Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng and the altar-cleansing envoys fought their way toward Good Person Village, where the Substitute Death Ghost attacked them through paper effigies that reflected damage. As the group struggled to counter the ghost, Chen Feng invoked Lord Guan, whose response left the story poised on whether he would possess him.

• The four envoys stole grave offerings, then the Taoist priest used lightning techniques to defeat a Ten-Thousand-Year Flying Zombie King at the cost of his lifespan.
• After the man in a suit spoke the name of a forbidden goddess, the group summoned a spirit and learned a safe route through the villages.
• The group found paper effigies bearing their faces, and Chen Feng briefly repaired his Ghost-Catching System to identify their enemy as the Substitute Death Ghost.
• The Substitute Death Ghost animated the effigies, the Yearning Ghost left to rescue a boy, and the Elbow-Strike Specter crashed after attacking the figures.
• The Taoist priest invoked Red Boy and burned many effigies, but the group realized that damage to each effigy was linked to the person it resembled.
• Chen Feng stamped the ground and invoked Lord Guan, who looked up and responded, "Bu Yin?"

Chen Feng invoked Guan Yu to destroy the paper figures and confront Substitute Death Ghost, while the doctor discovered that tearing off a paper figure’s painted eyes broke its link. Substitute Death Ghost snapped Chen Feng’s neck, but Guan Yu’s death blessing reached its true body and killed it, turning it into a death divinity.

• Chen Feng invoked Guan Yu, froze the paper figures, and slashed through them and Substitute Death Ghost’s clones.
• The doctor realized painted eyes gave paper figures life and tore them off, breaking the life links; he also identified the ghosts’ killing rules.
• Substitute Death Ghost switched to Headless Ghost’s ability, snapped Chen Feng’s neck, and prepared to devour more death divinities from its hidden true body.
• Guan Yu’s blessing followed Substitute Death Ghost to its paper planet, ignored its defenses, and refined it into a death divinity.

After obtaining a Death Divinity, Chen Feng learned how he could evolve ghosts into specters and considered advancing Jing Longyue. In Good Person Village, Specter Cinema actor Ye Yin was forced into a deadly ancestral-banquet scene as multiple new films and specters appeared, leaving him facing four scripts at once.

• Chen Feng revived through Life Divinity and found a Death Divinity after the fight with the Headless Ghost and Substitute Ghost.
• Chen Feng learned the Ghost-Catching System could use the Death Divinity to evolve ghosts, and Jing Longyue’s Moon Ghost form stood out with two killing rules and a short shutdown period.
• At Good Person Village, Ye Yin and the other Specter Cinema actors completed the ancestral rites while following scripts that could punish them for disobedience or acting out of character.
• As the fourth act began, Ye Yin’s script required him to overturn the sacrificial-meat basin, even though taking the wrong amount of meat could get him killed.
• Ye Yin received scripts for two more films as the villagers began coughing and a bridal sedan chair arrived, then a giant woman in white appeared outside the village with a fourth film poster.

Ye Yin faced four deadly horrors converging on Good Person Village and deliberately triggered their rules to make the ghosts attack one another. The village descended into chaos as the Ghost Bride and Ghost Groom began fighting, while Ye Yin’s body became host to multiple spirits.

• Ye Yin reviewed the scripts and learned he was destined to play the medical student, the best man, and the childhood friend pursued by a female ghost.
• Ye Yin recalled the advice that only ghosts could deal with ghosts and began provoking the village’s spirits.
• Ye Yin insulted the clan chief and violated six sacrificial-meat rules by throwing leftover meat at the black-robed stranger.
• Ye Yin invoked the female ghost outside the village, causing the villagers to break the stranger’s killing rule and collapse with illness.
• Several spirits fought over Ye Yin’s body as Chen Feng and his companions entered the village and were killed by the Ghost Groom and Yearning Ghost’s battle.
• Before dying, Chen Feng read the Ghost Bride’s and Ghost Groom’s killing rules: seeing the bride’s face head-on and turning one’s back on the groom.

After disabling the Hundred Hero Legion’s systems and escaping the Sword Hero, Chen Feng sought help from the Savior to deal with the Ancestor of Flame Demons. The Savior agreed to attack and revealed a customized Killing Rule, leaving Chen Feng startled by its lethal conditions.

• Chen Feng disabled the pursuing Heroes’ systems and defeated the Hundred Hero Legion, then escaped the Sword Hero with Xia Mei and the unconscious Sword Saint.
• At the ruined site of Cologne Village, Chen Feng considered how to rescue his captured allies and contacted the Savior for help.
• The Savior’s security checks tested Chen Feng before he met the Savior and Lia, and Chen Feng explained the Ancestor of Flame Demons’ attack and the captives’ predicament.
• The Savior revealed that he had rigged Peerless Beauty to explode and prepared to attack the Ancestor of Flame Demons through a Portal.
• Chen Feng sensed the Savior’s Killing Rule, which made him kill when happy or unhappy, while the Savior’s Blessing allowed him to customize that rule and change it if his Survival Path was discovered.

The Ancestor of Flame Demons prepared to face Chen Feng after losing his World Items and army, but the Savior attacked the Great Tomb and killed his defenses. Luredo saved the Ancestor from the Savior’s death rule, and the King of the Undead arrived as time stopped, telling him they were family.

• The Furious Prince reported that a yellow wind had swept away humans from the Human Ranch, and the Ancestor of Flame Demons angrily dismissed him.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons recalled losing the Fool Knight’s Javelin and Thousand-Eyed Wind, while the Hundred Hero Legion’s systems failed and the legion was destroyed.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons prepared to use Fulameng and the Hundred Hero Legion as hostages, an army of Elder Flame Demons, and his own universe-destroying divine spark to defend himself.
• When the Portal opened, Peerless Beauty exploded, the hostages were freed, and Savior Doppelgangers killed the Elder Flame Demons.
• The Savior attacked the Ancestor of Flame Demons over the People-Grinding Tower, but Luredo blocked his death rule and saved the Ancestor.
• The King of the Undead used Origin Magic, Time Stop, appeared beside the Ancestor of Flame Demons, and told him they were family.

Chen Feng stalled the King of the Undead while the Savior rescued the Great Tomb’s inhabitants, then fought him with a weapon enhanced to plus ten thousand. The King of the Undead used a Law Shard to ban swords, but the Savior revealed he had prepared other enhanced weapons, including a gun.

• The Pure White Succubus threatened Chen Feng with the World Will of Infinite Stacked Attacks, but the King of the Undead told her to stand down and confronted him over Elizabeth and Peloro’s deaths.
• The Savior and Fallen Angel Lia evacuated the Great Tomb’s people while Chen Feng provoked the King of the Undead to buy them time.
• The King of the Undead attacked Chen Feng with Origin Magic, but Chen Feng resisted its effects and found that the King’s enhanced divine artifacts absorbed his sword strike.
• The Savior returned and gave Chen Feng a plus-ten-thousand sword, which pierced the King of the Undead’s armor, then confronted the Ancestor of Flame Demons over the People-Grinding Tower.
• The King of the Undead used a Law Shard to remove sword status from every sword in the Fire Universe, but the Savior produced other plus-ten-thousand weapons and handed Chen Feng a gun.

Chen Feng lured the Great Tomb’s defenders away from the tenth floor, upgraded the Eternal Sword by completing a quest, and used Giant Slayer with the Plus Ten Thousand Gun to kill the enormous Ancestor of Flame Demons. The Savior was still battling the Pure White Succubus and the King of the Undead when the Ancestor’s head appeared through the Portal.

• Fallen Angel Lia appraised the three Great Tomb defenders, and Chen Feng and the Savior split up to fight them.
• Chen Feng drew the defenders back to the tenth floor by triggering an intruder alert, while the Savior tried to hold off the Pure White Succubus and the King of the Undead.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons revealed his universe-spanning true form, but Chen Feng completed the Make Me King quest at the Bone Throne and upgraded the Eternal Sword into the World Item Eternal Instant.
• Chen Feng chose Giant Slayer, asked Little Machine to calculate his chances, and fired the Plus Ten Thousand Gun at the Ancestor of Flame Demons.
• The Ancestor of Flame Demons’ head flew through the Portal as the Savior continued fighting the Pure White Succubus.

Chen Feng and the Savior prevented the King of the Undead from resurrecting Ulbert by exploiting the Great Tomb's resurrection system. The King of the Undead was trapped in an endless advertisement loop, leaving Ulbert unable to return to battle.

• Chen Feng explained that he had left the Ancestor of Flame Demons' head intact to prevent the Great Tomb from resurrecting him, while the Savior criticized him for not leaving even less behind.
• The King of the Undead tried to resurrect Ulbert through the Great Tomb's system, but discovered that Elizabeth's and the other treasuries had been emptied.
• The Savior revealed that he had stolen the treasuries' contents and the King of the Undead's Spatial Ring.
• Chen Feng used Appliance Malfunction to make the King of the Undead watch an advertisement before he could resurrect Ulbert.
• The King of the Undead became trapped in an endless advertisement loop because the system demanded that he not blink, and Chen Feng's group realized Ulbert could not be resurrected.

The Savior defeated the Pure White Succubus by exponentially multiplying lightning orbs, while Chen Feng and his allies survived her devastating counterattack. The King of the Undead then began sacrificing Isaac to summon a foremost champion of life, and Chen Feng received a summons offering him a system point.

• Lia appraised the Pure White Succubus's armor and discovered her immense defenses and broad immunity to magic, while Chen Feng suggested the Savior attack her three times with his death divinity.
• The Savior rejected Chen Feng's Ghost-Binding Art and repeatedly cast Electric Current Multiplies, doubling his lightning orbs until the attack overwhelmed the Pure White Succubus.
• The Pure White Succubus destroyed the Magma Universe with a Single-Entity Rank strike, but Chen Feng escaped with Lia using Time Stop, and the Savior revealed that the destroyed body had been a clone.
• The King of the Undead comforted the defeated Pure White Succubus and summoned Isaac, whose sacrifice would call a Multiversal God's foremost champion.
• As Isaac disappeared in the ritual, Chen Feng received a summons offering one system point in exchange for answering it.

Savior and Chen Feng faced the King of the Undead while Cihang’s hidden forces debated whether to strike. The Immortal Ancient Dragon launched a surprise attack, and the brothers answered with their divinities.

• Savior condemned the King of the Undead for his crimes and rejected his claim that he had acted to protect his family.
• The Wheel-Turning Ghost King urged the Immortal Ancient Dragon to retreat, revealing his cursed artifacts, stored souls, and plan to gather Law Shards for Cihang.
• The Immortal Ancient Dragon dismissed the Ghost King’s caution and decided to attack Chen Feng and Savior.
• The Immortal Ancient Dragon appeared and unleashed Chaos Primordial Immortal Breath, a universe-destroying attack.
• Savior activated Vengeance Divinity and drew Holy Sword Plus One to use Blood Debt Repayment Sword, while Chen Feng activated Spacetime Divinity and began Were I Once Cihang’s Chief.

Evil Chen Feng used several of Number Zero’s systems and rewrote the Land of Fire’s laws to weaken the Immortal Ancient Dragon. After the dragon resurrected and broke free of Time Stop, it recognized Chen Feng and begged him to stop attacking.

• Evil Chen Feng activated multiple systems and attacked the Ancient Dragon, but its immense durability let it withstand the blows.
• Evil Chen Feng summoned a Dark Archmage and combined its attack with Enuma Elish, tearing into the dragon’s body.
• Evil Chen Feng used the Command Block system to remove the sword ban and make dragons weaker while empowering humans.
• Evil Chen Feng struck with the restored Sword of Rupture and Ape God bonus, apparently shattering the Ancient Dragon’s body.
• The Immortal Ancient Dragon resurrected, broke free of Time Stop, recognized Evil Chen Feng, and begged him to stop hitting it.

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.

Chen Feng returned to the Happiness Internet Cafe and gained an upgraded system that let him enter other universes as a game player. He prepared to head to the King of the Monsters' universe, where a new adventure was about to begin.

• Chen Feng returned to the cafe with an unconscious Sword Saint and warned everyone not to touch him while he balanced two divinities and two divine sparks.
• Chen Feng encouraged Sika to recover from his despair, but Savior rejected him as a teammate and asked Chen Feng to lend him Xia Mei and other assistance.
• Chen Feng sent Savior supplies and cryptic warnings, then worried that his divinity absorption was keeping him from traveling to other universes.
• Big Brother Proficiency upgraded Chen Feng's traversal system so he and his friends could enter other universes as game players without risking their real bodies.
• Chen Feng discovered that his new game account came with powerful abilities and chose the fantasy system to travel to the King of the Monsters' universe.

Chen Feng learned that the Earth Defense Force had been disbanded after its commander, Zhang Deming, was executed for trying to preserve nuclear weapons, and he began rebuilding it by recruiting Master Phoenix. When a giant lobster monster attacked and the Giant of Light failed to appear, Chen Feng realized Earth might be left without its expected protector.

• Zhang Deming opposed nuclear disarmament, secretly tried to hide the warheads, and was executed after Wang Xin exposed his plan.
• Chen Feng learned that the Earth Defense Force had disbanded and received a mission to assemble a new team.
• Chen Feng recruited Master Phoenix, whose alien-detection app malfunctioned when it scanned Chen Feng.
• A giant lobster monster attacked the city, and the crowd gathered to watch for the Giant of Light.
• Chen Feng called for the Giant of Light, but nothing appeared, leaving him to fear for humanity's survival.

The Dawn Princess fled her home multiverse after the King of Despair destroyed the Brilliant Kingdom, then possessed a human to stop a monster threatening her new Earth. She discovered that the man she possessed was still alive and fighting her for control of his body.

• The King of Despair attacked Brilliant Star, defeated its defenders, and grew stronger as the Giants of Light panicked.
• The Giants of Light sent Dawn to another multiverse, but the King of Despair followed her before fleeing from Giant Super Power.
• Dawn settled on a parallel-universe Earth and went to investigate a spatial disturbance near the Earth United Science Academy.
• A nuclear-contaminated lobster mutated into a monster and attacked a city, while Dawn's call for Giant Super Power went unanswered.
• Dawn tried to save a mother and daughter from falling rubble, but an ordinary-looking man pushed them clear and was buried beneath a building.
• Dawn possessed the man to fight the lobster monster, but he resisted her control and complained about someone changing his key bindings.

Chen Feng fused with Dawn, a female Giant of Light, and watched her struggle to fight the Lobster Monster. After taking control, he used spacetime teleportation and a magic bow to destroy it.

• Dawn introduced herself as a Giant of Light from a neighboring multiverse, and Chen Feng fused with her to share one body and mind.
• Dawn failed to fire a Solar Ray and hurt her hands punching the Lobster Monster, but accidentally knocked it back with a burst of light.
• Dawn dodged the Lobster Monster's corrosive attack by teleporting herself between universes, leaving the crowd to believe she had been dissolved.
• Chen Feng took control, teleported away from the corrosive liquid, and appeared beside the Lobster Monster.
• Chen Feng discovered Dawn's body had run low on energy, then used the Holy Tree Knight's Greatbow to blast the Lobster Monster apart.

Chen Feng recruited Dawn and learned of the King of Despair’s threat, then brought her to meet Phoenix and set out to find another teammate. At Sugizawa Third High School, he found Mr. Hai Hu training students to fight monsters through sheer effort.

• Dawn asked Chen Feng to teach her to fight, and he agreed to help her after learning that the King of Despair had destroyed her home universe.
• Chen Feng told Dawn about the Earth Defense Force, then took her to Phoenix’s rental home and introduced her as the team’s combatant.
• Phoenix described his plan to build a time machine, and Dawn explained how traveling to the past could create a new timeline.
• Chen Feng received a mission to recruit the self-trained athlete at Sugizawa Third High School and traveled there.
• Mr. Hai Hu urged his exhausted students to train because humanity would have to face monsters without the missing Giant of Light.