Recaps

Qin Yiguan defeated Dong Xi by using a virtual machine to trick him into believing he had won, but Dong Xi destroyed his own Super Virtual Machine before he could be forced to reveal Lu Zhoulang’s location. Qin Yiguan said he had already found Hua Xu, then discovered that Last Paradise had fallen eerily silent.

• Dong Xi used his Super Virtual Machine and [Hippocampus Effect Syndrome] to dodge the Silver-Winged Yakshas and interrupt Qin Yiguan’s attempt to transform into Lucifer.
• Dong Xi believed he had broken Qin Yiguan’s limbs, but Qin Yiguan had overwritten his perspective with a virtual simulation and secretly injured him instead.
• Qin Yiguan explained his deception to Bishamonten and said he intended to make Dong Xi take him to Lu Zhoulang.
• Dong Xi self-destructed his Super Virtual Machine before Qin Yiguan could question him, and Qin Yiguan revealed that he had already found Hua Xu.
• Bishamonten urged Qin Yiguan to check Last Paradise, and he saw the city below them frozen in silence.

Qin Yiguan explored the deserted Last Paradise and vowed to seek justice for the Digital Humans Lu Zhoulang and his disciple had killed. As Bishamonten explained that only Last Paradise’s leader could use a password to lay the scattered code to rest, a young monk revealed that Master 563 had prepared him to accept loss.

• Qin Yiguan and Bishamonten walked through the empty Last Paradise, where its residents and the tavern’s owner had vanished.
• Qin Yiguan remembered the Digital Human who had celebrated becoming a father and said he was angry that Lu Zhoulang and his disciple had killed the Digital Humans.
• Qin Yiguan told Bishamonten that his own past among the weak had made him empathize with the Digital Humans and that he wanted to get justice for them.
• Bishamonten opened a gap in the clouds and explained that the drifting blue code was the Digital Humans’ destroyed code and that their leader’s deletion password could let them rest.
• A young monk arrived with Master 563’s prayer beads and said Master 563 had taught him to accept birth, death, and disaster in order to find peace.

After the Digital Humans were erased, Qin Yiguan learned Lu Zhoulang’s location and received a vastly upgraded Shadow from his departed friends. He prepared to pursue Lu Zhoulang, reaching a destination only minutes away, and vowed to avenge the Digital Humans.

• Ying Hao revealed that he had known Qin Yiguan was human, called him a friend, and disappeared with the other Digital Humans when the deletion command took effect.
• Shitian condemned the killing of the Digital Humans, while Bishamonten agreed to wait as Qin Yiguan left the Metaverse and woke at the Ring Research Institute.
• Hua Xu gave Qin Yiguan the coordinates of a glitch near which Lu Zhoulang had been hiding, and Dr. House and Hua Xu promised to wait for him.
• Qin Yiguan returned to Last Paradise, where God's Abandoned entered the coordinates and Ying Hao’s engineers’ rebuilt Shadow revealed it had a jump drive.
• The Shadow’s navigation system showed the journey would take twelve minutes and twenty-four seconds, and Qin Yiguan vowed to find Lu Zhoulang and avenge the Digital Humans.

In the Metaverse Experimental Zone, Lu Zhoulang obsessively studied a flaw in the Gemini Metaverse while avoiding sleep because he dreamed that Qin Yiguan repeatedly killed him. After a terrifying dream in which Qin Yiguan attacked him and destroyed his equipment, Lu Zhoulang woke and returned to his research, while Nan Xi promised to protect him.

• Lu Zhoulang ordered Nan Xi to record patterns he observed through his enormous telescope and insisted on investigating the Gemini Metaverse's flaw.
• Nan Xi urged Lu Zhoulang to rest, but Lu Zhoulang said that whenever he slept, he dreamed Qin Yiguan killed him.
• After Lu Zhoulang fell asleep, he dreamed that Qin Yiguan arrived with Bishamonten and a monk, killed Nan Xi, and mutilated Lu Zhoulang before he awoke after 42 seconds.
• Lu Zhoulang declared that his dream had warned him Qin Yiguan was stronger and had found his location, then resumed observing the flaw.
• Nan Xi told Lu Zhoulang that the location was secure and vowed to kill Qin Yiguan if he arrived.

Qin Yiguan brought the Shadow toward the loophole in Lu Zhoulang’s defensive perimeter, where an apparently empty fog began stripping away their senses and bodies. The chapter ended as Bishamonten’s bodysuit dissolved, exposing her body.

• Qin Yiguan and his companions traveled aboard the Shadow at extraordinary speed and stopped ten thousand kilometers from their destination.
• Bishamonten and Shitian detected no technology or living beings in the gray fog, while Qin Yiguan found no danger with his wardrobe’s darkness.
• Qin Yiguan cautiously piloted the Shadow into the fog, where gravity weakened and color began to disappear.
• Bishamonten identified the fog’s effect on their eyesight, while Shitian’s prayer beads crumbled into particles.
• Qin Yiguan, Shitian, and the objects around them began disintegrating, and Qin Yiguan’s thoughts slowed as his body dissolved.
• Bishamonten’s black bodysuit began to disappear.

Qin Yiguan and his team escaped Lu Zhoulang’s force-removing defense using the Shadow’s transition engine, then Qin asked Hua Xu to explain the phenomenon. Hua Xu revealed that Kelunsalin was his creation from eleven years ago and said he would have to think about how to break through it.

• Kelunsalin’s effects caused Bishamonten, the Shadow, and the rest of the team to begin dissipating as their thoughts failed.
• The Shadow’s system forcibly activated its transition engine, reconstructing the craft and its passengers beyond the mist.
• Qin Yiguan returned to the physical world and asked Hua Xu about the defenses surrounding Lu Zhoulang’s hiding place.
• Hua Xu explained that Kelunsalin removed forces, disrupting gravity, friction, biological electricity, and the structures of matter.
• Hua Xu said he would need to think about how to break through Kelunsalin, which he had created eleven years earlier.

Qin Yiguan returned to the Metaverse and found Lu Zhoulang, Bishamonten, and two young students preparing to confront Kelunsalin. As Lu Zhoulang was about to enter the deadly mist alone, Qin Yiguan arrived with a glowing device and offered to lead the way through.

• Qin Yiguan observed Lu Zhoulang and his companions from the Shadow's cabin as they faced Kelunsalin.
• Lu Zhoulang insisted on entering the mist alone, explaining that he felt responsible for his younger brother, Lu Zhoulang, and had pursued him for more than a decade.
• Lu Zhoulang told Bishamonten and his two students to stay behind, then stepped toward the mist.
• Qin Yiguan arrived carrying a blue-glowing device and introduced himself to Lu Zhoulang.
• Qin Yiguan told Lu Zhoulang to follow him through Kelunsalin, while Bishamonten wondered how he had found a way to overcome the defense.

Qin Yiguan used Hua Xu’s Hua Force to restore the abnormal forces in Kelunsalin, then traveled with his companions toward their destination. They were stopped by Nan Xi, one of Lu Zhoulang’s disciples.

• Lu Zhoulang detected that the forces in the mist had become abnormal and urged everyone to escape while he used his Virtual Machine to try to counter them.
• Qin Yiguan activated a blue device called Hua Force, restoring everyone’s senses and stopping the surrounding chaos.
• Qin Yiguan explained that Hua Xu had created Hua Force and scanned it into the Metaverse to help solve Kelunsalin’s problem.
• Bishamonten encapsulated the group in blue code and carried them toward their destination.
• Nan Xi stopped the group, and Bishamonten and the other senior disciples prepared to fight him while Qin Yiguan and Lu Zhoulang went ahead.

Qin Yiguan and his allies reached the center of Kelunsalin, where they confronted Lu Zhoulang’s younger brother and learned he had stolen Hua Xu’s technological achievements. The younger brother revealed that he knew Qin Yiguan was waiting for Dream General to appear, then summoned the Higher Self himself.

• Nan Xi used Super Virtual Machine, Super Encapsulation, but Bishamonten and her two senior brothers repeatedly layered their Virtual Machine Encapsulations to hold him back.
• Qin Yiguan, Lu Zhoulang, and Shitian reached a giant telescope, where Lu Zhoulang’s younger brother pleaded to continue observing Gemini’s flaw before threatening to kill them.
• The younger brother confessed that he wanted to control the Gemini Metaverse, seize the Gemini Superbrain, and kill nine-tenths of the world’s people.
• The younger brother revealed his cruelty toward Shitian’s teacher Ying Jiang and claimed he had spared Lu Zhoulang only because they were brothers.
• Qin Yiguan accused the younger brother of stealing Hua Xu’s achievements, including the discovery of Gemini’s flaw.
• The younger brother guessed Qin Yiguan was waiting for Dream General to appear, then called out Higher Self-Dream General and summoned a gigantic phantom.

Qin Yiguan learned that the Dream General was his childhood personality, shaped by Lu Zhoulang’s experiments and befriended in dreams until it chose Lu Zhoulang as its Higher Self. Lu Zhoulang trapped Qin Yiguan in a nightmare where his abilities no longer worked.

• Lu Zhoulang revealed that the Dream General’s true form was Qin Yiguan as a young child, a separate personality formed through sleep.
• Lu Zhoulang explained that Group A used drugs to induce dreams in Qin Yiguan and that he entered those dreams with the Dream Wave to befriend and guide the Dream General.
• Lu Zhoulang said the Dream General had regarded him as a mentor and friend for over a hundred years before willingly becoming his Higher Self in the Metaverse.
• Furious, Qin Yiguan summoned Black Calamity and used Gestalt Collapse at full power, but the attack had no effect.
• Lu Zhoulang revealed that Qin Yiguan had entered a physical dream after passing through Kelunsalin, where he had lost all his abilities.

Lu Zhoulang revealed that he had befriended a Dream General by entering Qin Yiguan’s dreams, then battled Lu Zhoulang in a clash between their dreams. After losing, Lu Zhoulang urged Qin Yiguan to run, but Qin Yiguan vanished in blue code instead.

• Lu Zhoulang and Qin Yiguan revealed their Dream Generals, and Qin Yiguan repeatedly escaped Lu Zhoulang’s attacks by turning into colored bubbles.
• Bishamonten and her surviving senior brother arrived, wounded after killing Nan Xi, and were stunned to see Lu Zhoulang’s Dream General.
• Lu Zhoulang explained that he had entered Qin Yiguan’s dreams to comfort the tortured Dream General until they became friends.
• Lu Zhoulang and Lu Zhoulang’s Dream Generals collided in a dream battle that lasted four years, ending with Lu Zhoulang’s defeat and severe injuries.
• Lu Zhoulang told Qin Yiguan to run, but Qin Yiguan calmly refused and vanished as blue code.

Qin Yiguan realized that the Ring Research Institute and Hua Xu had been part of a dream, where the sun fell and an alien invasion began. He woke in his Rust City apartment, convinced he had never truly awakened before.

• Qin Yiguan saw the sun fall after Hua Xu's arrow struck it and realized the institute's dream ignored reality's logic.
• Qin Yiguan recognized Hua Xu's badge number as belonging to the skeleton he and Dr. House had found, and concluded Hua Xu had been dead for over a decade.
• Hua Xu summoned fantastical defenses against invaders emerging from the fallen sun as Qin Yiguan's dream world faded.
• An invader crushed Qin Yiguan's heart, and he abruptly woke unharmed in his apartment in Rust City.
• Qin Yiguan opened the curtains, saw the morning sunlight, and realized he had never woken up before.

Qin Yiguan investigated whether the Ring Research Institute and the people from his dream had existed in reality, finding evidence that they had. He then remembered a dream in which he learned he was a dream-born being who could command dreams.

• Qin Yiguan called Dr. House, who said he had not seen him recently and explained he had stopped wearing gold-rimmed glasses years ago.
• Qin Yiguan flew to the Ring Research Institute’s former site and found the building, its contents, and its slogans exactly as they had appeared in his dream.
• Qin Yiguan found a badge identifying a dead employee as Zhao Huaxu, confirming that Hua Xu had been a real member of the institute.
• Qin Yiguan searched the basement equipment room and recognized it as Lu Zhoulang’s office, finding his watch and a switch labeled “Main power control-Dream Wave.”
• Qin Yiguan recalled a dream in which he had been raised in the institute, realized he was a product of dreams, and discovered he could control dreams like a general commanding an army.

Qin Yiguan recalled how he gained control of dreams, killed the members of Group A, and spared three people by giving each a tailored dream. He realized that their repeated dream cycles had shaped their memories of him and the genetic blueprint predictions, leaving them uncertain when they encountered the real Qin Yiguan.

• Qin Yiguan remembered how Group A had tormented him with nightmares until he took control of dreams and trapped the researchers in dreams until they died.
• Qin Yiguan spared Zhao Hua Xu and gave him a science dream in which he invented advanced technologies and fought otherworldly invaders.
• Qin Yiguan recalled how Lu Zhoulang secretly entered Mouse Pup’s dreams to comfort the Dream General, and how Lu Zhoulang received a hero dream.
• Qin Yiguan remembered that Lu Zhoulang’s dream gave him immense strength and ended with him repeatedly losing to Qin Yiguan or dying at his older brother’s hands across ten thousand cycles.
• Qin Yiguan understood that fragments of those cycles had shaped the group’s memories of his changing face, and explained that their genetic blueprint predictions came from past dreams.

Qin Yiguan uncovered the truth behind the intertwined dreams and discovered that the Dream General was his own higher self. After merging with it and gaining control of the dream, he saw Jiaolong and admitted that he still missed her.

• Qin Yiguan found Lu Zhoulang and Lu Zhoulang's real bodies asleep in Nutrient Pods beneath the Ring Research Institute's former site.
• Qin Yiguan realized that the events involving the Lu brothers and Bishamonten had unfolded as dreams controlled by the Dream General, while Hua Xu's dream had guided him toward the truth.
• Qin Yiguan understood that the Dream General had brought him there to reveal the truth and restore a fragment of his memory.
• Qin Yiguan fell asleep, entered the Metaverse, and completed his fusion with Higher Self No. 3, the Dream General, gaining the ability Lucid Dream.
• Qin Yiguan found the dream world frozen and recognized himself as its ruler before seeing Jiaolong and admitting that he still missed her.

Qin Yiguan took control of the dream and confronted Lu Zhoulang about the Gemini Superbrain and his plan to replace it. Lu Zhoulang tried to threaten him, but the dream opened beneath him and he fell into an abyss.

• Qin Yiguan realized Dream General had merged with him and that he could control the dream.
• Lu Zhoulang praised Dream General's ability to shape reality and revealed that he wanted to create a metaverse of his own to replace Gemini.
• Qin Yiguan pointed out that Lu Zhoulang had been kneeling to observe the flaw in the Gemini Superbrain.
• Lu Zhoulang threatened to torture Qin Yiguan, then stepped forward and fell into a bottomless abyss when the earth shattered.

Lu Zhoulang realized Qin Yiguan had kept him trapped in a dream of being strong and that his Dream General was part of the deception. He told Qin Yiguan that the director of the Ring Research Institute was their only level 10 staff member.

• Lu Zhoulang fell into a fissure in a dream, where he was drowned, impaled, and burned before waking beside his brother.
• Lu Zhoulang mistook himself for his brother and repeatedly stabbed himself, then Qin Yiguan explained that the events followed ordinary dream logic.
• Lu Zhoulang understood that he had lived in a dream of being strong and that his Dream General had been Qin Yiguan's trick.
• Lu Zhoulang said someone had already told him the final outcome and revealed that their only level 10 staff member was the director of the Ring Research Institute.

Lu Zhoulang revealed that Qin Yiguan’s adoptive mother was murdered by the Ring Research Institute and that the parents Qin remembered were clones. Qin deduced that the Institute could travel through time and vowed to break its cycle, then killed Lu Zhoulang in a dream and destroyed his body in the Nutrient Pod.

• Lu Zhoulang told Qin Yiguan that his adoptive mother had drowned while searching for him and that the Institute’s director had ordered her death.
• Lu Zhoulang revealed that the director’s project was cloning and that Qin had killed his clone parents when he was six.
• Qin connected the Ring Research Institute’s time gaps, Tuomen Acuminate Fungus, and Starvation Corpse to the Boundless One and concluded that he could travel through time to break the Institute’s cycle.
• Lu Zhoulang warned Qin that the director had prepared a way to counter him and that people around him might be clones or artificial humans.
• Qin snapped Lu Zhoulang’s neck in a dream, then returned to the Institute and hacked apart Lu Zhoulang’s body inside the Nutrient Pod.

Qin Yiguan resolved Lu Zhoulang’s dream and reclaimed the Dream General, then reflected on dreams and the countless parallel Gemini universes. The story shifted to SZ-024, where an oversized-headed commander killed that universe’s Qin Yiguan and ordered the remaining witnesses executed.

• Qin Yiguan told Lu Zhoulang that his dream would endure as long as he upheld justice, reclaimed the Dream General, and let Lu Zhoulang keep using the Virtual Machine.
• Qin Yiguan told Bishamonten that her experience had not been a dream, while she wondered whether they had met in her childhood.
• Lu Zhoulang dismantled and destroyed the enormous telescope that could overturn the world.
• Qin Yiguan considered how dreams might be virtual-world loopholes or realities in parallel universes, then observed the countless Gemini Metaverses.
• In SZ-024, biochemical soldiers killed that universe’s Qin Yiguan, and their big-headed commander ordered the old man and the blond man killed as well.
• The old man activated several advanced technologies, but the commander dismissed them as backward.

Qin Yiguan wondered how to find the Ring Research Institute in the gap in time. The Institute appeared in a primitive era, where its director persuaded the Xiu Tribe to help locate a fireball that had fallen seven days earlier.

• Qin Yiguan reflected on his foster mother's death and the Institute's cloned version of him, but could see no path forward.
• The Ring Research Institute descended from the sky during a ritual performed by thousands of Xiu Tribe members.
• Lu Guang struck a local guard with a device that embedded itself in the man's skull and translated his thoughts into Mandarin.
• The director told Guan Liujue that the visitors were friends of the tribe's ancestor, prompting Guan Liujue and his people to welcome them.
• The director asked Guan Liujue about a fireball that had fallen seven days earlier, and Guan Liujue offered to lead them to the crash site.

After completing the Desire Dream event, Qin Yiguan reached a 100% Fusion Rate and awakened multiple Higher Selves, including Boundless One and Slaughterer. Lu Zhoulang and God's Abandoned pointed him toward exploring beyond the virtual map, where he might find the Ring Research Institute.

• Qin Yiguan's Fusion Rate reached 100%, activating Boundless One as his default Higher Self and revealing that his Time Lag Syndrome development required medication.
• Black Calamity, Plunderer, Dream General, Boundless One, and the little monk's Whole Buddha appeared together, leaving Lu Zhoulang, Bishamonten, and the male student awestruck.
• The system activated Slaughterer as a second Higher Self, but put him into dormancy because Qin Yiguan had not discovered the disease associated with him.
• Qin Yiguan asked the system for a hint about his hidden disease, but received no answer.
• Lu Zhoulang advised Qin Yiguan to keep exploring, explaining that the Virtual Machine came from the Gemini Loophole and that something lay ahead.
• God's Abandoned said the Gemini Superbrain had updated his database because Qin Yiguan had reached 100% Fusion Rate, and Qin Yiguan decided to continue onward.

Qin Yiguan and Shitian crossed an endless white expanse and reached Xianyang, where a scholar revealed that the Gemini Metaverse contained reconstructed versions of every period of human history, all existing side by side. Qin Yiguan learned that the Western Han lay just fifteen kilometers beyond the Qin lands.

• Qin Yiguan walked across the white expanse, and Shitian caught up with him and asked to travel together.
• Qin Yiguan agreed to walk with Shitian, and the pair eventually found a city in the mist.
• Qin Yiguan and Shitian entered Xianyang, where guards welcomed them and the streets were filled with ancient-style markets.
• A scholar told Qin Yiguan that they were in the Qin dynasty in 217 BC, four years after Qin Shihuang unified the six states.
• The scholar explained that the Gemini Superbrain had reconstructed human history in the metaverse, with different dynasties existing simultaneously alongside one another.
• The scholar said the Western Han lay fifteen kilometers east, leaving Qin Yiguan shocked.

Qin Yiguan learned that walking through the Metaverse’s wasteland had carried him backward through history, and discovered Boundless One could take him and Shitian through time. A carving linked the Ring Research Institute to an ancient-era ritual, and Qin Yiguan planned to travel east to reach the time it had appeared.

• Jiang Yizhou explained that the Qin dynasty was a simulated historical setting visible to people with a 100% Fusion Rate, and used an imperial token to stop locals from arresting Qin Yiguan for claiming the Qin surname.
• God's Abandoned revealed that each kilometer Qin Yiguan had walked represented one year backward, placing him in 217 BC, and Jiang Yizhou explained how he had reached the Qin capital using his Reality Enhancement.
• Qin Yiguan realized Boundless One let him bring Shitian through time in the Metaverse, without the CPH4 injection he had previously needed.
• At a carved stone wall, Qin Yiguan spotted the Ring Research Institute depicted above an ancient ritual and learned that the scene came from roughly a thousand years before the Qin dynasty.
• Qin Yiguan concluded that walking a thousand kilometers east could take him to the ancient era when the Ring Research Institute appeared.

Guan Liujue led Director Bo You and the Ring Research Institute to the impact site, where they discovered the expected meteorite was missing. Meanwhile, Qin Yiguan left the Qin Dynasty with Jiang Yizhou and wondered how walking through time determined when he arrived.

• Guan Liujue guided the Ring Research Institute group up the mountain and described the fireball that had struck seven days earlier.
• Director Bo You found the enormous crater empty, though the Institute expected a 112.3-ton meteorite to be there.
• Director Bo You ordered an investigation into what had happened during the past seven days.
• Qin Yiguan walked east out of the Qin Dynasty toward the archaic era as Jiang Yizhou followed him.
• Qin Yiguan asked whether walking too far could send him to the wrong point in time.

Qin Yiguan, Shitian, and Jiang Yizhou traveled through history and survived a meteorite impact at West Ox Horn Mountain. After realizing the meteorite was what the Ring Research Institute sought, Jiang brought Mohist mechanical help to move it before the Institute arrived.

• Jiang Yizhou showed Qin Yiguan Shangqiu and explained how time flowed while they observed the past, then shared the story of the woman he had loved too late.
• Jiang Yizhou took Qin Yiguan and Shitian to the Xia dynasty era, where a falling meteorite struck them and they escaped by traveling seven hours into the future.
• Qin Yiguan and Jiang Yizhou recognized the crater at West Ox Horn Mountain and concluded the meteorite was likely the object sought by the Ring Research Institute.
• Jiang Yizhou offered to help keep the meteorite from the Institute and returned with two enormous Mohist wooden spiders operated by Liu Quan C and Liu Shuan Q.