Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng lent his family the Bamboo Doors and asked Aihandebu for advice on dealing with Bizarreness Objects. As he rested, aspiring disciples Luo Gang and Cui Yan approached his home, where Luo Gang kicked Cui Yan beneath a cherry tree and posted the resulting video online.

• Wenren Sheng showed his family how to use the Bamboo Doors and let them borrow the doors for dangerous trips.
• Zhao Han defended Wenren Sheng to Xiao Bai, then learned from a prompt that he had lent out the doors partly so people would remain to applaud him.
• Aihandebu offered Wenren Sheng a reward, refused to reveal the Disaster Anomaly Principals’ plans, and gave him a sarcastic procedure for handling Bizarreness Objects.
• Luo Gang and Cui Yan headed toward Wenren Sheng’s home to ask to become his disciples.
• Cui Yan asked Luo Gang to kick her beneath a cherry tree for a video, and he sent her flying before posting the footage on his social feed.

Zhao Han turned away Cui Yan and Luo Gang after Wenren Sheng refused to take them as disciples, but the pair settled nearby and continued following her. When Zhao Han investigated the disappearance of agricultural workers in a wheat field marked by four scarecrows, Cui Yan and Luo Gang secretly followed, hoping to rescue her if danger arose.

• Luo Gang accused Zhao Han’s Seven-Colored Parrot of violating regulations, and Zhao Han took the visiting cards from Cui Yan and Luo Gang to Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng let Cui Yan and Luo Gang visit, then refused their request to become his disciples and told them his poetry could not be taught or transferred.
• Cui Yan and Luo Gang built a small house beside Wenren Sheng’s property and continued following Zhao Han; Wenren Sheng learned of their actions through Little Illusion and let them stay.
• Zhao Han went to a grain-producing area west of Dongshui City to investigate missing agricultural workers and four scarecrows found where they vanished.
• Cui Yan and Luo Gang followed Zhao Han to the investigation, planning to rescue her if she faced danger and win her gratitude.

Zhao Han investigated the disappearance of four people and traced their last known activity to a fraudulent Cloud Treasure Hunt Group. An employee revealed that the missing people had copied the scammers’ staged treasure-hunting methods, leaving Zhao Han to pursue what had happened to them.

• Zhao Han questioned the missing people’s families and learned that all four had joined the Cloud Treasure Hunt Group.
• Zhao Han arranged for the Patrol Division to capture the group’s scammers and question one of them remotely.
• When the man in sportswear claimed he had only set up scenes, Zhao Han exposed his lie and threatened him with the Hard Labor Camp.
• The man admitted he had recruited people into the group and recalled the missing people saying they could treasure hunt using the same method.
• Zhao Han and the families realized the four had tried to copy the scammers’ treasure-hunting method and had gone missing while doing so.

Zhao Han used a Retrospection Ritual to reconstruct the disappearance of four men and discovered that they had made scarecrows while seeking treasure, then vanished in white fog after one man shot the others. As Zhao Han approached the remaining scarecrows, Little Illusion said they were telling her to wait because more people like them would come.

• Zhao Han brought the missing men's families to the Wheat Field and used their belongings to perform a Retrospection Ritual.
• The reconstructed scene showed Lao Zhang and three coworkers making four scarecrows as part of a treasure-seeking attempt.
• Lao Zhang's chant summoned white fog, and the men each claimed to find treasure before Old Wang complained that he had found nothing.
• Old Wang fired four shots inside the fog, and the scene ended with four scarecrows standing where the men had been.
• Zhao Han approached a scarecrow, and Little Illusion said it was telling her that more people like them would come.

Wenren Sheng tried to use Netherworld Communion with Big Lake to learn who was turning agricultural workers into scarecrows. After a half-hour of dog paddling, Big Lake showed him a Three-Headed Crow pecking in a wheat field.

• Mysterious Disasters in which agricultural workers became scarecrows spread across the Eastern Continent, and Zhao Han failed to find a way to stop them.
• Wenren Sheng decided to commune with Big Lake rather than ask Ai Sha for help, and summoned it in his swimming pool.
• Zhao Han and the others swam in Big Lake, but none of them satisfied it.
• Wenren Sheng tried several swimming styles, then used the dog paddle after reading how others had passed Big Lake's test.
• After Wenren Sheng paddled for more than half an hour, Big Lake revealed a Three-Headed Crow pecking in a wheat field.

Wenren Sheng learned that the Three-Headed Crow was trapped in a mysterious Giant City and had caused trouble to force people to rescue it. Zhao Han joined Luo Gang and Cui Yan inside the city, where they discovered the crow was caged atop its central building.

• Wenren Sheng told Zhao Han to handle the Three-Headed Crow, and Little Illusion joined her despite his warning not to cause trouble.
• Zhao Han coordinated with the District Patrol Division, whose bait plan revealed that the crow was trapped and wanted help escaping.
• Wenren Sheng gave Zhao Han a small Bamboo Door to take to the warriors entering the mysterious place.
• Zhao Han, Luo Gang, and Cui Yan entered the Giant City as real people because puppet doubles could not pass its soul-related restriction.
• The three hid inside a skyscraper as enormous monsters passed by, and one relieved itself beside their hiding place.
• Cui Yan explained that the crow was caged atop the central building, and a mysterious voice suddenly rang out beside them.

While Zhao Han and her companions faced giant monsters, Wenren Sheng dreamed of a man hiding treasure in a warehouse and recognized the man as himself from a previous life. Little Illusion revealed the dream’s source by confronting the matching giant, capturing him and his treasure in a mysterious birdcage.

• Little Illusion appeared through Zhao Han, took a mysterious birdcage, and flew off to catch giant anomalies.
• Wenren Sheng dreamed of a middle-aged man hiding treasure in a warehouse and suspected the dream related to Zhao Han’s crow incident.
• After waking, Wenren Sheng saw that the man in his dream looked exactly like his face from a previous life, then asked Wenren De to interpret the dream.
• Wenren De offered a wealth-focused interpretation, but Wenren Sheng doubted it because it did not fit what he knew.
• Little Illusion found a giant hiding treasure in a warehouse, revealed her enormous size, and pinched him into the birdcage.

Zhao Han found that Little Illusion had grown enormous and powerful, and the rebellious spirit refused to return home. After two weeks without news, Wenren Sheng tried to contact her and considered how to handle her newfound independence.

• Zhao Han reunited with a gigantic Little Illusion, who showed her a caged Three-Headed Crow.
• Little Illusion refused Zhao Han's pleas to leave and carried the birdcage away to catch more opponents.
• Wang Wenwen worried that Zhao Han and her companions had died, while Wenren De reported that neither the Patrol Division nor his divination could reach them.
• Wenren Sheng contacted Little Illusion, learned that she was unafraid of punishment, and sought advice about her disobedience in online groups.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that ordinary child-rearing advice might not apply because Little Illusion was a powerful spirit creature rather than a human child.

Wenren Sheng decided to reform Little Illusion by confronting her with the nature of the Giant World, while Zhao Han, Cui Yan, and Luo Gang remained trapped there. As Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion competed to grow taller, Zhao Han realized the giants and the world might be an illusion that shrank its visitors.

• Wenren Sheng learned from Shi Shi that Little Illusion was engrossed in playing with a crow in the Giant World and devised a plan to teach her that games were only data.
• Zhao Han refused to leave the Giant World without Little Illusion, while Cui Yan and Luo Gang debated whether they should return or wait.
• A million-meter Towering Giant appeared, and Little Illusion challenged Wenren Sheng by growing even larger as they competed over their size.
• After the Seed of Narration warned her not to worry about the sky being pierced, Zhao Han reasoned that the giants might actually be Ordinary People or Agricultural Workers, while visitors were shrunk inside an illusion.

Zhao Han and the others escaped Little Illusion’s Giant World, and Zhao Han reported the Three-Headed Crow’s role in the incident. Little Illusion’s resolve to grow stronger led to a vision in which a thousand years passed and Zhao Han was the last person she knew, before the clock began running backward.

• The Giant World collapsed, and Wenren Sheng confronted Little Illusion before the group of five left the world.
• Zhao Han reported to the District Patrol Division that the Three-Headed Crow had drawn the Agricultural Workers’ consciousnesses into a Fragment World, and she received credit for resolving the incident.
• Little Illusion began quizzing everyone at home, then said she intended to surpass Wenren Sheng and control him for his own good.
• After Zhao Han went to sleep, she woke a thousand years later as an old woman and learned that Little Illusion had outlived everyone she knew.
• Little Illusion explained that people had tried to exploit her, and said she would have listened and kept her loved ones safe if she could live her life again.
• Zhao Han saw the alarm clock beside her bed begin to run backward.

Little Illusion’s overly strict healthy-meal routine gradually faded, and Wenren Sheng celebrated her becoming more balanced with a self-praising poem. Meanwhile, Ji Zhengyan and Wang Mingtang appeared in the Giant World, where Wang planned to pursue godhood.

• Little Illusion served the household bland, healthy meals until she gradually broke her own rules, returned to playing games, and stopped cooking so often.
• Wenren Sheng wrote a poem celebrating Little Illusion’s growth, while Wu Shanshan criticized it and Luo Gang and Cui Yan recorded it to send back.
• Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng she could not find Ji Zhengyan, and he reassured her that Ji would likely reappear soon.
• Ji Zhengyan and Wang Mingtang arrived in the Giant World, where Wang explained that he had chosen the Fragment World as a place to seek godhood.
• Wang Mingtang asked Ji Zhengyan to help reshape the world and accelerate time as he pursued the path to godhood.

Wenren Sheng learned that Mist Pockets had appeared near the Pacific Ocean Mist Wall and was recruited to simulate one for Patrol Division training. He suspected the Sole Supremacy Society had created the pockets to gather more Ordinary People with special abilities, a theory that could be tested by watching them.

• Wang Mingtang asked Ji Zhengyan to recreate ancient imperial gardens, and Ji agreed after Wang reframed the request.
• Wenren Sheng made progress on Holy Armor before news reported Mist Pockets appearing near the Pacific Ocean Mist Wall.
• Little Illusion explained that Mist Pockets were like game instances that only Ordinary People could enter.
• Li Yuanfeng told Wenren Sheng that the Patrol Division was concerned Mist Pockets would bring Ordinary People onto the supernatural stage and asked him to help.
• Wenren Sheng simulated a Mist Pocket valley using exploration reports so future teams could train for it.
• Wenren Sheng suspected the Sole Supremacy Society was using Mist Pockets to find more people like Sun Yan Yu.

A simulated treasure hunt exposed how the Intoxication Grass could turn the Black Shirts against one another, and the Captain failed Zhan Mingcheng and Sheng Cai for different shortcomings. Li Yuanfeng and Wenren Sheng decided not to send unsupported Black Shirts into the danger zone, instead opening the hunt to civilians and buying what they found.

• After emerging from Wenren Sheng’s illusion, Sheng Cai accused Zhan Mingcheng of trying to claim the Longevity Grass and abandon the team.
• The Captain showed the five Black Shirts a recording proving that Sheng Cai had misread Zhan Mingcheng’s actions under the Intoxication Grass, while also faulting Zhan for failing to recognize the grass and lead the team away.
• Zhan Mingcheng accepted responsibility, and Sheng Cai realized why the simulated mission had been so difficult.
• Li Yuanfeng and Wenren Sheng concluded that sending unsupported Black Shirts into the mist would be wasteful.
• Li Yuanfeng decided to let willing civilians attempt the treasure hunt and purchase their findings.

After the Patrol Division opened the Mist Pouches to Ordinary People, Wenren Sheng realized the sites could attract people with special powers and watched the first explorers approach Mist Pouch Number One. A group of ten Southern Indians entered while their Eastern Continent employers waited outside.

• The Patrol Division announced Mist Pouch entry rules, and Wenren Sheng observed that many applicants were wealthy or elderly; he also found that Liao Aoquan had signed up.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that people with special powers would be drawn to the Mist Pouches and sent a Puppet Man to watch them.
• Two days later, Wenren Sheng traveled to Mist Pouch Number One and observed the enormous Mist Wall and the ships gathered nearby.
• Young Master Zhao, Old Bai, and Miss Ma sent ten Southern Indians toward the Mist Pouch while seeking clearance from the patrolling destroyers.
• After receiving clearance, the speedboat passed the patrol perimeter and entered the Mist Pouch, while Wenren Sheng watched from a seagull's body.

Wenren Sheng sent Little Illusion to attack the Sole Supremacy Society’s new base, but a defensive Mysterious Object shattered the Big Cat, revealing the society’s formidable defenses and growing influence. After deciding to craft Holy Armor before repairing the Big Cat, Wenren Sheng left Little Illusion to help Wang Wenwen try on clothes, ending with Little Illusion being kicked out of the building.

• Wenren Sheng ordered Little Illusion to attack the Sole Supremacy Society’s new nest in the United City while his Puppet Man watched a Tiger-skin Parrot make contact with three wealthy men.
• Little Illusion reported that an Old Man used a red eyeball to shatter the Big Cat, and Aihandebu explained that it was an exchanged Mysterious Object requiring a prepared activation ritual.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Sole Supremacy Society had built a powerful defensive base and was recruiting allies, then decided to make Holy Armor before repairing the Big Cat.
• Wenren Sheng asked Little Illusion to collect the Big Cat’s fragments and began working on Holy Armor.
• Little Illusion transformed Wang Wenwen into an online clothing model to show how the outfits would look, then turned into a naked burly man and was kicked out by Wang Wenwen.

Little Illusion agreed to help Aihandebu with his mysterious script while Wenren Sheng paused his Holy Armor research. He watched Young Master Zhao attempt to seize a Golden Ten-Sided Die, but Zhao’s escape plan depended on a loophole that did not exist.

• Aihandebu recruited Little Illusion to provide props and settings for his script after she heard part of its plot.
• Wenren Sheng completed an inner armor protecting half the body, but stopped researching because he lacked materials and a complete suit still left him vulnerable to mysterious attacks.
• Wenren Sheng received an alert from his seagull watch and saw Young Master Zhao take a Golden Ten-Sided Die from a wounded Southern Indian man aboard a ship.
• Young Master Zhao demanded a larger share of the profits and revealed that he planned to move beyond the Wall of Mist, while Old Man Bai and Miss Ma objected.
• Old Man Bai’s bodyguards confronted Zhao, who revealed that the Tiger-skin Parrot had bewitched him and disabled their communication.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that Zhao had no chance of escaping because he had not entered Fog Pocket No. 1 himself, while the Patrol Division waited for the standoff to turn into real action.

Wenren Sheng stopped Young Master Zhao from taking the Golden Ten-Sided Die through the Mist Wall and recovered the item after the Patrol Division arrested him. He discovered that the die could guarantee success after nine failures, then submitted an application to use it himself.

• Young Master Zhao boarded a yacht with the Tiger-skin Parrot, while Wenren Sheng followed unseen and watched them head for the Mist Wall.
• The Patrol Division raised a sealing chain to block their passage, and the Tiger-skin Parrot tried to pressure them by appealing to public opinion.
• Wenren Sheng revealed himself, accused Young Master Zhao of trying to take property that was only partly his, and prompted the Tiger-skin Parrot to flee through the Mist Wall.
• A chain bound Young Master Zhao, and Wenren Sheng took the Golden Ten-Sided Die and learned that it guaranteed success after nine failures for undertakings with success odds above ten percent.
• Wenren Sheng handed the die to a patrol officer and submitted an application to reserve its use.

The Tiger-skin Parrot reported its failed mission and discussed Wenren Sheng with the swordfish, which decided to target people close to him. In Dongshui City, Zhao Han’s Seed of Narration warned her after she and Wang Wenwen entered a suspicious fitness center, and a man upstairs wondered if she could predict the future.

• The Tiger-skin Parrot told the swordfish that Wenren Sheng had forced it to flee, and the swordfish considered using Wenren Sheng’s relationships against him.
• The swordfish threatened to report the Tiger-skin Parrot and make it join the operation, leaving it no choice but to stay.
• Several days later, Wang Wenwen hesitated outside a fitness center, but she and Zhao Han left after Wang Wenwen suspected its employee wanted to scam them.
• Zhao Han observed the crowded streets and job seekers in Dongshui City as she and Wang Wenwen searched for another fitness center.
• Wang Wenwen entered Longhui Fitness with Zhao Han, whose Seed of Narration warned her that they were heading into a trap, so Zhao Han dragged her back outside.
• A middle-aged man watching from the second floor wondered whether Zhao Han could predict the future.

Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen investigated a Community Hospital where traffic accident victims had an unusually high death rate and whose basement displayed photos of the dead. Meanwhile, Wenren Sheng planned to resurrect Wu Shanshan’s mother, but the Immortal agreed to release Wu Shanshan’s body before he could trap her.

• Zhao Han learned from Xiao Bai that Wang Wenwen’s Seed of Joy made her unable to stop eating, then received a call from Teacher Peng about the Community Hospital’s suspicious basement.
• Zhao Han agreed to investigate the hospital, and Wang Wenwen decided to come along.
• Wenren Sheng examined a golden die that guaranteed success and planned to use it to resurrect Wu Shanshan’s mother after nine failed attempts.
• Wenren Sheng proposed trapping the Immortal with the Riddle Little Ball and bargaining for Wu Shanshan’s body, but the Immortal refused to leave him.
• The Immortal unexpectedly returned Wu Shanshan’s body, and Wenren Sheng laid her on the sofa until her familiar eyes opened.

Wenren De searched for Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen after learning they had been captured, but his prophecy could not locate them. He investigated the Community Hospital where they had gone and foresaw a young accident victim being taken to an underground cold storage room, while Little Illusion arrived to watch over him.

• Wenren Sheng learned that Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen had been captured and asked Wenren De to locate them, but Wenren De's prophecy failed.
• Wenren De spoke with the little white cat, refused its suggestion to manipulate romantic partners into producing high-quality Source Crystals, and set out to find Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen himself.
• At the Community Hospital, a security guard stopped Wenren De and recognized that he had come to cause trouble, so Wenren De left without forcing his way inside.
• From a nearby rooftop, Wenren De used an injured woman's details to foresee her being taken into the hospital's underground cold storage.
• Little Illusion appeared beside Wenren De, asked about his vision, and learned that foreknowledge could shift an ordinary person's future into another likely scenario.