Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang tried to reassure his followers as the Dream Divine Kingdom weakened, then discussed with Li Meng's Sister how hope might point toward a higher form of Dream Law. The chapter left him naming this direction the Dream of the Soul.

• He Yimou told Zhang Yang that the Dream Dimension was rejecting them, their reserves were dwindling, and stronger Nightmare Storms were forming.
• Zhang Yang reassured his followers that their home was safe and revealed defenses and forces he had prepared there.
• Qu Shang and the others pressed Zhang Yang to reveal his real trump card, and he declared that Qu Shang was his greatest one.
• Li Meng's Sister suggested that hope might be central to dreams, prompting Zhang Yang to describe hope as something forged through despair and hardship.
• Zhang Yang proposed the Dream of the Soul as a higher direction for Dream Law 3.0.

Zhang Yang asked Butcher’s Assault Breaker Legion to become Dream Guardians, a change that would cost them their bodies, and announced that he would undergo it with them. Butcher agreed on behalf of the veterans after securing Zhang Yang’s promise to defend their world, and the group prepared to summon the legion.

• Zhang Yang explained that his proposed Dream of the Soul was too advanced for the current Dream Law research, while Li Meng's Sister described the long work needed to develop practical laws.
• Zhang Yang went to the Sword Immortal Grand Camp and summoned Butcher, whose Assault Breaker Legion had preserved its identity as Antivirus Hunters.
• Zhang Yang asked Butcher and the ten thousand eight hundred veterans to become Dream Guardians, warning that they would lose their bodies and everything they possessed.
• Butcher agreed to the change on the veterans’ behalf but asked Zhang Yang not to abandon their homeland and to spare the rest of the legion from being forced into it.
• Zhang Yang promised to explain the truth and accept volunteers, then declared that he would join them and quest the Dao with his own body.
• Yang Dandan quietly corrected Zhang Yang’s phrase, and Zhang Yang threatened to make him the first to sacrifice himself.

Zhang Yang converted himself and the Butcher's Assault Breaker Legion to Dream Law, hoping to build a powerful force in the Dream Dimension. The Butcher and the first hundred veterans emerged as unusually strong Dream Spirit Commanders, prompting Zhang Yang to resolve to catch up.

• Zhang Yang assembled the Butcher's Assault Breaker Legion and spent his remaining resources to acquire 120,000 units of Dream Law.
• Zhang Yang converted himself into a Dream Being, becoming a Dream Recruit before using Dream Light to reach Dream Spirit Captain strength.
• Zhang Yang explained the Dream Being ranks and the Law conversion process, then invited the legion to decide whether to convert.
• The Butcher and the legion members stepped forward to convert, revealing exceptional faith and will as their bodies became clusters of light.
• The Butcher and the first hundred veterans became Dream Spirit Commanders with special talents that inspired, trained, and intimidated other Dream Beings.
• Zhang Yang worried the veterans might surpass him and take his place as Dream Law Heavenly God, so he vowed to strive harder.

Zhang Yang assembled a powerful Dream Army and told the Butcher and the others that they had to descend Dream Mountain to find a new source of Dream Law. He revealed that their home could not hold out for a hundred years and that they needed Dream Law 3.0 to break the Dream Ancient God’s blockade and connect the Sword Immortal World to the Dream Divine Kingdom.

• Zhang Yang gathered a Dream Army using fewer than 20,000 units of Dream Law and kept its existence secret, even from Qu Shang.
• Zhang Yang gave the Butcher three missions: conceal the army, train in the Evil Dream Sea, and fight their way down from Dream Mountain.
• Zhang Yang explained that Dream Mountain led through eighteen layers of dreams and that he had been unable to pay its annual protection fee.
• The Butcher and the army reacted with alarm when Zhang Yang admitted he did not know whether they could defeat the powers below Dream Mountain.
• Zhang Yang revealed that their home could not survive for a hundred years and that they needed Dream Law 3.0 to break the blockade and connect the Sword Immortal World with the Dream Divine Kingdom.

Zhang Yang led Butcher’s Assault Breaker Dream Spirit Legion and a million enhanced Dream Recruits into Dream Mountain to explore its first layer, the Evil Dream Sea. After the vanguard cleared the area, Zhang Yang explained how Dream Law shaped combat and left the army preparing for a close-range battle.

• Zhang Yang refused He Yimou’s offer to send Sword Immortal Legions into Dream Mountain and ordered He Yimou and Wu County to guard the entrance.
• Zhang Yang led the Assault Breaker Dream Spirit Legion through Dream Mountain after Butcher and the other Dream Spirit Commanders went ahead to suppress its dangerous aura.
• Zhang Yang spent one hundred thousand units of Dream Law to improve a million Dream Recruits before bringing them into the Evil Dream Sea.
• Butcher’s vanguard cleared a wide area of the Evil Dream Sea and gained small amounts of Dream Law by killing Dream Beings.
• Zhang Yang told Butcher to favor simple weapons and close-range combat, then Butcher equipped the army with Dream Warhorses, cold weapons, and specialized troop roles.

Zhang Yang explained why he suspected Li Meng's Sister might be bought off and ordered preparations for a covert trap. He then forced the captured Spiritual Plant World Tree to cooperate by threatening to replace it with four World Trees he had cultivated.

• Zhang Yang told He Yimou that his 1.2 million Blunted True Spirit Particles had become his main body, then learned that news of his plan would reach Qu Shang and Li Meng's Sister soon.
• Zhang Yang explained that he suspected the Thousand-Handed Race could buy off Li Meng's Sister and ordered He Yimou to have Wu County and Guan Shan secretly prepare the Sword Immortal Legions for a drill.
• Zhang Yang revealed that he had captured the Spiritual Plant World Tree after it tried to escape and demanded its cooperation.
• Zhang Yang showed the Spiritual Plant World Tree four other World Tree roots he had cultivated, and it surrendered rather than be replaced and divided up.

Zhang Yang led the Butcher's legion into the Evil Dream Sea while secretly advancing Dream Root and the Hidden Sword Earth Vein behind it. He used a carefully cultivated image of weakness to draw the Ancient Gods' attention toward the Sword Immortal World, leaving his real objective undisclosed.

• The Butcher's legion advanced through the Evil Dream Sea as Dream Root secretly reinforced its rear and concealed the Hidden Sword Earth Vein.
• Zhang Yang monitored the advance from the army's rear and prepared to use matter from reality to break stalemates and establish a foothold.
• Zhang Yang addressed his audience like a livestreamer while surveying the battlefield, where the natives' forces gathered beneath a mist of red eyeballs.
• Zhang Yang explained that he had spent six months staging blunders and driving former allies toward the enemy to make the Ancient Gods underestimate him.
• The Ancient Gods focused their attention on the Sword Immortal World and expanded their blockade, allowing Zhang Yang to approach his undisclosed ultimate objective.

Zhang Yang revealed that the expedition’s true goal was to excavate the Ancient Demon Race’s Dream Projection Ruins and explained why its lost legacy was worth pursuing. He left the Sword Immortal World’s leaders confident that they could withstand a Mechanical Zombie attack while seeking the ruins’ inheritance.

• Zhang Yang showed the leaders the route to the Ancient Demon Race ruins and said they were the expedition’s real objective, not the occupied Dream Divine Kingdom.
• Zhang Yang described the Ancient Five Races and recounted how the Ancient Demon Race fought the Mechanical Zombies for more than 172 years before being annihilated.
• Zhao Baiyi asked whether excavating the ruins would make the Mechanical Zombies target them, and Zhang Yang explained the difference between the Mechanical Law and Mechanical Zombies.
• Zhang Yang said the Sword Immortal Civilization had developed enough methods to handle Mechanical Zombies and could easily defeat an invasion smaller than a hundred trillion.
• The leaders laughed and realized how much Zhang Yang’s long-term plans had strengthened their civilization.

Zhang Yang learned that Li Meng's Sister and 1,500 Sword Immortals had transformed into Dream Beings and joined the Butcher's campaign, disrupting his plans. After Li Meng's Sister took command and led the legion into battle, Zhang Yang could not reveal himself without exposing himself as a traitor, leaving him trapped by his own schemes.

• Zhang Yang learned that Li Meng's Sister had transformed herself and 1,500 students into Dream Beings, and Qu Shang argued that she remained loyal to them.
• Zhang Yang watched the Dream Sub-Account's livestream and saw the Butcher's legion suffer heavy losses against powerful Dream Beings in the Evil Dream Sea.
• The Dream Sub-Account spotted Li Meng's Sister arriving as a powerful Dream Being, then lost a Great Black Shark and fled when she discovered it.
• Li Meng's Sister took command of the Butcher's legion and led the Assault Breaker Dream Spirit Legion into a fierce attack.
• Zhang Yang realized he could not reveal himself or reclaim command because the army had seen him transform into a Dream Being, and the Dream Sub-Account had exposed its identity.

Zhang Yang abandoned his plan to recruit Li Qi as a suspected traitor after learning she had helped the Butcher's legion thrive without showing any evidence of betrayal. He decided to keep her under close watch, use her expertise, and expand their Dream Divine Kingdom while concealing his deeper plans.

• Qu Shang urged Zhang Yang to reconsider his suspicions after Li Qi refused the Thousand-Handed Race's offer and had proven valuable to the Butcher's legion.
• Zhang Yang learned that the Butcher's legion had won five battles, with its forces advancing dramatically under Li Qi's guidance and the abundant Dream Law resources.
• Zhang Yang ordered Li Qi to help establish the Butcher's Dream Divine Kingdom and planned to use her in the Ancient Demon Race ruins excavation while keeping her under observation.
• Zhang Yang proposed expanding the Dream Divine Kingdom into a real-world plane and bringing in at least one hundred billion mortals, though Qu Shang questioned whether they had the resources.
• Zhang Yang privately resolved to use the ruins as bait until Li Qi revealed the Ancient Demon Race's true location, while he maintained a gentle front toward Qu Shang.

Zhang Yang secretly returned to Table World to prepare for an approaching battle against forces expected to include several Ancient Gods. After learning that the Wood Demon Legion had 165 billion troops ready, he promised Table the greatest merit if they won.

• Zhang Yang handed control of the Sword Immortal Grand Camp to He Yimou, Wu County, and Guan Shan, then secretly left for his old home.
• Zhang Yang used the Dream High-Speed Rail 2.0 to slip past Dream Ancient God's blockades and arrive in Table World.
• Table greeted Zhang Yang, who praised him and reassured him of their master-disciple bond.
• Table reported that the Sword Immortal World had drawn most of the enemy forces and that two or three Ancient Gods might join the next battle.
• Table said 165 billion Wood Demon Legion troops were ready to support the Sword Immortal World, and Zhang Yang promised him the greatest merit if they won.

Zhang Yang unlocked the Sword Immortal Grand Hall and revealed it as a vast independent world-plane and a hidden warehouse for strategic resources. He described its reserves and the power to cultivate Sword Dao Law Heavenly Gods, leaving that power stockpiled rather than using it.

• Zhang Yang spat out the stele bearing Sword Dao Law 4.0, and Sword Heart Child, Sword Intent Child, Fortune Child, and Divine Seal Child unlocked the Sword Immortal Grand Hall.
• Zhang Yang revealed that the Hall had become an independent world-plane holding the fifth-stage Boat of Death, which he planned to upgrade using resources from the corpse occupied by Ancient God "Game."
• Zhang Yang explained that the Hall secretly collected Ancient Law, Cosmic Law, spiritual energy, and sword qi from his worlds and subsidiary branches.
• Zhang Yang described how the Hall's nine compression cores produced controllable ten-thousandfold High-Pressure Sword Qi and said his reserves could cultivate sixteen Sword Dao Law Heavenly Gods.
• Zhang Yang chose not to spend those reserves cultivating Heavenly Gods.

Zhang Yang reviewed six months of information gathered by his alternate bodies and used it to assess the Sword Immortal World and its people. He ordered new candidates recruited, large-scale development in the Azurewood Realm, and changes to the mortal world, then concluded that he had inspected one-third of his assets.

• Zhang Yang connected with 1,460 alternate bodies and spent three days cross-checking their reports and records about the Sword Immortal World.
• Zhang Yang determined that his information-gathering methods were more efficient and discreet than using his Dao Ancestor authority, which could waste resources and alert those under scrutiny.
• Zhang Yang identified 197,489 people to add to the Mystic Sect candidate list and ordered Mystic Sect disciples to begin developing the Azurewood Realm on a large scale.
• Zhang Yang ordered reduced spirit-energy supplies and shorter mortal lifespans, while cutting wars, disasters, and natural disasters to encourage population growth.
• Zhang Yang ordered rewards for Mystic Sect disciples who excelled in the defensive battle, especially the teams led by Liang Jin and Pang Di, and said he had inspected one-third of his assets.

Zhang Yang discovered that the Sword Immortal World had suffered nearly fifty quadrillion points of damage during its defensive battle, mostly from stray attacks by its own Sword Cultivators, yet the world had remained unharmed. He used Dao Ancestor Authority to find that a Heart of Heaven and Earth created for the Heavenly Dao Maiden had absorbed the damage and was approaching its sixteenth qualitative leap.

• Zhang Yang compared the battle reports and calculated that nearly fifty quadrillion points of damage had reached the Sword Immortal World, mostly from uncontrolled Sword Qi arrays operated by twenty million disciples.
• Zhang Yang urgently summoned two million Sword Immortals as reinforcements and suspected that an unknown powerful being had absorbed the missing damage.
• Zhang Yang activated his Dao Ancestor Authority, spending five hundred thousand units of Cosmic Law and ten units of Chaos—Ancient Law of Black and White—to uncover the truth.
• Zhang Yang realized that the Heart of Heaven and Earth he had created for the Heavenly Dao Maiden had silently absorbed the damage and was facing its sixteenth qualitative leap.

Mu Shaoan confronted Zhang Yang’s white-haired sub-account, Chu Yiyang, and learned that Zhang Yang might return to reinforce the Sword Immortal World. After discussing the threat beyond the blockade, Mu Shaoan left the defense command to Chu Yiyang and departed to pursue his own plans.

• Mu Shaoan attacked Chu Yiyang, but the sub-account calmly absorbed his sword arts and revealed that he was a Law Demigod and a founder of the Mystic Sect.
• Chu Yiyang told Mu Shaoan that Zhang Yang might return to reinforce them within days, though he had no details about the journey or the forces involved.
• Mu Shaoan warned that three Ancient Gods and more than a hundred Heavenly Gods guarded the blockade, citing information from 09 Sub-Account.
• Chu Yiyang explained that the Mystic Sect had already supported the defense and would become semi-public to unite more forces.
• Mu Shaoan pretended to be furious, then left the Sword Immortal World after deciding Chu Yiyang could handle the defense while he went to establish an organization.

Zhang Yang returned to the Heart of Heaven and Earth, where a wisp of his sister-in-law’s resentment repeatedly killed him before Mu Shaoan destroyed it. Zhang Yang suspected the Third Generation Insecticide had been deployed, and the chapter ended with him punching Mu Shaoan after learning he had nine Plague God Seals.

• Zhang Yang tricked Mu Shaoan into leaving, then cautiously set up defenses before returning to the Heart of Heaven and Earth.
• A girl in black, formed from his sister-in-law’s resentment, appeared and killed Zhang Yang; he kept returning until Mu Shaoan intervened and destroyed her.
• Mu Shaoan admitted he had discovered the Heart of Heaven and Earth and accused Zhang Yang of being a scumbag.
• Zhang Yang argued that the resentment might have been caused by the Third Generation Insecticide and warned that it could have been deployed.
• Mu Shaoan said he had nine Plague God Seals protecting him, prompting Zhang Yang to punch him and demand to know how many of his resources Mu Shaoan had stolen.

Mu Shaoan and Zhang Yang fought to prove Mu Shaoan could resist the Third Generation Insecticide, then discussed the threat posed by the successive insecticides. Zhang Yang revealed he had three major plans, including one against the Third Generation Insecticide and another to enter the Third Sequence, but left the third undisclosed.

• Mu Shaoan and Zhang Yang recovered from their fight, in which Mu Shaoan used Ring—Ancient Law of Destiny and Zhang Yang used Chaos—Ancient Law of Black and White.
• Mu Shaoan withdrew the destiny power from Zhang Yang and insisted he could not be controlled or infected by the Third Generation Insecticide.
• Zhang Yang explained that his precautions had kept his sister-in-law's resentment from reaching the Heart of Heaven and Earth, then described how the three generations of insecticides had targeted Acquired Beings in different ways.
• Mu Shaoan asked why the Third Generation Insecticide had shown no activity, and Zhang Yang said it targeted many Acquired Beings across the Fourth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang revealed that his first major plan would deal with the Third Generation Insecticide and his second would take him to the Third Sequence, but he refused to disclose the third.

Mu Shaoan failed to recognize the Heart of Heaven and Earth, which Zhang Yang revealed was an ordinary-looking five-petaled flower that had grown alongside the Sword Immortal World. The flower’s long history and immense power came to light before a voice interrupted Zhang Yang’s communion with it.

• Zhang Yang told Mu Shaoan that he could learn more secrets after advancing through the stages of Isolation, but Mu Shaoan fled before hearing what Zhang Yang meant about the Heart of Heaven and Earth.
• Zhang Yang revealed that the Heart of Heaven and Earth was a small five-petaled flower, so ubiquitous that Mu Shaoan had mistaken it for an ordinary part of the world.
• The Heart of Heaven and Earth recalled its fifteen qualitative leaps, its growing desire to protect the world, and its conversations with the Heavenly Dao Maiden.
• After absorbing power during a defensive battle half a year earlier, the Heart of Heaven and Earth broke through four times and stood one breakthrough short of Great Perfection.
• A voice called Zhang Yang a scumbag and broke his union with the Heart of Heaven and Earth.

Zhang Yang trapped the rebellious Heart of Heaven and Earth after pretending to grant it freedom, turning its power into the forty-third layer of the Heaven and Earth Barriers. He explained the elaborate deception to Mu Shaoan and ordered him to destroy the remaining resentment, which carried a strand of Sister-in-law’s original true spirit.

• Zhang Yang confronted the five-petaled flower about its plan to rebel, then claimed he would let it complete its transformation and leave the Sword Immortal World.
• The five-petaled flower completed its transformation and tried to escape, scattering its power as it rose toward the sky.
• A boundless hand and the Heaven and Earth Barriers sealed the Heart of Heaven and Earth’s power, making it the forty-third barrier layer.
• Mu Shaoan revealed that he and Zhang Yang had staged their apparent conflict and coordinated with Li Gouhai and Jiang Rong to lure the Heart of Heaven and Earth into the trap.
• Zhang Yang told Mu Shaoan to destroy the resentment left behind, warning that he would destroy Mu Shaoan too if he could not control the strange insect in his stomach.

Zhang Yang and his allies assessed the forces blockading the Sword Immortal World and prepared for another attack, while suspecting the enemy was concealing its true intentions. The chapter ended with Mu Shaoan realizing that the enemy planned to lure the Mechanical Zombies toward them.

• Mu Shaoan warned Zhang Yang that the enemy army now included several Ancient Gods, twelve Law Heavenly Gods, and a vast force of soldiers.
• Li Gouhai reported that he had revised the Senluo Formation, and Jiang Rong predicted the enemy might advance methodically to break through the defenses.
• Zhang Yang argued that the Thousand-Handed Race would not accept the heavy losses required for an all-out assault and suspected it was concealing the truth.
• Zhang Yang warned that the enemy might target the Dream Dimension and said the defenders had to prepare for every possibility.
• Mu Shaoan realized that the enemy was trying to lure the Mechanical Zombies toward the Sword Immortal World.