Chapter Summaries

Zhang Guangmu gained control of his radiation and shock waves, perfected his signature killing move, and named it the Great Fission Technique. He then learned that an ancient powerhouse reincarnated in the Xuan Yan Realm was coming to the Taiqing Sect to meet him.

• Zhang Guangmu read the Hydrogen Bomb Scroll, gained an Ability Point, and raised his Driving ability to 4.
• Zhang Guangmu sensed that his abilities were nearing the standard for an Achievement Fruit Status to descend into reality.
• Zhang Guangmu successfully confined radiation and shock waves in his palm and named the attack the Great Fission Technique.
• Zhang Guangmu learned that an ancient powerhouse who had reincarnated into the Xuan Yan Realm would visit the Taiqing Sect soon and had specifically asked to meet him.

Zhang Guangmu strengthened his skull by advancing the Imperial Body Forging Technique to level 26, then went to meet Evil Leader Long Hong at Taiqing. Long Hong presented a mysterious magical treasure from a new era, drawing the attention of everyone in Yuanjing Hall.

• Zhang Guangmu learned that the notorious Evil Leader Long Hong was coming to Taiqing and prepared to face him.
• Zhang Guangmu advanced the Imperial Body Forging Technique to level 26, strengthening his skull and defenses against soul attacks.
• Mooncake brought Zhang Guangmu a paper crane announcing that Long Hong had arrived, and Zhang Guangmu went to meet him.
• Zhang Guangmu reached Yuanjing Hall, greeted Qin Zhe and Ye Tan, and freely ate the sect’s precious pills and spiritual medicines.
• Long Hong praised Zhang Guangmu’s unrestrained manner, and Zhang Guangmu told him that he was very strong.
• Long Hong removed a strange strip-shaped magical treasure and told the gathered guests he had brought something new from a new era.

Evil Lord Long Hong introduced the Apocalypse Tide, a wristwatch-like treasure that sent users into a realistic world where they could die and start over without bodily harm. He secretly intended to use the Ten Great Immortal Sects as laborers in his former apocalypse world, and Zhang Guangmu entered the new world with a group of Taiqing Sect disciples.

• Long Hong presented wristwatches to the gathered sects and claimed the Apocalypse Tide could make disciple training at least three times more efficient.
• Long Hong suppressed a Script Hint urging him to kill Zhang Guangmu, but secretly planned to have Julien test him and possibly trade his life for Zhang Guangmu's.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that Long Hong's claims of seeking indirect immortality were an act, while Long Hong intended to draw the immortal sects into his former apocalypse world to advance his own cultivation.
• Taiqing Sect experts inspected the wristwatches for hidden dangers and then sent batches of disciples into the Apocalypse Tide.
• Zhang Guangmu was selected with the Taiqing Sect's thirty-fourth-generation disciples and entered the Apocalypse Tide world.

Zhang Guangmu entered Long Hong’s Apocalypse Tide world through a wristwatch and recognized that it was a carefully disguised real wasteland used to refine the cultivators’ hearts. Seeing little value in playing by Long Hong’s rules, he considered taking over the world and raising a Fourth Catastrophe of his own.

• Long Hong gave Zhang Guangmu a wristwatch and told him to silently recite the password to enter the Red Dust Heart Refining World.
• After letting more than a dozen cultivators enter first, Zhang Guangmu followed and arrived in the Apocalypse Tide world in a weak, resource-starved body.
• Zhang Guangmu realized his true self remained in the Xuan Yan Realm and that he could sever his connection to the world whenever he wished.
• The cultivators marveled at the world’s realism as Earth’s little white balls and Duo Civilization’s demon balls argued over who would prevail.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized Long Hong as the evil leader and decided that taking over Apocalypse Tide would be better than merely playing under the enemy’s rules.

Zhang Guangmu explored the apocalyptic wasteland and learned that players could treat it as a game, then tested the promised freedom by shooting faction leader Julien. The chapter ended with Julien facing Zhang Guangmu’s gunshot.

• Zhang Guangmu surveyed the Survivor Camp and learned about its Zombies, Mutated Creatures, and the different groups that entered the world.
• Zhang Guangmu visited Base Leader Julien to obtain the beginner equipment offered to new players.
• Julien tried to bewitch Zhang Guangmu and then lower his confidence, but neither tactic worked as intended.
• Zhang Guangmu took Julien’s favorability drop as a sign that he could kill him and fired his pistol at the faction leader.

Zhang Guangmu shot Base Leader Julien after rejecting his attempt to manipulate her, and the bullet’s hidden Great Fission Technique left him fatally ill. Julien fled toward a forbidden building to seek a way to survive, while Zhang Guangmu chose not to pursue him, judging that saving him would cost Long Hong too much.

• Zhang Guangmu fired at Julien, who caught the bullet in his mouth, chewed it, and criticized her combat abilities.
• Zhang Guangmu revealed that she had attached the Great Fission Technique to the bullet, and Julien realized his body was suffering fatal damage.
• Julien cursed Zhang Guangmu and vowed revenge, then crawled out of the orientation center toward a building forbidden to players.
• Zhang Guangmu let Julien escape because she judged the price of saving him would be enough for Long Hong to cultivate more than ten leaders like him.

Zhang Guangmu seized control of Survivor Camp, renamed its immortal players saviors, and crushed opposition as he reorganized the settlement. After Julien died, Zhang Guangmu captured his soul and demanded information about Long Hong in exchange for sparing it.

• Zhang Guangmu defeated Julien’s supporters, won the players’ approval, and took over Survivor Camp.
• Zhang Guangmu executed residents who resisted his rule and organized the camp’s teams and punishments.
• Zhang Guangmu declared that immortal players would be called saviors and tasked them with rebuilding civilization.
• Julien fled to a restricted zone, but Long Hong refused to rescue him and revealed that he had arranged a replacement novice guide.
• Julien warned Zhang Guangmu that Long Hong would retaliate, then died from his injuries.
• Zhang Guangmu seized Julien’s newly formed soul and offered to spare it if Julien provided useful information.

Zhang Guangmu persuaded Julien to reveal what he knew about Long Hong and Apocalypse Tide, then recovered Julien’s hidden information before his soul vanished. His connection to the game was abruptly severed, and he returned to the Taiqing Sect guest reception hall beside Long Hong.

• Zhang Guangmu threatened Julien and promised not to harm him if he revealed Long Hong’s secrets, so Julien agreed to talk.
• Julien warned that Long Hong was likely using an alias, advised against cursing him by name, and shared his suspicions about Long Hong’s origins.
• Julien gave Zhang Guangmu the location and password for a cache of Apocalypse Tide information, and Zhang Guangmu found the strip of cloth hidden in Julien’s clothes.
• After Zhang Guangmu refused to save him, Julien’s soul dissipated completely, and Zhang Guangmu followed the map to collect his inheritance.
• Zhang Guangmu’s Apocalypse Tide connection was severed, returning him to the Taiqing Sect guest reception hall, where he glanced at Long Hong.

Zhang Guangmu cultivated for half a month, reaching Foundation Establishment and seventh-grade God Dao, then began investigating the wristwatch that had been destroyed after he suspected Long Hong was behind it. He obtained two replacement watches from White Moon Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan to continue his research, but ran into trouble.

• Long Hong claimed the wristwatch failure was a rare malfunction, and Zhang Guangmu returned to his cave abode to cultivate instead of confronting him.
• After half a month, Zhang Guangmu reached the third cultivation realm, completed Foundation Establishment, and advanced his God Dao to the seventh grade.
• Zhang Guangmu began researching his banned wristwatch, but it exploded and burned to ashes.
• Zhang Guangmu accused Long Hong of being his enemy and used a paper crane to request wristwatches from White Moon Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan.
• White Moon Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan sent Zhang Guangmu two watches to dismantle, and he began working to remove their backdoors and build a smuggling device.
• Zhang Guangmu soon encountered trouble with his research.

Zhang Guangmu realized that the long lifespans of Xuan Yan Realm’s cultivators made them complacent, while Earth Civilization’s urgency gave him an advantage. Mooncake effortlessly broke the wristwatch’s barrier, and Zhang Guangmu finished his machines in five days, leaving the Little White Balls excited.

• Zhang Guangmu found that breaking the wristwatch’s soul-bound barrier by force would destroy it, and he concluded that Duo Civilization’s trap relied on the Time-Long Steps and Xuan Yan Realm’s vast lifespans.
• Zhang Guangmu decided to seek help from Taiqing Sect’s ancient seniors, but Mooncake melted the barrier with a touch of her paw.
• Zhang Guangmu praised Mooncake, then completed the wristwatch project in five days by working without rest.
• The Little White Balls cheered over Zhang Guangmu’s finished machines and joked about the team’s setbacks and rivalries.

Zhang Guangmu convinced the Taiqing Sect that Apocalypse Tide connected to a real world and secured the elders’ support to investigate Long Hong’s plans. Long Hong learned that Zhang Guangmu had smuggled powerful upper-realm allies into the Apocalyptic Wasteland World and prepared to kill him.

• Zhang Guangmu made ten smuggling devices and decided to use Mooncake’s restriction-breaking talent to help claim control of the Apocalyptic Wasteland World.
• Zhang Guangmu brought Mooncake, Qin Zhe, and Ye Tan to the Taiqing Sect’s elders and told them that Apocalypse Tide was a real world connected by teleportation devices.
• Sect Master Tongyouzi revealed that Zhang Guangmu had reached the limit of the Long River True God position, prompting the elders to take his warning seriously.
• Zhang Guangmu showed the elders his copied wristwatch device, and they agreed to entrust the matter to him and welcome help from fellow disciples.
• Long Hong received alerts that upper-realm descendents had entered the Apocalyptic Wasteland World as non-players and learned that Zhang Guangmu had seized half its control authority.
• Long Hong resolved to fight Zhang Guangmu to the death.

Long Hong used his subordinates to test Zhang Guangmu and expose his abilities, then descended into the Apocalyptic Wasteland World to kill him himself. He trapped Zhang Guangmu near a fog-shrouded river and declared there was no way for him to escape alive.

• Long Hong killed a rogue cultivator, then ordered his subordinates in the Apocalyptic Tide world to test Zhang Guangmu.
• Zhang Guangmu defeated Long Hong's forces in more than forty clashes, while Long Hong learned his abilities and worked to make his in-world body real.
• Long Hong opened Zhang Guangmu's permissions and increased his power to lure his true body into the Apocalyptic Wasteland World.
• Long Hong launched a concealed sword attack that devastated a Survivor Camp, but Zhang Guangmu evaded it and moved the battle away from other people.
• Long Hong descended in his true body, revealed that he had reached Void Reversion, and used a formation to block Zhang Guangmu's escape.

Zhang Guangmu used his fight with Long Hong to develop Divine Eye while secretly calling for backup. When Sword Daoist, Yuanyangzi, and Temple Granny appeared, Long Hong realized he had little chance of surviving.

• Long Hong attacked Zhang Guangmu with a sword wheel, but Zhang Guangmu dodged and blocked the strikes while developing Divine Eye.
• Long Hong silenced his sword wheel, and Zhang Guangmu opened his mismatched eyes and formed a saber from magical power and Incense Divine Strength.
• Zhang Guangmu continued fighting despite mounting wounds, while Long Hong gained the upper hand and rejected warnings to retreat.
• Zhang Guangmu summoned Sword Daoist, Yuanyangzi, and Temple Granny, three powerful Eighth Realm cultivators.
• Long Hong recognized the three reinforcements and realized he had no clear path to survival.

Zhang Guangmu watched the Three Elders of Taiqing defeat Evil Chief Long Hong, then killed Long Hong’s soul before he could use his obsession to create a successor. With the Xuan Yan Realm as his target, Zhang Guangmu planned to turn Earth Civilization’s concentrated power into an advantage.

• The Three Elders of Taiqing warned Zhang Guangmu to stay back and joined forces against Long Hong.
• Zhang Guangmu considered how Earth Civilization could use its gathered strength in the Xuan Yan Realm to seize it and win a match point.
• The Three Elders of Taiqing overwhelmed Long Hong, destroyed his body, and left his soul unable to escape.
• Long Hong addressed Zhang Guangmu and tried to provoke a response that would help him create a successor before dying.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized Long Hong’s concealed malice and annihilated his soul with divine light from his eyes.

After Long Hong’s death, Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect claimed the Apocalyptic Wasteland World and developed it as a training ground and source of resources. Their efforts culminated in Zhang Guangmu successfully condensing a new divine position as the Civilization God.

• Zhang Guangmu proposed using Long Hong’s world-coordinate anchor to establish stable travel to the wasteland, and the Three Elders found it in his golden skeleton.
• Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect agreed to develop the wasteland as a pseudo-game, with Zhang Guangmu managing it and receiving incense faith.
• The sect leader chose Zhang Guangmu as a candidate for the next Taiqing Sect Leader and committed resources to help him condense a new divine position.
• Zhang Guangmu distributed teleportation devices and discovered that the wasteland’s recognition had enhanced his potential and made his abilities passive.
• Zhang Guangmu spent over a month operating the wasteland pseudo-game, coordinating activities and using incarnations to perform popular NPC roles.
• Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect successfully condensed his new divine position, and he became known as the Civilization God Zhang Guangmu.

Zhang Guangmu spread Apocalypse Tide across the Xuan Yan Realm and gained new divine power from its growing influence. He absorbed a divine crystallization, advanced to God Dao Eighth Rank as a Civilization God, and sensed that Usable Ability Points had arrived.

• Zhang Guangmu improved Long Hong’s Apocalypse Tide and, with Taiqing Sect’s help, distributed fixed-point traversal devices across the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Sects throughout the realm bought the devices and sent their disciples into Apocalypse Tide to train their cultivation and skills.
• The three Evil Sects denied that Long Hong had died and rejected accusations that Taiqing, Empty Cicada, and Soul Seizing had killed him.
• As Zhang Guangmu’s name spread through both worlds, he gained Incense Faith Power and drew a red-and-blue icosahedron containing his divine personality, office, position, and authority.
• Zhang Guangmu absorbed the crystallization, advanced from Long River True God to Civilization God at God Dao Eighth Rank, and sensed Usable Ability Points arriving.

Zhang Guangmu read a book from another world and gained a usable ability point from its illustrated scene of Long Hong fighting him and the Three Elders of Taiqing. He weighed which ability to improve, then spoke to Mooncake in a dramatic way that excited the watching little white balls.

• Zhang Guangmu read The Twilight of the Olympian Gods and gained a usable ability point from the page depicting Long Hong and the Three Elders of Taiqing.
• Zhang Guangmu reflected that calling for reinforcements had been wiser than fighting Long Hong alone, and considered which of his abilities to improve.
• Zhang Guangmu stroked Mooncake and mused that his wisdom made up for his mediocre cultivation talent.
• Zhang Guangmu declared that he could accomplish anything he wanted and said he could have endured the darkness if he had never seen the light, stirring excitement among the little white balls.

Zhang Guangmu resolved to become the strongest cultivator in the Xuan Yan Realm and use his power to reshape its peaceful environment. As the Duo Civilization Control Group struggled to counter him, he prepared to manufacture a crisis and rule the realm.

• Zhang Guangmu told Mooncake he wanted to dominate the Xuan Yan Realm and eventually stand at the pinnacle of the infinite worlds.
• Duo Civilization's set assistants blamed Zhang Guangmu for their poor performance and decided to watch his plans and interfere where they could.
• Zhang Guangmu molded empty human forms from his water and fire divine powers, intending to use Earth's concentrated high-end forces to seize the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu planned to create pressure and danger so cultivators would desire a powerful leader, then take the throne.
• Zhang Guangmu spent his remaining Usable Ability Points to raise his Acting Skill to 7.

Zhang Guangmu pretended to negotiate with mages from the Transcendent Fortress after they appeared in her cave, confusing both them and the All Heavens observers. The observers eventually realized she had been acting both sides, while Duo Civilization’s Production Team recognized that events in the Xuan Yan Realm were slipping beyond their control.

• Zhang Guangmu animated her created bodies, which began discussing their mission in the world of The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods.
• The mages learned that Zhang Guangmu had created their bodies and that a Fate Pact prevented them from attacking her, so they proposed an alliance.
• Zhang Guangmu showed the mages a camera recording of their arrival and said she might give it to the sect master.
• The Control Group’s assistants discovered that Zhang Guangmu had fabricated the Transcendent Fortress and Supreme Mage Group, acting out both sides of the encounter.
• Duo Civilization’s Production Team realized that the plot in the Xuan Yan Realm was slipping beyond their control.

Zhang Guangmu fabricated evidence to convince the Taiqing Sect’s leaders that outsiders were possessing bodies he had created, while the Control Group struggled to stop his deception. The leaders accepted his explanation and began an investigation, leaving Zhang Guangmu’s first move successful.

• The Xuan Yan Realm Production Team recognized Zhang Guangmu’s acting as a serious threat, requested help from their superiors, and tried to obstruct his plans.
• Zhang Guangmu used One Heart, Ten Thousand Uses to fabricate special combat teams across the other nine great immortal sects, confident that his concealment methods would keep them undetected.
• The Taiqing Sect Leader, Sword Daoist, Yuanyangzi, and Temple Granny arrived, and Zhang Guangmu showed them his prepared video and Sound-Recording Jade.
• The four leaders concluded that outsiders were likely possessing bodies Zhang Guangmu had created, and the sect leader ordered an immediate investigation and more frequent screenings.
• Zhang Guangmu observed that the sect leader showed no suspicion, confirming that his first move had succeeded.