Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng tested his intermediate poison body by coating weapons with his toxic blood and killing monsters far above his level. After clearing the poisoning status, he continued leveling in a level-250 forest by letting beasts swallow him and poisoning them from inside.

• Ke Meng let the intermediate poison body drain his health until he died, then respawned at the Resurrection Altar and lost one level.
• Ke Meng realized his resistance force could remove the poison body, while his naturally gained poison resistance was too low for ordinary players to copy his method.
• Ke Meng entered a level-250 wilderness, absorbed poison, and used his toxic blood to melt a tyrannosaurus from inside its stomach.
• Ke Meng tested coating a longsword with toxic blood, then cleared the intermediate poison body and decided to keep taking poison in pursuit of an advanced poison body.
• Ke Meng continued leveling by letting level-250 beasts swallow him and killing them with poison from inside their digestive tracts.

Ke Meng hid his level while farming monsters and let an Orange Star leveling team assume he was a high-level player. After logging out, he reflected on a mysterious voice he heard in the game and considered using an Evil God's power to investigate it in a dream.

• Ke Meng killed monsters with poison as an Orange Star leveling team approached and marveled at his damage.
• The team leader offered to pay for Ke Meng's leveling method, but Ke Meng claimed he was a high-level Dark Zone player gathering herbs, and the team left.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to sense nearby leveling teams and thought about the Cthulhu Cult's AI army and the possibility of a future battle with Evil God Cthulhu.
• After several days of farming, Ke Meng logged out because he feared Cthulhu might notice him in the Game World.
• Ke Meng returned home, cared for White Sugar and Big-Faced Cat, and thought about using an Evil God's power to investigate the voice he heard in the game.

Ke Meng tracked a Shadow Stream member through a strange dance video and caught her before the hidden force behind the organization could claim her. He located that force in a companion realm attached to Blue Star and wondered how the system's Shadow-Grasping Hand had originated.

• Ke Meng recognized that the First Playthrough Boss was an avatar of an evil god hiding among humans, and he expected players to uncover clues in the level-nine-hundred Main City.
• Ke Meng found a dance video whose performer’s skirt and shadow seemed strange, then used the Network Divine Beast to trace her to Whale City.
• Ke Meng sensed a dark presence through Synesthesia, notified the Investigation Bureau, and flew to the dancer’s building with Angel Wing.
• When the shadow member fled along the power lines, Ke Meng chased and caught her, sensing the monster behind Shadow Stream in her aura.
• Ke Meng handed the shadow member to the Investigation Bureau and used Spiritual Perception to locate the hidden presence in a companion space attached to Blue Star.
• Ke Meng recalled that the hidden presence feared the Shadow-Grasping Hand and wondered whether the system ability had emerged from an accidental interaction with another world.

Ke Meng traced the Lord of Shadow Stream to Octopus City and lured the being into his body before destroying much of its power with his Resistance Force. The Lord was trapped and gravely wounded, and Ke Meng prepared to finish the fight with Big-Faced Cat.

• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to locate the Lord of Shadow Stream's entrance in Octopus City and traveled to a tree-lined path.
• Ke Meng deployed the Guardian Spirit to seal the area and challenged the Lord of Shadow Stream, who attacked through the darkness.
• Ke Meng allowed the Lord to invade his body, then unleashed his Resistance Force and destroyed seventy percent of the Lord's shadow.
• Ke Meng pursued the wounded Lord and brought out Big-Faced Cat as the Lord revealed the Horn of Shadow's entry and escape rules.
• Ke Meng's Resistance Force had also blocked the Horn of Shadow from containing or swapping him, leaving the Lord trapped and defeated.

Ke Meng forced the Lord of Shadow Stream out of the Shadow Corner by driving it into madness and making it swap places with an earthworm. He fed the defeated being’s flesh to Big-Faced Cat and planned to deal with the contaminated trees next.

• The Lord of Shadow Stream claimed the Shadow Corner could keep it safe, while Ke Meng used Spiritual Perception and Synesthesia to learn that it and the Shadow Corner had come from elsewhere, possibly in a meteorite.
• Ke Meng compressed his spirituality into rays that shattered the Lord of Shadow Stream’s thoughts and made it repeatedly demand a swap with an earthworm.
• The Lord of Shadow Stream exchanged places with an earthworm, appearing in the woods in a grotesque body that polluted nearby plants and their shadows.
• Ke Meng froze and detonated the Lord of Shadow Stream’s blood, then picked up its chunks of flesh and fed them to Big-Faced Cat.
• Ke Meng noted that Big-Faced Cat’s shadow remained unchanged, and he fed it the area’s insects before planning to ask the Investigation Bureau for a way to turn the mutated trees into meat.

Ke Meng used a mutated blender to turn the contaminated forest into meat and fed it to Big-Faced Cat, but the cat showed no reaction. After clearing the core area, Ke Meng left Tangyuan and Shirley to continue removing the contaminated sand while the Guardian Spirit expanded its barrier into the city.

• Ke Meng contacted the Investigation Bureau, which delivered a blender from Whale City using a Teleportation Stone.
• Ke Meng enlarged the blender, turned the twisted-shadow trees into pork, and fed it all to Big-Faced Cat without provoking a reaction.
• Ke Meng spent three days digging up contaminated sand, then summoned Tangyuan and Shirley to continue clearing the area.
• Ke Meng paced out the contaminated soil beyond the Guardian Spirit's barrier and had the barrier expand into the built-up city area.
• The Investigation Bureau evacuated affected residents and distributed Sigil Jade as temporary treatment.

Ke Meng investigated the Game World's forbidden zones, planned to pursue soul-based powers, and discovered that the Shadow-Grasping Hand came from an unknown source rather than Cthulhu. He continued digging into the quarantined site to eliminate the Lord of Shadow Stream, leaving the enormous excavation unfinished until the power supply could recharge.

• Ke Meng checked the Game World's front lines through Synesthesia and saw players exploring Gray Castle's high-level areas and the Deep Sea.
• Ke Meng locked his notebook, considered using Soul Transference to gain powers, and found that Orange Star players' physical bodies had not grown noticeably stronger.
• Ke Meng sensed an unfamiliar aura within his spirituality and connected it to the unknown origin of the Shadow-Grasping Hand.
• Ke Meng returned to the quarantined site, ordered Shirley to keep using batteries, and found no strange shadows in Tangyuan, Shirley, Big-Faced Cat, or the mixer.
• Ke Meng stopped the excavation at six hundred meters when the power supply ran out, ordered Qiongyu to keep everything sealed, and told Director Zhang to fill the pit with soil from the moon or Alien Planet.

Ke Meng introduced an atheistic doctrine in the Wasteland Cultivation Zone and used electrotherapy to make its leaders abandon their former faith. He left them to memorize the doctrine before spreading it among their followers.

• The Investigation Bureau approved Ke Meng's plan to fill the deep pit and began digging up soil on Planet No. 5.
• Ke Meng gave the church fathers and priests printed copies of his new doctrine and ordered them to learn it before teaching it to followers.
• When they asked why the doctrine omitted the God's name, Ke Meng claimed the nameless truth was hidden in every line.
• Ke Meng used ordinary lightning from the Thunder Lord's Ring to painfully purge the leaders' faith and insisted they endure the baptism without questioning it.
• After the church fathers and priests accepted the new doctrine, Ke Meng told them to memorize it before leading ordinary people in studying it.

Ke Meng reached the hundred-thousand poison-use milestone and unlocked an advanced poison body that blanketed the Silent Mountains in lethal smoke. He discovered the ability consumed his life force, but its wide-reaching kills made leveling and collecting loot far more efficient.

• Ke Meng decided he had little need for a team of other races because he could obtain resources and level efficiently on his own.
• Ke Meng entered the Game World at level 202 and continued grinding in a level 330 region while consuming poison.
• After his hundred-thousandth poison dose, Ke Meng mutated and released a vast cloud of poisonous smoke that killed monsters throughout the Silent Mountains.
• Ke Meng found that the advanced poison body sacrificed his life force, and reducing its poison weakened the smoke.
• Ke Meng learned the smoke could linger for six hours and kill distant monsters for which he received experience, making his leveling more than ten times faster.
• Ke Meng collected loot from the poisoned monsters and found that some of their equipped items had been corroded.

Ke Meng’s poison mist wiped out a two-hundred-person leveling party and lingered for hours after he left. The surviving players escaped, furious and determined to identify and retaliate against A Meng.

• Ke Meng released poison mist while leveling, and it swept across the Wilderness, dissolving plants and killing creatures.
• A leveling party led by Fourth Legion Chief Commander-in-Training tried poison protections, but the mist killed them almost instantly.
• The party repeatedly revived and resurrected one another as notifications identified A Meng as their killer.
• After hours of deaths, most of the party had lost levels or given up, while the survivors endured until the poison weakened.
• Fourth Legion Chief Commander-in-Training led the remaining players out of the mist, and they vowed to find A Meng and make him pay.

After A Meng killed an Orange Star leveling raid thousands of times, the furious raid leader Dao Honghua discovered that A Meng was not registered on Orange Star and was likely a Cthulhu Follower who had fled off-world. Li Shen ordered guilds across Orange Star to hunt A Meng, while Ke Meng remained unaware that he had become wanted everywhere.

• Dao Honghua logged out to identify A Meng after his raid lost fifty levels, but Orange Mother found no matching local registration and concluded A Meng had fled off-world.
• Orange Mother flagged Dao Honghua for psychological treatment, and robots took him away while the remaining raid members were directed to undergo examinations or investigate A Meng.
• Li Shen ordered major Orange Star guilds to circulate a wanted notice for A Meng and report any kill notifications bearing his name.
• Liu Siting learned from an undercover agent that A Meng had killed a leveling raid thousands of times, then logged out to order an investigation.
• Ke Meng continued walking, unaware that guilds across Orange Star were hunting him, as thousands of kill notifications appeared before him.

Ke Meng arrived at Many-Faced Valley to use his poison and black fog to kill its monsters and obtain a Faceless Mask. He spread poisonous smoke over the valley, and the creatures reacted with fear.

• Ke Meng examined a kill list full of repeated player names and wondered why players had continued dying rather than respawning elsewhere.
• Ke Meng rode toward Many-Faced Valley, raising his poison-taking count and reaching level 289 as poison killed monsters along the way.
• Ke Meng reached the valley, where his Unicorn Giant Lizard mount refused to enter, and he left it at the entrance.
• Ke Meng entered the valley and used his Spiritual Perception to reveal the true appearances of its monsters.
• Ke Meng swallowed poison and released a vast cloud of black poisonous fog over the valley, frightening the Faceless Hare and other creatures.

Ke Meng cleared Many-Faced Valley, obtained Faceless Masks, and discovered that the surrounding mountains were watching him. He summoned a massive meteor toward a human-faced mountain, leaving the strange beings there in alarm.

• Ke Meng endured the valley beasts’ attacks, poisoned and killed them, and looted the corpses until he found four Faceless Masks.
• Ke Meng used spirituality to alter his appearance with a Faceless Mask and reached level 291.
• Ke Meng noticed eyes following him on a human-faced cliff, then ordered his mount back toward Many-Faced Valley.
• Ke Meng used a Lucky Meteorite Necklace to summon a five-hundred-meter-wide meteor toward a human-faced mountain.
• The mountain faces reacted with alarm and unleashed sounds of violent mental pollution as the meteor fell toward them.

Ke Meng destroyed the Face Mountains with a meteorite and witnessed the Game World restore the terrain, gaining a new sense of its immense power. He then discovered a high-level player team had come looking for him, but his changed appearance and spiritual perception gave him a chance to stay ahead of them.

• Ke Meng summoned a meteorite that crushed the Face Mountains, though the impact only cost him one health point.
• After meditating through the aftershocks, Ke Meng watched the Game World restore the terrain and replace the Face Mountains with mountains formed from the meteorite.
• Ke Meng sensed the world's overwhelming power and resolved to be more careful before leaving the area on his mount.
• Ke Meng overheard a team of high-level players discussing their plan to find A Meng and imprison his soul with Necromancy Skills.
• Ke Meng recognized that the players were pursuing him because of his past killings and relied on his changed appearance and spiritual perception to avoid being identified.

Ke Meng evaded five teams of Orange Star players hunting him, then returned to reality to feed Big-Faced Cat hundreds of tons of mutated pork. In a dream, he observed the Cthulhu Followers’ stalled investigation and decided to wait until they reached the level cap before advancing the first playthrough’s story.

• Ke Meng detected five large teams searching for him and cautiously changed course to slip beyond their encirclement.
• After escaping the players, Ke Meng checked that his resistance had reached ninety-eight thousand and decided to travel farther from the area.
• Ke Meng returned to reality and discovered that Big-Faced Cat swallowed his thoughts along with anything inside its mouth, so he used a longer item to release hundreds of tons of mutated pork for it.
• Ke Meng left Shirley and Tangyuan to continue collecting pork, returned home, preserved his memories, and hypnotized himself to sleep.
• In R'lyeh, Ke Meng observed the Cthulhu Followers’ stalled research into ancient ruins and decided to wait until they reached the level cap before speeding up the first playthrough.

Ke Meng evaded repeated attempts by Orange Star players to capture him while continuing to level up. Orange Star scaled back the pursuit, and the Cthulhu Sect debated whether artificial intelligences could be trusted as it investigated the ancient god seal.

• Ke Meng stayed in a level-500 area to farm monsters, using pets to patrol and relocating whenever players approached.
• A Necromancer found Ke Meng’s poisonous territory, lost his undead troops to the airborne poison, and summoned guild members to search for him.
• Ke Meng escaped using a false trail and a Teleportation Skill, leaving the gathered players with no sign of him.
• After several days of failed searches, Professor Li Shen ordered Orange Star to cut its pursuit resources and leave only ten thousand players on the A Meng Pursuit Team.
• Sect Master Liu learned that Orange Star had abandoned the hunt, while Liu Siting questioned whether the sect could trust its artificial intelligences.

After two months of evading the A Meng Pursuit Team, Ke Meng approached the hundred-thousandth dose of poison and realized the next stage could kill him. He decided to prepare a trap in the level-700 region before crossing that threshold and confronting his pursuers.

• The A Meng Pursuit Team developed player-detection skills, but Ke Meng countered them with temperature-lowering gear and Levitation while continuing to level up.
• Ke Meng sensed that three more doses of poison could kill him instantly, and he reasoned that dying and reviving would remove the poison’s negative buff.
• Ke Meng took another dose, leaving only one before the hundred-thousand mark, but postponed taking it until he had buried his Resurrection Item and prepared a trap.
• Ke Meng teleported away, mounted his flying pet, and traveled at five times the speed of sound from the level-600 region to the level-700 region.
• Ke Meng surveyed the level-700 region and judged that his next stage of poison could kill its powerful wild monsters in seconds.

Ke Meng entered the Ancient Gray Castle in disguise and listened to players discuss the search for him. He met the twin players Nara and Nina in a tavern, then secretly scanned them as they drank with him.

• Ke Meng explored the Ancient Gray Castle and considered the extraordinary gray stone and the dangers of the offerings in R'lyeh.
• Ke Meng overheard players speculate that he was an NPC or the final boss, then reminded them that A Meng was a player.
• Ke Meng spent half an hour listening to conversations in a tavern while remaining disguised.
• Nara and Nina approached Ke Meng and sat across from him, though he pretended not to know them.
• Ke Meng poured drinks for the twins and secretly directed a spiritual scan at them.

Ke Meng confronted Nara and Nina in a tavern after discovering their physical stats had barely changed, and suspected they were Witch Cult members. When Nara revealed she knew his identity and threatened to expose him, he escaped to Gray Castle and tried to contact the twins through Synesthesia.

• Ke Meng scanned Nara and Nina and noticed their physical condition had not improved despite three months passing.
• Ke Meng asked whether the sisters had left their Leveling Group to join the Witch Cult, but Nara denied being a member and grew angry at his questions.
• Nara revealed she had recognized Ke Meng as soon as he entered the tavern and threatened to shout his name in front of everyone.
• Ke Meng activated a Teleportation Talisman and escaped to a street in Gray Castle before Nara could expose him.
• Ke Meng changed his appearance in an alley, bought a house, and used Synesthesia while practicing Meditation to reach out to the twins.

Ke Meng realized that Nara and Nina were Nyarlathotep Avatars who had secretly given him the Shadow-Grasping Hand. Nara proposed helping make Ke Meng’s planned attack on players more dramatic while he continued leveling up and breaking Cthulhu’s seal.

• Ke Meng failed to use Synesthesia on Nara and Nina, suspected they were Evil God Avatars, and asked them whether they were Nyarlathotep.
• Nara suggested that she and Nina team up with Ke Meng to stir up trouble among the Orange Star Players, while Ke Meng continued with his own plans.
• Nina told Ke Meng that she and Nara had noticed him during his first Cthulhu invasion and implanted a weak supernatural power in him during his second invasion.
• Ke Meng recognized that the power Nina described was the Shadow-Grasping Hand and learned that its familiar aura came from Nyarlathotep.
• Nara told Ke Meng to keep leveling up and breaking Cthulhu’s seal while she and Nina secretly pushed events toward greater despair.