Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng investigated Big-Faced Cat’s ability to erase food and found that it swallowed a Level-Up Fish’s lifeline along with its body. The Blue Star Will could not explain the ability, so Ke Meng began testing whether the cat could also erase his own cells.

• Ke Meng fed a Level-Up Fish to Big-Faced Cat and watched its lifeline disappear as the fish vanished.
• Ke Meng asked the Blue Star Will whether Big-Faced Cat was a god, and it determined that the cat was not one.
• Ke Meng demonstrated the Food Erasure Technique for the Blue Star Will, which admitted it could not identify how the cat digested food.
• Ke Meng speculated that Big-Faced Cat retained a law-like ability despite lacking divinity, then questioned whether his observations could detect the energy involved.
• Ke Meng placed his epithelial cells, which carried his resistance force, on chopsticks and lowered them into Big-Faced Cat’s mouth.

Ke Meng studied Big-Faced Cat’s ability to annihilate matter and began investigating how sacrifices crossed spacetime. On Orange Star, grieving players attacked Nara and Nina while Ke Meng kept them contained, then he tested how logging out affected time and space.

• Ke Meng watched epithelial cells vanish inside Big-Faced Cat’s mouth but found no clue to how its digestion worked.
• Ke Meng began studying sacrifice as a process in which a god opened a spacetime passage, accepted an offering, and guided it across worlds.
• Colin gathered determined players on Orange Star, and Ke Meng let them kill Nara and Nina repeatedly while he guarded them against escape.
• Ke Meng took Nara and Nina away, then tested what happened to cells stored in his Spatial Backpack while he logged out and back in.
• Ke Meng recruited Cthulhu players to help him study time’s effects and the spacetime passages involved in sacrifice.

Ke Meng studied the sacrifice ability while accepting an offering from Cthulhu’s Followers, and his analysis of how sacrifices traveled through dreams led him into chaotic contemplation. Meanwhile, Liu Siting’s group uncovered a clearer account of the ancient war between Cthulhu and the Elder Gods and set out to find more ruins.

• Ke Meng accepted the Cthulhu Followers’ sacrifice and heard how Nya’s influence had caused chaos and heavy losses aboard the Space Battleship.
• Ke Meng told the Followers to keep it up, and they interpreted his words as a command to work harder to unseal him.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to study the sacrifice’s path and reasoned that his soul’s real-world coordinates drew offerings out of the Game World.
• Colin used a strand of hair to create a blazing ball of fire and urged the players to bring light to the dark sky.
• Liu Siting and the Cthulhu Sect players found that Nya’s influence no longer obscured the ancient inscriptions and read about Cthulhu’s war against the Dreaming God and the Elder Gods.
• Liu Siting’s group finished recording the ruins’ text and decided to search for the next ruin, suspecting Nya had concealed the broader history of the land.

After the Witch Cult invaded Orange Star residents’ dreams again, the authorities arranged peace talks with the Witch to prevent further upheaval. Li Shen struck a deal to exchange the knowledge of a hundred million people for supernatural knowledge, though he hesitated over the aftereffects.

• The Cthulhu Followers learned that an Elder God had sealed Cthulhu beneath the sea in R'lyeh using the power of the stars, and they began searching for the stars’ secrets.
• The Orange Star authorities, weakened by Nya’s destruction and the Witch Cult’s attacks, invited the cult to negotiate peaceful coexistence.
• Li Shen met Gao He atop a building in Mech City, and the Witch took control of her body to speak with him.
• The Witch clarified that she wanted the knowledge of a hundred million people, not their lives, and offered supernatural knowledge in return.
• Li Shen and the Witch agreed to an exchange in which she would copy people’s memories and implant supernatural knowledge, but Li Shen hesitated after hearing about the aftereffects.

Li Shen joined Orange Star’s supernatural knowledge exchange, and a hundred million people underwent the Witch’s modification ceremony. After waking, Li Shen discovered that his eyes had mutated, while the Witch prepared to continue to another city.

• Li Shen decided to join the knowledge exchange because Orange Star had little time to wait for technological progress.
• The Orange Star Authorities approved the exchange for a hundred million people and organized gatherings across cities while concealing the Witch’s involvement.
• The Witch transferred supernatural knowledge to the crowds, and Li Shen and many others passed out as medical robots checked their condition.
• The Orange Mother AI received the health reports and suspended its standing order to attack the Witch after confirming the people were alive.
• An hour later, Li Shen woke and used his wristwatch to scan his eyes, discovering a thick, pulsing blood-red nerve on his pupil.

Ke Meng tested a sacrifice ritual through a Game World creature and received enhanced armor in the real world. He then used the same method to bring the sealed item containing the Nyarlathotep Avatar’s air to the Alien Planet, preparing to test whether Big-Faced Cat could devour it.

• Ke Meng learned that Orange Star’s Witch had left supernatural power behind, setting the planet on a path where technology and the supernatural advanced together.
• Ke Meng implanted knowledge of the Sacrifice Ritual into an intelligent wild monster and persuaded it to sacrifice an offering to him.
• Ke Meng received a legendary breastplate enhanced to +20, put it on, and used Big-Faced Cat to learn its description.
• Ke Meng took Big-Faced Cat to the Alien Planet to avoid putting Blue Star at risk while testing whether the cat could devour the Nyarlathotep Avatar.
• Ke Meng had the wild monster sacrifice the sealed item, then logged out and found it containing the air of the Nyarlathotep Avatar at his feet.

Ke Meng fed Nya’s divine essence to Big-Faced Cat and confirmed that the cat could consume a god’s lifeline completely. He then used intelligent animals as players to test how sacrifices transported them into reality, and began examining the monkey players.

• Ke Meng cooked Nya’s divine essence into meat and fed it to Big-Faced Cat, which digested Nya’s lifeline without a trace.
• Ke Meng decided to use intelligent animals to test what happened when players crossed into Blue Star’s plane and died.
• Ke Meng found intelligent alien animals, made them his believers, enhanced their intelligence, and had them log into the Game World.
• Ke Meng’s animal believers sacrificed their player bodies into reality, where Ke Meng inspected the arriving monkeys with Tangyuan and White Sugar nearby.
• Ke Meng scanned the monkey players’ bodies and cut off their tails to begin his experiment.

Ke Meng tested whether Big-Faced Cat could devour players, discovering that it erased meat and, in some cases, all information about its victims. Driven by curiosity, he brought the evil gods Nara and Nina out of their sealed confinement to test whether the cat could eat them.

• Ke Meng fed a monkey player's tail to Big-Faced Cat, then found the monkey respawned without its tail.
• Ke Meng recorded his suspicions about Big-Faced Cat in his notebook and added a life imprint and Custom Magic to it.
• Ke Meng shrank monkey players and fed one to Big-Faced Cat; the monkey never reappeared, and Ke Meng could no longer sense it.
• Ke Meng tested meat and non-meat objects in Big-Faced Cat's mouth, finding that it annihilated meat but held non-meat objects like rubbish.
• Ke Meng brought Nara and Nina out of the Sealed Item, and Nina sensed that they were on a planet outside the Game World.
• Ke Meng told Nara and Nina that he had brought them out to show them something.

Ke Meng discovered that the Big-Faced Cat could permanently destroy parts of immortal players, then traced the cat to the ruins of the Cat-Faced People Mountain Village. There, he focused on finding out what happened to the first village chief, the only person said to have experienced the cat’s elevated thought.

• Ke Meng fed Nara’s appendix to the Big-Faced Cat and confirmed it did not return when she resurrected in the Game World.
• Ke Meng tested Nina and found that her appendix was also permanently destroyed, frightening her for the first time.
• Ke Meng recalled that the Big-Faced People had offered him the Big-Faced Cat as a sacrifice and that its description included elevated thought.
• Ke Meng visited the ruined Cat-Faced People Mountain Village and investigated the fate of its first chief, who had left to gain experience and never returned.

Ke Meng traced the Cat-Faced People village chief’s past and discovered that the chief’s thoughts had been elevated when he first encountered Big-Faced Cat, who had stopped thinking from the very beginning. Ke Meng’s search hit a dead end at the cat’s first appearance, leaving him unable to uncover more of its history.

• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to learn that the village chief founded the Cat-Faced People village, brought back a cat that had stopped thinking, and later left for the Great Wilderness.
• Ke Meng traveled to the Nameless Forest and used an artificial sun to drive back the mist and burn the evil ghosts.
• Ke Meng reconstructed the Great Wilderness era and found that the village chief’s spirituality had rapidly risen to godhood.
• Ke Meng traced the chief’s past to an unremarkable patch of grass, where the chief first found Big-Faced Cat and experienced an elevation of thought.
• Ke Meng concluded that Big-Faced Cat had stopped thinking from the very beginning, but the vanished grass prevented him from tracing its history further.

Ke Meng investigated the village chief’s fading spiritual traces and studied the Necronomicon while Orange Star players approached godhood. Colin became the first Orange Star player to ascend, then confronted Nara and Nina in Gray Castle Main City.

• Ke Meng followed the village chief’s historical traces to Many-Faced Valley, where they grew faint, and found no further clues.
• Half a year passed as Orange Star players advanced toward godhood, while Ke Meng investigated the players’ attempts to communicate with planets and tested the Necronomicon on different readers.
• Ke Meng watched a player become convinced that Cthulhu would rule the world, then forced him to respawn after the Necronomicon left him confused and amnesiac.
• Colin became the first Orange Star player to become a god and asked Ke Meng whether Nara and Nina were still around.
• Ke Meng released Nara and Nina for Colin, who emptied their health bars in Gray Castle Main City’s plaza as Orange Star people watched.

Ke Meng confirmed that Colin had trapped Nara and Nina in an endless curse, then traveled to R'lyeh to accelerate the stars’ alignment and prepare to kill Cthulhu. He left the story drawing the stars into place, planning to strike when the timing was right.

• Ke Meng identified Colin’s curse as a tracking spell powered by Orange Star’s resentment, and Colin trapped Nara and Nina in a cycle of torment after their eighth deaths.
• Ke Meng observed the curse for thirty days and confirmed that Nara and Nina could not be saved.
• Ke Meng went to R'lyeh and used his divine body to pull on the threads connecting the city to the stars.
• Ke Meng strengthened the pull of R'lyeh and the gravity system, preparing to kill Cthulhu once the stars were aligned.

Ke Meng manipulated gravity to draw the stars toward R'lyeh and hasten Cthulhu's resurrection, while Colin and over a thousand demigod players witnessed the event. Colin warned the players to retreat, and Cthulhu-aligned players across the stars celebrated the news.

• Colin sensed strange gravitational tides coming from the sea and led Nara, Nina, and other players to investigate R'lyeh.
• Colin and more than a thousand demigod players found Ke Meng manipulating gravity as the ancient god seal repeatedly failed to capture him.
• Ke Meng told Colin he was resurrecting the boss, and Colin was overwhelmed by fear when he considered resisting him.
• Colin agreed to stay and watch, warned the other players to leave, and asked whether Ke Meng could kill Cthulhu; Ke Meng nodded but did not answer questions about his identity.
• Cthulhu-aligned players across the stars learned that Ke Meng was bringing the stars back toward R'lyeh and celebrated his apparent devotion to Cthulhu.

Ke Meng tested his resistance to Cthulhu’s Ancient God Seal while the stars began aligning for the Second Game Plus God War. After Orange Star organized players to log out and seven more players attained godhood, the first planets moved into place, leaving the war on the verge of beginning.

• Ke Meng told Colin that sheer numbers would not defeat Cthulhu and tested his ability to resist the Ancient God Seal, finding he could struggle free if it caught him.
• Colin shared images of Ke Meng manipulating the seawater in R'lyeh, and the Cthulhu Followers Organization celebrated them as proof that Ke Meng belonged to their side.
• As the planets shifted and disturbed the world, Li Shen warned players to log out before the coming god war and organized preparations for Orange Star.
• Over the following half month, players left the game while seven more Orange Star players ascended to godhood and met Ke Meng in R'lyeh.
• On the fifteenth day, Ke Meng pulled the first planet into position, followed by the second and third.

As the stars aligned and the ancient seal weakened, Ke Meng confronted the resurrected Cthulhu and began draining his enormous health. Cthulhu’s attacks barely harmed Ke Meng, but the god still had enough health and regeneration to keep fighting.

• The stars dissolved the ancient god seal around R'lyeh, and Ke Meng let the miniature black holes form while Colin and the other newly ascended gods retreated.
• R'lyeh rose above the sea as Cthulhu awakened, and Ke Meng sensed that the Great Old One saw him as a threat because he could still control Cthulhu’s body through dreams.
• Ke Meng waited until the seal weakened, then grabbed Cthulhu’s lifeline and began inflicting billions of damage each second.
• Cthulhu’s health fell rapidly, but his immense regeneration kept him alive, and he struck Ke Meng with a tentacle that barely affected him.
• Colin marveled at Ke Meng’s power while Cthulhu’s followers chanted his name, though some realized that the evil god’s health was dropping.

Ke Meng fought Cthulhu in a dream designed to corrupt him, saw through its distortions, and snapped Cthulhu’s lifeline at the cost of his own life. The dream collapsed, and an upside-down figure nailed to a cross in a demonic world began to stir.

• Colin and the other true god players watched as A Meng’s laws overwhelmed Cthulhu and steadily drained his health.
• Cthulhu used his mastery of dream laws to drag Ke Meng into a fabricated version of Blue Star.
• Ke Meng resisted the dream’s familiar routines, recognized that his moving tentacled shadow was false, and found the connection between his shadow and the dream’s laws.
• Ke Meng seized Cthulhu’s lifeline, and Cthulhu bound it to Ke Meng’s so that they would die together.
• Ke Meng snapped Cthulhu’s lifeline despite his own life force being drained, killing Cthulhu and collapsing the dream.
• An upside-down humanoid figure nailed to a cross in a small demonic world began to show signs of life.

Ke Meng escaped the Resurrection Cross, killed the Flame Demon, and took control of Cthulhu’s body after the gods’ battle. As Orange Star celebrated their apparent victory, Cthulhu resurrected under Ke Meng’s control, and Ke Meng prepared to feed Cthulhu’s restored soul to Big-Faced Cat.

• Ke Meng used his divine power to destroy the Flame Demon, broke free of the Resurrection Cross, and returned to his body.
• The Game World’s observers saw Cthulhu and A Meng die, while Orange Star’s authorities blocked players from logging in to investigate lingering dangers.
• Colin warned Professor Li Shen that Cthulhu had resurrected and taken control of the world.
• Ke Meng used Cthulhu’s body as his avatar, but the game marked his character dead and barred him from logging in.
• Ke Meng sacrificed himself to enter the Game World, then began assembling Cthulhu’s severed soul for Big-Faced Cat to consume.

Ke Meng fed Cthulhu’s remains to Big-Faced Cat and confirmed the evil god was dead, but a hostile Elder God soon challenged him. Ke Meng killed the Dream God and returned to reality far from the landmass.

• Ke Meng used the Dark Cuisine Pot to combine Cthulhu’s soul with monster meat, then fed the result to Big-Faced Cat, which consumed it all.
• Ke Meng returned to R’lyeh and used Synesthesia to check for Cthulhu’s remaining avatars, then sensed a malicious gaze from an approaching Elder God.
• Ke Meng confronted the Dream God in the void, survived his dream attacks, and crushed the Dream World’s lifeline through Cthulhu’s power.
• The dying Dream God warned that other Elder Gods would join forces against Ke Meng and ordered them to investigate Cthulhu’s broken seal.
• Ke Meng killed the Dream God, collected his corpse, and returned to reality in space far from the Game World’s landmass.

After killing Dream God, Ke Meng fed the Elder God’s remains to Big-Faced Cat while hidden gods watched and coveted the cat’s abilities. Unfazed by their hostility, Ke Meng selected one spectator and set off to hunt it, hoping to gain resistance and knowledge.

• Ke Meng finished cooking the Elder God’s flesh and air, then fed both servings to Big-Faced Cat.
• Hidden gods watched Big-Faced Cat devour the Elder God and debated whether Ke Meng could be challenged by one of the Three Pillars of Chaos.
• Ke Meng sensed the observers’ curiosity turning malicious but decided he had no reason to fear them.
• Ke Meng randomly chose one hostile spectator, tore through the void, and traveled toward it to hunt gods and absorb their resistance and knowledge.

Ke Meng hunted down and consumed gods who had shown him malice, while Orange Star players returned to the Game World and began investigating how to cross between worlds. After learning that Cthulhu had been replaced by A Meng and their cult had been abandoned, Liu Siting urged the believers to leave their faith behind and pursue godhood on their own.

• Ke Meng caught an evil god who had fled from him, crushed him after he fought back, and fed his dark cuisine to the cat.
• Ke Meng hunted fifteen resentful evil gods, causing most of the gods watching from the void to withdraw their gazes.
• Orange Star players returned to the Game World after tests confirmed it was safe, and demigod players discussed trying to cross into Orange Star.
• Colin learned that A Meng had replaced Cthulhu's avatar and decided to investigate the truth behind the game and crossing between worlds.
• An intelligence agent revealed that Cthulhu was dead and A Meng controlled his former avatar, leaving hundreds of Fanatical Believers shocked and mentally shaken.
• Liu Siting awakened the believers, revealed her powerful mage robes, and told them to abandon their robes and pursue godhood independently before she blinked away.