Chapter Summaries

Nightmare Wizard Ryan sent a Consciousness Soul into a native body to investigate the Main God Space, then watched as the depressed man Ryan was pulled into it. Ryan awoke in a subway carriage as a reserve candidate and met his Guide, Zhang Xiaojie, who warned him of a brutal screening.

• Nightmare Wizard Ryan used the city's dream power to nourish a Dream Seed and sent a Split Body into the Main God Space with a fragment of True Spirit Power.
• The Split Body, living as Ryan, selected “yes” on a blood-red computer screen and was pulled into the Main God Space with his Consciousness Soul.
• Ryan endured a disorienting journey through the Main God Space and gradually regained awareness inside a moving carriage.
• Zhang Xiaojie introduced himself as Ryan's Guide and explained that Ryan was a reserve candidate who faced a brutal screening to qualify as a Reincarnator.
• Ryan asked Zhang Xiaojie where they were and what the Main God Space was, then kept his distance when Zhang Xiaojie did not answer.

Ryan and the other rookies woke aboard a train and learned they had been recruited by the Main God Space for a survival screening mission. As the train headed toward a disconnected underground base, Ryan considered how to use his infiltration to gather information while staying alive.

• The rookies woke in a carriage, where Zhang Xiaojie watched them and Ryan kept his composure.
• The Main God Space informed the group that they had died in the Real World and must investigate why the underground base lost contact while surviving.
• Zhang Xiaojie threatened the rookies, explained that he was their Guide, and said the mission would begin when the train stopped.
• Zhang Xiaojie told the rookies that completing the mission and surviving were required to leave and become full Reincarnators.
• Ryan planned to infiltrate the Main God Space, develop quietly, and pass information to his main body.
• Ryan reasoned that the mission was a screening and that investigating the base's disappearance did not necessarily require taking dangerous action.

Ryan questioned the Guide Zhang Xiaojie's motives, then asked him for help before the mission began. Zhang gave Ryan a Silver Samurai Sword and a special Desert Eagle, vanished as the carriage stopped, and the newcomers emerged at an underground base where a suited man proposed working together.

• Ryan wondered whether Zhang Xiaojie guided newcomers to earn rewards or recruit future teammates.
• Ryan asked Zhang for help surviving the mission, and Zhang tested him with his intimidating aura.
• Zhang gave Ryan a Silver Samurai Sword and shared a numerical code before announcing the mission's start.
• Zhang vanished as the carriage slowed and stopped, leaving the newcomers to discover Ryan also had a special Desert Eagle that fired Explosive Rounds.
• The carriage doors collapsed at an underground base entrance, and a suited man urged the newcomers to explore together and investigate the lost contact.

Ryan entered the Main God Space selection mission, killed two Reincarnators who threatened him, and followed the others into the base. Elsewhere, he tested the Lamp of the Sun’s Rule Power in a constructed chamber but failed to uncover its true nature.

• Liu Qingzhi tried to persuade the new Reincarnators to cooperate, while Ryan stayed quiet and kept his powers in reserve.
• Two tattooed men threatened Ryan and demanded the item he had received from the missing Guide.
• Ryan shot both men with his pistol, named White Dove, and frightened the other Reincarnators into fleeing into the base.
• Ryan followed the fleeing Reincarnators toward the base elevator and wondered what had caused the base to go offline.
• Ryan performed six blood sacrifices in a Black and White Bubble but saw almost no change in the Golden Flames of the Lamp of the Sun.
• Ryan concluded that the knowledge he had from the Immortal Path Civilization was too low-level to reveal the Rule Power of a True Self Immortal.

Ryan recognized that his foundations were too weak to study Rule Power and decided to focus on becoming a Radiant Moon Wizard and developing the Illusory Wizard Body. After resting for two days and nights, he reaffirmed his original purpose and resolved to prepare for the Starry Wars Assembly while continuing to pursue Andersen and the secrets of the White Mist Area.

• Ryan concluded that his attempts to reach Rule Power were premature and chose to advance toward the Radiant Moon Wizard realm one step at a time.
• Ryan returned to his office in the Conquest Tower, put away his research, and rested with Harak for two days and nights.
• After waking, Ryan remembered that understanding the unknown through the Wizard's path was his original intention.
• Ryan resolved to join the Council of Stars if it helped counter Andersen, while keeping the Online Area plan and the Heart of War's expansion moving forward.
• Ryan planned for the Heart of War to watch for Andersen and serve as his rear base as he continued investigating the White Mist Area.

Ryan continued preparing to become a Rank 3 Radiant Moon Wizard and worked on research into the Illusory Wizard Body. In the Dream Realm, Wizard Kelan asked for his help finding the Dream Wizard, and Ryan proposed using her power after completing his research.

• Ryan reviewed his progress toward becoming a Rank 3 Radiant Moon Wizard and identified the Legendary Series Potion and the World Embryo as obstacles.
• Ryan traveled through headquarters and observed the expanding glaciers and damage caused by the Wind Snow Spirit.
• Wizard Kelan told Ryan she could not sense the Dream Wizard despite assimilating the Dream Ancient Tree and feared her teacher might be dead.
• Ryan reassured Wizard Kelan that the Dream Wizard was likely alive and suggested that barriers in the Dream World could be blocking her perception.
• Ryan proposed using Wizard Kelan's power to perceive the Dream Realm once his research project was complete, then left to continue his work on the Illusory Wizard Body.

Ryan investigated the underground base for clues about why it had lost contact with the outside world. After finding piles of discarded clothes in the elevator and food warehouse, he realized the base's personnel had faced an unknown threat that drove some to flee and others to hide.

• Ryan chose to investigate underground and gathered a gas mask, military shovel, flashlight, and first-aid kit at the Transfer Station Platform.
• Ryan found a large pile of base uniforms and underwear inside the elevator and wondered why the occupants had removed their clothes.
• Ryan searched the cafeteria and food warehouse but found no personnel or bodies.
• Ryan discovered neatly arranged clothes, including underwear, in the food warehouse and connected them to the elevator's discarded uniforms.
• Ryan concluded that an unknown influence had endangered the base personnel, causing some to flee and others to hide among the food supplies.

Ryan investigated the vanished base employees and met Wang Dazhuang, who offered a clue about the lost contact and the base’s secrets. They agreed to work together and head to the Operations Area, where the final secret was located.

• Ryan examined the clothes left behind and theorized that a disaster had killed everyone in the base before they could escape.
• Ryan encountered Wang Dazhuang, who proposed working together rather than competing.
• Wang Dazhuang revealed that someone had deleted the Main Control Hub data and that a backup disk contained a lead about the base’s advanced work.
• Ryan deduced that the final secret was in the Operations Area and agreed to cooperate with Wang Dazhuang.

Ryan joined Wang Dazhuang on an investigation of District 9 in the Operations Area while realizing that something in the base’s air had dulled his thinking. Outside, bodies and their remains vanished into the frozen ground, leaving only clothes behind.

• Wang Dazhuang explained that the disappearances might change and led Ryan toward District 9 to investigate.
• Ryan shot and obliterated an eavesdropper hiding in a corridor, frightening Wang Dazhuang.
• As they traveled through the base, Ryan noticed the other newcomer Reincarnators fleeing from him.
• Ryan realized that air from the elevator shaft had affected his intelligence and suspected an abnormal substance was behind his sluggish thoughts.
• At the surface base, corpses disappeared into the ice along with their blood, flesh, and bones, leaving only their clothes.

Ryan and Wang Dazhuang descended to Zone 33, where they found signs that people in the base had been affected by an unknown substance. When the station's security system blocked their entry, Ryan blasted through the door, triggering an alarm that could draw other Reincarnators.

• A new Reincarnator screamed that a monster was inside his body before exploding in the snowstorm, while other people's clothes lay near the elevator shafts.
• Wang Dazhuang and Ryan descended toward the Operations Area, and Wang Dazhuang spotted base employees' uniforms hanging at different heights in the elevator shaft.
• Ryan considered how an unknown substance might have affected the people in the base and decided he would use Twisted Reality if necessary.
• The elevator reached Zone 33, and Wang Dazhuang's identity card failed the station's iris scan.
• Ryan fired the White Dove at the Mechanical Gate, damaging it and triggering an alarm that the sentry station was under attack.
• Ryan fired again as Wang Dazhuang worried that other Reincarnators might be heading toward the Operations Area.

Ryan found data in the Main Control Room identifying Meta Bacteria as the cause of the Outpost Station’s collapse and learned that every Reincarnator had been infected upon entering the base. He decided to investigate the bacteria in the Laboratory, where he discovered records of earlier experiments.

• Ryan exhausted the explosive rounds in his White Dove to destroy the Rear Safety Door and entered the hall with Wang Dazhuang.
• Ryan searched the Main Control Room and found that Meta Bacteria could infect people without symptoms, and that the Reincarnators had all been infected upon entering the base.
• Ryan told Wang Dazhuang that they might need evidence to complete their mission and proposed testing the bacteria through Experimental Research.
• Ryan entered the Laboratory beside the warehouse and found its equipment intact, with papers documenting earlier research into Meta Bacteria.

Ryan read the experiment logs and discovered that the Meta Bacteria had infected the entire base, causing the deaths and panic that explained its loss of contact. Rather than leave after completing his mission, Ryan chose to investigate the bacteria and the secret beneath District 33, triggering a new Hidden Plot.

• Ryan read the experiment logs describing how researchers discovered, revived, and studied the Meta Mycelium, later renamed the Meta Bacteria.
• The logs revealed that the bacteria spread through the Laboratory, infected the base, and led to deaths and a riot as people tried to escape.
• Ryan recognized the manuscript as a diary explaining why the base had lost contact and received a prompt offering him the option to leave.
• Ryan chose to remain because he wanted to study and control the Meta Bacteria, whose properties might aid his research.
• Ryan triggered the Hidden Plot "Digging Truth," which pointed him toward investigating the bacteria and the frozen earth beneath District 33.

Ryan began researching the Meta Bacteria in the Outpost Station, using captive Reincarnators as test subjects while Wang Dazhuang helped secure more. The first experiment left Ryan examining the results with a furrowed brow.

• Ryan settled on a research plan and told Wang Dazhuang he needed at least three Meta Bacteria-infected test subjects.
• Wang Dazhuang agreed to help Ryan, despite secretly carrying a pistol he had found in the Outpost Station.
• Ryan conducted brutal experiments on bound Reincarnators, assuring them their suffering might help others escape the mission world.
• Wang Dazhuang watched from outside the laboratory and decided to find Ryan more test subjects.
• Ryan examined the dissected test subject and frowned at what he found.

Ryan studied the Meta Bacteria as they reacted to one another in the Laboratory, while Wang Dazhuang brought new captives to serve as test subjects. Deep beneath Zone 33, a blue, fluid creature emerged from a fissure carrying clothes like those worn by the base’s staff.

• Ryan examined an infected body and considered how to analyze the Meta Bacteria and their effects.
• Wang Dazhuang shot one of five Reincarnators who resisted, then forced the survivors into an elevator to Zone 33 as test subjects.
• Blue light spread across the Laboratory as the failed subjects’ bodies responded to one another, leading Ryan to suspect the Meta Bacteria shared a central source.
• Ryan used True Spirit Power to study the Meta Bacteria as his perception accelerated beyond ordinary human limits.
• A fissure opened deep beneath Zone 33, and a giant blue fluid creature crawled out carrying uniforms like those worn by the base’s staff and researchers.

Ryan used True Spirit Power to control the Meta Bacteria with the King's Mark, and the Main God changed the mission to surviving ten minutes. As a hostile presence raced toward the base, Ryan suspected it was the awakened source of the bacteria.

• Ryan drew the Meta Bacteria into the tree-shaped mark on his palm, named it the King's Mark, and gained control over the bacteria inside and outside his body.
• The Main God canceled the previous mission and replaced it with an objective to survive ten minutes before returning to the Main God Space.
• Ryan suspected his control over the bacteria had stirred the source in District 33 and wondered whether it was coming for him.
• Liu Qingzhi urged the Reincarnators in the Main Control Hub to split up and hide until the ten minutes were over.
• A hostile presence followed the drilling machine's path through Zone 33 toward the sealed Artificial Mechanical Building, intending to devour the base's supplies.

After the mission changed to surviving for ten minutes, Ryan told Wang Dazhuang the research objective was useless and advised him to survive. Blue Water Body spread through the base, killing Reincarnators as the remaining survivors faced the outbreak.

• Wang Dazhuang learned the mission had changed and asked Ryan whether their Experimental Research on the Meta Bacteria still mattered.
• Ryan told Wang Dazhuang the changed objective made the research useless and advised him to survive ten minutes.
• Blue tendrils gathered in the Laboratory and climbed through the Elevator Shaft into the base, following Pheromones.
• A Reincarnator hiding in the Main Control Room discovered Blue Liquid forming into tendrils and melted when they reached him.
• Blue Water Body spread across the base, absorbing Reincarnators and reactivating Meta Bacteria as survivors screamed and fled.

Ryan and Wang Dazhuang faced the Meta Bacteria’s powerful entity on the frozen surface while waiting for their return to the Main God Space. They escaped just before Ryan’s timed explosion destroyed the monster and the Weapon Depot.

• Wang Dazhuang spotted the buried clothes of Reincarnators and feared the surface cold had caused the Meta Bacteria to turn on them, but Ryan revealed he had prepared for the threat.
• Ryan sent Wang Dazhuang to plant timed bombs in the Weapon Depot while explaining that he had studied and controlled the Meta Bacteria.
• Ryan sensed the entity climbing the Elevator Shaft and fired explosive rounds into it as Wang Dazhuang watched the countdown to their return.
• A watery blue monster emerged from the shaft, and Ryan and Wang Dazhuang fired at it until the Main God offered them a return to the Main God Space.
• Ryan activated the remote as they left, detonating the Weapon Depot and engulfing the monster in the explosion.

Ryan spent thirty-two years modifying and consolidating his wizardry, testing his new spells against simulated Rank 2 Supernatural Lifeforms. After returning to Heart of War, he encountered an unexpected change in Lord Dream Wizard that gave the Antun Family hope.

• Ryan tested Nightmare Ball Lightning, Nightmare Mahakala, Great Spear of the Underworld, Nightmare Devour, and his Dream Wizard spells against simulated Supernatural Lifeforms, killing each opponent.
• Ryan completed his wizardry transition after thirty-two years and recorded Nightmare Mirror Realm among his modified spells.
• Ryan walked through Heart of War and reflected on its growth and the time needed to build its foundations.
• Kaze Antun told Mona Antun that Lord Dream Wizard seemed to have changed, leaving her excited and apprehensive.

Wizards gathered in the Foam World for a banquet and exchange tournament that would also decide the Heart of War’s response to an impending war with the Pale Hand Wizard Force. As the guests arrived, old relationships and family ambitions resurfaced, while the final Virtual-Reality Magnification Generator remained at the center of preparations.

• Mayer traveled toward the banquet and anticipated the exchange tournament, where Solomon the Divine Child was expected to compete.
• Akesi examined a Dream Creature before promising his teacher he would win the tournament.
• Wizard Ethan greeted Golden Light Wizard, Withered Wood Wizard, and other Formal Wizards, then noted that Umbral Wizard would return for the banquet and that war with the Pale Hand Wizard Force was near.
• Kaze Antun urged Hades to help restore the Antun Family’s standing and placed his hopes on Zack advancing to Formal Wizard.
• Mona remembered Ryan, Matthew, and Gray, and took out the Metal Token from Harak’s General Store.
• An observer surveyed the immense complex below and identified it as the site of the last Virtual-Reality Magnification Generator.

Umbral Wizard completed the Virtual-Reality Magnification Generator network, and Wang Ya outlined the Heart of War’s plan to trap the Pale Hand in the Dream World and seize its territory. After the council ended, Wang Ya focused on retrieving the Pale Hand’s Dream Sword to strengthen his Dream Core.

• Umbral Wizard finished connecting the generators in and around the Pale Hand’s territory to the Dream World and returned to attend the Conquest Council.
• Thunder God Wizard and Black Blood Wizard discussed the coming campaign and the chance to earn a Legendary Blood Potion before meeting Wang Ya at the council.
• Wang Ya explained that the Virtual-Real Replacement Wizard Array could pull the Pale Hand into the Illusory Layer, erode its forces, and turn enemies into Dream Creatures.
• Wang Ya revealed that the array could also make conquered territory gradually enter a Dreamscape State, while exempting Wizards bearing a Conquest Wizard Mark or Nightmare Calamity Mark.
• Wang Ya reviewed the Foam World’s growing Dream Core and planned to retrieve the Dream Sword, which he expected to strengthen his core and Illusory Wizard Body.