Chapter Summaries

Little Illusion slept for days while Wenren Sheng tried to guide her new power, then he traveled to the Spore World and ended the spore threat. He discovered the worlds formed a ring and returned to restored Miken, where people began rebuilding their lives.

• Little Illusion declared she would become a Great Demon King, and Wenren Sheng left a book beneath her head to guide her ability while she slept.
• Wenren Sheng entered the Spore World and saw the shelter’s people praying to his Old Professor identity for help.
• Wenren Sheng made the spores disappear, and the shelter’s residents celebrated the miracle before its management restored order.
• Wenren Sheng realized the worlds formed a Ring World and traveled back to Miken.
• Miken’s people awoke with memories of their spore-controlled lives and resumed work as Wenren Sheng wandered through the city.

Wenren Sheng returned from the Spore World to the original world and learned from the High Tower Principal that laughter could help him cross the obstacles surrounding Chaos Omniscience. He decided to seek out Little Illusion, who was dreaming about becoming a powerful demon and taking on Evil Gods.

• Wenren Sheng restored the spores’ control over armed men in a bar after hearing them threaten the town’s people.
• Wenren Sheng left the bar and found himself in the nuclear-blasted Wasteland of the original world.
• Wang Yanhú led Wenren Sheng to the High Tower Principal, who told him that laughter could cross obstacles between people and worlds.
• The High Tower Principal urged Wenren Sheng to create laughter, and Wenren Sheng decided to find Little Illusion.
• Wenren Sheng watched Little Illusion sleep and heard her dream about becoming the Great Demon King and devouring Evil Gods.

Wenren Sheng linked Little Illusion to Julie, a thirteen-year-old math prodigy in pre-Nuclear Explosion Miken, and watched as they argued over study, play, and the meaning of life. Little Illusion convinced Julie to test Wenren Sheng by offering him a difficult math problem in exchange for five days of playtime.

• Wenren Sheng entered the world he had created and found Little Illusion inside Julie on a university campus.
• Little Illusion urged Julie to stop studying and play, but Julie dismissed her and argued that mathematical knowledge could outlast a person's life.
• Little Illusion revealed that she could not control source power and claimed she was Huanhuan, while Julie suspected she was one of her own personalities.
• Little Illusion told Julie that Old Wen was immensely powerful and claimed to be his biological daughter, making Julie wonder if the personality was something beyond her own mind.
• Julie offered Little Illusion five days of playtime if Old Wen solved a difficult math problem, and Little Illusion accepted.

Little Illusion took control of Julie’s body, went shooting and fishing with Jock, and then encountered a reckless group on another yacht. She wanted to accept their dangerous challenge, while Jock warned against it and the crewman appeared ready to play.

• Wenren Sheng solved Julie’s difficult math problem in an hour, and Little Illusion showed the solution to Julie.
• Little Illusion took control of Julie’s body, threw away her textbook, and befriended a student named Jock.
• Little Illusion persuaded Jock to visit a ranch, where she and Jock fired guns under the owner’s supervision.
• Little Illusion and Jock went out on a yacht, where she fished, caught fish, and rode sharks while Jock admired her abilities.
• A luxury yacht carrying Fitch and his companions challenged them to steer their yachts toward each other, and Little Illusion wanted to play despite Jock’s warnings.

Little Illusion and the others survived a yacht collision by being transported to an icy sea, where a Drone announced a deadly race for supplies. As the larger group prepared to pursue them, Julie advised Little Illusion’s crew to stay put and watch for danger.

• Little Illusion’s yacht collided head-on with the other yacht, and Wenren Sheng watched from a helicopter as both vessels vanished without wreckage.
• The passengers awoke on an ice-filled sea with their yachts intact, and a Drone announced that survival supplies awaited two kilometers away on floating ice that would soon sink.
• The Bald Young Man claimed they had been chosen by God and volunteered to drive his yacht toward the supplies.
• The Red-Faced Strongman proposed reaching the supplies first, but Little Illusion warned that charging ahead would get them killed.
• Julie advised Little Illusion’s small crew to stay where they were, suspecting that the icebergs hid dangers.

The Drone watched the survivors struggle to cross the ice and revealed that they could request supplies and other gifts directly. Little Illusion remained unimpressed, while the Red-Faced Strongman and Jock accepted warmth, liquor, and a chance at becoming Hulk; the group realized the Drone’s gifts depended on pleasing Julie.

• The Bald Man forced the women on his yacht to transfer the cold-weather supplies across the floating ice, and the ice collapsed after the supplies were moved.
• The Drone conjured Bearskin Coats and vodka for Little Illusion, the Red-Faced Strongman, and Jock after they said what they wanted.
• The Drone explained that people could ask it directly for things, and Jock considered returning home before learning about his inherited disease-causing gene.
• The Red-Faced Strongman asked to become Batman, then accepted the Drone’s offer of Hulk’s Blood and a path to becoming Hulk.
• Little Illusion rejected the Drone’s stories of struggle, and the Red-Faced Strongman and Jock realized its gifts revolved around making Julie happy.

Little Illusion chose a zoo-management contest, while the Drone gave her team an easy advantage and the rival group’s infighting ruined their chances. After the rivals fled hungry Polar Bears, Little Illusion demanded more challenging opponents, and the Drone agreed to find them.

• After Little Illusion admitted that nothing felt fun anymore, Wenren Sheng connected her consciousness to a Super Hero world and considered whether the Drone world might lead to Chaos Omniscience.
• Little Illusion chose Zoo Tycoon, and the Drone created two zoos on an ice island, supplying each team with seals, Polar Bears, and sea shrimp.
• Vincent’s companions knocked him unconscious, threw him into the sea, and began making rules for their group.
• By the time Vincent’s group reached their zoo, the Polar Bears had eaten all the seals, and the group failed to attract visitors before fleeing the hungry bears.
• Little Illusion complained that her opponents were too foolish, and the Drone promised to select a more suitable group.

Wenren Sheng saw through the virtual entertainment world and moved its trapped human minds to a new home, then returned to the High Tower Principal still struggling to find a way past his impasse. Watching Little Illusion and the tree people live happily, he reflected on how people relied on spiritual anchors to make life bearable.

• Wenren Sheng recognized the Matrix Entertainment world as virtual, and the drone asked him to help its trapped people escape.
• Little Illusion accepted the drone’s people into her service, and Wenren Sheng copied them as data and settled them on a planet in the Nine Stars District.
• Wenren Sheng told the High Tower Principal that his advice had not helped, then agreed to adjust himself after considering Chaos Omniscience’s influence.
• Wenren Sheng returned home, where Little Illusion arranged a movie night with the newly relocated scriptwriters, then wandered into Tree-People World.
• Wenren Sheng heard tree people praise their long, comfortable lives and reflected that people relied on spiritual anchors to endure the passage of time.

After realizing that making his own world real could threaten Chaos Omniscience, Wenren Sheng reinforced the Eastwater Fragment World's defenses and investigated signs of an attack. He discovered a team of world-destroying agents entering a medieval world and beginning a mission to transform it.

• Wenren Sheng noticed cracks in the distant sky, and Shi Shi told him she had repelled a terrifying hand trying to reach in.
• Wenren Sheng warned Little Illusion to return home and spent a week severing most connections to the Eastwater Fragment World, leaving only a passage to the Main World.
• Wenren Sheng asked the Patrol Division about unusual attacks, and Old Liu reported that certain survivors had changed personalities before vanishing and frequently traveling between secondary worlds.
• Five agents arrived in a Medieval World and discussed their mission to destroy it by changing its theme, while fearing Black Tentacle and the world's resistance.
• The five agents secured teaching positions at Golos Academy, then received a new mission to establish astronomy courses.

Wenren Sheng observed the destroyers’ attempts to change a medieval world, where a Golos Academy graduate failed to reform Sir Sterling’s serfs into productive peasants. Five years later, a smarter group took titles and built their power directly, beginning an expansion that showed Wenren Sheng the Black Tentacle’s strength.

• Wenren Sheng watched modern astronomy being taught in a school and saw serfs laboring under overseers in Sir Sterling’s fields.
• A Golos Academy graduate persuaded Sir Sterling to let serfs keep ten percent of their harvest, but the serfs feared the change because they did not understand farming independently.
• The overseers forced the trial peasants to work both their own plots and the lord’s fields, and the peasants died from exhaustion.
• The graduate gave up after Sir Sterling praised the overseers and left behind a bag of gold coins.
• Five years later, a new group of destroyers acquired titles, established the peasant system on their own lands, and expanded with the food, armor, and weapons they produced.

Wenren Sheng realized that Chaos Omniscience was destroying worlds to prevent him from making his world real, and he assessed which forces might oppose his ascent. He decided to pursue technological longevity before elevating the world, and promised scientists the funding they needed to research replacing aging nerve cells.

• Wenren Sheng watched the destroyers defeat armored knights and recognized that their Elder Sign could drive away Evil Gods.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that Chaos Omniscience had begun destroying worlds to block his path to making the Eastern Continent world real.
• Wenren Sheng judged the Disaster Anomaly Principals and some Supernatural Beings to be temporary allies or potential opponents, while Chaos Omniscience was his enemy.
• Wenren Sheng decided to advance longevity technology before ascending, since the real world offered no supernatural means of extending life.
• Wenren Sheng discussed heart and nerve cell limits with scientists and pledged to provide whatever funding their research into replacing old nerve cells required.

Wenren Sheng established a funding system for research and planned to form a team of Guardians from local natives to protect worlds. A Cavalry Captain refused a mysterious call to defend his land, while Sir accepted it and transformed into a decisive commander.

• Wenren Sheng’s research funding system let applicants seek resources, but mage slots and Strange Seeds could only be claimed after retirement and evaluation.
• Wenren Sheng planned to form a team of Guardians using local natives to protect worlds and preserve their themes.
• As rebels approached Sir’s castle, Sir panicked while the Cavalry Captain considered escaping through the mountain.
• A mysterious voice asked the Cavalry Captain whether he wanted to defend his land and homeland, and he refused.
• Sir disappeared and then returned transformed, raised soldiers, and ordered Will and Haiwen to prepare for a breakout.

The nobles slowed the Destroyers’ advance by using divine aid, distributing food, and offering serfs better conditions. Wenren Sheng introduced a false promise of reincarnation with memories, and the resulting class concessions weakened the rebellion until the two sides reached a stalemate.

• The Cavalry Captain gathered five cavalrymen and twenty Attendants after Sir ordered him to prepare for a breakout.
• Sir distributed food to the castle’s serfs to delay the enemy, then escaped through the back gate at night with his fighters, craftsmen, and newly forged arrows.
• Wenren Sheng told Little Illusion to promise the Guardians reincarnation with their memories, though their next bodies would be random.
• After an Earl died and returned in his stable hand’s body, the nobles improved serfs’ conditions, and many people lost interest in joining the Destroyers.
• Farmers fled to noble protection, while the Destroyers eased their oppression but lost troops and supplies, leaving both sides in a stalemate.

Wenren Sheng discovered that the Destroyers were undermining Weiqi World and built an Infinite Guardianship system to defend worlds and recruit defectors. Li Chun went undercover among the Destroyers, where he immediately shot a member and began questioning the others.

• Wenren Sheng found that Destroyers had made phone videos more popular than weiqi, threatening Weiqi World's identity, and he could not contact the Game Emulator.
• Wenren Sheng asked Little Illusion to release her believers as Guardians and created an Infinite Guardianship space with missions, rewards, and a path for Destroyers to defect.
• Zhao Han sent Li Chun undercover using a copy, and Li Chun hypnotized himself into a fanatical reformer before accepting the Destroyers' invitation.
• Li Chun arrived in the plaza called Between the Tentacles and shot the Black Guy who approached him.
• Li Chun questioned the other Destroyers and learned that the tentacles were the Task Platform, whose purpose was to destroy worlds.

Li Chun learned that the Black Tentacle forced Destroyers to complete world-destruction tasks, then agreed to join the next mission in Mist Detective World. After receiving the mission details, he discovered the objective was to reduce crime to normal levels, while White Guy believed the task would mean certain death.

• Li Chun questioned the Destroyers about the Black Tentacle, and White Guy explained that they could not resist its power to alter reality and revive the dead.
• White Guy revealed that their next task would take place in Mist Detective World, where the team had to erase the theme of detectives and make the world ordinary.
• Li Chun found the Destroyers lacked food and basic comforts, so he used his gun to make them share their stored bread and drinks.
• After resting in the square, Li Chun received the mission briefing and learned the Main Quest was to reduce Mist Detective World's crime rate to normal levels.
• Li Chun learned that resources in Mist Detective World had to be acquired through detective work and suspected a god controlled the world.
• White Guy called the task certain death, and the Destroyers signaled that they would discuss other methods after entering the detective world.

Li Chun and five teammates entered a world where they had to find celebrity Luo Yan and reveal that the world was entertainment for outsiders. After Luo Yan dismissed them with a small handout, Li Chun sent the others to haul bricks so they could earn money and find a way to get his attention.

• Li Chun learned that the Main Quest required the team to find Luo Yan and tell him the world's Truth, while his teammates admitted they had no useful skills.
• The team discovered that Luo Yan was a famous martial artist who lived in a heavily guarded villa and was more interested in luxury and women than cases.
• Luo Yan dismissed the six as scammers and had Butler give them six hundred yuan before sending them away.
• Li Chun criticized the team for failing to use valuable ingredients from previous worlds, then told them to find a way to attract Luo Yan's attention.
• The other five went to construction sites to haul bricks, while they complained that Li Chun had become their boss because he could bring a gun into the square.

Li Chun used his detective skills to meet Luo Yan and persuade him that their world was trapped in repeating cycles. After a quest notification revealed that the Case Generator was the Central Node, Luo Yan agreed to consider helping find it.

• After receiving a one-month erasure warning, Li Chun tried contacting Luo Yan and the other five, but none had a solution.
• Li Chun joined detective agencies, solved a hundred cases in ten days, and became famous enough to meet Luo Yan.
• Li Chun questioned Luo Yan about the world's strange logic and argued that discovering the Truth could offer a path to immortality.
• Luo Yan recalled that the world seemed to have no history and that its cities and people repeatedly cycled through the same patterns.
• A quest notification told Li Chun to find and destroy the Case Generator within three years, and he explained the Central Node to Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan asked how they could find the Central Node, then said he would think about it.

Luo Yan answered Little Illusion’s call, learned how to join Guardian Space, and entered it to explore its rules and opportunities. He met Hua Tuo, who explained how Guardians could cooperate across worlds.

• Luo Yan dismissed Li Chun after hearing about his search for the Central Node, then tried calling Lord Krull without success.
• Luo Yan summoned Little Illusion, who used his body to play a tabletop war game for three days before telling him to become a Guardian.
• Little Illusion gave Luo Yan a poster, and he entered Guardian Space by thinking about it.
• Luo Yan met Hua Tuo, who described his hospital world and proposed exchanging medical services with Luo Yan’s Detective World.
• Hua Tuo explained Guardian Space’s purpose and rules, including cooperation to protect their original worlds from outsiders.

Luo Yan learned how Guardian missions, enhancements, and resurrection worked, then agreed to join a team for his first mission. In Mist Detective World, he and Hua Tuo planned to eliminate six Destroyers by sinking a ship in a summoned storm.

• Jia San pressured Luo Yan to take the tank role, and Hua Tuo explained why the team needed one.
• Luo Yan learned that Guardians earned points and medals through missions, and that enhancements required medals of the right rank.
• Hua Tuo warned Luo Yan against postponing missions until old age and advised him to choose a team for his newbie mission.
• Luo Yan accepted a team mission despite the solo reward offering a free first-stage bloodline enhancement, and Hua Tuo arranged a team of two to four.
• Luo Yan entered Mist Detective World with the mission to eliminate Li Chun and five other Destroyers, whose disappearances could attract detectives.
• Hua Tuo proposed hosting a party at sea and summoning a storm to sink the ship and dispose of the Destroyers.

Luo Yan struggled with whether to convert six low-level Destroyers, whose connection to Black Tentacle made escape seem impossible, and asked Little Illusion to remove their marks. Wenren Sheng devised another approach by transferring them to an Absolute Physical Space in the Eastern Continent world for testing.

• Jia San proposed converting Destroyers for medals, while Hua Tuo warned that conversion targets could be dangerous.
• Luo Yan questioned Li Chun and the five others, but White Guy explained that Black Tentacle’s marks could make them die even if their connection was severed.
• Luo Yan asked Little Illusion to erase the marks on all six, but it refused to help because the task was too troublesome.
• Wenren Sheng proposed using an Absolute Physical Space to cleanse the Destroyers of Black Tentacle’s mysterious influence and arranged their transfer.
• Li Chun and the other five arrived at the glass room, where an experimenter prepared to test whether the space could detoxify them.