Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Blessed Life, Yellow Heaven unleashes increasingly powerful attacks, warping space and time and invoking his authorities: fate, the Source Castle, the Spirit World, and “mystery,” which makes events unpredictable.
• Meng Chuan emerges unharmed, studies these effects, and concludes that he has seen enough. He recognizes how authority lets Mysterious World beings bend rules, despite their relative physical fragility.
• Rather than attack with the Emperor Fist, Meng Chuan releases his seals and alters his Origin, taking on a restrained, monstrous form inspired by what he has learned about the Mysterious World.
• By the world’s rules, seeing a higher-level existence can bring both insight and madness. Blessed Life, Yellow Heaven loses control and becomes an incoherent, transformed horror.
• Meng Chuan seizes the mad Heavenly Venerable. A Chat Group notification appears: “[Medium detected. Searching...]”

Character developments

• Meng Chuan remains composed and curious under attack, treating the battle as a chance to understand the enemy’s powers. He adapts to the Mysterious World’s rules, becoming mysterious enough to overwhelm his opponent without relying on brute force.
• Blessed Life, Yellow Heaven displays the immense reach of his authorities but pays for wielding them: his remaining clarity vanishes, and he loses control completely.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: In the Mysterious World, wielding greater power risks loss of control.
• Rules and authority: Mysterious World beings can influence reality through authority, compensating for their physical weakness.
• Perception as danger: Merely seeing a higher-level being can expose ordinary people to madness, making the Heavenly Venerable’s presence a threat to an entire world.
• Adaptation and understanding: Meng Chuan defeats his opponent by studying and applying the enemy’s system rather than simply overpowering him.

Character interactions

• The Heavenly Venerable attacks and displays his powers while Meng Chuan calmly observes, even provoking him by asking whether that was his best.
• Meng Chuan’s transformation makes him appear to the Heavenly Venerable as a terrifying higher-level being; the resulting encounter drives the Heavenly Venerable into madness.
• Meng Chuan takes hold of the defeated incarnation, triggering the unexplained Chat Group alert.

Plot points and events

• The Chat Group uses the one-use medium made from Blessed Life, Yellow Heaven’s avatar to search for its world. It gives no immediate update, so Meng Chuan leaves the search to continue.
• Before departing, Meng Chuan visits Lu Mingfei aboard a plane bound for Japan. He confirms that the enemy who previously contaminated Lu Mingfei was only an avatar, and speculates that another member may soon join the Chat Group.
• Seeing Lu Mingfei dressed up to meet Eri, Meng Chuan teases him and warns him to take the chance seriously. He threatens—half jokingly, but with the power to make it credible—to use time reversal if Lu Mingfei fails or behaves badly.
• Lu Mingfei reveals that he has been preparing for the meeting by secretly reading romance guides. He imagines giving Eri the happy experiences she never had and hopes she will see him as someone who makes her feel safe and valued.
• Meng Chuan tells him to stop daydreaming and actually speak to Eri. Their teasing turns into a running argument about who is single and who should be pursuing a partner. Meng Chuan eventually leaves the plane, but Lu Mingfei’s final challenge makes him think about his own romantic prospects.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei is nervous but determined to meet Eri. His memories of her suffering in the Fate Instance—especially her dying call for a false name and her treasured toys—give his hopes for her a heartfelt, protective quality. He wants her to have the childhood and happiness she was denied.
• Meng Chuan shows concern for Lu Mingfei beneath his mockery. He encourages him, pushes him to act, and sets a stern boundary about treating Eri well. Lu Mingfei’s repeated teasing about finding a wife also briefly unsettles Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• Love as action, not fantasy: Meng Chuan insists that Lu Mingfei must turn his romantic hopes into honest words and deeds.
• Healing and reclaiming happiness: Lu Mingfei wants Eri to experience ordinary joys and feel safe after a painful past.
• Humor and affection: Their insults, threats, and jokes conceal mutual concern and provide a light counterpoint to the darker memories behind Lu Mingfei’s feelings.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Lu Mingfei trade encouragement and teasing, with Meng Chuan acting as both blunt mentor and meddling friend.
• Lu Mingze eagerly flatters Meng Chuan, prompting Lu Mingfei to scold him; Meng Chuan jokingly praises the younger brother’s “sweeter tongue.”
• Lu Mingfei’s heartfelt description of his hopes for Eri is interrupted by Meng Chuan’s slap and practical challenge: go tell her directly.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan stays in the Dragon Race world after confronting a contingency left by the same Old One who previously corrupted Lu Mingfei. While eating cold noodles and livestreaming, he warns the chat group that someone from the Old One’s world may join.
• In the island nation, Lu Mingfei arrives with two companions and is welcomed by the Sheqi Eight Family. He claims he needs to sleep, then secretly enters their forbidden grounds to find Eri Uesugi.
• Lu Mingfei invites Eri out. He encourages her to speak despite the danger of her Dragon Language, assuring her they are alike and that he can understand her safely. Eri gradually finds her voice and agrees to go.
• Eri changes into shrine maiden robes, brings her notebook, toy duck, and a sword, and leaves with Lu Mingfei through a passage he opens in space. The livestream viewers watch the pair disappear into East Jing’s crowds and celebrate their apparent date.
• The chat group teases Meng Qi about his romantic devotion. Meng Chuan then returns to the world of Shrouding the Heavens and invites Ruthless out, borrowing Lu Mingfei’s phrasing.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei shows tenderness and confidence with Eri, recognizing her devotion and choosing to spend time with someone who cares for him. He helps her overcome her fear of speaking.
• Eri shifts from silent, isolated concentration to cautiously speaking and eagerly joining Lu Mingfei. Her sword and duck remain part of her eccentric, guarded character.
• Meng Chuan remains irreverent and powerful, handling the Old One’s threat casually while using the livestream for amusement. He also imitates Lu Mingfei’s invitation when approaching Ruthless.
• Meng Qi becomes flustered by the group’s teasing about his devotion to Xiao Jiang.

Significant themes

• Companionship and mutual affection: The viewers’ joy reflects how people can share in a friend’s happiness.
• Trust and communication: Lu Mingfei gives Eri the reassurance she needs to use her voice, despite its dangerous power.
• Humor and contrast: Cosmic threats and extraordinary abilities sit alongside ordinary pleasures—cold noodles, gaming, dating, and teasing.
• Power used for personal connection: Lu Mingfei’s abilities let him help Eri escape confinement, rather than serve a grand battle.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan banters with the chat group and warns them about a possible new member; Meng Qi’s panic and the group’s teasing keep the exchange comedic.
• Lu Mingfei gently coaxes Eri to speak, reassures her, and takes her out without informing the Sheqi Eight Family.
• The livestream audience reacts like friends watching a romance unfold.
• Meng Chuan playfully insults Meng Qi, then invites Ruthless to go out, applying Lu Mingfei’s example.

Key plot points and events

• Ruthless declines Meng Chuan’s invitation to go out, leaving him disappointed.
• Lu Mingfei is mysteriously muted by Meng Chuan despite not being online. When he complains, Meng Chuan tells the group that Lu cursed him privately, making Lu look guilty.
• The Chat Group converts materials from the will of Blessed Life, Yellow Heaven into Beyonder Characteristics from the Seer, Apprentice, and Marauder pathways, along with complete advancement formulas. The materials appear sufficient to reach Sequence 4, but Meng Chuan has no idea whom to give them to and resents being cast as a mentor again.
• The group receives a new video. It shows a young man repeatedly entering a washroom, circling counterclockwise, and reciting Blessed Life, Yellow Heaven’s honorific names. The clips span different stages of his life, but the ritual remains the same.
• Most group members mistake the repeated visits for a medical problem and dub him “Mr. Washroom” or “King of Washrooms.” Meng Chuan recognizes the edit as a misleading portrayal of Klein.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is simultaneously impressed by the Chat Group’s ability to obtain rare materials and irritated that it keeps assigning him the role of guide or mentor.
• Lu Mingfei is bewildered by the mute and the false accusation, while Eri responds with innocent concern when he claims his heart is “burning hot.”
• Zhang Sanfeng continues cultivating near the Mount Tai Mountain God, but jokingly calls him “Great Emperor,” prompting the Mountain God to deny the title and warn that Zhang may suffer qi deviation.
• Meng Qi reacts with alarm to the new world, while the others wonder whether he fears its corruption.
• The Ancient One correctly calls the room a washroom; Bibi Dong and Yan Chixia join the group’s comic misunderstanding of the video.

Significant themes

• Comedy through misunderstanding: The edited clips make Klein’s deliberate ritual look like a constant need to use the washroom.
• The Chat Group’s unpredictable influence: It can extract valuable resources, but also disrupts members’ lives and reputations.
• Unreciprocated feelings and perspectives: Meng Chuan’s disappointment with Ruthless reflects how people may not share one another’s expectations or emotions.

Plot points and events

• The Chat Group watches two videos featuring people from the same mysterious world. The first shows a man repeatedly visiting the washroom to perform a ritual; the group jokes that he may be a spy or have an embarrassing ailment.
• Meng Chuan notices Lu Mingfei has been muted and restores his ability to speak, but the group’s system immediately interrupts him to demand that everyone watch the next video.
• Meng Chuan reflects that Chat Group votes seem to pair two candidates from one world—often a “good” and a “bad” figure—and wonders what deeper purpose lies behind this pattern.
• The second video introduces Amon, the Angel of Time and God of Deceit. A half-giant believer describes his lord, “The Fool,” and the many angels supposedly serving him, including Amon, who allegedly submitted and became the Fool’s bell-ringer.
• The video ends, and Meng Chuan recognizes the joke: Amon has been assigned bell duty because Klein—the Fool—has a prostate problem.
• The system opens votes on whether to admit the “Lord of the Washroom” or “Kill One of Me and There Are Thousands More.” Meng Chuan hopes the group will choose Amon.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan connects the videos, identifies Amon, and interprets the bell-ringing story as comic retaliation against him. He also continues questioning the Chat Group’s selection rules.
• The members respond with increasingly fanciful theories: Yao Chen calls the washroom-goer a cult spy, Han Li suggests a private medical issue, and Fei Peng imagines Amon as a rebel. Lu Mingfei speculates that the Fool is an evil god.
• Zhang Sanfeng and Meng Qi find the videos strange but less frightening than expected. Bibi Dong suggests Daigu develop medicine for the washroom-goer.
• Their confident but mistaken interpretation of Amon’s nickname entertains Meng Chuan, who sees it as a reason to vote for him.

Significant themes

• Comic misunderstanding: The group builds elaborate theories from limited information, while the audience—and Meng Chuan—understands the joke behind the videos.
• Power and subversion: A feared figure such as Amon is recast as an oppressed attendant forced into menial service.
• Uncertain selection and fate: Meng Chuan’s speculation about the Chat Group’s paired candidates raises questions about how it chooses members and how the group’s behavior may shape those choices.

Key plot points and events

• After the luck-transfer ritual strands him in the realm of Grey Mist, Klein realizes he cannot return home and accepts his new name, having been Zhou Mingrui before crossing over.
• He reflects on the mysterious gathering he hosted and recognizes it as resembling an online group chat. He then receives a mental notification: he has been selected as a prospective Chat Group member, and twelve full members must vote before he can join.
• Klein tests whether the group can grant wishes, asking to go home and for gold coins. Nothing happens, leaving him unsure how the system works and feeling overwhelmed by his situation.
• Elsewhere, Amon notices that the Source Castle has moved. He and countless versions of himself speculate about what caused it, then receive the same Chat Group notification.
• The Amons unanimously vote to join. They discover that twelve unknown people must decide whether they are accepted, but treat the uncertainty as an entertaining new puzzle.

Character developments and interactions

• Klein is disoriented, lonely, and homesick. His brief humor about online chatting gives way to frustration as another unexplained phenomenon complicates his already desperate circumstances.
• Amon is bored but quickly becomes intrigued by the Chat Group. His many copies debate possible explanations and then take part in a mock-democratic vote, showing his playful, eccentric approach to uncertainty.
• Klein has no direct interaction with Amon, but both are linked by the same mysterious invitation.

Significant themes

• Mystery and uncertainty: The Grey Mist, Source Castle, and Chat Group raise questions without providing answers.
• Isolation and connection: Klein longs for his former social life, while the Chat Group offers the possibility of contact with others.
• Humor amid danger: Klein’s self-deprecating complaints and Amon’s absurd referendum contrast with the chapter’s ominous supernatural developments.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan explains the candidates’ true identities to the Chat Group. Klein is the protagonist of the world of mysteries; Amon, a born mythical creature who treats humans as toys, is judged a villain despite his own alien morality.
• The group votes unanimously to admit Klein and rejects Amon. The many Amons vanish, leaving Amon’s true body behind. Intrigued rather than angry, he wonders who created the Chat Group and whether the Source Castle is involved.
• Klein receives confirmation that he has joined. Initially wary, he inspects the familiar chat interface and tries to make sense of its members, names, and apparent levels.
• Meng Chuan confirms the group is Klein’s Golden Finger and verifies their connection with a code phrase. Klein responds correctly, then unexpectedly breaks down in tears.
• Klein introduces himself to the group as “Klein Moretti.”

Character developments and interactions

• Klein/Zhou Mingrui moves from cautious suspicion to emotional vulnerability. The familiar names and casual language remind him of home, bringing out the homesickness and fear he had been suppressing.
• Meng Chuan serves as the group’s guide, explaining the candidates and reassuring Klein that the Chat Group is real.
• Amon remains amused by the rejection and treats it as an intriguing puzzle, reinforcing his playful, unsettling nature.
• Other members greet Klein with jokes and offers of help, creating a warm, familiar atmosphere that contrasts with his isolation.

Significant themes

• Perspective and morality: Amon may not regard himself as evil, but his contempt for human life makes him a villain to the group.
• Loneliness and belonging: The Chat Group gives Klein a first link to something familiar in an alien world.
• Strength and vulnerability: Klein may one day become immensely powerful, yet at this early moment he is still a frightened newcomer who misses home.

Key plot points and events

• Klein joins the Chat Group and discovers he is only level 1—far below the other members. Their laughter and teasing briefly make him worry that he has embarrassed himself by acting like a big shot.
• Meng Chuan offers to upload Klein’s Fate Instance, a record of his life, to prove the group is real. After some joking and bickering among the members, the instance is made available to Klein alone.
• Klein watches his story unfold: joining the Night’s Watchers, growing as a Seer with help from Dunn, Old Neil, and Leonard, surviving the Tingen tragedy, and eventually becoming the Sequence 0 Fool. He also sees his coming confrontation with the awakening Heavenly Venerable and realizes that his “new world” is, in a complicated sense, still Earth.
• Afterward, Klein explores the other members’ Fate Instances, amazed to learn about their worlds and identities.
• The group’s teasing leads to a running joke about Klein supposedly having a prostate problem. Klein is briefly alarmed before realizing it is nonsense.
• The chapter ends with Meng Chuan surveying a pile of Beyonder materials and asking Klein, “Want to buy a cheat?”

Character developments

• Klein moves from suspicion and unease toward acceptance. Seeing his own fate confirms the group’s credibility, while the group’s friendly banter gives him a welcome sense of companionship and hope.
• Meng Chuan enjoys teasing the others and positioning himself as a generous mentor, though he also wants to turn the materials he has into an opportunity for Klein.
• Lu Mingfei eagerly joins the teasing and jokes about earning points by sharing Klein’s story.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan continue their bickering teacher-student dynamic, with Xiao Yan admitting he never read Klein’s story despite having boasted about reading widely.

Significant themes

• Fate and self-knowledge: Klein confronts the path ahead and accepts that it is shaped by his own choices.
• Identity and belonging: Klein’s realization that his world is still Earth complicates his sense of having left home, while the Chat Group restores a familiar feeling of friendship.
• Hope amid a bleak future: Despite the horrors Klein sees in his Fate Instance, the group’s warmth makes the future feel less hopeless.
• Humor and camaraderie: Teasing and absurd jokes help the members bond and ease the weight of their difficult lives.

Character interactions

• The group welcomes Klein with jokes about his low level, then offers him a way to verify their claims.
• Klein thanks Meng Chuan, watches the others’ stories, and participates in the group’s lighthearted exchanges.
• Yao Chen scolds Xiao Yan about his lack of knowledge, while Xiao Yan tries to appease him.
• Bibi Dong apologizes for her mistaken assumption about Klein, prompting further teasing from Lu Mingfei.
• Meng Chuan finishes by offering Klein a “cheat,” hinting at a possible next step in their relationship.

Plot points and events

• Klein joins the group and hopes Meng Chuan can teach him the Shrouding Method. Meng Chuan explains that he can’t abandon the Beyonder Sequence: there isn’t enough time before the apocalypse to master a different system, and Klein needs the Sequence to survive.
• Meng Chuan offers Klein a choice between the Seer, Apprentice, and Marauder pathways using a crudely labeled drawing. Klein settles on Seer, since the other two are effectively blocked by Mr. Door and Amon.
• Klein expects advancing to be easier now: Meng Chuan has Seer materials for Sequences 9 through 4, and Klein remembers the potion formulas from the Fate Instance.
• The group recommends cultivating a second system to strengthen Klein’s body and will, helping him resist corruption and losing control. Members enthusiastically pitch Immortal cultivation, Dou Qi, the Tomb of the Gods Method, and other options.
• Rather than choose one of those suggestions, Klein asks Meng Qi whether he can learn the Lifetime Method from him.

Character developments and interactions

• Klein shifts from hoping to escape the Sequence system to accepting it as necessary, while planning to pair it with another cultivation path. He jokes that anyone who cultivates a Sequence is a “dog,” then promptly chooses Seer.
• Meng Chuan provides practical guidance and materials, but also boasts of killing an incarnation of Blessed Life, Yellow Heaven. Lu Mingfei calls him the Great Emperor; Meng Chuan recounts his past in grand, self-congratulatory fashion.
• The group’s members tease and compete over which system Klein should learn. Bibi Dong pokes fun at Meng Chuan’s drawing, and Dugu Baitian contributes a dramatic description of his own method.
• Meng Chuan confidently assumes Klein will choose the Lifetime Method, and is vindicated when Klein approaches Meng Qi to learn it. Klein also remarks that Meng Qi feels strangely familiar to him.

Significant themes

• Survival versus preference: Klein must follow the Sequence Pathway despite its dangers because time and circumstance leave him few alternatives.
• Managing corruption and loss of control: A complementary system may build the physical and mental resilience needed to withstand the Sequence’s risks.
• Community and rivalry: The group’s lively debate offers Klein support while revealing its members’ pride, humor, and competing loyalties.
• Cheats, knowledge, and opportunity: Klein’s remembered formulas and access to group resources give him an advantage, even as he remains constrained by his world’s impending crisis.

Key plot points

• Klein receives a generous collection of cultivation techniques and divine arts from Meng Qi, along with offers of help from other Chat Group members. He is grateful, but logs off to handle his ordinary life.
• Klein decides to join the Nighthawks and use his foreknowledge—and the Chat Group’s help—to take control of his future. The group’s protection also means Amon cannot read or steal his memories.
• His grand plans collide with poverty: Klein has only five pence and a little black bread. He jokes to himself that the powerful Chat Group members might be trying to trick him out of his money.
• Meng Qi confides in Meng Chuan that Klein feels familiar. Meng Chuan reassures him, and they joke that Klein might have been Meng Qi’s former roommate.
• Meng Chuan checks on his ongoing cultivation projects, then decides to begin creating an Other Self in a world connected to Shi Hao. Rather than risk direct exposure, he plans to infiltrate the Eerie Faction and eventually aid Shi Hao from within.

Character developments and interactions

• Klein shifts from shock and uncertainty toward resolve, determined to follow his original path while actively changing its outcome. His humor and hunger also keep his lofty ambitions grounded in his harsh circumstances.
• Meng Qi feels an unexplained bond with Klein and eagerly supports him. His playful gratitude toward Meng Chuan turns into teasing banter, which Meng Chuan ends by cutting off their chat.
• Meng Chuan moves from checking on his friends and projects to launching a new plan. He chooses infiltration over a more direct, risky approach, imagining his Other Self betraying the Eerie Immortal Emperors at a decisive moment.

Significant themes

• Foreknowledge and agency: Klein wants to use knowledge of the future to shape events rather than merely repeat them.
• Support and connection: The Chat Group offers both practical aid and emotional reassurance across worlds.
• Humor amid hardship: Klein’s poverty punctures his grandiose ambitions without erasing his determination.
• Hidden identities and infiltration: Meng Chuan’s Other Self will conceal its origins while operating inside the enemy camp.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan uses the Immortal Artifact and a route left by Shi Hao to enter the World of Longevity, a realm rich in Longevity Substance and still possessing a clear Great Dao. It is also the only world he knows to be under the uncanny’s control.
• He senses several surviving True Immortals, including two at the peak of their realm, and initially decides to avoid them. A new idea soon changes his mind: he may need to provoke one to create a Legend and form an Other Self.
• He approaches Crow’s Nest Immortal City, an immense stronghold built around a Starry Sky and protected by immortal runes. He enters peacefully, despite having hoped for a confrontation at the gate.
• Inside, he finds a vast, prosperous city with abundant resources and traders from many races. Its long-lived inhabitants cultivate slowly by his standards; even a guard captain has spent 30,000 years reaching the Supreme Realm.
• Meng Chuan visits shops and an inn, reflecting on how thoroughly the uncanny’s corruption has been concealed. He wonders whether the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s actions have affected the situation.
• While drinking ordinary tea in a private room, he overhears nearby patrons discussing an invitation to the Crow’s Nest Banquet. The chapter ends on one speaker’s emphatic, unfinished reply: “Of course I… Didn’t!”

Character developments

• Meng Chuan remains observant and self-assured, quickly assessing the world’s power structure, resources, and cultivation system. He is flexible enough to abandon his initial plan when a better idea occurs to him, and his dry humor—especially about the failed gate confrontation and the “Immortal Tea”—lightens his investigation.
• Shi Hao does not appear directly, but the route he left behind enables Meng Chuan’s journey.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor is mentioned as a possible influence on the uncanny’s concealment; Meng Chuan wonders whether he will survive his confrontation with his enemies.

Significant themes

• Longevity versus achievement: A long life offers opportunity, but Meng Chuan notes that it can also mean painfully slow progress toward the Great Dao.
• Corruption hidden beneath normality: The world appears prosperous and ordinary, making the uncanny’s influence harder to detect than in the Foreign Realm.
• The cost of cosmic decline: Meng Chuan contrasts this world’s abundant Longevity Substance with the impoverished conditions of the Dharma-Ending Age, where once-great resources and achievements have faded.
• Adaptation and uncertainty: Meng Chuan’s plans shift as he learns more, while his speculation about the Corpse Immortal Emperor underscores how little he can know of events elsewhere.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan is treated respectfully at the city gate because he is a Supreme; the guards neither challenge nor extort him, thwarting the confrontation he had expected.
• He interacts briefly with a welcoming inn server and orders tea, privately recognizing that its “Immortal” label is exaggerated.
• He overhears two cultivators talking about the Crow’s Nest Banquet, setting up a possible next development.

Plot points

• Meng Chuan learns that the Crow’s Nest True Immortal is holding his once-in-a-hundred-thousand-years banquet early. The gathering draws the world’s True Immortals, Supremes, and celebrated prodigies, and an invitation is a mark of status.
• He suspects the True Immortal’s Longevity Immortal Medicine and unusual circumstances may conceal a deeper story. The early banquet was prompted by the deaths of Yuan Kong and the Four Immortals—deaths Meng Chuan indirectly caused with a sword strike from another world.
• Wanting to attend without forcing his way in, Meng Chuan decides he needs to make a name for himself. He also refuses to provoke random prodigies just to attract attention.
• After selling Nine Heavens Divine Jade to earn local currency, Meng Chuan is approached by Yang Li, who wants to buy more. Qin Liang and other prominent young Supremes arrive, each claiming a right to the jade.
• Onlookers identify the contenders as powerful heirs of top-ranked Supremes or members of a True Immortal’s family. As they argue over the material, Meng Chuan points out that they have overlooked the person who actually owns it.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is curious, observant, and strategic: he sees the banquet as a route toward his goal, but prefers proper channels over needless violence. His dry humor surfaces as the young elites act as though he is not present.
• Yang Li, a talented Supreme known as the Great Sun Illumination, eagerly seeks the jade for forging his weapon and insists he found it first.
• Qin Liang, from a branch of a True Immortal’s family, challenges Yang Li’s claim and gathers allies. Other elite young Supremes join the dispute, exposing their entitlement and rivalry.
• The onlookers identify and praise the contenders’ pedigrees, making clear how much status and lineage shape this world.

Significant themes

• Status and access: Invitations, rankings, and famous bloodlines determine who is taken seriously.
• Power and ownership: The elites debate who deserves the jade while ignoring its owner, setting up Meng Chuan’s challenge.
• Consequences across worlds: Meng Chuan’s past actions in another realm have helped trigger upheaval here.
• Humor and ambition: Meng Chuan mixes practical planning with sardonic observations as he seeks a path into the banquet.

Key plot points

• Yang Li and the other privileged heirs covet Meng Chuan’s Nine Heavens Divine Jade, a rare resource controlled largely by True Immortals and their families.
• Meng Chuan offers to trade some jade for an invitation to the Crow’s Nest Banquet. The heirs refuse: each person receives only one invitation, and it cannot be replaced if given away.
• Qin Liang instead offers Meng Chuan a position as a guest elder in his family, implying that this supposed honor should be enough. Meng Chuan mocks the offer as an attempt to get both his jade and his service for free.
• The heirs threaten and insult Meng Chuan, assuming that an unknown “wild” Supreme is beneath them and can be pressured into surrendering his resources.
• Meng Chuan ridicules their slow cultivation, saying none became Supremes before twenty thousand years old—and that even his dog was stronger. The chapter ends with him reflecting that at their age, he had already been so powerful that few Quasi-Emperors could even approach him.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains composed and amused as the heirs try to intimidate him. His remarks reveal just how far his cultivation and confidence exceed theirs; he sees their status-conscious behavior as absurd.
• Yang Li initially negotiates politely, then turns cold when Meng Chuan asks for an invitation the group will not surrender.
• Qin Liang displays the arrogance of someone raised in a True Immortal family, treating membership in it as an irresistible privilege. Meng Chuan directly challenges both his authority and his cultivation.
• The heirs reinforce one another’s sense of entitlement, while bystanders recognize that Meng Chuan may be in danger from their numbers and influence.

Significant themes

• Monopolized power and resources: True Immortals and their families dominate the world’s best materials, leaving even powerful Supremes competing for what remains.
• Longevity and stagnation: Long life has hardened the social hierarchy, making it difficult for newcomers or weaker cultivators to rise.
• Privilege versus merit: The heirs mistake inherited status for personal superiority, while Meng Chuan’s achievements expose the gap between their confidence and actual ability.
• Humor and perspective: The “stronger than a dog” insult turns the heirs’ contempt on its head and highlights how extraordinary Meng Chuan’s standards are.

Plot and events

• Prodigies linked to the Supreme Rankings demand Meng Chuan’s Nine Heavens Divine Jade but offer no fair trade. When he asks why they haven’t simply robbed him, they threaten him—yet hold back because fighting is forbidden in Crow’s Nest Immortal City.
• Meng Chuan recognizes that the city’s rules, not their restraint, are keeping them safe. He attacks first, killing one prodigy with a single slap and knocking down the others. He searches them and takes their invitations.
• When a city enforcer intervenes, Meng Chuan turns the accusation around, claiming the enforcer is attacking him and showing disrespect to the True Immortal. He defeats the enforcer, destroys the spirit within his Immortal Gold Supreme Artifact, and publicly demands that Crow’s Nest True Immortal judge the matter.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan shifts from patient questioning to ruthless action once he sees the prodigies’ intent to kill and steal. He is powerful, self-assured, and gleefully irreverent toward the city’s rules, using theatrical outrage to control how the crowd sees the fight.
• The prodigies are exposed as bullies who rely on status and threats but are unwilling to violate the city’s law themselves. Their confidence collapses when Meng Chuan proves far stronger than expected.
• The law enforcer arrives as the apparent authority figure but is swiftly overpowered and left bewildered by Meng Chuan’s reversal of roles.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan taunts the prodigies into revealing that they want the jade without paying for it, then confronts them directly.
• He beats and disarms the enforcer while loudly portraying himself as the innocent victim and the enforcer as the aggressor.
• The onlookers watch in shock, unsure how to interpret Meng Chuan’s audacious performance.

Significant themes

• Power versus authority: The city’s rules restrain weaker actors, but Meng Chuan acts as though only his own strength matters.
• Hypocrisy and self-interest: The prodigies invoke law and status while intending to rob or kill him.
• Control of the narrative: Meng Chuan’s exaggerated accusations make his attack look like defense, leaving the crowd—and even the enforcer—confused.
• Consequences of greed: The prodigies’ desire for a supposedly low-grade treasure leads directly to their deaths.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan clashes with a Crow’s Nest Enforcer after punishing unruly prodigies. The Crow’s Nest True Immortal confronts him, but Meng Chuan argues that he broke no rule the True Immortal himself established. The True Immortal warns him, then sends him a personal invitation to the Crow’s Nest Banquet.
• Meng Chuan recognizes the True Immortal’s unusual nature: he seems to be replacing his own heart with the Heavenly Heart, perhaps in pursuit of becoming a Quasi-Immortal King.
• Onlookers interpret the invitation as proof that Meng Chuan is a True Immortal. Rumors spread, and his already violent encounters become exaggerated into tales of monstrous cruelty.
• When the relatives of defeated opponents come seeking revenge, Meng Chuan kills them in the city’s designated dueling grounds. After several high-ranking Supremes die quickly, challengers stop questioning his strength—or demanding revenge.
• While socializing in an inn, Meng Chuan senses that the world’s attitude toward him is subtly changing, as if a quiet force is beginning to surround him.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains confident and calculating. He avoids fighting the Crow’s Nest True Immortal because he sees him as a potentially useful talent, while presenting his own violence as righteous enforcement. His growing reputation amuses him, but the shift in how the world perceives him catches his attention.
• The Crow’s Nest True Immortal remains cold and detached. His lack of retaliation suggests that he has become more like Heaven than a person; he nevertheless takes an interest in Meng Chuan and invites him to the banquet.
• The Enforcer and Meng Chuan’s challengers are intimidated by Meng Chuan’s power and by the possibility that he really is a True Immortal. Their confidence gives way to fear and resignation.
• The crowd turns Meng Chuan’s actions into increasingly extravagant gossip, revealing how quickly rumors shape public opinion.

Significant themes

• Reputation and rumor: A personal invitation and a few displays of overwhelming force transform Meng Chuan into a legendary “Peerless Fiend.”
• Power and impunity: Meng Chuan can defy the city’s conventions without consequence, while others remain bound by them.
• Heaven versus humanity: The True Immortal’s transformation into something like Heaven raises questions about whether he still possesses human feeling.
• Perception as a force: The chapter ends by hinting that the world’s growing view of Meng Chuan may itself be affecting him.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan continues refining the projection of himself known as the “Great Fiend.” By spreading stories of his deeds, he hopes to make that image resonate with the world and eventually form an Other Self. The Crow’s Nest Banquet offers a chance to spread his reputation, though he laments that this world lacks a Dao Realm or other fast means of communication.
• As guests travel to the banquet in the starry sky above Crow’s Nest City, Meng Chuan deliberately embraces his fearsome reputation. Onlookers trade wildly exaggerated stories about his strength, helping his name spread.
• At the palace entrance, the gatekeepers recognize his personal invitation from Crow’s Nest True Immortal and treat him with great deference. Meng Chuan jokingly hints that he expects a dragon to serve as his escort, but they have none.
• Inside the cave residence, Meng Chuan encounters several True Immortals. Their presence overwhelms the Supreme who escorted him, revealing the immense gulf between their levels of power. Meng Chuan also observes that the world’s corruption is unusually difficult to detect.
• A True Immortal confronts him, and Meng Chuan recognizes Qin Liang’s bloodline in the speaker. He answers the implied challenge with open defiance, asking whether the immortal intends to teach him how to behave.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan is increasingly strategic about crafting his reputation, treating public stories as a means to shape his projection and achieve an Other Self. He remains theatrical and irreverent, but is also alert to the hidden corruption and political danger surrounding the True Immortals.
• The gatekeepers and escorting Supreme show how intimidating Meng Chuan has become: his reputation wins him immediate respect, while the True Immortals’ aura leaves even a Supreme helpless.
• The True Immortals are introduced as powerful, watchful figures who recognize Meng Chuan’s disruptive presence and appear ready to test him.

Significant themes

• Reputation as power: Public perception can become a real spiritual force, helping Meng Chuan form an Other Self.
• Power and hierarchy: The scene contrasts the True Immortals’ overwhelming pressure with the comparatively limited strength of Supremes.
• Hidden corruption: The uncanny influence in this world is more deeply concealed than the corruption Meng Chuan has encountered before.
• Information and influence: Meng Chuan understands how publicity could shape opinion, but the world’s lack of fast communication limits his ability to control the narrative.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan lets onlookers stare and spread stories about him, deliberately encouraging his legend.
• He banters with the gatekeepers over the treatment owed to an honored guest, then reassures his overwhelmed escort.
• At the banquet, he meets the True Immortals’ scrutiny without yielding. His exchange with the immortal connected to Qin Liang’s bloodline sets up a direct conflict.

Key plot points and events

• At the Crow’s Nest Banquet, Qin Yu, a True Immortal of the Qin Family, threatens Meng Chuan despite the event’s protection. Crow’s Nest’s followers warn him that attacking a guest here would challenge their lineage’s authority.
• Qin Yu secretly encourages other True Immortals to question Crow’s Nest’s absence and speculate about the mysterious deaths of Yuan Kong and three other immortals. The group suspects Crow’s Nest is pursuing a secret plan to reach the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• Unaware that Meng Chuan himself destroyed Yuan Kong’s lineage, the True Immortals treat him as an insignificant Human Dao cultivator. Meng Chuan, meanwhile, casually enjoys the banquet’s divine fruit.
• Qin Yu provokes Meng Chuan, who mocks the Qin Family and flicks a fruit pit toward him. When Qin Yu attacks, the pit pierces his palm. Qin Yu responds with a full-force Immortal Art, but Meng Chuan throws a piece of fruit that effortlessly dispels the attack. The other True Immortals are stunned.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains relaxed and irreverent in the face of intimidation, turning the True Immortals’ contemptuous “ant” insult back on them. His casual defense reveals a power far beyond what they imagine.
• Qin Yu moves from threats and political maneuvering to open violence after Meng Chuan humiliates him. His confidence collapses when even his strongest attack is nullified.
• The Crow’s Nest True Immortals try to protect their guest, but other immortals secretly restrain them, using Qin Yu’s attack to test Crow’s Nest’s authority.
• The other True Immortals show little concern for Meng Chuan’s safety and trade suspicions about Crow’s Nest. Their detached arrogance makes their shock at his power especially striking.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The immortals mistake Meng Chuan for a powerless mortal, while he is secretly the most dangerous person present.
• Arrogance and status: The True Immortals dismiss the Human Dao as insignificant, only to be humbled by someone they regard as an “ant.”
• Power and political suspicion: The immortals’ covert plotting shows how fear of Crow’s Nest’s potential advancement shapes their alliances and actions.

Key plot points and events

• The Crow’s Nest Immortal City watches a live image of Meng Chuan fighting Qin Yu, a True Immortal of the Qin Family. Rather than the expected duel between immortals, the supposedly weaker Meng Chuan has already wounded Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu protests and threatens him, but Meng Chuan argues that since Qin Yu attacked first, killing him is fair retaliation.
• Meng Chuan unleashes the Great Dao Jade Disc. Its countless manifestations freeze the Great Dao, time, and space, then overwhelm Qin Yu. Qin Yu is killed in a single strike.
• The watching immortals are stunned. When no one dares avenge Qin Yu, Meng Chuan calmly resumes eating and asks whether the Crow’s Nest Banquet can begin.
• The Crow’s Nest True Immortal arrives, claiming he was delayed by seclusion. Though wary of Meng Chuan, he does not challenge him and orders the banquet to proceed. The event’s attention shifts from the feast to news of Meng Chuan’s unprecedented victory.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates overwhelming power and composure. He turns Qin Yu’s earlier insults back on him, presents his violence as justified self-defense, and uses Qin Yu’s death to intimidate the assembled immortals without attacking them all. He also subtly takes control of the banquet’s proceedings.
• Qin Yu shifts from arrogant confidence to anger and disbelief when Meng Chuan defeats him, then dies after underestimating his opponent.
• The Crow’s Nest True Immortal is revealed to have watched without intervening, regarding Qin Yu as a pawn and potential obstacle. He remains cautious and allows the banquet to proceed rather than confront Meng Chuan.
• The gathered immortals and city residents move from disbelief to fear and silence. Their refusal to avenge Qin Yu underscores how thoroughly Meng Chuan has changed the balance of power.

Significant themes

• Power overturning convention: A Human Dao cultivator kills a True Immortal, shattering assumptions about the hierarchy of cultivation.
• Consequences of aggression: Meng Chuan frames Qin Yu’s death as the result of attacking someone weaker and expecting no retaliation.
• Reputation and restraint: Meng Chuan makes an example of one opponent rather than slaughtering everyone, choosing a display that will spread his legend without making him appear indiscriminately murderous.
• Control of narrative: The live broadcast turns the fight into a public spectacle, ensuring that the city—and soon the wider world—witnesses Meng Chuan’s strength firsthand.

Key plot points and events

• After Meng Chuan’s feat of killing a True Immortal while still in the Human Dao, the world becomes fascinated by his persona as the Great Fiend. He deliberately shapes the legend, adjusting its tone and inventing a local origin story so the resulting Other Self will belong naturally to that world and its cultivation system.
• The legend resonates with heaven and earth, allowing Meng Chuan to form a powerful connection between himself and the Great Fiend. He completes the process by imprinting the Great Fiend into the world’s laws, making the figure effectively immortal as long as Meng Chuan survives and the world remains in the Boundary Sea.
• Having established the Great Fiend as a future pillar of the dark side, Meng Chuan returns to the Shrouding the Heavens World. He uses the Chat Group to send many strands of Divine Sense through Shi Hao’s “back door” into other worlds, where they are meant to build legends and create more Other Selves.
• One strand arrives in a world ruled by a Weird Immortal King and is immediately confronted by him. Meng Chuan taunts the King, then escapes before his attack lands. The King vows to remember him and promises he will not escape forever.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan advances toward becoming a Legend by successfully creating and imprinting an Other Self. He shows ingenuity in crafting the Great Fiend’s public image, confidence in confronting powerful beings, and humor about his own reputation and workload.
• The Great Fiend becomes more than a projection: he is now an enduring, independent presence within the world’s laws, destined to develop as a native cultivator.
• The newly dispatched versions of Meng Chuan share his desire to avoid unnecessary effort; once unsupervised, they begin finding inventive ways to slack off while pursuing their assigned goals.
• The Weird Immortal King is introduced as ancient, powerful, and emotionally controlled. Meng Chuan’s escape provokes his interest and anger.

Significant themes

• Legend and identity: Public stories can shape a persona into a lasting existence.
• Creation and cultivation: Meng Chuan turns a carefully designed projection into an enduring imprint by aligning it with a world’s laws.
• Power across worlds: Other Selves and the Chat Group let Meng Chuan extend his influence across the Boundary Sea.
• Humor and self-interest: Even a grand multiversal undertaking is complicated by the shared laziness of Meng Chuan’s many selves.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan manipulates the public’s interest in the Great Fiend, embellishing his image and origin to strengthen the connection with the world.
• He watches the Great Fiend take form and imprints him into the laws before departing, leaving the persona to stand on its own.
• In the new world, Meng Chuan answers the Weird Immortal King’s interrogation with cheeky provocation. The King attacks, but Meng Chuan vanishes, turning their first encounter into a promise of future pursuit.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan escapes an Immortal King’s grasp by returning to the Shrouding the Heavens World through Shi Hao’s method. He suspects a hidden hand arranged the encounter and vents his fear and frustration in his private notes.
• The Weird Immortal King pursues Meng Chuan across the Boundary Sea, finding two more of his Divine Sense bodies. When Meng Chuan escapes again, the king destroys the two worlds where he found them. Both were already corrupted by darkness, sparing Meng Chuan the guilt of innocent deaths.
• Convinced the king will keep hunting him, Meng Chuan vows to settle the score once he reaches the Legend realm. He withdraws nearby Divine Sense bodies and continues his long seclusion, developing his own cultivation method alongside the Shrouding and Lifetime methods.
• Ten thousand years pass. Meng Chuan is now fifty thousand years old, and the Shrouding the Heavens World continues its gradual progress toward a later Golden Age.
• The chapter surveys the group’s lives across other worlds: their projects, conflicts, and preparations continue, with several members facing looming crises.
• The chapter ends with a sudden upheaval in the Shrouding the Heavens World: the Great Dao stirs, time breaks into fragments, and people glimpse countless worlds and inhabitants.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan’s surprise at the Immortal King’s power turns into anger and a determined desire for revenge. He remains cautious, choosing not to confront the king until his own cultivation advances.
• Zhang Sanfeng benefits from a Mountain God’s persistent guidance, despite finding the interruptions trying.
• Daigu’s technological progress draws the Dark Faction’s attention; rumors suggest they intend to seize him.
• The Ancient One concentrates on elevating her Secret Mage system toward the Immortal level.
• Lu Mingfei continues pursuing Eri while the Sheqi Eight Family watches him warily; he jokingly regards himself as Eri’s future husband.
• Yan Chixia approaches unification of the Mortal Realm, even as his fearsome reputation as a demon spreads.
• Fei Peng advances rapidly with Chonglou’s help. Yao Chen prepares for a pivotal episode in his disciple’s life, while Bibi Dong works toward Severing the Dao.
• Jiraiya balances village duties with visits to his disciple and efforts to expose hidden actors. Dugu Baitian remains in seclusion while reconnecting with old allies.
• Klein tries to follow events’ original course as he seeks to join the Night’s Watchers; Han Li progresses quietly, true to his cautious nature. Meng Qi’s mounting anger is directed at the forces and hidden figures manipulating events.

Significant themes

• Vengeance and restraint: Meng Chuan’s fury grows, but he deliberately postpones retaliation until he is strong enough.
• Power and collateral damage: The Immortal King’s casual destruction of worlds shows the vast scale and moral cost of high-level power.
• Darkness and corruption: The king’s brutality prompts Meng Chuan to compare differing forms of corruption across worlds.
• Long-term cultivation and change: Years of seclusion and slow progress contrast with the varied, ongoing struggles of the wider group.
• Converging worlds and hidden forces: The final rupture in time hints that separate worlds—and their inhabitants—may be drawn into a larger event.