Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• After Meng Chuan destroys the Divine Ruins and defeats four outsiders, the universe hails him as the Human Race’s Heavenly Emperor. He receives visitors, debates the Dao with powerful cultivators, then seals himself in the Imperial Palace to investigate the four Supremes’ memories.
• The four came from another world, where they found the Immortal Cauldron and mysterious inheritances. They adopted fragments of legendary names from those records, rose to the pinnacle of their world, and set out to find the Reception Halls said to lead to transcendence.
• Their search brought them into a lifeless, oppressive Boundary Sea. After wandering for thousands of years, losing their way home, and exhausting the Immortal Cauldron’s power, they nearly died before a space-time disturbance carried them to Meng Chuan’s world.
• Their memories suggest the Boundary Sea has changed drastically and may have “died.” Meng Chuan also learns that the Space-Time Origin, connected to the Chat Group, formed the passage that brought them there—though an ancient sword strike by Shi Hao altered where it led.
• The chapter ends with Meng Chuan questioning how the outsiders’ inheritances could have come from the Foreign Realm, which was supposedly destroyed long ago.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan’s public standing rises to near-universal reverence, but privately he remains curious and analytical. He examines the outsiders’ memories, reacts with disbelief to their choices, and becomes alarmed by what their journey implies.
• Kungu and the other three are revealed as ambitious but ill-informed: despite reaching great heights, they risked everything chasing transcendence based on incomplete records. Their reliance on the cauldron ultimately failed.
• Meng Chuan consults the Chat Group, which explains the Space-Time Origin’s function but withholds its deeper connection to itself. His investigation therefore answers one question while raising others.

Significant themes

• The danger of incomplete knowledge: The four’s inherited records inspire their quest but fail to prepare them for the Boundary Sea’s reality.
• The cost of ambition: Their pursuit of immortality leaves them stranded and near death.
• Mystery and historical disruption: The Boundary Sea’s apparent death and Shi Hao’s severing of the ages suggest that cosmic history has changed in ways even Meng Chuan does not understand.
• Power and uncertainty: Even a Heavenly Emperor with access to the Chat Group must confront unanswered questions about the worlds and forces around him.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan questions the Immortal Cauldron, expecting resistance, but its spirit readily agrees to explain what it remembers.
• The spirit reveals that the cauldron once belonged to a newly risen Quasi-Immortal King. During the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s invasion of the world recorded in the inheritance, Immortal Kings were slaughtered with ease. A stray shockwave from Desolate killed the Quasi-King and destroyed the previous artifact spirit.
• The cauldron was blasted out of its world and shattered. Its current spirit later used the Quasi-King’s remaining power to repair it.
• The spirit recognizes a resemblance between Meng Chuan’s aura and Desolate’s, explaining its unusual willingness to speak. Meng Chuan identifies the event as Shi Hao’s campaign to pacify the Foreign Realm.
• This history prompts Meng Chuan to wonder how the Boundary Sea has changed since Desolate severed the ages. He consults his group chat, sharing his findings and asking for perspectives.
• The group jokes about Kungu and his companions, who found the cauldron but did not survive to benefit from its secrets. Meng Chuan reassures them that the Boundary Sea poses no immediate threat to him.
• A system notice reveals that Meng Chuan’s authority has increased three times, unlocking travel to the worlds of group members. He notices Lu Mingfei’s inactive avatar and privately discusses matters with the others.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan remains composed and curious, using the cauldron’s account to piece together ancient history. He is not anxious about the Boundary Sea, since its dangers are unlikely to reach him for a very long time.
• The Immortal Cauldron’s spirit shows reverence for Desolate and affinity with his cultivation legacy, while distancing itself from the former cauldron owner. Its fragmented memories explain both its attitude and its damaged state.
• Lu Mingfei jokes about being busy with graduation and insists he is no longer the loser he once was, though Meng Chuan teases him about his upcoming graduation party.
• Bibi Dong tries to comfort Meng Chuan, then gets annoyed when he says he was never worried.

Significant themes

• Power and scale: Even the strongest figures of one era can be insignificant beside a truly supreme powerhouse; a stray shockwave can decide the fate of a Quasi-King.
• Memory and legacy: The cauldron’s broken memories preserve traces of Desolate’s history, while its new spirit inherits reverence for the force that shaped its rebirth.
• Changing worlds: The Boundary Sea’s altered conditions raise questions about how cosmic history transforms places once considered impassable.
• Humor and camaraderie: The group chat lightens the chapter’s grim revelations through teasing, banter, and affectionate mockery.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan interrogates the cauldron, challenges its account, and learns why it treats him as familiar.
• The cauldron corrects Meng Chuan when he calls the former Quasi-King its master, emphasizing that the man belonged to the previous spirit.
• Group members react to Meng Chuan’s report with jokes and speculation; Bibi Dong offers reassurance, which Meng Chuan casually dismisses.
• Meng Chuan teases Lu Mingfei about graduation, then turns to a private conversation with the group after noticing the newly unlocked world-travel feature.

Plot points and events

• Lu Mingfei arrives at the Literature Club’s graduation party looking confident and transformed from his formerly awkward self. The event also serves as Zhao Menghua’s planned confession to Chen Wenwen.
• Chen teases Lu about his new life in America. They recall how, a month earlier, Lu told her he had stopped liking her—an unexpectedly cheerful rejection that helped her accept the news calmly. Lu privately recognizes that his mental power had soothed her.
• Lu watches Zhao confess to Chen, who accepts him. Unlike the original course of events, Lu is not drawn into the scene, and he congratulates Chen sincerely, feeling no heartbreak.
• Just as Lu reflects that he is about to leave ordinary life behind, Meng Chuan enters the screening room. Lu is shocked and calls him “uncle”; Su Xiaoqiang and the other students are impressed by the newcomer’s appearance and presence. Meng Chuan tells Lu, in words only he understands, that everyone is watching him.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei is now self-assured, sociable, physically fit, and emotionally more mature. He has moved on from Chen and can accept her happiness without jealousy, though he still reacts strongly to Meng Chuan’s sudden appearance.
• Chen Wenwen is fond of Lu’s new personality and remembers their candid exchange with warmth, but she chooses Zhao Menghua.
• Zhao Menghua gets the confession he wanted, though his jealousy and discomfort over Chen and Lu’s easy rapport are apparent.
• Meng Chuan remains mysterious and imposing, appearing to Lu as a powerful presence from his altered life.

Significant themes

• Personal change and letting go: Lu’s transformation allows him to release an old crush and face the past without resentment.
• Ordinary life versus a larger destiny: The graduation gathering marks Lu’s impending departure from normal school life, while Meng Chuan’s arrival signals the extraordinary world awaiting him.
• Appearances and hidden truths: The classmates see Lu’s visible transformation but do not know its supernatural cause or full extent.

Character interactions

• Lu and Chen trade playful jokes and revisit the end of his crush, showing their growing ease and affection without romantic expectation.
• Lu brushes off Zhao’s attempt to enlist his help, while Zhao privately resents the closeness between Lu and Chen.
• Lu watches Chen and Zhao’s new relationship from a distance, offering Chen goodwill.
• Su Xiaoqiang comments on Meng Chuan’s looks and presence; Lu awkwardly identifies him as family before Meng Chuan quietly redirects his attention to the watching crowd.

Key plot points and events

• In the Chat Group, Meng Qi unexpectedly calls Meng Chuan his “big bro,” hoping to curry favor with the powerful Great Emperor. The others mock the sudden claim, while Meng Qi privately convinces himself that flattery is prudent because Meng Chuan can travel between worlds.
• Meng Chuan arrives in Lu Mingfei’s world during a graduation celebration. His serious announcement that “Little Meng” is running out of time makes Lu Mingfei and his classmates fear a crisis.
• Meng Chuan asks the group to let Lu Mingfei leave early, describing him as an “S-rank” whose duties are vital. The classmates, intimidated by Meng Chuan’s authority, readily agree.
• Once outside, Lu Mingfei asks what has happened. Meng Chuan reveals that the Chat Group members sent him only to wish Lu Mingfei a happy graduation.
• Relieved that the group is fine, Lu Mingfei admits he thought it was in danger. The two resume their teasing and roughhousing. Meng Chuan points out that, even if trouble came, he would be there to hold things together.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei shows how deeply he values the Chat Group: he immediately fears losing it and is visibly relieved when he learns everyone is safe. He also insists he can now “show off” on his own, pushing back against his old image as a loser.
• Meng Chuan enjoys dramatizing his visit and teasing Lu Mingfei, but his final reassurance reveals genuine loyalty and protectiveness.
• Meng Qi is comically self-satisfied about his strategic flattery, though the narration hints that he is the one most likely to get himself into trouble.
• Lu Mingfei’s classmates interpret Meng Chuan’s grave manner and Lu’s recent improvements as evidence of a secret organization, and defer to the apparent urgency.

Significant themes

• Found family and mutual support: The Chat Group’s members mark Lu Mingfei’s graduation, and Meng Chuan reassures him that he will not face danger alone.
• Appearance versus reality: A routine congratulatory message is presented like a world-ending emergency, while the classmates mistake an ordinary social visit for secret-agent business.
• Belonging and personal growth: Lu Mingfei is proud of becoming more capable, yet his emotional bond with the group remains central to him.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: Meng Qi’s opportunistic flattery, the classmates’ wild theories, and Lu Mingfei’s panicked response all fuel the chapter’s humor.

Character interactions

• Meng Qi’s sudden “big bro” claim draws disbelief and teasing from the group, while his inner monologue reveals why he is flattering Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan’s intimidating request persuades Lu Mingfei’s classmates—including Zhao Menghua and Su Xiaoqiang—to let him leave the celebration.
• Outside, Lu Mingfei and Meng Chuan shift from anxious questioning to affectionate bickering, with Meng Chuan putting him in a headlock and Lu Mingfei protesting.
• A girl waiting beside another red Ferrari witnesses the pair’s closeness and is left confused.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan tells the Chat Group he has reached Lu Mingfei and gained permanent permission to travel between worlds, unlike his earlier one-use passage.
• He plans to visit the members’ worlds and use their Heavenly Daos and cultivation paths to fuel further growth.
• Fei Peng reports that Chonglou challenged him but is no longer his equal. The group jokes about Fei Peng eventually taking his world’s Heavenly Emperor’s throne.
• Fei Peng notices that Meng Chuan seems more human after his latest breakthrough. Meng Chuan explains that his Dao Shi Dao lets him retain his original self rather than become consumed by cultivation.
• Meng Chuan clarifies that he underwent three transformations: one from his own accumulated power, another from the Outer Regions’ and Yao Chen’s world’s Daos, and a third from the Immortal Cauldron’s Dao.
• He estimates that he can now fight the Undying Heavenly Emperor at his peak. Meng Qi jokingly names Meng Chuan’s approach the “Red Dust Battle Immortal Path.”
• When Lu Mingfei repeats Meng Qi’s suggestive joke about Meng Chuan being “so fast,” Meng Chuan threatens him with a blade of laws, knocks him onto the sofa, and sends him to bed.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan has grown dramatically stronger, yet says his Dao keeps him connected to his humanity and original identity. His increased access to other worlds offers new sources for future breakthroughs.
• Fei Peng is shown to have advanced enough to surpass Chonglou, while also demonstrating perceptiveness about Meng Chuan’s nature.
• Meng Qi briefly reflects on his possible future and the painful sacrifices it may entail, but Meng Chuan cuts off his brooding with humor.
• Lu Mingfei is comfortable enough with Meng Chuan to tease him, though he quickly regrets doing so in person.

Significant themes

• Power without losing oneself: Meng Chuan’s cultivation preserves his humanity instead of erasing it.
• Growth through exchange between worlds: Other worlds’ Daos are valuable resources for his path.
• Humor and camaraderie: The group’s teasing balances serious discussions of transformation, identity, and sacrifice.

Character interactions

• The group welcomes Meng Chuan’s new travel permission and trusts him not to abuse his expanded authority.
• Fei Peng speaks to Meng Chuan respectfully and asks a thoughtful question about his humanity; Meng Chuan answers candidly.
• Meng Qi’s joking comments prompt friendly banter, while his deeper reflections draw a reassuring, teasing response from Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan and Lu Mingfei’s playful rapport culminates in Meng Chuan punishing Lu Mingfei for an easily misread joke before wishing him good night.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Mingfei tells Meng Chuan that he has agreed to join Cassell Academy, though he skipped the formal interview and simply announced his decision to the interviewers.
• At a hotel, Professor Goodman reports to Nono that the recruitment is settled. Nono tries to make him focus on the more serious issue: a stranger—Meng Chuan—called Lu Mingfei “S-Class.”
• Goodman phones Principal Angers. He initially reassures Angers that Lu Mingfei still intends to enroll, then explains that Meng Chuan appeared without any traceable history and seems unusually close to Lu.
• Angers checks the cinema footage and available records, confirming that Meng Chuan has no known identity beyond the recordings. He orders Goodman to get Lu Mingfei enrolled quickly and studies Meng Chuan’s image, wondering who he is.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Mingfei is committed to joining Cassell, but his casual, unconventional handling of the interview surprises and amuses Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan is presented as a confident, teasing companion to Lu Mingfei. His unexplained appearance and knowledge of Lu’s S-Class status make him a major mystery.
• Nono is practical and alert: she recognizes the significance of Meng Chuan’s claim, but Goodman initially brushes off her warning. Their exchanges are argumentative and comic.
• Goodman is comically self-interested and eager to please Angers, exaggerating his role in persuading Lu Mingfei. Despite his bluster, he does eventually report the stranger.
• Angers shifts from relief that Lu Mingfei will enroll to serious concern about Meng Chuan. He responds by investigating and prioritizing Lu’s enrollment.

Significant themes

• The unknown and the untraceable: Meng Chuan’s lack of records raises questions about his identity and connection to Lu.
• Institutional control versus uncertainty: Cassell can recruit Lu and search its databases, but it cannot explain Meng Chuan’s presence.
• Comic misdirection: Banter, Goodman’s vanity, and his boastful phone call contrast with the growing threat implied by Angers’s investigation.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan cooks at Lu Mingfei’s home. Lu Mingfei’s aunt is impressed by their guest and scolds Lu Mingfei for letting him cook, while Lu Mingfei’s uncle privately wonders why someone so distinguished would be friends with his nephew.
• Lu Mingfei shares a photo of Meng Chuan cooking in the Chat Group. The members joke about the Great Emperor’s domestic side, and Meng Chuan mutes Meng Qi after he teases him.
• The group checks in on Bibi Dong, who says she has stopped traveling and is training hard so she can change the tragic future she has glimpsed. Yan Chixia encourages her.
• On the roof, Meng Chuan notices that Lu Mingfei’s relationship with his aunt has improved. Lu Mingfei proudly renames himself the “Tragedy Ender,” while Meng Chuan teases him about becoming a school legend after their earlier scheme.
• Meng Chuan reveals that the being watching him is Odin and offers to take Lu Mingfei to meet him. He then reaches through space and pulls out a short man in a black suit, who greets Lu Mingfei as his brother and silently begs him for help.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei is beginning to improve his family relationships and is more confident about changing his life, though he remains awkward and easily flustered.
• Meng Chuan shows a warm, ordinary side by cooking, but remains alert to Odin’s surveillance and effortlessly takes control of the situation.
• Bibi Dong is actively preparing to resist the fate she has learned about, rather than passively accepting it.
• Lu Mingfei’s aunt and uncle respond differently to Meng Chuan’s presence: his aunt admires him, while his uncle doubts that he and Lu Mingfei belong in the same social circle.

Significant themes

• Change and self-determination: Lu Mingfei and Bibi Dong are both trying to move beyond painful expectations or futures.
• The contrast between power and everyday life: Even a supreme figure like Meng Chuan can cook for a friend’s family.
• Friendship and belonging: The chapter highlights the gap others perceive between Meng Chuan and Lu Mingfei, while affirming their friendship.
• Fate and resistance: Bibi Dong’s training reflects the desire to rewrite a foreseen tragedy.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Lu Mingfei’s teasing, familiar friendship contrasts with the awe and admiration he inspires in Lu Mingfei’s relatives and the Chat Group.
• The Chat Group provides humor and encouragement, especially in its exchanges about Meng Chuan and Bibi Dong.
• The chapter ends by shifting from domestic comedy to danger: Meng Chuan invites Lu Mingfei to confront Odin, but first captures a mysterious man who appears to be Lu Mingfei’s brother.

Plot points and events

• Lu Mingfei catches Lu Mingze spying and scolds him, while Meng Chuan’s overwhelming presence makes Lu Mingze wary.
• Lu Mingfei insists they continue to confront Odin. Lu Mingze warns that Odin’s spear is dangerous, but Lu Mingfei trusts Meng Chuan completely.
• Meng Chuan transports Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze into Odin’s Nibelungen, a rain-soaked pocket space. He identifies it as a small, rule-made domain rather than a true world.
• They encounter Odin: an armored figure riding an eight-legged horse and carrying Gungnir, a weapon Meng Chuan recognizes as tied to causality.
• Lu Mingfei tries to persuade Meng Chuan to defeat Odin for him. Instead, Meng Chuan gives him a powerful blade—an Emperor Weapon—with some of its power sealed so Lu Mingfei can wield it without destroying the planet.
• Lu Mingfei charges Odin, confident that the weapon will let him win. The chapter ends as the fight is about to begin.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Mingfei is more powerful and confident than before, but still relies on Meng Chuan’s protection and eagerly seeks his help. He also alternates between scolding and affectionately teasing Lu Mingze.
• Lu Mingze initially acts ingratiating and fearful around Meng Chuan. Seeing Lu Mingfei backed by someone stronger gives him an unfamiliar sense of security, though he masks it with theatrics and worry.
• Meng Chuan remains composed and supremely confident. Rather than personally intervene, he gives Lu Mingfei the means to face Odin himself.
• The brothers’ banter—head smacks, warnings, and mock complaints—shows their complicated affection beneath their antagonism.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: Lu Mingfei’s new strength matters, but his confidence is bolstered by Meng Chuan’s support; Lu Mingze, accustomed to being relied upon, experiences the comfort of relying on someone else.
• Trust and mentorship: Meng Chuan equips Lu Mingfei to act independently instead of simply solving the conflict for him.
• Humor amid danger: The characters treat a confrontation with a formidable Dragon King with irreverent banter and exaggerated bravado.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Mingfei, fueled by his dragon blood and wielding the blade Meng Chuan gave him, cuts through Odin’s Deadpools and charges the masked god. He overwhelms Odin with relentless attacks, knocking him from his eight-legged horse and forcing him onto the defensive.
• Lu Mingfei briefly uses the danger-class Word Spirit Royal Flame, but it fails to harm Odin. He then reveals a new, less damaging use of Word Spirit: Emperor, transforming into a powerful black dragon.
• In the renewed fight, Lu Mingfei kills Odin’s horse by tearing out its heart and crushing it. He continues battling Odin with weapons, claws, spikes, and teeth.
• Lu Mingfei appears to break Odin’s legendary spear, but discovers that the weapon he was given—the supposed Emperor Weapon—has snapped instead. Odin seizes the opening and charges to kill him.
• Lu Mingfei abruptly abandons the fight, calls to Meng Chuan for help, and hides behind him. Odin threatens to attack the group anyway, insisting that neither Meng Chuan’s weakened state nor the other companion’s unreadable power will stop him.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei displays startling strength, confidence, and bloodlust, embracing the battlefield rather than shrinking from it. His growing bloodline lets him use ordinary and danger-class Word Spirits, and he has developed a more controlled form of his dragon transformation. Yet his sudden retreat reveals his familiar comic cowardice beneath the fearsome warrior persona.
• Odin goes from dismissing Lu Mingfei to becoming furious and intent on killing him after being repeatedly driven back and losing his mount. He remains dangerous despite the apparent setback.
• Meng Chuan approves of Lu Mingfei’s newfound boldness and recognizes that the fight is shaped by the weapon and the unusual forces involved.
• Lu Mingze assesses the matchup accurately: without the Emperor Weapon, Odin would prevail; with it, Lu Mingfei has a chance. He also confirms Lu Mingfei’s use of Royal Flame.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Lu Mingfei’s transformation and combat skill cannot by themselves match Odin, making the weapon crucial—until it breaks.
• Contrasts in identity: Lu Mingfei can appear like a ruthless dragon-slayer one moment and a shameless, frightened boy the next.
• Pride and underestimation: Odin’s initial contempt costs him control of the fight, while Lu Mingfei’s confidence rises with his strength.
• Uncertainty and loopholes: The characters describe both Odin’s spear and Lu Mingfei as exceptions to the world’s rules, suggesting that ordinary expectations may not apply.

Character interactions

• Lu Mingfei taunts Odin, calling him a coward behind a mask; Odin responds with contempt before growing openly hostile.
• Meng Chuan encourages Lu Mingfei’s ferocity and discusses the fight with Lu Mingze, who explains the weapon’s importance.
• Lu Mingfei celebrates the apparent destruction of Odin’s spear, then reacts with disbelief when his own blade breaks.
• At the last moment, Lu Mingfei calls Meng Chuan “big bro” and takes shelter behind him, provoking Odin’s threat and undercutting the grandeur of his earlier transformation.

Key plot points and events

• Odin attacks Lu Mingfei, seeking revenge, but Meng Chuan freezes him with a gesture and crushes him into the ground, shattering his Nibelungen. He deliberately leaves Odin alive, since Odin is Lu Mingfei’s destined opponent.
• Meng Chuan claims the powerful blade he gave Lu Mingfei was merely made from natural elements—though he concedes it counts as an Emperor Weapon because he made it. He takes Gungnir to study and promises Lu Mingfei an Emperor Weapon once he surpasses his world’s limits.
• The Chat Group’s livestream lets Lu Mingfei see how much stronger he has become. Facing Odin had tested his confidence, and realizing he could hold his own against a Dragon King fills him with new certainty.
• Meng Chuan accompanies Lu Mingfei to Cassell for the start of his school life, then prepares to leave. Just as he praises the world as peaceful and prosperous, a space-time anomaly appears on the moon.
• The system issues Lu Mingfei an urgent task: investigate the anomaly and destroy or extract the passage’s origin, but do not confront or enter it without a guardian. Meng Chuan agrees to accompany him, suspecting the other side may be dangerous.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei gains confidence in his growing strength, while remaining comically shameless: he complains about Meng Chuan’s “trickery,” begs for help theatrically, and immediately accepts Meng Chuan as his guardian.
• Meng Chuan acts as Lu Mingfei’s mentor and protector. Though he jokes and teases, he takes the system’s warnings seriously and stays to help.
• Odin is decisively humbled but spared, preserving him as a future adversary for Lu Mingfei.
• Yao Chen reports that he has merged with his new body and reached One-Star Dou Sheng, though he is deliberately advancing slowly to experience each stage.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan’s overwhelming intervention contrasts with Lu Mingfei’s earlier uncertainty, and his joking claims about the blade prompt Lu Mingfei to accuse him of bullying a young man.
• The Chat Group watches the battle and teases Meng Chuan about his “Emperor Weapon,” then jokes about his narration and his boast that the world is all “song and dance and prosperity.”
• Lu Mingfei clings to Meng Chuan for reassurance when the anomaly appears. Meng Chuan accepts the guardian role, while the group members speculate about what that role implies.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and confidence: Meng Chuan engineers a test that helps Lu Mingfei recognize his own strength.
• Fate and future confrontation: Odin is spared because he remains tied to Lu Mingfei’s destiny.
• Comedy amid danger: Banter and slapstick soften the battle’s violence, even as the new anomaly introduces serious uncertainty.
• The limits of apparent peace: The sudden passage on the moon overturns Meng Chuan’s claim that the world is tranquil and signals a potentially greater threat.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan takes Lu Mingfei to the Moon to watch a Space-Time Passage form for Lu’s mission to extract its Space-Time Origin. He reasons that Chat Group missions are designed to be survivable, but remains cautious and has Lu touch the passage first so he can extract the Origin immediately if needed.
• Grey Mist begins leaking from the passage. Meng Chuan seals off the surrounding space and looks through the passage, where he sees terrifying, seemingly mad eyes. The presence is frightening not because Meng Chuan thinks it is stronger than him, but because it seems to embody despair and horror. He probes deeper, briefly losing awareness.
• Watching the livestream, Meng Qi unexpectedly senses a connection to the world beyond the passage. He is transported to a vision of the River of Fate, where he discovers a thread running through the Grey Mist and connecting him to that world. Following the clear space around the thread, he glimpses a vast, hazy octopus-like being with similar threads extending into the void.
• Alarmed by his instincts but emboldened by the powerful beings he believes protect him, Meng Qi challenges the apparent entity rather than backing away.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan balances confidence with caution: he trusts the Chat Group’s tasks are manageable, yet refuses to risk Lu Mingfei based on assumptions. His reaction to the Grey Mist shows that the passage presents a threat beyond an ordinary mission.
• Lu Mingfei is excited by his first experience in space and hopes to explore another world, but also worries about Meng Chuan’s safety. Meng Chuan steadies him and keeps the mission’s immediate priority in view.
• Meng Qi shifts from casual livestream spectator to someone mysteriously entangled with the passage’s destination. His curiosity and bravado lead him to confront the unknown, even as his instincts warn him of danger.
• The group’s livestream links the characters across worlds: Meng Chuan explains his reasoning to the viewers, while Meng Qi’s connection to the passage suggests the event has consequences beyond Lu’s mission.

Significant themes

• Caution amid uncertainty: Meng Chuan trusts the mission system but prepares for the possibility that his assumptions are wrong.
• Connections across worlds and fate: The thread through the Grey Mist links Meng Qi to the destination, hinting at a larger cosmic relationship.
• The uncanny and existential dread: The mysterious eyes and octopus-like entity are disturbing not simply for their power, but for the horror and strangeness they represent.
• Bravado as a response to fear: Meng Qi counters genuine unease with humor and confidence in his supernatural protectors.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Qi’s livestream shows a vast octopus-like being looming over a wasteland world. Its tentacles seem both to destroy and create the world.
• When the creature’s eye turns toward him, Meng Qi is overwhelmed by supernatural terror. He ends the livestream and returns to the Yellow Sand Cave, shaken but alive.
• Meng Chuan examines the world beyond the space-time passage and senses that its very laws—chaos, despair, corruption, division, and reunion—are dangerous. He refuses to enter, but warns that any being crossing into his world will be destroyed.
• A presence on the far side withdraws after recognizing Meng Chuan’s strength. Its whispers and prayer are silenced by his contemptuous response.
• Meng Chuan then notices that Lu Mingfei is undergoing a grotesque transformation: tentacles, mouths, snakes, worms, and other growths erupt across his body. Lu Mingfei has lost control.

Character developments

• Meng Qi is reminded of how insignificant and vulnerable he is before cosmic powers. His curiosity gives way to panic, and he decides to ask Meng Chuan about the entity rather than risk looking at it again.
• Meng Chuan remains composed and confident despite sensing danger in the other world. He draws a firm boundary: he will not venture inside, but will defend his own world.
• Lu Mingfei suffers a sudden, horrifying loss of control, becoming almost unrecognizable.

Significant themes

• Cosmic horror and human vulnerability: A glimpse of an incomprehensible being is enough to overwhelm Meng Qi.
• The danger of corrupted worlds: The threat lies not only in powerful inhabitants but in the hostile rules that shape their reality.
• Power and boundaries: Meng Chuan’s strength allows him to resist the other world without recklessly entering it.
• Transformation and loss of self: Lu Mingfei’s mutation suggests a frightening collapse of bodily control and identity.

Character interactions

• Meng Qi watches the octopus-like entity, then checks the livestream and waits to consult Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan confronts the unseen presence across the passage, suppressing its prayers and daring it to cross over.
• Meng Chuan turns from that standoff to Lu Mingfei, whose sudden mutation interrupts the exploration.

Plot points

• A being beyond the Space-Time Passage contaminates Lu Mingfei with a sigh, causing him to lose control and transform into a grotesque mass of tentacles, mouths, and worms.
• Meng Chuan uses an Emperor Dao technique to cleanse him. Lu Mingfei, terrified by the experience, checks himself for lingering changes; Meng Chuan quickly stops him from undressing on the livestream.
• At Meng Chuan’s urging, Lu Mingfei extracts the Space-Time Origin and destroys the passage, making the Grey Mist disappear. A final wisp escapes, prompting Meng Chuan to consider pursuing the being and its world.
• Lu Mingfei offers Meng Chuan his mission reward: a model eyeball made from “Source Substance” extracted from the Grey Mist. Meng Chuan recognizes its value and accepts it.
• The Chat Group members reveal they saved screenshots of Lu Mingfei’s transformed appearance. Meng Chuan begins explaining the terrifying world beyond the passage, describing it as a place of madness and resistance to madness, but the chapter ends when his chat panel starts beeping.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Mingfei shifts from panic and horror to relief, then quickly regains his humor and cheekiness. Grateful for Meng Chuan’s help, he offers him the reward and asks about the world that nearly overwhelmed him.
• Meng Chuan protects and reassures Lu Mingfei, jokes with him, and recognizes the model eyeball’s usefulness. The escaped wisp also sparks his determination to pursue the threat.
• The Chat Group members react with alarm to Lu Mingfei’s transformation, then tease him by admitting they took screenshots. Zhang Sanfeng also interrupts Lu Mingfei’s frantic self-inspection to remind Meng Chuan that women are watching.

Significant themes

• Madness and contamination: Even a brief exposure to the other world’s influence can distort a person’s body and sense of self.
• Protection and gratitude: Meng Chuan’s intervention saves Lu Mingfei, while Lu Mingfei’s gift expresses his appreciation.
• Humor amid horror: The group’s teasing and Lu Mingfei’s return to banter provide comic relief after a frightening ordeal.
• Threats that persist: Destroying the passage ends the immediate danger, but the escaping wisp suggests the larger conflict is not over.

Plot points and events

• Meng Qi privately tells Meng Chuan that, while watching the livestream’s Space-Time Passage, he felt an inexplicable connection to it and briefly saw the River of Fate.
• Following a thread through the mist, Meng Qi glimpsed a gigantic, writhing, eight-armed sea monster sprawled across a Wasteland World. He thought it noticed him, panicked, and shut off the livestream.
• Meng Chuan realizes Meng Qi’s vision may be connected to the world beyond the passage—and privately suspects the creature is Meng Qi’s father. He hides this, instead advising Meng Qi that the being could have been a projection and that he should stop investigating.
• Meng Chuan tells Meng Qi not to mention the creature to anyone, warning that powerful beings may sense when their names are spoken. Reassured—or at least persuaded to stop asking—Meng Qi goes offline.
• Meng Chuan returns Lu Mingfei to Cassell. Afterward, his Emperor Weapon, the Great Dao Jade Disc, appears in the starfield and strikes the place where the Space-Time Passage had been. It leaves a fading imprint before disappearing.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Qi is frightened by what he saw and seeks protection, but remains curious and quick-witted. He takes Meng Chuan’s “touch your head” joke literally, concluding that the events have nothing to do with him.
• Meng Chuan balances genuine alarm with teasing and evasiveness. He protects Meng Qi by discouraging further investigation, though he admits to himself that he has misled him.
• Their exchange is playful and familiar: Meng Qi chatters and worries, while Meng Chuan jokes, briefly mutes him for swearing, then offers deliberately unhelpful reassurance.
• Lu Mingfei cheerfully swims through space in several strokes, amusing himself and exasperating Meng Chuan, who resolves not to bring him along next time.

Significant themes

• Cosmic mystery and danger: The River of Fate, the Wasteland World, and the enormous creature hint at forces far beyond the characters’ understanding.
• Protection through concealment: Meng Chuan withholds what he suspects, steering Meng Qi away from a potentially fatal truth.
• Humor amid the sublime: Banter, teasing, and Lu Mingfei’s antics contrast with the chapter’s ominous supernatural revelations.
• Lingering consequences: The Jade Disc’s action at the passage’s former location suggests the encounter has left a mark, even after the passage itself is gone.

Plot points and events

• After Meng Chuan returns to the Imperial Palace, the Heavenly Emperor Imprint across the universe nearly shatters. The universe mistakes this for Dao Dissolution and fears that its young, powerful Heavenly Emperor is dying.
• Meng Chuan realizes the Imprint became unstable because it could no longer sense him while he was away. He spreads his Dao across the universe and instantly stabilizes it.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes suspect he staged the crisis to lure them out. Rather than risk confronting him, they conceal themselves more deeply.
• Meng Chuan reassures the worried figures gathered at the palace, explaining only that a cultivation problem has been resolved. He then invites the Quasi-Emperors to discuss the Dao, effectively teaching them.
• With peace restored, faith from across the universe pours toward Meng Chuan. He studies how to use this immense Power of Faith, drawing inspiration from Willow God’s Divine Kingdoms.
• Considering the dangerous world connected to the Source Substance he possesses, Meng Chuan decides not to enter it yet. Instead, he forms an idea combining the Source Substance and the gathered faith, obtains materials from The Ancient One, and begins deep Dao contemplation.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains amused and composed amid the panic. He recognizes that his authority makes others stiff and reverent, misses the more relaxed companionship of his usual friends, and turns the crisis into an opportunity to teach and explore a new path of cultivation.
• Ji Lianxing (“Tiger Girl”) openly doubts Meng Chuan’s grand claims and banters with him, showing she can still treat him with unusual familiarity.
• Jiang Daoran and the Quasi-Emperors are relieved but intimidated by Meng Chuan; their praise and respectful behavior highlight the distance his status creates.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes respond with suspicion and resentment, but ultimately choose caution and retreat further into hiding.

Significant themes

• The burden of power and reputation: A momentary disruption in the Heavenly Emperor Imprint becomes a cosmic omen because of Meng Chuan’s immense standing.
• Distance between ruler and subjects: Even well-meaning people struggle to approach the Heavenly Emperor casually, while a few familiar companions can still tease him.
• Cultivation and creative use of power: Meng Chuan looks beyond straightforward uses of faith, seeking a more profound application inspired by Willow God and the Source Substance.

Plot points and events

• The Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Kingdom has risen above the universe and remained visible for a thousand years. It serves as a constant reminder of Meng Chuan’s authority and inspires widespread faith.
• While Meng Chuan is away in seclusion, the chat group jokes about missing him. Fei Peng explains that Chonglou repeatedly challenges him, but loses each time; Fei Peng has grown far stronger than the story’s original version. Though humbled, Chonglou keeps training and returns, steadily improving.
• Bibi Dong announces that she has reached level ninety and become a Titled Douluo. She plans to hunt for a final Spirit Ring, but is unsure how to obtain the hundred-thousand-year ring she needs. She decides not to tell Spirit Hall about her breakthrough.
• Meng Chuan returns to the chat and catches Meng Qi joking about teaching him a lesson. Meng Qi quickly withdraws the message and covers with extravagant praise.
• Meng Chuan shares several works developed during his thousand years of seclusion, covering faith, Divine Kingdoms, divine authority, and different cultivation systems. He sends Zhang Sanfeng a personal gift of materials on divine cultivation, thanking the Ancient One for the Divine Cores that helped his research.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan returns with extensive insights into divine cultivation and remains generous toward his friends.
• Fei Peng continues to dominate Chonglou, while recognizing that their repeated fights have helped Chonglou grow stronger.
• Chonglou remains proud and determined, turning each defeat into motivation to train harder.
• Bibi Dong reaches a major cultivation milestone but remains cautious about her position in Spirit Hall and her next step.
• Zhang Sanfeng is deeply grateful for Meng Chuan’s guidance and for the friendships he has gained through the group.
• Meng Qi and Lu Mingfei continue their irreverent banter, though Meng Qi immediately retreats into flattery when Meng Chuan returns.

Significant themes

• Faith and authority: The Divine Kingdom’s lasting presence shows how divine power can shape belief and perception across the universe.
• Growth through struggle: Chonglou’s defeats are humiliating but also drive his improvement.
• Friendship and generosity: Meng Chuan shares his knowledge and rewards the group, while Zhang Sanfeng reflects on the value of their bonds.
• Humor and camaraderie: Teasing, exaggerated boasts, and quick backtracking keep the group’s relationships lively.

Character interactions

• Fei Peng recounts his recurring battles with Chonglou, whose rivalry is one-sided but not without mutual benefit.
• The group celebrates Bibi Dong’s breakthrough and discusses the danger of hunting a powerful Spirit Beast.
• Meng Chuan confronts Meng Qi’s teasing through the chat, then turns the conversation toward sharing his research and helping Zhang Sanfeng.
• The chapter closes with Zhang Sanfeng appreciating the support and companionship of the chat group.

Key plot points and events

• After a thousand years of study and seclusion, Meng Chuan emerges with two major gains: a newly forged Divine Kingdom World and another transformation along the Immortal Path.
• He has combined two divine systems: one based on symbolism and authority, and another built around Divine Flame, Divine Cores, Divinity, and Divine Offices. His Divine Kingdom is an embryonic world embodying the universe’s myriad Daos.
• The Kingdom can empower appointed gods and draw nourishment from their Daos and techniques, while extending their lifespans. Its growth still depends chiefly on Meng Chuan, and the system has limits: it cannot appoint gods without restraint and currently relies on the Immortal Cauldron for stability.
• Meng Chuan’s study of faith let him ignite Dao Shi’s Dao Fire. The Dao Fire Furnace tempered his body, bringing him to his fourth Immortal Path transformation. Faith can no longer transform him, but can now strengthen the Divine Kingdom.
• In the group chat, Meng Chuan offers to help Bibi Dong obtain a powerful ninth Spirit Ring and plans to visit her world. Meng Qi tries to warn him away from pretty women, prompting jokes, a brief muting, and more teasing.
• The group catches up on other members: Yan Chixia is busy fighting demons, Elder Yao is visiting old friends at the Pill Tower, Daigu may be facing trouble, and Fei Peng has gone to fight.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan has advanced substantially in cultivation and created a second art he considers worthy of being called supreme: the Divine Kingdom World. He feels more relaxed after seclusion and is grateful for the Immortal Cauldron.
• Bibi Dong remains lively and trusting, but her knowledge of her fate has made her determined to train hard and change it.
• Meng Qi casts himself as Meng Chuan’s protective adviser, though his warnings about women are mostly comic and earn him a mute.
• The group’s other members are pursuing their own paths: Yan Chixia’s strength and heroism have grown, Elder Yao continues to progress rapidly, and Fei Peng is drawn back into battle.

Significant themes

• Creation through synthesis: Meng Chuan’s Divine Kingdom incorporates different divine systems rather than rejecting either one.
• Power and dependence: The Kingdom offers extraordinary benefits, but has real limits and depends on both Meng Chuan’s cultivation and the Immortal Cauldron.
• Growth and change: Meng Chuan and the other group members are advancing in different ways, while Bibi Dong strives to reshape her future.
• Humor and camaraderie: The group chat’s teasing provides a light contrast to the chapter’s grand cultivation developments.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan invites Bibi Dong to choose a powerful Spirit Ring and welcomes her offer to show him around her world.
• Meng Qi intervenes with comic warnings; Meng Chuan mutes him, and Bibi Dong playfully punches his avatar.
• Lu Mingfei jokes about Meng Chuan’s stories of dining with strangers, prompting Meng Chuan to mute him too.
• Zhang Sanfeng, Bibi Dong, and the Ancient One help Meng Chuan catch up on the absent group members.

Plot and events

• After completing four transformations, Meng Chuan surveys the universe, searching for the Life Forbidden Zones that fled into spacetime. He suspects the Underworld helped conceal them with the Nether Treasure of Heaven-Piercing, possibly with assistance from the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Unable to find them, he decides not to pursue them for now: he expects they will remain hidden while Wushi is alive and notes that the following era saw no Dark Turmoil.
• Meng Chuan travels to Beidou’s Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land—the only visible forbidden zone left—and politely requests an audience with its master, offering to discuss longevity and reincarnation.
• A Great Accomplishment Sacred Body welcomes him and explains that Ruthless Great Emperor suppressed the ominous affliction that had nearly made him lose control.
• The Sacred Body leads Meng Chuan through an immense stone gate into a hidden world containing an illusory Immortal Domain, then to the Bronze Immortal Palace. Inside, Meng Chuan finally sees Ruthless.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is powerful enough to disregard the Forbidden Land’s life-stealing aura, but chooses courtesy over force because he bears Ruthless no grudge. His visit reflects curiosity about her mastery of longevity and reincarnation.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body survives in the Forbidden Land after Ruthless suppresses his affliction. Meeting Meng Chuan stirs memories and sadness in him about his difficult past and diminished present.
• Ruthless Great Emperor remains secluded and mysterious, surrounded by Desolate Slaves. The chapter ends with Meng Chuan meeting her in person, emphasizing her extraordinary beauty and presence.

Significant themes

• Longevity and the cost of survival: the elderly gather at the Forbidden Land seeking another life, while the Sacred Body and Desolate Slaves represent different forms of prolonged existence.
• Power tempered by restraint: Meng Chuan can enter the Forbidden Land unharmed, yet approaches its master respectfully rather than imposing his will.
• Secrecy and historical consequence: the vanished forbidden zones remain beyond reach, and Meng Chuan accepts that their actions may shape future eras.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan meets the Ruthless Great Emperor in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land to discuss the Dao and seek insight into longevity.
• Ruthless asks whether immortality requires entering the Immortal Domain. Meng Chuan answers that one can become immortal through one’s own path, citing several ancient figures—including the Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Venerable, Emperor Zun, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and the God Emperor—as proof that immortals have survived in the Mortal World.
• Meng Chuan argues that severing one’s cultivation and hiding in a forbidden zone offers no true hope of immortality. His revelation shocks the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, who wonders what this means for the ancient supremes.
• Ruthless recognizes that Meng Chuan is already pursuing a path comparable to her own and says she cannot simply teach him; they can, however, exchange insights.
• The two begin an expansive discussion of cultivation, longevity, and immortality, accompanied by visions of the Great Dao.
• Overwhelmed by their insights and the revelation of hidden immortals, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body loses confidence. Meng Chuan’s cry, “I alone shall be immortal!” reignites his spirit, and he thanks Meng Chuan.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan displays strong confidence in his own path and treats Ruthless as an equal. He seeks mutual exchange rather than instruction, and his words help restore the Sacred Body’s resolve.
• Ruthless Great Emperor reveals a willingness to engage with Meng Chuan. She recognizes the strength of his path and offers to exchange Dao insights, while showing her own ability to discern his transformation.
• Great Accomplishment Sacred Body moves from shock and bitterness to renewed determination after Meng Chuan’s encouragement.

Significant themes

• Immortality through one’s own Dao: The chapter challenges the belief that immortality requires entering the Immortal Domain.
• The limits of survival without progress: Hiding in forbidden zones by abandoning cultivation is contrasted with genuinely advancing toward immortality.
• Peer exchange and shared growth: Even the strongest cultivators can learn from one another through discussion.
• Resolve in the face of age and despair: Meng Chuan’s words help the Sacred Body recover his ambition.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan opens with praise and directly invites Ruthless to discuss longevity.
• Ruthless probes his beliefs about immortality, then acknowledges that his path is no weaker than hers.
• Meng Chuan invites Ruthless to share her insight into his transformation; she describes him as “a furnace” and “an incomplete Battle Immortal.”
• Their Dao discussion leaves the Sacred Body overwhelmed, but Meng Chuan’s declaration inspires him to regain his spirit.

Key events

• After his discussion with Ruthless, Meng Chuan reflects on what he learned: the Red Dust Immortal Path centers on shedding old bodies, forming divine fetuses, and eventually merging nine bodies into one. Ruthless’s unwavering obsession is the foundation of her Dao.
• Ruthless asks about reincarnation. Meng Chuan says he does not believe the world has a natural cycle of rebirth, but believes powerful beings could create one. He tells her that Immortal Kings and Immortal Emperors exist beyond ordinary immortals, giving her a new horizon to pursue.
• Meng Chuan leaves the Bronze Immortal Palace. Ruthless warns him that his Longevity Method is exceptionally demonic because it gains longevity by plundering living beings, heaven and earth, and the Great Dao.
• Outside the forbidden land, Meng Chuan tells the gathered cultivators that Ruthless has caused no calamity and they may still enter, but their survival is their own responsibility. He declines to ask her to show them mercy, then returns to his Divine Kingdom.
• In the Chat Group, Meng Chuan exchanges greetings with Yan Chixia and agrees to help Bibi Dong hunt Spirit Beasts. Before he can go, Daigu Madoka sends an urgent plea for help.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan leaves the meeting with new insight into Ruthless’s cultivation and greater confidence in his own path. He is candid about the dangers of his method, though he chooses not to interfere with Ruthless’s rules or the forbidden land’s risks.
• Ruthless shows rare emotion when reincarnation is mentioned. Learning that higher realms—and beings capable of creating reincarnation—may exist renews her resolve. Her warning to Meng Chuan repays his revelation.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body is curious about Meng Chuan’s method but learns only that it is a predatory form of longevity, leaving him chilled.
• Bibi Dong eagerly awaits Meng Chuan’s promised help and offers him tea; Yan Chixia modestly downplays his fame despite clearly enjoying the praise.

Significant themes

• Obsession as purpose: Ruthless’s single-minded pursuit sustains her Dao and keeps her moving forward.
• Limits and possibility: Meng Chuan argues that what is impossible for one realm may be achievable by higher beings.
• The cost of longevity: Meng Chuan’s power comes through plunder, contrasting with the more restrained appearance of his interactions.
• Agency and risk: Cultivators remain free to enter the forbidden land, but must accept the consequences themselves.