Chapter Summaries

Zhao Han reported the strange place to Wenren Sheng, who warned her not to enter, while he continued studying Ji Zhengyan’s skills. Ji Zhengyan trapped Wenren Sheng in an accelerated illusion of his youth, where a stranger appeared to challenge his reverence for his master.

• Zhao Han told Wenren Sheng about the strange place, and he warned her that the four people there were likely bait and that she should not enter.
• Wenren Sheng returned to Ji Zhengyan’s home with Teacher Qin and said he needed two weeks to master three skills, prompting Ji Zhengyan to criticize his pace.
• Wenren Sheng revealed that he could extend his lifespan to five or six hundred years, and Ji Zhengyan warned him that relying too much on his strengths could lead to failure.
• Ji Zhengyan swept his sleeve and transported Wenren Sheng into an illusion of a wilderness, where the young Ji Zhengyan appeared and began training with him.
• A middle-aged man appeared in the illusion, mocked the Ten Thousand Forms Sect, and claimed he would save Ji Zhengyan from becoming like his master.

Wenren Sheng and Ji Zhengyan witnessed the painful consequences of their master’s teaching through Jing Wuming’s story, then followed the master’s guidance to cultivate one branch before learning more. The experience helped Wenren Sheng’s Teaching Skill reach Expert Level.

• Jing Wuming showed Wenren Sheng and Ji Zhengyan recordings of how his broad, unfocused training had left him facing the removal of his otherworldly seed, and blamed their master.
• Their master revealed that Jing Wuming had ignored his advice to specialize first, while Wenren Sheng realized Jing Wuming was the master’s son and understood why Ji Zhengyan had dismissed his failure.
• The master warned Wenren Sheng and Ji Zhengyan to master one branch before learning the Return to One technique, and they began cultivating diligently.
• Ji Zhengyan learned three skills quickly but improved slowly, while Wenren Sheng advanced faster; under the master’s restrictions, Ji Zhengyan passed the Otherworldly Expert assessment at thirty-four.
• Wenren Sheng recognized the lesson behind the master’s painful illusion, and his Teaching Skill advanced to Expert Level, increasing his Mystery Points and their limit.

Wenren Sheng completed Ji Zhengyan’s accelerated illusion lesson and began training in three escape skills, mastering all of them after three days and raising his Mystery Points limit to 981. Ji Zhengyan remained skeptical of Wenren Sheng’s ambition to master every mysterious skill, but agreed to continue teaching him step by step.

• Wenren Sheng asked what happened to Senior Apprentice Brother Jing and declared that he would inherit Grandmaster’s will and restore Eastern Continent to its former glory.
• Ji Zhengyan insisted that Wenren Sheng first master one branch of skills and assigned him Mystic Stealth, Superspeed Running, and Flying in the Air.
• Ji Zhengyan warned Wenren Sheng to spend less time with Xiao Qin, then went inside the wooden house to sleep.
• Wenren Sheng trained for three days and mastered Mystic Stealth, Superspeed Running, and Flying in the Air, increasing his Mystery Points limit from 941 to 981.

After learning three skills quickly, Wenren Sheng experienced a frightening, uncontrollable dream and woke feeling lightheaded. He returned to Tianxing Club, where he prepared to test his Expert Level Teaching Skill on the many students waiting for him.

• Wenren Sheng slept and dreamed that he managed an apartment building, investigated a bloody scene, and exposed a faceless ghost with help from someone resembling Di Renjie.
• After escaping the Evil Object's nest, Wenren Sheng felt a beautiful giant behind him and flew through the air using his newly learned ability.
• Wenren Sheng woke lightheaded, then heard Wu Liansong describe a surge in commissions and dangerous incidents outside.
• Wu Shanshan asked Wenren Sheng about her mother's condition, and he reassured her that everything was normal.
• Wenren Sheng went to Tianxing Club, greeted his students, and found no suitable commissions on the internal network.
• Wenren Sheng decided to test his Expert Level Teaching Skill, wondering whether its 116-fold enhancement could approach Grandmaster Level.

Wenren Sheng taught trainees how to use Puppet Art safely and warned them against relying on mysterious entities. After class, Liu Jian came to Wenren Sheng, repented for his past behavior, and acknowledged the effect of Wenren Sheng’s amplified Teaching Skill.

• Wenren Sheng lectured his trainees on controlling puppets and protecting or severing mental connections when danger arose.
• Wenren Sheng warned the trainees that mysterious entities were unpredictable and that they must not explore the mysterious world without the Patrol Division’s permission.
• Wenren Sheng noticed Liu Jian among the trainees and wondered whether the Patrol Division was observing him as an experiment.
• After class, Wenren Sheng returned to his office, where Little Girl asked to play with Liu Jian.
• Liu Jian entered, knelt, and apologized to Wenren Sheng for doubting him and acting impatiently.
• Wenren Sheng helped Liu Jian up and realized his amplified Teaching Skill could make people objectively recognize and correct their mistakes.

Wenren Sheng suppressed the mysterious influence affecting Liu Jian, then accepted Wei Yiqing’s offer of training to increase his Mystery Resistance. While enduring strange winds in a mountain crevice, he noticed two men entering the dangerous area and prepared to drive them away.

• Liu Jian’s conflicting thoughts and Anomaly influence caused his personality to split, but Wenren Sheng suppressed the vicious side and urged him to stay true to himself.
• Liu Jian thanked Wenren Sheng and left, while Wenren Sheng wondered whether his student could overcome the darkness within him.
• Wei Yiqing invited Wenren Sheng to special training for increasing Mystery Resistance, and he agreed to follow her.
• Wei Yiqing suspended Wenren Sheng in a crevice connected to the mysterious world, where strange winds battered him as she waited above.
• Two men, Da Qian and Da Kun, entered the crevice to film its unusual scenery, and Da Qian began climbing toward Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng decided to make the two men leave before they encountered danger in the crevice.

Wenren Sheng endured a week of mysterious wind and human-made distractions in a fissure before a film crew from Another World arrived and staged a series of real murders. He watched the crew finish its crime-investigation segment, which left nine people dead.

• Wenren Sheng used the Little Girl's illusion to lure away two explorers, then deflected Da Qian's exploding phone and recognized the attack as a Human Tribulation.
• Wenren Sheng endured a week of distractions arranged during his training, while Wei Yiqing said she had found the fissure through telepathy.
• A film crew arrived, and the Little Girl explained that its events were happening in Another World and could not be stopped.
• The crew filmed a murder investigation in which two killers became one another's witnesses and formed an alliance to conceal their crimes.
• Wenren Sheng watched the segment conclude after nine people died, including an investigator killed during the pursuit.

Wenren Sheng watched the deadly investigative drama and learned that its filming location was a vanished Pacific island likely moved into Another World. As he observed the terrified crew preparing to film again, Little Girl revealed she could influence the projected illusion, and Wenren Sheng began considering a way to intervene.

• Wenren Sheng watched the drama's bullet comments and concluded that a Disaster Anomaly Lord had twisted the crew's minds and turned complaints about unrealistic acting into real horrors.
• Wenren Sheng called Inspector Liu, who told him that the filming location was a Pacific island that had vanished two weeks earlier.
• Wenren Sheng told Inspector Liu that someone had likely moved the island into Another World, and Inspector Liu said investigators were linking the incident to Zhao Han's earlier encounter.
• Wenren Sheng watched the crew return to film, noticing that most actors were frightened while the director encouraged them to continue.
• Little Girl told Wenren Sheng she could influence the projected illusion, and Wenren Sheng began thinking of a way to use that ability.

Wenren Sheng watched the death-film crew after using Little Girl to alter their script, but the revised video failed to attract viewers and the crew’s minds were controlled again. When the director’s next production turned far more brutal, Wenren Sheng recognized Young Man A among the dead extras.

• Wenren Sheng had Little Girl pose as the investor and change the script, preventing the director from being forced to play an old eunuch and stopping further deaths for a time.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the revised script spread online through underground channels, but viewers found it less shocking than the original.
• Wenren Sheng noticed the crew had returned to acting as if nothing had happened and realized their minds were controlled again.
• Wenren Sheng chose not to interfere further as the crew filmed a brutal highway chase that left more than thirty extras dead or injured.
• Wenren Sheng recognized Young Man A among the dead extras as one of the conspirators from the incident Zhao Han had resolved.

Wenren Sheng reported that the island and mountain had been transported to Another World, and learned that the Vortex Gate and Sea Mist Area were helping the mysterious world establish a forward base. After resisting a misleading suggestion caused by the rift, he reached Expert Level Mystery Resistance and left with his master.

• Wenren Sheng sent Inspector Liu images from the web drama, and the Patrol Division matched some extras to people missing through the Vortex Gate and Sea Mist Area.
• Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that the two anomalous sites were weakening the planet and that the Division suspected a new Small World had formed between the worlds.
• Wenren Sheng gained Mystery Points and reached Expert Level Mystery Resistance, then recognized that the apparent metamorphosis and bottleneck were a deceptive suggestion.
• Inspector Liu worried when Wenren Sheng stopped responding, but Wenren Sheng assured him he was fine and had made a breakthrough.
• Wenren Sheng told his master about the breakthrough, and they left the rift site as the Patrol Division prepared to monitor it.

Wenren Sheng returned to Dongshui City, arranged for the family home to be expanded into a medical support facility, and trained while his family learned to use their new puppets. The family settled into their new routines, while Wenren Sheng learned that Ouyang Tian remained under the Seed of Illusion’s influence.

• Wenren Sheng brought Wei Yiqing back to the company, where she rejected the voice urging her to surrender her body.
• Wenren Sheng hired a construction company to expand his home and build a family life-support room.
• Wenren Sheng spent the day training in stealth, running, and flying.
• Wenren Sheng found his family discussing their puppet training and warned Zhao Han not to rely on puppets for all her cultivation.
• Zhao Han said Ouyang Tian had gone to show off his spider puppet to Liu Tian, and the Seed of Illusion revealed that it was still manipulating him through their resonance connection.

Wenren Sheng formed the Special Operations Center within the Tianxing Club and chose a high-reward commission to find missing heir Han Xu. The team reached the Mountain Hollow and learned that Han Xu and his expedition had vanished into Another World.

• Wenren Sheng proposed affiliating everyone's puppets with the company, and Zhao Han and the others agreed.
• The Tianxing Club established the Special Operations Center, appointed Wu Liansong as its manager, and assigned the puppets to it.
• Wenren Sheng selected the commission to find Han Xu, whose family had offered a fifty-million reward after he disappeared in the Mountain Hollow.
• The group prepared for three days and brought their puppet task force to the Mountain Hollow.
• Zhao Han described how mist had swallowed Han Xu's expedition, and Wenren Sheng's Puppet Man said they had gone to Another World.

Han Xu struggled as a laborer in a place called the Stars, where people were forced into productions that often killed them, and he hoped his family could find him. A black-moled Old Man claimed to be Emperor Yuanfeng, and although Han Xu challenged his story, the Old Man’s knowledge and bearing left him uncertain.

• Han Xu learned the place was called the Stars while overseers whipped him and the other laborers for building a road by hand.
• Han Xu recalled how people chosen for film and television productions often died, and regretted refusing his family’s wealth to seek adventure.
• A black-moled Old Man told Han Xu he had once been an emperor, then became an Otherworldly User who had lived for centuries.
• During their break, the Old Man named himself Saint Ancestor Emperor Yuanfeng and described his reign and abdication accurately.
• Han Xu challenged the Old Man about Yuanfeng’s achievements, and the Old Man acknowledged that the South Sea Liujia Gorge campaign had helped him gain acceptance among Otherworldly Users.
• Han Xu concluded that the Old Man was probably an actor who had been sent back to labor, but the Old Man’s presence still made him doubt his assumption.

Li Yuanfeng questioned Han Xu about his time in the strange place after Han Xu dismissed his claim to be Emperor Yuanfeng. Meanwhile, Wenren Sheng’s group arrived in a forest and sent Ouyang Tian ahead to scout.

• Li Yuanfeng pretended he had been an actor and asked Han Xu how long he had been in the strange place.
• Han Xu recalled Emperor Yuanfeng’s overseas colonization reforms, his conflicts with scholar-officials, and his reported agreement with the Otherworldly Realm.
• Han Xu admitted he was used to the overseers’ whips and briefly recounted his experiences to Li Yuanfeng.
• Wenren Sheng ordered his group to rest before advancing to scout.
• Ouyang Tian transformed into a spider and set off, using Spiderweb Sense to gather intelligence while thinking of Saya.

Ouyang Tian used a rabbit as a puppet to scout a town and overheard a film crew searching for Li Yuanfeng, an old actor sent to a labor camp. At the roadwork site, Ouyang Tian spotted Han Xu, the missing heir of the Han family.

• Ouyang Tian controlled a rabbit with spider silk and used it to explore the town.
• Wang Dong caught the rabbit, and Ouyang Tian overheard the crew discuss filming Great Xing Empire and finding an actor to play Xing Taizu.
• The tall woman identified the actor as Li Yuanfeng, and Director Liu sent Wang Dong to find him at a road construction site.
• Wang Dong found Li Yuanfeng resting beneath a tree, and Li Yuanfeng mocked him for bringing supposed good fortune like a dog.
• Ouyang Tian recognized a young laborer beside Li Yuanfeng as Han Xu, the missing heir of the Han family.

Ouyang Tian found Han Xu and brought him to Wenren Sheng’s group, while Li Yuanfeng revealed formidable power by killing Wang Dong after refusing to perform as an emperor. The group learned that they were trapped in the mysterious place and Han Xu began explaining that escape required permission from its administrators.

• Ouyang Tian told the group that Li Yuanfeng had been given memories and combat skills, and they planned to help him escape.
• Ouyang Tian controlled Han Xu and used the distraction of a fleeing rabbit to slip away from the worksite with him.
• When Wang Dong tried to force Li Yuanfeng to accept the emperor role, Li Yuanfeng flung him into gravel and killed him.
• Ouyang Tian brought Han Xu to Wenren Sheng and the others, who learned that their puppets could not leave the place.
• Han Xu explained that escape required permission from administrators appointed by the Demon.

Wenren Sheng's group learned that the town was a Fragment World run by people who had submitted to a Demon, then investigated its administrators. Wenren De overheard their meeting and watched it turn into a gunfight.

• Han Xu told Wenren Sheng's group how the Demon had trapped the expedition members and forced them to help run the Fragment World.
• Wenren Sheng's group shared Han Xu's information with the Patrol Division and formed a new plan to investigate the town's management.
• Zhao Han and Wenren De watched the town, and Wenren De flew to the management building to spy on a meeting.
• Zhang Conglin announced the Demon’s rewards, and the administrators argued over how to divide the divine power and skills.
• The administrators drew their guns and fired at one another while the guards downstairs ignored the gunfire.

Wenren De discovered that the administrators were under brutal pressure to satisfy Demon and learned they were preparing a historical war film. Wenren Sheng sent a Fierce Tiger to support Wenren De and his father, while Wenren De followed an administrator and tested his prophetic ability.

• Wenren De watched the administrators endure gunfire, then learned from their complaints that Demon discarded them when they stopped being useful.
• Zhang Conglin dismissed the administrators’ request for relief and told them to focus on making a historical war film.
• Wenren De realized the film could kill thousands or more and decided it had to be stopped.
• Wenren Sheng heard Han Xu describe an Old Man who had killed Director Wang, then ordered the Patrol Division to monitor population changes and sent a Fierce Tiger to help Wenren De and his father.
• Wenren De followed an administrator from the Conference Room and found that he could easily prophesy the man’s possible destinations inside this world.

Li Yuanfeng captured Liu Guanghui after exposing his abuse of workers, then met Wenren Sheng and his team. The group prepared to coordinate their response to the Fragment World, and Wenren Sheng asked Li Yuanfeng how they should proceed.

• Liu Guanghui arrived and revealed that he knew Li Yuanfeng was a powerful Otherworldly User and a real emperor.
• Liu Guanghui attacked Li Yuanfeng with golden light and vines, but Li Yuanfeng evaded the strike and seized him by the neck.
• The laborers urged Li Yuanfeng to punish Liu Guanghui for sending workers to dangerous film shoots, while Wenren De confirmed Li Yuanfeng was a real emperor with Prophecy Art.
• Wenren De reported the developments, and Wenren Sheng decided that the group should meet Li Yuanfeng.
• Li Yuanfeng joined Wenren Sheng and the others with Liu Guanghui captured, and Wenren Sheng asked him how they should proceed.

Wenren Sheng and Li Yuanfeng prepared to attack the Anomaly controlling the world, sending most of their companions away and charging toward the town center. They reached the gathered administrators, including the returning traitor Liu Guanghui, and confronted rescue Captain Zhang Conglin.

• Wenren Sheng agreed with Li Yuanfeng to attack the Anomaly directly, while Zhao Han hoped her Seed of Narration could help if she received more power.
• Wenren Sheng sent Han Xu and most of the others out of the world, but kept Wu Shanshan's and Zhao Han's puppets behind.
• Li Yuanfeng released Liu Guanghui, who pleaded to leave, and Wenren Sheng warned that he would betray them; Liu later rejoined the administrators.
• Wenren Sheng formed a temporary Otherworldly Resonance with Li Yuanfeng, greatly increasing Li Yuanfeng's strength.
• Wenren Sheng, Li Yuanfeng, Zhao Han, and Wu Shanshan reached the town gate and confronted the administrators and rescue Captain Zhang Conglin.