Chapter Summaries

Dias revealed that no one could leave the Heavenly Ascension Ceremony venue and offered eliminated Feather Transformations a chance to fight their way back into contention. When the thirteen trials began, Luo Jun watched Ling Yao help Ling Xin enter the [Hell] gate with him.

• Dias announced that the contestants could not leave, but said the prospective gods would decide who became their Chosen.
• Dias offered eliminated Feather Transformations a chance to challenge trial victors and opened a free-for-all where participants could absorb Life Essence by killing three people.
• The rejected Feather Transformations hesitated, then raised their hands and were teleported away to participate in the free-for-all.
• Dias opened thirteen trial gates, and contestants rushed to enter their chosen challenges as each gate closed after four entrants.
• Ling Yao used his Demon-Breaking Golden Edge to help Ling Xin reach the [Hell] gate, and the siblings entered it together while Luo Jun watched.

Luo Jun entered the Chaos Challenge, where contestants competed to complete the most random missions within twenty-four hours. The first mission began as a footrace through changing terrain, and Luo Jun used magic to clear a straight path toward the finish.

• Luo Jun entered the Teleportation Gate after Dias warned him about the challenge’s unpredictable missions and its three willing contestants.
• Luo Jun recognized A Jiali, Hercules, and Mahaduo on separate platforms, but discovered that spatial barriers prevented the contestants from attacking one another.
• The rules announced a twenty-four-hour contest to complete as many random missions as possible, and the first mission required each contestant to race one thousand kilometers to the center of an arena.
• Luo Jun found that flight, Teleportation, and other acceleration abilities were forbidden, so he began running on foot.
• Luo Jun used the Master-level Fusion Magic Unimpeded Path to break apart obstacles and race directly toward the finish.

Luo Jun and A Jiali entered the second-stage board game, where dice rolls and special spaces determined their progress. As A Jiali suffered punishments and Luo Jun advanced, Hercules arrived as a third player.

• Luo Jun finished the first-stage run and entered the board game after A Jiali had already begun playing.
• A Jiali emerged from a punishment space, then rolled eight and gained another roll before advancing only three spaces.
• Luo Jun used his dice ability to roll twelve and landed on an ordinary space.
• A Jiali rolled nine, landed on a punishment space, and received a three-action Silence Punishment.
• Hercules arrived on the starting space as the third player while Luo Jun prepared to roll again.

Luo Jun and the others raced across a dice-based game board, where random squares gave them rewards and punishments. When Luo Jun and Hercules landed together, they both agreed to duel, and Luo Jun launched a powerful attack despite having his Vital Energy sealed.

• Luo Jun repeatedly rolled twelve, while Hercules gained a three-round doubling of his Protective Qi Strength and A Jiali drew a legendary weapon.
• Luo Jun landed on a red square and received a punishment that sealed his Vital Energy for three rounds, while Mahaduo joined the game.
• A Jiali was teleported to the third-to-last square before the finish, and Luo Jun and Hercules later landed on the same square.
• Luo Jun persuaded Hercules to agree to a duel, and both were teleported to the board's central arena.
• Hercules formed a thick protective qi shield, but Luo Jun used Moonlit Step to charge forward and strike it.

Luo Jun defeated Hercules by breaking through his protective qi with his physical body, then completed the second-stage challenge and entered a new mission in Tianhai. He had to find a woman named Xia in the vast city and escort her to a museum, leaving him facing a search with only written clues.

• Luo Jun struck Hercules through his protective qi, fatally wounding him, and Hercules died after hearing Luo Jun's whispered words.
• The system declared Luo Jun the winner and eliminated Hercules, while A Jiali and Mahaduo grew wary of him.
• Luo Jun reached the finish square and advanced to the third-stage challenge, while A Jiali and Mahaduo remained behind.
• The system tasked Luo Jun with finding a nineteen-year-old woman surnamed Xia and taking her to a designated spot on the museum's top floor.
• Luo Jun arrived on a commercial street in Tianhai and learned that the city held twenty-one million people, but he had only written clues and a limited-function phone to find Xia.

Luo Jun enlisted the city’s underworld to help find his sister, then changed his search to University City after learning that another contestant had arrived. Mahaduo entered the world and secretly tracked Luo Jun, but lost his aura and struggled to locate his own target.

• Luo Jun left the police station and decided to seek help from criminal networks after realizing the police lacked enough information and time to find his sister.
• Mahaduo and A Jiali triggered a duel on the board, and Mahaduo won before rolling double ones to reach the finish square.
• Luo Jun intimidated a crime boss and his underlings into searching for his nineteen-year-old target, warning them not to publicize the matter or harm her.
• Luo Jun learned that Contestant Number Two had entered, flew to the Commercial Street, and then decided to search University City while staying hidden.
• Mahaduo noticed Luo Jun flying, secretly followed his aura, and lost track of him before lamenting how difficult it would be to find his target.

Xia Ziyue found the necklace her mother left her, then fought off Liu Siwen and her companions when they tried to take her to Brother Dao. She confronted Brother Dao at his office, only to learn that someone else had been looking for her, as a boy appeared at the fourteenth-floor window.

• Xia Ziyue found her necklace beneath the bed and was confronted in her dorm by Liu Siwen and two companions.
• Liu Siwen tried to force Xia Ziyue to go with her, but Xia Ziyue subdued all three and learned Brother Dao had promised to erase Liu Siwen’s debt if she brought Xia Ziyue to him.
• Xia Ziyue learned Brother Dao’s address, knocked Liu Siwen unconscious, and headed to Wanlong Apartments.
• Xia Ziyue broke into Brother Dao’s office, overpowered him, and demanded to know why he wanted her.
• A boy appeared at the open window and said he was the one who had been looking for Xia Ziyue.

Luo Jun tried to persuade Xia Ziyue, a powerful defector from the Dark Moon organization, to go with him by demonstrating his magic. After he caught a sniper’s bullet and brought the assassin Crane Crown back, Xia Ziyue killed her former companion and agreed to leave with Luo Jun.

• Luo Jun found Xia Ziyue and guessed that she had escaped from Dark Moon after being physically modified.
• Luo Jun offered to help Xia Ziyue evade Dark Moon and permanently change her appearance, but said he would not force her to go.
• Luo Jun transformed Brother Dao into a rabbit to demonstrate his magic.
• Xia Ziyue sensed a sniper’s attack, and Luo Jun caught the bullet before disappearing to seize the sniper, Crane Crown.
• Crane Crown attacked Xia Ziyue with a flying knife, and Xia Ziyue threw it back and killed her.
• Xia Ziyue agreed to go with Luo Jun.

Luo Jun confirmed Xia Ziyue was the target, completed the previous mission, and entered the fourth-stage challenge with her. He strengthened Xia Ziyue with several abilities, and she began clearing the obstacle course with overwhelming power.

• Luo Jun used Dice of Heavenly Secrets to verify Xia Ziyue and sent her through the halo, completing the mission with one hundred points.
• Mahaduo learned that another contestant had finished and struggled to find a person with the required map-shaped birthmark.
• Luo Jun and Xia Ziyue entered the Real-Person Game Machine challenge, where Xia Ziyue became his game character.
• Luo Jun enhanced Xia Ziyue with strength, protection, agility, luck, and healing abilities.
• Xia Ziyue leaped past the first obstacle, survived a monster's fireball, and killed the monster by snapping its neck.

Luo Jun enhanced Xia Ziyue as she raced through the Game's first four checkpoints, overcoming obstacles, a high-speed track, a regenerating boss, and underwater dangers. As she prepared to enter the Fifth Checkpoint, an announcement revealed that Contestant Number Two had arrived.

• Luo Jun's enhancement spells let Xia Ziyue clear the First Checkpoint in three minutes.
• Luo Jun guided Xia Ziyue through the Second Checkpoint's high-speed track, helping her avoid hazards and reach the Third Checkpoint.
• Xia Ziyue fought a regenerating armored boss, and Luo Jun used its health bar to reassure her that repeated attacks could defeat it.
• Xia Ziyue wore down the boss until it fell, then cleared the underwater Fourth Checkpoint by exploring outside her submarine to fight monsters.
• As Xia Ziyue prepared to open the way to the Fifth Checkpoint, an announcement said Contestant Number Two had entered and was about to start the First Checkpoint.

Luo Jun guided Xia Ziyue through the Fifth Checkpoint, where her first death erased his one-use buffs and forced her to tackle its traps with her own strength. After discovering an invisible bridge across the lava, Xia Ziyue crossed the first mechanism and continued onward.

• Luo Jun led Xia Ziyue into the final checkpoint, where she could resurrect without limit and use three checkpoints.
• Xia Ziyue leaped across the first platforms, but one collapsed and a boulder knocked her into the lava.
• Xia Ziyue respawned without Luo Jun's magical buffs, and Luo Jun admitted he could not cast them again.
• Xia Ziyue tested the collapsing platform and spotted an invisible foothold when falling stones disturbed the lava's ripples.
• Luo Jun told Xia Ziyue to walk forward, and she crossed an invisible bridge that let her bypass the boulder trap.

Luo Jun and Xia Ziyue struggled through a trap-filled stage, while Mahaduo arrived with his own contestant and declared he would win. Xia Ziyue reached the second checkpoint by discovering a hidden passage, just as a moving seat raced toward them from behind.

• Luo Jun and Xia Ziyue spent an hour and a half guiding her through the traps until she reached the first checkpoint.
• Mahaduo arrived with a bespectacled contestant and told Luo Jun he must win.
• The bespectacled contestant died twice trying to cross the first platforms, and Luo Jun laughed at Mahaduo before moving ahead.
• Xia Ziyue repeatedly failed to cross a corridor filled with traps until Luo Jun noticed wind coming from a fake wall.
• Xia Ziyue found a secret passage around the corridor and reached the second checkpoint as Luo Jun spotted a moving seat racing toward them.

Luo Jun discovered that Mahaduo had devoured A Jiali and used her time-acceleration ability to help his contestant catch up with Xia Ziyue. When both contestants reached a deadly rotating cylinder, Luo Jun took control of Xia Ziyue with the Soul-Seizing Art and prepared to guide her through it.

• Mahaduo revealed that he had devoured A Jiali and gained her ability to accelerate time, letting his bespectacled contestant retry the corridor rapidly.
• Luo Jun helped Xia Ziyue pass checkpoints, but the bespectacled man caught up as they reached the final obstacle.
• The contestants found that entering the rotating cylinder caused instant death, and Luo Jun noticed the bespectacled man briefly advanced through one section.
• Luo Jun suspected that the cylinder required its sections to be aligned at specific angles, but recognized that testing them all would be difficult.
• Luo Jun used the Soul-Seizing Art to take control of Xia Ziyue's body and walked her toward the cylinder.