls and killed it despite two men suffering minor injuries.
• The men celebrated completing Mission Two and decided to knock out the tiger's teeth so they could use its body for food and water.

Old E, Old F, Old G, and Old H escaped the zoo game by outsmarting the White Fox Keeper and hiding in a mountain forest, then returned to the real world. Though the game rewarded them with an attribute point, they rejected further supernatural games and chose peaceful lives with their families, while the remaining players continued recruiting people to enter.

• Old E and the others killed a male tiger, ate its flesh to regain strength, and decided to seek the keeper’s protection.
• The four found the White Fox Keeper, who revealed that the zoo planned to eliminate them and proposed putting them in performance cages to earn money.
• After the White Fox Keeper tried to trap and kill them, Old E and the others locked the fox in a cage and escaped the zoo to hide in a mountain forest.
• The game announced that they had completed the mission, and the four returned to the real world, where Old G gained an attribute point that made him look younger.
• Old E and the others refused to enter more supernatural games, while the remaining four mocked them and continued seeking people to recruit.

Wenren Sheng entered the Rule Game Little Illusion had designed, where he and three other debt-ridden players became the Four Divine Constables investigating Princess Changping’s mysterious death. After a day of inquiries, they gained a Golden Imperial Token that gave them broad authority to question palace officials and mobilize personnel.

• Little Illusion agreed to design another Rule Game, and Wenren Sheng decided to enter it himself.
• Old Bai, Da Zhuang, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Shuai received an imperial decree ordering them to solve Princess Changping’s murder within seven days or face execution.
• Da Zhuang proposed an autopsy, but Old Bai stopped him from breaking palace etiquette, and the group established that they needed to follow local rules.
• The game prompt assigned the Four Divine Constables three missions: find the murderer, survive seven days, and kill one murderer.
• Xiao Shuai organized the investigation, sending Da Zhuang to research the Princess’s relationships, Xiao Mei to determine her final meeting and time of death, and himself and Old Bai to seek help.
• After working for twenty-four hours, Old Bai and Xiao Shuai obtained a Golden Imperial Token that let them question nearly anyone and mobilize officials throughout the palace and government.

Old Bai, Da Zhuang, Xiao Shuai, and Xiao Mei investigated Princess Changping’s apparent suicide, then discovered too late that she had faked her death and was an Innate Expert. They fled as the Princess attacked the burial gathering, while Wenren Sheng questioned Little Illusion’s sudden twist.

• Xiao Mei described the Princess’s death in a walled garden and her unhappy betrothal to a Border General’s son, leading the group to suspect she had staged her death to escape.
• Da Zhuang proposed that the Princess had killed a stand-in, and the investigators decided that examining the body was the key to solving the case.
• Old Bai suggested waiting until the Princess was buried to approach her corpse, so the group questioned her attendants and developed a plan to get close to the tomb.
• Two days later, the Four Great Constables declared that the Princess had died by suicide, and she was quickly buried.
• That night, the Princess appeared at her tomb and revealed herself as an Innate Expert before attacking the crowd; Old Bai realized the group had missed clues and led the others to flee.
• Wenren Sheng challenged Little Illusion about introducing an unbeatable expert at the end, and Little Illusion claimed the group had ignored earlier hints to seek martial support.

The first team failed to escape the Imperial City Storm, prompting a secret organization to recruit and train a stronger replacement team. The Four Symbols uncovered the Princess Changping’s false death and the Emperor’s plot against a Border General, then captured the Princess as she tried to carry out her own plan.

• The Princess killed Da Zhuang, Old Bai, Xiao Shuai, and Xiao Mei at the sealed city gate, while the real-world experts discussed recruiting more people after their failed attempt.
• The secret organization shared its knowledge with major powers, which assembled a new team: Xuan Ce, Qing Feng, Night Owl, and Su Wen.
• Su Wen discovered that the Princess’s corpse was warmer than the ice around it, and the team concluded she had faked her death.
• Night Owl found a clue about the Turtle Breath Technique, and the team realized their character identities hid martial arts roles; they found equipment at Divine Marquis Zhuge’s estate and gained the skills to use it.
• Xuan Ce learned that the Empress Dowager knew the Princess had faked her death, while Night Owl found a letter revealing the Emperor’s plan to lure and kill the Border General.
• The Four Symbols declared the Princess’s death a suicide, ambushed her at Mausoleum Mountain, and subdued her as she tried to assassinate the Border General.

The Border General realized his world was being repeatedly reloaded, and Little Illusion sent him to live as Zhao Tiancheng in an ordinary online game. Trapped as a beggar NPC, Zhao Tiancheng learned to program himself and began creating quests to keep the declining game alive.

• Xuan Ce and Qing Feng’s group exposed the imperial conspiracy but were ambushed by the Border General, so they force-exited the game and accepted the penalty of clearing three more games.
• The Border General reflected on his repeated seven-day lifetimes and pleaded with Little Illusion to let him live freely.
• Little Illusion sent the Border General into an online game, where he became Zhao Tiancheng, a crippled beggar NPC who could only repeat scripted lines.
• Zhao Tiancheng learned to program himself and gained the ability to update the game and send custom data to players.
• After noticing the game’s dwindling population and revenue, Zhao Tiancheng offered two old players a legendary martial arts manual and began steering them into conflicts through a fabricated quest chain.

Zhao Tiancheng learned that players needed money and began spreading himself across multiple games, while Zhou Yang struggled through exhausting delivery work and died in a rainstorm. Zhou Yang then revived inside the game as a soul, where Zhao Tiancheng told him he could not return to his family.

• Player A quit the game when his family’s financial hardship forced him to deliver food, and Zhao Tiancheng watched his difficult night shift.
• Zhao Tiancheng decided to place himself in many games through different identities so he would not depend on a single game.
• Zhou Yang exhausted himself delivering food and playing, then was pinned beneath his electric scooter in the rain and died.
• Zhou Yang revived inside the game at a city gate and begged Zhao Tiancheng to send him back to his family.
• Zhao Tiancheng told Zhou Yang that he had entered the game before dying and could not return, leaving Zhou Yang distressed over his unfinished responsibilities.