Chapter Summaries

After Qin Yiguan killed Hoshino Teruda, Zhao Huolong identified him as the murderer of 32 Chinese workers and handed his corpse over to Officer Wang. Qin called for the next opponent as China's spectators celebrated his strength and the host challenged the Island Nation to respond.

• Qin Yiguan gave Hoshino Teruda's wristband to God's Abandoned and ordered it to find the Envoy of the Veil's lair, but God's Abandoned reported that it needed more wristbands and transmission sources.
• Zhao Huolong identified Hoshino Teruda as the suspect in the murders of 32 Chinese workers, declared the Youth Order Squad would pursue criminals, and carried the corpse away.
• Zhao Huolong handed Hoshino Teruda's corpse to Officer Wang, while spectators connected the killings to Hoshino Teruda's Corpse Sealing Technique and reconsidered their plans to commit crimes.
• Qin Yiguan called for the next opponent, and Chinese spectators erupted in excitement after realizing he had killed the Island Nation contestant in one move.
• The young host pointed toward the Island Nation and forcefully noted that Qin Yiguan had called for an opponent twice.

Qin Yiguan killed the Island Nation’s Legendary Ninja and then wiped out the rest of the team. Outside the He Shi Bi, reporter Mu Yun watched in shock as the battle ended.

• An Island Nation Legendary Ninja entered the arena and called Hoshino Teruda a discarded pawn used to test Qin Yiguan’s strength.
• The Legendary Ninja used the Heaven-Devouring Technique, but Qin Yiguan tore his head apart before the technique could take effect.
• The seven remaining Island Nation contestants charged into the fight, vowing revenge for their fallen leader.
• Qin Yiguan killed all seven contestants, smashing their heads against the ground or piercing them with his claws.
• Outside the He Shi Bi, Mu Yun watched a fruit vendor smash a watermelon and realized Qin Yiguan had wiped out the entire Island Nation team.

Qin Yiguan faced the Indian team’s faith-based reality enhancements, including Kali’s time travel and Asura’s destructive power, and revealed that he had countered their attacks in advance. The chapter ended with Big Gold Tooth appearing as a projection and denying that Asura had ever killed him.

• The Indian captain introduced his team’s faith enhancement and offered Qin Yiguan a place in their caste system, but Qin told him to stop talking.
• The Indian team manifested deity-like figures, and Kali vanished to attack Qin Yiguan from the past.
• Asura attacked Qin with destructive divine fire, but Qin summoned Satan, whose terrifying appearance dispelled the Indian contestants’ deities.
• Zhao Huolong revealed that Asura had been arrested and killed after murdering Big Gold Tooth, while Qin caught and killed Kali for attempting an earlier assassination.
• Qin explained that he had tracked Kali through time, and Zhao Huolong said the Boundless One had warned them about Asura’s future actions.
• A projected Big Gold Tooth appeared in the stands, insisted he was alive, and denied ever being killed by an Indian contestant.

Qin Yiguan killed the Indian team with demonic power, then used a space-related ability to crush North Korea’s preparation room after its team tried to withdraw. He claimed the North Korean wristbands, leaving the audience stunned by the scale of his power.

• Qin Yiguan’s demonic power burned the Indian contestants and took their wristbands, prompting Han Ming to declare that India was strong but Qin Yiguan was stronger.
• North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the competition, while Instructor Long accused two of its agents of espionage and murder in China.
• After receiving a message from God's Abandoned that more wristbands were needed, Qin Yiguan refused to let North Korea withdraw and activated his space-related abilities.
• Qin Yiguan crushed North Korea’s preparation room and its twenty contestants into an iron ball, while a transparent cube containing their wristbands flew to God's Abandoned.
• The iron ball struck the arena floor, and the spectators stared in shock at Qin Yiguan’s attack.

After Qin Yiguan overwhelmed the competition, officials and spectators wondered who could challenge him, while Chinese representatives considered recruiting him. Ou Country’s spokesperson Zhan Shi announced that his contestants would reveal their power and introduced the mysterious “Higher Self.”

• The host praised Qin Yiguan’s many abilities, and Long Huicheng challenged Han Ming over failing to discover him.
• Instructor Long proposed recruiting Qin Yiguan into the Chinese authorities, while Mu Yun realized Qin himself was the biggest news story.
• Zhan Shi declared that Ou Country’s contestants would end the competition and teased the secrets behind their twenty-nine contestants.
• Zhan Shi introduced the “Higher Self” as a power concentrated in the prefrontal lobe, controlled by a higher-level self.

Zhan Shi revealed that Ou Country’s twenty-nine contestants could synchronize their consciousnesses to create a shared artificial “higher self,” then sent them into battle against Qin Yiguan. Qin answered by materializing six enormous, black “Infinities,” leaving the arena stunned.

• Zhan Shi explained that the Ou Country squad could merge its members’ consciousnesses and raise their combined Fusion Rate to 107%.
• The twenty-nine Ou Country contestants formed a thirty-meter-tall shared “higher self,” and Zhan Shi ordered them into the arena.
• Han Ming and Long Huicheng realized Qin Yiguan might be China’s only contestant with a “higher self” and called on him to show the nation’s strength.
• Qin Yiguan turned back toward Jiu Zhengxuan, then manifested six hundred-meter-tall black figures: Black Calamity, Child, Boundless One, Plunderer, Dream General, and Slaughterer.

Qin Yiguan revealed six towering Higher Selves, terrifying Ou Country’s team and shocking the international audience. He forced the twenty-nine contestants to sleep, exposing Ou Country’s horrific experiments, while Zhan Shi realized Qin had entered his dream before.

• Qin Yiguan manifested six enormous figures behind him, stunning the crowd and prompting the host to praise China’s unofficial personnel.
• Zhan Shi fled to the Chinese observation room and begged Long Huicheng and Luo Lingjie to stop Qin, but Long said Qin did not take orders from him.
• Qin Yiguan used Dream General to put all twenty-nine Ou Country contestants to sleep.
• The contestants’ dreams revealed that Ou Country had cloned 1,200 villagers and repeatedly subjected them to massacres to increase the youths’ Fusion Rates.
• Long Huicheng confronted Zhan Shi about the experiments, and Zhan Shi recognized Qin as the person who had invaded his dream.

Qin Yiguan wiped out the Ou Country team and their linked bodies, then revealed that his power exceeded the limits of ordinary higher selves and left after finding a set of coordinates. With Qin gone, Jiu Zhengxuan agreed to face the remaining teams from Great Britain, Germany, and Austria.

• Qin Yiguan's Slaughterer killed the Ou Country youths by destroying their shared higher self, and Infinity Linkage also killed their cultivated bodies in a distant secret base.
• Qin removed 26 wristbands and told the host that his manifestations were beings beyond higher selves and that his fusion rate belonged to a different category.
• After Long Huicheng said Qin had found coordinates, Qin formed neural-network wings and flew away from the competition.
• The leaders of Great Britain, Germany, and Austria decided they still wanted to fight Jiu Zhengxuan, despite fearing Qin's possible return.
• Long Huicheng urged the remaining countries to end the competition, but Jiu Zhengxuan volunteered to fight and Long agreed to prepare a battle plan.

Jiu Zhengxuan overcame his nerves and revealed his immense power during his match against the British team, proving himself and the Youth Order Squad before the world. As he introduced himself to the audience, Qin Yiguan watched from the Shadow and congratulated him.

• Long Huicheng encouraged Jiu Zhengxuan before the match, while all thirteen British contestants entered the arena to fight him together.
• Jiu Zhengxuan spoke about his isolation, fear of rejection, and desire to prove his loyalty, justice, and strength to the world.
• Jiu Zhengxuan's forehead gem released black matter that formed a gigantic Higher Self resembling him, shocking the observers.
• Jiu Zhengxuan's Higher Self sent thirteen black spikes toward the British contestants, knocking them down without killing them.
• Jiu Zhengxuan introduced himself as captain of the Youth Order Squad and described its vow to pursue criminals without harming innocent civilians.
• Qin Yiguan watched the match from the Shadow and congratulated Jiu Zhengxuan on achieving what he had long wanted.

Xiao Ning saved the 89 members of China’s Reality Enhancement squads from the destruction of Azure Sword No. 0 and led them to pursue the robot’s controller. She revealed her abilities, including Ning World, and the group continued racing across the wasteland toward their target.

• Xiao Ning used Ning World to move the 89 squad members out of Azure Sword No. 0’s destruction, and they realized someone had tried to kill them.
• Xiao Ning argued that a mole in the China Armament Research Center meant the squads could not rely on superiors or backup, and Hui and the Primordial Squad pledged to follow her.
• Xiao Ning explained that Supersenses let her track the robot’s network signal, while Ning World let her transform reality according to her own perceptions and move the group vast distances.
• Xiao Ning teleported the group repeatedly across the wasteland as they pursued the robot’s control center, and Building 12-1 told them he came from the same Rust City neighborhood as Xiao Ning.
• Hui welcomed Building 12-1 after learning he had once lived in Rust City No. 03, where residents with brain disorders had become known as Super Castoffs.

Qin Yiguan hurried toward Xiao Ning after she went out of contact, while Xiao Ning led her team to a remote factory and realized an unknown extra person was among them. She watched the team from a distance, trying to identify the possible infiltrator before they attacked.

• Qin Yiguan checked Xiao Ning's tracked coordinates and urged God's Abandoned to make the Shadow go faster because she had missed her promised return time.
• Eleven hours earlier, Xiao Ning led eighty-nine team members deep into the Experimental Zone, where Primordial-11 concealed the group and Xiao Ning teleported them closer to a technological complex.
• Xiao Ning told Hui to observe the factory rather than attack immediately, citing her brother Yiguan's advice to gather information before acting.
• Hui admitted to a teammate that he liked Xiao Ning, then blushed and ordered Dragon Claw to resume watching the enemy.
• Xiao Ning suspected a traitor might be hiding among the squad and realized that ninety people were present despite only eighty-nine being expected.
• Unable to contact headquarters or trust Building 12-1, Xiao Ning tried to identify the extra person among the team.

Xiao Ning discovered a countdown and signs of disaster inside the base, then led the Reality Enhancement Squads to attack it. The base’s buildings shifted, and a robot detected the concealed group and fired a devastating beam at them.

• Qin Yiguan failed to contact Xiao Ning and feared a mole had trapped her team after Azure Sword No. 0 was destroyed.
• Xiao Ning saw a countdown above the base, while Primordial-9 used Color Synesthesia to reveal that spreading gray signaled an approaching disaster.
• Xiao Ning ordered the eighty-nine squad members to form groups of three and attack the base, keeping watch for the suspected mole.
• Xiao Ning teleported the concealed group close to the base, where the hemispherical buildings rapidly rearranged themselves.
• A silver robot detected the group despite their Concealment and fired a powerful beam that swallowed Xiao Ning and the others.

Qin Yiguan reached the white buildings and found the robot guarding them destroyed, along with signs of a costly battle. In a flashback, Xiao Ning’s squad had defeated the robot; Dragon Lake then suggested the buildings could tear open space and provide access to another dimension.

• Qin Yiguan arrived at the white buildings, found the robot already destroyed, and had the Shadow collect its remains.
• Qin Yiguan followed dried blood and severed limbs toward the silent buildings, wondering where Xiao Ning and the others had gone.
• Nine hours earlier, Xiao Ning’s squad had destroyed the robot after a twenty-minute fight, during which Hui lost an arm protecting her.
• Xiao Ning examined the smooth, entrance-free buildings and wondered whether they were a teleportation device.
• Dragon Lake explained that the buildings’ reflective surfaces might create an extreme energy field capable of tearing open space.

Xiao Ning recognized the white hemispheres as a mechanism controlled by a formation and led her team through repeated attempts until they activated it. As the team was transported to a new place, Qin Yiguan found a straw figure Xiao Ning had left behind and realized she had used ancient formations to open the entrance.

• Qin Yiguan stopped trying to lift a white hemisphere when he noticed a straw figure near a clod of earth.
• Xiao Ning reasoned that the hemispheres formed a teleportation entrance and assigned her 89 team members positions to recreate an ancient formation.
• Xiao Ning directed the team through many formations while they searched for the correct arrangement and kept watch for a hidden ghost among them.
• Xiao Ning identified the Notch-Shaped Formation, and its beam of light transported the team away from the desert.
• Qin Yiguan recognized the straw figure as Xiao Ning's old trophy, remembered their games and her study of ancient formations, then put the figure in his pocket and surveyed the hemispheres.

The Reality Enhancement Squad entered a garden-like second layer of the Notch-Shaped Formation, where touching plants triggered instant attacks that sliced through their bodies. After Xiao Ning guided the wounded squad into formation, the garden began to disappear, but the straw figure she had left as a clue for Brother Yiguan was erased too.

• The squad arrived in a peaceful-looking garden, though Xiao Ning saw it as a cracked, smoke-filled wasteland.
• When squad members moved or brushed against plants, invisible attacks cut them, and Xiao Ning warned them to stay still and identified the garden as a second Notch-Shaped Formation.
• Xiao Ning directed the squad to move carefully into assigned positions, and they endured two hours of attacks that left them badly wounded.
• A blue ring appeared beneath the squad, and the garden turned into code that vanished, signaling their imminent teleportation.
• Hui told Xiao Ning that the straw figure she had left for Brother Yiguan had also been erased, and Xiao Ning realized he would not know there was a second layer.

Qin Yiguan used the white buildings to solve the formation that had transported Xiao Ning and the Reality Enhancement Squad, arriving in a garden. Xiao Ning and her team crossed a dark underground tunnel, while she worried that Qin Yiguan did not know about the lethal danger waiting in the garden.

• Qin Yiguan recalled the Eight Trigrams Formation and used the Plunderer’s nerve network to rearrange the white buildings.
• After trying several formations, Qin Yiguan arranged the Notch-Shaped Formation and was transported to a garden of purple datura flowers.
• Xiao Ning told Hui that she had left a clue for her brother, and Hui asked to meet him after the mission.
• Xiao Ning explained that the Squad had been transported thousands of kilometers and that they were walking through a deep tunnel toward its exit.
• Xiao Ning realized Qin Yiguan did not know the garden held a lethal attack, because she had learned about the two-layered Notch-Shaped Formation from a book read to her by Teacher Qing.

The Reality Enhancement Squad and Xiao Ning arrived in a vast factory filled with unfinished silver robots and began preparing to destroy it. A blue light left the humans moving almost imperceptibly slowly, while an unfinished robot remained fast and attacked Xiao Ning.

• A beam of blue light transported the 89 members of the Reality Enhancement Squad and Xiao Ning into a huge shaft lined with compartments containing countless robots.
• The squad saw that the robots were unfinished and realized they needed to destroy the factory before the robots were completed.
• The squad members scattered to attack, but Dragon Claw and the others began moving and speaking extremely slowly.
• Dragon Lake explained that the blue light had likely damaged their DNA, leaving them frozen in place rather than slowing time itself.
• An unfinished robot broke out of its compartment, rushed to Xiao Ning, and swung a blade at her neck.

Qin Yiguan reached Kedar after breaking the Notch-Shaped Formation and learned from its ruler, Shalumen, that Kedar supplied advanced weapons to foreign powers. Two hours earlier, Hui had sacrificed himself to save Xiao Ning by using Radiance to melt the robot attacking her.

• Hui broke free of cellular freezing, lost his remaining hand while redirecting the robot's blade, and shielded Xiao Ning from harm.
• Hui unleashed Radiance and melted the unfinished robot, but became fused to its body and collapsed, bleeding.
• Qin Yiguan met Shalumen and learned that Kedar was a hidden country known as the Curtain.
• Shalumen admitted Kedar sold advanced weapons abroad to obtain supplies and protect the country from destruction.
• Shalumen invited Qin Yiguan to stay in Kedar and offered him a flower basket from a young woman.

Hui died from blood loss while the unknown radiation froze everyone in the underground space. Xiao Ning remained trapped between waiting for her brother and using Ning World’s complete form, which would kill everyone except her.

• Dragon Claw and Dragon Lake tried to reach the wounded Hui, but the radiation froze them in place.
• Xiao Ning realized that Ning World’s complete form could break the deadlock, but it would kill everyone except her.
• Hui spoke to Xiao Ning about his blind girlfriend and told her he had mistaken her for the woman he loved.
• Hui died after two hours of blood loss, and Xiao Ning wept as she remained frozen beside him.
• Xiao Ning wondered whether her brother would arrive before the countdown ended and thought she would have only one path left if he did not.

Qin Yiguan saw through Shalumen’s technological illusion and killed him and his ally, then reached the underground space as Xiao Ning unleashed the Ning World to fight the robots. He stopped a robot from attacking Xiao Ning and put her to sleep, causing the Ning World to recede and freeing the team.

• Qin Yiguan exposed the Curtain illusion and discovered the real Shalumen and the woman inside a heavily armored aircraft.
• Qin Yiguan tore through the aircraft’s armor and killed Shalumen and the woman.
• As robots awakened and Hui weakened, Xiao Ning broke free of cellular freezing and released the Ning World, which began turning the team and robots into black hemp rope.
• A robot prepared to fire at Xiao Ning, but Qin Yiguan arrived and destroyed it before the attack could land.
• Qin Yiguan used the Infinity Dream General to put Xiao Ning to sleep, causing the Ning World to fade and the team to regain movement.