Chapter Summaries

After earning an Above Excellent evaluation in "Magic: Crossing Two Realms," Zhang Guangmu returned to the real world as a certified Three-Star Subconscious Actor, pleased with how much he had grown. He emerged to a crowd of fans and actors, where Ma Wu’s oblivious online tirade turned into an embarrassing spectacle.

• Zhang Guangmu completed his evaluation of "Magic: Crossing Two Realms" with an Above Excellent rating and awakened as a Three-Star Subconscious Actor.
• Zhang Guangmu left the Infiltration Pod with Mooncake and reflected on his seven years of experience and his plans to enjoy a good meal.
• Yue Yiji praised Zhang Guangmu’s choices before leaving under security escort, while Xia Lianshan gave him a bitter look and departed.
• Ma Wu emerged from his pod while insulting Zhang Guangmu’s critics online, then froze when he noticed the crowd and cameras watching him.
• Li Xiaoxiao watched in silence as a young man holding a cat laughed at Ma Wu’s predicament.

After filming Magic: Crossing Two Realms, Zhang Guangmu celebrated with the Endless warship crew and discovered that he had brought several skills and achievements back to the Real World. The crew warned him that next year’s Path of the Great Emperor would be harder, and the Seven Stars’ first-release advantage would expire.

• Zhang Guangmu recognized Ma Wu as one of his anti-fans, exchanged contact information with him, and also exchanged contacts with Li Shisan and Li Shiwu.
• Zhang Guangmu gathered the Endless warship crew for a celebratory dinner after the film wrapped.
• Zhang Guangmu inspected his updated stats and found that Saber Technique, Acting Skill, and Imperial Body Forging Technique had carried over, while his Seven Stars title had expired.
• Zhao Zhengrong told Zhang Guangmu that his film payment of 898 Dragon Shields had arrived, bringing his balance to 1,891 Dragon Shields.
• Zhao Zhengrong warned Zhang Guangmu that next year’s Path of the Great Emperor would be more difficult and that new Seven Stars would receive the first-release advantage.

After the Path of the Great Emperor, Zhang Guangmu and his companions discussed their titles and the improvements they had gained, then helped him move into a new home. As Zhang Guangmu browsed audience reactions and news about Transcendent Delusion Syndrome, reports revealed that mutated animals were becoming more numerous and intelligent.

• Zhang Guangmu questioned whether the Bright Moon title was better than the Seven Stars, and Zhao Zhengrong explained that its lifetime benefits surpassed the Seven Stars' year-long privileges.
• Zhang Guangmu and his companions compared how the Path of the Great Emperor had improved their abilities, while Chu Fan seemed to have gained only more charm.
• Zhang Guangmu's friends helped him move into a better home in the Sandalwood neighborhood after learning he had become a Three-Star Subconscious Actor.
• Zhang Guangmu read audience comments praising Magic: Crossing Two Realms, but Book Bro remained silent and offered no new inspiration.
• Zhang Guangmu read reports that mutated animals had increased in number and intelligence around the world.

After receiving a new Usable Ability Point and a creation-themed illustration from the Book of Acting, Zhang Guangmu got a call from an unfamiliar man named Li Zhou. The man appeared in a video call and congratulated him, leaving the reason for his call unknown.

• Zhang Guangmu investigated Transcendent Delusion Syndrome and concluded that his supernatural experiences were side effects of The Path of the Great Emperor.
• Zhang Guangmu had three medical experts and three nanomedical robots examine him, and they found him exceptionally healthy after watching him practice the Imperial Body Forging Technique.
• Zhang Guangmu received a Usable Ability Point and saw the Book of Acting’s Map of Heaven and Earth Creation, which depicted his transformation into all things in the world.
• Zhang Guangmu answered a video call from Li Zhou, who appeared before him and congratulated him.

Zhang Guangmu received a call from Li Zhou, who praised his Bright Moon title and invited him to join a club before the call was cut off by an apparent battlefield emergency. Zhang Guangmu strengthened his Imperial Body Forging Technique and saw that his Bright Moon title guaranteed low-level extraordinary talent and fortune in future worlds, then Li Zhou called again.

• Li Zhou introduced himself as the former Li Si, elder half-brother of Li Xiaoxiao and Li Zhuyu, and praised Zhang Guangmu as the strongest rookie of his cohort.
• An explosion and sword strike wounded Li Zhou, who took cover, invited Zhang Guangmu to join his club, and abruptly disconnected.
• Zhang Guangmu spent his Usable Ability Points on Imperial Body Forging Technique and advanced to the Jiazi Body Fortification stage.
• Zhang Guangmu tested his tougher skin and saw that his Bright Moon title guaranteed low-level extraordinary talent and fortune in future worlds.
• Li Zhou called Zhang Guangmu again four hours after their first conversation.

Li Zhou invited Zhang Guangmu to join the Transcendent Club, and Zhang agreed to visit its headquarters. After traveling to the club in a space station, Zhang entered a testing room and found Li Zhou and Li Zhuyu waiting there.

• Li Zhou demonstrated his supernatural lightning and invited Zhang Guangmu to join the Transcendent Club, explaining that veteran members would test him.
• Zhang Guangmu agreed to visit, checked Li Zhou's legitimacy with Zhao Zhengrong after failing to reach Li Xiaoxiao, and received approval to go.
• A flying car took Zhang Guangmu to a launch base, where he boarded a spacecraft bound for the club's space-station headquarters.
• Zhang Guangmu entered the club's testing room and found Li Zhou and Li Zhuyu inside.

Li Zhuyu and Li Zhou introduced Zhang Guangmu to the Supernatural Promised Land, where he awakened supernatural powers and produced astonishing phenomena. The domain ended, but the Transcendent Club members mistook his self-made special effects for signs that he was a young supreme being.

• Li Zhuyu explained that the Supernatural Promised Land let people awaken powers by repelling the Reality Factor, and Li Zhou requested restriction removal.
• Li Zhuyu manifested wings and a radiant sword, while Li Zhou's eyes changed as they demonstrated their awakened abilities.
• Zhang Guangmu awakened immediately, manifesting many powers, celestial phantoms, and figures from his other worlds.
• Zhang Guangmu added more supernatural special effects, stunning the Transcendent Club members as they gathered to watch.
• When the domain ended, Zhang Guangmu's powers vanished, but the members praised him as a future pillar of the nation and dismissed his attempts to explain the effects as modesty.

Zhang Guangmu joined the Transcendent Club and overwhelmed its members in a combat trial, then asked Li Zhou about his apparent youth. Li Zhou revealed that he was a time traveler from ten years ago and explained that travel could only go from the present into the future.

• Zhang Guangmu questioned Li Zhou about the Supernatural Promised Land, the Demon-Slaying World, and Reality Factor, and Li Zhou offered to answer if he won three challenge rounds.
• Zhang Guangmu defeated Li Zhuyu in two moves, and she regenerated her severed leg with Holy Light.
• Zhang Guangmu fought thirty-three veteran Transcendent Club members in half an hour and won without showing fatigue.
• Li Zhou took Zhang Guangmu to a sealed room, where Zhang Guangmu asked whether he had transferred his consciousness into a clone.
• Li Zhou denied using consciousness transfer and said he was a time traveler from ten years ago, adding that time travel could only move from the present into the future.

Li Zhou explained how Spiritual Wisdom Essence and subconscious films enabled the Xuanlong Empire’s supernatural technology, then invited Zhang Guangmu to join his plan to bring the supernatural into reality. Zhang Guangmu refused to abandon his crew, and in September he received a new film.

• Li Zhou told Zhang Guangmu he was a Time Transmigrator from ten years in the past and described the limits of Refining the False into the True.
• Li Zhou explained that Spiritual Wisdom Essence powered the Supernatural Promised Land and proposed creating a supernatural world anchored near the Solar System.
• Li Zhou invited Zhang Guangmu to join his effort to surpass His Imperial Majesty’s Deep Dive Plan and offered to help him become a Time Transmigrator.
• Zhang Guangmu refused because he would not abandon Mooncake, Zhao Zhengrong, Li Xiaoxiao, Chu Fan, Tang Lanshan, Luo Zhuan, and Jiang Ling.
• September arrived, a month after Magic: Crossing Two Realms finished filming, and Zhang Guangmu received a new film.

After struggling to find a suitable role among bizarre film offers, Zhang Guangmu accepted Qian Yiyuan’s invitation to star in his new buddy film, “Star Road Rampage.” The chapter ended with Zhang Guangmu agreeing to work with Qian despite doubts about the director’s past.

• Zhang Guangmu threw Shen Xu out after rejecting his film, which would have used AI-edited images to cast him as the Guangmu Fairy.
• Zhang Guangmu contacted the Empire’s order-maintenance personnel, and Shen Xu was taken to the Police Station.
• Zhang Guangmu reflected on a month of unsuitable collaboration offers, including one director who wanted him to play an eyeball.
• Chu Fan told Qian Yiyuan that he was ready to work with him, and Qian offered him the third male lead in “Star Road Rampage.”
• Qian Yiyuan said he had reserved the dominant role between the two protagonists for Zhang Guangmu, who hesitated before agreeing to join the film.

Zhang Guangmu received Qian Yiyuan’s script for Star Road Rampage, in which he would play an otherworldly mentor helping Su Xing'an become a subconscious movie star. He arrived for filming, met Su Xing'an, and left the story poised to begin production.

• Zhang Guangmu practiced the Defend Chapter while waiting for Qian Yiyuan to send the script.
• Qian Yiyuan sent Zhang Guangmu the synopsis for Star Road Rampage, revealing that Zhang Guangmu would play the Otherworld Mentor.
• Zhang Guangmu judged the story framework workable and hoped Qian Yiyuan would avoid adding bizarre twists to the setting.
• Zhang Guangmu prepared Mooncake’s supplies and traveled to the filming building, where he met Chu Fan and interacted with fans.
• Qian Yiyuan introduced Zhang Guangmu to Su Xing'an, his co-star, who greeted him as Brother Mu.

Zhang Guangmu entered the Film World as the remnant soul in a ring, with only the power to stimulate pain, and learned that he needed to help a host fulfill a wish to survive. He discovered Su Xing'an was the disgraced protagonist aiming to reclaim his place through The Path of the Immortal King, then watched as Su Xing'an was drawn toward the ring.

• Zhang Guangmu entered the Infiltration Pod and successfully arrived in the Azure Star Film World.
• Zhang Guangmu learned his false memories made him a ruined cultivator whose soul inhabited a ring and retained the ability to stimulate pain.
• Zhang Guangmu heard that he needed to find a host, fulfill their wish, and gain Wish Power to avoid vanishing.
• Zhang Guangmu learned Su Xing'an planned to prove himself at The Path of the Immortal King and return to the peak.
• Su Xing'an, disheveled and holding beer, stared at Zhang Guangmu's ring as a voice urged him to put it on.

After Su Xing'an put on a ring containing Zhang Guangmu, the two began speaking, and Zhang Guangmu chose to reveal his identity rather than follow the Script Hint to deceive Su Xing'an. Su Xing'an grew half-convinced that Zhang Guangmu was a transmigrator and listened to him seriously.

• Su Xing'an put on the ring, allowing Zhang Guangmu to appear to him as a voice from within it.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that Su Xing'an's emotional fluctuations nourished him and realized he did not need to follow the hinted route of exploiting Su Xing'an's wishes.
• Zhang Guangmu introduced himself as a transmigrator from the Nether Star and told Su Xing'an he was speaking from the ring.
• Su Xing'an resisted removing the ring, judged Zhang Guangmu by his actions, and objected to being called a mortal.
• Su Xing'an inferred that Zhang Guangmu might be an extraordinary being and began listening to him in earnest.

Zhang Guangmu drew out Su Xing'an's ambitions and grievances while secretly refining the Emotional Power released through the ring. He promised that special training would make Su Xing'an impossible for anyone but himself to defeat.

• Zhang Guangmu asked Su Xing'an about his short-term goal and lifelong dream, and Su Xing'an vowed to prove himself and become the brightest star in Cangxing's nationwide Subconscious Film event.
• Su Xing'an recounted how he had been drugged, framed, and betrayed, while Zhang Guangmu silently refined his Emotional Power through the ring.
• Zhang Guangmu reinterpreted Su Xing'an's name as a promise to shine like the Bright Moon and make the stars dim, convincing Su Xing'an that he was once an immortal.
• Director Qian Yiyuan confidently insisted that Zhang Guangmu's actions still fit the plot he had planned for 'Star Road Rampage.'
• Su Xing'an admitted his reputation and connections were ruined but vowed to keep pursuing his career, and Zhang Guangmu offered special training that he claimed would leave only Su Xing'an himself capable of defeating him.

Su Xing'an endured Zhang Guangmu's painful special training instead of surrendering, and Zhang Guangmu's strength recovered as he drew power from Su Xing'an's emotions. After passing the test, Su Xing'an believed he had become Zhang Guangmu's disciple.

• Su Xing'an asked Zhang Guangmu for guidance and agreed to undergo special training.
• Zhang Guangmu subjected Su Xing'an to intense pain, and Su Xing'an collapsed but refused to say he was a coward or surrender.
• Zhang Guangmu discovered that Su Xing'an's emotional reactions supplied power, helping him recover enough strength to move the gray-black ring.
• Zhang Guangmu tempted Su Xing'an to surrender, but Su Xing'an roared that he would never give up.
• Zhang Guangmu ended the pain, and Su Xing'an imagined that he had passed the test and become Zhang Guangmu's disciple.

Zhang Guangmu began training Su Xing'an and reassured him that he could evade Cang Star's technology. When Su Xing'an's former accomplices broke into his apartment to mock him, Zhang Guangmu wounded them with his sword and vanished, leaving Su Xing'an to face the police.

• Zhang Guangmu judged Su Xing'an's talent average but sufficient and planned to train him while learning about Subconscious Film.
• Three men broke into Su Xing'an's apartment, including the leader who had drugged and harmed him and two former drinking buddies.
• Zhang Guangmu cut off three of the intruders' fingers and warned them not to bother Su Xing'an again.
• Zhang Guangmu faded from view, terrifying the wounded men into fleeing the apartment.
• The three men went to the police, and Su Xing'an was taken to the Police Station.

Su Xing'an used Zhang Guangmu's advice to clear his name and secure compensation after three punks attacked him, while Zhang Guangmu used Su Xing'an's gratitude to recharge the ring. The chapter left Su Xing'an exhausted but obeying Zhang Guangmu's order to keep doing push-ups.

• Su Xing'an convinced the police that he was the victim, while the three punks claimed a ghost swordsman had cut off their fingers.
• Su Xing'an intimidated the punks into admitting they had drugged his water, and the police detained them and ordered them to compensate him.
• The police published the case details, helping Su Xing'an repair his reputation, and he went to a hotel with the gray ring.
• Su Xing'an thanked Zhang Guangmu, whose advice and actions had helped him, and his gratitude replenished the ring's energy.
• Zhang Guangmu ordered Su Xing'an to do as many push-ups as he could, and Su Xing'an collapsed after forcing himself to complete one hundred.
• Zhang Guangmu told Su Xing'an to rest for sixty seconds and continue, and Su Xing'an obeyed despite his exhaustion.

Zhang Guangmu put Su Xing'an through brutal bodyweight training, and Su Xing'an recovered completely after only half an hour of sleep. Believing Zhang Guangmu had secretly restored him, Su Xing'an volunteered to continue, leaving Zhang Guangmu impressed by his disciple's stamina.

• Zhang Guangmu pushed Su Xing'an through an exhausting cycle of bodyweight exercises until he could no longer stand or speak comfortably.
• Zhang Guangmu let Su Xing'an sleep, then woke him with the Manufacture Pain ability after half an hour.
• Su Xing'an discovered that he had fully recovered and thanked Zhang Guangmu, who denied doing anything.
• The floating Little White Balls speculated that Su Xing'an's rapid recovery came from the world's hidden setting and praised Director Qian Yiyuan.
• Su Xing'an offered to keep training and even suggested Zhang Guangmu rest, prompting Zhang Guangmu to admire his stubbornness.

Su Xing'an endured Zhang Guangmu's brutal training until Zhang revealed the identity of the man who had ruined his reputation and urged him to become strong enough to seek revenge himself. Zhang then explained that Su Xing'an could not cultivate traditional inner energy on Cang Star and presented the Subconscious Film industry as the local path forward.

• Su Xing'an repeatedly trained himself to exhaustion under Zhang Guangmu's supervision, strengthening his body and mind as Zhang's ring turned pure black.
• Zhang Guangmu named Ren Huailu as the person who had ruined Su Xing'an's reputation and left Su to deal with him after he grew stronger.
• Su Xing'an resolved to train harder, repay Zhang Guangmu, and eventually confront Ren Huailu himself.
• Zhang Guangmu told Su Xing'an that Cang Star lacked spiritual energy and that Su could not cultivate inner energy or true qi there.
• Zhang Guangmu declared that the Subconscious Film industry was Cang Star's local path and summoned a gray-blue helmet.

Zhang Guangmu trained Su Xing'an and sent him into a minor role in a subconscious film, while investigating the false memories of his own past. The chapter ended when an identical, white-robed version of Zhang Guangmu appeared and accused him of occupying his true spirit.

• Su Xing'an mistook Zhang Guangmu's ordinary viewing helmet for a magical treasure, and Zhang Guangmu explained his theories about supernatural seeds and urged him to become stronger.
• Zhang Guangmu advised Su Xing'an to use repeated script study and a carefully designed environment to develop a subconscious better suited to acting.
• After more than ten days of training, Su Xing'an entered an ancient war film as a minor supporting general, determined to exceed expectations.
• Zhang Guangmu realized his implanted false memories gave him no enemies and offered no explanation for why he had failed his tribulation on Nether Star.
• A white-robed young man with Zhang Guangmu's exact appearance appeared in his vision and called him a troublesome heart demon occupying his true spirit.