Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng reveals the unique Meteor Arrow, which can awaken a Substitute in some people—but for most, it causes a fatal mental backlash. He has tested it on an Ant Ox and can revive anyone who dies by rewinding time.
• Several teammates refuse, while others take turns. The Trio repeatedly explode without success, as do Old Wolf and Erha; Jia Xu also dies, but Chen Feng rewinds time and brings him back. The tests suggest success is not random: those chosen by the arrow awaken a Substitute, while others fail.
• Mr. Qipa awakens All Things in Bloom, which gives nearby objects temporary life—manifesting as three eccentric women. The Jujutsu Sorcerer awakens Ugly Freak, which makes nearby living things ugly.
• Roman’s Bubbles turns whatever it hits into bubbles. Rhodes’s Operation Blade revives him once after death and grants him twenty seconds of invulnerability.
• Chen Feng notices that everyone who has awakened a Substitute is on the Voyage Roster. He tries the arrow himself and discovers it accelerates his absorption of Spacetime Divinity, but the arrow burns out in the process.
• Chen Feng awakens Clock Running Backward, which rewinds time for anything he touches and heals its injuries. He uses it to restore Lü Bu’s Divine Body Blessing.
• Though Chen Feng regrets that the Swordsman never got to use the arrow, the Swordsman studies the others’ Substitutes and appears to understand how they work, summoning a shikigami with a golden wheel.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng’s cautious, experimental nature drives the trials; he also shows compassion by apologizing to Jia Xu and reviving him.
• Li Guolong remains willing to sacrifice himself, while Yellow Hair’s supposed concern proves self-serving. Their banter with the fat guy turns the dangerous tests into dark comedy.
• Rhodes and Roman endure the painful awakening while pretending it is harmless, hoping Chen Feng will try it too. Chen Feng’s pain tolerance—and the locals’ grim familiarity with danger—contrasts with their distress.
• Mr. Qipa and the Jujutsu Sorcerer reveal how strongly a user’s personality and desires may shape a Substitute’s power. Chen Feng is exasperated by their seemingly frivolous or spiteful abilities, but praises Rhodes’s more combat-oriented one.
• The Swordsman’s final insight suggests Substitutes may be understood or awakened through knowledge, not only through the arrow.

Significant themes

• Risk, chance, and selection: The apparent lottery of awakening may actually depend on who the arrow “chooses.”
• Personality reflected in power: Substitutes manifest users’ tastes, self-image, and desires, sometimes in absurd ways.
• Pain and resilience: The chapter contrasts outsiders’ suffering with the Cihang natives’ extraordinary endurance.
• Power and sacrifice: The arrow grants remarkable abilities but consumes itself, while Chen Feng’s power to rewind time lets him mitigate the consequences of dangerous experiments.
• Humor amid danger: Death, explosions, and body horror are repeatedly undercut by teasing and absurd reactions.

Key plot points and events

• Rhodes discovers that Swordsman can see Substitutes. Swordsman explains that, in Cihang, Substitutes resemble spirit bodies—prompting Savior to remind everyone to destroy enemies’ souls as well as their bodies.
• The group wonders how Swordsman awakened a Substitute without a Meteor Arrow. He says he first projected an enormous, powerful form of his spirit, then shrank it and stripped away its abilities until only one remained.
• Swordsman summons his Substitute, Lone Hero, a towering, muscular figure whose sole ability is to punch. At Chen Feng’s suggestion, it tries to hit one of Savior’s clones, which responds with a stack of defensive spells.
• Lone Hero’s punch cracks space and twists time, but appears to miss. Chen Feng suspects Savior’s “First Strike Always Misses” Blessing caused it; Savior says the Blessing did not activate. Swordsman claims the punch left behind Fist Intent that will kill anyone who attacks them—though it offers no help if nobody attacks.
• Chen Feng later spars with Jujutsu Sorcerer and deliberately holds back, yet loses quickly. Jujutsu Sorcerer’s Challenger domain produces no new Noble Phantasm because it only activates when he defeats an enemy, and he does not consider Chen Feng one.

Character developments and interactions

• Swordsman casually reveals a bizarrely advanced route to awakening a Substitute, reinforcing his overwhelming power and unconventional way of thinking. His deadpan defense of Lone Hero contrasts with the group’s skepticism.
• Chen Feng tries to test Lone Hero’s strength by volunteering Savior’s clone, then challenges Jujutsu Sorcerer in a friendly bout. His confidence takes a hit when he loses so quickly.
• Savior shows both impressive preparedness—instantly layering multiple defensive spells—and anxiety about losing even one of his many clones. His Blessing does not explain Lone Hero’s apparent miss.
• Rhodes reacts with surprise to Swordsman’s abilities and privately concludes that Lone Hero is useless. Jujutsu Sorcerer confirms that his domain distinguishes friends from enemies, but immediately undercuts the sentiment by suggesting Chen Feng is simply too weak to count as a worthy opponent.

Significant themes

• Power versus practical usefulness: Lone Hero’s reality-distorting punch looks formidable, but its unclear targeting and conditional threat make its usefulness questionable.
• Different paths to power: Swordsman’s spirit-projection method sidesteps the expected way of awakening a Substitute, highlighting how varied and exceptional the characters’ abilities are.
• Comedy through understatement and bravado: Swordsman’s calm claims, Savior’s elaborate defenses, and Jujutsu Sorcerer’s insults turn moments of impressive power into humor.
• Friendship and rivalry: Jujutsu Sorcerer’s domain implicitly treats Chen Feng as a friend, even as his blunt taunt turns their bond into a source of irritation.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng and his group return to the City World, despite Ying’s reluctance. They expect trouble from God, though Little Machine and the Jujutsu Sorcerer dismiss the danger.
• They arrive at the Monster Alliance’s abandoned underground hideout, where Chen retrieves twelve powerful solar hearts he had left there.
• They discover that Heaven’s Staircase has begun months earlier than expected: oily rain is falling across all twenty-four districts. Ying explains that the plan’s later stages will make people fall into terror, which the Seed will use to create Monsters. Chen concludes that they cannot prevent the rain or save everyone, so they must find and eliminate whoever controls the Seeds.
• Chen reveals that he has a unique Seed of Light, taken from the arena’s executive officer. Since it is unique, he reasons that the enemy must possess other Seeds. He proposes visiting an old acquaintance.
• At the Happiness Internet Cafe, Chen checks the Demon King Escort System and notices that Gold and Big Eater are missing from its hiring list. This leads him to suspect that the man claiming to be Gold is an impostor.
• Chen connects the supposed Gold to the arena administrator A-Gou, who supposedly died twenty years earlier. Both were tied to the Seed investigation and Heaven’s Staircase, and both displayed similar tastes and explosive reactions to being told what to do. Chen ends on another clue: the system’s translation of “dog,” read backward.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shifts from preparing for a possible fight with God to investigating the more immediate Heaven’s Staircase crisis. He uses his memory, system information, and observations from earlier encounters to build a case against the fake Gold.
• Ying begins unwilling to return to the City World, but agrees to go. Once there, she uses her cybernetic link to assess the oil rain’s vast reach and explains the threat’s stages, helping shape the group’s response.
• Little Machine and the Jujutsu Sorcerer confidently argue that God is no threat; their bravado contrasts with Chen’s caution.
• Light of the Firmament flirts by offering Chen one of her solar hearts, but he brushes the joke aside to focus on the crisis.
• Chen and Ying work together to compare past details about A-Gou and Gold, turning seemingly ordinary preferences and temperamental behavior into possible evidence.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and vigilance: The group’s assumptions about God, the timeline, and familiar allies prove unreliable.
• Deception and identity: Chen suspects that both Gold and A-Gou may be impostors, showing how appearances and claims can conceal a larger scheme.
• Crisis and limits: The oil rain’s citywide scale makes it impossible to save everyone directly, forcing Chen to focus on stopping the plan at its source.
• Memory as evidence: Small remembered details—food, wine, and reactions to authority—help Chen uncover patterns others might overlook.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng teleports with Light of the Firmament into Gold’s underwater base and confronts him. Gold reveals that he is the real Gold and confirms he has been working with the god.
• Gold shows the destruction already unfolding in City World, along with hostages connected to Baomu and the locations of three Heroes. He also offers Chen Feng a collection of rare technologies and abilities as payment for cooperation.
• Gold explains that the god knows how Chen Feng’s Two-World Traversal System works: Chen can lock a universe’s timeline and repeatedly return it to that point. The god wants Chen to release the lock, allowing time to move forward and City World’s 420 billion people to die.
• Gold justifies the plan through his bitterness over his sister’s death, blaming the people she tried to help for betraying her. He warns that resisting will cost Chen time and points: the Paradise Monster is already a threat, the Heroes are unavailable, and two even stronger Monsters await beyond it.
• Chen suspects the god deliberately let the Monster Alliance weaken the Heroes. He also challenges Gold over the Meteor Arrow, the false crystal story, and the manipulation behind the Arrow’s offer.
• When Gold demands a choice between cooperation and fighting, Chen refuses both. Light of the Firmament knocks Gold out with one punch.

Character developments

• Chen Feng stays wary and defiant, piecing together the god’s knowledge of his system while recognizing the coercion behind Gold’s offer. He refuses to sacrifice City World, even under severe time pressure.
• Gold is revealed as the real, openly vengeful collaborator. His sister’s death fuels his belief that City World’s people do not deserve saving, though he also uses threats and valuable rewards to pressure Chen.
• Light of the Firmament acts decisively, following Chen’s cue and ending the confrontation physically.

Significant themes

• Choice under coercion: Gold presents cooperation or conflict as Chen’s only options, but Chen rejects the forced framing.
• Vengeance versus responsibility: Gold’s personal grief leads him to condemn an entire population, while Chen refuses to let that grievance justify mass death.
• Power and sacrifice: The system gives Chen a way to undo events, but using it effectively requires time and points—and the enemy is exploiting those limits.
• Manipulation and trust: The god and Gold use hostages, threats, rewards, and past deception to control Chen.

Character interactions

• Gold tries to persuade and intimidate Chen, alternating between displays of destruction, personal grievance, and promises of rare rewards.
• Chen challenges Gold’s motives and exposes the manipulation surrounding earlier dealings, but remains focused on the lives at stake.
• Chen signals Light of the Firmament rather than accepting Gold’s terms; she responds by knocking Gold down.

Plot points and events

• Oily rain spreads across City World, making people float into the sky. Light of the Firmament rescues people, while Chen Feng and other grounded Heroes join the effort.
• The group questions Gold about God’s whereabouts. Rhodes tortures him, revealing that God lured Rhodes’s sister into an investigation that ended in her death. Gold gives an address, then explodes.
• Chen Feng suspects the address is a trap: God may have deceived Gold, knowing Chen Feng could verify Gold’s words through the Truth-or-Dare System.
• Ying proposes using Heavy Machinery’s robots to help. Chen Feng connects Little Machine to the company’s main server, after warning her that she must obey or he will turn her back into a chip.
• Chen Feng directs the team to warn the public about the oily rain, recruit flying Heroes to rescue people, and locate the forming Paradise Monster. The public largely ignores the warnings.
• Realizing that God can command the public’s attention, Chen Feng has Little Machine imitate God’s voice and announce that a Black Rank Monster threatens the planet. Heroes quickly gather, including Superman, Thunder Time King, and the surviving Red Giant.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng balances rescue work with strategic thinking. He recognizes Gold’s information may be compromised, manages Little Machine’s rebellious ambitions with a conditional promise of a body, and adapts when ordinary warnings fail.
• Rhodes reveals his personal hatred of the Four Great Corporations: his sister died after being manipulated into investigating Heavy Machinery. His grief and anger make him identify with Gold, but torture does not produce answers.
• Gold remains loyal to God despite severe pain, then gives information that may itself be part of God’s scheme before exploding.
• Little Machine is candid about wanting freedom and initially claims she will betray the humans. Chen Feng recognizes her habit of speaking in opposites and makes their arrangement explicit.
• Ying devises the robot-rescue plan and handles the public broadcasts, but learns that accurate warnings alone cannot overcome the citizens’ apathy.
• The assembled Heroes respond far more readily to the supposed authority of God than to Chen Feng’s own appeal.

Significant themes

• Public selfishness and apathy: Most citizens dismiss the crisis or refuse to help, challenging the idealized unity of superhero stories.
• Trust and deception: Gold’s testimony, God’s trap, and Little Machine’s wordplay all make it difficult to know what to believe.
• Grief and revenge: Rhodes’s loss mirrors Gold’s motive and underscores how personal pain can drive extreme choices.
• Authority as a tool: The public ignores genuine warnings but mobilizes when they believe God is speaking, showing how influence can matter more than truth.

Key plot points

• The heroes arrive in District 13 after detecting abnormal energy. S7 Superman recalls a past Hero Assembly, when lower-ranked heroes could only stall the colossal Monster No Survivors until God defeated it in one blow.
• Paradise appears: an oil giant over ten million meters tall. Its roar and shock wave devastate the district and kill the remaining civilians.
• Chen Feng strikes first with twelve Sun Bombs. The fire destroys only about ten percent of Paradise, showing how difficult its immense size makes it to defeat. Time travel is not a reliable solution, so Chen Feng must depend on the assembled heroes.
• The team attacks, but most of their abilities prove ineffective: Jujutsu Sorcerer’s Golden Dragons are tiny by comparison, while Rhodes, Roman, Light of the Firmament, and S7 Superman inflict little damage.
• Chen Feng tries to amplify Red Giant’s growth by praising him. Red Giant briefly becomes hundreds of meters tall, then shrinks again when Chen Feng mentions Cosmic Overlord.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng stays practical under pressure, quickly assessing the damage and urging the others to use their strongest moves. His jokes and teasing continue even during the crisis.
• S7 Superman reveals insecurity about nobody wanting to fly with him, and shares his memories of earlier hero battles.
• Jujutsu Sorcerer demonstrates formidable power but has several abilities unavailable because of cooldowns. He blames the lack of worthy opponents rather than his own limitations.
• Rhodes and Roman work together, but acknowledge that their skills suit humanoid enemies better than a giant like Paradise.
• Red Giant’s strength is tied to confidence: Chen Feng’s praise makes him grow dramatically, while fear of Cosmic Overlord makes him shrink.

Significant themes

• Scale and limits: Even powerful heroes struggle when their abilities are mismatched against an enemy of overwhelming size.
• Teamwork and dependence: Chen Feng cannot solve the threat alone and must rely on the group.
• Confidence and fear: Red Giant’s power fluctuates with his self-belief, revealing how strongly emotion can shape ability.
• Humor amid danger: The characters’ banter and Chen Feng’s irreverence contrast with the catastrophic destruction around them.

Key plot points

• The Red Giant’s mountain-throw barely harms the enormous monster from Paradise. His attack actually helps it recover, leaving the Heroes with little effect against its overwhelming durability.
• The monster’s crushing palm devastates the battlefield. Light of the Firmament is knocked unconscious, and Superman’s force-field defense breaks after he briefly holds the blow. The other Heroes are nearly helpless.
• As Chen Feng prepares to escape using Time Stop, Thunder Time King arrives and begins summoning armor. Chen Feng, Ying, and the Jujutsu Sorcerer join the dramatic entrance with their own attacks.
• Their combined cannons force the monster’s hand back and reduce its size by about one percent, but Chen Feng doubts they can do enough damage before their energy runs out.
• Thunder Time King transforms his Aether Magic Armor into Super Divine Dragon Entwined Armor, which can stop time across a planetary-scale area. He then cuts the monster in half with Dragon God’s Slash.

Character developments and interactions

• The Red Giant shifts from boastful confidence to terror and despair when his attack fails; he even wishes for a hamburger before dying.
• Chen Feng remains tactical and skeptical, assessing the monster’s defenses, his allies’ chances, and the limits of their power. He recognizes Thunder Time King’s time-stop advantage.
• Ying tracks the battle through satellite data, reporting the monster’s recovery, damage, and remaining size.
• Light of the Firmament and Superman put themselves between the monster’s palm and the world. Their failed defense demonstrates the vast difference in scale and strength.
• Thunder Time King enters as the decisive new force. After the group’s combined attack proves inadequate, he reveals a far more powerful transformation.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer jokes about shouting “Domain Expansion” to match the buildup, then boasts that Thunder Time King might be his equal. Chen Feng privately doubts he could last a move without outside help.

Significant themes

• Power and scale: Even elite Heroes and devastating attacks are ineffective against a planet-scale opponent.
• Numbers-driven power systems: The monster’s size grants immense strength and durability, while Thunder Time King’s armor offers enormous range and power—but can still be judged by its limits and priority.
• Hope through escalation: Just as the Heroes seem doomed, Thunder Time King’s arrival and transformation overturn the battle in a single strike.
• Bravado versus reality: The Red Giant’s confidence collapses when confronted with an enemy he cannot meaningfully hurt.

Key plot points and events

• Thunder Time King transforms into an arrogant, powerful warrior, defeats the Jujutsu Sorcerer, and cuts the planet-sized Paradise Monster apart in under a minute. His support armor then restores the heroes’ vitality and shields them from the monster’s catastrophic fall, preventing casualties.
• Thunder Time King’s transformation lasts only a minute. Once it ends, his personality flips back to timid and self-deprecating; he immediately begs the Jujutsu Sorcerer not to fight him.
• Ying detects two more Black Rank Monsters. The chapter flashes back to their origins: the Hunger Monster grows by eating everything, while Nature’s Rot spreads through a cemetery, dissolving people and machinery into nutrients.
• The two monsters rapidly expand across City World, consuming and corroding each other in a temporary stalemate. If either wins, it could continue growing until it threatens the universe.
• With Thunder Time King’s armor out of power, the Jujutsu Sorcerer attempts a major power bargain—but vanishes before completing it. Chen Feng recognizes that this disappearance is a new variable in the Simulator and declines to include it.
• Chen Feng and the others flee to the moon. There, God appears and reveals that he engineered the disasters and expected Chen Feng to struggle through repeated attempts. He had plans to revive defeated monsters, threaten Chen Feng’s home, and ultimately use Star Bombs against him.
• God says the destruction of City World frees him to leave the universe. He kills Chen Feng in the simulation—but the experience gives Chen Feng a crucial insight: God will not remember anything that happened inside the simulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Thunder Time King proves exceptionally formidable, but his dramatic shift in personality is tied to his transformation: commanding and cocky in armor, meek afterward. He also demonstrates the armor’s powerful healing and defensive support abilities.
• Chen Feng remains observant and strategic. He infers Thunder Time King’s strength from the unusually long transformation, recognizes the new threat, and uses the Simulator’s rules to study God without letting God learn from the encounter.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer challenges Thunder Time King, then becomes protective and instructive when the boy cannot transform again. His attempted power bargain introduces an unexplained new variable.
• God is revealed as a calculating antagonist who has planned multiple contingencies and seems constrained from leaving until City World is destroyed. He underestimates Chen Feng’s ability to exploit the simulation.
• The heroes initially celebrate the Paradise Monster’s defeat, then face the realization that the two new Monsters are far more dangerous.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Thunder Time King’s immense strength is temporary and comes with a stark personality contrast; the heroes’ victory does not end the larger crisis.
• Exponential growth: The Lotus Pond Effect explains why seemingly manageable threats can overwhelm an entire world in moments.
• Strategy over strength: Chen Feng cannot simply overpower the Monsters or God, so his advantage comes from observation, information, and exploiting the Simulator.
• Knowledge and asymmetry: God’s plans depend on predicting Chen Feng’s actions, but the simulation creates an information gap that may let Chen Feng turn the tables.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng runs a text simulation to locate the Hunger and Corruption Monsters, using Ying and Little Machine to search public-security records.
• The Hunger Monster is found in Block 85, still growing but already able to devour nearly any attack—including bullets, weapons, energy, heat, psychic powers, and even spatial techniques. Attacking him only makes him grow.
• The monster is revealed to be Big Stomach, formerly the Second Division Chief. Rhodes dies when the creature eats his Substitute; Roman and Light of the Firmament are also unable to stop it.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer discovers that the monster cannot devour abilities it cannot touch. He uses Ugly Freak to alter its appearance, then borrows the Hundred-Ton King’s power to land a devastating physical blow. The monster recovers by consuming its surroundings, however, and eventually eats the Sorcerer’s domain. Chen Feng rescues the partially consumed Sorcerer with Time Stop.
• Chen Feng heads to Zone 3, where the Corruption Monster has emerged in the Arena’s graveyard. He suspects it is connected to the Arena and to God, who once impersonated its manager.
• The simulation ends with three Star-Burst Rank Monsters threatening the City World. Chen Feng receives twelve Sun Bombs and earns enough of the Thunder Time King’s friendship to recruit him; the young man appears at the Happiness Internet Cafe.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng recognizes that Big Stomach has been transformed into the Hunger Monster, explaining why he no longer appears as an ally.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer proves bold and inventive, finding a brief way around the monster’s devouring ability, though his domain ultimately fails. Chen Feng intervenes to save him.
• Chen Feng grows more suspicious of the City World’s nature: despite its advanced spaceflight technology, nobody has colonized or questioned the Moon’s lifeless state. He also remains puzzled by God’s knowledge of the Simulator and apparent connection to Wanji.
• Jia Xu dryly comments on the newly summoned Thunder Time King, calling him another victim tricked into coming to Cihang.

Significant themes

• Power and adaptation: The Hunger Monster turns conventional attacks into nourishment, forcing the heroes to find a new way to fight.
• The danger of strength without strategy: Even powerful characters are overwhelmed when they rely on attacks the monster can absorb.
• A manufactured reality: The unexplained Moon and the City World’s unquestioned limits deepen the mystery of whether its inhabitants understand their world.
• Companionship and sacrifice: Characters risk themselves for one another, while Chen Feng’s concern for his companions shapes his cautious choices.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng brings Thunder Time King to Cihang City, then privately consults Jia Xu with Savior, using layered spells and a signal jammer to prevent eavesdropping.
• After hearing about the Hunger Monster, Jia Xu initially proposes sacrificing Cihang City as bait. Savior is furious, and Chen Feng rejects the plan on moral grounds.
• Jia Xu realizes the Monster’s constant hunger is a weakness: it may consume energy faster than it can replenish it. Rather than restrain it, they could make it expend energy more quickly. Chen Feng connects this idea to Baomu’s revival armor.
• Jia Xu also reasons that the Chancellor’s instruction to bring Jujutsu Sorcerer and Mr. Qipa must be important to dealing with the remaining threats: the Corruption Monster and God’s planned Cosmic Bomb.
• In the City Universe, God celebrates that his plan has altered the Reversion Node. At the Deep-Sea Base, Chen Feng immediately strikes Gold with his time-reversing Substitute, undoing God’s Superpower Curse on him.
• Gold still refuses to cooperate, driven by his desire to destroy City World for his sister’s sake. Chen Feng offers to bring her back, changing the stakes.
• Chen Feng explains that Jujutsu Sorcerer—not himself—may be able to reverse the Main Timeline. Evil Savior, a Subspace Demon within Jujutsu Sorcerer’s Challenger Domain, can travel into the past through a Subspace Tunnel. Chen Feng urges him to change the seemingly hopeless future and “turn the tide in one minute.”

Character developments and interactions

• Jia Xu remains brilliantly calculating and ruthlessly pragmatic, treating ordinary lives as expendable. Chen Feng restrains him by threatening to tell Swordsman, while still valuing his strategic insight.
• Savior strongly objects to Jia Xu’s willingness to sacrifice Cihang’s residents, revealing his concern for ordinary people and his frustration with Jia Xu.
• Chen Feng balances Jia Xu’s strategies against his own morals and reputation. He also shows confidence in his allies, recognizing the significance of the Chancellor’s choices and entrusting Jujutsu Sorcerer with a decisive mission.
• Gold is steadfast in his grief-driven determination, but Chen Feng’s promise to restore his sister gives him a compelling reason to reconsider.
• Jujutsu Sorcerer moves from bewilderment to being entrusted with a potentially timeline-changing task. Thunder Time King, meanwhile, is moved to tears by Cihang City’s suffering.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism versus morality: Jia Xu sees sacrifice as a tool; Chen Feng refuses to accept needless harm, and Savior voices the human cost.
• Turning weaknesses into strategies: The Hunger Monster’s appetite may be exploited, while Evil Savior’s unusual nature offers a route into the past.
• Hope amid seemingly impossible odds: Chen Feng seeks alternatives to mutual destruction, including restoring Gold’s sister and changing the future.
• Trust and chosen responsibility: The team’s distinct abilities and the Chancellor’s unexplained instructions point toward cooperation as the means to avert catastrophe.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng reveals the plan: the Jujutsu Sorcerer will use the Evil Savior’s demonic identity to enter Subspace, travel back in time, and stop the three monsters before they are created.
• Because the Sorcerer’s body will remain in the present while their consciousness travels, Duanmu Kai must protect them from God. Duanmu transforms into his Divine Dragon Entwined form and boasts that one minute is enough to defeat God.
• The group debates when to travel back. Gold explains that killing the future monsters’ human counterparts would not solve the problem: God could create new ones using cloning technology and the seed of light.
• Gold argues they should save Angel, the former S-rank number one, whose survival could help them defeat God. Chen Feng identifies May 20, 2101—the day Number Zero saved Light of the Firmament—as a likely moment when God’s real body was exposed.
• Chen Feng resets the Jujutsu Sorcerer’s used abilities and permits the time rewind, despite sensing that powerful time users can detect and potentially block interference with the main timeline.
• Twenty years in the past, the Sorcerer follows Chen Feng’s directions, uses stone minions to force access to corporate resources, finds Silver, and learns that Angel is on the moon.
• The Sorcerer reaches the moon with forty seconds remaining and senses Angel and God’s current S1 counterpart clashing. Excited by the prospect of witnessing the battle, the Sorcerer nervously warns against raising their hopes too high.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng acts as strategist, weighing the risks of the time jump, identifying the likely date, and preparing the Sorcerer by restoring their abilities.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer accepts the dangerous mission and follows Chen Feng’s instructions, though they are uneasy about killing people before they become monsters.
• Duanmu Kai initially doubts he can face God, then transforms and adopts a swaggering, overconfident persona.
• Gold reveals that God’s clones make a simple preemptive killing ineffective, and that his sister Silver can lead the group to Angel. His willingness to share a private childhood story is meant to earn her trust.
• Roman and Rhodes push for a trip that could save their sister, while Thunder Time King favors killing Big Stomach outright. Chen Feng weighs their suggestions but ultimately chooses the Angel plan.
• Silver provides Angel’s location; the Jujutsu Sorcerer quickly moves from finding her to racing toward the moon.

Significant themes

• Changing the past and its limits: Altering events may be detected or countered by powerful time users, so success depends on timing and relative mastery.
• Root causes versus symptoms: Preventing the monsters’ creation is not enough if God can simply make replacements; the real target is God himself.
• Risk, trust, and urgency: The plan depends on split-second decisions, uncertain cooperation, and acting before the window closes.
• Hope and fear of disappointment: The chapter’s closing line captures the Sorcerer’s excitement—and anxiety—as the mission reaches its decisive moment.

Plot points and events

• In December 2013, Dr. Jack 137 arrives in monster-ravaged City World Star and kills King Orochi with a handgun that can erase abilities at the causal level. He gives the two young brothers advanced technology and assigns them roles: the older becomes God, responsible for overseeing the planet, while the younger becomes Angel, whom Jack grants every superpower.
• Jack’s real purpose is to create superhero movies for his grandson by staging disasters. In 2035, he directs the brothers to use a Seed of Light to summon a giant Guest Monster, then prevents them from intervening until the catastrophe reaches its dramatic climax. Nearly ten billion people die.
• In 2059, God refuses to repeat the process and attacks Jack with powerful technology and fourteen clones. Jack effortlessly kills him, then replaces him with a version of God from another universe—one who is obedient and forbidden to attack City World’s people. Angel remains under Jack’s control.
• By 2080, Jack has overseen another devastating monster attack, “No One Spared,” and leaves Angel three more Seeds of Light. Before disappearing, he realizes he is only a historical projection and passes Angel an item intended for the Time God’s chosen representative.
• In 2101, the brothers learn that someone from another universe has killed Number Zero, suggesting Jack’s hold over their world may be weakening. God reveals his plan to release monsters and destroy City World’s 420 billion inhabitants so he can escape. He tricks and restrains Angel, but a white-haired Jujutsu Sorcerer arrives and challenges him.

Character developments

• God evolves from an idealistic child who dreams of becoming a heroic savior into a powerful, embittered man who values freedom over the lives of hundreds of billions. Though he once opposed Jack’s manufactured catastrophes, he ultimately embraces mass destruction for his own escape.
• Angel grows into a formidable protector who brainwashes the population to keep them from leaving, but remains emotionally attached to his brother. He opposes God’s plan and warns that the heroes may now be strong enough to stop the monsters.
• Dr. Jack 137 is an absurdly powerful, casually cruel director who treats real suffering as entertainment and repeatedly manipulates the brothers. His appearance in 2080 is revealed to be a temporary historical projection.
• The replacement God initially appears identical to the original but is obedient to Jack and constrained from harming City World’s people.

Themes

• Entertainment built on suffering: Jack treats mass death as a way to make a more convincing movie, exposing the cruelty of turning real lives into spectacle.
• Freedom versus responsibility: God’s desire to escape is understandable after decades of imprisonment, but his willingness to sacrifice an entire planet makes that freedom morally monstrous.
• Power and its costs: God and Angel possess extraordinary abilities, yet power neither protects them from manipulation nor guarantees wisdom. Angel’s vast range of powers also makes him vulnerable in combat.
• Identity, time, and control: The replacement God, Jack’s temporal projection, and the altered timeline complicate ideas of authenticity while emphasizing how much the characters’ lives are controlled by others.

Character interactions

• The brothers begin as affectionate children who share playful dreams, but their relationship deteriorates as God’s ambition and resentment grow.
• Jack treats both brothers as tools: he gives them power, dictates their actions, and stages catastrophes despite their objections. His murder of God and replacement of him deepen Angel’s trauma.
• In 2101, Angel confronts God directly, pleading with him to spare the population; God dismisses him and exploits his brother’s reliance on switching between countless powers to ambush him.
• The chapter ends with the Jujutsu Sorcerer stepping in to confront God, setting up a clash that could determine City World’s fate.

Plot points and events

• The Jujutsu Sorcerer has forty seconds before his Evil Savior transformation ends; if he fails to defeat the god, he will be trapped in the past, while killing the god would radically alter history.
• Facing fourteen god-clones, he refuses to prioritize rescuing the controlled Angel and declares that the god—not he—is the challenger.
• Substitute God’s universe-wide time stop fails to affect him. Chip God’s system identifies the Sorcerer’s Domain of Void: approaching objects are slowed by infinite distance, while living attackers are overwhelmed with information.
• The Sorcerer openly explains how to counter the domain. Word Spirit God turns a quip into a planet-destroying cannon, but the Sorcerer flattens its blast into a “painting” and restores it, redirecting it at Self-Destruct God and the Sun Bomb.
• The resulting explosion destroys the moon and kills Chip, Substitute, Word Spirit, and Omnipotent Gods. The Sorcerer survives through the Evil Savior’s Blessing that makes the first ranged attack miss.
• As Armor God begins summoning dangerous armor, the Sorcerer charges him. Psychic God overwhelms the Sorcerer with hundreds of millions of attacks until one hits and crushes him—but the Sorcerer resurrects in phoenix flames, and Psychic God is destroyed by the rebound.

Character developments and interactions

• The Sorcerer’s confidence and combat ingenuity define the fight: he taunts the god, reveals his own weakness, and turns enemy powers against the clones.
• The god’s clones coordinate, using time manipulation, analysis, brute force, and ranged attacks, but their apparent numerical advantage is steadily reduced.
• Chip God’s analysis identifies the Sorcerer’s defense, while Word Spirit God’s literal-minded surprise provides the opening for the redirected attack.
• Psychic God ultimately defeats the Sorcerer momentarily, but the Sorcerer’s resurrection turns the victory into a reversal.

Significant themes

• Confidence versus strength: the Sorcerer challenges the supposedly strongest opponent on his own terms.
• Adaptation and ingenuity: understanding abilities—and exploiting opponents’ own attacks—matters as much as raw power.
• Luck, probability, and persistence: ranged attacks usually miss, but sheer volume can overcome favorable odds.
• Death and renewal: resurrection ensures that even a decisive apparent defeat is not the end.

Plot points and events

• The Jujutsu Sorcerer reveals that he has multiple Resurrection Blessings, each reviving him at full health, and a Revenge Blessing that reflects the final blow that kills him. The clones realize repeated killing may not work.
• The Space God traps him in a Spatial Prison, but the Giant God hurls it away. The Sorcerer escapes through the Six Paths Ninja’s Substitution Technique, leaving a piece of wood behind, then ambushes and kills the Space God.
• The Mecha God crushes him with extreme gravity, only for the Sorcerer to revive and reflect the damage, flattening the Mecha God and his machine.
• The Sorcerer explains that his Domain of Void was destroyed, allowing three melee clones to attack him. He defeats them with his Melee Evasion Blessing and overwhelming physical force.
• The Divine Gear User reveals tentacles that erode abilities, threatening the Sorcerer’s evasion. The Sorcerer cuts them off with the Evil Savior’s Demon Sword, but this buys the Armor God enough time to complete his transformation.
• The Armor God’s Super Divine Dragon Armor overwhelms and bisects the Sorcerer. Its immense defense shrugs off the reflected damage.
• The Sorcerer revives again and reveals that twenty seconds of his transformation time were spent raiding the Four Great Corporations for technology. He encountered the Red Giant there, who tried to stop him. With only thirty seconds left in his transformation, the Sorcerer prepares to fight the Armor God.

Character developments and interactions

• The Sorcerer remains confident and openly explains his powers—even their apparent weaknesses—while repeatedly turning the clones’ tactics against them.
• The Space God tries to coordinate the clones and warns them about the Sorcerer’s abilities, but is killed after mistaking the substitution for a genuine escape.
• The Armor God adapts to the Sorcerer’s Cursed Speech by deafening himself, but is nearly interrupted physically. The Divine Gear User’s surprise attack gives him the opening to finish transforming.
• The Divine Gear User is revealed as the Ridiculous Heroes Club’s Zero Division Chief, wielding equipment derived from No One Spared, a devastating Monster. His prolonged restraint shows that he has been waiting for the right moment to strike.
• The remaining clones—Armor, Giant, Tattoo, Biological, Cybernetic, and Divine Gear—find themselves increasingly outmatched, though the Armor God’s completed transformation changes the battle’s stakes.

Significant themes

• Clever adaptation: Both sides counter each other’s powers, from substitution and Cursed Speech to deafening and ability-eroding tentacles.
• The cost of confidence: The Sorcerer’s habit of explaining his abilities gives opponents useful information, but his preparation and layered powers keep him in control.
• Power versus strategy: The clones’ overwhelming force is repeatedly undermined by the Sorcerer’s tricks, while their teamwork eventually creates an opening.
• Moral ambiguity: The Sorcerer’s raid on the corporations brings him into conflict with the Red Giant, who is described as well-intentioned but committed to the wrong path.

Key plot points and events

• The Jujutsu Sorcerer, transformed for a limited time, fights six of God’s powerful clones. His absurd confidence contrasts with Red Giant’s emotion-dependent strength: setbacks weaken Red Giant, while the Sorcerer explains away every defeat.
• He transports three clones to a distant planet inside his domain, where ordinary universal rules no longer apply. He annihilates Giant God and Divine Gear User, then defeats Armor God in a beam clash. Armor God dies satisfied that the fight was entertaining.
• In the main timeline, God discovers that the heroes have gone back in time. As their past selves are erased, their present-day counterparts vanish too. Thunder Time King blocks the remaining clones, while God reflects that the actions of his world’s counterpart—especially leaving behind the Wanji Armor—helped protect City World.
• With his forces erased, God releases Angel. Angel heals the damage, retrieves the Super Light Seeds, and restores the moon. The Jujutsu Sorcerer spares God by draining his fortune, leaving him powerless.
• God reveals that he intends to die by disclosing forbidden knowledge about the universe’s hierarchy, hoping Angel can explore the cosmos in his place. Cosmic punishment erases him from every timeline, ending his confinement of Angel.
• A prerecorded message from Dr. Jack then appears, revealing that he planted a bomb capable of destroying the entire universe. The chapter ends with one second left before detonation.

Character developments and interactions

• The Jujutsu Sorcerer remains comically unshakable despite repeated defeats, then displays overwhelming power and sportsmanship. He honors Armor God’s desire for a proper beam clash and later agrees to spare God when Angel asks.
• Armor God accepts defeat graciously. Their exchange turns the fight into a friendly contest rather than a bitter confrontation.
• God shifts from frustration and suspicion to recognizing the protective legacy of his counterpart. Even after losing his powers, he chooses a final act that frees Angel and gives him a chance to see beyond their universe.
• Angel acts compassionately toward both God and the damaged world, then faces the burden of Dr. Jack’s final threat.
• Thunder Time King protects the heroes by holding off God’s clones, helping the timeline-changing plan succeed.

Significant themes

• Confidence and self-perception: The Sorcerer’s refusal to accept failure is played for comedy, but it also distinguishes him from Red Giant, whose power collapses when his confidence does.
• Legacy and protection: God realizes that the resistance of his counterpart—and the heroes who followed—may have been part of a chain of events that kept City World safe.
• Choice, sacrifice, and freedom: God’s death frees Angel from decades of confinement, while his final revelation is a deliberate sacrifice.
• Power and moral responsibility: Dr. Jack’s control over the universe, its inhabitants, and even its destruction exposes the immense danger of treating a world as a disposable experiment.

Plot points and events

• Beneath the sea, Chen Feng and Ying wait for the Jujutsu Sorcerer. A stranger named Angel suddenly appears, warning that a bomb capable of destroying the universe will explode in one second. His many powers—and Chen’s teleportation—cannot stop it; it even tracks Chen after being sent into a Void Rift.
• Chen tries storing the bomb in System Space, but Equipment Amplification accidentally upgrades it, making it capable of destroying infinitely many universes across three timelines. Daily Intelligence reveals the bomb’s defenses have a loophole: a suitable non-attack ability can affect it.
• Chen has Mr. Qipa use his Substitute to transform the bomb into a woman. The bomb stops being dangerous, but the resulting “Landmine-Style Girl” declares her love for Qipa and throws herself into his arms. Chen is relieved the crisis is over, though he worries how to explain the scene to Shark King.
• Elsewhere, the Jujutsu Sorcerer tries to return through Subspace but is intercepted by an aged Two-Headed Birdman and eight Greater Daemons. The birdman recognizes him as Gojo Deer and carries a book describing his past and future, including his role in events across several universes.
• Expecting a deadly fight, the sorcerer uses his powerful binding-vow technique. The birdman stops him, receives a message through Subspace, and lets him pass. It turns out Chen had contacted the War Marshal through his Chat Group System, and the War Marshal and Lord used their influence to secure the passage.
• The birdman admits he intervened partly to earn a favor. The sorcerer realizes Chen’s connections reach even into Subspace and jokes that he could have treated the place like home.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng responds quickly to an impossible crisis, but his improvised solutions cause comic complications: the bomb is accidentally enhanced, then transformed into a lovestruck woman. He also demonstrates that his network of allies extends far beyond the immediate group.
• Mr. Qipa becomes the unlikely savior of the universe through a non-combat ability, and the transformed bomb develops an intense attachment to him.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer/Gojo Deer moves from fear of the birdman’s prophecy and power to relief when Chen’s connections get him safely through. His attempted binding vow underscores how desperate he is to survive the encounter.
• The Two-Headed Birdman is both a formidable, prophetic figure and a schemer who uses favors to his advantage. His two heads give conflicting statements, while his actions reveal the truth.
• Equipment Amplification causes the crisis to worsen and is punished by Proficiency, adding slapstick to the danger.

Significant themes

• Connections and cooperation: Chen’s allies and systems solve a problem that individual powers cannot, and his influence reaches into even hostile realms.
• Limits and loopholes: The bomb resists conventional attacks, but an ability outside its expected category bypasses its protection.
• Power mixed with absurdity: Universe-level stakes are handled through system mishaps, unusual abilities, romantic comedy, and favor-trading.
• Fate, prophecy, and strategy: The birdman’s book describes Gojo Deer’s future, yet the birdman’s actions also show that foreknowledge can be used to manage events and secure personal advantage.

Plot points and events

• The Jujutsu Sorcerer returns from Subspace, looking oddly shorter and damp. Chen Feng teases him, but the sorcerer brushes it off.
• Angel, Rhodes, Roman, and Gold thank the sorcerer for saving the City World. Since God was killed in the past, history has been rewritten: many disasters never occurred, and people’s memories will gradually adjust.
• Angel explains that the City Universe was effectively a film set for Wanji’s God’s Chosen. Chen Feng is shocked by the scale of the powers involved and orders Proficiency to attack Equipment Amplification, one of the forces involved in producing them.
• Angel gives Chen Feng a “faulty” teleportation gun from Dr. Jack. Though wary, Chen Feng accepts it after the system and Daily Intelligence confirm it is safe. The gun can send someone to a known low-level universe without spending Points.
• Angel plans to travel between universes, leaving the Jujutsu Sorcerer to protect the City Universe. Mr. Qipa avoids the problem of his cosmic-bomb girlfriend by making a clone to return with Chen Feng, while his original stays behind to research.
• Chen Feng leaves Rhodes and Roman in the City Universe to assist the Ridiculous Agency and Gold and Silver against the Four Great Corporations.
• Back at Happiness Internet Cafe, Chen Feng equips Fatty with the World Technology Snarky Ahoge. He then tests his Reversal Power, using it to heal a cut on his palm.
• Chen Feng lists the many aspects of Spacetime Divinity he has yet to master and prepares to visit the Western Fantasy universe. He discovers he lacks a suitable system and avoids using the Simulator, whose runs cost over a hundred Points.
• Daily Intelligence warns that learning about the Abyss-linked universe could corrupt him. Proficiency responds by producing three system boxes—and, rather than make Chen choose just one, insists he take all three.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains wary of unfamiliar gifts and dangers, but accepts the teleportation gun once its safety is verified. He also recognizes that his new powers are only a beginning and commits to further training.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer is entrusted with protecting the City Universe, while Angel chooses to pursue her brother’s dream of exploring other universes.
• Mr. Qipa demonstrates his ingenuity by creating a clone, allowing him to stay behind and conduct research without preventing a version of himself from returning with Chen Feng.
• Rhodes and Roman stay behind to support the resistance against the Four Great Corporations.
• Chen Feng and Proficiency share a comic but forceful rapport: Chen orders it to beat up Equipment Amplification, then calls it off too late; Proficiency has already finished the job. At the chapter’s end, Proficiency again acts generously, refusing to limit Chen to a single system.
• Chen Feng, Fatty, and Yellow Hair trade playful insults as Fatty receives his new weapon, showing the group’s joking, competitive dynamic.

Significant themes

• Rewritten history and memory: Changing the past can avert suffering, though people’s recollections take time to catch up with the new reality.
• Cosmic scale and power: The City Universe is revealed as a minor setting within a much larger and more dangerous multiverse.
• Caution versus opportunity: Chen Feng distrusts mysterious gifts and avoids knowledge that could corrupt him, but accepts useful risks when they are verified.
• Growth through continued effort: Despite gaining powerful abilities, Chen Feng knows mastery of Spacetime Divinity is still far off.
• Loyalty and responsibility: Characters divide their duties—protecting the City, resisting corporate rule, researching, and exploring—rather than simply leaving the universe behind.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng activates three systems:
  • Advisory System: offers potentially unreliable guidance and, when powered, can reveal nearby people’s titles, changes to world laws, and the last moments of the dead.
  • Firekeeper Witch System: converts defeated enemies’ souls into permanent power, but needs a witch before it can function.
  • Skill Personification System: can autonomously train a learned ability. Chen Feng rules out Death-Undoing Sacred Law, fearing it might lead him to worship a dangerous god.
• He reads the Eternal Continent’s history: after Demon Kings assassinated the Sun King, the Abyss began consuming the world. A hero aided by a firekeeper witch is prophesied to defeat the Demon Kings.
• Entry costs ten points because the Western fantasy universe is mid-tier. Chen Feng reduces the cost to one by giving up the ability to reverse time there.
• The universe’s laws recognize traditional training and fantasy powers, but reject his technologically enhanced body. His natural, Hero Training body and several powerful skills are converted into local character levels.
• Chen Feng chooses a site near a large human city where a hero has died, then arrives in a monster forest. The world’s Law suppresses his strength proportionally rather than expelling him.
• He realizes that gaining levels here could translate into extraordinary power, and senses a low-level time-space user attempting to reverse time. Chen Feng’s own reversal abilities are listed at infinite level.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains cautious about unfamiliar systems and powers, but is also eager to exploit the world’s rules and grow stronger.
• He draws on knowledge and lessons from earlier adventures—especially the danger of ignoring intelligence—while jokingly comparing the systems to familiar games and characters.
• The Firekeeper Witch System establishes an implied future connection with a witch, though Chen Feng has not yet found one.
• Chen Feng’s encounter with the time-reversal attempt is one-sided so far: he senses the unknown user’s request and recognizes that it must pass through his authority.

Significant themes

• Power and limitations: Even immense abilities are reshaped or restricted by each universe’s laws.
• Preparation and information: Understanding a world’s rules can be as vital as strength.
• Cross-world adaptation: Chen Feng’s technology fails where natural training and recognized magic succeed.
• Opportunity within danger: The world’s suppression frustrates his raw power but also offers a path to level up and potentially carry that strength elsewhere.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng searches the forest for the Firekeeper Witch and finds Sika, a young swordsman, burying a body, alongside a red-haired girl eating roast meat.
• Believing the pair may be dangerous, Chen Feng confronts them. Sika immediately admits that the Hero is dead.
• Sika explains that he was expelled from his village after arguing with his childhood friend’s father. Hoping to level up, he set a spike trap in the forest and prepared meat to lure monsters. The Hero wandered in, fell into the trap, and died; Sika says the dissection afterward was the actual cause of death.
• The red-haired girl is not a witch. She happened upon the cookout, and Sika enlisted her help burying the Hero in exchange for food. The Hero had arrived without a Firekeeper Witch.
• When Chen Feng asks where to find one, the system identifies Chen Feng himself as the Firekeeper Witch, bound to a Hero named Gle. It assigns a quest to help Gle destroy a goblin lair within twenty-four hours.
• The system rewards Chen Feng with ten levels and a random Blessing. Excited by the prize, he tries to recruit the food-loving girl to fight monsters; she refuses, so he threatens to train her.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shifts from cautious investigator to surprised system-designated witch. His eagerness to claim rewards quickly turns into an attempt to take charge of the girl.
• Sika is revealed as an ordinary villager whose crude trap unintentionally killed the Hero. He confesses readily and recounts events with disarming, absurd bluntness.
• The red-haired girl is cheerful, hungry, and uninterested in danger or heroics; her main concern is eating and sleeping.
• Chen Feng and Sika have a tense first encounter, but Sika’s confession redirects the conversation into an explanation of the Hero’s death.
• Chen Feng and the girl clash over her refusal to fight, setting up a comic, reluctant mentor-and-trainee dynamic.
• Sika’s childhood friend appears only in his story: she worries about his future and tries to motivate him, while her father’s ultimatum contributes to Sika being expelled.

Significant themes

• Comic reversal: The supposedly fearsome Hero dies to a villager’s trap, while the expected witch turns out to be Chen Feng.
• Absurdity and chance: Accidents, misunderstandings, and the system’s arbitrary binding drive the events.
• Reluctant responsibility: Chen Feng receives a role and quest he did not seek, then immediately tries to impose a purpose on someone else.
• Food versus duty: The girl’s appetite and desire for a quiet life contrast with the system’s demands to fight monsters.

Key events

• Chen Feng confirms the red-haired girl is Gle and learns she ran away after being neglected by her divorced parents. He offers her food in exchange for helping destroy a Goblin Lair; she eagerly agrees, though she’s hungry almost immediately.
• With no money, Chen Feng pressures Sika into taking them to his home for a meal. On the way, he learns goblins are usually below level ten, while the Adventurers’ Guild can assess levels.
• Sika’s village is riddled with more than ten thousand traps he has set. At his house, his elderly grandfather repeatedly mistakes ordinary events and people, including accusing Sika of being possessed and claiming a dead blacksmith gave him information.
• The grandfather says the nearby Undead King is over level nine thousand, despite Sika insisting the world’s level cap is one hundred. He also offers Sika a sword manual that turns out to be a Book of the Dead.
• Chen Feng receives another request from his Divinity and sets out toward the Goblin Lair, taking Sika along because of his skill at making traps. Gle comes too, still focused on finding food.
• At the cave, they find three horses belonging to a level-thirty adventuring party that has already gone inside. Chen Feng doubts their presence makes sense for such a low-level quest. Red Guidance warns him: “Danger ahead,” “Horror ahead,” and “Don’t come in!!!”

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng is resourceful but repeatedly resorts to threats to get Sika’s cooperation. His past experience with vastly over-leveled enemies makes him take the grandfather’s claim about the Undead King seriously.
• Gle is established as voracious, impulsive, and eager to attach herself to whoever will feed her. Her sad backstory contrasts with the comic way her hunger drives the group.
• Sika is a practical, reluctant villager with an unusual talent for traps. He is used to his grandfather’s confusion and tries to keep Chen Feng—and himself—out of trouble.
• Sika’s grandfather appears senile and unpredictable, but his alarming claim about the Undead King may deserve consideration.
• The group’s banter and misunderstandings create an ongoing comic dynamic, while Chen Feng’s suspicions keep the danger of the quest in view.

Significant themes

• Comedy amid danger: absurd domestic misunderstandings and Gle’s appetite sit alongside a potentially deadly dungeon warning.
• Unreliable knowledge: the old man’s confused memories make it unclear whether his extraordinary information is nonsense or a real clue.
• Coercion and cooperation: Chen Feng gathers companions through food and intimidation rather than trust.
• Escalating threat: the high-level adventurers’ unexplained presence and the red warnings suggest the Goblin Lair is far more dangerous than its reputation.