Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Learn Another Skill”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless observes the Scholar Foundation’s discussion of Plan B, realizing it cannot be stopped unless he solves the Great Wilderness crisis within a week.
• Plan B involves exploiting the weaknesses and desires of wicked individuals, binding them through contracts so they cannot act recklessly. Though morally questionable, Nameless acknowledges its effectiveness.
• Nameless considers negotiating with Daji if no better solution appears. Daji wants the Great Wilderness preserved and granted autonomous rule after the Eternal Silence Prison Tower is repaired.
• To strengthen himself, Nameless uses several SS Skill Stones. He learns:
  • Path of Radiance, a high-speed movement and evasion technique that resembles spatial blinking.
  • Golden Thread Binding, which creates sharp, durable golden threads throughout any area covered by his Mental Strength, allowing him to restrain or kill enemies.
• He notes that, unlike his previously learned SSS skills, these SS skills lack Proficiency, making them initially rigid and difficult to control. He will need to train them manually.
• After learning and testing the skills, Nameless leaves the inn with Shui’er. They go toward a scorpion-meat restaurant near Fragrant Stone Hall, giving Nameless an opportunity to observe who enters and exits the hall during the day.

Character Developments

• Nameless becomes more urgent and pragmatic because of the one-week deadline. He accepts that negotiation with Daji may be necessary and focuses on increasing his combat abilities while investigating the Great Wilderness.
• He demonstrates growing mastery of his powers by carefully analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each new skill.
• Shui’er remains cheerful and food-loving, eagerly anticipating the scorpion meat, contrasting with Nameless’s serious concerns.

Significant Themes

• Ends versus means: The Scholar Foundation’s coercive Plan B is ethically reprehensible but effective, raising questions about whether immoral methods can be justified by necessary results.
• Power and vulnerability: Even evil individuals possess attachments and desires that can be used against them.
• Preparation and adaptation: Nameless responds to the crisis by expanding his abilities and learning to use unfamiliar techniques.
• Urgency versus patience: His previous willingness to investigate slowly is replaced by haste after the threat of Plan B emerges.
• Autonomy and negotiation: Daji’s demands introduce the possibility of preserving the Great Wilderness through political compromise rather than direct conflict.

Character Interactions

• Nameless internally weighs the Scholar Foundation’s decision and considers negotiating with Daji, though he knows the Foundation’s scholars would ultimately conduct those negotiations.
• He tests his new skills alone, comparing their limited initial control with the flexibility of his Proficiency-enhanced abilities.
• While traveling, Nameless and Shui’er share a lighthearted exchange about trying scorpion meat. Beneath this ordinary outing, Nameless is deliberately positioning himself near Fragrant Stone Hall to continue his investigation.

Chapter Summary: “City Lord”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless and Shui’er dine at a scorpion-meat restaurant near Fragrant Stone Hall. Shui’er enthusiastically devours most of the food, while Nameless observes that the restaurant’s cuisine is ordinary compared with White Jade City’s.
• Nameless notices that Fragrant Stone Hall is deserted and learns from a server that its addictive “Fragrant Stone” is rumored to help people cultivate the Wilderness Sage Dao-Seeking Scripture. Many desperate cultivators try it and become addicted.
• The server reveals that Chen Jin manages Fragrant Stone Hall, though he is probably not its true owner. Nameless suspects that a powerful figure is hiding behind the establishment.
• Despite viewers urging him to focus on the Great Wilderness crisis and the approaching deadline for Plan B, Nameless insists that ignoring a clear injustice would damage his Dao heart. Gao Shanggong supports his reasoning, while Zhang Shouzhong mocks his claims about cultivation.
• Nameless decides to capture Chen Jin and interrogate him. He spends the afternoon practicing his abilities before carrying out the plan at night.
• Using Golden Thread Binding, Nameless abducts Chen Jin from his room and brings him to an open area. Chen Jin quickly reveals that Fragrant Stone Hall belongs to the city lord, Shi Wuchang.
• Nameless is left speechless and embarrassed that such a direct method solved the mystery so easily, making his earlier caution seem foolish.

Character Developments

• Nameless: Demonstrates compassion and a strong moral code. He believes cultivation should preserve inner freedom and integrity, not merely pursue power or longevity. He also shows resourcefulness, patience, and growing willingness to use force when time is limited. His realization that Chen Jin could have been questioned immediately causes him some self-reproach.
• Shui’er: Displays her childlike appetite and playful nature, eating enormous amounts of food without changing physically. She remains eager to help Nameless, though her forgotten memories interrupt her attempt to explain her past.
• Chen Jin: Is established as a fearful manager rather than the mastermind behind Fragrant Stone Hall. Under threat, he immediately betrays the true owner to save his life.
• Gao Shanggong and Zhang Shouzhong: Gao supports Nameless’s philosophy of maintaining a clear Dao heart, while Zhang continues to tease him, though he regrets spending valuable Resource Coins to send his criticism.
• The restaurant server: Provides important information and reacts shyly to Nameless’s flirtatious questioning.

Significant Themes

• Moral integrity and cultivation: Nameless argues that cultivation is meaningless if one sacrifices inner freedom or tolerates wrongdoing. A clear conscience is presented as essential to maintaining and advancing one’s Dao heart.
• Justice versus practicality: Nameless chooses to investigate Fragrant Stone Hall despite larger looming problems, believing that small injustices should not be ignored. However, he ultimately uses kidnapping and coercion, highlighting the tension between moral ideals and efficient action.
• Addiction and false hope: Fragrant Stone exploits people who desperately want to cultivate the Wilderness Sage Dao-Seeking Scripture. Rumors and wishful thinking draw vulnerable individuals into destructive dependence.
• Hidden power and corruption: Fragrant Stone Hall’s real owner is revealed to be the city lord, suggesting that the city’s leadership may be involved in exploiting its citizens.
• Humor and self-awareness: Nameless’s flirtation with the server, the viewers’ reactions, and his embarrassment over overcomplicating the investigation provide comic relief.

Character Interactions

• Nameless encourages and feeds Shui’er while observing her enthusiastic eating.
• He questions the server about Fragrant Stone Hall, lightly flirts with her, and gains useful information.
• Nameless debates the viewers over whether investigating Fragrant Stone Hall is worthwhile; Gao Shanggong agrees with him, while Zhang Shouzhong mocks him.
• Nameless comforts Shui’er when her memories fail and brings her along for the capture.
• He intimidates Chen Jin with Golden Thread Binding and interrogates him, prompting Chen Jin to reveal that City Lord Shi Wuchang owns Fragrant Stone Hall.

Summary: “Night Interrogation of the City Lord”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless questions Chen Jin about why City Lord Shi Wuchang secretly operates Fragrant Stone Hall, a poison shop. Chen Jin can only suggest that the City Lord does it for money.
• Nameless, Shui’er, and Tianxing Mingyue conclude that Chen Jin knows nothing more and leave him unconscious after Nameless knocks him out.
• They infiltrate City Lord’s Manor and find Shi Wuchang working in his study.
• Nameless accuses Shi Wuchang of appearing righteous while secretly harming Great Wilderness’s people through Fragrant Stone Hall.
• Shi Wuchang argues that Fragrant Stone Hall serves an important, undisclosed purpose for both Great Wilderness and Great Wilderness City. He then prepares to fight, summoning his Heart Beast, a blue Winged Dragon.
• Before Shi Wuchang can attack, Nameless binds him and the Winged Dragon with golden threads, blindfolding him and rendering him helpless.
• When Shi Wuchang refuses to explain and instead threatens Nameless with the power of Great Wilderness, Nameless begins physically torturing him.
• Shi Wuchang insists that Great Wilderness records everything and that Nameless will not escape punishment.
• Tianxing Mingyue and Nameless threaten to kill Shi Wuchang’s family as well. Faced with this threat, Shi Wuchang finally agrees to speak.

Character Developments

• Nameless is shown to be powerful, pragmatic, and increasingly ruthless. He has little understanding of ordinary financial concerns and treats interrogation as a problem to solve through intimidation and violence. He also coldly accepts the possibility of killing Shi Wuchang to protect his identity.
• Shui’er remains inexperienced but eager to participate. She initially provides little useful interrogation guidance, reacts humorously to Nameless’s methods, and readily supports increasingly cruel tactics.
• Tianxing Mingyue acts as the group’s most calculating strategist. She recognizes that Shi Wuchang’s claims about Fragrant Stone Hall may be significant and recommends using threats against his family to force cooperation.
• Shi Wuchang is introduced as an apparently upright and hardworking City Lord whose physical appearance reinforces his “square” and righteous image. Beneath this exterior, however, he is secretive and defensive. His confidence collapses when his family is threatened, revealing his vulnerability.
• Chen Jin proves to be only a minor participant with limited knowledge of Fragrant Stone Hall’s true purpose.

Significant Themes

• Appearance versus reality: Shi Wuchang looks like an honest, righteous official, yet secretly operates a harmful poison shop. His public image may conceal a more complicated purpose.
• Power and violence: The chapter emphasizes that overwhelming force often replaces diplomacy. Nameless’s superior strength allows him to bypass guards, defeat Shi Wuchang, and control the interrogation.
• Morality and pragmatism: The protagonists casually discuss torture, murder, and threats against innocent family members. Their willingness to cross moral boundaries shows how survival and secrecy dominate their decision-making.
• Hidden political purposes: Fragrant Stone Hall appears to be more than a money-making operation. Shi Wuchang claims it is essential to Great Wilderness, suggesting a larger secret connected to governance or national interests.
• The value of money and resources: The spectators’ discussion highlights the immense value of Nameless’s ammunition and contrasts his powerful, detached position with the economic concerns of ordinary cultivators.

Character Interactions

• Nameless and Shui’er question Chen Jin, with Shui’er eventually admitting that they should seek answers directly from the City Lord.
• Nameless confronts Shi Wuchang verbally, but Shi Wuchang attempts to reverse the accusation by challenging Nameless’s trespass.
• Tianxing Mingyue and Shui’er encourage Nameless to abandon conversation and use force.
• Nameless binds and beats Shi Wuchang while presenting the interrogation as a calm, controlled process.
• The group escalates from threats against Shi Wuchang himself to threats against his parents, wife, and children. This finally breaks his resistance, ending the chapter with his reluctant agreement to reveal the truth.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Shui’er and Tianxing Mingyue threaten Shi Wuchang by suggesting they might target his wife and children, hoping to force him to reveal the true purpose of Fragrant Stone Hall. Their threat is only intimidation, since Nameless would not actually involve Shi Wuchang’s family.
• Shi Wuchang claims that Fragrant Stone is necessary for maintaining the Great Wilderness’s central formation. According to him, Fragrant Stone transforms into Soul Sacrifice Stones when used, and these stones are required to sustain the formation maintained by Daji and other demon gods.
• Nameless immediately recognizes that Shi Wuchang is lying. He discovers that the sentient book Justice has been contradicting Shi Wuchang throughout the conversation.
• Justice reveals the truth: Fragrant Stone is a poisonous substance created by Shi Wuchang’s Heart Beast. It is addictive, slowly corrodes the soul, and produces Soul Sacrifice Stones when users die from consuming too much of it.
• Shi Wuchang secretly uses the stones to construct a formation and refine a powerful seal, intending to seize control of the Great Wilderness.
• Following information from Justice, Nameless rotates a brush holder on the bookshelf, uncovering a hidden chamber.
• Shi Wuchang admits that the object inside is the Wilderness Lord’s Mansion-Sealing Seal. He claims it is meant to help humanity break free from the control of the demon gods and determine its own fate.
• Nameless sees through this justification, recognizing that Shi Wuchang’s true goal is not merely liberation but becoming the Great Wilderness’s supreme ruler.
• Inside the chamber, Nameless picks up the seal and gains access to the structure of the Great Wilderness. He perceives both Daji’s foundational formation and Shi Wuchang’s incomplete counter-formation.
• He realizes that Shi Wuchang’s plan requires more than nine thousand additional human lives, with each formation node representing people and families destroyed through Fragrant Stone addiction.

2. Character Developments

• Nameless: Demonstrates strong judgment, supernatural lie-detection abilities, and moral clarity. He refuses to be manipulated by Shi Wuchang’s rhetoric and uncovers the full scale of his scheme.
• Shi Wuchang: Is exposed as a ruthless criminal who manufactures addictive poison, exploits its victims, and disguises personal ambition as a campaign for human freedom. Even after being caught lying, he attempts to justify himself through grand ideals.
• Shui’er: Shows curiosity and a willingness to use threats to extract information, though her threat toward Shi Wuchang’s family is not meant seriously.
• Tianxing Mingyue: Acts as a practical voice urging the group to focus on discovering Shi Wuchang’s motives.
• “Justice”: Emerges as a sentient and morally perceptive book that condemns Shi Wuchang and provides crucial information about his hidden chamber and plans.

3. Significant Themes

• Truth versus deception: Shi Wuchang repeatedly lies and manipulates others, but Nameless uses supernatural abilities and Justice’s testimony to expose him.
• The abuse of noble ideals: Shi Wuchang invokes humanity’s freedom and resistance to demon-god control, but his supposed revolution is driven by a desire for absolute power.
• Exploitation and sacrifice: Fragrant Stone addiction turns human suffering and death into resources for Shi Wuchang’s formation, emphasizing the horrifying cost of his ambition.
• Power and oppression: The chapter presents a conflict between Daji’s control over humanity and Shi Wuchang’s attempt to replace that system with his own rule. Neither side is portrayed as genuinely benevolent.
• Consequences of hidden actions: The formation’s nodes symbolize not only individual deaths but ruined families, showing that concealed crimes leave a lasting human cost.

4. Character Interactions

• Shui’er and Tianxing Mingyue cooperate in pressuring Shi Wuchang, while Nameless directs the interrogation.
• Nameless challenges Shi Wuchang’s explanations and physically punishes him when he detects further lies.
• Nameless forms an unusual interaction with Justice, discovering that he can hear the book’s speech and relying on it to uncover Shi Wuchang’s crimes.
• Shi Wuchang attempts to persuade Nameless that his actions serve humanity, but Nameless rejects the argument as another lie.
• By taking the Wilderness Lord’s Mansion-Sealing Seal, Nameless gains direct insight into the competing formations and the enormous number of lives required for Shi Wuchang’s plan.

Chapter Summary: “Special Zone Formed”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless suppresses his murderous anger toward Shi Wuchang after realizing that the Wilderness Lord’s Mansion-Sealing Seal may be the key to reversing their situation against Daji and the other prisoners.
• He studies Shi Wuchang’s immense formation and determines that it can be simplified, though completing the revised version would require modifying more than nine thousand formation nodes in a single night.
• Nameless confronts Shi Wuchang about the formation’s sacrifice of over fifty thousand lives. Shi Wuchang defends his actions with the belief that great achievements require enormous sacrifices.
• Nameless kills Shi Wuchang using the Heavenly Demon Insect. Shi Wuchang’s consciousness collapses in the Void, leaving behind only an empty shell.
• Nameless explains his plan to the audience and recruits formation experts to help him analyze and simplify Shi Wuchang’s work.
• A mysterious viewer suggests using the Special Zone Token, obtained during Nameless’s ninth Divine Treasury trial, together with the City Lord’s Seal and the Wilderness Lord’s Mansion-Sealing Seal.
• Nameless follows the advice. The three items fuse into a new seal marked “Great Wilderness Special Zone.”
• He declares the area a special zone. The seal releases overwhelming golden light that spreads throughout the Great Wilderness, radically transforming its underlying formation.
• The Great Wilderness begins developing true world-like characteristics: complete five elements, yin and yang, and other fundamental structures that it previously lacked.

Character Developments

• Nameless demonstrates both moral awareness and ruthless decisiveness. He is disturbed by the mass deaths caused by Shi Wuchang’s formation but is still willing to kill Shi Wuchang when he refuses to reconsider his actions.
• He also shows strategic flexibility by abandoning the difficult formation-reconstruction plan once a simpler method becomes available.
• Shi Wuchang is revealed as an arrogant utilitarian who values grand achievements over individual lives. His confidence collapses when Nameless exposes the emptiness of his ambitions and attacks his consciousness.
• Shui’er provides comic relief by misunderstanding Nameless’s insult toward Shi Wuchang and asking whether Nameless is a woman.
• Tianxing Mingyue clarifies the situation and supports Nameless’s plan.
• Daji senses the terrifying change occurring in the Great Wilderness but is overcome by instinctive dread and cannot approach.
• He Bo recognizes the power behind the transformation as something beyond ordinary divinity, reinforcing his view that most beings who call themselves gods are still only powerful “ants.”
• The anonymous viewer who reveals the Special Zone Token’s purpose becomes an important mystery.

Significant Themes

• Moral cost of greatness: Shi Wuchang’s claim that success requires countless sacrifices is directly challenged by Nameless, who refuses to accept mass death as an acceptable necessity.
• Power versus morality: The chapter contrasts Shi Wuchang’s selfish ambition with Nameless’s willingness to use power while still acknowledging the value of individual lives.
• Knowledge and adaptation: Nameless initially plans to solve the crisis through painstaking formation research, but he quickly changes course when a more efficient solution appears.
• Transformation and creation: The declaration of the special zone changes the Great Wilderness from an incomplete formation into something closer to a genuine world.
• True divinity: He Bo’s reflections distinguish real, world-altering power from beings who merely possess strength or are recognized as gods.
• Mystery and hidden knowledge: The unknown viewer’s precise knowledge of Nameless’s reward suggests that unseen forces or informed observers may be influencing events.

Character Interactions

• Nameless confronts Shi Wuchang over the lives sacrificed by his formation, leading to Shi Wuchang’s defiant response and eventual death.
• Shui’er and Tianxing Mingyue interact during the confrontation, with Shui’er misunderstanding Nameless’s words and Tianxing Mingyue correcting her.
• Nameless communicates with the audience through the Oracle Stone, explaining both the danger and his planned solution.
• Formation experts among the viewers prepare to assist Nameless, demonstrating the importance of collective knowledge.
• A mysterious viewer gives Nameless the crucial idea that resolves the crisis.
• Daji reacts from afar to the special zone’s formation, while He Bo observes and interprets the event as evidence of transcendent power.

Chapter Summary: “Great Wilderness Special Zone”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless successfully transforms the Great Wilderness with the Special Zone Token. The region now exists between the real world and the Divine Treasure Space, allowing physical bodies—not merely consciousnesses—to enter the Divine Treasure Space through it.
• The Great Wilderness becomes a genuine, protected world rather than a purely virtual space. It is immune to the Eternal Silence Space’s corruption and remains safe even if the Eternal Silence Prison Tower collapses.
• The formation sustaining the Great Wilderness becomes an established rule. The prisoners who once maintained it are converted into Nameless’s summoned beasts. They are permanently bound to the Great Wilderness, unable to betray him or leave, but gain immortality and nearly invincible strength within the zone.
• Nameless names the transformed artifact and region’s seal the Wilderness Seal. The seal is as heavy as the entire Great Wilderness and can only be wielded by him.
• The former Soul Sacrifice Stones become Special Zone Node Stones. Because of their connection to the Great Wilderness, only three are needed to construct a teleportation array to the Special Zone. Nameless possesses over fifty thousand and offers to distribute them to approved users.
• Nameless announces the Special Zone’s creation to cultivators through the Oracle Stone. He explains its importance and confirms that people can use it to enter the Great Wilderness from other worlds.
• Viewers speculate that the Special Zone might allow people to create multiple physical bodies or escape the Eternal Silence Prison Tower. Nameless acknowledges the possibilities but warns that the prison remains extremely dangerous because of the pervasive Corruption.
• When someone questions whether repairing the prison is still necessary, Nameless confidently implies that he possesses a hidden countermeasure against escapees and jailbreakers.
• Daji enters Nameless’s study after hesitating outside. Nameless immediately commands her to kneel, and she is forced to obey. He then compels hidden prisoner clones throughout the area to dismiss their guards and gather in Xiaoxiao’s study.

Character Developments

• Nameless gains vastly greater authority over the Great Wilderness. He can control its inhabitants, manipulate its rules, summon its prisoners, and determine who may access the Special Zone.
• His confidence increases as he reveals the zone’s powers. He openly invites potential escape attempts, suggesting that he has complete faith in his ability to control or punish intruders.
• Daji is shown to be nervous and submissive toward Nameless. Despite attempting to maintain an icy demeanor, she cannot resist his command, demonstrating the absolute control he now exercises over her.
• The former prisoners are transformed from unwilling maintainers of the Great Wilderness into immortal summoned beasts loyal to Nameless.
• The cultivators watching Nameless’s broadcast become increasingly curious about the Special Zone’s implications, especially its potential impact on travel, imprisonment, and physical existence.

Significant Themes

• Power and absolute control: Nameless’s transformation of the Great Wilderness grants him near-total authority over the region and its inhabitants.
• Reality versus illusion: The boundary between the Divine Treasure Space and the real world becomes blurred, as physical bodies can now cross between them.
• Freedom and imprisonment: Although the Special Zone offers unprecedented freedom of movement, Nameless’s control over it creates a new form of confinement for prisoners and potential escapees.
• Safety amid corruption: The Great Wilderness becomes a sanctuary within the dangerous Eternal Silence Space, emphasizing the contrast between protected order and uncontrolled decay.
• Expansion of influence: Through the Node Stones and teleportation arrays, Nameless can extend the Special Zone’s reach across many worlds, increasing his strategic and political importance.

Character Interactions

• Nameless interacts with the Divine Treasure Space’s viewers, answering their questions while carefully withholding the details of his defensive measures.
• Gao Shanggong and other viewers pressure him to explain both pieces of good news.
• Several cultivators debate whether the Special Zone could create duplicate bodies or make the Eternal Silence Prison Tower obsolete.
• Nameless warns the weaker cultivators not to enter the prison because Corruption could quickly turn them into monsters.
• Nameless confronts Daji directly, forcing her to kneel and summoning the hidden prisoner clones to appear before him, establishing a tense scene in which his dominance over them is unmistakable.

Chapter Summary: “Trivial Matters Cleared Away”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless confronts the six remaining prisoners and Daji, reminding them that, as master of the Great Wilderness Special Zone, he can erase their consciousnesses and reshape their personalities at will.
• Several prisoners submit immediately:
  • The snack-stall owner reveals himself as Elmat, the Time Dragon, a powerful dragon who once devoured the lifespan of countless beings.
  • The bald warrior identifies himself as Ape God Kunkun’kir, an immortal, violent ape who once provoked wars across countless worlds.
  • The remaining prisoners also kneel, including Yuan Mulanzi, who falsely claims to be human.
• Kunkun’kir exposes Yuan Mulanzi’s true form as a Bone Woman made from countless female skeletons. Nameless confirms that she has lied to him.
• Nameless erases Yuan Mulanzi’s consciousness and reconstructs her personality, making her absolutely loyal, diligent, tireless, and devoted to work.
• He orders the newly altered Yuan Mulanzi to resolve the unrest outside and take control of Great Wilderness City, since its former city lord, Shi Wuchang, is dead.
• Nameless leaves the prisoners to manage the city’s major factions and moves with Shui’er to Wenxin Estate, his chosen residence in the Great Wilderness Special Zone.
• The chapter ends with Nameless inspecting the estate and discovering Yuan Mulanzi’s unusual collection of plants and grotesque corruption-tainted fish.

Character Developments

• Nameless demonstrates overwhelming authority and control. Although he possesses the power to rewrite minds, he initially offers the prisoners a chance to submit rather than destroying them outright. He prefers ruling indirectly and efficiently instead of personally managing the city.
• Elmat abandons any pretense and submits immediately, revealing both his true identity and his history as a predator of life spans.
• Kunkun’kir also submits, but his willingness to expose Yuan Mulanzi shows that he is pragmatic and eager to avoid punishment.
• Yuan Mulanzi is transformed completely. Her deceptive, self-serving personality is erased and replaced with absolute loyalty and an obsessive dedication to work. She becomes Nameless’s appointed administrator of Great Wilderness City.
• Shui’er remains with Nameless as he establishes his new residence.
• Daji and the other prisoners are frightened into obedience after witnessing how effortlessly Nameless can alter a person’s mind.

Significant Themes

• Absolute power and obedience: Nameless’s control over the prisoners is total, making their survival dependent on his judgment and loyalty.
• Identity and personality: The alteration of Yuan Mulanzi raises the question of whether someone remains the same person after their memories and personality are erased.
• Punishment versus mercy: Nameless does not destroy the prisoners despite their crimes, instead giving them a chance to serve him—though this “mercy” still involves the threat of total mental reprogramming.
• Order through control: Rather than governing directly, Nameless creates a system of obedient and tireless subordinates to stabilize Great Wilderness City.
• Hidden identities and deception: The prisoners’ innocent appearances conceal monstrous true forms, reinforcing the chapter’s contrast between outward appearance and reality.

Character Interactions

• Nameless interrogates the prisoners and establishes his dominance over them.
• Elmat formally pledges allegiance and explains Kunkun’kir’s and Yuan Mulanzi’s backgrounds.
• Kunkun’kir exposes Yuan Mulanzi’s lie, prompting Nameless to punish her by remaking her consciousness.
• The terrified prisoners witness Yuan Mulanzi’s transformation and become even more submissive.
• Nameless assigns Yuan Mulanzi responsibility for Great Wilderness City before departing with Shui’er for Wenxin Estate.

Chapter Summary: “The Future Holds Promise”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless establishes that the Great Wilderness Special Zone will serve as his group’s long-term home and covers Yuan Mulanzi’s unusual fish tank.
• He transfers Zhang Shouzhong, Cheng Xuejie, and Lin Renmei from the Cursed Villa into the new residence.
• Nameless explains that the Great Wilderness Special Zone connects the real world, Divine Treasure Space, and the Nameless Sea through Divine Treasure Space. This allows him to use the Nameless Sea’s full power there without risking corruption from Eternal Silence Space.
• Lin Renmei discovers that entering the Great Wilderness Special Zone through Divine Treasure Space transformed her temporary body into her true body. She also finds that she cannot return to Divine Treasure Space because the system considers her already present there.
• The group realizes they are not truly trapped, since Nameless can still access the Nameless Sea and transport people between spaces.
• Nameless ends the livestream, replacing it with the Oracle Network now that communication with Divine Treasure Space is possible.
• Lucifer, Gao Shanggong, and Maria contact Nameless. Gao Shanggong points out that the Special Zone could greatly accelerate repairs to the Eternal Silence Prison Tower, but asks how others can enter it.
• Nameless promises to spend the next week organizing and stabilizing the Special Zone before opening a controlled portal through a cooperating Regional Controller in Divine Treasure Space.
• A discussion follows about the large quantity of supplies sent to support the prison tower’s restoration. Nameless agrees to hold them temporarily while the Scholar Foundation consults the other contributing factions.
• The chapter ends with the expectation that Great Wilderness City will grow into a major center comparable to White Jade City.

Character Developments

• Nameless transitions from an isolated powerhouse into the recognized controller of a Special Zone. His influence, responsibilities, and potential to establish a major faction increase dramatically.
• Lin Renmei gains a true physical body within the Great Wilderness Special Zone, revealing an important new property of the region.
• Zhang Shouzhong and Cheng Xuejie adjust to the new environment and briefly worry that they may be unable to leave.
• Gao Shanggong and the Scholar Foundation increasingly treat Nameless as an important ally and influential figure rather than merely an individual assisting with repairs.
• Nameless’s group begins shifting from temporary survival and repair efforts toward settlement, administration, and long-term development.

Significant Themes

• Expansion of influence and responsibility: Nameless’s power now carries political and organizational consequences as he becomes the leader of a strategically important territory.
• Connection between worlds: The Great Wilderness Special Zone functions as a bridge linking reality, Divine Treasure Space, and the Nameless Sea.
• Growth and future potential: The Special Zone offers immense opportunities for trade, population growth, resource access, and faster restoration of the Eternal Silence Prison Tower.
• Trust and cooperation: The Scholar Foundation and other factions must coordinate with Nameless, while Nameless demonstrates fairness by offering to return supplies if their original owners request them.
• Order before expansion: Nameless recognizes that the Special Zone needs basic management before outsiders can enter safely, emphasizing the importance of stability and responsible leadership.

Character Interactions

• Shui’er asks whether the new residence will become their permanent home, prompting Nameless to confirm their long-term plans.
• Zhang Shouzhong and Cheng Xuejie question how the group arrived and whether they can leave, leading Nameless to clarify the Special Zone’s connections.
• Nameless specifically checks with Lin Renmei about her condition, uncovering the transformation of her body.
• Lin Renmei urges Nameless to end the livestream, and he agrees that the Oracle Network is now a better communication method.
• Gao Shanggong consults Nameless about opening access to the Special Zone and the future of the prison tower repairs.
• Nameless and the Scholar Foundation negotiate how to handle the support supplies, reinforcing their growing partnership.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless successfully uses a priceless Special Zone Token to transform a city inside the Eternal Silence Prison Tower into the Great Wilderness Special Zone.
• This gives him both a potential escape route from the tower and the unprecedented status of Special Zone Controller, elevating him above ordinary Regional Controllers.
• His new territory is strategically located and cannot easily be invaded:
  • The real world cannot cross the Eternal Silence Space to reach it.
  • The Divine Treasure Space lacks a Special Zone Node Stone allowing direct access.
  • Anyone entering the zone would be exposed to Nameless immediately.
• Regional Controllers across the Divine Treasure Space begin investigating Nameless and debating whether to ally with him or oppose him.
• The Celestial Alliance holds a meeting to discuss the consequences of Nameless’s rise.
• The faction concludes that Nameless’s Special Zone may become the primary link between the wider universe and the Divine Treasure Space.
• Rather than isolating Nameless, many factions are expected to seek permission to establish routes or Special Zone Node Stones connected to his territory, hoping to benefit from the influx of new cultivators.

Character Developments

• Nameless rises from an influential but isolated powerhouse to a potential ruler with territory, strategic authority, and the ability to compete for dominance across the myriad realms.
• Yeqin adopts a cautious, seemingly detached position, recommending that the Celestial Alliance wait before openly supporting Nameless. Her stance likely reflects concern that helping him too directly could provoke rival factions.
• Heavenly Venerable Jiaoyue criticizes Yeqin’s apparent lack of gratitude, reminding her that Nameless once saved her life.
• Heavenly Venerable Origin Light recognizes the enormous economic and demographic potential of Nameless’s Special Zone and argues that other factions will need him.
• Heavenly Venerable Red Tide remains skeptical, emphasizing that Nameless’s isolation from the Divine Treasure Space could limit his practical influence.

Significant Themes

• Power through territory and institutions: Nameless’s influence becomes vastly greater now that he controls land and can establish a population and faction.
• Strategic geography and defensive superiority: The Special Zone’s location makes it nearly impossible to attack, giving Nameless an advantage unlike that of ordinary Regional Controllers.
• Political pragmatism versus personal loyalty: Yeqin prioritizes factional safety, while Jiaoyue emphasizes personal debt and gratitude toward Nameless.
• The value of access and connectivity: The Special Zone may become a crucial gateway for cultivators who lack Space Crystals and cannot enter the Divine Treasure Space.
• Alliance-building and competition: Even Nameless’s opponents recognize that cooperation may be more profitable than hostility, creating a race to secure access to his territory.

Character Interactions

• Great God Pan Xi summons the four Heavenly Venerables to assess Nameless’s rise.
• Red Tide defers the matter to Yeqin, knowing of her history with Nameless.
• Jiaoyue confronts Yeqin over her refusal to openly support the person who saved her.
• Origin Light interprets Yeqin’s harsh caution as an attempt to protect Nameless and the Celestial Alliance from wider conflict.
• The Heavenly Venerables debate whether Nameless’s Special Zone is a weakness because of its isolation or a major advantage because of its security and future population growth.

Chapter Summary: “Rectifying Great Wilderness City”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Great Wilderness City is radically rebuilt in only three days under Nameless’s direction. Its former contrast between advanced cultivator districts and impoverished civilian areas is replaced with a huge, organized urban structure.
• A massive white-jade central plaza is constructed, featuring intricate formations and buried Special Zone Node Stones. It becomes the sole entrance and exit for travelers entering the Great Wilderness Special Zone.
• The city expands to hundreds of times its original size, with teleportation arrays needed for travel across it. New buildings, modeled after Divine Treasure Space’s architecture, are established for merchant groups and major organizations.
• Daji, Elmat, Kunkunjier, and others complete the main construction using their overwhelming power, though the city remains only a basic framework that will require future development and residents to become truly vibrant.
• Yuan Mulanzi officially becomes City Lord and begins organizing the city according to Nameless’s plans.
• With the threat of Eternal Silence Space contamination no longer requiring border guards, many guards transfer into the city’s enforcement and patrol organizations. Four regional Enforcement Bureau branches and a central headquarters are established.
• Nameless reviews applications for Special Zone Node Stones through the Oracle Network. He approves likely placements for Blue Region and White Jade City but is reluctant to visit other regions because controlling the valuable Special Zone makes him a target.
• Nameless and Lin Renmei discuss where to place Resource Towers. He rejects building one in the central plaza because of the expected congestion and because Resource Towers cannot be moved once constructed.
• Zhang Shouzhong struggles to establish an intelligence department because the retired guards all cultivate the Inner-Seeking Method and cannot easily perform morally compromising intelligence work. Nameless postpones the department and reallocates them elsewhere.
• The chapter ends with a lighthearted eating contest between Zhang Shouzhong and Shui’er, whose friendship has grown through their shared love of food.

Character Developments

• Nameless demonstrates practical leadership and foresight. He oversees the city’s transformation, manages applications and resources, and recognizes both the strategic value of Great Wilderness and the dangers of becoming its controller.
• Yuan Mulanzi takes on formal administrative responsibility as City Lord, marking the beginning of Great Wilderness City’s organized governance.
• Lin Renmei provides perceptive commentary, particularly about the incompatibility between the Inner-Seeking Method and intelligence work.
• Zhang Shouzhong reveals both his professional frustration and his comic, gluttonous side. His inability to recruit suitable intelligence personnel exposes the limitations of the city’s current cultivation philosophy.
• Shui’er becomes Zhang’s friendly rival. Their repeated eating contests develop into genuine companionship.
• Daji, Elmat, and Kunkunjier demonstrate their immense power by constructing the city almost effortlessly.

Significant Themes

• Order replacing inequality: The reconstruction attempts to eliminate Great Wilderness City’s extreme divide between cultivators and ordinary people and establish a more unified, systematic society.
• The challenges of rapid development: Building the city is easy through overwhelming power, but creating functioning institutions, facilities, and a living community will take much longer.
• Power and vulnerability: Nameless’s control over the Special Zone gives him immense influence but also makes him a target, forcing him to act cautiously.
• Ideals versus practicality: The Inner-Seeking Method encourages people to act according to their conscience, but this becomes a disadvantage in professions such as intelligence work that may require morally difficult decisions.
• Community and friendship: Amid large-scale political and urban changes, ordinary interactions—especially the shared meal and eating contest—show the beginnings of personal bonds within the new city.

Important Character Interactions

• Nameless and Lin Renmei discuss the placement and long-term consequences of Resource Towers.
• Nameless and Zhang Shouzhong argue over the failed intelligence department, with Lin Renmei explaining why the Inner-Seeking Method makes the guards unsuitable for the role.
• Zhang Shouzhong and Shui’er compete in a humorous eating contest, illustrating their developing friendship.
• Nameless’s administrative decisions affect Yuan Mulanzi, the former guards, and the future structure of Great Wilderness City.

Chapter Summary: “Liaison”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A week after Nameless distributes the Special Zone node stones, cultivators begin arriving in Great Wilderness City through the Grand Plaza’s teleportation array. Many immediately livestream their arrival, eager to gain fame from being among the first visitors.
• Lucifer, Maria, and Big Yellow arrive and are welcomed by Lin Renmei, who brings them back to Wenxin Estate. They reunite with Nameless, who tells them to choose rooms.
• Maria wants a flower-covered room but learns it already belongs to Fatty. Nameless reassures her that the estate contains many spacious, magically expanded rooms. Big Yellow enthusiastically claims he wants a room filled with dog food.
• Members of the Scholar Foundation—Gao Shanggong, True Self Amateur, and Aries Palace—arrive in Great Wilderness City to negotiate with Nameless. They are careful to remain respectful because Nameless now controls the Special Zone and can kill intruders within it effortlessly.
• The scholars admire Great Wilderness City’s construction and recognize that Nameless has ambitious plans for the city. True Self Amateur also identifies the bamboo outside Wenxin Estate as an imitation of Fragrant Consort Bamboo, likely created through the Gold-Creation Art.
• Big Yellow welcomes the scholars and leads them to a lakeside area, where Nameless, Lucifer, Maria, Lin Renmei, and the others are leisurely fishing.
• Aries Palace explains that the Scholar Foundation wants to establish a branch in Great Wilderness City. Its initial purpose will be to help repair the Eternal Silence Prison Tower and later monitor it to prevent future Corruption.
• Nameless agrees, but requests that Gao Shanggong personally oversee the branch’s creation. He makes this concession because the Scholar Foundation previously supported him and because he respects Gao.
• Gao Shanggong accepts, and the discussion moves toward repairing the Eternal Silence Prison Tower, which is important both to the wider realms and to Great Wilderness City’s strategic value.

Character Developments

• Nameless demonstrates growing political experience and confidence. He has become accustomed to negotiating with organizations seeking access to the Special Zone and balances his own interests with past favors and personal relationships.
• Lucifer, Maria, Lin Renmei, and Big Yellow show a comfortable, familiar relationship with Nameless and one another. Their reunion emphasizes the close-knit household forming around Wenxin Estate.
• Maria is portrayed as energetic and childlike, excited by the city and eager to claim a beautiful room.
• Big Yellow remains comedic and impulsive, enthusiastically welcoming guests and joking about filling his room with dog food.
• Gao Shanggong is placed in an awkward but important position. He anticipates that Nameless will demand his involvement and reluctantly accepts responsibility for establishing the Scholar Foundation’s branch.
• True Self Amateur and Aries Palace display caution and respect toward Nameless, recognizing that his authority and power now surpass what they previously expected.

Significant Themes

• Political power and diplomacy: Nameless’s control over the Special Zone gives him enormous authority, forcing powerful organizations to approach him carefully and respectfully.
• Trust and reciprocity: Nameless avoids imposing harsh conditions on the Scholar Foundation because of its earlier assistance, showing that past alliances still matter.
• The rise of Great Wilderness City: The city is rapidly becoming an important center for cultivation, travel, commerce, and political influence.
• Restoration and responsibility: Repairing the Eternal Silence Prison Tower is presented as a shared obligation with consequences for all the realms.
• Home and community: The relaxed scene at Wenxin Estate contrasts with the political negotiations, showing Nameless building a personal household and social circle alongside his growing public authority.

Character Interactions

• Maria and Big Yellow bicker humorously over their ambitions and living arrangements.
• Lucifer and Lin Renmei reunite warmly, showing their established friendship.
• Big Yellow greets Gao Shanggong familiarly as “Uncle Gao,” reflecting the personal ties between the visitors and Nameless’s household.
• The Scholar Foundation members discuss how they must behave toward Nameless, revealing their awareness of his increased status.
• Nameless and the scholars conduct negotiations in an informal lakeside setting, blending friendship and diplomacy.
• Nameless specifically asks Gao Shanggong to manage the new branch, combining a practical decision with a gesture of respect and personal consideration.

Chapter Summary: “Suicide Squad”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Aries Palace and representatives of the Scholar Foundation ask Nameless to lead an expedition to repair the Eternal Silence Prison Tower.
• Many major factions, including the True Gold Alliance and Fortune Goddess Church, offer Nameless all the supplies obtained during the mission, along with additional support, in exchange for his participation.
• Nameless initially hesitates because he is already safe within the Great Wilderness Special Zone and has no personal need to risk exploring the more dangerous second level.
• He reflects on disturbing incidents recorded by the Guard Corps, including the mysterious death of the Savage King Emperor and the disappearance of guard Zeng Xiangjun, whose presence may have been replaced by something unknown. These events emphasize the terrifying, incomprehensible dangers beyond the first level.
• Nameless expresses concern that the expedition members may be unreliable and that hidden factions might be using the mission to endanger him.
• To address this, the Scholar Foundation proposes sending a “Suicide Squad” ahead of the main group. This squad will consist of dangerous death-row criminals controlled through contracts and exploited as expendable scouts to detect or eliminate threats.
• Nameless objects when he learns that scholars also intend to join the expedition, fearing he may be forced to protect them. Aries Palace assures him that the scholars are powerful, and Gao Shanggong confirms that he will participate.
• Nameless demands a complete roster detailing every participant’s background, abilities, and personality before agreeing.
• After reviewing the fifteen-person team, including Gao Shanggong and several high-level scholars and experts, Nameless determines that the group is competent and trustworthy enough.
• He finally agrees to lead the team in repairing the Eternal Silence Prison Tower.

Character Developments

• Nameless is shown to be cautious, pragmatic, and highly suspicious of political motives. Although he is willing to contribute to the safety of the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, he refuses to accept unnecessary risks or become someone else’s bodyguard. His agreement depends on careful evaluation of the team.
• Aries Palace acts as a careful negotiator. He understands Nameless’s value and prepares both incentives and contingency plans before approaching him.
• True Self Amateur presents the Suicide Squad proposal and tries to reassure Nameless that the expedition can be managed safely.
• Gao Shanggong demonstrates independence and reliability by openly supporting the mission and confirming that he will accompany Nameless.
• The scholars are revealed to be far stronger than Nameless initially assumes, with several possessing power above level one hundred and ninety.

Significant Themes

• Trust and suspicion: Nameless worries that the expedition may be designed to manipulate or eliminate him, making reliable allies essential.
• The cost of duty: Although Nameless has little personal incentive to participate, he recognizes that repairing the prison tower is important to the survival of the wider realms.
• The unknown and incomprehensible: The mysterious threats of the second level—including hallucinations, disappearances, and unexplained deaths—suggest dangers that cannot be understood through ordinary logic.
• Expendability and moral compromise: The Suicide Squad uses criminals as disposable tools, raising questions about whether dangerous individuals can justifiably be sacrificed for a greater purpose.
• Preparation and strategic control: The chapter emphasizes careful planning, intelligence gathering, contracts, and personnel selection as ways to confront overwhelming danger.

Character Interactions

• Aries Palace and Nameless: Aries Palace carefully persuades Nameless with offers of resources and support, while Nameless challenges the proposal and sets strict conditions.
• True Self Amateur and Gao Shanggong: True Self Amateur promotes the expendable-scout strategy, while Gao Shanggong criticizes the implication that Nameless must accept unwanted risks.
• Nameless and Gao Shanggong: Their exchange establishes mutual respect. Gao Shanggong’s willingness to join helps convince Nameless that the mission is not simply an attempt to use him.
• Nameless and the expedition roster: By reviewing the backgrounds and capabilities of all fifteen members, Nameless asserts control over the mission and ensures that he will not be burdened by incompetent or untrustworthy companions.

Chapter Summary: “Lenur”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The suicide squad departs for the former forbidden zone, now revealed to be the true second level of the prison.
• Their captain, Lenur, is introduced as a Level 210 Witch-Hunting Berserker. His profession originated from warriors who hunted wizards for rewards, eventually learning to absorb wizardly power and develop resistance to magic.
• Although Lenur appears disciplined, polite, and righteous, his worldview is deeply corrupted by an absolute hatred of wizards. He has killed innocent wizards, including children, and is considered irredeemably dangerous by the Scholar Foundation.
• In the Heart-Questioning Courtyard, Nameless and the others watch the squad’s departure through a holographic screen. They discuss Lenur’s tragic, distorted beliefs and predict that the squad’s criminals will have difficulty cooperating.
• Lenur immediately establishes authority by killing the rebellious dung beetle man after the latter challenges his command. When the prisoner attacks again, Gao Shanggong kills him instantly for violating the rule against teammates fighting.
• The surviving thirty-three members leave the Great Wilderness Special Zone and enter the Corrupted Eternal Silence Space. They protect themselves with energy films and begin counting off their members.
• Lenur urges the group to cooperate despite the mission’s estimated ninety percent death rate. His true motivation is revealed: successful completion could reduce the sentences of his wife and son, who followed him into the Witch-Hunting Berserker path.
• Equipped with crystal lamps, a danger-detection radar, and other supplies from the Scholar Foundation, Lenur leads the team into the darkness to investigate dangers and prepare the way for repairs to the Eternal Silence Prison Tower.

Character Developments

• Lenur: Presented as both villainous and tragic. He remains convinced that killing wizards is righteous, but recognizes that dragging his family into the same life was a mistake. His desire to save them gives him a strong reason to complete the mission, despite his own likely death.
• Nameless and the observers: They view Lenur as powerful but morally twisted. Their discussion emphasizes the contradiction between his outward decency and his monstrous ideology.
• Gao Shanggong: Demonstrates absolute authority and efficiency by killing the dung beetle man without hesitation when he attacks Lenur.
• Suicide squad members: Shown as violent, selfish, and distrustful criminals who are unlikely to obey Lenur willingly. Mary, Pluto, and Fatty are identified as the strongest members besides Lenur.
• Lenur’s family: Though absent, his wife and son become central to his motivation and deepen the emotional stakes of his mission.

Significant Themes

• Moral relativism and indoctrination: Lenur sincerely believes his atrocities are righteous because his original society taught him that wizards deserved death.
• Redemption through sacrifice: Lenur seeks to atone for involving his family in his crimes by risking his life to secure their reduced sentences.
• Authority versus chaos: The squad consists of dangerous criminals, forcing Lenur to impose order through violence and intimidation.
• The tragedy of conviction: Lenur’s identity depends on his belief system; abandoning it would destroy him, even though that belief has made him a mass murderer.
• Cooperation among enemies: The mission requires criminals who distrust one another to function as a team, creating tension and foreshadowing internal conflict.

Character Interactions

• Zhang Shouzhong, Maria, Big Yellow, and Lin Renmei debate whether Lenur is evil or merely tragically misguided.
• Lenur confronts the dung beetle man after the latter refuses to follow orders, killing him in a swift display of dominance.
• Gao Shanggong intervenes when the conflict continues, killing the dung beetle man and warning the squad against internal violence.
• Lenur then addresses the remaining prisoners, asking them to cooperate and follow his orders as they enter the dangerous second level.

Chapter Summary: “An Eerie Death”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lenur’s death squad advances through the second floor of Eternal Silence Prison Tower, guided by a floating crystal skull and the information from Nameless’s earlier livestream.
• A dog-headed prisoner, Madili, becomes intrigued by a seemingly harmless finger curled in a corner. Despite Lenur’s warnings, he approaches it.
• The finger suddenly enters Madili’s eye and spreads across his body. His attempts to destroy it with magic, remove his skin, and burn it away only cause the fingers to multiply.
• Madili is eventually overwhelmed and dies covered in writhing fingers. Lenur uses a White Spear to transform the corpse into a plaster-like Life-Giving Stone Essence cast.
• Lenur sternly warns the group not to approach anything merely because it appears harmless. The incident demonstrates the extreme danger of the Eternal Silence Prison Tower and its Corruption.
• At Wenxin Estate, Nameless watches the livestream and learns how dangerous the fingers truly are. He admits that even he might not have been able to deal with them safely.
• Nameless prepares to leave that afternoon, accompanied by Uncle Gao, while Maria expresses concern for his safety.
• A new anomaly appears on the livestream: Life-Slaying Base, prisoner Number 25, begins to look distorted and smoke-like to outside observers, though the squad initially sees him as normal.
• Gao Shanggong warns Lenur to separate the group and verify Life-Slaying Base’s condition. Life-Slaying Base fails to respond, and Lenur confirms that something is wrong.
• Lenur throws a knife at him, but it passes through his body. Life-Slaying Base then begins to dissolve like smoke, ominously declaring that they have discovered him.

Character Developments

• Lenur is shown as cautious, authoritative, and responsible. He immediately recognizes the danger of the fingers, attempts to save Madili, and prioritizes the squad’s safety after the death.
• Madili is reckless and overconfident. His curiosity and refusal to heed Lenur’s warning directly lead to his grotesque death.
• Nameless remains powerful but cautious. Rather than assuming he could easily defeat the fingers, he acknowledges their unpredictable nature and the danger of Corruption.
• Maria displays deep loyalty and faith in Nameless, confidently believing he could handle the prison’s dangers, while also worrying about his upcoming journey.
• Gao Shanggong demonstrates vigilance and analytical skill by recognizing an anomaly invisible to the squad and quickly instructing Lenur on how to respond.
• Life-Slaying Base is revealed to possess an unsettling, possibly supernatural ability to distort or conceal his physical existence.

Significant Themes

• The danger of appearances: Harmless-looking objects can conceal lethal power, making casual curiosity fatal.
• Corruption and contamination: The prison’s corrupted entities do not merely attack; they spread, multiply, and overwhelm living bodies.
• The limits of confidence and knowledge: Previous footage provides useful guidance but cannot guarantee safety in new situations.
• Isolation and mistrust: The squad must constantly question what they see, since the prison can create discrepancies between reality and perception.
• Survival through discipline: Lenur’s warnings and Gao’s instructions emphasize caution, cooperation, and strict adherence to procedure.

Character Interactions

• Lenur repeatedly warns Madili to stay away from the finger, but Madili dismisses the danger, creating the central conflict that ends in his death.
• The squad watches Madili’s transformation with horror, while Lenur tries to direct the response and ultimately destroys the corpse.
• Pluto reacts unemotionally to Madili’s gruesome death, contrasting with the fear of the other prisoners.
• Nameless and Maria discuss the danger of the fingers, with Maria reassuring him and Nameless responding realistically about their unpredictability.
• Gao Shanggong communicates with Lenur from outside the tower, guiding him through the Life-Slaying Base anomaly.
• Lenur commands the prisoners to distance themselves from Life-Slaying Base and tests him directly, leading to the revelation that the prisoner’s apparent form is not what it seems.

Chapter Summary: “Drowning Spring”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The prisoners learn that Life-Slaying Base has died, despite showing no obvious signs of an attack. Surveillance reveals only faint ripples before his body twists away like smoke.
• The Scholar Foundation investigates and identifies Drowning Spring as the likely culprit. This monster originated as a pool of water that became sentient after drowning a human. It kills by creating fog, disorienting victims, and turning them into water ghosts within its waters.
• Drowning Spring has grown powerful enough to drown cultivators and create smoky illusions of its victims, allowing it to replace or imitate people without others noticing.
• The Foundation debates whether to warn Lenur’s group. True Self Amateur initially suggests waiting for another victim, while Gao Shanggong argues that the group deserves to know the danger. Gao and Aries Palace ultimately support warning them.
• Lenur is informed and tells his companions about Drowning Spring. Pluto reveals that his grandfather was once killed by it, causing severe suffering in his tribe.
• One companion assumes Drowning Spring is harmless because many of them do not need to breathe. Pluto disproves this by pointing out that Life-Slaying Base was a silicon-based lifeform and did not need to breathe either.
• Gao Shanggong then contacts Lenur again with urgent news: something has happened to Kumas, the hammerhead shark man. Lenur is instructed not to alert him, but to observe him carefully, strongly suggesting that Kumas may have been replaced or corrupted.

Character Developments

• Gao Shanggong demonstrates moral responsibility and courage by insisting that Lenur’s group be warned rather than treated as expendable test subjects.
• True Self Amateur takes a pragmatic, utilitarian position, preferring to gather more evidence even at the risk of another death.
• Aries Palace acts as the principal researcher, identifying Drowning Spring from historical records and supporting Gao’s decision to warn the expedition.
• Lenur becomes more cautious and vigilant after learning the nature of the threat, realizing that ordinary physical defenses and visual observation may be useless.
• Pluto provides personal and historical knowledge of Drowning Spring, making the danger more concrete for the group.
• Kumas becomes suspicious by the end of the chapter, as the warning about his condition implies that he may no longer be himself.

Significant Themes

• Invisible and psychological danger: The greatest threat is not a visible monster but an enemy capable of replacing people and concealing deaths.
• Trust and identity: The possibility that a companion has been secretly replaced creates paranoia within the group.
• Ethics versus pragmatism: The Foundation’s debate contrasts the moral duty to warn people with the strategic desire to observe the threat and gather information.
• Limits of knowledge: Even advanced surveillance cannot explain how Life-Slaying Base was killed, emphasizing the prisoners’ helplessness before unfamiliar supernatural forces.
• The deceptive nature of appearances: Drowning Spring’s smoky illusions allow victims to remain apparently present, blurring the line between the living and the dead.

Character Interactions

• Gao Shanggong and Lenur communicate repeatedly, with Gao first explaining the unexplained death and later warning Lenur about Drowning Spring and Kumas.
• Gao clashes ideologically with True Self Amateur over whether the expedition should be warned immediately.
• Aries Palace supports Gao and contributes crucial information about Drowning Spring.
• Lenur gathers his companions and relays the danger, prompting Pluto to share his family’s tragic experience.
• Pluto challenges the hammerhead shark man’s assumption that drowning is harmless, using Life-Slaying Base’s death as evidence that the creature’s attack is not dependent on breathing.
• The chapter ends with Lenur silently scrutinizing Kumas, transforming the group’s concern into immediate suspicion.

Chapter Summary: “The Target”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lenur questions Kumas, a hammerhead shark merfolk, about whether he could survive the Drowning Spring. Kumas confidently claims that, as a merfolk, he would be safe underwater.
• Suspicious of Kumas’s confidence and the recent deaths, Lenur realizes that the Drowning Spring may be deliberately targeting the team’s best scouts rather than attacking randomly.
• Gao Shanggong confirms that the first victim, Life-Slaying Base, had exceptionally powerful perception through crystal-like “eyes” and had been assigned as a scout. He also reveals that Mary possesses another hidden face with extraordinary scouting abilities.
• Lenur stops Mary just before she steps onto a patch of black liquid. The substance briefly emerges from the corrupted ground before merging back into the Corruption, demonstrating that the Drowning Spring can move through the surrounding black substance.
• Lenur explains that the Drowning Spring is hunting those with the strongest perception. The group then realizes that Kumas is likely already compromised.
• Kumas’s body suddenly dissolves into smoke, revealing that he had been attacked or replaced earlier. The group understands that the Drowning Spring’s “drowning” does not involve suffocation; instead, victims are likely pulled into the corrupted deep pool and consumed by Corruption.
• Mary asks whether the Drowning Spring can be defeated, but Lenur admits that the Scholar Foundation is still trying to recreate the technique once used to seal it: the Cause-and-Effect Heavenly Principle Slash.
• Big Fatty, a cautious goblin craftsman and secret agent of True Self Amateur, warns that the team’s chances of survival may be less than one percent. He suspects that the Drowning Spring may shift its attention to him because his tools give him perception comparable to Mary’s.
• Mary responds to Big Fatty’s fear with excitement rather than reassurance. Her dangerous, thrill-seeking nature causes her to consider attacking or “playing with” him.
• Meanwhile, at Wenxin Estate, Nameless and others observe the expedition through the Oracle Network. They learn the hidden truth behind the Drowning Spring’s origin: the herbalist Ning Caihe did not accidentally drown. He was knocked unconscious and deliberately thrown into the spring.
• Ning Caihe possessed an extraordinarily complex mixed bloodline, and his resentment became the true source of the Drowning Spring’s power. The earlier swordsman’s Cause-and-Effect Heavenly Principle Slash did not kill Ning Caihe; it killed the person responsible for his death, allowing the spring to be sealed.

Character Developments

• Lenur becomes increasingly perceptive and cautious. He correctly identifies the Drowning Spring’s selection pattern and saves Mary from stepping into an ambush.
• Kumas is exposed as having already been targeted or replaced by the Drowning Spring, undermining his earlier confidence and demonstrating that even a merfolk’s apparent immunity is meaningless.
• Mary is revealed as an exceptionally capable scout with a hidden second face. Although she recognizes the danger, fear intensifies her reckless, thrill-seeking personality rather than making her cautious.
• Big Fatty emerges from the background as intelligent, well-prepared, and deeply suspicious. His survival skills and secret connection to True Self Amateur become more important as the Drowning Spring changes targets.
• Gao Shanggong provides crucial information about the victims’ abilities and helps Lenur identify the Drowning Spring’s method.
• Ning Caihe is recontextualized from a supposed accidental drowning victim into the tragic source of the supernatural disaster.

Significant Themes

• Perception as a liability: The characters with the strongest ability to detect danger are being targeted first, turning their greatest strengths into vulnerabilities.
• Hidden corruption and deception: The Drowning Spring can travel through Corruption and disguise or consume its victims without obvious signs, making trust and observation difficult.
• The difference between appearances and truth: Kumas appears normal and confident, yet he has already been compromised. Likewise, the official story of Ning Caihe’s death conceals a murder.
• Survival under impossible odds: The team confronts a threat they barely understand, with survival chances estimated at less than one percent.
• Resentment and cause-and-effect justice: Ning Caihe’s unresolved resentment fuels the Drowning Spring. The sealing of the disaster requires punishing the true murderer rather than simply attacking the spring itself.
• Fear provoking different responses: Some characters become cautious, while Mary becomes more excited and dangerous, showing how individuals react differently when confronted with death.

Character Interactions

• Lenur questions Kumas and later communicates with Gao Shanggong to investigate the pattern behind the deaths.
• Gao Shanggong identifies Life-Slaying Base and Mary as powerful scouts, allowing Lenur to recognize Mary’s immediate danger.
• Lenur stops Mary from stepping onto the concealed black liquid and explains why she is being targeted.
• The group turns suspiciously toward Kumas after Lenur excludes him from the list of remaining scouts, leading to Kumas’s horrifying transformation.
• Mary and Big Fatty exchange a tense, provocative conversation: Big Fatty voices fear, while Mary responds by taunting him and contemplating dangerous amusement.
• At Wenxin Estate, Nameless and others analyze the expedition and uncover the deeper history of Ning Caihe and the Drowning Spring.

Chapter Summary: Evil Brood Mother Goddess

Key Plot Points and Events

• Maria asks whether Drowning Spring is truly impossible to kill. Nameless explains that although it has not reached Transcendence and is technically killable, defeating it is extraordinarily difficult.
• Lucifer describes Drowning Spring as a tangled combination of countless powers. Ordinary attacks cannot destroy it and may instead strengthen it. To defeat it, its powers must be separated and countered individually, much like untangling and sorting a ball of yarn.
• Nameless adds that each force must be countered by an opposing element—such as fire against water or light against darkness—but the real challenge is combining those elements with exact precision.
• The group worries that Drowning Spring may have absorbed so many powers that no solution remains. Maria and Shui’er urge Nameless not to risk entering the Eternal Silence Prison Tower, but he insists on trying to repair the tower, emphasizing that even the loss of his current body would not seriously harm him.
• The Suicide Squad encounters a strange tree growing from a prison cell. Its trunk and branches appear to be made from countless fused beetles, while its crystalline leaves contain writhing black symbols that Lucifer identifies as actual people.
• The cell’s identity is unclear because Corruption has obscured its number. Big Yellow speculates that someone may have entered through the Great Wilderness Special Zone, but Nameless firmly rejects the possibility, explaining that no one can pass through that region without his permission.
• Lenur shoots the tree and initially appears to neutralize it with Life-Giving Stone Essence. However, he notices that the Essence is gradually disappearing from the tree.
• Gao Shanggong warns Lenur that the tree is the transformed form of the Mysterious Female Evil God and cannot be restrained by Life-Giving Stone Essence. Lenur immediately retreats, prompting the others to withdraw as well, though the tree does not attack.
• Gao reveals that the Mysterious Female Evil God is not a true Evil God but a powerful victim corrupted by one. The being responsible is identified as the terrifying Evil Brood Mother Goddess, whose name Gao warns Lenur not to speak aloud because it may provoke the tree.

Character Developments

• Nameless demonstrates confidence in his resilience and renewed determination to repair the Eternal Silence Prison Tower despite the risks.
• Lucifer provides the clearest explanation of Drowning Spring’s complex nature and the specialized method required to defeat it.
• Maria and Shui’er show concern for Nameless, emphasizing their attachment to him and their desire for his safety.
• Lenur is characterized as cautious and rational compared with the other prisoners. He refuses to approach the tree recklessly, consults Gao Shanggong, and reacts quickly to the warning.
• Gao Shanggong serves as an expert on the prison’s supernatural entities, identifying the tree’s origin and revealing the danger of the Evil Brood Mother Goddess.
• The other prisoners are portrayed as unstable and abnormal, reinforcing Lenur’s relative normality.

Significant Themes

• Complexity beyond brute strength: Both Drowning Spring and the Mysterious Female Evil God demonstrate that overwhelming power is not always enough; specialized knowledge and precise countermeasures are necessary.
• Transformation and corruption: The Mysterious Female Evil God’s existence shows how victims can be altered into beings mistaken for or treated as Evil Gods.
• Danger of hidden threats: Apparent safety is repeatedly shown to be deceptive, as the tree initially seems harmless but is gradually revealed to be extremely dangerous.
• Knowledge as survival: Lenur’s caution and willingness to seek information protect him, while the chapter emphasizes that understanding an enemy’s origin is essential.
• Nameless’s commitment and sacrifice: Despite the dangers, Nameless remains focused on restoring the prison tower, suggesting a strong sense of responsibility.

Character Interactions

• Maria, Shui’er, and the others express concern over Nameless’s plans, while he reassures them and explains his reasons for continuing.
• Nameless and Lucifer cooperate in analyzing Drowning Spring’s structure and weaknesses.
• Lenur consults Gao Shanggong after attacking the tree, and Gao’s warning prevents a potentially disastrous confrontation.
• The prisoners react differently to the danger: Lenur remains vigilant, while others mock his retreat or behave recklessly, highlighting the contrast between his caution and their instability.
• The chapter ends with Gao’s warning that even mentioning the Evil Brood Mother Goddess could provoke the transformed Mysterious Female Evil God, leaving the group facing a far greater threat.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Gao Shanggong explains the threat posed by the Evil Brood Mother Goddess, whose corruption causes creatures to give birth to thousands or tens of thousands of evil spawn. Each spawn retains roughly ten percent of its parent’s strength, making powerful hosts exceptionally dangerous.
• The Mysterious Female Evil God is revealed to be sealed by Venerable Divine Tree. Her main body is a trunk, while her branches consist of countless beetle-like evil spawn.
• Lenur realizes the Female Evil God may be comparable to or stronger than him, and that her enormous numbers of spawn make her a catastrophic threat.
• Gao orders Lenur to use a demon-sealing scroll to isolate the area while the stronger forces deal with the sealed god.
• Mary approaches the branch after sensing what she calls “Mother’s scent.” Gao reveals that Mary’s mother had previously been slightly influenced by the Evil Brood Mother Goddess, making Mary especially vulnerable.
• Mary, who has already given birth to thousands of children and whose children have been captured as leverage, becomes completely enthralled. Big Fatty, Lenur, and Pluto try to pull her away, but her arm is torn off.
• Mary then grabs and kisses the branch, breaking the seal. A swarm of beetles erupts and devours one of the prisoners almost instantly.
• Lenur, Pluto, and Big Fatty flee while Lenur reports the disaster to Gao. Gao orders them to retreat and laments that the supposed suicide squad has become a reckless “death-rush squad.”

Character Developments

• Lenur gains a clearer understanding of the Mysterious Female Evil God’s overwhelming danger. Though initially reassured that the Scholar Foundation has a plan, he quickly becomes pragmatic and abandons the area once the seal breaks.
• Gao Shanggong is shown as knowledgeable and composed, but he recognizes that Mary’s assignment was likely deliberate sabotage. His final exhaustion reflects his frustration with the squad’s repeated recklessness.
• Mary is revealed to be highly susceptible to the Evil Brood Mother Goddess’s influence because of her inherited connection. Her desperation over her captured children and strange, unconventional nature make her easy to manipulate. She ultimately loses control and directly causes the catastrophe.
• Big Fatty demonstrates quick thinking and concern by attempting to restrain Mary with his golden chain, though his intervention fails.
• Pluto and the other prisoners react primarily through survival instincts, fleeing once the swarm is released.
• Venerable Divine Tree is established as a powerful but older and increasingly forgotten Regional Controller who previously sealed the Mysterious Female Evil God.

Significant Themes

• The danger of unchecked reproduction and multiplication: The Evil Brood Mother Goddess’s power lies not only in personal strength but in producing vast armies of powerful offspring.
• Manipulation and exploitation: Mary’s children have been captured to force her obedience, while her placement in the squad may have been intentionally designed to trigger disaster.
• Inherited corruption and vulnerability: Even a faint influence on Mary’s mother makes Mary susceptible, suggesting that evil influence can persist across generations.
• The failure of control: The mission’s careful plan collapses because the team cannot control its own members. The “suicide squad” becomes dangerous not merely because of the external threat, but because of its impulsive prisoners.
• Reputation and forgotten power: The discussion of titles and older experts contrasts the fading fame of figures like Venerable Divine Tree with the continuing influence of legendary powers.

Character Interactions

• Gao briefs Lenur on the Female Evil God and instructs him to establish a barrier.
• Lenur questions Gao about the threat and later reports the broken seal.
• Mary ignores Lenur’s warning and approaches the branch.
• Big Fatty tries to stop Mary, calling on Lenur and Pluto for help.
• Lenur, Pluto, and Big Fatty pull Mary away, accidentally tearing off her arm, but she remains focused on the branch.
• After Mary breaks the seal, Lenur, Pluto, and Big Fatty flee together while Gao coordinates their retreat from a distance.

Chapter Summary: “Harmony Dao Jade”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless waits at the border of the Great Wilderness Special Zone, where his movement abilities give him an advantage over the others.
• Gao Shanggong, True Self Amateur, and Aries Palace arrive to discuss the crisis involving the Dark Female Evil God.
• The group concludes that the Divine Tree Venerable’s seal had already weakened before Mary entered the suicide squad. Mary’s presence merely accelerated the breakdown.
• Nameless suggests that the Dark Female Evil God may have been corrupted by Eternal Silence Space, combining the Proliferating Evil Mother Goddess’s twisted vitality with Eternal Silence Space’s deathly stillness.
• Nameless says he can kill the Dark Female Evil God inside the Special Zone, but only as a last resort because they cannot continually lure dangerous monsters to him.
• True Self Amateur offers Nameless one Harmony Dao Jade for every prisoner he eliminates. Nameless immediately accepts and agrees to have the suicide squad lure the Evil God toward the Special Zone.
• Gao Shanggong orders Lenur to change course and draw the Dark Female Evil God toward Nameless and the others.
• Lenur uses Life-Giving Stone Essence as bait to slow the Evil God’s beetle-like spawn. The fleeing prisoners struggle to cooperate, and several are eaten after accidental gunfire traps them with the essence.
• Nameless and Aries Palace watch the pursuit through a livestream while waiting at the border.

Character Developments

• Nameless remains calm and pragmatic, treating the crisis as both a threat and an opportunity. His interest in Harmony Dao Jades reveals his desire to improve his abilities and overcome the increasingly difficult process of leveling up.
• True Self Amateur becomes angry and frustrated because the failed suicide squad plan was his proposal. He blames whoever added Mary to the roster and fears the failure will damage his reputation and influence.
• Gao Shanggong acts as the main analyst and coordinator, identifying that the seal’s weakening began before Mary’s involvement and directing Lenur’s actions.
• Aries Palace plays a calming and mediating role, redirecting the discussion away from blame and toward solving the immediate danger.
• Lenur demonstrates composure and initiative under pressure, using Life-Giving Stone Essence to slow the evil beetles even as members of the squad are killed.
• The death-row prisoners are shown to be individually formidable but unable to function effectively as a group, with panic, exhaustion, and poor coordination causing further casualties.

Significant Themes

• The danger of combining opposing forces: The possible fusion of twisted life and absolute death creates an especially unpredictable and terrifying enemy.
• Leadership and accountability: The failure of the suicide squad raises questions about responsibility, poor planning, and the consequences of placing unsuitable people together.
• Pragmatism versus idealism: Nameless is willing to help, but only when properly compensated, turning a dangerous mission into a mutually beneficial arrangement.
• Cooperation and incompatibility: The prisoners’ inability to work together shows that individual strength is meaningless when a group lacks trust, coordination, and discipline.
• The difficulty of advancement: Harmony Dao Jades symbolize the rare opportunities powerful cultivators need to achieve further breakthroughs, emphasizing that progress becomes increasingly difficult at higher Levels.

Character Interactions

• True Self Amateur confronts the consequences of the failed plan, while Aries Palace attempts to calm him.
• Gao Shanggong and Nameless collaborate in analyzing the Evil God’s condition and deciding how best to contain it.
• True Self Amateur bargains directly with Nameless, offering Harmony Dao Jades in exchange for eliminating prisoners.
• Gao Shanggong communicates with Lenur, instructing him to lure the Evil God toward the Special Zone.
• Nameless and Aries Palace observe the prisoners’ chaotic escape, with Nameless criticizing their lack of compatibility and Aries Palace explaining how individually dangerous prisoners became ineffective as a group.

Chapter Summary: “Instant Kill”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nameless reflects on the difficulty of advancing at higher Levels. Although he has learned powerful divine skills—Golden Scorching Sun, Golden Crow Divine Armor, and Titan’s Hand—his strength has increased only modestly because the effectiveness of skills ultimately depends on the user’s underlying power.
• Lenur, Big Fatty, Pluto, and several death row inmates arrive at the border of the Great Wilderness Special Zone, pursued by a massive swarm of Evil Spawn Beetles.
• The group debates whether the death row inmates can still be trusted or should be used as expendable scouts. Aries Palace argues that they remain useful for dangerous missions, revealing a pragmatic and morally ruthless side beneath his gentle appearance.
• Nameless allows the Evil Spawn Beetles into the Great Wilderness Special Zone, then instantly destroys them using the Zone’s power. Their remains are forcibly shaped into a gigantic tree—the new form of the sealed Mysterious Female Evil God.
• A heavily Corrupted Mary approaches, connected to the Evil God Tree by a branch. Lenur shoots her, forcing her into the Zone, where Nameless destroys her body. Her remains become flowers adorning the black tree.
• Nameless then pulls the Mysterious Female Evil God into the Great Wilderness Special Zone. Despite its terrifying aura and attempt to overwhelm the area with more beetles, Nameless annihilates it with a single thought, compressing its power into the tree.
• The chapter ends with the completed grotesque structure: a pitch-black tree formed from the Evil God and the crushed beetles, decorated with flowers made from Mary’s flesh and blood.

Character Developments

• Nameless: Demonstrates overwhelming control over the Great Wilderness Special Zone. His power has advanced beyond ordinary techniques, allowing him to kill the Evil Spawn Beetles and the Mysterious Female Evil God instantly. He remains calm, strategic, and willing to use monstrous remains for his own purposes.
• Aries Palace: Is revealed to be less benevolent than he appears. He openly supports using death row inmates as expendable personnel, showing practical self-interest and moral flexibility.
• True Self Amateur: Recognizes Nameless’s elevated status and begins viewing him with greater respect and caution, understanding that the group may need his assistance in the future.
• Gao Shanggong: Acts as the moral counterbalance in the discussion, objecting to sacrificing the prisoners pointlessly, though he accepts that they may still be used when necessary.
• Mary: Has been completely Corrupted, losing her former identity and becoming more of a monster than a person. Her beauty and tragic transformation provoke pity despite her crimes.
• Mysterious Female Evil God: Remains terrifying and instinctively aggressive, but its immense power is rendered meaningless inside the Great Wilderness Special Zone.

Significant Themes

• Power depends on the wielder: Skills alone do not create true strength; their effectiveness reflects the user’s existing power.
• The difficulty of growth: Advancement becomes increasingly difficult at higher levels, much like doubling enormous wealth.
• Pragmatism versus morality: The characters debate whether condemned prisoners should be treated as people or expendable tools.
• Appearance versus reality: Aries Palace’s gentle exterior hides a ruthless practicality, while Mary’s beauty conceals her monstrous corruption.
• Absolute authority: Within the Great Wilderness Special Zone, Nameless possesses near-total control, turning seemingly unstoppable threats into harmless materials.
• Transformation and dehumanization: Mary and the Mysterious Female Evil God are stripped of their identities and transformed into components of a grotesque tree.

Character Interactions

• True Self Amateur and Aries Palace debate the usefulness of the death row inmates, with Aries Palace persuading him that they can still serve as sacrificial scouts.
• Gao Shanggong challenges the idea of wasting the prisoners, insisting that their deaths should at least serve a purpose.
• Lenur leads the escape and later shoots Mary to force her into the Great Wilderness Special Zone.
• Nameless remains largely silent but controls the entire situation, allowing the enemies to enter before destroying and reshaping them.
• The others watch Nameless’s effortless display of power and begin treating him with increased respect and caution.