Chapter Summaries

Four Ultimates and a massive tide of polluted people attacked Qinggang, but the Tyrant arrived in the darkness to confront them while a priestly old man used books to curb the city’s riots. Professor Bai presented Qinggang’s resolve as its defense, and the chapter ended with the Tyrant asking whether he would be paid for helping.

• Black Bishop explained that the attacks and survivors’ resentment would drive Qinggang toward collapse, while the researcher feared the uncontrolled Ultimates could disrupt their plan.
• Millions of polluted people advanced on Qinggang as its defenses failed and riots erupted inside the city, leaving Professor Bai to insist that will was the only effective defense.
• The Tyrant’s darkness engulfed the area, stopped the advancing crowd, and revealed him confronting three Ultimates.
• An old man in priest’s robes opened every book in Qinggang, using their knowledge to restrain the worms and lessen the city’s chaos.
• Professor Bai declared that Qinggang would meet the crisis with deterrence and truth, then the Tyrant asked whether helping came with a salary, prompting Professor Bai to offer sponsorship.

Father faced Staff Hider, Pale Hand, and Black Queen as they drove hundreds of thousands of refugees toward Qinggang and turned them into monsters. He defeated their assault, overwhelmed the survivors’ minds with fear, and declared that he was the Night King, returned.

• Staff Hider, Black Queen, and Pale Hand manipulated the refugees’ emotions, transforming them into grotesque monsters that charged toward Qinggang.
• Father spread the night into the refugees’ minds, disrupting the three ultimates’ influence and making many survivors regain their fear and some clarity.
• Staff Hider sent chains through the survivors’ minds, Pale Hand reached toward the Midnight Court, and Black Queen unleashed insects to attack Father.
• Father froze Staff Hider’s chains, seized Pale Hand’s wrist while boasting that Kid was his daughter-in-law, and devoured Black Queen’s parasitic insects.
• Father’s power overwhelmed the wilderness, breaking the chains, severing Pale Hand’s hand, and leaving the survivors kneeling with their minds collapsed.
• Father rose as an enormous figure beneath the Crimson Moon and announced, “I am the Night King. I'm back.”

Staff Hider used God's Scepter to unleash a catastrophic mental shock, but Doll formed her new Mental Palace and protected Qinggang by turning the attack into gentle starlight. As Staff Hider began losing his trait, God's Scepter broke free and flew toward Doll.

• The Night King defeated Staff Hider, Pale Hand, and the Black Queen, while Fire Thief sealed the Abyssal Worms inside the Scroll of Truth and contained the crisis in Qinggang.
• Staff Hider revealed God's Scepter and drew in spiritual power, forcing Pale Hand and the Black Queen to retreat as its influence spread through the world.
• Professor Bai, Mr. Su, Minister Shen, the researchers, and the soldiers stood together in front of Kid's Mental Palace as the scepter's influence threatened them.
• Staff Hider unleashed a mental shock powerful enough to destroy the Night King's darkness and threaten the base, but Kid's Mental Palace stabilized and Doll appeared with her parasol.
• Doll's starlight shield softened the mental shock and protected the people, while God's Scepter broke free of Staff Hider and shot toward her.

Kid became a new Ultimate whose authority protected people and restored Qinggang's Heavenly Kingdom domain, while Father killed the Staff Hider and the other attackers fled. Lu Xin learned Qinggang had completed its mission and prepared to take the Tyrant Squad west to visit their next targets.

• The God's Scepter flew toward Kid, and her white chains contested the Staff Hider's black chains as Father charged him.
• The Pale Hand hid from the Night King's attack and the Black Queen retreated, leaving the Staff Hider exposed; Father pierced and devoured him, and Kid claimed the scepter.
• Kid's new power repaired her domain and protected the researchers, while Professor Bai declared that she had become an Ultimate of protection and that the Heavenly Kingdom Plan's second stage had succeeded.
• The Pale Hand fled and the wounded Black Queen escaped as Father tried to pursue them, but Kid accidentally suppressed part of his power and frightened him.
• The Black Bishop learned the plan had failed, while Lu Xin watched the events from the train and decided to leave Qinggang and visit their enemies with the Tyrant Squad.

Kid’s mental domain spread across the Alliance and beyond, helping survivors organize and restore order while Lu Xin’s Ghost Train carried him west into the heavily polluted lands. The Spades Office prepared to ambush the Tyrant, but Ace of Spades secretly fled after learning that Gaoshan Laboratory had collapsed; Lu Xin slowed the train to take in the horrors ahead and prepared to confront his waiting enemies.

• Kid’s mental domain resonated with people’s goodness, prompting survivors to organize food distribution, shelter, volunteer rescue teams, and protection for one another.
• Lu Xin rode the Ghost Train west, where displaced Mental Pollution had turned the wandering tribes’ territory into a landscape of terrifying phenomena.
• Ace of Spades told the Spades Office that the Tyrant had arrived and offered thirty higher-dimensional tickets to whoever killed him, while secretly arranging his own escape.
• Ace of Spades revealed to his secretary that Gaoshan Laboratory had disbanded, Gaoshan City was sealed off, and the researchers’ plans had failed.
• Lu Xin slowed the Ghost Train to look at the polluted lands, while Sister, Little Nineteen, and Number Two eagerly watched the scenery and the adults continued playing cards.
• As the Crimson Moon vanished into clouds, crimson tentacles rose beside the tracks while Lu Xin smiled at the prospect of confronting those waiting for him.

Lu Xin and the Tyrant Squad swept through the land, attacking its Pollution Sources and armed forces while the Ghost Train carried them toward Gaoshan City. Lu Xin reached the Black Queen’s stronghold and gave her ten minutes to come down or face him there.

• Monsters surrounding the Ghost Train tried to seize a passenger, but Lu Xin and his companions turned the attack into an opportunity to hunt them.
• Lu Xin ordered the Infiltrators to locate strange entities and sent the Tyrant Squad members across the land to deal with them within three hours.
• The squad fought through Guide Village, the Prank Ghost’s ruins, the Life Research Lab, an armed force, and a knight order as they cleared Pollution Sources and hostile groups.
• Lu Xin arrived at Gaoshan City, the Black Queen’s Fantasy Nation, and called her Auntie, demanding that she come down or let him confront her in ten minutes.

Lu Xin entered Gaoshan Divine Kingdom, subdued the black child that had taken his form, and confronted the Black Queen. He asked what Mom truly wanted, and the Black Queen said she was pursuing a way to break the cycle.

• The Black Queen taunted the black child, which transformed into Lu Xin and charged down the mountain with a mass of black vines.
• Lu Xin entered Gaoshan City and crushed the black child with a scarlet tentacle, silencing the furious residents and forcing them to kneel.
• Lu Xin met the Black Queen in her palace and told her he wanted to understand what Mom truly wanted for herself.
• The Black Queen admitted she could not understand Mom but said Mom was pursuing a way to break the cycle.

The Black Queen explained that The Beginning was the recurring return of consciousness across civilizations and revealed how humanity’s resistance to it created the Thirteen Ultimates. She traced their origin to the first human consciousness that entered the collective subconscious ocean and was killed, leaving its emotions to pollute The Beginning and become the Ultimates.

• The Black Queen said Mom had sought to break the cycle of the Ultimates, while she herself had lost her freedom and become a lackey of the Gaoshan Laboratory.
• The Black Queen described The Beginning as a godlike force born with life, shaping civilizations before eventually drawing their consciousness back into itself.
• The Black Queen explained that the Crimson Moon incident signaled humanity’s resistance to The Beginning’s inevitable return.
• The Black Queen said the Black Bishop and an old researcher helped establish the Gaoshan Laboratory and used ancient rituals, research, and the Genesis Hard Drive to approach The Beginning.
• The Black Queen revealed that one test subject’s consciousness survived within the collective subconscious ocean, grew powerful, and was killed by the researchers in reality.
• The Black Queen said the subject’s death and polluted emotions gave rise to the Thirteen Ultimates, including herself and the fragmented Beginning.

The Black Queen explained that the Ultimates emerged when civilization’s traits contaminated The Beginning, and that Lu Tianming’s experimental entry influenced this generation and helped awaken them early. She revealed Gaoshan Laboratory’s plan to use the Sole Consciousness to control The Beginning, leaving Lu Xin with a fuller account of the Ultimates’ origins and the laboratory’s ambitions.

• The Black Queen told Lu Xin that Ultimates inevitably appeared as civilizations approached their return to The Beginning, serving as their final representatives and undertakers.
• She explained that Lu Tianming’s entry into The Beginning awakened this generation of Ultimates early and influenced their personalities, while Big Sister’s accumulated memories and exhaustion made her different.
• The Black Queen said Big Sister had stayed beside Lu Xin, helped shape him, and enabled him to obtain the Sole Consciousness, a unique program that could preserve consciousness inside The Beginning.
• She described how Gaoshan Laboratory captured or exploited newly awakened Ultimates, whose varied traits ranged from hostility and indifference to a willingness to protect humanity.
• The Black Queen explained that Gaoshan Laboratory planned to implant a suitably programmed consciousness into The Beginning and make it the primary consciousness controlling the approaching apocalypse.
• Lu Xin silently pulled over the black child and kicked him as the Black Queen mocked the prospect of people welcoming the apocalypse if they could rule it.

Lu Xin rejected the Black Queen’s despair and imprisoned her Mental Palace in the abyss instead of killing her. As his team regrouped to tackle the next threat, Wang Jingyun approached the defeated Gaoshan Laboratory leaders with a plan of his own, leaving them horrified by how extreme it was.

• Lu Xin told the Black Queen that people could resist The Beginning through their instinct to survive, then subdued the black child with a special bullet that removed his black particles.
• Lu Xin expanded his mental field across Gaoshan City and sank the Black Queen’s Mental Palace into the abyss, detaining her rather than carrying out a final clearing.
• The Ghost Train arrived at Gaoshan City, and Lu Xin’s team boarded as he said they could solve these problems and it was time to deal with the person responsible.
• Wang Jingyun visited the Black Bishop and the first-generation researcher at Gaoshan Laboratory, criticized their failed plan, and asked them to invest their remaining resources in his own plan.
• After reading Wang Jingyun’s proposal, the Black Bishop and the first-generation researcher trembled and called him the biggest madman of all.

Lu Xin reached Gaoshan Laboratory and found the first-generation researchers dead, then used his imagination to learn why they had pursued their plan to restart civilization and why they refused to admit they were wrong. He recognized that the empty letter they left was an invitation from the Old Director for everyone to gather at his home.

• Dracula prepared a rescue force for the Tyrant Squad, then claimed credit for its victory as news spread that the Dark World was collapsing and refugees were fleeing.
• Lu Xin arrived at Gaoshan Laboratory and found the Black Bishop and the chief researcher had jumped from its dome and died.
• Lu Xin revived the two men with his fantasy power, and they explained their plan to use The Beginning to preserve civilization and create a higher-dimensional life civilization.
• The Black Bishop said they would have entered the culture tanks themselves if the experiment had required it, and Lu Xin nodded to honor the dragon slayers they had once been.
• Lu Xin took the envelope from the Black Bishop and told his companions that the Old Director had invited them all to gather at his home.

Lu Xin and the orphanage classmates accepted the Old Director’s invitation and prepared to travel south for a reunion, while Lu Xin finished briefing Qinggang and entrusted Kid with his savings. The chapter ended with their argument unresolved as Kid held Lu Xin’s bank card before his departure.

• Number Five and Number Three said the Old Director’s appearance meant he was ready, and Lu Xin explained that Qinggang’s expanding reach had left him few places to hide.
• Lu Xin and the orphanage classmates agreed to visit the Old Director, then Lu Xin returned to Qinggang to give its leaders the Tyrant Squad’s findings and information about the First-Generation Researchers’ plan.
• Lu Xin left his records of eliminated Mental Monsters and Pollution Sources with Qinggang and said that, if he did not return, his money should go to Crimson Moon Elementary School.
• Lu Xin told Kid to stay in Qinggang, but she packed to go with him, and they argued until he invited her for a walk.
• Lu Xin again told Kid she could not come, then entrusted her with a bank card holding his savings.

Lu Xin and the orphanage survivors departed Qinggang aboard Ghost Train to meet the Old Director, while Qinggang revealed its final stage of the Heavenly Kingdom Plan. As the train entered Technological Church territory, the Old Director prepared a welcoming meal for his returning students.

• Professor Bai and the others told Lu Xin that Qinggang would support him against the Technological Church and showed him the Third Stage of the Heavenly Kingdom Plan; Lu Xin agreed they would do their part despite the risks.
• Lu Xin boarded Ghost Train with the orphanage survivors, including Number Two, Number Three, Number Five, Number Eight, Number Fourteen, Little Nineteen, and Sister, while Gecko stayed behind.
• Ghost Train crossed the damaged lands, where Lu Xin saw survivors rebuilding and understood Qinggang had chosen an inspiring recovery effort over a more forceful approach.
• Lu Xin bade Kid farewell as the train entered the Technological Church's territory, and the group prepared to reunite with their separated family members.
• In Number Eleven Satellite City, Wang Jingyun arranged a table and cooked for his arriving students while Seven remained in the room.

Lu Xin and his classmates arrived in the City of Life and reunited with Number Seven before going to the Old Director’s home. They were stunned to find his wife and children alive and waiting inside.

• Lu Xin and his classmates traveled by Ghost Train toward the City of Life, whose guards initially aimed their weapons at them before Number Fourteen announced they meant no harm.
• Number Seven revealed herself as the officer who let them pass, boarded the train, and guided them toward the Old Director’s home.
• Number Seven exchanged blunt remarks with her former classmates as the Ghost Train passed through the bustling city, where residents waved at them.
• Number Fourteen led the group to the Old Director’s ordinary apartment building, and Lu Xin bought fruit before they entered.
• Number Fourteen knocked on Room 401, where a gentle woman welcomed the group and introduced herself as the Old Director’s wife, Chen.
• Number Fourteen introduced the Old Director’s children, Tutu and Wangwang, leaving Lu Xin and the others frozen because they believed the family had died during the Crimson Moon incident.

At a tense reunion with the orphanage survivors, the Old Director explained that logic could be the key to resisting The Beginning. He revealed that he had spent years seeking a way to restore the orderly world destroyed by the Crimson Moon, and left the group facing the scope of his plan.

• Lu Xin and the other survivors entered the Old Director’s home, where they found him hosting a reunion with a family who vanished after leaving the room.
• The Old Director welcomed the eight attendees, recalled the absent Zeng Xiaolu, Number One, and Number Twelve, and shared food and wine with them.
• Number Five asked whether the Old Director opposed the Gaoshan Laboratory’s plan, and he argued that logic—not consciousness, traits, or authority—could resist The Beginning.
• The Old Director described losing his wife and two children during the Crimson Moon incident and said he had searched for a way to make his wish of returning to the past real.
• The Old Director revealed that he wanted to resurrect the prosperous, orderly world destroyed by the Crimson Moon and turn the following decades into a nightmare in people’s memories.

Old Director revealed that he planned to sacrifice the post-Crimson Moon world to The Beginning and reshape reality into a pre-Crimson Moon era. After the numbered members failed to kill him, he explained that he had already entered the altar as part of a ritual called God's Cage.

• Old Director described his plan to sacrifice the entire world after the Crimson Moon incident and use The Beginning's power to restore the pre-Crimson Moon world.
• Lu Xin condemned Old Director, and Number Three, Little Nineteen, Number Eight, Number Five, Number Two, and Number Twelve attacked him while Seven defended him and Fantasy Nation's spiritual force intervened.
• Number Two overpowered Fantasy Nation's control of the building, but Old Director's power restored the destruction and defeated the attackers, including Number Twelve's ambush from inside Number Fourteen.
• Old Director assessed the attackers' abilities and revealed that Lu Xin had already attacked him several times without effect.
• Old Director explained the God's Cage sacrifice and said he had entered the altar before the others arrived.

The Old Director revealed that the abyss itself was the altar and forced the orphanage students into becoming Ultimate witnesses for his sacrifice. He then targeted Lu Xin, using a gun aimed at Sister and claiming she was a creation of Lu Xin’s dissociative identity disorder.

• The Old Director explained that he had made the entire abyss into an altar and had raised the students to become witnesses to his sacrifice.
• The Old Director used playing cards and the students’ implanted commands to force Number Two, Number Three, Number Five, and Number Eight into the depths of space as Ultimate witnesses.
• Crowned Clown and The Void appeared as witnesses, bringing the total to six, while the Old Director told the remaining candidates they could leave.
• The Old Director called Lu Xin his greatest creation and the chief priest who could advance the sacrifice.
• The Old Director appeared behind Lu Xin with a gun aimed at Sister, explained that Lu Xin’s consciousness had created her after Little Seventeen’s death, and fired.

After Old Director killed Sister, Lu Xin’s returned mental power made him a complete Ultimate, and his despair let the sacrificial ritual release The Beginning. The exchange of eras began, with people born after the Crimson Moon incident disappearing as the pre-Crimson Moon world descended, while resistance faltered and the two civilizations saw each other across time.

• Old Director killed Sister, and her mental dust returned to Lu Xin, restoring the part of his power he had split off and transforming him into the Despair Archangel.
• Lu Xin’s pain and despair overwhelmed his will, allowing his black particles to merge with the other Ultimates’ powers and release The Beginning into reality.
• Old Director began the exchange ritual, causing people born after the Crimson Moon incident to vanish as people from before it returned, while the First’s dark-red tendrils spread across the world.
• The Kid, the Night King, the Fire Thief, the abyssal worm, and the Pale One tried to resist the First’s descent, but the seven Ultimates’ witness positions made the sacrifice difficult to stop.
• Xue Jia and Dr. An identified the Genesis Hard Drive as the altar’s core and tried to destroy it, but Wang Jingyun revealed that its mental viruses had lost their effect after its chips became identical to Qin Ran.
• The Kid’s resistance began to fail as a prosperous pre-Crimson Moon world descended, and people from the two eras looked at one another across the tentacles and starlight.

Lu Xin escaped the sacrifice’s crushing influence with Sister’s help, then destroyed the Genesis Hard Drive after discovering that Number One had been made into the Fantasy King. Old Director revealed that the only way to stop the sacrifice now was to kill its seven Witnesses, leaving Lu Xin facing the choice of repeating a massacre he already regretted.

• As despair overwhelmed Lu Xin, Sister appeared, and her many forms gathered into an ultimate being who took his place as Witness and freed him.
• Lu Xin confronted Old Director, then sensed the sacrifice’s core and discovered Number One’s brain inside the Fantasy King’s glass tank.
• Lu Xin attacked the Genesis Hard Drive and destroyed it, but the sacrifice continued because The Beginning had already descended.
• Old Director explained that killing the seven ultimate Witnesses was the only way to interrupt the sacrifice.
• Lu Xin looked up at the suffering Witnesses and struggled with whether he could kill them all again.

Lu Xin rejected Old Director’s plan to sacrifice the world to The Beginning and explained why he still believed the world deserved a future. He entered the Crimson Moon alone to face The Beginning, leaving his friends and family behind.

• Lu Xin calmed his anger, restored the apartment building, and asked Old Director why he had arranged the sacrifice.
• Old Director argued that the world was irredeemably cruel and that sacrificing it could restore the civilization that existed before the Crimson Moon.
• Lu Xin acknowledged the world’s suffering but described the people whose kindness and courage convinced him that it could still be saved.
• Lu Xin told Old Director he would stop the sacrifice by becoming The Beginning and refusing it, despite the danger and torment involved.
• Lu Xin set aside his belongings, looked back at the people across the world, and walked into the Crimson Moon alone as his sister cried out for him.