Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing recalls how he inadvertently became the campus belle’s boyfriend and human shield, angering Young Master Lin and apparently costing him a job interview because Lin’s family had influence at the company.
• While searching for a boss in a mobile game, Shen walks into a group of students confessing to the belle. She dumps water from the dormitory balcony, soaking Shen and the would-be suitors; someone jokes that it may be her foot-washing water.
• Back in his dorm, Shen discovers his phone has stopped working. After restarting it, the phone reports that it is repairing itself. The game icon has changed into Gate to the Immortal Realm.
• Shen opens the unfamiliar game and explores its strikingly realistic, zoomable world: a solitary floating island with no visible players, NPCs, map, or standard character controls.
• He finds an inventory, a novice gift pack containing a teleportation talisman and ten units of “immortal jade,” and a quest panel filled with unusual tasks involving deities such as the Plague God, Matchmaker God, and Great Sage Sun.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen is unlucky and financially stretched, but curious and experienced with games. He grumbles about his misfortune while eagerly investigating the new game, hoping to master it and show it off.
• The campus belle is presented as beautiful but fierce and impatient: she warns the students before dumping the water, then rebukes those caught beneath the balcony. Shen avoids confronting her, judging it pointless.
• Young Master Lin remains an offstage source of trouble after the failed confession and Shen’s unintended role as the belle’s “boyfriend.”
• The students’ teasing about the water contrasts with Shen’s irritation and embarrassment; he sees himself as an innocent bystander.

Significant themes

• Bad luck and comic misfortune: Shen’s romantic entanglement, failed interview, soaking, and damaged phone pile up in quick succession.
• Beauty, status, and consequences: The belle attracts public attention, while Shen’s accidental association with her puts him in conflict with Lin.
• Technology and the supernatural: A routine phone malfunction appears to transform an ordinary game into a mysterious, highly realistic world.
• Curiosity and discovery: Despite his frustration, Shen’s gaming instincts push him to explore the strange interface and its quests.

Plot points and events

• New player Shen Bing finds that the game offers no tutorial, equipment, stats, or quest rewards. He avoids a quest involving Sun Wukong, fearing the legendary monkey’s staff.
• He discovers that tapping a quest teleports him to its location, taking him to the Plague God’s dilapidated hall.
• Shen Bing tests the game’s open-ended dialogue by claiming to be the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. The Plague God believes him and nervously responds to his demands.
• Shen Bing tricks the Plague God into giving him a newborn Kitten Demon. Its ability, Plague God Possession, inflicts misfortune on a chosen target.
• When Shen Bing jokingly offers to be the Plague God’s friend, a message appears objecting to someone “sullying” Sun Wukong’s name. Sun Wukong attacks and kills Shen Bing’s character with his staff.
• Shen Bing chooses safe revival and is returned to the starting island.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is an experienced, irreverent gamer. He experiments rather than guessing, discovers that he can type his own dialogue, and grows bolder when his bluff works. His curiosity and overconfidence lead directly to his first death.
• The Plague God is a low-ranking, lonely deity who fears Sun Wukong and gives Shen Bing a kitten to appease him. He also admits that other gods avoid him.
• Sun Wukong appears only at the end, but his sudden, lethal intervention shows that powerful NPCs can attack players without warning.
• Wang Bo, Shen Bing’s macho roommate, is upset because his prospective mother-in-law wants him to marry into her family. Shen Bing teases him, while Wang Bo’s exaggerated heartbreak provides a comic contrast to the game’s danger.

Significant themes

• The chapter plays with the gap between familiar game conventions and an unpredictable world: there are no clear instructions, and NPCs respond dynamically to player-typed dialogue.
• Bluffing and exploiting NPCs may bring unexpected rewards, but the player has little control over the consequences.
• Comedy and peril coexist, as Shen Bing’s playful role-playing ends in an abrupt death.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• After being killed in the game, Shen Bing checks that he hasn’t lost his items. His newly acquired Kitten Demon is still in his inventory.
• He names the kitten Little Doudou and accidentally selects teleport instead of taking it out. The game begins a slow, uninterruptible transfer that prevents him from exiting or powering off his phone.
• While the teleport runs, Shen Bing’s roommates Sun Li and Wang Bo bicker and wrestle. Their joking turns to talk of Shen Bing’s failed job interview: he believes the recruiter favored campus beauty Wang Yanxi over him.
• Their fourth roommate, Old Yang, arrives with news that he has made 10,000 yuan. He treats the others to lunch, and the group heads to Foodie Street.
• In the restaurant restroom, the transfer reaches 100 percent. A tiny black kitten appears at Shen Bing’s feet, recognizes him as its owner, and is revealed to be Little Doudou—apparently transported out of the game and into the real world.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is resourceful and stubborn, finding a workaround when his preferred pet name is unavailable. His irritation at the game shifts to shock when its teleportation proves real.
• Sun Li is mischievous and sharp-tongued, teasing Wang Bo and Shen Bing; Wang Bo responds by overpowering him in a playful fight.
• Old Yang is quiet and academically minded, but his unexpected windfall makes him the group’s lunch benefactor. Wang Bo quickly exploits the occasion to secure a meal.
• The roommates’ easy teasing and roughhousing show their familiarity, while Shen Bing’s embarrassment about his interview contrasts with their casual support and banter.

Significant themes

• Gaming and reality blur: A game feature becomes a physical event, turning Shen Bing’s virtual pet into a real kitten.
• Loss of control and absurdity: Shen Bing cannot cancel or shut down the teleport, despite trying.
• Friendship through humor: The roommates’ insults, wrestling, and shared meal reveal a close, irreverent dorm dynamic.

Chapter Summary: “Little Doudou in the Real World”

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing discovers that the kitten he brought out of his phone is Little Doudou, a real creature from the Immortal Realm. Little Doudou can speak to him telepathically, understands his thoughts only when he mentally addresses it, and displays abilities far beyond an ordinary kitten.
• Shen Bing realizes that the mobile game on his phone connects to the actual Immortal Realm and can bring things from that realm into the real world. He imagines the riches and power this could offer, but decides to investigate the game more carefully once he returns to campus.
• He takes Little Doudou back to the restaurant, where his roommates object to keeping a cat—especially Wang Bo, who is frightened of furry animals. The others outvote him, making Little Doudou a member of their dorm.
• Lin Zijian, who has previously pursued Wang Yanxi and apparently interfered with Shen Bing’s job interview, arrives with several companions. He insults Shen Bing as an unworthy romantic rival. Wang Bo is ready to confront him, but Shen Bing stays composed and talks him down.
• After Lin leaves, Shen Bing explains the earlier incident to his friends. They respond with envy over his romantic prospects rather than sympathy for his troubles.
• Shen Bing privately orders Little Doudou to use its Plague God Possession Skill on Lin Zijian, hinting at retaliation.

Character developments

• Shen Bing moves from shock and fear at the supernatural to excitement about the power of his phone and confidence in his new advantage. In public, he keeps his cool around Lin Zijian; privately, he plans to use Little Doudou’s supernatural ability against him.
• Little Doudou is revealed as an intelligent Immortal Realm kitten demon, affectionate toward Shen Bing and loyal to him. It can communicate telepathically and appears ready to follow his commands.
• Wang Bo shows his usual hot temper and willingness to fight, but also comic fear of cats. He reluctantly accepts Little Doudou after the group votes.
• Lin Zijian displays entitlement and contempt for Shen Bing, though he quickly restrains himself when his companion urges him to stop arguing.
• Brother Yu appears to hold influence over Lin Zijian: Lin flatters him and immediately follows his lead.

Significant themes

• Supernatural power entering ordinary life: Shen Bing’s phone links the modern world to the Immortal Realm, transforming an everyday device into a source of extraordinary possibilities.
• Power, ambition, and temptation: Shen Bing imagines wealth and status from Immortal Realm treasures, while his first practical use of the new power may be revenge.
• Restraint versus aggression: Wang Bo wants to settle conflict with fists; Shen Bing chooses calm words in public, though he secretly prepares a supernatural counterattack.
• Status and arrogance: Lin Zijian relies on family influence and social rank to belittle others, while Shen Bing refuses to give him the reaction he wants.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing and Little Doudou establish a close master–companion bond, including a rule that protects Shen Bing’s privacy unless he mentally addresses the kitten.
• Shen Bing’s roommates debate whether to keep Little Doudou; majority rule defeats Wang Bo’s objections.
• Lin Zijian provokes Shen Bing and his friends, but Shen Bing prevents Wang Bo from escalating the confrontation.
• Brother Yu redirects Lin Zijian away from the quarrel, showing Lin’s deference to him.
• Shen Bing’s friends press him for details about his connection to Lin Zijian, then express envy about his romantic situation.

Key plot points and events

• At dinner, a slice of fish accidentally smacks Lin Zijian in the face. Though humiliated, he suppresses his anger because the person responsible, Brother Yu, is someone he needs to impress.
• Shen Bing recognizes the mishap as an effect of Little Black Cat’s “Plague God Possession” and jokes loudly about Lin’s bad luck. Lin silently vows to get even with Shen and his friends.
• Lin chokes severely on a fish bone. As he is taken away by ambulance, it crashes into a minibus. Lin is the only person injured in the collision, breaking a leg in addition to his earlier ordeal.
• Shen realizes the cat’s misfortune-inducing power is alarmingly strong, though he feels no regret. His friends remain unaware of his involvement.
• Back in his dorm, Shen explores the game on his phone. He confirms the Novice Teleportation Talisman has three uses, with two remaining, and examines the Treasure Pavilion.
• The shop offers only a Teleportation Talisman and an Aperture-Opening Pill. The pill could greatly enhance brain development and grant photographic memory, but Shen is disappointed that it is not a more fantastical treasure. A first-purchase discount makes it cost just one Immortal Jade.
• Shen then tests the Eye of Truth’s analysis function on his teleportation talisman. As the analysis begins, he worries that it might destroy the item.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing becomes more excited about the phone’s real-world potential, but also recognizes that Little Black Cat’s power could cause extreme harm. His curiosity and impulsiveness lead him to analyze the only item in his inventory before considering the risk.
• Lin Zijian shifts from polished, socially confident host to a humiliated and seriously injured victim. Unable to challenge Brother Yu, he directs his resentment toward Shen and his friends.
• Brother Yu accidentally causes the first mishap and then takes charge when Lin chokes, arranging emergency help.
• Shen’s friends enjoy Lin’s misfortune as comic payback, without knowing Shen’s connection to it.
• Lin’s group and Shen’s table remain indirectly at odds: Shen’s teasing reaches Lin, who can do little but silently seethe.

Significant themes

• Luck and unintended consequences: The cat’s possession turns minor accidents into a chain of escalating misfortune.
• Power and responsibility: Shen enjoys the results but begins to see that using the cat’s ability may endanger more than its target.
• Status and restraint: Lin’s wealth and social polish cannot spare him embarrassment, while his dependence on Brother Yu forces him to hide his anger.
• Curiosity and risk: Shen’s eagerness to explore the game’s powers leads him to gamble with a valuable, possibly irreplaceable item.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing successfully analyzes the Novice Teleportation Talisman and gains Quantum Teleportation Technology, rather than a magical teleportation ability.
• Transferring the technology floods his mind with information and causes several minutes of severe pain. Although he now possesses the knowledge, much of it is too advanced for him to understand without mastering the scientific foundations first.
• Hoping to boost his learning ability, he buys an Aperture-Opening Pill for one immortal jade. The system warns that the pill is beyond its analysis level, but forced analysis yields a Basic Animal Intelligence Potion Formula—not the human-intelligence enhancement he had hoped for.
• He learns that the Gate must complete five tasks to reach level two. He also discovers that one immortal jade costs one million yuan, leaving him unable to afford more purchases.
• Realizing he needs privacy and a safer place to take the pill, Shen Bing searches for housing and finds a room to rent in a shared three-bedroom apartment more than ten kilometers from his university.

Character developments

• Shen Bing shifts from disappointment at not receiving supernatural powers to excitement about possessing cutting-edge technology.
• His ambition grows: he imagines using the pill to become a genius and hopes to profit from the Gate’s resources. But his lack of scientific expertise and money quickly temper that confidence.
• He is cautious about taking the pill after the painful technology transfer, and practical enough to seek a private place before trying it.

Significant themes

• Power versus capability: Having advanced knowledge does not mean Shen Bing can understand, build, or safely use it.
• The cost of opportunity: The Gate offers extraordinary possibilities, but its prices and requirements place them beyond his ordinary means.
• Ambition tempered by reality: Shen Bing dreams of scientific breakthroughs and immense wealth, yet faces immediate limits in education, finances, and safety.
• Risk and uncertainty: Even the system’s rewards and analyses can produce unexpected or disappointing results.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing’s main interaction is with the Gate’s system: he transfers technology, purchases the pill, forces its analysis, checks the leveling requirements, and discovers the steep top-up rate.
• His absent parents are mentioned as giving him a modest monthly allowance, underscoring his financial constraints.
• Concern about his dorm mates reacting to him collapsing helps motivate his decision to rent a room.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing takes the quest to retrieve illusory rainbow immortal crystal for Thousand-Mile Eye, deciding that the danger is manageable because he can revive.
• He teleports to Iceflame Island, climbs Dark Ice Mountain, and collects a crystal. The quest offers a free teleport to Thousand-Mile Eye, sparing him the risk of leaving through the deadly blue flames and using his last teleport charge.
• At Thousand-Mile Eye’s palace, Shen Bing introduces himself as the invented “Mist-Ethereal Adept” and gives him the crystal. In return, he receives a kaleidoscope-like treasure. The completed quest then teleports him back to Illusory Void Island.
• Shen Bing arrives at Fengze Residential Community to view a rental. The kind landlord, Uncle Wang, explains that he is renting out his city apartment after moving to the countryside to live near his devoted son.
• Hearing about Uncle Wang’s family makes Shen Bing think of his own parents, whose eccentric past behavior leaves him feeling unlucky and close to tears.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is practical and opportunistic: he accepts a dangerous quest, carefully conserves his teleportation charge, and avoids falsely claiming ties to famous Immortals after a previous run-in with the Great Sage. He also hopes to build a relationship with Thousand-Mile Eye, but the quest’s automatic return cuts the visit short.
• Thousand-Mile Eye is initially startled by Shen Bing’s unexpected generosity. He accepts the rare crystal and offers a valuable item in exchange; his reproachful look suggests disappointment when Shen Bing leaves immediately.
• Uncle Wang comes across as warm and content, especially when discussing his caring son.
• Shen Bing’s memories portray his parents as comically unreliable: his father once sent him to kindergarten with the family’s large dog, while his mother tried to arrange a future marriage on his first day of school.

Significant themes

• Game-like opportunity and risk: Shen Bing uses teleportation rules, quest rewards, and the ability to revive to manage danger and conserve scarce resources.
• Generosity and reciprocity: Thousand-Mile Eye is surprised by the gift but insists on returning something of value.
• Family and contrast: Uncle Wang’s close relationship with his son prompts Shen Bing to contrast it with his own childhood, blending affection, embarrassment, and comic exasperation.

Key plot points

• Shen Bing rents a cheap, newly renovated room from Uncle Wang. His neighbor is a huge, withdrawn man who ignores his greeting.
• He tests the mysterious Gate to the Immortal Realm on his phone and confirms that other people see only the ordinary game interface. The phone also returns to him if it gets more than a hundred meters away and has become extremely durable.
• Shen Bing spends Immortal Jade to teleport an Aperture-Opening Pill from his Inventory. Despite fearing it might harm him, he takes it and collapses from intense pain.
• After waking, he feels energized but ravenously hungry, eating two buckets of rice. He then discovers that his mind has been transformed: he has extraordinary memory, comprehension, calculation, eyesight, and physical precision.
• Though he can memorize and understand an obscure academic paper instantly, he still cannot make sense of the advanced Quantum Teleportation Technology stored in his mind because he lacks the necessary background knowledge.
• Shen Bing begins planning how to use the Gate and his enhanced intelligence. He rejects hacking as too risky and decides to pursue legitimate technological research and business, aiming to make money, build factories, and eventually develop quantum teleportation.

Character development and interactions

• Shen Bing moves from excitement and suspicion about his unusual phone to bold experimentation, taking the pill despite the danger. Its effects make him newly confident and ambitious.
• His practical side emerges as he recognizes that Immortal Jade is essential but expensive, and that he needs a sustainable source of money.
• His interaction with his neighbor is brief and awkward: Shen Bing interprets the man’s silence as arrogance. His dorm friends tease him about his new living arrangement but otherwise accept his move.
• Little Doudou follows Shen Bing when he rushes out to eat, offering a small moment of companionship.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Shen Bing considers exploiting his abilities for easy money but rejects criminal hacking out of concern for its consequences.
• Transformation and opportunity: The pill dramatically changes his abilities and forces him to rethink his future.
• Limits of intelligence: Even extraordinary mental power cannot replace foundational knowledge.
• Ambition and self-reliance: Shen Bing sees technological innovation and entrepreneurship as his path to wealth and influence.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing recognizes that, despite gaining access to extraordinary technology, revealing world-changing inventions too soon would make him vulnerable to more powerful competitors. He decides to build his influence gradually.
• Using a system that lets him absorb knowledge from books, he spends a day rapidly “flipping through” medical texts. He explains to his skeptical roommate Old Yang that he is researching a formula from a mysterious old man, though Old Yang treats the story as a joke.
• Shen Bing had transferred the incomplete Intelligence Potion formula from the Gate to the Immortal Realm. Because he knows little about medicine, he studies extensively, then spends three days gathering ingredients and preparing the potion.
• The potion dramatically improves a dog’s intelligence. Big Yellow, an ordinary rural dog, can understand spoken instructions and carry them out at a level comparable to a young child. Shen Bing records a demonstration and sends it to his father, hoping to sell the dog for a high price.
• His father, initially focused on seeing the dog rather than checking on Shen Bing, drives several hundred kilometers to visit. On the way to Shen Bing’s room, he also tries to claim Shen Bing’s kitten, Little Doudou, but Shen Bing refuses.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing becomes more strategic about his ambitions, while remaining playful and resourceful. He uses his new knowledge and the potion to create an unusual asset, then tries to turn it into money.
• Old Yang teases Shen Bing for studying medicine despite being a computer science major and dismisses his explanation as nonsense.
• Shen Bing’s father is blunt and teasing, assuming his son’s calls are usually requests for money. Despite this, he rushes over when he sees Big Yellow’s abilities and tries to bargain over the dog.
• Big Yellow changes from an ordinary dog into a highly intelligent companion who understands and performs complex instructions.
• Little Doudou remains a mysterious, fussy eater and a source of playful competition between Shen Bing and his father.

Significant themes

• Power and caution: Shen Bing understands that innovation without influence can invite exploitation.
• Knowledge and invention: His ability to absorb vast amounts of information allows him to turn an incomplete formula into a working breakthrough.
• Family comedy and affection: The father-son relationship is expressed through sarcasm, bargaining, and teasing rather than sentimentality.
• The uncanny mixed with the ordinary: A supernatural intelligence potion and an extraordinarily capable dog unfold amid everyday concerns about money, pets, and studying.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing’s father visits and initially dismisses Big Yellow as an ordinary mutt. After watching the dog prepare tea on command, he offers increasingly high prices and ultimately buys him for one million yuan. He frames the purchase as a contribution to Shen Bing’s future marriage fund and tells him to keep it secret from his mother.
• Shen Bing briefly celebrates his newfound wealth, then remembers that one million yuan can buy only a single Immortal Jade—and would barely help with his larger goals. He decides to use the money to earn more rather than spend it on Immortal Jade.
• He transfers the Over-the-Horizon Telescope Manufacturing Technology from the Gate to the Immortal Realm for six Immortal Jade. The technology, derived from the Eye of Gods and Demons, is far easier for him to understand than quantum teleportation. After studying it in the library, he discovers that its handheld telescope uses 38 specialized lenses, each outperforming existing products.
• Old Yang interrupts Shen Bing’s studies and takes him to a food stall with their friends, who mistakenly think he is distraught over being a romantic “backup option.” Shen Bing insists he is fine and reveals that he wants to start a business by buying a glass factory.
• When his friends point out that factories cost tens of millions, Shen Bing realizes he has not considered the necessary capital. He immediately searches online for the cost, leaving them convinced that his plan is absurd.

Character developments

• Shen Bing is increasingly entrepreneurial and ambitious, prioritizing technology that could generate long-term wealth. However, his enthusiasm outruns his practical planning: he wants to buy a factory before checking what it costs.
• Shen Bing’s father proves shrewd in business despite his casual, unreliable approach to fatherhood. He recognizes Big Yellow’s novelty and pays a large sum, while discreetly presenting it as support for Shen Bing’s marriage.
• Big Yellow demonstrates remarkable intelligence and obedience, winning Shen Bing’s father’s admiration—and sympathy—when Shen Bing jokingly threatens to stew him.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing and his father haggle over Big Yellow, mixing business negotiation with teasing and threats. The father’s affection for the dog helps drive up his offer.
• Shen Bing’s friends try to comfort him based on a mistaken story, but their concern turns into disbelief when he announces his factory plan.
• Old Yang and the others see Shen Bing’s library work and business ambition as signs that something is wrong, while Shen Bing is frustrated that they will not take him seriously.

Significant themes

• Technology as a path to wealth: Shen Bing treats advanced knowledge as the “goose that lays golden eggs.”
• Ambition versus practicality: His bold plans are fueled by new knowledge, but he has yet to reckon with the real-world costs.
• Misunderstanding and perception: Shen Bing’s friends misread both his studying and his intentions, highlighting the gap between his extraordinary circumstances and their ordinary assumptions.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing decides to start a small glass factory, despite his friends’ doubts. He believes he can use selected techniques from the advanced Over-the-Horizon Telescope manufacturing technology to produce superior glass and build capital.
• Sun Li reveals that a closed factory near his hometown still has its equipment. Shen Bing contacts the owner, Boss Wu, and travels with Sun to inspect it.
• Boss Wu shows them the modest workshop and its machinery. Shen Bing evaluates the equipment using his newly acquired knowledge of modern glassmaking.
• After bargaining down Boss Wu’s asking price of 800,000 yuan, Shen Bing agrees to buy the factory for 600,000 yuan, including a year’s land rent. He also asks Boss Wu to connect him with former local workers.

Character developments

• Shen Bing shows growing ambition and self-assurance. Though he is still a student, he approaches the venture seriously, uses his technical knowledge to assess the factory, and negotiates firmly.
• Sun Li remains skeptical and tries to change Shen Bing’s mind, but ultimately helps him and accepts that the decision is Shen Bing’s to make.
• Boss Wu shifts from hopeful but doubtful to cooperative once he recognizes Shen Bing’s seriousness and knowledge.
• Shen Bing’s friends, especially Wang Bo, are unconvinced that opening a glass factory is worthwhile.

Significant themes

• Ambition and confidence: Shen Bing believes a small beginning can grow into a major enterprise.
• Innovation through knowledge: His advanced manufacturing technology and study of current industry practices give him an edge over established producers.
• Practical action over talk: Rather than merely discussing the plan, Shen Bing inspects equipment, negotiates a deal, and begins assembling a workforce.
• Skepticism and opportunity: Others see an outdated workshop and a risky plan; Shen sees usable equipment and a starting point.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing argues with Old Yang and Sun Li about whether a small glass factory is viable, while his friends dismiss the idea.
• Sun Li helps Shen contact Boss Wu and accompanies him to the factory, continuing to question the plan along the way.
• Shen Bing handles Boss Wu’s initial doubts with calm professionalism, then uses his knowledge of the equipment’s age and value to negotiate a lower price.
• After the purchase, Shen Bing turns down a celebratory meal and asks Boss Wu for introductions to the former workers, prioritizing progress over socializing.

Summary

Shen Bing formalizes his acquisition of the Stone Bridge Glass Factory, registering Illusion Immortal Technology Company and making the factory its subsidiary, renamed Illusion Immortal Glass Factory. The name reflects both the game that preceded the Gate to the Immortal Realm and the technology Shen Bing has obtained from that realm. Boss Wu doubts the grand title suits a small factory, unaware that Shen Bing hopes to turn glassmaking into the foundation of a major technology business.
Running even a modest factory quickly proves demanding. Shen Bing recognizes that he needs skilled technicians, sales staff, and, most urgently, professional management—but cannot yet afford top-tier recruits. He hires the five existing workers and has them sign confidentiality agreements, treating the contracts as a basic safeguard while relying chiefly on the difficulty of reproducing his methods.
Shen Bing personally calibrates the factory’s equipment and designs its production process. His transformed brain and nanometer-level control let him make adjustments with extraordinary precision, producing results others could not easily copy. After spending the day at the factory, he orders seven or eight tons of raw materials for an initial production run.
That night, he checks the Gate to the Immortal Realm for quests but finds none he can complete with his current abilities. With only one teleport remaining, he decides not to waste it and instead focuses on the telescope technology he already possesses. He continues studying advanced glass processing and electronic information technology online.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing moves from acquiring a factory to establishing a long-term business plan, showing ambition, caution, and growing awareness of the practical burdens of leadership. He personally handles technical work while recognizing the need to delegate.
• Boss Wu is impressed and baffled by Shen Bing’s choice to call the business a technology company, judging it by the small factory’s present capacity.
• Sun Li and the workers are part of Shen Bing’s early effort to organize the business; the workers are hired under confidentiality terms, and one is assigned to guard the factory.
• Shen Bing’s interactions with the workers are practical and managerial: he delegates limited duties but keeps the most sensitive technical work in his own hands.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus present limitations: Shen Bing sees the factory’s potential, while others see only its modest current scale.
• Knowledge and technological advantage: His specialized expertise and extraordinary precision give him an edge that is difficult to imitate.
• The burdens of entrepreneurship: Building a company requires people, money, logistics, and management—not just advanced technology.
• Patience and prioritization: Rather than squander his last teleport on unsuitable quests, Shen Bing concentrates on developing the technology and business already within reach.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing returns to the university library, rapidly reading technical books while waiting for a materials delivery. He wants to hire a professional manager for his glass business but decides it will be easier once the factory has products to show.
• Librarian Yuan Wei approaches, assuming he may need help finding a book. Shen Bing brushes her off, saying he is only browsing, leaving her annoyed and puzzled by his unusual behavior.
• Thinking about the factory’s limited funds and security, Shen Bing decides to buy guard dogs and plans to give them a potion that grants basic spiritual wisdom.
• He runs into his friend Wang Bo, who is surprised to learn Shen has truly taken over a small glass workshop. Wang offers help but says he is heading to a job fair to look for work.
• Shen buys two German Shepherds and brings them to the Illusion Immortal Glass Factory.
• Worker Dong Qiang worries that the small factory can produce about two tons of raw glass a day but lacks buyers, the same problem that caused it to close before. Shen confidently insists customers will rush to buy the new products.
• A truck from Heavenly Source Mining arrives with the ore Shen ordered. Shen leaves the unloading arrangements to Dong Qiang, preferring to focus on his higher-level plans.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shows intense ambition and confidence, dividing his attention between technical study, factory management, and security. He treats his friends and workers casually but expects them to handle routine tasks.
• Yuan Wei is initially helpful and curious, then feels slighted by Shen’s dismissive response. Her private thoughts reveal a playful, self-conscious side.
• Wang Bo remains supportive of Shen while pursuing his own job prospects; his astonishment underscores how unconventional Shen’s business venture seems.
• Dong Qiang is practical and concerned about the factory’s viability. His doubts contrast with Shen’s certainty about future demand.

Significant themes

• Ambition and unconventional choices: Shen pursues manufacturing while still a student, disregarding expectations.
• Confidence versus practical risk: Shen believes his products will attract buyers, while Dong Qiang focuses on the factory’s real sales problem.
• Efficiency and delegation: Shen tries to use his time strategically and leave routine work to others.
• Misunderstanding and social perception: Shen’s unusual reading habits and brusque manner lead others to misread him.

Plot points and events

• On September 23, Shen Bing opens the Illusion Immortal Glass Factory with five workers and begins supervising production himself.
• The first pane is only 8 mm thick and as light as ordinary glass, yet stronger than 19 mm tempered glass. After passing through an inexpensive screen-printing machine, it becomes “Miracle Glass”: a vivid, layered, glasses-free 3D display.
• The workers test the pane and discover that it shows different images at different temperatures and from opposite sides. Unable to explain how it works, they prepare materials for more production.
• Back home, Shen Bing contacts a headhunting company about hiring a professional manager, then prepares five bottles of Basic Spiritual Wisdom Potion, initially intending to use them for the factory’s two guard dogs.
• His father calls asking for another exceptionally capable dog like Big Yellow. Shen Bing agrees to deliver one in two days, realizing the potion can serve this purpose—and anticipating another lucrative deal.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing is calm and confident about the extraordinary glass, focused on scaling his operation, and pragmatic about delegating management. He also quietly plans to use the potion to meet his father’s request.
• Dong Qiang takes on a leadership role among the workers, helps test the glass, and encourages the team by presenting the factory as a promising long-term opportunity.
• Gangzi and the other workers move from skepticism about Shen Bing’s demanding procedures to amazement at the product, though they cannot explain its properties.
• Shen Bing and his father maintain a joking but financially tinged relationship: the father eagerly requests another “divine dog,” while Shen privately thinks about the money made from Big Yellow.

Significant themes

• Innovation and the miraculous: A tiny workshop produces technology that defies conventional industry expectations.
• Expertise versus mystery: The workers can reproduce the process but do not understand why it creates such an extraordinary result.
• Ambition and delegation: Shen Bing recognizes that even exceptional ability cannot replace a team or professional management.
• Family and money: Shen’s business dealings with his father blend affection, humor, and profit.

Plot points and events

• Li Tianlang’s dog, Big Yellow, has become a sensation in Qingyuan’s underground dogfighting scene. Though it looks like an ordinary Chinese Rural Dog, its remarkable intelligence lets it defeat stronger opponents. Its success has driven up demand—and prices—for local mutts, while opportunists try to sell inferior dogs as lookalikes.
• Shen Bing recognizes the dog craze as a temporary market bubble. He sees the Intelligence Potion as a possible sideline, but believes lasting wealth will come from technological products.
• Shen hires Wang Sheng as general manager of Illusion Immortal Technology, which currently consists mainly of its glass factory. Wang was the only candidate willing to stay after seeing the factory’s modest setting and product.
• Wang proposes having the glass tested by the Quality Supervision Bureau, then targeting the construction industry. He argues that entering more exclusive fields such as precision optics or LCD substrates would be difficult because established companies dominate them.
• Wang suggests pursuing the glass-curtain-wall contract for the Nancy Building in Rongcheng, which could establish the company’s reputation. Shen approves and tells Wang to build the company’s basic departments and recruit enough staff to operate.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains pragmatic and focused on long-term business growth. He is confident in his product but willing to rely on Wang’s market analysis and delegate company-building almost entirely to him.
• Wang Sheng demonstrates industry knowledge, initiative, and commitment. He arrives prepared with a development plan and quickly identifies a realistic market entry point. His confidence in the company is strengthened by seeing its glass firsthand.
• Their relationship begins on respectful terms, but Wang is surprised by how freely Shen gives him responsibility. He had expected limits on his authority; instead, he worries that the workload may be overwhelming.

Significant themes

• Temporary hype versus lasting value: Big Yellow’s popularity illustrates how demand can inflate prices, while Shen distinguishes passing trends from sustainable business.
• Innovation and commercialization: A superior product is not enough; choosing the right market and securing customers are essential.
• Leadership and delegation: Shen’s hands-off approach gives Wang considerable autonomy, creating both opportunity and pressure.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing brings Wang Sheng to the Illusion Immortal Glass Factory and formally introduces him to its small staff.
• Wang Sheng warns that the factory’s output—about 100 square meters of glass a day—cannot meet the needs of the Nancy Building, a three-tower complex requiring more than 200,000 square meters of glass curtain wall.
• With the project potentially worth around 100 million yuan, Shen Bing puts Wang Sheng in charge of pursuing it and asks him to seek a 5–10% advance payment. Wang Sheng believes the glass’s unique qualities may make that possible.
• Wang Sheng raises the risk of competitors copying the manufacturing technology. Shen Bing assures him that it cannot be replicated, and Wang Sheng proposes a bold “White Wolf Scheme.”
• Shen Bing leaves business operations to Wang Sheng so he can focus on learning Quantum Teleportation Technology.
• Shen’s father visits, takes home a highly intelligent dog, and gives Shen Bing two million yuan: one million for the dog and one million as a loan. Shen transfers the money to the company and tells Wang Sheng to lease nearby land and begin arranging factory construction.
• At home, Shen jokes about selling Little Doudou. The kitten replies telepathically that it is priceless; it has learned to read and use the internet.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shifts from cautious startup founder to ambitious dealmaker, but remains aware of the factory’s severe funding and capacity limits. He trusts Wang Sheng to run the business while he pursues his scientific goals.
• Wang Sheng proves commercially confident and ambitious. Though startled by Shen Bing’s plan to request a deposit before securing a contract, he believes the product’s uniqueness gives them leverage.
• Shen Bing and his father show strong mutual trust: his father lends him money without demanding an explanation.
• Little Doudou continues developing rapidly, gaining literacy, internet skills, and the ability to communicate directly in Shen Bing’s mind.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus practical constraints: a potentially enormous contract is matched by a tiny factory and limited capital.
• Trust and delegation: Shen Bing relies on Wang Sheng’s business judgment and his father’s support.
• Innovation as competitive advantage: the glass’s supposedly impossible-to-copy technology could give the company extraordinary bargaining power.
• Unexpected intelligence: the dog and especially Little Doudou blur the line between ordinary animals and remarkable beings.

• Factory setup: Shen Bing secures a ten-year lease on ten mu of land, paying a steep annual fee, and Wang Sheng arranges construction of a basic factory shell. Interior plans will follow once the machinery is chosen.
• A major sales opportunity: Wei Changjia, the company’s new, experienced salesman, has arranged a meeting with Chang Lu, procurement manager for the Nancy Building project. If the project adopts Illusion Immortal Glass, it could bring the small company a contract worth over a hundred million and make its product famous. Wei hopes to earn a promotion and company car if he lands the deal.
• Chang Lu’s motives: Wei describes Chang as cautious about getting caught but greedy when he sees an opportunity. Chang has connections to a Nancy Group director’s family and can exploit purchases with unclear pricing. Chang himself believes the glass could transform the building and win him credit—but he also intends to extract millions in kickbacks from the under-resourced supplier.
• The meeting: Shen, Wang, and Wei meet Chang at a high-end restaurant. Chang is unusually friendly, which makes Shen suspicious. Chang claims the project is already close to choosing another supplier, invoking connections to the chairman’s son and a project executive to emphasize how difficult it will be to change course. The company representatives flatter and defer to him, but make no progress.
• Confrontation and cliffhanger: Frustrated by the evasive negotiation, Shen abruptly asks Chang how much of a kickback he wants. The blunt question shocks the room and breaks the careful, indirect rhythm of the meeting.
  Character developments and interactions: Shen appears confident and business-minded when discussing the project, but his inexperience with conventional deal-making gives way to impatience. Wang acts as his steady, supportive partner, while Wei uses charm and negotiation skills but is anxious about Chang’s demands. Chang presents himself as a cordial professional while privately treating the company as easy prey.
  Themes: The chapter highlights the challenges small companies face when dealing with entrenched connections and corruption; the tension between a potentially revolutionary product and the compromises needed to sell it; and the gap between Shen’s directness and the coded etiquette of business negotiations.

• Negotiations collapse: At a restaurant meeting about Phantom Immortal Technology’s exterior-wall project for the Nancy Building, Chang Lu drops his pretense and demands a 20% cut—about 20 million yuan—paid in advance. He claims he can raise the contract price enough to cover it, but Shen Bing rejects the demand, citing both the illegality of bribery and the waste of paying Chang when the money could be put to better use.
• Chang Lu threatens retaliation: Enraged, Chang threatens to block the company’s access to the Nancy Building and sell its product sample to a large glass manufacturer. Shen, furious at the intimidation, throws tea in Chang’s face, calls the meeting over, and leaves with Wang Sheng and Wei Changjia. He also silently orders his companion, the demon beast Little Doudou, to use its Plague God Possession skill against Chang.
• A costly parting shot: Shen refuses to pay for the meal, leaving Chang to cover the 12,000-yuan bill. Restaurant staff identify Chang as the one who booked the meal, and he is humiliated further when a waiter asks him to settle up.
• The project may not be lost: Wang assumes the Nancy Building opportunity is finished and suggests finding other prospects. Shen insists their chances may actually have improved. He and Wei seem to understand why, but Wei is left confused as the chapter ends.
  Character developments and interactions: Shen shows his blunt, principled, and volatile side: he refuses to be bought or threatened, but his directness unsettles his employees. Wang and Wei share his anger at Chang’s demands, though Wang doubts Shen’s approach; Wei enjoys the satisfaction of leaving Chang with the bill. Chang’s confidence turns to outrage and embarrassment when his pressure tactics fail.
  Themes: The chapter contrasts integrity with corrupt business dealings, and explores how arrogance and coercion can backfire. It also highlights Shen’s unconventional leadership and hints that refusing Chang’s terms may have created an unexpected advantage.

Plot points and events

• Shen Bing and his colleagues advance Illusion Immortal Glass’s bid for the Nancy Building project. Wei Changjia realizes that the client’s willingness to pay 20% more shows how valuable the glass is, and leaves to pursue a presentation to senior management.
• Wang Sheng explains the company’s “White Wolf Scheme”: use the glass sample to win the major contract, then use the contract to persuade an equipment supplier to provide production machinery on deferred payment.
• At home, Shen Bing reviews the company’s finances and finds that most of his recent funding has already gone to land and construction, leaving little cash for operations.
• Searching the Gate to the Immortal Realm for a mission, Shen Bing finds one suited to his knowledge: helping Lu Ban design a self-moving carriage for sightseeing. He assumes the Immortal Realm may lack technology developed on Earth and hopes automobile ideas might help.
• Shen Bing teleports to Craftsman God Island and is nearly crushed by a towering mechanical puppet. After it stops, Lu Ban’s voice orders the puppet to withdraw. Shen Bing then discovers the island is filled with enormous mechanism beasts and realizes their technology could be immensely valuable.

Character developments

• Shen Bing shows growing confidence in his business strategy but remains anxious about the company’s limited funds. His curiosity—and appetite for opportunity—drives him to accept a risky mission despite the danger.
• Wei Changjia demonstrates sharp sales instincts and ambition, quickly recognizing how to turn the client’s interest into leverage.
• Wang Sheng continues to act as a practical organizer, managing factory operations and helping secure equipment financing.

Significant themes

• Risk and resourcefulness: The company tries to turn a major contract into the means of acquiring equipment, while Shen Bing seeks opportunities in an unfamiliar realm.
• Technology and knowledge gaps: Shen Bing believes Earth’s industrial knowledge may solve an immortal problem, then discovers the Immortal Realm possesses advanced mechanical creations of its own.
• Ambition and temptation: Shen Bing’s interest in the mission is partly practical, but his excitement at the mechanism beasts reveals his desire to gain power and wealth.

Character interactions

• Shen Bing prompts Wei Changjia to reconsider the client’s offer, strengthening Wei’s confidence and sending him to pursue the deal.
• Wang Sheng updates Shen Bing on equipment negotiations and the factory’s needs, while Shen Bing emphasizes that winning the contract must come before worrying about patents.
• On Craftsman God Island, Divine Puppet No. 2 nearly kills Shen Bing before Lu Ban intervenes, establishing both the island’s danger and Lu Ban’s authority.

Chapter summary

Shen Bing visits Craftsman God Lu Ban—also called Ban Shu—after hearing that a Jade Emperor’s decree has left him struggling to build a self-moving Immortal Carriage. Lu Ban has already made powerful Mechanism Beasts, but assumes a carriage must be pulled by a creature and cannot understand how wheels could move on their own.
Shen Bing identifies Lu Ban’s real difficulty as rigid thinking. He explains that the wheels, not the animal pulling the carriage, are what make it travel, and suggests using a mechanism to turn them. When Lu Ban worries that a two-wheeled carriage would be unstable, Shen Bing snaps that he should use four wheels. Lu Ban is delighted by the suggestion and praises Shen Bing’s wisdom, even saying he would be more suited to the Craftsman God position. Shen Bing declines the honor, inwardly hoping for a quest reward instead.
Lu Ban goes off to build the carriage but asks Shen Bing to stay and share more teachings. Shen Bing agrees because the quest has not yet been marked complete and he lacks a way to leave. Lu Ban departs, leaving Shen Bing to wait on the island. Shen Bing tests logging out and back in, confirming that his character remains on Craftsman God Island. He then spends a day waiting for Lu Ban while researching on his computer, but Lu Ban does not return.
The next morning, Shen Bing receives a call from Wei Changjia, who says he has found a way to help with the Nancy Building’s glass curtain wall project. His proposed solution involves a public toilet near Nancy Group’s headquarters, setting up the next development.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shows practical ingenuity by translating familiar mechanical ideas into terms Lu Ban can understand. He is also calculating: he wants the quest reward but tries to preserve the image of a carefree, worldly-detached Immortal.
• Lu Ban is a brilliant inventor but struggles with conceptual assumptions. He is humble and eager to learn, taking Shen Bing’s advice seriously rather than taking offense at the insult.
• Wei Changjia re-enters the story with a potentially important business solution, though the chapter ends before he explains it.

Significant themes

• Innovation requires questioning assumptions: Lu Ban’s technical skill is limited by his belief that carriages must be pulled.
• Practical knowledge can bridge worlds: Shen Bing applies ordinary mechanical reasoning to an Immortal-world problem.
• Appearance versus motive: Shen Bing presents himself as detached from status and rewards while privately hoping to collect the quest prize.
• Patience and uncertainty: Shen Bing is forced to wait without knowing when the quest will be completed.