Chapter Summaries

Fang Can proposed using Heaven Ascending Path martial artists as vessels for protagonist memories, persuading King of Bad Jobs to try the method on Xiang Yincheng. After returning to Z City and noticing its recovery and his aunt shopping, Fang Can went home and joined Liu Qingmeng for a movie.

• Fang Can explained that inducing Lost Heart Madness in a captured Heaven Ascending Path martial artist and implanting protagonist memories might reshape the martial artist's body, Heart Manifestation, and Light of the Soul.
• King of Bad Jobs eagerly agreed to experiment on the Second Turn martial artist Xiang Yincheng, whose head he had in a blood crystal.
• Fang Can left the underground base and flew back to Z City, where he saw reconstruction, a growing cultivation craze, and his aunt shopping in expensive clothes.
• Fang Can returned home and found Liu Qingmeng waiting on the sofa, where she asked him to watch a movie with her.
• Liu Qingmeng told Fang Can to call her Qingmeng instead of Senior Little Liu.

Liu Qingmeng tried to separate her youthful identity from her former self while watching a movie with Fang Can, who could not touch her because his First Turn inheritance remained active. In the underground base, King of Bad Jobs and the researchers tested how changing Xiang Yincheng’s thoughts and memories affected his body, ending with Xiang Yincheng’s consciousness erased and the team preparing to implant new memories.

• Liu Qingmeng reached toward Fang Can, but his AT Field blocked her, and he explained that his First Turn inheritance was still active.
• King of Bad Jobs used Willpower King’s abilities to plant the belief that Xiang Yincheng had a mole between his eyebrows, and a mark appeared on Xiang Yincheng’s forehead.
• At the researcher’s urging, King of Bad Jobs changed Xiang Yincheng’s remembered face, and the researchers observed that his appearance changed with it.
• King of Bad Jobs erased Xiang Yincheng’s memories, but his body remained unchanged until new memories were implanted.
• The researcher advised King of Bad Jobs to implant memories, and King of Bad Jobs wondered whose memories to use.

King of Bad Jobs tested a resurrected Clark Kent, whose rewritten memories gave him a different set of powers and weaker physical abilities. Fang Can then cultivated by visualizing a sun in his mind, using its light to strengthen his body and Heart Manifestation.

• Clark Kent awakened as Injustice Superman and declared that King of Bad Jobs had made him.
• King of Bad Jobs restrained Clark and tested his abilities by fighting him until he was unconscious.
• King of Bad Jobs and a researcher concluded that changing someone's self-understanding could reset their abilities, and King of Bad Jobs planned another experiment.
• Fang Can woke as Liu Qingmeng absorbed his Heart Manifestation and reminded him to pay his friend fee.
• Fang Can cultivated his First Turn body by visualizing a stable, orderly sun in his heart, whose light strengthened his cells and Heart Manifestation.

Fang Can cultivated the Great Sun Indestructible Demon Body, used his AT Field to transmit cultivation to one hundred women, and tempered his will against overwhelming sensations. He then flew to A City to meet Ji Donglai, who had something to discuss with him.

• Fang Can visualized the sun in his sea of consciousness and estimated how his cultivation would increase his physical strength.
• Liu Qingmeng absorbed Fang Can's Heart Manifestation while he cultivated, then warned him that he could be vulnerable to assassination during visualization.
• Fang Can flew to his suburban villa and used his AT Field to transmit cultivation to one hundred women at once.
• Fang Can meditated amid the sensations to temper his will, ending the session after about thirty minutes when the women could no longer endure it.
• Fang Can flew to A City and asked Ji Donglai what he wanted to discuss.

Fang Can tested his strength against Ji Donglai, whose Wealth Can Connect to Divinity turned New Nation's economic value into power and defense. Ji Donglai outlined a team for exploring the other world and considered recruiting additional Superpowered, including from other countries, before the battle.

• Fang Can struck Ji Donglai with a powerful punch, but Ji Donglai endured it unharmed and said the attack had cost him two million points.
• Ji Donglai explained that Wealth Can Connect to Divinity converted the real value of transactions into abilities, and that inflation reduced the power of each point.
• Ji Donglai assembled a team of Superpowered to face the other world's Fourth Turn opponents, with Fang Can among them and each member assigned a role.
• Fang Can suggested adding a healer, and Ji Donglai agreed to look for one among the Superpowered who had volunteered.
• Ji Donglai explained that other countries also had Superpowered and said he might borrow national- and continental-level fighters if needed to protect New Nation from defeat and absorption by the Federation.

Fang Can learned about the White Federation and the Black Empire before Ji Donglai sent him to welcome a newly discovered superpowered person in F City. As Fang Can flew there at immense speed, he realized his strength had increased slightly.

• Ji Donglai explained that white superpowered people faced discrimination and that the Black Empress ruled the Black Empire’s superpowered population through force.
• Ji Donglai told Fang Can about their cooperation on technology and bases on the moon and Mars, then asked him to welcome a new recruit.
• Ji Donglai said the homeless recruit was in a police station in F City after killing two girls who had bullied them, and admitted he had arranged for their parents to be killed.
• Fang Can objected when Ji Donglai revealed he had cut off Fang Can’s parents’ contact with him, then insisted he would handle his family matters himself.
• Fang Can flew toward F City at extraordinary speed and noticed that his strength had increased slightly.

Fang Can nearly gave in to violent and immoral impulses after learning that following his desires could strengthen him, but he restrained himself and went to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. There, he learned that his family had been waiting and discovered that the person in the office was a woman.

• Fang Can realized that using his abilities freely had increased his physical strength, and he wondered whether indulging his desires would speed his martial progress.
• After landing in F City, Fang Can was applauded by the pedestrians and briefly considered attacking them and committing further violence, but he withdrew his AT Field and regained control.
• Fang Can reflected on how Ji Donglai had elevated superpowered people above ordinary citizens and headed for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
• Fang Can lifted the waiting officers with his AT Field, then learned that his family had been waiting inside and that a woman had supposedly bullied a superpowered person.
• Fang Can followed the officers to an office and saw that the person seated inside was a woman.

Fang Can came to the police station to take Qianqian's Loneliness, a game player with a memory-destroying power, to the superpowered headquarters in A City. After she accepted his invitation, he lifted the police station with his force field and flew off with her.

• Fang Can entered the police station office and found Qianqian's Loneliness curled up with a bloodstained box cutter.
• Qianqian's Loneliness recognized Fang Can from the game's opening CG and considered how to act like her character.
• Fang Can told Qianqian's Loneliness that superpowered people were her family and offered to take her to their headquarters.
• Qianqian's Loneliness revealed that her ability was Mental Bomb, which let her destroy memories through touch, and stored the box cutter in her inventory.
• Qianqian's Loneliness took Fang Can's hand, and he lifted the police station with his force field as they flew toward A City.

Fang Can brought Qianqian's Loneliness to Dragon Group headquarters and left her to register with a liaison. He visited a lounge for superpowered people, where his old acquaintances invited him to join their entertainment projects, and he left to check on the girl.

• Fang Can explained that Ji Donglai had arranged for Qianqian's Loneliness's parents to graduate early after they ignored her bullying, and she calmly accepted the explanation.
• Fang Can brought Qianqian's Loneliness to Dragon Group headquarters and sent her with a receptionist to choose a liaison while he explored the building.
• Fang Can visited the lounge on the thirty-second floor and reunited with several superpowered acquaintances, including a purple-haired man and a three-eyed man.
• The lounge's superpowered people invited Fang Can to appear on a variety show, teach martial arts, or star in an adult film, but he declined.
• A woman flirted with Fang Can, and he used his force field to push her away before leaving to check on Qianqian's Loneliness.

Fang Can refused to take Qianqian's Loneliness as a disciple but gave her several of his cultivation manuals instead. She was impressed by their power and overwhelmed by the experience required to learn them.

• Fang Can returned to the lobby and found Qianqian's Loneliness waiting with her liaison after registering.
• Qianqian's Loneliness asked to follow Fang Can, and he refused, advising her to contact King of Bad Jobs about his research project.
• Qianqian's Loneliness asked to become Fang Can's disciple, but he offered to teach her a trick instead.
• Fang Can infused his cultivation insights into a notebook and gave it to Qianqian's Loneliness before vanishing.
• Qianqian's Loneliness examined the manuals and found that learning the Great Sun Indestructible Demon Body required 120,000 experience.

Game reviewer Feng Qiaoyan discovered that Two Worlds Hegemony let players carry their in-game powers into reality, while Ji Donglai responded to players using the game to commit murders. The violent players were subdued and imprisoned, leaving the remaining beta testers wary of causing trouble.

• Feng Qiaoyan complained about the game’s lack of guidance and read her fellow reviewers’ chat messages praising its mechanics.
• She learned from Bloodhand Madman that players gained experience by killing and could bring their improved physical abilities into reality.
• Feng Qiaoyan used a game technique to wipe her pet hamster’s memories and realized her own superpower had carried over from the game.
• Ji Donglai faced a surge of murders as players exploited respawning and experience gained from killing.
• Ji Donglai restrained dozens of violent beta players and imprisoned them, discouraging others from causing trouble.

Ji Donglai learned that murderous Players from a technology-based interstellar civilization were entering New Nation through game avatars, and he sent Fang Can to interrogate them. Meanwhile, Fang Can cultivated at home as Liu Qingmeng teased him and Jiang Ning'an protested.

• Ji Donglai reviewed the Bloodhand Madman's appraisal and learned that Players could grow stronger by killing, use separate bodies, and might number fifty million in the game's first phase.
• The investigator explained that Players could be recognized by their unusual appearances and long names, and Ji Donglai wondered whether Shallow Loneliness was one of them.
• Ji Donglai asked Fang Can to interrogate the captured Players to learn more about their Federation.
• Fang Can visualized the Great Sun while cultivating at the villa as Liu Qingmeng played with his hand and feet.
• Jiang Ning'an asked Liu Qingmeng to stop distracting Fang Can, but Liu Qingmeng dismissed her concern and said she was training her composure.

Fang Can learned that players had invaded the world and agreed to interrogate the captured players in D City. He began questioning their representative, Bloodhand Madman, and revealed that his power was luck-based.

• Liu Qingmeng teased Jiang Ning'an about Fang Can, but Fang Can woke up and moved her aside.
• Ji Donglai told Fang Can that players had invaded and asked him to deal with the uncooperative ones.
• Fang Can warned Liu Qingmeng and Jiang Ning'an that fifty million players might arrive, then agreed to show Jiang Ning'an around that evening.
• Fang Can flew to D City, where captured players were being held in prison.
• Bloodhand Madman demanded that the Superpowered provide millions of ordinary people each year, and Fang Can crushed his jaw with a force field.
• Bloodhand Madman claimed that players could disable pain and revive after death, and Fang Can identified himself as a luck-based Superpowered.

Fang Can made the captured players draw cards, then explained that his Luck Ability could affect reality as well as the game. Feng Qiaoyan learned that players were being arrested, and a player reported that their game pod had suddenly broken.

• Fang Can freed the players’ restraints, immobilized them when they tried to flee, and offered them a card game to decide their fates.
• The players took and swapped cards until all forty-one who remained held Hearts or Spades, while four players drew Jokers and left.
• Fang Can said he would kill the players holding Hearts or Spades, including their real-world bodies, and explained how his control over probability worked.
• Ji Donglai asked Feng Qiaoyan to help Fang Can manage the superpowered, prompting her to log out and check the player chat group.
• Feng Qiaoyan read players mocking Fang Can’s claims about affecting reality, then saw one player report that their game pod had broken.

Fang Can used Luck Manipulation to trigger increasingly catastrophic accidents for the players in the real world while explaining how technology made bad luck more destructive. Electrolytic Blood appeared to die in an antimatter explosion, but he regained consciousness in an interrogation room, leaving Fang Can intrigued.

• Fang Can explained that technological systems had many components that could fail, while players began logging off after accidents struck their game pods and homes.
• Electrolytic Blood survived his game pod exploding, but an antimatter depot exploded on Venus and annihilated the planet as he watched.
• Fang Can described how technological accidents could grow more destructive, and a starship in the Qiongguang Galaxy began suffering structural instability.
• Bloodhand Madman logged off and returned, then accused Fang Can of causing the players' real-world accidents, prompting the remaining players to leave the game.
• Electrolytic Blood regained consciousness in an interrogation room and wondered whether the antimatter explosion had been a hallucination, while Fang Can said he had already died in the real world.

Fang Can tortured and killed Players after they lost their ability to revive, while Players across the world panicked and sought his mercy. With 40 minutes left in his card game, the surviving Players realized they still had a chance to draw a surrender card and rushed for the cards.

• Fang Can inflicted agonizing wounds on Electrolytic Blood and discovered that he could no longer revive after his body remained behind when other Players respawned.
• Fang Can told the Players they had lost their greatest advantage and threatened to kill them, but Bloodhand Madman and other survivors begged him to spare them.
• Players watching a livestream saw members of their group die through terrible accidents, and Feng Qiaoyan and other uninvolved Players entered the game to turn themselves in.
• Fang Can reminded the Players that they had chosen their own cards and that about 40 minutes remained in the game.
• One Player lunged toward the four cards Fang Can had set aside.

Fang Can forced the players in the holding cell to fight for Dog Cards while warning Feng Qiaoyan that the conflict between their worlds had become an act of war. He let the players without cards continue competing for four remaining cards, then ordered the winners to contact Interstellar Federation leaders.

• Fang Can made the players fight over four cards, declaring that anyone who died would lose their chance to become his dog.
• Feng Qiaoyan called Fang Can for help and admitted she was a player; he warned her to conceal her status and be careful if Federation leaders questioned her.
• Fang Can told Feng Qiaoyan that players’ attacks on civilians and their declaration of conquest amounted to an act of war.
• Four players won the cards, and Fang Can prepared to kill the rest until one loser pointed out that four more cards remained with players elsewhere in C City.
• Fang Can gave the remaining players half an hour to find the other cards and told the four cardholders to contact Interstellar Federation leaders.

Li Mingxing gathered the Interstellar Federation’s leaders to discuss the threat posed by Otherworld and the superpowered characters in its game, whose abilities were damaging their universe. The leaders concluded that banning the game could provoke even greater dangers, and they agreed to speak with the surviving players.

• Li Mingxing met with the Federation’s leaders on a remote planet, where they had removed their technological devices to guard against attacks.
• Li Mingxing explained that players of Two Worlds Hegemony had discovered their in-game gains affected their real bodies, and that characters in the game were using the Luck Ability to cause widespread damage in the Federation.
• The leaders considered banning the game, but Li Mingxing warned that this would antagonize both the superpowered characters and Otherworld, a force capable of sending life across dimensions.
• An aide reported that surviving players wanted to speak with the Federation, and the leaders agreed to prepare for the conversation.

Feng Qiaoyan was summoned to the Federation leaders’ meeting as a protective talisman because of her connection to Fang Can, while negotiations over technology and Players proceeded. After the talks, Fang Can approved the Federation’s terms, tested whether former Players still yielded experience when killed, and hurried off to meet Jiang Ning'an; Feng Qiaoyan’s relatives then urged her to consider marriage.

• Feng Qiaoyan arrived at the leaders’ meeting and discovered that her relatives had taken assistant and secretary positions to use her connection to Fang Can to protect the leaders.
• Four Players negotiated on Fang Can’s behalf, and the Federation agreed to share non-cutting-edge technology and regulate Players while refusing to provide complete technology chains.
• Fang Can accepted the Federation’s terms and directed the Players to continue negotiations with Ji Donglai.
• Fang Can ordered four Players to kill bound former Players, confirmed that the kills yielded experience, and left to meet Jiang Ning'an.
• Feng Qiaoyan’s relatives asked whether she had considered getting married.

Fang Can took Jiang Ning'an on a date, while Ji Donglai and the Interstellar Federation agreed to exchange Martial Dao World intelligence for advanced military technology. Both sides realized that their new knowledge would be difficult to use or defend against.

• Fang Can invited Jiang Ning'an out, and Liu Qingmeng watched from the villa, resolving to keep her disciple from winning him over.
• Jiang Ning'an used spiritual energy to hide their appearances, and Fang Can led her by the hand toward their first stop.
• As Fang Can and Jiang Ning'an grew closer, their luck gathered around them and strengthened their Cuckolding Luck.
• Ji Donglai agreed to give the Interstellar Federation intelligence on the Martial Dao World in exchange for advanced military technology and Players' technical guidance.
• Ji Donglai realized his people lacked the precision equipment needed to manufacture the Federation's planet-destroying weapons.
• The Interstellar Federation studied the martial arts intelligence and worried that powerful abilities and the Yongle Canon could threaten its forces and expose its technology.