Chapter Summaries

Luo Jun and Old Yuan raced through the maze to locate a shop, with Luo Jun revealing astonishing physical strength and the ability to cut through the maze walls with Gang Qi. Old Yuan reflected on whether Luo Jun’s God Technique pointed toward a better path of cultivation, then asked if he would challenge an Ascension Realm cultivator; Luo Jun said he would.

• Mao Xintong trapped Ling Jian inside a Barrier Grenade while Luo Jun and Old Yuan went ahead to scout the maze.
• Luo Jun and Old Yuan raced through the corridors, using powerful kicks, gliding, and bursts of elemental force to accelerate.
• Luo Jun spotted a shop on the map, and he and Old Yuan doubled back to follow its location.
• Luo Jun demonstrated that his Gang Qi could cut into the maze walls, leading Old Yuan to marvel at his strength and question whether the usual cultivation path was correct.
• Old Yuan asked whether Luo Jun would challenge an Ascension Realm cultivator, and Luo Jun said he would.

Luo Jun and Old Yuan learned from the Black Shop that Chaos Substance gradually replaced the bodies and minds of everyone trapped in the maze, leaving them with an unknown amount of time to find the exit. They returned to the group, concealed the full danger, and prepared to use enhanced Monster Attracting Incense to earn money and search for a way out.

• Old Yuan ordered Luo Jun never to fight a Feather Transformation cultivator before gaining the abilities of the Heart Refining Realm.
• Luo Jun traded at the Black Shop and learned that Chaos Substance gradually replaced people, with injuries from Chaos Monsters accelerating the process.
• The Black Shop merchant explained that Gold Ingots contained condensed Chaos Substance and that only escaping the maze could cleanse its effects.
• Luo Jun and Old Yuan agreed to hide the gradual replacement from the others and told them that escaping was the only way to save Ling Jian.
• Luo Jun encouraged the group to earn money with Monster Attracting Incense, and they combined it with strange meat before moving into an unexplored area to light it.

Luo Jun’s group learned from a diary that the Phasing Monster army might be made up of former Cultivators and that a transformed man had warned them not to use the Void Pass. Luo Jun exchanged treasure for an Exit Indicator and paid the Fat Merchant to gather more diaries, leaving the group with their escape plan in doubt.

• Luo Jun exchanged seventeen Gold Ingots for cash and a Void Pass, then returned to the group as they prepared to seek an Exit Indicator.
• The group read a diary describing Phasing Monsters killing other monsters, collecting Gold Ingots, and a flaming monster warning Chen Jin not to use the Void Pass.
• Luo Jun argued that the Black Shop’s information was likely accurate but incomplete, while the others worried the Void Pass could transform them into Phasing Monsters.
• Luo Jun exchanged his remaining treasures for more than 1.6 million in cash and bought an Exit Indicator.
• Luo Jun paid the Fat Merchant five hundred thousand to obtain as many new diaries as possible, and arranged to collect them that night despite the shop’s relocation.

Luo Jun and his companions studied the newly recovered diary pages and realized Zhuge Gan’s group had visited a luxurious hotel shortly before their deaths. The clues suggested the hotel’s mysterious second floor might explain what happened and offer a way out of the maze, so Luo Jun pressed the Fat Merchant for more information.

• Luo Jun’s group bought four recovered diary pages from the Fat Merchant and learned that Zhuge Gan’s group had visited a luxurious hotel with a second floor that extended their stay.
• Luo Jun and the others read a diary entry describing a Black Shop turning hostile, and they suspected A Liang had been replaced by a Chaos Creature.
• Luo Jun gathered the diary pages and led the group in arranging them by their contents.
• Zhuge Zi recognized a reference to her grandmother Xiao Lian’s birthday and placed the hotel entry on the third-to-last day before the group’s deaths.
• Luo Jun reasoned that something important had happened at the hotel, possibly on its second floor, and asked the Fat Merchant for more information.

Luo Jun’s group learned how to find a Rest Area and sent Sun Xiaowei, Mao Xintong, and Zhuge Zi ahead without supplies until they discovered the Endless Inn. The group reunited and entered the inn, where an attendant began explaining its services and offered help for Ling Jian’s condition.

• Luo Jun learned from the merchant that Rest Areas appeared for starving, exhausted travelers and that nearby people with supplies could prevent one from appearing.
• Luo Jun devised a plan to keep the two groups in contact using maps, Talisman Papers, and signs that Sun Xiaowei could create.
• Sun Xiaowei, Mao Xintong, and Zhuge Zi traveled ahead without food or water, leaving signs for Luo Jun and the others to follow.
• After five days, the three women found the Endless Inn, and Sun Xiaowei sent the group an image of its entrance through a Talisman Paper.
• Luo Jun and the others followed the signs, reunited with Sun Xiaowei, paid to enter the inn, and found Mao Xintong and Zhuge Zi eating.
• An attendant described the inn’s services and said it could ease Ling Jian’s suffering from the conflict between two substances.

Luo Jun learned that the Endless Inn’s Second Floor offered five solo challenges with rewards that could help locate the maze exit. He began the Level One Racing Challenge, facing a swift-looking monster, while an unexplained relic hint warned him to stay away from things that could fly.

• Luo Jun had Ling Jian placed in the inn’s Freezing Service to suspend his accelerating mutation, then paid 3,000 yuan to access the Second Floor.
• Luo Jun met Jile Clown, who explained the five challenges and their rewards, including tools for locating and reaching the maze exit.
• Luo Jun returned to the first floor and told the group about the challenges; they agreed he would attempt the first one because they lacked enough money for another person to go upstairs.
• Luo Jun used a relic to draw the hint, “Stay away from things that can fly,” and chose to proceed despite not knowing what it meant.
• Jile Clown started the five-kilometer Racing Challenge, requiring three laps, and introduced a long-legged monster as Luo Jun’s opponent.

Luo Jun cleared the first six carnival challenges, then suspected the seventh plate’s chicken wing was dangerous and secretly had Ailongtan eat it in his place. The chapter ended as Ailongtan suddenly stopped mid-complaint after finishing the wing.

• Luo Jun easily won the speed, strength, and endurance challenges and chose to continue.
• Luo Jun endured the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, and foul-tasting foods in the Gourmet Challenge.
• Luo Jun noticed the fried chicken wing might relate to the warning to stay away from things that fly, and briefly left to prepare a substitution.
• Luo Jun used the Imposter Mask to have Ailongtan impersonate him and eat the chicken wing while he watched invisibly.
• Ailongtan finished the greasy wing, then abruptly stopped speaking as Luo Jun asked whether he felt anything else.

Luo Jun used Ailongtan to finish the Fourth Checkpoint, learned that Black Shop food could cause deadly reactions, and warned his companions about the chicken wing. He began the final challenge and faced a red-haired opponent who appeared to be Chen Jin.

• Luo Jun discovered that the chicken wing had left Ailongtan’s mind blank while his vital energy fought an invading force.
• Luo Jun controlled Ailongtan through the remaining dishes, cleared the Fourth Checkpoint, and obtained the teleportation treasure.
• The Jile Clown told Luo Jun that Chen Jin had died after a reaction between Black Shop food and the challenge’s dishes.
• Luo Jun returned to the lobby, described the earlier checkpoints to his companions, and warned them about the chicken wing.
• Luo Jun returned upstairs and started the Fifth Checkpoint, where a red-haired young man appeared and Luo Jun recognized him as possibly Chen Jin.

Luo Jun defeated Jile Clown’s enhanced Chen Jin, won the Locking Talisman, and warned the others about the dangers of the rest area’s later challenges. After the group uncovered how Chaos Creatures could use contaminated food to replace people, Luo Jun announced that he had a plan to get all seven of them out and clear the game together.

• Jile Clown revealed that Chen Jin’s corpse had been modified into his strongest warrior, but Luo Jun defeated him and smashed through the arena barrier to claim his prize.
• Luo Jun returned to the group with the twenty-four-hour Locking Talisman and warned them to avoid the Fourth and Fifth Checkpoints because of their dangers and limited rewards.
• Old Yuan, Ma Qiao, Mao Xintong, Sun Xiaowei, and Zhuge Zi each took turns challenging the checkpoints, with Sun Xiaowei and Zhuge Zi finding ways to pass the contaminated-food challenge.
• Zhuge Zi reported that her clone had become hostile after eating the food, and Luo Jun concluded that the Chaos Substance could turn someone into a Chaos Creature that replaced the original.
• Luo Jun reasoned that the second floor had been mutated by the Chaos Creatures and that the challenge rules forced them to use bait rather than contaminate ordinary food directly.
• Luo Jun told Ma Qiao to retrieve the frozen Ling Jian and ordered everyone to change clothes, saying he had a plan to help all seven of them clear the game together.

Luo Jun’s group found the maze exit and discovered that eating strange meat let humans pass through its door. As they began leaving, Ma Qiao revealed himself as a Chaos Creature and attacked the group, leaving Mao Xintong dead and Old Yuan injured.

• Luo Jun brought the group to the exit and used the Exit Indicator to find the door deep in the maze.
• Luo Jun deciphered the door’s hints and fed strange meat to Ling Jian, allowing the door to open for him.
• Sun Xiaowei and Zhuge Zi ate the meat and passed through the exit.
• Ma Qiao noticed something strange about the meat, then transformed into a Chaos Creature and attacked the group.
• Luo Jun struck Ma Qiao away, while Old Yuan was injured and Mao Xintong was killed.

Luo Jun fought Ma Qiao and Mao Xintong after they revealed themselves as Chaos creatures and began replacing Old Yuan. He tricked them into replacing him instead, saved Old Yuan, and sent his unconscious master through the exit while remaining behind.

• Ma Qiao and Mao Xintong revealed that they had been replaced by Chaos creatures and had infected Old Yuan with their essence.
• Old Yuan explained that only a Saint's Body or Immortal Qi could resist the creatures' replacement, while Luo Jun fought off their attacks.
• As Old Yuan collapsed, Ma Qiao and Mao Xintong entered Luo Jun's body, but he had deliberately lured them away from his master.
• Luo Jun used his origin qi to trap the creatures inside himself, causing Old Yuan's mutation to recede, then fed him strange meat to keep him alive.
• Luo Jun brought the unconscious Old Yuan to the exit, pushed him through the opening door, and stayed behind.

After Old Yuan escaped the Endless Maze, Luo Jun confronted the Ring Finger Merchant and learned how the maze’s human defenders and Chaos Creatures were locked in conflict. Determined to destroy the Chaos Monsters and restore the maze, he revealed his immunity to replacement, and the merchant led him to meet Thumb.

• Luo Jun visited a Black Shop and used his pressure to stop the Ring Finger Merchant from mutating.
• Luo Jun asked about the maze’s secrets, and the Ring Finger Merchant explained how Chaos Creatures twisted the mission and how former challengers became Black Shop defenders.
• The Ring Finger Merchant revealed that Senior Brother Li Ying had survived partial replacement and now existed as an incorporeal slave.
• Luo Jun summarized the competing forces in the maze and said he wanted to eliminate the Chaos Monsters and restore it.
• Luo Jun demonstrated his immunity to replacement by spitting out two Gold Ingots, and the Ring Finger Merchant took him through a Teleportation Gate to meet Thumb.

Luo Jun met the thumb, the Black Shop’s core, and learned how it preserved Zhuge Gan’s diary while withholding misleading pages. The thumb revealed that the maze’s entrance might be the passage used by Chaos Creatures, and Luo Jun agreed to search for it.

• The ring finger brought Luo Jun to the thumb, which learned he resisted Chaos Substance and heard that he wanted to change the maze.
• The thumb explained that it was formed from powerful challengers, including Zhuge Gan, and that it had scattered selected diary pages to help later challengers without misleading them.
• Luo Jun traded a Void Pass for information after the thumb said the maze might be ended by finding its entrance from the Outside World.
• The thumb told Luo Jun that the entrance may be the route Chaos Creatures use to enter the maze, though it had never found the shifting passage.
• Luo Jun agreed to search for the entrance, saying he had all the time in the world.

After Luo Jun sent Old Yuan back from the Endless Maze, the Cultivator Forum publicized the mission and the Yuan Cultivation Society announced that Luo Jun was still trapped. Zhuge Zi, Sun Xiaowei, and Ling Xin began making plans to help rescue him.

• Old Yuan woke at home, learned that Luo Jun had not returned, and realized Luo Jun had spent nearly eighty days in the maze.
• Wei Zhentian posted an account of the Endless Maze mission, and Zhuge Zi used the Zhuge Family's official account to confirm it was true.
• Forum users investigated Luo Jun's past achievements, while the Yuan Cultivation Society later announced that he remained trapped and solicited help with Chaos Missions.
• Sun Xiaowei learned Luo Jun was still missing, and Zhuge Zi invited her to Yuandu to share their firsthand knowledge with the Yuan Cultivation Society.
• Ling Xin asked her brother to lend her father's consumable treasure so she could try to save Luo Jun, and he agreed to send it to Yuandu.

Sun Xiaowei and Zhuge Zi reached Yuandu, where they learned that Old Yuan and Ling Xin were seeking a way to save Luo Jun. Ling Xin decided to use a precious relic left by Ling Jue, and Old Yuan took her somewhere private to proceed.

• Sun Xiaowei met Zhuge Zi in Yuan Yin City, and they traveled through a mountain and across a rainbow bridge to the Yuan Cultivation Society headquarters in Yuandu.
• Mu Lanshi welcomed Sun Xiaowei and Zhuge Zi and explained the ranks and status of the headquarters clerks.
• Zhuge Lan greeted her younger sister and told them that a Ling Family girl was helping Old Yuan find a way to save Luo Jun.
• Zhuge Lan revealed that the Ling Family girl was the Golden Edge Witch, and Sun Xiaowei and Zhuge Zi praised Luo Jun's composure and ability.
• Ling Xin told Old Yuan she planned to use one of the remaining uses of a relic left by Ling Jue, and Old Yuan led her away to use it privately.

Ling Xin and Old Yuan tried to use the Wishing Grass to bring Luo Jun back to the Main World, but the wish required more Vital Energy than Old Yuan had. Meanwhile, Luo Jun found the maze’s shifting entrance and dropped into a level filled with Chaos Monsters.

• Old Yuan examined the Wishing Grass and learned that bringing Luo Jun back would cost 88,735 breaths of Vital Energy, more than his reserves, so he went to seek a temporary boost from the association’s treasury.
• Ling Xin met Zhuge Lan, Zhuge Zi, and Sun Xiaowei in the meeting room, where Sun Xiaowei began recounting their mission with Luo Jun.
• Luo Jun’s cultivation stopped just short of a suspected tenth Foundation Establishment level, and he found no way to enter the Heart Refining Realm.
• Luo Jun and the Finger Merchants worked out that the maze entrance moved among thirteen fixed locations and followed a predictable pattern.
• Luo Jun reached the predicted location, smashed through the floor, and found a Space Rift surrounded by Chaos Monsters.

Luo Jun destroyed the Chaos Monster’s entrance and joined the maze’s freed survivors in defeating its main body. As the maze returned to normal, Zhuge Gan asked Luo Jun to protect Xiao Zi and the Zhuge Family, and Luo Jun found the exit and began his clearance settlement.

• Luo Jun lured the Chaos Monster’s main body through the Teleportation Gate, then destabilized and destroyed the entrance with a Space-fluctuating bead and his hammer.
• Chen Xiao, Ling Yue, Zhuge Gan, and other survivors from different eras arrived and joined Luo Jun in fighting the main body.
• The maze’s rules began correcting themselves, and Luo Jun and the gathered fighters destroyed the Chaos Monster’s main body.
• Zhuge Gan gave Luo Jun the survivors’ cash and asked him to protect Xiao Zi and help the Zhuge Family if a crisis came, then the survivors faded away.
• Luo Jun used an Exit Indicator to locate the maze’s exit and passed through as his clearance settlement began.

After completing the maze with a Perfect Evaluation and seven Hidden Missions, Luo Jun inspected the many rewards placed in his Hundred Treasure Box. He discovered a Legendary Mythical Combination Module and prepared to return to the Main World before his ten-minute window closed.

• Luo Jun reviewed the completed missions and their conditions, including restoring the twisted maze to normal and surviving there for enough days.
• Luo Jun inspected the Teleportation Staff, Miss Betty's Picnic Box, Grocery Store Admission Tickets, Universal Discount Coupons, and Cozy Home.
• Luo Jun examined the Stabilization Box and True Damage Spray, noting their uses for preserving Hundred Treasure Boxes and countering enemies that avoided damage.
• Luo Jun discovered that the Mythical Combination Module could fuse two treasures into a higher-grade treasure, with a chance to evolve Legendary Treasure Tools.
• Luo Jun decided to return to the Main World before his remaining time ran out, intending to reassure Old Yuan and the others.

Luo Jun returned from the Chaos Mission and reunited with Old Yuan, who brought him to Yuandu and tried to use Ling Xin’s Wishing Grass to help him break through. After Luo Jun’s failed wishes and the group’s account of his role in restoring the maze, the Grand President summoned him.

• Luo Jun emerged in a wilderness with his teleportation coordinates disrupted, called Old Yuan, and teleported to Yuandu using his Teleportation Staff.
• Old Yuan gave Luo Jun Ling Xin’s Wishing Grass, but wishes to reach the Heart Refining Realm or the tenth Foundation Establishment layer both failed.
• Old Yuan told Luo Jun that Ling Xin had paid a great price to save him, and advised him to probe whether she knew he was Night.
• Old Yuan explained that Luo Jun had become a celebrated hero, but that Night’s identity had to remain secret because his strength could draw dangerous attention.
• Luo Jun told the gathered group that he had helped the maze’s predecessors destroy its Chaos-contaminated entrance and restore the mission to normal.
• Mu Lanshi arrived with the Grand President’s order to see Luo Jun, leaving Old Yuan stunned.

Wan Guiyuan summoned Luo Jun and questioned him about his abilities after demonstrating his power to freeze time. Luo Jun recounted his adventures, but Wan Guiyuan sensed that his fate had subtly fluctuated as he spoke.

• Wan Guiyuan summoned Luo Jun alone, and Old Yuan warned him that the Grand President would see through his strength and gave him an arrowhead for protection.
• Mu Lanshi led Luo Jun to Wan Guiyuan's office, where he found the Grand President eating a mountain of food.
• Wan Guiyuan forgave Luo Jun for learning the Body Tempering Art and invited him to eat before freezing the meal with a snap of his fingers.
• Wan Guiyuan asked where Luo Jun's abilities came from, and Luo Jun described meeting Old Yuan, finding the God Ruins, and encountering Amgilla in [Utopia].
• Wan Guiyuan said he sensed a subtle fluctuation in Luo Jun's fate while he was recounting his experiences.