Chapter Summaries

An old piano teacher died of brain cancer and awoke in the Final Void, where he learned he was an incarnation of Azathoth. After recovering his reason and memories, he began reclaiming his shattered authorities while avoiding Origin's attention, and named himself Yog-Sothoth.

• The old man reflected on his life and regretted compromising his principles to secure his future before dying in the hospital.
• He awoke in the Final Void, where a voice told him he was Azathoth and called him back.
• As countless memories overwhelmed him, a beam of violet-black light helped preserve his reason.
• The young man recovered his memories and learned that he had used the old man as an anchor to return after the multiverse ended and revived.
• He assessed his remaining authorities and set out to reclaim them while avoiding Origin's attention.
• The young man declared that he would be called Yog-Sothoth.

Yog discovered that two transmigrators in Jiangcheng carried fragments of his omniscience and went to inspect them before choosing an agent. After meeting Cheng Yu, he claimed ownership of Cheng Yu’s system and left him terrified and begging for his life.

• Yog learned that Lin Mo and Cheng Yu had arrived from the same world and had received systems formed from fragments of his omniscience.
• Yog disguised himself as an ordinary young man and headed toward the two transmigrators.
• Outside the Lihao Hotel, Cheng Yu mocked Lin Mo’s casual outfit, and the two traded barbs before Li Ming welcomed Lin Mo to his daughter’s coming-of-age banquet.
• Li Xuehong greeted Lin Mo affectionately, while Cheng Yu checked a completed system mission and prepared to enter the banquet.
• Yog approached Cheng Yu, introduced himself as Yog-Sothoth, and declared that Cheng Yu’s system belonged to him.
• After Yog blocked the system, Cheng Yu recognized the danger and begged Yog to spare him.

Yog made Cheng Yu his agent and tasked him with making Lin Mo embarrass himself at Li Xuehong’s birthday banquet. Cheng Yu’s gift won over the guests, while Lin Mo lost his Master Artisan skill, and Cheng Yu completed his mission.

• Yog offered Cheng Yu the role of his agent, and Cheng Yu eagerly accepted.
• Yog restored Cheng Yu’s system and gave him a mission to make Lin Mo thoroughly embarrass himself.
• At the banquet, Lin Mo presented Li Xuehong with a handmade jewelry box that the emcee announced had no monetary value.
• Cheng Yu gave Li Xuehong the Tear of the Green Forest, prompting guests to praise his connection to Old Wang.
• Lin Mo failed his mission to outshine Cheng Yu and lost his Master Artisan skill.
• Cheng Yu completed his mission, while Li Ming mistakenly assumed Cheng Yu had romantic feelings for Li Xuehong.

After Cheng Yu used a loophole to complete Yog’s mission at Li Ming’s banquet, Yog revealed that he was a weakened incarnation seeking to recover his authority and gave Cheng Yu the world’s script. Cheng Yu learned that Lin Mo would eventually destroy the Li family and Rainbow Company, and began planning how to stop him without derailing his own advantage.

• Cheng Yu explained how he had fulfilled the mission by making Lin Mo’s gift seem foolish to the banquet guests, and Yog praised his reasoning.
• Yog told Cheng Yu about his nature, his need to recover authority in the Chaos Sea, and the system’s connection to his omniscience.
• Yog gave Cheng Yu a black book containing the world’s script, explaining that Cheng Yu could alter events involving Lin Mo but that changes to others could cause the timeline to diverge.
• Cheng Yu read that Lin Mo had arranged the harassment of Li Xuehong, would take over her family’s company, drive Li Ming into the hospital, fire Cheng Yu, and swallow Rainbow Company.
• Cheng Yu realized he had roughly eight months before Lin Mo began targeting Rainbow Company and decided to find a way to deal Lin Mo a major psychological blow while protecting Li Ming.

Yog upgraded Cheng Yu’s system into the Strongest Wage Earner System, and Cheng Yu gained a powerful title and the Heart-Bewitching Spell. Yog then decided to join Cheng Yu’s affairs under the fabricated identity of Mr. You, just as Li Ming called to ask whether Cheng Yu knew him.

• Yog modified Cheng Yu’s system, replacing missions with achievements and adding a shop and a revised lottery.
• Cheng Yu opened the update gift pack and received the title “The Kid Under the Boss's Gaze,” which granted him multiple powerful benefits, including immortality while Yog watched over him.
• Cheng Yu used his lottery draw and chose the Heart-Bewitching Spell over Beginner Summoning and twenty years of cultivated power.
• Cheng Yu promised Yog he would recover Yog’s authority fragments, while Yog reflected on his indifference to others’ ambitions and the fate of the Outer Gods.
• Yog told Cheng Yu he would make a cameo as Mr. You, his supposed benefactor and longtime correspondent.
• Li Ming called Cheng Yu and asked whether he knew Mr. You from Universal International.

Cheng Yu and Yog staged a reunion at the airport, drawing attention to Cheng Yu’s connection with the powerful Mr. You and frustrating Lin Mo’s plans. Cheng Yu prepared to use a newly acquired skill against Lin Mo and Le Shuya when they arrived at the restaurant.

• Li Ming told Cheng Yu that Universal International had requested him to pick up Mr. You, and Cheng Yu explained their supposed history as benefactor and student.
• Cheng Yu greeted Yog at the airport as his former benefactor, while Lin Mo watched and ordered a subordinate to track their car.
• Lin Mo reunited with Le Shuya, then decided to take her to the restaurant where Cheng Yu had booked a banquet for Yog.
• Cheng Yu and Yog discussed the changed script over dinner, and Cheng Yu learned that Lin Mo was on his way.
• Cheng Yu told Yog he planned to use a skill he had drawn that morning to turn Le Shuya against Lin Mo.

Lin Mo tried to win Mr. You’s favor, but Mr. You rejected his approach and left him humiliated. Meanwhile, Cheng Yu planted doubts in Le Shuya about Lin Mo’s role in her parents’ deaths, setting up a future threat to Lin Mo.

• Lin Mo arranged for Cheng Yu to be lured downstairs so he could meet Mr. You alone.
• Mr. You refused to mentor Lin Mo and told him that luck could not be copied and opportunities had to be seized.
• Cheng Yu used a Heart-Bewitching Spell to persuade Le Shuya to take his business card and USB drive, while raising questions about how Lin Mo had helped her after her parents died.
• Lin Mo left with Le Shuya, who concealed the USB drive, and fumed that he would eventually crush his rivals.
• Cheng Yu told Mr. You that he had planted a seed that might eventually cost Lin Mo his life.

Le Shuya opened Cheng Yu’s USB drive and began questioning whether Lin Mo and Wang Long were involved in her parents’ deaths. Meanwhile, Yog explained why reclaiming authorities was not urgent and told Cheng Yu that their real purpose was to travel through the new epoch together.

• Le Shuya read Cheng Yu’s message and learned that Wang Long might have led her father into gambling, prompting her to investigate the circumstances behind her parents’ deaths.
• Cheng Yu celebrated using the script to predict Le Shuya’s reactions while Miss Puppet served tea to him and Yog.
• Yog explained that beings from the previous epoch endured immeasurable spans of time and generally lacked rationality or intelligence.
• Yog revealed that Yog had tried and failed to gain rationality, foreseen Azathoth awakening, and paid an immense price to enter the current epoch in a rational body.
• Yog told Cheng Yu that reclaiming authorities could wait and that Cheng Yu would accompany Yog on adventures across the new epoch.

Lin Mo welcomed Bai Tingting to Jiangcheng and received system missions to target Mr. You and Cheng Yu, then plotted to exploit a possible encounter between them. Cheng Yu learned that he had poached an ally from his rival and considered exchanging the achievement for currency.

• Lin Mo learned that Mr. You had visited Rainbow and invited Bai Tingting to Jiangcheng after she arrived ahead of schedule.
• Lin Mo picked up Bai Tingting, treated her to food and shopping, and offered her a room at his home.
• Lin Mo's system issued missions to vent his fury on Mr. You and Cheng Yu, with a deadline before Mr. You left Jiangcheng.
• Lin Mo reasoned that Mr. You might be staying with Cheng Yu and planned for Elder Bai to attack him, hoping to ruin Cheng Yu and Rainbow and gain power for himself.
• Cheng Yu discussed Lin Mo's plans with Yog, then unlocked an achievement for poaching a rival's ally and considered exchanging it for currency.

Cheng Yu considered a Gold-tier achievement and bought a discounted virus weapon, though he refused to use it against humanity. A month later, Yog watched a new old man enter the story and predicted a minor climax was approaching.

• Cheng Yu learned that unlocking the Legendary shop required a Gold-tier achievement, and the system explained that eliminating more than half of humanity might extinguish the world's consciousness.
• The system recommended a discounted Carbon-Based Virus that could turn low-tier carbon-based life into regenerating biological weapons, and Cheng Yu decided to buy it for use against other species rather than humans.
• Cheng Yu told Yog he could not bring himself to slaughter his own kind while he was still human.
• A month passed as Cheng Yu worked at Rainbow and Lin Mo stayed busy at the Lin Group, while Yog watched their lives on television.
• Yog saw an old man leave a station and remarked that another actor was in position and the play was nearing a minor climax.

Lin Mo asked Elder Bai for permission to pursue Bai Tingting, and Elder Bai agreed after warning him to make her his lawful wife and treat her well. Yog watched the exchange with Miss Puppet, then Cheng Yu received an expected call from Miss Le and offered his help.

• Lin Mo welcomed Elder Bai, treated him to a meal with Bai Tingting, and raised concerns about her ability to live independently outside the mountains.
• Lin Mo admitted he wanted to build a relationship with Elder Bai and liked Bai Tingting, and Bai Tingting said she liked Lin Mo too.
• Elder Bai revealed he had been testing Lin Mo, then told him Bai Tingting must be his lawful wife and made him promise to care for her.
• Yog discussed emotions and his former life with Miss Puppet while they watched the events unfold on a television screen.
• Cheng Yu answered Miss Le's call and said he assumed she had found something but still needed his help.

Cheng Yu met Le Shuya and gave her evidence linking Lin Mo to the scheme that led to her parents’ deaths, offering to ally with her against their common enemy. After watching the footage, Le Shuya learned Lin Mo had arranged for Flower Snake to approach her father and vowed to take revenge.

• Cheng Yu met Le Shuya at a secluded café and used a black-coffee metaphor to warn her against letting comfort or romance obscure the truth.
• Le Shuya told Cheng Yu that Flower Snake had lured her father into gambling, and Cheng Yu gave her a USB drive with information about Flower Snake and Wang Long.
• Cheng Yu warned Le Shuya that the truth might be painful, then offered to help her and asked her to become his ally against Lin Mo.
• Le Shuya watched surveillance footage showing Lin Mo asking Wang Long and Flower Snake to arrange a chance for him to play hero and win her over.
• Le Shuya read Cheng Yu’s message explaining that Lin Mo’s plan had led to her father’s debts and her parents’ deaths, and she vowed to take revenge on Lin Mo.

Cheng Yu spent most of his currency on a three-part prize draw, obtained a War God Gene Injection, and became a Black Iron Three-Star. After testing his strength with Yog, he felt confident about Elder Bai’s assassination attempt in two nights.

• Cheng Yu converted Big Shot's Aura into currency and learned that achievements had currency limits based on their rank.
• The system revealed that its intelligence came from a copy of Cheng Yu's behavioral patterns, while Yog confirmed he would watch Cheng Yu face Elder Bai in two nights.
• Cheng Yu spent 600 currency on a draw and received Universal Clean Energy Technology, a War God Gene Injection, and an illustrated stone slab.
• Cheng Yu injected the War God Gene Injection and advanced to Black Iron Three-Star.
• Cheng Yu punched toward Yog but stopped at a spatial barrier, damaging the room with the force of his punch.
• Yog restored the damaged room with a snap of his fingers, and Cheng Yu looked forward to Elder Bai's attack.

Yog explained to Cheng Yu how Nyarlathotep’s previous-era experiment produced the strength rankings and shaped civilizations across the multiverse. After Cheng Yu recovered from the revelation, the story shifted to Lin Mo treating Elder Bai, then receiving troubling news about his company.

• Yog told Cheng Yu that Nyarlathotep had turned a low-level civilization into an experimental ground, creating Transmigrators, Main God Spaces, and other forces to test interference with destiny.
• Yog described the ranks from Black Iron through Unspeakable, explaining that Epic and Holy Spirit beings were watched or manipulated, while Mythic beings had rebelled against the experiment.
• Cheng Yu grew despondent over the experiment’s victims, but his system reminded him that it belonged to the previous era and that Yog supported him in this one.
• Lin Mo used acupuncture to cure Elder Bai’s hidden injuries, earning Elder Bai’s approval.
• Lin Mo received a call about a problem at his company and told Bai Tingting and Elder Bai that he could handle it himself.
• After spending time with Bai Tingting, Lin Mo returned to his room and thought that it was almost time.

Lin Mo lured Elder Bai toward Cheng Yu by planting a story about Rainbow Company, but Cheng Yu stopped Elder Bai’s attack and convinced him to leave Lin Mo. The chapter ended with Cheng Yu receiving three system achievements for deceiving Elder Bai and reaching Black Iron rank.

• Lin Mo had his secretary mislead Elder Bai into believing Cheng Yu and Rainbow Company had taken business from the Lin Group.
• Elder Bai tracked Cheng Yu to his home and attacked him, but Cheng Yu stopped his punch with one finger.
• Cheng Yu persuaded Elder Bai that he had crossed the Heaven-Human Divide and warned him that Lin Mo was treacherous and dangerous.
• Elder Bai accepted Cheng Yu’s warning, promised to keep his distance from Lin Mo, and left.
• The system awarded Cheng Yu three Black Iron One-Star achievements, and Cheng Yu complained to Yog that the system was playing word games.

Cheng Yu delivered decisive evidence that led to the arrest and death sentences of Wang Long, Flower Snake, and their criminal associates, while Le Shuya considered him an ally in her revenge. After Le Shuya thanked him for proving his sincerity, Yog prepared Miss Puppet and the others to take the stage in the next world.

• Lin Mo became angry when his plans involving Cheng Yu apparently failed, and Elder Bai grew suspicious of him.
• Cheng Yu reviewed his system status, decided to wrap things up, and spent a month gathering evidence against Jiangcheng's underworld forces.
• Cheng Yu gave the evidence to the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau and considered saving up to buy the powerful blade Mad Song.
• Cheng Yu told Le Shuya he would soon show his sincerity, and she decided he might target Flower Snake.
• Yog told Miss Puppet that the current world's show was nearly over and that he intended for her group to take the stage in the next world.
• The police announced that Wang Long, Flower Snake, and other criminals had been sentenced to death, and Le Shuya thanked Cheng Yu for his help.

Yog revisited his past through a piano piece called “A lifetime,” while Lin Mo tried to recover from Wang Long’s downfall and married Le Shuya. Twenty days later, the Lin Group was under attack from Jiangcheng’s major companies, while Rainbow and Cheng Yu stayed out of the fight.

• Yog took Cheng Yu to a music shop, played a piece portraying his previous self’s life, and left the name Yog on the piano.
• Lin Mo raged over Wang Long’s arrest as Le Shuya urged him to take control of Wang Long’s businesses, then accepted Lin Mo’s proposal of marriage.
• Lin Mo apologized to Elder Bai and gave him an envelope and a recommendation letter so Bai Tingting could live a normal life elsewhere.
• Lin Mo watched Bai Tingting leave, and Le Shuya thanked him for giving her up for her.
• Over the next twenty days, Lin Mo married Le Shuya and the Lin Group fought to seize Wang Long’s assets as major Jiangcheng companies attacked it; Rainbow stayed uninvolved.

Cheng Yu reviewed the Infinite Technique and learned more about the system’s connection to Yog and the old gods. Yog warned that Lin Mo’s ending had shifted because he had accessed some of the authority fragment, just as the World Consciousness approached and Cheng Yu discovered the system had only warned him to see him panic.

• Cheng Yu saw the Infinite Technique for sale but could not afford it, then learned the system was an intelligent program attached to Yog’s authority fragment and that Nyarlathotep’s name could not be fully displayed.
• Cheng Yu met Yog and Miss Puppet for breakfast, then discussed the possibility that events would diverge from the planned script.
• Yog told Cheng Yu that Lin Mo had tapped into some of the fragment’s power, changing his outcome slightly, and warned Cheng Yu not to rely too heavily on the script.
• The system warned Cheng Yu that the World Consciousness was approaching, while Yog explained that Lin Mo’s fragment had destabilized and the World Consciousness had begun gathering twenty days earlier.
• Cheng Yu learned the system’s warning had been a prank and joked about having Yog erase it, prompting the system to plead for its life before Cheng Yu mocked it in return.

Lin Mo learned that Tang Tang was pregnant and promised to support their child while refusing to leave his new wife, Le Shuya. Cheng Yu watched Lin Mo’s troubles unfold, then received a parchment from Yog and was told to prepare to leave the world soon.

• Le Shuya received a warning from Lin Mo’s secretary that Tang Tang had visited him, and she cried as she realized she had hoped Lin Mo would be faithful.
• Tang Tang told Lin Mo she was pregnant; he refused to marry her but promised to fulfill his duties as a father and give their child half of the Lin Group.
• Cheng Yu mocked Lin Mo as prey caught in his web while discussing his purchases and plans with the system, Yog, and Miss Puppet.
• Yog told Cheng Yu to rest before witnessing the end of Lin Mo’s road and handed him a yellowed parchment to practice with before leaving the world.

Cheng Yu learned to practice Yog-Sothoth’s summoning ritual while Yog explained its history and spoke with Miss Puppet about the Ancestor of Wizards. Three months later, Cheng Yu arranged a scheme involving Tang Tang’s unborn child and met Le Shuya at a police station as Lin Mo’s business came under attack.

• The system translated the Door Seal and incantation for Cheng Yu, and Yog instructed him to draw the symbol and recite the summons perfectly within three minutes.
• Yog told Miss Puppet that the Ancestor of Wizards had summoned Umr at-Tawil and earned his title by defeating her people, while she and others survived into the new epoch through Yog’s intervention.
• Lin Mo lied to Le Shuya about his absences, then stayed with pregnant Tang Tang, who learned she was carrying a boy.
• Lin Mo’s secretary reported that authorities were investigating the company’s accounts, its entertainment businesses had been shut down, and Le Shuya had been taken by police.
• After Lin Mo left, Tang Tang accepted a ten-million deposit and agreed to say that Cheng Yu was the father of her unborn child in exchange for two billion.
• Cheng Yu brought the phone recording to the police station, greeted Le Shuya, and told the police chief he had come for the same reason she had.