Chapter Summaries

The group members discussed which Memory Copy stories they loved, from Sword Art Online and Re:Zero to Umaru’s ordinary world. Su Yunqing argued that money eased the burdens of ordinary life, explaining that her own work experience had taught her how exhausting a job could be.

• Umaru Doma said she loved Sword Art Online’s Aincrad arc but disliked Asuna’s imprisonment in Fairy Dance.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka chose Re:Zero, praising Natsuki Subaru’s struggle to save the people he loved and noting Rem’s devotion to him.
• Rem said she preferred Umaru’s peaceful world because she longed for a life surrounded by loving family and friends.
• Tony Stark argued that ordinary people still faced troubles and that wealth made it easier to choose how to live.
• Su Yunqing described the financial and work-related pressures of ordinary life, then explained that she had experienced them after taking a job despite her family having enough money.

Su Yunqing recalled how exhausting and poorly paid her month working at a milk tea shop had been, prompting the group to discuss ordinary people's lives. Tony Stark then complained that his world's rules prevented him from recycling the Infinity Stones, leaving him envious of Loki's gains.

• Su Yunqing remembered the long hours, heavy workload, and low pay at the milk tea shop, and explained that she had quit after a month.
• Tony Stark said his wealth and upgraded Jarvis spared him from the troubles of ordinary working life.
• Rimuru explained that the lives shown by Daily Life World group members were unusually comfortable compared with his and Momonga's former lives.
• Su Yunqing asked Tony Stark which world's story he liked best, and he said he disliked his own world's story most.
• Tony Stark complained that his world's World Consciousness would not let him recycle the Infinity Stones, unlike Loki's world.

Tony Stark realized he could not recycle the Infinity Stones’ Points and lamented watching others benefit from them. Su Yunqing asked several chat members which world’s story they preferred, and their discussion ended with Shendu and Madara Uchiha being mocked over their past defeats.

• Tony Stark wondered whether Bai Xuan merging a Status into his own was effectively the same as recycling it, then complained that he alone could not recycle the Infinity Stones.
• Su Yunqing asked Uchiha Dance King, Oldest Godslayer, Boil Daigo Into Soup, Captain of the 5th Division, and Universe Overlord which world’s story they preferred.
• Oldest Godslayer and Universe Overlord chose Dragon Ball World for its powerful fighters, while Uchiha Dance King said his own story was exciting enough.
• Shendu recounted how Hashirama Senju had surpassed Madara Uchiha and Black Zetsu had betrayed him, prompting Madara Uchiha to be mocked for his dramatic life.
• Oldest Godslayer retorted by listing Shendu’s defeats and his failure to keep Jade Chan from using his Talismans to undo his rule.
• Su Yunqing laughed at Shendu for being mocked over his habit of sleeping, then pointed out that he had kept a regular sleep schedule even after being sealed for over nine hundred years.

The chat group teased Shendu about sleeping after being sealed, and he insisted he had spent the whole time trying to escape. Su Yunqing then asked Daigo and Aizen which world’s story they admired most, and Daigo named Bai Xuan’s world because of his growing connection to Tiga and his ability to sense Light and Dark.

• The Richest Man in the Lighthouse asked how Shendu could sleep after nearly a thousand years of being sealed, and Shendu said he had been trying to find a way out.
• Su Yunqing and the group laughed at Shendu’s claim that failing to find an escape would only make him less inclined to sleep.
• Su Yunqing asked Daigo and Aizen which world’s story they admired most, prompting Madara Uchiha to defend his interest in his own story.
• Daigo said he liked every story but named Bai Xuan’s world as his favorite.
• Daigo explained that his connection with Tiga was deepening and that he could sense Light and Dark in people and across entire worlds.

Daigo sensed that the darkness in people’s hearts was fading in Bai Xuan’s world, and Su Yunqing explained that people who had Entered the Dao upheld a chosen path for life. The chapter left her imagining a society where humanity’s virtues returned as more people followed their paths.

• Daigo sensed that good and evil existed in both the real world and the Life Game, but found that light was overwhelming darkness in Bai Xuan’s country.
• Daigo observed that people’s inner darkness was truly disappearing rather than merely hiding, and that some force was helping it fade.
• Su Yunqing recalled that Entering the Dao let people compensate for ordinary Superpowers by choosing a path to cultivate.
• Su Yunqing explained that people who Entered the Dao upheld the principles of their chosen path throughout their lives, leaving darkness in their hearts without room to survive.
• Su Yunqing imagined Bai Xuan’s world becoming a society filled with kindness, courage, friendship, love, and other human virtues.

Bai Xuan explained why cultivation could encourage people toward goodness but could not make humanity purely good, and why Huaxia’s control of cultivation methods would guide people toward safer paths. Daigo admitted he wished for a nation where humanity’s goodness prevailed, and the group reminded him that he could help shape humanity’s choices.

• Bai Xuan argued that cultivation depended on talent, resources, and methods, and that [Entering the Dao] could reduce human darkness but never eliminate it.
• Bai Xuan explained that Huaxia’s Spirit Energy Bureau controlled access to advanced Cultivation Methods, encouraging people to choose good paths rather than risk scrutiny for evil ones.
• Bai Xuan told Boil Daigo Into Soup that a world of pure goodness might exist, but its inhabitants would not be human.
• Oldest Godslayer questioned whether Daigo worried about humanity’s morality as a human or as an Ultraman, and Daigo said he hoped humanity’s good side would prevail.
• Ordinary Group Owner told Daigo that, as both The Light and human, he could help shape humanity’s fate.

Daigo realized that defeating Kaiju had not changed humanity and decided to try to improve society without resorting to mind control. Aizen told the group he was moved by human bonds and the stars, leaving his past loneliness as the reason he had yearned for connection.

• Daigo reflected that his power had made Kaiju easier to defeat but had not changed humanity, and he resolved to transform his world into one filled with kindness.
• Umaru Doma and Utaha Kasumigaoka warned Daigo that changing society would be difficult, and Utaha suggested using Infinite Tsukuyomi to control people’s thoughts.
• Daigo rejected the suggestion for now because he did not want to impose his ideal world through mind control.
• Su Yunqing asked Aizen which world he admired most, and he said he was moved by human bonds and the starry sky beyond Earth.
• Aizen explained that he had once yearned for friends and that loneliness described his past better.

The chapter examined Aizen’s loneliness, his ambition to change the world, and the disguises he used to hide his fear. In the Chat Group, Bai Xuan named Momo Hinamori as someone who might have been Aizen’s companion, prompting others to question whether he had truly cared for her.

• The narration explained that Aizen sought to become a god and remake the world because he could find no equal companion, while Urahara Kisuke rejected his plan.
• Aizen’s calmness and composure were described as carefully constructed disguises that concealed his fear and loneliness.
• Bai Xuan named Momo Hinamori as a possible companion for Aizen, surprising the Chat Group.
• Marquis Voban and Tony Stark argued that Momo Hinamori’s trust and admiration kept her from understanding Aizen, making her seem more like a useful tool than an equal friend.
• Su Yunqing said she had never found convincing evidence that Aizen felt anything for Momo Hinamori beyond treating her as a tool, but wondered whether she had missed some detail.

Bai Xuan argued that Aizen’s reaction to Momo Hinamori’s appearance revealed a genuine conflict beneath his plans: her trust may have made him consider remaining the Captain of the 5th Division. Aizen ultimately chose to move forward, and killing Momo Hinamori ended the version of himself that might have turned back.

• Aizen asked Bai Xuan why he thought Aizen’s feelings toward Momo Hinamori went beyond treating her as a tool.
• Bai Xuan pointed to Aizen’s altered gaze and fluctuating Reiatsu when Momo Hinamori appeared in the Memory Copy.
• Bai Xuan suggested that Aizen’s gentle persona might have become a genuine part of him and that he could have longed for a peaceful life with Momo Hinamori.
• Bai Xuan reasoned that Momo Hinamori’s trust may have made Aizen waver between remaining Captain of the 5th Division and pursuing his plan to reach the summit.
• Aizen killed Momo Hinamori without hesitation, ending the part of himself that might have chosen to turn back.

Aizen acknowledged that he had once considered a peaceful life as an ordinary Soul Reaper, prompting the group to reconsider how much his emotions shaped his choices. Ying Zinian proposed that Aizen might have genuinely trusted Gin Ichimaru for a time, leaving the group debating what lay behind Aizen’s decision to reveal how to counter Illusion.

• Aizen confirmed that the possibility of an ordinary life had existed, though he had ultimately rejected it.
• Ying Zinian interpreted Momo Hinamori as representing a peaceful alternative that Aizen had briefly struggled to consider.
• Ying Zinian questioned whether Aizen had revealed Illusion’s weakness to Gin Ichimaru because he once trusted him, rather than merely to make Gin’s attempt to kill him more challenging.
• Su Yunqing cited Aizen’s claim that he had always expected Gin Ichimaru to betray him.
• Ying Zinian acknowledged the contradiction and argued that trust could only be understood through prolonged interaction.

Ying Zinian and Aizen described how the Hogyoku exposed Aizen’s hidden fear and dependence on power, but Su Yunqing rejected the confession as a calculated attempt to deceive the group. The chapter left the truth of Aizen’s inner thoughts uncertain.

• Ying Zinian explained that Aizen might once have felt conflicted and acted on impulse when he told Ichimaru Gin how to break his illusion.
• Aizen said the Hogyoku was poorly suited to him because it reflected true thoughts, while he specialized in concealing his own.
• Aizen described how the Hogyoku revealed his fear of evolution and his reliance on power, with defeat exposing anger and madness beneath his schemes.
• Su Yunqing abruptly asked Aizen to give her the Hogyoku so she could challenge her weakness, and Aizen refused.
• Su Yunqing argued that Aizen’s apparent acknowledgment was likely another scheme to make the group underestimate him and mistake him for a lonely man who depended only on power.

The group discussed whether Aizen’s account of his past loneliness was genuine, then turned to Dongfang Bubai’s suspicion that a Mimic had appeared in her world. She identified an unknown martial artist whose skills pointed to an outsider, but had not confirmed the person’s identity.

• Daigo and Tony Stark reconsidered Aizen’s motives after reading Su Yunqing’s analysis, while Marquis Voban said he would not underestimate Aizen.
• Aizen accepted that Su Yunqing’s theory sounded plausible as a tactic, and Bai Xuan and Ying Zinian noted that Aizen could now recognize his past flaws.
• Dongfang Bubai asked about Linghu Chong, prompting Erina Nakiri and Fubuki to wonder whether he had become a Transmigrator.
• Su Yunqing explained that Mimics could replace people in parallel worlds, change their life paths for rewards, and resurrect in the real world if they died.
• Dongfang Bubai said someone had appeared with the Divine Art of Northern Darkness, Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and Six Meridian Divine Sword, making her suspect a Mimic had come to her world.

Dongfang Bubai reported that a mysterious fighter wielding the Divine Art of Northern Darkness, Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and Six Meridian Divine Sword had killed hundreds of Sun Moon Holy Cult experts. Su Yunqing suspected he was a Mimic and considered who might be able to defeat him, but the chapter left his identity uncertain.

• Su Yunqing wondered whether the fighter descended from Xuzhu, Duan Yu, or Xiao Bang and A'zi, but found that none of those possibilities explained all three Martial Arts.
• Su Yunqing asked whether Dongfang Bubai had captured the fighter, and Dongfang Bubai replied that she had failed.
• Dongfang Bubai revealed that the fighter was powerful enough to kill hundreds of first-rate Sun Moon Holy Cult experts.
• Su Yunqing explained that the Divine Art of Northern Darkness, combined with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and Six Meridian Divine Sword, made him exceptionally dangerous in a group battle.
• Su Yunqing concluded that Dongfang Bubai or her master Dugu Qiubai might defeat the fighter, unless he had gained extraordinary experience simulating powerful worlds or was his world's Child of Destiny.

The group discussed the Mimic who had tried to kill Dongfang Bubai and why he had underestimated her, especially after she used the Glint-Glint Fruit despite losing her internal energy. They concluded that he posed no threat to Dongfang Bubai and that the Rule-Level Item he sought was beyond their reach.

• Su Yunqing briefly considered whether the Mimic could be a Child of Destiny, then dismissed the idea because another Mimic had already appeared in his world.
• Loki watched Dongfang Bubai's Memory Copy and mocked the Mimic for being weak and careless.
• Su Yunqing explained that the Mimic had planned cautiously, using the righteous sects and poison, but had not known Dongfang Bubai possessed the Glint-Glint Fruit.
• Aizen considered how he might also have been stunned by a power from outside his world's systems.
• Kasumigaoka Utaha pointed out that the Mimic's Rule-Level Item was in another world and that his martial arts manuals were of little use to the group.

Su Yunqing and the Chat Group discussed the Mimic outside Xiangyang, concluding that Dongfang Bubai could defeat him and that Su Yunqing would struggle to identify Mimics in her own world. Meanwhile, Lin Chen searched for Bosi Qu Snakes and wondered why this world’s Dongfang Bubai possessed the Power-Sucking Great Art.

• Kasumigaoka Utaha said Dongfang Bubai’s Glint-Glint Fruit and cultivation made her more than capable of defeating the Mimic alone.
• Su Yunqing and Tony Stark discussed how Memory Copies helped other members identify Mimics, while Su Yunqing’s world had no plot to use as a reference.
• Tony Stark noted that Ying Zinian had historical and fictional Memory Copies, while Bai Xuan could detect disturbances on Earth through his abilities and the Book of Ages.
• Outside Xiangyang, Lin Chen found that the Bosi Qu Snakes he had sought were gone.
• Lin Chen recalled his previous defeat by Dongfang Bubai and wondered why she possessed the Power-Sucking Great Art unlike other versions of her.

Lin Chen rejected the idea that the Simulator had a bug and recalled how it had appeared when the Abyss threatened humanity, giving people the power to resist it. The chapter ended with humanity’s reliance on Blood-Qi Martial Arts in crisis after it stopped holding back the Abyss, leaving Guardians as a crucial part of civilization’s defense.

• Lin Chen ruled out the possibility that Dongfang Bubai had inherited another Mimic’s legacy and concluded he would sooner suspect himself than the Simulator of having a bug.
• Lin Chen recalled how the Abyss had invaded his ordinary technological world, devouring everything in its path while humanity’s weapons failed to affect it.
• The Simulator appeared, gave everyone one chance to alter a person’s or world’s Fate, and granted successful Mimics powers and items to oppose the Abyss.
• Mimics used forces such as Thunder, Golden Crow flames, and other powers beyond ordinary science as energy to halt the Abyss’s expansion.
• Humanity researched Blood-Qi Martial Arts and mass-produced practitioners, but their Qi and Blood eventually ceased to hold back the Abyss.
• Mimics relied on Guardians to protect their territories while they simulated, making ordinary people who cultivated systems such as Blood-Qi Martial Arts vital to civilization.

After Blood-Qi Martial Arts failed and caused widespread deaths, humanity concluded that the Abyss consumed systems once science understood them. A Third-Tier Mimic found a forum account about Song Qingshu wielding power from a Secret Treasure, and the account ended with him defeating a Mimic simulating Zhang Wuji at Bright Summit.

• Blood-Qi Martial Arts failed, killing most of the world's people, and humanity learned that the Abyss targeted systems explained by existing science.
• The narrator searched the Mimic Forum after simulations and eventually found information about a Secret Treasure called Gift of the Unknown.
• A Mimic simulating Zhang Wuji discovered that Song Qingshu had unusual strength and rose to the Peak Realm before turning eighteen.
• The Zhang Wuji Mimic pursued the Nine Yang Divine Skill and Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, then fought at Bright Summit against the Six Major Sects.
• Song Qingshu stepped forward to fight the Zhang Wuji Mimic and defeated him despite his martial arts and combat experience.

Song Qingshu revealed that he came from another world before leaving the Wu Dynasty behind and dying, while the Mimic ended its Zhang Wuji simulation. Lin Chen saw the simulation’s S-rank settlement and learned that its reward included the World Secret Treasure called the Bodhi Heart.

• After decades of witnessing Song Qingshu’s rise, the Mimic saw him meet Zhang Sanfeng in Wudang’s rear mountain and confess that he came from another world.
• Song Qingshu gave Zhang Sanfeng a round, crystal-clear bead, left Wudang, and died three days later; rumors said he had been holding painted scrolls.
• The Mimic ended the simulation after concluding that Song Qingshu had lost his will to live following the deaths of Zhao Min, Zhou Zhiruo, Xiao Zhao, and Zhu'er.
• The simulation settlement awarded the Mimic an S-rank evaluation, 300,000 Simulation Points, and the Bodhi Heart, a World Secret Treasure with weak spacetime properties and an ability to enhance comprehension.
• Lin Chen wondered whether changing a dynasty’s fate had earned the S-rank evaluation and considered how highly Zhang Wuji might have ranked if he had led the changes.

After reading another Mimic’s account of a World Secret Treasure, Lin Chen concluded that Dongfang Bubai was an Otherworld soul who likely possessed one too. He prepared to face her again, compensating for the vanished Bosi Qu Snakes with powerful talents and martial arts.

• Lin Chen learned that a Bodhi Heart had enhanced another Mimic’s comprehension and envied the treasure and the Mimic who received it.
• Lin Chen concluded that Dongfang Bubai was possessed by an Otherworld soul and might possess a World Secret Treasure.
• Lin Chen prepared the Divine Art of Northern Darkness to counter Dongfang Bubai’s Power-Sucking Great Art, along with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and Six Meridian Divine Sword for combat.
• Lin Chen discovered that the Bosi Qu Snakes had disappeared and suspected Dongfang Bubai had taken them.
• Lin Chen used his highest-grade talent selections to obtain Indestructible Diamond Body and Godly Palm Mastery, preparing to withstand more Internal Force and fight Dongfang Bubai’s speed and palm techniques.

Lin Chen prepared to face Dongfang Bubai, believing she might wield Buddha Palm, and left to hunt for more internal energy after discovering the Bosi Qu Snakes were gone. Dongfang Bubai dismissed his growing strength as a future source of power for herself, but said she would find it more interesting if he could defeat her.

• Lin Chen suspected Dongfang Bubai had mastered Buddha Palm and hoped his Godly Palm Mastery talent could counter it.
• Lin Chen left the area where the Bosi Qu Snakes had vanished and headed toward Xiangyang City to hunt for more internal energy.
• Lin Chen accepted that the snakes would not add enough strength to decide his battle and resolved to face either victory or defeat calmly.
• Su Yunqing asked Dongfang Bubai why she was letting Lin Chen roam after he killed hundreds of her first-rate experts.
• Dongfang Bubai said only six corpses showed signs of having their internal energy absorbed and argued that Lin Chen's body limited how much he could accumulate.
• Dongfang Bubai declared that Lin Chen's absorbed internal energy would become her bridal garment, though she would welcome it if he could defeat her.