Chapter Summaries

Yan Shun'an rushed to meet Bo Shuo, who had entered the Alley Entrance, and thanked him for warning them about an Exam Venue. Bo Shuo ignored the gratitude and walked past him, leaving Yan Shun'an to realize that his presence had forced him to his knees.

• Yan Shun'an received an urgent message and left his training to go to the Alley Entrance.
• Bo Shuo entered the Alley Entrance and noticed people watching him with caution and apprehension.
• Yan Shun'an introduced himself as the leader of the White Mist Regulatory Bureau's Sixth Squad and thanked Bo Shuo for helping reduce casualties by warning them about an Exam Venue.
• Bo Shuo showed no interest in Yan Shun'an's thanks and walked past him.
• Yan Shun'an recognized that Bo Shuo's pressure had made him bend at the waist.

Bo Shuo refused Yan Shun'an’s offer to join the White Mist Regulatory Bureau, but suggested that Bo Chunzhang might join instead. Yan Shun'an reconsidered the suspiciously flawless records of Bo Chunzhang, while she sat alone in the cafe after Bo Shuo left her cake untouched.

• Bo Shuo refused to join the White Mist Regulatory Bureau, and Yan Shun'an accepted his answer as a sign that he did not consider them enemies.
• As Yan Shun'an prepared to leave, Bo Shuo stopped him and said someone else would be willing to join the Bureau.
• Bo Shuo told Yan Shun'an to ask Bo Chunzhang, then walked away.
• Yan Shun'an recalled that Bo Chunzhang’s background was unnaturally spotless and suspected her identity might be forged.
• Bo Chunzhang sat alone in the cafe beside the cake she had made, which Bo Shuo had not touched.

After Bo Shuo left the cafe, Bo Chunzhang’s memories as a derivative of the World Consciousness returned, and she went out to handle what lay ahead. Bo Shuo learned that Lost Paradise’s invasion was escalating and encountered a familiar person from it in an alley.

• Bo Chunzhang threw away the cake, regained memories of being a derivative, and left the cafe to attend to more important matters.
• 007 told Bo Shuo that Lost Paradise’s invasion would bring Exam Venues and examinees into the Real World, whose visitors would have their strength suppressed.
• Bo Shuo asked whether Yi Rong had gained some of the World Consciousness’s authority, but 007 could not answer.
• 007 warned Bo Shuo that someone from Lost Paradise had appeared nearby, and Bo Shuo sensed them in an alley.
• A tall figure in a black Mermaid Skirt stepped out from the corner, and Bo Shuo recognized the person as an acquaintance.

Bo Shuo faced a group of newly awakened Yi Rongs, while God Yi Rong demanded that he kill them to fulfill their deal. He stepped forward with the Silver Chain transformed into a surgical knife, as the Yi Rongs stood motionless and apparently willing to die.

• Eveya told Bo Shuo that fate had instructed her to follow him, and he reacted with disdain toward the idea of fate.
• Several familiar figures appeared, and Bo Shuo recognized them as Yi Rong; God Yi Rong spoke to him and ordered him to kill them.
• The Silver Chain detached from Bo Shuo's chest and transformed into a surgical knife as God Yi Rong's Golden Eyes appeared before him.
• Bo Shuo saw more than ten Yi Rongs, ranging from A-Class to Demigod-class, whose appearances had matured and whose expressions remained identical.
• Bo Shuo stepped toward the motionless Yi Rongs, who offered no resistance as he prepared to strike.

Bo Shuo tried to keep the dying Yi Rongs from vanishing, but they and the boy dissolved despite his efforts, triggering a catastrophic change in the sky. Bo Chunzhang warned Yan Shun'an that humanity’s survival depended on urgently training High-Rank Examinees as Exam Venues began appearing worldwide.

• Bo Shuo gently held the failing boy and wiped away his blood while Yi Rong watched, but the Yi Rongs continued to collapse.
• More Yi Rongs gathered in the alley, then murmured Bo Shuo’s name as they dissolved into Black Mist along with the boy.
• The sky cracked with lightning and storm clouds after the Yi Rongs vanished, and Bo Chunzhang recognized what the signs meant.
• Bo Chunzhang told Yan Shun'an that Exam Venues would soon appear around the world and ordered him to train many capable examinees without sparing resources.
• Yan Shun'an solemnly accepted Bo Chunzhang’s warning and left to report it to his superiors.

Eveya told Bo Shuo that rising toward Demigod brought assimilation, making Divine Kin nourishment for a Deity, and revealed that she was close to disappearing. As Eveya disintegrated, she told Bo Shuo that only he could put an end to it all.

• Eveya described how pollutants destroyed her world and how its survivors came to Lost Paradise seeking a way to remain human.
• Bo Shuo said that examinees stalled before Demigod because the higher they rose, the closer they came to assimilation, and Eveya confirmed his suspicion.
• Eveya explained that Divine Kin were consumed as nourishment by an indescribable existence and that everyone in Lost Paradise would eventually die.
• Eveya told Bo Shuo she was nearing assimilation and explained that her anchor point was her desire to remain human, rooted in her Gege's dying wish.
• Eveya disintegrated into golden grains of sand after telling Bo Shuo that only he could end it all.

Commander Zhou ordered the White Mist Regulatory Bureau to prepare for mass deployment as the White Mist threatened to engulf the globe within a month. As golden eyes accelerated the mist’s spread, Bo Shuo confronted the World Consciousness and concluded that he was its divine retainer.

• Commander Zhou told the inspectors that mass deployment was their only chance to survive and ordered them to get ready.
• Golden eyes appeared in the sky as people worldwide received messages announcing that White Mist Exam Venues were descending.
• The surge of human emotion fed the golden-eyed derivative beings and increased the White Mist’s expansion speed.
• Bo Shuo questioned what the World Consciousness had been cultivating him for and what Spore Yi Rong had left inside him.
• Bo Shuo identified the familiar figure who appeared before him as the World Consciousness and declared that he was its divine retainer.

Bo Shuo accused the World Consciousness of engineering the Dream Awakening Invasion and exploiting the Low Tier Exam Venue for authority. The World Consciousness then questioned why Bo Shuo had developed a personality so unlike its own, leaving Bo Shuo to confront the possibility that even his thoughts and actions had been calculated.

• Bo Shuo accused the World Consciousness of using the Dream Awakening Invasion and the Low Tier Exam Venue to seize authority, disregarding the deaths caused along the way.
• Bo Shuo rejected the World Consciousness's attempt to stall him and demanded that it change its bargaining chip.
• The World Consciousness called Bo Shuo by name, and he realized that its voice had previously guided him and that it might have orchestrated his actions.
• Bo Shuo imagined illusory threads controlling him like a puppet and wondered whether his current thoughts were also part of the World Consciousness's plan.
• The World Consciousness said it had guided Bo Shuo's development and removed unwanted traits, then asked why he had grown unlike the person its plan had intended.

The World Consciousness revealed that authority from Yi Rong, the spore, and Truth had gathered inside Bo Shuo, making him vital to every side. It asked Bo Shuo to hold back Yi Rong, but after surviving the Black Mist’s corruption, Bo Shuo found Yi Rong arriving to confront him.

• The World Consciousness explained that the dead spore had taken its authority and part of Yi Rong’s and Truth’s, leaving the combined authority within Bo Shuo.
• The World Consciousness asked Bo Shuo to hold back Yi Rong, saying his role as the subject of Dimension Ascension made him crucial.
• The World Consciousness vanished as Black Mist engulfed Bo Shuo and began dissolving his body.
• Bo Shuo counted down until the changes stopped, then looked up and called for Yi Rong.
• Yi Rong appeared, approached Bo Shuo, and reminded him that he had said he wanted to cooperate.

Bo Shuo confronted Yi Rong with the truth that Spore Yi Rong was the severed majority of his soul and that Yi Rong's love for him came from their shared identity. The chapter ended with Yi Rong threatening to kill Bo Shuo as the two hunters waited for the other to make a move.

• Bo Shuo realized that the clues he had tested confirmed Spore Yi Rong occupied most of Yi Rong's soul and that the two were effectively one.
• Bo Shuo touched and wound Yi Rong's silver hair around his finger, while Yi Rong allowed him to approach and provoke him.
• Yi Rong's suppressed memories and unfamiliar emotions resurfaced as he recognized that Spore Yi Rong was the severed majority of his soul.
• Yi Rong asked whether Bo Shuo thought he truly would not kill him, and Bo Shuo calmly exposed his neck and dared him to try.

Bo Shuo used Scarlet Threads to trap Yi Rong and told him that killing him was the only way to leave. Yi Rong struggled against the memories and feelings Bo Shuo stirred in him, then released his grip and stepped away.

• Bo Shuo blocked Yi Rong's path with Scarlet Threads and sealed the surrounding space.
• Yi Rong began dismantling the threads, while Bo Shuo resisted despite the pain and approached him.
• Bo Shuo told Yi Rong to kill him if he wanted to leave.
• Yi Rong recalled memories of Bo Shuo and gripped his neck, torn between killing him and the loss of control he feared.
• Yi Rong slowly released Bo Shuo and retreated.

Bo Shuo challenged Yi Rong to gamble their authority on whether humanity would survive, after using the deity’s flesh and blood to grow beyond the demigod-class. Yi Rong questioned the stakes and warned Bo Shuo that losing his authority could cost him his life.

• Bo Shuo stopped the red thread from devouring Yi Rong and opened a passage, admitting he could not permanently keep Yi Rong’s mimicry there.
• Bo Shuo proposed a game to gamble on humanity’s survival as the exam venues continued to revive and spread.
• Yi Rong refused to gamble at first and offered to cooperate, arguing that the World Consciousness was no more trustworthy than he was.
• Bo Shuo proposed wagering all their authority, and Yi Rong warned him that losing his authority could mean death because Spore had made it part of his soul.
• Yi Rong recalled that Spore kept finding ways to stay near Bo Shuo, appearing as ordinary objects and traces around him.

Bo Shuo recruited Xi Guici, Wen Yanqing, and a group of examinees to join his plan and become his divine dependents as Exam Venues spread across the world. Meanwhile, the Investigation Bureau faced mounting casualties and tried to send people into the few remaining Low Tier Exam Venues before High-level venues overwhelmed them.

• After Yi Rong left and the Black Mist cleared, Bo Shuo summoned Xi Guici and offered to help him escape God of Truth's God Path in exchange for joining his game.
• Xi Guici accepted Bo Shuo's offer, and Wen Yanqing arrived and agreed to the deal as well.
• Sang Yu, Xu Ji Mo, Gu Baiyu, Xu Yi, and others gathered at Bo Shuo's coordinates after being invited from Lost Paradise.
• Bo Shuo asked the assembled group whether they were willing to become his divine dependents so he could help Blue Star cultivate High-Rank Examinees.
• As Exam Venues spread and casualties mounted worldwide, the Investigation Bureau urged people to enter the remaining Low Tier Exam Venues before they disappeared.

The Investigation Bureau learned that Mountain Village Painting Ghost had devastated C City, while the remaining examinees faced a deadly deadline inside the venue. With only minutes left, Yan Shun'an led the survivors toward the village gate, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Commander Zhou asked about the examinees, and the communications officer reported that they had not escaped and would fail—and die—if they missed the collection deadline.
• The Old Man said he hoped for a miracle as the bureau continued its work.
• An examinee mistook hanging clothes for a paper painting, and Yan Shun'an calmed the group by correcting him.
• Yan Shun'an checked the countdown and saw that only nine minutes remained before the exam papers were collected.
• Yan Shun'an assigned the survivors areas to watch for paper paintings and led them cautiously toward the village gate.

Yan Shun'an led the injured examinees toward the main gate, hoping that more people would clear the exam venue and weaken Mountain Village Painting Ghost's reach. When two examinees vanished unnoticed, he found their corpses and realized an unseen danger was following them.

• Yan Shun'an urged the exhausted examinees onward, slowing his pace so more of them could reach the main gate.
• An injured examinee spotted a smiling Lady Painting in the woods, and he and the person supporting him fell dead at the end of the procession.
• Yan Shun'an noticed two people were missing, stopped the others, and went back to investigate.
• Yan Shun'an found the two corpses, spotted paper-like scrape marks and broken branches, and suspected the deaths had happened without anyone hearing them.
• The examinees saw the bodies and panicked, realizing the two people behind them had died without warning.

Beauty Paper overwhelmed Yan Shun'an and the other examinees near the village gate, but Xi Guici arrived and destroyed the monsters with red threads. Yan Shun'an recognized the threads as similar to Bo Shuo’s power, then faced Xi Guici’s hostility.

• Beauty Paper ambushed the examinees from behind and ahead, killing or injuring nearly half of them.
• Yan Shun'an lay trapped and badly wounded as Beauty Paper began devouring him.
• Red threads appeared and bound the Beauty Paper, draining their Blood and Flesh until they were reduced to shriveled skin.
• Yan Shun'an recognized the red threads and murmured, “Mr. Bo.”
• Xi Guici appeared, rebuked Yan Shun'an for calling Bo Shuo that, and threatened him with a Red Thread at his neck.

After helping examinees escape Hua Pi Village, Xi Guici shattered the Exam Venue, while Bo Shuo gathered authority from collapsing Exam Venues across the Real World. Bo Chunzhang came to see Bo Shuo and revealed she had refused the World Consciousness’s demand for her authority, leaving him questioning why.

• Xi Guici helped the remaining examinees escape Hua Pi Village, then shattered the space and left them unconscious.
• An unknown organization began clearing Exam Venues across the Real World, allowing examinees to survive as the venues turned into Origin Power that flowed to Bo Shuo.
• Bo Shuo exploited the Real World’s chaotic rules to gather authority by clearing Low Tier Exam Venues, while 007 severed its connection to the World Consciousness and stayed by his side.
• 007 sensed someone approaching, and Bo Chunzhang appeared before Bo Shuo in the void.
• Bo Chunzhang told Bo Shuo she had refused the World Consciousness’s demand to hand over her authority, and he asked why.

Bo Shuo refused Yi Rong’s offer to cancel their wager in exchange for helping with Dimension Ascension, shared authority, and a casualty-free timeline restart. He argued that accepting would only put the world under another god’s control, and insisted that their wager was not over.

• 007 asked Bo Shuo whether he blamed the innocent woman, and Bo Shuo said he did not know but probably did not blame her.
• Yi Rong arrived beside Bo Shuo and said he was going to lose because humanity could not survive the recovery of Lost Paradise.
• Yi Rong offered to void their wagers and promised Bo Shuo shared authority and a timeline restart with no casualties if Bo Shuo helped with Dimension Ascension.
• Bo Shuo rejected the offer, saying that handing the world to Yi Rong would be no different from handing it to the World Consciousness.
• Bo Shuo told Yi Rong that their wager was not over yet, and Yi Rong watched him without revealing his thoughts.

The God of Truth trapped World Consciousness and hinted that a forgotten Third Pillar God had shaped Lost Paradise and its balance of power. As World Consciousness tried to understand the concealed God’s role, the chapter left the identity and motives of this figure unresolved.

• Yi Rong let Bo Shuo hold his hand while the two maintained an ambiguous pose.
• The God of Truth sealed off the space and blocked World Consciousness from leaving.
• World Consciousness warned that delaying him would help Yi Rong, whose derivatives were spreading after his spores were destroyed.
• The God of Truth revealed that he had once made a wager with an unnamed figure and regretted it.
• World Consciousness realized that everyone had somehow overlooked the Third Pillar God.
• The God of Truth suggested that the hidden God had established Lost Paradise’s operating logic, given its inhabitants hope, balanced the Gods’ authority, and split himself apart for his goals.

God of Truth prepared to face Mimicry of Deities while reflecting on Bo Shuo, and a mysterious authority emerged from the suffering surrounding Lost Paradise. As Bo Shuo’s presence transformed, Yi Rong recovered his memories and realized God of Falsehood had orchestrated their Dimension Ascension; he confronted Bo Shuo, uncertain what the youth now remembered.

• God of Truth advanced toward Mimicry of Deities and said he looked forward to meeting Bo Shuo after the youth recovered his memories.
• The deaths and emotions of humans in Lost Paradise condensed into a new authority, and a mysterious black-hatted figure appeared across the Exam Venue, reality, and Lost Paradise.
• The unknown figure’s crimson threads formed a vast prison, while humans and other unknown beings reacted to its terrifying presence.
• Yi Rong sensed the change in Bo Shuo, remembered his past conversation with another Pillar God, and realized that God of Falsehood had plotted their Dimension Ascension.
• Yi Rong named God of Falsehood, causing Bo Shuo to pause, then asked when his memories had begun to return.