Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng disbanded the Cthulhu Cult and withdrew its faith imprints from its former believers, while reaching the apparent limits of his strength. After realizing Big-Faced Cat might reveal a path beyond those limits, he began researching it.

• Ke Meng watched the Cthulhu believers tear off their robes and leave the cult, then vanished without a trace as Liu Siting secretly observed him.
• Ke Meng declared the Cthulhu Cult no more and removed Cthulhu's faith imprints from every departing believer.
• A mole on Orange Star lost his faith, watched his Clay Statue crumble, and despaired at no longer being able to serve as a mole; Ke Meng destroyed the statue anyway.
• Ke Meng crushed Nya's avatar and realized his resistance points had capped at ten billion while his health points neared Cthulhu's limit.
• Ke Meng followed health-point threads toward Shub-Niggurath in thought, then brought out Big-Faced Cat and began researching whether it could help him grow stronger.

Ke Meng investigated whether Big-Faced Cat’s survival depended on being fed, finding that the Cat-Faced People had collectively fed him every day and suspecting a law of causality. After running thousands of tests, Ke Meng killed all seventeen elder gods when they attacked him.

• Ke Meng traveled to Cat-Faced People New Village and hypnotized the villagers into recalling their memories of feeding Big-Faced Cat.
• Ke Meng reviewed the villagers’ memories and found that someone had fed Big-Faced Cat every day, leading him to suspect a causal link between feeding the cat and its survival.
• Ke Meng spent a month running tens of thousands of tests on Big-Faced Cat, feeding him and asking him to identify special items.
• The Elder God Legion descended and attacked Ke Meng while he was feeding Big-Faced Cat.
• Ke Meng swept his hand through the air, turning the seventeen elder gods’ health bars red and killing them.

After defeating the Elder Gods, Ke Meng visited Shub-Niggurath to ask about Big-Faced Cat and learned he should seek Yog-Sothoth. He then began investigating the Silver Key as a way to find Yog, while a visit to the weakened House in a Book ended with it recognizing him.

• Ke Meng killed the Elder Gods in one move, fed their corpses to Big-Faced Cat, and traveled to Shub-Niggurath.
• Ke Meng showed Big-Faced Cat to Shub-Niggurath, who said it was unknown to him and advised Ke Meng to seek Yog-Sothoth.
• Ke Meng left Shub-Niggurath and considered how to locate Yog, then examined the Silver Key connected to the Door Organization.
• The House in a Book lamented that a Void Traveler repeatedly drained its nutrients and kept it as a pet.
• Ke Meng entered through the House in a Book's doorway, and the House recognized his voice.

Ke Meng searched the House in a Book’s memories for clues to Yog and discovered that an old librarian called Mr. Yog had once looked into the future and seen him. Afterward, Ke Meng killed the House in a Book for the deaths of Flaming Man and the other S-Class members, then fed its severed soul lifeline to Big-Faced Cat.

• Ke Meng revealed himself to the House in a Book, and a Void Traveler died before he could drain it again.
• Ke Meng engulfed the House in a dreamscape and rewound the House in a Book’s memories to its birth.
• Ke Meng found a mythology book that had given the House in a Book its potential and learned that its former librarian was called Mr. Yog.
• Ke Meng watched a memory of Mr. Yog look toward him across time, confirming that Yog had seen him in the future.
• Ke Meng killed the House in a Book for trapping Flaming Man and the other S-Class members until they burned to death, then fed its severed soul lifeline to Big-Faced Cat.

Ke Meng returned to Koi City and found a mysterious book, Through the Silver Key, that he had chosen without thinking and read under an unexplained pull. After discovering its dangerous contents, he traced its history and found no suspicious origin, leaving him to suspect that the influence began when he examined the old librarian, Mr. Yog.

• Ke Meng honored the fallen at the Warriors' Cemetery before visiting a transformed Koi City, where wireless charging roads and electric vehicles had become commonplace.
• Ke Meng entered the new library at the site of the relocated Old Library and unconsciously selected Through the Silver Key, a book written in alien script.
• Old Shi joined Ke Meng in the library, but he saw an ordinary popular novel while Ke Meng read the mysterious book and deciphered its writing.
• Ke Meng finished the book and realized it could poison ordinary readers, so he evacuated the library and asked Old Shi to look after them.
• Ke Meng traced the book's history back to its materials and found nothing unusual, then recalled that his strange subconscious pull had begun while examining Mr. Yog.

Ke Meng used the Silver Key to enter true higher-dimensional space, expand his understanding, and travel to Yog, where he learned to observe Big-Faced Cat’s strange ability. He asked Yog whether the future contained an endpoint for the world, leaving the answer unresolved.

• Ke Meng opened a gateway to higher-dimensional space with the Silver Key and explored how the world’s laws operated.
• Ke Meng repaired the Storage Scarf’s fourth-dimensional flaw, then released Tangyuan and left the World-Destroying Magic diary in his care before seeking Yog.
• Ke Meng used his new spatial mastery to reach Yog and asked about Big-Faced Cat’s origins.
• Yog called Big-Faced Cat an ordinary cat, but gave Ke Meng knowledge that let him observe the particles and energy involved when the cat ate a dried evil god’s corpse.
• Yog explained that he answered questions for the pleasure of giving answers and that the future could change, then Ke Meng asked whether the world would eventually end.

Ke Meng learned that the game had been created by the Three Pillars of Chaos and heard Yog-Sothoth describe the ancient god Azathoth, then returned to Blue Star to test whether Big-Faced Cat could starve. The test showed the cat remained healthy after a year without food, and Ke Meng finally fed it dried fish.

• Yog-Sothoth told Ke Meng that Azathoth had existed before the multiverse and refused to answer further questions about it.
• Ke Meng returned to Blue Star with Big-Faced Cat and learned that the Three Pillars of Chaos had created the game together.
• Ke Meng realized he had forgotten to ask Yog about Big-Faced Cat's origins and decided he might investigate the mystery himself.
• Ke Meng sealed Big-Faced Cat away without food and found that it remained healthy after a year.
• Ke Meng bought dried fish and fed Big-Faced Cat while White Sugar filmed its first meal in 365 days.

A nameless Cat-Faced man followed Sothoth’s advice, found Big-Faced Cat, and rose to become the first Village Chief. After discovering the truth behind Azathoth, he lost his reason and joined the cosmic dancers.

• The Cat-Faced man asked Sothoth to interpret his nightmare, then chose a glorious life despite the warning that it would end in madness.
• Sothoth sent him to Ten-Mile Slope, where he found Big-Faced Cat and called out Azathoth’s name.
• The Cat-Faced man gained extraordinary insight, founded a village, and became its first Village Chief.
• After years of adventure, the Village Chief encountered cosmic dancers chanting Azathoth’s name and realized what Big-Faced Cat was.
• The Village Chief stopped thinking and drifted into the dancers’ performance as an ignorant Cat-Faced man.