Chapter Summaries

Luo Jun celebrated New Year with Old Yuan’s family, but Old Yuan received a dangerous Chaos Mission. After Yuan Lingmin foresaw heavy death omens for Old Yuan and anyone who accompanied him, Luo Jun used a Refresh Card and Follow Card to join the mission, dramatically reducing Old Yuan’s death omen.

• Luo Jun joined Old Yuan’s family for New Year and helped make dumplings while they watched the Spring Festival Gala.
• Old Yuan received a Chaos Mission notification, and Yuan Lingmin warned that he faced an omen of nine deaths and one chance at life.
• Yuan Wei'en explained that Yuan Lingmin’s Heavenly Eye could perceive death omens, while Yuan Sizhe, Yuan Sining, and Yuan Sijie each considered accompanying Old Yuan.
• Luo Jun took Yuan Sijie’s Refresh Card and Follow Card and used them to join Old Yuan’s mission.
• Yuan Lingmin announced that Old Yuan’s death omen had decreased dramatically.

Luo Jun and Old Yuan entered the Endless Maze with seven other participants, including their former acquaintance Sun Xiaowei. After the group learned that the maze was considered an unsolvable Tier A mission, Old Yuan revealed that the sole known survivor had escaped using the Hell Creek Family’s supreme treasure, the Rebirth Blood Pool.

• Yuan Lingmin said Luo Jun’s Death Omen was fainter than Old Yuan’s, and Luo Jun insisted on joining his master for the mission.
• Luo Jun and Old Yuan arrived in a circular room with twelve doorways and met seven other participants, including Old Yuan’s former student Li Ying and Luo Jun’s acquaintance Sun Xiaowei.
• The participants introduced themselves, and Luo Jun reassured Sun Xiaowei while concealing his concern that a teammate might endanger Old Yuan.
• The mission rules identified the setting as the Endless Maze, a sealed, multilevel maze with no time limit, true death, and a side mission involving Hundred Treasure Boxes.
• Old Yuan explained that the maze was considered unsolvable because no one had found its exit, and that it did not trigger the annihilation mechanism.
• Old Yuan revealed that Caroline, the only known survivor, had escaped the maze with the Hell Creek Family’s Rebirth Blood Pool.

Luo Jun and the others learned that the Endless Maze could not be escaped through ordinary teleportation, so they split into groups to search for an exit. Luo Jun’s group explored a randomly chosen route and found a skeleton wearing a Jade Bracelet in a Dead Alley.

• Old Yuan explained that the Hell Creek Family’s Rebirth Blood Pool could resurrect marked people even inside the Endless Maze, while Luo Jun’s Fate Peering Glasses showed that the Gate of Myriad Realms could not get him out.
• The group debated whether to travel together, and Mao Xintong distributed Thousand Mile Sound Transmission Talismans before they split into five groups.
• Luo Jun, Old Yuan, Sun Xiaowei, and Ma Qiao chose a stairwell and explored a room and winding corridor, while Luo Jun reasoned that the maze entrance likely changed each time the mission opened.
• At a T-junction, Luo Jun tossed a pistol to choose the right-hand path, and Old Yuan joked that Luo Jun’s good luck might lead them out.
• After traveling several hundred meters, Luo Jun’s group found a short Dead Alley with a skeleton leaning against the wall and a Jade Bracelet on its wrist.

Luo Jun's group retrieved a Hundred Treasure Box from a skeleton guarded by energy-eating worms, then reached the Hall of Choice and chose a door with the Dice of Heavenly Secrets. They found the Endless Shop beyond it, where a merchant explained that Treasure Tools, Hundred Treasure Boxes, and other maze rewards could be exchanged for currency, but he would stay only one hour.

• Sun Xiaowei sent her Mechanical Spider, Xiao Hei, to retrieve the bracelet, and it drew out worms that devoured its main body while a smaller machine escaped with the Hundred Treasure Box.
• Old Yuan advised the group to save the Hundred Treasure Box for supplies or other useful functions, and they continued through the maze until they entered the Hall of Choice.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to select the door leading to the shop, and the other four doors disappeared after he opened it.
• The group followed a corridor to the Endless Shop, where Old Yuan met the mustached merchant and learned that goods could be purchased with money earned by exchanging Treasure Tools or Hundred Treasure Boxes and by finding other maze rewards.
• The merchant told Old Yuan that the shop would remain in place for no more than an hour.

Luo Jun used the Generous Person Badge to earn credits, bought supplies and a Personal Map, and continued through the Endless Maze with his companions. After many hours without an encounter, Old Yuan received a message from someone in the maze.

• Ma Qiao suggested robbing the Fat Merchant, but Luo Jun refused after checking that the robbery was impossible.
• Luo Jun activated the Generous Person Badge and discovered it produced three thousand maze credits; he sold junk to earn enough for supplies and the Personal Map.
• Luo Jun bought ten supply packs and the map, kept the relic, and stored the remaining supplies in the Smart Equipment Pack.
• The group ate, then Old Yuan used Talisman Paper to tell others that the shop held clues about the exit; Luo Jun saved the map for an emergency as they continued onward.
• After traveling for over a dozen hours without an unusual encounter, Old Yuan received a message on Talisman Paper.

Old Yuan’s group received Mao Xintong’s recording of monsters passing through the maze walls, then fought a resilient Ghost Shadow and found a Gold Ingot among its remains. After more than thirty hours in the maze, Luo Jun activated the Personal Map and led the group on a rapid sweep of nearby encounter points, leaving Ma Qiao struggling to keep up.

• Mao Xintong sent footage of ghostly monsters marching through the maze walls, and Luo Jun concluded they might be heading toward a special location.
• A Ghost Shadow approached the group; Ma Qiao’s shotgun and Sun Xiaowei’s robot failed to stop it, but Old Yuan destroyed it with fire.
• Sun Xiaowei used Xiao Hei to retrieve a Gold Ingot from the monster’s remains, and Luo Jun stored it in the Equipment Pack.
• After more than thirty hours in the maze, Luo Jun activated the Personal Map and sprinted through the corridors, recording encounter points with his camera.
• Sun Xiaowei transformed her bicycle into an electric bike and caught up with Luo Jun, while Ma Qiao fell behind and asked her to make him a ride.

Luo Jun’s group explored the Endless Maze, cleared its monsters and tile challenge, and exchanged their haul at a White Signboard shop. They learned that Black Signboard shops dealt in special monster drops and could be deadly, but Li Ying received the warning too late and was dragged into the Endless Shop.

• After running more than 150 kilometers with the Personal Map, Luo Jun’s group reviewed their route and followed the recording back through the maze to collect its monsters, shops, relics, and challenges.
• The group defeated a Knight Armor monster for copper coins, and Luo Jun solved a black-and-white tile challenge by jumping over tiles to reach every white square.
• On their way back, the group gathered more than 5,000 copper coins, three Silver Ingots, and one Gold Ingot, then exchanged the coins and Silver Ingots at the White Signboard shop for over 8,000 dollars.
• The Fat Merchant said White Signboard shops would not accept Gold Ingots and warned that Black Signboard shops accepted them but could eat careless customers; Luo Jun bought two Personal Maps and Old Yuan sent the warning to the other groups.
• Li Ying heard Old Yuan’s warning while gravely wounded beside Zheng Yu’s remains, then a tentacle dragged him through a door beneath a Black Signboard marked Endless Shop.

Luo Jun’s group gathered a large stockpile of supplies in the Endless Maze and tried to use the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to locate the exit, but the attempt failed. They set out toward the maze’s origin point to share supplies with the other contestants, and spotted a black signboard in a side passage as they traveled.

• Luo Jun used Instant Step Boots to retrieve a treasure chest from a field of Man-Eating Flowers, finding an Origin Point Pointer inside.
• Luo Jun’s group retraced their route, cleared encounter points, and exchanged their collected treasure for cash and supplies.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets on his recorded footage to search for the exit, but it could not determine the location.
• Old Yuan proposed sharing supplies with the other contestants and sent a message inviting them to meet at the origin point within forty-eight hours.
• Old Yuan used the Origin Point Pointer to guide the group toward the origin point, and they found a black signboard at the end of a side passage.

Luo Jun and Old Yuan entered the Black Shop and discovered that its wares offered a possible way out of the Endless Maze. After buying maps and rejoining Sun Xiaowei and Ma Qiao, Luo Jun suspected the Big Hand Merchant had concealed something about the escape plan.

• Luo Jun and Old Yuan entered the ominous Black Shop, where a giant hand monster showed them its Product Catalog.
• Luo Jun found a wall-corroding item and other maze supplies, but the catalog initially revealed no exit-related goods.
• The giant hand monster showed them a hidden page containing powerful items, including a ten-Gold-Ingot Void Pass that could let a group pass through walls for an hour.
• Luo Jun and Old Yuan left their Gold Ingot behind, bought two maps, and returned to Sun Xiaowei and Ma Qiao with a plan to pair the Void Pass with the White Shop's Exit Indicator.
• Luo Jun warned that the escape plan might not be so simple and suspected the Big Hand Merchant was hiding something.

Luo Jun’s group returned to the origin point, where Mao Xintong joined them and shared what she had learned while exploring alone. Her sketch suggested that the wall-passing monsters were heading toward the Black Shop, possibly to use its Void Passes.

• Old Yuan sent a message asking the other groups to return, and Mao Xintong and Zhuge Zi replied that they would while Ling Jian chose to keep exploring.
• Mao Xintong returned after a day, exhausted and hungry, and Luo Jun’s group shared their supplies with her.
• Mao Xintong described finding a relic for supplies and learned that Luo Jun’s group had discovered the Black Shop and a possible way out.
• Mao Xintong explained that a large monster had joined a group of monsters that could pass through walls after it smashed an Armored Monster.
• Luo Jun compared Mao Xintong’s sketch of the monsters’ route with his group’s route and concluded that the monsters might have been heading toward the Black Shop to use Void Passes.

Luo Jun and the others learned that Zhuge Zi possessed a relic belonging to her grandfather, Zhuge Gan, a Peak Expert who had died in the maze. Zhuge Zi used the relic and drew Zhuge Gan’s Life Diary, giving the group a chance to learn crucial information about the maze.

• Zhuge Zi arrived in the round hall, accepted food from Luo Jun, and described how she had survived by using her Blink ability while searching for supplies and relics.
• Zhuge Zi revealed that her pocket-watch relic had belonged to her grandfather, Zhuge Gan, and Old Yuan confirmed that the former Zhuge Family head had disappeared during a mission over ten years earlier.
• The group realized Zhuge Gan had died in the maze and discussed using his Hundred Treasure Box, but Zhuge Zi explained that she hoped it contained his Life Diary, which could record his experiences.
• Luo Jun tried to draw the Life Diary with his Dice of Heavenly Secrets, but the dice classified the attempt as a Mandatory Event, so he handed the relic back to Zhuge Zi.
• Zhuge Zi activated the pocket watch and successfully drew Zhuge Gan’s Life Diary, leaving the group eager to read its contents.

The group read Zhuge Gan’s diary to learn how he and the other maze entrants had survived, discovered the shops, and encountered signs of Chaos Creature contamination. After finding the diary’s crucial final pages missing, Luo Jun concluded the maze itself might preserve their information in another form.

• Zhuge Zi read diary entries describing how Zhuge Gan and eight others explored the maze, split up over scarce supplies, and found that shops sold costly clues to the exit.
• Zhuge Gan recorded that a bizarre Chaos Creature killed an official, leading Luo Jun and the others to discuss how contamination distorted mission rules.
• As the diary continued, Zhuge Gan, Chen Jin, Ling Yue, and A Liang became the last four survivors, but the diary’s final dozen pages were missing.
• Luo Jun reasoned that the maze had copied the diary into a counterfeit relic and that the missing pages had been destroyed by the Chaos Creature side.
• Luo Jun guessed that the maze itself might preserve the missing information in another form.

Li Ying returned alone after Zheng Yu was killed by a Chaos Creature, and Luo Jun's group set out together to find the White Shop. There, Luo Jun learned that the missing pages of Zhuge Gan's diary might still be somewhere in the maze and negotiated with the merchant to search for them.

• Li Ying returned to the Origin and told the group that a shapeless Chaos Creature had devoured Zheng Yu, then explained how it attacked.
• Old Yuan decided the group would travel together, and Luo Jun led them through an unexplored route while Li Ying recorded their map changes.
• The group explored the route, collected supplies and treasure, and reached the White Shop to exchange their goods.
• Luo Jun asked the White Merchant about the missing pages of Zhuge Gan's Diary and learned the maze might have scattered them after punishing whoever damaged the diary.
• The White Merchant offered to search for the pages for ten thousand per page, but Luo Jun used his ability to bargain and asked the merchant to pay them two thousand as a security deposit to find two pages.

Luo Jun’s group found the Fat Merchant and obtained two pages from Zhuge Gan’s diary, learning that Black Shop food was dangerous and that their presumed escape plan was likely wrong. The second page revealed that Zhuge Gan’s party had avoided a Chaos Monster despite its valuable Gold Ingots, leaving Luo Jun to suspect they had learned something that made the ingots unnecessary.

• Luo Jun bargained with the Fat Merchant for missing diary pages, then led the group through several mapped routes while they collected treasure and supplies.
• Luo Jun’s group found a shop after their final mapped run, and the Fat Merchant gave Luo Jun two pages from Zhuge Gan’s diary.
• Luo Jun and the others read Zhuge Gan’s last entry, which warned them not to eat Black Shop goods and suggested that collecting items from the Black and White Shops would not get them out of the maze.
• Luo Jun read an earlier diary page describing a Chaos Monster pursuit and questioned why Zhuge Gan’s party had avoided a monster that could yield Gold Ingots.
• Luo Jun concluded that something must have happened that made Zhuge Gan’s party no longer need Gold Ingots.

Luo Jun broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Ninth Layer, gaining experience and leveling up as the group prepared to explore farther through the labyrinth. Their expedition ended when a fast-moving figure suddenly appeared and charged toward them.

• The Fat Merchant explained that the Black Shop was more likely to attack visitors without Gold Ingots, and Luo Jun exchanged his gathered currency for maps, supplies, and a diary search deposit.
• Luo Jun told Old Yuan he had reached a cultivation bottleneck and showed him the Myriad Jun Hammer, claiming a breakthrough would help him destroy the labyrinth walls.
• With Old Yuan keeping watch, Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Ninth Layer, briefly releasing a powerful surge of Gang Qi that Mao Xintong and others sensed.
• Luo Jun gained 1,200 experience, leveled up to 58, and received 38 Attribute Points, then used his refreshed dice to check recorded footage for an exit but found none.
• The group set out toward unexplored passages without activating a new map, and Luo Jun spotted a swift figure charging at them from the darkness.

Luo Jun’s group encountered a fast Chaos Creature, then met Ling Jian and learned about his abilities and the monsters’ Gold Ingots. After using the Dice of Heavenly Secrets, Luo Jun became certain that the Li Ying among them was not real, but Old Yuan remained unconvinced.

• A Strange Bird attacked the group, but Ling Jian pinned it with his sword and destroyed it with lightning, leaving a Gold Ingot behind.
• Ling Jian explained that he had trained in both the Elemental School and the Manipulation School, and he joined Luo Jun’s group as they searched for the monster he had killed earlier.
• The group found only charred debris where Ling Jian had fought another monster, so Luo Jun offered him food and everyone rested.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to confirm Ling Jian was real and concluded that Li Ying was not, based on the dice’s Mandatory Event result and inconsistencies in Li Ying’s story.
• Luo Jun told Old Yuan that he suspected Li Ying, but Old Yuan said Li Ying’s behavior and account could be explained by fear and panic.

Luo Jun summoned Lilith to verify Li Ying’s soul and, after she signaled that Li Ying was safe, resumed exploring with the team. While fighting a Gargoyle alongside Li Ying, Luo Jun suddenly pierced Li Ying’s chest and revealed that he was not human.

• Luo Jun summoned Lilith, contracted with her, and used his vast Vital Energy to intimidate her into cooperating.
• Lilith pretended to give the team Lucky Blessings and signaled Luo Jun and Old Yuan that Li Ying seemed to pose no problem.
• The team resumed their scans, found two shops, and split into three groups to explore nearby encounter points.
• Luo Jun and Li Ying fought a Gargoyle together, and Li Ying defeated it after a hard battle.
• Luo Jun pierced Li Ying’s chest and pointed out that a normal person could not speak clearly with a lung injury, prompting Li Ying to admit he was not used to being human as his body began to change.

Luo Jun exposed Li Ying as a Chaos Creature, defeated it, and concealed the truth from the group. After reuniting with the others, he discovered that Ling Jian had returned in a partially transformed, unresponsive state, prompting him to wonder whether he too had been infected.

• Li Ying transformed into a Chaos Creature and attacked Luo Jun, who battered it until it could no longer move and learned how its body and energy worked.
• The Dice of Heavenly Secrets could not determine whether Luo Jun could extract information from the creature, so he destroyed it with a powerful strike that blasted a hole through the maze.
• Luo Jun rejoined Sun Xiaowei, Mao Xintong, and Ma Qiao, then claimed Li Ying had sacrificed himself to destroy a Chaos Monster and showed them a Gold Ingot as the only remnant.
• Old Yuan returned with Ling Jian, whose body showed signs of liquefaction and who was unresponsive; Old Yuan said Ling Jian seemed to have been infected.
• Luo Jun recalled that Li Ying had been infected before his identity check, while Ling Jian may have been infected after his, and wondered whether his own fight had infected him too.

After Ling Jian began mutating, Luo Jun brought the group to a shop to seek help and learned that contact with living Chaos Creatures could spread the mutation. A diary revealed that the maze’s exit could move, and Luo Jun’s dice uses refreshed when midnight brought the First Day of the Lunar New Year.

• Old Yuan explained that Ling Jian had suddenly mutated after fighting a monster, and Luo Jun found he could not determine whether anyone carried the mutation’s seed.
• Luo Jun checked Zhuge Zi and Mao Xintong, then Old Yuan summoned a Unicorn Rhinoceros to carry Ling Jian to the nearest shop.
• Luo Jun showed the Fat Merchant Ling Jian and learned that mutation could spread through contact, while contact with a dead Chaos Creature that dropped a Gold Ingot was safe; the merchant advised asking the Black Shop for more information.
• The Fat Merchant gave Luo Jun a diary describing how an Exit Indicator’s needle abruptly changed direction because the maze’s exit had moved.
• Luo Jun confirmed the merchant was telling the truth, then noticed his dice uses had refreshed as the real world entered the First Day of the Lunar New Year.

Luo Jun learned that the Black Shop’s monster-attracting method involved grotesque meat and went with Old Yuan to seek treatment for Ling Jian. When a Black Shop merchant attacked Ling Jian and transformed into a growing monster, Luo Jun sealed it inside the alley, and the group concluded that the maze had three factions.

• Luo Jun paid the Fat Merchant to learn that four diary writers had earned money by mixing Monster Attracting Incense with grotesque meat from the Black Shop to attract Chaos Monsters.
• Luo Jun and his companions decided to seek the Black Shop for information and treatment for Ling Jian, then found one nearby using their map.
• The Black Shop’s Big Hand Merchant attacked Ling Jian, and Old Yuan cut off its tongue as the creature transformed and expanded.
• Luo Jun used a wall-generating item to seal the monster and Black Shop inside the alley.
• Luo Jun, Old Yuan, and the others reasoned that the Black Shop and Chaos Monsters were enemies, while the White Shop remained neutral, and planned to find another Black Shop.