Chapter Summaries

The Director-General reviewed Ke Meng’s reports, approved his plans, and recognized the Door Organization as an interworld threat. Ke Meng tested the Reversal Chair in space, continued training students and searching for doors, and investigated whether Iceland’s broken Ice Statues could be repaired.

• The Director-General read Ke Meng’s reports, took the Door Organization seriously as an interworld organization, and approved the Reversal Chair space test.
• Ke Meng sent Shirley into space with the Reversal Chair, and she observed the stars, photographed the sky, and left refurbished satellites in orbit.
• Ke Meng returned with the space data and taught students to control spirituality while investigators continued searching the Three Islands for doors.
• Luo Yuan suggested repairing Iceland’s Ice Statues, but Ke Meng explained that his Repair Liquid slid off their smooth broken surfaces and took Luo Yuan to see Polyhedral Ice Fragments.

Ke Meng and Luo Yuan tested why Repair Liquid would not repair the Ice Sculpture’s smooth surfaces, while the Investigation Bureau discovered that the Door Organization had left the planet in the World Behind the Door. Ke Meng agreed with Director Wu’s suspicion that the missing door was on the storm-wracked planet the organization was heading toward.

• Ke Meng showed Luo Yuan that Repair Liquid slid off the Ice Sculpture’s smooth faces without being consumed, and Luo Yuan proposed soaking the fragments in a tank of it.
• A female Investigator reported that a Satellite had detected a light source moving away from the planet in the World Behind the Door.
• Ke Meng and Luo Yuan joined a meeting at the Investigation Bureau, where Director Wu announced that the object was traveling at one-thousandth the speed of light.
• Director Wu said the Door Organization had likely evacuated to a nearby planet plagued by dust storms and constant thunder, where the missing door might be located.
• Ke Meng said his intuition supported Director Wu’s suspicion that the door was on the other planet.

Ke Meng considered how the Investigation Bureau could follow the Door Organization to its destination, then focused on teaching spirituality control and crafting his first Special Item. His inscribed jade began affecting those who examined it, and black spots appeared on its surface.

• Ke Meng asked Director Wu and Director Lei whether the bureau could use an item to catch up with the Door Organization, but learned that the Transformation Light Stick was too slow and had a side effect.
• Ke Meng consulted a scientist about the distant planet and learned that its dust-filled atmosphere made it appear red rather than like Orange Star.
• Ke Meng continued teaching students to control their spirituality while selecting suitable jade to craft a Special Item.
• Ke Meng chanted and inscribed a piece of jade with spiritual pathways, successfully completing his first crafting attempt.
• Luo Yuan and the others examined the jade and felt painful memories surface; Ke Meng told them to endure the effect as black spots appeared on the stone.

Ke Meng tested whether he could open the Door of Knowledge and was overwhelmed by the knowledge behind it before closing it and knocking himself unconscious. In his dream, he reconstructed a dark cosmos containing a central stairway lined with doors and wondered whether it connected the Door Organization to different Small Worlds.

• Ke Meng made several pieces of jade to prepare to teach its production to students.
• After learning that Door Organization members had landed on the Red Planet, Ke Meng went to Koi City to test the Door of Knowledge in the Sealing Pavilion.
• Ke Meng resisted the door's temptation, brought ten pieces of jade, blindfolded himself, and set up a Video Camera before opening it.
• The knowledge pouring from the open door overwhelmed Ke Meng, who closed it and struck himself unconscious with the Brick.
• Ke Meng awoke in the sea, used Synesthesia to reconstruct a dark cosmos with a central stairway and doors, and wondered if it linked different Small Worlds.

Ke Meng explored the Door of Knowledge through Synesthesia and found it flooded his soul with useless information, so he used mental suggestion to suppress the memories. He woke in the Investigation Bureau’s intensive care ward, passed his mental assessment, and showed a slight rise in rationality.

• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to glimpse the staircase and countless sealed doors behind the Door of Knowledge, discovering that its apparent infinite knowledge was mostly meaningless information.
• Ke Meng realized the information had filled his soul and used Cthulhu’s Suggestion skill to make himself ignore and forget it unless he became Cthulhu.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to wake himself and was greeted by the Director-General, Old Shi, Flaming Man, and other Investigation Bureau personnel.
• Ke Meng answered the doctor’s questions normally, then agreed to undergo the Investigation Bureau’s mental state assessment.
• The assessment found Ke Meng’s rationality had risen from 99 to 99.1 despite signs that he had acquired potentially madness-inducing knowledge.

Ke Meng learned that the Door of Knowledge could overwhelm minds with knowledge and decided to investigate its other doors. He obtained the Soul Mother-and-Child Flower as protection and returned to the Door of Knowledge prepared to proceed.

• Ke Meng explained that the Door of Knowledge filled the mind with knowledge and could cause memory loss, and he described a staircase with doors leading to different places.
• Ke Meng found the Seeker's Black Robe file and said he intended to investigate the doors because the Door Organization had already discovered them and withdrawn.
• Ke Meng asked for a soul-protecting item, and the Director-General offered him the Soul Mother-and-Child Flower, which could revive his soul at its mother flower after death.
• Ke Meng verified the child flower with Big-Faced Cat, visited the Sealing Pavilion to inspect and verify the mother flower, then returned to the Door of Knowledge.

Ke Meng wore the Seeker's Black Robe to investigate the Door of Knowledge, then removed it to make himself averse to thinking before entering the stairs beyond the door. On page 301 of his diary, he found instructions warning him not to open the first door if his spiritual perception sensed danger.

• Ke Meng let the Seeker's Black Robe heighten his eagerness to learn and examined items in the Sealing Pavilion, including a data cable that could transfer information directly into a brain.
• Ke Meng asked whether the cable could transfer the Network Divine Beast into his brain, and the Network Divine Beast explained that its database contained four trillion GB of data.
• Ke Meng told Luo Yuan to wait behind, asked the Sealing Pavilion to clear the area, and took off the robe before opening the Door of Knowledge.
• Ke Meng climbed the glowing stairs beyond the door and opened his diary to page 301 before reaching the nineteenth step.
• Ke Meng read his advance instructions to stand before the first door and not open it if his spiritual perception warned him.

Ke Meng followed the diary’s instructions and tried to open the Silver Doors along the starry path, but none of his efforts worked. As he hurried back toward the exit before the diary’s effect wore off, the first door quietly opened a crack behind him.

• Ke Meng read the diary’s instructions and tried pushing the first Silver Door, but it would not budge, even with the Mighty Gloves.
• Ke Meng fired a Steel-Core Bullet from the Lightning Dharma King ring at the door, but the attack had no effect.
• Ke Meng tried the next forty-eight doors, using the Super Electromagnetic Cannon whenever he could not push one open.
• Ke Meng checked the diary, realized his remaining time was nearly up, and memorized its instructions for returning to the Investigation Bureau.
• Ke Meng put away the diary and ran toward the exit in his Horse Hunter Leather Boots as the first door quietly opened a crack.

Ke Meng escaped a centaur’s attempt to catch him while returning from the Door of Knowledge, then recovered from the Seeker’s Black Robe side effects and reported the encounter. He left the conference hall meeting having begun to describe and sketch the centaur.

• Ke Meng sensed danger ahead, accelerated with the Lightning Dharma King ring, and used the Horse Hunter Leather Boots’ speed boost to evade a centaur’s Fishing Net and reach the Sealing Pavilion.
• The Sealing Pavilion tried to capture the centaur with a chain, but he fled through the Door of Knowledge and the chain could not pull the door away.
• The Sealing Pavilion relayed the Director’s instruction to leave the door open, and Ke Meng left to meet the Director-General.
• Luo Yuan gave Ke Meng mind-clearing tea, and Ke Meng purged the study-aversion side effect to regain his composure.
• Ke Meng told the Director-General and the gathered officials that he had tried forty-nine doors and encountered a centaur, then began sketching it.

Ke Meng used Synesthesia to uncover the Centaur's appearance and observe his surroundings, intending to identify him through the Investigation Bureau's Network Divine Beast. He learned that the Centaur had reported a containment failure, but the target and its location remained unknown.

• The Director-General concluded that the Door Organization had sealed the doors and warned Ke Meng against trying to open them again.
• Ke Meng described the dangerous knowledge beyond the Door of Knowledge and said the Seeker's Black Robe could protect against it.
• Ke Meng returned to the Sealing Pavilion and hypnotized himself to perform Synesthesia on the Centaur.
• Ke Meng saw the Centaur fishing and cooking beside a closed Silver Door, and memorized his face for a future investigation.
• The Centaur called a Night Crow and spoke of a failed containment.

Ke Meng invaded the Centaur’s dream to turn him into a believer and investigate the Door Organization, but the Centaur’s mind collapsed and he died. Back in his residence, Ke Meng concluded that the Door Organization likely wanted to contain him and began searching for the reason, leaving the investigation unfinished.

• Ke Meng invaded the sleeping Centaur’s dream and unleashed the Evil God’s power, intending to influence him and gather information about the Door Organization.
• The Centaur’s soul broke under the corruption and he died, so Ke Meng absorbed the dream’s chaotic information and planted a false account of the death.
• Ke Meng withdrew, woke himself through Synesthesia, and chose not to enter the Door of Knowledge.
• Ke Meng returned home and reasoned that the Door Organization likely wanted to contain him, perhaps because of his offerings or a connection between its doors and the Game World.
• Ke Meng recorded the offering theory in his restricted diary, destroyed his draft paper, and continued considering other possible motives.

Ke Meng connected Shadow Stream to the Door Organization’s failed attempt to contain him. Meanwhile, a crow carried news between a Centaur castle and the Silver Door, where it found a dead Centaur and triggered a furious response.

• Ke Meng reasoned that Shadow Stream had influenced the Door Organization to target him, then suspected its surviving members had helped devise the containment plan.
• A crow delivered the report of the failed containment to a Centaur guard at a forest castle, and the guard went inside to seek instructions.
• The crow flew toward the Silver Door but found a dead Centaur, then returned to the castle in terror.
• The Centaur guard brought the crow into the castle, and more than two hundred Centaurs rushed to the corpse.
• The Centaur leader examined the dead Centaur and declared that the killer must pay blood for blood.

Bo Ma learned that Bo Yi had died after triggering a powerful curse that trapped him in a repeating nightmare, while Da Zhang exhausted himself trying to identify the killer. Elsewhere, Ke Meng set out to scout beyond the door again before the Door Organization could react.

• Bo Ma used mental resistance items and Synesthesia on Bo Yi's corpse but could not discover how his son had died.
• Bo Ma asked Da Zhang to use dream synesthesia to investigate Bo Yi's death.
• Da Zhang performed a ritual and determined that a powerful curse had trapped Bo Yi in an endlessly repeating nightmare.
• Da Zhang said he could perceive the killer's face but needed to rest before identifying them.
• Ke Meng took off the Seeker's Black Robe and set out to explore beyond the door again.

Ke Meng sealed hundreds of doors along the Starry Sky Road with strips, bombs, traps, and surveillance equipment, while the Investigation Bureau supported his campaign against the Door Organization. As Ke Meng rested, a drone continued sealing doors, and the bureau waited tensely for the Door Organization to respond.

• Ke Meng tried to destroy a silver door with a Steel-Core Bullet, but the impact shook the entire staircase without damaging the door.
• Ke Meng laid sealing strips, bombs, toxic traps, and surveillance devices at each door along his route, sealing more than three hundred doors before returning to the Sealing Pavilion.
• The Director-General praised Ke Meng's work, and Ke Meng called for drones to keep advancing and sealing every door on the Starry Sky Road.
• The Investigation Bureau connected the surveillance network to the Network Divine Beast, which processed the data and enabled staff to view the Starry Sky Road safely.
• The bureau sent a drone carrying a replacement Sealed Item onto the staircase, and it increased the number of sealed doors from three hundred to four hundred while Ke Meng rested.
• The Investigation Bureau kept Flaming Man on standby as its staff watched for the Door Organization to act.

Da Zhang began a dangerous Dream Synesthesia to trace the curse that killed Bo Yi back to its caster, after the chief agreed to let him marry his daughter if he returned alive. Following Bo Yi’s silhouette through the dream, Da Zhang encountered an immense, indescribable presence and realized he was trapped in the fog.

• Da Zhang warned the chief that tracing the curse through Dream Synesthesia could leave him brain-dead, and asked to marry the chief’s daughter if he survived.
• The chief agreed to the marriage and urged Da Zhang to return alive.
• Da Zhang prepared the ritual with Soul Summoning wind chimes, candles, and incense, then entered the dream connected to Bo Yi’s corpse.
• Da Zhang followed Bo Yi’s silhouette through dense white fog while trying to shield his mind from the dream’s contents.
• An enormous phantom emerged ahead, and Da Zhang’s spiritual perception shuddered as he realized the fog had trapped him.

Da Zhang returned from a dangerous dream synesthesia ritual claiming he had seen the true culprit and a future filled with light, but the chief killed him when he appeared mentally corrupted. Ke Meng observed that Da Zhang had sensed a trace of his presence and mistaken his own imagined vision of Cthulhu for a revelation.

• The centaurs worried that Da Zhang had become delusional, and the chief admitted he feared something was wrong.
• Da Zhang emerged from the ritual with his mental resistance items cracked and told the chief he knew the true culprit.
• Da Zhang spoke of an eternal sleeper who would revive him and a future filled with light, so the chief beheaded him to prevent his corruption from spreading.
• The centaurs cremated Bo Yi and Da Zhang, and the flames briefly restored a spark of life to Da Zhang before consuming him.
• Ke Meng watched the cremation and realized Da Zhang had sensed a trace of his presence, then imagined a terrifying being and interpreted the experience as a vision of the future.

After the Door Organization stayed quiet despite Ke Meng’s team sealing a thousand doors, Ke Meng returned to teaching students and Investigation Bureau personnel to sense and control spirituality. The peaceful stretch left him stronger but still far behind the Game World’s players, while he wondered whether the Door Organization had abandoned its territory and evacuated through another door.

• Ke Meng realized that different people could imagine the same evil god in very different forms, and he considered that Blue Star’s strange statues might depict the same gods.
• Luo Yuan told Ke Meng that a thousand doors had been sealed, the staircase had ended, and the Door Organization had not retaliated; the bureau opposed Ke Meng investigating further, so Flaming Man remained on guard.
• Ke Meng spent two days at the staircase, then returned to Whale City and taught his students to sense spirituality, helping more students and bureau personnel succeed over the following month.
• The centaurs disappeared after holding a cremation ceremony, and Ke Meng wondered whether the Door Organization had evacuated them through another door.
• Ke Meng’s resistance grew to eight thousand points, which he estimated was comparable to a level-350 player, while Game World players advanced toward level 400 and struggled against level-500 monsters.

Ke Meng learned that the flood in Shiyuan City had been stopped using the Favorable Weather Altar, then discovered that the drowning voices his student heard during meditation came from flood videos playing on his phone. The chapter left Ke Meng investigating the psychic fluctuations carried by the footage.

• Ke Meng read that relentless rain had flooded Shiyuan City and that the Investigation Bureau had mobilized rescuers.
• Ke Meng learned that the Bureau used the Favorable Weather Altar with one thousand monkeys as offerings, leaving its user with a dangerous craving for monkey blood.
• A student told Ke Meng that she heard drowning people calling to her while sensing spirituality.
• Ke Meng used his mind's eye to detect the same voices and traced their source to flood videos on his phone.

Ke Meng followed the ore disease outbreak in Shiyuan City's Mining Area and investigated footage of the crystal ore while the infected Investigators tested a way to remove it. He suspected the ore was not the true source and tried to locate the cries for help through meditation.

• Ke Meng watched footage of black crystal ore and saw a brief vision, while Investigators in Shiyuan City discovered crystal growth around the miners' fingernails and named the condition ore disease.
• Ke Meng warned his students to ignore the cries for help they heard during meditation, concealing the outbreak's details because the authorities had not announced them.
• Ke Meng called the Shiyuan City Investigation Bureau and learned that its team had protective equipment, but the Investigators returned infected after finding bizarre ore in the Mine Tunnel.
• Ke Meng and Director Lei watched an Investigator undergo a laser test to remove the crystals, and the Investigator reported severe pain when the laser cut them.
• Ke Meng reviewed the team's footage of black crystal ore deep in the Mine Tunnel, doubted it was the source, and meditated to locate the cries for help.

Ke Meng investigated Ore Disease in Shiyuan City and discovered that it was driven by curse power rather than a physical contagion. He entered the mine to find and eliminate the curse’s source.

• Ke Meng ordered Investigators to search the mine for the source of cries for help, but they found no living creatures or unknown viruses as Ore Disease spread among Shiyuan City residents.
• Ke Meng traveled to Shiyuan City with Luo Yuan and used Synesthesia in R'lyeh, experiencing a person’s body gradually turning into ore inside a mine wall.
• Ke Meng met the Investigators stationed outside the sealed mine and examined the ore crystals growing on their fingers.
• Ke Meng recognized that the crystals produced an abnormal sensation that his Resistance power suppressed, and concluded that Ore Disease spread through a curse.
• Ke Meng removed his protective suit and entered the mine to find and eliminate the curse’s source.