Chapter Summaries

Ms. Xie became ruthless after kidnappers killed her parents, then built a slave tribe while Li Si repeatedly tried and failed to kill her. Her death from plague triggered a time loop that advanced by more than a year, and she woke to the loss of her parents before slaughtering her tribe.

• Five kidnappers forced Ms. Xie's parents to kill themselves, and she killed the kidnappers in her Personal Space before shutting herself away in grief.
• Ms. Xie rejected pleas for help, resolved to build a power base for her next rebirth, and remembered that Li Si had once helped her.
• Li Si tried to reach Ms. Xie in the snowbound mountains, but she killed him when he got close and kept her tribe under strict control.
• Li Si used a poisoned puppy and an explosive kitten against Ms. Xie, but she survived both attempts.
• Ms. Xie died after catching an incurable plague, restarting the loop and leaving Li Si more than a year in the future.
• Ms. Xie grieved for her parents and began slaughtering the people in her Slave Tribe, blaming them for her parents' deaths.

After Ms. Xie’s grief drove her to devour the world, Li Si escaped the collapsing planet with part of her Personal Space, and Wenren Sheng moved on to sabotage another core world of the Civilization Great Alliance. He sent Wen Sheng and the three numbered men into the Demon Residential District, where they began confronting its residents under the gaze of livestream viewers.

• Ms. Xie’s repeated failures to restore the time loop enraged her, and she swallowed every living person except Li Si, causing the apocalypse to end and the world to collapse.
• Li Si persuaded Ms. Xie to give him part of her Personal Space, and a lion appeared to freeze the collapsing world before setting it in motion again at great cost to its origin.
• Wenren Sheng targeted another core world and sent Wen Sheng, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 into the Demon Residential District with missions to uncover its truth, kill the Demon, and save the innocent.
• The livestream host introduced the four newcomers to viewers, who placed bets on their survival as the group entered the residential district and gathered weapons.
• Wen Sheng questioned the property manager in Room 101, then No. 1 asked the wheelchair-bound Old Man in Room 102 for soy sauce and insisted that neighbors should help each other.

Wen Sheng and his companions swept through the apartment complex, killing resident murderers and rescuing captives as their group grew. On the fourth floor, they identified the triplet sisters as killers and prepared to deal with them.

• Number One, Number Two, Number Three, and Wen Sheng broke into the Old Man’s home, killed him, and rescued a young man he had drugged and tied up.
• The group entered Room 104, killed a sculptor who was preparing a corpse for bone carving, and found that his victim had died before they could rescue her.
• The companions defeated Chainsaw Maniac on the stairs, then cleared the second floor and recruited two rescued captives to join them.
• On the third floor, Wen Sheng’s Ghost "Hunger" felled a gun-wielding killer, and the group rescued a crowd who later died when a Hundred Ton King crashed outside.
• On the fourth floor, the group questioned a resident who claimed he survived by following the killers’ rules, then discovered that the triplet sisters in Room 405 were poison-using killers.

Wen Sheng and the other three collapsed the Apartment World, earned permanent uses of Intangibility, and drew Lion’s attention to the power behind them. Wenren Sheng then discovered the monsters’ true core world and sent Little Illusion and Rule Game players there on a mission promising longevity.

• Wen Sheng granted the four temporary Intangibility, and they used it to defeat the armed attackers and kill the Host behind Demon Apartment.
• Lion confronted the four, but they escaped its grasp; after completing the World Collapse mission, they received permanent Intangibility skills and Wenren Sheng gained 10,000 Mystery Points.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the Civilization Great Alliance’s core worlds were low-magic and discovered a hidden world where Lion, Gray Wolf, and Wild Boar manipulated reality to harvest world origin.
• Wenren Sheng sent Little Illusion to the hidden world, and she announced a temporary Rule Game mission offering players 1,000 years of lifespan, five revivals, vacation time, and a talent draw.
• Players across the worlds eagerly accepted Little Illusion’s mission, hoping to begin the Road to Longevity.

Wen Sheng entered a rule game, used a future-predicting diary to evade inspectors, and joined forces with Rainbow, another diary holder. After they merged their diaries and gained a talent skill, a sniper attacked them, and Wen Sheng's diary revealed that they would soon be hunted again.

• No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 declined the mission to rest, while Wen Sheng accepted it and was transported to a city.
• Wen Sheng found a diary that predicted his arrest, avoided the inspectors by staying away from home, and confirmed that its near-future predictions were accurate.
• Wen Sheng met Rainbow, who offered to cooperate and showed him her Major Events Notebook, which predicted that he would become the God of Creation.
• A sniper fired at Wen Sheng and Rainbow, but Wen Sheng used Intangibility to evade the armor-piercing round, and they hid in a hotel.
• Wen Sheng and Rainbow merged their diaries, giving Wen Sheng the Word Spirit talent, which could fulfill a wish once per day with uncertain results.
• Wen Sheng's diary predicted that a disguised waiter would attack them, that they would spare him and escape, and that they would later plan a counterattack.

Wen Sheng followed the diary’s warnings, uncovered a plot involving Rainbow and a tracker, and learned that the diary he had acquired was a copy controlled by its original owner. After ambushing the real conspirators and taking their diaries, he believed Rainbow’s innocence and continued with her toward a mountain villa district.

• Wen Sheng and Rainbow captured a waiter who had tried to shoot them, and Wen Sheng rigged a bomb that killed him after they left.
• The diary warned Wen Sheng that Rainbow was a spy and that inspectors were tracking them, so he searched her and found a tracker in her shoe.
• Wen Sheng accused Rainbow of betraying him, but after tying her to a tree, he ambushed an old man and a youth who came to kill her.
• Wen Sheng killed the conspirators and discovered that the diary’s first owner had used copies and false entries to manipulate him into killing Rainbow and others.
• Wen Sheng released Rainbow, accepted that she was innocent, and continued with her toward a villa district in the mountains.

Wen Sheng discovered that the Lion was the Backstage Black Hand and summoned its ancient enemy, who sent him a powerful sword. After collecting all the diaries, Wen Sheng set out for the Lion’s location, intent on killing it.

• Wen Sheng used the Detective Diary and Plant Diary to identify the Lion as the monster behind the game, then received the reward for completing the first mission.
• Rainbow’s comment about two ants fighting inspired Wen Sheng to summon the Lion’s opponent, a giant drifting through the void.
• The giant answered Wen Sheng’s ritual by sending a lethal sword into the world, and Wen Sheng decided to use it against the Lion.
• Wen Sheng found the owner of the Farming Diary, bypassed the poisonous defenses with Intangibility, killed him, and took the diary.
• Wen Sheng gathered all the diaries, learned the location where they led, and headed there with the sword to confront the Lion.

Wen Sheng defeated the Lion’s core world using his intangibility and an endlessly growing rule-based sword, then returned to his own world with the mission rewards. Wenren Sheng rejected the Lion’s offer of a truce, while the Lion and its allies prepared to fake their deaths and reorganize their worlds, but Wenren Sheng had anticipated their plan.

• Wen Sheng discovered that Lion Mountain was the Lion’s body and drove his growing sword into it while using Intangibility to avoid its attacks.
• The Lion abandoned its shell and fled with its core consciousness as the Diary World collapsed, and Wen Sheng completed the missions and returned to his own world with his rewards.
• Wen Sheng opened his Future Diary, read a warning that he was already dead, and escaped the hotel just before an attack struck.
• Wenren Sheng refused the Lion’s request for a truce and vowed to destroy the Civilization Great Alliance.
• The Lion, the wild boar, and Gray Wolf planned to fake their deaths, change names, and resume their schemes after merging their worlds and turning their residents against Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng recognized the monsters’ plan as he watched them merge their worlds and portray his coming attack as an invasion by Extraterrestrial Demons.

Wenren Sheng destroyed the three swindlers and chose Zhao Qingyu to explore the Divine Path World. After Zhao Qingyu accidentally obtained its Mountain God core and arrived in a burning village, he used his new powers to save a woman from bandits, who begged him to rescue the villagers.

• Wenren Sheng let the worlds awaken, and a giant crushed Wild Boar, Lion, and Gray Wolf in the ruins where they had fled.
• Wenren Sheng decided to explore the Divine Path World and chose Zhao Qingyu, an ambitious office worker, to enter it.
• Zhao Qingyu injured his toe kicking a Glass Ball, then grabbed it and unknowingly activated it before going to a clinic.
• Zhao Qingyu woke on a mountain overlooking a village under bandit attack and realized the Glass Ball was a Mountain God core.
• Zhao Qingyu used the mountain's power to impale two bandits chasing a woman and her child.
• The woman thanked Zhao Qingyu as the Mountain God and begged him to save her village.

Zhao Qingyu used Xiao Cui and a stone pillar to save her village, then built a following through temples and offerings across Great Green Mountain. When the new County Magistrate moved against Mountain God Grandpa, Zhao Qingyu’s local allies arranged his death and persuaded officials to classify it as a sudden illness.

• Xiao Cui returned to her village with a stone pillar, and it killed the bandits threatening the villagers.
• The villagers built a temple and made Xiao Cui its Temple Keeper; Zhao Qingyu refined their incense offerings and gained strength.
• Over the next year, Zhao Qingyu expanded his influence to thirty-two villages, where Mountain God Grandpa’s temples provided useful goods to worshippers.
• The new County Magistrate ordered an investigation, but the Squad Leader warned him that Mountain God Grandpa was popular and gave blessings to the villagers.
• The Squad Leader alerted the local gentry, who sided with Zhao Qingyu, and the County Magistrate died from a toxin the next morning.
• The prefectural investigator accepted the claim that the County Magistrate had died of a sudden illness and left after taking silver.

A new upright Prefect tried to suppress Zhao Qingyu’s expanding Mountain God worship, but his troops were routed when Zhao Qingyu used divine power to defend a temple. The Prefect withdrew, shaken by the proof that the Mountain God was real.

• An old County Magistrate concealed Zhao Qingyu’s influence and kept Great Green County prosperous, then left office without exposing him.
• Zhao Qingyu expanded Mountain God Temples into five of the prefecture’s six counties to gain territory, worshippers, and lifespan.
• A new upright Prefect learned of the temples, sought troops, and received an order from the Cabinet to dismantle them.
• The Prefect and Garrison Commander led two thousand soldiers to attack a temple, but Zhao Qingyu raised stone Ground Spikes that killed more than fifty attackers.
• The prefectural troops fled, and the Prefect withdrew after confirming that the Mountain God’s power was real.

Prefect Li and the Cabinet escalated reports of the Mountain God’s manifestations, prompting the Emperor to send envoys to summon Zhao Qingyu and offer him the title of National Preceptor. Zhao Qingyu rejected the Emperor’s presumptuous summons and left the envoys without a response.

• Prefect Li and the local officials jointly petitioned the court to investigate the Mountain God after soldiers died during a raid on the Dilapidated Temple.
• Cabinet ministers feared the cost of honoring the Mountain God and the consequences of the Emperor learning they had delayed the reports.
• After reading the memorial, the Emperor grew suspicious of the Cabinet and ordered Lao Huang and two other parties to invite the Mountain God to the Imperial Palace.
• Zhao Qingyu laughed at the summons and judged that the Emperor mistook him for a minor Taoist or monk rather than a true immortal.
• Lao Huang read the Imperial Edict at the earliest temple on Great Green Mountain, but Zhao Qingyu gave no response.

The Emperor tested the Mountain God’s medicine and appointed him a state-protecting deity, while the Second Assistant Minister defected to Zhao Qingyu and helped spread the temples across several provinces. After a beating in the real world reminded Zhao Qingyu of his limits, he began writing and selling stories to build influence there.

• The Emperor tested the Mountain God’s capsules on gravely ill palace servants, saw them recover, and ordered an imperial proclamation appointing the Mountain God of Great Green Mountain a state-protecting deity with a generous stipend.
• The Cabinet objected but drafted the proclamation, and the Second Assistant Minister resigned and left the capital without waiting for approval.
• After investigating Great Green Mountain, the Second Assistant Minister chose to serve the Mountain God and expanded the temples’ reach by winning over unprotected gentry and wealthy merchants.
• Zhao Qingyu saw that his temples had spread through several provinces, then recognized that his growing power and arrogance had made him lose sight of his vulnerability in the real world.
• After thugs beat him for provoking them, Zhao Qingyu decided to build influence in the real world by bringing storybooks written by ancient people there to sell.

Zhao Qingyu recognized that his growing power made his anger dangerous, so he tested Prefect Li by making him ruler of a vassal state and watching how he handled authority and hardship. Prefect Li remained devoted to the people, but after facing endless crises and threats to his family, he fell silent when told the people needed him to rule forever.

• Zhao Qingyu resolved to cultivate his mind after realizing that anger could lead him to destroy the Feudal Dynasty world, and he decided to test Prefect Li's principles.
• Zhao Qingyu arranged for the Mountain God to appoint Prefect Li king of a vassal state, where Prefect Li cut waste, aided the poor, reviewed wrongful convictions, reduced forced labor, and lived frugally.
• Prefect Li struggled with overcrowding and land shortages, while Zhao Qingyu helped him tax wealthy landholders and merchants and use the revenue to buy grain overseas.
• Prefect Li developed workshops as another way for people to earn a living, but restrictions on child labor led some families to drown unwanted children, leaving him devastated.
• Prefect Li reluctantly took a concubine to secure an heir, but she later plotted with her family to murder him and make her child ruler.
• Prefect Li rejected praise, temples, and elixirs, but fell silent when people urged him to rule forever because his successors might undo his work.

Prefect Li’s long record of serving the people convinced Zhao Qingyu to take him in as his foster son, educate him, and eventually make him a River God. A decade later, Zhao Qingyu had become a ruler who suppressed rival powers and technological progress to preserve his control.

• Prefect Li punished his youngest son for stealing nearly all the funds meant for canal construction, then ordered him to die after imprisoning him.
• After hearing the people pray for the Great King to live forever, Prefect Li began worshipping the Mountain God and wishing for immortality so he could protect them.
• Zhao Qingyu tested Prefect Li by appearing as an orphan, and Prefect Li took him in as his Foster Son and arranged for his Confucian education.
• Prefect Li explained that the villagers’ help and the support of the court had taught him to serve both the people and the state; Zhao Qingyu learned to resist temptation by keeping an opponent in check.
• Zhao Qingyu made Prefect Li a River God whose powers were restricted to preventing disasters, then used his own power and modern technology to control society and suppress research.
• When nobles and others secretly pursued science, immortality, and the Mountain God’s secrets, Zhao Qingyu cracked down on their efforts, especially experiments that could lead to Steam Engines or Mushrooms.

After ruling his stagnant Divine Power Kingdom for ten thousand years, Zhao Qingyu grew bored and accepted a chance to move to a sports-focused world. He arrived alone in the ocean with no divine power and struggled to survive, still hoping to reach land and eventually return home.

• Zhao Qingyu maintained his unchanging Divine Power Kingdom by rewarding incense offerings with longevity and using divine power to suppress dissent.
• Wenren Sheng observed Zhao Qingyu’s rule, gained Mystery Points, and showed him a sports-focused world in the Glass Ball.
• Zhao Qingyu chose to enter the New World, but after arriving in the ocean, he discovered that his Glass Ball held no divine power.
• Zhao Qingyu regretted traveling without supplies and decided to drift toward land while using his bottle and clothes to collect water and catch fish.
• Zhao Qingyu survived for half a month at sea by gathering dew and seeking food, growing weak and hoping he could kill a shark.

After drifting at sea for a month, Zhao Qingyu was rescued and built a new life as a celebrated sprinter and boxer, but he still could not obtain divine power. His attempts to inspire genuine worship failed, and he realized he would need to find people who truly believed he was a god.

• Zhao Qingyu reached shore, where lifeguards rescued him and got him medical care; after recovering, he received temporary identification, relief money, and a food delivery job.
• Zhao Qingyu repaid the company's rescue expenses, built a reputation through food delivery, and became a famous sprinter after improving his 100-meter time to 9.6 seconds.
• Zhao Qingyu became a boxer, gained fame and wealth, and hired bodyguards, but found that his fans' admiration did not give him divine power.
• Zhao Qingyu built temples to the Great Green Mountain Mountain God, but the worship did not work because people did not truly believe he was divine.
• Zhao Qingyu traveled to a protected primitive tribe and used modern technology to pose as a god, but he gained no divine power because the tribe already understood the outside world.

Zhao Qingyu tried to build a remote village whose inhabitants would worship him as a Mountain God, but his hired White Gloves faked the operation and stole his money. After discovering their fraud and deciding to act for himself, he found a simpler way to gain divine power by paying people to worship him, and his plan began to work.

• Zhao Qingyu hired Zhang San and Li Si to establish a remote village with a feudal-era society and a Mountain God Temple, but they staged fake photos and videos while demanding more money.
• After three years without gaining divine power, Zhao Qingyu used a drone to expose the empty village set and had Zhang San and Li Si killed for their fraud.
• Zhao Qingyu abandoned relying on White Gloves and struggled with the dangers and practical problems of creating the village himself.
• After asking online how to make people sincerely believe in him, Zhao Qingyu realized he could pay people to worship him and began recruiting otaku with money and incense offerings.
• Zhao Qingyu started gaining divine power from a small share of the people he paid and cut off support for those who did not genuinely worship him.

Zhao Qingyu expanded his divine-power network by paying worshippers, but the enormous monthly cost threatened to bankrupt him. A special operations team began investigating him as a possible threat, and he used his divine power to discover their surveillance near his villa.

• Zhao Qingyu paid more than a hundred thousand worshippers, while online rumors spread about receiving money for worshipping the God of Home.
• Zhao Qingyu tested reducing the monthly payment, but worshippers stopped providing divine power, so he kept paying 5,000 each and realized his funds would soon run out.
• A special operations team investigated Zhao Qingyu’s background and concluded that they should monitor him and arrest him if he showed signs of dangerous activity.
• Zhao Qingyu sensed danger and used his worshippers as eyes to spot disguised vendors keeping watch several kilometers from his villa.

Zhao Qingyu was questioned over funding more than a hundred thousand people who worshipped the God of Home, but his lawyer negotiated a plan to move the believers overseas. The controversy passed without incident, and Zhao Qingyu realized he had overestimated the danger before noticing that he was supporting his followers instead of receiving support from them.

• Zhao Qingyu decided to explain his spending as a fear-driven religious obsession and continued earning money to support his believers.
• Interrogators summoned Zhao Qingyu, his manager, and his lawyer, and Zhao claimed he funded the believers because he feared death and hoped to reach heaven.
• Zhao Qingyu's lawyer proposed moving the believers and future recipients overseas, and the interrogators agreed to help arrange the transfer.
• People online blamed the interrogators for sending Zhao Qingyu's spending and its economic benefits abroad, and the controversy soon faded.
• Zhao Qingyu recognized that his fears had been unnecessary and continued funding the believers before realizing that he was supporting them rather than being supported by them.