Chapter Summaries

After returning to Happy World, Li Chun experienced its new attractions and learned that Little Illusion had designed them to make visitors appreciate their lives. Meanwhile, researchers at the Zhongjiang Base learned that the United City had vanished after a burst of red light at the Southern Continent Sole Supremacy Society.

• Li Chun entered the transformed Happy World, interviewed Little Beans, and was terrified by a haunted house that manifested his fears.
• The Little Girl sent Li Chun into a historical attraction, where he emerged horrified by the Eastern Continent Timeline and saw the Little Girl return contented.
• Little Illusion revealed that she had designed Happy World’s attractions and casually offered Li Chun the position of chief High Priest, which he declined.
• Researchers at the Zhongjiang Base discussed migrants’ psychological health and Happy Village’s apparent help with the problem.
• The researchers received word that the United City disappeared after a blinding red light erupted at the Southern Continent Sole Supremacy Society.

The Sole Supremacy Society arrived on a living planet and discovered a stone tablet left by Ouyang Tian and Saya, then debated whether to seek an alliance with Chaos Omniscience. The tablet transformed into the Flesh Stone Tablet, attacked the elders, and began consuming them.

• The United City appeared on a living planet, where the Sole Supremacy Society found a tablet bearing a message from Ouyang Tian and Saya.
• The Second Elder explained that the Society’s blind jump had led them to the planet because it resembled Earth, and the elders decided they could not afford to jump again.
• The Second Elder told the elders that Chaos Omniscience had offered to free them from control, prompting the Grand Elder to weigh the Society’s loyalties and options.
• The tablet transformed into the Flesh Stone Tablet, revealed that Chaos Omniscience had needed Ouyang Tian to guide it, and mocked the elders’ fear.
• The Flesh Stone Tablet trapped the Eighth Elder and began ravaging his body, while the Grand Elder realized it intended to consume them all.

The Flesh Stone Tablet confronted the Grand Elder, who realized Fire Eye would not answer because it avoided the entity rather than feared it. After the Grand Elder refused to join it over its grotesque appearance, the Tablet transformed into a handsome human warrior and sought his cooperation.

• The Flesh Stone Tablet restrained the Grand Elder while his subordinates fled, and the Grand Elder concluded Fire Eye had avoided answering his summons.
• The Grand Elder insulted the Tablet by calling it Fire Eye's excrement, angering it until he laughed and the intestines around his neck loosened.
• The Flesh Stone Tablet offered the Grand Elder freedom, power, and longevity, but he refused because he did not want to become a foul-smelling monster and lose his Thirty-three Concubines.
• The Flesh Stone Tablet transformed into an imposing ancient Greek warrior, and the Tenth Elder confirmed that it looked human.
• The Grand Elder agreed to consider cooperating with the Tablet if it maintained its human appearance.

The Greek man tried to persuade the Sole Supremacy Society elders to merge with him, explaining why Wenren Sheng was allowed to act freely. When the Seventh Elder refused, the Greek man swallowed him, revealing that his promises of voluntary cooperation meant little.

• The Greek man introduced himself as coming from Chaos and invited the elders to cooperate with him.
• The Second Elder asked him to release the Eighth Elder, but the Greek man said the Eighth Elder preferred life in the Flesh World.
• The Eighth Elder explained that Wenren Sheng was allowed to explore freely because his discoveries would still reach the Disaster Anomaly Principal and Chaos Omniscience.
• The Greek man said he wanted the elders to merge into him and serve as advisors, while he provided their ability to act.
• The Seventh Elder refused to merge, so the Greek man swallowed him and defended the act by saying that saying and doing were different.

Wenren Sheng went to the planet where the Flesh Stone Tablet stood to deal with the Sole Supremacy Society members before Ai Han De Bu returned to rescue them. He halted his attack when he realized the Greek man was the Flesh World's incarnation and had already swallowed the elders.

• Little Tentacle told Wenren Sheng that Ai Han De Bu was returning to rescue the Sole Supremacy Society members, so Wenren Sheng decided to eliminate them first.
• Little Tentacle showed Wenren Sheng where the Sole Supremacy Society was, and Wenren Sheng contacted Ouyang Tian before heading there.
• Wenren Sheng appeared above the planet and struck at the Sole Supremacy Society, while the Greek man slowed time and swallowed the elders.
• The Sole Supremacy Society elders mistook Wenren Sheng's gathered power for a reason to surrender, but the Greek man swallowed them one by one.
• Wenren Sheng withdrew his attack before the planet was destroyed, then recognized the Greek man as the incarnation of the Flesh World.

Wenren Sheng used the power of two Strange Seeds to drive the Flesh Stone Tablet back to its world and save the surviving Sole Supremacy Society elders. Back home, he reflected on strength and unity, then planned to reward the Mystery Exploration Department with Strange Seeds.

• Wenren Sheng’s attack failed to harm the Greek man, who revealed his Flesh Stone Tablet form and sent tentacles to devour him.
• Wenren Sheng amplified the connection between two Strange Seeds fifty thousandfold, causing the Flesh Stone Tablet’s captured elders to vanish and forcing it to flee with the Grand Elder and Second Elder still inside.
• Wenren Sheng and Ouyang Tian took the people of United City to the Ninth District aboard the Interstellar Train.
• Wenren Sheng returned home, where Little Tentacle said Ai Han De Bu was frightened and would not come back.
• Wenren Sheng told Little Illusion that humanity’s greatest advantage was unity, then decided to give Strange Seeds to the Mystery Exploration Department as rewards.

Tianxing Club announced two Strange Seeds as rewards, with Li Chun receiving one and Little Illusion reserving the other for whoever helped her conquer the Demon World. Xie Dong, Chen Qiu, and four Experienced Ones joined the campaign, and Little Illusion brought them to a seemingly idyllic manor that concealed a rotten stench they could not ignore.

• Zhao Han revealed the department's performance records and named Li Chun the first Strange Seed recipient.
• Zhao Han announced that Little Illusion would award the second Strange Seed based on the next phase's performance in the Demon World.
• Little Illusion said her warriors were stalled before three Greater Demon fortresses, prompting Xie Dong, Chen Qiu, and four Experienced Ones to volunteer.
• Little Illusion brought the six volunteers to her manor, where they were overwhelmed by a rotten smell that she could not detect.
• Little Illusion used a Conversion Art to replace the volunteers' perception of the stench with a fresh, sweet fragrance.

Little Illusion led Xie Dong and the others to Blood Pool Fortress, where the Demon defenses made a direct assault seem impossible. Chen Qiu proposed drawing the Demons out, and Xie Dong realized he could bait them by making them believe he had obtained Time Power, but the company’s advice to “Use yourself” left him wondering whether he possessed it.

• Little Illusion showed off her army and explained that barriers protected the three remaining Demon fortresses from her powers.
• After five days of marching, Little Illusion and the others reached Blood Pool Fortress and saw its formidable defenses and Demon troops.
• Chen Qiu suggested changing the plan from storming the fortress to luring the Demons out.
• Xie Dong connected the Anomalies’ interest in time reversal to a possible way to bait the Demons into leaving their fortress.
• Xie Dong asked the company for help and received the cryptic instruction, “Use yourself,” prompting him to wonder whether he possessed Time Power.

Xie Dong jumped into Blood Lake and died, prompting Chen Qiu to suspect that the Demons were sacrificing themselves to stir something beneath it. Little Illusion abandoned the plan to capture the fortress, then revived Xie Dong with a Greater Angel.

• Zhao Han asked the Seed of Narration what it meant by Xie Dong using himself, but it told her to wait and watch.
• Xie Dong jumped into Blood Lake, where his body and soul were destroyed, and the others were left baffled by his death.
• Blood Pool Fortress opened a bone bridge and sent skeletons and Lesser Demons to die in the lake until the bridge vanished.
• Chen Qiu inferred that the sacrifices were stirring a hidden essence beneath Blood Lake and decided that capturing the fortress would require Little Illusion's believers.
• Little Illusion refused to risk her believers, withdrew her troops, and summoned a Greater Angel to resurrect Xie Dong from the sludge she retrieved from Blood Lake.

Xie Dong persuaded Little Illusion to treat the assault on Blood Pool Fortress as a repeatable dungeon, and she agreed to send Miken believers into battle for its rewards. The first chaotic fight began to turn in their favor when Greater Angels resurrected fallen Soldiers and sent them back to the battlefield.

• Xie Dong convinced Little Illusion to keep fighting by describing the battle as a farmable dungeon full of local specialties.
• Little Illusion ordered the recruitment of Miken believers, and the priests gathered a force of 1,200 people over ten days.
• The hastily assembled force advanced onto the Bone Bridge and suffered heavy casualties amid confusion and friendly fire.
• Little Illusion rotated teams and issued orders enthusiastically while the other spectators doubted that the force could win.
• Greater Angels resurrected the first fallen Soldiers, who returned to battle and fought better than before.

Dafflin fought his way through the battlefield, died in the Blood Lake, and was revived with his Strange Seed returned to him. He rejoined the fighting as the Blood Lake seemed to grow clearer, leaving him unsure what the change meant.

• Dafflin used a bow to kill skeletons, earned promotions, and taught the soldiers how to target their weak points.
• Battlefield rewards improved morale and made the drafting process smoother, but Dafflin later died when a Bone Dragon threw him into the Blood Lake.
• After being revived by an old Angel, Dafflin discovered his Strange Seed was missing and rushed to search for it.
• A soldier returned Dafflin's Strange Seed, and he put it safely inside his stomach before heading back out.
• Dafflin heard that the Blood Lake had become clearer and that a fish was swimming in it, then went to join a newly forming unit.

Wenren Sheng recognized that the Demon World’s Blood Lake was an abscess from the Origin Realm contaminating the Earth Universe, and devised a plan to lure the Anomalies into his home ground. Xie Dong received a secret order and a Seed of Sorrow, but the order left him unaware of the plan’s true purpose.

• Blood Lake briefly cleared as the Greater Demons weakened, then grew murky again and made them stronger.
• Wenren Sheng explained that the abscesses were contaminating the Earth Universe and concluded that a larger population could share the burden of resisting the chaos.
• Wenren Sheng told the Patrol Division that the Anomalies’ sources needed to be eliminated, then entered the Origin Realm to consider how to lure them into the Earth Universe.
• Wenren Sheng formed the Fishing Net Plan, using the Anomalies’ desire for the Earth Universe’s stability as bait.
• Xie Dong received a Secret Order and an early Strange Seed, discovered it was the Seed of Sorrow, and read instructions that did not reveal the plan’s purpose.

Li Chun investigated a woman’s drowning in Wei Kou Stream, while the hidden Xie Dong challenged him to uncover the truth. Video footage revealed that the woman had used her mental power to drown herself as a test of her boyfriend’s love, and Li Chun correctly guessed her motive.

• A woman argued with her boyfriend beside Wei Kou Stream, and he shoved her into the water before walking away.
• Five hours later, Li Chun examined the woman’s body and initially concluded that her boyfriend’s shove had caused her accidental drowning.
• Li Chun explained that cameras in the ecological zone had recorded the incident, and police retrieved the Video Recording.
• The footage showed the woman deliberately submerging her head after her boyfriend left, leaving the officers baffled by her apparent suicide.
• Li Chun said the woman had used her mind to test whether her boyfriend loved her, and Xie Dong realized he had guessed the truth.

Xie Dong resurrected Luo Wanran as the White Snake Bai Wan and sent her to seek true love. After she stole pills from Big Fatty Monk, she was rescued by the scheming scholar Liu Chengzhang, whose name she remembered as Xie Dong despaired over her prospects of completing the Secret Order.

• After Li Chun left, the dead woman revived beside the van, and Xie Dong approached her with promises that she could find true love.
• Xie Dong resurrected Luo Wanran as Bai Wan, a White Snake, and told her to follow his arrangements.
• Bai Wan stole and swallowed Big Fatty Monk’s seven unripe pills, then fled through the Bamboo Forest as he chased her.
• A hunter trapped Bai Wan, but scholar Liu Chengzhang bought and released her, claiming he was sparing a pregnant animal.
• Liu Chengzhang earned a reputation for freeing the White Snake and passed the Provincial Examination in seventh place, while Bai Wan remembered his name and Xie Dong worried about the Secret Order.

Wenren Sheng watched Xie Dong manipulate the New Legend of the White Snake story, guiding Bai Wan, Liu Chengzhang, and a monk into a renewed conflict. Liu Chengzhang and Bai Wan rushed toward marriage despite the monk’s interference, leaving Liu determined to drive him away and prove his sincerity.

• Wenren Sheng observed Xie Dong use the Secret Order to steer the story’s characters toward conflict.
• Xie Dong told Big Fatty Monk where to find the White Snake and helped him cultivate, reigniting their feud.
• Bai Wan postponed repaying her karmic debt through Liu Chengzhang’s many reincarnations until she met him as a handsome doctor.
• Bai Wan began dating Liu Chengzhang, while the monk warned him that humans and demons could not be together.
• Liu Chengzhang and Bai Wan married after the monk repeatedly appeared to obstruct them, and the monk demanded that Bai Wan return to the Bamboo Forest.
• After the police failed to see the monk, Liu Chengzhang realized Bai Wan had been watching his reaction and resolved to drive the monk away.

Liu Chengzhang and Bai Wan’s romance unfolded as a farcical struggle with Bald Man, while Wenren Sheng watched their story distort the original plot and draw an Anomaly into the Ninth District. After Bai Wan became pregnant, she carried the child for seven years before giving birth to seven children on one stem.

• Liu Chengzhang tried to drive Bald Man away, while Bai Wan stayed passive until Xie Dong prompted her to take part in the relationship.
• Bai Wan and Liu Chengzhang argued with Bald Man over who caused the events, and Liu Chengzhang backed her claim that seven times seven was forty-two.
• Wenren Sheng watched the comedy attract a Crystal Ball Anomaly into the Ninth District, and a nurse later gave the ball to Liu Chengzhang.
• Liu Chengzhang arranged a blind date for Bald Man, who fell in love and stopped interfering with the couple.
• Bai Wan became pregnant, and after seven years she gave birth to seven children on one stem.

Wenren Sheng watched Gui Mei use the Crystal Ball to draw nourishment from the love and family devotion in Liu Chengzhang’s story. After the Rose Brothers failed to defeat Big Fatty Monk, they transformed into a rose, drawing the monk’s old weakness into the Bamboo Forest.

• The Bald Man captured Bai Wan in a Pill Furnace, and Liu Chengzhang raised their seven sons to rescue her.
• Liu Chengzhang became the Rose Brothers’ strategist, and Second Treasure used his powers to find Big Fatty Monk’s hiding place.
• Gui Mei entered the Crystal Ball and fed on the love between Liu Chengzhang and Bai Wan and the children’s devotion to their mother.
• The Rose Brothers attacked Big Fatty Monk but were defeated with help from Xie Dong and locked in a bamboo room.
• Liu Chengzhang gave the children the Crystal Ball, and they transformed into a single rose after Seventh Baby figured out its message.
• An old woman arrived at the Bamboo Forest, accusing Big Fatty Monk of hiding a woman and exposing his weakness.

Wenren Sheng captured the Origin Realm Fish by turning its simulated world into a USB drive, then identified the sea of roses as Gui Mei, an Origin Realm lifeform that fed on love. He planned to keep capturing such beings, considering a tragedy for his next attempt.

• The fat woman found Big Fatty Monk’s seven phantom children, chased him down, and argued with him about his debt to their mother.
• A month later, Big Fatty Monk suppressed White Snake beneath a mountain and died after telling Bai Wan the world was both real and false.
• The seven children rescued Bai Wan, but a crystal ball sealed the family reunion as roses spread across the world.
• Wenren Sheng grasped the simulated world, converted it into a USB drive, and copied Big Fatty Monk’s data into a separate backup.
• Wenren Sheng identified the sea of roses as Gui Mei, an Origin Realm lifeform that fed on love, and decided to make his next story a tragedy.

Wenren Sheng tried fishing for Origin Realm creatures, but the intelligent fish repeatedly stole the bait after the Disaster Anomaly Academy taught them about his methods. He traveled to a branch campus in a Fragment World to investigate and arrived at the three Desert Academy campuses.

• Wenren Sheng asked his family how they could fish safely, and Little Octopus suggested using bait that would not attract crocodiles.
• Wenren Sheng funded a tragic story directed by Little Illusion, then used its production as bait to catch an Origin Realm Anomaly.
• The Anomaly took the bait and escaped, and subsequent attempts also lost their bait before catching anything.
• Little Octopus explained that the Disaster Anomaly Academy had taught students about Wenren Sheng’s fishing methods, so he decided to investigate the academy.
• Wenren Sheng took an Interstellar Train to a Fragment World and arrived at the Desert Academy’s East, North, and West campuses.

Wenren Sheng arrived at Desert Academy and learned that its tower door had lied about how to obtain admission. After intervening in what looked like a bullying incident, he discovered that the gas masses had been courting the smaller one according to their customs.

• Wenren Sheng asked the eastern tower door about admission and heard that he could kill students or steal their Student IDs, while also learning about Love Academy.
• Wenren Sheng watched three black gas masses strike a smaller white one, knocked one down, and took its Student ID.
• The smaller gas mass told Wenren Sheng that admission required assessment at the highest tower and that stealing a Student ID would make him unwelcome.
• Wenren Sheng returned the Student ID and apologized, and the large gas mass forgave him.
• The smaller gas mass explained that the three had been courting it, since fighting meant affection among their kind, and Wenren Sheng accepted the explanation.