Chapter Summaries

Lu Ban, Feng Yu, and Xiya confronted a Time Worm in the amusement park and learned that it could only be watched, not attacked, while its reflection could create more of its kind. Lu Ban tested whether they could leave and was killed by a red-uniformed staff member who insisted guests experience every attraction.

• Lu Ban, Feng Yu, and Xiya kept their eyes on the Time Worm, and Xiya's Explosive Spell passed through it without harm.
• Feng Yu explained the Time Worm's defenses and its ability to reproduce through images, while the group found no other Time Worms nearby.
• Lu Ban proposed testing whether the amusement park was trapping the Time Worm and walked toward the exit while Xiya stayed behind.
• A red-uniformed staff member told Lu Ban that guests had to experience every attraction, but Lu Ban refused and continued toward the entrance.
• The staff member killed Lu Ban, collected his scattered flesh in a cart, and headed toward the restaurant.

Lu Ban survived the Time Worm’s attack and concluded that an amusement park rule trapped visitors inside until they had played every attraction. After completing the rides and watching the parade, he tried to leave, but a red-uniformed worker insisted he still had not played everything.

• Xiya worried that Lu Ban had been killed, but he reappeared while Feng Yu explained the Time Worm’s hostility and purpose.
• Lu Ban told Xiya to stop visitors from leaving, then wrote down the rule requiring everyone to play every attraction before leaving.
• Lu Ban completed the haunted house and the other listed attractions while Xiya forced departing visitors to stay and knocked out a worker who confronted her.
• Lu Ban persuaded a worker to start the grand parade early, and he watched it with the visitors.
• After the parade, Lu Ban tried to leave, but a red-uniformed worker grabbed his shoulder and claimed he had not played every attraction.

Lu Ban devised rules to protect the tourists from the Time Worm and realized the amusement park's souvenir shop might be an attraction they had to visit to leave. He entered the shop and found Teddy Bear toys displayed alongside human remains.

• Lu Ban returned to Feng Yu and helped formulate rules to keep tourists safe from the Time Worm and its distortions.
• Lu Ban wrote eight rules covering walking Teddy Bears, staff uniforms, distorted perceptions, parades, photographs, and encounters near the park's boundary.
• Lu Ban wondered what the amusement park's final attraction was and asked a girl where she had gotten her Teddy Bear toy.
• The girl told Lu Ban the toy came from a souvenir shop next to the restaurant, which the amusement park guide had not mentioned.
• Lu Ban entered the souvenir shop and found Teddy Bear toys and human remains on display, with a red-uniformed staff member behind the cashier.

Lu Ban escaped the amusement park with its Teddy Bear souvenir, recorded the final rule, and then returned inside. Jenny and the other trapped visitors followed his instructions and emerged months later into a search-and-rescue operation, where Jenny recognized that the doll she held was truly a Teddy Bear.

• Lu Ban bought the Teddy Bear, left the amusement park, and discovered that it was late at night on the sixth despite having felt as though only a few hours had passed.
• Lu Ban recorded Rule ⑨, which required visitors to buy a souvenir—preferably the Teddy Bear—before leaving, then returned to the amusement park.
• Jenny and her classmates rode every attraction and entered the souvenir shop, where Lu Ban exchanged her pink fox for a doll he identified as a Teddy Bear.
• Jenny and the other visitors left the amusement park and encountered a search-and-rescue team, while their phones revealed that months had passed since they entered.
• Jenny saw that the amusement park was abandoned, learned from a news notification that it was January, and clung to the Teddy Bear as she broke down.
• Jenny realized that the doll in her arms was a Teddy Bear and began to question the Teddy Bear she had seen earlier.

Qin Tiantian heard news of the vanished Jiangcheng Amusement Park, while tourists and investigators offered conflicting explanations for the disappearances. Lu Ban had already completed the Amusement Park task, received its rewards, and unlocked his next stage of development.

• Qin Tiantian heard that rescue teams had found most of the missing tourists, and online discussions speculated about the vanished Amusement Park and Lu Ban.
• Jenny told the international investigation team that she had seen nothing strange inside the Amusement Park, but the investigators suspected kidnapping, a spacetime anomaly, or a publicity stunt.
• Lu Ban had the staff in yellow clothes add the Amusement Park's rules to its handbook so future visitors could safely play and return.
• The system declared Lu Ban's task perfectly complete, awarded him 120,000 Silence Points and the Weird Amusement Park, and unlocked his next Inherent Skill stage and task.

Lu Ban returned from the Weird Amusement Park with the park itself as a Sublimation-level supernatural item, then went home with Feng Yu and checked what he needed to refine Last Words. He learned that the next refinement required three rare materials, beginning with Fate Jade.

• Xiya left the amusement park after agreeing to search for traces of Old Cui and Du Danping.
• Lu Ban warned that visitors might suffer mental problems from contamination, then made the Weird Amusement Park vanish and stored it as a miniature supernatural item.
• Lu Ban checked the park's suggested retail price and learned it was worth 5,555,555 Silence Points.
• Feng Yu took Lu Ban home, where he began reviewing his next tasks and the materials needed to refine Last Words.
• Lu Ban read the description of Fate Jade, the first required material for the next refinement.

The narrator took a day off to organize plans for what came next and prepare for the next three dungeons.

• The narrator decided to sort out plans for the future.
• The narrator planned to prepare for the next three dungeons.
• The narrator took a day off.

Lu Ban examined three supernatural materials and received a career task to collect fear and screams in a foreign land. He considered choosing the wasteland for his next mission and wondered how to travel between foreign lands before Feng Yu called him to eat.

• Lu Ban rejected fate as a supernatural force and concluded that the Fate Jade likely came from his own world.
• Lu Ban read about the Twisted Heart of the Swarm and considered the wasteland's connection to his world and the dangers of meeting the insect queen.
• Lu Ban examined Daoist He Ming's Pale Knuckle and questioned what ascension meant and what consuming the remains might do.
• Lu Ban decided he would choose the wasteland if he could select his next mission.
• Lu Ban received a Career Development Task requiring him to travel to a foreign land and collect 10,000 fear and screams.
• Lu Ban wondered whether Laika or Feng Yu could help him travel between foreign lands, then heard Feng Yu call him to eat.

Lu Ban asked Feng Yu to take him to another world to collect user feedback, and she explained that she could smuggle him into worlds beyond The Silent Land. Feng Yu described three hostile otherworlds, leaving Lu Ban to weigh which dangerous destination to visit.

• Lu Ban asked Feng Yu how he could travel to another world, and she offered to take him somewhere in its present time.
• Feng Yu said she could not freely enter worlds ruled by The Silent Land’s rulers because she was only a smuggler.
• Feng Yu explained that the otherworlds had factions and different gods, while Lu Ban considered visiting a world hostile to The Silent Land.
• Feng Yu described Fog City, the Deep Sea, and the City of Dusk as possible destinations for Lu Ban.
• Lu Ban realized that all three worlds were heavily polluted and dangerous, and he struggled to choose one.

Lu Ban planned to take the Weird Amusement Park to Wudu, Deep Sea, and the City of Dusk to frighten their inhabitants, and Feng Yu agreed to travel with him next week. He returned to the abandoned amusement park and prepared it to receive a group of guests.

• Lu Ban rejected the idea of frightening Otherworlders with films and decided to use the Weird Amusement Park instead.
• Lu Ban told Feng Yu he planned to visit all three Otherworlds, and she reluctantly agreed the plan was feasible.
• Feng Yu described other Otherworlds that had vanished, fallen asleep, abandoned flesh for machines, or become swarms of Walking Corpses.
• Lu Ban and Feng Yu agreed to leave next week, hoping to return in time for New Year's Eve dinner.
• At the abandoned amusement park, Lu Ban altered its rules and told a red-clad staff member to let the Time Worm steal time from upcoming guests within those rules.
• Lu Ban told the red-clad staff member to prepare the amusement park to welcome its guests.

Lu Ban prepared to travel with Feng Yu to otherworlds, learning how their Anchor Points worked and that her species’ shared database had vanished. Feng Yu swallowed him to carry him between worlds, and Lu Ban awoke in a hostile environment, using the Twisted Mask of Pain to endure it.

• Lu Ban gathered food, the Minor Disaster Generator, his suona, crowbar, and Twisted Mask of Pain before traveling with Feng Yu.
• Feng Yu explained that Anchor Points were the fixed guides through the chaos between otherworlds, and that her species’ shared database of them no longer existed.
• Feng Yu told Lu Ban that she had concealed this world’s Anchor Point and said he could survive otherworlds with the help of his radio.
• Feng Yu transformed her head and swallowed Lu Ban so she could carry him between worlds, then vanished from the room.
• Lu Ban woke inside a hostile otherworld, fell out of Feng Yu, and put on the Twisted Mask of Pain to withstand the abrasive air and injuries.

Lu Ban learned about the Gray Fog, the Jelamite people, and the enormous creatures that ruled the Fog City’s skies as Feng Yu guided him toward the Primal Cloud Sea. Near the city, Lu Ban released the Weird Amusement Park into the fog and left it to attract visitors for its next harvest.

• Feng Yu explained that Gray Fog polluted the world, shaped its creatures, and gave the Jelamite people their bandages and heightened senses.
• Lu Ban sensed a colossal creature whose fin stirred a devastating storm across the sky, and Feng Yu revealed that the fin belonged to an even larger body.
• Feng Yu led Lu Ban through the fog toward the Primal Cloud Sea, where they discovered a vast city populated by hundreds of thousands of Bandaged Men.
• Lu Ban expanded the Weird Amusement Park near the city, where its staff and the Time Worm adapted to the Fog City’s ecology.
• Lu Ban and Feng Yu left the Amusement Park to roam while it attracted visitors for them to harvest.

Pale, a Jelamite hoping to become one of the Chosen of the Gods, discovered a strange Amusement Park in the Gray Fog and paid to enter. After he spotted a Toy Mist Bear during a parade, he was abruptly returned to the entrance, where the staff member gave him another visitor’s guide.

• Pale noticed an unfamiliar cluster of buildings in the Gray Fog and approached a pavilion staffed by a yellowish Fog City person.
• The staff member explained that the place was an Amusement Park and charged Pale one hundred Gray Fog to enter.
• Pale read the visitor’s guide, learned that he had to experience every attraction, and saw a Toy Mist Bear handing out Gray Fog to children.
• Pale rode the Roller Coaster and then noticed that the guide’s rules skipped from the second to the fourth.
• During the Great Parade, Pale saw a Toy Mist Bear among the performers and questioned its presence.
• Pale was sent back to the entrance, where the staff member gave him another guide and wished him a joyful visit.

Pale realized the Amusement Park’s rules were anomalous and learned from Gale that he had been trapped there for seven days, just as a drifting Toy Mist Bear appeared behind them. After the Committee failed to rescue those inside, its leaders bombed the park, but the Amusement Park remained standing.

• Pale watched a drifting Toy Mist Bear pass him and felt as if a hunter had targeted him.
• Gale told Pale that the Supernatural Incident Investigation Committee was investigating a supernatural hazard and that Pale had been trapped in the park for seven days.
• Pale began to explain that the drifting Toy Mist Bear was suspicious, then saw one standing behind himself and Gale.
• The Committee’s leaders learned that investigators, including Gale, had been missing in the Amusement Park and decided to destroy it, despite the people trapped inside.
• The Committee dropped a bomb that unleashed a powerful cyclone, but a member sensed that the Amusement Park still stood, with its sign at the entrance.

After Lu Ban’s amusement park withstood Mist City’s cloud bombs, the King arrived to find it and the missing people gone, with only a message left behind. Lu Ban and Feng Yu escaped the contaminated world, but landed in the City of Dusk, Eye Demon’s otherworld.

• The King ordered the Primal Cloud Sea evacuated and led his army and fellow Chosen of the Gods to destroy the amusement park.
• The King found the amusement park and thousands of missing people gone, and discovered a Gray Fog message welcoming him back.
• Feng Yu spat Lu Ban out after they escaped, and Lu Ban noticed the amusement park had evolved and gained control over the weather.
• Lu Ban and Feng Yu found themselves on scorched earth in the City of Dusk, which Feng Yu identified as Eye Demon’s otherworld.

Lu Ban spread a prophecy in the City of Dusk promising sunlight, the gods’ return, and a Promised Paradise in thirty days. More than a hundred thousand Eye Demons gathered near the city as belief and religious factions grew, and the foretold day arrived.

• Lu Ban decided to gather the scattered people of the City of Dusk with a prophecy, and Feng Yu transformed into an Eye Demon to spread it.
• Eye Demons found a dossier claiming sunlight would return in thirty days and that the gods would awaken near their city.
• News of the promised paradise spread across the City of Dusk, drawing Eye Demons toward the city and inspiring some to form the Sun Cult.
• More than a hundred thousand Eye Demons gathered, while competing versions of the prophecy fueled religious factions and rumors of new vegetation.
• The day named in the prophecy arrived.

Geer led the Sun Cult as the City of Dusk’s century-long twilight ended and sunlight appeared, seemingly fulfilling the prophecy of the gods’ return. He entered the newly appeared Paradise, where he learned that visitors needed tickets and found a bright, lively place that he declared heaven.

• Geer served as the Sun Cult’s high priest and led worship on the day of the prophecy, despite divisions among the cult’s branches.
• Sunlight broke through the clouds and ended the century-long dusk, prompting the Eye Demons to celebrate.
• The Eye Demons discovered a vast ruin outside the city and believed it was Paradise; Geer’s followers executed dozens of prophecy skeptics and set rules for entering.
• Geer and several Eye Demons entered Paradise, where a yellowish Eye Demon charged them a ticket, which Geer paid for with a lump of half-digested meat.
• Geer received visitor guides and explored Paradise, finding bright buildings, music, food, and laughter before proclaiming it heaven.

Lu Ban used a false prophecy, blazing sunlight, and the Weird Amusement Park to lure nearly a hundred thousand Eye Demons inside, where anomalies trapped them. After he ended the spectacle, the Eye Demons outside blamed the Sun Cult and called for its believers to be burned alive.

• The Eye Demons grew restless when the Sun Cult’s high priest and other leaders entered the Amusement Park and failed to return, then demanded that its guards let them in.
• The guards gave way under the crowd’s chants, and Eye Demons surged into the Amusement Park, fighting and trampling one another at the entrance.
• Feng Yu questioned Lu Ban, who confirmed that he had used the Blazing Sun and a fabricated prophecy to lure Eye Demons into the Amusement Park.
• Lu Ban waited a week for nearly a hundred thousand Eye Demons to gather, then put away the Weird Amusement Park and switched off the Minor Disaster Generator.
• The Eye Demons left outside blamed the Sun Cult for the gods’ supposed withdrawal and called for its believers to be captured and burned alive.

Lu Ban and Feng Yu explored the endless deep sea, where Lu Ban set up his amusement park near a Tide Caller empire to attract visitors. As they waited, a Tide Caller named Gaga tracked them and received a mission to kill the invading Chosen of the Gods.

• Lu Ban adapted to the alien seawater as Feng Yu pulled him through the dark deep sea and explained its vastness and the Tide Callers' beliefs.
• Lu Ban asked about the Tide Caller civilization and decided to leave his amusement park near one of their empires to attract fishmen.
• After traveling for several days, Lu Ban and Feng Yu noticed that something had been following them from a distance.
• Gaga identified Lu Ban as the invading Chosen of the Gods and prepared to ambush him under a mission to kill him.

Gaga ambushed Lu Ban with a contaminated dagger and Purifying Fire, but Lu Ban subdued him and learned the fire came from the destroyed Glorious Realm. Lu Ban wondered whether someone had introduced Purifying Fire to Harmony Island, leaving him to reconsider the island’s history and the Corrupted Ones.

• Gaga tracked Lu Ban through the undercurrents and attacked him with a dagger that spread contamination.
• Lu Ban’s wound healed as grass grew over it, and he remained unaffected by the dagger’s contamination.
• Gaga attacked Lu Ban with a gem that unleashed Purifying Fire, but Lu Ban controlled the flames and captured him with a tentacle.
• Feng Yu translated Gaga’s explanation that he had bought the gem, which contained Purifying Fire from the destroyed Glorious Realm.
• Lu Ban questioned whether someone had brought Purifying Fire to Harmony Island and spread its use among the island’s people.