Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng went to the Flame World to test the Doomsday Skull, but left without triggering an apocalypse so as not to disrupt its development. Back on Earth, he enlisted Little Illusion to see whether her Illusion Arts could fool the Skull's activation mechanism, starting with Meteor Fall.

• Wenren Sheng realized the Questioner had withheld the seventh apocalypse scenario and asked Director An to help investigate it in the Flame World.
• Director An agreed, and Wenren Sheng saw that the Flame World's growing city was prospering through trade with Earth.
• Wenren Sheng decided not to test the Doomsday Skull in the Flame World and returned to Earth.
• Little Illusion emerged from Wenren Sheng's body, and he told her not to do so again before asking for her help.
• Wenren Sheng had Little Illusion simulate a universe and prepared to test whether she could trick the Doomsday Skull into triggering Meteor Fall.

After gaining an otherworldly entity, Dafflin went to find his former girlfriend Anty but discovered she had moved away. He learned from Anty's Sister Melt that her family was struggling to care for a seriously ill child, and wondered whether his new abilities could help.

• Wenren Sheng returned from outer space to find Virtual Earth burning, then went to sleep while Little Illusion returned to the Colossus.
• Dafflin used what he had learned in the Reincarnation Illusion to obtain an otherworldly entity from the Light Nun, Milia, and celebrated his new ability with his friends.
• Dafflin went to Anty's former residence, where he learned she had rented it out, and disarmed a man who threatened him with a pistol.
• Dafflin took the armed man to the local Public Security Bureau, where a detective shot him after checking the street recording.
• Dafflin visited Anty's Sister, Melt, and learned that Melt's child had a serious neurological illness and that her husband was trying to design a game to earn treatment from the Colossus.
• Dafflin realized Anty might have rented out her home to support Melt's family and considered using his new abilities to cure the child.

Dafflin visited the Wanderer to ask about reliving the Groundhog Day Illusion, and the Wanderer revealed that its source seemed to be directly overhead. In the illusion, Dafflin faced successive disasters and increasingly prioritized his own survival, ending by listening to Anty’s voice and deciding to learn more about her.

• Dafflin visited the Wanderer, who surrounded him with extravagant wealth and explained that he had sensed the illusion realm again after the sun vanished and Otherworldly Users lost their powers.
• The Wanderer pointed toward the sky as the direction of the distant illusion, then helped Dafflin experience it again.
• In a sea-survival cycle, Dafflin rescued more than thirty people and spent so much time providing for them that he had little chance to practice the Mysterious Healing Art.
• When the illusion restarted with the Geomagnetic Disappearance, Dafflin built and stocked an underground shelter, then ignored people calling for help outside.
• Dafflin heard Anty telling others to feed the children first and decided the illusion’s people had real personalities, so he could use the experience to learn more about her.

After emerging from the Doomsday Illusion, Dafflin healed Melt's daughter, refused to search for Anty, and quit the Heaven's Mandate Society. Little Illusion revealed her plan to weaken the Society by giving its members fake Otherworldly User seeds, and Wenren Sheng agreed it could work.

• Dafflin cured Jenny, declined Melt's offer to search for Anty, and left without seeking Anty despite knowing where she worked.
• Dafflin told his Heaven's Mandate Society superior that he was quitting and urged him to stop fighting, but the superior threatened to execute him.
• Wanderer appeared and asked Dafflin to explain what had happened in the illusion realm, and Dafflin agreed.
• Wenren Sheng confronted Little Illusion about her actions, and she explained that she planned to distribute fake seeds to Heaven's Mandate Society members.
• Little Illusion said she would use an Intelligent Computer to allocate powers through a game-like system, and Wenren Sheng agreed the plan could undermine the Society's willingness to fight.

Wenren Sheng explained that the Seventh Doomsday erased Little Illusion’s memories whenever it activated, then returned the Doomsday Skull to Lao An for safekeeping. Meanwhile, the Heaven's Mandate Society learned of the Colossus Priest’s Otherworldly Species Giveaway and debated how to respond.

• Wenren Sheng told Little Illusion that the Seventh Doomsday had repeatedly activated in Virtual Earth and devoured her memories, but had not killed her.
• The Seed of Mystery awarded Wenren Sheng 100 Mystery Points for discovering the Seventh Doomsday’s nature.
• Wenren Sheng returned the Doomsday Skull to Lao An, who planned to test whether it could be destroyed or store it in Absolute Physical Space.
• Maple Father, Birch, Bracken, and other Heaven's Mandate Society members discussed whether the Colossus Priest’s Otherworldly Species Giveaway involved fake seeds.
• Maple Father urged the Heaven's Mandate Society to expose the giveaway as false, then agreed that a member should investigate the seeds.

Maple Father planned to relocate Heaven's Mandate Society to Hot Continent after the Colossus Priests split Miken's people into devout followers and nonbelievers. The Wanderer and his companions captured the Society and exiled them to their intended destination, while Little Illusion showed Wenren Sheng how she had ended their threat.

• A Red Robe Priest praised the Colossus and declared that only the devout deserved its power, prompting Maple Father to recognize the speech as an attempt to divide his supporters.
• Maple Father decided to move Heaven's Mandate Society to Hot Continent, where Otherworldly User factions were weaker, and told his followers their movement had helped Ordinary People gain power.
• The Wanderer, an old Lord, a fat man, and a woman with a mirror confronted Maple Father and captured everyone from Heaven's Mandate Society.
• The Wanderer stopped the fat man from killing the captives and ordered them exiled to Hot Continent, while arguing that their effort to distribute power would only create a new monopoly.
• Little Illusion showed Wenren Sheng the confrontation, and he noted that the Society's ideal had been too weak to survive Miken's powerful opposition.

Wenren Sheng helped three cultivators test the Mage System through Little Illusion’s accelerated illusions, discovering how power could corrupt their judgment. After Earth Spacetime absorbed the new system, his Seed of Mystery gained 500 points, bringing his total to 4966.

• Wenren Sheng learned that only completely new stimulation could awaken the Seed of Mystery, so he agreed to help Zhongjiang Base test three Mage System cultivators.
• Wenren Sheng sent Little Illusion to accelerate the cultivators’ thoughts through illusions, where Wei Dongchen imagined becoming a Great Mage with ten thousand wives.
• Little Illusion showed Wenren Sheng how Wei Dongchen’s growing power and the flattery around him led him to push against moral boundaries.
• Wenren Sheng and a researcher concluded that widespread Mage System cultivation could cause chaos if people could not control their instincts and emotions.
• The Seed of Mystery rewarded Wenren Sheng with 500 Mystery Points, raising his total from 4466 to 4966.

Wenren Sheng used coordinates from Aihandebu to open a passage to the Raft World, then sent in his Puppet Man with Little Illusion. There, stranded humans caught a talking fish prince who claimed a pure maiden’s kiss could turn him back into a human, and they debated whether to test his story.

• Wenren Sheng pressured Aihandebu into giving him coordinates to another world, then discovered they led to the Raft World he already knew.
• Wenren Sheng and the researchers constructed a spatial passageway, and Little Illusion joined him inside the Puppet Man as it entered.
• A high school student and two others hauled a huge fish aboard their raft and watched piranhas break their teeth trying to bite it.
• The fish claimed he was the Prince of the Bala Bala Fire Kingdom, transformed by a Witch and restorable by a pure maiden’s kiss.
• The raft’s survivors debated whether the fish was telling the truth, and the young man proposed a vote on whether to try his request.

Little Illusion revealed that the way home from the Raft World lay through an underwater vortex, and the stranded people began preparing to reach it. Wenren Sheng learned from Aihandebu that Ice Wall, a water-aligned Anomaly, controlled the world and was attacking his own.

• One high school girl kissed the big fish and vomited, while the other cleaned her mouth and tried, but the fish said neither was pure enough to break its curse.
• The big fish transformed into Little Illusion, who told the stranded people that diving through a blue underwater vortex would take them home.
• The middle-aged man organized the group to build a weighted box and lower someone toward the vortex, while Little Illusion returned to the water.
• Wenren Sheng watched the Raft World through Little Illusion's Puppet Man and wondered whether a water-aligned Anomaly had brought the people there.
• Aihandebu confirmed that Ice Wall controlled the Raft World and was one of the main forces attacking Wenren Sheng's world.

Wenren Sheng explored the Raft World, where strange fish grew powerful by deceiving one another, and investigated the ruins beneath the sea. A ghostly clerk told him that waves of seawater had once fallen from the sky and drowned everyone.

• Little Illusion watched the strange fish trick Big Jar into biting the Big Fish, then saw the others eat Big Jar before Wenren Sheng kicked her out of the world.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the strange fish gained Mysterious Power through deception and decided he did not want to live in their society.
• Wenren Sheng swam to the seabed and explored the ruins of an underwater city, finding a library where only echoes of battle cries remained.
• Wenren Sheng discovered a stone tablet written in Triangle Script and summoned a ghostly female clerk to ask what had happened to the world.
• The clerk recalled seeing waves of seawater fall from the sky, drowning everyone before she died.

Wenren Sheng uncovered how a greedy man’s repeated use of a Red Button helped doom the Strange Fish World, then decided that humanity’s best defense against similar disasters was to move everyone into virtual space. Meanwhile, Dr. Stein revealed that he had been preparing technology for the same solution.

• Wenren Sheng read a diary showing that its owner had repeatedly pressed a Red Button for money while disasters struck the world.
• Wenren Sheng traced the world’s collapse to the Red Button, Degenerate Genes, and the civilization’s own destructive choices, despite Aihandebu’s efforts to help.
• Wenren Sheng proposed putting all of Earth into Virtual Earth and asked Little Illusion to help, but she said she could not control billions of people without an Intelligent Computer.
• Dr. Stein told his students that humanity’s only way out was virtual space, which he had prepared to create through his research on mechanized humans and Brain-Plugged technology.

Wenren Sheng abandoned his virtual-world proposal after learning diviners had foreseen it leading humanity to a dead end, then continued exploring Raft World. There, Little Illusion rescued seven survivors from a deception by the strange fish and revealed that their companion Sister Chen was still safe in the box.

• Director An showed Wenren Sheng an old plan to place humanity in virtual worlds, which the Great Diviners had rejected as leading to a dead end.
• Wenren Sheng realized that virtual life would deprive his Seed of Mystery of the mysterious incidents it needed to grow, and resumed exploring Raft World.
• The survivors sealed Sister Chen inside a weighted wooden box and lowered it underwater, believing the Little Girl had shown them a route home.
• The strange fish made the survivors see a crocodile swallow the box, and they believed Sister Chen had been eaten.
• Little Illusion appeared, beat the strange fish, and exposed the crocodile as an illusion created by a Hard Shell Fish.
• The survivors discovered that the box was still floating safely near the raft, and Sister Chen had not been sent into the monster’s mouth.

Little Illusion proved that people and radio waves could pass through the vortex, but a middle-aged man's family rejected him and drove him to transform into a strange fish. Little Illusion restored him to youth, and Wenren Sheng entered the Raft World as Big Cat to investigate its practical value.

• Under Little Illusion's supervision, the group sent a box through the vortex and confirmed its passage by calling their families across worlds.
• A middle-aged man called his family and learned that his wife and son had declared him dead, collected his benefits, and moved on without him.
• The middle-aged man lost hope and transformed into a strange fish, leading Wenren Sheng to realize that people became strange fish when they gave up hope.
• Little Illusion restored the man's youth, and he vowed to find a new wife and son before diving through the vortex.
• Wenren Sheng stopped Little Illusion from tormenting the man further and entered the Raft World as Big Cat to investigate its practical value.

Wenren Sheng used Little Illusion’s giant Ultraman illusion to subdue the monster fish of Raft World and gather their knowledge. The world’s history suggested that a hidden force had controlled its creation and development, and Wenren Sheng vowed to resist whoever was shepherding humanity.

• Wenren Sheng discovered that Raft World was a tiny continent with no other planets, and suspected a Mysterious Power had concealed the truth of its nature.
• Little Illusion transformed into a giant Ultraman and demanded that the monster fish choose friendship and justice or deception and evil.
• After monster fish mocked the giant, Little Illusion’s flying kick capsized rafts, and the survivors surrendered to Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng had the monster fish share their knowledge, then spent a week reviewing their accounts of Raft World’s history.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that a third force might have controlled the world’s birth, development, and destruction, and vowed to fight the shepherds who controlled humanity.

Wenren Sheng's family watched a movie while Zhao Han, Wu Shanshan, and their companions entered a deadly racing world during a screening of Fast and Furious 13. Zhao Han learned that they had to complete the movie's plot to escape, and the chapter left the young man choosing a driver for the race.

• Ouyang Ling and Wenren De wondered why Little Illusion had skipped the movie, unaware that she was taking part in the story herself.
• Zhao Han watched Other Dimension Hacker IV after Xiao Bai spoiled its plot, then debated with Wu Shanshan and Wang Wenwen whether their world was real.
• A black windbreaker man stepped out of the Fast and Furious 13 screen and sent the theater audience to sleep, transporting them to a racetrack.
• Black Windbreaker Man ordered a young man to ride as a passenger and fire weapons at the other racers, while Zhao Han realized they were trapped in a bizarre incident.
• Zhao Han learned from Seed of Narration that completing the movie's plot would let them escape, and the young man chose a truck driver with a missile launch rack.

A bizarre entity created a movie illusion of a deadly race, where a young man survived by riding in a truck with an unloaded missile launcher. The illusion ended with no deaths but several couples breaking up, and Wenren Sheng learned that the local entity had been allowed to stay because it enriched residents’ cultural life.

• A young man trusted an old driver’s claim that a missile launcher would keep racers away, then completed the race without being attacked.
• Zhao Han watched the race illusion from the stands, unable to use her source power, while the audience cheered as racers fired weapons at one another.
• After the young man finished last, the old driver revealed that the truck’s missile launcher had never been loaded, and the Black Windbreaker Man let the young man return home.
• The movie illusion ended, and the young man’s girlfriend broke up with him; Zhao Han discovered that several couples in the theater had also split up.
• Wang Wenwen, Li Shuangyue, Wenren De, and Ouyang Ling discussed the movie after waking, while Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng that the local bizarre entity had been allowed to stay to enrich cultural life.

Wenren Sheng connected Shi Shi’s interventions in the Blood Island world to a legend from the Strange Fish World, then visited the Zhongjiang Experimental Base to discuss humanity’s Space Exploration efforts. He learned that Lao An was overwhelmed by work and left him to continue handling the crisis, but Lao An did not rest.

• Shi Shi told Wenren Sheng that she had intervened in crimes in the Blood Island world, prompting people to offer her incense.
• Wenren Sheng connected Shi Shi’s actions to a legend of a heavenly hand saving people in the Strange Fish World and considered humanity’s need to escape into space.
• Wenren Sheng visited the Zhongjiang Experimental Base and learned that its Space Exploration project relied only on conventional technology to avoid spreading Anomalies.
• The project’s person in charge told Wenren Sheng that it faced technical challenges but no other obstruction, leading him to suspect the Principal-Level Disaster Anomalies supported it.
• Wenren Sheng met Lao An, who explained that he distrusted Intelligent Computer plans and was exhausted by the work of revising them.
• Wenren Sheng urged Lao An to sleep, but after Wenren Sheng left, Lao An kept working through his documents.

Wenren Sheng inspected the Source Crystal Factory and watched Smith undergo one of its dream scenarios, where the Four Scumbags extracted source energy from his emotions. After reviewing the factory’s other frightening scenarios and hearing the Four Scumbags explain why they abandoned happier ones, Wenren Sheng allowed them to continue within his rules and asked what Little Illusion had been doing.

• Wenren Sheng contacted Colossus and inspected the Source Crystal Factory without alerting the Four Scumbags.
• Smith repeatedly realized he was dreaming, escaped a nightmare town, and flew toward distant lights as the factory collected his emotions.
• Wenren Sheng saw the Four Scumbags’ other scenarios, including Death Train, Bizarre Comic, Animal Park, and Miracle Restaurant.
• Silver Marble, Ping Pong Ball, and the other two Four Scumbags said their attempts at happy scenarios had cost too much because people remained greedy.
• Wenren Sheng told the Four Scumbags to follow his rules and asked what Little Illusion had been doing.

Wenren Sheng investigated how the laws of physics might reveal the Power of Time hidden in the Strange Fish World. He then gathered leading experts to study physics in an Accelerated Illusion and warned them that curiosity about mysterious Anomalies could be fatal.

• Old Turtle told Wenren Sheng that Little Illusion had frightened crowds for amusement, and Wenren Sheng decided not to keep monitoring her.
• Wenren Sheng reasoned that the Timeline-controlling Anomaly could not violate the basic laws of physics without collapsing Earth Spacetime, giving him a way to study mysterious spacetime through Earth’s worldview.
• Wenren Sheng resumed studying physics and gathered top experts in an Accelerated Illusion for lessons and research.
• Wenren Sheng refused to instill knowledge directly into the experts, explaining that implanted memories still required understanding and could cause mental problems.
• Wenren Sheng warned the experts that curiosity about mysterious Anomalies made people more likely to die, while those who followed safety rules tended to survive.

The Sole Supremacy Society’s elders debated a plan to grow the population after learning how population supported power and immortality in the Flame World. The Grand Elder forced them to stop killing indiscriminately, revealing that he intended to stabilize their world and pursue the Fire Eye God’s path to immortality.

• Wenren Sheng explained to professors that clever people without power often died faster in the mysterious world, then resumed teaching and learning with them in the Accelerated Illusion.
• The Grand Elder called a Council of Elders meeting in United City to discuss increasing the population, and the Second Elder argued that more people could produce more Source Crystals.
• The Sixth Elder suggested cloning people, but the Grand Elder rejected it because God disliked identical faces and personalities.
• The Eleventh Elder became violently deranged during the discussion, and the elders noted that mysterious contamination had grown more intense.
• The Grand Elder ordered the elders to stop killing indiscriminately, struck down the Seventh Elder when he objected, and removed the Ninth Elder’s Otherworldly Species when he defied the order.
• The Second Elder understood that the Grand Elder wanted to stabilize the world and maintain population sacrifices so he could pursue the immortality achieved by the mages.