Chapter Summaries

After the Patrol Division withdrew from Hula City to avoid a trap, its Otherworldly Masters celebrated aboard an Aircraft Carrier. The Tiger-skin Parrot sowed suspicion about Wenren Sheng’s power, leaving the assembled leaders uneasy about whether he might someday challenge them.

• The Sole Supremacy Society withdrew from Hula City after its leaders learned the Patrol Division had received intelligence about their trap and planned to regroup.
• Wenren Sheng’s puppets returned with the Patrol Division’s forces to an Aircraft Carrier, where the Otherworldly Masters discussed the operation and praised his strength.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot’s illusion appeared at the banquet and mocked the Patrol Division, then warned that powerful loyalists could replace their leaders.
• An elderly Otherworldly Master dispersed the parrot’s illusion, but the guests left the banquet wondering whether Wenren Sheng might rebel.

Li Yuanfeng and the Patrol Division planned an operation to overcome a Game Puppet guarding the Sole Supremacy Society’s hideout, and Panda Captain led the stage-clearing team. At the grassland site, the team discovered four separate games that likely had to be completed to open a Teleportation Portal.

• Li Yuanfeng argued that Wenren Sheng would not rebel and urged the group to uphold the law rather than suppress capable subordinates out of suspicion.
• An Operations Staff Officer explained that a Game Puppet blocked the route and would let intruders pass only after they won its game.
• Li Yuanfeng summoned his Junior Brother, Wang Yanhú, who eagerly agreed to lead the operation and asked for strong fighters.
• Wenren Sheng joined the stage-clearing team under Panda Captain, and they traveled to a sparse forest in the Hot Continent Grassland Area.
• Panda Captain sent scouts in different directions, and four puppets reported challenges involving treasure hunting, racing, and other games.
• Panda Captain concluded that the team likely needed to complete all four games to open a Teleportation Portal in the middle.

Wenren Sheng joined the eastern Treasure Hunt, where the game regressed participants’ memories to age five, but he used his adult knowledge to trap Gargamel and clear it first. The Patrol Division prepared to press its advantage as the Sole Supremacy Society began retreating from Hot Continent.

• Wenren Sheng chose the Treasure Hunt and remained cautious while Panda Captain Wang Yanhú rushed into the forest under the game’s age-regressing effect.
• Li Yuanfeng learned that the participants’ memories had been reduced to those of five-year-olds and ordered the Patrol Division to search for a countermeasure.
• Wenren Sheng made a plan, set a trap for the green-skinned monster occupying the farmland, and cleared the eastern game in under an hour.
• The Sole Supremacy Society’s members panicked at the rapid defeat and began packing to flee Hot Continent.

After Wenren Sheng helped defeat the Sole Supremacy Society, the Patrol Division celebrated while news of the Soul Reincarnation project stirred debate among Otherworldly Users. The Society withdrew to South America and decided to avoid confronting Wenren Sheng, hoping time would eventually bring him around to their ideology.

• Wenren Sheng cleared the childhood games, opened the city gate, and helped the group secure the abandoned city after the Sole Supremacy Society fled.
• Li Yuanfeng thanked Wenren Sheng at the victory banquet, while juvenile Panda Captain promised to repay his favor at Chuanzhong Zoo.
• Two days later, Wenren Sheng recalled Big Cat and the Puppet Man as rumors about the Soul Reincarnation project spread among Otherworldly Users.
• The Sole Supremacy Society regrouped in South America, where Yuan Shouyi and Yan Ze discussed Wenren Sheng's strength and why he resisted their ideals.
• The Society's elders agreed to avoid Wenren Sheng for now and trust that time might eventually sway him to their side.

Wenren Sheng examined the Patrol Division’s campaign rewards, including clues to a legendary Otherworldly User’s inheritance and blueprints for the Physics Holy Armor. After speaking with Aihandebu, he agreed to look into the Heroic Spirit World, though he knew it would take time.

• Wenren Sheng traded his campaign rewards for records, blueprints, and other mysterious items, then read a letter describing four possible locations for the tombs of the Thousand-Faced Man.
• Aihandebu questioned Wenren Sheng about how he had solved four death games, but Wenren Sheng kept his method secret.
• Wenren Sheng learned that Aihandebu had witnessed the Thousand-Faced Man burying his inheritance, while Aihandebu admitted it could not see the tombs Wenren Sheng built for Liu Jian.
• Wenren Sheng examined a teapot that could make tea taste like other drinks and received the manufacturing blueprints for the Physics Holy Armor.
• Wu Shanshan brought Wenren Sheng mushroom soup and prompted him about the Heroic Spirit World, so he agreed to investigate it.

Wenren Sheng visited the newly upgraded world inside the Seed of Illusion and confirmed that Shi Shi could conceal him from Aihandebu’s perception. He left the New World with the concealment active, while Little Illusion stayed with Ji Zhengyan and discovered his Dragon Head Cane.

• Wu Shanshan brought Wenren Sheng mushroom soup, then left after apologizing for her anxiety about reviving her mother.
• Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng that the Seed of Illusion’s upgrade was nearly complete, and he asked her to deliver a teapot to Ji Zhengyan.
• Little Illusion visited Ji Zhengyan, who drew her in with the promise of a trick and showed her an old Dragon Head Cane.
• Wenren Sheng flew to Blood Island and found the Seed of Illusion’s New World transformed into a bright, luxurious place.
• Shi Shi activated concealment that blocked Aihandebu from perceiving Wenren Sheng, though Aihandebu said he could still observe what others said and saw about him.
• Wenren Sheng told Aihandebu that he had created a “God’s Forbidden Zone,” then instructed Shi Shi to maintain the concealment and left the New World.

After returning home, Wenren Sheng arranged a weekly Illusion Acceleration session for his household and explained its limits and precautions. Zhao Han and the Seed of Narration argued over the Seed's wish to borrow her body, while Wenren Sheng's family prepared to use the new benefit.

• Wenren Sheng raced a Reconnaissance Aircraft in the sky and easily outpaced it before heading home.
• Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng she was playing at master grandpa's house with an entertaining cane.
• Wenren Sheng gathered the household and set Saturdays from three to nine for regular Illusion Acceleration sessions.
• Wenren Sheng explained that the sessions could improve knowledge and skill comprehension but could not replace real-world training.
• Zhao Han thanked the Seed of Narration, which complained about being stuck inside her and asked to use her body; Zhao Han refused.

Tianxing Club’s network team investigated scheduled outages and an extortion email, then Wang Cuiyan called an emergency meeting. Nearby, the young man behind the scheme ordered his accomplice to keep disrupting the network and revealed his contempt for Otherworldly Users.

• Quan Ren and two team members investigated network outages that occurred every half hour and found an email demanding one million worth of XX.
• Quan Ren had a team member call Wu Liansong, but when he did not answer, they contacted Wang Cuiyan.
• Wang Cuiyan told the employees to leave the building and gather at a nearby café for an emergency meeting.
• Quan Ren told the group the email had been routed through several relay points and sent from the Outer Domain.
• In a nearby breakfast shop, a young man told his accomplice to keep cutting off the network and threatened him with leverage when he tried to refuse.

Wang Cuiyan interrogated a young man who had helped sabotage Tianxing Company and learned that a supposed prophecy had persuaded him to act. When the group went to retrieve his phone, they found his friend dead, and the young man feared he would be next.

• Wang Cuiyan questioned the young man and warned him that attacking Tianxing Company carried far more serious consequences than ordinary extortion.
• The young man admitted that an unknown website had hired several people through a private group and paid them in XX currency to target the company.
• Wang Cuiyan pressed him until he revealed that the perpetrators had watched a Video Recording described as a prophecy of the future.
• The young man said he had recorded the Video Recording on his phone, so Wang Cuiyan and the others took him to his friend's house to retrieve it.
• The group found the young man's friend hanging dead, and Wang Cuiyan told the terrified young man to help catch the person behind the plot if he wanted to save himself.

Wenren Sheng investigated a hacker’s attack on Tianxing Club and recognized it as part of Sole Supremacy Society’s strategy to weaken him. After watching a Future Recording that depicted humanity as livestock, he questioned Aihandebu about who wanted that future, but Aihandebu denied that it did.

• Old Zhao told Wenren Sheng that a socially skilled hacker had disrupted the company’s network after accepting a job targeting Tianxing Club.
• Wenren Sheng identified the attack as a gradual strategy by Sole Supremacy Society and agreed with Old Zhao to consider building an independent compound behind their home.
• Wenren Sheng called Wang Cuiyan, obtained the Future Recording, and watched a vision of humans penned behind a Giant Wall for monsters to consume.
• Wenren Sheng removed his screening effect and spoke with Aihandebu, probing its principles by trading insults and discussing how people changed as they grew up.
• Wenren Sheng asked whether the future shown in the recording was what its creators wanted, and Aihandebu replied that it preferred watching the struggles of the strong.

Wenren Sheng learned that the disturbing video could drive weak-willed Ordinary Persons to despair and asked Wang Cuiyan to have the Patrol Division remove it. While he slept, Silver Marble and its companions discussed their covert efforts to influence him, unaware that other forces were also watching him.

• Aihandebu explained that the video could poison weak-willed Ordinary Persons, and Wenren Sheng blocked it again after speaking with the entity.
• Wenren Sheng warned Wang Cuiyan about the video, and she said she would have the Patrol Division block and delete it.
• Wang Cuiyan thanked Wenren Sheng for caring for Wang Wenwen, and they discussed her worries about raising her daughter in the mysterious world.
• Silver Marble, Turtle, and White Rat congratulated themselves on misleading Wenren Sheng, while Ping Pong Ball doubted their plan would succeed.
• Silver Marble ordered Turtle and White Rat to finish reports on Wenren Sheng's collected rule-bound objects, and they said they could no longer observe him clearly.

Ping Pong Ball persuaded the Anomalies to offer their services to Wenren Sheng, who assigned them to Little Illusion. The next morning, Little Illusion disguised herself as Shi Shi and served Wenren Sheng her disastrous cooking, revealing she had used him to test it.

• Ping Pong Ball proposed that the Anomalies earn Wenren Sheng’s trust by offering to work for him, and Silver Marble tried to use White Rat as proof of allegiance before stopping when White Rat reminded it that Wenren Sheng held it prisoner.
• Wenren Sheng agreed to find work for the four Anomalies and handed them over to Little Illusion, who sent them to the priests as toys.
• Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen stayed up late discussing their excitement over Thought Acceleration, then slept until near dawn.
• When the household slept late, Shi Shi offered to cook breakfast, but Wenren Sheng became ill after eating Little Illusion’s food.
• Little Illusion admitted she had disguised herself as Shi Shi to test her cooking, explaining that her previous lunchboxes had made children vomit.

Wenren Sheng tested his theory that Little Illusion’s cooking affected people according to their strength, then visited the developed Heroic Spirit World. He left the chapter touring a vast new city built inside the Fragment World.

• Wenren Sheng learned that Little Illusion had fed her homemade food to her kindergarten classmates, then asked the household to try it so he could test his theory.
• Little Illusion’s food knocked down nearly everyone who tasted it, and Wenren Sheng concluded that their reactions revealed their true strength.
• Wu Shanshan noticed that the classical woman inside her used the word “Me” and decided to investigate her possible imperial origins.
• Wenren Sheng called Li Yuanfeng and received permission to visit the Heroic Spirit World through a newly secured entrance.
• Wenren Sheng entered the Fragment World and toured its newly built city of skyscrapers, highways, and high-speed railways.

Wenren Sheng toured the Patrol Division’s Fragment World and praised its experimental Mystic Power Generation technology, which could solve humanity’s energy problem. When he contacted Qu Weijiang to learn about the Soul Reincarnation project, Qu treated him with unexpected distance and refused to share information, leaving Wenren Sheng convinced that the mysterious world had changed him.

• A staff member explained how Source Crystals could enable Mystic Power Generation, and Wenren Sheng praised the technology while criticizing Otherworldly Users who opposed technological progress.
• Wenren Sheng reflected on how entrenched interests had once held back technology in Eastern Continent and how Ordinary People in Western Continent had used gunpowder to counter the power of Otherworldly Users.
• Wenren Sheng spent the day touring the Fragment World and considered whether it could support the souls of the dead or allow them to be reborn.
• Wenren Sheng called for Qu Weijiang, who appeared after more than half an hour and distantly refused to discuss the classified Soul Reincarnation project.
• Wenren Sheng left, recognizing that Qu Weijiang had changed under the influence of the Mysterious Side and suspecting that he would refuse even if Wenren Sheng completed the required procedures.

After Qu Weijiang refused Wenren Sheng’s visit, Li Yuanfeng went to deal with the matter himself, but three days later Wenren Sheng learned that Li Yuanfeng had been trapped. Wenren Sheng joined the Disaster Anomaly Administration’s response, where officials debated whether Qu’s loss of control signaled a wider danger as Mysterious Power spread.

• Wenren Sheng told Li Yuanfeng that Qu Weijiang had refused his visit and needed treatment, so Li Yuanfeng decided to investigate personally.
• Three days later, Inspector Liu informed Wenren Sheng that Li Yuanfeng had been trapped and that the Patrol Division’s investments and bases in the Fragment World were at risk.
• Wenren Sheng agreed to help investigate, reasoning that Anomaly was unlikely to collect its gains so soon, and sent a Puppet Man to Zhongjiang City.
• Director An told the conference that Qu Weijiang’s loss of control threatened the Administration’s base and raised concerns about other people losing control as Mysterious Power spread.
• The officials debated the possibility of widespread mutations and considered whether they might have to activate the Doomsday Plan.

Wenren Sheng watched Aihandebu’s vision of Li Yuanfeng confronting his disciple Qu Weijiang, who had seized control of the Fragment World and wanted to become its god. When Qu Weijiang invoked Heaven’s Will, Li Yuanfeng kicked him out of the high-rise.

• Wenren Sheng listened as people argued over whether humanity faced imminent extinction or could still defeat the Anomalies.
• Aihandebu showed Wenren Sheng a scene of Li Yuanfeng speaking with Qu Weijiang in a high-rise room.
• Qu Weijiang declared that he wanted to become the god of the New World and would not let the Patrol Division take control of the Fragment World.
• Li Yuanfeng warned Qu Weijiang about the dangers of absolute power, but Qu Weijiang explained that experiencing it had made him unwilling to give it up.
• Qu Weijiang claimed that his rise was fate and Heaven’s Will, and Li Yuanfeng kicked him through the window.

Wenren Sheng considered Qu Weijiang’s corruption by power and discussed with Aihandebu whether he could still be redeemed. The meeting agreed to seek advice from Qu Weijiang’s fellow disciples, while Wenren Sheng secured access to the Soul Reincarnation project materials.

• Aihandebu said Qu Weijiang was unlikely to become a god because Mysterious Power had eroded his judgment, and Wenren Sheng wondered whether he could still be saved.
• Aihandebu revealed that Qu Weijiang’s Eldest Brother would soon arrive, and Wenren Sheng correctly guessed the reason for his return.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the meeting was divided between pacifying Qu Weijiang and suppressing him, then recommended having someone who knew him well handle the matter.
• Director An said Qu Weijiang’s apprentice brothers and sisters were being contacted and asked Wenren Sheng to provide martial support.
• Wenren Sheng agreed to help in exchange for reviewing the full Soul Reincarnation project, and Director An agreed.

Ji Zhengyan reunited with his old rival Wang Mingtang, who asked him to run simulations for a plan to rescue his trapped master. Two days later, Wenren Sheng met Wang Mingtang and learned that the passage into the place where his master was trapped had been sealed by Wang Mingtang’s junior brother.

• Wang Mingtang destroyed Ji Zhengyan’s house and stone table while demanding help with simulations.
• Wang Mingtang told Ji Zhengyan he planned to rescue his master, who had been trapped by Wang Mingtang’s junior brother.
• Ji Zhengyan agreed to help after Wang Mingtang promised to replace the ruined stone table.
• Two days later, Director An introduced Wenren Sheng to Wang Mingtang, and Wenren Sheng recognized him as Li Yuanfeng’s eldest disciple.
• Wang Mingtang said they should enter immediately, but Director An warned that Wang Mingtang’s junior brother had sealed their passage the previous day.

Wenren Sheng and Wang Mingtang entered the Fragment World to confront Qu Weijiang, whom Wang lured out by provoking him with a fabricated poem about his past. Wang’s taunts drew out Qu’s human emotions, while Wenren Sheng quietly channeled power into his puppet.

• Director An escorted Wenren Sheng and Wang Mingtang to the Fragment World’s new entrance.
• Wang Mingtang composed a crude poem mocking Qu Weijiang and used it to open the archway.
• Wenren Sheng and Wang Mingtang entered the city and found its inhabitants unaware that their channels of exchange had been cut off.
• Qu Weijiang appeared in a pit of rising water and angrily confronted Wang Mingtang about his past schemes.
• Wang Mingtang continued taunting Qu Weijiang, provoking him into expressing human emotions as Wenren Sheng secretly poured power into his puppet.

Qu Weijiang’s humanity failed to overcome the fragment’s influence, but Wenren Sheng used borrowed power to shatter the Fragment World and force him to bargain. Qu Weijiang asked not to be driven out, leaving Wenren Sheng with the advantage.

• Wang Mingtang taunted Qu Weijiang and tried to stir his human feelings by reminding him of their past and their master, Li Yuanfeng.
• Qu Weijiang scalded himself with boiling water to prove he had cast off his humanity, and Wang Mingtang revealed that he had done the same long ago.
• Qu Weijiang’s face settled into ash-gray, and he declared that mortal wisdom could not comprehend a god.
• Wenren Sheng borrowed power from Grand Master Old Wei and used the Puppet Man to punch through the earth of the Fragment World.
• Qu Weijiang panicked at Wenren Sheng’s strength and asked to negotiate rather than be driven out.