Chapter Summaries

Sect Master Jin confronted Ke Meng and unleashed his mutated form and a barrage of Special Item attacks. A nuclear-level explosion devastated the area, leaving the four Disciples of the Door to protect the believers and the True God statue while Sect Master Jin’s fate remained unclear.

• Sect Master Jin recognized Ke Meng approaching and weighed his chances of defeating him, relying on his stored defensive and revival items.
• Sect Master Jin transformed into an Ultimate Mutation Creature and prepared layers of shields and numerous Special Item attacks.
• Ke Meng entered Sect Master Jin’s attack range, and Sect Master Jin unleashed a barrage that triggered a nuclear-level explosion.
• The explosion disrupted the Door Organization’s sacrifice and devastated the surrounding land, while Sect Master Jin did not answer his followers’ calls.
• The four Disciples of the Door mutated into enormous monsters and shielded the believers and the True God statue from falling molten earth.

Ke Meng survived Sect Master Jin’s nuclear barrage, disrupted his mind with a compressed spiritual beam, and drained his body’s energy. He pursued and killed Sect Master Jin through two resurrections, leaving him permanently dead after his resurrection items were exhausted.

• Sect Master Jin discovered Ke Meng standing unharmed at the center of the nuclear devastation and began to retreat when his calculations showed his odds of defeat had risen.
• Ke Meng fired a compressed spiritual beam that threw Sect Master Jin into chaos and let Ke Meng drain the energy from his body.
• Ke Meng sensed Sect Master Jin’s soul escaping, cut it into fifty pieces, and sealed them, but a resurrection item brought Sect Master Jin back elsewhere.
• Ke Meng tracked Sect Master Jin to his resurrection location and used Sect Master Jin’s mental attack item to kill and consume his polluted soul.
• Sect Master Jin revived a second time, but Ke Meng found and killed him again, exhausting his resurrection items and ending his life for good.

Ke Meng killed Sect Master Jin and the four Disciples of the Door, then harvested resistance from the organization’s true god statue and sealed it away. He found Chen Momo alive at the Church and prepared to take her and Mrs. Chen to the Investigation Bureau for treatment.

• Ke Meng returned to the plaza, killed the four gravely wounded Disciples of the Door, and found that the ordinary believers had also died in Sect Master Jin’s attack.
• Ke Meng gained thousands of resistance points by resisting the mental pollution from the statue and sensed a past scene of believers attempting to summon a god’s avatar.
• Ke Meng decided that destroying the statue was too risky, cut it out of the ground, and sealed it in a Spatial Containment Item.
• Ke Meng found Chen Momo at the Church and told her that Sect Master Jin, the Disciples of the Door, and the statue were gone.
• Ke Meng decided to take Chen Momo and Mrs. Chen to the Investigation Bureau for treatment to remove their faith.

Ke Meng finished wiping out the Disciples of the Door, then prepared for the danger of entering a dream and facing Cthulhu’s influence. The chapter leaves him selecting safeguards, including a Cross that could resurrect him, before finally going to sleep.

• Ke Meng learned from Chen Momo that Mrs. Chen was training Disciples of the Door at another base, then stormed the Land of Plenty, killed its Disciples, and brought Mrs. Chen to Blue Star.
• Ke Meng used Sect Master Jin’s Silver Key to travel between doors and kill every Disciple of the Door, leaving only the sealed door to the House in a Book unopened.
• Exhausted, Ke Meng summoned Tangyuan to watch over him, but forced himself to stay awake because he feared Cthulhu would exploit his dreams or kill him.
• Ke Meng emptied his Storage Scarf and used his spiritual power to inspect thousands of items for safeguards against Cthulhu.
• Ke Meng found five items capable of resurrection, including a Cross that could revive his body or soul, and sensed that his Resistance Force could suppress its demonic power.

Ke Meng tested several resurrection items and traded away memories about Cthulhu and the system to the Memory Potion Bottle, then fell asleep and entered a dream as Cthulhu in R'lyeh. There, Black Ghost reported that restoring hidden history required killing the Game World's First Playthrough Boss.

• Ke Meng wore the inverted cross, encountered a flame demon through Cross-World Synesthesia, and learned that dying would resurrect him as the demon's laboring soul, though he believed his resistance could withstand its mark.
• Ke Meng examined his resurrection items and discovered that his resistance could block the Memory Potion Bottle's soul attacks.
• Ke Meng told Tangyuan to remind him to retrieve his memories, then traded away his memories about Cthulhu's influence and the system's abilities.
• Ke Meng fell asleep and dreamed he was Cthulhu in R'lyeh, where he noticed gaps in his memories but could not recall what he had lost.
• Black Ghost reported that ancient texts identified the Game World's First Playthrough Boss as the disruptor of history and said killing him could restore the hidden history.

Ke Meng recognized that the First Playthrough Boss had to die for the game’s history to return to normal, and ordered the Black Ghost to help the adventurers advance. He learned that the Cthulhu Sect could recruit believers through artificial intelligence in the virtual game, then descended into the Game World to receive a sacrifice of a captured rain cloud.

• Ke Meng chose to help the adventurers defeat the First Playthrough Boss and sent the Black Ghost to assist them.
• Liu Siting told the Cthulhu Sect that an artificial intelligence had entered the virtual game “World” through a Game Pod and contacted believers there.
• Ke Meng realized artificial intelligence could expand the sect’s ranks and decided he no longer needed the Silver Key to recruit believers.
• Ke Meng accepted a Sacrifice Ritual and descended into the Game World, where players offered him a rain cloud they had captured in a special container.

Ke Meng accepted a Rain Cloud through a dream ritual, then woke at the Door Organization’s base with the Crystal Memory Bottle that held his memories. He defeated the bottle in a soul battlefield, recovered his memories, and recalled the system’s secrets and Cthulhu’s hidden influence.

• Ke Meng accepted Que De’s Rain Cloud and gave him a temporary magical buff through the Sacrifice Ritual.
• Ke Meng woke at the Door Organization’s base, where Tangyuan gave him the Crystal Memory Bottle containing his memories.
• Ke Meng challenged the bottle in a soul battlefield after it refused to return his memories.
• Ke Meng’s attacks initially failed to harm the bottle, while its attempt to suck in his soul could not move him.
• Ke Meng unleashed his spirituality, made the bottle surrender, and recovered his memories.

Ke Meng tested a Rain Cloud that suppressed desire and used his paired USB drives to upload a video across worlds. He then wondered whether he could transfer the Game World's source code to a Blue Star computer and log into the game locally.

• Ke Meng recognized that his desire to break the ancient god seal came from both his wish to escape R'lyeh and Cthulhu's influence.
• Ke Meng released the Rain Cloud at the Door Organization's headquarters and found that its rain calmed Tangyuan, Shirley, and White Sugar, though his resistance overcame its effect.
• Ke Meng tested Tangyuan's obedience by ordering the dog to eat dried fish, and Tangyuan ate despite having no appetite.
• Ke Meng filmed the rain's effects, checked that the video did not transmit them, and used the Power-Leveling Puppet to upload it to a video website.
• Ke Meng used the paired USB drives to transfer his imagined video to the computer, then considered transferring the game's source code to log in locally.

Ke Meng decided to build a Game Pod so he could enter the Game World, grow stronger, and influence the fate of the Ancient God Seal. Back on Blue Star, he reviewed military research documents, prompting Koi Continent’s officials to pledge their support for his technological research.

• Ke Meng concluded that a low-fidelity Game Pod could still work and decided to pursue one so he could grow stronger and have a choice in whether the Ancient God Seal was undone.
• Ke Meng returned through the door to the Investigation Bureau in Whale City, where two testers welcomed him.
• Ke Meng met with Director Wu and others, completed a mental assessment, and received military research documents on materials science and neurology.
• Luo Yuan observed Ke Meng reading the documents, and senior officials discussed his interest in developing technology.
• Koi Continent’s officials resolved to have research institutes cooperate with Ke Meng.

Ke Meng inspected Blue Star’s military research facilities, then used the Silver Key to reach the Wasteland Cultivation Zone and examine its research institute. After seeing its advanced but cruel experiments, he decided to take over and redirect the institute’s work, then summoned its staff over the broadcast system.

• Ke Meng inspected a Military Research Institute and confirmed its equipment met his requirements for precision manufacturing.
• Ke Meng bought several hundred doors, used the Silver Key, and entered the Wasteland Cultivation Zone.
• Ke Meng returned in disguise and visited the Underground Research Level, where the Door Organization’s researchers studied biology and super genes.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to witness the institute’s breakthroughs and the living beings sacrificed in its experiments.
• Ke Meng decided to take over the institute and minimize experiments on intelligent beings, then announced himself over the broadcast system.

Ke Meng took control of the Wasteland Research Institute after proving Sect Master Jin was dead, then directed its researchers to develop a brain-computer interface for a virtual game. He designed a carbon-based quantum chip with researchers at the Quantum Computing Research Institute, and left it for tape-out before going to rest.

• Ke Meng removed his Faceless Mask, revealed his identity, and used Spirituality Suppression to subdue the institute's researchers.
• Ke Meng showed the Silver Key as proof that Sect Master Jin was dead, and the researchers accepted him as their new Sect Master.
• Ke Meng ordered the Wasteland Research Institute to develop a brain-computer interface and quantum chip for his virtual game.
• Ke Meng returned to the Wasteland Cultivation Zone and obtained the Door Organization's doctrine so he could revise it.
• Ke Meng worked with researchers at the Quantum Computing Research Institute for days to design a carbon-based quantum chip capable of ninety-six-percent virtual realism.
• Ke Meng asked the institute director to prioritize the chip's tape-out, then went to rest.

Ke Meng prepared to test a Brain-Computer Interface while waiting for a chip fabrication run, then used the Blue Star Will to track the Shadow Stream Elders. He pursued one elder who fled aboard a rocket, plunging from space toward it in a Flying Robe.

• Ke Meng visited the Investigation Bureau and the Wasteland Research Institute, where he inspected the completed Brain-Computer Interface and approved its parts.
• Ke Meng learned from the Blue Star Will that the Shadow Stream Elders were scattered across Blue Star and decided to capture them.
• Ke Meng discovered that one Shadow Stream Elder was escaping on a rocket after invading an astronaut, and he warned the Investigation Bureau.
• Ke Meng teleported to the space station, located the rocket, and used a Flying Robe to accelerate toward it from space.

John fled Blue Star aboard a Crocodile Continent rocket, hoping to escape the Investigation Bureau by teleporting into the void. He evaded Ke Meng’s attack, but found himself traveling parallel to the Red Robe through the void.

• John, an Elder hiding in a Crocodile Continent investigator’s body, boarded a rocket after learning the Investigation Bureau was pursuing him.
• John spotted a red light in the sky and asked the Crocodile Continent Aerospace Administration about it, but the official concealed the pursuit.
• As his danger sense peaked, John threatened to kill the hostages and decided to escape the rocket using a Teleportation Stone.
• Ke Meng descended like a meteor and struck toward the rocket, but John’s intuition let him teleport into the void just in time.
• John sensed another bubble traveling parallel to his and saw the Red Robe inside it.

Ke Meng pursued and captured the Shadow Stream Elders, dismantling the organization’s hidden leadership. He then took quantum chips for virtual gaming helmets, while the Investigation Bureau considered other uses for the technology and the Network Divine Beast remained difficult to understand.

• Ke Meng intercepted John in the void, struck him with a spiritual attack, then captured and sealed the Shadow Stream Elder in the Wine Jar.
• Over two days, Ke Meng captured every Shadow Stream Elder and guided regional Investigation Bureaus to dozens of other shadow members, wiping out Shadow Stream’s middle and upper ranks.
• Ke Meng took a hundred newly fabricated quantum chips to send to the Wasteland Research Institute for virtual gaming helmets.
• The Quantum Computing Institute director asked whether the chips could help blind people regain sight, and Ke Meng said they could try.
• Ke Meng learned that the Investigation Bureau believed the chips could help study spirituality and realized the Network Divine Beast’s thoughts remained inaccessible to him.

Ke Meng completed the virtual gaming helmet and loaded the game’s core code at the Wasteland Research Institute. He tested the helmet on himself and reached the character-creation screen for the virtual game "World".

• Ke Meng reassured Mother Chen and Chen Momo that the convenience store could reopen at its old rent, and Chen Momo said she planned to study for the Whale Special University entrance exam.
• Ke Meng worked with the Wasteland Research Institute to build a virtual gaming helmet around the quantum chip and spent ten days entering the game’s core code.
• Ke Meng refused to use another test subject and ordered the researchers to monitor his brainwaves as he tried the helmet himself.
• Ke Meng let the helmet’s silver needles pierce his brain, while Tangyuan guarded him and the researchers watched the brainwave data.
• Ke Meng saw the game’s welcome screen and realized he had reached a character-creation interface rather than entering a dream directly.

Ke Meng entered the Game World as A Meng and discovered that his Meditation Method could become a special skill that made his virtual body feel completely real. In the deserted Beginner Village, he considered his next move carefully because acting in the Game World could affect the path toward Cthulhu’s Unsealing.

• Ke Meng chose the name A Meng, sculpted his character, and appeared in the Beginner Village.
• He used Basic Attack and found that his Spirituality remained as strong as it was in reality.
• Ke Meng named his Meditation Method as a skill, which permanently increased Spirituality and mental power and made his body feel fully real.
• He found the Beginner Village deserted because players had killed its NPCs after they tried to spread the faith.
• Ke Meng decided to plan cautiously before grinding monsters or contacting his followers, wary of the consequences of entering the Game World.

Ke Meng tested his carried-over Resistance Force against monsters and found that their physical, magical, and mental attacks could not affect him. As he prepared to leave the game, two level-nineteen twin players met him in a level-twenty area and mistook him for an expert.

• Ke Meng checked his character panel and confirmed that his soul’s Resistance Force had carried into the game, giving him 80,000 physical and magic resistance.
• Ke Meng tested his defenses against a level-one Slime, a level-five Green Frog, and level-seven bees, whose attacks and honey’s hallucination effect failed to harm or affect him.
• Ke Meng concluded that he was effectively invulnerable to the beginner-area monsters and decided to record a video in the real world after logging off.
• Ke Meng sensed two female players approaching, stayed by his campfire, and greeted the long-haired and short-haired twins when they emerged from the bushes.
• The twins checked Ke Meng’s level and wondered why a level-eleven player in beginner gear was grinding alone in a level-twenty area.

Ke Meng met the twins Nara and Nina while leveling in the game, then logged out after sensing a hidden call nearby. Back in the real world, he examined his brain-wave recordings and considered how developing a deep-sleep skill in the game might affect his sleep.

• Ke Meng admitted to Nara and Nina that he was leveling alone and added both sisters as friends before logging out.
• Nina used the system’s text-to-speech and translation features to learn that Ke Meng’s name was pronounced “A Meng.”
• A level 25 leopard cat reached the campfire after Ke Meng vanished, but found only the twins’ tracks and scent fading in the wind.
• Ke Meng woke beneath Tangyuan, removed the bloodied Virtual Game Helmet, and assured the director of the Wasteland Research Institute that his brain was fine.
• Ke Meng reviewed his brain-wave recordings and connected their fluctuations to entering the game, creating a Meditation Method skill, and meeting other players.
• Ke Meng discussed the recordings with the scientists and moved the virtual game equipment into his Storage Item.

Ke Meng used Synesthesia to discover that logging into the virtual game transferred part of his soul while leaving the rest in his original body. He analyzed the game’s source code in a dream, then woke with the memory crystal bottle returning the memories he had set aside.

• Ke Meng watched a recording of himself using the Virtual Game Helmet and sensed part of his soul being stripped away and transferred into the game.
• Ke Meng considered seeking the game designers in a joint dream, but instead returned to R'lyeh and analyzed the virtual game's files there.
• Ke Meng spent the night mapping the Game World and translating its items and settings from code, including information about players' divine tank gear.
• Ke Meng woke after eight hours with a painful head and remembered that the memory crystal bottle had returned the memories he had removed before sleeping.

Ke Meng leveled rapidly in the Game World by poisoning stronger monsters and gained Venomous Blood Enchantment Attack at level 101. After discovering that Resistance Force purged the toxins required by the skill, he repeatedly induced and eliminated Basic Poison Body in an attempt to exploit the system.

• Ke Meng prepared and scheduled daily videos, practiced his Meditation Method, and began leveling in the Game World to raise his Resistance.
• Ke Meng killed a level-twenty-five leopard cat with poison, gained two levels, and collected its loot.
• Ke Meng used increasingly potent poison to defeat stronger monsters and rose from level forty to level one hundred in three days.
• Ke Meng learned Venomous Blood Enchantment Attack, which required poison to remain in his blood, but his Resistance Force removed the toxins and disabled the skill.
• Ke Meng repeated the cycle of ingesting poison and purging Basic Poison Body thousands of times, and a new line of system text appeared after two days.