Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng used Kail Meow’s smoking to calm the Monster, but fighting among the survivors continued until the Monster’s contract expired and it disappeared. He gained enough experience to pass level 3,000 and persuaded the Three Demon Kings to help him defeat the King of the Undead, but the Dark Elf summoned the demon god Serpent King Butis, leaving Chen Feng to face a new threat as the Demon Sword’s master awoke.

• Chen Feng resurrected Kail Meow, then sent her through Luka City to spread smoke and incense, which soothed the Monster until survivors attacked one another again.
• The Monster continued destroying the city for a day before its contract expired; Chen Feng collected enormous system rewards and crossed level 3,000.
• Chen Feng offered the Three Demon Kings a chance to reverse the disaster in exchange for their help defeating the King of the Undead, and borrowed the Hero of Clubs’ Philosopher’s Stone.
• The Dark Elf realized Chen Feng was trying to seize the World Items and sacrificed herself to summon Serpent King Butis, plunging Luka City into darkness again.
• Chen Feng prepared to fight Serpent King Butis, while the Demon Sword announced that its master had awakened.

Chen Feng and his allies defeated Butis after Sword Saint Jiahao killed the Demon God with his You're So Loud Sword, then recruited Jiahao to join their campaign against the King of the Undead. Just as Chen Feng worried that events were going too smoothly, a mysterious gift arrived addressed to him in Universe 42.

• Chen Feng and Gle wounded Butis with Love God's Fourfold Slash and Abyssal Dragon Breath, but Butis killed them before they revived.
• Sword Saint Jiahao arrived and killed Butis with the You're So Loud Sword, though he lamented that the Demon God had been too weak.
• At Luka City's festival, Chen Feng explained that Peloro's failed scheme showed humans and monsters could coexist, then revealed that six demigods had joined the campaign against the Demon King.
• Chen Feng persuaded Sword Saint Jiahao to join by promising a wondrous toy from the Slime Queen, and Jill arranged a massage for Chen Feng before the group departed.
• A security guard delivered a gift addressed to Chen Feng of Cihang City in Universe 42, leaving Chen Feng alarmed.

Chen Feng confronted Ulbert, the Ancestor of Flame Demons, after discovering that the gift he received was a trap and the Sword Saint had been ambushed. Ulbert revealed that Chen Feng’s allies were in danger and threatened to use a World Item that could erase anyone it touched.

• Chen Feng took Gle and Xia Mei to the Sword Saint’s residence after appraising the gift box and finding the Purple Yew Necklace inside.
• Ulbert introduced himself and revealed the unconscious Sword Saint, then explained that a freckled young woman had given him the necklace.
• Chen Feng identified Ulbert as the Ancestor of Flame Demons by testing his reactions to remarks about the Goddess of Vengeance and the King of the Undead.
• Ulbert displayed cards representing the Sword Saint, Bravery, the Eldest Son of the Sun King, and Sika’s Grandfather, declaring the first three incapacitated and Sika’s Grandfather dead.
• Ulbert revealed the Fool Knight’s Javelin, a single-use World Item that could permanently delete anything it touched, and threatened Chen Feng, Elizabeth, and Peloro.

The Ancestor of Flame Demons revealed that the Great Tomb had attacked Chen Feng’s allies and forced him to choose between rescuing Sika or Fulameng and the Saintess. Chen Feng saw through the trap and secretly upgraded the Fool Knight’s Javelin, leaving the Ancestor stunned when it vanished.

• The Ancestor of Flame Demons showed Chen Feng Goblin Slayer’s helmet and a Mechanical Shard, revealing that the Great Tomb had killed Goblin Slayer and destroyed Cologne Village.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons displayed Jack Solar’s wine flask and explained that he had imprisoned Fulameng and the Saintess separately from Sika, then demanded Chen Feng choose whom to save.
• Chen Feng reasoned that the Ancestor feared killing Fulameng might bring down a Legendary Hero, and deduced that the prisoners’ locations had been switched to manipulate him.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons revealed that the Immortal Ancient Dragon and the Flesh Ghost King had helped him, then admitted that the Ghost King had warned him to be cautious of Cihang Natives.
• Chen Feng revealed that he had secretly upgraded the Fool Knight’s Javelin while the Ancestor talked, and the Ancestor discovered that the javelin was gone.

Chen Feng discovered that the Ancestor of Flame Demons controlled a legion of Heroes with powerful Blessings and an intelligence-gathering World Item. Seeking a way to counter them, he turned to the Netherworld Star for help.

• Chen Feng lamented losing sixteen System Points when Equipment Amplification dismantled the fool knight’s javelin and obtained a Dream God's Divine Spark and Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons attacked Chen Feng, but Sika used Magic Cylinder to reflect his strike; Chen Feng captured Sika and erased his soul, body, and memories.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons summoned a young Hero who could imitate Magic and revealed more than a hundred Teleportation Arrays, prompting Chen Feng to retreat with Gle and the others.
• Chen Feng deduced that the enemy’s World Item gathered intelligence and planned to seek allies from another universe to counter the Hundred Hero Legion.
• Daily Intelligence warned Chen Feng that his Mythic Three Kingdoms allies might die, then pointed him toward immortal beings who killed through rules; the Netherworld Star answered his call.

Chen Feng enrolled at the Netherworld Star school, where wraiths studied human behavior and rules horror. After surviving his first classes and learning that the students were immortal conceptual beings, he agreed to share a dorm with Xiao Mei, whose question suggested she was a dangerous specter.

• Chen Feng entered a classroom full of monsters and learned that the teacher's chainsaw could split students apart, though they revived afterward.
• Chen Feng used his ghost-catching system to identify Xiao Xiao as a Joke Specter, then chose the name Wind Wraith to fit in among the students.
• Chen Feng attended Rules Horror Studies, where the Coughing Ghost teacher's cough killed him and the system warned him not to appraise the teacher again.
• The teacher explained that wraiths were death-divinity beings who could not be killed below multiversal level, and Chen Feng realized he would need to learn how to use rules.
• Chen Feng accepted Xiao Mei's offer to share a dorm, then suspected she was a Creepy Skin when she asked whether he thought she was beautiful.

Chen Feng escaped the multiplying Xiao Meis in Paranormal Universe 1963 and was taken to Xiao Si’s room, where he agreed to tutor her in human behavior. Meanwhile, one Xiao Mei realized Chen Feng was human and became fixated on him.

• Chen Feng praised Xiao Mei’s beauty, followed her to dorm room 1963, and saw another Xiao Mei emerge through the boarded window.
• Xiao Mei smashed her double, but the corpse split into more Xiao Meis that attacked her; Chen Feng discovered the room was a universe where the copies endlessly multiplied.
• A giant jade-white hand pulled Chen Feng from the chaos, and he awoke in Xiao Si’s room after the cognitive filter was restored.
• Xiao Si asked Chen Feng to tutor her after scoring 25 in Human Behavior; he secretly researched one answer by drowning himself and sending out his primordial spirit.
• Chen Feng tested Xiao Si and realized she had a fascination with young boys.
• In Paranormal Universe 1963, a Xiao Mei sensed Chen Feng’s strong aura of life, concluded he was human, and repeated that she loved him.

After returning to the Paranormal Universe, Chen Feng went to class and learned how death rules worked. He invented the Ghost-Binding Art, whose success rate rose from one percent to one hundred percent thanks to his paranormal talent, and realized he was the Paranormal Prodigy chosen by three gods.

• Chen Feng blinked back to the Land of Fire, where Gle had knocked Sika unconscious, and the Hundred Hero Legion repeatedly caught up with him as he fled through teleportation.
• After another blink brought him back to the Paranormal Universe, Chen Feng met Willow Tree, who gave him a branch that the system identified as a World Item; Chen Feng pulled more branches from Wish-Granter Specter.
• In Rules Class, Teacher Coughing Ghost explained that simpler death rules were stronger and began teaching students how to awaken them.
• Chen Feng realized he had no death divinity, then invented the Ghost-Binding Art, which let him use a defeated Weird's abilities if he bound it, with failure resulting in death.
• The system raised Chen Feng's Ghost-Binding Art success rate to one hundred percent, and he remembered that he was the Paranormal Prodigy chosen by Wanji, Cihang, and Time and Space.

Chen Feng watched Sweeping Auntie punish a newly arrived Blood Ghost, then went to PE seeking a Weird whose ability he could subjugate. After Elbow-Strike Ghost defeated Rain Ghost, Chen Feng challenged him for his ability.

• Chen Feng learned that Sweeping Auntie was a Special-Grade Specter after she beat Blood Ghost for dirtying the corridor and made him lick it clean.
• Chen Feng discovered Joke Specter had come to PE despite his earlier refusal, apparently concerned that Chen Feng might be bullied by Elbow-Strike Ghost.
• Elbow-Strike Ghost dodged Rain Ghost’s summoned downpour, struck him three times, and triggered his death rule.
• Elbow-Strike Ghost threatened Joke Specter, but Chen Feng used Time Stop and Spatial Teleportation to move Joke Specter out of danger.
• Chen Feng challenged Elbow-Strike Ghost to a one-on-one fight because he wanted to obtain his ability.

Chen Feng defeated Elbow-Strike Specter by luring him onto Sweeping Auntie’s dirty floor, then bound him and gained his abilities. Back in the Land of Fire, Chen Feng used Elbow-Strike Ghost to evade Shapeshifting Hero’s curse and defeat both enemy heroes.

• Chen Feng challenged Elbow-Strike Specter, dodged his attacks, and maneuvered him into the corridor with muddy shoes.
• Sweeping Auntie punished Elbow-Strike Specter for dirtying the floor, and Chen Feng successfully bound him despite the backlash.
• Chen Feng used life divinity to offset the vitality drain from binding Elbow-Strike Specter, then learned the specter had bullied Joke Specter because Joke Specter kept making everyone laugh.
• Chen Feng moved into Elbow-Strike Specter’s room, then returned to the Land of Fire, where Gle had fled into the Abyss and Chen Feng and Xia Mei were facing Goblin Slayer and Shapeshifting Hero.
• Chen Feng activated Elbow-Strike Ghost to outrun Shapeshifting Hero’s supposedly unavoidable curse, then knocked both heroes unconscious.

Chen Feng tried to stop Ulbert from using the Thousand-Eyed Wind to track him, and devised a wish to destroy the World Item. The wish took effect just as the King of the Undead and Ulbert prepared to hunt him down.

• Ulbert used the Thousand-Eyed Wind to track Chen Feng and learn about the Weird's weaknesses, while Chen Feng and Xia Mei endured another day and night of pursuit.
• Chen Feng realized he needed to destroy the Thousand-Eyed Wind before bringing more Weird into the Land of Fire.
• Chen Feng learned that the Wish-Granter Specter twisted wishes and demanded a price, then wrote a carefully worded wish and had the Joke Specter read it aloud.
• The King of the Undead and Ulbert agreed to kill Chen Feng and everyone he knew, relying on the Thousand-Eyed Wind to track him.
• The Thousand-Eyed Wind exploded and vanished completely from the universe.

Chen Feng learned that Joke Specter had to fulfill Wish-Granter Specter's wish by playing a game with Godslayer, a powerful specter who could turn opponents back into death divinities. He entered Godslayer's cabin and received a multiversal-rank contract, while his systems warned that signing it would disable Chen Feng's abilities.

• Chen Feng learned that refusing Wish-Granter Specter's wish would curse Joke Specter with permanent bad luck and undo the destruction of the Ancestor of Flame Demons' World Item.
• Elbow-Strike Specter and Joke Specter explained that Godslayer was a top-ranked special-grade specter whose games could turn specters back into death divinities.
• Chen Feng decided to visit Godslayer's cabin, and the specters led him to door Nine.
• Chen Feng entered the cabin, saw the bones of defeated gods, and found Godslayer waiting at a card table.
• Godslayer provided Chen Feng with a multiversal-rank contract, and the system warned that signing it would disable his abilities and systems.

Chen Feng studied the shotgun game, uncovered its strategies and traps, and saw challengers lose despite seemingly safe plays. After reviving himself with Life Divinity, he chose a teammate for his own game and called on Brother Liang.

• Chen Feng watched challengers play Russian roulette and explained how the shells, items, and turn order worked.
• A floral-shirted challenger invited his gold-toothed friend, who used the saw on a blank before the big guy killed him with a live round.
• Chen Feng explained how a robot could avoid losing by using cigarettes and the Future Phone in a careful sequence, but the game ended in a draw.
• Chen Feng discovered that the big guy kept extra health between games and that a draw counted as a loss, trapping a synthetic human in the big guy's collection.
• Chen Feng revived himself with Life Divinity, entered an empty room, and chose Brother Liang as his teammate.

Zhuge Liang escaped Blind Idiot’s Dream and entered Big Bro’s shotgun game, where his strategy failed when Big Bro used the saw unexpectedly. Big Bro won the second game, leaving the spectators to realize he had tricked them.

• Zhuge Liang used Devoted Service to gather intelligence on the Dream Pantheon, then Big Bro rescued him from Blind Idiot’s Dream.
• The Dream Sixth Seat tried to alter the story and stop Zhuge Liang’s escape, but could not find the right author and fled after discovering Big Bro belonged to the Death Pantheon.
• Zhuge Liang entered Big Bro’s game with his Blessings disabled, while Elbow-Strike Specter and Joke Specter watched and discussed the rules.
• Zhuge Liang checked the Future Phone, fired a blank at himself, and then chose the cigarettes for his next move.
• Big Bro used the saw to increase the shotgun’s damage and killed Zhuge Liang, revealing that he had deliberately misled the spectators with the earlier match.
• Joke Specter realized Big Bro had won the second game because his two health points would let him survive a double-damage shot after using the cigarettes.

Chen Feng entered the second game against Big Brother and used Zhuge Liang’s hidden clue to secure victory. He left the game unharmed, declaring the outcome decided.

• Chen Feng revealed that the first game’s phone, target, and shell had been chosen to make Zhuge Liang’s sacrifice preserve an unused saw for him.
• Joke Specter realized that Big Brother had tried to prevent the saw from being passed on but was forced by the game’s rules to kill Zhuge Liang with it.
• Joke Specter deduced that Zhuge Liang had used the Future Phone to confirm the first shell of Chen Feng’s game would be live.
• Chen Feng found the words “Northern Expedition” on Zhuge Liang’s feather fan and understood that the clue pointed north.
• Chen Feng discarded the Future Phone, shot himself, and emerged unharmed, announcing that the outcome was decided.

Chen Feng won Big Brother’s game and used his reward to resurrect Zhuge Liang, who gave him three strategies for a future crisis involving the Dream Pantheon. After the Joke Specter’s underling accidentally killed Chen Feng, Chen Feng discovered the shotgun was the World Item Winner Takes All and identified its two bullets as the Five Seats of Vengeance and Great Yokai.

• Chen Feng won the final round against Big Brother, then chose to resurrect Zhuge Liang instead of taking a treasure from the collection.
• Zhuge Liang returned from Universe 42 and gave Chen Feng three Brocade Pouches, instructing him to open them in order during an emergency involving the Dream Pantheon.
• The Joke Specter summoned his underling, the Suona Monster, who completed the game and accidentally killed Chen Feng with his deathly music.
• Chen Feng resurrected himself and appraised the shotgun as the World Item Winner Takes All, which converted higher-order enemies he had defeated into bullets.
• Chen Feng found only two bullets in the shotgun and recognized them as the Five Seats of Vengeance and Great Yokai.

Chen Feng learned how to disable Wanji’s systems in Mechanical Class and repaired the Ghost-Catching System, upgrading it to version 5.0. To get an advanced textbook and prepare for the Heroes pursuing him, he headed to find Xiao Si, the Yearning Ghost, for her level-two ghost qualification certificate.

• Chen Feng discovered that Mechanical Class taught methods for disabling systems, including the Demon-Slaying System Wanji had used to deceive his nephew and possibly him.
• Chen Feng studied Appliance Malfunction and realized the system’s power would help him deal with the Heroes pursuing him in another world.
• Chen Feng repaired the Ghost-Catching System and upgraded it to version 5.0, unlocking new ways to recruit ghosts, reveal survival paths, and turn ghosts into specters.
• Chen Feng learned that he needed a level-two ghost qualification certificate to obtain the next advanced mechanical textbook, and the Joke Specter identified Xiao Si as the classmate who had one.
• The Elbow-Strike Specter and Joke Specter volunteered to approach Xiao Si, but Chen Feng sent them away and set off himself, claiming he was a Galgame expert.

Chen Feng helped Yearning Ghost pursue the boy Xiao E, using dating advice and a plan to stage a rescue. The chapter ended as they realized Xiao E was a Starvation Ghost.

• Chen Feng met Xiao E after colliding with him and discovered they shared anthropology class, where he answered Xiao E’s question about burned corpses.
• Yearning Ghost gave Chen Feng her level-two ID after he promised to help her win Xiao E’s affection.
• Chen Feng explained the suspension bridge effect and suggested that cooking for Xiao E could help Yearning Ghost attract him.
• Xiao E gave Chen Feng cookies, which Elbow-Strike Specter ate before Yearning Ghost crushed its head for not saving her any.
• Joke Specter proposed staging a ghost attack so Yearning Ghost could rescue Xiao E, and Chen Feng agreed to the plan.
• Chen Feng learned the boy’s name was Xiao E and suspected he was a Starvation Ghost.

Chen Feng and his classmates entered the Ghost Village cooking room, where they planned to help Yearning Ghost get close to Starvation Ghost. Inside the village, Plague Doctor waited for Substitute Death Ghost to prepare to kill a child.

• Chen Feng worried that the classmates might destroy Starvation Ghost’s universe while staging a rescue for Yearning Ghost’s pretty boy.
• Teacher Ge explained that students gathered fear from selected dead people by killing them in games, and that survivors could earn resurrection.
• Yearning Ghost made a boxed lunch, but Elbow-Strike Specter spat it out after one bite.
• Chen Feng led the group to the Ghost Village cooking room, whose door was unlocked, and suspected trouble after Elbow-Strike Specter dismissed the danger.
• Plague Doctor urged Substitute Death Ghost to hurry, while the paper-bodied ghost prepared extra lives before targeting Starvation Ghost.

Chen Feng and his companions waited in Good Person Village with elite outsiders, whose missions revealed that the Starvation Ghost’s rule involved food. When they faced a terrifying grave ghost over its offering, the Elbow-Strike Specter destroyed it with one strike.

• Chen Feng disguised his companions and met a Taoist postman, a Celestial Team captain, and a doctor, then compared their festival missions.
• Chen Feng and the newcomers deduced that food was central to the supernatural mission, and Chen Feng suspected the village would have none available.
• The group found a blind old man who explained that the villagers had taken their food to Good Person Village and that only ghost offerings remained.
• The Taoist and the suited captain tried to take an apple from a grave, but their protective charms failed as the grave ghost’s danger became clear.
• The Elbow-Strike Specter stole roast chicken from the grave, provoking the ghost, then elbowed her into oblivion.