Chapter Summaries

After reaching the Ancient Sage Lord realm, Li Hai learned that each Stronger Fragment now advanced him by one minor realm and discovered the scale of his new power. He raised several other cultivation systems, surveyed the vast world around the Three Great Continents, and considered creating a New Lotus Province to replace the lost continent.

• Li Hai entered the Ancient Sage Lord realm and learned that Stronger Fragments now advanced him by one minor realm, while sensing the power required to destroy and revive the Four Continents.
• Li Hai raised his Martial Arts entries to Level 6 and advanced his spell arts to the Primordial Spirit Heavenly Ladder without condensing a primordial spirit.
• Li Hai raised his Ghost Path to Wuchang, his God's Forbidden Zone system to 100%, and his Limit-Breaking System to the Sixth Limit, expanding his perception and range of travel.
• Li Hai discovered that the Three Great Continents were the only land within several trillion li, surrounded by endless sky and ocean with no outer space or seabed in sight.
• Li Hai lamented the missing continent and wondered whether he should create another New Lotus Province.

Li Hai restored Lotus Province as New Province, wiped out the ghost creatures across three provinces, and unlocked the rest of Guiyou Grotto-Heaven by feeding it more Soul Remains. In the newly opened ruins, he found records revealing that Naihe Mansion's founders came from another plane whose human civilization had been destroyed by the underworld's ghost race.

• Li Hai restored Lotus Province, renamed it New Province, and erased the ghost creatures across Yu Province, Ancient Continent, and Sea Province.
• Li Hai collected the ghost creatures' Soul Remains and used them to unlock many buildings in Guiyou Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Hai transformed into the Yama Heir, created one hundred thousand yin soldiers in New Province, and turned them into Soul Remains to unlock the remaining buildings.
• Li Hai examined the incomplete stone steles and learned that Yu Province had once been Battle Sect Continent, ruled by the Soul Battle Emperor and cultivated through battle qi.
• Li Hai learned that Naihe Mansion's founders had crossed into this plane through the World-Crossing Gate after the ghost race of the underworld destroyed human civilization in their homeland.

Li Hai learned how the underworld destroyed ancient Four Continents civilization and considered the Wuxian Federation's power before testing the Golden Doomsday fragment again. He endured its attack and vowed to defeat it someday.

• Li Hai read that Naihe Mansion's forebears had fled their ruined homeland, resisted the Soul Battle Emperor, and later preserved fragments of their civilization after Demon Outskirts devastated the Four Continents.
• Li Hai realized Demon Outskirts had led an invasion of the Four Continents in ancient times, killing the Soul Battle Emperor and nearly wiping out Naihe Mansion.
• Li Hai wondered whether the other interfaces were distant lands beyond the sea and questioned how powerful the Wuxian Federation was after reading its records of incursions into the underworld.
• Li Hai examined the Golden Doomsday annotation again, triggering the same intense pain and danger as before.
• The [Study Hard] system purified the malicious information and blocked its source, and Li Hai vowed to defeat Golden Doomsday someday.

Li Hai explored the vast gray wasteland and upgraded his Living Spaceship system beyond its former limit, reaching the Conjecture-Class and gaining a warp engine. He activated the engine to travel faster than light.

• Li Hai scanned the wasteland around the Box Garden World and found no oceans or other terrain, even after teleporting hundreds of billions of li.
• Li Hai used eight fragments to upgrade all eight Living Spaceship skills, growing into a Majesty-Class vessel that could approach light speed but lacked faster-than-light navigation.
• Li Hai spent eight more fragments to break the system's ceiling and become a Conjecture-Class spaceship with a Scorching-Space-Class warp engine.
• Li Hai learned that the system's Conjecture-Class technology came from an unknown civilization's theories about strange matter inside neutron stars.
• Li Hai activated the Scorching-Space-Class warp engine within his body.

Li Hai tested his conjecture-grade Living Spaceship’s warp engine, traveling hundreds of thousands of light-years through a vast gray wasteland. He discovered scattered Box Garden Worlds, including a few advanced ones whose inhabitants had recognized their worlds’ nature and built research bases outside them.

• Li Hai activated his warp engine and vanished inside a Lorentzian space bubble, leaving a destructive, superheated passage behind.
• Li Hai reappeared six hundred trillion kilometers away after two seconds and celebrated his speed and ability to stop without inertia.
• Li Hai detected only gray wasteland and abandoned Box Garden ruins around him, then warped again to search farther.
• Li Hai traveled a total of 270,000 light-years over a day and night, finding the wasteland empty except for scattered Box Garden Worlds.
• Li Hai discovered that a few advanced Box Garden Worlds had realized they were enclosed and sent suited researchers to build forward bases in the wasteland.

Li Hai returned to the Four Continents and paid fifteen fragments to begin another projection, arriving in an apocalyptic Wasteland as a Demonic Radiation Corpse. After learning that the original owner had nearly become a mindless feral corpse, Li Hai used Phenomenon Fiction to keep his mind clear and began evolving.

• Li Hai destroyed over a thousand Blood Clan Box Garden Worlds, then returned to the Four Continents.
• Li Hai activated [Extracurricular Internship] and spent fifteen fragments to bring Phenomenon Fiction into a new projection.
• Li Hai awakened in a dusty warehouse as a Demonic Radiation Corpse, holding a rusted revolver.
• Li Hai recovered memories explaining that supercrystal radiation had created Demonic Radiation Corpses in a Wasteland devastated by war.
• Li Hai realized the original owner had locked himself in the warehouse to avoid harming anyone before attempting suicide as he turned feral.
• Li Hai attributed his clear mind to Phenomenon Fiction and used the system to push his feral-corpse level higher.

Li Hai evolved into an Elite Mad Corpse and escaped the warehouse by picking its iron door with a hairpin. He emerged into the factory ruins that had been his former home and learned from his memories that he had once lived in Shelter 616 and longed for revenge.

• Li Hai advanced from an ordinary mad corpse into a deteriorated mad corpse, then used [Study Hard] to evolve into an Elite Mad Corpse with new traits and skills.
• Li Hai tested his strength against the iron door, injured his fist, and found that he could not cultivate Essence-Locking Sword Qi as a radiation zombie.
• Li Hai searched the warehouse for a key, found wire hairpins, and used Phenomenon Fiction to pick the iron door's lock.
• Li Hai stepped out into the ruined factory and recalled that his former self had survived in the sewers beneath it.
• Li Hai's memories revealed that he had once been a resident of Shelter 616, whose concealed entrance lay beneath a garden near the ruins, and that he had sought death because he could not take revenge.

Li Hai recalled how his predecessor survived Shelter 616’s massacre and spent ten years as a radiation ghoul in the Wasteland. After arriving at his sewer home, Li Hai cleaned himself up, examined his meager supplies, and learned that Treasure Tea bottle caps were the Wasteland’s currency.

• Li Hai remembered that the Mad Dog Gang looted Shelter 616 and slaughtered its residents, sparing only his predecessor, who later became a radiation ghoul and returned to the factory ruins.
• Li Hai ran to his sewer home, tearing open his calf, and complained about his body and the squalid surroundings.
• Li Hai washed away his rotten skin without feeling pain, then dressed and went to inspect his makeshift armory.
• Li Hai found Treasure Tea bottle caps among his supplies and recalled that they served as money and were rumored to come from the elusive Relic City.

Li Hai set out across Kangmo Mountain to reach Scrap City and gather weapons and information before confronting King Chixiao, the superhuman boss of the Mad Dog Gang. A sniper shot wounded him, so he burrowed through the sand toward the shooter and reached a ruined high-rise that might be a Wasteland settlement or bandit camp.

• Li Hai planned to cross Kangmo Mountain and kill King Chixiao to uncover the superhuman circle and obtain Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai abandoned the idea of attacking the Mad Dog Gang alone and decided to go to Scrap City for weapons and information.
• Li Hai packed his supplies, left his sewer home, and traveled into a raging sandstorm with a compass and his Phenomenon Fiction ability guiding him.
• A sniper shot tore off the front half of Li Hai's left foot, but he dropped to the ground and burrowed into the sand.
• Li Hai followed the bullet's direction beneath the sand to a damaged high-rise with lights and figures inside.

Li Hai killed a guard at High-rise Town’s entrance, then used the man’s face as a mask and Phenomenon Fiction’s hoodwinking ability to sneak into the settlement. He entered the main building just before dawn, leaving his next move unknown.

• Li Hai approached High-rise Town, but Big Eyes insulted him and fired at him, so Li Hai dodged the shots and beheaded him.
• Li Hai escaped the other guards, who threw Big Eyes’ headless corpse into a sewer for the Ground Rats to fight over.
• The Ground Rats Cousin offered to let a weary newcomer sleep while he kept watch, and both secretly showed bloodthirsty intentions.
• Li Hai hid behind distant hills, peeled the face from Big and Small Eyes’ head, and tied it over his own skull-like features.
• Li Hai avoided the town patrols, climbed over High-rise Town’s rear wall, and slipped into the main building while muttering that no one could see him.

Li Hai infiltrated High-rise Town and learned that Mayor Ma Daocheng enforced a brutal residency-fee system across the town’s social classes. Suspecting Ma Daocheng had shot him, Li Hai looked for a way past the guards and up to the higher floors.

• Li Hai used Phenomenon Fiction to evade detection and entered High-rise Town’s crowded first-floor lobby.
• Li Hai knocked out a pharmacy owner, stole clothes, and changed his appearance before exploring the marketplace.
• Li Hai learned from a gun shop owner that residents were divided by floor and faced steep fees, with those unable to pay thrown to their deaths.
• Li Hai suspected Mayor Ma Daocheng had shot him and studied the guards blocking the stairs to the upper floors.

Li Hai used species switching to gain a human life, then fought his way up the guarded stairwell and resurrected after Captain Fang killed his berserk corpse form. He cornered Captain Fang on the eighth floor and revealed that the captain was a Level 1 psionic power user.

• Li Hai hypnotized the gun shop owner into learning Five Animals Qigong, gaining a human form and a second life through species switching.
• Li Hai took pistols and ammunition, charged into the stairwell, and shot down guards with curving bullets as he fought upward through heavy gunfire.
• Captain Fang killed Li Hai's berserk corpse form with a precise shot from his Gauss pistol, and Li Hai resurrected in human form and detonated two grenades, collapsing the stairwell.
• Li Hai used another species switch to return in berserk corpse form and confronted Captain Fang on the eighth floor with a broken blade at his back.
• Captain Fang's personal interface showed that he was a Level 1 Psionic Power User with VATS Mode and Precision Level 1.

Li Hai learned that Captain Fang’s VATS Mode came from his Psionic Talent and questioned him about his powers. Captain Fang instead revealed that Mayor Ma led the Mountain Cult, which controlled much of the town, and Li Hai left him stunned by revealing he knew about Ma’s nighttime sniping.

• Li Hai examined Captain Fang’s Psionic Talent and VATS Mode, concluding that VATS accelerated perception and that higher-level psionics could develop stable abilities.
• Li Hai asked Captain Fang how long he had possessed psionics, then severed his arm when Fang claimed he had never heard of them.
• Li Hai questioned Captain Fang about a ritual, and Fang admitted he followed the Mountain Cult, which worshipped the Deep Mountain Fungus God.
• Captain Fang revealed that Mayor Ma was the cult’s Ritual Master and that nearly half the honorary townsfolk and almost all security officers belonged to the cult.
• Li Hai asked whether Mayor Ma stood atop a building at night and fired a sniper rifle, leaving Captain Fang astonished that he knew.

Li Hai killed Captain Fang and climbed to the hotel rooftop, where he confronted the man he suspected had shot him and the Mushroom God cultists. After VATS Mode exposed the man's illusion and froze the attackers in near-stopped time, Li Hai shot down the cultists, but his trigger finger suddenly exploded.

• Li Hai decapitated Captain Fang after learning that a Gauss rifle had been used to shoot him, then kicked the head into the hotel lobby.
• Li Hai searched the empty ninth floor and leapt through a skylight to the rooftop, where he found a telescope, wine, a cigar, and a silver-white rifle.
• Li Hai confronted a gray-suited man and a group of people eating mushrooms, accusing them of inventing the Mushroom God.
• The suited man cast an illusion of a prosperous modern city and urged the cultists to attack Li Hai.
• Li Hai activated VATS Mode, dispelled the illusion, and saw that time had nearly stopped around the charging cultists.
• Li Hai shot the cultists with Captain Fang's Gauss pistol, but his right index finger exploded as he tried to fire again.

Li Hai killed Ma Daocheng after forcing him to reveal a hidden stash of bottle caps and equipment, then left for the desert. There, an unseen attacker pierced Li Hai through the abdomen and lifted him into the air.

• Li Hai used VATS Mode to shoot Ma Daocheng and the Fungal God cultists, then confirmed Ma Daocheng had ambushed him the previous night.
• Ma Daocheng explained that the cultists gained their power by consuming the flesh and blood of gods, and Li Hai tortured him until he revealed a stash of bottle caps beneath the telescope.
• Li Hai collected the bottle caps, telescope, Gauss rifle, grenades, clothes, and bullets in an expanded backpack, then killed Ma Daocheng with a Gauss round.
• Li Hai jumped from the rooftop, died on impact, revived in berserk corpse form, and set off into the desert.
• Li Hai sensed that something was watching him, and a transparent object suddenly pierced his abdomen from behind.

Li Hai killed a Chameleon Demon Scorpion, learned its abilities, and reached Scrap City after crossing the desert. He entered the city’s bustling market, intending to find someone who knew about the Mad Dog Gang.

• A Chameleon Demon Scorpion ambushed Li Hai, but he used VATS Mode to escape its tail and shoot it dead with three Gauss bullets.
• Li Hai gained a Stronger Fragment, learned the scorpion’s skills, and transformed into a Chameleon Demon Scorpion to experience its vision and thermal sensing.
• Li Hai traveled toward Scrap City for two days, killing three groups of bandits and a swarm of Demon Scorpions along the way.
• Li Hai reached Scrap City and saw that it had been built around the wreck of a massive aerospace carrier.
• Li Hai entered the city through its raised iron gate and headed into the crowded metal-built market to seek information about the Mad Dog Gang.

Li Hai arrived in Scrap City and met Little Iron Nail and her sister, Little Iron Pincer, who led him to the Midnight Blues Detective Agency. He came face-to-face with Detective Bai E, whose powerful Prophecy-Type abilities surprised him.

• Li Hai hired Little Iron Nail for ten bottle caps to guide him through Scrap City.
• Little Iron Pincer came looking for Little Iron Nail and explained that they worked at the Midnight Blues Detective Agency.
• Li Hai asked about Detective Bai and said he wanted to learn some information, so Little Iron Pincer led him to the agency.
• Little Iron Nail announced their arrival, and the disheveled, apparently drunk Bai E came downstairs.
• Li Hai examined Bai E's interface and discovered that she was a level-seven Prophecy-Type psionic power user with several unusual skills.

Li Hai paid Bai E for information about the Green Blood Gang and learned about its leaders, lair, and route, but she withheld the identity of its true controller. After leaving the detective agency, Li Hai spotted an unusually sophisticated mechanical arm in a general store.

• Li Hai asked Bai E about the Mad Dog Gang and King Chixiao, then paid her a pile of bottle caps for information.
• Bai E explained that the Mad Dog Squad belonged to the Green Blood Gang, described its Three Giants, and located its lair near the Bayong River.
• Li Hai offered Bai E a much larger payment to reveal the Green Blood Gang's true controller, but she postponed answering until the next day and kept the money.
• After Li Hai left, Bai E told Little Iron Pincer and Little Iron Nail that she had seen a terrifying fire of destruction around him, then sent them to clean up the bottle caps.
• Li Hai wandered through Scrap City's market and noticed an intricately made mechanical severed arm in a general store.

Li Hai bought an advanced mechanical arm and discovered a damaged, ornate suit of armor that resembled Chaos Space Marine Armor. The shop owner opened it to reveal a crude powered-armor endoskeleton inside, leaving Li Hai to realize the impressive suit was only an empty shell around a patched-together frame.

• Li Hai bought a sophisticated mechanical arm for one hundred bottle caps after wondering whether some places in the Wasteland were free of Supercrystal Radiation.
• Li Hai spotted a gold-and-red suit of armor with skull decorations and sensed a faint trace of powerful Psionic Power.
• Li Hai suspected the armor came from a Chaos Space Marine and asked the shop owner where it came from.
• The shop owner claimed the armor was a family heirloom and agreed to sell it to Li Hai for six thousand bottle caps.
• The shop owner inserted a Supercrystal Battery and opened the armor, revealing a crude powered-armor endoskeleton inside.

Li Hai bought and wore a massive, power-hungry Red Skull Armor, then dreamed of slaughter that left his Psionic Power at LV3. At the Midnight Blues Detective Agency, Bai E revealed that nightmares and unseen beings demanding he open a door had been ruining his sleep.

• Li Hai bought the Red Skull Armor and all sixty of the shopkeeper’s supercrystal batteries, then headed to an inn in Scrap City.
• Li Hai’s imposing armor frightened market pedestrians, and he checked into a clean, inexpensive inn.
• Li Hai dreamed of slaughtering creatures and humans while shouting about the Blood God and Skull Throne, then woke with his Psionic Power raised from LV1 to LV3.
• Li Hai visited the Midnight Blues Detective Agency and asked Bai E why he looked exhausted.
• Bai E explained that his nightmares featured demons and monsters demanding he open a mysterious door, so he slept only every few days and relied on alcohol or medicine.