Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After eating grave offerings, Chen Feng and the group set out for Good Person Village. A Daoist priest explains a clue hidden in the blind old man’s appearance and a wordplay puzzle.
• They encounter a ghost trying to frighten them with eerie laughter, but Joke Specter gives it three warnings; the ghost laughs itself to death.
• A powerful Flying Zombie attacks near a Dragon King temple. The Daoist priest defeats it with lightning techniques, which cost him three minutes of his life each time. The man in the suit seals the corpse with an Elder Sign, inadvertently causing a sanity attack when he names the abyssal goddess associated with it.
• A summoned spirit provides directions only after the Daoist eats dirt to understand ghost speech. The group follows a side path and reaches a village full of lifelike paper effigies.
• They discover effigies resembling themselves, and Chen Feng identifies the hidden enemy as a Substitute Death Ghost. Its presence disrupts his system, but he repairs it during a brief time stop and learns its name.
• The effigies animate and attack. Elbow-Strike Specter smashes them but suddenly freezes; the group realizes that damage to a person’s lookalike is reflected onto them. The Daoist’s fire burns many effigies, but also burns their corresponding people.
• The doctor proposes ways to exploit the link, while Chen Feng recognizes the group has quickly understood the danger. With Yearning Ghost gone and Elbow-Strike Specter incapacitated, he attempts to summon Lord Guan by using the Daoist’s possession technique.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains observant and irreverent, quickly spots the Substitute Death Ghost’s involvement, repairs his system, and decides to take charge when the others’ abilities are compromised. His apparent ease at copying the Daoist’s invocation shocks the priest.
• The Daoist priest demonstrates formidable lightning and fire abilities, though both carry risks. He is also eccentric, eating dirt to communicate with a ghost.
• The man in the suit uses a powerful sealing symbol but inadvertently exposes the group to a supernatural sanity effect by naming its source.
• The doctor displays practical, fast thinking, proposing several ways to deal with the paper effigies.
• Yearning Ghost leaves abruptly to protect the boy, while Elbow-Strike Specter is briefly effective before freezing after attacking an effigy. Joke Specter continues issuing warnings, but is not suited to combat.

Significant themes

• Horror turned comedic: The characters respond to frightening supernatural encounters with casual banter, strange habits, and confidence.
• Rules and deduction: Survival depends on recognizing hidden clues, supernatural limitations, and the link between each person and their effigy.
• Competence and talent: The group’s unusually capable members solve problems rapidly, while Chen Feng’s effortless imitation unsettles even an exceptional Daoist.
• Power at a cost: The Daoist’s lightning consumes his lifespan, and supernatural knowledge itself can threaten sanity.

Character interactions

• The group teases one another over grave-robbing, the Daoist’s odd rituals, and the dangers they have casually survived.
• Chen Feng admires the Daoist’s abilities but also questions his judgment; the Daoist, in turn, is stunned when Chen Feng appears to master his invocation technique instantly.
• The doctor and man in the suit contribute complementary deductions about the effigies, while Chen Feng reflects that their competence leaves him little opportunity to follow the usual horror-game pattern of letting others fail first. The chapter ends as he calls on Lord Guan to possess him.

Key events

• Chen Feng invokes Guan Yu through an improvised appeal to their bond rather than a traditional ritual. The invocation succeeds, granting him Guan Yu’s power and a Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
• The doctor and the suited man try to escape their life-binding paper effigies. Injuries to either the people or their figures are mirrored. The suited man seals the effigies, but they can still kill themselves—and his death turns him into another paper figure.
• Empowered by Guan Yu, Chen Feng freezes and destroys most of the paper figures, then discovers the Substitute Death Ghost can redirect fatal damage to its many effigies.
• The doctor independently identifies the effigies’ weakness: their painted eyes give them life. Removing the eyes disables them and breaks the doctor’s own binding. He also reveals that he has been quietly observing the other apparent students’ killing rules.
• Chen Feng realizes the Substitute Death Ghost’s vulnerability is its eyes, but its head proves to be a decoy. The ghost switches to the Headless Ghost’s ability, snaps Chen Feng’s neck, and appears to have won.
• The real Substitute Death Ghost is hiding in a separate paper universe, inside a coffin; the dining-room enemy was only a duplicate. After Chen Feng dies, Guan Yu’s blessing activates: it bypasses defenses below Multiversal Rank and takes a dishonorable foe with him. Guan Yu kills the Substitute Death Ghost, refining it into a Death Divinity.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng uses his personal connection with Guan Yu to overcome the invocation’s formal requirements. He fights confidently but must adapt when the Substitute Death Ghost reveals its layered defenses and stolen abilities.
• The doctor emerges as a sharp, cautious investigator. He solves the eye weakness through observation and acts decisively, while withholding his knowledge of other students’ rules to avoid provoking more threats.
• The Daoist priest is impressed by the doctor’s intelligence and acknowledges that the doctor’s insight surpasses his own.
• The suited man attempts to protect the group with a sealing array, but his strategy fails when the effigies turn his own death into another weapon against them.
• Guan Yu is portrayed as Chen Feng’s trusted comrade and ultimately as a power that remains dangerous even after Chen Feng’s apparent defeat.

Significant themes

• Connection over convention: Chen Feng’s bond with Guan Yu succeeds where a correct ritual might be expected to matter.
• Observation and ingenuity: The doctor’s careful deductions offer a counter to overwhelming supernatural power.
• Deception and layered survival: The Substitute Death Ghost hides behind duplicates, redirected damage, and stolen rules, making apparent victory and defeat unreliable.
• Loyalty and honor: Guan Yu’s final blessing turns his death into judgment against a dishonorable enemy.

Key events

• Chen Feng revives through the life divinity after deliberately dying to trigger Lord Guan’s blessing and defeat the Substitute Death Ghost. The Headless Ghost and Substitute Death Ghost leave behind one death divinity; Chen suspects his equipment may have stolen one before, though it denies taking anything this time.
• His Ghost-Catching System reveals that a death divinity can transform a ghost into a specter, replacing its abilities with a killing rule and a way to shut it down. Jing Longyue, the Moon Ghost, stands out: he would become a third-level specter with two killing rules and a shutdown period of only one minute. Chen decides to use his sole divinity on him, though he still hopes to obtain another to strengthen Meng Chengcheng.
• In Good Person Village, the ancestral banquet’s rites conclude. Ye Yin, a Specter Cinema actor assigned the role of a local villager, reflects that actors must obey their scripts—even suicidal instructions—or the cinema will erase them.
• The film’s first three acts have already claimed actors through taboo violations and scripted mistakes. In the fourth act, Ye Yin is supposed to overturn the sacrificial meat basin, a likely death sentence.
• Before he can carry out the scene, coughing spreads through the villagers and Ye Yin receives a second script. A bridal procession arrives with a third film, followed by a strange woman who brings a fourth. Ye Yin faces several overlapping supernatural scenarios and gives up hope of surviving.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows strategic ruthlessness: he knowingly used his own death to secure victory, then weighs which ghost would make the most valuable specter. His brief exchange with Equipment Amplification is comic but hints that the equipment has taken things before.
• Ye Yin shifts from anxious dread about his scripted death to exhausted resignation as multiple films converge on the village.
• The cinema actors are trapped by strict roles: even casual speech that breaks character can be fatal. The village’s ceremonial structure and its taboo rules dictate how they interact and who is endangered.
• Chen’s plans point toward future alliances and power-building, especially involving Jing Longyue and Meng Chengcheng.

Significant themes

• Death as an instrument: Chen turns his own death into a tactic, and death divinity converts ghosts into controllable threats.
• Fate versus agency: Cinema actors know what their scripts demand but cannot freely disobey them; Chen, by contrast, manipulates danger to pursue his goals.
• Escalating supernatural horror: The sudden arrival of multiple films suggests that threats can stack unpredictably, overwhelming even characters who know the rules.
• Dark comedy amid peril: The banter with Equipment Amplification and Ye Yin’s defeated laughter undercut—but do not lessen—the chapter’s danger.

Key events

• Ye Yin reviews four overlapping horror scenarios set in Good Person Village during the Cold Food Festival: a plague, a ghost wedding, a childhood encounter with a dangerous female ghost, and the return of that ghost years later. The scripts cast him as a doomed medical student, groomsman, and target of the ghost.
• Remembering the advice that “only a ghost can deal with a ghost,” Ye Yin deliberately breaks several village taboos to provoke the ghosts into fighting each other.
• He insults the clan chief, mishandles sacrificial meat in multiple forbidden ways, and taunts the female ghost by comparing the bride to her. The villagers begin to fall ill after triggering the plague specter’s rule.
• The ghost bride and groom clash with the female ghost. Ye Yin briefly becomes possessed, but the spirit is forced out because his body is already occupied.
• Chen Feng and his companions arrive, only to die when the supernatural battle’s shockwaves reach them. Chen Feng’s system identifies lethal rules for the bride and groom.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Yin is established as a clever, irreverent survivor who uses his apparent instability as cover for deliberately provoking lethal conditions. Rather than flee, he turns the village’s supernatural rules against its inhabitants.
• His childhood history with the female ghost explains why she is pursuing him: as a boy, he met her, promised to marry her, and escaped after learning she was a Vicious Ghost.
• Ye Yin’s interactions with the clan chief escalate from defiance to outright provocation; his actions also draw the plague specter and the female ghost into the conflict.
• The ghosts’ battle becomes so dangerous that even the arriving outsiders are killed without directly confronting them.

Significant themes

• Survival through understanding rules: Knowing that each ghost has a weakness—or “way out”—lets Ye Yin exploit the rules rather than simply obey them.
• Turning danger against danger: Ye Yin’s plan embodies the principle that a ghost can be used to fight another ghost.
• Dark comedy amid horror: His blunt insults, absurd air-conditioning references, and casual rule-breaking contrast with the deadly supernatural setting.
• The cost of overlapping threats: With multiple scripts and lethal forces colliding, cleverness may buy an advantage but cannot make the situation safe.

Key plot points and events

• After saving his progress, Chen Feng disables the Heroes’ systems and defeats the Hundred Hero Legion with his own abilities. The Phone Hero’s attempt to scan him backfires, and Chen escapes the pursuing Sword Hero by removing the Chocobo’s reins and teleporting away.
• At the ruined site of Cologne Village, Chen sees the aftermath of a catastrophic battle and realizes the Ancient Dragon and Ghost King are far more powerful than he can currently handle. With several of his allies captured or unavailable, he must rebuild his team.
• Chen contacts the Savior for help against the Ancestor of Flame Demons, who has allied with the Ancient Dragon and Ghost King and captured Fulameng and Peerless Beauty.
• The Savior reveals that he rigged Peerless Beauty to explode if captured and has also placed hundreds of millions of explosive talismans on Fulameng. Chen prevents him from detonating Fulameng and persuades him to attack the Ancestor instead.
• The Savior claims he can open a Portal directly to the enemy using a self-made Blessing. Chen questions the Savior’s strength and discovers that he has a Death Divinity and an unusual Killing Rule—but the Savior’s Blessing lets him redefine that rule and changes it whenever someone discovers how he survives.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng returns from the Paranormal Universe more confident and capable, relying on hard-won knowledge rather than system powers. He remains wary of risky wishes and protective of his allies, especially when the Savior proposes sacrificing Fulameng.
• Xia Mei is exhausted from fleeing but regains hope when Chen appears and easily defeats their pursuers.
• The Savior remains inventive, paranoid, and casually ruthless. His odd Blessings and concealed Death Divinity reveal that he has prepared ways to survive the dangers of the Netherworld.
• Lia, the Fallen Angel, is candid and quick to challenge the Savior’s treatment of her as a resource. Her presence also gives Chen someone to question when the Savior is evasive.
• Chen and the Savior resume their teasing, distrustful friendship: Chen criticizes the Savior’s treatment of Lia and his willingness to kill allies, while the Savior’s caution makes him suspicious even of Chen’s messages.

Significant themes

• Strength beyond systems: Chen demonstrates that his experience and innate skill matter even after he disables system advantages.
• Trust and suspicion: The Savior’s elaborate security measures contrast with Chen’s appeal to friendship, complicating cooperation.
• Power and its costs: Chen avoids using wishes because their unpredictable price could endanger someone he cares about.
• Dark comedy and absurdity: The chapter balances devastation and danger with jokes, bizarre Blessings, and the Savior’s bluntly transactional attitude.

Key plot points and events

• At the Great Tomb’s Magma Eighth Layer, the Furious Prince reports that a mysterious yellow wind carried humans away from the Flame Demons’ Human Ranch. The Ancestor of Flame Demons dismisses the report angrily.
• The Ancestor reflects on how Chen Feng thwarted his plans: the Fool Knight’s Javelin was dismantled, and Thousand-Eyed Wind and the Hundred Hero Legion were destroyed despite the Ancestor’s attempts to track Chen.
• Expecting Chen to retaliate, the Ancestor prepares three defenses: hostages, tens of thousands of level-999 Elder Flame Demons, and his own Flame Divine Spark, which can detonate the Magma Universe.
• Chen’s side arrives. The Peerless Beauty is killed before she can use the hostages as leverage, the hostages are freed, and Savior Doppelgangers instantly eliminate the Elder Flame Demons.
• The Savior attacks the Ancestor with Single-Entity Rank Death Force, enraged by the atrocities of the People-Grinding Towers. Luredo intervenes, shielding the Ancestor with her powerful defensive World Item.
• The Ancestor questions why Luredo abandoned her post protecting the King of the Undead. The King then appears, stops time, and tells the Ancestor, “Aren’t we family?”

Character developments and interactions

• Ancestor of Flame Demons: His confidence has given way to confusion and fear after Chen repeatedly overturns his plans. He remains willing to sacrifice himself and the universe to hurt his enemy, but is unexpectedly protected by Luredo.
• Furious Prince: Reports dutifully but is unsettled by the Ancestor’s uncharacteristic loss of composure.
• The Savior: Responds to the Human Ranch’s cruelty with fury, activating his rule-bound killing power.
• Luredo: Defies—or at least leaves—her assigned duty to save the Ancestor, demonstrating loyalty or a separate motive not yet explained.
• King of the Undead: Arrives at a critical moment and frames the conflict as a family matter, suggesting a deeper alliance or relationship.

Significant themes

• Cruelty and retaliation: The Flame Demons’ exploitation of humans provokes the Savior’s lethal response.
• Plans undone by the unexpected: The Ancestor’s layered defenses collapse rapidly, echoing his earlier inability to understand Chen’s surprising countermeasures.
• Loyalty and family: Luredo’s intervention and the King of the Undead’s final words raise questions about allegiance and kinship amid the impending showdown.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng faces the King of the Undead, who is enraged that Chen killed his family, Elizabeth and Peloro. Chen deliberately taunts him to stall while the Savior rescues people from the Demon Ranch.
• The King attacks with powerful time, space, and causal magic, but Chen counters the time stop and survives the rest through his defenses. His first sword strikes fail because the King’s armor is made of fully enhanced divine artifacts.
• The Savior returns with preparations complete and gives Chen a weapon enhanced to +10,000, which pierces the King’s defenses. The Savior reveals he has tens of thousands of similarly enhanced swords.
• The Savior accuses the Ancestor of Flame Demons of exploiting weaker worlds through overwhelming level differences. When the Savior’s swords are about to attack, the King uses a Law Shard to alter the Fire Universe’s rules and ban swords.
• Chen correctly deduces that the Savior anticipated the ban and has prepared other weapons. The Savior produces enhanced hammers, spears, and lances—and, finally, a gun magazine.

Character developments

• Chen Feng knowingly acts out of character to buy the Savior time, then quickly assesses the enemy’s equipment, abilities, and likely limitations. His confidence and tactical insight help him understand the Savior’s plan.
• The Savior stays quiet while arranging the rescue and preparing an arsenal. He shows anger when confronting the Flame Demons’ exploitation, but also reveals a habit of preparing for betrayal—even by Lia.
• The King of the Undead is furious and formidable, relying on elite gear and rule-altering magic, but is shaken when the Savior’s overwhelming arsenal appears.
• Lia is focused on rescuing people and questions the Savior’s secret preparations, especially his contingency weapons.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons defends domination as “survival of the fittest,” exposing the ideology behind the Great Tomb’s oppression.

Significant themes

• Power and exploitation: The Savior challenges the idea that strength entitles the powerful to prey on the weak.
• Preparation and strategy: The Savior’s rescue mission and backup weapons show that apparent inaction can conceal careful planning; Chen’s taunts help create time for it.
• Escalating, game-like power: Levels, equipment enhancement, and rule-changing Law Shards frame cosmic conflict in familiar gaming terms.
• Trust and suspicion: The Savior relies on Chen but even prepares for Lia potentially being controlled or turning against him, adding comic tension.

Character interactions

• Chen and the King trade insults and face off, with Chen provoking him while testing his defenses.
• Chen and the Savior coordinate without much discussion: Chen infers why the Savior is holding back, then uses the weapons he provides.
• The Savior confronts the Ancestor over the Great Tomb’s abuses; the Ancestor answers with a blunt defense of hierarchy.
• Lia challenges the Savior’s secrecy, only to discover he prepared more weapons than even she knew about.

Key plot points and events

• Fallen Angel Lia appraises the Great Tomb’s three leaders: the Flame Demon Ancestor (level 7,777), Pure White Succubus Luredo (8,888), and Undead King (9,999), who is one step from Single-Entity Rank.
• Chen Feng takes the Flame Demon Ancestor, while the Savior faces the other two. She delivers a melodramatic “weak and helpless” pre-battle speech, though her allies recognize that it is likely to trigger a power-up.
• Chen Feng lures the three leaders away from the Great Tomb’s tenth-floor treasury. When they realize the trap and rush back, the Savior intercepts them with lightning. Luredo shrugs off her attacks, claiming immunity to magic.
• The Flame Demon Ancestor challenges Chen Feng to a duel and grows to a universe-spanning size, confident that his overwhelming scale and power make him untouchable.
• Chen Feng completes the Make Me King quest at the Bone Throne, upgrading the Eternal Sword into the World Item Eternal Instant. Rather than use the sword to attack, he selects the Giant Slayer enhancement, which boosts damage against larger enemies.
• Chen Feng fires the Plus Ten Thousand Gun. Little Machine admits its earlier calculations were wrong: the enhanced weapon is powerful enough to kill the enormous Flame Demon Ancestor in one shot. His head emerges through the Portal, leaving Chen Feng to wonder why the Savior has not finished her opponents yet.

Character developments

• Chen Feng stays composed despite an absurd power gap, using a diversion, a quest, and carefully chosen abilities rather than trying to match his opponent directly. His humor and confidence conceal a calculated strategy.
• The Savior shows her familiar mix of theatrical self-deprecation and fierce devotion to those she protects. She willingly takes on two formidable enemies, though her attacks appear ineffective against Luredo.
• The Flame Demon Ancestor is confident that his immense size and knowledge of Chen Feng’s abilities guarantee victory, but underestimates the gun and Chen Feng’s preparation.
• Little Machine provides the chapter’s punchline by retracting its earlier assessment and delivering the correct calculation only after Chen Feng has fired.

Significant themes

• Preparation and cleverness over raw power: Chen Feng defeats an opponent vastly stronger and larger by exploiting quests, equipment, and a size-based enhancement.
• Misdirection and underestimated threats: The treasury alarm draws the Great Tomb’s leaders away, while Chen Feng’s apparent disadvantage masks his plan.
• Genre-aware humor: The chapter jokes about heroic speeches, last-minute power-ups, “Chekhov’s Gun,” and the danger of declaring victory too soon.
• Scale and perspective: The Flame Demon’s cosmic size seems decisive, until the story turns that scale into a vulnerability.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng and the Savior divide the enemies between them, with Chen Feng checking whether she can handle two opponents; she responds with a mock-tragic pep talk.
• The Savior’s narration prompts bewildered reactions from Chen Feng, Lia, and even the unemployed Holy Sword.
• Luredo dismisses the Savior’s lightning attacks, while the Savior keeps up the assault.
• Chen Feng and the Flame Demon Ancestor trade confident assessments: the Ancestor explains why he believes Chen cannot win, while Chen reveals his plan through the newly empowered gun.

Key plot points and events

• The King of the Undead confronts Chen Feng over killing Ulbert, the Ancestor of Flame Demons, and asks why Chen left his head intact.
• Chen explains that he deliberately left Ulbert alive but powerless: as an elemental being, Ulbert might otherwise be resurrected at full strength. The Savior criticizes this as insufficiently thorough, joking that he would leave only a single cell—or use Borrowed Life to preserve a drop of blood.
• The King tries to restore Ulbert through the Great Tomb’s data-based resurrection system. Its records show that several floor rulers, including Elizabeth and Peloro, are gone, while Ulbert remains gravely wounded.
• The resurrection costs 500 million gold coins, but the Great Tomb’s treasuries have been emptied. The Savior admits he looted the main, backup, and backup-to-the-backup treasuries, as well as the King’s Spatial Ring.
• The King turns to the gold held in the system, but Chen disrupts the process with a shake-to-open advertisement. When the King finishes it, a second prompt demands that he not blink; as a skeleton without eyes, he can never satisfy it, so Ulbert cannot be resurrected.

Character developments

• Chen Feng shows tactical foresight and a ruthless, unconventional grasp of how to prevent resurrection. His knowledge comes from prior training in the Paranormal Universe.
• The Savior proves both highly capable and shamelessly opportunistic: he loots the Great Tomb’s wealth and items while rescuing others, and judges Chen’s restraint by an extreme standard.
• The King of the Undead shifts from anger at Chen to grief and guilt over failing to protect his people. His efforts to save Ulbert are thwarted by the depleted treasury and Chen’s sabotage.
• Fallen Angel Lia reacts with disbelief to the Savior’s advice and unease at Chen’s particularly nasty trick.

Significant themes

• Outsmarting resurrection: Victory depends not just on defeating an opponent, but on understanding the rules that might bring them back.
• Power and exploitation: The Savior’s theft and Chen’s system interference turn the Great Tomb’s own resources and mechanics against its ruler.
• Grief and loyalty: The King’s anger is rooted in the losses of his subordinates and his guilt over failing to protect them.
• Dark comedy: The chapter contrasts high-stakes conflict with absurd obstacles, especially a skeleton being told not to blink.

Character interactions

• The King challenges Chen, who defends his decision to leave Ulbert’s head; the Savior then needles Chen with increasingly extreme suggestions.
• The Savior taunts the King by revealing that he has emptied the treasuries and stolen the King’s ring.
• The King orders Luredo to protect him while he tries to complete the resurrection process.
• The Savior urges Chen to interrupt the King, but Chen calmly explains that resurrection is already impossible; Lia questions the cruelty of Chen’s method and learns where he acquired it.

Key plot points

• The Savior bombards the Pure White Succubus with lightning, but Lia’s Appraisal reveals that her Armor of Achilles can block three Single-Entity attacks and that she has immense defense plus broad immunity to magic.
• Chen Feng proposes using the Savior’s death divinity, but the Savior cannot repeatedly use his killing rule until he has fully assimilated his Divine Spark and reached level 10,000. He also refuses Chen’s Ghost-Binding Art because its chance of permanent death is too high.
• The Savior turns to an Origin Magic linked to the Faulty Robot: each cast doubles the lightning orbs already created. After 147 castings, the growing storm overwhelms the Succubus’s defenses.
• The Succubus’s counterattack destroys the Magma Universe and one floor of the Great Tomb, but Chen escapes with Lia using Time Stop, while the Savior reveals that he was fighting through a clone. The revelation crushes the Succubus’s confidence.
• The King of the Undead summons Isaac, a weeping child whose sacrifice is worth the life force of an entire universe. He begins a ritual using the Great Tomb’s strongest World Item, the Offering to the God of Abundance, to summon a Multiversal God’s foremost champion.
• Chen receives a system prompt offering him one system point if he answers the summons. If he declines, the offering will go to Mortarion. The chapter ends as Chen considers the tempting deal.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng stays resourceful and irreverent, spotting the potential in the Savior’s doubling spell and escaping the Succubus’s attack. He is intrigued rather than alarmed by the summons.
• The Savior shows both caution and formidable tactical ingenuity: he rejects the dangerous Ghost-Binding Art but exploits a skill that scales exponentially. Despite his apparent victory, he worries about losing a clone and calculates his reduced odds of winning.
• The Pure White Succubus shifts from mocking her opponents to panic and despair as the lightning overwhelms her and she learns the Savior was only using a clone.
• Lia appraises the Succubus’s armor and defenses, then admires the Savior’s true body.
• The King of the Undead comforts the defeated Succubus and takes over, escalating the battle with the sacrifice ritual.

Significant themes

• Exponential growth and cleverness: A seemingly weak attack becomes devastating through repeated doubling.
• Risk versus reward: The Savior rejects a high-risk ability, while Chen is tempted by an unusually favorable offer.
• Hidden power and appearances: The Savior’s clone conceals his true body, and the Great Tomb’s earlier weapons prove not to be its ultimate threat.
• Escalation: The battle moves from a seemingly manageable duel to universe-destroying force and a potential confrontation with a Multiversal champion.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• After the King of the Undead summons reinforcements, Chen Feng appears—and the Undead King realizes his side is doomed. He protests that Chen Feng and Savior are bullying the weak, despite having used his own power to massacre cities, enslave people, and build a vast human-processing tower.
• Savior condemns the Undead King’s hypocrisy, recalling the suffering of victims such as Sika and a mutilated level-1,000 holy maiden. He argues that the Undead King and his supposed “family” are not human at all.
• Hidden nearby, the Wheel-Turning Ghost King and Immortal Ancient Dragon of Cihang discuss retreating. The Ghost King has secretly gathered powerful artifacts, eight Fire World Law Shards, nine universes’ worth of souls, and seven level-9,999 legendary souls. His real plan is to sacrifice all life on the Land of Fire to awaken Cihang’s Bodhisattva, not to become a god himself.
• The Immortal Ancient Dragon dismisses the Ghost King’s caution and attacks Chen Feng and Savior with Chaos Primordial Immortal Breath, an attack capable of destroying a universe.
• Chen Feng and Savior respond together: Savior activates Vengeance Divinity and draws Holy Sword Plus One, while Chen Feng invokes Spacetime Divinity and stops time. The chapter ends as they begin their counterattack.

Character developments

• Savior shows moral clarity and fierce anger at the Undead King’s cruelty. His past actions, including helping free the Heroes under Peerless Beauty’s control, still weigh on him, but he channels that guilt into protecting others.
• Chen Feng remains confident and amused by Savior’s sharp retort, but quickly joins him in battle when the Immortal Ancient Dragon strikes.
• The King of the Undead is exposed as a cowardly hypocrite: he boasts when powerful, then claims victimhood when facing stronger opponents.
• The Wheel-Turning Ghost King is cautious and calculating. Despite his immense resources and hidden power, he distrusts the apparent openings in Chen Feng and Savior’s defenses.
• The Immortal Ancient Dragon is arrogant and aggressive, convinced that his near-limitless defenses and universe-destroying attack make victory certain.

Significant themes

• Hypocrisy and accountability: The Undead King’s claims of protecting his “family” ring hollow given the atrocities he committed against other families.
• Justice and vengeance: Savior’s anger is grounded in the victims’ suffering, and his Vengeance Divinity turns that conviction into power.
• Caution versus arrogance: The Ghost King senses danger and hesitates, while the Ancient Dragon’s confidence leads him to attack.
• Humanity and identity: The Ancient Dragon argues that long life erodes humanity and that preserving individuality is a form of resistance.

Character interactions

• Savior confronts the Undead King’s excuses with both moral condemnation and a cutting insult; Chen Feng admires his verbal attack.
• The Ghost King and Ancient Dragon argue over retreating and the risk of attacking. The Ghost King warns that Chen Feng and Savior may be baiting them, but the Ancient Dragon ignores him and launches the assault.
• Chen Feng and Savior coordinate their response, combining spacetime control with vengeance-based swordsmanship.

Key plot points and events

• Evil Chen Feng uses Cihang’s chief disciple’s account to access Number Zero’s systems and gains a cheat system with infinite stats, time lock, and One-Hit Kill.
• He battles the Immortal Ancient Dragon, but its Single-Entity Rank durability makes it extremely difficult to hurt. The dragon’s breath is harmless to it, and several powerful attacks only inflict minor wounds.
• Chen Feng summons a Dark Archmage and combines its attack with the Sword of Rupture, finally tearing into the dragon’s body.
• He discovers Number Zero’s Command Block system, which can alter the Land of Fire’s laws. He removes the ban on sword weapons and adds rules weakening dragons and empowering the Ape God.
• With his attacks restored and strengthened, Chen Feng unleashes a devastating blow that appears to destroy the dragon’s body and forces it to use its resurrection ability.
• The resurrected dragon regains its senses and begs Chen Feng to stop, identifying itself as “Little Dragon” and reminding him of an outstanding promise.

Character developments

• Evil Chen Feng shifts from relying on brute-force cheats to exploiting the Command Block and changing the world’s rules. His impatience grows as he worries that prolonged use of Cihang’s identity will contaminate him.
• The Immortal Ancient Dragon is revealed as an extraordinarily durable but not invulnerable fighter. After resurrection, it appears to recover its sanity and recognize Chen Feng.
• Little Dragon’s personality emerges beneath the hostile, corrupted form: it is familiar with Chen Feng and remembers their personal arrangement.

Significant themes

• Power has limits—and loopholes: Infinite stats and powerful attacks do not guarantee victory against an equally overwhelming opponent; altering the rules proves more effective.
• Systems and laws shape reality: The Command Block’s edits transform the balance of power across the Land of Fire.
• Corruption and identity: Chen Feng fears being contaminated by Cihang’s influence, while the dragon’s clearer state after resurrection suggests its corrupted identity may not be permanent.
• Comic contrast: Cosmic destruction is juxtaposed with Chen Feng’s exasperation over game mechanics and the dragon’s highly specific, absurd request.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng repeatedly attacks the Ancient Dragon, testing different systems and weapons as he searches for a way through its defenses.
• He summons the Dark Archmage to fight alongside him in a combined attack.
• After changing the world’s laws, Chen Feng strikes the dragon hard enough to trigger its resurrection.
• The dragon pleads with Chen Feng to stop and invokes their prior promise, abruptly turning the battle into a familiar, comedic exchange.

Evil Chen questioned the Immortal Ancient Dragon about their inverted perceptions, then killed him and returned to the Great Tomb. The Ghost King ambushed Chen Feng as he tried to reverse his corruption, but the Savior revealed he had prepared for the attack.

• Evil Chen learned that the Immortal Ancient Dragon saw him as a corrupted enemy and believed Cihang's account of the Great Calamity, while their perceptions of past events were reversed.
• Big Bro Proficiency whipped Evil Chen back to focus, and Evil Chen erased the Immortal Ancient Dragon, who dropped a magic divine spark and life divinity before being revived.
• Evil Chen returned to the tenth floor of the Great Tomb and activated Reversal to escape his Cihang's Chief state.
• The Ghost King disabled system commands, prohibited resurrection, erased Chen Feng, reduced his attributes to zero, and unleashed nine soul attacks.
• Holy Sword Plus One moved despite the time freeze, and the Savior appeared, revealing he had anticipated the Ghost King's ambush.

Chen Feng survived Ghost King's erasure command and discovered that life and death divinities were balancing against one another while his stats and level became infinite. After rescuing Immortal Ancient Dragon and restoring his group membership, Chen Feng found a message saying Netherworld Star had been waiting for him at New Netherworld Technical College.

• Chen Feng resurrected in the Void Rift with the life divinity, while Savior said Ghost King had escaped after their difficult fight.
• Ghost King reached the Land of Fire and revealed that he had gathered all nine World Fragments after destroying most of his Soul Vessels to escape Savior.
• Chen Feng discovered that his level and stats had become infinite and that life and death divinities were opposing each other as his life, time, and space skills began unlocking.
• Immortal Ancient Dragon thanked Chen Feng for rescuing him and bargained to join Chen Feng on a trip to the Demon Venerable Universe.
• Chen Feng added Immortal Ancient Dragon to the group, then received Netherworld Star's message asking why he had not arrived at New Netherworld Technical College.

Chainsaw Teacher recognized Chen Feng as a visitor from the future and approved his enrollment, while Chen Feng realized he had reached the wrong school. The King of the Undead returned to his original world as an ordinary human, only for flame demons to invade his city.

• Chainsaw Teacher examined Chen Feng's future-dated enrollment letter, identified the Time-Space System's historical rift, and approved his application.
• Chen Feng noticed the school differed from the one he expected and concluded he had gone to the wrong school.
• Netherworld Star panicked when Chen Feng revealed he had met his past self, Teacher Ge, at the old school.
• The Ancient Dragon left to recruit fighters for the Elbow-Strike Tournament, and Savior told Chen Feng that the shock waves had killed Pure White Succubus and the King of the Undead.
• The King of the Undead awoke in his original world as an ordinary office worker and learned that his game had shut down.
• Flame demons emerged from Portals above the city and ordered their forces to capture the humans and turn them into a People-Grinding Tower.