Chapter Summaries

Huo Ke grew alarmed when the settlement arrested followers of Cthulhu and KuluLu, convinced the cults had let themselves be captured because they posed no threat to them. He decided to flee that night, while telling Ao Deng he would stay behind and hold the settlement.

• Two men praised the spread of KuluLu statues, while Turtle continued crafting them and hoped the work would earn it more rest.
• Nearly everyone in the settlement acquired a KuluLu statue and reported better sleep and recovery, though the statues’ songs gave them headaches.
• Huo Ke and Ao Deng agreed to expel the rival Evil Object cults, and two Patrol Teams arrested Cthulhu followers and captured Little Panda and two young women.
• Huo Ke grew more worried when the cultists did not resist and decided to leave that night; he told Ao Deng to stay behind while he went to find reinforcements.

Wenren Sheng considered the threat posed by an enemy beyond his dimensional reach, then walked through his peaceful world and found the Little Panda had been captured and sold. Little Illusion soon summoned the rescued panda back to the wasteland to work, leaving it once again the only one to suffer.

• Little Illusion told Wenren Sheng that her people had been arrested, and he advised her to ignore the matter as KuluLu would.
• Wenren Sheng realized that an unknown force had removed a page from his memories, likely to prove the High Tower Principal’s existence, and resolved to face the unprecedented enemy in his own world.
• Wenren Sheng found the Little Panda caged at a pet shop and watched an old painter buy it for thirty million.
• The old painter recognized the Little Panda as KuluLu’s messenger, brought it home, and offered it bamboo while it decided to wait there.
• Little Illusion ordered the Little Panda back to the wasteland to work, and threatened to turn it into a Little Octopus when it refused.

Wenren Sheng saw Little Illusion’s influence spreading through Eastwater and reflected on how people faced death. He left the hospital after witnessing several elderly patients and a young woman confronting the end of their lives in different ways.

• Little Panda vanished, and an old painter painted KuluLu-sama in Eastwater, later selling the painting for eighty million.
• Wenren Sheng returned to the street and saw an old lady lure two middle-aged men away with Octopus Head Statues while promoting KuluLu.
• Wenren Sheng considered how fear of death drove people to seek comfort and then visited a hospital where elderly patients received end-of-life care.
• Wenren Sheng overheard a son privately admit he had sold his father’s cherished car and planned to bury a toy car instead.
• Wenren Sheng read the thoughts of an old woman who accepted her approaching death and fell asleep, and of a young woman who hoped death would be like a long sleep before awakening in chaos.

Wenren Sheng planned to reshape Dongshui City into a varied, sustainable world that could attract Chaos Omniscience, including a reincarnation system that preserved life’s accumulated knowledge. He appointed Zhao Han and the Seed of Narration to serve as the shared earthly mother and heavenly father, giving them a chance to approach sainthood.

• Wenren Sheng surveyed peaceful Dongshui City and concluded that Chaos Omniscience’s world must be drawn to his Small World because its own world was full of conflict.
• Wenren Sheng found no response from Chaos Omniscience and began planning improvements to the Fragment World, including varied neighborhoods, entertainment, and creative challenges.
• Wenren Sheng designed reincarnation so people could retain knowledge between lives while being born of heaven and raised by earth, with shared heavenly parents for those who wanted family bonds.
• Wenren Sheng presented his plans at home and appointed Zhao Han as the earthly mother after she had passed a Planet Will test.
• The Seed of Narration urged Zhao Han to yield the role, so Wenren Sheng gave it the heavenly father position instead, assigning both roles as rare opportunities on the path toward sainthood.

Wenren Sheng established the Land of the Gods to prepare for reincarnation, but Little Illusion emerged from one of its stones and began assigning future beings to serve as her train drivers. The first new arrival, Lu Zhi, attacked Wenren Sheng to test whether he was real and was sealed back inside her stone, leaving him curious about her connection to the secret of Chaos Omniscience.

• Wenren Sheng assigned jobs to his family, including naming the tentacle in his study Soul Administrator.
• Wenren Sheng followed the Game Emulator's instructions to create the Land of the Gods and fill stones with embryos for future reincarnations.
• Little Illusion emerged from a stone, thanked Wenren Sheng, and explained that her followers would drive a Deep Sea Train into people's dreams.
• Little Illusion assigned several stones to her drivers and said she intended to gather delicious, fun, and funny things for KuluLu.
• Lu Zhi emerged from a stone and stabbed at Wenren Sheng to test whether he was real.
• Wenren Sheng sealed Lu Zhi inside her stone until she learned not to use a knife when dealing with people, and wondered whether she could reveal something about Chaos Omniscience.

Lu Zhi used endless reincarnations in the stone to develop a plan for remaking the world, while Wenren Sheng hid her presence across Dongshui City with Little Illusion. Lu Zhi and Furball then reversed the city’s residents to childhood, causing chaos and many deaths before she restored them to age eighteen.

• After Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion left, Lu Zhi repeatedly reincarnated through the stone and realized she could use the process to refine her ideas for creating a clean world.
• Wenren Sheng had Little Illusion cover Eastwater with an illusion so Lu Zhi could go unnoticed, and Lu Zhi found Furball again.
• Lu Zhi ordered Furball to make everyone in the city younger than ten, and Furball discovered it could do so.
• Furball’s power turned Dongshui City’s residents into children, creating confusion and dangerous disruptions at the power plant, on the roads, and around the city.
• Lu Zhi had Furball age everyone to eighteen again, but the sudden transformation had already caused tens of thousands of deaths.

After the train station vanished, Lu Empress Dowager reshaped Dongshui City into a feudal farming society based on her presentation, leaving residents to cope without modern conveniences. As people struggled to cook and found new ways to entertain themselves, the young football players discovered that they had lost their interest in women.

• Dongshui City’s residents panicked after their ages changed, but Lu Empress Dowager found the train station gone and began revising her plan to create a simpler world.
• Lu Empress Dowager spent two days updating her presentation while Wenren Sheng watched and considered whether Chaos Omniscience might welcome her vision.
• Dongshui City’s modern buildings and utilities disappeared, replaced by farm courtyards, pastures, and a Big Lake.
• An eighteen-year-old white-collar worker and his family struggled to start a fire and cook until they borrowed fire from a wilderness survival enthusiast, who was elected village chief.
• The white-collar worker’s son went looking for entertainment, joined a football team, and noticed that the male players felt no attraction to the women watching.

Professors and city officials struggled to address food shortages after Dongshui City’s residents returned to an ancient way of life, eventually urging people to farm and disperse into the countryside. As the citizens organized amid mounting uncertainty, Lu Zhi continued revising her presentation while Furball watched the city’s turmoil.

• The professors and former Municipal Affairs Division staff gathered to discuss food shortages, but the scholars admitted they lacked practical knowledge of cooking and starting fires.
• Sports university teachers demonstrated how to make fires and use field waste for fuel, while the Division Chief called for public guides and warned that supplies would last only two weeks.
• The Municipal Affairs Division proposed moving people into surrounding areas to farm, but residents resisted until officials pointed out that their old jobs and food supplies would soon run out.
• Some residents hoped the gods would provide endless food, but their prayers brought no results, and the city’s people began forming organizations as officials struggled to coordinate them.
• Furball complained to Lu Zhi about the disorder, and Lu Zhi called herself a monster before returning to work on her PowerPoint presentation.

Lu Zhi and Furball watched humanity adapt to life as tree people, until a mysterious sleeper arrived and behaved as though he were dreaming. They suspected the tree person was dreaming the world around him, but had not yet verified it.

• People transformed into tree people, and the Municipal Affairs Division distributed land while people competed to grow leaves and customize their appearances.
• Lu Zhi told Furball that the tree people’s world was peaceful and free, while Furball questioned whether others felt the same way.
• A streak of white light fell from the sky, and a tree grew from the spot before turning into a sleeping person.
• Lu Zhi stabbed the tree person, who tried to escape by running, crawling, and flying through the air.
• Lu Zhi proposed that the tree person was dreaming and using abilities within the dream, while Furball suggested testing the idea by watching whether he needed to urinate.

Wenren Sheng watched a mysterious tree person briefly appear in the city, then projected a wisp of thought into it and observed Luo Yan awaken in another world. There, Luo Yan and his team investigated a drowned student’s death, while Wenren Sheng recognized it as a suicide and learned how the mist supplied cities with cases and resources.

• Wenren Sheng watched the tree person land on a drill ground, search around, and try to urinate before turning into a ball of light.
• Wenren Sheng sent a wisp of thought toward the disappearing tree person, and Luo Yan woke from a long nap in Hai City.
• Luo Yan and Meizi joined their captain to investigate an unidentified drowned man in a Mist Zone, and Wenren Sheng concluded the deceased had taken his own life.
• Luo Yan found the deceased’s library card and identified him as He Changliang, a student at Hai City University.
• The captain and Luo Yan headed to the university while Meizi arranged for the body to be collected and sent for an autopsy.

Luo Yan convinced the Captain to submit a suicide ruling, and the case was confirmed, earning supplies and a speed-solving invitation. With Wenren Sheng’s hints, Luo Yan rose quickly through the bureau, but after Wenren Sheng left, his uncanny ability vanished and he returned to ordinary work.

• Luo Yan argued that the dead man had caused his own ligature marks and asked the Captain to submit suicide as the answer.
• The Captain’s Black Watch confirmed the suicide ruling and awarded 20 tons of Unshelled Wheat and three Sunny Days.
• Luo Yan’s Second Team solved five cases in three days, and Luo Yan rose from team member to deputy bureau chief within half a year.
• Luo Yan accepted blind dates and enjoyed his sudden success while Meizi brought him more cases to handle.
• Wenren Sheng decided to leave, and Luo Yan’s ability to receive clues and hints stopped working.
• The city kept the extra supplies in storage, while Luo Yan accepted the loss of his ability and returned to his former routine.

Luo Yan struggled with losing his case-solving ability and the ridicule of his coworkers, then fell asleep and entered the tree-people world where Little Illusion took his place. He woke to find a case list on his Black Watch and left his office as his colleagues watched to see whether his abilities had returned.

• Luo Yan endured coworkers' taunts and was reminded by the head of logistics that he had to complete his monthly quota.
• Meizi urged Luo Yan to keep solving cases, but he said the work was too exhausting and collapsed onto his desk.
• Luo Yan dreamed of flying among tree people, then rooted himself in the ground and enjoyed absorbing fertilizer.
• Little Illusion appeared and said she would go up to have some fun while Wenren Sheng continued following her with his thoughts.
• Luo Yan woke to find case assignments and other details displayed on his Black Watch, then left his office as coworkers jeered and one person defended him.

Little Illusion used Wenren Sheng’s answers to solve five cases, prompting Hu Mei to conclude that Luo Yan had multiple personalities. Hu Mei brought Little Illusion to her villa to investigate, while Wenren Sheng decided to cooperate with the city’s effort to learn from Luo Yan’s detective talent.

• Hu Mei challenged Little Illusion to prove she was not useless by solving cases, and Wenren Sheng supplied answers to all five.
• Little Illusion repeated the solutions, and Hu Mei claimed that Luo Yan had intelligent, ordinary, and little-girl personalities.
• Little Illusion rushed to Hu Mei’s home, where Hu Mei explained that the villa’s servants were Drifters who had accepted work without pay.
• Hu Mei told an Old Man that she still needed to question Luo Yan’s ordinary personality, and Wenren Sheng realized the city wanted to reproduce Luo Yan’s detective successes.
• Little Illusion said she came from a world shrouded in mist, and Hu Mei accepted the mist as the likely source of her abilities.

Luo Yan turned Treant City into a refuge for people in Hai City who wanted to escape their difficult lives, but Meizi arrived to warn him that the dream was endangering their real bodies. The chapter ended with Luo Yan learning that the personality inhabiting his body was recklessly leading people into dangerous competitions.

• Luo Yan decided to bring people from Hai City into Treant City by making them dream of it.
• Rumors about the treant city spread, and many Hai City residents began dreaming of life there.
• Luo Yan welcomed the newcomers, who settled in the West Side, relaxed, and played Yezi Cards.
• Meizi found Luo Yan and urged him to leave the dream, warning that people’s real bodies could die while their consciousnesses were away.
• Meizi told Luo Yan that the personality replacing him was unafraid of death and kept pushing people into dangerous challenges.

Luo Yan remained trapped in the tree-person world while Little Girl controlled his body, and he learned that she could manipulate the Mist in a way no one else could. After a week of trying to appease her with handmade toys, she granted him a brief return to his world, where he discovered he had been dressed as a panda plushie.

• Luo Yan failed to wake up because Little Girl refused to let him return, and he told Meizi that she had taken over his body and claimed to be an Evil God.
• Meizi relayed that Divine Detectives believed Luo Yan’s other personality had received the Mist’s favor, while a female tree person discussed how the Mist had kept their civilization dependent on its rewards.
• Meizi returned with advice from Divine Detective A and helped Luo Yan gather materials to make plush toys for Little Girl.
• Little Girl dismissed the toys and revealed that she could make the Mist produce things by sending people along a path deep into it, prompting Luo Yan to realize the Mist might be spitting explorers back out.
• Little Girl, calling herself KuluLu-sama, agreed to let Luo Yan return for fifty minutes, and he woke to find himself dressed as a panda plushie.

Luo Yan learned that martial artists had appeared in Sky City and revealed the truth about his dreams to Hu Mei. Little Illusion promised to restore his power if he helped the newcomers enter the world of the tree people, and he began reviewing lucrative old cases.

• Luo Yan woke to a crowd worshipping KuluLu-sama and learned from Hu Mei that powerful martial artists had arrived in Sky City.
• Hu Mei questioned Luo Yan about the events that began half a year earlier, and he told her about his dream and the voice that taught him to solve cases.
• Little Illusion offered to restore Luo Yan’s power if he contacted the outsiders and helped them enter the world of the tree people.
• Luo Yan accepted the offer, returned to his office, and began reviewing backlogged cases for their rewards.
• Luo Yan chose the Ring Road Serial Murder Case, a thirty-year-old unsolved killing spree with a house and shop offered as a reward.

Wenren Sheng watched Luo Yan travel to Sky City and attend a martial arts performance at the Grand Theater, where a young fighter’s tiger spirit suddenly attacked a staff member. The chapter ended as Luo Yan called on KuluLu to save his friend.

• Luo Yan arrived in Sky City and met his balding friend, who drove him to the Grand Theater to see the outsiders.
• Luo Yan and his friend entered through the backstage and took up positions as security beneath the stage.
• Little Master Liu performed the Subduing Tiger Divine Fist, summoning an increasingly lifelike Crimson Fierce Tiger as the audience watched.
• The Fierce Tiger broke free and pounced on Luo Yan’s balding friend, who froze in fear.
• Luo Yan silently asked KuluLu-sama to save his friend, and KuluLu claimed the tiger as hers.

Luo Yan summoned Little Illusion to fight Wang Wenzhao after the martial artist’s pressure threatened to suffocate him. Little Illusion struggled against Wang Wenzhao’s protective qi and asked Wenren Sheng for help, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Little Illusion subdued the Fierce Tiger, and Luo Yan accepted thanks from Liu Gang.
• Man A and another burly martial artist challenged Luo Yan, then brought out their Eldest Brother, Wang Wenzhao.
• Wang Wenzhao pressured Luo Yan until Luo Yan called on KuluLu-sama, who took control of his body and agreed to fight.
• The host introduced the duel as a contest between a local mysterious figure and a martial arts expert from another world.
• Little Illusion attacked Wang Wenzhao with dirty tricks, but he countered with Primal Chaos Protective Qi and knocked her back.
• Little Illusion asked Wenren Sheng for help, and he told her to strike Wang Wenzhao’s weak point on the ceiling with her Great Handprint.

Little Illusion defeated Wang Wenzhao and brought him into a dreamlike world where Wenren Sheng experienced life as a high school student. After discovering that extraordinary powers were unavailable there, Wenren Sheng looked into the spreading hypersomnia and the growing demand for psychology and psychiatry.

• Little Illusion used the Great Handprint to shatter a chandelier and defeat Wang Wenzhao, who asked how she had discovered his weakness.
• Wang Wenzhao explained that people from his world had entered this place through dreams, seeking martial arts and the chance to cultivate Primal Truth.
• Little Illusion offered to take Wang Wenzhao somewhere more interesting and switched their consciousnesses.
• Wenren Sheng took Wang Wenzhao's place in a classroom, solved a difficult math problem in four ways, criticized the education system, and was dragged back by a burly man.
• Wenren Sheng read news reporting that hypersomnia was spreading and that psychology and psychiatry had become popular fields of study.

Wenren Sheng pursued a way to make money by investigating the widespread hypersomnia, then was taken to meet Qian Corporation’s ailing chairman about waking his heir, Qian Shaokun. The chapter ended with Wenren Sheng explaining that the dream world offered power and immortality.

• Wenren Sheng decided to have Little Illusion type a story for him as a way to earn money.
• Wenren Sheng, using Wang Wenzhao’s identity, went to an internet café and began having Little Illusion type, but a fire drill interrupted them.
• He Guangtao and Butler Qian brought Wenren Sheng to Old Qian Dong, who asked how he had awakened from hypersomnia.
• Wenren Sheng told Old Qian Dong that people stayed in the dreamland because it offered power and immortality.