Chapter Summaries

Li Hai used a lottery reward to gain The World and tested its time-stopping ability, which lasted only one millisecond. Later, he told Gu Xinyi that his cultivation breakthrough had caused the aura that swept across the Four Continents, leaving her astonished by how quickly he had advanced.

• Li Hai inferred that the route to the Heavenly Dao Realm might lie within the underworld, then activated the lottery wheel.
• The wheel awarded Li Hai [Stand: The World (Level 10)], and he allowed its power to enter his Void Primordial Spirit.
• Li Hai activated The World, froze everything around him for one millisecond, and observed his stand-in before ending the time stop.
• At the Pillar of State Residence, Gu Xinyi asked Li Hai whether he had caused the aura that swept across the Four Continents.
• Li Hai confirmed that his cultivation breakthrough had caused a commotion and told Gu Xinyi to reassure everyone that no foreign enemy had invaded.

Li Hai revealed to Gu Xinyi that he had surpassed Extreme Ancient and become a Human World Immortal Demon, then demonstrated his mastery of cosmic principles. He summoned a hundred Extreme Hegemon guards, leaving Gu Xinyi stunned, before an even more powerful figure appeared.

• Li Hai told Gu Xinyi that he had reached the Human World Immortal Demon realm, far beyond the recorded limits of martial arts.
• Li Hai used the Earth Principle to stop Gu Xinyi from kneeling and explained how a Taixu Primordial Spirit could command the four cosmic principles.
• Li Hai introduced a hundred golden-armored Extreme Hegemon guards, who knelt and greeted him as The Emperor.
• Gu Xinyi reeled at the sight of so many Extreme Hegemons gathered as Li Hai's household guards.
• A figure with an aura surpassing all hundred guards suddenly appeared before Gu Xinyi.

Li Hai explained to Gu Xinyi that his vast World-Outside Grotto-Heaven supplied the experts now guarding the Four Continents, and that he planned to leave in search of the path to the Heavenly Dao Realm. He revealed that the Calamity Lord might have destroyed past civilizations and intended to confront it, but a powerful ripple interrupted the conversation.

• Ragul Falcon appeared, knelt before Li Hai, and took his place as commander of the guards.
• Li Hai told Gu Xinyi that he ruled a vast World-Outside Grotto-Heaven populated by countless experts, leaving Gu Xinyi stunned.
• Li Hai said he had brought the grotto-heaven's forces to protect the Four Continents in case he was absent.
• Li Hai revealed that he planned to travel to the Land of Death in the Underworld and seek the path to the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• Li Hai explained that the Calamity Lord might have destroyed the world's prehistoric civilizations, and Gu Xinyi praised his plan to confront it.
• A surging ripple swept in from a thousand miles away and interrupted Li Hai and Gu Xinyi.

The King Yu World-Suppressing Seal opened a vision into the underworld, where King Yama Mo displayed the captured Zong Yuanyi and threatened Li Hai. After Mo identified Li Hai as the one who killed his son Jiao, Li Hai challenged him to fight immediately.

• The King Yu World-Suppressing Seal began humming, and Li Hai arrived at Yu Seal Palace with Lager, Gu Xinyi, and imperial guards.
• Gu Xinyi told Long Hanshui and the Cabinet Ministers about Li Hai’s power, his grotto-heaven, and the Emperor’s plans to confront the Calamity Lord.
• The seal revealed a ghostly wilderness, where King Yama Mo appeared with an army of vicious ghosts and claimed to be feeding on humans.
• King Yama Mo showed the Cabinet Ministers the battered Zong Yuanyi, whom they recognized as the Zong Clan’s Grand Progenitor.
• Mo recognized Li Hai as Jiao’s killer and threatened to enter the mortal realm, but Li Hai told him they could begin their fight at once.

Li Hai and the Custodes defeated Mo and the Wuchang ghosts, then forced Mo to reveal what he knew about reaching the underworld. When Mo claimed the living could not enter, Li Hai transformed into a ghost and instantly advanced to the Netherworld Emperor Realm.

• Li Hai brought Lager and a hundred Custodes through the halo, and they swiftly killed the Wuchang ghosts while Lager beat Mo into submission.
• Lager carried the battered Mo into Yu Seal Palace, where the Cabinet Ministers reacted to the ghost's power and praised Li Hai.
• Li Hai tortured Mo until he agreed to answer questions, then asked how to reach the underworld.
• Mo said the living could never enter because heavenly law barred them, but Li Hai recalled the Wuxian Federation's ruins in the underworld.
• Li Hai transformed into a Yama-grade ghost and instantly advanced to the Level 10 Netherworld Emperor Realm.

Li Hai transformed into an Underworld Son of Heaven, forcing the demon to submit and explain the Ghost Path and the underworld. The chapter left Li Hai learning that the eighteen-layer Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Road connected the mortal sea to the underworld and that living-world markers only reached the first boundary layer.

• Li Hai transformed into a level 10 Underworld Son of Heaven, and the demon immediately knelt in absolute submission.
• Li Hai ordered the demon to reveal everything he knew about the underworld, and the demon explained the Gates Between the Two Realms and the Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Road.
• The demon explained that realm gates were fixed islands extending from the underworld and that yin-yang islands formed where yin and yang qi collided.
• The demon described passing through Teyvat Continent and a small island chain resembling One Piece's setting, surprising Li Hai with details he recognized.
• The demon explained that the boundary passes formed eighteen layers and that living-world markers could be activated only at the first layer nearest the mortal sea.

Li Hai learned that reaching the underworld mainland required crossing eighteen checkpoints through unpredictable boundary gates, while Heavenly Dao servants could travel freely after swearing a degrading oath. He planned to test whether he could enter a gate manifested by Mo Zhe, then spoke with the rescued Zong Yuanyi.

• Mo Zhe explained that travelers had to cross eighteen checkpoints by finding boundary gates on yin-yang islands, and that each gate could take a wildly different form.
• Mo Zhe said Heavenly Dao servants could manifest gates freely because of their oath, then recited the oath at Li Hai's request.
• Li Hai suspected the Heavenly Dao Will was connected to the Calamity Lord and proposed entering a gate that Mo Zhe manifested.
• Li Hai turned to Zong Yuanyi, who thanked him for saving his life and praised his extraordinary strength.

Li Hai transformed the Four Continents, vastly expanding their size and vital essence, and persuaded Zong Yuanyi to stay in Great Jing. Lager and the Imperial Guards stationed themselves at the Pillar of State Residence while Zong Yuanyi went to cultivate outside Central Capital.

• Zong Yuanyi explained that the King Yu Seal had sent him through an ancient witchmen spacetime gate to the First Yin-Yang Boundary Pass, but he still wanted to explore overseas.
• Li Hai caused the Four Continents to expand by tens of billions of times and dramatically increased their vital essence.
• Zong Yuanyi recognized the transformation’s promise and agreed to remain in Great Jing to guard the nation.
• Lager said he and the hundred Imperial Guards would stay at the Pillar of State Residence until the Emperor returned, and offered help with crises.
• Zong Yuanyi told the Cabinet Ministers to seek him if needed, then flew to the mountain range outside Central Capital to cultivate.

Li Hai discovered that the boundary-pass island required him to win a Four-Wheel Drive Car competition before he could create a usable realm gate. He traveled to Car Planet, where he encountered a bizarre car-obsessed society, and arrived at Dr. Tsuchiya’s laboratory as the scientist watched a strange video.

• Li Hai used his divine perception to survey the boundary-pass island and learned from Mo that he had to become the overall champion of a Four-Wheel Drive Car competition to create a usable gate.
• Li Hai found Car Planet, the only place in the illusory world with intelligent life, and traveled there from the dead planet.
• Li Hai appeared in a Tokyo church where a priest and believers chanted from the Car Scripture, then walked out to see people racing palm-sized cars with supernatural moves.
• Mo told Li Hai that he had to win the tournament without using violence, so Li Hai went to a four-wheel-drive car research base.
• Li Hai entered Dr. Tsuchiya’s laboratory and found the scientist watching a video of two cars in a strange encounter.

Li Hai summoned a colossal Belial to demand entry into Car Planet’s Mini 4WD Grand Prix, forcing the organizers to postpone it while Dr. Tsuchiya built his car. Half a month later, Li Hai unveiled the Black Hole Tyrant and declared that it would win the competition.

• Li Hai asked Dr. Tsuchiya to build him a top-quality 4WD car, then summoned a giant Belial in space to pressure Car Planet’s organizers to let him compete.
• Belial threatened to destroy Car Planet if he was excluded from the Grand Prix, alarming people across the planet before vanishing.
• Cunyang Chaoxiong agreed to postpone the competition after calls from world leaders, then collapsed from the stress.
• Half a month later, Li Hai picked up the Black Hole Tyrant, a black-and-red Mini 4WD powered by an artificial black hole, and predicted it would win.

Li Hai completed the Black Hole Tyrant and demonstrated that it could fly into space before returning to his hand. As the World Grand Prix began three days later, Xingma Hao and the other racers learned that Belial would compete, and the story left off at the race’s opening on Sunny Plains.

• Li Hai set the World Grand Prix to begin in three days and launched the Black Hole Tyrant through the atmosphere and into space before it returned to his hand.
• Xingma Hao celebrated the coming Grand Prix with Xingma Lie, while Yingyu Long pointed out that his Super Z Doura had also evolved.
• Sanguo Tengji demonstrated that his Swift Hive could split into flying mechanical bees and reassemble as a car.
• A butler told Sanguo Tengji and the other racers that Dark King Belial would enter the Grand Prix.
• Xingma Hao, Xingma Lie, A Ji, Sanguo Tengji, and Yingyu Long reacted to Belial’s entry, and three days later the World Grand Prix began on Sunny Plains.

At the Four-Wheel Drive World Championship, Li Hai appeared as the alien racer Mr. Belial and became interested in the strange comedic power he witnessed among the racers. After boosting his comprehension, he saw the illusory foundations of the world clearly but decided he needed more complex examples to understand them.

• Xingma Hao, Xingma Lie, and Yingyu Long arrived at the crowded World Championship as Four-Wheel Drive Fighter introduced its four dangerous tracks.
• Four-Wheel Drive Fighter presented Li Hai as the alien competitor Mr. Belial, and the racers and spectators reacted with amazement to his beauty and ability to fly.
• Xingma Hao punched Sanguo Tengji for acting jealous, and Li Hai noticed that Sanguo Tengji's injury vanished without anyone else reacting.
• Li Hai identified the bizarre phenomenon as a possible Power of Comedy and realized the system could not observe or learn it.
• Li Hai consumed four Stronger Fragments to raise his martial talent and Comprehension to level 10, then saw the world's illusory foundations and concluded he needed more complex samples.

Li Hai watched the bizarre volcano race and observed how conversation among Xingma Hao and his group slowed time across the universe. After finally joining the competition with the Black Hole Tyrant, he sped past every racer and came within a thousand meters of the finish line.

• Li Hai noticed that ordinary conversation slowed time, first during a brief exchange and then when Xingma Hao and his group reminisced, slowing the entire universe.
• The race began, and Li Hai stayed behind to observe while contestants used extraordinary moves to race along the volcano track.
• A Finnish racer fell into the lava, returned to the track, and was disqualified for going off course.
• Li Hai decided he had observed enough and launched forward on the Black Hole Tyrant with Vortex Burst Tornado, passing the other racers and approaching the finish line.

Li Hai and the other racers unleashed increasingly extraordinary abilities as they raced toward the finish line in the World Grand Prix. Li Hai won the first round by using the Black Hole Tyrant to teleport through a wormhole.

• Belial used a leap to reach a point near the finish line, while Yingyu Long, Sanguo Tengji, and A Ji launched their own special techniques to catch up.
• R urged A Ji to use flame punch, and he blasted the racetrack to propel himself forward at tremendous speed.
• The Xingma brothers drew strength from memories of their friends and mother, stopped time across the universe, and raced forward with their Twin Spiral Tornado.
• Li Hai opened a wormhole with the Black Hole Tyrant and drove through it to the finish line, winning the first round.

Li Hai won the first stage of the Mini 4WD World Grand Prix, then chose to skip the next two races and return only for the final. After researching comedy power, he watched as the Sky Track final began high above Japan.

• Li Hai crossed the finish line first and won the Grand Prix’s first stage, while the Xingma brothers and other racers finished behind him.
• Li Hai asked whether the champion would be decided by the final race, then announced he would skip the next two races and compete only in the final.
• Li Hai refused the ten-billion-yen prize and left the stadium, while Xingma Hao and Sanguo Tengji bickered.
• Li Hai traveled to the edge of the illusory universe and spent two days studying his comedy-power samples, concluding he needed more data.
• Li Hai looked toward Japan as the Four-Wheel Fighter began the Sky Track final, lifting the spectators and contestants to ten thousand meters above the ground.

Li Hai and the racers gathered for the 530-kilometer Sky Track final, which featured extreme hurricanes, lightning, and spacetime hazards. After the racers launched their ultimate moves, Li Hai sent Black Hole Tyrant speeding after them with Supernova Sprint.

• The Four-Wheel Drive Fighter introduced the Sky Track’s three dangerous zones and began the countdown for the final race.
• During frozen time, Xingma Hao and Xingma Lie planned to use their ultimate moves, while Sanguo Tengji, Yingyu Long, and A Ji voiced their resolve to win.
• Li Hai watched the racers’ preparations and hoped their stunts would help him understand the power of comedy.
• When the race began, Xingma Hao, Xingma Lie, Sanguo Tengji, A Ji, and Yingyu Long unleashed their ultimate moves and raced toward the finish line.
• Li Hai ordered Black Hole Tyrant to use Supernova Sprint, and it surged toward the finish at thousands of Mach.

Li Hai used the Black Hole Tyrant to race far ahead, then unleashed Eternal Night Rose to halt movement across the Galaxy. Xingma Hao defied the apparent loss with Memory Kill, freezing time again, and somehow summoned music that stunned Li Hai.

• Li Hai crossed the track’s hazards in a burst of speed and waited ten kilometers from the finish line while the other racers tried to catch up.
• After the Four-Wheel Fighter announced Li Hai’s lead, Yingyu Long, A Ji, Sanguo, and the Xingma brothers unleashed their special techniques and accelerated.
• Li Hai activated Eternal Night Rose, suppressing the movement of nonliving objects throughout the Galaxy and stopping the other racers.
• Xingma Hao refused to give up and used Memory Kill, freezing the flow of time throughout the universe.
• An inexplicable burst of music rang across the universe, and Li Hai was stunned that Xingma Hao had brought out the BGM.

Xingma Hao and Leaping Charge raced beyond the laws of physics and backward through the history of the universe, ultimately passing the Big Bang into a void without time or matter. There, Xingma Hao understood something and declared, “Let there be light.”

• Xingma Hao drove Leaping Charge through a universe frozen in darkness and knocked Einstein and the gathered scientific giants off the Sky Track.
• Xingma Hao fused with Leaping Charge and raced faster than causality as the universe’s timeline reversed around him.
• As Xingma Hao passed through prehistoric eras, primitive humans saw Leaping Charge and created the planet’s first four-wheel-drive car in its likeness.
• Xingma Hao raced back through the universe’s history, past the birth of the planet and the stars, to the Big Bang’s beginning.
• Xingma Hao and Leaping Charge broke through the singularity into a void beyond time, space, matter, information, and energy, where Xingma Hao declared, “I say, let there be light~”

Li Hai awakened the Absurdity Engine after witnessing Xingma Hao make his championship victory a law of the universe. He used the skill to turn the universe’s history into a manga and attacked Xingma Hao from beyond its panels.

• Xingma Hao created a universe and made his victory in the Four-Wheel Drive Car World Championship essential to its continued existence.
• Li Hai praised Xingma Hao’s feat and awakened the Level 1 Absurdity Engine.
• Li Hai recognized Absurdity as a power born from life, death, yin, and yang, and upgraded the skill to Level 10+X.
• Li Hai activated the Absurdity Engine, turned the universe’s history into a manga, and became its upper-level narrator.
• Li Hai raised a hammer and swung it toward Xingma Hao as he celebrated winning the championship.

Li Hai rewrote the Four-Wheel Drive Brothers universe so Belial won the Grand Prix, then left through a realm gate after the confused racers celebrated his victory. At the second Yin-Yang Island, he learned the gate required winning a dance tournament in women’s clothes and immediately chose to return to the previous checkpoint.

• Li Hai altered the manga’s story, making Xingma Hao miserable until he admitted defeat, then revised his life while keeping Belial destined to win.
• The universe returned to normal, and Li Hai crossed the finish line to win the Four-Wheel Drive Grand Prix.
• The Xingma brothers and other racers reacted to their hazy memories of the reality changes, while Xingma Hao accepted the loss and looked forward to having no homework.
• A realm gate appeared, and Li Hai stepped through it before the organizers could present his trophy.
• At the second Yin-Yang Island, Li Hai learned he had to wear a wig and women’s clothes and win a dance tournament to open the next gate, so he opened a gate back to the previous checkpoint.