Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng rejected A Er Ni and Duke’s invitation to join the Deran Society, then became absorbed in university projects and research. During vacation, he completed the Advanced Codex and awakened the fourth-form evolution of his Sixth Cognitive Organ, revealing a powerful armored transformation.

• Duke and A Er Ni invited Lu Sheng to join the Deran Society, but he refused because he did not want restraints on himself.
• Andy explained that Wind of Coordination students would eventually support Forbidden Type and Special Type students as logistical teams, but Lu Sheng still declined the invitation.
• Tutor Dong Li arranged for Lu Sheng to attend academic events and projects, where his knowledge and research ability impressed her and the observers.
• Lu Sheng stayed at university during vacation, wrote to his parents, and received reassurance that his family and Old Jack were being looked after.
• Lu Sheng absorbed God-Entrusting Power and completed the Advanced Codex, triggering the fourth-form evolution of his Sixth Cognitive Organ.
• Lu Sheng released the organ’s suppression and transformed as black armor, horns, and two saw-edged discs of flesh appeared across his body.

Lu Sheng completed the Advanced Codex, created the Light-Dark Codex, and spent his break exploring the school and growing close to Yi An, Isala’s younger sister. As his Heart-Image World neared full manifestation and he weighed its risks, Yi An revealed that the school cafeteria had an enormous Spatial Beast that could feed many people, prompting Lu Sheng to ask how many.

• Lu Sheng examined his fourth-form Wind of Coordination, checked his God-Entrusting Power, and compiled the Light-Dark Codex from Day Library and Night Library materials.
• Lu Sheng went to the school park, met a tranquil girl he mistook for Isala, and learned she was Isala’s younger sister, Yi An.
• Lu Sheng learned that Nightingale Lake was a school-designated Forbidden Zone and became acquainted with Yi An through their shared interest in painting.
• Lu Sheng joined the Core Furnace research department, continued developing the Light-Dark Codex, and considered the risks of manifesting his Heart-Image World and summoning its inhabitants.
• Yi An used her telepathic perception to notice Lu Sheng’s hesitation, and he told her he was considering inviting his many brothers and sisters for the New Year.
• Yi An said a Spatial Beast behind the cafeteria could feed many people, and Lu Sheng asked how many it could feed.

Lu Sheng secretly completed a Winged Serpent array in the university’s abandoned campus while Professor Michel’s Weather Bottle began leaking and formed a copy of him. As Miskatonic University’s leaders debated how to respond to growing dangers, the apparent Michel assured them that the observation tower remained safe.

• Lu Sheng ate experimental specimens in Dal’s laboratory, then returned early after the materials ran out.
• Lu Sheng crossed into the abandoned campus and finished carving a ring of Winged Serpents as a descent point.
• Michel struggled to control the Weather Bottle, then left his laboratory to eat with the owls gathered outside.
• After Michel left, the Weather Bottle cracked and released enough liquid to form an old man resembling him, who announced that his first battle would begin.
• At a university meeting, Maradona questioned Michel about the observation tower, and Michel reported that no evil-god threat had approached.

Andy discovered that a photograph of a little girl in white showed a crowd of ghostly children, and later found the photographer dead at the church. Lu Sheng sensed a growing danger on campus and kicked the girl when she appeared alone on the dark path and asked him for help.

• Andy rushed over after hearing a strange sound and interrupted a photographer taking pictures of a little girl by the church.
• Lu Sheng examined the photographer's lake photo, where Andy saw ghostly children appear around the girl, then left for the lake.
• Andy returned the next day and found the photographer dead at the cordoned-off church; his companion had taken the little girl in.
• Lu Sheng discussed the girl with Yi An by the lake and let Yi An take her away.
• Lu Sheng encountered the girl alone on the path after dark and kicked her into the bushes.

Lu Sheng entered the transformed library and discovered the Dream Library, where Joy explained that it recorded all knowledge ever held by living beings. He continued to the third floor in search of records about the world's deepest mysteries, where a powerful platinum-white eagle watched him.

• Lu Sheng woke after falling asleep on the campus grounds and noticed the library glowing strangely in the night.
• Lu Sheng showed his laboratory assistant identification badge to the faceless guards, entered the library, and saw faceless guests dining and dancing inside.
• Lu Sheng went to the second floor, passed a giant spider reading books, and found reading rooms filled with seemingly endless collections.
• Joy told Lu Sheng that the Dream Library recorded everything that had happened and all knowledge that had ever appeared, except what had not yet appeared or could not be recorded.
• Lu Sheng headed to the third floor to seek scriptures and records of the world's deepest mysteries, where a towering platinum-white eagle's aura made it difficult for him to breathe.

Lu Sheng reached the Third Layer and met the Chaos Codex, which revealed that the Chaos Heart Core powered it and supported the world. As supernatural defenses failed across Germany and Britain faced worsening outbreaks, Lu Sheng asked to see how the Core worked.

• Joy Lady explained that the Third Layer’s transcendent knowledge required a trial, and Lu Sheng entered the Codex Chamber.
• In Frost Leaf Town, a university ritual went wrong, a monster named Atush attacked, and four students died as defenses across Germany came under assault.
• Casander Earl demanded that the British Royal Defense Bureau send even freshmen to help contain the spreading supernatural outbreaks.
• Lu Sheng learned that the Chaos Codex was a soulless knowledge machine that could answer three questions.
• The Chaos Codex identified the Chaos Heart Core as its energy source and a foundation of the world, and Lu Sheng asked how it worked and whether he could see it.

Lu Sheng touched the Chaos Heart Core, saw a monstrous entity inside it, and was expelled with severe damage to Jack’s divine soul. After recovering his memories and gaining more than sixty million units of God-Entrusting Power, he encountered Yi An, who told him the little girl he had carried had died from a crushing blow.

• The Chaos Codex let Lu Sheng briefly touch the Chaos Heart Core, and he was pulled inside, where a huge flesh ball ordered him out and blasted him back to consciousness.
• Lu Sheng returned to the nighttime slope with a nosebleed, recovered his memories, and realized Jack’s divine soul had been badly injured.
• Lu Sheng discovered that touching the Chaos Heart Core had earned him more than sixty million units of God-Entrusting Power and resolved to identify the flesh-ball monster before pursuing the core.
• Lu Sheng spent the night nourishing Jack’s damaged divine soul, then went to the lakeside the next morning to recuperate.
• Yi An told Lu Sheng that the little girl she had carried had died after her belly was crushed, and Lu Sheng suspected he had kicked her.

Lu Sheng agreed to teach Yi An painting and resumed his cultivation, evolving after consuming a fifth experimental specimen. As he and Andy discussed strange monsters, Lu Sheng recognized the Cloud God in Andy’s notes as the fleshball monster from the Chaos Heart Core.

• Lu Sheng comforted Yi An, accepted her as a painting student, and began teaching her the basics.
• Yi An devoted herself to Lu Sheng’s lessons as his injuries healed and he continued cultivating the Light-Dark Codex.
• After consuming the fifth experimental specimen, Lu Sheng completed the fifth evolution and realized he needed a fifth-level codex to advance further.
• Lu Sheng told Andy that trouble might be brewing around the school and warned him not to rush into danger.
• Andy annotated Lu Sheng’s monster booklet, identifying the illustrated Cloud God as a New God who had lost his physical body.
• Lu Sheng paused at Andy’s description of the Cloud God, recognizing it as the fleshball monster he had encountered within the Chaos Heart Core.

Lu Sheng learned from Andy about the New Gods and their dangerous divine powers, then encountered Yuse Uthas, the man Aryan, Claire, and Andy had helped imprison. The chapter left Lu Sheng and Yuse on friendly-seeming terms despite the others’ fear, while Lu Sheng judged that he could face Yuse only by drawing on his true body’s strength.

• Andy told Lu Sheng that the Cloud God was a powerful New God, described how his father had borrowed its divine power, and explained that godly conflicts usually affected humans through their believers.
• Aryan and Claire approached Andy for help, but their conversation faltered when they saw Yuse, the man they had helped imprison, dining nearby.
• Yuse approached Lu Sheng and introduced himself, and the two shook hands and exchanged a cordial invitation to visit.
• Andy, Aryan, and Claire were astonished that Lu Sheng had remained calm in Yuse’s presence, and Lu Sheng assessed Yuse’s strength against his own.
• Lu Sheng asked what the others planned to do after eating, then said he would go to the library for his remaining study time.

Lu Sheng went to the Night Library to find a Fifth Form Codex and encountered the dangerous beings guarding its forbidden books. He took control of the library’s guards and left with the Codex, while the old gatekeeper concealed what had happened.

• Lu Sheng decided to advance from the Fifth Form to the Sixth Form and went to the Night Library after studying with Professor Yi An.
• Lu Sheng found the Dian An Codex on the humanities room’s bottom shelf and opened it, encountering a dwarf that demanded thirteen pairs of children’s eyes.
• Lu Sheng tried to hypnotize the dwarf, but the old man and other book-dwelling beings intervened and attacked him.
• Lu Sheng defeated the beings, replaced their organs and brains with implanted flesh, and brought the old gatekeeper and the library’s guards under his control.
• Lu Sheng ordered the old gatekeeper not to notify him about anything unimportant, and the gatekeeper altered the crystal ball’s recording to show Lu Sheng studying peacefully.

Lu Sheng advanced the Void Night Codex through an exhausting night of cultivation, while A Er Ni struggled with the Deran Society’s finances and prepared to seek sponsorship. After she injured herself outside his dormitory, Lu Sheng challenged her habit of using her body as a bargaining chip, leaving her stunned by his response.

• Lu Sheng transcribed the Void Night Codex and used God-Entrusting Power to raise it to the fourth layer, bringing him close to the Sixth Form.
• A Er Ni worried about the Deran Society’s dwindling funds and hoped the upcoming live combat simulation would attract sponsors.
• A Er Ni encountered Lu Sheng outside his dormitory after hearing a noise, then struck her head on a doorframe and fell unconscious.
• Lu Sheng stepped over A Er Ni, mistaking her for unconscious, before she called him back and asked him to help her up.
• A Er Ni questioned why Lu Sheng had not taken advantage of her, and he told her she was degrading herself by treating her body as a bargaining chip.

A Er Ni recruited Lu Sheng to help her find a way to resist Evil God Power, offering access to her family's collection of high-level Void Demon specimens and other resources. Lu Sheng accepted, drawn by the chance to study powerful specimens and Evil God Spawn flesh.

• Lu Sheng comforted A Er Ni about her family's expectations, and she followed him to ask for his help.
• At the Thirty-Nine Tavern, A Er Ni told Lu Sheng that the Deran Society was failing and that she wanted to form a small elite group instead.
• A Er Ni explained how her family's sacrifices had protected her from repeated attacks and how she now wanted to become strong enough to protect herself.
• A Er Ni asked Lu Sheng to study how to resist Evil God Power, offering specimens, funding, and support from the Sifalus Family.
• Lu Sheng accepted A Er Ni's offer, and they sealed their agreement with a handshake.

Lu Sheng began using the Sifalus Family’s Fels Institute and consumed its Void Monster specimen, advancing his Sixth Organ and expanding his true-body soul. After inspecting the institute, he discussed research priorities with A Er Ni and prepared to examine her Hell’s Light.

• Hong Yin told Lu Sheng that he could use the Fels Institute and arrange materials and assistants for his research.
• Lu Sheng ate the Void Monster flesh, evolved his Sixth Organ, and absorbed energy that expanded his true-body soul to three times its former size.
• Lu Sheng checked the school’s array descent point, added a drawing for another location, and taught Yi An.
• Lu Sheng entered the long-abandoned Fels Institute and found three viable specimens and residual objects containing Evil God divine power.
• A Er Ni arrived with training equipment, and Lu Sheng agreed to work on her Hell’s Light, codex cultivation, and Void Factor optimization.

Lu Sheng examined A Er Ni, ran stress-response tests on her Hell's Light ability organ, and reviewed her codex at the research institute. After A Er Ni left, Lu Sheng sensed a colossal presence rapidly approaching from beyond the planet.

• A Er Ni resolved to rely on her own efforts as Lu Sheng began her physical examination and collected samples.
• Lu Sheng strapped A Er Ni down and administered two injections while recording her Sixth Cognitive Organ's stress responses.
• A Er Ni gave Lu Sheng her codex, and he advised her to keep a steady breathing rhythm during cultivation.
• A Er Ni left the institute, and Lu Sheng prepared to go home when space suddenly twisted and he sensed something colossal approaching the planet.

Lu Sheng sensed a catastrophic presence approach the campus, then began studying an evil-god-contaminated specimen while testing and improving A Er Ni and Hong Yin’s abilities. A Er Ni paid him with a rare Nightmare Beast specimen, and Lu Sheng continued preparing to strengthen her team.

• A dark smoke stream headed toward Miskatonic University, but Maradona destroyed it with a lightning strike from a gigantic bird.
• Lu Sheng sensed the campus’s immense forces clash and decided he needed to accelerate his work.
• Lu Sheng tested A Er Ni’s Hell’s Light, corrected her technique, and taught her how to draw out more of its power.
• Lu Sheng optimized Hong Yin’s earth-control ability and gave both women personalized training plans.
• Lu Sheng offered to design tailored Codices and stronger enhancement drugs, while A Er Ni weighed the added costs.
• A Er Ni delivered an entire Six-Form Void Demon, a rare Nightmare Beast, to Lu Sheng as payment.

Lu Sheng reached a bottleneck in his cultivation and, after returning to Miskatonic University for the new term, learned from the badly injured Andy how to sneak into the Moon Capital Base and approach the Chaos Codex. Andy also asked Lu Sheng to help Sherry, then broke down after reflecting on his approaching death and the erasure of everyone’s memories of him.

• Lu Sheng advanced the Void Night Codex to its highest level but could not evolve beyond the Sixth Form, while the Deran Society dissolved and the Purple Fire Gang took control of freshman year.
• During the Christmas holiday, Lu Sheng visited his mother, received a promotion in London, and checked on Old Jack, whose daughter’s fiancé had disappeared.
• After returning to Miskatonic University, Lu Sheng visited Andy in the infirmary and learned that a Special Type girl with Organ Severing had nearly killed him.
• Lu Sheng told Andy he had seen the Chaos Codex, and Andy explained that the original was kept at the Moon Capital Base and gave him a necklace that could evade the entrance runes.
• Andy asked Lu Sheng to help Sherry, then admitted to himself that Lu Sheng was getting involved in dangerous matters before crying over his impending death and the loss of his memories.

Lu Sheng discovered that the Psychological Measurement Room was linked to the Demon Sound Monster and learned that Moon Capital Base lay beneath the school. After encountering Yuse near the base, he decided to accelerate his cultivation and risk deducing a new codex.

• Lu Sheng noticed lifeless girls queuing at the Psychological Measurement Room, and Dong Li warned him that it was connected to the Demon Sound Monster and could expose people to Evil God Followers.
• After Lu Sheng pointed out the girls' deathly aura, Dong Li went to investigate, and an explosion sent black smoke rising from the room.
• Lu Sheng headed to his former laboratory and used the Wind of Coordination to locate a huge metal structure about sixty-two meters underground, which he identified as Moon Capital Base.
• Lu Sheng encountered Yuse Uthas in the woods, and both men questioned why the other was near the base.
• Lu Sheng decided to arrange the Descent Formation, strengthen himself, and risk deducing a cultivation codex after first seeking a way to counter God Power.

Lu Sheng failed to find a way to counter God Power, then used Deep Blue to push the Void Night Codex far beyond its previous limits. His Sixth Cognitive Organ evolved into a wind-based form as a vast cyclone gathered over Miskatonic University.

• Lu Sheng tested Gula Force against God Power residue but could not affect it, and he gave A Er Ni mass-produced Remote Control Gloves.
• A Er Ni told Lu Sheng that a cultist had replaced the school psychotherapist and coerced female students into recruiting others for the cult.
• Lu Sheng examined a Wind of Coordination demon corpse and prepared to test the Moon Capital Base's security after upgrading.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to deduce the Void Night Codex, first reaching its 27th level before combining stimulation methods to raise it to the 167th level.
• Lu Sheng's Sixth Cognitive Organ transformed into pale-blue Patterns around a vortex, and a giant made of white tornadoes appeared as he merged with it.
• Countless air currents gathered above Miskatonic University and formed an enormous cyclone around Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng broke through to Mingluo, and the upheaval around Miskatonic University drew other powers into a conflict. As the dormitory emptied and an evil force spread through the school, Lu Sheng and A Er Ni spotted Joy Lady’s red radiance and an emergency gathering below.

• Maradona sensed a vast power gathering, but the Water Mother's High Priestess, Gu Nier, appeared and drew him into battle as black smoke engulfed the campus.
• Lu Sheng merged with the wind, broke through the Materialization Realm into Mingluo, and withdrew when he sensed distant consciousnesses approaching.
• Lu Sheng returned to the dormitory and found A Er Ni frightened by the darkness and the disappearance of nearly everyone in the building.
• Lu Sheng and A Er Ni saw black shapes fighting among the clouds and recognized the distant red radiance as Joy Lady's.
• Lu Sheng told A Er Ni to change for an emergency assembly after they spotted Professor Mels, Tutor Dong Li, and other staff protecting a group of students below.

Lu Sheng used the school’s emergency to investigate Moon Capital Base, but found its defenses too strong to breach and left when the attack ended. After returning to the dormitory, he learned that the Water Mother and Feather Saint had assaulted Miskatonic University and that another attack was expected soon.

• Lu Sheng overheard that the principal and Joy Lady were fighting an attack, then left A Er Ni and flew to Moon Capital Base.
• Lu Sheng found shadow monsters attacking the base’s protective barrier, located its weakest point, and decided not to activate his Descent Formation when the enemy began retreating.
• A colossal psychic wave threatened Principal Maradona and Miskatonic, while Joy Lady and the principal’s psychic presence remained among the school’s strongest defenses.
• Lu Sheng returned to the dormitory and told A Er Ni he had been displaced by a spatial fluctuation.
• A Er Ni explained that the Water Mother and Feather Saint had attacked, that the school was organizing an Emergency Academy Guard, and that another assault could come soon.