Recaps

Basim recalled how Alucard’s Death River nearly killed him during a survival mission and how Dracula spared him, revealing a Domain that gave Basim a new model for advancing beyond the Fourth Tier. After a long recovery in the meteorite’s barren territory, Basim swallowed his remaining fragments, seeking to strengthen himself.

• Basim emerged from the soil where he had been recovering in the territory he claimed after the meteorite’s fall.
• Basim remembered how Alucard unleashed the Death River during the battle in London, drowning the city in blood and overwhelming him with the dead.
• Dracula spared Basim, declaring that Basim was not pure enough to kill him, and Basim survived the mission’s time limit.
• Basim realized that Alucard’s Domain offered a path beyond mere techniques and abilities, showing him how power could impose its laws on the outside world.
• Basim recognized Dracula as a forerunner on the path of souls and swallowed the few Meteorite Fragments he had left.

Li Yun attended an international reception with Old Li and their companions, where researchers discussed spiritual energy and officials tried to recruit him. The evening’s socializing brought Li Yun’s attention back to a tattooed foreign guest with differently colored eyes, who watched him across the hall.

• Old Li, Li Yun, Fang Yishu, Ning Yu, and the two professors arrived at the reception in a VIP vehicle and took their assigned places.
• Professor Xin questioned Li Yun about spiritual energy, human observation, and its possible effects on experiments.
• An elderly official welcomed the international delegation, and the banquet began after his speech.
• Fang Yishu asked Li Yun about the tattooed foreigner, who greeted him with a raised glass; Li Yun ignored him.
• Two officials urged Li Yun to relocate to their region and promised him resources and support.
• Li Yun noticed the foreigner watching him again across the hall.

At a Chengdu reception, Li Yun confronted Hedit, a fourth-tier necromancer hiding inside the corpse-like body of Michael Wood, while they discussed the delegation and observed guests coveting Ning Yu’s black cat. When officials returned to press Ning Yu to sell it on behalf of a Dutch royal guest, Hedit stepped forward with a savage grin.

• Li Yun recognized Michael Wood as a corpse controlled by Hedit, a fourth-tier Death Mentor, and the two exchanged guarded remarks through mental fluctuations.
• Hedit explained that he had come to Chengdu to avoid other fourth-tier beings in the delegation, including Bishop Di of Vatican City, and Li Yun suggested that every subgroup might have its own Michael.
• A group of foreign guests noticed Ning Yu’s black cat and sent a representative to offer her money for it, but she refused.
• Two more men approached on the guest’s behalf, invoking his Dutch royal status and their duty not to offend him.
• Hedit stepped forward and challenged the men for pressing Ning Yu after she had already shown them consideration.

Michael used his Fear Aura to force the young aristocrat and his entourage to their knees after they pressured Li Yun to give up his cat. The incident sparked further clashes between domestic and foreign users at the gathering, which erupted into a brawl.

• Michael silenced the foreign-affairs escorts and confronted the group seeking to buy the cat.
• Michael unleashed his Fear Aura, making the young aristocrat, the blonde woman, and more than twenty others collapse or kneel.
• Michael released the group and returned to Li Yun, insisting that he had shown them consideration.
• The hall's guests interpreted the lack of official intervention as a sign of changing attitudes toward users.
• A drunk guest picked a fight over a supposed South Korean visitor, and the gathering erupted into a mass brawl.

Li Yun and Ning Yu watched reports of violent clashes at the visiting delegation’s events and mass protests abroad before meeting with officials. A diplomat questioned Li Yun about Michael Wood, an apparent ordinary man who had effortlessly subdued more than twenty people, and asked what tier of user he might be.

• News reports showed that Michael Wood had stood calmly over kneeling guests and attendants after a banquet fight broke out.
• Reports described mass protests and unrest in Europe and North America over policies concerning users and the visiting delegation.
• Qian Yisheng discussed the clashes with Li Yun and recounted rumors of a Fourth Tier figure silencing a banquet in Yanjing.
• A diplomat told Li Yun that the conflict began when Michael Wood intervened after Lady Josephine took an interest in Ning Yu’s pet cat.
• The diplomat presented evidence that Michael Wood had appeared to be an ordinary person before overpowering more than twenty people, then asked Li Yun to estimate his user tier.

Li Yun revealed that the visiting diplomat Michael was a living corpse controlled by the Death Mentor and estimated the entity was Fourth Tier. The chapter ended with Li Yun warning that the Death Mentor was difficult to kill and could not be stopped by those who feared death.

• Li Yun noticed the old diplomat's hidden anxiety and realized officials were secretly watching him through a camera.
• The officials debated whether Li Yun had detected their surveillance and whether he might be Fourth Tier, while their leader ordered them to keep observing.
• The old diplomat asked Li Yun to assess Michael's tier, and Li Yun said Michael was a living corpse whose true identity was the Death Mentor, likely Fourth Tier.
• Li Yun explained to Qian Yisheng that Michael's body appeared physiologically normal but was a shell occupied from within.
• The old diplomat shared a consulate report about Michael Wood's unexplained personality changes and asked Li Yun to assess the Death Mentor's threat.
• Li Yun warned that death could not easily be killed and those who feared it could not stop it.

The broker’s necromantic ritual unexpectedly summoned a projection of the Death Mentor, who recognized the broker’s skill and gave him an after-class reward. The Death Mentor asked him to investigate Li Yun, leaving the broker with a new assignment and the promise of further rewards.

• The broker prepared a necromantic ritual in an abandoned quarry and used a corpse to draw out spiritual traces.
• The ritual’s candles turned gray-white, and the Death Mentor’s projection appeared outside the formation.
• The broker greeted the Death Mentor respectfully, and the mentor praised his work and questioned his use of silver.
• The Death Mentor shared experience with the broker as an after-class reward and deposit.
• The Death Mentor asked the broker to investigate Li Yun, who had attended a local welcoming banquet for an international delegation.

Li Yun watched Basim risk his life to break through from the peak of the Fourth Tier while the weakening barrier allowed spiritual forces to grow stronger. As Basim’s transformation neared its decisive moment, Luo Xiaowei was questioned about Li Yun, and the Main God announced the emergence of a Fifth Tier user.

• Li Yun observed that the shattered Grotto-Heavens were slowly strengthening the world’s spiritual environment and weakening its barrier.
• Basim used soul essence, bone fragments, and his remaining strength to attempt an independent breakthrough to the Fifth Tier.
• Li Yun watched as Basim’s body withered and his spirit endured severe pain while a subtle transformation began.
• Luo Xiaowei answered officials’ questions about her past interactions with Li Yun and grew frustrated with their repeated inquiries.
• A cold voice announced that a Fifth Tier user had emerged in the real world and began unlocking third-level Main God authority and activating standard Main God IDs.

Basim’s breakthrough made him the first fifth-tier individual, prompting the Main God to announce new access and exchange features to everyone. As officials investigated the changes and debated their consequences, they speculated that Fuxi might be controlling the Great Light Ball.

• Basim absorbed spiritual traces after his breakthrough, recovering strength and gaining a more stable inner foundation despite reality’s rejection.
• The Main God announced that Basim was the first fifth-tier individual, and people across the country heard the announcement.
• Luo Wei was released from questioning, then went to the Network Information Technology Center to investigate the new announcements.
• Hu Dingjun and his colleagues discovered that ordinary visitors had inactive Main God IDs, with zero Universal Points and a Visitor Invitation Quota as the only exchange listing.
• Officials observed a surge in traffic to the Main God Website and debated what the new Universal Points and exchange system meant.
• An old man at an emergency meeting joked that Fuxi might be behind the Great Light Ball, controlling its authority.

Li Yun discussed Bishop Di Wanxin’s religious ambitions and the Special Office’s growing concerns with Director Qian Yisheng, then watched reports of unrest and mass migration across neighboring countries. The chapter left Li observing how the Main God’s influence and broader upheaval were driving small societies toward collapse and people toward flight.

• Qian Yisheng told Li Yun that Di Wanxin was seeking permission to preach and building relationships with officials, cultural groups, and former Taoist organizations.
• Qian Yisheng said Di Wanxin appeared to be pursuing a Main God Faith while negotiating support from multiple countries and taking advantage of rising public interest in the divine.
• Li Yun considered how faith could benefit the newborn world tree and why ambitious fourth-tier users might seek to become founders of a new religion.
• Qian Yisheng warned Li Yun that someone had hacked Special Office accounts and stolen personal information, including Li Yun’s records.
• Li Yun watched television reports showing unrest, border breaches, violence, and mass departures across neighboring countries.
• Li Yun concluded that collapsing services and social order were pushing people from small countries to flee toward larger nations.

Li Yun and Fatty Yuan discussed the upheaval caused by New Humanity, including refugees crossing borders and the difficult aftermath of users killed on forced true body missions. Watching a checkpoint standoff, they saw how spiritual materials could buy entry and how disorder was spreading, while Li Yun regarded it as nothing new.

• Li Yun observed that refugees were risking their lives to cross borders into developed regions, worsening tensions with local residents and destabilizing order.
• Fatty Yuan told Li Yun that he was struggling to manage the estates, families, and bodies of users killed on their first forced true body mission, as relatives disagreed over freezing or cremation.
• Li Yun and Fatty Yuan watched soldiers confront refugees at a checkpoint, where a man offered a spiritual plant and was escorted across the defensive line with several companions.
• Fatty Yuan remarked that reports of the Amerika Federation's states considering secession seemed credible as unrest spread.
• Li Yun said the turmoil was perfectly normal and that there was nothing new under the sun.

Chai Ming was detained over an unauthorized database download, but investigators suspected a supernatural being had manipulated him. Meanwhile, Old Li attended a research conference where fourth-tier user Di Wanxin proposed that supernatural abilities were shadows cast by a higher-dimensional “Main God,” leaving the theory open for further discussion.

• Chai Ming let Special Investigation Bureau officers search his apartment and escorted him into custody after they presented suspension and investigation notices.
• Interrogators confronted Chai Ming with surveillance photographs and recovered download records showing someone had used Section Chief Zhang Duo’s account to access user data.
• Chai Ming claimed a cloaked skeleton with green flames for eyes had manipulated him, and a Special Appraisal Division assessment found signs of mental confusion and outside spiritual erosion.
• A middle-aged investigator said Chai Ming might be telling the truth and noted that the stolen data involved local first-test users and a possible fourth-tier figure.
• Old Li and his companions attended an internal research conference after Professor Xin exchanged research-project returns for tickets.
• Di Wanxin proposed that the Main God was like a higher-dimensional beam of light and that users’ abilities were shadows shaped by their supernatural tiers.

At an internal research conference, Bishop Di presented a conjecture about how perceptions of the divine might shape reality, and fourth-tier user Tiance demonstrated his theories about enhancements. The conference then moved to a social scientist’s presentation on collective cognitive worship and mission worlds.

• Bishop Di proposed that consciousness and perceptions of divinity could influence the forms people perceived, drawing applause from the audience.
• Bishop Di distributed a revised draft of his doctrine, which emphasized the Lord while leaving its central framework open to interpretation.
• Tiance demonstrated transformations between different forms and attributes, then explained that enhancements combined materiality and mentality in varying proportions.
• Li Yun recognized Tiance as Li Ce and took notes on his explanation of energy, matter, and mentality.
• A Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher began a presentation on the suspected connection between collective cognitive worship projection and mission worlds.

At a research seminar, Li Yun listened to experts debate the changes caused by users and the Main God before a researcher’s proposal to loosen restrictions was cut short. She handed her remaining time to Li Yun, who revealed his fourth-tier strength and took the stage, where he entered the title “Preliminary testing experience with rune patterns.”

• Li Yun listened to research presentations and inferred that Yanjing’s academic authorization system reflected growing regional and resource tensions.
• A woman researcher argued that restrictions on users should be relaxed, drawing enthusiastic support from users and younger researchers.
• After staff shortened her presentation, the woman invoked the procedure to transfer her remaining time to another speaker and directed the spotlight toward Li Yun.
• Li Yun rose and revealed a naturally manifesting spiritual halo, prompting the audience to recognize him as a fourth-tier expert and applaud.
• Li Yun accepted the microphone and entered “Preliminary testing experience with rune patterns” as his presentation title.

At a research gathering, Li Yun gave an impromptu demonstration of a blood-drawn rune pattern and explained how spirituality and intention gave talismans their effects. His display won him attention and invitations from researchers and local users, while he warned Professor Xin not to arrange another surprise opportunity like this.

• Li Yun suspected the gathering’s organizers had maneuvered him into speaking, but he took the stage and announced a talk on rune patterns.
• Li Yun drew a three-dimensional rune pattern in the air with his blood, and the completed design made nearby numinous spark respond sluggishly.
• Li Yun explained the difference between numinous spark and spirituality and said rune patterns required spiritual energy shaped by a person’s mind, not mere copying.
• Li Yun declined the researcher’s offer to continue speaking, returned to his seat, and attracted invitations from local users and research institutes.
• Professor Xin admitted that several people had helped arrange the speaking opportunity, and Li Yun told him it should not happen again.

As the second Forced True Body Mission approached, Qian Yisheng inspected the underground preparations in Chengdu's High-Tech Development Zone while millions of Main God Users gathered on the Azure Platform. Li Yun separated from his companions, leaving Fatty Yuan and Ruan Chenggang to decide how the less experienced users around them should form teams.

• Qian Yisheng traveled to the High-Tech Development Zone and checked that users in the underground sleep pods were stable and ready for the mission.
• Fatty Yuan and Ruan Chenggang gathered with their companions on the Azure Platform, where massive factions and powerful users dwarfed smaller groups.
• Li Yun revealed the spiritual radiance of a fourth-tier user, exchanged brief greetings with other fourth-tier beings, and left to enter the mission alone.
• Old Li and several others chose to split into solo or small teams, following lessons from the previous True Body Mission.
• Fatty Yuan and Ruan Chenggang were left weighing whether to team up with less experienced companions or accept offers from unfamiliar users.