Chapter Summaries

Richard captured several Saint Domain Magical Beasts and returned to his territory, where he gave Hogg a Thunder Low-level Godhead and urged Della to pursue godhood independently. He left Hogg to refine the Godhead, continued guiding both of them, and declined to meet a clan prodigy before the boy reached the Saint Domain.

• Richard captured two Saint Domain Magical Beasts at sea and several more on land, including an eagle-type mount, then bound them with master-servant contracts.
• Richard returned to his territory, gave Hogg and Della Mid-level Divine Artifacts, and gave Hogg a Thunder Low-level Godhead to refine.
• Richard warned Hogg that refining a Godhead would limit his future growth and encouraged Della to become a god independently; Hogg accepted the Godhead because he lacked confidence in his own talent.
• Richard answered Hogg and Della's cultivation questions, sharing his understanding of the Laws of Water to help Della advance toward the Saint Domain Limit.
• Hogg told Richard about a gifted young clan member and asked to bring him for a meeting, but Richard said to wait until the boy reached the Saint Domain.

Richard studied the God Tree and Devil Fruits, then strengthened his weapons while discussing the group’s travels in the Chat Group. He arranged for his Water Element Divine Clone to join Xia Mi and the others while he prepared to visit Ye Zhen’s world.

• Richard found that the God Tree refused to eat a Devil Fruit, so he had his Life Divine Clone nourish it with Divine Power.
• Richard studied how Devil Fruit Will took control of objects and strengthened the longbow’s spirituality so it could eventually suppress a Devil Fruit Will.
• Xia Mi told Richard that she had beaten Kaido in Wano Country and wanted to recruit him as her subordinate.
• Lin Feng said the group planned to visit Laugh Tale and then Wan Wan’s world, while Richard chose to visit Ye Zhen’s world instead.
• Richard arranged for his Water Element Divine Clone to travel with Xia Mi and the others while he went to the Mysterious Recovery world.

Richard arrived in Dahai City and met Ye Zhen, who challenged him to a fight so he could test the strength of a god from another world. As Ye Zhen spread his Ghost Domain over half the city, Richard sent out the Deva Path Puppet to test the world’s instant-death rules.

• Ye Zhen ordered A-Wu to prepare for an honored guest, and Richard suddenly appeared at the Ghost Forum base.
• Richard examined the death-ridden world while Ye Zhen and A-Wu sized him up in person.
• Ye Zhen boasted, welcomed Richard, and eagerly challenged him to a fight.
• Ye Zhen unfolded his Ghost Domain above Dahai City, and Richard sensed how it controlled space and distance.
• Richard entered his Small World and released the Deva Path Puppet to test the world’s instant-death rules.

Richard and Ye Zhen sparred inside the Ghost Domain, where Richard sealed away Ye Zhen’s spatial abilities and studied the Substitute Ghost’s causal power. Richard ended the fight by trapping Ye Zhen in an illusion, then pointed out his weaknesses in consciousness and his vulnerability to gold.

• Richard sealed the Ghost Domain, stopped Ye Zhen from using spatial abilities, and struck him with the Deva Path Puppet, but Ye Zhen’s Substitute Ghost restored him.
• Ye Zhen redirected the wounds he inflicted on himself onto the Deva Path Puppet, and Richard healed the puppet while studying the causal ability behind the substitution.
• Richard used an illusion to make Ye Zhen dance, recorded him, and shared the video with the group, whose members sent Ye Zhen small rewards.
• After Richard released him, Ye Zhen complained about the illusion and explained that he had struggled to capture consciousness-type Vengeful Ghosts despite practicing the Meditation Method and Dual Cultivation of Life and Nature.
• Richard told Ye Zhen to train, then reminded him that supernatural abilities could not affect gold and that he could seal Ye Zhen inside it.

Richard obtained a Vengeful Ghost with a Ghost Domain from Ye Zhen and used the Human Path Puppet to study its supernatural Rules. After rewriting the Ghost’s killing Rules and fusing it with the puppet, he activated its Ghost Domain and tested its decaying power, leaving him with a new avenue for studying this world’s Laws.

• Richard asked Ye Zhen for a Vengeful Ghost with a Ghost Domain and offered secret medicines for mental power cultivation in exchange.
• Ye Zhen gave Richard a Mummified Ghost from the Vengeful Ghosts imprisoned after incidents in Dahai City.
• Richard used the Human Path Puppet, made from Leimo’s Darkness Divine Clone, to withstand the Mummified Ghost’s attack and erase its killing Rules.
• Richard fused the Mummified Ghost with the Human Path Puppet and activated a Ghost Domain that covered several apartment buildings.
• Richard tested the Mummified Ghost’s supernatural power on a small animal, which rotted into flesh, and compared its Death Law with that of the Coiling Dragon World.

Ye Zhen invited Richard to Dachang City to watch Headquarters struggle with the Starving Ghost incident and retrieve Professor Wang. After they arrived, Zhao Jianguo tried to recruit Richard, who ignored the offer as they faced the city’s sealed Ghost Domain.

• Ye Zhen told Richard that Headquarters had asked him to enter Dachang City and rescue Professor Wang, and Richard agreed to go.
• Ye Zhen and Richard traveled to Dachang City, where the Starving Ghost’s bluish-black Ghost Domain still sealed the city.
• Zhao Jianguo met Ye Zhen and Richard outside the Ghost Domain and assessed Richard as a potentially powerful Ghost Controller.
• Zhao Jianguo offered Richard a place in Headquarters and praised its benefits, but Richard ignored the recruitment offer.

Ye Zhen and Richard entered Dachang City to rescue Professor Wang, while the Ghost Controllers outside watched. After Richard tested a derivative Ghost Infant, future Yang Jian warned him away from the Wish Ghost, so the pair continued without interfering with Yang Jian’s future.

• Ye Zhen demanded additional payment to resolve the S-class incident, intimidated the assembled Ghost Controllers with his Ghost Domain, and refused to bring Li Jun into Dachang City.
• Ye Zhen used his Ghost Domain to take Richard into Dachang City, leaving Zhao Jianguo and the others outside.
• Richard used a Human Path puppet and the Mummified Ghost’s power to suppress and kill a derivative Ghost Infant, attracting nearby ghost shadows.
• Richard proposed going to Guanjiang Residential District to capture the Wish Ghost, but sensed future Yang Jian watching him and decided not to interfere.
• Ye Zhen explained that he avoided taking items meant for future teammates, and Richard acknowledged Ye Zhen’s restraint.

Richard and Ye Zhen reached Guanjiang Residential District and rescued Professor Wang from the sealed safe house. Richard refused to explain how to prevent Vengeful Ghost revival, leaving Wang Xiaoming eager to learn more about the Republic Era and its secrets.

• Richard captured and sealed a fourth-stage Derived Ghost Infant before he and Ye Zhen left the area to avoid the Starving Ghost.
• Richard and Ye Zhen arrived at Yang Jian's safe house, where Ye Zhen knocked and identified himself as a rescuer sent by Headquarters.
• Richard cleared the foul air from the crowded safe house, and Ye Zhen and Richard entered to meet Wang Xiaoming.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Richard whether he had solved Vengeful Ghost revival, but Richard refused to answer and warned that the paranormal era could not be ended so easily.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Richard about the Republic Era, and Ye Zhen told him that he would learn its secrets only once he became strong enough.

Ye Zhen and Richard tried to take Professor Wang out of Dachang City, but Wang refused to leave before the Starving Ghost incident was resolved. After learning that Yang Jian was expected to handle the threat, Wang chose to wait, while Richard warned that the Human Skin Paper in Zhang Wei’s Gold Box was about to escape.

• Professor Wang refused to leave Dachang City and offered five Red Ghost Candles to persuade Ye Zhen and Richard to resolve the Starving Ghost incident.
• Ye Zhen said something was manipulating the Starving Ghost and proposed waiting for Little Yang to deal with it; Richard explained that the Starving Ghost’s potential made it the entity’s target.
• Wang Xiaoming called Zhao Jianguo, who told Ye Zhen to protect him, and Wang agreed to stay until Yang Jian dealt with the Starving Ghost.
• Richard noticed the Gold Box Zhang Wei was carrying was coming open, and Zhang Wei reinforced it with more gold sheets.
• Ye Zhen identified the contents as Yang Jian’s Human Skin Paper, and Wang Xiaoming asked Zhang Wei to lend it to him for research.
• Zhang Wei refused to lend the Human Skin Paper and told Wang Xiaoming to ask Yang Jian when he returned.

Yang Jian returned to the shelter and learned that Ye Zhen would not help him deal with the Starving Ghost. He took the Human Skin Paper and left to seek its advice, while Ye Zhen and Richard stayed behind.

• After Yang Jian came online, Ye Zhen greeted him and challenged him to grow stronger so they could fight someday.
• Yang Jian hoped Ye Zhen would help stop the Starving Ghost, but Wang Xiaoming and Ye Zhen explained that he would have to handle it himself.
• Zhang Wei handed Yang Jian the Gold Box containing the Human Skin Paper, which Yang Jian needed to find a solution.
• Richard secretly studied the Human Skin Paper through the box, while its warning against handing him over to an unnamed person appeared and then vanished unseen.
• Yang Jian left to consult the Human Skin Paper in private, and Ye Zhen told Professor Wang that Yang Jian could resolve the incident without their help.

After Yang Jian contained the Starving Ghost and cleared the fog over Dachang City, Headquarters and Circle of Friends argued over taking the Ghost and the Coffin Nail. As Wang Xiaoming negotiated with Yang Jian, Jiang Shangbai provoked Richard, unaware that he had chosen the wrong target.

• Yang Jian let Professor Wang inspect the Starving Ghost, while Zhao Jianguo and Ye Zhen arrived at Seventh Middle School.
• A Headquarters Ghost Controller considered pulling out the Coffin Nail, and Yang Jian warned Zhao Jianguo to keep his people under control.
• Jiang Shangbai urged Headquarters to transport the Starving Ghost to Dajing City, and Yang Jian grew angry at the attempt to take it without an offer.
• Wang Xiaoming drew Yang Jian aside to discuss Headquarters' offer, while Jiang Shangbai chose to provoke Richard.
• Jiang Shangbai's fellow Ghost Controllers watched eagerly, but Ye Zhen remained amused rather than angry.

Richard defeated Jiang Shangbai after Jiang provoked him, stripping away the Ghost Burial Clothes that kept Jiang’s powers balanced. Jiang left after failing to buy them back, while Headquarters’ Ghost Controllers became wary of Richard.

• Richard slapped Jiang Shangbai after Jiang came looking for trouble, and Ye Zhen encouraged them to fight.
• Jiang expanded his Ghost Domain and used his supernatural abilities, but Richard’s illusion left him unable to touch or affect Richard.
• Richard slapped Jiang again and stripped away the Ghost Burial Clothes despite Headquarters’ Ghost Controllers considering intervening.
• Richard dispelled the illusion, and Jiang regained consciousness with his powers unstable and a risk of ghost revival within a year.
• Jiang offered money, gold, and other Vengeful Ghosts to get the Ghost Burial Clothes back, but Richard refused, so Jiang left.
• Headquarters’ Ghost Controllers judged Richard dangerous and felt relieved that Jiang had suffered a loss.

After the Starving Ghost disaster, Richard explored the Republican-era mirror and captured thousands of Vengeful Ghosts for research. Back in Dahai City, he discovered new abilities and made progress toward mastering the Laws of Water.

• Yang Jian and Professor Wang confirmed that Headquarters would take the Starving Ghost while Yang Jian kept the Coffin Nail, and Ye Zhen and Richard left Dachang City.
• Richard sent a puppet through the mirror and used gold and the Void Mirror to capture thousands of Vengeful Ghosts, including two that targeted consciousness.
• Richard teased Ye Zhen with the consciousness-type ghosts until Ye Zhen begged for one, then gave him a Gold Box.
• Richard and Ye Zhen returned to Dahai City, where Richard began cataloguing and testing his captured ghosts.
• Richard found a sound-attacking ghost that could help his sound abilities and a Reflection Ghost that could stack supernatural power infinitely.
• Richard had the Deva Path Puppet control the Reflection Ghost and used it to enter the Water Element Profound Mystery of Mirror Image Technique.

Richard and Ye Zhen traveled to Dadong City to enter the Wang Family Old Residence, where endless Restarts could revive the dead. Wang Chaling agreed to let them in, hoping they might also find his missing father.

• Richard decided to visit the Wang Family Old Residence and invited Ye Zhen, who left A-Wu to handle the Ghost Forum's affairs.
• Richard and Ye Zhen flew to Dadong City after Headquarters alerted Wang Chaling to their arrival.
• Wang Chaling met them and learned that they wanted to visit his ancestral residence, which was occupied by outside Ghost Controllers.
• Richard revealed that Wang Chaling's father had become trapped inside the old residence.
• Wang Chaling agreed to let Richard and Ye Zhen enter and offered to take them there.

Richard and Ye Zhen entered the Wang Family Old Residence to reach the Pendulum Clock and encountered the Survival Society, a group of Ghost Controllers living inside its time loop. Richard used the Six Paths Puppet to kill the society members in their way, and the two headed upstairs as the dead members’ Vengeful Ghosts began reviving.

• Richard and Ye Zhen entered the Wang Family Old Residence while Wang Chaling waited outside and then drove away.
• Richard and Ye Zhen met the Survival Society, whose members had occupied the residence’s first and second floors while avoiding the Vengeful Ghost on the third floor.
• Wan Tong and Liao Fan challenged the newcomers, but Richard released the Six Paths Puppet and its layered ghost domains immobilized the Society members.
• Richard used the killing Rules of the puppets’ Vengeful Ghosts to eliminate the Society members, while Ye Zhen complained that Richard had taken his opponent.
• As the dead members’ Vengeful Ghosts began reviving, Richard and Ye Zhen stepped past the bodies and headed upstairs toward the Pendulum Clock.

Richard reached the third floor of the Wang Family Old Residence, took the Pendulum Clock, and contained the Vengeful Ghosts imprisoned there. After he and Ye Zhen defeated the Survival Society, Richard gave Wang Chaling his father, leaving the old residence reclaimed but its supernatural contents gone.

• Richard bypassed the Survival Society on the second floor while Ye Zhen challenged its members to battle.
• Richard crossed the divided spaces on the third floor, matched the Pendulum Clock’s temporal frequency, and sealed it in gold.
• Richard sent the Six Paths Puppet to contain roughly a thousand imprisoned Vengeful Ghosts, abandoning the Spirit Land after several hours.
• Ye Zhen defeated the Survival Society members, while Chen Qiaoyang slipped away without either man noticing.
• Richard and Ye Zhen left the residence and met Wang Chaling, who received his father in a Gold Box and learned he could reclaim the old family home.

Richard returned to the Coiling Dragon World after studying laws and contacting Yang Jian in the Mysterious Recovery world, while his Water Element Divine Clone completed its tour of the One Piece world with Xia Mi and the others. The clone then left for Wan Wan's world with the group, while Richard continued pursuing greater mastery of laws across worlds.

• Richard returned to the Coiling Dragon World after gaining substantial insight into the Death Law and studying the Laws of Time and Space in the Mysterious Recovery world.
• Richard concluded that Ghost Domain and Restart could not function in the Coiling Dragon World, while Time Stasis could, and he planned to keep studying laws across different worlds.
• Richard's Water Element Divine Clone comprehended Round Softness in the One Piece world and began fusing it with another Water Element Profound Mystery.
• Xia Mi's group defeated Kaido, turned him into her subordinate, and killed Shanks and his crew after they came seeking revenge.
• The group visited the Mokomo Dukedom, took Vegapunk's pink Azure Dragon replica fruit from Punk Hazard, briefly stayed in Wano Country, and toured Elbaf.
• The group left the One Piece world for Wan Wan's world, while Richard's Water Element Divine Clone continued traveling with them.

Wan Wan led Richard and the others toward the War God Palace while Richard cultivated and later heard that Cain had fallen in love with a Saint Domain woman whose God Level mother wanted him to marry into her family. Richard agreed to travel there and resolve the matter himself.

• Wan Wan asked Richard and Xia Mi to find the War God Palace, and they confirmed it lay in an independent Small Space that appeared at a fixed place and time.
• Richard read Ye Zhen's complaints in the Chat Group, then closed it and entered seclusion to consolidate his gains and comprehend laws.
• Decades later, Hogg told Richard that Cain had fallen in love with the Saint Domain daughter of the God Level expert Lady Kailina while traveling abroad.
• Hogg explained that Lady Kailina approved of Cain but was keeping him with her and insisting that he marry into her family.
• Richard laughed at Cain's predicament, then agreed to travel to Lady Kailina's side and handle the matter.

Richard visited Kailina on the Scarborough Continent to settle Cain and Salami’s marriage, then sparred with her and revealed strength far beyond what his brief time as a god suggested. Kailina recognized his potential and felt fortunate to become connected to his faction through Salami.

• Richard’s Wind Element Divine Clone arrived at Kailina’s residence on the Scarborough Continent and met Kailina, Salami, and Cain.
• Richard gave Salami and Cain Soul Gold Beads as gifts, then negotiated with Kailina and agreed that Cain and Salami would have a normal marriage and decide where to live afterward.
• Richard stayed with Kailina for several days, and she invited him to spar so she could share her experience as a senior god.
• Richard’s Wind Element Divine Clone demonstrated power that astonished Kailina, who compared his strength to that of a Mid-level God.
• Kailina concluded that Richard could become supreme on the Tara Plane and felt fortunate that Salami’s marriage had connected her to his faction.

Richard’s Wind Element Divine Clone returned, and Richard used the God Tree Fruit to increase his strength and expand his Dojutsu Small World. After more than a year without new members, the Chat Group welcomed five people, who began learning about the group and its functions.

• Richard ate the God Tree Fruit, more than tripling his Chakra and strengthening his dojutsu, then expanded and stabilized his Small World.
• The Chat Group welcomed Heavenly Snow Woman, Qingyun Sect Leader, Second Master of Tushan, Captain of the Fourth Division, and Huashan Sect Leader.
• Lin Feng identified Heavenly Snow Woman as the Snow Empress and explained to Daoxuan that members knew about his world through stories and novels.
• Yue Buqun, Unohana Retsu, and Tushan Yaya examined the group and introduced themselves, while Tushan Yaya chose to observe without speaking.
• Lin Feng explained that members could exchange cultivation materials for points and use points to trade or travel to one another’s worlds; the newcomers fell silent to check the group files.