Chapter Summaries

A Nightmare Lord attacked the Void Warship and forced Lin Xiao and the other human prodigies to escape through a random teleport, but it marked them and began pursuing them. As their teleportation ended, the marked group faced an imminent threat in the Chaotic Void Sea, near a strange flesh-covered Crystal Wall Universe.

• A Nightmare Lord tore the Void Warship apart and pressed its enormous claw against the officers' divine barriers, prompting Lei Bo to hold it back.
• Xie Yufei ordered an immediate random teleport, and she, Lei Bo, and another officer burned their avatars' divine power to send the group away.
• The Nightmare Lord marked the escaping prodigies with crimson flames, then sent the mark through the void and contacted another powerful being.
• Lin Xiao and the others arrived in the Chaotic Void Sea carrying enough divine power for three short-range teleports, but the crimson mark followed them unharmed.
• Luo Shuang warned the group that they were entering the most dangerous stage of their lives as their teleportation neared its end.

Lin Xiao and the other elites escaped the Nightmare Monarch by combining their divine powers and entering the ominous Crystal Wall Universe, though several military elites died and a human Greater Divine Power arrived too late to save them. As Lin Xiao fell into darkness, the story shifted to Carl, a young sailor whose journal described strange voices in his mind.

• Lin Xiao and the elites used Wu Zhonglin’s Holy Artifact to combine their elders’ divine powers, break the Nightmare Monarch’s Lightning Cage, and teleport away.
• The Nightmare Monarch pursued them with Blazing White Lightning, but Lin Xiao, Luo Shuang, and Wu Zhonglin used Gaia Will’s power to carry several survivors into the Crystal Wall Universe; the remaining military elites were killed.
• A human Greater Divine Power arrived and began fighting the Nightmare Monarch after the survivors had disappeared into the Crystal Wall Universe.
• Lin Xiao fell through darkness, unable to perceive anything except that he was falling.
• Carl recorded that Explorer was sailing toward the boundary between the Sea of Tranquility and the Sea of Curse on a mission that might earn enough money for a better ship.
• Carl reflected on dreams of being an important lord and voices speaking inside his head, while the ship rocked violently in the sea wind.

Lin Xiao awakened in a lightless world at sea, where his strange power stopped a mutation but his former divine abilities were sealed. After Old Captain confirmed his identity, Lin Xiao discovered a personal status panel and missions, and suspected the world was connected to the Nightmare Lords.

• Carl and Honas fought off attacking Muscle Tentacles, but an unseen force lifted them and triggered their Bloodsource Out of Control.
• Lin Xiao’s Magic Cube released clear light that halted his mutation, while Old Captain killed the transformed Honas with a blade strike.
• Lin Xiao revealed that his divine power was sealed and that he could no longer sense the Main World, prompting Old Captain to test his memories before welcoming him back.
• Lin Xiao checked his attributes and found a panel containing three missions, including a world-class mission to capture an island and establish a city.
• Lin Xiao recalled the Nightmare Lords gathered outside the world and wondered whether this was where the Nightmare World’s elites had gone.

Lin Xiao awakened after the Creation Energy purged the corruption from his heart, and the world’s missions changed to identify him as an ally against the Nightmare invasion. After the Old Captain offered him a chance to inherit the Explorer, Lin Xiao considered using the Creation Cube to purify Monster Flesh and become stronger without suffering its mutations.

• Lin Xiao completed the cleansing of his heart, noticed his mental power had increased, and found that his missions now tasked him with killing Nightmare Children and destroying nine Nightmare Nodes.
• Lin Xiao suspected the world’s will had stopped treating him as a Nightmare Child after he awakened, though he knew he would still have to rely on himself against the invasion.
• The Old Captain confirmed that Lin Xiao had awakened and told him to keep it secret, then offered him one year to prove himself worthy of inheriting the Explorer.
• The Old Captain explained awakening, Bloodsource Warriors, the dangers of Monster Flesh, and the Witchcraft System.
• Lin Xiao planned to use the Creation Cube to purify Monster Flesh before fusing with it, hoping to gain strength without its corrupting side effects.

Lin Xiao fused a tentacle from the Unknown Tentacle Monster with the Magic Cube, gaining powerful muscle-enhancing abilities without apparent side effects. While on watch aboard the Explorer, he sensed something watching the ship and found sticky residue near the bow before checking the crew’s rooms with a coded knock.

• Lin Xiao used the Magic Cube to grind away the tentacle’s residual power, purify its flesh, and fuse it with four units of Creation Energy.
• Lin Xiao consumed the transformed flesh and grew taller and stronger, gaining the ability to stretch and enlarge his muscles into powerful tentacles.
• Lin Xiao spent the day adapting to his new strength as the Explorer sailed toward Pearl Island.
• During his nighttime watch, Lin Xiao sensed something watching him from beyond the railing and found sticky residue on the bow’s deck.
• Lin Xiao checked on the sailors and used a coded knock at the Old Captain’s room and the other cabins.

After arriving at Pearl Island, Lin Xiao bought Monster Flesh and gained powerful regenerative and body-mutating traits. A week later, Old Captain learned that alien worms had reached the island aboard their ship, causing over a hundred deaths and forcing the crew to leave.

• On the Explorer, infected sailors released swarms of strange worms, and the crew killed most of them while some escaped into the black water.
• The Explorer reached Pearl Island, where Lin Xiao left marks for his companions and went to the Lord's Manor to buy Monster Flesh.
• Lin Xiao purified and enhanced two portions of a soft-bodied seabed creature, gaining bodily mutation and limb regeneration before briefly turning into a huge mass of flesh.
• A week later, Lin Xiao returned to Old Captain's summons and learned that an alien race from their ship had killed over a hundred islanders.
• Old Captain told the gathered crew that the Lord's Manor had fined him two million Sol, expelled them from Pearl Island, and banned them from returning for five years.

After Old Captain named Lin Xiao captain of the Explorer, Lin Xiao defeated Marr’s challenge and went to recruit sailors on Sailor Street. There, a Nightmare Child recognized him and chased him to the island’s edge, where the two revealed their monstrous forms and began fighting.

• Old Captain ordered Lin Xiao to recruit sailors and announced that Lin Xiao would succeed him as captain of the Explorer.
• Marr challenged Lin Xiao, who transformed into a giant and overwhelmed him; Marr and several loyal followers left the crew.
• Lin Xiao went to the Guns bar with David and Bobby, where he received a notice identifying a sinister man as a Nightmare Child.
• The Nightmare Child’s men pursued Lin Xiao and his companions; Lin Xiao sent David and Bobby away and drew the pursuer toward the island’s edge.
• Lin Xiao and the Nightmare Child transformed on the beach, and the Nightmare Child attacked with a ring of black flame and a thrown Bone Spike.

Lin Xiao regained contact with his Divine Domain after the Nightmare Child dragged him into its Nightmare Domain, and he rallied his Kinfolk to prepare for war. Four days later, the two Divine Domains connected, and a Nightmare army invaded as Slarda’s forces gathered to meet it.

• Lin Xiao realized he could sense his Divine Domain while being pulled into the Nightmare Child’s Nightmare Domain, then returned to the Divine Kingdom and took his place on the God Seat.
• After five years without contact, Lin Xiao’s return lit the statue of the God of Truth and Creation; Slarda recognized him, and the Kinfolk learned their god had returned.
• Lin Xiao issued a Divine Revelation, strengthened the Kinfolk with a BUFF, and mobilized the Divine Domain, while Nightmare Child Zhu Lien prepared for the unexpected life-or-death domain war.
• On the fourth day, a spatial passage opened between the Divine Domains, and a legendary giant beast followed by a vast Nightmare army poured into Lin Xiao’s Divine Domain.
• Slarda gathered more than eighty percent of the combat-capable Kinfolk on the wasteland to face the invading army.

Lin Xiao’s Divine Domain battled the Nightmare Child’s forces as his Kinfolk endured heavy losses and the enemy repeatedly dispelled their Enhanced Water Elemental summons. After four massive dispels weakened the Nightmare Child’s avatar, Lin Xiao finally moved as the Wise Goblins began a fifth summoning.

• Slarda led fifty thousand Little Fishmen into battle while the Wise Goblin mages summoned Colbert and a vast force of Fire Elementals.
• The Nightmare Behemoth blocked two Legendary fire spells, then received power from the Nightmare Child to survive the next assault.
• The expanding passage unleashed more nightmare creatures, overwhelming the Little Fishmen vanguard and prompting Slarda to order Enhanced Water Elemental summoning.
• The Nightmare Child’s avatar repeatedly dispelled the Wise Goblins’ summons, using up the crystals in its ornate staff and weakening its own form.
• As the Wise Goblins began their fifth summoning, Lin Xiao sat upright on the God Seat and pointed downward.

Lin Xiao repelled the Nightmare Child’s invasion after discovering that his forces outnumbered the enemy in high-level combatants, though he held back to limit losses. He left the passage sealed behind lava and flames while his forces recovered, preparing to counterattack in two days.

• A lightning strike destroyed the Nightmare Child’s incarnation before it could dispel the summoning, allowing thirty thousand Sixth Order gigantic Water Elementals to appear and flood the battlefield.
• Lin Xiao sent his Asura Greater Nagas and Water Elementals to attack the passage, but powerful Nightmare reinforcements emerged, including an Eighth Order Legendary six-winged humanoid, and the Nightmare Child struck the Water Elementals directly.
• Lin Xiao assessed his forces against the enemy and realized that he had far more high-level fighters, so his army gradually pushed the Nightmare creatures back through the passage despite the Nightmare Child’s support.
• Lin Xiao ordered his Wise Goblin Mages to dismiss the summoned Water Elementals and had the Fire Elementals turn the passage approach into lava, preventing further incursions while his forces rested.
• After two days of probing attacks failed to breach the defenses led by Flame Lord Colbert, Lin Xiao prepared to counterattack the Nightmare Domain.

Lin Xiao’s forces invaded the Nightmare Domain using boiling water and began pushing back its Nightmare creatures. After discovering that the enemy was turning its dead into material for giant flesh monsters, Lin Xiao ordered a full-scale offensive and sent Nigelram to investigate, learning that Flesh Nests and carpets covered much of the domain.

• Thirty thousand Sixth Order Supernatural Water Elementals flooded the Two Worlds Passage with boiling water, allowing Lin Xiao’s forces to seize its entrance.
• Lin Xiao entered the Nightmare Domain, judged that the Nightmare Child had not reached demigod level, and led his forces into battle.
• The Kinfolk fought the Nightmare Legion for seven or eight hours, killing hundreds of thousands of creatures before the enemy retreated into the mist.
• Slarda reported that the dead Nightmare creatures had melted into the ground, and Lin Xiao found flesh-like material sinking through the soil.
• Lin Xiao ordered a full-scale offensive, sent Flame Lord Colbert through the passage, and dispatched Nigelram to investigate the shadows in the mist.
• Nigelram returned severely wounded and reported that giant Flesh Nests and Flesh Carpets were using the dead to create massive flesh monsters.

Lin Xiao launched a decisive assault on the Nightmare Child’s forces before they could create more flesh monsters. Slarda killed the legendary Nightmare Behemoth in one blow despite the Nightmare Child’s interference, while Colbert’s battle against the Six-Winged Winged Humanoid remained underway.

• Lin Xiao discovered that the Nightmare Child had gathered thousands of powerful flesh monsters and mobilized his forces to attack the Flesh Nests.
• Lin Xiao’s central army met nearly five thousand high-end nightmare combatants, and both sides clashed in a direct battle.
• Slarda’s Seventh-Order Asura Greater Naga defeated a gigantic Seventh-Order flesh monster, while Colbert and Slarda advanced to face the two legendary nightmare creatures.
• Colbert and the Six-Winged Winged Humanoid exchanged powerful fire and nightmare spells as Slarda confronted the legendary Nightmare Behemoth.
• The Nightmare Child tried to suppress Slarda as the behemoth attacked, but Lin Xiao’s true body broke through the seal and Slarda killed the behemoth with a single strike.

Lin Xiao’s forces captured the outer regions of the Nightmare Domain and discovered the powerful Flesh Nest Mother at its core. He used repeated waves of Water Elementals to wear down the Nightmare Child’s defenses, leaving the two sides poised near the domain’s center.

• Slarda’s forces destroyed a Flesh Nest, and Lin Xiao learned that its Flesh Seed Body could grow another nest with limited strength.
• Arlement led the Wise Goblins to capture a second Flesh Nest as Lin Xiao’s forces advanced through the Nightmare Domain.
• Scouts found the Flesh Nest Mother and thousands of Nightmare creatures defending the core, so Lin Xiao chose to avoid a direct assault.
• Lin Xiao gathered seventy thousand subordinates to summon Water Elementals and sent them in repeated waves against the core from four directions.
• Over six days, Lin Xiao’s Water Elementals steadily depleted the enemy while his Kinfolk stayed back, and his domain expanded around the Nightmare Child’s shrinking territory.

After Lin Xiao’s Water Elementals killed the Nightmare Child and destroyed its domain’s defenses, he devoured the Nightmare Divine Domain and plundered its core treasures. He returned to his own domain to assess the spoils and prepare his forces and supernatural abilities for future battles.

• Lin Xiao’s Water Elementals destroyed the Flesh Nest Mother, then overcame the core guards and killed the Nightmare Child after a prolonged assault.
• Lin Xiao began devouring the masterless Nightmare Domain and sent his Kinfolk to plunder its resources.
• Lin Xiao entered the Nightmare Palace and recovered thirty-seven cards, two relics, the Nightmare Child’s Divine Soul, and a second-tier relic called Book of Laws: Spring.
• Lin Xiao returned to his Divine Domain, ordered Slarda to strengthen faith-gathering activities, and planned to revise the Supernatural Weave’s abilities.
• Lin Xiao cut the power of Godspeed in half while leaving precognition unchanged.

Lin Xiao weakened several Supernatural Abilities to make them easier for the Little Fishmen to use, then used his relics and Creation Energy to forge the Fourth Order Top-Tier Shield of Truth. After extracting Divinity from the Nightmare Child’s Divine Soul, he considered using it to activate the shield’s ability to let Kinfolk break their species limits.

• Lin Xiao reduced the power and usage requirements of Godspeed, Transcendent Berserk, and Exploding Fireball while leaving the enhanced Water Elemental ability unchanged.
• Lin Xiao dismantled his relics, discarded Prophet Zalanke’s Guidance, and lost ten units of Creation Energy when the Fragment of the Book of Law’s main body counterattacked.
• Lin Xiao spent 230 units of Creation Energy to forge the Shield of Truth, which boosted Kinfolk attributes, mental strength, mental power, and willpower and granted them Encyclopedic Knowledge.
• Lin Xiao loaded the Shield of Truth into his Divine Domain, giving every Kinfolk a total bonus of eight points to all attributes from his relics.
• Lin Xiao dismantled thirty-seven Nightmare Cards and refined the Nightmare Child’s Divine Soul to extract twenty-three units of Divinity.
• Lin Xiao considered using the extracted Divinity to activate the Shield of Truth’s ability to let Kinfolk break through their species limits.

Lin Xiao used the Shield of Truth to prepare a breakthrough for an Asura Greater Naga, then lost his connection to his Divine Domain as the Nightmare Domain collapsed. Returning to the island, he found the Explorer and his companions gone, surrendered to the Lord’s Manor guards, and ended up in prison, where prisoners were soon offered a chance to earn their release by mining.

• Lin Xiao ordered Slarda to withdraw the Kinfolk, arrange a Triumphant Return Ceremony, and use accumulated divine power to advance an Asura Greater Naga beyond its species limit.
• Lin Xiao put the Flesh Nest Mother seed and its offspring seeds into the Creation Cube, then left the possible modifications undecided.
• The Nightmare Domain collapsed, expanding Lin Xiao’s Divine Domain before the bizarre world severed his connection to it and sent him back to his true body.
• Lin Xiao found the Explorer and his companions gone, surrendered to the Lord’s Manor guards, and was imprisoned after returning to 254 Second Avenue.
• Lin Xiao beat the other prisoners in his cell and became its new boss.
• The Lord’s Manor offered ordinary prisoners release after a year of mining on another island.

Two days after Lin Xiao killed Zhu Lien, human and Nightmare forces confronted each other beyond the strange world and arranged for their elites to descend. Lin Xiao, unaware of the arrival, survived a monstrous outbreak aboard his prison ship and reached Thirty-Fifth Mining Island, where he spotted another Nightmare Child.

• Two men investigated Zhu Lien’s death and concluded that an outsider had entered the world.
• Gaia Will and the Nightmare Will confronted each other, then agreed to let human and Nightmare elites descend into the world.
• Jin Sisi gave Xiong Chu Mo a jade token to pass to Lin Xiao if she found him, and the human elites entered through a descent passage.
• During a fresh-air break aboard Lin Xiao’s prison ship, bloodstains on several prisoners revealed that they had become monsters, and soldiers froze them before removing them.
• The ship reached Thirty-Fifth Mining Island, where Lin Xiao recognized a cold-eyed man in military uniform as another Nightmare Child.

Lin Xiao was trapped in a cell with three Nightmare Children when a Stitched Monster broke in, and one of the Nightmare Children pulled them into his Divine Domain. Lin Xiao returned to his own Divine Domain, where he found seven eighth-rank legendary subordinates ready to fight.

• Lin Xiao challenged the Nightmare Child at the dock, but learned that he knew Lin Xiao was a Human Divine Domain Player and was waiting for companions to arrive.
• A Stitched Monster broke through the cell wall and attacked, prompting Lin Xiao to call for the Nightmare Children to appear.
• Three Nightmare Children entered, and one used a vortex to pull Lin Xiao and the Stitched Monster away; their leader, Bernie, ordered the others not to interfere in his fight with Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao connected to his Divine Domain and discovered that seven of his subordinates had reached the eighth-rank legendary level.
• Slarda told Lin Xiao that two years and nine months had passed in the Divine Domain during his month away, and Lin Xiao considered the rarity and strength of legendary Kinfolk.

Lin Xiao prepared the Divine Domain for an attack by three Nightmare Children and chose to adapt a dragon evolution system for his Greater Nagas and Little Fishmen. He modified the Little Fishmen species card with a weakened version of the Greater Naga bloodline, leaving their reproductive ability intact.

• Lin Xiao told Slarda about the coming crisis, and the Divine Domain mobilized to defend Truth City and Naga City while evacuating noncombatant Little Fishmen to the Water Elemental Divine Domain.
• Lin Xiao considered three dragon systems and chose to use dragon evolution as a template for an evolutionary chain linking the Little Fishmen and Greater Nagas.
• Lin Xiao broke down the Greater Naga bloodline and weakened it to fit the Little Fishmen's low-grade genetic capacity.
• Lin Xiao created Fishmen Overlord Body (Pseudo), preserving toughness, resilience, and vitality without reducing the Little Fishmen's reproductive ability.
• Lin Xiao reopened the species interface and saw the adjusted race, now named Little Fishmen.

Lin Xiao transformed the Little Fishmen into Little Nagas and used the Creation Cube to establish an evolution path from Little Nagas to Greater Nagas. The transformation began across his Divine Domain, and the new Little Nagas produced more Faith Power than before.

• Lin Xiao renamed the modified Little Fishmen Little Nagas after their appearance and abilities changed.
• Lin Xiao combined the Little Naga and Greater Naga Species Cards with the Dragon Evolution System in the Creation Cube, creating a Bloodline Evolution talent that let Little Nagas attempt to evolve into Greater Nagas after reaching Level 3 and gaining battle experience.
• Lin Xiao's mastery of the Creation Laws rose to 7.42%, while his mastery of the Truth Laws increased by 0.2%.
• Lin Xiao reloaded the Little Naga and Greater Naga cards into his Divine Domain, causing its Little Fishmen, including Murloc Warriors and Warlocks, to enter transformation cocoons.
• The first Little Naga emerged within an hour, and Lin Xiao found that each transformed Little Naga provided more Faith Power than a former Little Fishman.