Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng examines the newly acquired Gourmet System. Its summoned chef can prepare meals that grant temporary party-wide buffs, special effects such as an extra revival or bonus Temporary Points after a mission, and permanent attribute boosts by cooking monsters Chen Feng kills.
• The Fortune Rice could help Chen Feng replenish points, while a meal made from the Flesh Willow might strengthen him permanently. He reflects that he has an unusual reluctance to spend points and suspects someone—or something—has planted ideas in his subconscious. He wonders if Number Zero left him a clue, perhaps to be uncovered by upgrading the Save-Load System.
• Chen Feng plans to retrieve Mr. Qipa and ask the War Marshal for weapon blueprints, hoping to make a lightsaber. But the War Marshal is in his violent Khorne state, so Chen Feng puts the request on hold.
• In the group chat, the Doomsday Empress outdoes the War Marshal’s bloodlust, claiming she destroyed two planets the previous day. The War Marshal is left speechless.
• The King of the Monsters says he has stopped hiding and is building an alliance against the Giant of Light, recruiting mutated Lightning Monsters. The Ancient Dragon reports that the Deep Sea Era has ended and fog has covered the world. To avoid undead, he plans to build his castle inside a storm.
• The Ancient Dragon asks Chen Feng for two women athletes, then clarifies that he will accept just one, provided the person is not male. Chen Feng assures him—technically truthfully—that the candidate is “not a man.”

Character developments

• Chen Feng recognizes that the Gourmet System may be valuable for both his own growth and his group, and becomes more alert to possible subconscious manipulation surrounding Cihang, She Qingqing, and his points.
• The King of the Monsters shows new initiative: rather than keep running from the Giant of Light, he intends to resist through an alliance, though he remains unwilling to confront the Giant directly.
• The Ancient Dragon has learned from his past capture and is changing his strategy by building a lair off the ground.
• The Doomsday Empress is portrayed as even more extreme than the War Marshal in her capacity for destruction.

Themes

• Power and self-interest: Chen Feng values lasting personal strength while weighing it against temporary benefits for the group.
• Manipulation and trust: His unexplained instincts suggest that his judgments and decisions may have been influenced.
• Adaptation through experience: The King of the Monsters and Ancient Dragon each change their tactics after past danger.
• Dark comedy and absurdity: The group’s casual discussion of mass destruction and the Ancient Dragon’s bizarre request contrast with Chen Feng’s practical concerns.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng weighs the Gourmet System’s benefits with the help of the Proficiency System, then tries to contact the War Marshal for weapon-making help.
• The Doomsday Empress and War Marshal compete over their violent records, with the Empress’s claims silencing him.
• Chen Feng encourages the King of the Monsters’ alliance plan and cautions the Ancient Dragon about the dangers of the returning light.
• The Ancient Dragon presses Chen Feng for an athlete; Chen Feng agrees while privately noting that the person he has in mind is neither a woman nor a man.

Chapter Summary

Chen Feng needs the War Marshal’s lightsaber blueprints so he can make backup swords, but the War Marshal is too consumed by violence to help. Chen turns to Demon Lord Dong Zhuo for wine and learns that Dong’s promised sobriety lasted only a day. Dong also reveals that Chancellor Zhuge foresaw a coming calamity, but Dong dismissed him and had him thrown out.
Wutian Buddha confirms that he too senses danger. He says the great powers Hongjun, Pangu, Yuanshi, and Tongtian are missing, leaving him worried that he may have to face whatever is coming alone. The Demon Venerable tries to reassure him, then shares his new passion for poetry. His first lines sound absurdly repetitive, but the final line—“Ten years honed a peerless thought”—surprises Chen Feng by giving the poem an unexpectedly meaningful finish.
The group’s banter turns alarming when the King of the Monsters reports that five lightning monsters are eating him. Meanwhile, the Unlucky Corpse Emperor is conducting a Dark Turmoil, a massacre spanning ten star systems. The War Marshal’s bloodlust quickly fades when the Doomsday Empress calculates the enormous death toll, and he suddenly claims that Khorne is a fan of the group.
Chen Feng then asks how to defeat an enemy with unlimited Blessings, or destiny. The Demon Venerable outlines several ways: overpower the enemy, cut them off from their world, kill them before their destiny awakens, or make them exhaust their fortune by pitting one destined person against another. Chen dismisses some options as impractical, but likes the idea of isolating the enemy in another world or a sealed small world. The chapter ends with Netherworld Star asking whether Chen wants to send the mind-reading Savior a few selfies.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Chen Feng remains practical and irreverent, asking the group for usable solutions while reacting skeptically to its eccentric members.
• Dong Zhuo is exposed as a hypocrite about quitting wine and an arrogant ruler who ignores warnings.
• Wutian reveals genuine concern about the looming calamity and the absence of the strongest beings.
• The Demon Venerable is unexpectedly creative: his goofy poetry turns out to have a resonant final line, and he offers Chen Feng strategic advice about destiny.
• The War Marshal swings between violent bloodlust and instant restraint when confronted with the scale of the casualties.
• The King of the Monsters shifts the group’s comic chatter into danger with his desperate report of being attacked.
• The group’s exchanges blend teasing, mockery, and occasional serious counsel, showing how its powerful members treat catastrophe and absurdity with equal casualness.

Significant Themes

• Destiny and agency: The chapter explores whether “children of destiny” can be defeated and presents fate as powerful but finite and potentially exploitable.
• Power and responsibility: The Dark Turmoil’s immense death toll contrasts with the group’s casual attitude toward violence, briefly checked by the War Marshal’s calculation.
• Comedy amid danger: Threats of calamity, massacre, and being eaten are repeatedly undercut by jokes, banter, and strange personal obsessions.
• Unexpected meaning: The Demon Venerable’s ridiculous poem gains depth through its final line, turning apparent nonsense into a statement about effort and perseverance.

Chapter Summary: “Fast Hands Took Them All”

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng confirms that the War Marshal shared the lightsaber blueprints with him. The King of the Monsters also survives, claiming he escaped through his primal power—then admits he ate his attackers because “friends really are delicious.”
• Chen Feng plans to gather the children of destiny to oppose the Savior. Since the Flesh Centipede he killed cannot return, he hopes the Swordsman will survive; he also intends to recruit the Jujutsu Sorcerer and Magical Girl, and later kill the soon-to-be-born Half-Yokai.
• His Hextech draw gives him three silver options: health and Magic Power regeneration, a daily spell shield, and a one-time option to reclaim a previously selected system. Planning to choose the last, Chen Feng uses the Sandevistan to select all three in quick succession—and somehow succeeds.
• The exploit gives him all three Hextechs for the cost of one point, but crashes the Hextech System until it can restart after several reloads. Chen Feng praises the Equipment Enhancement System for suggesting the trick, then decides to reward it with ten enhancement pulls.
• Chen Feng upgrades the Farming System’s third floor into an Artifact Refining Pavilion. He still needs a Blood Willow Stone from the Flesh Willow to begin his pulls.
• To obtain weapons based on the lightsaber blueprints, Chen Feng persuades Mr. Qipa to help by offering access to his rooftop garden, where Qipa can grow more poria spirit. Qipa makes two biological swords: the fast-striking Jade Mantis Quickblade and the hard-hitting, potentially stunning Silver Shark Tooth. Both glow when infused with Magic Power.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows his pragmatic, opportunistic nature: he plans a coalition against the Savior, exploits a system loophole, and bargains for Qipa’s cooperation. He also recognizes the tactical value of the spell shield as an early warning against attacks.
• The Equipment Enhancement System proves unexpectedly clever by suggesting Chen Feng tap all three Hextech choices during Sandevistan’s time-slowing effect. Chen Feng goes from dismissing the idea to calling it a stroke of genius.
• Mr. Qipa initially resists making the weapons, insisting he is a biologist, but changes his mind when Chen Feng offers the rooftop garden and a reliable supply of poria spirit. Their exchange remains comic, especially when Chen calls the glowing biological swords “lightsabers.”
• The King of the Monsters appears both relieved to have survived and unsettlingly casual about eating his former attackers.

Significant themes

• Resourcefulness and loopholes: Chen Feng turns a seemingly impossible system choice into an advantage through quick thinking—and literal fast hands.
• Practical alliances: Cooperation is built through mutually beneficial bargains, as Chen Feng trades garden access for Qipa’s expertise.
• Preparation and survival: Chen Feng seeks allies, safeguards, recovery abilities, and specialized weapons as he prepares for the coming fight against the Savior.
• Comic contrast: Serious threats and strategic planning are repeatedly undercut by absurd system mechanics, bizarre bargains, and the King of the Monsters’ cheerful cannibalism.

Key plot points

• When the sun abruptly vanishes, Cihang City descends into darkness and monsters overrun the streets. Li Jianguo reveals that monsters had secretly ruled the city for years, and that resistance—including investigations like Zhang Ruobing’s parents’—had led people to disappear.
• Li and Zhang shelter survivors in a convenience store, but their growing group needs a larger base and more supplies. Zhang seeks allies at nearby survivor bases, finding two already destroyed and an apartment group unwilling to join.
• The apartment base’s leader explains that helping people is worthwhile only when the group can support them; he refuses to abandon injured members but is careful about who they take in.
• A nurse named Xilu arrives, claiming to have escaped a gorilla yokai. The leader lets her in but orders the second-in-command to watch her. Xilu charms him, drugs him with GHB, and kills him, allowing the gorilla to attack and slaughter the base.
• Xilu and the gorilla repeat this scheme against other survivor groups: she uses her appearance and medical cover to gain entry, drugs people with abilities, and lets the monster kill the rest.
• When Xilu becomes pregnant, the gorilla decides she is no longer useful and abandons her. She dies after giving birth to a gorilla-faced Half-Yokai. Chen Feng finds the child and declares that it is next to die.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Jianguo is revealed as a wary, experienced survivor who has long understood the danger beneath the city’s apparent normality. He tries to protect Zhang by keeping her uninformed.
• Zhang Ruobing is determined and practical, seeking stronger allies and a safer base, though her willingness to shelter vulnerable people contrasts with the apartment leader’s stricter approach.
• The apartment leader is cautious but principled: he distinguishes between abandoning people indiscriminately and accepting more dependents than the group can protect. His trust in Xilu proves fatal.
• The second-in-command is reassured by the leader’s fairness, but his judgment fails when Xilu exploits his attraction and trust.
• Xilu is exposed as a calculating collaborator who disguises herself as a helpless nurse and manipulates survivors. Her relationship with the gorilla is ultimately transactional: once pregnant and no longer useful, she is discarded.
• The gorilla yokai is brutal and self-serving, using Xilu to enter bases and killing her when she ceases to serve its purposes. Its child becomes the target of Chen Feng.

Significant themes

• Survival and responsibility: The leader argues that compassion requires taking responsibility for those rescued, not making promises a group cannot keep.
• Trust and deception: In the apocalypse, apparent vulnerability and kindness can conceal lethal motives; misplaced trust can destroy an entire community.
• Usefulness and dehumanization: Xilu and the gorilla treat people as tools, while the gorilla’s abandonment of Xilu exposes the cruelty of valuing others only for their utility.
• The collapse of social order: The vanished sun and monster attacks overturn the old balance, forcing survivors to make difficult choices about whom they can protect.

Key plot points

• Chen Feng kills the Half-Yokai by dropping the Demon Sword on it, then places the corpse of its black-furred ape father beside it. The Gourmet System reveals the ape’s rare brain marrow can pass on its bloodline and abilities—such as Battle Qi transformation and lightning—prompting Chen to recognize the system’s value.
• While heading to check on the Swordsman, Chen hears the Savior taunt him through a voice-transmission spell, claiming to kill civilians unless Chen reveals himself. Chen stays hidden, convinced that surrendering would not save the world.
• At the Great Sun Dojo, a powerful, intelligent Flesh Tyrant massacres the disciples. Chen attacks it, but its speed defeats his strongest opening move, and his follow-up sword strikes cannot overcome its regeneration.
• Jing Longri, the dojo’s prodigy, emerges with a wooden training sword. As the last surviving disciple, he confronts the monster rather than flee. His sword awakens, revealing the Tyrant’s core; he cuts it apart and burns away its regenerating flesh. The kill advances Chen to the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains pragmatic and composed: he uses an accidental-looking trick to kill the Half-Yokai, thinks strategically about the Savior’s provocation, and recognizes that the Flesh Tyrant’s speed makes his usual tactics ineffective.
• Jing Longri shifts from grief and helplessness to resolve. Memories of his father’s lesson—that a sword’s worth comes from the wielder, not its material—give meaning to the wooden sword. Though Chen urges him to retreat, Jing refuses and reveals overwhelming power.
• The Savior tries to manipulate Chen through threats and guilt, but Chen refuses to expose himself.
• The dojo’s slain disciples, especially Jing’s younger brother Jing Longyue, deepen Jing’s grief and motivate his stand.

Significant themes

• Hidden potential and transformation: The Gourmet System can turn an enemy’s traits into new power, while Jing’s plain wooden sword becomes a weapon of extraordinary force.
• Resolve in the face of overwhelming odds: Jing acts despite knowing the Tyrant is vastly stronger.
• Pragmatism versus manipulation: Chen rejects the Savior’s emotional bait, believing the larger stakes outweigh the guilt imposed on him.
• Power and its limits: Chen’s strength is substantial, but the Tyrant’s speed and regeneration expose weaknesses in his approach; Jing’s sudden awakening changes the balance entirely.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After seeing Cihang City’s powerful swordsmen, Chen Feng realizes how formidable they are. Jing Longri thanks him for intervening and agrees to help kill a bad person Chen Feng has in mind. Chen Feng’s system also rewards him for defeating the Flesh Tyrant on their first encounter: he gains an extra save slot and a Bloodburst Stone.
• Before leaving, Jing Longri carefully buries the victims from his dojo, then breaks down over failing to protect his father, fellow disciples, and family. Chen Feng explains that the Savior prevented him from destroying the Flesh Willow and has been killing people to draw him out. Jing Longri vows to destroy every Flesh Monster.
• Chen Feng reunites Jing Longri with his younger brother, Jing Longyue, now a weak ghost vulnerable to the city’s red mist. Though Chen Feng offers to take him somewhere safe, both brothers refuse to be separated. Chen Feng recruits Jing Longyue, triggering the Ghost-Catching System’s 3.0 upgrade: ghosts can now advance beyond ten stars, and wishes no longer need to be fulfilled before recruitment.
• At the Happiness Internet Cafe, the Magical Girl prepares to leave, insisting that helping Chen Feng against the Savior did not make them allies. Chen Feng persuades her to stay for a meal, wagering that his cooking will impress her.
• Chen Feng chooses a cat as his exclusive head chef. The imposing, battle-scarred Head Chef and his feline assistants prepare a meat-heavy feast. The system lets Chen Feng assign the dishes powerful effects: luck, group resurrection, major Magic Power recovery, and double casting.
• The Magical Girl and the others are overwhelmed by the food’s flavor and its magical benefits. After eating, the group gains immense vitality, abundant Magic Power, and deeper magical understanding. Old Wolf’s special dish awakens forgotten abilities, granting him Breathing Strengthening Talent and Black Battle Qi Transformation.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shifts from jealousy and shock at the swordsmen’s strength to enthusiasm when his system rewards arrive. He remains resourceful, using the cafe’s Soul Hall and teleportation system to address Jing Longyue’s danger.
• Jing Longri shows compassion in burying the dead and grief over his losses, then turns that grief into a vow to fight the Flesh Monsters. His devotion to his younger brother is mutual.
• Jing Longyue chooses to remain with his brother despite the danger, and his recruitment unlocks a major system upgrade.
• The Magical Girl remains volatile and distrustful, threatening Chen Feng and casually hurling Black Cat away, but her curiosity about the meal gives him a chance to keep her around.
• The Head Chef makes an intimidating entrance but proves indispensable: his final seasoning activates the dishes’ effects. The Swordsman even gains insight by watching the feline cooks’ knife work.
• Old Wolf’s response to the special dish suggests that food can restore more than strength: it can awaken dormant memories and abilities.

Significant themes

• Grief, loyalty, and family: Jing Longri’s sorrow becomes resolve, while both brothers refuse a safe separation.
• Power paired with responsibility: Chen Feng uses his systems not only to gain advantages but to protect allies and strengthen the group.
• Food as fellowship and power: The meal brings a tense, divided gathering together while granting major combat benefits.
• The absurd alongside the serious: Mourning, danger, and system upgrades sit alongside comic threats, a battle-hardened cooking cat, and magically glowing food.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng realizes Half-Yokai can grow rapidly through their unusual talents and briefly considers using his time-rewind save system to repeatedly harvest ingredients. He abandons the idea when he remembers reloading would replace the Gourmet System.
• The Magical Girl agrees to stay with the group, claiming it is for protection rather than food. Chen Feng outlines the Savior Robert Astraea’s many Blessings and the dangers they pose: extreme evasion and bad luck, resistance to elemental damage and debuffs, mind-reading, and three lives that grow stronger with each resurrection.
• Since their group is vastly weaker than the Savior, Chen Feng sets a six-month training goal. Old Wolf offers to scout, but Chen tells him to recover after his recent injuries.
• In Cihang City, Chen Feng investigates reports and tracks monster activity, knowing some information may help if he rewinds time later. He suspects the Savior is using an injured Flesh Tyrant as bait, but avoids detection by concealing himself and teleporting away when necessary.
• Back at the Happiness Internet Cafe, Old Wolf’s new Half-Yokai talent makes him ravenously hungry and rapidly stronger. Erha tries to copy him, overeats, and passes out.
• Chen Feng visits the Soul Hall and discovers that the Moon Ghost has reached three stars through cultivation alone—a breakthrough in the established rules of ghost advancement. He finds the other ghosts’ eerie behavior unsettling.
• Jing Longri trains the Trio in swordsmanship, easily defeating them while holding his strength to their level. His cryptic advice about martial arts and clearing the mind leaves most of the group baffled.
• Chen Feng meditates under Proficiency’s harsh instruction for three months. He finally masters the Fast-Slow Blade, making his major sword techniques alternate between fast and slow and increasing their hit rate by 100%. He immediately calls out the Savior.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains inventive and tactical, gathering information for possible future rewinds. He also begins serious martial training, though his progress comes only after Proficiency forces him to persist.
• Old Wolf feels profound gratitude toward Chen Feng, who helped restore his body and cultivation; Chen, in turn, treats him as family. His new talent makes him stronger through eating.
• The Magical Girl joins the group while disguising her enthusiasm for the food as concern for everyone’s safety. She advocates channeling magic into physical strength.
• Erha provides comic relief through his eagerness to imitate Old Wolf, which ends in a food-induced collapse.
• Jing Longri proves both an exceptional swordsman and a demanding teacher. His disciplined instruction contrasts with the Trio’s confusion and reluctance.
• She Qingqing shows warmth toward Chen Feng, while his teasing about her petrification powers earns him a tail-whip and a rebuke. Yellow Hair and Fatty tease him about trying to become a caring boyfriend.
• Proficiency acts as Chen Feng’s severe tutor, translating Jing Longri’s abstract lesson and whipping Chen Feng into focused practice.

Significant themes

• Preparation against overwhelming odds: The Savior’s stacked Blessings force Chen Feng’s group to plan, train, and exploit any advantage rather than rely on strength alone.
• Growth through unusual means: Half-Yokai improve through eating, while the Moon Ghost advances through cultivation, challenging established assumptions about how power works.
• Discipline versus shortcuts: Chen Feng often relies on systems, points, and clever exploits, but mastering the Fast-Slow Blade requires sustained effort.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter balances the looming threat of the Savior with banter, food-related mishaps, and the group’s eccentric personalities.

Key plot points and events

• Three months after the previous events, Cihang City’s protective barrier is weakening rapidly. Because the city remembers events across Chen Feng’s save-load resets, the Cihang Cult is exploiting that advantage to spread chaos. The Great Yokai may be nearing its limit, forcing Chen Feng to act before the city breaks free.
• Chen Feng gathers allies for an ambush against the Savior, whose relentless killings have driven him to seek a confrontation. The group chooses an empty street to avoid endangering civilians.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer insists on fighting the Savior alone. Using his new Domain of Slashing, he traps and badly injures the Savior, then kills him with an ordinary cursed-energy attack to avoid the Savior’s revenge ability. The Savior resurrects, growing from Weak Street-Burst to Weak City-Burst rank.
• The Savior imitates Spatial Slash and unleashes an enormous version—far larger than the Sorcerer’s technique. It destroys the Sorcerer, his domain, and the street. The Savior then turns to the remaining fighters.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng recognizes that his usual strategy of waiting and growing stronger is no longer safe. Despite his reluctance, he organizes a direct attack, balancing practical concerns with the looming threat to Cihang.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer has grown stronger and developed a sixth domain, but his pride leads him to reject teamwork. His taunting genuinely enrages the Savior, and his ingenuity briefly gives the group hope before the Savior overwhelms him.
• The Swordsman prioritizes protecting civilians and insists on fighting honorably. The Magical Girl agrees with the Sorcerer’s demand for individual combat and is pleased when Chen Feng names her their strongest fighter. Old Wolf supports Chen Feng and helps assess the danger.
• The Savior’s easy confidence gives way to anger under the Sorcerer’s sincere insults. Even so, he remains devastatingly powerful and resourceful, using his Blessings to evade attacks, resurrect stronger, and copy his opponent’s signature technique.

Significant themes

• The limits of preparation: Chen Feng’s plans and the Sorcerer’s careful tactics cannot fully account for the Savior’s unpredictable Blessings.
• Pride versus cooperation: The allies’ insistence on honorable one-on-one combat leaves them facing the Savior in succession rather than together.
• Power and escalation: The Savior’s resurrection raises his strength dramatically, turning an apparent victory into a far more dangerous battle.
• The cost of delay: With Cihang’s barrier deteriorating, Chen Feng must risk action even though his group is not ready.

Key plot points and events

• After the Jujutsu Sorcerer’s defeat, the Swordsman, Jing Longri, faces the Savior in a formal duel. Both are initially at Weak City-Burst Rank.
• The Savior’s Demon Sword Blessing lets him parry Jing’s powerful opening strikes, but Jing’s unpredictable, instinctive swordsmanship soon puts the Savior on the defensive.
• The Savior tries to read Jing’s mind and copy his techniques. Reading only memories of Jing as a child practicing with a toy sword unsettles him; copying Jing’s “Mind-Only Blade Art” fails, reducing the Savior’s power and leaving him open to injury.
• Jing learns to manifest his own Blessing of the Blade Saint by observing the Savior. His wooden sword becomes a Demon Blade, and his attacks can hit through the Savior’s Blessing of Melee. Jing overwhelms him, then kills him with a devastating thousand-slash attack after Chen Feng reveals that the Savior has been murdering ordinary people.
• The Savior revives at Weak Nation-Burst Rank. Rather than fight Jing fairly, he exploits Jing’s goodness: he attacks the spectators, knowing Jing will intervene. Jing blocks the first sword, but the Savior produces a second and strikes Jing through the heart.
• Old Wolf and the Magical Girl transform to Nation-Burst-level strength and confront the Savior. Despite their combined power, he begins to overpower them.
• The Magical Girl knocks him unconscious, disrupting his Background Music Blessing. Chen Feng reveals that the glowing “lightsaber” he had positioned overhead was a trap: Power Sword: Shark’s Tooth pins the Savior down. Chen Feng then activates Cruelty Hextech and launches Ice Comet and Fire Meteor, while a second Demon-Subduing Sword keeps the Savior unconscious.

Character developments and interactions

• Jing Longri proves superior to the Savior in swordsmanship and shows a strong moral code. Even after being killed, he accepts the outcome and reflects that a second sword might have let him protect everyone—hinting at the development of a dual-wielding style.
• The Savior shifts from arrogant confidence to desperation. Unable to win at equal strength, he relies on betrayal and a surprise attack, confirming that he values victory over honor.
• Chen Feng acts as commentator, strategist, and trap-setter. He provokes Jing by exposing the Savior’s crimes, anticipates the Savior’s dirty tactic, and turns the seemingly harmless lighting setup into part of his ambush.
• The Magical Girl is impatient and aggressive, but also decisive: she breaks the Savior’s advantage with a sudden knockout. Old Wolf rushes to avenge Jing and accepts the severe cost of his transformation.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer mocks the Savior’s repeated failures and condemns his dishonorable victory over Jing; he is among those Chen Feng protects from the Savior’s attack.

Significant themes

• Honor versus pragmatism: Jing fights openly, while the Savior weaponizes that honor against him. Chen Feng, by contrast, celebrates schemes and ambushes as familiar Cihang tactics.
• Skill, talent, and insight: Jing’s swordsmanship is not merely a product of raw power; observation and understanding allow him to gain a Blessing of his own.
• The cost of power: Old Wolf and the Magical Girl can temporarily reach overwhelming strength, but their transformations carry serious risks.
• Teamwork and preparation: The Savior’s strength is countered not by a straightforward duel, but by the group’s coordination, Chen Feng’s planning, and a carefully concealed trap.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng’s Meteor Cometfall devastates Nanshan District, but the Savior survives—revealing a third resurrection. Chen Feng realizes the Savior’s Resurrection Blessing is effectively unlimited: each death grants another, making repeated attacks futile.
• Rather than continue the fight, Chen Feng uses Load Save to return to the first day after the group found the Swordsman. The reset restores the others to weaker or unavailable states, while Chen Feng retains his own cultivated strength.
• Chen Feng activates the Twelve Talismans System and selects the Rat, Dog, and Tiger Talismans as his most promising tools. The Tiger Talisman can split a person into yin and yang aspects; because the Savior is weaker in his normal state, Chen Feng can exploit its cost calculation.
• He also reactivates the Great Villain System, upgrading it to version 2.0: killing a boss now allows him to upgrade a system twice.
• When the Savior tracks him down, Chen Feng uses the Tiger Talisman to split him into a good and an evil half. The split appears to divide the Savior’s Blessings as well, and the halves can no longer read minds.
• Chen Feng proposes that the good Savior join him and the Swordsman against the evil half. The good Savior refuses—not out of malice, but because a mere 90% chance of victory seems too risky—and flees to prepare.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Feng shifts from testing overwhelming force to studying the Savior’s mechanics and planning around them. He remains confident and opportunistic, treating the Tiger Talisman’s loophole as a way to turn a seemingly impossible fight into a winnable one.
• The Savior is shown to have unlimited resurrections, making brute-force killing an unreliable strategy. His split reveals an unexpected contrast: the good half is extraordinarily cautious, matching the description of the Savior as a hero who avoids even high-probability risks.
• Chen Feng’s former allies are largely unavailable after the reset: the Magical Girl needs time to recover, the Swordsman lacks his later training, Old Wolf has lost recent growth, and the Jujutsu Sorcerer cannot be reached. Chen Feng must therefore rely mainly on his own abilities and new system tools.
• Chen Feng attempts to recruit the good Savior, but their priorities clash: Chen Feng is willing to fight with favorable odds, while the Savior insists on further preparation.

Significant themes

• Adaptation over brute force: Understanding a foe’s rules and exploiting a loophole proves more useful than simply attacking harder.
• Power and its limits: Chen Feng distrusts growth that can be erased by a reset and values strength he has cultivated himself, even as the chapter demonstrates how vulnerable others’ progress can be.
• Caution versus courage: The Savior’s flight complicates the usual division between good and evil, portraying “good” as potentially paralyzed by excessive risk-aversion.
• Systems as rule-bending tools: The Talismans and system upgrades turn abstract mechanics—resurrection, balance, and system selection—into strategic opportunities.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• The evil Savior catches Chen Feng after the good Savior flees. Chen pretends to ask for a truce, then ambushes him with a giant sword and escapes rather than risk a prolonged fight.
• The fleeing “good Savior” is revealed to have been a clay decoy rigged with an earth-based forbidden spell. The real one had hidden underground, planning to attack only if the evil Savior became vulnerable. Frustrated that both opponents avoided a decisive fight, he laments that they are “best friends.”
• Back in the restored group chat, members trade jokes, discuss upgrades, and claim the War Marshal’s Slaanesh Blessings for stamina, size, and attractiveness—despite Chen Feng’s warning that their pleasure will empower Slaanesh.
• The War Marshal reports that he was stabbed during his birthday banquet and has awakened in the Eye of Terror, where he has made a new acquaintance. The King of the Monsters describes his failed attempts to make allies and his search for a time-traveling Golden Dragon to escape the Giant of Light.
• The Cosmic Overlord reports that he has reached Earth, where the supposed Heroes behave like villains and the Monsters advocate protecting the planet.
• Chen Feng persuades Mr. Qipa to attempt making a Ten Thousand Souls Banner by offering him the Slaanesh Blessings. Mr. Qipa agrees for Shark King’s sake, despite insisting the task is far outside his expertise.
• Chen Feng visits the Third Mental Hospital and watches Captain Wu’s squad rescue survivors. One survivor—a brown-haired student—quietly records their names. Moments later, the whole squad dies of cardiac arrest, apparently killed by the student’s causality-based power.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains wary and tactical: he uses deception to escape the Savior rather than gamble on a fight, and later recognizes the danger posed by the student’s ability.
• The good Savior is revealed as a schemer who prepared a decoy and intended to exploit the evil Savior’s weakness. His caution mirrors Chen Feng’s, leaving both unwilling to commit.
• The group chat members provide comic relief through bravado, teasing, and indulgence. The Immortal Ancient Dragon’s supposedly secure door code is simply eight asterisks, while the War Marshal’s “gift” to his father turns out to be a dagger that may have stabbed him.
• Mr. Qipa shifts from emphatic refusal to reluctant cooperation when Chen Feng dangles the Blessings, especially the promise of making him “bigger.”
• Captain Wu’s squad are shown as capable, compassionate rescuers. Their kindness toward the student—offering him directions and Captain Wu’s ID—leaves them exposed to his lethal power.

Significant themes

• Caution and deception: Chen Feng and the good Savior both survive by avoiding direct, uncertain confrontations and preparing tricks in advance.
• Power and vulnerability: Even strong fighters can be defeated by unusual abilities that bypass ordinary defenses.
• Names and identity: The student’s need for victims’ real names and faces explains why future top fighters use codenames.
• Comedy amid danger: Absurd group-chat banter and sexual jokes contrast with the brutal violence of the apocalypse.
• Trust and its risks: Captain Wu’s generosity helps survivors but also gives a hidden threat the access he needs to kill the squad.

Chapter summary

Key plot points

• Chen Feng recalls the Great Yokai’s warning not to give out names in Cihang City. After learning that several top fighters use aliases, he suspects another dangerous expert is hiding among people who use their real names. He tracks down a brown-haired student, intending either to recruit him or kill him and seize his notebook.
• The student’s coin tosses guide him through the city to survivor camps. Chen Feng observes that the student somehow avoids monsters and suspects he has an ability that detects danger. At one deserted base, Chen identifies demonic energy left by the Savior’s actions in an earlier cycle.
• At a villa shelter, the student asks survivors for their names. A scarred former team leader distrusts him and attacks with bullets that track their targets. The student dodges the first shot and withstands the others without injury, revealing that he is not human.
• The student uses a finger-gun gesture to fire a devastating blast, destroying the scarred man, the villa, and nearby buildings. He then massacres the remaining survivors, including a man he pretends to spare before attacking him from behind.
• Chen Feng intervenes with the Shark Sword, destroying the student’s body. But the student’s silver-white fragments reassemble, revealing a regenerative mechanical body. Chen confronts him as Robert Astraea, but the student recognizes the technology in Chen’s weapons and uses Mechanical Generation to copy it.
• The student rapidly upgrades Chen’s Sandevistan, moves at overwhelming speed, and wounds him with a True Damage lightsaber. During the fight, he claims to have worked with Mr. Qipa at P.E.A.C.D. and reveals his name: Shi Yue.
• Chen reveals that, during the rain, his invisible Water Ghost stole the student’s Death Note. He criticizes Shi Yue for relying on asking people their names rather than obtaining residents’ records and identifying them directly.
• Shi Yue says the notebook cannot kill him because he has transformed himself into a biological weapon using technology from the Ancient Ruins. When Chen fixates on his use of the word “weapon,” the Equipment Enhancement System offers to deal with him.

Character developments

• Chen Feng proves methodical and cautious: he observes Shi Yue before attacking, studies his abilities, uses Water Ghost to steal the notebook, and turns the student’s confidence against him. He is badly injured but remains composed and resourceful.
• Shi Yue is revealed as a cruel, highly adaptable mechanical being, not merely a Death Note user. He enjoys killing, can reconstruct himself after being destroyed, and can analyze and reproduce advanced technology almost instantly. His claims about being a skipped-grade genius and a former P.E.A.C.D. operative add to his mysterious background.
• The scarred survivor is wary for good reason. His suspicions and tracking power expose Shi Yue’s inhuman nature, though he and the other survivors are ultimately killed.

Significant themes

• Names as power and vulnerability: Knowing or revealing someone’s name can determine life and death, making information a weapon.
• Caution and intelligence versus arrogance: Chen’s preparation and improvisation allow him to steal the notebook, while Shi Yue’s confidence leaves him vulnerable to being outmaneuvered.
• Humanity and monstrosity: Shi Yue looks like a student but acts with chilling disregard for life; the chapter repeatedly questions what makes someone a “monster.”
• Adaptation and escalation: Shi Yue can copy and improve technology, turning Chen’s own tools against him and raising the stakes of their confrontation.

Character interactions

• Chen watches Shi Yue from a distance, interpreting his actions and abilities before revealing himself.
• The scarred man confronts Shi Yue and tests his suspicions; the other survivors initially try to calm the situation, then join the attack.
• Shi Yue deceives a pleading survivor, exposing his sadistic nature.
• Chen and Shi Yue exchange threats and information during their fight. Their battle shifts when Shi Yue recognizes Chen’s weapons, and again when Chen reveals that Water Ghost has taken the notebook.
• The chapter ends with Chen poised to leave, only for Shi Yue’s “biological weapon” claim to trigger the Equipment Enhancement System’s offer to intervene.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng orders the Equipment Enhancement System to upgrade Shi Yue without a Lucky Stone. The enhancement fails spectacularly, shattering Shi Yue and scattering his gear. Chen Feng salvages advanced cyberware, Memory Metal, an Energy Crystal, and the unique Death Law of Causality, then upgrades his Sandevistan.
• Uncertain whether Shi Yue truly died, Chen Feng decides the loss of his Death Note leaves him powerless. He turns to preparing for the final conflict with the Savior, hunting the three Flesh Monsters with the Swordsman and Magical Girl. The battles raise Chen Feng to the sixth stage of Foundation Establishment.
• The Magical Girl takes Su Ai back to the Abyss and gives Chen Feng an incantation in case he needs refuge. Chen Feng tries to set her up with the Ancient Dragon, only to learn from the Black Cat that the Dragon is still married to the Abyss Witch—and that the Witch has four children with him. An Abyssal hand promptly silences the cat.
• One Flesh Monster, the Great Whale, escapes into the Cihang River. After a fruitless search, Chen Feng starts filling the river with meteor strikes to flush it out.
• At the Artifact Refining Pavilion, Chen Feng completes a ten-pull enhancement mission. He equips the Shark’s Tooth with effects that make it invisible, more likely to stun, and capable of damaging enemy weapons; he also enhances two other swords.
• Chen Feng lures the Evil Savior to the riverbank, hoping the Good Savior will come to his aid and possibly draw out the Great Yokai. The Great Yokai does not appear.
• Elsewhere, the Good Savior—now at standard Nation-Burst Rank—carefully prepares elaborate traps and layered safeguards. He suspects Chen Feng’s explosions may be bait, but still sends concealed, bomb-carrying clay dolls to investigate.
• Chen Feng kills the Evil Savior twice with a sword-and-meteor combo. The Evil Savior resurrects using his Infinite Blessing, boasts that Chen Feng cannot kill him, and threatens another attack. Chen Feng responds by preparing the Mantis Swift Sword’s Setting Sun Ten Thousand Swords Art, promising to finish the fight in one second.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains resourceful and ruthless, using systems, salvaged gear, traps, and bait to prepare for stronger opponents. His confidence is tempered by lingering concerns about Shi Yue and the missing Great Yokai.
• The Evil Savior proves powerful but careless and boastful. Chen Feng criticizes him for wasting his Blessings and failing to use his strength decisively.
• The Good Savior is Chen Feng’s opposite: highly trained, exceptionally cautious, and committed to layered contingency plans. He distrusts the apparent bait even as he investigates it.
• The Magical Girl fulfills her contract by taking Su Ai home, while offering Chen Feng a possible escape to the Abyss. Her exchange with Chen Feng turns comic when his attempted matchmaking exposes the complicated relationship between her, the Ancient Dragon, and the Abyss Witch.
• The Black Cat reveals the Dragon’s marriage and is immediately punished for telling Chen Feng. The Witch and Dragon remain unseen, but their strained relationship shapes the scene’s humor.
• Chen Feng’s allies assist him against the Flesh Monsters, while his exchanges with the enhancement system show his willingness to exploit its failures—and its fearful dependence on the Proficiency System.

Significant themes

• Luck versus preparation: Shi Yue’s failed enhancement, the Savior’s powerful Blessings, and Chen Feng’s merit-assisted upgrades all highlight the tension between chance and deliberate strategy.
• Power wasted or used well: Chen Feng condemns the Evil Savior for squandering extraordinary abilities, contrasting him with the Good Savior’s disciplined preparation.
• Deception and contingency: Chen Feng’s riverbank bait and the Good Savior’s nested traps reflect the increasingly tactical nature of the coming battle.
• Comedy amid catastrophe: Violent battles and world-ending danger are repeatedly undercut by absurd system banter, matchmaking misunderstandings, and the Black Cat’s doomed gossip.

Key plot points and events

• The Evil Savior attacks Chen Feng with two Nation-Burst Rank sword strikes, but Chen survives through Spell Shield and the Eternal Sword’s brief invincibility.
• Chen counters with Setting Sun Ten Thousand Swords Art. His enchanted Mantis Swift Sword inflicts bleeding, poison, and age reduction, while its boosted priority lets it bypass the Savior’s low-priority Blessings.
• The sword storm strips away the Evil Savior’s age and Blessings. When the Infinite Blessing is removed, it transfers to the Good Savior, who is secretly training in an underground base and immediately considers relocating.
• The Evil Savior tries to escape, but Chen invokes the Eternal Sword’s Death Call. The attack kills him outright, apparently destroying his soul as well.
• Completing the missions to destroy P.E.A.C.D and eliminate the Savior earns Chen Feng 40 points and two system upgrades. He upgrades the Save-Load System to version 4.0, gaining better odds for rare attributes, two equipped attributes, and four selectable save slots.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng demonstrates how much he has learned from earlier encounters: rather than relying on brute force, he exploits the low priority of the Savior’s Blessings and the sword’s age-reducing enchantment. He stays composed, refuses to explain his strategy, and finishes the fight with a decisive causal attack.
• The Evil Savior begins confident that his Infinite Blessing makes him effectively unbeatable. As the sword storm removes his protections, his confidence gives way to confusion and an attempt to flee. He dies before he can escape.
• The Good Savior receives the transferred Infinite Blessing but remains deeply cautious, recognizing that accumulating revival Blessings could leave him vulnerable to the same tactic.
• Chen’s taunting exchange with the Evil Savior contrasts the latter’s frantic questions with Chen’s controlled silence; afterward, Chen’s suspicion that the Savior might be faking death underscores how dangerous their previous battles have been.

Significant themes

• Preparation and adaptation: Chen wins by applying lessons from earlier fights and finding a targeted counter rather than simply matching the Savior’s strength.
• Priority and broken systems: Blessings and other supernatural effects operate within competing rules; higher-priority effects can overcome seemingly absolute protections.
• Power’s vulnerability: The Savior’s vast collection of Blessings proves conditional, and his reliance on them becomes a weakness.
• Caution and survival: The Good Savior’s immediate distrust of his apparent advantage suggests that survival depends on anticipating traps, not merely gaining power.

Summary

Key plot points and events

Chen Feng relives a memory of Number Zero, a future version of himself, confronting the Hyperspace Hound. Number Zero repeatedly dies despite using a succession of powerful systems: Five-Finger Mountain, Blade Mail, time stop, and Cao Pi’s banishment ability. The Hound can move even when time is frozen, quickly recover from reflected damage, and evade banishment. Number Zero’s repeated deaths reveal just how dangerous it is—and how much harder Chen Feng’s own earlier journey would have been with a weaker version of the Save-Load System.
Red Fox Madam eventually arrives, and Number Zero uses a Warcraft system to open a portal to the ruined temple. The Hound follows, but Cihang subdues it there and grants Number Zero protective Blood Mist, which can conceal him and hinder spiritual attacks.
Chen Feng notices that the Cihang Bodhisattva statue’s hand gesture differs from the one he remembers. He suspects that entering the temple with Red Fox Madam rather than She Qingqing may awaken a different aspect of the Bodhisattva—one that grants wishes without offering protection. The statue recognizes Chen Feng and explains that their apparent “first” meeting follows their second, clarifying a mystery from an earlier encounter.
In a second memory, Number Zero appears more experienced and travels with Liu Wubo and Scarface, now identified as Da Luo. His systems include Tycoon Cashback, which converts spending into far more points, and the Drafter System, whose bounty notices can open portals directly to targets. The group uses this to attack Bull Face. Liu Wubo destroys Bull Face’s body, while Number Zero’s red eye traps his consciousness in an illusion and kills him with black flames.
Number Zero then opens three more portals so the team can confront multiple Ghost King-related targets at once. They split up; Chen Feng follows Liu Wubo to face the powerful Great Ghost King. Though Liu Wubo seems physically weak, he assembles a Deluxe Robot with exceptional abilities, including spell immunity, taunting, resurrection, instant-kill poison, a protective first-hit shield, life drain, and always striking first.

Character developments

• Chen Feng gains insight into the dangers he once faced, the importance of his changed save file, and the possible consequences of different paths into the ruined temple. He also discovers that the Bodhisattva can perceive him within the memory.
• Number Zero is shown as a resourceful, increasingly powerful survivor who experiments with many systems, endures repeated deaths, and eventually develops an efficient strategy for hunting the Five Freaks.
• Liu Wubo proves that his technological approach can compensate for his limited personal strength; his robot is formidable enough to challenge a far stronger enemy.
• Red Fox Madam is shown as a major figure whose arrival leads Number Zero to Cihang and the Blood Mist.
• Cihang Bodhisattva shifts from a distant symbol to an active, perceptive presence, while the changed mudra raises doubts about what kind of aid the statue offers.

Significant themes

• Survival through adaptation: Number Zero’s many failed approaches show that power alone is insufficient; success depends on testing abilities and finding the right combination.
• The cost and value of alternate paths: The memories let Chen Feng compare different choices and understand how his future diverged from his past.
• Power from unexpected sources: Systems that initially seem weak or unimpressive—economic rewards, bounty notices, or technology—can become decisive.
• Protection versus wish fulfillment: The Bodhisattva’s changing gesture raises the question of whether getting what one wants is safe without protection or wisdom.
• Perspective and humility: Chen Feng repeatedly misjudges abilities and characters, then revises his assumptions when he sees what they can actually do.

Character interactions

Chen Feng observes Number Zero’s repeated battles and reacts with a mixture of alarm, admiration, and envy. Red Fox Madam’s arrival draws Number Zero toward the temple, where Cihang defeats the Hound and rewards him. Chen Feng then directly encounters the Bodhisattva within the memory and receives an explanation of their unusual chronology. Later, Number Zero coordinates with Liu Wubo and Da Luo, using the Drafter System to divide the team’s attacks; Liu Wubo’s robot demonstrates its strength as the group heads toward the Great Ghost King.

Plot points and events

• On the July 15 Platform, Liu Wubo’s deluxe robot ambushes the Great Ghost King with a poison module and kills him instantly. The Great Ghost King revives through Twin Birth, but his instant-death song is nullified by the robot’s magic disruption. Taunt then prevents him from escaping, and the robot kills him repeatedly.
• Chen Feng moves to the April 5 Platform, where Scarface faces the much stronger Lesser Ghost King. The ghost’s enormous size, resilience, and immunity to many tricks make it a formidable opponent.
• Scarface prepares with an elaborate set of self-buffs, then casts Avada Kedavra. Its instant-kill effect badly damages the Lesser Ghost King but cannot overcome the gap in their raw strength.
• Scarface follows with the devastating tenth-tier spell Comet Azur. It tears through the ghost, but the Lesser Ghost King regenerates and survives. Scarface appears to have exhausted his Magic Power—until he reveals a final casting material.
• Scarface casts ninety-ninth-tier Doom and escapes through the Portal. The spell consumes the entire April 5 Platform, destroying the Lesser Ghost King and the separate space.
• With the Lesser Ghost King gone, the Great Ghost King’s Twin Birth ability stops functioning.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng watches both battles and assesses the fighters’ abilities. He is impressed by Scarface’s preparation and ingenuity, though he initially underestimates how far Scarface’s Magic can go.
• Scarface proves far more dangerous and resourceful than Chen Feng expected: he combines extensive buffs, high-tier spells, and a catastrophic last resort rather than relying on a single attack.
• The Great Ghost King is trapped in a hopeless matchup: his special abilities are countered, and the robot prevents him from fleeing.
• The Lesser Ghost King demonstrates extraordinary durability, surviving both an instant-kill spell and a powerful beam attack before Doom finally erases him.
• The battles highlight contrasting strategies: the robot wins through direct counters and relentless control, while Scarface ultimately wins by destroying the entire battlefield.

Significant themes

• Power gaps can defeat special abilities: Instant-kill effects and spectacular attacks are not guaranteed to work against opponents with vastly superior stats.
• Preparation and adaptability matter: Scarface’s buffs and willingness to change tactics allow him to keep escalating when his earlier spells fail.
• Overwhelming force can replace a conventional victory: Number Zero’s solution to the linked twin bosses is simply to eliminate one of them entirely.
• Comic escalation: The chapter repeatedly overturns expectations, moving from ordinary ghost fights to city-level monsters, legendary spells, and a ninety-ninth-tier catastrophe.

Plot points and events

• After Number Zero, Brother Dao, and Yellow Hair return victorious through the Portal, the city is dark: the Artificial Sun has vanished, apparently because the Queen Mother was killed. Number Zero holds the Queen Mother’s head and Sadako’s cursed videotape, revealing that he had tried to use the tape against the Hive Consciousness.
• Chen Feng realizes too late that Number Zero’s earlier memories contained useful intelligence about the Five Freaks. He regrets missing chances to deal with Bull Face and Brother Dao more effectively, and to postpone killing the Queen Mother.
• The Great Yokai and the Savior arrive. Brother Dao and Yellow Hair attack, but the Savior’s protective Blessings foil them. Yellow Hair then kills him with a causal sniper rifle, only for the Savior to resurrect. Armed with the Demon Sword, the Savior destroys Yellow Hair’s robot.
• Number Zero uses a card system to summon Exodia for seven System Points. Exodia’s overwhelming attack repeatedly kills the Savior through his resurrections and destroys the Great Yokai’s powerful Incarnation.
• The Trio follows the Great Yokai’s bounty notice to his Cave Abode, which Chen Feng recognizes as the Crazy Zoo. Their attacks—a black-hole spell and a robot sent to scout—are neutralized. A simulation warns that entering means death, but they are caught before they can escape.
• The Great Yokai’s Blood-Transforming Formation surrounds them. Its black sand dissolves Scarface and Yellow Hair; Number Zero is badly wounded. He spends a point to identify the formation: it kills anyone below Nation-Burst Rank.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng acts as an observer, piecing together Number Zero’s strategy and the enemies’ abilities. His hindsight brings frustration, but he remains eager to learn from the coming fight.
• Number Zero proves both resourceful and extravagantly willing to spend System Points, using Exodia to overwhelm the Savior. His confidence is checked when the Great Yokai’s formation traps the team.
• Yellow Hair’s causal weapon makes him an effective teammate, but his robot cannot withstand the Savior’s Demon Sword. Brother Dao contributes his powerful black-hole Magic, though it proves useless against the Cave Abode’s defenses.
• The Savior’s repeated resurrections make him difficult to kill, but Exodia’s relentless attack finally overcomes them. The Great Yokai’s Incarnation is destroyed, while the true Great Yokai outmaneuvers the Trio.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and hindsight: Chen Feng reflects on how valuable intelligence would have changed his earlier decisions.
• Power versus preparation: Raw force defeats the Savior, but fails against the Great Yokai’s carefully prepared defenses.
• Systems, costs, and risk: Number Zero spends heavily for decisive power, while the Simulator and appraisal system offer information at a price.
• Caution and overconfidence: The Great Yokai’s apparent invitation hides a lethal trap, and the Trio’s confidence in their strongest attacks proves misplaced.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng and Number Zero are trapped in the Great Yokai’s Blood-Transforming Formation. Its black sand can instantly kill anyone below Nation-Burst Rank, while even stronger fighters are gradually worn down.
• Number Zero uses his version 3.0 Noble Phantasm System to obtain the Sword of Rupture. Its Enuma Elish attack tears apart the formation—but they emerge inside a second trap, the Soul-Seizing Formation.
• The Ten Thousand Souls Banner attacks souls and commands the dead. Number Zero is repeatedly killed by the spirits of former teammates, Scarface and Yellow Hair, whose abilities remain intact after death. He eventually destroys their souls, but the formation begins to threaten his own.
• A drop of blood from Cihang Bodhisattva disables the banner. The Great Yokai, revealed as the ancient beast Taowu, appears and fights Number Zero.
• Chen Feng learns that Taowu lost most of his cultivation in the Great Calamity and now has only the Blood-Transforming and Soul-Seizing Formations. His hidden third formation, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, is being used to seal Cihang Bodhisattva inside Cihang Mountain and delay the calamity.
• Taowu uses the Nine-Bend formation to reduce Number Zero to an ordinary mortal, preventing him from using Load Save. Number Zero counters by activating the version 6.0 Deep Blue Stat-Allocation System, rapidly restoring his strength to Strong Nation-Burst Level.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains an observer, but his jokes and gaming comparisons give way to concern as Number Zero faces increasingly dangerous traps. He pieces together the truth about Cihang’s seal and recognizes that defeating the Five Freaks could unleash the calamity.
• Number Zero reveals formidable resources and adaptability: he buys a unique weapon, uses his systems strategically, and survives repeated deaths with resurrection items. Even after being reduced to a mortal, he remains confident and finds another way to power up.
• Taowu, initially an unseen and enigmatic enemy, is revealed as Cihang’s guardian and a once-great formation master weakened by the Great Calamity. He is formidable but relies on formations, healing pills, and exploiting opponents’ weaknesses.
• The dead Scarface and Yellow Hair attack Number Zero under the banner’s control, turning former allies into lethal adversaries. Number Zero ultimately has to destroy their souls to survive.
• Taowu and Number Zero exchange mutual respect during their duel, but Taowu’s deception and revelation of his hidden formation turn the fight into a trap.

Significant themes

• Survival requires versatility: Taowu’s formations test a different weakness at each stage—body, soul, speed, attack power, and stamina.
• Power depends on systems and equipment: Number Zero’s increasingly powerful systems and the Sword of Rupture repeatedly change the balance of the fight.
• Victory carries moral consequences: The Five Freaks’ crimes make eliminating them seem righteous, yet doing so could free Cihang and trigger a catastrophe.
• Knowledge has limits: The chapter introduces universal laws that restrict outside powers and punish those who reveal cosmic truths, hinting that the Great Calamity is tied to forces beyond ordinary understanding.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• After reviewing a memory of Number Zero defeating the Great Yokai Taowu, Chen Feng recognizes that he will need three things to defeat the Great Yokai himself: nation-destroying cultivation without major weaknesses, a way to break the Blood-Transforming Formation, and a defense against the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.
• Chen Feng rapidly strengthens himself by hunting the Flesh Whale and uprooting the Flesh Willow, reaching the tenth level of Foundation Establishment—the nation-destroying level. He weighs whether to sacrifice his abilities to survive the Great Yokai’s ultimate technique.
• The Great Yokai announces that Cihang City’s defenders must come to his cave within three days. Chen Feng meets Robert, the good Savior, and returns his sword, which transforms back into the Holy Sword. Robert rejects it, claiming it may be contaminated.
• Chen Feng and Robert bond over their mutual suspicion and caution. Robert proposes luring the Great Yokai away from his formation by staging a cultivation breakthrough, since the Great Yokai needs to consume powerful cultivators to sustain the formation. Robert has already destroyed the Great Yokai’s external incarnation and prepared a heavily trapped tribulation site.
• Before they can carry out the plan, Mu Hao launches his own breakthrough. Using talismans, he summons the Savior, the Swordsman, and the Jujutsu Sorcerer, drains their fortune, and traps them with a bell and a formation. The Savior briefly escapes, but Mu Hao turns on the remaining two.
• Mu Hao endures his Golden Core tribulation with an extraordinary array of defenses: magical treasures, formations, fortune-draining talismans, and pills. He succeeds in advancing to the Golden Core Stage.
• Chen Feng attempts to absorb Mu Hao’s cultivation with the Heaven-Sent Enemy Art, but Mu Hao counters with a hidden extension of his own art. Chen Feng suddenly feels his spiritual energy being drained, leaving the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng becomes substantially stronger and more pragmatic, accepting the value of the Enhancement System after recognizing how much he depends on it. He thinks strategically about the Great Yokai’s ultimate technique, but his confidence gives way to alarm when Mu Hao counters him.
• Robert, the good Savior, proves as wary and calculating as Chen Feng. He refuses to trust memories or allies blindly, and the two quickly develop mutual respect. He offers a clever plan to draw out the Great Yokai, though Mu Hao’s actions interrupt it.
• Mu Hao is revealed as a formidable, resourceful cultivator who masters multiple disciplines—talismans, formations, magical treasures, and pills. His breakthrough and hidden counter-technique make him a more dangerous opponent than Chen Feng expected.
• The Savior, Swordsman, and Jujutsu Sorcerer are caught in Mu Hao’s scheme. Their fortune is drained, and the bell and formation leave them vulnerable; the Savior’s resistance lets him recover and escape, while the others remain at Mu Hao’s mercy.

Significant themes

• Caution and mistrust: Both Chen Feng and Robert recognize that memories, alliances, and apparent weakness can be manipulated.
• Preparation versus improvisation: Robert’s elaborate trap and Mu Hao’s layered breakthrough preparations show that survival depends on planning, while Chen Feng must adapt when events unfold unexpectedly.
• The cost and difficulty of cultivation: Even with extensive protections and powerful medicines, Mu Hao is badly injured by his tribulation, emphasizing that advancement is a dangerous struggle against heaven.
• Power and poetic bravado: Characters announce techniques in grand, poem-like declarations, but such confidence can be quickly challenged—as Chen Feng discovers when Mu Hao reveals another layer of his art.

Plot points and events

• Mu Hao investigates the cultivation art he received in a dream. By interrogating and killing a fellow prisoner, he learns that other inmates were given the Feather Record, a fast but flawed art that burns lifespan and stalls at Foundation Establishment.
• He realizes his own Invincible Heaven Art was likely taught to him by an unseen expert. Reverse-engineering it, he discovers it is the “child chapter” of a Heaven-Sent Enemy Art that can seize his cultivation and other advantages.
• Mu Hao prepares countermeasures: a Grandfather Chapter to resist the parent art and a Heaven-Beyond Enemy Art to turn the theft back on its user.
• During Mu Hao’s Golden Core breakthrough, Chen Feng invokes the art and is nearly overwhelmed by Mu Hao’s counterattack. Chen calls on Proficiency, which modifies the technique into the absurdly powerful Heaven-Sent Enemy Ashes Chapter.
• Chen absorbs Mu Hao’s Golden Core and reaches the Golden Core Stage without tribulation lightning. He also takes Mu Hao’s aptitude, fortune, abilities, and expertise in several disciplines. Mu Hao is left an ordinary person.
• Chen realizes the danger he faced: without Proficiency, the art could have stripped him of everything. He also completes the Show-Off System’s mission.
• The chapter ends with several other characters displaying unexpected advances: the Good Savior’s clones arrive equipped with items that reduce lightning resistance; the Jujutsu Sorcerer devises a possible seventh domain involving space-time; the Good Savior gains protections against fortune loss and displacement; and the Swordsman claims to understand cultivation, leaving Chen astonished.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu Hao shifts from suspicious investigator to an ingenious defender, uncovering the art’s hidden trap and devising increasingly elaborate counters. His preparations ultimately fail against Proficiency’s superior modification.
• Chen Feng gains a major breakthrough and a broad range of stolen knowledge, but also recognizes how close he came to losing everything. His bewilderment at his companions’ sudden insights provides the closing comic beat.
• Proficiency decisively protects Chen by pushing the technique’s family-tree joke to its impossible endpoint: the “Ashes Chapter.” Its boastful intervention also sparks a quarrel with the Equipment Enhancement System.
• Chen and Mu Hao turn a cultivation breakthrough into a contest of competing techniques: each tries to drain the other, until Proficiency reverses the outcome.
• The supporting cast responds to recent danger with new plans, blessings, and insights, suggesting that the group is growing stronger in unexpected ways.

Significant themes

• Power comes with hidden costs: Mu Hao’s investigation reveals that seemingly exceptional cultivation arts may conceal a trap or an ulterior purpose.
• Preparation versus overwhelming force: Mu Hao carefully anticipates the art’s dangers, but Chen’s system-assisted counter proves stronger.
• Taking and losing identity: The art transfers not just cultivation but aptitude, fortune, knowledge, and abilities, reducing Mu Hao to an ordinary person.
• Comedy through escalation: The chapter mixes life-or-death stakes with absurd system mechanics, exaggerated cultivation terminology, and Chen’s incredulous reactions.