Chapter Summaries

Xu Zhi tried to master the final segment of Midnight’s rules but found that her body and circuits could not contain the immense power without risking her identity. She opened the [Remnant Land] and poured Midnight’s rule power into it, shaking the chains restraining a larger fragment.

• As she studied Midnight’s rules, Xu Zhi realized their allure could tempt Transcendents to abandon their bodies in pursuit of pure power.
• Xu Zhi began comprehending the final symbols, and Midnight’s rules became visible as its wind and clouds stirred beneath the full moon.
• The rules began weaving Xu Zhi’s body and soul into Midnight, overwhelming her circuits and threatening to make her its vassal.
• Xu Zhi concluded that her circuits had reached their limit because they were incomplete and needed another fragment to grow.
• Xu Zhi opened the [Remnant Land] and poured Midnight’s rule power into it, giving the imprisoned fragment a brief chance to breathe and making its chains tremble.

Xu Zhi shattered the chains sealing a Remnant Land fragment, swallowed it, and underwent a transformation that carried her beyond ordinary extraordinary beings without making her a god. She awakened in Midnight with a new, rule-woven existence and the right to play the game.

• Xu Zhi poured Midnight's rule power and a trace of Sloth's power into the weakened chains until they shattered.
• Xu Zhi caught the escaping fragment and swallowed it, where it fused with her body and circuits.
• The fragment's fusion and Midnight's rules caused a new path to emerge, changing the star chart and stirring supernatural methods across the world.
• Xu Zhi gained a Key and the end of the path, becoming an existence sustained by Midnight's rules rather than a Named One or a god.
• Xu Zhi awoke with golden symbols in her eyes and rule-woven flesh, understanding that she would not die as long as Midnight's rules remained intact.

After consuming a Radiance Fragment and mastering Midnight, Xu Zhi confirmed the fragment’s connection to Radiance, Mansus, and Midnight, then used her new authority to give her dead Spirit Vessel a Lamp circuit and restore its body. She left Midnight as the gods turned their attention toward her, while the Lost Land began to change after the fragment vanished.

• Xu Zhi realized the fragment she had consumed was a Radiance Fragment that connected Radiance, Mansus, and Midnight, and she prepared to face the gods with her new strength.
• Xu Zhi dug up the Spirit Vessel, severed her Lamp-attribute circuit, and installed it in the body along with her blood and a rib marked with rules.
• Xu Zhi restored the Spirit Vessel’s body but left it without self-awareness, hoping it would awaken with a self of its own belonging to Lamp.
• Xu Zhi blessed the Spirit Vessel to wake soon, then left Midnight and discovered that the Lost Land’s attraction to her had disappeared as its Transcendent energy began to weaken.
• The Lost Land’s agitated Transcendent creatures calmed when Xu Zhi appeared, while the gods and their rules turned their attention toward her.

Xu Zhi confronted the woman who had raised and deceived her, learning that the gods’ rules were meant to keep them both from entering Mansus. The revelation drew the gods’ attacks toward Xu Zhi as well, leaving her caught in the woman’s deliberate trap.

• Xu Zhi sensed a major supernatural confrontation in Lotus City and flew there, recognizing the rules in the sky as connected to those binding the fragments of Radiance.
• Xu Zhi met the woman opposing the rules and confronted her over the years of deception; the woman claimed her earlier self had been real but had lacked her memories.
• Xu Zhi demanded to know the woman’s plan, rejected her claim that they were sisters, and threatened to side with the gods if she withheld the truth.
• The woman revealed that the gods had created the rules to prevent anyone from entering Mansus, especially her and Xu Zhi.
• Golden attacks descended on the woman, and the rules also turned toward Xu Zhi after she learned the secret; the woman admitted she had deliberately exposed Xu Zhi to the danger.

Xu Zhi tested the gods’ blockade on entry to Mansus and learned that the woman called [Cup] wanted her help breaking it to pursue ascension. Xu Zhi agreed to cooperate, then watched as [Cup] drew the gods’ rules toward herself in a crowded city, where a gigantic golden hand reached down to strike her.

• Xu Zhi tried to enter Mansus, but the gods’ golden rules cut off her connection and pinned her in the real world.
• Xu Zhi learned that [Cup] wanted her to break the blockade so they could enter Mansus and seek the path to ascension, and she agreed to help.
• [Cup] explained that the artificial rules had weak points and that she would draw the gods’ attention in a crowded place, limiting their power.
• [Cup] began her attempt in Lingzhou City Center as Xu Zhi watched the rules overhead for their weak points.
• A golden chain pinned [Cup] in place, the crowd fled from the storm, and a gigantic golden hand emerged from a vortex above her.

Xu Zhi waited for [Cup] to resist the gods’ overwhelming attack, then used the resulting instability to expose the weak connection point in the sky’s rules. She sent Xiao Zhen to examine the weld point, preparing to destroy it and break the blockade.

• Xu Zhi recognized the attack from her prophetic dream and waited for [Cup] to withstand the gods’ strike.
• A golden fist slammed down on [Cup], but she survived by using her power to regenerate and resist the crushing rules.
• The clash weakened and destabilized the rules in the sky, making their hidden weld points visible to Xu Zhi.
• Xu Zhi sent Xiao Zhen to the connection point so she could inspect it and use her Midnight rules to shatter it.

Xu Zhi used her rule power through Xiao Zhen to attack the Sky Rule’s weld point while [Cup] restrained it. The weld point broke, and the Sky Rule shattered as golden fragments rained from the sky.

• Xu Zhi waited until [Cup] weakened the Sky Rule, then infused Xiao Zhen with her rule power.
• Xu Zhi directed Xiao Zhen to dive at the weld point, and the Gyrfalcon shattered the Sky Rule’s layered defenses.
• Xiao Zhen struck the weld point and cracked it, while Xu Zhi poured in more rule power to widen the damage.
• Xu Zhi recalled Xiao Zhen and took its backlash, then watched cracks spread across the Sky Rule.
• Shattered rule fragments fell from the sky like golden rain.

After breaking the sky’s confinement, Xu Zhi and [Cup] reaffirmed their temporary alliance against the other gods before [Cup] vanished into Mansus. Xu Zhi returned to Midnight, where she found the awakened Spirit Vessel with Jiang Qing and confronted her for seeking Jiang Qing first.

• Xu Zhi watched [Cup] recover, and [Cup] resolved not to keep making concessions to Xu Zhi despite her lingering attachment.
• [Cup] reminded Xu Zhi of their deal to ally against the other gods, then went to Mansus.
• Xu Zhi returned to Midnight to replenish her strength and discovered the Spirit Vessel had left its place beneath a tree.
• Xu Zhi used her authority to locate the Spirit Vessel and found her talking happily with Jiang Qing, who should have been dead.
• Xu Zhi asked the Spirit Vessel why she had gone to find Jiang Qing as soon as she awoke.

Xu Zhi reunited with the revived Spirit Vessel and explained that a war among gods was approaching. She revealed a dangerous plan that required the Spirit Vessel’s help, leaving her worried but willing to assist.

• The Spirit Vessel woke and clarified that she had only sensed Jiang Qing nearby, while Xu Zhi teased her for seeking someone else first.
• Jiang Qing asked what was happening, and Xu Zhi explained that a world war among gods could rewrite the order of transcendent beings.
• Xu Zhi took the Spirit Vessel away from Jiang Qing and told her about the situation and her plan.
• The Spirit Vessel warned that Xu Zhi’s plan could kill her, but Xu Zhi insisted it suited her best and asked her to trust her.
• The Spirit Vessel agreed that she understood Xu Zhi, though she still wanted to talk her out of taking such risks.

Xu Zhi entered Mansus to search for the door by resonating with its rules and tracing them toward Radiance. She discovered that her attempt drew the attention of beings coveting the Radiance Fragment’s aura.

• Xu Zhi sent Game Console into Mansus with Xiao Zhen while she prepared to enter alone through Midnight.
• After entering Mansus, Xu Zhi sensed her connection to it and realized she could explore its roads freely.
• Xu Zhi decided to search for the door by resonating with Mansus’s rules rather than comprehending them.
• Xu Zhi cut her palm and let her golden blood expose the Radiance Fragment’s power to Mansus’s rules.
• Xu Zhi felt a pull that could lead her toward Radiance, along with the covetous attention her leaked aura attracted.

As Xu Zhi resonated with Mansus, she encountered [Lamp], who revealed her past involvement in guiding Xu Zhi and asked her to end the gods’ conflict over Ascension and Radiance. [Lamp] shared what she knew about the gods’ alliances and the origins of their altered supernatural rules, while Xu Zhi concluded that Radiance cared only for the world’s operation, not human rules or morality.

• Xu Zhi resonated with Mansus, saw a torrent of threads leading to Radiance, and attacked an approaching presence amid sensory overload.
• After Xu Zhi severed her resonance, she recognized the visitor as [Lamp] and learned that [Lamp] had been the agent who previously approached her.
• [Lamp] said she had arranged for Jiang Qing to guide Xu Zhi to the Lost Land Research Institute and asked Xu Zhi to end the conflict before it brought disaster.
• [Lamp] described the gods’ competing interests and alliances, warning that they cooperated because Cup posed too great a threat.
• [Lamp] explained that the gods had changed supernatural advancement, while Xu Zhi reasoned that Radiance regarded such changes as insignificant and sustained the world’s operation.

Xu Zhi learned how the gods used agents as vessels and persuaded [Lamp] to watch [Cup] and help her end the conflict. She then headed toward [Radiance], where the closer she came, the more her body trembled with instinctive fear of its source.

• [Lamp] told Xu Zhi that the gods descended into chosen Transcendents and could take control of them, explaining how the agents were connected to their gods.
• Xu Zhi asked [Lamp] to monitor [Cup] and warn her, openly admitting that she wanted the gods dead and needed their help to end the conflict.
• [Lamp] agreed to help despite recognizing Xu Zhi might kill her, then vanished after warning that time was running short.
• Xu Zhi assigned the Game Console to find [Cup] and moved toward the place where she had sensed [Radiance].
• As Xu Zhi approached [Radiance], pressure and invisible fear made her fingers tremble, as her body instinctively feared the source of its power.

Xu Zhi tried to approach Radiance while resisting its power of assimilation, hoping to draw out the hidden god who had taken Radiance Fragments. The god attacked her with illusions and Moth abilities, but Xu Zhi revealed that she had turned the trap against it and ended with the attacker in her grasp.

• Xu Zhi sensed that Radiance was assimilating her and chose to approach it anyway to lure out whoever was watching.
• Game Console kept Xu Zhi conscious as she neared Radiance, until the hidden god trapped her in an illusion.
• Xu Zhi recognized the illusion and resisted the hidden god’s moth powder with her [Heart]-attribute ability and regeneration.
• The hidden god planted a seed in Xu Zhi’s mind and attacked her while its moths and illusions disrupted her balance.
• Xu Zhi seized the god’s seemingly incorporeal hand, revealing that she had not been controlled and had influenced it instead.
• Xu Zhi asked whether eating the Moth would make her stronger.

Xu Zhi ambushed the invisible [Moth] god with an arrow empowered by several transcendent attributes, exposing and damaging His hidden weakness. Though [Moth] severed His injured hand and challenged her, Xu Zhi pressed the attack, confident that her combined abilities and [Lamp]’s support would win the fight.

• Xu Zhi secretly infused [Moth] with [Radiance]’s rule power so she could track Him after He escaped her grasp.
• Xu Zhi used [Guaranteed Hit] to strike the hidden [Moth] god with an arrow carrying [Blade], [Authority], and [Instant Death].
• The arrow pierced [Moth]’s palm and spread golden cracks through His illusory body, while its negative effects resisted removal.
• Unable to stop the damage or heal Himself, [Moth] severed His own hand and demanded to know what Xu Zhi had done.
• Xu Zhi ignored [Moth] and attacked again, relying on her multiple attributes and [Lamp]’s long-range support.

Xu Zhi trapped [Moth] in the prison that had become her domain and appeared to be killed by its mental attack. [Moth] left believing it had won, unaware that a tiny moth had settled on its neck and was subtly altering its path.

• Xu Zhi used her mastery of multiple attributes and superior secrecy to identify and strike a weakness in [Moth]'s circuits.
• [Moth] tried to escape with [Transition], but Xu Zhi redirected it into the ruined prison where [Cup] had once been confined.
• Recognizing the prison, [Moth] attacked Xu Zhi, sealing her abilities and apparently decapitating her as the domain collapsed.
• [Moth] cautiously confirmed Xu Zhi's aura had vanished, then left the collapsed domain.
• An inconspicuous moth settled on [Moth]'s collar and subtly changed the path it walked without its noticing.

[Moth] entered the battlefield to activate hidden eggs implanted in the other gods, hoping to exploit their chaotic energy during the fight. As the eggs hatched and the gods remained entangled in their schemes, [Cup] sensed an unknown presence and grew more vigilant.

• [Moth] rushed toward the battlefield after dealing with an unexpected meddler, intent on killing his colleagues as part of his plan.
• [Moth] observed the gods fighting [Cup] while secretly guarding against one another, and noticed that [Lamp] had unexpectedly joined the battle.
• [Moth] slipped into the battlefield in the form of an inconspicuous moth, activating the hidden eggs inside the gods.
• The eggs hatched into translucent moths that attached themselves to the gods’ internal circuits.
• [Cup] sensed an unforeseen variable in the battlefield, though she could not see [Moth].

[Cup] fought several gods using weapons made from her remains while concealing her trump card. [Opening] accused [Forge] of joining [Cup], and [Heart] realized the accusation had to be true because [Opening] could not lie.

• The gods attacked [Cup] with weapons forged from her remains, and she used an opening in their formation to evade them and ambush [Blade].
• [Blade] feigned injury, then secretly disrupted [Forge]'s energy flow so a bolt of Mansus lightning would strike him.
• [Blade]'s plan backfired when the lightning struck him instead, leaving [Forge] unharmed.
• [Blade] accused [Heart] of protecting [Forge], but she denied doing anything.
• [Opening] claimed that [Forge] had betrayed the gods and become [Cup]'s companion, and [Heart] understood that [Opening] could not lie.

[Moth] secretly infected [Blade] and [Winter] with moth eggs while the gods battled, then forced [Blade] into a deal after [Heart] unexpectedly wounded [Opening]. The chapter left [Blade] agreeing to target [Winter] first under [Moth]'s direction.

• [Blade] and [Opening] attacked [Forge] after [Heart] refused to join their fight, while [Moth] used the divided battlefield to spread powder that accelerated eggs inside [Blade] and [Winter].
• [Heart] suddenly drove Her hand into [Opening]'s chest, and [Blade] attacked Her before trying to retreat with the wounded [Opening].
• [Moth]'s eggs invaded [Blade]'s innate circuit, leaving Him unable to remove them without sacrificing part of it.
• [Moth] appeared and demanded that [Blade] abandon [Opening] and cooperate in exchange for removing the supernatural ability after they defeated the other gods.
• [Moth] ordered [Blade] to make [Winter] their first target.

Blade wounded Winter at Moth’s request, and Moth moved to exploit their cooperation to kill Cup. Heart then attacked Moth, Blade, and Winter, and Cup revealed that she had also turned against them from within Moth’s own mind.

• Blade wounded Winter, and Winter silently accepted Moth’s plan after Moth whispered to Winter.
• Moth trapped Forge in a spatial rift and ordered Blade and Winter to attack the weakened Cup.
• Heart unexpectedly drained energy and vitality from Moth, Blade, and Winter, feeding the stolen power to Heart.
• Moth realized Cup had invaded Heart, while Heart continued attacking despite claiming not to know what was happening.
• Cup challenged Moth’s claim that the fight was three against three, and Moth heard an unseen voice threaten to kill Moth first.

[Moth] struggled against Xu Zhi’s interference while fighting [Cup] alongside Winter in Mansus. As [Cup] turned her focus on [Moth] to draw out the hidden Xu Zhi, she used her power to seize something within the air.

• [Moth] realized Xu Zhi had infiltrated His mind and resisted the doubts and illusions disrupting Him.
• [Moth] chose to press on and attack [Cup], but a momentary daze caused Him to strike Winter instead.
• Winter healed His shoulder and joined [Moth] in confronting [Cup], using snowflakes to slow her movements and energy.
• [Cup] recognized that Xu Zhi was hiding within [Moth] and intended to emerge when He neared death.
• [Cup] stopped holding back, reached toward [Moth] with her left hand, and grasped at something unseen.