Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Guided by the Ancient Web, Li Shun sends his will through the Chaos to locate a new world and establish a passage using Mystic Yellow Qi. The journey is frightening: the surroundings grow pitch-black, his target nearly disappears, and he feels himself sinking into an abyss. The world’s presence finally steadies him.
• The destination appears peaceful, but it is smaller than Great Qian and far more densely populated. Li Shun cannot yet detect the filth and corruption the Ancient Web warned about.
• Returning to the Square Inch, Li Shun realizes the Chaos has dulled his perception; the familiar world feels intensely hot by comparison. He recovers after half a day and resolves not to risk sending his divine intent through the Chaos again soon.
• Li Shun challenges the Ancient Web for concealing the danger. It explains that fear would have deterred him, and that firsthand experience has shown he can endure the Chaos without going mad.
• He enters the new world through the newly formed door. The crossing is disorienting, and his new body contains an overwhelming flood of memories from countless past lives. The pain nearly overwhelms him, so he abandons the attempt to explore those memories.
• Before he can recover, an attacker strikes from behind and pierces his chest. Li Shun collapses, apparently mortally wounded.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Shun is curious and determined, but the Chaos exposes his vulnerability and fear. He questions the Ancient Web’s judgment, then proceeds despite the danger. In the new world, he quickly recognizes that its extraordinary burden of memories makes exploration impossible.
• The Ancient Web remains calm and practical, guiding Li Shun through the Chaos and praising his resilience. Its decision not to fully explain the risks creates tension: Li Shun feels misled, while the Web argues that warning him would have made him retreat.
• The attacker appears opportunistic and amused, mistaking Li Shun’s disorientation for harmless daydreaming and exploiting it to land a sudden, devastating blow.

Significant themes

• The peril of the unknown: The Chaos and the new world are dangerous in ways Li Shun cannot initially perceive.
• Knowledge through experience: The Ancient Web believes firsthand exposure teaches what warnings cannot, though this approach strains its trust with Li Shun.
• Identity and accumulated lives: The new body’s countless reincarnations overwhelm Li Shun, raising questions about the weight of inherited memory and personal identity.
• Vulnerability and sudden violence: Despite careful preparation and extraordinary powers, Li Shun enters the new world disoriented and is immediately caught off guard.

Key plot points

• After Li Shun is killed, his consciousness remains trapped in his corpse as a scar-faced man eats him. He experiences the entire ordeal, including being swallowed and burned by stomach acid.
• The terror drives Li Shun to fight the world’s invisible restraints. He eventually breaks free and returns to his true body in Square Inch.
• Ancient Web explains that this is the Disorderly Reincarnation World, where the dead are reborn after eighteen years and consciousness never disappears.
• The world’s population of souls is fixed. Beings are reborn as humans, beasts, insects, or even objects; they arrive fully grown and retain memories from every past life.
• The accumulated memories overwhelm their ability to think, leaving them to act largely on instinct. Since food cannot be created, living beings survive by eating one another.
• Ancient Web reveals that the world was created as a playground by an Outer God. Though its creator perished in Chaos, the world’s rules endure and cannot be broken.

Character developments

• Li Shun moves from vengeful anger at his killer to horror and desperation as he experiences the world’s brutality firsthand. His successful escape demonstrates his ability to resist its constraints.
• Learning how the world works deepens Li Shun’s horror and pity for its inhabitants; he sees their existence as a form of punishment.
• Ancient Web provides a calm, factual account of the world and confirms Li Shun’s suspicion that it was made as a cruel joke.

Significant themes

• Endless suffering: Death offers no release when consciousness survives and reincarnation repeats forever.
• Memory as a burden: A soul’s unerasable past accumulates until thought itself becomes unbearable.
• Cruel creation and lingering consequences: The creator is gone, but the rules—and the suffering they cause—remain.
• Instinct and lost humanity: Repeated pain and survival reduce beings to killing and feeding.

Character interactions

• Li Shun silently curses the scar-faced man, then can only witness his own consumption.
• After returning, Li Shun presses Ancient Web for an explanation, challenging the existence and morality of such a world.
• Ancient Web answers his questions and confirms that no one has ever broken the world’s governing rules.

Key plot points and events

• The Ancient Web explains that the Disorderly Reincarnation World was created as a “playground” by a dead Outer God. Its inhabitants endure endless cycles of rebirth, hunger, and violence, driven by instinctive hatred.
• Unlike ordinary worlds, its Heavenly Dao changes every sixty years, giving each era a different character. The current era is defined by overwhelming hunger: food is scarce, creatures’ appetites are intensified, and even the Heavenly Dao is hungry.
• Li Shun witnesses the Dao’s hunger firsthand when a formless shadow devours the scar-faced man who had eaten the corpse Li Shun originally inhabited. The shadow notices Li Shun and smiles at him.
• The Ancient Web explains that Li Shun’s arrival added an extra soul to a world whose population never changes. The displaced native was sent into Reincarnation with a blank slate, gaining only temporary relief from his accumulated suffering.
• The world’s Heavenly Dao cannot escape the Outer God’s rules, but it hopes an outsider will destroy the world. Li Shun considers leaving, then learns that Square Inch can protect him and let him withdraw if necessary.
• The Ancient Web reveals that controlling the world’s leftover power could help Li Shun pursue his goal of making an Outer God a puppet. Since the creator is dead, the world’s sustaining power is unclaimed—and might even be brought into Square Inch.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Shun moves from trying to understand the world’s strange conditions to recognizing its deeper, unstable nature. He is uneasy about entering it, but the prospect of gaining power quickly renews his interest.
• The Ancient Web acts as Li Shun’s guide, explaining the world’s mechanics and reassuring him that he has an escape route. He presents the world as both a danger and an unusually promising opportunity.
• The displaced native’s fate prompts an ethical question, but Li Shun feels no guilt about using the world as a testing ground.
• The shadow’s direct acknowledgment of Li Shun establishes that his presence has already attracted the world’s attention.

Significant themes

• Endless suffering and recurrence: Rebirth offers no lasting escape from hatred, hunger, and violence.
• Disorder as a governing law: The world’s instability is built into its Heavenly Dao, not merely a matter of random rebirth.
• Power and opportunity amid catastrophe: A world designed for torment may also provide Li Shun a rare chance to claim the remnants of an Outer God’s power.
• Outsider intervention: Li Shun’s arrival disrupts the world’s fixed order, making him a possible agent of its destruction—or its new master.

Summary

Li Shun considers taking control of the Disorderly Reincarnation World and using the remains of its creator, an Outer God, as a puppet. Before acting, he asks the Ancient Web whether the god is truly dead. The Ancient Web explains that the creator’s consciousness and imprints are gone, leaving only its power. It describes how fallen Outer Gods may retain imprints and potentially revive; only when all remaining traces disappear are they truly lost—though even then, they may be reborn from Chaos.
The discussion exposes Li Shun to more knowledge of Chaos than he can safely handle. Black shadows appear and begin to overtake him, forcing him to stop listening and resist the encroachment with Square Inch’s protection. When the shadows return during a moment of distraction, the Ancient Web warns him not to contemplate Chaos beyond his current capacity. Li Shun realizes that growing more resistant to Chaos may also mean becoming more deeply immersed in it.
The Ancient Web then evaluates the world as a setting for Li Shun’s experiment: success could teach him to make Mind-Communicating Beads and give him the Outer God’s surviving power, while failure would cost little. But taking control will be difficult. The world’s rules make survival precarious, and cultivation is no simple solution: beginning to cultivate alerts every living being to one’s location.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Shun is excited by the prospect of controlling an Outer God’s remnant, but remains cautious enough to question whether the god is truly dead. His curiosity about Chaos nearly overwhelms him, prompting him to recognize the danger of pursuing knowledge beyond his limits.
• The Ancient Web patiently explains the stages of an Outer God’s death, then firmly warns Li Shun against probing Chaos too deeply. It shifts the conversation toward practical risks in the Reincarnation World.
• Their relationship is marked by Li Shun’s questioning and the Ancient Web’s increasingly direct guidance. It understands when he needs information—and when to stop.

Significant themes

• Death and persistence: Even an Outer God’s fall is gradual; remnants may endure and permit eventual return.
• Knowledge as danger: Understanding Chaos brings insight but also exposes Li Shun to its erosion.
• Survival under hostile rules: In the Reincarnation World, both ordinary survival and cultivation are made dangerous by the world’s governing system.
• Power and risk: The experiment offers substantial rewards, but its success depends on overcoming an entrenched order with little opportunity to prepare.

The chapter consists only of a brief leave notice: the narrator says they are taking a day off to sort out their thoughts.

• Plot and events: No story events occur; the narrator announces a one-day absence.
• Character development: The narrator signals a need for reflection, but gives no further details.
• Themes: Taking time for oneself and mental clarity.
• Character interactions: None.

Plot points and events

• Li Shun asks the Ancient Web how to gain control of the Disorderly Reincarnation World, where being noticed by Heaven makes survival nearly impossible.
• The Ancient Web recommends a branch of the Agricultural School that treats living beings as crops, harvesting their life essence, vitality, fortune, and opportunities for the cultivator.
• It proposes pairing this method with the Sage abilities Threefold Self-Reflection and Heavenly Man Book. Though they seem Great Qian–specific, they may work in other worlds once the Sage Statues study that world’s underlying principles.
• The Ancient Web assures Li Shun that his growing knowledge of Chaos has made him strong enough to summon the statues safely. Li Shun tests this by attempting to move the damaged Confucian Sage statue and finds he can do so, though with effort.
• The statue should initially appear as ordinary stone in the Reincarnation World, attracting no attention. With the cultivation method and Sage abilities, the Ancient Web estimates Li Shun has an 80% chance of ruling the world within a hundred years.
• The Ancient Web warns that three hidden beings have survived for over a thousand years. They are roughly equivalent to Profound Insight cultivators, but their battle experience may make them stronger than most of Great Qian’s Creation Realm experts.
• Confident but cautious, Li Shun decides to prepare further. He requests records on the Agricultural School’s prohibited cultivation art and receives them immediately from the Imperial Academy.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Shun shifts from uncertainty to a practical plan, testing the Sage statue’s summoning rather than relying only on the Ancient Web’s assurance. He remains wary of the method’s cruelty and of the danger posed by the ancient survivors, but his confidence returns once he understands the challenge.
• The Ancient Web acts as strategist and adviser, reframing a taboo method as suitable for this world and explaining how the Sage abilities might adapt. Its final warning about Chaos suggests that Li Shun’s growing power comes with an unsettling cost.
• Their exchange is frank and familiar: Li Shun questions the advice and its odds, while the Ancient Web challenges his self-doubt and lays out both the opportunity and the risks.

Significant themes

• Survival and moral context: A method condemned as cruel in Great Qian may be effective—or even virtuous—in a world defined by relentless slaughter.
• Adaptation across worlds: Skills and divine abilities can transcend their original setting if their deeper principles are understood.
• Power and its costs: Greater knowledge of Chaos strengthens Li Shun but may also erode or transform him.
• Preparation amid uncertainty: Even with powerful abilities and a promising plan, formidable opponents and unpredictable dangers remain.

Key plot points and events

• Li Shun studies the Agricultural School’s Reaping Life branch. It offers rapid cultivation through killing and consuming living beings, but its practitioners cannot change paths or doubt its principles without risking a violent backlash. No one has ever reached the Creation Stage through it, making the method dangerous and unproven.
• He judges that the Disorderly Reincarnation World may be an unusually suitable place to practice it. He sends a protected thread of consciousness through the door in Square Inch, keeping safeguards in place in case anything goes wrong.
• In the new world, Li Shun experiences several reincarnations: first as a tree, then as a stone, followed by four more unsuccessful lives. The tree is eventually eaten by a beast; the stone cannot cultivate and must simply endure until it breaks apart.
• On his seventh life, Li Shun is reborn human, with exceptional physical ability and instincts. He hides in a rocky crevice, lures an approaching attacker into a false opening, kills him with a sharpened stone, and consumes his body using Reaping Life.
• Li Shun senses that the victim’s soul still enters Reincarnation. He concludes that he is consuming not the soul itself, but what Heaven and Earth restore from it. After feeding, he feels a powerful urge to kill and eat again, which he consciously suppresses.

Character developments

• Li Shun is cautious and calculating: he anticipates the dangers of Reaping Life, builds safeguards around his connection to Square Inch, and avoids rushing toward the Sage statues.
• His unsuccessful reincarnations test his patience, but he adapts rather than wasting time trying to cultivate as a tree or stone.
• His first successful use of Reaping Life reveals both its benefits and its psychological danger. Li Shun recognizes the growing appetite for slaughter and resolves not to let it take control.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: Reaping Life accelerates cultivation through slaughter, but risks physical backlash, mental corruption, and ever-escalating violence.
• Adaptation amid uncertainty: The Disorderly Reincarnation World gives Li Shun no control over what he becomes, forcing him to endure and adjust.
• Moral restraint: Though his chosen method depends on killing, Li Shun tries to preserve his judgment and resist becoming ruled by bloodlust.
• Life, death, and renewal: Reincarnation continues even after a body is consumed, suggesting that Heaven and Earth replenish what is lost.

Character interactions

• Li Shun has no meaningful allies in this chapter. His key encounters are with a beast that eats his tree-form body and an ambusher he kills after being reborn human.
• His most important struggle is internal: he must balance the power gained through Reaping Life against the urge to keep killing.

Key plot points and events

• After devouring a man, Li Shun discovers that the Agricultural School’s Life-Reaping Art greatly increases his strength and lets him copy the victim’s appearance and innate divine ability.
• He stalks a seemingly wounded, weak man known as Goatee, but his spiritual intuition repeatedly warns him not to attack.
• A gigantic warrior ambushes Goatee. Goatee effortlessly immobilizes and tears him apart with threads, then eats the remains, revealing himself as a far more dangerous predator than he appeared.
• Li Shun hides until Goatee leaves, then changes direction and adopts a more cautious approach to hunting: he commits fully to an attack, but flees if the first strike fails.
• Li Shun estimates his strength at roughly level 10 on a scale whose maximum might be 99. Wanting faster growth, he considers using the Life-Reaping Art to harvest prey on a large scale.
• A strange light spreads across the world, and numerical symbols appear above all living things. Li Shun realizes the world’s Heavenly Dao has made his imagined ranking system real.
• He withdraws his mind to Square Inch and tells the Ancient Web what happened. The Ancient Web explains that the Heavenly Dao can perceive thoughts because Li Shun entered the world through possession of a living body, but says its awareness is limited.

Character developments

• Li Shun grows stronger and gains the ability to mimic a victim’s appearance and power. More importantly, his close brush with Goatee teaches him that appearances are unreliable and that survival depends on patience, caution, and retreat when necessary.
• Goatee is revealed to be a powerful, calculating hunter who deliberately appeared vulnerable and was already aware that someone might be watching.
• The Ancient Web provides a calm explanation of the Heavenly Dao’s limits, reassuring Li Shun without dismissing the danger.

Significant themes

• Predator and prey: The apparent hunter can be hunted in turn; weakness may be a disguise.
• Caution and survival: Li Shun’s instincts and willingness to wait or retreat keep him alive.
• Power and adaptation: Devouring others grants strength and abilities, but progress is dangerous and incremental.
• Perception and control: The world reflects Li Shun’s thoughts by imposing a numerical ranking system, while the Heavenly Dao’s limited understanding sets boundaries on its power.

Character interactions

• Li Shun secretly follows Goatee, while Goatee unknowingly—or perhaps knowingly—draws him into observing the brutal killing of the giant.
• Goatee’s effortless victory makes Li Shun recognize the gap between their strengths and prompts him to flee rather than engage.
• Li Shun later consults the Ancient Web, which explains why the Heavenly Dao can sense his thoughts and advises that its awareness is not all-encompassing.

Plot points and events

• Ancient Web explains that Li Shun’s imagined level system became real in the Disorderly Reincarnation World, but the world’s Heavenly Dao corrected his self-assessment: he was level 8, not level 10.
• Worried that the Heavenly Dao might read his thoughts and discover the truth about Square Inch, Li Shun alters the trapped divine thought’s memories. It now believes Square Inch is a Chaos world and that Li Shun is its scout and conqueror.
• Back in the Disorderly Reincarnation World, Li Shun finds that creatures flee as soon as they see his level, making hunting harder. He suspects the Heavenly Dao has changed the rules to restrain him, as it has supposedly done only once before for a being powerful enough to reshape the world.
• Li Shun continues growing through the Agricultural School’s Reaping Life method. After three years of consuming vast quantities of flesh, he reaches level 30.
• He encounters Goatee, the former hunter who once trapped him. Goatee is level 28 and, rather than fight or flee unsuccessfully, suddenly explodes. Li Shun eats the remains but finds them strangely tasteless, suggesting Goatee was an avatar.

Character developments

• Li Shun becomes increasingly cautious about the Heavenly Dao and conceals Square Inch’s nature. His years of predation also harden him: he now sees other beings as food rather than kin.
• Ancient Web helps Li Shun reason through the level system and advises him on disguising his thoughts, though it considers his fears excessive.
• Goatee reappears but acts in a suspiciously self-destructive way, hinting that the figure Li Shun confronted was not the original.

Themes and interactions

• Secrecy and surveillance: Li Shun fears that the Heavenly Dao can perceive his innermost thoughts, prompting him to plant a false identity for Square Inch.
• Power and constraint: The world’s rules appear to adapt when someone grows strong enough to threaten its established order.
• Survival and dehumanization: Endless slaughter and consumption gradually strip Li Shun of empathy.
• Li Shun and Ancient Web discuss how to protect his secrets; later, Li Shun confronts Goatee, whose strange explosion leaves him suspicious of an unseen plan.

Key plot points and events

• Li Shun pursues Goatee, whose clone technique can apparently fool even the world’s Heavenly Dao.
• He uses “Scent Blood, Track Prey for Ten Thousand Miles” to follow Goatee and “Shape Flesh into Form, Borrow Bone to Restore Life” to disguise himself as someone he has devoured.
• Li Shun senses that the trail is a trap. Rather than approach directly, he takes control of a level-27 creature with “Severed Finger on a Thread, Borrow Eyes to See Truth,” using it to scout.
• The controlled creature reaches a field containing more than a hundred thousand stones, each bearing a level symbol—an unnatural concentration of beings transformed through Reincarnation.
• When Li Shun makes the creature flee, faces appear across the stones and speak together. A gigantic arm made of rotting flesh erupts from underground, catches the scout, and leaves Li Shun hearing a chorus of shrieks.

Character development

• Li Shun is shown as a calculating, adaptable predator. He has spent three years devouring countless beings, then kept only six abilities he considers most useful.
• Though confident in his powers, he trusts his danger sense and responds to a suspected trap with caution and reconnaissance rather than rushing in.
• His coldness is evident in how casually he kills and uses other creatures as tools.

Character interactions

• Li Shun is pursuing Goatee but has not yet confronted him directly.
• He controls and sends a level-27 creature ahead as a temporary scout, sharing its senses through his severed finger.
• The beings embodied in the stones speak as one and attack the scout with the flesh-built arm.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and efficiency: Li Shun’s strength comes from refining a small set of abilities rather than accumulating every power he encounters.
• Predation and disguise: In a world shaped by slaughter, transformation and deception help Li Shun hunt while avoiding retaliation.
• Instinct versus ambition: Li Shun recognizes danger but chooses to investigate indirectly rather than abandon his prey.
• The horror of Reincarnation: The field of transformed beings and the monstrous arm suggest that the world’s cycle can produce grotesque, coordinated threats.

Key plot points and events

• Li Shun’s controlled body is overwhelmed by the suffering of countless beings imprisoned in a strange formation. He realizes the victims were once ordinary reincarnation hunters, gradually lured in, drained of their potential, and left alive with only fragments of thought.
• The formation’s master, Goatee, reveals his history through visions. After enduring memories from countless reincarnations, Goatee developed an extraordinarily powerful soul and began killing would-be hunters.
• Wanting to escape the world’s endless cycle, Goatee created the Chaotic Stone Life-Trapping Formation to keep victims from reincarnating, while sending doppelgangers to capture more prey. Despite imprisoning over a hundred thousand beings, he has found no way to defeat the Reincarnation Heavenly Dao.
• Goatee recognizes Li Shun’s ability to perceive the trap and tells him to return when he reaches level ninety-nine. Li Shun concludes that Goatee is likely one of the world’s three hidden powerhouses, each alive for over a thousand years.
• Li Shun discovers a secret technique in the visions: the Spirit-Linking Avatar Art, which creates a separate body by cleaving one’s flesh, bones, and soul. He decides to cultivate it, using Square Inch as a refuge while he works through the painful burden of accumulated memories. He then begins by striking his own soul with intent.

Character developments

• Li Shun shows resilience and strategic thinking: the suffering destroys the controlled body but not his own consciousness, and he turns the experience into useful knowledge. He accepts the danger of soul cultivation and commits to reaching level ninety-nine.
• Goatee is revealed as a long-lived, immensely powerful figure driven not by bloodlust but by a desire to end reincarnation. His history of enduring pain has shaped both his strength and his ruthless methods.

Significant themes

• The cost of escaping a cycle: Goatee’s attempt to break reincarnation requires sacrificing and imprisoning countless lives.
• Memory, pain, and identity: Reincarnated memories both torment beings and forge souls capable of extraordinary power.
• Power through endurance—and its moral price: Goatee’s strength comes from years of suffering, but his pursuit has turned others into tools.
• Ambition and preparation: Li Shun treats a dangerous discovery as an opportunity, adapting his plan rather than retreating.

Character interactions

• Goatee communicates directly with Li Shun through the visions, exposing his past and challenging him to return at level ninety-nine.
• Li Shun responds by interpreting Goatee’s motives, assessing the technique he has revealed, and deciding to pursue the power needed to face him.

Key plot points and events

• Li Shun survives an attempt to divide his soul by retreating into Square Inch during the worst of the pain. After several more cuts, he successfully separates off one-tenth of his soul.
• The division leaves his usable soul power feeling stronger, despite lowering its overall limit. He uses the separated piece to create a clone with a new appearance and all six of his original body’s supernatural abilities.
• Li Shun realizes that his clones function more like incarnations than ordinary copies: as long as one survives, he may be effectively immortal.
• He stays hidden near Goatee’s territory while his clones hunt and grow. Over time, he creates 1,080 clones, which spread across the Reincarnation World.
• The clones progress quickly up to level 80, but then encounter a bottleneck: stronger prey are rare, dangerous, and difficult to defeat. Li Shun’s original body remains at level 30.
• Concluding that ordinary prey can no longer advance him, Li Shun sends all his clones toward a valley to launch a coordinated attack on a secluded powerhouse approaching level 90.

Character development

• Li Shun shows increasing patience and strategic boldness. He accepts the pain and risk of repeated soul division, then uses numbers and coordination to compensate for his individual weakness.
• His understanding of his abilities evolves: he sees his clones as extensions or incarnations of himself, and suspects the world’s Reincarnation Dao prevents his soul from falling below a sustainable threshold.
• The clones develop independently through different encounters, gaining varied levels and experiences while remaining under Li Shun’s control.

Significant themes

• Identity and selfhood: Dividing his soul blurs the boundary between Li Shun and his clones.
• Adaptation through sacrifice: Li Shun accepts pain and reduced potential to gain greater usable strength and expand his reach.
• Numbers versus individual power: He plans to challenge vastly stronger foes through mass coordination.
• Limits and escalation: Rapid growth eventually hits a ceiling, forcing Li Shun to target stronger and more dangerous prey.
• The order of reincarnation: The world’s rules regulate life and death, replenishing Li Shun’s weakened soul and preventing his hunting from exhausting the available population.

Character interactions

• Li Shun’s relationship with his clones is unusually seamless: he controls them as naturally as his own body and experiences their shared purpose without difficulty.
• He avoids provoking Goatee, whose nearby territory makes the area relatively safe, while drawing on the example of Goatee’s own ability to create many clones.
• The chapter ends with Li Shun’s clones converging on a powerful recluse, setting up their first large-scale coordinated hunt.

• Li Shun’s hunt: More than a thousand of Li Shun’s clones pursue a powerful middle-aged man. Initially stunned by their cooperation and realizing they are all one person, the man flees by splitting into countless wisps of black vapor. He escapes, but loses a level in the process.
• The rematch: Half a month later, the clones track him down again. The man tries to kill them in a cloud of darkness, but discovers that the power of slain clones passes to those still alive, keeping their combined strength steady. As the fight turns against him, he attempts to flee, but the clones tear away and consume much of his flesh. After several more rounds of pursuit, Li Shun kills and devours him.
• A new threshold: Li Shun concentrates the man’s essence in his strongest clone, which reaches level ninety. This milestone lets Li Shun sense twenty-eight other powerful beings, including three whose strength is especially difficult to fathom. They invite him to a shared location.
• The revealed city: Li Shun accepts and arrives at a ruined city that appears whole once he enters. A towering statue dominates its center. An unseen elderly voice identifies it as “Father God,” the creator of the Reincarnation World, and describes him as an Outer God.
  Character developments and interactions: The middle-aged man shifts from confidence in his escape technique to fear as the clones keep finding him and steadily overwhelm him. Li Shun’s clones remain coordinated, relentless, and willing to die; their shared strength makes the hunt increasingly dangerous. At level ninety, Li Shun moves beyond hunting alone and encounters the world’s other top beings, while the voice’s revelation introduces a possible new source of knowledge about the world.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes cooperation in a world defined by slaughter, the power of persistence and sacrifice, and the way survival and strength can depend on consuming others. Li Shun’s advancement also opens a larger mystery: the origin of the world and the identity of its creator.

The white-haired old man showed Li Shun the Outer God's past, revealing that the god had divided his power among every living being to give them a chance to grow stronger through reincarnation. The vision ended with the Outer God feeling alarm and dread, leaving Li Shun uncertain about what had disrupted his long-awaited plan.

• The white-haired old man appeared beside Li Shun and questioned whether the Outer God had created the world merely for amusement.
• The old man revealed that the Outer God had also entered the cycle of reincarnation, then drew Li Shun into a vision of the god's past.
• Li Shun witnessed the Outer God divide his power among all living beings, allowing them to awaken unique abilities and gain chances to change their fate across reincarnations.
• Li Shun realized that the twenty-eight presences who had contacted him were likely beings who had risen above the endless slaughter.
• The vision showed the Outer God growing alarmed and afraid before freezing on an image of the Disorderly Reincarnation World.
• The old man explained that the visions came from memories all living beings retained because their lives originated with Father God.

Li Shun’s clone followed the white-haired elder into a statue and learned that the Level 99 figures were nurturing an embryo they believed to be Father God, a supposed successor-selection process that was actually a trap. After the clone was consumed, Li Shun’s original body mourned the loss of his Level 90 clone and wondered why so many powerful figures had gathered and why the embryo still called to his soul.

• The white-haired elder revealed his Level 99 symbol and claimed Father God had created the Reincarnation World to choose a New God.
• The elder led Li Shun into the statue, where twenty-eight figures were connected by threads to a shifting mass of mist.
• Li Shun saw an embryo within the mist and was persuaded by the figures to join them in reviving Father God.
• A thread pierced Li Shun, drained his power, and consumed his clone as his Level 90 symbol rapidly disappeared.
• Li Shun’s original body cursed the trap and questioned why the twenty-eight powerful figures had targeted him and why the embryo still tugged at his soul.

Li Shun learned that the cloud from the Reincarnation World was a phantom revived from the dead Outer God, and that the world’s Heavenly Dao was secretly preparing its Blank Divine Body. He decided to compete for that body, but the Ancient Web told him he first had to become reincarnation itself and seize control of the world’s workings.

• Li Shun escaped the cloud’s corrosive influence by returning his consciousness to Square Inch, where Mystic Yellow Qi stopped the phantom from invading.
• The Ancient Web explained that the cloud was an empty shell revived from the Outer God’s power, gathered from the living beings of the Reincarnation World.
• Li Shun and the Ancient Web concluded that the Reincarnation World’s Heavenly Dao was manipulating the world’s strongest individuals to create a Blank Divine Body for itself.
• Li Shun realized he could try to claim the Blank Divine Body by growing stronger and challenging the Heavenly Dao.
• The Ancient Web told Li Shun to become reincarnation itself and seize authority over the world’s workings.

Li Shun learned that he needed to awaken the Outer God’s power within his soul to seize reincarnation authority, then struggled to endure the flood of memories needed to do so. After half a year of painful attempts, he found a possible way forward when one of his clones was tortured.

• The Ancient Web explained that Li Shun could awaken the Outer God’s power within his soul and use other beings’ remnant divine power to contend for reincarnation authority.
• Li Shun returned to the Disorderly Reincarnation World, abandoned his drained body, and transferred his consciousness to a level 29 clone.
• Li Shun repeatedly tried to face the memories accumulated in his soul, but after half a year he had reconstructed only sixteen years of his past life.
• One of Li Shun’s clones was repeatedly tortured and healed by a level 50 hunter.
• Hearing the hunter’s words gave Li Shun the idea to transfer the pain of the soul’s memories to someone else.

Li Shun experimented with sharing the memory tsunami among the reincarnating beings and recruited nearly a hundred participants, allowing him to trace his buried memories much further. He found the unusual event he had sought: the day stars fell and the Outer God’s gift entered every living being’s soul.

• Li Shun hid in underwater caverns and captured beings to test whether they could share the burden of his memories.
• After failing to control their souls by force, Li Shun persuaded prisoners to help by promising them a choice of release if he succeeded and threatening to imprison those who refused.
• Five volunteers endured the memory tsunami with Li Shun, proving that sharing the burden worked and letting him last nearly ten times longer.
• Li Shun recruited nearly a hundred participants, whose combined help let him examine memories from countless reincarnations.
• Li Shun found a memory of stars falling like rain, when starlight entered every living being’s soul as the Outer God’s gift.

Li Shun awakened the power of the dead Outer God Zhaoming Tuixiu and gained the ability to see and manipulate reincarnation. He stole a fragment of the god’s light from a newly reborn stone without drawing the Heavenly Dao’s attention, and concluded that he now stood on equal footing with it.

• Li Shun witnessed the dead stars of Zhaoming Tuixiu and survived their overwhelming gaze, protected by his body’s earlier blessing.
• Li Shun awakened in the cavern with the kneeling volunteers around him and regained his memories, then discovered he could inspect their reincarnation memories without suffering the Memory Tsunami.
• Li Shun saw the pathways of reincarnation throughout the Reincarnation World and traced a newly reborn consciousness into a stone.
• Li Shun took the radiance within the stone, leaving it without spiritual essence and unable to reincarnate after its current life ended.
• Li Shun found that the theft had not changed his power-level symbol or the world’s reincarnation threads, and reasoned that the Heavenly Dao could no longer perceive his innermost thoughts.

Li Shun accelerated reincarnation to plunge the Disorderly Reincarnation World into chaos as he raced to grow strong enough to confront its Heavenly Dao. The world’s inhabitants began slaughtering one another and stealing divine radiance, causing the reincarnation cycle to collapse, though Li Shun did not know what had triggered the thefts.

• Li Shun continued probing his soul’s ancient reincarnations while his avatars hunted, and he increased the volunteers helping him withstand the memory tsunami.
• Li Shun realized the Reincarnation World’s Heavenly Dao was secretly hunting living beings faster than his avatars and decided he could no longer wait.
• Li Shun forcibly reincarnated sleeping dead ahead of schedule, disrupting the world and causing the newly reborn to be overwhelmed by memories and madness.
• Li Shun’s avatar witnessed someone steal divine radiance through slaughter, permanently extinguishing the victim and leaving Li Shun baffled about who had caused the change.
• The Reincarnation World’s Heavenly Dao blamed Li Shun as the slaughter and theft of divine radiance began to collapse the cycle of reincarnation.