Chapter Summaries

Old Liu questioned Wenren Sheng’s refusal to treat three Patrol Officers and proposed changes to how supernatural power was governed. Wenren Sheng focused on strengthening people’s sanity and will, and the Mystery Exploration Department began organizing regular Will Tempering activities.

• Old Liu worried that Wenren Sheng might have been affected by Old Days Pollution and recommended relocating people by supernatural rank, creating multiple levels of Patrol Divisions, and balancing the strongest Supernatural Beings.
• Wenren Sheng considered ways to help Li Chun resist mental contamination, rejected Mechanized Mind as effectively killing people, and recommended sanity-strengthening training for the Mystery Exploration Department.
• Wenren Sheng asked Little Illusion to help people grow through hardship, but she misunderstood his explanation before he warned her not to go too far.
• At a Mystery Exploration Department meeting, Wang Wenwen announced regular Will Tempering activities in response to Li Chun’s condition, while Mei Guangzhan expressed unease and Zhao Han reflected that children resembled their parents.

Wenren Sheng used Ai Han De Bu’s bizarre scripts to temper four people and shared them with the Patrol Division as a treatment method. As Earth prepared to relocate Ordinary People to the Ninth District, the first wave of space migration began drawing both skepticism and business interest.

• Little Illusion asked Little Octopus and Ai Han De Bu’s tentacle for material to make the four people suffer, and the resulting scripts put them through harsh trials that changed them.
• Wenren Sheng shared the scripts with the Patrol Division and told them to present the method as their own; Li Chun also tried it and became willing to eat anything that did not cry out.
• Old Liu told Wenren Sheng that the authorities had decided to create the Nine Stars Districts, beginning with moving Ordinary People to the Ninth District under an Absolute Physical Defense Formation.
• Old Liu’s Petty People spread through the homes of inspectors over the following month, while he continued to justify the practice as being for their benefit.
• People in Miken debated whether to join the migration, and corporations and wealthy conglomerates bought tickets after recognizing the business opportunities.

At Miken Eagle Fort, officials planned to seize access to Weiqi World and use it as a base for the Matrix project. They believed the Game Emulator had become ownerless after Kuan Lu was reduced to a vegetable, and began discussing how to exploit its rules.

• Two clerks at Miken Eagle Fort discussed the Nine Stars District and the possibility that the Matrix project would let them become Super Heroes.
• A superior urged the staff to devote themselves to the Matrix project, and they were assigned to find a Fragment World for it.
• The staff chose Weiqi World as their target because its accelerated time flow could quickly produce faith power.
• Major Lola formed a four-person seizure team and ordered them to secure Weiqi World without provoking the Eastern Continent People.
• A proposed that the team give Weiqi World natives player identities so they could oppose the Eastern Continent People with weiqi AI.
• A claimed Kuan Lu was a vegetable and that the Game Emulator no longer had an owner, leading the team to discuss its objectives and operating rules.

Walter entered Weiqi World after receiving a game invitation and learned how players could register through a battle platform. He adjusted to life there and grew sympathetic toward the natives, ending the chapter concerned about the hardships faced by the maid he loved and her family.

• Eastern Continent players asked foreigners about their registration loophole, and Walter explained that players could earn invitations by demonstrating potential through a game battle website.
• Walter entered Weiqi World, hoping to secure a better life for himself and his family, though his family had not received invitations.
• After a native shopkeeper misunderstood his bargaining, Walter enrolled in a local dialect class and learned that monarchs and weiqi power had stifled technological invention.
• Walter's instructor warned that attempts to develop technology could provoke native forces and the Heavenly Dao, which intervened during large-scale crises.
• Walter adapted to the natives and fell in love with his maid, then learned her family feared illness because they could not afford weiqi masters and medicine had stagnated.

Walter accepted the quest to discover the truth of the world and sought the Immortal Prophet, hoping to overthrow the Heavenly Weiqi Players and the rules that kept society feudal. He found the Rotten Taoist, who tested his resolve with a beating, then began investigating Walter’s intentions while Walter treated his wounds and gave Little Flower honey.

• Walter triggered the quest Path of Truth, which directed him to find the Immortal Prophet through the Blue Clothes Building.
• Walter paid Lan Gu for information and chose to seek the Rotten Taoist in Stone Bridge Village rather than follow the seemingly obvious lead of the Stone Buddha.
• Walter found the impoverished village and met the Rotten Taoist and his adopted granddaughter, Little Flower.
• The Rotten Taoist questioned Walter’s motives and ordered Little Flower to whip him; Walter realized people could be harmed without playing Weiqi before she knocked him unconscious.
• After waking, Walter reaffirmed that he wanted to help, and the Rotten Taoist arranged five Go stones in a circle while one of his hairs rotted away.
• Walter bandaged his wounds and gave Little Flower a jar of wild honey.

Walter sought the Prophets’ help to change Weiqi World and learned that Rotten Taoist distrusted Heavenly Humans because they had exploited him before. Wenren Sheng investigated a rebellion and discovered that the Game Emulator had sent players on a mission to uncover the world’s truth, leaving him to question what the Emulator intended.

• Rotten Taoist rejected Walter’s request, and Walter lost several body parts while seeking help from Golden Bodhisattva and Evil Stone Buddha.
• Walter returned to Rotten Taoist, insisted that change required sacrifice, and learned that Rotten Taoist would trust him only if he healed his rotting body.
• A new Game Emulator’s Ambition event appeared, so Wenren Sheng entered Weiqi World to investigate the rebellion.
• Wenren Sheng discovered that Walter and Rotten Taoist were training Soldiers to destroy cities and fields, hoping chaos would force the Heavenly Weiqi Players to change the system.
• Wenren Sheng questioned a Captain player and learned that the players had received a Path of Truth mission to uncover the world’s truth before deciding what to do.

Wenren Sheng joined the Destroy the Old Order faction to investigate the Game Emulator’s quest, then followed Walter’s force as it marched toward a city. The player captain lost a weiqi match to the County Magistrate’s Advisor, leaving the city’s destruction uncertain.

• Wenren Sheng joined Rotten Taoist’s faction and received the Path of Truth (2) quest, which threatened a permanent game ban if he failed.
• Rotten Taoist went blind after the quest began and ordered Walter’s Soldiers to destroy fields, cities, and houses.
• Wenren Sheng questioned the Soldiers and learned that many had joined because they felt hopeless and wanted to upend their lives.
• Walter bypassed villages rather than attack them, but finally led the force to a city, where the County Magistrate challenged them.
• A Soldier tried to attack the County Magistrate, but a weiqi board restrained him, and the player captain lost to the Magistrate’s Advisor after more than two hundred moves.

Wenren Sheng turned the stalled siege into a realm-wide crisis that forced the Heavenly Weiqi Player to divide the world into three zones. He then watched the Autonomous Zone descend into war before developing agriculture, workshops, and steam power, while people migrated there from the other zones.

• Wenren Sheng watched attackers dig up roads and set fires outside a county town, exhausting its defenders and leaving the town facing famine.
• After unrest spread for half a year without a response from the Heavenly Weiqi Player, Wenren Sheng had Little Illusion order the realm divided into three zones.
• The Heavenly Weiqi Player announced an Autonomous Zone, an original zone governed by weiqi rules, and a transitional zone, triggering a new mission for Wenren Sheng.
• During the Autonomous Zone's first century, war and massacres drove people to flee, though later population growth drew poor migrants back.
• In the second century, improved farming and workshops allowed landless farmers to exchange labor for goods, while steam engines and further migration followed.

After sleeping for over two months, Wenren Sheng woke and wondered about the Game Emulator’s purpose as it altered Weiqi World. At Miken’s Eagle Fort, Major Lola decided to leave A behind in Weiqi World while sending the others to pursue a new target: Bizarreness Medieval.

• Little Illusion told Zhao Han and Wu Shanshan that Wenren Sheng was fine while he slept, and she drew on his face.
• Wenren Sheng woke, wiped his face, and considered how the Game Emulator changed Weiqi World without revealing its deeper purpose.
• At Eagle Fort, Major Lola’s team debated whether to continue their campaign in Weiqi World after learning it was an artificially controlled Matrix.
• A and C fought after arguing over whether to keep pursuing Weiqi World, and Major Lola decided to leave some personnel there while searching for another world.
• Major Lola assigned A to stay behind and chose Bizarreness Medieval as the new target after B described its setting.

Clown bombed Eagle Fort and Miken with a devastating barrage, forcing survivors to flee as the explosions continued. Little Illusion and the priests of Colossus Land arranged portals to shelter those threatened by the destruction.

• Major Lola fled Eagle Fort with the survivors as Clown's explosions collapsed the underground escape passages and blocked teleportation.
• Major Lola and the survivors reached the surface, where mushroom clouds and further blasts devastated the land; Clown mocked them from the safety of an illusion.
• Little Illusion showed Wenren Sheng's household the destruction in Miken, and Zhao Han suggested opening a spatial passage to let survivors shelter in Flame World.
• The High Priests scolded the people gathered at Colossus Plaza for their insincere prayers, then opened a temporary Teleportation Portal and directed them through it.

Wenren Sheng suspected that Miken's destruction was the Game Emulator's retaliation for an attempted seizure of Weiqi World, and he decided to deploy Fat Doll to investigate. In the devastated Miken, Gawain left the survivors in a mountain cave under the Ant Army's protection and set out to capture Clown.

• Wenren Sheng connected Miken's Nuclear Explosions to Weiqi World's evolution and resolved to send out Fat Doll.
• Gawain and the Red Ants sheltered townspeople in a mountain cave after Prophecy Power warned him of the disaster.
• Gawain told the survivors that the explosions would continue and discussed finding safe water and food with the Town Chief.
• The Red Ants urged Gawain to find Clown before he caused further disasters.
• Gawain persuaded the townspeople to let him leave, placed an Ant Army under the elders' command, and went to capture Clown.

Wenren Sheng tracked Clown to the Time Temple and discovered that the Game Emulator was the Silver Clock, which wanted him to help restore its ability to reverse time. He understood that the emulator had been created to find a way around the Old Ones’ interference with the Timeline.

• Clown detonated a bomb that destroyed Gawain and the fleeing townspeople, unaware that an invisible ant had attached itself to him.
• The ant followed Clown to a Fragment World, where Wenren Sheng saw him report to a Silver Clock served by three people who could only move forward.
• The Silver Clock offered Wenren Sheng a mission to conquer a New World in exchange for lifespan, wealth, and power, but Wenren Sheng said he wanted the Clock itself.
• The Silver Clock explained that Wenren Sheng could claim it only by completing a difficult task to restore the three people’s ability to move backward.
• Wenren Sheng realized the Game Emulator was both a reward and a tool intended to rediscover how to reverse time despite the Old Ones.

After Miken was destroyed, Bald Head led a gang of escaped prisoners in taking over the ruined city and gathering valuables for an Evil God ritual. In the Silver-White Palace, Wenren Sheng heard Bald Head’s prayer.

• Survivors in an underground cell escaped after bending open its iron door, and Yellow Hair found a Colt Handgun.
• Bald Head revealed his supernatural durability, killed Yellow Hair, and took command of the escaped prisoners.
• Bald Head ordered the gang to rob survivors for gold, jewelry, antiques, and other valuables.
• Three days later, the gang had grown to seventy people and dominated the ruined city.
• Bald Head arranged clocks into a giant clock, placed the stolen valuables among them, and offered them to the Great God.
• Wenren Sheng heard Bald Head praying from inside the Silver-White Palace.

Wenren Sheng uncovered the Game Emulator’s connection to its worshippers and explored its palace, where he found the sleeping Clown responsible for Miken’s destruction. At Zhongjiang Base, Lao An accelerated plans to relocate Ordinary People and approved building the Source Power Network with multiple nodes, while ordering a morally prioritized rescue of Miken.

• Wenren Sheng learned that the Game Emulator’s worshippers served as pieces in its real-world plans and wondered why the Seed of Mystery had not reacted to his discovery.
• Wenren Sheng explored the silver-white palace and found the Clown asleep in a pink nursery, calling for his mother in a dream.
• Lao An and the staff officers reviewed Wenren Sheng’s footage and agreed to accelerate the Nine Stars District Plan and direct resources toward building migration planets.
• Lao An chose to build multiple Source Power Network nodes first after the staff officers described the risks of a single central node.
• Lao An ordered drones to rescue Miken survivors, prioritizing people judged to be morally upright.

Gawain returned to the survivors in Miken and urged them to do good deeds, while the Red Ants showed him the Clown sleeping. The next day, Drones offered the survivors relocation to a safe place if they passed a Chinese-language and moral-character examination, leaving the Town Chief conflicted about how to protect the cave while qualifying to leave.

• Gawain returned to the cave, reassured the survivors, and told them to do more good deeds.
• The Red Ants showed Gawain the Clown sleeping, and he reflected on the person who had destroyed the world.
• Five Drones arrived and offered relocation to those who passed an examination.
• The Drones showed the survivors evidence that the Clown had destroyed Miken, then distributed Chinese-language examination papers.
• The Town Chief recognized that the questions tested morality and worried that the examination could spark chaos among the survivors.

After the Miken Nuclear Explosion, Gawain searched for someone with a time-reversal Golden Finger who could restore the world. Wenren Sheng arranged to give the Mystery Seekers Colossus power and sent the surviving believers through a gate into Demon World.

• Gawain remembered that a Save and Load Golden Finger might reverse time and told his Red Ants to search for its holder.
• Wenren Sheng assigned the Mystery Seekers to explore the Game Emulator and decided to arm them with Colossus Mode.
• Wenren Sheng obtained ten special High Priest slots from Little Illusion in exchange for sending the Mystery Seekers to work for her.
• Wenren Sheng chose Demon World as a new destination for the Mystery Seekers and opened a silver-white gate for the survivors in Flame World.
• The High Priests warned the believers that disobedient people would be cast into the abyss, and 12,454,322 survivors entered the gate.

Gawain confronted Ryan, who possessed a save-and-load ability but had overwritten his only save after the Nuclear Explosion. After Ryan proved his recklessness and fought back, Gawain and Ryan began a battle between Gawain’s Ant Army and Ryan’s collection of magical animals and creatures.

• Gawain learned that Ryan had only one save slot and that his latest save was made after the Nuclear Explosion.
• Ryan explained that he had overwritten his original save because he wanted the chaos of a ruined world, then refused to load a save for Gawain’s inspection.
• Ryan shot Gawain after Gawain offered him a coffee-producing teapot, and Gawain blocked the bullet with ants.
• Gawain sent Red Ants to attack Ryan, but Ryan’s Black Snake emerged from the wooden house and swallowed many of them.
• Ryan released a black bear and used his living wooden house to attack Gawain’s ants, turning the fight into a battle between mutated animals.

Gawain’s battle against Ryan’s conjured animals ended when Ryan threatened to reload a save, forcing Gawain to confront him again. After meeting Ryan in the forest, Gawain realized that Ryan could not truly rewind time but instead made people forget their recent memories, though Red Ants resisted the effect.

• Red Ants overwhelmed Ryan’s conjured animals, and Gawain ordered the ants to isolate the wooden house in a prolonged siege.
• Ryan threatened to reload a save, and Gawain opened his eyes again with a future fragment leading him to seek out Ryan in the forest.
• Ryan claimed he could repair a corrupted save file using rare treasures and learned that Gawain was a prophet who saw future events.
• Gawain left Ryan’s forest and realized Ryan’s power made people forget recent events rather than rewinding time, while Red Ants were less affected.

Gawain followed the Red Ants toward a prophecy-type Strange Seed while Wenren Sheng helped him pursue a way to reverse time. As Gawain reached a village sheltered from a nuclear blast, Wenren Sheng reflected that the Game Emulator might turn the universe into a game where even gods could be killed.

• Gawain reasoned that Ryan's save-loading ability must alter people's thoughts to hide the inconsistencies caused by rewinding time, then confided his confusion to the Red Ants.
• Wenren Sheng deduced that the Game Emulator aimed to simulate the human universe as a game and decided to help Gawain, whose prophecy abilities might lead him to a Strange Seed.
• Wenren Sheng passed the Fat Doll information about a prophecy-type Strange Seed seized by the Heaven's Mandate Society, and the Red Ants guided Gawain southwest to find it.
• As Gawain left the forest, his memories returned and he briefly convinced himself that he deserved Ryan's save-loading power, but an ant bit him and snapped him out of the delusion.
• Two days later, Gawain reached a Giant Pit and found a village sheltered below it from the initial nuclear explosion, though radioactive dust threatened its safety.

Gawain convinced the armed survivors at Giant Pit Village that his offer of clean food was genuine and met their skeptical leader. He offered to help the isolated group escape the radioactive wasteland, but the Old Man remained wary of his motives.

• Gawain told the armed survivors about a clean Underground Grain Depot, and the Team Leader sent David and Romi to verify it.
• David and Romi returned with proof of the food and water, so the Team Leader invited Gawain into Giant Pit Village.
• Gawain met the Old Man, who questioned why a Supernatural Being would help them and accused him of seeking power through good deeds.
• Gawain said the Eastern Continent was sending Drones to rescue people who passed a test, surprising the Old Man.