Chapter Summaries

Zheng Zha stopped Adia’s Golden Mask-enhanced attack by merging his vampire energy and inner energy, then wounded Adia and drove him into the darkness. Elsewhere, Zhang Qi and Imhotep unleashed their strongest attacks, erasing half of Cairo and leaving both Imhotep and [Giant God Bio-Armor] gone.

• Adia used the Golden Mask to halt Zheng Zha’s Tiger Soul with his bare hand and trapped the blade as he punched at Zheng Zha.
• Zheng Zha’s vampire energy and inner energy collided and fused, letting him shatter Adia’s fist and sever one head of the two-headed demon serpent.
• Adia fled into the darkness, while Zheng Zha collapsed and used the Gene Lock to try to calm the backlash in his body.
• Zhan Lan told Zhang Qi that India Team’s remaining members had been subdued and Zheng Zha had dealt with their captain.
• Zhang Qi’s [Giant God Bio-Armor] and Imhotep’s sand giant unleashed their strongest attacks, and the resulting blast erased half of Cairo.
• The blast destroyed Imhotep and the sand giant, while [Giant God Bio-Armor] also disappeared.

After the battle, the Central Continent Team learned that the India Team had the Book of Amun-Ra and that its escaped monk had used a Golden Mask to force himself into the fourth stage of the Gene Lock. Zhang Qi set the team's next priorities: recover the scripture and find the monk, as the battle's advantage had shifted decisively in their favor.

• Zhang Qi found Zheng Zha struggling to contain the clashing Sanguine energy and internal energy, then waited as military forces approached.
• Zhang Jie revealed that the India Team had used the Book of Amun-Ra to force Imhotep to fight, and that the scripture was with veteran Ram and the team's surviving newcomers.
• Zhang Jie reported that the India Team had lost its main fighters and explained that the Golden Mask transformed its wearer into a Vampire-like being with terrifying powers and dangerous side effects.
• Zhang Jie concluded that the Golden Mask could force its wearer into the fourth stage of the Gene Lock, and Zheng Zha recalled the monk's compressed energy stopping his strike.
• Zhang Qi ordered the team to find the Book of Amun-Ra and track down the escaped monk, while Chu Xuan set aside his curiosity to focus on winning the team battle.

After learning that the Book of Amun-Ra could resurrect dead teammates, the team realized India Team would fight to keep it. Zhang Qi recovered the book, but Imhotep drew him into Anubis’s divine realm, where the immortal priest awaited him.

• Zhang Jie revealed that the Book of Amun-Ra could resurrect dead members of the reincarnation teams, and Chu Xuan explained why India Team would protect it.
• Zhang Qi sent Zhan Lan and Zhang Jie to locate Imhotep and India Team, then flew toward the mine where Ram and the others were heading for the City of the Dead.
• Zhang Qi used a sonic attack to kill Ram, Manavia, and the newcomers, while Imhotep reached for the falling Book of Amun-Ra.
• Zhang Qi diverted the book to himself, blocked fireballs with a device from imaginary space, and transformed into Gigantic.
• Imhotep’s deathly power dragged Zhang Qi into Anubis’s Netherworld, where Imhotep stood beneath the god’s statue.

Zhang Qi was trapped in Imhotep’s underworld Divine Kingdom, where the Book of Amun-Ra failed against the deathly laws. Imhotep used the Weighing of the Heart to grievously wound Gigantic, but when he reached for the fallen scripture, Zhang Qi’s armored hand seized him.

• Zhang Qi analyzed the Divine Kingdom and fired the Book of Amun-Ra at Imhotep, but black mist swallowed its sacred light.
• Zhang Qi reasoned that Imhotep’s Divine Kingdom was a costly, limited trump card he had been forced to use.
• Imhotep awakened the jackal-headed statue and invoked the Weighing of the Heart, placing Zhang Qi’s heart against Ma’at’s feather.
• The scale tipped, and its conceptual attack pierced the [A.T. Field] and [Kryonaut], blasting open Gigantic’s chest and forcing it to one knee.
• Imhotep turned into sand and wind to seize the Book of Amun-Ra, but Zhang Qi suddenly grabbed him in his armored hand.

After Imhotep’s attack nearly killed Zhang Qi, Zhang Qi trapped the priest and triggered an Impact to destroy the underworld divine kingdom. The kingdom’s defenses collapsed, and the entire world began to shatter.

• Imhotep turned into sand to escape, but Zhang Qi trapped every grain inside an [A.T. Field].
• Zhang Qi revealed that the attack had nearly killed him, while Imhotep claimed he was immortal in the divine kingdom and offered to let Zhang Qi leave in exchange for the Book of Amun-Ra.
• Zhang Qi refused Imhotep’s offer and activated the Gigantic’s ten energy units, which formed the Kabbalistic Tree of Life in the sky.
• The divine kingdom shook as Zhang Qi sealed himself inside the Gigantic and layered its defenses around his body.
• The Impact’s energy overwhelmed Anubis’s death laws, and cracks spread across the ground, altar, statue, and boundaries of the kingdom.
• The underworld divine kingdom shattered.

Zhang Qi defeated and sealed Imhotep, then returned with the Central Continent Team to the Main God Space. There, he learned that Zhao Yingkong had awakened the fourth-stage Gene Lock and gone berserk, while Zheng Zha had used the mask to stop her; Chu Xuan suggested the mask’s effects might be resolved by returning to their source in The Mummy.

• Zhang Qi used the Book of Amun-Ra to bind Imhotep and send his soul back to the realm of the dead.
• Zhang Qi and the Central Continent Team returned to the Main God Space, where he ordered the Main God to heal the injured members.
• Zhang Qi noticed that only two more team members had returned than when they began the mission, and saw that Zheng Zha and Zhao Yingkong remained in healing pillars.
• Zhang Jie and Li Xiaoyi told Zhang Qi that the India Team’s monk had triggered Zhao Yingkong’s fourth-stage Gene Lock, causing her to attack the team and allowing him to escape after killing several newcomers.
• Zhang Jie explained that Zheng Zha had put on the mask and entered the fourth stage to stop Zhao Yingkong.
• Chu Xuan said their condition could still be saved and proposed returning to The Mummy, where the mask had originated.

After the team survived the inner-demon crisis, Zhang Qi took the still-unconscious Zhao Yingkong to study her condition and prepare for their next objective in The Mummy. His tests revealed that her inner demon came from the Gene Lock system itself, leaving him to seek another solution in the world of gods and oni.

• Zheng Zha emerged from the Main God's healing and reunited with Lori while the rest of the team welcomed his survival.
• The team noticed that Zhao Yingkong had not awakened, and Chu Xuan explained that the Main God could not treat an inner demon.
• Zhang Qi carried Zhao Yingkong to his room, while Chu Xuan began making preparations for the team’s next trip to The Mummy.
• Zhang Qi placed Zhao Yingkong in a Body Cultivation Furnace and discovered that the India Team's strange cells had been purged, but her inner demon remained.
• Zhang Qi concluded that techniques from the Under One Person World could not separate Zhao Yingkong's inner demon and decided to visit the world of gods and oni for a solution.

After reviewing their rewards and planning to unify The Mummy’s world, the Central Continent Team prepared people and supplies for their return. Two days later, the team arrived in the desert, while Zheng Zha stayed behind with the newcomers.

• Zhang Qi and the Central Continent Team reviewed their rewards and discussed how Zhu Wen and Liu Yu should use their points.
• Chu Xuan proposed choosing a faction in The Mummy’s world, consolidating its power, and unifying the world.
• Zhang Jie and the others agreed, and Chu Xuan began gathering historical information and industrial supplies for the plan.
• Zhan Lan helped Chu Xuan organize information about historical figures, while Zhang Qi repaired the Gigantic and made another preparation.
• Two days later, Zhang Qi led the team back to The Mummy’s world, leaving Zheng Zha with Zhu Wen and Liu Yu.
• The returning team arrived in a blazing desert beneath the sun.

After the atomic bomb’s destruction forced the warlords to submit, Chu Xuan unified the country and began sweeping reforms. Meanwhile, Zhang Qi, Zhang Jie, and Qi Tengyi discovered a map fragment that activated a seven-day mission to enter Sky Pavilion and kill the original test subject, Hao Yi, revealing that the pavilion held the yellow-skinned Saints’ cultivation legacy.

• The world’s leaders confirmed that an atomic bomb had erased a city, spreading fear among the great powers and warlords.
• Chu Xuan gave the warlords a choice between surrender and destruction, and most accepted reorganization while the holdouts were killed.
• Chu Xuan’s forces unified the country in half a month, and he began reforms in land, industry, and education.
• Zhang Qi, Zhang Jie, and Qi Tengyi searched for Qin Shi Huang’s ruins, then obtained a Sky Pavilion map fragment through Qi Tengyi’s black-market contacts.
• Touching the map activated a seven-day mission requiring Zhang Qi, Zhang Jie, and Qi Tengyi to enter Sky Pavilion and kill Hao Yi or lose 10,000 reward points each.
• Zhang Qi read that Sky Pavilion held the yellow-skinned Saints’ cultivation techniques and treasures, which could be claimed by defeating the Prototype god.

The Central Continent Team searched for the Sky Pavilion and discovered a hidden underground mechanism beneath a mountain. After activating it, they descended into the earth and saw the pavilion floating in the darkness ahead.

• Zhang Jie, Zhan Lan, Zhang Qi, and the rest of the Central Continent Team spent half a month searching for the Sky Pavilion.
• Zhang Jie found a concealed hollow in a mountain, and Overlord moved the boulder blocking its entrance.
• Zhang Qi cleared the passage, and Zhang Jie opened a massive stone door with telekinesis; inside, the team's mental powers were suppressed.
• The team reached an underground plaza and found a Buddha statue whose surface was covered in tiny rune-like markings.
• Qi Tengyi channeled Primordial Qi into the lotus platform, activating the runes and causing the entire plaza to descend like an elevator.
• After the descent, the team saw a silver-lit pavilion complex floating in the darkness.

The Central Continent Team reached the floating continent beneath the Earth and discovered that the First God was a giant sphere protected by an AT Field. Their combined assault shattered the sphere, but a towering armored humanoid emerged from it.

• The plaza carried Zhang Jie, Zhang Qi, and the others across the void to a continent suspended above the Earth's magma, where they saw the First God hovering before a vast library tower.
• Zhang Qi identified the First God as a biological weapon and led the team into battle as the others prepared their strongest attacks.
• Zhang Qi's particle beam struck the First God's AT Field, and his own AT Field helped shatter its shield.
• Ming Yanwei's energy arrow failed to harm the sphere, but Zero's Origin Bullet caused dark lines and deep cracks to spread across it.
• Zhang Qi, Overlord, and Chu Xuan unleashed a concentrated assault that destroyed the sphere, revealing a humanoid figure over forty meters tall in metal-and-bone armor.

Zhang Qi fought the awakened First God while the ancient ruins revealed that Main God Spaces had been created by cultivators and Sages. Chu Xuan concluded that First God had been tampered with and the supposed trial was a trap meant to kill later inheritors.

• Zhang Qi grew into his Gigantic form and blocked First God's devastating energy attack with his AT Field.
• First God charged Zhang Qi, and the two giants began a brutal hand-to-hand battle as Li Shuaixi, Zhang Jie, Overlord, and Chu Xuan watched and prepared to join in.
• An ancient consciousness explained that the trial required the group to destroy First God and revealed the origins and purpose of the Main God Spaces.
• Zhan Lan noticed that First God had evolved into a combat form despite the ancient message claiming it could not do so.
• Chu Xuan deduced that someone had sabotaged First God, turning the trial into a trap designed to kill the ruins' later arrivals.

Zhang Qi used an Anti-AT Field and the Spear of Longinus to defeat the First God, but the victory triggered the Sky Pavilion’s self-destruct sequence. The floating continent began to collapse, leaving the group in immediate danger.

• Chu Xuan warned that defeating the First God might activate the Sky Pavilion’s self-destruct sequence and destroy the cultivators’ legacy.
• Zhang Qi evaded the First God while the Kryonaut analyzed its AT Field, then used an Anti-AT Field to make its body collapse.
• As the First God began to awaken and manifest twelve wings of light, Zhang Qi produced the Spear of Longinus.
• Zhang Qi hurled the spear through the First God’s AT Field and pierced its core, stopping its attempted evolution.
• The floating continent shook, and cracks spread across it as the self-destruct sequence began.

Zhang Qi used Gigantic to hold the collapsing continent in place while the Central Continent Team raided the Sky Pavilion for cultivation tablets and magical treasures. They escaped just before Gigantic failed, leaving the continent and pavilion to fall into the lava with their haul secured.

• Zhang Qi had Gigantic unleash its S2 Engine energy to stop the continent from collapsing, then urged the Central Continent Team into the Sky Pavilion.
• Zhang Jie and the others gathered crystal tablets from the first floor while Zhang Qi, Chu Xuan, and Qi Tengyi explored the upper levels.
• Chu Xuan retrieved black and white octahedral diamonds from the Tai Chi diagram, and the group collected magical treasures from the third floor.
• Zhang Qi warned the team that Gigantic was reaching its limit, so they rushed out of the pavilion with their filled sacks.
• The team escaped onto the floating plaza before Gigantic went dark and the continent and Sky Pavilion shattered into the lava.

Zhang Qi studied the information in ancient crystal chips and discovered that they contained rigorous explanations of the universe’s fundamental laws rather than ordinary cultivation methods. He learned that the Profound Cosmos Constant-Light Formula described the speed of light as the universe’s maximum information-processing rate and claimed cultivation could eventually alter it, leaving him with a glimpse of power over Time and Space.

• Zhang Qi entered a concealed laboratory to analyze the cultivation techniques while Qi Tengyi began sorting and identifying the ancient artifacts.
• Zhang Qi found that the crystal chips transmitted dense, multidimensional information that he could process through his links with counterparts in other worlds.
• Zhang Qi learned that the chips presented scientific demonstrations of reality’s fundamentals, including an explanation of the Five Elements as different stable states of fundamental particles.
• Zhang Qi studied the Profound Cosmos Constant-Light Formula, which described the speed of light as the universe’s maximum rate of information processing.
• Zhang Qi discovered that mastering the formula could let a cultivator alter the speed of light and thereby affect Time and Space.

Zhang Qi studied the cultivation methods in Sky Pavilion and discovered they focused on turning cultivators into powerful calculation systems. He then examined the Four Symbols Return-to-Void Canon, whose vast theory promised authority over time, space, matter, and energy, and began considering how immense computational power might shorten the time needed to decipher it.

• Zhang Qi compared the first-floor cultivation methods and found that they modified the body to calculate the laws of matter and energy rather than observe them.
• Zhang Qi reasoned that the civilization behind Sky Pavilion might have already verified its fundamental theories and left later cultivators to deepen and apply that knowledge.
• Zhang Qi touched the black diamond and received the Four Symbols Return-to-Void Canon, which described time, space, matter, and energy as the universe's four fundamental elements.
• Zhang Qi learned that the canon aimed to unify the Four Symbols within the cultivator and grant influence over matter, energy, time, space, and causality.
• Zhang Qi realized that deciphering the canon could take thousands of years, then considered whether immense computational power could greatly reduce that time.

Infinite Zhang Qi proposed building a cross-world computational system to analyze cultivation and uncover the laws of the multiverse, but the others identified major obstacles involving bandwidth, software, and computing power. Skynet suggested asking the consciousness space itself for help.

• Infinite Zhang Qi explained his discoveries about the infinite worlds and proposed using their combined resources to analyze cultivation.
• Orochimaru and Zhuge Qing Zhang Qi noted that understanding cultivation could reveal the origins of Chakra and Primordial Qi, while Kamen Rider Zhang Qi warned that the analysis would take thousands of years without more computing power.
• Infinite Zhang Qi outlined a plan to translate cultivation techniques into machine-readable data and process them with computational resources from multiple worlds.
• Three-Body Zhang Qi and Harry Osborn Zhang Qi raised concerns about bandwidth and computers' inability to understand unfamiliar systems, while Kenneth explained that Moon Cell was inaccessible, difficult to modify, and limited in scope.
• Ba Dou said Ares Technology and the Gengnu Vajra were too incomprehensible to serve as tools, leaving the group without a solution.
• Skynet suggested asking the consciousness space directly for help.

The Zhang Qis united their will to reach beyond their shared consciousness space and found that Yggdrasil connected their worlds through its roots. They directed a new tendril to a universe full of computational data, established a connection, and returned to the white void, where an unfamiliar figure had appeared.

• The Zhang Qis agreed to actively seek a world with enough computational power and software to analyze the Four Symbols Return-to-Void Canon.
• Their combined will drew them beyond the white consciousness space, where they saw Yggdrasil connecting countless universes through its roots.
• Kyubey explained that their connection was too insignificant for a universe’s will to notice and might even provide useful outside input.
• The Zhang Qis poured mental energy into Yggdrasil’s new tendril and accelerated its search through the surrounding worlds.
• The tendril pierced an ice-blue and silver-white universe filled with immense computational activity, establishing a connection before the Zhang Qis fell back into the white void.
• The Zhang Qis found an unfamiliar figure standing where there had previously been nothing.

The Zhang Qis discovered that their young newcomer was Izumi Koushirou, a researcher-minded child in the 1999 Digimon world, and asked him to seek access to Yggdrasil to analyze cultivation techniques. Koushiro accepted the new objective and realized the upcoming Odaiba Summer Camp could help him enter the Digital World as a Chosen Child.

• The Zhang Qis learned that the child had transmigrated into the body of Izumi Koushirou after his parents died and he was adopted by relatives.
• Kayaba Akihiko recognized Koushirou's name and school as belonging to the world of Digimon, leading the Zhang Qis to identify Yggdrasil as the computing system they sought.
• Koushirou understood that the Zhang Qis wanted him to obtain control of or high-level access to Yggdrasil so they could analyze cultivation techniques.
• Koushiro woke in Odaiba, reflected on his new mission, and considered using his future role as a Chosen Child to reach Yggdrasil.
• Koushiro found an Odaiba Summer Camp flyer and saw that the event was scheduled for the following week.

Koushirou used his future knowledge of cybersecurity to earn money, upgrade his computer setup, and prepare for summer camp. When an aurora sent Digivices to the children at the Odaiba campsite, he took his and was transported to the Digital World, where he awoke in a strange primeval forest.

• Koushirou sent a trading company a report on its security vulnerabilities and received a large one-time payment after proving his expertise through encrypted emails.
• Koushirou used the money to buy a high-spec workstation and arrange a private server with help from the company's cybersecurity manager.
• At summer camp, Koushirou worked on his computer while the children set up tents, until an unexpected blizzard fell over the campsite.
• An aurora appeared and delivered Digivices to several children, and Koushirou took his, relieved that he had been chosen.
• Koushirou was pulled into a torrent of data and woke in a strange forest in the Digital World.