Chapter Summaries

The Immortals accepted an alien settlement near Pluto after Galaxy Diva persuaded them to trust the aliens, but two centuries later the aliens betrayed Earth. Luo Tian confronted them aboard their ship and discovered that the aliens looked exactly like humans and had already uncovered Earth’s spies.

• The alien robot offered Mental Power technology and cooperation, and Galaxy Diva proposed letting the aliens settle on a planet near Pluto.
• The Immortals accepted the arrangement despite Luo Tian’s doubts, and the aliens stopped advancing while both sides exchanged information for 200 years.
• The aliens suddenly surrounded Earth with fighter craft and revealed that their peaceful promises had been a deception.
• Luo Tian used his newly developed Anywhere Door to bring puppet-clone warriors aboard the alien spaceship.
• Luo Tian and the others found that the aliens looked like humans, and a tall alien revealed that they had discovered Earth’s spies on Pluto.

Luo Tian learned that the Mirror World aliens planned to strip Earth’s Immortals of immortality and turn them into a short-lived population to produce Mental Power, so he organized resistance and tested a new Anywhere Door. He led the group through it to a water planet more than fifty light-years away, where they believed they had escaped the invasion.

• The Tall Guy Alien explained that the Mirror World reflected Earth’s hardships but lacked its benefits, and that the aliens needed Earth’s people and Mental Power to sustain their world.
• Luo Tian learned the aliens intended to revoke the Immortals’ immortality and force them to have children, then fled with everyone through an Anywhere Door.
• Back on Earth, Luo Tian warned the Immortals and fugitives that the aliens could catch them and planned to genetically modify and culturally reshape captured Earthlings.
• The aliens surrounded Earth and sent faster ships after the fugitives, who apologized to Luo Tian and asked to join the resistance.
• Luo Tian tested a new Anywhere Door that could reach another planet for 3,000 points of Mental Energy, then led the group to a water planet more than fifty light-years away.

Luo Tian led the Immortals to a new planet while captured Immortals secretly recruited Alien soldiers by promising them immortality. The Alien chief’s threats failed to bring the fugitives back, and the Immortals later learned that the captured Immortals had already turned the tables.

• Luo Tian followed the vanguard to a riverside plain, where Earthlings arriving through the Anywhere Door began settling on the new planet.
• The Aliens tracked down and captured Immortals who had fled into the Solar System, while Lin Xuanqing persuaded Heluo Vane that shared immortality could undermine the Mirror Universe’s unequal order.
• Heluo Vane and Lin Xuanqing made a secret exchange, and three months later three thousand Alien soldiers had joined the rebellion and begun aiding the captives.
• The Alien chief threatened to kill captured Immortals unless Luo Tian’s group returned, but the fugitives refused, and the Aliens instead stripped captives of immortality and limited them to sixty years of life.
• On the new planet, Luo Tian urged the Immortals to strengthen themselves; they had children who were exiled to a sealed land, creating the Land of Exile and a Deity culture.
• The Immortals gathered enough Mental Energy to prepare a counterattack, but they discovered that the captured Immortals had already achieved a comeback.

Mirror World’s leaders were overthrown by their own people, who seized immortality and abandoned the invasion of Earth. Luo Tian passed the challenge without fighting and realized that immortality’s appeal would draw others in, while Earth’s people began returning to the Immortals’ way of life.

• Mirror World’s officers and Soldiers rebelled against the elders, blocked their access to Mental Energy, and killed the council of elders.
• The rebels captured surviving leaders, learned to use Mental Energy, and built a device that let them become Immortals.
• By the time Luo Tian’s side launched its counterattack, the aliens had chosen immortality, discarded their weapons, and adopted Earth’s way of life.
• Luo Tian realized that Mirror World’s internal upheaval had resolved the challenge without him firing a shot, then used the All-Knowing Eye to identify a new Immortal System as a scam aimed at mid-to-low spenders.
• Earth’s people began returning to the Immortals’ way of life, and Luo Tian understood that short-lived beings would pursue immortality whenever it appeared within reach.

Wenren Sheng followed the swindling system’s trail to a world where people bought cheats, then purchased an Intelligence Reduction Halo for himself. He chose to visit an alternate-history world, leaving his next destination set.

• Wenren Sheng noticed Luo Tian had acquired a swindling system and used the Seed of Mystery to trace its origin to a world full of systems.
• Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion arrived in the cheat-filled world, where a young man explained the different cheats and how their users’ Mental Energy paid for them.
• The young man described how cheats stimulated people’s initiative and produced higher-quality Mental Energy, and Wenren Sheng approved of his reasoning.
• Wenren Sheng bought an Intelligence Reduction Halo that made people around him overlook his illogical behavior and believe his claims within limits.
• The young man recommended an urban world, but Wenren Sheng rejected it and chose an alternate-history world instead.

Wenren Sheng used his Intelligence Reduction Halo to turn starving villagers into a mob and led them to raid the Chen Family estate, where they found little food and the starving crowd killed and ate the retainers. He then led them toward the Wang Family, while a few local leaders quietly questioned why everyone obeyed him.

• Wenren Sheng arrived in a famine-stricken countryside and persuaded starving villagers to attack wealthy households for food.
• The villagers gathered their remaining grain, ate it, and followed Wenren Sheng toward the Chen Family estate.
• The crowd found the Chen Family had fled to the Royal Capital and left almost no grain behind; they killed the butler and retainers who had stayed to guard the fields and spring.
• Several local leaders noticed that the crowd obeyed Wenren Sheng without question, but they decided not to challenge him.
• Wenren Sheng led the villagers toward the Wang Family, and more than a hundred people collapsed during the journey before the group rested in the Chen Family's fields and ate meat soup.

Wenren Sheng led starving villagers to storm the Wang Family estate, using his Intelligence Reduction Halo and persuasion to turn the defenders against their masters. After the Wang Family fell, he distributed the seized grain equally and won the villagers’ loyalty.

• Wenren Sheng urged the wavering famine victims to attack the Wang Family estate, and thousands charged its walls for food.
• Wenren Sheng tried to convince the estate’s tenant farmers and defenders to unite against Rich Man Wang, but Butler Wang’s promises briefly kept some fighting.
• Wenren Sheng discovered that his level-one Intelligence Reduction Halo could not easily affect people with IQs above 105, including the butler.
• Wenren Sheng undermined the defenders with appeals to their grievances, and the Wang Family’s forces collapsed as the butler fled toward the county town.
• The villagers found four thousand shi of grain in the estate, and Wenren Sheng divided it equally among them.
• Wenren Sheng rejected a proposal to abandon the old and weak, earning the villagers’ trust and vows of loyalty.

Wenren Sheng organized starving villagers into a trained mobile force and led them south, aiming to establish a base in the Southeast Lands. As the Wang Family and county authorities chose not to intervene, his army grew by seizing grain from wealthy households, while Little Illusion proposed tricking the emperor into abdicating.

• Wenren Sheng divided the refugees into Old Camp and War Camp, trained them, and appointed Zhao Dongsheng as an accountant.
• After their supplies dwindled, Wenren Sheng led the refugees south to seize grain and build a stronger force rather than attack the county seat.
• The Wang Family branches concealed the destruction of their main branch, while the County Magistrate delayed the Chen Family’s petition and declined to suppress the bandits.
• Wenren Sheng’s army captured wealthy households, gathered supplies, and grew from a few dozen fighters to more than a thousand as it moved toward the Southeast Lands.
• Little Illusion questioned the value of Wenren Sheng’s cheat and suggested that he trick the emperor into abdicating.

Wenren Sheng led his starving force south, explaining why court ministers would not be fooled and why famine drove people to rebel. After taking Zhao Qing, a fellow Transmigrator, with them, his army reached Jiangnan and began a raid on a prosperous town, targeting its granary rather than destroying it outright.

• Wenren Sheng explained the prisoner's dilemma to Little Illusion and concluded that the court ministers were too rational and shrewd to be deceived, so his force would have to fight its way to power.
• Wenren Sheng ordered Zhao Qing, captured after escaping pirates, to be starved for three days; afterward, she begged for food and revealed that she was a daughter of the Zhao Family from Sanyang County and a Transmigrator.
• Wenren Sheng led his force through the mountains toward Jiangnan, where Zhao Qing watched bandits flee and government soldiers defect or run during brief clashes.
• The force reached a prosperous Jiangnan town, and its starving soldiers grew angry at the contrast between the town's abundance and their own suffering.
• At midnight, the soldiers set the town ablaze as a diversion while Wenren Sheng directed them to seize the granary and spare the town from total destruction.

Wenren Sheng’s forces captured a town, where Zhao Qing realized her modern knowledge was too shallow to help him seize power through technology or management. Wenren Sheng told her that a Transmigrator’s greatest value was teaching, so she began educating children in language and mathematics.

• Wenren Sheng’s forces took control of the town and collected half the residents’ grain and other supplies, while Zhao Qing questioned their methods.
• Zhao Qing asked Wenren Sheng whether he was a Transmigrator and proposed that they work together, but he warned her that lone Transmigrators were rivals and allowed her to stay only if she behaved.
• Zhao Qing apologized to Wenren Sheng and offered to help him rebel by researching weapons and managing his forces, but she could not explain how she would provide useful technical knowledge.
• Wenren Sheng explained that modern Transmigrators could best contribute by teaching children, and Zhao Qing established a classroom with help from the accounting office.
• Zhao Qing began teaching children Pinyin and basic mathematics, selecting those who could understand the lessons.

Zhao Qing’s students rapidly applied her lessons in mathematics and mapping to strengthen Wenren Sheng’s Righteous Army, while an ambitious chief tried to recruit her into his future plans. After a government force failed to attack the stronghold, the army stood at 1,500 troops with more than sixty educated talents.

• Zhao Qing taught the children basic mathematics and other knowledge, and they quickly learned and applied it to logistics, mapping, and military planning.
• The children used their new skills to modernize the Righteous Army’s management and develop weapons, helping Wenren Sheng gauge the army’s capabilities.
• A seventeen-year-old chief privately asked Zhao Qing to join him and promised to make her empress; she pretended to agree, then told Wenren Sheng, who chose to tolerate the chief’s ambition.
• The ambitious chief worked hard to recruit supporters and expand the army, while Zhao Qing worried that he might eventually turn against Wenren Sheng.
• Government soldiers arrived under the pretense of suppressing bandits, but spent several days feasting outside the mountain before claiming a minor victory and withdrawing.
• After three years of training, the Righteous Army had 1,500 soldiers and more than sixty modern-minded talents.

High-rank formed the Equality Society, which claimed equality while hoarding modern knowledge and building power for a rebellion. Zhao Qing continued educating students as the society developed an industrial base, and six years later it prepared to act amid widespread unrest and the court’s military weakness.

• At a class meeting, High-rank persuaded most of the sixty students to seek power for themselves, while a few argued that equality should apply to everyone.
• High-rank founded the Equality Society, which recruited members, restricted access to modern knowledge, and trained recruits in selected techniques.
• Zhao Qing was dismayed by the society’s ambitions, and Wenren Sheng reminded her that she had once wanted to become an empress herself.
• Over the next three years, the Equality Society grew to five hundred members and improved production with standardized methods, assembly lines, and water- and wind-powered machines.
• After six years, the society’s mountain base could support fifty thousand people and four thousand Combat Soldiers, while rebellions spread and the imperial court’s suppression force mutinied.

Wenren Sheng watched High-rank build a powerful army and conquer the realm, while High-rank secretly planned to claim the throne. When Wenren Sheng arrived at the palace, his influence turned High-rank’s own subordinates toward naming him emperor.

• Desert caravans and regional clans rose alongside the old dynasty and rebel forces as the basin descended into chaos.
• High-rank used a marriage alliance with the Ma family to establish a base, train soldiers, and develop grenades, mines, and rockets.
• High-rank defeated Lao Zhang’s larger army, conquered Jiangnan, and expanded his forces until he had subdued the realm and surrounding desert powers.
• High-rank sent Big Tiger to invite Wenren Sheng to become emperor, intending to appoint Zhao Qing as National Preceptor.
• Wenren Sheng’s Intelligence Reduction Halo persuaded Big Tiger and the cities along the route to support him, while High-rank waited in vain for news of Wenren Sheng’s death.
• At the palace, Wenren Sheng praised High-rank’s achievements, and High-rank’s subordinates declared that Wenren Sheng should rule as emperor.

High-rank tried to secure the throne and eliminate Wenren Sheng, but his allies and Secret Guards turned against him after learning what he would do to them in the future. Wenren Sheng confronted him with his past abuses and rejected his claim that he could rule for the people.

• High-rank’s trusted officials urged Wenren Sheng to become emperor, and High-rank agreed while secretly plotting against him.
• High-rank’s confidants began wavering, and he resolved to assassinate Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng’s guests saw visions of High-rank executing them and their families in the future, so they chose to join Wenren Sheng and planned to attack High-rank.
• High-rank sent his Secret Guards to kill Wenren Sheng, but Wenren Sheng revealed that High-rank had caused their families’ deaths, and they switched sides.
• High-rank accused Wenren Sheng of deceiving everyone, while Wenren Sheng reminded him of his past betrayals and abuses and said power had to be kept out of his hands.

Wenren Sheng had High-rank imprisoned and prepared to take the throne, but High-rank awakened an Emperor Growth System and escaped after bribing two guards. As High-rank sought allies to reclaim power, the system led him to Li Shanchang, who was already questioning whether serving Wenren Sheng was safe.

• Wenren Sheng had High-rank arrested, and High-rank was thrown into prison.
• High-rank activated the Emperor Growth System, accepted its escape mission, and used silver to persuade two guards to help him flee.
• After escaping in disguise, High-rank killed the guards, took back his money, and decided to use the system while staying wary of it.
• Wenren Sheng ordered a pursuit of High-rank and began preparing to ascend the throne.
• The system told High-rank to regain his confidants' trust, so he went to Li Shanchang for help.
• Li Shanchang considered his memories of the future and wondered whether Wenren Sheng was a ghost or god, weighing the danger of serving him against returning to High-rank.

Li Shanchang allied with High-rank, who used an Emperor System to seize the throne from Wenren Sheng. Seventeen years later, High-rank grew old and began investigating the men who had once betrayed him.

• High-rank convinced Li Shanchang that Wenren Sheng was a Demon Person and recruited him to help raise troops.
• After three months of training with his system, High-rank confronted Wenren Sheng, but Wenren Sheng used his max-level Intelligence Reduction Halo to turn the soldiers against him again.
• High-rank's system dispelled the halo, and he persuaded the soldiers and Imperial Palace Guard to join him as he seized the throne.
• High-rank crowned himself emperor, made Li Shanchang a duke, and ordered searches for Wenren Sheng and his teacher, who had escaped.
• Seventeen years later, High-rank began to fear betrayal and established a new Secret Guard to investigate his former followers.

After being sentenced to death in the future, Li Shanchang was sent back to the moment the High-rank sought his support and helped his allies capture him. Wenren Sheng imprisoned the High-rank, who continued to justify his rule and cling to the system.

• The High-rank imposed rigid occupational rules, travel restrictions, and privileges for his descendants, while his garrisons weakened as Officers took Soldiers' land.
• The High-rank ordered Li Shanchang and Lan Yu's clans exterminated; as Li Shanchang faced execution, he regretted betraying Sir and wished for another chance.
• Li Shanchang recognized the repeated situation and rallied those around the High-rank to seize him, then had his legs cut so he could not become emperor.
• Li Shanchang's group sent the High-rank to Wenren Sheng, who dismissed him as a prisoner and told him to witness how the world should be transformed.
• The High-rank's system remained silent, and he privately concluded that his failure was not being strong enough to protect his family's wealth and power.

Imprisoned High-rank watched Sir’s reforms transform the court and the common people, gradually realizing that literacy, freedom, and invention produced benefits far greater than suppressing the people. When a Longevity Drug emerged from the open society, High-rank understood the full cost of his old policies and admitted that he had been wrong.

• High-rank remained imprisoned while reading the World Gazette, dismissing Sir’s efforts to educate commoners, allow migration, and protect their inventions.
• High-rank watched the common people prosper and create new tools, while newspapers and government measures restricted officials’ ability to exploit them.
• Over fifty years, High-rank saw inventions and medical advances improve life, including steam engines, electric lamps, medicines, and cleaner prisons.
• High-rank realized that releasing the common people’s potential produced long-term gains, including better health and discoveries that imperial control would have prevented.
• High-rank read about the Longevity Drug, regretted that his former policies would have kept it from being discovered or shared, and confessed that he had been wrong.

After transforming High-rank and the Feudal Society world, Wenren Sheng entered a soccer world, overwhelmed its players, and added competition-only superpowers to make the game more exciting. His boredom ended when news arrived that Void Polluters were destroying worlds by exploiting their natural mechanisms.

• Wenren Sheng accepted High-rank’s repentance and left the world in his hands, and High-rank founded the Awakening Society to enlighten the people and prevent imperial rule.
• Little Illusion dismissed Wenren Sheng’s approach as boring, and Wenren Sheng returned to the system seller before deciding to visit a Sports World.
• Wenren Sheng entered a youth soccer match, scored forty-eight goals, and found the competition too easy.
• Wenren Sheng modified the soccer world so Spiritual Qi revived and athletes gained powers usable only in sports competitions.
• A void broadcast warned Wenren Sheng and other world travelers that Void Polluters were accelerating the destruction of worlds.

Wenren Sheng joined a gathering of powerful world representatives to learn about a Demon invasion that could drive worlds into destructive conflict and ruin. He accepted a mission to confront the Demons and chose a popular military world at war.

• Wenren Sheng used the Void Broadcast to reach the Land of Glimmer, where more than a thousand representatives from powerful worlds gathered.
• The Broadcasters explained that Demons intensified existing conflicts and that the Greedy Demon, Destructive Demon, and especially the Ignorance Demon threatened worlds.
• The Broadcasters warned that the Ignorance Demon made people stop thinking and consumed worlds by driving them into prolonged, ruinous crusades.
• The representatives accepted missions to exterminate the Demons, and the Broadcasters gave them support items, including a Demon Power Converter and a Legendary Guarantee.
• Wenren Sheng selected a popular military world caught in a world war for his mission.