Chapter Summaries

The elders accepted the Grand Elder’s plan to regulate Otherworldly Users and expand the population, while Little Illusion encountered a powerful boy who called himself the Sun’s Son. The boy drove her away, and the chapter left his identity and mission unexplained.

• The Second Elder explained that the Grand Elder had killed the Ninth Elder to expose and eliminate elders nearing a loss of control, and the elders accepted the need for rules.
• The Grand Elder presented a population growth proposal, and the elders discussed building supercities and increasing food production without relying on advanced technology from Fire Eye.
• Little Illusion created a maze of waves in the Pacific and accidentally trapped a fishing boat carrying an Old Man, Cai Zhu, and Wei Li.
• Wei Li declared himself the Sun’s Son, dispelled Little Illusion’s maze, and fought her with dazzling light while her illusions failed against him.
• Little Illusion fled to call her father, and Wei Li returned to the boat after Cai Zhu and the Old Man pointed out that she had avoided striking them.

Little Illusion sought to confront Wei Li after he escaped her ocean maze, but Wen Xiaohuan instead targeted Lu Caizhu to uncover the Sun's Son's motives. Lu Caizhu refused to help deceive Wei Li, so Wen Xiaohuan knocked her unconscious and planned to draw him into an illusion.

• At Wenren Sheng's home, Little Illusion complained that Wei Li had beaten her, but Wenren Sheng urged her to resolve the problem through communication, and Zhao Han agreed to help.
• Lu Caizhu recalled how she and her grandfather had entered Little Illusion's sea maze, found Wei Li's egg, and watched him emerge and rescue them.
• Wen Xiaohuan approached Lu Caizhu and questioned her about Wei Li, arguing that his miraculous birth and claims to save humanity made him suspicious.
• Lu Caizhu defended Wei Li and refused to cooperate with Wen Xiaohuan's plan to create an illusory Earth and test his intentions.
• Wen Xiaohuan blew a breath at Lu Caizhu, causing her to faint.

Little Illusion drew Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen into her world to help uncover what was wrong with Sun's Son, then showed them his encounter with a fish trapped by plastic. The fish's clever thoughts still revealed nothing about Sun's Son, but Zhao Han spotted a problem before the chapter ended.

• Little Illusion asked Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen to help probe Sun's Son, and Wang Wenwen eagerly agreed to join her virtual adventure.
• Sun's Son and Lu Caizhu found a fish whose body had been constricted by a plastic ring, and Sun's Son blamed careless garbage disposal.
• After the fish was freed, it deliberately wrapped thread around its scarred middle, and Lu Caizhu guessed it was protecting the exposed area.
• Little Illusion showed the others the fish's thoughts: it used its unusual body to win sympathy and find food near people.
• Zhao Han said she had spotted what was wrong with Sun's Son, and Wang Wenwen urged her to explain it quietly.

Sun's Son confronted his murderous dark counterpart, Sunspot, and learned he could never be destroyed while dark thoughts remained. Wenren Sheng then went with Little Illusion to meet Sun's Son at the Patrol Division, where he reunited with Inspector Liu, whose new photosynthesis ability had turned him green-haired and overweight.

• Zhao Han told Wang Wenwen that Sun's Son had experienced a dark thought, while keeping its content secret.
• Sun's Son confronted Sunspot, who explained that he acted on Sun's dark thoughts, then vanished when Sun's Son attacked him.
• Lu Caizhu woke on the island, noticed black spots briefly appear on Wei Li's face, and decided they should contact the Patrol Division before fighting monsters.
• Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng that Sun's Son would split into light and dark sides, and Wenren Sheng agreed to go find him.
• Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion visited the Patrol Division, where Inspector Liu described gaining green hair, weight, and photosynthesis after encountering a Green Tea Bowl.

Wenren Sheng faced Wei Li, the Sun’s Son, after the boy challenged him to a fight, but used Mirror Doors to neutralize his light-based attacks. He persuaded Wei Li to attend school instead of continuing the battle, while realizing the boy was connected to the sun and might help him learn time-related mysterious skills.

• Wei Li challenged Wenren Sheng to fight, and Wenren Sheng agreed to test the boy’s power.
• Wenren Sheng used Little Illusion’s Mirror Doors to send Wei Li’s light attacks away, eventually routing a beam toward Riddle Little Ball near the sun.
• Wenren Sheng explained that Wei Li needed to study physics and attend school to better understand his abilities.
• Wei Li accepted Wenren Sheng’s advice and agreed to go to school, ending the fight without a real battle.
• Wenren Sheng realized Wei Li was the sun’s eyes on Earth and considered that the boy might help him study time-related mysterious skills.

Wenren Sheng discovered Death Seeking Town, where residents could collectively save and load their timeline, and sent a Puppet Man to investigate. In Great King Town, younger residents argued with the elderly over whether to spend ten years building a permanent underground shelter before saving again.

• Little Illusion tried to fight Sun's Son but could neither hurt him nor withstand his light-filled body, then left to seek another powerful backer.
• Wenren Sheng found the report on Death Seeking Town and accepted a task to investigate it after learning previous teams had failed.
• The chapter described how Great King Town's residents discovered four years earlier that they could collectively save and load, restoring the town to an earlier date.
• After the recent solar apocalypse, residents under fifty-five planned to build a fully stocked underground shelter over ten years and save that state.
• The town's elderly opposed waiting ten years, preferring to keep loading saves every four years and continue their carefree lives.

Wenren Sheng observed Great King Town's young people and Old Men clash over how quickly to build a shelter using the town's save-and-load ability. After the young people agreed to compress the project into five years, the brutal labor drove them to demand a twenty-year construction period instead.

• Wenren Sheng arrived as the young people tried to persuade the Old Men to support building a shelter, and the two sides agreed to shorten the project from ten years to five.
• The town loaded its earliest save, returning to four years before, and the young people began construction work.
• Exhausted by the labor, some young people discussed killing the Old Men and their families to reduce the number of voters, but they did not act.
• As construction accidents forced repeated save loads and added to the workload, the young people rebelled against the five-year plan.
• The young people gathered construction equipment around Town Hall and demanded that the construction period be extended to twenty years.

Wenren Sheng watched the townspeople exhaust their ability to save and load by repeating the process one hundred times, then traced the town’s secret to a girl who embodied its time-space spirit. After the spirit died, he asked Little Illusion to create an illusion from the townspeople’s collective consciousness in hopes of reviving her.

• The townspeople seized control from the elders, brought in supplies, and decided to save and load one hundred times to sever the town’s connection with the outside world.
• After the hundredth load, the ability stopped working, leaving the townspeople devastated and revealing cracks in Puppet Man’s body.
• Wenren Sheng followed a clue to the library and found a girl who explained that repeated folding and stretching had shattered the time-space that enabled saving and loading.
• The girl vanished, and Wenren Sheng recognized her as the embodiment of the townspeople’s collective subconscious.
• Wenren Sheng summoned Little Illusion and persuaded her to create an illusion combining the deepest parts of the townspeople’s consciousness.

After the town lost its ability to load and save, the Old Town Chief rallied the despairing residents with a vision of a future god who would revive the kind and virtuous. Wenren Sheng watched the Town Spirit reform, understood more about manipulating the Timeline, and resolved the incident.

• The townspeople erupted into chaos after realizing they could no longer load and save, blaming those who had supported cutting the town off from the outside world.
• The Old Town Chief declared that a future god depended on the residents living kindly and working toward progress, and the townspeople embraced his message.
• Wenren Sheng watched the Town Spirit reassemble in the library as the girl showed him the town’s ruined state outside the residents’ repeated saves.
• Wenren Sheng reasoned that saving compressed inner spacetime into a point and loading expanded it over outer spacetime, then concluded that the Mysterious Realm could manipulate the real world.
• Wenren Sheng resolved the Death Seeking Town incident and received 99999 Mystery Points, though the mystery’s full composition remained unknown.

Wenren Sheng failed to master space-time folding and realized he needed more Mystery Points. In the Hot Continent, Birch and Maple Father pushed the Heaven's Mandate Society toward sacrificing locals to secure a powerful backer, while Bracken opposed them.

• Wenren Sheng spent a month researching space-time folding but gave up when his 5,466 Mystery Points proved insufficient.
• Birch, Bracken, and Maple Father continued living in exile among tribes in the Hot Continent, where Maple Father had become a god to several tribes.
• Birch argued that the Heaven's Mandate Society should exploit the region as a weak point and find a backer to protect its gains.
• At a secret gathering, Bracken objected to Birch's proposal to sacrifice the local population, but Maple Father supported it and assigned Bracken to improve people's livelihoods.
• Maple Father declared that the society would use Netherworld Communion to contact mysterious beings, choose one as a tool, and rebel against it later.

Little Illusion asked Wenren Sheng whether she could test and recruit the defeated Heaven's Mandate Society members, while the Society's leaders settled on the Hot Continent and grew stronger under the Colossus. The Society stabilized and expanded, but Bracken increasingly doubted the path its leaders had chosen.

• Little Illusion asked Wenren Sheng for permission to use Illusory Realm Simulation to test the Heaven's Mandate Society members who wanted to join her, and he agreed.
• Bracken, Maple, Birch, and the other exiled Heaven's Mandate Society members submitted to the Colossus and agreed to hold four annual Running with Beasts rituals.
• After two weeks, Birch welcomed the Society's rapid growth, while Maple Father worried that its members had grown too comfortable to make sacrifices.
• Maple Father and Birch focused resources on themselves, and rebellions followed as ordinary members accused the leaders of keeping the benefits for themselves.
• Maple Father used his control of communication with the Colossus and distributed Strange Seeds by contribution and standing to placate the Society's members.
• The Heaven's Mandate Society stabilized and continued growing, while Bracken spoke less as she questioned where the leaders' choices would lead.

Wenren Sheng learned that the Heaven's Mandate Society had evolved into the Future Society, whose followers aimed to create gods, and he discovered a God Maker case in East City. He dispatched Big Cat to investigate and allowed Little Illusion to join the mission.

• Little Illusion reported that the Heaven's Mandate Society became the Heaven's Mandate Kingdom, where Maple Father ruled and the kingdom fought a splinter group.
• Little Illusion later reported that the Heaven's Mandate Society disappeared and the Future Society took its place under Maple Father's leadership.
• Wenren Sheng explained that the Future Society hoped to create gods and eventually use them to overthrow Little Illusion.
• Wenren Sheng spotted a God Maker case in East City, where people were creating monsters while trying to make a god.
• Wenren Sheng sent Big Cat to investigate, and Little Illusion attached herself to Big Cat so she could go along.

In East Capital, Yamai Sohei secretly used Baldur's Gate—Mobile Edition to incite players toward creating a new god while evading international surveillance. Big Cat investigated a blood-energy-wreathed Shosuke, who killed a schoolgirl and then promised his bullied son he would eliminate the people tormenting him.

• Yamai Sohei boasted that his layered proxy network would keep him hidden until his plan to create a new god succeeded.
• Big Cat spotted a drunk threatening two schoolgirls, and Ryoko set fire to her homework to draw the neighbors out and escape.
• After the neighbors stopped the drunk, Shosuke stabbed Ryoko for refusing to take her burned schoolbag, then walked away as no one called the police.
• Big Cat followed Shosuke home and learned that his son Jiro had refused to attend school for three weeks because he was being bullied.
• Shosuke promised Jiro he would deal with the bullies and thought that killing people was easy and even exciting.

Wenren Sheng sent Little Illusion to find the source of a mysterious power spreading through East Capital, and she traced it to Yamai Sohei. Yamai appeared to die before they could reach him, but Wenren Sheng remained unconvinced that the matter was over.

• Big Cat watched Shosuke stab several hooligans with a fruit knife, and Little Illusion suspected mysterious forces had influenced him.
• Little Illusion struggled to trace the knife's infection through a long chain of people and objects, so Wenren Sheng advised her to search East Capital block by block.
• Yamai Sohei realized invisible monsters were sweeping East Capital for him and considered escaping the city on foot.
• Yamai decided that dying would prevent the searchers from finding him and began making arrangements.
• Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng she had identified Yamai Sohei as a shut-in who spread Slaughter Divine Power through a mobile version of Baldur's Gate, and said he had committed suicide after being discovered.
• Wenren Sheng praised Little Illusion but went to inspect the case himself because he did not believe it was finished.

Wenren Sheng sent a Puppet Man into a Baldur’s Gate-like world to search for Yamai Sohei’s hidden soul. In Athkatla, he met Kensent, who claimed he could find any soul, and exposed him as a swindler.

• Wenren Sheng found Yamai Sohei dead and concluded that he had hidden his soul to escape detection and arranged to be revived through the Children of God.
• Little Illusion captured more than ten thousand Children of God, but found no extra souls among them.
• Ai Han De Bu said Yamai Sohei had hidden his soul in Another World and offered to send them there, so Wenren Sheng chose to send a Puppet Man.
• The Puppet Man arrived in Athkatla and learned from Kensent that the city resembled its Baldur’s Gate setting.
• Wenren Sheng asked Kensent to find a specific soul, then called him a swindler because no one in Faerûn could reliably locate one.

Wenren Sheng recruited the God of Hunting, Mala, to help find Yamai Sohei, a soul who did not belong in Faerûn. After Kelemvor agreed to search the Underworld, Mala questioned whether his world was fictional and grew afraid that visiting Wenren Sheng’s world would kill him.

• Wenren Sheng recognized Mala and revealed that he knew the God of Hunting’s history as the failed contender for the Power of Death.
• Wenren Sheng told Mala he came from the world outside and offered to take him there if he helped capture Yamai Sohei; Mala agreed.
• In the Underworld, Wenren Sheng asked Kelemvor to find Yamai Sohei, and the Lord of Death agreed to help.
• Wenren Sheng and Mala left the Underworld, and Mala asked about the Tablets of Fate and how his world would end.
• Mala decided he no longer wanted to visit Wenren Sheng’s world because he feared he would die there.

Wenren Sheng learned that Ai Han De Bu had misled him: the soul he sought was not in this world, so he returned to reality. Meanwhile, Yamai Sohei regretted killing a young horse-racing champion, and a viewer recognized his face on a replayed recording.

• Yamai Sohei killed Sokudo-in during a horse race, then realized she was an accomplished compatriot and regretted his impulsive act.
• A man replaying the race saw Sokudo-in collapse and then spotted Yamai Sohei's face on the television.
• Wenren Sheng learned from the Lord of Death that the soul he sought was nowhere in this world, and the Forgotten confirmed the Demons did not have it.
• Wenren Sheng realized Ai Han De Bu had tricked him and returned to the real world, leaving Puppet Man's body with Little Illusion.
• Wenren Sheng received a message that someone had seen Yamai Sohei's face in a video recording.

Wenren Sheng discovered that Yamai Sohei was hiding in an electronic world, while Little Illusion accidentally triggered the destruction of Faerûn. He brought the fleeing gods and mortals into the real world, where they began to recognize their freedom from the conflicts that had driven their lives.

• Wenren Sheng learned from Ai Han De Bu that Yamai Sohei was hidden inside an electronic world and sent Little Illusion to search the network for the God Maker.
• Little Illusion pulled a beard hair from a sleeping old man, prompting the creator of Faerûn to begin destroying the world.
• Wenren Sheng opened a passage out of Faerûn for the God of Hunting, and the other gods and countless mortals followed them through.
• Wenren Sheng revealed that the gods and their followers had been characters inside a computer game and explained why he believed himself to be free.
• Jergal and the other gods recognized that their past conflicts had been driven by unnatural choices and that they could have lived without fighting.

Wenren Sheng sent the freed Faerûn gods and the captured Yamai Sohei to the Patrol Division for research. Yamai revealed that Ao had given him a method to create divine power, leaving Wenren Sheng to suspect that Earth was part of a larger plan to transform the universe.

• Wenren Sheng handed the Faerûn gods over to the Patrol Division for research.
• Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng she had caught Yamai Sohei by finding him in a battle royale game, and Wenren Sheng summoned him for questioning.
• Yamai Sohei asked why Wenren Sheng had intervened, and Wenren Sheng claimed his wise gaze had shown him the future harm Yamai would cause.
• Yamai Sohei revealed that Ao had taught him to spread a killing game that turned items into Slaughter Artifacts and gathered the resulting divine power into himself.
• Yamai Sohei explained that he had planned to become the God of Gods, leave Earth, and create a world in another Star System.
• Wenren Sheng concluded the incident was part of an experiment to transform humanity's universe, then sent Yamai Sohei to the Patrol Division.

After receiving a cryptic warning about the Source Net, Wenren Sheng recognized that others had reached the true source of power but returned to work without reacting. In Dongshui City, three people discussed the network’s benefits and risks, then considered fleeing rather than surrendering control of their Strange Seeds.

• Wenren Sheng received 885 Mystery Points for solving the God Maker incident, then continued searching for new incidents as time passed.
• A caller named Bu Fei warned Wenren Sheng that the Source Net would change his fate, but Wenren Sheng dismissed the threat and recognized its significance.
• In Dongshui City, a middle-aged man, a young man, and a woman discussed the Source Net’s plan to connect Otherworldly Users and mages.
• The young man weighed the network’s vast power against its strict control, while the middle-aged man argued that joining would expose their Strange Seeds and put their lives in others’ hands.
• The three considered fleeing to the Sole Supremacy Society because Wenren Sheng had not agreed to oppose the Source Net.