Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Plot and key events

• In Ye City, Zhao Yun confronts the resurrecting, Nation-Burst Rank Cao Cao. Zhao Yun’s General Slayer Blessing makes his attacks instant-kills when he is angry, while his Desperate Stand Blessing gives him seemingly infinite Battle Qi. Cao Cao can resurrect and drain Battle Qi, leaving the two locked in a day-long stalemate.
• Chen Feng returns with his companions and meets Sun Ce’s revenge party. They reveal their plan: Zhou Yu’s Blessing lets Huang Gai injure himself to build power, while Huang Gai’s Blessing makes his attacks guaranteed to hit. Sun Ce, Taishi Ci, and the others keep Huang Gai alive by feeding him peaches until he reaches Nation-Burst Rank.
• Huang Gai attacks Cao Cao, but Cao Cao drains his Battle Qi. Chen Feng then uses a deception involving Cai Wenji, whose Heartbreak Blessing would make anyone who killed her lose a Blessing. Cao Cao recognizes the intended trap and removes the apparent Cai Wenji from the battlefield.
• The apparent Cai Wenji is actually the Savior in disguise. His Incarnation Blessing lets him transform into a target and copy a skill. By impersonating Cai Wenji, he tricks Cao Cao into losing All Under Heaven Return to the Heart, his Battle Qi-draining Blessing.
• To prevent Cao Cao from destroying the world while still powerful, Chen Feng devises an improvised combination: Huang Gai carries Jia Xu as a shield and Zhao Yun as a weapon. Zhao Yun’s lethal spear finally kills Flesh Cao Cao.
• The system rewards Chen Feng with insight into spacetime and the Spatial Shift ability. He evacuates Jia Xu and the Savior back to Happiness Internet Cafe. There, Jia Xu’s Veil activates against Cihang’s poisonous Red Fog, and Chen Feng’s previously silent Chat Group System comes back online. He remembers that the group contains five moles.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Yun remains fearless and steadfast, surviving Cao Cao’s overwhelming attacks and ultimately delivering the decisive blow.
• Huang Gai willingly endures repeated self-injury for the cause. His allies support him with peaches, turning his dangerous strategy into a workable one.
• Chen Feng relies on tactical improvisation rather than raw strength. He recognizes that disabling Cao Cao’s draining ability is not enough by itself, then invents the final combination to ensure Cao Cao cannot retaliate.
• The Savior uses a layered disguise to fool Cao Cao, then withdraws once his key Blessing is gone. His caution contrasts with the group’s willingness to risk a direct finish.
• Cao Cao is formidable but increasingly frustrated by opponents whose strange Blessings counter his strength, speed, and ability to drain Battle Qi. His confidence in the future predictions he received makes him underestimate the group’s deception.
• Jia Xu is dragged into Chen Feng’s plan as a living shield, then returns to Cihang and immediately finds his protective Blessing activated by the Red Fog.

Significant themes

• Creative teamwork over brute force: The heroes combine abilities in unexpected ways to overcome an enemy far stronger than any one of them.
• The limits of prediction: Cao Cao knows several possible plans, but layered deception and an unanticipated transformation defeat his foreknowledge.
• Sacrifice and support: Huang Gai’s self-injury is made possible by the others’ practical care, emphasizing that individual courage depends on teamwork.
• Power through unusual rules: The battle turns not on conventional strength alone, but on the precise conditions and interactions of each Blessing.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng realizes the First Saint Demon Venerable built hidden flaws into the techniques he gave him. Reciting the Heaven-Beyond Enemy Art could disrupt Chen’s cultivation, while the Mysterious Tortoise Longevity Art would likely keep him from advancing beyond Deity Transformation. Chen also sees that his sword techniques are poorly matched to the earth-based longevity art.
• Rather than panic, Chen uses the Proficiency System to improve all four techniques. They become powerful time- and space-based arts, with abilities such as moving through space, stopping or altering time, foreseeing the future, traveling into the past, and changing fate. Unlocking their full power will require absorbing Spacetime Divinity from at least seven powerful opponents.
• In the main chat, Chen counters the Flesh King of the Monsters’ memory curse, and the Doomsday Empress mutes the King. Chen learns that Cihang sent Bull Face, the Yellow-Robed Cult Leader, after him.
• Chen joins a smaller private group for the allied survivors. The Doomsday Empress reports that a planet-buster bear spirit was defeated, though an entire star region was lost. The Galactic War Marshal is heading toward Universe 42, where Cihang is located. Netherworld Star has eaten two tiger spirits, while the Unlucky Corpse Emperor reports killing an elephant spirit.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen moves from alarm at the Demon Venerable’s betrayal to pragmatic appreciation of the trap—and then confidently turns it into an opportunity by upgrading his techniques.
• The Demon Venerable is further established as a cunning, treacherous teacher whose gifts all contain concealed drawbacks.
• The Doomsday Empress takes charge of the survivors’ smaller group, sharing information and coordinating against Cihang’s forces. Wutian Buddha apologizes for sending a tiger spirit toward Netherworld Star, who takes the incident lightly.
• Chen’s replies to the memory curse help expose the threat, while the Empress’s mute action stops the King from continuing it.

Significant themes

• Deceptive mentorship: seemingly generous gifts can conceal ways to control or cripple their recipient.
• Adaptation and mastery: Chen responds to sabotage by examining and improving the techniques rather than abandoning them.
• Power and its costs: the upgraded abilities promise a route to immortality, but require defeating formidable spacetime experts.
• Alliance amid danger: the survivors share intelligence and coordinate as Cihang’s forces attack across multiple worlds.

Key plot points and events

• During the Battle of Red Cliffs, India attacks Zhuge Liang with a powerful divine light. His See Through blessing freezes everyone nearby while he decides whether to spend Battle Qi to negate each attack.
• Zhuge Liang turns the pause into a stalling tactic. When enemy archers fire into the fog, he repeatedly considers each arrow separately, invoking the vast number of arrows brought by Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats to keep India trapped.
• A day passes. Unable to interfere with events in the Guandu timeline, India watches Cao Cao die after being deceived by Chen Feng, who is revealed to be an incarnation created through Zuo Ci’s blessing.
• India uses one of her two Flesh Grapes to break free long enough to send the other to Dong Zhuo in the main timeline and warn Cihang Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva responds by erasing nearly all timelines.
• Three timelines remain: Dong Zhuo’s main timeline, Red Cliffs, and Guandu. India and Zhuge Liang discover that one person survived the erasure: Zhao Yun.
• The furious Zhao Yun crosses into Dong Zhuo’s timeline. Because another Zhao Yun already exists there, his arrival triggers the universe’s Anti-Paradox Mechanism. Heavenly Thunder strikes him, but he continues toward Dong Zhuo’s palace.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhuge Liang reveals himself as a patient, strategic opponent. Rather than overpower India directly, he exploits the rules of his blessing and the arrow barrage to immobilize her and buy time.
• India shifts from confident aggressor to increasingly frantic observer. She recognizes Zhuge Liang’s delaying strategy, but cannot act until she spends a Flesh Grape’s power; even then, her intervention comes at the cost of losing that power.
• Zhao Yun emerges as the lone survivor of the Guandu timeline. His grief and rage become a single-minded drive to confront Dong Zhuo, despite overwhelming cosmic punishment.
• Cihang Bodhisattva escalates the conflict by erasing timelines, while India’s warning shows that the Bodhisattva’s larger scheme has been disrupted.

Significant themes

• Time as a battleground: Characters manipulate timelines, futures, and causality as directly as they use weapons.
• Patience versus urgency: Zhuge Liang wins time through deliberate stalling, while India’s inability to act makes her desperation grow.
• The cost of power and intervention: India’s limited divine power can alter events, but using it leaves her vulnerable.
• Rage and resistance: Zhao Yun advances against impossible odds, embodying defiance even when the universe itself punishes him.

Key plot points and events

• In Luoyang, Demon Lord Dong Zhuo’s Wine Pool has been contaminated by his power. A maid exposed to it becomes a mindless Flesh Monster, and the Flesh Ten Attendants are sending the tainted wine across the country to infect its wells.
• Dong Zhuo explains that the enemy can use a Simulator to foresee events, so he intends to exploit the Bodhisattva’s Red Fog, which conceals heavenly secrets and disrupts causality.
• Over wine, Dong Zhuo and the Ten Attendants debate which generals qualify as Heroes. He dismisses several candidates because their powers depend on time, equipment, or circumstances—and because they could not defeat Chen Feng quickly.
• Cao Cao, brought in after his failed attempt to reach Chen Feng, provokes Dong Zhuo and secretly uses his Return to the Heart Blessing to drain the Ten Attendants’ Battle Qi. He then attacks Dong Zhuo, hoping to end the war even if it costs his life.
• Lü Bu stops time with Qi Seizure and kills Cao Cao. Cao Cao misreads the Blessing: Lü Bu’s Valiant Might resets all his Blessing cooldowns when he hits, allowing him to keep attacking while time remains stopped.
• Back in Cihang, Chen Feng discovers that Cihang has erased nearly every timeline; only the main timeline and Red Cliffs remain. Daily Intelligence warns him that Red Cliffs will freeze him along with India for seventeen days, and reveals that Penglai Island is worth exploring, another person knows of the coming calamity, and Zhuge Liang’s Brocade Pouch has multiple uses.
• Chen Feng’s Simulator finds Penglai Island severely contaminated and beyond its normal limits, requiring seven points for a simulation. Red Cliffs has two major variables—Zhuge Liang and India—so Chen Feng concludes he must act quickly to help Zhuge Liang.
• He declines to bring Swordsman or Jia Xu, since either could die in the dangerous world, and prepares to travel alone with no equipment or teammates. He also realizes that system Identifiers affect which cheats function in a given world.
• Proficiency searches for a suitable system and eventually finds one identified as LS-02-GYLT. It warns Chen Feng, “It’s too dangerous to go alone. Take this with you.”

Character developments and interactions

• Dong Zhuo reveals himself as a calculating strategist: he understands Chen Feng’s ability to predict events and uses the Red Fog to counter it. His confidence in Lü Bu shapes his dismissive assessment of potential Heroes.
• Cao Cao makes a desperate, self-sacrificing attempt to kill Dong Zhuo. His clever setup nearly succeeds, but his mistaken reading of Lü Bu’s power costs him his life.
• Lü Bu is established as far more dangerous than his reputation alone suggests. His layered Blessings make his time-stop attack effectively inescapable once he lands a hit.
• Chen Feng shifts from gathering power to cautiously planning around a rapidly worsening crisis. He recognizes the danger of the erased timelines, weighs the risks to his companions, and chooses to travel alone.
• Jia Xu and Swordsman both express concern or willingness to accompany Chen Feng, but he protects them by refusing to bring them. The system assistants also interact with one another as Proficiency searches the system pool and Daily Intelligence guides it.

Significant themes

• Deception and miscalculation: Cao Cao’s plan is intelligent, but he underestimates Lü Bu’s abilities; Chen Feng, meanwhile, must account for enemies who can exploit his foresight.
• Power and hidden conditions: Blessings can have surprising combinations and rules, making apparent weaknesses misleading.
• Contamination and escalating stakes: The tainted wine threatens to spread across the country, while the collapsing timelines and approaching freeze intensify the danger.
• Risk, sacrifice, and caution: Cao Cao accepts death for the hope of peace; Chen Feng instead minimizes risk by leaving companions and equipment behind.

Key plot points

• Chen Feng reviews the National Destiny Arena system, which can summon gods from the Mythic Three Kingdoms world. He finds three available immortals: Zuo Ci, Yu Ji, and Nanhua. Nanhua’s ability can grant permanent blessings to people who otherwise couldn’t acquire them, giving Chen Feng a way to help himself and his companions.
• Chen Feng enters the Mythic Three Kingdoms timeline and arrives at Penglai Island, where Liu Bei’s surviving forces have gathered. Their blessings and support abilities grant Chen Feng temporary points and push him to weak continent-burst rank, adding battle qi to his existing powers.
• Liu Bei explains that the rest of the world has fallen to three kinds of monsters: corrupted commoners, corrupted officers who retain their abilities, and Cihang’s followers, who remain intelligent and can resurrect. The island is the last territory still held by the living.
• The known Cihang-aligned enemies—including Dong Zhuo, the Ten Attendants, and Lü Bu—are all in Luoyang. Dong Zhuo has confiscated the warriors’ weapons and hidden the divine artifacts in a vault protected from prophecy.
• Chen Feng recalls from old Chat Group messages that the vault may lie beneath Luoyang. Since his attempt to lure the enemy leaders away fails, he proposes exposing Penglai Island to draw Dong Zhuo into an attack. The group seeks a volunteer to defend it against Lü Bu, and a red-haired warrior steps forward, declaring, “What was there to fear?”

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng gains battle qi and recognizes how his combined powers make him harder to exploit. He takes command of the crisis, identifies the likely vault location, and adapts his plans when Dong Zhuo refuses to take the bait.
• Liu Bei welcomes Chen Feng warmly and introduces the island’s remaining forces, including Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Ma Chao, and several strategists and support figures.
• Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have grown far stronger and acquired formidable causality-based blessings. The group discovers, however, that their weapons and other divine artifacts were confiscated.
• Jia Xu is revealed to have followed Zhuge Liang’s group because he trusted the chancellor’s judgment and wanted to avoid danger—an amusing confirmation of his reputation as a survivor.
• Dong Zhuo correctly suspects Chen Feng’s attempts to draw him out are a trap and restrains Lü Bu from pursuing him.
• The chapter ends by introducing a bold volunteer, whose challenge sets up the coming defense of Penglai.

Significant themes

• Preparation before catastrophe: The survivors’ powers, alliances, and resources are established ahead of a looming confrontation.
• Knowledge as an advantage: Chen Feng uses memories from another world and old Chat Group records to uncover information that prophecy cannot access.
• Power through cooperation: The blessings of Liu Bei’s supporters help Chen Feng grow stronger, underscoring the value of collective aid.
• Humor amid disaster: System banter, Jia Xu’s self-preservation, and Chen Feng’s irreverent reactions offset the grim apocalyptic stakes.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Bei’s coalition finalizes its strategy against Dong Zhuo. Wei Yan is appointed governor of Penglai Island, with Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun as deputies, while Ma Chao and Meng Huo lead mobile raids to draw off enemy forces.
• Liu Bei, his brothers, and several allies form a seven-person team to enter Luoyang after Lü Bu leaves and steal divine weapons from the treasury. They dismantle Kongming’s stone formations to reveal Penglai—but the enemy still refuses to come out.
• In Luoyang, Dong Zhuo recognizes Chen Feng’s challenge as an attempt to provoke him. He chooses to wait for the Future Princess to escape, relying on Lü Bu and the guarded treasury to keep the coalition trapped. He also plans to adapt if he senses a timeline change.
• Away from the city, Lü Bu encounters a ruined, furious Zhao Yun. Their fight escalates from a clash of divine weapons to powerful Battle Techniques. Zhao Yun’s Blessings let him withstand Lü Bu’s attacks and even dodge during Time Stop, while their battle shakes Luoyang itself.
• The Future Princess predicts that Dong Zhuo will exploit Zhao Yun’s temper by using Diaochan to calm him, allowing Lü Bu to win and resume guarding the treasury. She believes Zhuge Liang’s plan has failed.
• Zhuge Liang reveals that he has accounted for another decisive figure: Sima Yi. In the north, Sima Yi has been waiting rather than openly joining Zhuge Liang. His Genius Blessing lets him alter destiny and find the ideal timeline.
• Sima Yi acts, changing the course of events. In the new timeline, Lü Bu kills Dong Zhuo—first destroying his body, then crushing his skull—and declares that he will no longer serve another. The altered future leaves Sima Yi laughing in triumph.

Character developments

• Wei Yan accepts the dangerous responsibility of defending Penglai, showing boldness and commitment to Liu Bei’s cause.
• Lü Bu begins as Dong Zhuo’s loyal enforcer, confident that strength will settle everything. His frustration with being controlled, followed by the exhilarating fight with Zhao Yun, culminates in rebellion and independence.
• Zhao Yun appears battered and consumed by vengeance, but his extraordinary Blessings and technique make him a formidable opponent even for Lü Bu.
• Dong Zhuo is confident in his defensive strategy and believes he can manipulate both Lü Bu and Zhao Yun. His control over Lü Bu proves less secure than he assumes.
• Zhuge Liang remains calm under pressure, revealing that he has planned for possibilities beyond the Future Princess’s predictions.
• Sima Yi emerges as a patient, self-interested strategist. He waits for the moment when either side’s victory will benefit him, then uses his Blessing to force the outcome he wants.

Significant themes

• Destiny versus agency: The Future Princess treats the future as fixed, while Sima Yi’s Blessing lets him alter it—and Lü Bu’s rebellion proves that people can break expected patterns.
• Patience and timing: Sima Yi’s lesson that one must wait and adapt defines his strategy, contrasting with Cao Cao’s reckless attempt to act too soon.
• Strength and control: Lü Bu believes strength should decide everything, yet he resents being treated as Dong Zhuo’s subordinate. His power ultimately enables him to reject that control.
• Planning and counterplanning: Zhuge Liang, Dong Zhuo, the Future Princess, and Sima Yi all anticipate one another’s moves, turning the conflict into a struggle over timelines as much as armies.
• Anger as both weakness and power: Zhao Yun’s fury makes him dangerous, but others expect it to be exploitable; his rage also fuels the Blessings that let him survive Lü Bu.

Character interactions

• Liu Bei trusts Wei Yan with Penglai’s defense and coordinates the coalition’s divided forces.
• Chen Feng’s taunting message provokes Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu, though Dong Zhuo initially refuses to take the bait.
• Lü Bu and Zhao Yun develop a fierce, almost delighted rivalry in combat: Lü Bu seeks a worthy challenge, while Zhao Yun fights from overwhelming anger and refusal to yield.
• Dong Zhuo tries to control Lü Bu as an adopted son and later plans to use Diaochan to influence Zhao Yun, but Sima Yi’s intervention turns Lü Bu against him.
• Sima Yi chastises Sima Zhao for losing heart and teaches both sons to wait for the right opportunity. His private ambitions contrast with Zhuge Liang’s openly shared resistance to the calamity.
• Zhuge Liang and the Future Princess engage in a contest of foresight, each trying to occupy and outthink the other.

Key plot points and events

• Zhao Yun teaches Chen Feng the basic first-tier Battle Techniques Kill and Dodge, after explaining that techniques amplify Battle Qi and that tenth-tier techniques are exceptionally rare.
• The group hears an announcement declaring Lü Bu master of Luoyang because Dong Zhuo’s fate is unknown. They suspect it may be a trap, but Zhang Fei leaves alone to challenge Lü Bu. Guan Yu and Liu Bei set out to rescue him, and Chen Feng joins them.
• Near Luoyang, they discover another Zhao Yun fighting Lü Bu: Guandu Zhao Yun, apparently from an erased timeline. Chen Feng identifies Lü Bu’s Time Stop as affecting living targets within roughly a city-wide radius. Pang Tong uses Chain Link to pull Zhang Fei out of it.
• Chen Feng’s system reveals Lü Bu’s powerful blessings: he can stop time for opponents fighting him, double his combat power, and refresh his blessings whenever he hits. His near-death fury can also cripple nearby enemies and trigger a stronger form. Guandu Zhao Yun, meanwhile, has permanent rage, extraordinary combat abilities, and independence from his counterparts across timelines.
• The group withdraws rather than risk interfering with the duel. Chen Feng resolves to treat Guandu Zhao Yun as a potential first teammate in this universe and becomes more cautious about bringing people into danger.
• Believing their weapons are stored beneath a fortified estate north of Luoyang, the group travels there. They find the Flesh Ten Attendants guarding it, supported by mindless Flesh Monsters that resemble many of the Three Kingdoms’ remaining elite warriors.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng learns combat fundamentals but remains reliant on analysis and strategy. His concern about losing friends—shaped by past betrayals and deaths—leads him to become stricter about choosing teammates. Despite his cautious nature, loyalty and righteous fervor push him to join the rescue.
• Liu Bei grieves for civilians harmed by the Flesh Monsters and welcomes the news of Dong Zhuo’s apparent death. He ultimately chooses to accompany Guan Yu rather than let him go alone.
• Zhang Fei acts impulsively from loyalty, challenging Lü Bu without waiting for the group’s decision. He is nearly trapped by Time Stop but is rescued by Pang Tong.
• Guan Yu readily risks himself to save Zhang Fei, while Pang Tong demonstrates the practical value of his Chain Link Blessing.
• Zhao Yun appears in two distinct versions: the island’s Zhao Yun and the enraged Guandu counterpart. The latter’s power and isolation make him a possible ally.
• Lü Bu is revealed as a far more dangerous opponent than the group expected, with a self-renewing combat cycle that makes direct attacks especially perilous.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and heroic resolve: The group knowingly risks death to save Zhang Fei, embodying the story’s ideal of acting bravely even when success seems unlikely.
• Strategy versus impulse: Zhang Fei’s charge contrasts with Chen Feng’s caution and the strategists’ suspicion that the announcement may be bait.
• Grief and hope: Liu Bei’s sorrow reflects the suffering of ordinary people, while his hope that Dong Zhuo is dead briefly lifts the group’s spirits.
• The cost of companionship: Chen Feng’s fear of losing friends makes him reconsider whom he brings into dangerous worlds, even as his loyalty draws him toward Guandu Zhao Yun.
• Information as survival: Understanding Lü Bu’s abilities and the range of Time Stop prevents the group from walking blindly into a lethal fight.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Liu Bei’s party is ambushed by the flesh-and-blood Yan Liang and Wen Chou. Their Twin Heroes Blessing kills the comparatively weak Ma Su and Pang Tong. Ma Su’s death-triggered Tearful Blessing strips Yan Liang of his strength, allowing Liu Bei to kill him—but the effort breaks Liu Bei’s temporary sword.
• Wen Chou then targets Liu Bei. Liu Bei uses his Lord’s Blessing to draw Battle Qi from three subordinates and rise above Wen Chou’s rank, causing Wen Chou’s own Blessing to destroy him. Liu Bei realizes Chen Feng is missing and assumes he may have been killed.
• Chen Feng is actually sneaking to the treasury using Mu Hao’s Blood Escape Technique, bypassing the fight rather than joining it. He navigates Zhuge Liang’s shifting Eight-Trigram Stone Maze by recalling the clue “north,” then uses his knowledge of the maze to find its Scenery Gate.
• In the treasury, Chen Feng collects a trove of powerful equipment, including the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, several famous weapons, and Rattan Armor, which negates all but elemental damage. He also finds the Imperial Seal, whose power depends on whether its bearer has an emperor’s mandate. The Daily Intelligence warns that Chen Feng would become an idiot if he tried to claim the throne.
• The chapter reveals that Zhuge Liang’s cryptic clue was part of a contest with India. India had hoped to alter the maze once the Flesh Grapes were used, but Zhuge Liang’s single-word hint misled her and gave Chen Feng a chance to reach the treasury.
• Outside, the battle intensifies. Divine Pang Tong links the Flesh Monsters so they share elemental damage, while his revival Blessing lets him repeatedly return to the fight. Divine Jiang Wei builds up Heavenly Mandate marks and unleashes a massive fire attack that burns through most of the monsters.
• The Flesh Ten Attendants remain extraordinarily difficult to defeat: their ghost faces make them intangible, and they can repeatedly revive. They ambush and grievously wound Guan Yu. God Zhang Fei’s Judgment Blessing temporarily weakens and erases them, but only destroys some of their masks before they return at full strength.
• Chen Feng arrives with the equipment. Liu Bei proposes retreating, but Chen Feng judges the Ten Attendants’ revival ability manageable by Cihang standards and prepares to fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Bei shows grief and fury over Ma Su and Pang Tong, then uses his leadership Blessing decisively to overcome Wen Chou. His concern for Guan Yu later leads him to shield his injured brother.
• Chen Feng again demonstrates his preference for exploiting systems and opportunities rather than fighting conventionally: he avoids the ambush, solves the maze, and loots the treasury first. His confidence in handling the Ten Attendants contrasts with the others’ despair.
• Zhuge Liang appears to have anticipated both Chen Feng’s abilities and India’s countermeasures. His cryptic clue reflects his confidence in Liu Bei’s daring and Chen Feng’s resourcefulness.
• India recognizes how narrowly Zhuge Liang’s plan succeeds and challenges whether he truly knew Chen Feng could interpret the maze. Zhuge Liang remains composed and evasive.
• Guan Yu and Zhang Fei fight effectively without weapons, defeating the weapon-stealing Zhang Liao and Zhang He, while Zhang Fei’s special Judgment ability becomes crucial against the Ten Attendants.
• Divine Pang Tong and Jiang Wei work in tandem: Pang Tong spreads damage across enemies, and Jiang Wei converts the battle’s Battle Qi into a devastating area attack.

Significant themes

• Strategy over direct confrontation: Chen Feng advances by bypassing the boss and solving the maze, while Zhuge Liang’s indirect clue outmaneuvers India.
• The value of teamwork and leadership: Liu Bei’s Blessing draws power from his subordinates, and Pang Tong’s and Jiang Wei’s abilities combine to magnify their attacks.
• The limits of strength against unnatural enemies: The Ten Attendants’ intangibility, revival, and invincibility turn an apparent victory into renewed danger.
• Power carries risks: The Imperial Seal can elevate a rightful emperor’s Fortune but damage the intelligence of someone without the proper mandate.
• Cihang’s extreme standards: Chen Feng’s casual assessment of the Ten Attendants’ many revivals highlights how much more dangerous the threats he has faced before have been.

Plot points and events

• Two remaining ghost faces combine into a new Flesh Ten Attendants, but the two personalities inside—Bi Lan and Han Kui—immediately quarrel over who should control their shared body.
• With Lü Bu potentially arriving, Chen Feng opts for a quick, unconventional victory. Divine Pang Tong links himself to the Ten Attendants, then uses a fire technique on himself while wearing armor that magnifies elemental damage. The resulting damage transfers through the link and blows the Ten Attendants apart; Pang Tong survives thanks to his extra lives.
• Chen Feng’s attacks cannot harm the four ghost faces while they remain intangible. He summons the immortal Yu Ji, whose talisman Blessing works through a challenge of belief. The Ten Attendants cannot meaningfully challenge the talismans while in ghost form, so Yu Ji repeatedly strikes him whenever he reforms, forcing him back into that state.
• Facing defeat, the Ten Attendants bargains for his life and reveals that civil officials—including Lu Xun, Zhou Yu, and Lu Su—have gone to attack Penglai Island. Dong Zhuo hopes to leave Chen Feng without a safe retreat. He also says Lü Bu is recovering in the Wine Pool after stabbing the emperor, but vanishes before he can reveal whether there are more followers of Cihang.
• Chen Feng receives a flesh grape and system points, then realizes Penglai is in danger and rushes back.
• At Penglai, a massive force of Flesh Monsters led by Flesh Sun Quan attacks. Flesh Lu Su has transported Huang Zhong away, leaving the island’s defenders badly weakened. Flesh Lu Xun, whose power grows during battle, advances on the island—but Wei Yan kills him with one punch, awakens to a higher rank, and gains the ability to turn all attack damage into healing.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows tactical ingenuity, using Pang Tong’s abilities and Yu Ji’s unusual Blessing rather than relying on direct combat. He avoids overreaching once he has gained substantial rewards, but the news about Penglai sends him back into danger.
• Divine Pang Tong acts as Chen Feng’s willing, self-sacrificing partner, using his ultimate on himself to exploit the armor and Chain Link combination; his extra lives let him recover.
• Bi Lan and Han Kui cannot cooperate even after being fused into one body, giving Chen Feng an opening.
• Yu Ji uses his talismans to exploit the Ten Attendants’ vulnerability while intangible. The system’s public comments undermine the secrecy of his trick and inadvertently explain its mechanics to the enemy.
• The Ten Attendants shifts from arrogance to desperation, trading information for survival before being mysteriously erased.
• Wei Yan rejects Qiao Zhou’s proposal to flee and proves his strength by defeating the powerful Flesh Lu Xun. His awakening transforms him into a formidable defender of Penglai.

Significant themes

• Cleverness over brute force: Chen Feng wins by combining abilities and exploiting rules rather than simply overpowering enemies.
• Power’s limitations: The ghost faces are invulnerable to attack while intangible, but that protection also prevents them from acting normally.
• Risk and restraint: Chen Feng recognizes when he has already gained enough and tries to avoid needless greed.
• Loyalty and courage: Wei Yan stands his ground despite overwhelming odds, while Pang Tong risks himself to help Chen Feng.
• Unreliable systems and information: The live comments expose strategies, and the Ten Attendants’ sudden erasure suggests that betrayal of Cihang has consequences beyond ordinary death.

Plot and key events

• Chen Feng returns to Penglai Island to find it devastated by a massive Flesh Monster assault. Zhao Yun and Wei Yan have held the island, slaughtering enormous numbers of enemies while protecting Liu Shan.
• Chen Feng’s successful retreat grants him Battle Qi, new techniques, powerful equipment, and the Shu Han generals’ friendship. On returning to the Three Kingdoms world, he distributes the recovered weapons and leads the group toward Luoyang.
• Outside Luoyang, an unusually powerful, furious version of Zhao Yun is already fighting flesh-and-blood Lü Bu. Chen Feng’s group helps from a distance: Divine Huang Zhong uses the Qilin Bow, whose special effect kills anything treated as a mount. Because Lü Bu has fused with Red Hare, Huang Zhong’s arrows repeatedly kill him.
• Lü Bu survives a deadly counterattack called Divine Fury, then enters his second phase, Mightiest Asura. This form is resistant to special-mechanic kills and limits any one person’s damage to one-fifth of his health.
• Flesh Diaochan appears and uses her abilities to turn the male Shu Han fighters against one another, derailing Chen Feng’s attempt to overwhelm Lü Bu.
• In an alternate future, Chen Feng ambushes and kills Diaochan before she can act. Lü Bu’s grief triggers a third form, God and Ghost Unstoppable, and a hundredth-rank technique. He sweeps across the Three Kingdoms world, killing nearly everyone; only the two Zhao Yuns, Chen Feng, and Pang Tong remain alive.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Yun and Wei Yan emerge as battle-hardened defenders, while Liu Shan boasts of joining their charge unharmed. Chen Feng prevents Liu Bei from celebrating by tossing the child.
• Chen Feng is increasingly strategic, using his knowledge of the timeline, unusual weapon effects, and enemy abilities to plan around Lü Bu’s strengths.
• The Shu Han generals’ confidence—especially Zhang Fei’s claim that Lü Bu cannot kill them all—contrasts with the danger they face.
• Chen Feng and the other Zhao Yun discuss the furious Zhao Yun’s unfamiliar techniques, highlighting how altered timelines have changed events.
• Diaochan’s presence exploits the Shu Han men’s vulnerability to her charm and discord, turning allies against one another.
• Lü Bu’s attachment to Diaochan becomes decisive: her death sends him into an even more destructive transformation.

Significant themes

• Power and escalation: Each apparent victory reveals a stronger enemy phase, culminating in a world-spanning attack.
• Strategy versus brute force: Chen Feng relies on timing, special mechanics, and preparation, but these can only delay overwhelming power.
• Timeline uncertainty: Chen Feng’s foreknowledge helps, yet altered events and alternate futures make outcomes unstable.
• Loyalty, rivalry, and manipulation: The generals’ camaraderie is tested by Diaochan’s ability to fracture their cooperation.
• Comic irreverence amid catastrophe: The chapter pairs mass destruction and dramatic battles with jokes about Liu Shan, game-like mechanics, and Chen Feng’s confidence.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• In the original timeline, Lü Bu’s devastating Gods and Ghosts Descend destroys nearly the entire Mythic Three Kingdoms world. A first attempt to defeat him fails: even after the survivors kill him once, his flesh reforms, and he unleashes the attack again.
• Sima Yi searches countless futures but finds no path to victory. He recognizes that his foresight can select a viable outcome, but cannot create one when defeat seems certain. He eventually spots a solution and changes the timeline.
• In the revised timeline, Chen Feng anticipates Diaochan’s role in triggering Lü Bu’s transformation. Using a Zuo Ci imitation of Qi Seizure, he freezes Lü Bu and Diaochan, then moves Diaochan away so the heroes can focus their attacks on Lü Bu.
• The heroes coordinate a large-scale assault. The two Zhao Yuns, Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, Pang Tong, Jiang Wei, and Huang Zhong combine their skills to overwhelm Lü Bu. Although Lü Bu is defeated, the system reveals powerful new Blessings that could let him gain strength from adoptive fathers and instantly kill one he attacks.
• Lü Bu refuses to use those Blessings, choosing pride over survival. Meanwhile, at Red Cliffs, Zhuge Liang and India avoid a battle that would destroy the universe regardless of who won. They bargain: India takes Diaochan and Dong Zhuo, while Zhuge Liang secures Lü Bu’s place in the main timeline. Dong Zhuo later realizes India has left Lü Bu behind.
• Once freed from Cihang’s influence, Lü Bu believes Diaochan was taken from him under threat and blames India and Dong Zhuo. His anger earns Chen Feng his friendship, making Lü Bu a new teammate.
• Liu Bei asks Great Rage Zhao Yun to remain and help build a peaceful world, but Zhao Yun chooses to return to his own world. Zhuge Liang then announces that he will accompany Chen Feng.

Character development

• Chen Feng proves resourceful under pressure, using system mechanics and strategic thinking to counter Lü Bu. He also recruits Lü Bu by manipulating his account of Diaochan’s departure.
• Sima Yi acknowledges Zhuge Liang’s superior ability to find solutions beyond what ordinary foresight can reveal, then contributes the crucial timeline change himself.
• Lü Bu is shown as fiercely proud: despite having a chance to use powerful Blessings, he would rather die than compromise his dignity. Once restored, his devotion to Diaochan and resentment toward Dong Zhuo make him vulnerable to Chen Feng’s story.
• Great Rage Zhao Yun chooses loyalty to his original world over the safer, more hopeful future Liu Bei offers.
• Liu Bei remains compassionate and idealistic, accepting Zhao Yun’s choice and promising support.
• Zhuge Liang demonstrates strategic foresight in both the battle plan and the negotiation with India, then joins Chen Feng’s group.

Significant themes

• Strategy versus raw power: Lü Bu’s overwhelming strength can be countered only through timing, coordination, and exploiting vulnerabilities.
• The limits of foresight: Sima Yi can find a winning possibility, while Zhuge Liang can seemingly create one where none exists.
• Pride and personal choice: Lü Bu’s refusal to use his Blessings preserves his self-image but costs him the fight; Zhao Yun also chooses personal duty over an easier future.
• Manipulation and loyalty: Chen Feng’s fabricated explanation turns Lü Bu’s anger into friendship, while the chapter repeatedly tests bonds among allies and former enemies.
• Peace and sacrifice: Liu Bei’s vision of a world without war contrasts with Zhao Yun’s decision to serve the world he came from.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng coordinates the heroes’ attack and warns Zhao Yun not to break the time freeze prematurely.
• Liu Bei strengthens Zhang Fei during his clash with Lü Bu, reinforcing their brotherly bond.
• India and Zhuge Liang negotiate over who will control the timelines and which characters will be taken.
• Chen Feng exploits Lü Bu’s concern for Diaochan to win his friendship.
• Liu Bei gently asks Zhao Yun to stay, but respects his refusal; Zhuge Liang’s offer to join Chen Feng closes the chapter by adding another powerful ally.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng brings Enraged Zhao Yun and Lü Bu from the Mythic Three Kingdoms universe to Cihang. Zhuge Liang remains behind to guard against threats but gives Chen Feng a Kongming lantern that can summon him to help. Liu Bei gifts Chen Feng a straw hat that boosts a mage’s spell attack.
• Back in Cihang, Chen Feng upgrades Happiness Internet Cafe with four new level-two buildings, allowing it to retreat into another dimension and avoid being expelled by Cihang’s repulsive force. Further upgrades could turn it into a mobile safehouse, though they would be expensive.
• Jia Xu joins the group and demonstrates why his ruthless strategic thinking is valuable: he points out that India could have targeted Zhuge Liang across different timelines, while Lü Bu’s weakness could have been exploited by killing Diaochan. Chen Feng promptly reconciles with Jia Xu and keeps him close.
• Chen Feng uses the Simulator and Daily Intelligence to investigate the City World universe. He learns that the Cosmic Overlord was killed after triggering a Black-Rank Alien Invasion, and that the four major companies recovered his body. Though the world’s sole remaining variable suggests a Cihang God’s Chosen is still involved, the Overlord himself had reached Weak Star-Burst Rank.
• Chen Feng considers the more dangerous First Saint universe but rejects it after learning its immense complexity and risks. He instead makes a test entry into City World, arriving as a homeless man in District 13.
• In the polluted, neon-lit city, Chen Feng encounters a woman offering him free perfume. Suspecting a scam, he refuses to smell it but pockets the bottle as a potential weapon. He collapses anyway, and the woman reveals that his assumption was wrong.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng’s confidence in his growing team is tempered by caution: he welcomes powerful allies but recognizes that even formidable strength may not be enough in unfamiliar worlds.
• Jia Xu’s apparent lack of raw power is offset by his frighteningly underhanded intelligence. His advice makes Chen Feng realize Jia Xu could be more dangerous as an enemy than as an ally.
• Zhuge Liang shows his foresight by arranging remote aid, while Liu Bei’s humble gift proves unexpectedly useful through the system’s enhancement.
• Chen Feng remains resourceful and suspicious, but his confidence in his defenses and ability to read a trap leads him to misjudge the perfume encounter.

Significant themes

• Cunning versus strength: Jia Xu’s strategies highlight how ruthless planning can overcome powerful opponents.
• Preparation and risk: Chen Feng gathers intelligence and upgrades his base, yet the City World’s threats remain unpredictable.
• Adaptability across worlds: Different universes restrict or alter Chen Feng’s powers, forcing him to rethink his approach.
• Comic reversal: Chen Feng’s elaborate reasoning about a simple scam ends in an immediate, humiliating collapse.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• A multicolored-haired woman hacks Chen Feng’s Sandevistan, leaving him paralyzed, then searches him and discovers he is an unmodified human with a powerful military-grade implant.
• A Monster made of glowing golden hair erupts across the district, hanging people from the strands and attacking anyone who moves. The woman restores Chen Feng’s implant, and he briefly grabs her in anger before realizing she had saved him.
• Peacekeepers’ gunfire fails to harm the Monster. Its source is a towering mass of hair, whose little-girl voice explains that it wants someone to play with.
• Chen Feng assesses the creature and realizes it targets movement. The woman confirms this, but they cannot simply remain still forever.
• A Spacetime Soldier rescues a wealthy corporate member while ignoring poorer victims, revealing the world’s unequal protection system and the Monster’s Yellow-Rank classification.
• A super-fast, black-haired Hero arrives and rescues victims. Chen Feng uses Time Stop to observe her and recognizes her extraordinary abilities.
• The multicolored-haired woman refuses to be rescued by a Hero, moves, and is caught by the Monster. Chen Feng teleports them to safety.
• The Hero uproots the enormous hair tower and compresses it with psychokinesis, astonishing Chen Feng.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Feng remains calm and analytical under pressure. He studies the Monster’s limits, recognizes its movement-based attacks, and uses Time Stop and spatial teleportation to protect himself and the woman. He also realizes he should remove or better protect his hackable Sandevistan.
• The multicolored-haired woman is introduced as a skilled Netrunner who initially disables and rummages through Chen Feng’s implant. Despite her opportunism, she restores his mobility and later saves him from the Monster. Her hatred of Heroes is strong, though its cause remains unexplained.
• The black-haired Hero is shown to be exceptionally powerful and capable of rescuing people safely at tremendous speed. Her advertising-covered suit also suggests that heroism in this society is commercialized.
• Chen Feng and the woman trade accusations and questions: he resents her for disabling him, while she points out that she saved his life. Their uneasy alliance continues when he rescues her from the Monster.

Significant themes

• Technology as vulnerability: Cybernetic enhancements can be hacked, making advanced technology a liability without adequate defenses.
• Class inequality: Corporate protection prioritizes wealthy clients, while ordinary residents are abandoned.
• Commercialized heroism: Even a powerful Hero’s uniform carries advertisements, blurring the line between public service and corporate marketing.
• Survival and trust: Chen Feng and the Netrunner must cooperate despite mutual suspicion.
• Power and scale: The Hero’s overwhelming strength shifts Chen Feng’s understanding of this world—and prompts him to reconsider how the Cosmic Overlord could have been defeated.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng is startled to learn that Light of the Firmament—a powerful Hero who can crush a city-sized monster—is only a second-tier Hero and is close to entering the first tier.
• Light of the Firmament offers Chen a job at her agency after seeing his apparent ability to use a Sandevistan. Chen claims his strength comes from ordinary exercise, though she doubts him.
• Her scanner identifies Melissa as a Purple-Rank Criminal, but Melissa insists it has been tampered with and warns the Hero not to provoke her. Melissa also claims Chen has already agreed to join her.
• Chen weighs the Hero and villain routes. He chooses to go with Melissa, not simply out of attraction, but because infiltrating a criminal group may give him intelligence he can exploit in a future run.
• Light of the Firmament asks whether Chen is immortal, saying he resembles someone she knows, then leaves. Her departure deliberately knocks Melissa over.
• Melissa takes Chen to a gang in a stolen car. On the way, he learns that her hacking is formidable and that the city’s daily death toll can exceed a million—even a comparatively low figure.
• Chen reads a ranking of the world’s S-Class Heroes and is struck by their bizarre titles.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains strategic and curious. Though he jokes and flirts with Melissa, he carefully evaluates both recruitment offers and chooses the option he believes will provide useful information. He also begins to recognize that Melissa’s technical powers make her more dangerous than she first appeared.
• Melissa is sarcastic, flirtatious, and confident. She mocks Light of the Firmament, claims Chen for her organization, and casually admits to hacking systems and taking a car. Her playful offer of a date is mixed with blunt bargaining.
• Light of the Firmament comes across as earnest and professionally interested in recruiting Chen, but she also has a personal reason for studying him: he resembles someone she knows. Her parting retaliation against Melissa reveals a petty, competitive streak.

Significant themes

• Choosing sides for advantage: Chen treats the Hero-versus-villain decision as a strategic opportunity, planning to use information gained from one faction against another.
• Extreme scale and normalization of violence: The city’s enormous death toll is discussed as routine, while killing thousands earns only a low criminal rank.
• Power and appearances: Chen’s ordinary-looking explanation for his strength is implausible, and Melissa’s seemingly casual hacking proves formidable. The world’s power structure is far beyond Chen’s initial expectations.
• Satire and tonal contrast: Flirtatious banter and absurd Hero names sit alongside catastrophic violence, giving the setting a comic, unsettling edge.

• Chen Feng learns how the City World is organized. While riding with hacker Melissa, he hears that its 24 districts are divided into the corporate-ruled Holy Land, the relatively prosperous city center, gang-controlled slums, and a lawless zone where dangerous Monsters are dumped. Melissa says reaching the Holy Land is a shared dream, but poverty and unequal access to education leave people like her with few choices.
• Melissa brings Chen Feng to her gang’s hideout. She explains that she became a violet-rank criminal by falsifying her record, a status that lets her join a gang without drawing the attention of especially powerful bounty Heroes. At the hideout, Chen Feng meets Kiri, a cybernetic surgeon; Keanu, a mercenary skilled with a Lightsaber; and their leader Heavy Cannon, a notorious killer with powerful cybernetic enhancements.
• Melissa betrays Chen Feng for money. She points him out as the “money” she found, and the gang draws guns. Melissa plans to have his organs sold, replace his Cybernetic Body, and leave him alive. When Heavy Cannon objects and threatens her, she insists on paying for the replacement. She then offers Chen Feng a final warning: there are no good people in the City World.
• Chen Feng reveals his strength. Though Melissa believes she has paralyzed him, he had already removed the Cybernetic Body from his spine. He uses his time-stopping power to disarm the gang, then kills Heavy Cannon with one punch. Melissa is shocked by his strength and by the pain he endured to escape her trap.
  Character developments and interactions: Melissa comes across as clever, pragmatic, and willing to betray Chen Feng to fund her own augmentation—but her choice to spare his life and pay for a replacement suggests she retains some limits. Chen Feng stays composed and observant, concealing both his abilities and the many systems inside him; he recognizes Melissa’s partial principles even as he condemns her betrayal. The gang’s casual jokes about their dead comrades establish its callousness, while Heavy Cannon’s threat to Melissa reveals how little power she has within it.
  Significant themes: The chapter contrasts the dream of safety with a society shaped by inequality, corporate power, and violence. Melissa’s lack of opportunity helps explain her criminal path without excusing her actions. Its grim humor and stark brutality reinforce Chen Feng’s warning about the City World—and his closing thought suggests that Cihang City may be even worse.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng recruits Melissa and the brothers Kiri and Keanu after revealing that he is willing to act as a villain. Melissa joins when he promises to help her reach the Holy Land; Keanu joins after recognizing that leaving would mean death, while Kiri follows his brother.
• Chen learns about City World’s advanced “world technologies,” especially Harbor Biotech’s Enhancement Surgery, which uses tattoos to increase physical strength. Better ink could potentially raise him to Red-Rank Criminal.
• To obtain money for an auction, Chen spends a coin on a vending machine and deliberately leaves the drink behind. His systems reward both spending and wastefulness, and he discovers that his superpower can generate money.
• The group explains that commissions from fixers are the quickest route to criminal notoriety. At the bar Fame, Chen recruits applicants but rejects several, including a steel-skinned criminal and a fire-wielding criminal.
• Chen accepts Baomu, a nervous, low-ranked applicant whose ability lets him control others’ excretory functions. Chen recognizes that the power could immobilize opponents, despite the crowd mocking it.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen shifts openly into the role of a calculating villain, using threats, promises, and money to secure followers. He remains confident and opportunistic, already planning to exploit the auction scene.
• Melissa moves from wary associate to apparent employee, advises Chen about local customs, and shows affection after seeing his money-making ability—though Chen suspects she may still be angling to swindle him.
• Keanu proves more perceptive and pragmatic than his cautious brother, choosing allegiance over a likely fatal escape. Kiri is more compliant and becomes Chen’s source of technical knowledge.
• Chen’s judgment of potential recruits is unconventional: he dismisses impressive-sounding abilities but sees tactical value in Baomu’s ridiculed power.

Significant themes

• Power and survival: In a brutal world, people submit to those stronger or more dangerous than themselves.
• Money as power: Chen’s systems turn even trivial spending into a source of wealth, making money a supernatural weapon and recruitment tool.
• Hidden value and unconventional talent: Abilities dismissed as ridiculous may be more useful than flashy powers.
• Performance and manipulation: Chen’s promises, villain persona, and recruitment tactics blur sincerity with self-interest.

Key plot points and events

• Frustrated by the lack of recruits, Chen Feng decides to find a capable teammate by forcing the criminals in Fame Bar into a battle royale. When the Flame Maniac attacks and kills the bartender, Chen Feng demonstrates his power by stopping time and killing the Flame Maniac and his gang instantly.
• One survivor, Roman, emerges from the fight and agrees to join Chen Feng. His file is mysteriously blank, and he claims to be “just a good shot.”
• Fixer Thirteen offers conventional jobs, but Chen Feng rejects them. Thirteen then tells him about his friend’s daughter, who was abused by the Fly Gang and later died by suicide, and about the deaths of her parents after the gang’s boss, Fly, escaped punishment. He quietly provides Fly’s hideout coordinates.
• The next day, Chen Feng’s team attacks the Fly Gang’s factory. Melissa hacks and disables the gang’s cybernetics, Baomu’s power incapacitates many of the remaining members, and Keanu helps clear the factory.
• Fly proves unusually difficult to kill: his body is reinforced with high-entropy alloy, he has a speed-boosting Sandevistan, and he has a secondary heart. He also attacks Baomu during Chen Feng’s time stop.
• Baomu survives through a growing collection of protective keepsakes—including several made of exceptionally durable materials—leaving Chen Feng astonished at how hard the anxious rookie is to kill.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows that, despite calling himself a villain, he prefers jobs targeting criminals and people who exploit others. He is ruthless toward threats but increasingly acts like an antihero.
• Melissa remains the team’s sharp, capable hacker, disabling enemies, blocking reinforcements, and even emptying gang accounts. She jokes that the team seems more like a hero agency than a villain crew.
• Roman joins with little explanation; his unknown background and hidden capabilities remain a mystery.
• Thirteen reveals a personal reason for steering Chen Feng toward Fly, disguising the assignment as a conveniently forgotten bounty.
• Baomu is frightened and inexperienced, but his ability is highly effective, and his improbable defenses save him from Fly.
• Kiri mocks Baomu’s squeamishness, while Keanu confidently helps dispatch the helpless gang members.

Significant themes

• Antiheroism and justice: Chen Feng rejects ordinary criminal work in favor of punishing a predatory gang, while Thirteen’s story highlights the failure of the official hero-and-prison system.
• Power through teamwork: The raid succeeds because the team’s abilities complement one another—hacking, incapacitation, speed, and combat—rather than relying on Chen Feng alone.
• Cybernetics and humanity: The story touches on fears that cybernetic enhancements can damage the soul, while also showing how those enhancements create both power and vulnerability.
• Dark comedy amid violence: Grim events, especially the Fly Gang’s crimes, are paired with irreverent banter and absurd twists, such as Baomu’s collection of protective keepsakes.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng and his crew raid the Fly Gang’s food-processing plant, where they find people bound and prepared as meat. After freeing the captives, Chen leaves graffiti blaming the Sunshine Organization to misdirect the gangs.
• Melissa makes Chen return to the plant, where they discover the rescued victims murdering one another. The final survivor begins harvesting organs, proving Melissa’s claim that City World has no truly good people.
• Fixer Thirteen pays the crew, reports that the Roach and Fly Gangs are hunting them, and proposes future work. Chen’s criminal reputation rises, triggering system rewards that make him extremely wealthy.
• Chen distributes money to his team but limits how much he generates, fearing corporations or disloyal subordinates might exploit him. He declines to use the stolen Sandevistan because cybernetic technology has previously been hacked against him.
• Melissa reveals that her adoptive father—a former military-tech hacker—raised her, then secretly planted a backdoor in her cybernetic body to take control of her. Chen responds to her painful story by praising her, then gives her a million, which increases her affinity and unlocks the option to bring her to Cihang City.
• The chapter shifts to Perfected Lord Wuyan, Cihang’s God’s Chosen in City World. After his team’s defeat by Chen’s Flesh Cosmic Overlord, Wuyan expects to dominate—but the local hero One-Punch Superwoman defeats the Overlord repeatedly, forcing Wuyan to flee.
• Wuyan realizes City World contains many formidable heroes, gangs, corporations, and hidden powerhouses. Feeling hopelessly outmatched, he envies the Future Princess for being sent to a supposedly easier universe. A message then appears on Zhuge Liang’s Kongming Lantern in another timeline.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains calculating and pragmatic: he rewards his crew, avoids risky cybernetic enhancements, and sees Melissa chiefly as a valuable hacker teammate rather than a romantic prospect.
• Melissa reinforces her cynical view that nobody in City World is trustworthy. Her traumatic history explains both her hacking expertise and her guarded attitude; her affinity for Chen rises despite his awkward response.
• Baomu, Keanu, and Melissa reveal personal goals for their shares of the money: Baomu hopes to provide for his family, Melissa is saving for a cheap apartment, and Keanu wants to strengthen himself with the Sandevistan.
• Wuyan shifts from confidence to fear after seeing how far local power exceeds his expectations.
• One-Punch Superwoman is introduced as a virtually unbeatable corporate enforcer whose extraordinary abilities come from implanted animal traits.

Significant themes

• Cynicism and moral corruption: The freed captives reproduce the cruelty inflicted on them, supporting Melissa’s belief that people in City World are rarely innocent.
• Power and vulnerability: Chen and Wuyan both confront threats beyond their control—Chen fears technological exploitation, while Wuyan discovers that even a powerful visitor may be insignificant among local elites.
• Trust and exploitation: Melissa’s betrayal by her adoptive father echoes the wider world’s use of people as tools, while Chen’s generosity creates a surprising bond.
• Dark comedy: The chapter contrasts grim violence and trauma with irreverent jokes, Chen’s money-making schemes, and the absurdly powerful One-Punch Superwoman.

Key plot points and events

• Three months after arriving in the City World, Chen Feng’s Sunshine Organization has become a notorious criminal outfit. At Fame Bar, he learns from the news that Light of the Firmament has disappeared and that oil worth 5.1 billion tons has been stolen.
• Fixer Thirteen confirms that the attack on the Starlight Agency was an open contract, but refuses to reveal unrelated information. Melissa secretly hacks his system and discovers that multiple fixers were hired to attack the agency.
• Chen Feng takes his crew to a Rat Gang auction to buy Premium Pigment, a substance that can greatly enhance physical abilities. Keanu stays behind because his many cybernetic implants are making him ill.
• At the auction, Chen Feng’s attempt to stop time and steal the pigment fails: the crowd and the retired second-tier hero guarding the lot drain his power. Melissa instead hacks the auction’s records to learn where the pigment came from.
• The final lot is a Pure Compound that guarantees a Superpower and at least third-tier physical strength. Chen Feng wants it mainly because physical strength carries over between worlds, but he cannot bid.
• Outside, oil begins falling as rain across District 13. Anyone coated in it rises into the air; when the rain stops, people fall to their deaths. An enormous Oil Giant forms from the oil and raises its foot to attack.
• Chen Feng activates Time Stop and attempts to evacuate his companions. Baomu cannot leave because he is too attached to his family; Shadow qualifies and escapes with Chen Feng. Roman—actually the S-Class No. 9 hero Dark Mask—does not qualify. The Oil Giant then destroys nearly half of District 13, marking the First Black Disaster, the Heaven’s Ladder Incident.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng has grown into a capable criminal leader, but the auction exposes the limits of his power. He remains calculating: he uses a drawn-out conversation with the manager to give Melissa time to hack the auction system, and he focuses on escape when the disaster begins.
• Melissa proves skilled and resourceful, hacking both the fixer network and the auction records. Her real identity is revealed at the climax: she is Shadow, secretly an S-Class hero.
• Keanu has become much stronger through scavenged cybernetics, but his body is rejecting the implants. Chen Feng urges him to stop before the damage worsens; Kiri takes him home.
• Baomu has risen from an inexperienced youth to a feared criminal, but his devotion to his family prevents him from leaving the world with Chen Feng.
• Roman has apparently stayed undercover with Chen Feng’s group for three months. The evacuation system identifies him as the S-Class No. 9 hero Dark Mask, though he does not meet its affinity requirement.
• Chen Feng’s exchanges with Thirteen show his awareness of criminal-world rules; his concern for Keanu and his urgent instructions during the disaster reveal a more protective side toward his crew.

Significant themes

• Power has limits and costs: Chen Feng’s time-stopping ability falters against a crowd of powerful figures, while Keanu’s cybernetic upgrades endanger his health.
• Trust and hidden identities: Melissa’s concealed identity and Roman’s undercover presence make the group’s relationships uncertain.
• Disaster and survival: The sudden, citywide catastrophe turns an ordinary auction outing into a mass-casualty event, forcing Chen Feng to choose who can escape.
• Ambition across worlds: Chen Feng seeks strength not just for this world, but because it can carry over into future worlds.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng gathers the Internet Café’s growing cast of allies and explains that Cihang has gone mad and is invading other universes. Restoring Cihang may also bring back Zhao Yun’s lost universe and help Lü Bu find the woman he seeks.
• A message from Brother Liang, disguised as a passage from the Memorial on Sending Out the Troops, gives Chen Feng intelligence about trustworthy Heroes, potential recruits, and the looming Heaven’s Ladder Incident. It identifies Cihang’s chosen agent as Perfected Lord Wuyan, formerly Opinion Desire.
• Mr. Qipa quickly reverse-engineers a green compound, producing an improved version with a fifty-percent success rate. The Savior urges caution, while Chen Feng points out that the Savior’s luck and resurrections make the risk manageable.
• Chen Feng investigates his possible past connection to Light of the Firmament and suspects Number Zero may have met her in another universe. He spends a point to view a recording of Number Zero’s earlier exploits.
• In the recording, Number Zero discovers that Cihang restricts powerful beings but appears to leave technology unrestricted. His powerful Mecha is also constrained, however, and its energy supply is nearly useless, so he travels to the City World to find a better source.
• In 2101, Number Zero infiltrates a heavily guarded underground base. He uses Silver Chariot Requiem to swap the factory personnel’s souls with ants, exploiting their lack of defenses against soul manipulation.
• At the heart of the base, Number Zero opens a container expecting an energy source and finds a child: Light of the Firmament, whose glowing heart is literally a star. Chen Feng realizes that Number Zero has rescued a sun from the underground base.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng acts as organizer and strategist, bringing disparate allies together and following Brother Liang’s guidance. The recording also makes him confront how careless he was during his earlier encounter with Number Zero.
• Shadow is relieved to have escaped the City World and accepts Chen Feng’s explanation, despite his teasing introduction of her as a “tin can.”
• Brother Liang emerges as a thoughtful planner, leaving Chen Feng a practical guide even while facing danger himself.
• Mr. Qipa demonstrates extraordinary biological expertise by rapidly analyzing and improving the compound.
• The Savior is cautious about the compound and insists it be checked, though Chen Feng suspects he is exaggerating how few resurrections he has left.
• Number Zero shows both ingenuity and recklessness: he exploits a loophole in Cihang’s restrictions, adapts when the Mecha fails, and uses a startlingly effective soul-swap tactic to infiltrate the base.
• Light of the Firmament is revealed as a child in the recording, deepening the mystery of her earlier familiarity with Chen Feng.

Significant themes

• Information and preparation: Brother Liang’s warnings and Chen Feng’s use of Daily Intelligence underline how vital reliable intelligence is.
• Power has limits: Even formidable abilities and technology are restricted by Cihang’s rules, while energy, defenses, and unfamiliar weaknesses can determine the outcome.
• Adaptation and loopholes: Number Zero succeeds by combining technology, supernatural powers, and careful exploitation of the City World’s lack of soul defenses.
• Fate and identity across time: Chen Feng’s connection to Light of the Firmament may stem from Number Zero’s earlier journey, raising questions about time, memory, and the versions of himself that came before.