Chapter Summaries

Li Yun dreamed of a moonlit realm where a Daoist who resembled him explained that the abandoned dream had become real to Li Yun through his heart. After the Daoist fished a vast moon from the lake and the dream collapsed, Li Yun awoke in his room with the dream’s small mirror still in his hand.

• Li Yun wandered through clouds beneath a lone moon and climbed jade stairs to a stone platform, where a mysterious angler greeted him.
• The angler explained that Li Yun had been dreamed into an abandoned dream and that his thoughts could shape its world.
• The angler revealed a Daoist face resembling Li Yun’s and offered him a bowl of noodles, which Li Yun made vanish by dismissing it as unreal.
• As the Daoist faded, he gave Li Yun a small green mirror and fished a radiant moon and an immense ocean from the lake.
• Li Yun awoke in his dim room and discovered that he still held a small antique mirror.

Li Yun explored the Cluster Subconscious Sea through the Azure Jade Mirror, using its spiritual energy to support his dream-based powers and the artificial consciousness [AC]. After finding that deep-sea harvesting was too slow and costly, he ordered [AC] to calculate a more direct plan, the [Main God Space Mode].

• Li Yun cut off contact with his colleague and stayed isolated in his rented room as his appearance and vision changed rapidly.
• Li Yun used the Azure Jade Mirror to enter the Cluster Subconscious Sea, where he learned that the dream could turn imagined objects real by investing spiritual energy and thought.
• Li Yun created [AC] as an assistant, but failed to bring the far more powerful [Cosmic Model] into reality because his abilities were too limited.
• Li Yun gathered spiritual energy by letting the sea's impurities collide with his protective aura, but the process consumed too much energy and destroyed useful information.
• Li Yun surfaced, abandoned the slow harvesting method, and ordered [AC] to begin calculating the [Main God Space Mode] plan.

Zhang Pengfei encountered a mysterious login invitation on an internet café computer that remained active even after the machine lost power. He chose to log in and fell asleep as similar invitations appeared around the world, leaving the consequences of people’s choices unknown.

• Zhang Pengfei’s dungeon run froze when a silver vortex and a Yes/No login invitation appeared on his screen.
• Zhang Pengfei shut down the computer and unplugged it, but the monitor and invitation remained active with a countdown.
• Zhang Pengfei chose Yes just before the countdown expired and immediately fell into a deep sleep.
• Similar silver invitations appeared to people in many places, and some accepted, some declined, and others made no choice.
• After five minutes, the invitations vanished; those who accepted fell unconscious, while the others returned to their lives as an unseen presence observed the results.

He Qiu woke in a bloodstained, abandoned house with no phone or camera gear and found four other unconscious strangers. After they awoke, a hoarse, inhuman roar sounded from downstairs, leaving them facing an unknown threat.

• He Qiu woke against a rusted iron door and realized he was no longer in the van.
• He Qiu searched the ruined room, finding bloodstains, bullet holes, a longsword, and no bodies.
• He Qiu discovered four unconscious strangers behind a sofa and kicked them awake after hiding a dining knife in his sleeve.
• He Qiu and the four strangers covered their faces against the stench and heard an inhuman roar from downstairs.

He Qiu and four strangers discovered that the street below was crawling with zombies and realized they had been transported to an unfamiliar place with no way to contact the outside world. They stayed hidden in a villa, formed a tentative group, and began searching for weapons, supplies, and clues.

• He Qiu used a compact mirror to spot zombies wandering through the misty street and warned the others to stay quiet.
• The five survivors inspected the villa and chose a poorly ventilated corner where they could watch the stairway while avoiding the odors outside.
• He Qiu, Du Qifeng, Lu Yun, Wang Yawen, and Zheng Defa introduced themselves and realized they had all seen a silver GG-interface-like message before losing consciousness.
• The group found that Zheng Defa's phone had no signal and suspected they had been collectively transported to a place with Western furnishings and English signs.
• The survivors divided up to watch the window and stairs, handle a bloodied blade, and search the room for supplies and information.

Li Yun observed the Main God’s Biohazard Apocalypse trial world taking shape and questioned whether its dangers were excessive for newcomers. The Main God defended its difficulty settings, while the growing city and its zombie threats revealed how the world was being built from information gathered from the Cluster Subconscious Sea.

• Li Yun and the Main God discussed the newcomers’ reactions and their missions to survive twelve hours or reach an exploration score of five.
• Li Yun surveyed the city and watched its boundary expand as new roads, wreckage, corpses, and other details formed from the gray mist.
• The Main God explained that AC had built the trial world by processing information and consciousness fragments from the Cluster Subconscious Sea.
• Li Yun praised the Main God’s work, then noted that some zombies and infected creatures had unusual abilities and questioned whether the trial was too dangerous.
• The Main God argued that risk encouraged spiritual development, that newcomers began in relatively safe locations, and that especially powerful elements had been excluded.

Li Yun reviewed the Main God's expanding Star Realm and its finances while observing the newcomers in the Biohazard Apocalypse trial. He increased the rewards for those who passed the First Round, then left to inspect the next Newcomer Trial world.

• Li Yun surveyed the Main God's Star Realm, which contained more than a thousand developing Mortal Worlds and countless unfinished world concepts.
• The Main God reported that Li Yun had accumulated over 1.2 million units of Standard Mental Energy, while repairing AC's influence modules had cost about 470,000.
• Li Yun watched the newcomers in the villa and saw mental energy being generated from their fluctuating halos.
• Li Yun ordered the First Round rewards increased from double to fivefold and added a blind box draw, despite the Main God's warning that reserves could fall below 200,000 units.
• Li Yun said the trial was no child's play and vanished into the fog to inspect the next Newcomer Trial world.

While searching a villa for supplies, He Qiu and the others uncovered newspaper reports about a rabies-like outbreak in Britain around the turn of the millennium. A glowing interface revealed they were Temporary Visitors in a Biohazard Apocalypse trial, and He Qiu asked Du Qifeng to explain the Main God Space.

• He Qiu found an English newspaper, and Lu Yun helped the group translate reports of a spreading infection and government efforts to manage the crisis.
• The group learned that the outbreak was in Britain and that the newspaper dated from around the turn of the millennium.
• Lu Yun and Du Qifeng reacted as a glowing interface appeared, announcing that He Qiu had gained an Exploration Score and unlocked a temporary personal panel and translation function.
• He Qiu discovered that the group was in a one-star Newcomer Trial with quests to survive twelve hours and reach an Exploration Score of five.
• He Qiu urged everyone to stay calm and asked Du Qifeng to explain the Main God Space.

Du Qifeng and his companions survived the twelve-hour zombie trial and returned to the Main God Space. They collapsed from exhaustion and relief, grateful to be alive.

• As zombies overwhelmed the villa, Du Qifeng and the others braced the final bedroom door until the quest countdown ended.
• A mechanical voice announced that the main quest was complete, and Du Qifeng shouted to return to the Main God Platform.
• Du Qifeng and his companions appeared on the Main God Platform among other newcomers, realizing they had escaped the trial.
• Zheng Defa collapsed and gasped after realizing he had survived, while the exhausted group recovered on the platform.
• Du Qifeng wiped away tears of relief and reflected that none of them had dared risk dying in the trial.

After activating his Main God ID, Du Qifeng discovered the platform’s exchange system and received his Newcomer Trial reward. The chapter left him listening as a composed newcomer appeared to ask the Main God for a loan.

• Du Qifeng recovered on the Main God Platform, noticed that newcomers’ faces were obscured, and was distracted by the strange halo overhead until He Qiu brought him back to his senses.
• Du Qifeng activated his Main God ID and learned that official users could access the exchange service and spend limited time on the platform each day.
• Du Qifeng explored the exchange list, fixated on the Golden Saint Cloth: Sagittarius, and found its price far beyond his means.
• Du Qifeng viewed his trial evaluation and received 130 Universal Points and one Common Exchange Card for a Common Grade performance.
• Du Qifeng overheard a suited newcomer discreetly suggesting that the Main God offer loans to newcomers.

Li Yun analyzed Han Youwei’s attempt to negotiate a lucrative loan and warned Main God against letting users exploit its uncertain standards. He moved up his plan to enter the second test as a randomly selected tourist, then reviewed the first trial’s results, which showed that Main God could harvest mental energy from participants and needed to expand its user base.

• Li Yun reviewed Han Youwei’s profile and concluded that the proposed loan was a probe to learn whether Main God could be negotiated with.
• Li Yun told Main God to ignore Han Youwei’s request and follow established procedures rather than compete with users at reading human motives.
• Li Yun asked Main God to include him as a randomly selected tourist in the second test, earlier than planned, so he could observe the game firsthand.
• At 1:00, Li Yun examined the first operation’s statistics: 8,000 invitations had yielded 3,157 acceptances and more than 2,600 successful newcomers.
• Li Yun learned that Main God had collected nearly 140,000 units of Standard Mental Energy from participants’ ordinary mental activity, and decided the next priority was expanding the user base.

Du Qifeng learned how the Main God's exchange system worked and discovered the reward draw from the newcomer trial. His blind-box reward was a battered second-tier Poor Man's Shield, leaving him with an uneasy sense that its name might stick to him.

• Du Qifeng filtered the exchange listings to items he could afford and checked the Main God's rules for exchanging and sharing resources.
• Du Qifeng saw that He Qiu had drawn ten kilograms of valuable Dwarven Ironwork, but the material was difficult to use and costly to sell back.
• Du Qifeng warned He Qiu and the others not to exchange items impulsively, then found an unclaimed random draw in his messages.
• Du Qifeng prayed for good luck and activated the draw, causing the interface to transform into a strange vortex that dropped a sphere of light into his hand.
• Du Qifeng opened the sphere and received a battered second-tier Poor Man's Shield.

Elder Ning woke in a hospital after collapsing at his research institute and realized he had returned with an exchange item from a strange dream. He ordered Little Chen and Little Xu to arrange a secure location and contact the institute, leaving his family and others facing restricted movement as he prepared to handle the urgent matter.

• Elder Ning woke in a private hospital ward as doctors examined him and his family watched nearby.
• Elder Ning had the breathing equipment removed and asked Little Chen for the time and an account of what had happened.
• Little Chen explained that Elder Ning had collapsed at the institute, and that Dr. Sun had shut down external communications after the incident.
• Elder Ning reassured Little Chen that the collapse was his own problem, then asked Little Chen and Little Xu to arrange a secure location and contact the institute.
• Elder Ning warned that everyone present might have their movement restricted, then confirmed that he held a test-tube-like exchange item from a dream.

Xie Lei woke in a KTV bathroom after dying in the Parasite Crisis trial, convinced his horrific experiences had been a nightmare. The Main God system revoked his Temporary Visitor status, while Li Yun’s rules explained how success and failure were used to keep participants pursuing rewards.

• Xie Lei awoke screaming on the floor of a KTV bathroom and frantically checked his body for injuries.
• After finding no wounds, Xie Lei staggered to his feet and repeatedly told himself that the ordeal had only been a dream.
• Xie Lei’s phone displayed that he had died in the Parasite Crisis trial after separating from other newcomers and failing to remove a second-stage parasite.
• The Main God system declared Xie Lei’s missions failed, deactivated his Main God ID, and removed his Temporary Visitor status.
• Li Yun’s assessment rules framed failure as a mercy without rewards and reserved the game’s true rewards for successful participants.

After awakening as a Main God Game user, He Qiu left the hospital despite his parents’ worries and returned to his childhood home to study his exchange rewards. He extracted the Yellow Sprout Pill and prepared to claim the Body-Washing Introductory Heart Method.

• He Qiu’s coworkers called an ambulance after he fainted, and his parents rushed to the hospital when they were notified.
• He Qiu argued with his parents and insisted on leaving the hospital, then secretly checked the Main God Mark on his phone.
• He Qiu found that the Yellow Sprout Pill and Body-Washing Introductory Heart Method were available to extract, and waited until he reached home because extracted items could lose their effects.
• He Qiu returned to his parents’ old home, sent his coworkers a message, and studied the two cultivation-related rewards he had chosen with Du Qifeng’s advice.
• He Qiu extracted the Yellow Sprout Pill, confirmed that it was real, and turned his attention to the still-extractable Body-Washing Introductory Heart Method.

He Qiu underwent reinforcement of an Immortal Dao cultivation method, suffering intense pain as his body merged with an illusory version of himself. Observing the process, Li Yun explained that the dream had created a possibility that let He Qiu use a method his real body could not support, and resolved to investigate the dream and refinement further.

• He Qiu lost control of his body as extreme heat accompanied the reinforcement, while his consciousness sensed invisible particles breaking free of restraints.
• Li Yun observed He Qiu’s reinforcement in a projection from his Floating Tower and noticed a phantom duplicate emerging from the glow around him.
• The Main God reported that the redemption should not function in the local universe, but had produced an unclassifiable phenomenon.
• Li Yun identified the phantom as a possibility born within the Great Dream, representing a version of He Qiu able to cultivate through the Immortal Dao method.
• The illusory He Qiu merged with the real He Qiu after a hypothetical twenty years of cultivation, and Li Yun noted the reinforcement cost only forty units of Standard Mental Energy.
• Li Yun decided that he and the Main God needed to conduct further tests on refinement and the nature of the dream.

Researchers at a secret Qinling Mountains facility tested Nanite Repair Fluid on Subject 002, whose missing left forearm rapidly regenerated. The experiment succeeded, and the team began observation while reporting the results to [Tower].

• At a classified laboratory, staff prepared Subject 002, a military volunteer missing most of his left arm, for an injection as Elder Yu and other technical consultants watched.
• The team injected a measured dose of the strange fluid into Subject 002’s arm stump, where silver-gray particles entered cells and triggered rapid tissue growth.
• As Subject 002’s body consumed nutrients and oxygen, staff supplied support while bone, muscle, vessels, and nerves rebuilt into a complete forearm and hand.
• The regenerated hand’s fingers curled in response to stimulation, and the team confirmed that neural signals and most physiological readings were within normal ranges.
• The lead scientist ordered Du Xiping to begin the observation phase and told Wang Chen to report to [Tower] that the Nanite Repair Fluid test matched its original verification report.

During a quiet night shift, Li Xiao noticed two plainclothes officers questioning Director Zhang and requesting ambulance records about people who had suddenly fainted. Their investigation left her uneasy, though the city outside appeared completely normal.

• Li Xiao saw two suspicious visitors arrive at the hospital and head directly to Director Zhang's office.
• The head nurse asked Li Xiao to print ambulance dispatch records from the past half month for the director.
• Li Xiao overheard an officer request records and medical files concerning sudden fainting cases, especially from the past three days.
• Li Xiao delivered the documents and noticed tension between Director Zhang and the visitors.
• Back at the nurses' station, Li Xiao felt that the investigation pointed to something beyond an ordinary police or medical matter.

Li Yun briefly encountered a godlike version of himself while testing a Divinity enhancement, then stopped the fusion when he sensed it could erase his identity. He returned to his room and considered the cost, the unusual power of enhancements applied to living beings, and his own gradual evolution through Dream in the Mirror.

• Li Yun saw an emotionless version of himself in a boundless void and sensed that merging with its possibility could destroy his sense of self.
• Li Yun ended the attempt, woke in his room, opened the window, and reflected on the danger of the Divinity he had glimpsed.
• Li Yun recalled spending one hundred thousand units of mental energy to deduce a Demigod-level self, whose power proved too great for him to contain.
• Li Yun concluded that Dream in the Mirror produced far stronger results for living beings than for dead objects and resolved that Main God would need to investigate the difference.
• Li Yun pulled his glasses into his hand with an emerging supernatural power and considered that Dream in the Mirror might already be advancing his own evolution.

Li Yun went out for a walk and reflected on his lonely childhood before his heightened senses briefly overwhelmed him. He unconsciously used his strange abilities to stop a drunken man from drinking himself to death, then disappeared from the restaurant entrance.

• Li Yun left his apartment and considered moving to a more secluded home.
• Li Yun remembered how his grandfather had raised him and arranged for him to attend university before dying.
• Li Yun wandered through the summer streets, and his heightened senses briefly revealed the sounds, smells, and emotions around him in extraordinary detail.
• Li Yun used unseen force to make a chicken bone shatter a glass and send a bottle crashing into a drunken man's belly.
• The drunken man vomited and collapsed as Li Yun's voice warned him to stop drinking, and Li Yun vanished from the restaurant entrance.