Chapter Summaries

Tomie spread through the hotel, turning its occupants into a multiplying horde that converged on Zhang Qi and the China Team. Armed with Predator gear, the veterans blasted their way out and escaped into Tokyo, while the hotel remained packed with Tomie clones.

• Three hotel workers were transformed into new Tomies, and Zhan Lan used the [Mental Link] to warn the team that the infestation had spread throughout the hotel.
• Zheng Zha, Overlord, and Zero donned Predator armor and used plasma cannons and pulse rifles to clear the corridor around the presidential suite.
• Chu Xuan collected samples from the Tomie remains as Zhang Qi ordered the team to break out before they were overwhelmed.
• The China Team fought through the stairwell and escaped through the hotel emergency exit, leaving the Tomie-filled building behind as police and firefighters arrived.
• Zheng Zha reflected that the Predator weapons had made the team strong enough to face Tomie, while Overlord celebrated the Reward Points from killing the clones.

After splitting up, Zhang Qi investigated Japan’s hidden supernatural activity and found the origin of the One Missed Call curse. As he considered how to confront Mimiko’s resentment, the curse began attacking him in public.

• Zhang Qi split from the team while Chu Xuan and the others drove toward the Izu Peninsula to deal with Sadako.
• Chu Xuan explained that Sadako’s videotape curse infected viewers’ minds and that the team needed to destroy its source rather than merely transfer the curse.
• Zhang Qi hacked police records and discovered that Japan had seen a sharp rise in concealed anomalous incidents, suggesting either a secret cover-up or widespread supernatural control.
• Zhang Qi traced the One Missed Call curse to Mimiko Mizunuma and found her family’s address in a hospital record.
• A public screen displayed a bloody image of Zhang Qi beside a burning tanker, and a tanker truck then charged toward him.

Zhang Qi survived a series of escalating death traps that appeared to be controlled by Mizunuma Mimiko’s predictions, then headed toward her home to investigate. As a passenger jet plunged toward him, he began transforming into the Gigantic form.

• Zhang Qi sliced an out-of-control tanker truck in half and extinguished the gasoline fire with the Kryonaut’s ultrasonic weapon.
• A screen displayed a new prediction of Zhang Qi dying in a burning building, and an explosion beneath him forced him to leap from the rooftop.
• Zhang Qi headed for Mizunuma Mimiko’s home while surviving a succession of staged accidents, including attacks by an excavator and falling debris.
• Zhang Qi noticed that nearby pedestrians behaved as if the disasters around him were not happening.
• A smoking Boeing passenger jet plunged toward Zhang Qi, who began transforming as the Gigantic form descended.

Zhang Qi used Gigantic’s AT Field to stop a crashing passenger jet, then captured Mizunuma Mimiko and destroyed her with Samadhi True Fire. After receiving the mission reward, he flew off to rendezvous with Chu Xuan and the others as Sadako’s situation unfolded.

• Zhang Qi raised an AT Field and stopped the crashing Boeing without letting it hit the ground.
• Zhang Qi used the expanding field to set the passenger jet down safely and then trapped Mizunuma Mimiko inside an orange cube.
• Mizunuma Mimiko’s death-prophecy attacks failed against the AT Field, and Zhang Qi burned her spirit away with Samadhi True Fire.
• The Main God announced that Zhang Qi had completed the mission and awarded him one B-rank side quest and 3,500 reward points.
• Zhang Qi changed back from Gigantic into the Kryonaut and flew off to rendezvous with Chu Xuan and the others.

Zheng Zha's team found that Izu Oshima had been rewritten so its residents and records contained no trace of Sadako or Shizu, then located Sadako's well and withdrew to wait for Zhang Qi. When Zhang Qi arrived, he found the team had vanished from the town's memories and records, while they were trapped in a supernatural fog.

• Zhan Lan's psychic scan and Chu Xuan's analysis revealed that Izu Oshima's perceptions and communications were abnormally distorted, and the islanders had no memory of Sadako or Shizu.
• Chu Xuan sent reconnaissance drones to locate a well in the forest, but he warned Zheng Zha not to open it until Zhang Qi arrived.
• The team took rooms at the Sea View Inn, where Zero placed protective talismans, and Zhang Qi reported that he had dealt with Mimiko Mizunuma.
• When Zhang Qi failed to arrive and radio contact was lost, Zhang Jie warned that something was wrong, Zhan Lan sensed a presence outside, and the team saw a dense, malicious fog surrounding them.
• Zhang Qi reached the town and searched the Sea View Inn, convenience store, and police substation, but found no trace that Zheng Zha or the others had ever been there.

Zhang Qi investigated the location of Sadako's well, but the forest distorted his perceptions and led him into a nightmarish town filled with flayed, living monsters and spreading biological tissue. He found an old newspaper about a thoughtography experiment, revealing a new clue about the town's past.

• Zhang Qi reached the forest coordinates for Sadako's well, but white fog and malice overwhelmed the clearing, while the Kryonaut's sensory records showed nothing unusual.
• Zhang Qi left the forest and found living, skinned people tied to crosses; one attacked him with a sickle that blocked his High-Frequency Blade.
• More flayed figures surrounded Zhang Qi, and his Samadhi True Fire failed to harm them, so he fled the field.
• Zhang Qi returned to town and found its buildings transformed into old Japanese wooden houses, with dark-red biological tissue spreading across them.
• Zhang Qi picked up an old newspaper bearing the headline about a thoughtography experiment and a photograph of a melancholy woman.

Zhang Qi realized that Sadako’s hatred had transformed the town into a separate domain, but he rejected his theory that it was the virtual world called the Loop. As a vast darkness began forming at the town’s center, the Main God classified Sadako as a Demon-class Evil Spirit and assigned Zhang Qi a mission to defeat her.

• Zhang Qi read a newspaper about Shizuko Yamamura and deduced that Sadako’s hatred had created the town as an independent domain.
• Zhang Qi considered whether the town was the virtual world called the Loop, then rejected the idea because his equipment detected no signs of a digital environment.
• A deep, heartbeat-like sound shook the town as the flesh covering its buildings writhed and spread.
• A massive darkness gathered at the town’s center, and the Main God warned Zhang Qi that Sadako was a Demon-class Evil Spirit and ordered him to defeat her.
• The darkness stopped growing, and a vague woman’s silhouette began flowing down from its peak.

Zhang Qi found the China Team trapped inside Sadako’s witch’s barrier, where Sadako had assimilated part of Zhang Jie’s power and transformed into a monstrous hybrid. He activated his A.T. Field and began forcing the witch’s reality-warping barrier to collapse.

• Zhang Qi recognized the oil-painted town as a witch’s barrier and saw Sadako’s familiars overwhelm Zheng Zha, Zero, and the others.
• Zhang Qi arrived in his Bio-Armor and learned from Chu Xuan that Zhan Lan had fallen unconscious after a psychic attack and Zhang Jie had used his magical-girl power to protect the team before collapsing.
• Chu Xuan explained that Sadako had assimilated part of Zhang Jie’s power and become a Demon king-class witch.
• Zhang Qi resolved to make Sadako return the power she had swallowed and activated the Omni-Energy Amplification Unit and maximum synchronization in the [Kryonaut].
• Zhang Qi unfolded his A.T. Field, which collided with the witch’s power, shattered the barrier’s false rules, and made the witch shriek.

Zhang Qi realized that Sadako’s witchified power surpassed his own in quality, making her the law of the warped space. After Sadako’s attack failed to stop him, Zhang Qi unleashed the Giant God Bio-Armor and vowed to destroy her and her world.

• Zhang Qi’s A.T. Field clashed with Sadako’s psychic shriek, warping the space above the town as Zheng Zha and Zero watched helplessly.
• Zhang Qi recognized that Sadako’s condensed resentment had become the fundamental rule of the alternate space, and decided he needed a stronger output to defeat her.
• Sadako conjured an enormous explosion above the Gigantic, engulfing Zhang Qi in flames.
• Zhang Qi emerged from the fire in the fifty-meter crimson Giant God Bio-Armor, with its restrictions removed and energy output unleashed.
• Zhang Qi vowed to smash Sadako and her world to pieces.

Zhang Qi used the Giant God Bio-Armor to defeat Witch Sadako, purify Zhang Jie's Soul Gem, and return the China Team to the forest. The main god then warned that the team's strength had exceeded the horror world’s limits and that the Inner World would soon invade.

• Zhang Qi’s Giant God Bio-Armor brushed aside Witch Sadako’s existence-erasing attack and shattered her false world, defeating her and completing the hidden mission.
• The China Team returned to the forest, where Zhang Qi used the Grief Seed to remove the corruption from Zhang Jie’s Soul Gem and placed it back against Zhang Jie’s chest.
• Zheng Zha celebrated the team’s rewards and their progress against Mimiko and Sadako, saying only Kayako remained.
• Chu Xuan warned that the mission’s difficulty exceeded the team’s capabilities and that Zhang Jie’s intervention had saved them from being wiped out.
• The main god warned that the China Team had surpassed the world’s critical threshold and announced that the Inner World would begin invading.
• Chu Xuan explained that the main god had raised the world’s difficulty to restore balance after Zhang Qi and Zhang Jie exceeded its limits.

After the blood moon unleashed horrors across Tokyo, Zheng Zha and his team encountered Akutami Yuji, a sorcerer fighting the surge of cursed spirits, and agreed to help Japan’s Special Disaster Countermeasures Bureau. At the bureau’s command center, the imposing Todo challenged Zheng Zha’s strength.

• A blood-red moon appeared over Tokyo as monstrous phenomena and creatures began attacking people across the city.
• Zhang Qi showed the team a video of an apparent exorcist saving a girl, and explained that hidden forces opposing supernatural threats could help them.
• Zheng Zha killed a quasi-Grade One cursed spirit with one punch and met the exhausted sorcerer Akutami Yuji.
• Akutami Yuji explained that curses arose from human negative emotions and that powerful cursed spirits had overwhelmed sorcerers worldwide.
• Zheng Zha agreed on behalf of his team to assist the Special Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, then followed Akutami Yuji to its command center.
• Todo questioned whether Zheng Zha was truly strong and said he would have to test him.

Zheng Zha proved the Central Continent Team’s strength to the Countermeasure Bureau, and they joined forces to fight the spreading horrors. As the global crisis worsened, Zhang Qi saw a new light appear beside the blood-red moon.

• Zheng Zha defeated Todo Aoi with one punch, then Todo declared him his best friend.
• The Central Continent Team reached a cooperation agreement with the Countermeasure Bureau, while Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan joined its research department.
• Zhang Jie and Zhan Lan recovered; Zhang Qi explained that Zhang Jie had gained cursed energy through his assimilation with Sadako.
• The horrors spread from Japan across the world, and the Countermeasure Bureau and the China Team struggled to contain them.
• On the fifteenth night, Zhang Qi watched the blood-red moon from the Bureau rooftop and noticed a point of light appear beside it.

Zhang Qi discovered that Hellstar, a colossal eye-like cosmic calamity, had entered the Solar System and was advancing faster than light. After explaining the extinction-level threat to the China Team, he rejected escape as impossible and proposed that they destroy the planet.

• Zhang Qi activated his Kryonaut armor and saw that the distant point of light was an enormous eye whose will nearly overwhelmed his consciousness.
• Zhang Qi used Gene Lock and connected to the collective consciousness of his parallel-world selves, surviving the eye’s mental assault and identifying it as Hellstar.
• Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan examined the recorded coordinates at Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory and confirmed that Hellstar was approaching faster than light while erasing celestial bodies along its path.
• Zhang Qi told the China Team that Hellstar had entered the Solar System and would destroy the Moon, Mars, and Earth within days.
• Zhan Lan suggested escaping aboard the Gigantic, but Zhang Qi said they had too little time and no way to outrun Hellstar, then proposed shattering the planet.

Zhang Qi revealed a plan to use the team’s resources and the world’s curses to gain enough power to confront Hellstar. After Zhang Jie transformed the city’s curses into familiars, the team began harvesting Soul Gems as the first stage of Zhang Qi’s plan succeeded.

• Zhang Qi explained that the lord god’s mission implied Hellstar could be dealt with and proposed using Gigantic’s gravity unit to create an artificial black hole, asking Zhang Jie for help.
• Hellstar’s influence spread across the Solar System, and Pluto and its five moons vanished without a trace.
• Hellstar opened its eye, mutating people who saw its gaze and fueling the growth of curses as civilization descended into panic.
• Zhang Jie used a magic wand to rewrite the city’s curses into colorful familiars, and Zheng Zha, Overlord, Zero, and the others killed them with Zhang Qi’s soul-cutting weapons.
• The familiars left behind Soul Gems, and Zhang Qi prepared to use Earth’s curses as raw material to obtain energy for fighting Hellstar.

Zhang Qi organized humanity's defenses as Hellstar's approach devastated Earth and sparked a cult of worship, then set out in Gigantic to confront the planet-eating entity. Hellstar noticed him in orbit, and the decisive battle was about to begin.

• Zhang Qi distributed soul armaments across the Neon Archipelago, helping sorcerers turn cursed spirits into familiars and gather Soul Gems into a massive crystal.
• Zhang Qi used Gigantic to address world leaders, warned them that Hellstar would reach Earth within ten days, and demanded their nuclear weapons to build an orbital defense.
• As Hellstar neared, its gravity triggered worldwide disasters and social collapse, while survivors began worshipping it as a god.
• Hellstar devoured Australia and part of the Pacific Ocean, prompting Zheng Zha to leave the fight to Zhang Qi.
• Zhang Qi donned Kryonaut armor and flew into space as Zheng Zha and the others prepared for the mission.
• Hellstar paused its assault on Earth, turned its eye toward Zhang Qi, and locked onto him.

Zhang Qi used the Giant Bio-Armor to fight Hellstar, first wounding it with a particle cannon and then destroying it with a Pseudo Black Hole powered by a crystal made from Earth’s curses and negative emotions. After Hellstar’s destruction, the Main God Space announced the rewards and began the return.

• Zhang Qi launched thousands of nuclear missiles at Hellstar, but the explosions only scoured its surface and provoked its fury.
• Zhang Qi transformed the Bio-Armor into the Giant Bio-Armor and fired a particle cannon that carved a vast wound into Hellstar.
• Hellstar’s psychic wail devastated survivors on Earth, while Zhang Qi used the Giant Bio-Armor’s Gravity Control Unit to create a Pseudo Black Hole.
• Zhang Qi crushed the crystal of condensed negative emotions to empower the Pseudo Black Hole, which expanded and devoured Hellstar and its core.
• The Main God Space declared Hellstar destroyed, awarded Zhang Qi permissions and rewards, and began the return.

After returning from the Hellstar world, Zhang Qi discovered that the Main God had rewarded him with an F-rank Authority for redeeming the plane. He considered what the reward revealed about the Main God Space and wondered whether it could directly interfere with reincarnation worlds.

• The team returned to the Main God Space, where Zheng Zha and the others celebrated their survival while Overlord vomited inside his helmet.
• Zhang Qi reviewed the Main God's rewards and found that redeeming the plane had granted him an F-rank Authority.
• Zhang Qi examined the Authority's functions, which included influencing the next world's rules, choosing a plane, requesting intelligence, and enabling emergency withdrawal.
• Zhang Qi reasoned that destroying Hellstar and leaving behind soul-armament technology had together preserved and strengthened the plane's civilization.
• Zhang Qi considered whether the Main God rewarded redemption to protect valuable worlds or whether it lacked the power to interfere with them directly.

The team tallied their rewards and chose enhancements after returning from a catastrophic mission. Zhang Qi revealed his unusual access privileges and decided to remain in the Main God Space, while his teammates prepared to face future missions and he finally opened his own redemption list.

• Li Shuaixi, Overlord, Zheng Zha, and Zero compared their rewards, while Zhang Qi reported one S-rank, two A-ranks, one B-rank, and 41,000 points.
• Zhang Jie noted that Zhang Qi's Giant God Bio-Armor core had self-destructed, and Zhan Lan realized Zhang Qi might soon have enough points to return to reality.
• Chu Xuan warned that the Main God adjusted mission difficulty to the team's strongest member, and Zhang Qi said he did not intend to leave and revealed his six F-rank access privileges.
• The veterans chose enhancements: Zheng Zha redeemed a magical weapon, Zero and Li Shuaixi improved their bloodlines, and Zhang Jie used his rewards to strengthen Zhan Lan.
• Li Xiaoyi chose cybernetic modifications, while Qi Tengyi, Zhao Yingkong, and Ming Yanwei selected a Qi practitioner bloodline, Nen Ability, and elven bloodline with a magical longbow.
• After everyone completed their enhancements, Zhang Qi opened his redemption list to obtain items he had planned for his other selves.

Orochimaru received a pure Ōtsutsuki tissue sample from his counterpart in the Infinite World and brought its genetic data to Konoha’s central research facility. Hiruko recognized the sequence as the original Ōtsutsuki Gene Sequence, giving their research into chakra’s nature a crucial breakthrough.

• Orochimaru learned that his counterpart had obtained a pure Ōtsutsuki tissue sample through the Main God Space exchange system.
• Orochimaru called Jiraiya and persuaded him to cover the Hokage’s official business by offering him an additional five hundred thousand ryō.
• Orochimaru traveled to Konoha’s central research facility, where Hiruko and other researchers had stalled in their attempt to reverse-engineer the Gene Sequence.
• Orochimaru inserted a USB drive containing the Ōtsutsuki genetic data into the laboratory computer.
• Hiruko examined the projected triple helix and identified it as the original Gene Sequence of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Orochimaru gave Hiruko the Otsutsuki genetic map so his team could use Life Primordial Soup to reconstruct the complete Otsutsuki body. After Hashirama Senju’s archaeological discovery showed White Zetsu predated the ninja era, Orochimaru and Tobirama Senju suspected Kaguya had prepared them to face another Otsutsuki.

• Orochimaru gave Hiruko a USB drive containing the Otsutsuki genetic map and left him to begin the reconstruction project.
• Hiruko and his researchers analyzed the genetic data and prepared to use Life Primordial Soup to assemble an Otsutsuki body from descendant clan bloodlines and newly grown tissue.
• Orochimaru teleported to the laboratory where Tobirama Senju was studying the chained Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Orochimaru handed Tobirama a scroll reporting Hashirama Senju’s discovery of White Zetsu traces in ruins dating back at least a thousand years.
• Tobirama questioned why Kaguya had needed an army before the ninja era, and Orochimaru suggested she had prepared for another Otsutsuki.