Chapter Summaries

Wu Juyan’s ritual summoned Tsathoggua, who drew the San Lorenzo World into a fissure before recognizing Cheng Yu as Yog-Sothoth’s chosen agent. Yog revealed that the world was an isolated point in time, then watched its tiny universe from the Final Void.

• Wu Juyan summoned the Child of the Invisible and used Tsathoggua’s sigil to call the Toad God.
• Yog sensed a new era beginning as Cheng Yu and Grete left the bar to investigate Cheng Yu’s ominous feeling.
• Cheng Yu and Grete witnessed a worldwide Weird outbreak and learned that Tsathoggua’s sigil was appearing beneath Mountain City.
• Tsathoggua arrived, swept away the infant spirits, and pulled the world’s inhabitants and landscape into a vast fissure.
• Tsathoggua recognized Cheng Yu as Yog-Sothoth’s agent and explained that the universe had been isolated at a single point in time.
• Yog appeared in the Final Void, holding the universe as a tiny marble and acknowledging that Tsathoggua had broken free of his previous-era definition.

Yog brought Tsathoggua into the New Era by anchoring his return and making his existence dependent on Yog, while Cheng Yu and Grete survived their encounter with the Outer God. Yog sent Cheng Yu back to Mountain City Center and kept the sleeping Tsathoggua secured in a marble beyond space and time.

• Yog moved the San Lorenzo universe bubble into the Final Void, reforged Tsathoggua’s conceptual body, and made his return to the New Era absolute.
• Tsathoggua recognized that Yog controlled his life and death, then praised Yog as he settled into the New Era.
• Yog told Cheng Yu that 385,413 agents had criticized him during the incident and praised Cheng Yu for not doing so.
• Yog returned Cheng Yu to Mountain City Center, where Grete had returned to normal and questioned Cheng Yu about his bad feeling.
• Yog threaded a string through the marble containing the sleeping Tsathoggua and welcomed him to the New Era.

Yog smoothed out the wrinkles in space-time while Cheng Yu returned to Sea City and learned that Luo Xia had been ordered to join a dangerous expedition to Yingzhou. Cheng Yu agreed to go with him, leaving the group to depart for the capital in two days.

• Yog returned to his bookshop, spoke with Miss Puppet and a little girl, and later confirmed that he had smoothed out the wrinkles in space-time.
• Cheng Yu earned the achievement The Person Who Doesn't Belong to This Time, gained two million in currency, and returned to Sea City while Grete went back to His Eminence.
• Wu Juyan passed Mountain City Hospital, reflecting that he was only a retired Ghost-Tamer and would not be the one to save the world.
• Cheng Yu found Luo Xia anxious because the Special Affairs Bureau had ordered him and Wan Zhuo to report to Capital City for the Great Expedition to Yingzhou.
• Luo Xia explained that the expedition targeted unrest involving the General, a Weird King assembling a Ghost Samurai Legion, and that its survival rate was usually below ten percent.
• Cheng Yu promised to accompany Luo Xia, learned they would leave the day after tomorrow, and went to sleep.

Cheng Yu treated Luo Xia to a buffet, learned that divination gold was extremely rare, and gave Luo Xia a Divination Coin before heading to Lü Youying's home to retrieve his book. He accidentally interrupted Wan Zhuo and Lü Youying in an intimate moment, then grabbed the book and hurried away.

• Cheng Yu took Luo Xia to the buffet he had visited before and paid the owner with a gold ingot after explaining his Ghost-Tamer ability.
• Luo Xia told Cheng Yu that the gold was divination gold, and Cheng Yu explained that Divination Coins did not need to be made from gold.
• Cheng Yu divined that he and Luo Xia would face no major trouble on their trip to Capital City, then gave Luo Xia a Divination Coin and cautioned him about what not to divine.
• Wan Zhuo and Lü Youying grew closer, and after Wan Zhuo mentioned his dangerous expedition, they became intimate before his departure for Capital City.
• Cheng Yu used his spatial ability to reach Lü Youying's home for The Weird Compendium, Seventh Edition, interrupted Wan Zhuo and Lü Youying, and left with the book after apologizing.

Cheng Yu returned to the hotel to study the Weird Compendium while Luo Xia met Yun Tian at Special Affairs Bureau headquarters and learned the General was preparing to conquer Yingzhou. Yun Tian made the Great Expedition mandatory, and the Ghost-Tamers were ordered to prepare for a mission with survival odds below ten percent.

• Wan Zhuo realized Cheng Yu's teleportation-like power made him difficult to oppose, then resumed playing Fight the Landlord with Lü Youying.
• Cheng Yu returned to find Luo Xia playing with gold coins, then traveled with him to Capital City and went to a hotel to study the Weird Compendium.
• Yun Tian told the assembled Ghost-Tamers that the General had summoned Weirds across Yingzhou and awakened the Ghost Samurai Legion.
• Yun Tian declared the Great Expedition mandatory and killed a young Ghost-Tamer who challenged the order.
• Yun Tian gave the Ghost-Tamers three days to get acquainted and told them to report their abilities so headquarters could assign their roles.
• Luo Xia recognized Yun Tian as the cold and merciless figure from the original novel, while Wan Zhuo resolved to take Yun Tian's place as humanity's strongest.

Luo Xia trained with Team No. 666 and unexpectedly defeated a Weasel Monster’s curse by sending it to hunt capitalists. After the team completed its training and Yun Tian delivered final instructions, thousands of Ghost-Tamers prepared to begin the Great Expedition.

• Luo Xia joined Team No. 666, whose members specialized in different kinds of Weirds, and began three days of training in Zone 96.
• Luo Xia became captain after his teammates learned he was an A-Rank Ghost-Tamer, while Lu Fan led the team's planning discussions.
• A Weasel Monster asked whether it looked like a human or a god, and Luo Xia called it a soldier devoted to Universal Harmony and directed it toward capitalists in Yingzhou.
• Cheng Ning and Lu Fan praised Luo Xia for finding a way to break the Weasel Monster’s curse, and the monster ran through the training grounds shouting about capitalists.
• Team No. 666 completed its training, and Yun Tian told the Ghost-Tamers to prioritize the mission and stay alive before the Great Expedition began.

Cheng Yu boarded the Wings of Hope for Yingzhou and bought the discounted Legendary equipment Pure White Emissary, which kept anything he considered filth away and greatly enhanced his ability to fight it. After preparing for a possible battle with the Sea of Death, he went to sleep while Yog watched events accelerate and considered his next plan.

• Luo Xia and the other Ghost-Tamers boarded the Wings of Hope for the expedition to Yingzhou, while Cheng Yu secretly explored the ship under his Cognitive Disruption Spell.
• The system offered Cheng Yu the Pure White Emissary at an 80% discount, and he bought it for 10,000,000 currency.
• Cheng Yu equipped the Pure White Emissary, tested its protection against microscopic filth, and resolved to confront the Sea of Death head-on.
• Cheng Yu checked his remaining currency and abilities, confirmed his hunch about an approaching battle with a divination coin, and went to sleep.
• Yog watched Grete in dog form, said events were about to speed up, and studied the increasingly solid phantom of a giant toad in a marble.

Cheng Yu entered Yingzhou and discovered why humans accepted the General’s rule, but he remained determined to pursue the authority fragments. Meanwhile, Melanie’s expedition force went underground, and Luo Xia led Team No. 666 inland to begin its mission.

• Cheng Yu left Luo Xia behind with a Spatial Transfer item and traveled alone toward Yingzhou.
• Cheng Yu saw Weirds living peacefully with humans and realized the General had won their loyalty by letting deceased loved ones remain with them as spirits.
• Cheng Yu apologized silently to Yingzhou’s people, then set out for Ping City to continue his plan.
• Yingzhou Ghost-Tamers found the Wings of Hope deserted, and their leader used Naoko’s power to transform and search the sea.
• Melanie brought the Special Affairs Bureau force through an underground route to a covert base and ordered the teams to leave Yingzhou within two months.
• Luo Xia led Team No. 666 inland with orders to kill five thousand D-Rank Weirds or an equivalent number of stronger Weirds.

Luo Xia used Cheng Yu's Divination Coin to convince his squad to hunt Weirds in the wilderness, then learned that the Songstress was headed to Gang City. Remembering her fate in the original novel, he chose to take his team there while Cheng Yu also found Gang City on his route.

• Luo Xia's divination revealed that Xin Xuan's father was alive and her mother was dead, convincing the squad to trust his readings.
• Luo Xia led the team on ambushes near the road to Ping City, where they killed dozens of Weirds and discovered his Mecha could translate their speech.
• Luo Xia overheard Weirds say the Songstress would perform in Gang City and recalled how the General would capture her after the Great Expedition.
• Luo Xia decided to take his squad to Gang City, while Cheng Yu checked a map and realized it was also along his route.

Cheng Yu reached Gang City and joined Luo Xia’s group, disguising himself as a general’s escort while investigating the Songstress, a powerful Healer whose concert drew huge crowds. As the Songstress prepared to inspect the venue, Cheng Yu and Luo Xia were inside the city and planning their next move.

• Cheng Yu fought a Ghost squad, learned that the Songstress could suppress negative emotions and strengthen troops, and headed toward Gang City to investigate her.
• Luo Xia’s squad defeated Weirds on the road, and Xin Xuan healed Shi Zhuang’s corroded arm.
• Cheng Yu entered Gang City by posing as an escort sent by the general and used his authority to get Luo Xia’s group through a checkpoint.
• Cheng Yu reunited with Luo Xia, introduced himself to the squad as a powerful Ghost-Tamer, and found that tickets to the Songstress’s concert had sold out.
• Cheng Yu used the Heart-Bewitching Spell on a ticket seller and learned that most VIP tickets had been reserved, while the Songstress prepared to inspect the concert venue.

Cheng Yu planned to kill the Songstress, but Luo Xia persuaded him to wait while he tried to keep her from going to Anping Capital. After the Songstress’s concert revealed her power to dispel negative emotions, Luo Xia confessed his love to her and she accepted, while Cheng Yu watched; elsewhere, Yog took interest in the unfolding story.

• Cheng Yu told Luo Xia that he intended to kill the Songstress because she was a powerful healer serving the General, but agreed to let Luo Xia try to change her fate.
• Luo Xia admitted he had fallen in love with the Songstress through the original novel and promised to stop her from going to Anping Capital.
• The Songstress performed in Gang City, and Cheng Yu observed her singing draw black impurities from humans and Weirds across Yingzhou.
• Cheng Yu prepared an arrow that could kill the Songstress, but held back after seeing Luo Xia and the Songstress enjoying the concert.
• After the concert, Luo Xia found Greenie and impulsively confessed that he liked her; Greenie accepted his invitation to date.
• Yog closed his book and remarked that the story was interesting.

Cheng Yu fought his way toward Ping City and discovered that the General had ordered most of its Weird residents back to Anping Capital. He entered the General’s Residence and faced the General, whose attempts to probe Cheng Yu’s origins yielded no answers.

• Cheng Yu defeated a coordinated squad of ninja-like Weird and continued toward Ping City.
• The General ordered Ping City locked down and directed most Weird residents to return to Anping Capital.
• In Ping City, Cheng Yu learned of the order, altered two residents’ memories, and identified the General’s Residence as the entrance to Anping Capital.
• Cheng Yu climbed the artificial hill to the General’s Residence and entered the tower.
• Cheng Yu met the General, who probed his origins while the two exchanged formal greetings.

The General trapped Cheng Yu in Anping Capital’s Inner World as Weird across Yingzhou suddenly turned berserk. Luo Xia stayed with Greenie through her transformation, and her singing later appeared to affect the Weird in Gang City.

• The General revealed Anping Capital’s Inner World, removed its anchor, and left Cheng Yu surrounded by Weird legions.
• Weird across Yingzhou attacked humans, and Greenie began transforming while warning Luo Xia to flee.
• Luo Xia refused to abandon Greenie, restrained her when she lunged at him, and parted ways with Lu Fan’s group.
• The uprising devastated Yingzhou, while Wan Zhuo headed for Ping City hoping to obtain the General’s Blade.
• In an empty Gang City building, Greenie joined Luo Xia’s humming, and her song made black smoke rise as Weird wept.

Greenie’s song restored the sanity of Gang City’s Weirds, while Cheng Yu fought off the Ghost Samurai Legion and its monstrous corpse-puppet. After destroying the puppet, Cheng Yu faced the Legion’s fully formed giant ghost samurai.

• Greenie’s song returned the Weirds in Gang City to their senses, and Luo Xia held her hand as she continued singing despite her doubts and exhaustion.
• Lu Fan and Team No. 666 were saved by Greenie’s song, and Lu Fan said they owed someone a huge favor.
• Cheng Yu used the Pure White Emissary and Specter-Devouring Pattern to fight off the ghost samurai, then disrupted the ninja Weirds’ attack with a ground array.
• A soul Weird piloted a huge corpse-puppet that resisted Cheng Yu’s Specter-Devouring Pattern, so Cheng Yu created an Organic Destruction Technique to attack it.
• Cheng Yu coordinated six spheres to break the corpse-puppet’s leg, dissolved its body with the new technique, and seized and destroyed its exposed soul.
• The Ghost Samurai Legion completed its fusion as Cheng Yu, pale but confident, faced the giant ghost samurai.

Cheng Yu defeated the gigantic Demon Samurai and confronted the General, while Wan Zhuo traveled toward Ping City seeking the General’s Blade. The General and Cheng Yu prepared to fight, but the system abruptly reacted to the name Evil Shadow.

• Cheng Yu stopped the Demon Samurai’s massive blade with one finger, then used the Specter-Devouring Pattern to consume the Demon Samurai’s Weird energy until he vanished.
• Brittany ordered the expeditionary force to retake the Wings of Hope and approved Wan Zhuo’s request to investigate the Weird uprising.
• Wan Zhuo headed toward Ping City to seek the General’s Blade, passing by Gang City and deciding not to pursue the Songstress.
• Cheng Yu questioned the General about his promise of a future without fear or grief, and the General explained why he had not sent his Weird into battle.
• The General and Cheng Yu drew their blades and introduced themselves as Black Overlord, Evil Shadow and Pure White Emissary, Constantine, before the system exclaimed over the name Evil Shadow.

Cheng Yu learned that Evil Shadow was the name of an avatar of Nyarlathotep and that the world might be imitating the chaos god. The system warned Cheng Yu that only the Big Shot's Aura and Door Seal could affect Nyarlathotep, while Cheng Yu detected Evil Shadow's hidden attack and prepared to fight back.

• The general nearly struck Cheng Yu while Cheng Yu was distracted, but the Pure White Emissary blocked the General's Blade.
• The system identified Evil Shadow as one of Nyarlathotep's avatars and explained that the world was trying to imitate Nyarlathotep using the Big Shot's authority.
• The system warned Cheng Yu that anyone below Holy Spirit who spoke or heard Nyarlathotep's name could become an avatar, and advised him to use the Big Shot's Aura and Door Seal if Nyarlathotep appeared.
• Cheng Yu resolved to fight Evil Shadow and used the Krypton Gold Eye to see him attacking from the darkness.
• The Pure White Emissary blocked and deflected Evil Shadow's repeated strikes.

Cheng Yu fought the Gold One-Star Evil Shadow by relying on the Pure White Emissary to block attacks while he used powerful techniques that consumed his life force. After piercing Evil Shadow’s faceplate with a newly created Armor-Piercing Technique, Cheng Yu’s life force ran out and his abilities collapsed, leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• Cheng Yu learned from the system that Evil Shadow was Gold One-Star and continued attacking while the Pure White Emissary repelled Evil Shadow’s blows.
• Cheng Yu used Spatial Movement and the Specter-Devouring Pattern to pursue Evil Shadow and keep him from creating distance for a powerful attack.
• Cheng Yu activated the Pure White No-Harm Technique and struck Evil Shadow’s faceplate with a white blade, cracking it.
• Evil Shadow drew a katana that unleashed a resentful spirit, but the Pure White Emissary’s repulsive force knocked the spirit away.
• Cheng Yu spent nearly all his life force creating and enchanting an Armor-Piercing Technique, then pierced Evil Shadow’s faceplate and head.
• Cheng Yu’s life force ran out and his techniques vanished, though the increased energy in the Pure White Emissary’s orbs suggested he had badly wounded Evil Shadow.

Cheng Yu prepared to destroy Evil Shadow’s inner world while Evil Shadow gathered its power for a decisive attack. Elsewhere, Yog investigated Nyarlathotep and sent Tsathoggua away, then waited for Shub to reveal itself.

• Cheng Yu realized he could store energy in the Pure White Emissary’s orb of light and used it to preserve energy while preparing to face the Weird King.
• Evil Shadow reshaped his inner world, drawing the moon closer and summoning a new visor from the moon’s craters.
• Cheng Yu sensed the danger above, decided to destroy the moon with a Super Spell Array, and poured his life force into the orb.
• Evil Shadow gathered the power of his inner world while Cheng Yu stood still and prepared his attack.
• Yog connected with the information held by his true body, recognized Nyarlathotep’s involvement, and sent Tsathoggua’s galaxy-filled marble into the void.
• Yog suspected that Shub had used the power of His Majesty Azathoth to block his all-knowing gaze, and said he would wait for Shub to appear.

Cheng Yu and Evil Shadow unleashed their ultimate attacks inside the eternal-night inner world, shattering it and returning them to Ping City. Evil Shadow emerged as a colossal general wrapped in the inner world's world power and announced the start of their second round.

• As Evil Shadow gathered world power, its effects spread through the inner world and into reality, causing Weird and people across Yingzhou to grow sluggish and panic.
• Wan Zhuo arrived in Ping City and found it seemingly empty of its Weird army and general, but phantom images convinced him the general was still there.
• Cheng Yu resisted using the Big Shot's Aura and converted the Weird energy stored in the Pure White Emissary as Evil Shadow formed a massive blade from world power.
• Cheng Yu and Evil Shadow released their white sun and black blade, and their collision shattered the eternal-night inner world.
• Cheng Yu returned to Ping City injured as Evil Shadow transformed the night world into world power, towered over the city, and declared that their second round would begin.

Cheng Yu transformed into a giant Mecha-like figure to fight Evil Shadow in Ping City, trying to defeat him before the Titan technique ran out. Their battle devastated the city, and Wan Zhuo recognized the white giant as Luo Xia and grew deeply wary of him.

• Evil Shadow said he was willing to sacrifice Ping City's people to defeat Cheng Yu, and Cheng Yu apologized to the city's residents before preparing to fight.
• Cheng Yu used the Titan technique to grow to Evil Shadow's size and formed a silver-white mechanical longsword.
• Cheng Yu and Evil Shadow fought fiercely, trading injuries as Cheng Yu's limited stored energy powered his transformation and his title rapidly healed his wounds.
• Their battle destroyed most of Ping City's urban area and killed nearly seventy percent of its people, who began to resent Evil Shadow for fighting in the city.
• Wan Zhuo recognized the white giant as Luo Xia and became intensely wary of him as ten minutes of the battle passed.