Chapter Summaries

Luo Jun tried to check out of the hotel but had to flee when a giant slug monster emerged from the lobby. On the elevator ride to the first basement floor, he fought off the Monster Little Girl, but a Tentacle Monster sabotaged the elevator and trapped him in a freefalling car.

• Luo Jun discovered that the receptionists were antennae of a giant slug monster and escaped into the elevator as it attacked the lobby.
• Luo Jun headed for the first basement floor, but the Monster Little Girl dropped into the elevator and triggered a mission to survive until they reached it.
• Luo Jun accepted the mission and used his increased strength to throw the Monster Little Girl back through the maintenance hatch.
• The Monster Little Girl returned, cut the elevator cables, and disabled its brakes, sending the car into a freefall.
• Luo Jun forced the elevator doors apart as the Tentacle Monster crawled into the car and trapped him inside.

Luo Jun defeated the Tentacle Monster during the elevator’s fall and survived the crash on the first basement level. After completing the mission, he upgraded, gained new rewards, and prepared to leave the elevator in the forbidden area.

• Luo Jun redirected the Tentacle Monster’s tongue, broke free when it dragged him toward the doors, and shoved the monster into the elevator shaft wall until it was ground down.
• The elevator crashed at the first basement level, and Luo Jun survived the impact after landing on the monster.
• Luo Jun completed the mission, healed, reached level ten, and received 540 chips, experience, and ten Attribute Points.
• Luo Jun drew the Regret skill and a rare Wealth Ring, then allocated his Attribute Points to strengthen himself.
• Luo Jun left the elevator after realizing he had arrived at the first basement level, where the hotel rules said he must not go.

Luo Jun confronted the first basement level’s ruler and offered it a Human-Shaped Biscuit, confirming his theory about the Hotel’s human and monster forces. The ruler let him leave, and Luo Jun completed the Chaos Mission.

• Luo Jun recognized the Crocodile Monster as human by the Hotel’s rules and asked to meet the first basement level’s ruler.
• The ruler revealed that it wanted Luo Jun to stay and help revive the remains of humans, then threatened him when he refused.
• Luo Jun offered a Human-Shaped Biscuit as a blueprint, reasoning that the underground force used animal-shaped crackers to assemble its idea of humans.
• The ruler accepted the biscuit, lit a path to the exit, and let Luo Jun pass through.
• Luo Jun left the darkness and received confirmation that the Chaos Mission was complete.

Luo Jun cleared the Midnight Hotel Chaos Mission and examined the rewards he received before returning to the real world. At Qianyuehui Mall, Hao Yong and the others saw him emerge from the mission and reacted with shock and delight.

• Luo Jun received the Hundred Treasure Box, Animal Crackers, Midnight Mask, and Ogre's Tongue for completing the mission and its hidden missions.
• Luo Jun customized the Hundred Treasure Box as a wristwatch and discovered its storage functions and the properties of his three Treasure Tools.
• Luo Jun considered the dangerous underground route that had let him escape Midnight's Hotel and looked out at the ordinary street beyond it.
• At Qianyuehui Mall, Xiao Meng and Sha Sha talked about Sha Sha's university plans and Xiao Meng's interest in Ling Xin while Hao Yong kept watch.
• Luo Jun appeared near the discount stall, and Hao Yong recognized that he had returned from a Tier B Mission.

After questioning Luo Jun about the Chaos Mission, Cheng Yuanzheng let him go with a reward and instructions to keep the supernatural world secret. Meanwhile, the Yuan Cultivation Society discussed Luo Jun’s abilities, and the woman from the Midnight Hotel emerged into the outside world.

• Cheng Yuanzheng questioned Luo Jun about his Vital Energy training and mission rewards, then explained that Chaos Missions would not summon him again before Foundation Establishment.
• The branch released Luo Jun with fifty thousand yuan and a warning not to reveal Vital Energy, Different Worlds, or Chaos Missions to ordinary people.
• Cheng Yuanzheng told his team that Luo Jun had concealed some details but meant no harm, while Sha Sha posted a sensationalized account of his mission on the Yuan Cultivation Society forum.
• Ling Xin questioned how Luo Jun had hidden his Vital Energy, and Cheng Yuanzheng confirmed that Luo Jun had cultivated for more than two months.
• A woman emerged from the Midnight Hotel Underground Garage without being burned by the sunlight and announced that she was finally out.

After lottery tickets and scratch cards failed to offer a usable way to exploit the Dice of Heavenly Secrets, Luo Jun found an instant mall raffle with a fifty-thousand-yuan Special Prize still available. He planned to spend two thousand yuan on a new phone to earn raffle tickets and try his luck.

• Luo Jun celebrated his growing savings and Vital Energy, then tried to use the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to win the lottery, but the delayed result was too unrelated to his actions.
• Luo Jun tried to determine whether a box of Scratch Cards contained a grand prize, but the system rejected the fixed outcome as a Mandatory Event.
• Luo Jun concluded that he needed an immediate drawing he could influence and a prize pool confirmed to contain a major prize.
• Luo Jun learned that Wanlong Mall's anniversary raffle still had its fifty-thousand-yuan Special Prize and that he could save some of his tickets for another day.
• Luo Jun decided to spend two thousand yuan at the mall on a new phone so he could exchange his receipts for raffle tickets.

Luo Jun won a 50,000-yuan special prize using the Dice of Heavenly Secrets, then spent the day enjoying his newfound wealth. Back home, he found classmates tagging him in a sarcastic post about an unlucky scalper.

• Luo Jun watched a bespectacled man win five high-tier prizes and suspected he was a Vital Energy Cultivator.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets on four raffle tickets and won the special prize worth 50,000 yuan.
• Luo Jun cashed the prize check, bought liquor and cigarettes, and treated himself to a lavish meal.
• Luo Jun returned home, set up his new phone, and opened the class group after classmates tagged him in messages about Gao Qiang’s video.
• Luo Jun opened the video titled “This Is Probably the Unluckiest Scalper in the World.”

After a video of Luo Jun being kicked went viral among his classmates, Ling Xin defended him and redirected the group’s attention to Gao Qiang. The next morning, Luo Jun visited Ningdong University to meet Yuan Shouzhen and reached the old man after struggling up a mysterious staircase that drained his Vital Energy.

• Luo Jun saw an edited surveillance video of Windbreaker Man kicking him, and his classmates mocked him in their group chat.
• Ling Xin told the group to stop teasing Luo Jun, then accused Gao Qiang of following her, prompting the classmates to confront him instead.
• Luo Jun privately thanked Ling Xin, who replied that he was welcome.
• Luo Jun claimed he was sick, brought cigarettes and liquor, and went to Ningdong University to meet Professor Yuan.
• A security guard led Luo Jun through the campus and told him to climb a mountain staircase to find Yuan Shouzhen.
• Luo Jun struggled against an invisible force that drained his Vital Energy, then reached a pavilion where Yuan Shouzhen was waiting.

Yuan Shouzhen explained the realms and risks of Vital Energy Cultivation to Luo Jun before revealing that his old injury prevented him from advancing in Heart Refining. He then began outlining the conditions for Luo Jun to enter his sect.

• Luo Jun climbed the Trial Stone Steps and offered Yuan Shouzhen liquor and cigarettes before asking to become his disciple.
• Yuan Shouzhen described the four cultivation realms and explained how Body Refinement, Foundation Establishment, and Heart Refining develop Vital Energy in different ways.
• Yuan Shouzhen revealed that an old injury barred him from cultivating Heart Refining, though he had reached the Seventh Layer in Body Refinement and Foundation Establishment.
• Yuan Shouzhen explained that breakthroughs had progressively lower success rates and that the Sixth Layer had roughly a one percent chance of success.
• Luo Jun resolved to face the challenges ahead, thinking his Dice of Heavenly Secrets could make him luckier than Yuan Shouzhen.
• Yuan Shouzhen told Luo Jun that he would explain the conditions for entering his sect before Luo Jun decided whether to become his disciple.

Old Yuan revealed that Luo Jun had unknowingly cultivated the dangerous Body Tempering Art and offered to teach him its complete form. Luo Jun accepted Old Yuan as his master, began grueling training, and learned he would take the Explorer Academy entrance examination at Ningdong University.

• Old Yuan explained that the Body Tempering Art could greatly enhance the body but carried deadly risks if a breakthrough failed.
• Old Yuan told Luo Jun that his most talented disciple had died, then offered Luo Jun a choice between continuing cultivation and having his realm and memories erased.
• Luo Jun chose to become Old Yuan's disciple and agreed to keep their relationship and his cultivation method secret while advancing through the realms in order.
• Old Yuan began training Luo Jun, making him circulate Vital Energy while repeatedly climbing the Trial Stone Steps under the Overseer Belt's supervision.
• Luo Jun returned to his rental house exhausted and examined his admission ticket for the Ningdong University Explorer Academy entrance examination.

Luo Jun trained under Old Yuan to prepare for the Explorer Academy entrance exam, improving at combat and Vital Energy control before Old Yuan raised the Mechanical Puppet’s difficulty and extended the Trial Stone Steps beyond the pavilion. The chapter ended with Luo Jun struggling through the harder training.

• Old Yuan explained the Explorer Academy’s role in training explorers and told Luo Jun about its entrance exam and Admission Tickets.
• Luo Jun spent a week training with a Mechanical Puppet and climbing the Trial Stone Steps, improving his combat skills, endurance, and Vital Energy control.
• Old Yuan raised the Mechanical Puppet from difficulty level one to level two, and Luo Jun was sent flying by its unfamiliar attack.
• Luo Jun vowed to reach level five, then charged back into combat and was knocked out of the clearing again.
• Old Yuan told Luo Jun to continue climbing the Trial Stone Steps past the pavilion, where the increased resistance brought back the Overseer Belt’s punishment.

Three days before the Explorer Academy entrance exam, Luo Jun completed Old Yuan’s training goals and prepared to break through to the Body Refinement Realm Second Layer. As his breakthrough neared completion, an injured woman crashed through the window of his rental house.

• Luo Jun fought the third-setting Mechanical Puppet to a standstill, impressing Old Yuan with his Vital Energy control and rapid progress.
• Luo Jun climbed all 3,600 steps of Trial Peak without triggering his belt’s punishment, and Old Yuan told him to rest before the entrance exam.
• Luo Jun insisted on returning for one more morning of training to give Old Yuan a surprise, then used his saved attribute points and prepared to break through at home.
• The Dice of Heavenly Secrets reported an unexpectedly difficult but successful breakthrough event, and Luo Jun began tempering his body with Vital Energy.
• As Luo Jun reached the eighth cycle of his breakthrough, a glamorous, injured woman crashed through his window and nearly distracted him.

Luo Jun broke through to the Second Layer of the Body Refinement Realm and helped Lu Fei capture the injured Gong Shiyue, then discovered his story was popular on an internal cultivator forum. The next day, confident in his new strength, he challenged the fifth setting of the Advanced Mechanical Puppet and collided with it head-on.

• Gong Shiyue tried to drain Luo Jun's essence while using him as a shield against Lu Fei, but Luo Jun resisted and threw her to the floor, allowing Lu Fei to subdue her.
• Hao Yong and Xiao Meng arrived, recognized Luo Jun, and helped him register for the internal cultivator forum, where his earlier mission story had become popular.
• The Yuan Cultivation Society took Gong Shiyue away, and Hao Yong offered to apply for a reward for Luo Jun's help.
• Luo Jun reviewed his breakthrough to the Second Layer, gained fifteen attribute points, and found an ordinary plush doll Gong Shiyue had left behind.
• At Trial Peak the next day, Luo Jun challenged the fifth setting of the Advanced Mechanical Puppet and met its charge with a direct block as Old Yuan rushed to stop him.

Luo Jun demonstrated his improved combat ability after breaking through to the second level of the Body Refinement Realm, earning Old Yuan’s approval and concern over his risky breakthrough. Old Yuan gave him a Sealing Necklace to limit and conceal his Vital Energy as Luo Jun prepared for the exam, while privately recognizing his exceptional progress.

• Luo Jun withstood the level-five Mechanical Puppet’s attack and then fought it evenly after adapting to its techniques.
• Old Yuan discovered that Luo Jun had broken through the previous night and reprimanded him for risking a breakthrough so close to the exam.
• Old Yuan gave Luo Jun a Sealing Necklace that restricted most of his Vital Energy and explained Vital Energy reserves and coefficients.
• Old Yuan said the necklace would help conceal Luo Jun’s unusual reserves and reminded him not to reveal his special traits before mastering the Body Tempering Art.
• Old Yuan sent Luo Jun away to rest before the exam and privately reflected on his rapid progress and a disciple he regretted losing.

Luo Jun arrived at Ningdong University's Explorer Academy entrance exam and learned from Sha Sha that powerful young cultivators, including the Golden Edge Witch, were competing. As he searched the crowd for the masked woman, he spotted Ling Xin among the examinees.

• Luo Jun arrived at the Trial Stone Steps and observed the diverse group of examinees gathering for the exam.
• Sha Sha recognized Luo Jun, promised to keep his identity secret about Gong Shiyue's capture, and discussed the exam's fierce competition with him.
• Sha Sha told Luo Jun that Lei Tianyang was a Heart Refining Realm prodigy and that the even stronger Golden Edge Witch was also applying.
• After Sha Sha left, Luo Jun searched the crowd for the Golden Edge Witch but could not identify her.
• Luo Jun noticed a sporty girl arriving and recognized her as Ling Xin.

Luo Jun reunited with Ling Xin and Han Yuri at the Explorer Academy entrance exam, then began the Trial Stone Steps test after Zheng Hu explained its rules. He raced past exhausted examinees and leaped over a crowd of obstacles, prompting another candidate to report him for cheating.

• Luo Jun encountered Ling Xin and Han Yuri, joked with Han Yuri, and heard Ling Xin warn him that being an Explorer was dangerous.
• Zheng Hu introduced the Trial Stone Steps exam and explained that Spirit Mirror Discs would set each examinee’s finish line according to their cultivation level.
• Luo Jun tested as a Body Refinement Realm cultivator, received a White Wristband, and began climbing the Trial Stone Steps.
• Luo Jun sprinted past struggling examinees and reached a crowded section where exhausted candidates blocked the stairs.
• Luo Jun leaped over the obstacle zone and continued upward, while the red-haired examinee shouted that someone was cheating.

Luo Jun reached the second examination site after completing the Trial Stone Steps in just four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, then prepared to face a Mechanical Puppet. While eating at the stadium, he fought Han Yuri after Han insulted him, and Senior Sister Miao took charge of the dispute.

• Luo Jun showed his White Wristband at the white finish, and the staff member confirmed his record-breaking arrival time.
• Luo Jun activated the Teleportation Array with his own Vital Energy and arrived at the stadium for the Mechanical Puppet examination.
• A staff member explained that Luo Jun had to survive five minutes against an ordinary puppet, and Luo Jun went to eat before starting.
• Han Yuri mocked Luo Jun's background and called his food junk, so Luo Jun smashed a serving of hot grilled cold noodles into Han Yuri's face and pinned him down.
• Han Yuri demanded that Luo Jun's examination qualification be revoked, but Senior Sister Miao declared she was in charge and threw Han Yuri to the ground.

Han Yuri left after Senior Sister Miao criticized him, and Luo Jun accepted her challenge to last one minute against an Advanced Mechanical Puppet. He outmaneuvered it and knocked it out of the arena, earning Senior Sister Miao’s approval to pass the subject as the story left him heading back to the snack stalls.

• Senior Sister Miao scolded Han Yuri for leaving after passing the second round, and he walked out of the venue.
• Senior Sister Miao challenged Luo Jun to last one minute against an Advanced Mechanical Puppet, and he accepted.
• Luo Jun evaded the puppet’s attacks until he was cornered, then threw his school uniform to make it block and slipped past its defenses.
• Luo Jun knocked the puppet out of the arena with five seconds remaining, and Senior Sister Miao declared that he had passed the subject.
• Senior Sister Miao argued that Luo Jun deserved special approval for his tactics and composure, then said she would speak with Teacher Xu.

After passing the first two entrance exams, Luo Jun settled into Explorer Academy’s mountain dormitory and browsed the Vital Energy forum. He recognized a name from a movie among the news and wondered whether its story reflected a real Different World.

• Luo Jun followed a senior student to the dormitory valley and learned that the next two exams would take place over the following days.
• Luo Jun chose an empty single room and discovered that its wooden frame was remarkably sturdy and carried an unusual fragrance.
• Luo Jun circulated his Inner Breath while browsing forum news about Cultivators and events in Different Worlds.
• Luo Jun noticed that Ling Yao, a hunter featured in the movie Wild Hunt, appeared in a forum post and wondered whether the movie depicted real events.
• Luo Jun kept scrolling and came across something related to himself.

Luo Jun read reactions to his Mechanical Puppet fight, then faced Han Yuri before the candidates gathered for the third test. Examiner Yu Qiudi introduced herself and handed the rules over to a student to explain.

• Luo Jun watched Zhuge Zi's Puhua Mountain exam footage and read a post about his own Mechanical Puppet fight.
• Luo Jun dismissed criticism from Yunzhou Ni Song Ge and went to bed before his next exam.
• Han Yuri warned Luo Jun that the third test could be dangerous, then went to pester Ling Xin.
• About six hundred candidates who had passed the first two tests gathered at eight o'clock.
• Yu Qiudi introduced herself as the third-test examiner, then made a student explain the rules from her script.