Chapter Summaries

Bai Hexun used Yue Hongchen’s consciousness to learn what his father, Yue Qianfeng, looked like, then impersonated him in the Mental World. He left Yue Hongchen believing his father had appeared to beat him for falling asleep during a lesson.

• Bai Hexun studied Yue Hongchen’s consciousness and learned his father’s name and appearance without killing him.
• Bai Hexun transformed the Mental World into an ancient room and took on Yue Qianfeng’s appearance.
• Bai Hexun pulled Yue Hongchen’s consciousness into the Mental World and pretended to be his furious father.
• Bai Hexun sealed Yue Hongchen’s spiritual power and beat him with a ruler, while Yue Hongchen mistook the beating for a return to his childhood.

Bai Hexun questioned Yue Hongchen about cultivation realms and punished him for giving only a poem instead of detailed breakthrough instructions. After returning Yue Hongchen to his body, Bai Hexun rebuilt the Mental World and began deriving the cultivation realms, starting with the Coolie and Butterfly Transformation Realms.

• Bai Hexun asked Yue Hongchen to name the known realms, and Yue Hongchen listed seven, from the Coolie Realm through the Supreme Realm.
• Bai Hexun asked how to break through each realm, and Yue Hongchen recited a poem that Bai Hexun had taught him instead of explaining the process.
• Bai Hexun realized Yue Qianfeng had withheld the details from Yue Hongchen, then withdrew the Mental World's simulated environment and returned Yue Hongchen's soul to his body.
• Bai Hexun reconstructed a Blue Star grassland in the Mental World and used breathing simulations to steady his human soul data against absolute rationality.
• Bai Hexun created a human phantom and modeled the Coolie Realm's muscle growth and the Butterfly Transformation Realm's muscle loss and meridian absorption.

Bai Hexun simulated a human's cultivation, advancing a phantom to the Star Sea Realm before repeatedly testing how to reach the Supreme Realm. After countless failed deductions, he glimpsed an unfathomable aura and realized that speed and mass could affect time and space.

• Bai Hexun filled the humanoid phantom's meridians with spiritual energy, accelerated its cultivation, and opened its dragon bone to awaken Spiritual Sense.
• Bai Hexun guided the phantom through the Bone-Breaking Realm and successive stages until it reached the Star Sea Realm.
• Bai Hexun pondered the meaning of a saying about the Supreme Realm and began deducing what happened when cultivation returned to Chaos.
• The phantom repeatedly exploded during Bai Hexun's failed attempts, but he restored it and continued testing thousands of times.
• Bai Hexun finally glimpsed an unfathomable aura, laughed at his discovery, and declared that light-speed halted time while immense mass distorted space.

Bai Hexun deduced that the Supreme Realm was connected to time and space, then created an incarnation using the bodies of Li Cunzhen and Yue Hongchen. He sent the new body toward Celestial Star to investigate the Supreme Realm, while his Starry Sky Behemoth watched from afar.

• Bai Hexun connected the poem’s ideas of governing the world and eternity to space and time, and sensed that the Supreme Realm’s knowledge could unlock his Starry Sky Behemoth body’s power.
• Bai Hexun analyzed Li Cunzhen’s and Yue Hongchen’s cells to assemble a perfect genome, then cultivated an embryo in a nutrient solution under the pressure of space.
• Bai Hexun transferred his data and some Innate Chaos into the newborn, creating an Innate Dao Body that could share his will with his Starry Sky Behemoth body.
• Bai Hexun sealed the baby inside a meteorite and hurled it toward Celestial Star so the incarnation could explore the world and seek information about the Supreme Realm.
• The meteorite streaked across Celestial Star’s night sky as Bai Hexun’s deep-blue eye watched from above.

Bai Xiao and Xi He launched All Heavens: Primordial World in Huaxia, while discussing morality, humanity, and their decision to leave civilization to its own devices. The game’s debut drew crowds and controversy, and a would-be scalper was arrested after trying to attack a store clerk and sell the technology overseas.

• Xi He reflected on human cruelty and injustice, and Bai Xiao argued that people’s choices and morality still mattered.
• Bai Xiao and Xi He observed that they had changed, then agreed to let people solve their own problems while Bai Xiao pursued a life of easy profit.
• Xi He spread a vast web across the sky as Bai Xiao ordered Xinghe Group to launch advertisements for All Heavens: Primordial World.
• Online commenters debated whether the game’s Brain-Machine Link technology was real, and some rushed to buy it.
• A leather-jacketed man tried to buy twenty game pods, threatened a receptionist, and attempted to strike her when she refused.
• A clerk and other store employees revealed their security credentials, arrested the man, and accused him of attempting espionage; nearby customers then bought the game pods.

Bold Little Thief tested a newly purchased game pod on livestream, accidentally exposed himself, and was banned before he could show off the game. He explored the game's limited version 1.0 forum and found guides for strange evolutionary paths.

• A receptionist explained that game pods were safe, brainwave-bound, and inexpensive because the government had covered the Brain-Machine Link technology costs.
• Bold Little Thief climbed into his game pod and connected to the Brain-Machine Link while livestreaming.
• Bold Little Thief realized the livestream was showing him naked, and a supervisor banned his stream for obscene content.
• Bold Little Thief decided to investigate the game and opened its version 1.0 forum.
• Bold Little Thief found guides about evolving photosensitive systems, mayflies, plants, and arthropods.

Bold Little Thief entered the game as a simple organism and gradually learned to move, swim, and float at the water’s surface. After gaining vision, he reached the individual level, named his species Palm Starfish, and unlocked its evolution chart.

• Bold Little Thief entered the game and found himself inside a round body in warm liquid.
• As his body multiplied, Bold Little Thief gradually learned to gather nearby cells and move freely.
• Bold Little Thief swam upward, reached the water’s surface, and learned to float with gentle movements.
• The heat above the water triggered patterns in Bold Little Thief’s vision until he could see clearly.
• Bold Little Thief unlocked the evolution tree, named his species Palm Starfish, and opened its evolution chart.

Bold Little Thief discovered the Chat System and met Olin Amur Tiger, a photosynthesizing mantis shrimp. Olin explained that he had evolved by devouring a friend whose species fused with his as an organ.

• Bold Little Thief found the Chat System after reciting “System” and used it to communicate with Olin Amur Tiger.
• Bold Little Thief spotted Olin, who revealed that he was a Green-Headed Mantis Shrimp capable of photosynthesis.
• Bold Little Thief and Olin exchanged their nicknames and joked about their identities.
• Olin told Bold Little Thief that he had evolved twice, with his second evolution producing his current species.
• Olin explained that he had devoured a friend as part of their plan, and their species had fused so the friend’s species became one of his organs.

Bold Little Thief traveled with Brother Tiger through a powerful ocean current to the Silent Sea, where he evolved into a current-adapted Starfish Squid and discovered the player gathering place. After logging out, he realized time had passed more slowly in the game than in reality and suspected the government’s interest was tied to the time-flow differential.

• Bold Little Thief asked Brother Tiger about player gathering places, and Brother Tiger explained the Silent Sea and the game’s vast, realistically simulated world.
• As the ocean currents reversed, Brother Tiger attached himself to Bold Little Thief’s species and warned him to hold on while they rode the current.
• Bold Little Thief chose not to lock his Gene Chain and evolved into a current-adapted species that he named [Starfish Squid].
• Brother Tiger spotted markers leading to the Silent Sea, where Bold Little Thief saw the Luminous Night Market created from Light of Polar Night’s public Evolution Tree.
• Bold Little Thief logged out and found that about two hours had passed in reality despite his feeling that he had spent over four hours in the game.

Bai Xiao and Xi He watched the players’ species evolve while Bai Xiao intervened when domestic pirates dismantled a game pod. They then began creating a new planet to help deduce a Transcendence civilization, and the Creation Continent’s players watched in alarm.

• Xi He and Bai Xiao discussed the players’ unusual evolutionary ideas and why foreign users would have to wait to try the game pods.
• Bai Xiao possessed Zhang Hancheng and made him report his own group for pirating and dismantling a game pod, then left him confused as he resumed the work.
• Xi He laughed at the pirates’ bewilderment before Bai Xiao persuaded her to help create a small world with a high time flow rate.
• Xi He used her Heavenly Dao Artifact and Cosmic Rules to gather matter and energy and form a new planet.
• The players on Creation Continent saw the planet’s creation, and their species panicked as the sky filled with light.

Players recorded Xi He forging and concealing a tiny planet, while Aurora Night and his companion discussed what they had witnessed. After logging off, Aurora Night told Dazhuang that the game’s realism suggested a higher life-form was behind it, but Dazhuang offered him his medicine.

• Players used the system to record Xi He’s star-forging ceremony, though the recordings were limited by each species’ field of vision.
• Xi He created a tiny planet and concealed it with the laws of light, leaving the players unable to see it.
• Aurora Night told his big-headed fish companion to log off and check the forums while he posted his Evolution Tree.
• Aurora Night struggled out of his gaming pod, and Dazhuang helped him into his wheelchair.
• Aurora Night asked Dazhuang whether gods existed and argued that the game pointed to a higher life-form or the ultimate form of life.
• Dazhuang poured out Aurora Night’s medicine, leaving him deathly pale.

Xi He accelerated life’s evolution on the new planet while Bai Xiao searched the players’ creations for Extraordinary Species. He found that players had developed several unusual evolutionary projects, including an electric eel with Transcendent potential.

• Xi He used the Time Principle to rapidly evolve ocean life, while Bai Xiao observed the planet’s emerging creatures.
• Xi He told Bai Xiao to check Genesis for Extraordinary Species, and he traveled to the Silent Sea in the form of an ordinary fish.
• Bai Xiao found players staging a Pokémon Tournament, where a Lightning Eel defeated a small shark.
• Bai Xiao detected the Lightning Eel’s potential to become Transcendent and identified its creator, Light of Polar Night.
• Bai Xiao inspected the forum and found Extraordinary Species projects based on electric eels, muscular bodies, and computer-like bivalves.

Bai Xiao observed the players’ Transcendence paths and secretly helped Aurora Night complete his Overcharged Electric Eel evolution. Aurora Night became the first player to evolve an Extraordinary Species, and the server received a notice offering him a reward.

• Bai Xiao reviewed the players’ proposed Transcendence paths and decided to visit those pursuing Extraordinary Species.
• Bai Xiao found Aurora Night among gathered electric eels and used the game backend to watch him endure currents while evolving his species.
• Bai Xiao secretly helped Aurora Night’s Evolution progress, and Aurora Night broke through to become an Extraordinary Species.
• The server announced Aurora Night’s achievement and offered him a choice between one hundred thousand yuan and beginning a second life.

Players discussed Aurora Night becoming the first to evolve an Extraordinary Species and debate over his reward, while Chest-Shattering Boulder reacted to being beaten to the milestone. The chapter left him exposed as a clumsy forum troll after Red Hacker revealed his supposed alt account was only a guess.

• Players debated Aurora Night’s one-million-yuan prize and the option of receiving a second life, while some urged others to respect his choice.
• Players teased Chest-Shattering Boulder for losing the race to evolve an Extraordinary Species, and he vowed to come in second.
• Chest-Shattering Boulder smashed his phone, logged in as Sledgehammer Sis, and defended himself when players mocked his supposed attempts to meet them privately.
• Red Hacker claimed that Sledgehammer Sis was Chest-Shattering Boulder’s alt account, prompting other players to accuse him of pretending to be a woman.
• Chest-Shattering Boulder demanded to know how Red Hacker had uncovered his account, and Red Hacker admitted he had only been bluffing.

Li Ye was pulled into a golden vortex after the reward choices switched, while Bai Xiao and Xi He sent his soul to a planet where humans were nearly extinct. They decided that Li Ye would become the savior of its human civilization.

• Li Ye dismissed the livestream comments about his evolved body, then tried to choose one million yuan instead of Second Life.
• The reward options switched, and a golden vortex sucked Li Ye inside as viewers speculated about the official reward.
• Bai Xiao gave Xi He the light containing Li Ye’s soul connection and asked why the planet had so few humans.
• Xi He explained that she had given wild beasts incomplete Soul Beast genes, leaving humans unable to fight the powerful beasts.
• Bai Xiao decided Li Ye should save the human civilization, and Xi He sent the golden sphere down to the planet.

Li Ye awakened in a dangerous world with a Thunder Eel gene and discovered he could channel electricity through his body. After a gray wolf attacked him, he killed it with a powerful current.

• Li Ye awoke in an unfamiliar place and saw a system panel identifying him as Aurora Night, a human with a Thunder Eel gene who could not log out.
• He watched gray wolves flee from a massive, two-headed lion with flames burning across its back.
• After the lion passed, a gray wolf crept up behind Li Ye and attacked.
• Li Ye recognized the electrical sensation in his body and struck the wolf with a charged elbow.
• Li Ye unleashed a stronger current that killed the wolf, leaving its body charred.

Frog and an old man searched the forest for food while avoiding gray sharp-claws, but a giant gray ape attacked them. Just as the ape lunged for Frog, a man in green clothes appeared and blocked its attack.

• Tree warned the group that gray sharp-claws were nearby, but the man with the stick refused to leave without finding food for his little sister.
• Tree led Frog away from the others, then sent her toward a cave while he ran off to draw the beasts after him.
• A giant gray ape struck Tree with stones and knocked him down as he tried to escape.
• Frog returned and hit the ape with a stone, prompting Tree to beg her to run.
• The giant ape threw Tree aside and reached for Frog, but a man in green clothes holding a fish blocked its attack.

Li Ye killed the Gray Ape and presented himself to the old man and Frog as a god. He took Frog and the ape with him toward a nearby human settlement.

• Li Ye instantly killed the Gray Ape, leaving the old man and Frog stunned.
• The old man prayed to Li Ye as a god, and Frog followed his lead by kowtowing.
• Li Ye told them to take him to their settlement, but the old man misunderstood his words as divine language.
• Li Ye became captivated by Frog's beauty and carried her beneath his arm despite her attempt to dodge.
• Li Ye picked up the Gray Ape and headed toward the traces of human life he had sensed.

Li Ye asserted his authority over the cavern’s natives by killing a man who attacked the old man and frightening the crowd into submission. Afterward, he shared the giant ape’s meat with the frog girl, leaving the natives gathered around the corpse to eat.

• Li Ye brought the giant ape’s corpse into the cavern, where the natives recoiled in fear.
• A native struck the old man who had sworn loyalty to Li Ye, so Li Ye killed the attacker with a lightning sword.
• Li Ye’s thunderous display frightened the cavern’s people into kneeling and kowtowing to him.
• Li Ye tore meat from the giant ape and began eating, prompting the old man and the other natives to rush for the roasted corpse.
• Li Ye stopped the frog girl from grabbing meat, then gave her a piece, and she ate ravenously.

Kyle trained with wooden swords alongside a brown-haired youth who challenged him to overcome his weakness and become a swordsman. The chapter ended by revealing the Sword Chief’s immense statue in the city and the reverence surrounding him.

• A brown-haired youth praised his own swordsmanship and predicted he would earn a surname from the Sword Chief.
• Kyle attacked the brown-haired youth, but lost after their wooden swords clashed.
• The brown-haired youth criticized Kyle’s frail body and urged him to give up if he could not endure hardship.
• Kyle declared that he wanted to become a swordsman because the Sword Chief had once saved his father, then picked up his wooden sword and shouted, “Sword, come!”
• The narration described the Sword Chief’s colossal statue and the city’s reverence for him.