Chapter Summaries

Nikola Hawking revealed the truth about the Subconscious Film World, but Zhang Guangmu used it to unsettle him and tried to recruit him into Changhe. As the Control Group tried to influence Changhe’s leaders, Zhang Guangmu interrupted their message and summoned the Marquises and King’s Ranks.

• Nikola Hawking told Zhang Guangmu about the Real World, the Production Team, the Control Group, and the Subconscious Film Industry.
• Nikola Hawking realized that the self in the Real World would retain his memories while he would cease to exist, and Zhang Guangmu admitted he had planted that thought in his mind.
• Zhang Guangmu invited Nikola Hawking to join Changhe, and Nikola wavered because Zhang’s reasoning matched his own beliefs.
• The Control Group sent an inner voice to Changhe’s Marquises and King’s Ranks, but Zhang Guangmu summoned them and cut the message short.

Zhang Guangmu revealed Nikola Hawking’s identity and the Control Group’s claims to the Changhe Faction, then Nikola chose to submit rather than risk dying in a doomed attack. Zhang Guangmu accepted him as a subordinate, intending to exploit his abilities and make him the scapegoat in the war against the Duo Civilization.

• Zhang Guangmu distributed Information Compressed Packages that shared intelligence about Nikola Hawking and identified the Control Group as the Outer-Realm Demons.
• The Changhe Faction members reacted to the revelation, while Zhang Guangmu’s explanation thwarted the Control Group’s attempt to sow confusion.
• The Control Group ordered Nikola Hawking to attack Zhang Guangmu, but Nikola’s simulations showed he would fail and likely die.
• Nikola used Future Simulation repeatedly, concluded Zhang Guangmu would spare him, and manifested before him to offer his loyalty.
• Zhang Guangmu accepted Nikola’s submission and permitted him to atone through meritorious service, seeing him as a future scapegoat.

Zhang Guangmu borrowed Nikola Hawking’s Future Simulation Fate Power to probe the danger posed by the Duo Civilization Control Group. His simulations remained safe until the ninth day after Nikola defected, when all life on Taichu Star faced an accident.

• Zhang Guangmu asked Nikola Hawking to lend him his Fate Power, explaining that he wanted to use Future Simulation to find hope against the Control Group.
• Nikola Hawking agreed to give Zhang Guangmu Future Simulation, and Zhang Guangmu took the power from him.
• Zhang Guangmu activated Future Simulation, allowing everyone present to share his perspective as he explored possible futures.
• Zhang Guangmu extended the simulation step by step, finding no accidents until the ninth day after Nikola defected to the Long River Dynasty.
• On the ninth day, an accident struck every living being on Taichu Star.

Zhang Guangmu used Future Simulation to witness the World-Destroying Giant annihilate all life, then ran repeated simulations to learn more about it. He discovered the giant appeared for no more than a minute and eventually located the Mastermind hiding in the North Continent.

• Zhang Guangmu's first simulation showed the Day Star going dark, the ocean freezing, and a World-Destroying Giant killing him with a breath.
• The Changhe Faction reacted in alarm, and Zhang Guangmu reassured them before conjuring a feast for everyone.
• Wang Shangqing and Ma Wu proposed learning the giant's purpose and searching for a way to defeat it, so Zhang Guangmu continued simulating the future.
• After ten simulations, Zhang Guangmu concluded that the giant killed every living creature on the planet within one minute and reported that the Mastermind was in the North Continent.
• Zhang Guangmu ran hundreds more simulations and found the Mastermind, a handsome young man in a black uniform with sky-blue hair and eyes.

In the Future Simulation, Zhang Guangmu raided the Termination Organization’s base and learned that its Finality Giant was a short-lived Ninth Order weapon designed to wipe out life on Taichu Star. Though the simulation ended with Zhang Guangmu’s death, he gained crucial information and declared that he had found a way to become undefeatable.

• Zhang Guangmu stormed the Termination Organization’s base, crushing its defenders as chairman Augustus Von Klein followed him through the carnage.
• Zhang Guangmu found the Finality Giant and learned from Augustus that it was an autonomous weapon created from Abyssal Fiend and Abnormal Controller data.
• Zhang Guangmu deduced that the Duo Civilization planned to preserve several hundred sleeping Abnormal Controllers and let them emerge as victors after the Finality Giant destroyed life on Taichu Star.
• Augustus identified Nikola Hawking’s Future Simulation as the source of Zhang Guangmu’s knowledge, and Zhang Guangmu punched Augustus into ash.
• The Finality Giant awakened and annihilated Zhang Guangmu, but the simulation gave him valuable intelligence about its activation and the Duo Civilization’s plan.
• After another simulation, Zhang Guangmu announced that he had found a way to become undefeatable.

Zhang Guangmu used Future Simulation to uncover the Finality Giant’s weakness and reach the Ultimate Tier. He destroyed the Termination Organization, compelled the giant to kill itself, and burned its body, bringing him closer to ending the apocalypse and unifying Taichu.

• Zhang Guangmu explained that he could exploit the Finality Giant’s hidden backdoor to remain safe, then seek a way to defeat it.
• Chu Fan repeatedly sacrificed himself in Zhang Guangmu’s simulations, helping him uncover the secret of the ninth order.
• Zhang Guangmu deciphered the Finality Giant’s mysteries and broke through to the Ultimate Tier.
• Zhang Guangmu announced that he had destroyed the Termination Organization and brought the Finality Giant to the hall.
• Zhang Guangmu ordered the Finality Giant to kneel and kill itself, and it tore off its own head.
• Zhang Guangmu burned the giant’s corpse with black-and-white flames as Zhao Zhengrong and the others watched.

After defeating the Finality Giant, Zhang Guangmu summoned the Taichu Incarnation and learned that Taichu Star’s wish-granting power came from Earth’s Spiritual Wisdom Essence technology. The world of “All Heavens” froze before Zhang Guangmu could make a wish, and he returned to the Real World with an unprecedented Above Excellent evaluation.

• Nikola Hawking reflected that his future simulations showed Zhang Guangmu would remain loyal to his allies and that the Finality Giant had posed little threat.
• Zhang Guangmu summoned the Root Will, which manifested as a dragon-shaped phantom and revealed the connection between Taichu Star and Earth’s Spiritual Wisdom Essence technology.
• Zhang Guangmu gained the Taichu Origin Incarnation’s knowledge and raised his Abnormal Controller, magic, divine power, Buddhist, martial, and other abilities to higher realms.
• The Taichu Incarnation offered Zhang Guangmu three wishes, but the world of “All Heavens” froze as Zhang Guangmu told it to proceed.
• Zhang Guangmu returned to the Real World with Mooncake and received an Above Excellent evaluation from the Dao, Buddha, and Confucianism.

After The Heavens ended, Zhang Guangmu read the flood of praise for his performance and reviewed the privileges and growing powers he had gained. As Mooncake congratulated him on becoming Subconscious Film Emperor, a new page appeared in his Book of Flames, titled “The Final Famous Scene from the Picture Scroll of Performance.”

• Viewers flooded film-review websites with praise for Zhang Guangmu and celebrated Earth’s victory in The Heavens.
• Zhang Guangmu browsed the lavish benefits available to a Five-Star Subconscious Actor and discovered that his supernatural powers were rapidly increasing without any apparent limit.
• Mooncake spoke for the first time, and Zhang Guangmu joked that he would become Subconscious Film Emperor while cautioning against celebrating too soon.
• Zhang Guangmu sensed Usable Ability Points being credited and summoned his Book of Flames.
• A crimson page in the book condensed into one Usable Ability Point and revealed the title “The Final Famous Scene from the Picture Scroll of Performance.”

After finishing his performance in “All Heavens,” Zhang Guangmu offered to give the Book of Acting a human body, but promised it a grand library when it declined. Li Xuanlong revealed that the Duo Civilization had escaped, and Zhang Guangmu used a point to improve his Sense of Space and locate it.

• The Book of Acting declined Zhang Guangmu’s offer of a human body, so he promised to build it the universe’s largest library.
• Zhang Guangmu left the Infiltration Pod with Mooncake and reunited with Zhao Zhengrong, Li Xiaoxiao, Chu Fan, Tang Lanshan, Luo Zhuan, Jiang Ling, and the others.
• Li Xuanlong told Zhang Guangmu that the Duo Civilization had escaped despite Earth Civilization’s victory, and showed him how the search for it had nearly killed Li Xuanlong and Nalan Yuan.
• Zhang Guangmu decided to eliminate the Duo Civilization and spent his new Usable Ability Point on Sense of Space.
• Zhang Guangmu searched through space and found the Duo Civilization’s location in thirteen seconds.

Zhang Guangmu sent an energy avatar into Duo Civilization’s fleeing fleet, watched Nikola Hawking’s execution, and then began destroying the escape starships. The fleet identified him as Tian Guang after he shattered the dimensional barrier and descended into the Real World.

• Zhang Guangmu dispatched a humanoid energy avatar toward Duo Civilization’s fleeing fleet, and officials reclassified Tian Guang's Flame as a Five-star Transcendent ability.
• Nikola Hawking was tried aboard starship OE667 and urged Duo Civilization to learn from its defeat before he was executed.
• Zhang Guangmu watched Nikola Hawking die, then destroyed his corpse with Lightning Fire to prevent it from becoming a corpse demon.
• Zhang Guangmu slashed apart Nikola Hawking’s starship, and the fleeing fleet reported attacks by Earth forces and identified the attacker as Zhang Guangmu.
• Duo Civilization’s crew screamed that Tian Guang had shattered the dimensional barrier of the All Heavens and descended into the Real World.

Zhang Guangmu destroyed the Duo Civilization, uncovered how his transmigration and Book Bro came to be, and unified the timelines. Half a month later, he arrived at the global Myriad Heavens awards ceremony to be crowned its sole Subconscious Film Emperor.

• The Duo Civilization combined its fleets into a hundred-billion-light-year giant, but Zhang Guangmu annihilated it as it tried to escape into the Subconscious Film.
• Karlheinz and Kamiza Arata Mirai watched the Duo Civilization disappear, leaving Earth safe from its threat.
• Zhang Guangmu returned to Earth and found the blue sphere that was the core of the Subconscious Film · Spiritual Wisdom Essence.
• Zhang Guangmu learned that Li Xuanlong had summoned him to avert Earth's destruction, and that his later wish had brought Book Bro into being.
• Zhang Guangmu touched the sphere and converged the timelines, making the cycle and its logic self-consistent.
• Half a month later, Zhang Guangmu prepared to be crowned the one and only Subconscious Film Emperor at the global Myriad Heavens awards ceremony in Liufeng County.

At the Subconscious Film Emperor ceremony, Zhang Guangmu reunited with the characters he had portrayed, contacted Ma Ran, and accepted the award as Earth Civilization’s strongest supernatural individual. He used his power to bring happiness to his companions, and the chapter ended with their later lives and Zhang Guangmu’s happy life with Mooncake.

• At the award ceremony, Zhang Guangmu welcomed his many screen characters onto the stage, and the audience celebrated his career.
• Zhang Guangmu messaged Ma Ran, who acknowledged him as a younger brother and promised to visit with his sister-in-law.
• With his companions watching, Zhang Guangmu accepted the trophy and gained a sixth star on his Black Jade Bracelet, becoming Subconscious Film Emperor.
• Zhang Guangmu resurrected Zhao Zhengrong’s wife and child and restored Zhao Zhengrong’s youthful appearance.
• Zhang Guangmu’s companions pursued their own futures, while he and Mooncake eventually lived happily together.