Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi used his standing at Fengjing University to obtain high-rank resources and set up generous Trial Tower rewards for intelligence about the Witchcraft World. Scattered Clouds Hermit’s group received valuable rewards for their information, and Zhang Zhi soon gathered another major harvest.

• Zhang Zhi asked Professor Confucius to help him obtain divine cores and artifacts, and Professor Confucius authorized him to withdraw extensive resources from the Student Activity Center.
• Zhang Zhi collected Yellow, Gold, and Cyan Rank resources, along with Red Rank divine cores and artifacts, then brought them into the Qi Refinement Small World.
• Zhang Zhi increased rewards for Witchcraft World intelligence missions and offered divine cores and artifacts for valuable information from foreign races.
• Scattered Clouds Hermit entered the Trial Tower and returned with four Yellow Rank divine artifacts as rewards for previously submitted information.
• Scattered Clouds Hermit accepted a mission offering a Gold Rank divine artifact for intelligence, and explained that better information could earn even higher-rank rewards.
• The new rewards accelerated intelligence gathering in the Witchcraft World Region, and Zhang Zhi gained another major harvest within a few days.

Zhang Zhi studied information about the Golden Light Race and learned that its world may have begun breaking through the Main World Barrier without any member surpassing the Main God Realm. He suspected the race’s stacked golden light had enabled the breakthrough, then wondered whether the many races in worlds destroyed by the Great Calamity were connected to it.

• The Cabinet gathered extensive intelligence after distributing valuable resources, including details about the Golden Light Race and its powerful, stackable golden-light domain.
• The Cabinet concluded that the Golden Light Race had no beings beyond the Main God Realm, based on a map and other records that showed no higher-ranked cultivators.
• Zhang Zhi considered whether stacked golden light had let the Golden Light Race’s world begin breaking through the Main World Barrier despite lacking a true being beyond the Main God Realm.
• Zhang Zhi noticed that both the Golden Light Race’s world and the Ten Thousand Races World Region contained many races and had suffered destruction during the Great Calamity.
• Zhang Zhi wondered whether the Great Calamity was connected to those races, but he had no information to resolve the question.

Zhang Zhi investigated records from the Witchcraft World Region to learn when its races had arrived and whether they were connected to the Great Calamity. He found accounts suggesting many races had mysteriously entered the region through a phenomenon resembling folded space, leaving him unsure whether it was natural or caused by an immensely powerful existence.

• Zhang Zhi noticed that a Heart Race record said its ancestors had come from another region, prompting him to question when the alien races had arrived.
• Zhang Zhi considered whether the Ten Thousand Races might have taken part in the Great Calamity, but reasoned that their low-level cultivators could not have destroyed the Essence Race's world.
• Zhang Zhi realized he might question the Essence Race's souls in the Underworld, though he knew most had lost their minds or become Evil Creatures and Eerie Entities.
• Zhang Zhi examined the Witchcraft World Region's histories and found repeated accounts of races appearing from unknown places, including one person's record of entering a heavy fog and arriving there.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that many races might have reached the Witchcraft World through a space-folding phenomenon and wondered whether it was natural or caused by an existence above the Main God Realm.

Zhang Zhi connected the Great Calamity to prolonged Spatial Distortion and inferred that a contamination-type calamity might target only the strongest existence in a race. His theory suggested that humanity could survive the Main God Realm Barrier by having several Merit-Based Sainthood cultivators break through together, but he knew they needed more candidates.

• Zhang Zhi reasoned that the Ten Thousand Races had arrived after the Great Calamity began because prolonged Spatial Distortion had brought them into the Witchcraft World Region.
• Zhang Zhi went to the Underworld and asked Yang to search for intelligent Jing Race souls who remembered what had happened beyond the Main World.
• Zhang Zhi noticed that the Jing Race's World Wreckage lacked powerful Weird beings and Evil Creatures, unlike the Golden Light Race's wreckage.
• Zhang Zhi inferred that a contamination-type Great Calamity targeted the Jing Race's single existence that had broken through the Main God Realm Barrier, while the Golden Light Race's stacked Golden Light caused the calamity to contaminate many cultivators.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that humanity might survive its own calamity if several Merit-Based Sainthood cultivators broke through together, then thought of Yan Bo as a likely second candidate and decided humanity needed more.

Zhang Zhi considered how humanity could survive the Great Calamity of the Main God Realm Barrier and inspected the Trial Tower and his two Small Worlds. After urging the Three-in-One artifact to improve the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation fragments, he decided to move only part of the dragon race to live near humanity and compare their progress.

• Zhang Zhi reasoned that multiple beings breaking through the Main God Realm Barrier together might help humanity withstand the Great Calamity, but he kept the idea to himself because humanity was already preparing for that possibility.
• Zhang Zhi posted a Trial Tower mission to gather records of the Ancient Times in the Ten Thousand Races Region, then inspected the expanding Research Institute and the technology-driven Qi Refinement Small World.
• Zhang Zhi found that Fang Yun’s cultivation had advanced again while he lectured and wondered whether he was nearing the Low Divine Power Realm.
• Zhang Zhi urged the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure to improve the accumulated Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation fragments and observed the growing zombie population in the Spiritual Treasure Small World.
• Zhang Zhi weighed whether to move the dragon race away from other races, then decided to move only part of it near humanity to test whether interaction could ease the dragons’ deficient destiny.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Golden Light Race’s world had not destroyed itself, revealing that the Great Calamity involved more than mental and soul contamination. He concluded that the calamity came in multiple waves, with the Golden Light Race enduring the first before falling to a devastating second attack.

• Zhang Zhi sent Professor Confucius information about strange entities on the Golden Light Race’s remains and continued supporting Yan Bo’s efforts to rescue humans.
• Fang Qi advanced to the Deity Realm, becoming the fourth cultivator in the Small World to do so.
• Zhang Zhi saw that the Qi Refinement Small World had more than a hundred Low Divine Power Realm positions, far more than its cultivators could yet fill.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed an Inner Cabinet report concluding that the Golden Light Race’s world had not been destroyed by its own people.
• Zhang Zhi inferred that mental and soul contamination was only the first wave of the Great Calamity, and that a powerful physical attack had destroyed the Golden Light Race’s world.

Zhang Zhi reviewed what he had learned about the Great Calamity, concluding that humanity needed more Merit-Based Sainthood Main Gods while the full danger remained unknown. After finding no useful information in the Spirit Race souls, he learned that Liu Wanwan was preparing to advance to the Thousand World after deepening her understanding of destiny.

• Zhang Zhi considered the Great Calamity’s different waves and types, warned himself about the Three-Eyed Race, and decided humanity should focus on raising more cultivators capable of breaking through the Main God Realm Barrier.
• Zhang Zhi wondered whether to wait for Professor Confucius and the others to redeem the Book of Curses before sharing his Witchcraft World Region findings.
• Zhang Zhi asked Yang about the restored Spirit Race souls and learned that they had yielded no useful information.
• Zhang Zhi continued cultivating, refining cards, patrolling the Small World, and discreetly sending useful information to Professor Confucius through Paper Cranes.
• Zixia told Zhang Zhi that Liu Wanwan was preparing to advance to the Thousand World, and Liu Wanwan explained how her experiences with Mind Devourers had deepened her understanding of the Destiny Master Path.
• Zhang Zhi congratulated Liu Wanwan and praised her comprehension of the Law of Destiny.

Zhang Zhi advanced to the Extraordinary Realm and mastered Three Heads Six Arms while Liu Wanwan became a Thousand World Master. After clearing the last Mental Power Contamination from his Consciousness Space, Zhang Zhi examined clues about the Golden Light Race’s calamities and wondered whether they involved both time and space; Fang Yun appeared close to reaching the Low Divine Power Realm.

• Liu Wanwan told Zhang Zhi she planned to advance her Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique and asked him to explain One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Zhang Zhi entered seclusion, advanced to the Extraordinary Realm, and mastered the Three Heads Six Arms divine ability.
• Liu Wanwan emerged from her secret chamber three days later and announced that she had become a Thousand World Master.
• Zhang Zhi spent the following days cultivating and instructing Liu Wanwan and Zixia, then used the Small Broken Bell to clear the last Mental Power Contamination from his Consciousness Space.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed the Inner Cabinet’s findings about the Golden Light Race’s two calamities and considered whether the second involved a monster, the Time Law, and the Space Law.
• Zhang Zhi visited Mount Buzhou and saw that Fang Yun’s aura suggested he might soon advance to the Low Divine Power Realm.

Zhang Zhi inspected Mount Buzhou and the Underworld before entering a new Trial Battlefield that appeared to belong to another World Region. He found its cultivators wary and afflicted by strange deformities, then asked one of them what was happening.

• Zhang Zhi observed that the three Mystic Pure Qi paths had grown stronger, each with Demigod Realm cultivators, though their numbers remained small compared with the Qi Refinement Small World's population.
• Zhang Zhi visited the Underworld, where intelligent Essence Race souls exceeded twenty thousand and souls from the Spiritual Treasure Small World had made it flourish under Yang's management.
• Zhang Zhi investigated how the laws of the Six Paths of Reincarnation flowed through Ghost Gate Passes and decided to let them spread across the Main World Wreckage of the Essence Race before reclaiming them.
• Zhang Zhi entered the Trial Battlefield and recognized that its deformed, hostile-eyed cultivators came from a different World Region than the Godhood Attainer World Region.
• Zhang Zhi asked a severely deformed cultivator what was happening, and the man praised him for reaching the Extraordinary Realm without being eroded.

Zhang Zhi learned that Demon Refiners fought the world’s contamination at the cost of physical mutations and mental instability, then discovered the black threads outside the Trial Plaza were Mental Power Contamination. He followed the cultivator onward, wondering what had caused the entire World Region to become contaminated.

• A mutated cultivator explained that contamination warped Demon Refiners’ bodies and minds, while untreated contamination turned people into slaughtering monsters.
• The cultivator said the Many-Handed Race was sending monsters into the Trial Battlefield to offload contamination, and warned Zhang Zhi not to absorb more than he could handle.
• The cultivator advised Zhang Zhi to seek companions among those with light contamination, warned him about selfish Demon Refiners, and left the Trial Plaza alone.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that many Demon Refiners lived alone because contamination could make them lose control and attack nearby living beings.
• After leaving the Trial Plaza, Zhang Zhi saw the Small Broken Bell’s yellow light repel black threads, then confirmed that the threads were Mental Power Contamination.
• Zhang Zhi considered why the entire World Region was filled with contamination and continued after the cultivator.

Zhang Zhi questioned Xiao Shanhe about Demonic Thought Contamination and the repeated Heaven and Earth Vibrations, then considered whether they came from calamities in a neighboring World Region. He learned that the contamination’s original source had become the Demon Abyss and asked whether it lay at the edge of Heaven and Earth.

• Zhang Zhi caught up with Xiao Shanhe, introduced himself, and asked him about his views on cultivators with mild mutations.
• Xiao Shanhe explained that some cultivators ignored contaminated ordinary people, while Demon Refiners had to be willing to help them.
• Xiao Shanhe said Demonic Thought Contamination appeared after repeated Heaven and Earth Vibrations, which gradually made it more severe and widespread.
• Xiao Shanhe described several theories about the vibrations, and Zhang Zhi speculated that calamities in another World Region had caused contamination to leak into this one.
• Xiao Shanhe said the source area was now called the Demon Abyss and had the world's most intense contamination; Zhang Zhi asked if it was at the edge of Heaven and Earth.

Zhang Zhi explained to Xiao Shanhe that he came from another World Region and described the Multiverse and the Negative Mental Power contamination afflicting Xiao Shanhe’s world. After learning why its inhabitants stopped advancing at the Deity Realm, Xiao Shanhe discovered that Zhang Zhi’s world had far higher cultivation levels.

• Xiao Shanhe suspected Zhang Zhi might be a Demonic Entity, but Zhang Zhi confirmed he was a human from another World Region who had entered through the Trial Tower.
• Zhang Zhi explained that countless World Regions formed the Multiverse and that his world had Negative Mental Power contamination, though it did not permeate everywhere as it did here.
• Zhang Zhi told Xiao Shanhe that clearing the contamination required Mental Power and patient effort, then learned that the strongest beings in Xiao Shanhe’s world had only reached the Deity Realm.
• Xiao Shanhe explained that contamination worsened with cultivation, causing powerful cultivators to die and transform into Demonic Entities, so his world had no realms beyond the Deity Realm.
• Zhang Zhi described the Master of the World Region and its cultivation path, and Xiao Shanhe learned that the Deity Realm had four tiers followed by the Half-Step Main God and Main God realms.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Demon Refiner Path let cultivators refine Demonic Thought Contamination and could be practiced alongside other cultivation methods, making it a potential defense against the human race’s Great Calamity. After Xiao Shanhe explained how Demon Refiners protected ordinary people and how the Many-Handed Race handled contamination, Zhang Zhi wondered why he had not encountered similar contamination in other World Regions.

• Zhang Zhi asked Xiao Shanhe to explain the Demon Refiner Path, and Xiao Shanhe described how it used Mental Power to refine demonic thoughts into cultivation energy that improved refining efficiency.
• Zhang Zhi realized the Demon Refiner cultivation method could help the human race resist Mental Power Contamination and asked whether it could be combined with other cultivation methods.
• Xiao Shanhe explained that weak Mental Power caused impurities to accumulate in Demon Refiners’ bodies, and Zhang Zhi praised him for sacrificing himself to protect ordinary people.
• Xiao Shanhe described how Demon Refiners protected ordinary people from contamination, while the Many-Handed Race transferred demonic thoughts toward neighboring races by using expendable members as attackers.
• Zhang Zhi recalled that contamination dispersed after infected Intelligent Lifeforms died and wondered why he had not found it near the Elven Race’s Main World or in the Witchcraft World Region.

Zhang Zhi wiped out the invading Many-Handed Race and exchanged information with the region’s human leaders while waiting for a Deity Realm cultivator to arrive. After learning about the Demonic Thought Disaster and considering how to extend his Six Paths of Reincarnation Path, he met the arriving cultivator, Xuan Chengzi.

• Zhang Zhi summoned ten Deity Realm Retainers to destroy the Many-Handed Race invasion, alarming the local humans until he explained his origins.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the local humans could provide only a Legendary Realm Demon Refiner technique, so he waited for a Deity Realm cultivator traveling from a nearby world.
• The human leaders told Zhang Zhi that Heaven and Earth Vibrations came every ninety-nine years, and that Demonic Entities—not contamination itself—had become the greatest threat to the surviving races.
• Zhang Zhi decided to resume selling Six Paths of Reincarnation artifacts and talismans, and considered whether a Ghost Gate Pass built in another World Region could connect to his Underworld World.
• Three days later, Xuan Chengzi arrived, introduced himself to Zhang Zhi, and exchanged greetings with him.

Zhang Zhi gave Xuan Chengzi Key Cards and agreed to trade them for Demon Refiner Path cultivation methods, then explained the origins of the Demonic Thought threatening Xuan Chengzi’s world. The chapter ended with Zhang Zhi revealing that the neighboring world had been destroyed by the Great Calamity after its inhabitants tried to break through the Main God Realm Barrier.

• Zhang Zhi proved to Xuan Chengzi that he came from another world and introduced the strength of the human race in his Main World.
• Xuan Chengzi agreed to provide Demon Refiner Path cultivation methods in exchange for Key Cards and a divine artifact, then sent a Legendary Realm cultivator to test a card.
• Xuan Chengzi questioned Zhang Zhi’s interest in the Demon Refiner Path, and Zhang Zhi asked what he knew about Demonic Thought.
• Xuan Chengzi explained that Demonic Thought came from a neighboring world, where a human expedition found powerful Demonic Entities but no Mental Power Contamination.
• Zhang Zhi identified the neighboring world as the site of a failed attempt to break through the Main God Realm Barrier and explained that the Great Calamity destroyed the race responsible.

Zhang Zhi explained that the Demon Refiner Path could help his human race resist the contamination accompanying a breakthrough beyond the Main God Realm. Xuan Chengzi gave him the path’s main cultivation manual, while warning that its protective effect might weaken for more powerful beings.

• Zhang Zhi told Xuan Chengzi that leaked contamination from a neighboring world’s Great Calamity had caused the demonic thoughts in their world, and that the Demon Refiner Path strengthened resistance to it.
• Xuan Chengzi realized that Zhang Zhi’s Master of the World Main World intended to break through the Main God Realm Barrier, and Zhang Zhi confirmed the plan despite the risk of annihilation.
• Zhang Zhi described his human race’s ambition to overcome the Great Calamity and become the Multiverse’s protagonist, while Xuan Chengzi reflected on how hardship had narrowed his own people’s hopes to survival.
• Zhang Zhi explained that the Demon Refiner Path could help the would-be breaker withstand Mental Power contamination, and credited Xuan Chengzi’s people with developing a technique that might aid his race.
• Xuan Chengzi gave Zhang Zhi the Demon Refiner Path’s main chapter, which could be cultivated to the Intermediate Divine Power Realm, and cautioned that its benefit might be reduced for beings with more condensed Mental Power.

Zhang Zhi secured the Demon Refiner Cultivation Technique’s Main Chapter, which could help humanity resist mental-power contamination, and considered it vital protection against a future Great Calamity. He remained unable to determine the calamity’s origin or why one race had suffered six of them, then left to show the techniques to Fang Yun.

• Zhang Zhi told Xuan Chengzi that the Main Chapter could greatly improve resistance to a mental-power-contamination Great Calamity.
• Zhang Zhi returned to the Trial Tower and saw Xuan Chengzi standing in a daze near the Trial Battlefield before heading toward the Trading Market.
• Zhang Zhi reflected that the Demon Refiner techniques could help Professor Zhuang Zi withstand mental-power and soul contamination.
• Zhang Zhi considered whether repeated Great Calamities had struck a neighboring race and whether a force outside the Multiverse was targeting those who broke through the Main God Realm Barrier.
• Zhang Zhi connected the calamities’ spatial fluctuations to the Black Hole that transmitted monsters, but found flaws in his theories and could not identify the Great Calamity’s cause.
• Zhang Zhi left the Trial Tower to show Fang Yun the Demon Refiner techniques and see whether he could develop something from them.

Zhang Zhi documented the Demon Refiner Path and Great Calamity findings, then received Professor Confucius’s approval to present the technique at the human leaders’ banquet. A week later, Liu Wanwan successfully comprehended One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, though her new incarnations behaved strangely.

• Zhang Zhi reopened exchanges for Six Paths of Reincarnation items and spotted Xuan Chengzi buying a Negative Emotion-contaminated divinity to cleanse and resell it.
• Zhang Zhi recorded his findings and sent Professor Confucius a message; the next day, Professor Confucius praised his Demon Refiner technique and authorized yearly material collection.
• Zhang Zhi resumed his routine while Liu Wanwan prepared to advance to the Mystic Pure Qi Realm.
• Liu Wanwan broke through in her courtyard and created three identical incarnations using One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Two incarnations called Zhang Zhi a fool, then vanished; Liu Wanwan blushed, retreated indoors to study the ability, and left Zhang Zhi bewildered while Zixia grinned.

Zhang Zhi investigated why Liu Wanwan’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones incarnations had distinct and sometimes dangerous personalities, then ordered Fang Yun to test what happened if a true body killed an incarnation of its Dark Side. After Fang Zhen became the Qi Refinement Small World’s fifth Deity Realm expert, Zhang Zhi reviewed the dangers of exploring the Witchcraft World Region and concluded that he needed to advance his cultivation quickly.

• At Zixia’s celebration banquet, Liu Wanwan demonstrated One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and her talkative incarnations displayed personalities unlike her own.
• Zhang Zhi questioned Fang Yun, who confirmed that other cultivators’ incarnations also had different personalities and that some had attacked nearby cultivators as embodiments of their Dark Sides.
• Zhang Zhi instructed Fang Yun to have a true body kill its Dark Side incarnation next time one appeared, so they could observe the consequences.
• Zhang Zhi sensed Fang Zhen’s advancement and saw him become the Qi Refinement Small World’s fifth Deity Realm expert.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed information about Deity Realm Eeries and the distance between the Main World and the Witchcraft World Region, then decided he needed to improve his cultivation quickly.

Zhang Zhi inspected the expanding Spiritual Qi Small World and received a complete Rebirth Mantra from a trial reward, prompting him to consider developing its cultivation path to counter aberrations and Mental Power Contamination. He also reviewed the Witch Tribe’s growth and learned that its offspring were weaker than their parents, leaving the tribe’s future reproduction and potential unresolved.

• Zhang Zhi saw Demigod Realm beings in the Han Kingdom preparing to advance without using godheads, and decided the Qi Refinement Small World needed more Human Cards as its expansion outpaced population growth.
• After easily conquering a Tier 3 Trial Secret Realm, Zhang Zhi received a complete Rebirth Mantra and considered spreading its cultivation path to deal with aberrations and Mental Power Contamination.
• Zhang Zhi confirmed that the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation in the Spiritual Treasure Small World had reached Gold Rank, though the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure was improving it slowly.
• Fang Long and Houtu found more sentient zombies, and two witches who had once been Rabbit Demons had a child that was still a witch but showed weaker cultivation potential than its parents.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that the Witch Tribe weakened with each generation and hoped Fang Long and Houtu would find more sentient zombies to increase its first-generation population.