Chapter Summaries

Tie Jingang learned that Ling Xin’s severe injuries would heal and that the Evil Toxin in her body had vanished, while the Gu Master Elder welcomed the Hundred Rivers Sect’s wounded guests to remain in Medicine King Valley. Later, Qi Feng gave Lei Tianyang the Moon Averting Saber Technique, setting up a fair rematch between them.

• The Gu Master Elder told Tie Jingang that Ling Xin was weak from losing qi and blood but would recover fully, and that her Evil Toxin had disappeared.
• Tie Jingang learned that the injured disciples from the Sword Saint Sect, Heaven's Gate, and Dragon Palace were also recovering in Medicine King Valley, and the Gu Master Elder invited them to stay.
• Lei Tianyang practiced his saber technique in the Martial Arts Arena until Qi Feng arrived and praised his skill.
• Qi Feng gave Lei Tianyang the Moon Averting Saber Technique so they could compete using the same moves in a future rematch.
• Lei Tianyang accepted the manual and vowed to defeat Qi Feng next time, while Qi Feng said he looked forward to their match.

After returning to Yunzhou City, Luo Jun learned that his master, Old Yuan, had gone missing during a mission in [Utopia] alongside elite members of the Holy See. The rescue effort had yet to begin, and Luo Jun disappeared from the room after hearing the news.

• The Hundred Rivers Sect group returned to Yunzhou City, where Hou Song and Tie Jingang discussed Long Hui and the sect’s plan to track him down.
• Luo Jun learned that Old Yuan was expected to arrive soon and asked about him while recovering most of his Vital Energy.
• Liu Si delivered a message saying Old Yuan had not returned as planned and had disappeared in [Utopia] with two Holy Knights, a Battle Sister, and other explorers.
• Hou Song explained that Old Yuan’s group had last been seen in the dangerous Parami Region, and Tie Jingang tried to reassure Luo Jun.
• Hou Song and the others turned to comfort Luo Jun, but he had vanished.

Luo Jun used the Gate of Myriad Realms to enter [Utopia] and search for Master, who appeared to be trapped in a special space. He arrived in a vast desert, where he found a merchant caravan and learned how to reach a city.

• Luo Jun secretly left the group with the Gate of Myriad Realms and used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to open a gate to the region where Master was located.
• Luo Jun stepped through the gate into a scorching desert and discovered that nearly all his belongings except his Treasure Tools and underwear had not come with him.
• Luo Jun tried to use the dice to point toward Master, but the event was judged Mandatory, leading him to suspect Master was trapped in a special Different Space.
• Luo Jun spotted a camel caravan and approached its members, who fired at him when they could not understand his speech.
• Luo Jun calmed the caravan leader, learned that a city lay in a nearby direction, and received clothes before setting off.

Luo Jun entered a Utopian city to draw out the Holy See and find out what it knew about Yuan Shouzhen’s disappearance. After he clashed with the city’s forces, three Holy See representatives confronted him and Bishop Jacob trapped them all in a glowing Magic Array.

• Luo Jun rode into the city openly, using his weapons and reputation to attract the Holy See’s attention.
• Luo Jun deflected soldiers’ bullets, drove off the police, and defeated a squad of humanoid mechs as the city issued warnings about him.
• A spatial barrier isolated Luo Jun in the central square, where Holy Knight Hank Howard, Bishop Jacob, and Sister Shalinna appeared.
• Luo Jun told the Holy See representatives he had come to investigate Yuan Shouzhen’s disappearance, but refused to disclose who had hired him.
• Bishop Jacob activated a Magic Array that engulfed Luo Jun and the three Holy See representatives in light.

Luo Jun was trapped in the Holy See’s underground prison, where Bishop Jacob questioned him about his arrival in Utopia and his search for Yuan Shouzhen. After learning that his master had vanished in Amgilla, Luo Jun broke the sealing array by uprooting an Orichalcum-alloy cross and charged at the Holy See trio.

• Bishop Jacob, Sister Salina, and Holy Knight Hank confined Luo Jun in a prison that sealed his Vital Energy and demanded to know why he had come to Utopia.
• Luo Jun asked where Yuan Shouzhen was and learned that he had disappeared in Amgilla, a mysterious land no one had entered for thousands of years.
• Luo Jun struck an Orichalcum-alloy cross hard enough to dent it, startling the three Holy See leaders.
• Luo Jun uprooted the cross with another blow, breaking the sealing array and restoring his Vital Energy.
• Sister Shalinna attacked Luo Jun with flames as Hank struck with his greatsword, but Luo Jun evaded them and leaped toward Bishop Jacob.

Luo Jun fought Bishop Jacob, Holy Knight Hank, and Sister Salina in the underground containment facility, where their space-transfer defense, powered armor, and firebird attacks wounded and pressured him. After Night used Earth Shield and a healing device to recover, Luo Jun dropped the barrier and charged at Salina, deciding to target her first.

• Bishop Jacob redirected Luo Jun's punch through space, while Hank and Salina joined the fight with powered armor and fire attacks.
• The underground battle shook Paramis City, and the Church broadcast that the tremors were a minor earthquake to calm residents.
• After Salina's firebird attack left the facility scorched, Jacob, Hank, and Salina discussed Luo Jun's strength and realized he was still not at the Peak.
• Luo Jun appeared behind a pale yellow Earth Shield with a healing device, and Hank's sword strikes made the barrier flicker.
• After his wound nearly healed, Luo Jun dispelled Earth Shield and charged at Salina to stop her from launching another Ultimate Move.

Luo Jun overwhelmed Bishop Jacob, Sister Salina, and Holy Knight Hank, then followed their teleportation gate into the Holy See’s control hall. He forced Jacob to explain Amgilla, learning that newly discovered artifacts suggested the legendary ancient oasis had really existed, and the chapter left its location and connection to Yuan Shouzhen unresolved.

• Luo Jun relentlessly attacked Sister Salina, draining Bishop Jacob’s Vital Energy as Jacob reflected each punch back at him.
• Bishop Jacob ordered the operators to lift the space lockdown briefly and opened teleportation gates for himself, Salina, and Hank.
• Luo Jun anticipated Jacob’s escape, seized Salina, and followed them through the gate into the control hall.
• Luo Jun held Salina hostage and demanded to know about Amgilla while Jacob and Hank confronted him.
• Bishop Jacob described Amgilla’s legend and explained that artifacts found in the Hairub Desert had been dated to more than 5,300 years ago, suggesting a vanished civilization had existed there.

Luo Jun’s confrontation with the Holy See eased after Bishop Jacob learned that the Yuan Cultivation Society had sent reinforcements, though Luo Jun remained uncertain why they called him their Extra Support. He waited outside the Parami Cathedral as the reinforcements arrived, after gaining a level and drawing a new skill.

• Luo Jun pressed Bishop Jacob for a guide to find Yuan Shouzhen and guessed that the Holy See’s interest in Amgilla involved Karruth, a real Deity.
• Bishop Jacob learned that the Yuan Cultivation Society rescue team was approaching, while a Holy See cleric reported that reinforcements from headquarters had also arrived.
• A call identified Luo Jun as the Yuan Cultivation Society’s Extra Support, surprising both Luo Jun and the Holy See personnel.
• Luo Jun released Sister Shalinna and moved outside the Parami Cathedral to wait for the Yuan Cultivation Society reinforcements.
• Luo Jun leveled up to forty, drew More Opportunities (Level 2), gained forty-one Attribute Points, and increased his dice usage limit to seven.
• Several Horse Chariots arrived at the cathedral carrying Holy See clerics and four Eastern Explorers from the Yuan Cultivation Society.

Luo Jun learned that the Yuan Cultivation Society had recruited him as Extra Support after Mu Ning secretly observed his confrontation with the Holy See. He joined the Society’s team as they entered the church to discuss a rescue plan with Bishop Jacob.

• Jin Fei told Luo Jun that the Yuan Cultivation Society had investigated him and classified him as safe to approach and recruit.
• Mu Ning, Jin Fei, Ma Lei, and Zhuge Chi introduced themselves to Luo Jun as members of the Society’s team.
• Luo Jun recognized Zhuge Chi as the Zhuge Family’s rising Peak cultivator, known as the Weakest Peak beside Ling Yao.
• Zhuge Chi apologized to Bishop Jacob for Luo Jun’s actions, and Jacob led the group into the church to discuss the rescue plan.

Luo Jun and the rescue team prepared to search for the missing explorers in the Hairub Desert, with Ophelia offering to guide them. The team departed by airship, while Jin Fei watched Luo Jun and wondered whether he was hiding a secret to his rapid growth.

• The Bishop introduced Ottos, Rolf, and Ophelia as Holy See experts supporting the rescue mission for the missing exploration team.
• Ophelia agreed to guide the team through the Hairub Desert and warned that its shifting terrain, storms, quicksand, and monsters made navigation difficult.
• Rolf offered his Armored Vehicle for travel, and Luo Jun questioned Ophelia about leaving her post six months earlier, but the Bishop dismissed the matter as a routine transfer.
• The team boarded the airship and headed toward the desert, expecting to reach the drop-off point the following morning.
• Jin Fei doubted reports that Night had already reached the Peak, then put on glasses and moved closer to observe Luo Jun practicing.

Jin Fei used his Epic Treasure Item, Imitation Glasses, on Luo Jun and discovered how overwhelming Luo Jun’s vital energy circulation was. The group entered the Hairub Desert’s Core Area, where they were caught in a deadly sandstorm that began scratching their armored vehicle’s bulletproof windows.

• Jin Fei activated the Imitation Glasses on Luo Jun and struggled to endure the more than a hundred conflicting streams of vital energy he copied.
• The airship reached the Hairub Desert’s edge, but the pilot refused to enter the central region and left the group there.
• Rolf summoned an armored vehicle, and the group drove into the Core Area using directions from the Holy See.
• Mu Ning detected a fast-moving sandstorm, and Ophelia told Rolf to stop and anchor the vehicle.
• The sandstorm quickly darkened the windows, while its grains struck loudly and scratched the vehicle’s bulletproof glass.

After a sandstorm buried and scarred Rolf's Armored Vehicle, the group encountered a Death Worm in the central desert. O'Toss killed it with his blades, but Mu Ning spotted many more approaching from the south.

• The sandstorm buried the Armored Vehicle, and the group dug it out and cleared sand from its machinery.
• Ophelia revealed that she had used an Energy Shield during a previous sandstorm, while Mu Ning detected a large creature burrowing beneath the sand.
• The group stayed still as a Death Worm passed under them, but Mu Ning warned that it had turned back.
• Ophelia identified the creature as a Death Worm that hunted by sensing vibrations, and O'Toss attacked it with his scimitars.
• O'Toss's cuts expanded and tore the Death Worm apart, but Olivia warned that Death Worms usually appeared in groups.
• Mu Ning spotted many more Death Worms approaching from the south.

Ophelia led Luo Jun and the others through a red mist to escape a swarm of Death Worms, bringing them into the Nest of Mosayus. She revealed that the silent desert beneath them was the sleeping monster’s enormous body, and the group escaped through the mist on the other side.

• A swarm of at least a hundred Death Worms pursued the Armored Vehicle, and Luo Jun used its weapons and Vital Energy to keep them at bay.
• Ophelia directed Rolf to drive through a red mist, where the Death Worms stopped following them.
• Ophelia ordered everyone to leave the vehicle and move quietly, then explained that they were inside the Nest of Mosayus.
• Ophelia revealed that Mosayus slept beneath the desert and that the surrounding red mist was its breath.
• When red mist appeared ahead, Rolf brought out the Armored Vehicle, and the group drove out at top speed.

The team reached the place where Yuan Shouzhen’s exploration team disappeared, and Mu Ning used her Insightful Wisdom Eye to locate an unexplained anomaly. At the sand pit, Luo Jun discovered that the grains of sand were all halves, leaving the group facing an impossible clue.

• Luo Jun drove the team more than a hundred kilometers through the red mist and desert without incident, despite Ophelia warning that the central Hairub Desert was unpredictable.
• The team reached the area where Yuan Shouzhen’s group had lost contact, and O'Toss prepared Dust of Replication to investigate their disappearance.
• Mu Ning removed her eye patch and used her Insightful Wisdom Eye to scan the surrounding area, ruling out several strange desert phenomena before locating a sand pit two kilometers to the southeast.
• The team found the seemingly ordinary sand pit, and Luo Jun examined its sand before Zhuge Chi realized that every grain was a half.

Luo Jun and the others used the Dust of Replication to learn that Old Yuan’s team had vanished when a Bronze Wine Cup’s inscription transported them away. They found an identical cup in the sand pit, but Ottos picked it up and transported the whole search party away as well.

• Luo Jun noticed unusually flat grains of sand, and Zhuge Chi inferred that a spatial transfer had created the hemispherical pit.
• Ottos used the Dust of Replication to reveal Old Yuan’s team walking past the pit and later returning with a glowing Bronze Wine Cup.
• The bespectacled priest recited the cup’s inscription, and a sphere of light transported Old Yuan’s team away.
• Ophelia explained that the cup was an artifact linked to Amgilla, and Mu Ning spotted an identical cup in the pit.
• Ottos picked up the cup despite Mu Ning’s warning, and the light transported the search party away, leaving a larger sand pit.

Luo Jun and the others awoke in a sealed rainforest surrounding an ancient city and set out toward its central pyramid, where they believed Yuan Shouzhen might be. As they entered the city, they discovered that a supernatural force made movement and climbing harder near the center, and a stele presented them with three paths: wrath, lust, and greed.

• Luo Jun used his dice to confirm that Yuan Shouzhen was in the space and determine that the pyramid lay in his direction.
• Mu Ning detected a barrier sealing the rainforest, and the group agreed to search for Yuan Shouzhen at the pyramid.
• Luo Jun and the others crossed the rainforest and reached the city, where they found that increasing gravity and restrictions made rooftop travel difficult.
• Zhuge Chi concluded that a divine force protected the buildings and grew stronger toward the city center.
• The group entered the city and read a stele describing three paths—wrath, lust, and greed—as the way forward.

The group learned that the three paths led through unstable boundaries into separate spaces, making it impossible to travel together or return easily. After O'Toss and Ma Lei failed to come back, everyone chose a path, with Luo Jun taking the Lust Road and Ophelia hesitating before following him.

• Ophelia explained the Anger, Desire, and Greed Roads and the legend of the Path of Vice.
• Mu Ning sensed unstable boundaries at the path entrances and inferred that people entering the same road would be sent to different spaces.
• O'Toss and Ma Lei crossed into the Greed Road while Jin Fei held their hands, but they vanished and did not return after a minute.
• Zhuge Chi told everyone to choose the road that suited them, and Luo Jun used a knife toss to select the Lust Road.
• Jin Fei chose the Anger Road, the others selected their paths, and Ophelia eventually entered the Lust Road after wavering between all three.

Luo Jun searched a sealed ancient Parami street for an exit and encountered Ophelia, whom he initially suspected was an illusion. After proving he was real, he gained her trust and received enough experience to upgrade.

• Luo Jun entered a bustling ancient Parami street, found himself unable to return, and searched its alleys and shops for an exit.
• Luo Jun met Ophelia but suspected she was an illusion, while she mistook him for one after he gave her a false name.
• Luo Jun discovered that the street’s people could not be harmed and that he could not communicate with them because of the language barrier.
• Ophelia returned and spoke with a shopkeeper in fluent Ancient Parami Language, prompting Luo Jun to use his dice to confirm she was real.
• Luo Jun proved himself by swinging his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade through the tavern owner, and Ophelia agreed to believe him as he received 268 experience points and upgraded.

Luo Jun and Ophelia searched a brothel for a way through the Lust Trial, but Ophelia was drugged and failed it. When her condition worsened and she mistook Luo Jun for her missing lover Jason, he killed her, triggering a change in the trial.

• Ophelia led Luo Jun to a hidden brothel, where she believed the Lust Trial might be solved.
• Ophelia took a pill and entered a room with a young man, while Luo Jun chose a woman and resisted her advances.
• Luo Jun sensed the drug affecting Ophelia, broke through the partition, and rescued her from the man.
• Luo Jun fought off the brothel’s thugs and carried Ophelia back to a tavern, where she grew delirious and mistook him for Jason.
• Luo Jun snapped Ophelia’s neck, and the tavern vanished as he appeared at a new crossroads.

Luo Jun and Ophelia escaped Lust Road after discovering that illusions had impersonated them, then joined the others and continued through the maze without Rolf or Ma Lei. At Honest Spring, Jin Fei volunteered to answer its truth-test, which began by asking about his first fantasy object.

• Luo Jun realized the Ophelia he had encountered in the small room was an illusion, and confirmed with the real Ophelia that each had seen a false version of the other.
• Luo Jun and Ophelia discovered that the trial had fabricated their supposed lovers, including a story linking Luo Jun to Yuan Shouzhen.
• Zhuge Chi's group reunited, but Rolf and Ma Lei failed to emerge before the paths behind them sealed shut.
• The group reached Honest Spring, where Ophelia explained that each person had to answer a question truthfully to open the way ahead.
• Jin Fei placed his hand on the stele, and Ophelia read the spring's question asking who his first fantasy object was.