Chapter Summaries

The six helped the Black-Clothed Men undermine the City of Deception by opening competing cities, then followed them into a perilous world where everyone was immortal and ageless. They learned the immortals faced frequent world-ending crises and had brought the six there to help confront them.

• Wen Sheng explained why people ignored warnings about the City of Deception, and Number Two suggested that the Black-Clothed Men create rival cities using the same scams.
• The Black-Clothed Men opened more than a dozen copycat cities with better offers, drawing players away and causing the City of Deception to shrink.
• The six crossed the desert into the Black-Clothed Men’s world and saw its dark-red sky, three black suns, and lava-covered terrain.
• The Black-Clothed Men revealed that their people were immortal and ageless but faced repeated world-ending crises, and they asked the six to help in exchange for immortality.
• The six learned the Rule Game had stopped troubling them and settled in an underground city where residents controlled Ma Jia remotely and avoided conflict to survive.
• The Black-Clothed Man explained that disasters and powerful objects from beyond the heavens regularly threatened the immortals and sparked deadly competition.

Six years after settling in the world, Wen Sheng and the others discovered records of a recurring apocalypse that destroyed each Civilization after ten thousand years. The native Ma Jias pleaded for help, and Wen Sheng joined the others in searching for a way to stop the crisis, gaining access to the locals’ secrets and resources.

• After six years in the world, Wen Sheng and the others found Tablets of Fate describing a world-ending crisis that struck every ten thousand years.
• Wen Sheng asked whether any native Ma Jia had lived past ten thousand years, leaving the natives unable to deny the warning.
• The natives reread the records and learned that the Earth People’s attempts to escape the crisis failed, and that the Stars Civilization had also been wiped out.
• The records revealed that a later Civilization hid the tablets so future people could enjoy their lives without anticipating the apocalypse.
• The native Immortals pleaded with Wen Sheng and the others to save them, and the locals gave the group access to their cultivation methods, technology, and information.
• Wen Sheng joined the others in searching for a solution, sensing that overcoming the crisis could bring him an enormous opportunity.

Wen Sheng persuaded the Immortals to threaten the unseen force destroying their world every ten thousand years, but their attempt to sacrifice themselves drew only a dismissive snort. Wenren Sheng discovered that the force was Zhang Ming, an ordinary man in a Modern Great World who controlled the Immortal world through a glass ball.

• Wen Sheng proposed that the Immortals risk destroying their own world to draw out the force behind the Ten-Thousand-Year Crisis, and Lin Meng helped persuade them to act.
• The middle-aged Black-Clothed Man threatened the unseen god with the world's destruction if it did not respond within a thousand years, but the sky remained silent.
• The Immortals decided to destroy their world, then fled into the desert with Wen Sheng and the others as flames and lightning ravaged their home.
• A voice in the sky gave a cold snort, and the middle-aged Black-Clothed Man watched his world fall apart while he rapidly aged in the desert.
• Wenren Sheng entered the Modern Great World and found Zhang Ming, a young man whose glass ball contained the Immortal world and who could create another world with a thought.

Zhang Ming, a level-four God of Creation in his Small World, tried to stay poor and unnoticed in the real world, but an encounter with a drunkard pushed him to secretly cause the man’s death. After news confirmed the death went unnoticed, Zhang Ming’s anger and willingness to use his power grew, and when a driver insulted him, he prepared to act again as a truck appeared.

• Zhang Ming kept his habits and spending unchanged to hide his artifact and avoid drawing attention, while resisting pressure from his parents to marry and have children.
• Wenren Sheng observed that Zhang Ming’s lack of social experience and limited exposure to accidents left him unprepared for real-world trouble.
• At a restaurant, a drunkard grabbed Zhang Ming and demanded that he pay the bill, but the owner and others restrained the man while Zhang Ming left.
• Angered by people mocking him, Zhang Ming transformed the drunkard’s drink into a meatball containing a tiny blade, and the drunkard later died from gastric bleeding.
• After seeing the death reported as an accident, Zhang Ming dismissed the risk and grew more willing to use his power when reality angered him.
• A driver splashed Zhang Ming with puddle water and insulted him, so Zhang Ming imagined the driver’s death and began acting when a truck appeared ahead.

The young Skinny Guy secretly killed two people, then spent years experimenting with his matter-altering powers as he realized his limited lifespan made immortality urgent. He formed a group of sick elites to help research brain preservation and began presenting himself as the Heavenly Grace Old Immortal.

• The young Skinny Guy watched a luxury car crash into the Great Luck truck after its brakes failed, and Wenren Sheng realized the accident had caused the new Creator God to indulge his violent impulses.
• The young Skinny Guy moved to a border city and continued lying low for another year, while the Immortal World was destroyed and a new cycle of creation and destruction began.
• His Divine Sense expanded to five kilometers, and he experimented on pigs by replacing diseased organs with healthy ones as he searched for a way to extend his life.
• After learning that his relatives had not lived past fifty-five, the young Skinny Guy panicked about his thirty remaining years and concluded that he needed help researching how to preserve the brain.
• The young Skinny Guy gathered seriously ill elites on an island, transformed stone into gold, replaced an elderly tycoon's diseased organ, and promised the group immortality if they found a way to preserve brain memories.

George secretly tried to expose the young Skinny Guy by sending encrypted messages on migratory birds, but his university classmate betrayed him. The researchers' distrust convinced the young Skinny Guy to abandon direct oversight and recruit newcomers on a new island disguised as an alien ruin.

• George tied encrypted messages to migratory birds, hoping they would reach his university classmates and expose the young Skinny Guy.
• The young Skinny Guy's guards caught George after his classmate reported him, and he explained that he had acted because he feared the powerful young Skinny Guy would eventually kill the researchers and keep immortality for himself.
• The young Skinny Guy spared George but had him imprisoned, then realized the researchers had become wary and were deliberately slowing some projects.
• The young Skinny Guy explained that he had intended to share immortality, but the researchers still did not trust him because he was an unpredictable individual with overwhelming power.
• The young Skinny Guy built a new island, presented it as an alien ruin, and planned to recruit newcomers while remaining hidden.
• Wenren Sheng laughed at the young Skinny Guy's latest scheme.

Over ten years, the young Skinny Guy’s researchers replaced Wanderers’ brain cells while arguing that preserved memories meant preserved identity. When the young Skinny Guy replaced a third of his own brain, his personality changed, and he began using his power to provoke the world by turning a satellite into a mechanical octopus.

• The researchers replaced Wanderers’ brain cells and preserved their memories, while some questioned whether anyone could prove their consciousness remained unchanged.
• After illness spread into his brain, the young Skinny Guy carefully began replacing his own brain tissue, then continued as the lesions returned.
• At 33.3% brain replacement, the young Skinny Guy became bolder and dismissed his former caution, unaware that he had changed into another person.
• Wenren Sheng reflected that the young Skinny Guy had avoided detection but was now bringing danger upon the world through his own actions.
• Bored with ordinary pleasures, the young Skinny Guy transformed a satellite into a Space Mechanical Octopus to shock the world.
• An astronomy enthusiast photographed the octopus in orbit, and other observers confirmed it was moving and writing.

The young Skinny Guy turned satellites into Space Octopuses and used them to convince humanity that a powerful Alien civilization planned to confine them like animals. After a satellite fell near an air base and the Octopuses threatened a meteor strike, the major powers dismantled aircraft and launch sites, while the young Skinny Guy celebrated his deception and Wenren Sheng observed that he was already dead.

• The young Skinny Guy transformed more satellites into Space Octopuses and broadcast warnings that humanity would be sealed away as animals in a zoo.
• When people suspected a human prank, the Space Octopuses claimed the Primal Civilization controlled other civilizations and argued that Homo Sapiens had wiped out other intelligent human species.
• Experts and leaders gathered in an underground Mushroom shelter, debated resistance, and watched another satellite transform into a Space Octopus.
• A satellite fell toward an air base, and the Space Octopuses called it a lesson for resisting and threatened to drop a massive meteor unless humanity dismantled its aircraft and launch sites.
• The major powers dismantled aircraft and shut down aerospace departments, while the young Skinny Guy laughed at online reactions and planned to show off in space.
• Wenren Sheng watched the young Skinny Guy celebrate and noted that the guy still did not know he was already dead.

Wenren Sheng watched humanity debate how to respond to the power threatening it, while a hard-line official led a secret attack on a Space Octopus. The attack succeeded, but the young Skinny Guy retaliated by crashing three satellites into a major city, killing tens of millions and leaving humanity in terror.

• Wenren Sheng gained 500 Mystery Points after glimpsing more mysteries behind changes in the human heart.
• A medium-sized power debated studying Pet Studies, delaying action, or retreating underground, then compromised while a confident official secretly resolved to test the opponent.
• The confident official gathered loyal followers, secured a decommissioned rocket, and led a team into low Earth orbit to fire Mushroom missiles at a Space Octopus.
• The Mushroom missiles destroyed the Space Octopus, and the young Skinny Guy responded by sending three protected spy satellites crashing into a major city.
• The satellite impacts devastated the city, killed at least tens of millions of people, and triggered public panic as footage spread online.
• The young Skinny Guy laughed as people reacted in shock to the destruction.

Zhang Wenjin, the young Skinny Guy, revealed himself as a Blue Star native with matter-altering powers, and humanity failed to stop him with a massive missile attack. After a century of indulging his desires, he decided to seal his memories and begin again, while a secret human resistance plotted to assassinate him during his vulnerable reset.

• Secret departments confirmed that the young Skinny Guy was Zhang Wenjin, a 68-year-old Blue Star native who possessed Divine Sense and the ability to alter matter.
• Humanity tracked Zhang Wenjin to an island and launched a saturation attack, but he transformed the incoming Mushroom missiles into ordinary mushrooms, forcing the commanders to surrender.
• Over the next hundred years, Zhang Wenjin grew bored with his power and decided to seal his memories and start over as an Ordinary Person.
• A secret resistance planned to kill Zhang Wenjin during his new life by having a poisoned woman approach him, while dividing the plan into isolated tasks to protect its members.
• Wang Yin regretted supporting the assassination plot because Zhang Wenjin's death would end the immortality he had gained, but he remained sealed in confinement to await the outcome.
• Zhang Wenjin had prepared a double and concealed his new location, unaware that humanity had uncovered his plan and was organizing against him.

After awakening a lethal power and losing his memories, Zhang Wenjin entered the Rule Game just before poison killed him, joined Wen Sheng’s team, and returned with them. Back in the East Continent Great World, Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that the Civilization Great Alliance wanted their world to join and had mentioned a Ten Thousand Worlds Gold List.

• Zhang Wenjin woke in a forest with a satellite phone, discovered he could kill people by wishing them dead, and followed a waitress after her troubles at work.
• After Zhang Wenjin killed a robber to save the waitress, he testified for her, and the two later got together.
• Zhang Wenjin’s memories returned when the waitress poisoned him, but he accepted the Rule Game’s offer and was transported to the Random Number Desert with the glass bead hidden inside his body.
• Wen Sheng’s team met Zhang Wenjin, who concealed his identity and introduced himself as a Transmigrator, and the group received notice that they had cleared the stage.
• Wenren Sheng lectured Little Illusion about controlling her power before director general Liu arrived to report the Civilization Great Alliance’s offer and its Ten Thousand Worlds Gold List.

Wenren Sheng warned Old Liu that the Civilization Great Alliance and its Ten Thousand Worlds Gold List were dangerous, but many people in East Continent Great World wanted to join. Old Liu let them form a separate Fragment New World, whose representatives entered the Alliance and were placed at the center of its ring-shaped worlds.

• Wenren Sheng warned Old Liu that the Gold List could provoke worlds into fighting and expose their vulnerabilities, but Old Liu said others valued the Alliance’s promise of protection from Void Disasters.
• Old Liu returned to East Continent Great World, heard officials argue for joining, and ultimately used his authority to reject the Alliance and the ranking.
• When internal opposition persisted, Wenren Sheng advised Old Liu to let the supporters separate into a Small World, and Old Liu sent them to a fragment and gave them the Alliance’s contact information.
• The supporters named their fragment Embrace the Future New World, recruited ten million people, and mocked the cautious residents who stayed behind.
• Five representatives from New World entered the Civilization Great Alliance, where a receptionist placed them at the center of its rings and Pioneer One thanked him.

The five pioneers chose magical development and began following a plan to turn extreme emotions into magic by dividing their world into themed regions. After disagreements over the type of magic and failed AI-written scripts, they began recruiting human-written scripts, but clashed over whether AI could perform the supporting roles.

• The five pioneers chose magical development, and the receptionist gave them a plan and a black Round Ball to convert emotions into magic.
• The pioneers adopted emotional codenames, divided the world into nine regions, and argued over which form of magical power to pursue before settling on Esper Yuan Power.
• They used the East Continent Internal Affairs Management AI to organize population and supplies, then learned from the receptionist that humans had to create the emotions rather than machines.
• The pioneers posted script bounties online, and the Shen He Team screened submissions and selected scripts designed to provoke strong emotions.
• Ruthless sent the others to stage a script in the regions, where Anger, Ruthless, and Sorrow disagreed over using robot AI to play the supporting roles.

The five pioneers used scripted incidents to manipulate newcomers in the New World, but Joker recognized the scheme and rallied people against it. As the trapped newcomers protested, Wenren Sheng sent Wen Sheng and his group into the New World, while Old Liu refused to break the pioneers’ contracts.

• Ruthless suppressed Anger and Joy, then the five pioneers continued recruiting people and staging scripted incidents in the New World.
• Joker won a hundred million in the lottery, but the lottery shop owner fraudulently claimed the prize and the money was transferred to the owner’s creditors.
• After realizing the staged events were harvesting people’s emotions, Joker posted an accusation online and urged the newcomers to demand the truth and a share.
• The newcomers’ posts disappeared, so they gathered offline to protest the scheme.
• Wenren Sheng sent Wen Sheng and his group into the New World after judging the five pioneers to be selfish and predatory.
• The five pioneers invoked the newcomers’ contracts to prevent them from leaving, and Old Liu refused to open the passageway because the agreement had not been clearly violated.

Ruthless and the other four exploited Ordinary Persons for Emotion Points, then fell for Fat Teacher’s investment scheme and repeatedly paid more to recover their funds. Suspecting the receptionist had misled them, they confronted him at the Civilization Great Alliance.

• Ordinary Persons stopped reproducing until Joy offered them a small share of the benefits, and they began helping the five recruit newcomers.
• The five grew their Fragment World by harvesting Emotion Points and used them to invest 8.88 million points in Fat Teacher’s project.
• Fat Teacher demanded additional investments to release their funds, and Ruthless persuaded the others to keep paying as the amounts grew.
• Anger and the others realized Fat Teacher was scamming them, but feared losing their sunk investment and blamed the receptionist.
• Ruthless led the five to the Civilization Great Alliance, where they confronted the receptionist about the promised newcomer benefits.

Wen Sheng and his companions entered a Micro World exploited by the Civilization Great Alliance and learned they had to sever its bloodsucking tubes, survive ten thousand years, or reach the Eastern Continent World. They joined forces with Ruthless and the other world hosts to build their strength, but the hosts’ shame kept them from seeking help from their powerful backers.

• Ruthless and the other four discovered that the Civilization Great Alliance had attached tubes to their worlds and was draining their power.
• Wen Sheng sent seven companions into the Micro World, where they received missions to oppose the Civilization Great Alliance.
• Wen Sheng explained that his former strength from an illusion could not be used in this real world, so the group needed to cultivate anew.
• Wen Sheng and his companions found Ruthless and the other hosts, learned the world was a staged Truman Show, and persuaded them to cooperate in training.
• Number Two asked the hosts why they did not seek help from their backers, but Sorrow admitted they could only leave the matter to Wen Sheng’s group.
• Afterward, Number One, Number Two, and Number Three criticized the hosts for letting shame stop them from asking their backers for forgiveness and assistance.

Wenren Sheng sent Ruthless and the other pioneers into the Rule Game as punishment, where they joined Wen Sheng’s group in the Civilization Great Alliance’s murder-themed world. After arriving without identities, they investigated a suspicious death and began looking for food and a way to establish themselves.

• Ruthless and the other pioneers gave their identities to Wen Sheng’s group and hid after their scheme failed, while Wenren Sheng showed Old Liu how they had sent stand-ins to apologize.
• Old Liu confronted Ruthless and the others over the harm they had caused, but Wenren Sheng had Little Illusion take them before Old Liu could punish them.
• Ruthless and the other pioneers received Rule Game qualifications and entered “The Perfect Murder” alongside Wen Sheng’s group on a mission in the Civilization Great Alliance.
• The group examined a man killed by a falling flowerpot, and Ruthless argued that the death was a deliberate murder, though the patrolmen left the case unresolved.
• Wen Sheng noticed the killer smiling among the onlookers, while the group avoided suspicion and exchanged gold jewelry for money to buy food.
• After eating rice noodles, Number Two complained that the Rule Game had not provided them with identities, and the group considered how to obtain legitimate ones.

Wen Sheng and his group sought work at a detective agency and learned how competitive and dangerous the detective profession was in a world full of unsolved murders. They sent Hunger to find valuable clues, and he witnessed a husband push his wife off a cliff but struggled to find evidence that could prove it.

• Wen Sheng led the group to a detective agency, where they learned that assistants needed Level Two qualifications and full detectives needed Level Four.
• The group watched an online guide that warned detectives to distrust others, build resources, and prepare for powerful murderers who could evade justice.
• Wen Sheng and the others decided to earn money and sent Hunger to search the city for clues to sell.
• Hunger witnessed a man push his wife off a cliff after she said she might marry someone else.
• Hunger searched for evidence and found the victim's fingerprints, but realized they could not prove the murder because the couple were married.

Hunger helped Wen Sheng and the others solve murders by recording killers in the act, and they used the resulting money to establish the Fishing Detective Agency. After they failed to find legal evidence against a woman who manipulated a detective into killing her family, Hunger took revenge on her, leaving her paralyzed and alone.

• Hunger recorded a man pushing his girlfriend into the sea, rescued her, and helped her use the video to obtain compensation from him.
• Wen Sheng and the others founded the Fishing Detective Agency, whose detectives used Hunger's help to identify killers and solve cases.
• The group investigated a detective who had sunk a cruise ship and killed ten members of a wealthy family for his White Moonlight, then learned she had manipulated him into confessing and inherited the family's wealth.
• The group found no evidence that could legally punish White Moonlight, so Hunger appeared to her as the dead detective and caused her to fall down the stairs.
• White Moonlight became paralyzed and, with no one in the house to help her, slowly suffocated while regretting her actions.

Wen Sheng and his companions joined several detective agencies aboard a billionaire’s cruise ship to solve riddles and recover antiques hidden decades earlier. After the first riddle was revealed, the Fruit Detective Agency offered a confident solution, but Wenren Sheng recognized that its reasoning was fabricated and suspected the clue’s mention of a corpse was dangerous.

• A billionaire invited Wen Sheng’s detective agency to a sea treasure hunt, explaining that he and a childhood friend had hidden valuable antiques fifty years earlier and now needed them as liquid assets.
• Anger beat Yellow Hair after he mocked the Fishing Detective Agency, and Yellow Hair’s companions apologized and introduced themselves as the Rainbow Detective Agency.
• Wen Sheng’s group met the Apple, Watermelon, and Banana Detective Agencies, then hired the Fruit Detective Agency to decode the treasure riddles.
• The detective teams reached the designated waters, where the billionaire’s butler announced a test and gave them a riddle pointing to the first treasure.
• The fat detective interpreted the riddle as directing them to a shipwreck near High Mountain Island, while Wenren Sheng realized the explanation was invented to fit an answer and noted the clue’s reference to a corpse.