Chapter Summaries

Hu Qi destroyed the scarecrows and the Ghost Bus driver, then took control of the bus and accelerated toward a group in mourning clothes beside a coffin. Yang Hu and the remaining passengers watched as Hu Qi ignored the script’s dangers and drove straight ahead.

• Yang Hu assessed the remaining Temporary Script Actors and grew wary of Hu Qi’s unusual calmness while Hu Qi questioned Fox Three about Dream Eyes absorbing fear.
• The Ghost Bus stopped for five bloodied scarecrows, and one devoured the drunk man after he fell into the aisle.
• Hu Qi stood up, destroyed the scarecrow beside him, and used Hanging Rope to turn the other scarecrows to ashes, earning Modification Points.
• Hu Qi confronted the driver, pulled a paper figure from the driver’s seat, burned it, and took control of the bus.
• Hu Qi infused the bus with Nightmare power and sped toward people in mourning clothes gathered beside a coffin without stopping.

Hu Qi drove the Ghost Bus through the Nightmare Gap, smashing through monsters and crashing into the blood-colored apartment building. After the bus disappeared and the building repaired itself, Hu Qi headed inside to meet Ouyang Shuokong, leaving the shaken newcomers behind.

• Hu Qi's Ghost Bus rammed through the mourners and dragged two survivors and their green coffin behind it with Hanging Rope.
• Hu Qi sped through the route, smashing monsters and binding those that survived until the bus entered the Nightmare Gap.
• Hu Qi drove the bus through the apartment entrance, injuring the people waiting there, then stepped out unharmed as the bus vanished and the building repaired itself.
• A young man asked Hu Qi to take him in as his little brother, but Hu Qi refused because he was too weak.
• Hu Qi went inside to meet Ouyang Shuokong while Yang Hu and the others discussed what Hu Qi had done on the ride.

Hu Qi entered the Scarlet Apartment, received the Room 904 Key Card, and climbed to the sixth floor to meet Ouyang Shuokong. After hearing about Wei Fan’s plan to control the Blood Script, Hu Qi wondered whether its true body was on the tenth floor.

• A hidden man watched the Ghost Bus script shatter, then saw scenes of Hu Qi ramming the bus into the Scarlet Apartment and wrote a new line on his paper.
• Hu Qi received a black card naming him a formal script actor and granting him access to Room 904.
• Hu Qi climbed past the other residents, ignored questions from lower-floor actors, and passed Wei Fan and Gao Qian without being recognized.
• Hu Qi entered room 603 without permission and found Ouyang Shuokong, whom he healed and helped break through to the Martial Dao Practitioner realm.
• Ouyang Shuokong told Hu Qi that Wei Fan intended to use the wish granted after fifty script missions to control the Blood Script, and Hu Qi asked whether its true body was on the tenth floor.

Hu Qi defied the Blood Script’s warning and entered the Blood-colored Space, prompting it to issue an emergency mission to kill Resident 904. Nearly a hundred Dream Controllers gathered to hunt him, but Hu Qi challenged them all and met the ravenous boy’s first attack with a blazing palm.

• Hu Qi ignored Ouyang Shuokong’s warning, smashed through the Blood Script’s barrier with the Bone Shattering Hammer, and entered the Blood-colored Space.
• The Blood Script issued a temporary emergency mission to kill Resident 904, offering the first killer a chance to make a wish and teleporting eligible Dream Controllers away from their missions.
• A four-armed strongman, the Bride in red, and a ravenous boy each claimed the right to kill Hu Qi as other Dream Controllers gathered around him.
• Hu Qi recognized Wei Fan, Ouyang Shuokong, and Gao Qian in the crowd, then challenged everyone to attack him together.
• The ravenous boy lunged at Hu Qi with a mouth full of serrated teeth, but Hu Qi covered his face with a scorching palm.

Hu Qi slaughtered the script actors in the Blood Script arena, while Wei Fan used a time-stopping ability to escape with Ouyang Shuokong and Gao Qian. After the arena collapsed, Hu Qi appeared in a dim corridor as a carved wooden door opened before him.

• Hu Qi killed the boy with the Starvation Stomach Dream Eye, prompting the bride in red and the Four-armed strongman to rally the other script actors against him.
• Hu Qi’s Dream Eyes and Demon Soul domain repelled the crowd’s attacks, and he killed a Dream Walker before striking down the Four-armed strongman and injuring the bride in red.
• Wei Fan recognized Hu Qi’s Bone Shattering Hammer and stopped time, but he saw Hu Qi could still move and fled with Ouyang Shuokong and Gao Qian.
• Hu Qi let Wei Fan escape, then burned the remaining script actors and absorbed their Dream Eye power as the arena crumbled into darkness.
• Hu Qi appeared in an empty corridor, where a carved wooden door opened as he approached.

Hu Qi killed the seemingly immortal man and found the Blood Script, but the book dragged him into its pages. Elsewhere, Wei Fan and Gao Qian escaped into the real world, while Hu Qi’s apparent execution revealed that bullets could not harm him.

• Hu Qi repeatedly killed the man guarding the Blood Script until the man failed to return, then watched the room transform around the enormous book.
• The Blood Script opened, froze Hu Qi, and dragged him into its pages as Fox Three identified it as the book’s true body.
• Wei Fan, Gao Qian, and Ouyang Shuokong emerged from a pond in Qingyin City after escaping the Blood Script, while Wei Fan resolved to kill the person who had disrupted his plans.
• A judge sentenced Hu Qi to death for killing thirty-four villagers, and Hu Qi recalled finding his kidnapped daughter and attacking the villagers who tried to stop him from taking her away.
• At the execution ground, bullets bounced off Hu Qi without injuring him, and his shackles and ropes shattered as he demanded to know whether they were playing with him.

Hu Qi broke free from the Blood Script’s false world after killing the human trafficker, then emerged from the script and completely refined it. He turned on Fox Three and began burning it alive.

• Hu Qi survived the guards’ gunfire, escaped prison, and fled toward Tianhang City as authorities launched a pursuit.
• Hu Qi destroyed the armed helicopters and the heavily fortified prison, then killed the human trafficker inside.
• Hu Qi remembered that he had been trapped in the Blood Script, and the scene gave way to a yellowed page.
• Golden flames consumed the Blood Script as it begged Hu Qi to become its master, and Hu Qi emerged after refining it.
• Fox Three congratulated Hu Qi, but Hu Qi tightened the Hanging Rope around its neck and began refining it in flames.

Hu Qi devoured Fox Three and the Blood Script, gaining their memories and learning how the Blood Script collected Dream Eyes. In the Grotto-Heaven, he used a costly Scarlet Panel modification to recover from splitting off another thread of essence, then sent that thread beyond Ecological Island Zero.

• Hu Qi refined and swallowed Fox Three, gaining 3,201 and 2,670 Modification Points and access to its memories.
• Hu Qi learned that Fox Three had used Dream Binding with the Blood Script to trap him in a fabricated script world, and that the Blood Script created missions to harvest fear and collect Dream Eyes.
• Hu Qi entered the Blood Script's collection space, identified the crashed God Statue Dream Eye, and focused inward on his Grotto-Heaven.
• Hu Qi split off another thread of his essence, then spent over 30,000 Modification Points to restore his unstable soul and body to normal.
• Hu Qi sent the new thread of essence through Ecological Island Zero's protective layer and out of the Grotto-Heaven.

Hu Qi fused seventeen Dream Eyes into a God Statue and used it to create a vessel for his second thread of essence, planning to build a deity that could absorb faith without being corrupted by it. He brought hundreds of Scarlet Apartment residents before the statue to worship, and confirmed that their faith reached his new deity in a purified form.

• Hu Qi refined seventeen Dream Eyes and shaped them into a lifelike God Statue that resembled his own appearance and bore the weapons of the mythological Di Jun.
• Hu Qi’s second thread of essence entered the God Statue, and Hu Qi planned to use it to absorb mortal faith while relying on the Dream Eyes to filter out its corrupting influence.
• Hu Qi transported hundreds of Scarlet Apartment residents to a white jade plaza, where golden words ordered them to worship the Sun God and a towering statue appeared.
• The residents began praying to the Sun God, and their faith flowed into the smaller God Statue in the blood-red space.
• Hu Qi absorbed 336 faith threads, including one from the youth he recognized from the Ghost Bus, and refined them into three wisps of Divine Strength.

Hu Qi prepared to spread the Sun God’s faith, and Yuan An Ning encountered the Sun God’s teachings while fleeing a nightmare she believed foretold disasters. After reading the group owner’s materials and falling asleep, she woke terrified that her newest nightmare was targeting her directly.

• Hu Qi recognized the three hundred-plus script actors as the Sun God’s first believers and planned to have them spread the faith.
• Yuan An Ning left Mrs. Brown’s home in Fengyu Country despite warning her that a typhoon might be coming.
• Yuan An Ning recalled how her prophetic nightmares had preceded deadly disasters and how she had escaped them by leaving in advance.
• Yuan An Ning performed her nightly prayers to the many deities she worshipped, then found the group owner’s detailed account of the Sun God in the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult chat.
• Yuan An Ning privately asked the group owner for more information and decided to follow the Sun God’s prayer ritual the next morning.
• Yuan An Ning woke from a nightmare in terror and realized it seemed to be coming specifically for her.

Yuan An Ning prayed to the Sun God and received a sign of divine favor, then invoked that power when a hair-covered monster attacked her hotel room. The monster vanished, leaving her alive with a pair of black scissors on the floor.

• Yuan An Ning prayed to the Sun God after another nightmare, and Hu Qi recognized her as a uniquely talented high-level believer whose dreams could glimpse the future.
• Hu Qi used his divine power to answer Yuan An Ning's prayer, and she felt warmth before seeing a golden figure and a fading sun-shaped mark on her hand.
• Yuan An Ning joined a group for Sun God believers, studied its materials, and later fell asleep from exhaustion.
• After waking at night to find her phone signal gone and her room darkened, Yuan An Ning saw black hair enter through the window and form a woman carrying huge scissors.
• Yuan An Ning prayed as the monster approached, and the mark on her hand blazed with golden light, driving the monster away and leaving black scissors on the floor.

Yuan An Ning survived a Dream Eye encounter, received a revelation from the Sun God, and learned to use Divine Arts, deepening her devotion. More than a year later, Hu Qi destroyed an ordinary Dream Eye and advanced the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art toward the True Body Realm, where he found himself looking at the Spirit Realm.

• Yuan An Ning picked up the hair-wrapped scissors, and the Sun God’s light repelled the hair and made the Dream Eye vanish before its memories overwhelmed her.
• Yuan An Ning awakened with a divine revelation, briefly conjured a fireball, and resolved to become the Sun God’s most devout believer so she could gather more Dream Eyes and heal her legs.
• Hu Qi observed Yuan An Ning’s growing faith and planned to strengthen the Sun Church to gather Dream Eyes and Modification Points.
• More than a year later, Hu Qi destroyed a bizarre Buddha statue in a ruined temple and absorbed its ordinary Dream Eye for 136 Modification Points.
• Hu Qi used Crimson to raise the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art to the True Body Chapter and found himself facing a blazing world within the Spirit Realm.

Hu Qi witnessed a memory of the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake battling a Demonic Elephant, then broke through to the True Body Realm and gained the Crimson Sun Hellfire and Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation traits. After advancing to the third level, he repelled the World Will’s lightning and left to investigate the deeper Nightmare Gaps.

• Hu Qi watched the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake and the Demonic Elephant battle in a Spirit Realm imprint, destroying smaller worlds as they fought.
• Hu Qi awakened the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art’s True Body Chapter, and the World Will struck him with lightning that he absorbed.
• Hu Qi’s body transformed, his Dream Eyes began burning away, and he found that his art had gained the traits Crimson Sun Hellfire and Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation.
• Hu Qi used Modification Points to raise the art to the third level, then absorbed a second wave of lightning from the World Will.
• Hu Qi sensed ordinary people and Dream Controllers approaching, vanished, and decided to explore deeper Nightmare Gaps for the source of the Dream Eyes.

Hu Qi explored the Nightmare Gap and discovered a Strange Painting Fragment in an eerie city’s art exhibition, suspecting the painting was the source of the world’s Dream Eyes. He left to pursue the mystery through Wei Fan, while the chapter ended with a hole erupting in a hall inside a mountain.

• Hu Qi entered the deeper dream realm, where grotesque monsters attacked him and burned or fled when they encountered his power.
• Hu Qi reached a skyscraper and rode its blood-lit elevator to the fifty-third floor, where he found an exhibition of sinister paintings.
• Hu Qi touched a painting of a glowing island and obtained a fragment, then identified it as part of the Strange Painting, one of the nine Primal Dream Eyes.
• Hu Qi concluded that past Dream Controllers, including Tian, might have entered the Strange Painting, and planned to let Wei Fan uncover clues before taking the prize.
• A huge hole burst through the wall of a hall inside a mountain, scattering sand and stones.

Wei Fan’s squad subdued an armored giant but lost its Dream Eye and a torn cloth to Yuan An Ning and the Sun God Cult, whose radiance suppressed Dream Eyes. Back home, Wei Fan used the Bone Luo Cards to investigate the cult, and the card’s answer left him stunned.

• Teng Liu froze the armored giant, and Wei Fan spotted a Dream Eye token and a strip of cloth on its armor.
• Yuan An Ning and four Sun God Cult followers arrived, took the token and cloth, and drove Wei Fan’s squad away with radiance that weakened Gao Qian’s Dream Eye.
• Ouyang Shuokong identified the newcomers as Sun God Cult followers, and Wei Fan decided to report them to the Sword Bearer.
• Wei Fan reviewed how his rebirth had changed events and suspected the cult’s power came from a special Dream Eye rather than a god.
• Wei Fan consulted his Bone Luo Cards about the Sun God Cult’s secret and its connection to the Primal Dream Eyes, then froze when he read the answer.

Wei Fan discovered that the Bone Luo Cards could reveal little about the Sun God Cult and learned that the remaining Strange Painting Fragments would return once he gathered more than anyone else held. Meanwhile, Hu Qi’s Sun God Cult expanded worldwide, and Hu Qi agreed to attend a council meeting as its Holy Son.

• Wei Fan found that the Bone Luo Cards repeatedly gave only the same cryptic answer about the Sun God Cult, but revealed the locations of six Strange Painting Fragments and explained how the fragments would return to whoever controlled the largest portion.
• Hu Qi sensed a subtle probe through the Mind Realm, blocked it, and continued strengthening his Divine Avatar with Power of Faith.
• Over the next two years, the Sun God Cult gained followers through its Divine Arts, while governments and organizations failed to infiltrate or destroy it.
• Hu Qi reached the limit of his current body’s strength and considered pressuring others to speed up the gathering of the Strange Painting Fragments.
• A white-robed woman invited Hu Qi to a council meeting at the Sunlight Holy Temple, and he agreed to attend.

Hu Qi delivered the Sun God’s decree to purge the Dream Controllers and led an attack on Morning Light City’s Security Agency. After removing the Dream Eyes from its Controllers, he left the three ministers dying, while the Sun God Cult prepared to begin its purge in Yu Country.

• Yuan An Ning gathered the twelve Holy Radiance Bishops in the Sunlight Holy Temple, where Hu Qi arrived as the Holy Son and announced the Sun God’s decree to eliminate Dream Eyes and their Controllers.
• Luo Yan questioned the timing of the purge, but Hu Qi’s overwhelming pressure forced him to kneel; Yuan An Ning affirmed the decree, and the bishops agreed to target Yu Country first.
• Hu Qi’s display of power caused Luo Yan’s faith to waver, and he hurriedly suppressed his doubts to keep from losing his Holy Power.
• Hu Qi appeared at Morning Light City’s Security Agency, where Qin Yizhou, Zhu Xiao, Li Chenguang, and the other occupants lay pinned beneath his power.
• Hu Qi unleashed radiant light that erased the Dream Eyes within the Security Agency’s Controllers, killing or gravely injuring many, including the three ministers, before vanishing.

Wei Fan was overwhelmed by Hu Qi and the Sun God Cult, then gathered all the Strange Painting Fragments and entered the completed painting to seek the source of the Dream Eyes. Hu Qi followed him inside, leaving their confrontation and the painting’s mysteries unresolved.

• Hu Qi destroyed Wei Fan’s Yin Huang Bell and drove him away, while the Sun God Cult captured the remaining Dream Controllers.
• Wei Fan escaped to Morning Light City and decided to enter the Strange Painting early because he feared the Sun God Cult would annihilate Dream Controllers.
• Several days later, Wei Fan assembled the Strange Painting Fragments, causing the complete painting to appear and reveal a vivid, moving scene.
• Wei Fan entered the Strange Painting alone, hoping to find the Dream Eyes’ source and transform his strength.
• Hu Qi arrived moments later and followed Wei Fan into the Strange Painting.

Hu Qi entered the Strange Painting’s miniature world, broke free of his restraints, and raced across the sea toward Immortal Island. As Wei Fan entered the Rebirth Coffin to prepare for their confrontation, Hu Qi reached the island and faced a horde of powerful dead Dream Controllers.

• Hu Qi woke aboard a ship in the identity of Hu Qi, broke his shackles, and killed the guards who tried to humiliate him.
• Hu Qi slaughtered the ship’s Anomalous Ones, sensed Wei Fan’s mark toward Immortal Island, and accelerated the ship through the supernatural storm surrounding it.
• Wei Fan found the Rebirth Coffin and, after Hu Qi’s arrival became apparent, entered it to transform himself rather than face Hu Qi unprepared.
• Hu Qi crashed onto Immortal Island, evaded an attack from an old man with an executioner’s blade, and was surrounded by nearly a hundred dead Dream Controllers.
• Hu Qi’s patience ran out, and he summoned a giant form towering ten thousand meters above the island.

Hu Qi used Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation to destroy the island and kill Wei Fan, then confronted and refined the Tattered Black Banner with Crimson Sun Hellfire and power from his true body. The Strange Painting vanished in flames, and Hu Qi awoke in chaotic space after successfully refining the banner.

• Hu Qi transformed into a colossal Demonic Elephant and struck the island repeatedly, sinking much of it and destroying the figures there.
• Wei Fan escaped the island in the damaged Rebirth Coffin, but Hu Qi grabbed and killed him despite Wei Fan using his Clock Dream Eye.
• The Tattered Black Banner emerged from a fissure, and its black tide briefly pushed Hu Qi back before he fought it with Crimson Sun Hellfire.
• Hu Qi drew power through the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake mark and engulfed the banner in flames, overpowering the shadow that emerged from it.
• The Strange Painting was consumed by golden flames and disappeared, while Hu Qi continued refining the banner.
• Hu Qi awoke in chaotic space and declared that he had finally refined the banner successfully.