Chapter Summaries

After Wu Shengjiu's capture, the public learned the truth about the toy spaceship, while Ji Zhizhen received a mysterious offer to try for a better ending with one. His first move exposed him to surveillance, and Wenren Sheng learned that the spaceship had disappeared from the guarded base.

• Wu Shengjiu confessed that the toy spaceship could be used by anyone who entered its cockpit and completed authentication, and the Patrol Division released the facts to calm the public.
• Ji Zhizhen, an experimental subject studying how Ordinary People could cultivate as mages, resented Wu Shengjiu for wasting his chance at a better life.
• A mysterious voice offered Ji Zhizhen the spaceship and three years to achieve a peaceful, publicly accepted life, with his soul as the price of failure.
• Ji Zhizhen accepted the spaceship and registered as its pilot, then realized the experimental base's cameras had recorded his disappearance and believed he had already reached a bad ending.
• Ji Zhizhen hid the spaceship and prepared for inspection, while Wenren Sheng learned it had vanished from the guarded Zhongjiang Base.
• The Patrol Division told Wenren Sheng that Ji Zhizhen had been identified as the person who took the spaceship, but suspected someone had helped him.

After Ji Zhizhen confessed that Aihandebu had given him the Handicraft Spaceship and bet on his fate, Wenren Sheng learned that the spaceship had increased Ji Zhizhen’s tolerance for Mysterious Power. Ji Zhizhen realized the Patrol Division could control his pilot registration, then felt better when Wu Shengjiu was taken away for examination.

• Ji Zhizhen confessed that a bizarre being had given him the Handicraft Spaceship and bet that he would achieve a good ending within three years.
• Wenren Sheng recognized Aihandebu as the being behind Ji Zhizhen’s incident, and Aihandebu admitted it had made the bet.
• Wenren Sheng informed the Zhongjiang Patrol Division that Aihandebu was responsible, while researchers reported that Ji Zhizhen’s Mysterious Power tolerance had greatly increased.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Handicraft Spaceship might help its pilot resist Mysterious Power and asked the researchers to send him their findings.
• Ji Zhizhen realized that registering the spaceship had enabled him to absorb and store Mysterious Power, but that the Patrol Division could cancel his registration.
• Wu Shengjiu was taken away for examination, and Ji Zhizhen felt better knowing the other man might be in worse trouble.

Ji Zhizhen learned to stabilize his Mage Space and cast basic spells with the Handicraft Spaceship’s assistance, helping prove that ordinary people could wield Extraordinary Power. After months of training and surveillance, he returned home and rejected a webpage asking him to speak for ordinary people.

• Wenren Sheng agreed to help Lao An use Thought Acceleration to develop a Mage System for ordinary people.
• Ji Zhizhen stabilized his Mage Space, built a Light Art spell model, and produced a faint glimmer with help from the Handicraft Spaceship.
• Ji Zhizhen learned Water Creation Art and shared his experiences with the Patrol Division’s Black Shirts.
• Three months later, Ji Zhizhen received limited permission to leave and returned home under surveillance, where his parents urged him to serve diligently.
• Ji Zhizhen found a webpage asking whether he wished to resist Otherworldly Users and speak for ordinary people, and he clicked “NO.”

Ji Zhizhen escaped to Miken with the Handicraft Spaceship, built a powerful mage organization, and spent fifty years preparing to confront Wenren Sheng. Their meeting ended with Wenren Sheng revealing a reality that left Ji Zhizhen terrified.

• After Ji Zhizhen called out to the mysterious voice, it gave him the Handicraft Spaceship, which he hid before returning to Zhongjiang City.
• Over the next ten years, Ji Zhizhen became a Great Mage, then escaped through a Mist Pocket to Miken with the spaceship.
• In Miken, Ji Zhizhen recruited orphans and trained them as mages, fought the Heaven's Mandate Society, and eventually forced it to supply him with recruits.
• After fifty years, Ji Zhizhen used Prophecy Art to learn that Wenren Sheng was the true Otherworldly User behind Deng Ming and went to confront him.
• Wenren Sheng snapped his fingers, making the café and its surroundings vanish; Ji Zhizhen found himself back at the Experimental Base and realized something was terribly wrong.

After enduring repeated lives and experiments, Ji Zhizhen recovered his true memories and discovered that he was trapped in a decades-long loop. Wenren Sheng then revealed that his experiment had led him to suspect Earth itself might be an Anomaly-created world, a possibility that frightened Little Illusion.

• After losing hope in his first life, Ji Zhizhen accepted Aihandebu’s help, transferred his soul into a Patrol Division recruit, and spent a century becoming an ordinary Great Mage before meeting Wenren Sheng again.
• Ji Zhizhen challenged Wenren Sheng to recognize that life could not be scorned, and Wenren Sheng snapped his fingers to return him to the prison cell.
• After another century of studying reality-based spells, Ji Zhizhen uncovered altered memories that showed Wenren Sheng had not betrayed him and realized a Great Mage had tampered with his memories.
• Ji Zhizhen thanked Wenren Sheng, who sent him back to the cell again, where Ji Zhizhen realized he possessed a Golden Finger that made him relive decades-long loops.
• At the Zhongjiang Experimental Base, Little Illusion accused Wenren Sheng of playing with Ji Zhizhen’s life, and Wenren Sheng explained that the experiment had made him suspect Earth was a world created by one or more Anomalies.

Wenren Sheng uncovered that Aihandebu had restored Ji Zhizhen’s memories and learned that a being could reset the world’s Timeline. He realized his Seed of Mystery could retain information through resets, giving him confidence that he could eventually overcome the Behind-the-Scenes Manipulators.

• Wenren Sheng explained that Ji Zhizhen’s memories had been corrected by an external force, and Little Illusion agreed to ask Aihandebu about it.
• Aihandebu admitted that it had restored Ji Zhizhen’s true memories, claiming Ji Zhizhen had asked for a better start.
• Wenren Sheng asked whether one of the Anomalies could reset a world’s Timeline, and Aihandebu confirmed that such a being existed.
• Aihandebu said it had answered because it wanted the thrill of risking itself, then cut off communication.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that his Seed of Mystery could preserve information and regain its Mystery Points after a reset, so he resolved to keep striving toward a High Peak.

Little Illusion chose Dafflin as her next toy while he searched for monopolizers of Otherworldly Users with the Heaven's Mandate Society. After a sudden undead attack exposed him to a Wanderer, Dafflin challenged the man's hoarding of Otherworldly Users and was left alive when the Wanderer disappeared.

• Little Illusion secretly watched Wenren Sheng, decided he was fine, and chose former football star Dafflin as her next target.
• Dafflin and two Middle-rank members of the Heaven's Mandate Society monitored a suspicious Wanderer in Miken, believing he was hiding Otherworldly Users.
• Dafflin saw undead charge through the city, fled, and learned from his companion that the Society planned to bomb the area.
• Dafflin realized the Wanderer's contempt had exposed his weakness, turned back toward the city, and found the Wanderer blocking his car.
• Dafflin argued that the Wanderer should share his hoarded Otherworldly Users with those risking their lives, and the Wanderer vanished after considering his reasoning.

The Wanderer and the other monopolists moved to destroy the Heaven's Mandate Society by turning the Colossus priests against it, leaving Dafflin's group hunted and scattered. After Dafflin reached Milia for help, she gave him a chance to activate an Otherworldly creature, and he proved a perfect match for the Stubborn Seed.

• The Wanderer persuaded the other monopolists to bribe Colossus priests into banning and suppressing the Heaven's Mandate Society.
• Dafflin reported the Wanderer's escape, but Colossus priests soon declared the Society unwelcome and urged believers to drive out its members.
• Over the next half-year, mercenaries hired by the monopolists hunted the Society, and Dafflin's superiors were killed one after another.
• After his latest superior died, Dafflin followed the dying man's request to find Milia, with Priest Miley letting him go when his identity was exposed.
• Milia said she might speak to people she knew on the Society's behalf, then offered Dafflin the Otherworldly creature called the Stubborn Seed.
• Dafflin activated the Stubborn Seed and discovered that he was a perfect match for it.

After dying in a war, Dafflin woke ten years earlier in a repeating illusion where he retained his memories but kept being killed by a Wanderer. The Wanderer deduced the illusion’s nature and told Dafflin that a god had made him its favored protagonist.

• Dafflin woke in the past during a Seeking Seed mission and tried to follow his memories of what should happen.
• The Wanderer repeatedly killed Dafflin, and Dafflin relived the cycle while trying different ways to survive.
• Dafflin realized the zombie siege irritated the Wanderer and spent thirty more cycles finding a way to eliminate the zombies.
• The Wanderer noticed irregularities in time and explained that a god had trapped them in an illusion that restarted in loops.
• The Wanderer told Dafflin he was favored by a god and asked whether Dafflin still thought he would kill him.

Dafflin repeatedly experienced Wanderer’s illusion, using each cycle to study the Otherworldly Users’ battle against an old pirate Lord. After the illusion ended and Wanderer took him away, Wenren Sheng punished Little Illusion for meddling with people’s lives, then let her continue her simulation to address the Heaven’s Mandate Society.

• Wanderer explained that Dafflin’s experiences in the illusion could still teach him about reality, then took him to watch a battle with an old pirate Lord.
• Dafflin died through forty repeated cycles, observing Wanderer’s techniques and the old Lord’s fighting style as Wanderer drew closer to victory.
• Dafflin heard what seemed to be gods discussing Little Illusion before waking in the alley without any zombies and concluding that he was back in reality.
• Wanderer grabbed Dafflin despite his warning that the gods favored him, and Dafflin offered to reveal how to defeat the old pirate Lord.
• Wenren Sheng spanked Little Illusion for using simulations to play with people’s lives, while Ouyang Ling warned her against becoming a Demon.
• Little Illusion claimed she was simulating a solution to the Heaven’s Mandate Society’s threat, and Wenren Sheng stopped punishing her and told her to see the matter through.

Wenren Sheng checked on the Mage System project in Zhongjiang, then joined his family’s housewarming gathering, where Little Illusion and the others played a drinking game. During the festivities, Wenren Sheng noticed the sky briefly darken and brighten again, though no one else seemed aware of it.

• Wenren Sheng learned that the Mage System project had made a key breakthrough and encouraged the researchers to contact him if they needed help.
• The project leaders praised Wenren Sheng’s support and discussed how other Otherworldly Users had hindered their work.
• Ouyang Ling proposed a family gathering, and Wu Shanshan said she would bring two guests.
• Little Illusion welcomed Xu Yunshuang and Wei Yiqing, received a transforming cloth doll from Xu Yunshuang, and tried to block Wei Yiqing from entering.
• The family played a summer-themed poetry drinking game, and Little Illusion impressed Zhao Han with a verse she had composed.
• Wenren Sheng noticed the sky briefly darken and brighten during the banquet while everyone else continued unaware.

After the sun’s light vanished worldwide, Wenren Sheng learned that the disaster could cause catastrophic cold and storms within a day. He sent Little Illusion toward the sun in Riddle Little Ball to discover what had happened faster.

• At Wenren Sheng’s banquet, Shi Shi confirmed that the sun had disappeared and said she had simulated sunlight and cut off the internet to prevent panic.
• Wenren Sheng saw the darkened sky and estimated that he had less than twenty-four hours to prevent a global catastrophe.
• Lao An told Wenren Sheng that the darkness was worldwide, seers had died trying to investigate it, and emergency supplies would be sent to his city.
• Wenren Sheng controlled Puppet Man and flew toward the sun, finding it had become a black sphere with only a faint glimmer.
• Wenren Sheng put an incarnation of Little Illusion into Riddle Little Ball and struck it toward the sun, accelerating her journey to about three and a half hours.

After Little Illusion confirmed the Sun was intact, Wenren Sheng concluded that a Bizarreness Object on Earth had absorbed its light and chose to do nothing, believing the world would restart. As temperatures plunged and disasters spread, the Sole Supremacy Society prepared to shelter people and resources in a Fragment World.

• Little Illusion reported that the Sun was fine, and Wenren Sheng suspected something on Earth had created a Bizarreness Object that absorbed the sunlight.
• Wenren Sheng decided to lie flat, told Little Illusion to keep playing near the Sun, and returned home to sleep despite calls from officials asking about the crisis.
• Wu Shanshan woke Wenren Sheng amid growing chaos, while eighteen hours without sunlight brought falling temperatures and snow across the world.
• The Sole Supremacy Society sacrificed six hundred thousand South Continent Natives to Fire Eye, which briefly opened its eye but gave no answer.
• The Grand Elder concluded that Eastern Continent had prepared for the crisis and ordered the Society to move people, food, and energy into a Fragment World.

Little Illusion impersonated Wenren Sheng to join an international meeting about the vanished Sun, while the investigators developed a plan to draw out the person behind the crisis. The chapter revealed that a white man on a Pacific island had used a skull to absorb Earth’s light and was eagerly treating the catastrophe as an apocalypse test.

• Eastern Continent moved people into Fragment Worlds, and Dongshui City’s residents learned they were being sheltered from the freezing conditions outside.
• Little Illusion tried to wake Wenren Sheng, but he refused to help and had Shi Shi blacklist her.
• Little Illusion disguised herself as Wenren Sheng and traveled to Zhongjiang City to join a meeting with officials from other continents.
• The Asian man concluded that the Sun’s disappearance was a test connected to the Toy Spaceship Incident and proposed making the Questioner believe his test was flawed so he would reveal himself.
• On a Pacific island, a white man watched Earth through a skull that absorbed light and celebrated the start of his apocalypse test.

The Questioner retaliated after the sun returned by absorbing Otherworldly Users’ power, while Little Illusion and the people in Wenren Sheng’s home remained unaffected inside the Small World. The chapter left Little Illusion demanding protection fees from them.

• The Questioner realized the Asian man had exposed his weakness and used the Skull Head to begin absorbing Alien Power.
• The sun returned, and Director An granted the Asian man an Amnesty Order for helping end the crisis.
• The Asian man and Director An discovered their otherworldly seeds were losing power, and Director An concluded The Questioner was absorbing Alien Power.
• Little Illusion returned to Wenren Sheng’s home and found its residents’ otherworldly seeds were unaffected.
• Little Illusion guessed the Small World was protecting them and held out her hand to demand protection fees.

Wenren Sheng learned that the sun had returned but Otherworldly Users lost their powers outside Fragment Worlds, and he identified the Questioner’s greed and resentment as a way to lure him out. The Questioner saw the bait plan but began reconsidering his destructive scheme after realizing he still needed an otherworldly species to extend his life.

• Little Illusion impersonated Wenren Sheng and helped respond to the crisis, so Wenren Sheng spanked her and warned her not to use his identity without permission.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Questioner was a resentful Ordinary Person with a powerful destructive Mysterious Object and a desire for otherworldly species and a longer lifespan.
• Wenren Sheng reported his analysis to Lao An, who explained that bait plans were underway and that the loss of Otherworldly Users’ powers had left Anomaly sites difficult to control.
• The Questioner watched experts propose luring him with fabricated Newborn Otherworldly Species and initially decided not to take the bait.
• The Questioner realized he could not wait a hundred years for his lifespan to run out and began to doubt that destruction would benefit him, though he still distrusted large organizations.

Wenren Sheng proposed using Intelligent Computers to track everyone and prevent dangerous Mysterious Objects from causing disasters, while the continents argued over sharing the technology. He found a new Mysterious Prompt, Black Battle Royale, and considered using it to locate The Questioner.

• Wenren Sheng asked Little Illusion to use an Intelligent Computer to process information about everyone under her jurisdiction, and she agreed.
• The Colossus Priests began installing cameras and computers in prayer halls, while Eastern Continent offered other powers management resources but refused to export machines or technology.
• At a four-party video conference in Zhongjiang, Miken and Western Continent challenged Eastern Continent's terms, and the representatives argued over access to Intelligent Computer resources.
• Wenren Sheng left the negotiations to others and searched for another mysterious incident, discovering Black Battle Royale, which killed players who died in its game scenario.
• Wenren Sheng realized the monster computer might select The Questioner and considered using Black Battle Royale to find him.

Wenren Sheng tried to persuade the Monster Computer to replace its lethal Battle Royale with a harmless treasure hunt, but it trapped him in its game instead. He escaped with Little Illusion’s help, and she devoured the computer, resolving the anomaly.

• Wenren Sheng sent the Puppet Man to confront the Monster Computer sealed in the Jiangnan District Patrol Division warehouse.
• Wenren Sheng urged the Monster Computer to make its game less harmful, and it changed its thirteen scenes into a treasure hunt.
• The Monster Computer tricked Wenren Sheng into its Battle Royale and threatened that dying in the game would kill him outside it.
• Wenren Sheng clapped his hands and returned to the warehouse, while Little Illusion mocked the Monster Computer for failing to trap him.
• Wenren Sheng ordered Little Illusion to eat the Monster Computer, and she devoured it, resolving the anomaly.

Wenren Sheng used Little Illusion’s game to draw in the Questioner, identify him, and capture him. The Questioner faced an international interrogation but remained distrustful, leaving the question of what he would do unresolved.

• Wenren Sheng asked Little Illusion to publish a battle royale game online and attract special players, and she reluctantly began working.
• The Questioner received the game’s radio signal, was transported to its selection hall, and was forced to choose an area.
• Wenren Sheng recognized the Questioner among the players and asked Lao An to investigate him.
• Lao An identified the Questioner as Grance, a thirty-one-year-old from Beiluo City who was last traced to the Pacific Ocean.
• Puppet Man captured the Questioner and his skull and brought them to an underground prison in Zhongjiang City.
• Director An and the other leaders questioned the Questioner, who said he had trusted no one and doubted that anything in the world could be trusted.

The Questioner revealed the Doomsday Skull’s remaining abilities and explained that he had used it to vent his resentment, while the representatives discussed the danger of powerful Mysterious Objects and the role of Fragment Worlds. The Miken representative offered to share technology for suppressing emotions, and the Western Continent representative agreed to discuss it.

• Director An urged The Questioner to hand over the Doomsday Skull, but The Questioner refused because he was not from the Eastern Continent.
• The Questioner listed the Skull’s seven abilities, including catastrophes such as a virus storm, meteor fall, and geomagnetic disappearance.
• The representatives recognized that an Ordinary Person could trigger world-ending disasters and discussed developing Fragment Worlds to protect humanity from uncontrolled threats.
• Wenren Sheng asked why The Questioner had ignored the risks of illness and aging, and The Questioner shouted that he had needed to vent his resentment.
• The Miken representative offered to share technology for achieving Mind Like Still Water, and the Western Continent representative agreed to discuss it.