Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng learned that Little Illusion and Ai Han De Bu had secretly set up foreshadowing involving four Planet Giants, then realized that only he might be able to overcome the Evil God by containing the universe’s truths. Meanwhile, on the moon, Liu Jian battled two Black Robed Men inside a buried coffin, insisting that his struggle served future generations.

• Little Illusion recognized Ai Han De Bu despite its new octopus body and revealed that they had made toys connected to four Planet Giants in the Kepler-62 System.
• Wenren Sheng punished Little Illusion and Little Octopus for hiding their plans, then concluded that defeating the Evil God required the Seed of Mystery and knowledge of the universe’s secrets.
• A buried coffin beneath a lunar crater began to stir, revealing Liu Jian locked in an Endless Battle against two Black Robed Men with golden embroidered badges.
• The Black Robed Men tempted Liu Jian with personal pleasures, but he showed them a vision of suffering crowds and said he fought for his Cloud Descendants.
• Liu Jian claimed that future generations would remember and resurrect him as a god, prompting the Black Robed Men to confer as black mist before he attacked them.
• Liu Jian argued that a truly good person had to be more cunning than evil people to benefit the greatest number.

Liu Jian’s seven ancient tombs helped create the conditions for monsters to emerge on the moon, and a patch of the moon turned blue as Evil God contamination spread. Wenren Sheng recognized the danger and persuaded the Patrol Division to cover the sky, though he could not explain why.

• Ai Han De Bu passed the Future God’s philosophy to Little Illusion, but Chaos Omniscience contaminated it and began spreading through its connections to Liu Jian.
• Patterns on Liu Jian’s seven ancient tombs came alive, and the tombs drew air toward the moon until energy, water, and air allowed monsters to emerge.
• An astronomy enthusiast saw that part of the moon had turned blue, while his companion William warned him not to look and developed a blue patch in his eyes.
• Wenren Sheng sensed the tombs’ mutation and found the moon covered in a poisonous blue sea; after his Strange Seeds filtered the contamination, he returned to Earth.
• Wenren Sheng urged Inspector Liu and Director An at the Patrol Division to cover the sky, and Director An agreed despite lacking an explanation.

Wenren Sheng sealed the Fragment World against the outside and continued resolving mysterious incidents as the Evil God's influence grew. During a Real Person Challenge, he recognized a familiar pattern in Luo Yunshan and petrified him for up to 258 years.

• Wenren Sheng ordered Shi Shi to isolate the Fragment World, rationed essential resources, and kept his family in the dark about the danger.
• Wenren Sheng sent a Puppet Man to resolve the Real Person Challenge and was eventually matched against the eighth-rank Great Mage Luo Yunshan.
• Luo Yunshan accused Wenren Sheng of disrespecting his opponents by refusing to kill them and demanded a true final battle.
• As the audience urged Luo Yunshan to kill, Wenren Sheng recognized a familiar voice and recalled a bizarre story from his previous life.
• Wenren Sheng used Master Level Mystic Petrification, enhanced 3,143 times, to turn Luo Yunshan into a stone statue for up to 258 years.

Wenren Sheng discovered that Luo Yunshan was possessed by Zhong Yunxian, whose ability let him take over another person’s body after death, and petrified him rather than killing him. Lu Kuan realized the scheme had threatened his Golden Finger and became even more grateful to Wenren Sheng, while the Patrol Division prepared for the danger.

• Wenren Sheng recognized Zhong Yunxian inside Luo Yunshan and revealed that he had seen through Zhong Yunxian’s body-taking ability.
• Wenren Sheng petrified Zhong Yunxian, and the Seed of Mystery awarded him a point and doubled his Mystery Points limit.
• Inspector Liu received the stone statue, gave the ability its highest danger rating, and reported the threat to the Patrol Division.
• Lu Kuan realized Zhong Yunxian could have taken his Fourth Calamity Golden Finger and became more certain that Wenren Sheng had saved him.
• Lu Kuan treated his roommates to a meal, and they praised Wenren Sheng for clearing a hidden danger for them.

Wenren Sheng designed a new armor to protect his soul and used Little Illusion to simulate it. After Clever Men went mad from trying to block the moon, Wenren Sheng brought the affected colleagues into a Republic of China Illusion to treat them.

• Wenren Sheng asked Little Illusion to simulate his God of War Armor, and she revealed that Shi Shi had hidden his soul from Rebirth After Death.
• Several Clever Men sent Puppet Men toward the moon, but their spacecraft mutated and the puppets were digested, driving their owners mad.
• Inspector Liu tried to stop the madness from spreading, but a colleague who heard the infected men’s words exploded.
• Wenren Sheng arrived by Puppet Man and placed the mad colleagues in a Republic of China Illusion to see if they could be cured.
• Gu Chengyan regained consciousness inside the illusion, where a man in a military uniform recruited him onto a train as a conscript.

Gu Chengyan recovered after experiencing a vision of human-skinned Demons, while Wenren Sheng and Old Liu discussed ways to manage mental contamination from Evil Gods. After developing and submitting God of War Armor blueprints, Wenren Sheng searched old cases and received a new King of Kings challenge involving the Disaster Anomaly Principals.

• Gu Chengyan woke up, and Wenren Sheng told Old Liu that contaminated people could be treated by giving them player identities in the East Island Instance, while Absolute Physical Space was a riskier safeguard.
• Old Liu reported that Absolute Physical Space did not prevent mental contamination, but East Island Instance player identities stopped people from going mad, so Lu Kuan limited their play to one hour a day.
• Wenren Sheng spent half a month studying the God of War Armor, then sent its blueprints to the Patrol Division, whose research department returned them despite praising the design concept.
• Wenren Sheng asked Little Illusion to search accumulated cases for promising leads, and two days later he received a King of Kings prompt about the Disaster Anomaly Principals sensing danger.

Wenren Sheng investigated the Disaster Anomaly Principals’ plans and learned that the Sole Supremacy Society intended to use the Game Emulator to find a King of Kings who could contain and seal Chaos Omniscience. He decided to alert the Patrol Division so they could pursue the plan while preventing the Society from causing collateral damage.

• Wenren Sheng used his access to spy on the Sole Supremacy Society’s meeting in United City.
• The Grand Elder told the elders that God had ordered them to stop the Old Ones from spreading and growing.
• The Second Elder showed the elders Ai Han De Bu’s degeneration, convincing them that the Old Ones posed an overwhelming threat.
• The elders learned that their proposed method was to find a King of Kings through the Game Emulator and use that person to contain Chaos Omniscience.
• The Grand Elder identified the King of Kings as an uncontaminated Ordinary Person who could read the book Return to One without going insane.
• Wenren Sheng judged the Society reckless and decided to notify the Patrol Division about its plan.

Zhang Zhendong and Dong Zhenzhang accepted a repeatable mission to follow people seeking the King of Kings, then encountered the Sixth Elder selling a book that could reveal a dangerous deduction technique. They erased a young Go player’s memory of the book and reflected on the game’s limits as they continued their work.

• Zhang Zhendong and Dong Zhenzhang discussed earning residency slots for Zhang Zhendong’s family and received a repeatable mission to follow a group searching for the King of Kings.
• The Sixth Elder tried to sell a Go-playing youth the Innate Divine Calculation, which he claimed contained the technique behind the Chess God’s victories.
• The youth read several pages, realized how to defeat San Gouzai, and ran off with the book, but the Sixth Elder caught him and reclaimed it.
• Zhang Zhendong and Dong Zhenzhang took the youth away to erase his memory of what he had read.
• Zhang Zhendong wished the game would let players exchange points for Strange Seeds, and Dong Zhenzhang said the game might eventually evolve to offer them.

The Eighth Elder and Ninth Elder arrived in a mist-shrouded world where their Strange Seeds eagerly absorbed vast amounts of source power. A powerful young man discovered their Heavenly Pills and demanded they take him to their world, leaving them preparing to learn his language and sign a Blood Contract.

• The Eighth Elder helped the Ninth Elder calm his unruly Strange Seed as they explored the world and recognized its potential for advancement.
• A young man emerged from the mist, seized the Ninth Elder, and read his memories, learning that the pair came from Earth and could summon souls and revive the dead.
• The Eighth Elder threatened the young man with the fiery red eye given to them by the Fire Eye God, prompting him to release the Ninth Elder.
• The young man revealed that he wanted to reach their world and offered to support their mission in exchange for their help.
• The elders agreed to assist him after completing the god's mission, and the young man produced a Blood Contract and jade pieces to help them learn his language.

Wenren Sheng entered the vast Mist Zone after Little Illusion told him it was connected to the King of Kings, and the world’s immense limits greatly amplified his power. He encountered the Ninth Elder, the Eighth Elder, and a young man bound to help them search for the King of Kings, who suggested Wenren Sheng would aid their mission.

• Little Illusion woke Wenren Sheng and showed him a battle raging across islands in the Mist Zone, then revealed that Little Zhang had heard the place was connected to the King of Kings.
• Wenren Sheng arrived in the Mist Zone using the Puppet Man and discovered that the world's high Mysterious Power limit sharply increased his abilities and expanded his range of exploration.
• Wenren Sheng flew toward an island while considering how the Disaster Anomaly Principals had opened access to the world and its resources.
• The Ninth Elder and Eighth Elder, accompanied by a young man, blocked Wenren Sheng's path, and the Ninth Elder complained that Wenren Sheng had an advantage over him.
• Wenren Sheng insulted the Ninth Elder, who could not wear a Puppet Man because the Fire Eye God required him to face danger personally while searching for the King of Kings.
• The young man refused the Ninth Elder's demand to suppress Wenren Sheng and said Wenren Sheng would help them accomplish their mission.

Wenren Sheng allied with Shi Niansheng and the two Sole Supremacy Society elders to search for the King of Kings while gathering resources from the world. Two sect leaders later revealed that Shi Niansheng had been secretly killing other Tribulation Transcenders, and Wenren Sheng realized that the Disaster Anomaly Principals had placed him in the world for their own purposes.

• Shi Niansheng introduced himself to Wenren Sheng, gave Little Illusion a cultivation art and a seven-colored disk, and agreed to join forces with Wenren Sheng and the two elders to search for the King of Kings.
• Shi Niansheng sent disciples and descendants across the world to distribute the Return to One scroll, while Wenren Sheng concluded that finding the King of Kings would lead to the world being sealed by the Disaster Anomaly Principals.
• Wenren Sheng agreed to help Shi Niansheng establish himself on Earth, then collected materials from dozens of Great Sect treasuries for himself and his family.
• The Blazing Flame Sect Master and Tian Yunzi summoned Wenren Sheng to the Abyss of Darkness and told him that Shi Niansheng had killed other Tribulation Transcenders for millennia.
• Wenren Sheng realized that the Disaster Anomaly Principals had kept Shi Niansheng in the world as part of their plan, and that Shi Niansheng had learned the truth only after the Sole Supremacy Society arrived.

Wenren Sheng found the King of Kings and brought Shi Niansheng and the two sect masters from the Cultivation World to Earth. Their cultivation weakened on arrival, and Wenren Sheng reminded them that Earth had laws.

• Wenren Sheng agreed to take the Flame Sect Master and the Heavenly Fortune Sect Master to the King of Kings if they made a Blood Contract and left Shi Niansheng to them.
• Wenren Sheng used the Heavenly Fortune Sect Master's Mirror Image Technique to see the youth reading a scroll whose starlight and eyes did not affect him.
• The Ninth Elder and Eighth Elder found the youth, then left the Cultivation World with him and the Fire Eye, leaving Shi Niansheng behind.
• Shi Niansheng sought Wenren Sheng's help, and Wenren Sheng took him and the two sect masters, along with more than four hundred carts, to Earth.
• Shi Niansheng's strength fell to the Golden Core Stage, while the two sect masters dropped to Foundation Establishment Stage; Wenren Sheng warned them that Earth had laws.

After the youth brought from the Cultivation World exploded, Shi Niansheng explained that the youth’s fortune had been exhausted and said he knew someone who could resist the Old Ones anywhere. Wenren Sheng went to sleep, where strange dreams led him to realize that the Clown had been him all along.

• The youth exploded after reading one page of "Return to One," and Shi Niansheng appeared before the Sole Supremacy Society elders.
• Shi Niansheng explained that the youth’s fortune had been spent leaving his original world, and that he and two sect masters intended to help him build new fortune on Earth.
• When the elders said the youth’s resistance to the Old Ones would not work outside his original world, Shi Niansheng claimed he knew someone who could help.
• Wenren Sheng returned to his room and fell asleep while Little Illusion prepared to divide the luggage.
• Wenren Sheng dreamed of a bizarre bus trip and of activating the Strange Seed, then woke and realized the Clown had been him all along.

Wenren Sheng realized that the King of Kings the Sole Supremacy Society was seeking was his past self, and that the Old Ones made the Disaster Anomaly Principals’ timeline rollback impossible. Meanwhile, Liu Jian resisted a corruption that drove two Black Robed Men mad and sent a streak of golden light to the Moon, reversing its transformation.

• Wenren Sheng deduced that the Old Ones could corrupt the controller of the Timeline, preventing the Disaster Anomaly Principals from rolling time back, and the Seed of Mystery confirmed that he was the King of Kings.
• Wenren Sheng noticed the Sole Supremacy Society had stopped searching, suspected the Disaster Anomaly Principals were involved, and questioned Little Octopus about his dreams.
• At Caishikou, Liu Jian woke to find the two Black Robed Men afflicted by a monster that spoke incoherently, while he remained unaffected.
• The second Black Robed Man smashed his head to become stupid and resist corruption, then urged Black Robed Man A to go mad as well.
• Liu Jian nearly took his own life before remembering his mission, then released a streak of golden light that struck the second Black Robed Man and entered the lunar surface.
• The lunar surface stopped expanding, its ugly craters returned, and its blue waters disappeared.

Wenren Sheng helped the Patrol Division find a way to expand the Game Emulator by giving them coordinates to a vast Cultivation World. As the blue waters around the moon receded and the chapter ended, his family discussed getting player accounts.

• Wenren Sheng learned from Old Liu that the blue water on the moon was disappearing and recognized that Liu Jian was purifying the Old Ones’ damage with the four Strange Seeds.
• At a Conference Room meeting, Lu Kuan explained that the Game Emulator could gain points by turning conquered worlds into game instances, while Inspector Liu and the researchers favored avoiding conflict with locals.
• Wenren Sheng offered the Patrol Division coordinates to a vast, resource-rich Cultivation World, and Old Liu asked him to reserve player slots.
• Wang Wenwen said she was waiting for a player account, while Little Illusion asked Wenren Sheng to arrange a full-VIP account for a management game.

Brote and the people trapped in his town sought the Colossus's help against a man-eating monster by proving their skills online. After the priests recruited Brote and other specialists, he was transported to a valley and learned he would be responsible for clothing several dozen people.

• Brote watched a Miken weightlifting livestream and envied the competitors while a monster trapped his town and devoured anyone who tried to leave.
• Brote agreed with his town companion to hold a sports competition in hopes that the Colossus would recruit them, but their athletic records fell short.
• Brote won a weaving competition, and five priests arrived that night, destroyed the monster, and took the weaving experts and other skilled townspeople.
• The priests gathered about thirty recruits before Goldfish and the Fierce Tiger Colossus, where Brote registered as a player and joined the Huanhuan Family Guild.
• Brote was transported to a valley and realized that he had been chosen to make clothes for several dozen people.

Wenren Sheng examined the damaged materials and cultivation manuals brought back from another world, then triggered a mystery involving four people reenacting a deadly treasure hunt from ten thousand years ago. The four began maneuvering to survive, and the chapter ended as the Monk prepared to act during another blackout.

• Wenren Sheng found that most of the harvested materials had been ruined by space-time rejection, while a cultivation manual would need scientific adaptation for Earth.
• The warehouse darkened, and four apparently dead ordinary people appeared hanging from the ceiling, each standing on a Grand Tutor chair.
• A Seed of Mystery prompt identified the scene as a treasure-murder mystery, and Wenren Sheng realized he was observing a reflection of an old crime.
• The four discovered notes instructing them to kill the others, then eyed one another warily without acting during their first blackout.
• The Monk announced he would kill the Taoist, the Silk Fatties, and himself, leaving the Middle-aged Man in hemp clothing to survive; the warehouse went dark again.

Wenren Sheng solved a hanging mystery that warned against excessive cleverness, then began crafting a soul-protective item. At Tianxing Club, people struggled to remember Manager Wei, and Wenren Sheng told Wu Liansong he would handle the matter himself, believing he could contend with the Immortal.

• Wenren Sheng reconstructed how the Monk, Taoist, fat man, and Linen-Clothed Man had outmaneuvered one another until all four died.
• Wenren Sheng solved the mystery, gained 333 Mystery Points, and learned that the Seed of Mystery had warned that excessive cleverness led to destruction.
• Wenren Sheng began crafting a mysterious item to protect his soul using materials related to soul protection.
• Tianxing Club employees discussed a missing old-timer but could not remember his surname, and Wu Liansong wondered whether Manager Wei had disappeared.
• Wu Liansong called Wenren Sheng about Manager Wei, and Wenren Sheng said he would handle the matter while Wu watched the company.
• Wenren Sheng believed his Mystery Points and experience would let him contend with the Immortal.

Wenren Sheng confronted the Immortal about the people in her care, then reunited with Wei Yiqing and asked her to help deal with an Old One. After the Immortal promised to reveal the Old Ones’ weakness, Wenren Sheng studied their origins and decided he needed to contact the Disaster Anomaly Principal.

• Wenren Sheng met the Immortal, who appeared as "Wu Shanshan," and realized he had no grounds to force her or the people around her to act.
• The Immortal transformed into Wei Yiqing, who was playing a cultivation game with Little Illusion, and agreed to help Wenren Sheng deal with an Old One if everyone else’s misfortune was gathered onto it.
• Wei Yiqing vanished, and the Immortal told Wenren Sheng that the Old Ones’ true weakness came from human nature before disappearing.
• Wenren Sheng studied fictional accounts of Old Ones and concluded that they were Chaos-Type Disaster Anomalies that had gained Old One traits.
• Wenren Sheng decided he needed to make further contact with the Disaster Anomaly Principal to defeat the Old Ones.

Wenren Sheng summoned the Disaster Anomaly Principal behind Little Octopus and learned that the Old Ones were called Death by the Principals, who sought to expel their own corruption into other worlds. The Principal said sanity could resist the Old Ones, leaving Wenren Sheng to pursue a way to unravel the unknown while resenting the Principal’s expectation that he take all the risks.

• Wenren Sheng called Ai Han De Bu and demanded to speak with the being behind Little Octopus.
• The cube revealed that the Old Ones were the Principals’ end, and that their invasions were an attempt to discharge their corruption into other worlds.
• The cube said sanity was the weakness of the Old Ones, and Wenren Sheng reasoned that understanding the unknown could restore sanity.
• Wenren Sheng objected that the Principal expected him to risk his life while it reaped the benefits, but the cube disappeared.
• Wenren Sheng vowed to cast the self-important Principals into the abyss someday, then returned Ai Han De Bu to the Blacklist and continued reading.