Chapter Summaries

Su Mo and Oreo descended five thousand meters beneath the sea to investigate an underwater ruin, following a glowing map to a sealed entrance. After finding evidence of the crazed creatures from Liangfang Town, Su Mo scanned a massive alloy gate and discovered it required a secret key and password or could be corroded open.

• Su Mo chose to use his Food God authority and asked Oreo whether she could withstand the deep-sea pressure; she agreed to explore the ruin with him.
• Oreo transformed into a giant wolf, carried Su Mo down to the mountains, and surrounded herself with a barrier that kept the seawater away.
• Su Mo followed the map's increasingly bright light to a collapsed structure and cleared rubble to open a passage into the mountain.
• Su Mo entered a flooded room and found tissues from the crazed creatures he had encountered in Liangfang Town, wondering whether they had attacked the satellite ruin.
• Su Mo scanned an alloy gate and learned that it needed a secret key and password to open, though the system offered ownership registration or corrosion as alternatives.

Su Mo opened the underwater entrance to the Super Vision Eye Satellite Base by using his blood to reveal the password, then entered with Oreo. Xiao Ai welcomed him and led him toward the base’s main cabin, which was still several kilometers away.

• Su Mo used the map as a key, and the door identified itself as the entrance to the Super Vision Eye Satellite Base.
• After two failed password attempts, Su Mo used his blood on the confirmation button, revealing the correct eight-digit password and opening the door.
• Su Mo and Oreo entered the base, and its pumps drained the seawater from the passage.
• Su Mo introduced himself to the artificial intelligence, Xiao Ai, which detected his genetic similarity to Su Deben and invited him farther inside.
• Su Mo followed Xiao Ai through the base’s winding corridors and reached the core chamber after traveling several kilometers.

Su Mo entered the satellite launch base and began Captain Su Deben’s authorization trial through a simulated-reality helmet. Su Deben revealed that the Expeditionary Force had come to the Wasteland to invade, but withheld the rest of the explanation until Su Mo passed the trial.

• Su Mo inspected the base’s energy room and rocket, then scanned the authorization helmet and learned that its simulation technology was incomplete and crude.
• Su Mo put on the helmet and entered a simulated grassland, where Xiao Ai activated the authorization handover.
• Su Deben appeared as a recorded memory and offered Su Mo one question before the trial began.
• Su Mo asked about the Expeditionary Force’s purpose, and Su Deben recounted Earth’s discovery by the Jilai Race and the formation of the Defense Legion and Expeditionary Force.
• Su Deben revealed that the Expeditionary Force had been responsible for invading the Wasteland, then promised to explain more after Su Mo passed authorization.

Su Mo passed Su Deben’s authority test by using the system to hack the Virtual Reality simulation and force the city into revolt. He rejected the simulated world as a false path, and Su Deben agreed to withdraw it and grant him the base’s highest authority.

• Su Deben placed Su Mo in a simulated Earth under curfew and challenged him to incite the city to protest, with three attempts allowed.
• Su Mo used the system to upgrade an attack program, seize control of the Virtual Reality environment, and bring the people into the streets.
• Xiao Ai detected the simulation’s extreme energy and computing demands, shut down most servers, and ended the test after ten minutes.
• Su Deben admitted Su Mo had surpassed the test’s expectations and offered him the base’s highest authority, along with three questions.
• Su Mo said the simulation was too fake and that deceiving themselves was not the path humans on Earth should take, and Su Deben agreed to withdraw everything.

Su Mo exposed the Expeditionary Force’s virtual base as a simulation and took control of its systems, then inspected the damaged Fire Seed Three rocket. Chief Scientist Lü Kuan revealed that the base held three technologies and offered them to Su Mo on the condition that he take the stored minds with him.

• Su Mo rejected the simulated base, causing it to collapse and revealing the testing room, the Fire Seed Three rocket, and Su Deben’s ruined robot body.
• Su Mo explained that the Expeditionary Force had trapped him and Oreo in a virtual simulation, and that a program he created had become a bug controlling the system.
• Su Mo used his new system access to inspect the damaged rocket and found it had a small monitoring satellite aboard.
• Lü Kuan introduced himself as the Satellite Base’s chief scientist and explained that Su Deben and the other scientists shared one body through stored memories.
• Lü Kuan offered Su Mo Superalloy Smelting Technology, Split Consciousness Upload Technology, and Virtual Reality technology if he would take them with him.

Su Mo questioned Lü Kuan about the Expeditionary Force’s Superalloy technology and learned that its manufacture required enormous amounts of energy. When Su Mo revealed Psionic Water, Lü Kuan’s robot body reacted with an uncontrollable craving, giving him a glimpse of hope.

• Lü Kuan explained that Superalloy could strengthen materials and transform fields such as aerospace and military manufacturing, but producing it required immense energy and specialized equipment.
• Su Mo tested Lü Kuan’s robot body and demonstrated grip strength approaching ten tons, terrifying Lü Kuan.
• Lü Kuan described how the base used a thousand-meter waterfall and superconducting cables to make small quantities of Ninth Grade Alloy, while higher grades remained out of reach.
• Su Mo produced a bottle of Psionic Water, and Lü Kuan’s robot became overcome by desire for the liquid.
• Su Mo grabbed the stumbling Lü Kuan and placed the bottle of Psionic Water before him.

Lü Kuan showed Su Mo the Expeditionary Force’s three technologies: Psionic Water, brain preservation through Slime symbiosis, and Virtual Reality. Su Mo concluded that Virtual Reality’s true purpose was learning, leaving Lü Kuan’s brain jerking in shock as Su Mo laughed.

• Lü Kuan analyzed Psionic Water and explained how it could dramatically improve Super Alloy, though it could not be used directly as an energy source.
• Lü Kuan revealed that the Expeditionary Force had extended their lives by parasitizing their brains inside regenerative Slime bodies, and Su Mo identified Lü Kuan’s brain.
• Lü Kuan explained that their Virtual Reality technology stimulated specific brain regions to create illusions, but was designed for humans and not other species.
• Su Mo rejected combat and recreation as Virtual Reality’s main purpose and declared that it was meant for learning.

Su Mo chose to upgrade Fire Seed Three into a Youneng Shuttle Rocket using a rare Psionic Crystal, despite its enormous energy requirements, so he could carry people safely and reach the Ocean God. The upgrade transformed the damaged rocket into a futuristic craft, leaving Lü Kuan and the other scientists stunned.

• Su Mo told Lü Kuan that Virtual Reality could help develop civilization, then proposed a bet that he could repair and launch the rocket safely.
• Su Mo consulted the system and rejected three upgrade options, choosing the Youneng Shuttle Rocket because its return success rate was guaranteed.
• Su Mo embedded the Psionic Crystal in Fire Seed Three, spending sixty thousand Survival Points to begin the upgrade.
• The rocket's shell and components transformed under green radiance, and Lü Kuan and Su Deben recognized the presence of psionic energy.
• After five minutes, the rocket reassembled as a futuristic Youneng Shuttle Rocket.

Su Mo inspected the upgraded Youneng rocket and arranged to move Lü Kuan and the base’s remaining people and equipment aboard in case the base was attacked. As launch preparations began, Su Mo revealed a terrifying new power and declared it was time to get the game moving.

• Su Mo showed Lü Kuan the eagle-shaped Youneng rocket, inspected its systems, and learned that the base’s structure was vulnerable despite the rocket’s strong armor.
• Su Mo ordered the brain boxes and valuable equipment moved onto the rocket, prioritizing the Virtual Reality equipment over manufacturing machines.
• Su Mo returned to Sun Chaser, slept, and set the ship to move away before the planned launch to avoid a possible strike and unwanted attention.
• Su Mo returned to the base, met Yan Xiaqing, and helped reconnect the brain boxes while Lü Kuan began the launch preparations.
• Su Mo entered the Energy Room, revealed a powerful aura that startled Oreo, and announced, “Twilight of the Gods!”

Su Mo used Food Authority to glimpse the underlying logic of the three-dimensional world, then powered the Youneng Shuttle Rocket with an Energy Walnut and escaped the deep-sea base. The game tried to track and destroy him, but the rocket passed through its giant-hand attack and reached the sky, leaving Su Mo convinced he had won.

• Su Mo discovered that Food Authority let him glimpse the world’s underlying logic, but he feared the game would detect his use of it.
• Su Mo ordered Lü Kuan to prepare the rocket for immediate launch and supplied its Energy Bay with an Energy Walnut.
• As the game tracked Su Mo and his location, he paid Survival Points to conceal most of the detected information and rushed to the Captain’s Cabin.
• With the rocket nearing the surface, Su Mo chose to charge ahead despite a dangerous energy surge above the sea.
• The rocket passed through the game’s giant-hand attack, which annihilated the base and evaporated a vast volume of seawater, while Su Mo escaped into the sky.

Su Mo learned that the game attack had revealed the power of psionic energy, then heard Su Deben explain how humans from Parallel Universe No. 626 first reached the Wasteland and triggered a catastrophe. Su Deben left the story at the beginning of his people’s lifelong path of atonement.

• Su Mo told Lü Kuan that psionic energy might eventually let humanity resist the game, but Lü Kuan judged the power beyond human research.
• Su Mo and Su Deben introduced themselves as representatives of their respective human forces and prepared to speak before reaching God's Domain.
• Su Deben explained that Earth alone possessed parallel universes, which made it possible for multiple people to ascend to higher dimensions.
• Su Deben said Lü Zhe and Su Xuelin led scientists to open a passage to the Wasteland, where the game offered assistance and advanced technology.
• Su Deben revealed that attempts to return to their own Earth failed because leaving erased their connection to it, and that later passages led elsewhere.
• Su Deben accepted that his Butterfly Universe's humans bore responsibility for what followed and said the survivors had spent their lives on the path of atonement.

Su Deben revealed that humanity’s first Expeditionary Force had opened portals that led to a devastating massacre, and that survivors split into factions seeking to aid humanity or close the portals. Before their mission to find the gods, Su Deben gave Su Mo a Holy Stone, which granted him the Light Authority and raised his total authority to 1.46%.

• Su Deben told Su Mo that the first Expeditionary Force lost its revival abilities, suffered heavy losses, and opened 6,896 portals while trying to return to Earth.
• Su Deben explained that surviving humans split into three factions and that the Expeditionary Force was heading to seek help from members of the third faction.
• Su Deben gave Su Mo the Holy Stone left by his father, the former God of Light, and disconnected from the robot to pretend to sleep.
• Su Mo appraised the stone, discovered it held 0.46% Light Authority, and crushed it to inherit the power alongside his Food God Authority.
• Su Mo’s total authority rose to 1.46%, and he reshaped the remaining stone into a pendant to wear around his neck.

Su Mo and Lü Kuan guided the Psionic Shuttle Rocket through God's Barrier by following the watery-blue light summoned through the Ocean God’s breathing method. The rocket entered the blue-lit planet and arrived in the Ocean God Kingdom.

• Su Mo and the researchers watched the Wasteland’s boundary and learned from Lü Kuan that the surrounding lands had been devastated by nuclear war and remained uninhabitable.
• As the rocket approached God's Barrier, it endured extreme weather and darkness before emerging into a star-filled space.
• Su Mo used the Ocean God’s breathing method to summon a blue light that pointed toward a watery-blue planet, and Lü Kuan steered the rocket after it.
• The Psionic Shuttle Rocket struck the planet, slowed against its resistance, and then passed through after Su Mo’s blue light spread across its hull.
• Su Mo and Lü Kuan emerged before a new continent, and Su Mo received a message identifying it as the Ocean God Kingdom.

Su Mo and Lü Kuan reached the hidden continent, only to discover it had become a radioactive death land. Suspecting the Ocean God’s location was below, Su Mo prepared to descend alone and investigate, leaving Lü Kuan and Oreo aboard the rocket.

• Lü Kuan celebrated when the rocket crossed the barrier, but Su Mo pointed out that the continent below was scorched and bathed in a blood-red ocean.
• Su Mo concluded that the Ocean God was likely dead and suggested the death land could be the safest place to hide a base.
• Lü Kuan confirmed that their Protective Suits could withstand the radiation, but warned that their rocket could not take off again after landing.
• Su Mo decided to descend from the rocket using his flying magic carpet and agreed to collect soil and seawater for Lü Kuan.
• Su Mo gave Oreo instructions to stay behind, opened the rocket’s rear hatch, and rode the magic carpet down toward the continent.

Su Mo entered the irradiated ruins of the Ocean God Kingdom and found Jiang Chu, a fellow human surviving as a phantom in Ocean God's former residence. After learning Su Mo had 1.46% authority, Jiang Chu recognized him as someone who could contend with the game and offered to explain what it was.

• Su Mo collected soil and seawater samples, then swam to Ocean God's former residence and entered its radiation-free interior.
• A blue light scanned Su Mo before Jiang Chu revealed himself and welcomed him as a fellow countryman.
• Su Mo introduced himself and demonstrated his deity form and Food and Light authorities, totaling 1.46%, which stunned Jiang Chu.
• Jiang Chu furnished food for Su Mo and asked whether he had come to claim Ocean God's Authority; Su Mo admitted that he had.
• The Heaven Stealing Secret talisman appeared and sent green light into Jiang Chu, who called Su Mo qualified to contend with the game.
• Jiang Chu confirmed the old man inside the talisman was one of them and offered to tell Su Mo what the game actually was.

Jiang Chu showed Su Mo the lost history of the Wasteland and explained how humans first arrived with the game's help, rose to power, and triggered a catastrophic war. When the game stripped away their resurrection ability, the conflict became real, and Su Mo began to grasp the game's identity.

• Jiang Chu asked Su Mo about parallel universes, then explained that Earth's timelines were distinct worlds rather than ordinary parallel histories.
• Jiang Chu revealed that he had arrived in the Wasteland about 1,800 years earlier and showed Su Mo how humans initially prospered with the game's assistance.
• Jiang Chu described how Wei Jun became humanity's first god after surviving 230 dangerous adventures and inheriting the Divine Position of Courage.
• Jiang Chu showed how human players used immortality to seize negative Divine Positions and spread violence, causing the Wasteland's natives and gods to fight back.
• Jiang Chu revealed that the game removed the humans' resurrection ability as the First Generation Butterfly Timeline's Expeditionary Force opened portals and sent armies into other timelines, leading Su Mo to suspect the game's true identity.

Jiang Chu revealed that the worlds and the wasteland were an artificial enclosure controlled by the game, and explained humanity’s wager to seize its permissions. Su Mo learned how to check the permissions of his other body and discovered that it held far more than his current 1.46%.

• Jiang Chu told Su Mo that the game’s master owned their worlds and that the game maintained the artificial universe according to fixed rules.
• Su Mo said he had already suspected the truth and asked how humanity could escape the game’s control; Jiang Chu explained they had to defeat the game and gain its permissions.
• Jiang Chu described how humanity exploited a population-rule paradox to force the game into a wager over control of the temperature-controlled box.
• Jiang Chu explained that humanity and the game had placed their permissions in a safe, where whoever collected 51% first would become the box’s master.
• Jiang Chu told Su Mo that humanity held 12.1% of the permissions, the game held 14.9%, and Su Mo’s current body held 1.46%.
• Jiang Chu gave Su Mo instructions for checking his other body’s permissions, and Su Mo switched bodies, unleashing a Divine Light brighter than 1.46%.

Su Mo discovered that his authority could be combined into powerful techniques by spending Survival Points, giving him a safer way to use it and oppose the game. Jiang Chu passed him a preserved authority artifact and explained why humans remained divided over whether to entrust their authority to Su Mo.

• Su Mo used Jiang Chu’s incantation and revealed 5.12% authority, which his system had previously concealed from the game.
• Su Mo inspected his authority and learned he could fuse Rainwater with Snow, Harvest with Food, and Fighting Spirit with Courage to create effects paid for with Survival Points.
• Su Mo realized the fusion techniques offered a safer alternative to using authority directly and could help him fight the game.
• Jiang Chu gave Su Mo a small horn containing his remaining 0.22% authority and explained that human conservatives would not surrender their stored authority until Su Mo reached a greater share.
• Jiang Chu explained that past human traitors had failed to win the game’s favor, and that Su Mo’s authority gave humanity an advantage in their conflict.

Su Mo told Jiang Chu about the task-type ruin, and they concluded that the game might have stolen authority through the ruin’s time travel. Jiang Chu gave Su Mo several powerful resources and sent him away with a reminder that humanity would have to unite to resist the game.

• Su Mo described the task-type ruin, and Jiang Chu consulted the talisman paper before giving him methods to investigate it if he entered again.
• Jiang Chu gave Su Mo Divine Blood Rice seeds and the Cosmic Human Meditation Training Method to help strengthen his people and improve their minds.
• Jiang Chu entrusted Su Mo with a decree that could freeze all seawater for a month, advising him to use it only in a crisis.
• Su Mo and Jiang Chu talked for seven hours before Jiang Chu urged him to rely on humanity’s united strength against the game.
• Su Mo and Jiang Chu exchanged military salutes and pledged to fight for tomorrow and the human race before Su Mo left.

Su Mo returned to the rocket after an eight-hour expedition, bringing back irradiated samples and deciding to abandon most of the equipment before heading home. The Return Capsule accelerated toward the wasteland, where it became a blazing meteor that announced Su Mo’s return.

• Su Mo returned to the rocket, and Lü Kuan scanned him before taking the irradiated samples for analysis.
• Su Mo washed off the radioactive contamination, fed Oreo, and declined Lü Kuan’s suggestion to explore nearby planets.
• Su Mo ordered Lü Kuan to discard the rocket’s auxiliary wings and most of its equipment, keeping only the Return Capsule, activity bay, Brain Box, and Virtual Reality equipment.
• Lü Kuan separated the discarded sections and prepared the Return Capsule for its journey to the wasteland.
• Su Mo and Lü Kuan launched the Return Capsule toward the wasteland, and it burned through the night sky like a meteor as Su Mo returned.