Chapter Summaries

Lu Cang asked Ansu how to treat Luluwei’s spiritual corruption and learned that purging it would destroy her spirituality, though a seal might suppress it. After entering Luluwei’s sea of consciousness, Lu Cang discovered a stagnant, worm-filled landscape and a corrupted version of Luluwei, revealing that her condition was worse than he had expected.

• Ansu explained that the Foul Source Nest’s corruption could only be fully removed by extracting the victim’s spirituality, and suggested sealing Luluwei as a temporary measure.
• Lu Cang asked Luluwei about unusual experiences, and she recalled reading Black Secret and hearing a distant call while practicing the Perception Enhancement Technique.
• Luluwei agreed to let Lu Cang inspect her sea of consciousness, and he connected his perception to hers.
• Lu Cang entered Luluwei’s sea of consciousness and saw stagnant black water filled with giant worms.
• Lu Cang found Luluwei’s inner form covered in holes with white worms emerging from her neck, holding a longbow made of writhing worms.

Lu Cang entered Luluwei’s sea of consciousness and discovered that her Perception Enhancement Technique had twisted it into a blood-soaked landscape filled with worms and an unexplained call. After Luluwei tried to drive him out, Lu Cang restrained her with mental magic and followed the voices, where he encountered forbidden murmurs and an apparent distortion that erased half of everything, including half his body.

• Lu Cang saw Luluwei’s sea of consciousness shift from mountains and streams into a crimson landscape of corpses, and Luluwei said she could no longer control it.
• Luluwei told Lu Cang she had practiced the Collection of Listening Wishes, and Lu Cang noticed worms, blood, and a bow made of insects in her sea of consciousness.
• Lu Cang followed a foreign call through Luluwei’s vast sea of consciousness, but Luluwei panicked and tried to force him out.
• Lu Cang used Heart Bewilderment Soul Mystery to stun Luluwei and cut off the force expelling him.
• Lu Cang followed the growing voices and heard them speak of forbidden knowledge, cracks between planes, and the Deep Earth.
• The right half of the scene and Lu Cang’s body abruptly disappeared, though he could still feel his missing half.

Lu Cang crossed a seam between void and reality into Deep Earth, where he found himself back on Earth in his ordinary body, with his powers severely weakened. Believing the airport was about to be destroyed, he escaped outside to investigate what had happened there.

• Lu Cang used Izpalut’s Origin Magic to restore his body and crossed a golden seam into a gray realm, where Ansu suggested he had entered Deep Earth.
• The realm shifted into an airport on Earth, and Lu Cang found himself back in his adult body with no sensory abilities and greatly reduced strength.
• Lu Cang tested his battle techniques in a restroom and discovered he could still use them, though at only a fraction of their power.
• Lu Cang decided to leave the airport before the explosion he remembered and ran through the terminal using his weakened techniques.
• Lu Cang exited the airport and continued running, but soon grew exhausted in his frail body.

Lu Cang found himself back on a peaceful Earth on the day he expected to transmigrate, and spent the evening reconnecting with his parents while trying to understand whether the world was real. After sleeping in a hotel, he woke to find himself still there, with no sign of the ritual array from the Earth he remembered.

• Lu Cang ran away from the airport and waited until night, but the airport never exploded and nothing happened.
• Lu Cang answered a video call from his mother, Li Youxiang, and spoke with both his parents for hours without telling them about the other world.
• Lu Cang confronted Ansu and demanded to know how to leave, but Ansu dismissed him and disappeared.
• Lu Cang returned to the airport, bought a ticket for the next day, and checked into a nearby hotel.
• Lu Cang woke from a vivid dream and found himself still on a different Earth, where the ritual array was nowhere to be found.

Lu Cang returned from Luluwei’s mindscape with a message from his simulated self pointing to a crack between reality and illusion as the cure for her Spiritual Pollution. Meanwhile, Future Simulation failed to end on Earth, leaving him uncertain what had happened.

• On Earth, Lu Cang reflected on how entering Deep Earth had felt compelled and waited for the simulation to end.
• Back on Moonfall Island, Lu Cang realized that looking into the crack in Luluwei’s mindscape had corrupted his own spiritual power and changed his emotions.
• Lu Cang embraced the corruption as “purity” and used Memory Melt to erase his memories while leaving himself a message to explore the crack and cure Luluwei.
• After Future Simulation ended, Lu Cang remembered the message and planned to knock Luluwei out and enter the crack in her mindscape.
• On Earth, Lu Cang boarded a plane and realized that a full day had passed but Future Simulation had not ended.

Ansu found himself back in his dynasty at the moment before Pure White destroyed it, while Lu Cang investigated a dangerous phenomenon in Luluwei’s Sea of Consciousness. Lu Cang discovered that sealing a rift only caused another to open, and decided to ask Ansu about the Deep Earth.

• Ansu stood in his restored dynasty, recalled that Pure White’s arrival had destroyed it, and wondered why he had returned in peak condition.
• Luluwei reflected on winning the War God Cup and gaining strength from what she remembered as a dream, while wondering whether Lu Cang had truly existed.
• Lu Cang heard a warning that sealing a rift would draw them into the Deep Earth, and used Future Simulation to investigate the danger.
• Lu Cang sealed a rift by combining Real Plane and Void Plane magic, but another rift opened behind him with a reflection of himself.
• Lu Cang sealed more rifts, each of which was replaced by another showing a different location, and realized the rifts led toward the Deep Earth.
• Lu Cang stopped exploring and decided to leave Luluwei’s Sea of Consciousness to ask Ansu what the Deep Earth was.

Ansu explained that Deep Earth was a real world where people could revisit their regrets, and said Luluwei’s spirit had entered it with no way back. As Luluwei woke, Ansu warned Lu Cang that something dangerous had corrupted her mindscape and urged him to kill her.

• Lu Cang asked Ansu about the boundary between reality and unreality, and Ansu identified it as Deep Earth, where unreal worlds appeared.
• Ansu recounted how he had once challenged Moon Star to reach level 10, only for Moon Star’s power to destroy the Ansu Dynasty.
• Ansu told Lu Cang that Deep Earth offered a chance to make regrets right, but that no one knew what happened to the self left behind in the real world.
• Ansu concluded that Luluwei’s spirit had entered Deep Earth and could not be saved, while her body remained corrupted in the mindscape.
• Luluwei began to wake, and Ansu urged Lu Cang to kill her before whatever lurked in her mindscape could become a danger.

Lu Cang discovered that Luluwei’s Black Secret book contained the ritual that had corrupted her, then killed her despite Leng Qingying’s protests. Luluwei’s death released the darkness inside her, which spread across the Moon Sea and began to affect Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness.

• Lu Cang examined Luluwei’s Black Secret book and used Secret Origin to uncover its Creators and hidden teachings about the Deep Earth and Foul Source Nest.
• Lu Cang concluded that the book had corrupted Luluwei and that she had used Door of Heart’s Desire to open the Deep Earth.
• Ansu urged Lu Cang to kill Luluwei, and Lu Cang thrust his hand through her chest.
• Leng Qingying attacked Lu Cang for killing Luluwei, but her dagger shattered and her strikes failed to harm him.
• Black smoke and liquid burst from Luluwei’s corpse, turning the nearby Moon Sea dark and beginning to darken Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness.

Lu Cang faced a vast pupil that corrupted his mental sea and unleashed a soul-less imitation of Luluwei, so he charged back to attack it. The pupil then altered his perception, but Lu Cang struck the figure he saw as his mother, leaving its fate unclear.

• As corruption spread through Lu Cang and Leng Qingying, Lu Cang fled Moonfall Island and realized the enormous pupil had been watching him.
• The pupil opened a doorway and brought out a slime-covered, soulless Luluwei, while Foul Worms poured down toward Moonfall Island.
• Lu Cang built momentum, rushed back toward the pupil, and prepared to strike after poisoning the surrounding seawater with God-Tier Disaster of Poison.
• The pupil made Lu Cang see his mother, Li Youxiang, in place of the monster, but he swung his battle spear and exploded the figure into blood mist.

Lu Cang fought Luluwei’s domain, which trapped him in scenes of killing people he believed were illusions. After destroying the Earth within the domain, he learned from Ansu that he might have to endure until the domain ran out of power, then faced a memory involving Leng Qingying.

• Lu Cang rejected the vision of his father and stabbed Lu Zhenghang, after which the scene shifted to Wuyue Plaza, where his parents appeared to be real victims of his violence.
• Lu Cang unleashed lightning that destroyed the Earth in the illusion, but Luluwei appeared and claimed he had killed his real parents.
• Ansu suspected the scene was a domain built from Deep Earth’s laws and advised Lu Cang to endure until its costly effects ended.
• Luluwei argued that her power could make everyone happy, while cracks spread through the domain and the scenery changed.
• Lu Cang found himself in the scene of Leng Qingying’s kidnapping, holding the rope as she thrust a blade toward his neck.

Lu Cang fought Izpalut in the domain, where figures from his memories appeared and challenged him with powerful magic. As the crimson figure joined the battle, Lu Cang clashed with it using the Invincible Style.

• Lu Cang struck down the apparent Leng Qingying, then saw Kumiloni watching from a distant street corner.
• Lu Cang summoned the Core of the All-Encompassing Whole, but it began to destabilize as Izpalut appeared and attacked him with wind magic.
• Lu Cang countered Izpalut's spells, while Izpalut rapidly mastered and evolved his magic; Izpalut asked Kumiloni to evacuate the people.
• A Stone Person appeared behind Lu Cang, and Lu Cang spotted a greatsword-wielding man on a rooftop, realizing he was surrounded by familiar enemies.
• Lu Cang vanished and reappeared before Izpalut, but the crimson figure intercepted him, and their techniques collided as Lu Cang cast Chaos Stripping.

Lu Cang fought Chicheng and Iz with overwhelming power, destroying the Ruin Continent with a ten-billion-soul spell before Iz survived by entering an illusory realm. Iz, Chicheng, and Kumiloni then stopped holding back and unleashed attacks against Lu Cang.

• Lu Cang and Chicheng clashed in Knoroya while Obades and Kumiloni protected the city and its civilians.
• Chicheng overwhelmed Lu Cang with thousands of heavy sword strikes and sent him flying through Knoroya's wall and dozens of mountains.
• Iz and Lu Cang unleashed vast arrays of magic, and their battle shattered the Ruin Continent into fragments.
• Lu Cang used Void of the Beyond with ten billion sacrificed souls, but Iz survived by shifting into the illusory realm and began a Promotion Ritual.
• Iz reproached Lu Cang for destroying the continent, while Obades, Kumiloni, and Chicheng remained unharmed behind his protection.
• Chicheng, Kumiloni, and Iz joined forces as Chicheng used Boundless and Iz cast Origin Element Annihilation against Lu Cang.

Lu Cang fought Chicheng while Luluwei’s voice filled his mind with doubts and urged him to enter Deep Earth for perfect happiness. As the battle and his memories blurred together, Lu Cang faced a chance to abandon the fight, and the creature before him suddenly froze.

• Lu Cang endured Chicheng’s relentless attacks while feeling detached from the battle and questioning the point of becoming stronger.
• Luluwei’s voice insisted that Lu Cang was attacking himself and described the calls of countless happier versions of him.
• Lu Cang’s thoughts turned to his lost home, his parents, and the dangers awaiting him, while Ansu reminded him that strength could not change the past or make the impossible possible.
• Chicheng’s form shifted into Leng Qingying, who urged Lu Cang to enter Deep Earth and promised that it would bring perfect happiness and another kind of immortality.
• The half-Chicheng, half-Leng Qingying creature stopped, and the world seemed to freeze.

Lu Cang’s battle with Chicheng stalled as voices from his past exposed his doubts about Earth, power, and his indecision over Luluwei. As Lu Cang approached a rift promising a painless world, Iz reached into his mindscape to stop him.

• Luluwei, Huang Minzhi, and Leng Qingying confronted Lu Cang in his mindscape, accusing him of contradictions and indifference toward Earth and the people he had lost.
• Lu Cang’s doubts disrupted his fight with Chicheng, leaving his injuries unable to heal and his God-Tier Talents seemingly inactive.
• Chicheng prepared to deliver a final blow, but Iz intervened and asked for time to reach Lu Cang because their magic seemed connected.
• Lu Cang recognized the rift as a path to a happy version of Earth and began walking toward it.
• A figure placed a hand on Lu Cang’s shoulder as he approached the rift.

Iz entered Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness and helped him regain clarity as Luluwei’s attack weakened his mind. Lu Cang discovered that the rift was draining his spiritual essence and resisted, but the giant eye continued battering his mental barrier.

• Iz appeared in Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness and questioned Luluwei’s claim that he was only a simulation.
• Iz recognized Lu Cang as his apprentice and explained that Lu Cang’s shaky understanding of mind magic left his mind vulnerable.
• Ansu revealed that the domain was draining Lu Cang’s spiritual essence through the rift, and Lu Cang stopped its flow.
• A giant eye opened above Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness and repeatedly struck his mental barrier, despite his spells repairing its damage.
• Iz criticized Lu Cang’s crude mind-protection spells as the barrier continued to crack.

Lu Cang confronted the fears and regrets in his mind, using Iz's Veil of Knowing to resist Ansu's assault and accepting his choices and grief over Earth. He appeared to wake on a ship, but could not tell whether he had escaped the illusion, and considered ending his Future Simulation to find out.

• As Ansu's attack consumed Lu Cang's spirituality and distorted his thoughts, Iz demonstrated a mental-defense spell, which Lu Cang copied as Veil of Knowing.
• The spell weakened the assault, and Ansu explained that Lu Cang's own confusion and fears were being magnified against him.
• Lu Cang faced the figures in his mind and admitted that he did not want to return to the Deep Earth, while affirming his choices and his desire to save those he had lost.
• Lu Cang's mind expanded as he accepted that he had never truly let go of Earth and the events in the Secret Sea.
• Lu Cang appeared to awaken on a ship beside unconscious Luluwei and Leng Qingying, with Ansu's voice still in his mind and an enormous eye in the sky.
• Unsure whether he was awake or still trapped in Ansu's domain, Lu Cang considered ending his Future Simulation to test what was real.

Lu Cang questioned whether he had escaped an illusion and used Ansu’s knowledge to reconsider his experiences in Deep Earth. He finally heard Xin Qianhuan declare that he had seen Deep Earth’s true face and was no longer trapped in his own delusion.

• Lu Cang found Leng Qingying and Luluwei unconscious in a domain created by the gigantic eye, then asked Ansu whether he had truly awakened.
• Lu Cang tried to wake Luluwei with Lingering Guidance and used God-Tier Future Rehearsal, but his wish to be in the real world had no effect.
• Lu Cang asked Ansu about illusions and Deep Earth, then considered Ansu’s suggestion that he might never have been attacked and had imagined his experiences.
• Lu Cang recovered erased memories of entering Deep Earth and being corrupted during earlier simulations.
• A voice identified itself as Xin Qianhuan, the guide to Deep Earth, and told Lu Cang he had seen Deep Earth’s true face and escaped his delusion.

Lu Cang realized his earlier rehearsals in Deep Earth had been hallucinations and used wishes to confirm he was conscious and inside the realm. Xin Qianhuan guided him to the True Stone, which could distinguish reality from illusion, leaving Lu Cang to test whether her explanation was true.

• Lu Cang recognized that his earlier experiences and the people in them had been imagined, then wished to confirm he was inside Deep Earth and fully conscious.
• Xin Qianhuan warned Lu Cang to follow her footsteps because Deep Earth's space could separate them, and explained that he needed to obtain its inheritance to leave.
• Xin Qianhuan told Lu Cang that people who die in Deep Earth usually forget their past and begin imagining new worlds, though they may awaken from those dreams.
• Xin Qianhuan showed Lu Cang the imagined worlds contained in colorful orbs and led him to a forest where a white stone lay.
• Xin Qianhuan identified the stone as the True Stone and said touching it would reveal whether Lu Cang was inside an illusion.

Lu Cang used the True Stone and confirmed that Deep Earth was real before entering its trial. There, he met Lotie, a god who wanted him to act as her agent in a competition for the vacant May Moon Star position.

• Lu Cang touched the True Stone and learned that the world around him was not an illusion.
• Xin Qianhuan told Lu Cang that he could take unimportant people such as Luluwei out of Deep Earth if he obtained its inheritance, but that beings like Eliayoumi could not leave.
• Lu Cang shook hands with Xin Qianhuan, learned she was a Fantasy Creature, and walked through the door into darkness.
• Lotie introduced herself as the god who founded Deep Earth and explained that the Pure Month began the next day.
• Lotie asked Lu Cang to perform rituals in the present world as her agent in the competition for the vacant May Moon Star position, promising rewards if she won.

Lu Cang met Lotie, a goddess trapped in Deep Earth, and agreed to consider helping her establish a presence in the present world in exchange for rewards. He passed her combat trial by instantly killing a tier-seven Starfall Scorpion, and Lotie began the third trial.

• Lu Cang learned that Lotie was cut off from the present world and wanted him to build her a temple and statue, spread word of her, and help fulfill her Divine Descent Ritual.
• Lotie explained that Lu Cang had to pass Deep Earth's trials before she could send him out, and she arranged a combat test suited to his apparent level-five class.
• Lotie summoned a tier-seven Starfall Scorpion for the second trial and warned Lu Cang that it was dangerous.
• Lu Cang killed the Starfall Scorpion instantly with a spear technique, astonishing Lotie and proving that his combat strength met the standard.
• Lotie announced that Lu Cang would proceed to the third trial.