Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng’s team contained a mutated Disciple of the Door and explored the abandoned small worlds behind the Gathering Corridor’s doors. They found that Sect Master Jin had severed the first door, but Ke Meng realized Room 101 might still provide a way to reach him.

• Ke Meng and Xu Zishao contained the mutated man in the white coat, then entered his poison-filled laboratory without being harmed.
• Ke Meng’s team encountered an illusion and fleeing man-eating plants; Shirley knocked them down, and Ke Meng contained the two creatures.
• Ke Meng surveyed the artificial forest and discovered it was a small world drifting through the void beneath a false sun.
• The team opened the remaining doors and found abandoned small worlds that had served as a reserve pool for the Door Organization’s nonhuman recruits.
• Ke Meng opened the first door and found its connection severed, but remembered that the child from Room 101 had appeared beside Sect Master Jin in his dream and suspected Room 101 contained another entrance.

Ke Meng learned that the Door Organization’s Gathering Corridor had been sealed off, then supervised his students as they tested jade that could absorb mental pollution. Tao An successfully treated a patient and graduated, while other patients also began recovering.

• Ke Meng learned that the planet holding Room 101 was on course to fall into the sun, making it difficult to trace the Door Organization’s headquarters through the door.
• The Investigation Bureau announced that it had sealed the Door Organization’s rear base, the Gathering Corridor, and captured dozens of planets.
• Ke Meng taught his students to craft spiritually modified jade that could absorb mental pollution.
• Tao An tested her jade on a patient whose madness had been caused by the Whispers in the Dark, and his condition improved.
• Ke Meng confirmed Tao An’s success and told her she had graduated as more patients began to recover.

After his students graduated, Ke Meng discovered that jade could draw hidden mental pollution from Shi Jun, the Bandaged Man, and help him recover fragments of his lost memories. Examining the shattered jade, Ke Meng sensed that the pollution it had absorbed was connected to the Door Organization.

• The first cohort's jade passed inspection, and Ke Meng arranged their graduation ceremony, where Old Shi and the Bandaged Man came to visit.
• Ke Meng gave the Bandaged Man a piece of jade, which turned black and shattered as it absorbed pollution, leaving him exhausted but feeling his memories begin to loosen.
• After the ceremony, Shi Jun held two pieces of jade and recalled a few fragments of his past before the jade shattered and he became severely dehydrated.
• Ke Meng examined the black jade fragments in meditation and sensed a call for knowledge that his resistance force purged as hidden mental pollution.
• Ke Meng concluded that the pollution was connected to the Door Organization, contained the fragments, and went to sleep.

Ke Meng analyzed an encrypted passage tied to the Door Organization and ordered his followers to continue deciphering an Elder God's inscription, which linked Cthulhu's sealing to an avatar's awakening. In the joint dream, he discovered Witch Cultists heading for the Cthulhu Followers' underwater base, while Orange Star remained uncertain about the cult's origins.

• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to trace the black jade's encrypted text and concluded it was a key for a particular door, with the latent ailment as a side effect.
• A Black Ghost reported that the followers had deciphered part of the Elder God's inscription, describing Cthulhu's battle and sealing in R'lyeh and another god's avatar stirring.
• Ke Meng recognized a connection to the virtual game's first-playthrough boss and commanded the Black Ghost to keep investigating the inscription.
• Ke Meng observed Orange Star citizens discussing the Witch Cult's mass arrests and suspected the cult's influence came from beyond the Game World.
• Ke Meng found dozens of Witch Cultists in the joint dream, where they boarded a spaceship and traveled to the Cthulhu Followers' underwater base.

Ke Meng witnessed the Cthulhu Followers reject and kill Witch Cultists seeking to learn how they escaped sealed cells, then considered how to rebuild his faith's numbers beyond Orange Star. After realizing the Door Organization could help distribute Game Pods to nonhuman races in Small Worlds, he began considering that route for recruiting allies to decipher inscriptions.

• Liu Siting refused the Witch Cultists' request for help, and Cthulhu Followers shot them dead as they tried to learn Mirror Traversal.
• Ke Meng discovered the Witch Cult had preserved memories and instructions among its followers, and suspected its god was a weak Void Traveler seeking Orange Star's resources.
• Ke Meng considered ways to help the Cthulhu Followers expand, including finding nonhuman territories and using the Void to travel faster.
• Shirley brought Ke Meng Investigation Bureau files about doors on other continents, prompting him to consider using the Door Organization to distribute Game Pods throughout Small Worlds.

Shi Jun recovered some of his memories after Ke Meng cleansed his jade, and Ke Meng tested whether he remembered a polluting ciphertext. After Shi Jun left for Headquarters to be evaluated, Ke Meng bound himself to a powerful Power-Leveling Puppet and began learning to control it remotely.

• Ke Meng cleansed Shi Jun’s jade, helping him recover memories of Ke Meng and his former comrades, while the Bandaged Man said he had forgotten the knowledge from the Door of Knowledge.
• Ke Meng wrote out a passage of ciphertext from his dream; Shi Jun did not recognize it, and the characters caused his forehead to hurt and his jade to turn black before Ke Meng burned the paper.
• Shi Jun received a summons from Headquarters for an assessment of his recovered memories, and Old Shi accompanied him to Koi City while Ke Meng stayed in Whale City.
• Ke Meng examined the Power-Leveling Puppet’s Soul Contract through Synesthesia, signed it as the puppet’s master, and learned to command it remotely through their soul connection.
• Ke Meng adapted to controlling the puppet, which moved with enough force to break through his wooden floor, though he had not yet unlocked its full combat abilities.
• Ke Meng corrected an earlier account, noting that the False Time Pocket Watch could not freeze photons and the time-stop battle had not taken place in total darkness.

Ke Meng trained the power-leveling puppet to handle basic tasks and used it to upload videos, earning enough resistance to surpass 10,000 points. In Deep-Sea R'lyeh, he discovered that his resistance points came from Cthulhu’s declining resistance, leaving him questioning where the system originated.

• Ke Meng pushed the power-leveling puppet to fight at supersonic speed, but Tangyuan defeated it within seconds and Ke Meng exhausted himself trying to keep up.
• After recovering, Ke Meng taught the puppet to film and upload videos, then used it to complete two quests that awarded 50 and 25 resistance points.
• Ke Meng’s resistance total passed 10,000, and he realized he could use the puppet to upload videos even when he was away or busy.
• Ke Meng fell asleep and entered Deep-Sea R'lyeh, where he noticed Cthulhu’s resistance had fallen from 100 million to 99.99 million.
• Ke Meng concluded that the resistance he gained came from Cthulhu and wondered whether the system’s power came from Blue Star or somewhere else.

Ke Meng spent his days improving his spiritual perception and seeking a way to communicate with Blue Star's will. Two and a half years later, he returned to Whale City amid a stable world and growing public admiration for his Spirituality Control Course.

• Ke Meng decided to refine his spiritual perception through daily meditation and by observing people in Whale City.
• Over two and a half years, Blue Star recovered, special universities opened worldwide, and Ke Meng's Spirituality Control Course became a compulsory subject on the Koi Continent.
• The joint investigative agency examined fifty million missing-person cases, but household door inspections reached only halfway and investigators began to slack off.
• Ke Meng returned to Whale City wearing the Faceless Mask and heard subway passengers discussing Whale Special University's admissions and praising his influence.
• Ke Meng left the subway early and walked home while most people failed to recognize him.

Ke Meng returned to his abandoned home and revisited memories triggered by the convenience store’s lock, while his heightened spiritual perception flooded him with scenes from the past. Investigation Bureau guards mistook him for an intruder until he proved his identity, and Luo Yuan arrived to confirm it.

• Ke Meng returned to his family’s empty four-story house and used a key to open the convenience store’s roller shutter.
• Touching the lock triggered memories of Mother Chen, Chen Momo, his relatives, and former tenants opening the shop.
• Ke Meng reflected on how his spiritual perception had grown a hundredfold and how his high resistance kept him safe from spiritual deviation.
• A burly Investigation Bureau lookout mistook Ke Meng for a cultist and called for backup while aiming a special handgun at him.
• Ke Meng removed his Faceless Mask, summoned Tangyuan and Shirley, and proved his identity through the Investigation Bureau database.
• Luo Yuan arrived, confirmed Ke Meng’s identity through spiritual perception, and asked why he had not called ahead.

Ke Meng returned to the convenience store beneath his home and demonstrated how his advanced Spirituality Control let him unleash and suppress his spirituality without needing Sigil Stones. He and Luo Yuan watched Tangyuan clear the store with a powerful gust, which frightened a passing driver into calling the Investigation Bureau.

• Ke Meng opened the rolling shutter, and Luo Yuan tried to give him a Sigil Stone when his spirituality seemed dangerously out of control, but it stayed perfectly pure in Ke Meng's hand.
• Ke Meng explained that he could let his spirituality run wild and switch off his heightened Synesthesia, leaving Luo Yuan impressed by his progress.
• Ke Meng unlocked the convenience store and called Tangyuan to suck the dust inside into his mouth and blow it down the road.
• Tangyuan's blast shook a passing sedan and briefly lifted its tires, prompting the frightened driver to call the Investigation Bureau for help.
• The operator reassured the driver that he was safe, while Luo Yuan watched Tangyuan proudly show off his strength.

Ke Meng’s powerful spirituality stirred the area around the convenience store and briefly exposed Luo Yuan to silent mental pollution. After recognizing the danger, Ke Meng ordered the bureau to evacuate everyone nearby while he continued investigating his growing spirituality.

• Tangyuan released a foul odor, and Ke Meng entered the convenience store to examine its spiritual memories.
• Ke Meng’s spirituality overwhelmed Luo Yuan’s judgment, so Ke Meng used a sigil jade stone to reveal Luo Yuan’s mental pollution and warn him.
• Luo Yuan retreated across the road and learned that heightened spirituality could detect silent fluctuations that eroded the mind.
• Ke Meng explained that his spirituality had reached a bottleneck and that he hoped to break through it to hear Blue Star’s will.
• Ke Meng ordered the bureau to move its personnel and evacuate ordinary people beyond five hundred meters, and Luo Yuan relayed the order.

Ke Meng searched his former home for the crucial memory that would help him break through his spiritual bottleneck, then unleashed a surge of spirituality while trying to witness his first entry into the Game World. The resulting disturbance formed a vast vortex over Whale City, and Luo Yuan began evacuating nearby civilians.

• Ke Meng used synesthesia to revisit scenes at the convenience store and in his old home, then had Tangyuan clear the dust.
• Ke Meng realized that his breakthrough depended on observing the night he first entered the Game World and became the New Game Plus Boss.
• Ke Meng focused his perception on a vision of his past self sleeping, but could not see what had caused the change.
• Ke Meng unleashed his spirituality, disrupting Tangyuan, Shirley, and White Sugar and sending a beam of spiritual light into the sky.
• Luo Yuan detected the growing spirituality disaster and ordered personnel to evacuate ordinary people from the area.

As Ke Meng underwent a transformation amid a vast spiritual storm, Luo Yuan and the bureau officials evacuated the surrounding area and watched his spirituality grow. After the storm withdrew into Ke Meng’s house, they found him and his pets missing and discovered he had teleported away.

• Luo Yuan used the Regional Transfer Array to evacuate residents from the area around Ke Meng’s spiritual disturbance.
• Director Wu ordered Luo Yuan to expand the evacuation radius as the spiritual clouds grew, while the officials watched Ke Meng’s spirituality surge and their own abilities strengthen.
• The spiritual storm contracted and withdrew into Ke Meng’s house, where the officials found only glowing surroundings and no sign of Ke Meng or his pets.
• Luo Yuan sensed that Ke Meng had used a Teleportation Stone, and the officials watched a recording showing Ke Meng’s pets calmly answering his summons.

On a snowy mountain, Ke Meng learned from Blue Star's will that his system was the supernatural rule of plunder and that Entering Dreams came at the price of Cthulhu's influence. After recognizing and questioning that influence, he continued traveling through the void, drawing on the evil god's knowledge.

• Ke Meng used his transformed Synesthesia to perceive Blue Star's will and learned that his system came from a rule seed called plunder.
• Ke Meng discovered that making videos was the price of plundering resistance, while Entering Dreams exposed him to Cthulhu's influence.
• Ke Meng examined his urge to undo the ancient god seal, recognized it might come from Cthulhu's influence, and resolved not to rush into unsealing it.
• Ke Meng reasoned that Cthulhu had kept him clear-headed because using him for Unsealing mattered more than driving him mad.
• After the night passed, Ke Meng traveled through the void in a bubble and used Synesthesia to recover more of the evil god's knowledge.

After returning from the Void, Ke Meng underwent mental-state tests at the Investigation Bureau and shared information he had obtained by communicating with the Blue Star Will. He revealed the locations of forty-two Doors and several Shadow Stream Elders, giving the investigators a major lead while leaving lower-ranking Shadow Stream Members harder to locate.

• Ke Meng returned near his home after his spatial bubble burst, then went to the Investigation Bureau because the area's intense Spirituality could harm people with high Gnosis.
• Luo Yuan and the Bureau staff carefully screened Ke Meng, who completed dozens of mental-state tests and was found to retain his allegiance to the Koi Continent despite carrying immense anomalous knowledge.
• Ke Meng told Director Wu and the others that he had communicated with the Blue Star Will and learned information about the Door Organization and the Shadow Stream Organization.
• Ke Meng marked the locations of forty-two remaining Doors and several Shadow Stream Elders on a map.
• Ke Meng explained that the Blue Star Will could sense Doors and Elders, but investigators would still need clues and time to find Shadow Stream Members below Elder Level.

Ke Meng uncovered Jesse Monde’s forty-two-year service as a gatekeeper for the Door Organization and seized the door for the Investigation Bureau. Rejecting the bureau’s plan to destroy the doors, Ke Meng entered one to find and kill Sect Master Jin, leaving his allies waiting for his return.

• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to expose Jesse Monde’s memories and learn that Sect Master Jin had recruited him to guard the door forty-two years earlier.
• The Investigation Bureau took Jesse for questioning and removed the guard booth’s door for study.
• At an internal meeting, Ke Meng argued for counterattacking through the doors instead of destroying them, and the bureau backed his decision.
• Ke Meng told the Director-General he would enter the door to track down and kill Sect Master Jin, ending the war.
• Bandaged Man lent Ke Meng Pandora’s Box as a safeguard, and Ke Meng entered the guard booth after knocking nine times hard and once lightly.

Ke Meng entered the Wasteland World through an abandoned training-ground door and traced the Door Organization’s base to its underground streets. Disguised as a gatekeeper, he reached the populated First-Layer District as residents were summoned to hear the Disciples of the Door teach.

• Ke Meng used an Earth-Style Hood to emerge in the ruined Wasteland city, where his resistance force neutralized the radiation and mental pollution.
• Ke Meng disguised himself and used visions from Synesthesia to learn that the Door Organization’s hiding place was underground, near Sewer Street.
• Ke Meng froze the gatekeeper, took his appearance, and entered the underground streets through a series of heavy doors.
• Ke Meng reached the First-Layer District, where two guards greeted him and a broadcast summoned residents to hear the Disciples of the Door teach.
• Ke Meng considered whether to kill the guards or keep posing as the gatekeeper.

Ke Meng infiltrated the Door Organization’s Holy Land, killed its presiding Disciple, and used Synesthesia to locate a direct route to Sect Master Jin. He reached the lowest level, where he froze eighteen of the nineteen gathered Disciples of the Door, leaving one alive and trembling.

• Ke Meng passed the checkpoint after freezing the guards and entered the Holy Land among a crowd of nonhuman prospective members.
• Ke Meng ignored the believers’ song and its mental pollution, then froze the presiding Disciple of the Door to death.
• Ke Meng touched the dead Disciple and used Synesthesia to determine that a door on the lowest level connected directly to Sect Master Jin’s location.
• Ke Meng descended to the fourth level, where nineteen Disciples of the Door attacked him with containment objects and sealed the space against teleportation.
• Ke Meng froze and exploded eighteen attackers, leaving the last Disciple standing alone and trembling.

Ke Meng withstood every attack from Lian Deyuan and learned from his memories that Sect Master Jin had left three months earlier through a hidden door. After killing the remaining Disciples of the Door, Ke Meng opened the passage and entered it in pursuit of Sect Master Jin.

• Lian Deyuan unleashed lightning, scorching waves, a containment insect, and a spectral centaur against Ke Meng, but none of them harmed him.
• Ke Meng overwhelmed Lian Deyuan with his spiritual radiance, learned where Sect Master Jin had gone, and captured him in the Storage Scarf.
• Ke Meng returned to the upper floors and killed the remaining Disciples of the Door, leaving the manipulated nonhuman civilians alive for later.
• Ke Meng found the hidden door on the bottom floor, spoke its opening phrase, and entered the revealed spatial passage.

Ke Meng entered the Door Organization’s headquarters and found Chen Momo, who urged him to flee. He left to confront Sect Master Jin, who sensed his approach and went to meet him.

• Ke Meng used the Rusty Key to open a guarded door on a meteorite and entered a marble church.
• Ke Meng recognized Chen Momo, now a believer in the Door Organization, and confirmed she had not mutated.
• Chen Momo warned Ke Meng that he was inside the Door Organization’s headquarters and urged him to leave before he was discovered.
• Ke Meng located Sect Master Jin through Synesthesia and sped away toward him, leaving Chen Momo stunned.
• Sect Master Jin sensed Ke Meng’s arrival during a sacrifice ritual, told four Disciples of the Door to continue, and went to face the intruder.