Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu used [Data Deletion] to erase the Diviner, but the Diviner survived by using his Heart Domain to restore himself through fate, sacrificing his [Fragment of Fate]. As the Diviner prepared to counterattack with another authority, Lin Yu and the God of Desire escaped, and Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi vanished from the Emperor’s encirclement as well.

• Lin Yu used [Data Deletion] on the Diviner, who killed himself as the deletion continued to erase his corpse.
• The Diviner projected fate’s shattering into the present and returned, while his [Fragment of Fate] broke and its power returned to the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu and the Diviner acknowledged that each had used a one-time measure, and the God of Desire appeared behind the Diviner.
• The Diviner used his Heart Domain to evade the God of Desire’s attack, then drew on another authority to make himself nearly nonexistent.
• Lin Yu and the God of Desire vanished in streams of data as the Diviner prepared to put them to sleep.
• Jian Cunyi revealed that he had finished his calculations, and Gu Mo and Jian Cunyi vanished from within the Emperor’s encirclement.

The Diviner's formations began detonating and collapsing the [Instance], but Lin Yu had staggered the explosions to weaken them and revealed that he had called on Tengshe to stop the disaster. The chapter ended with Lin Yu pleading for Tengshe to save the Players, Shenzhen, and the Real World.

• The Diviner and the Emperor watched the Players gather in central Shenzhen and discussed the uncontrolled passage connected to the Ten Realms.
• Lin Yu, Gu Mo, and Jian Cunyi reached the central battlefield, where the Swordsman and Bifang had driven the Demon Ancestor back into the passage with help from the Freedom Alliance.
• Jian Cunyi showed Lin Yu the formations' energy flows, and Lin Yu used rules and information to detonate the formations from the outskirts inward.
• The Diviner and the God of Shadows confronted Lin Yu as the [Instance] began collapsing, and Lin Yu explained that the staggered explosions would weaken before reaching the center.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had asked the Freedom Alliance's Beast Master for help and urged Tengshe to stop the explosion.

Tengshe tried to contain the energy gathering in the collapsing passage by absorbing it into his evolving body, preventing a catastrophic explosion that would kill the players in Shenzhen. Though the pain threatened to overwhelm him, he kept eating the energy bars Lin Yu had prepared and continued holding back the blast.

• Lin Yu had sent Tengshe into the passage because his Heart Domain let him survive its chaotic energy without alerting the Diviner.
• Tengshe reached the passage’s energy convergence point and plunged his fingertips into it as the Hacker triggered the energy to explode.
• Tengshe absorbed the explosion into his body, stopping the central blast but suffering severe pain as his energy pathways and storage organs burst.
• The Diviner mocked Lin Yu’s plan, but Lin Yu said Tengshe could endure as long as he had enough food.
• Tengshe ate an energy bar from his waist pack and continued containing the energy, encouraged by the seventy-five bars he had left.

Lin Yu and his allies battled Diviner and the God of Shadows as Diviner used a hidden authority to restrict Lin Yu and invoke the instance space’s will. Lin Yu then triggered the trap on his own terms and disappeared, taking its energy upheaval out of the space.

• Lin Yu blocked the God of Shadows’ surprise attack, and Gu Mo fought her while Diviner trapped Lin Yu with an authority that would punish any counterattack by destabilizing the space and threatening Tengshe below.
• Lin Yu recognized Diviner’s trap and stalled him, while Old Wu, Swordsman, Bifang, and Comedian attacked Diviner after Jian Cunyi helped teleport them into position.
• Diviner invoked the instance space’s higher will, overpowering the attackers and pinning them down as he advanced toward the passage.
• Lin Yu triggered the trap himself and vanished, intending to carry the resulting energy upheaval out of the space.

Lin Yu escaped the Diviner’s trap, returned to the Instance to protect the Freedom Alliance, and arranged for Fang Qing to send him back. He confronted the Emperor at the Reality Passage, where Du Tiancheng appeared to challenge the Emperor to a fight.

• Lin Yu used belief and the powers of rules to escape the Diviner’s trap, leaving the Diviner to battle five buffed Tier 4s as the Emperor arrived and advanced toward the Reality Passage.
• Lin Yu reached Fang Qing’s Divine Kingdom and asked her to take back the permissions for game and rules and send him back into the Instance to save Zhu Ming and the Freedom Alliance.
• The Emperor dismissed the players’ attacks and broke through the defense held by Old Zhou, the God of Cookery, and Xiao Yun as he approached the passage.
• Lin Yu returned behind a water curtain and blocked the Emperor’s way, declaring that he was not the one who would stop him.
• Du Tiancheng appeared beside Lin Yu and told the Emperor he had come to kill him.

General confronted Emperor in Azure Sea Sky Dome, and the two deities clashed over whether the Death game should be resisted or accepted. General revealed a second Authority, Struggle, then began a fight using his Heart Domain as a Player.

• General joined Lin Yu in the Instance as a teammate, and Emperor claimed he had entered as part of the Instance and could use his Authority freely.
• General and Emperor tested their Authorities against each other, while General argued that mortals and demigods were his comrades and people.
• Emperor said resisting the Death game would doom everyone, while General insisted that he and the Players could eventually find a way to resolve it.
• Emperor overwhelmed General with Conquest and Domination, but General revealed his self-formed second Authority, Struggle, and pushed back.
• General acknowledged that their divine struggle remained undecided and activated his Heart Domain, summoning an array of weapons for their fight as Players.

The General and the Emperor fought while the God of Desire helped Gu Mo break free of the God of Shadows’ control, and the Diviner held off his opponents. Lin Yu then spotted Demon Ancestor Gantuo moving through the Reality Passage toward Tengshe, but the others were too occupied to intervene.

• The General and the Emperor drew power from their respective domains and struck each other, shaking the water curtain around them.
• The God of Desire merged with Gu Mo and turned her desire to kill into power that let her break free of the God of Shadows’ shadows and attack; the God of Shadows responded with three Authorities.
• The Diviner’s opponents kept him in a stalemate, and he told Jian Cunyi that delaying would help him in the short term despite benefiting the players later.
• Lin Yu warned Jian Cunyi that demonic energy was moving through the passage toward Tengshe, and Jian Cunyi recognized Demon Ancestor Gantuo as the threat.
• The fighters could not break away to help Tengshe, while the chaotic energy in the Reality Passage made reaching him difficult.

Lin Yu and his allies struggled to keep the unstable passage from collapsing after Demon Ancestor Gantuo reached Tengshe, and Bifang volunteered to stop him. Lin Yu took Bifang’s place against the Diviner, with Chongming and Robin joining the fight, while Jian Cunyi’s formation helped trap the Diviner and land a coordinated attack.

• Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi realized that fighting Demon Ancestor Gantuo inside the unstable passage could worsen the chaos, while leaving Tengshe undefended would let the Demon Ancestor ruin their efforts.
• Bifang offered to enter the passage and use his Heart Domain to hold off Gantuo with minimal disruption, but Swordsman argued that he should go instead.
• Lin Yu blocked the Diviner’s copper coins and chose to replace Bifang on the battlefield; Chongming and Robin joined Lin Yu and Jian Cunyi against the Diviner.
• Bifang withdrew to the Reality Passage entrance, and Lin Yu opened the Azure Sea Sky Dome so he could descend toward Tengshe.
• Jian Cunyi handed Lin Yu control of his formation and attacked the Diviner alongside Swordsman and Old Wu; Robin’s cartoon trap immobilized the Diviner, allowing the three attackers to strike him head-on.

Bifang left the battlefield in his companions’ hands, then intercepted Demon Ancestor Gantuo before he could reach Tengshe. He trapped Gantuo inside his Heart Domain, the Key Class, and warned that breaking its rules could be deadly.

• Bifang sensed that Chongming, Robin, and Director could hold the battlefield, and reflected on his decision to step back from teaching graduating classes because of the Death game.
• Bifang used energy-sensing glasses to find Demon Ancestor Gantuo and saw that Tengshe’s energy absorption had created a temporary barrier around him.
• Bifang stealthily approached Gantuo and attacked, but Gantuo transformed, destroyed Bifang’s weapons, and seized him with his claws.
• Bifang told Gantuo that having no companions nearby let him use his Heart Domain, then asked him to return to his seat.
• Bifang’s Heart Domain transported Gantuo into a classroom, where Bifang declared himself the teacher and warned that breaking the Key Class rules could bring punishment or death.

Bifang used his Heart Domain’s exam rules to fight Demon Ancestor Gantuo, knowing ordinary punishments could not defeat him. After Bifang died, the final exam continued to punish Gantuo, carrying out Bifang’s plan to take the Demon Ancestor of the Prison Mountain Realm down with him.

• Bifang’s classroom rules punished Gantuo for speaking and daydreaming, but Gantuo chose to endure the attacks and challenged Bifang.
• Bifang began a final exam, and its rules pressed down on Gantuo as he struggled to understand the questions and threw away the paper.
• Gantuo attacked Bifang with the Black Lotus’s malice, while the Heart Domain inflicted increasingly severe wounds on them both.
• Bifang admitted that ordinary punishments could not hold Gantuo and revealed that killing the invigilator would trigger an unprecedented punishment.
• Bifang sat down and let the Evil of Heaven and Earth kill him, but his Heart Domain continued attacking Gantuo after his death.
• Gantuo failed to escape or stop the exam, and the loudspeaker announced that 45 minutes remained.

Bifang and Demon Ancestor Gantuo perished together, but Gantuo’s final attack accidentally struck Li Nian, letting her clear the Instance and escape. The Diviner and the other enemies withdrew, then the Diviner revealed that the passage to the Real World had opened and malicious beings were advancing toward real Shenzhen.

• Bifang and Demon Ancestor Gantuo died together, though a charred demonic embryo carrying Gantuo’s aura emerged from the passage.
• The embryo struck Li Nian, revealed a teacher’s envelope of exam materials, and vanished after she cleared the Instance.
• Old Wu and the Comedian used Fang Qing’s enhancement Items while Jian Cunyi and Lin Yu helped them corner the Diviner.
• The Diviner killed a rooster to withdraw from the Instance, and the Emperor and God of Shadows also departed.
• The Diviner revealed that the passage to the Real World had opened, and demons, monsters, and Yaomo began climbing toward real Shenzhen.

The General used half of his Divine Kingdom to seal the Reality Loophole, and the Benevolent King emerged as a False God who had survived thanks to Loquat Candy’s healing. Schreiber then offered a way to clear the Instance by destroying the points of light he had created, which the Death game would count as living beings.

• The General revealed that the Professor had prepared for the Diviner’s attempt to open another Reality Loophole and brought half of his Divine Kingdom to seal the passage.
• The Benevolent King appeared, revealed that he had become a False God with the Authority of Protection, and explained that Loquat Candy had healed him after his failed fusion.
• The Benevolent King took control of the General’s borrowed Divine Kingdom, blocking the monsters and demons from reaching the Real World.
• Schreiber appeared on a rooftop and offered to help the group clear the Instance by crushing points of light he said the Death game would recognize as living beings.

Lin Yu returned to Shenzhen after helping the Players escape the Diviner’s Instance, only to learn that his probability of death was rising. When the Emperor’s Authority erupted at the Secretary’s apartment and locked onto him, the Secretary’s posthumous Item, [Do Not Kill the Envoy], activated.

• Lin Yu created false lives from Life Force and Soul Fragments, then crushed one himself to prove Schreiber’s claim that Players could leave the Instance safely.
• The Players followed Lin Yu’s example and left the Instance, while he returned to Shenzhen and considered the casualties and the many tasks awaiting him.
• Li Hua warned Lin Yu that his probability of death was increasing and hurried to send help as Old Zhou and Qianhuan approached him.
• The Emperor’s Authority erupted beneath Shenzhen at the Secretary’s apartment and locked onto Lin Yu.
• The Secretary’s death-triggered Item, [Do Not Kill the Envoy], appeared before Lin Yu with a warning about rulers who killed Han’s envoys.

The Emperor used the Secretary’s [Do Not Kill the Envoy] to identify Lin Yu and Li Hua as the Secretary’s killers and drag them into his Divine Kingdom. Qianhuan and Old Zhou were caught as well, and the Emperor declared that he would judge them and sentence them to death.

• The Emperor’s authority combined with [Do Not Kill the Envoy] and the Shenzhen reality loophole to pull Lin Yu toward the Ten Realms.
• Qianhuan and Old Zhou tried to help Lin Yu, but the golden light spread to them, and all three were dragged into the Ten Realms as the Reality Passage closed.
• Lin Yu, Qianhuan, and Old Zhou arrived in a vast palace realm, where Li Hua identified it as the Emperor’s Divine Kingdom and explained that the Secretary’s [Item] had tracked its targets through karma.
• Li Hua warned that the Emperor had brought them there without any [Clearance Conditions], making their deaths highly likely.
• The Emperor appeared on a palanquin, called the group rebellious subjects, and declared that they would be executed by a thousand cuts.

The Emperor’s authority inflicted death by a thousand cuts while his summoned enforcers restrained Qianhuan and Old Zhou, but Li Hua’s dice and Qianhuan’s magic helped them escape and fight back. Li Hua identified the Emperor’s power as domination over conquered beings and said Lin Yu could carry that information out, but the Emperor revealed he had been using all his power to seal Lin Yu off.

• The Emperor punished Lin Yu, Li Hua, Qianhuan, and Old Zhou with death by a thousand cuts, while summoned guards trapped Old Zhou and constables chained Qianhuan and wounded Teacher Rabbit.
• Li Hua used his Twenty-sided Die to help Qianhuan escape, and Qianhuan transported the guards away from Old Zhou before joining him against the Emperor’s eunuch.
• Old Zhou attacked the eunuch while Li Hua used another successful die roll to capture the eunuch’s purple miasma in a Blood Chip.
• Li Hua deduced that the Emperor’s authority let him dominate beings he had conquered, and the Emperor confirmed the explanation.
• Li Hua said he could send information about the Emperor’s power to Order through Lin Yu, but the Emperor revealed that he had been sealing Lin Yu off from the beginning.

The Emperor revealed that he feared killing Lin Yu because Lin Yu was the heir of the Doomsday Messenger, whose resurrection could endanger the Ten Realms. Li Hua, Qianhuan, and Old Zhou freed Lin Yu from the Emperor’s restraint, but the Emperor explained that his Heart Domain was inside a sealed realm where Lin Yu could not summon divine help.

• The Emperor admitted he would not kill Lin Yu yet because Lin Yu was related to the Doomsday Messenger, whom the Emperor described as a catastrophic threat to the Ten Realms.
• Li Hua said Order would rely on the General’s judgment about resurrecting Lin Yu’s sister, while the Emperor dismissed the group’s objections and said he was checking for Lin Yu’s contingencies.
• Li Hua used a critical success to summon a Tail Race priest beside Lin Yu, and Qianhuan and Old Zhou attacked the priest to loosen the isolation spell.
• Lin Yu broke free with help from the [Ancient Notebook], his frost and ocean authorities, and Desire Golden Light, then tried to use [Guest Appearance Invitation].
• The Emperor revealed that they were in his Heart Domain within the sealed Prison Mountain Realm, where the Heaven-Sealing Barrier prevented Lin Yu from summoning deities.

The Emperor used his Domination authority to control Lin Yu and took his [Guest Appearance Invitation] and [Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver], revealing that Lin Yu’s sister had created the jade item. Li Hua then used his [Exclusive item], [God Does Not Roll Dice], to alter probabilities and create a chance to activate his Heart Domain.

• The Emperor controlled Lin Yu’s body, made him drop [Guest Appearance Invitation], and forced him to retrieve and hand over [Limit Breaking Jade Cleaver].
• The Emperor revealed that Lin Yu’s sister had created Limit Breaking Jade and said he feared her power; Lin Yu challenged his claim that he had inherited her abilities.
• Qianhuan, Old Zhou, and Li Hua discussed how to break the deadlock while the Emperor continued restraining Lin Yu.
• Li Hua picked up the [Twenty-sided Die], used it to perceive probabilities and power flows, and explained that it was not his [Exclusive item].
• Li Hua rang his [Exclusive item], [God Does Not Roll Dice], locking probabilities and shifting more than a hundred by 0.1% each.
• Li Hua accumulated those shifts to raise the near-zero probability of forcibly activating his Heart Domain into a possible event.

Li Hua forcibly awakened his Heart Domain, “The House Always Wins,” and used it to wager his possessions and claim temporary stakes in the Emperor’s domain. The Emperor shattered the domain’s rules with his Authority, but discovered that Lin Yu and Old Zhou had disappeared, leaving Li Hua and Qianhuan to conceal where Lin Yu had gone.

• Li Hua explained how his family’s casino business shaped his identity as both a Gambler and the house, then staked all his Items to activate his Heart Domain.
• Li Hua revealed that “The House Always Wins” made the Emperor and the other Players stake their existence when they stayed in the game.
• The Emperor used his Imperial Seal and Authority to collapse Li Hua’s Heart Domain and its rules.
• The Emperor found Qianhuan beside Li Hua but could not locate Old Zhou or Lin Yu, and Li Hua and Qianhuan refused to reveal Lin Yu’s whereabouts.

Li Hua used his Heart Domain and The House Always Wins to rescue the Director and the Prisoner from Qianhuan’s Magic Space, but the Emperor attacked him and Qianhuan. Li Hua died after challenging the Emperor to one more game, and the Emperor left the two of them in the Prison Mountain Realm.

• Li Hua revealed that he had used two overlapping games to send the Director and the Prisoner out of the sealed space and temporarily take control of Qianhuan’s Magic Space.
• Li Hua explained that he had predicted the Director and the Prisoner would become Qianhuan’s Magic Items, and said Grandmaster had been alerted and could reach the Prison Mountain Realm.
• The Emperor crushed Qianhuan and forced Li Hua to his knees, but Li Hua said saving the others was worth their lives.
• Li Hua offered to gamble his Heart Domain against Qianhuan’s life, but the Emperor refused because Qianhuan was already dead and instead offered to wager for Li Hua’s life.
• Li Hua had already died, and the Emperor lamented that they had not been born in the same era before leaving as his Heart Domain and Divine Kingdom Projection dissipated.

Li Hua survived the gas explosion after saving two children, then learned that a magician named Shen had been hospitalized the same day as him. In the Prison Mountain Realm, Lin Yu and Old Zhou learned that Li Hua and Qianhuan had stayed behind to face the Emperor, and Lin Yu insisted on returning despite Fang Qing saying it was already too late.

• Li Hua discovered that a debtor had filled his home with gas and drugged his two children, then carried the children outside and tried to rescue the man.
• Li Hua’s assistant arrived with a lit cigarette, triggering an explosion that killed the debtor and injured Li Hua, Kevin, and the children.
• After waking in the hospital, Li Hua asked his brother to arrange compensation for the children and learned that a magician surnamed Shen had been admitted after an escape-act accident.
• Old Zhou and Lin Yu were thrown out of the Magic Space into the Prison Mountain Realm, where Lin Yu realized Li Hua and Qianhuan had remained behind to confront the Emperor.
• Fang Qing appeared through a remote assistance device, warned Lin Yu that he could not defeat the God of Conquest and Domination and that Li Hua and Qianhuan were already too late to save.
• Lin Yu rejected Fang Qing’s warning and said he still had to try to rescue Qianhuan.