Chapter Summaries

Little White and Stone Mama brought Zhang Ming and their companions to Bluestone Village, where the villagers feared Zhang Ming was a dangerous corpse but ultimately let the travelers stay. The chapter ended with Stone Mama offering the villagers a Rune Machine Gun and Little White preparing to discuss a sale.

• Little White questioned the villagers about sacrificing Old Eighth to Tuhuang, then agreed to accompany them to Bluestone Village.
• Little White drove the Steamship while the funeral procession traveled through the fog, with Tuhuang following and guarding the group.
• At the village, the villagers panicked at the sight of Zhang Ming sealed in amber, but Guo Dazhu recognized that he was still alive.
• Village Chief Guo and the elders debated whether to shelter the travelers, and Stone Mama introduced herself and gave the villagers their fish and shrimp.
• Stone Mama showed Guo Dazhu the Rune Machine Gun, and he asked whether the village could buy some.

Zhang Ming's party settled in Bluestone Village, where their stories, food, and technology brought new excitement while Zhang Ming's body slowly absorbed the curse beneath the Great Bluestone. As the villagers prepared for the approaching Night of a Hundred Ghosts, Stone Mama and Little White began to suspect their strange surroundings might be connected to the Shanhai Realm and the Old Mythological Era.

• The villagers buried Zhang Ming near the Great Bluestone, and Guo Dazhu received a Rune Rifle with only ten Rune Bullets.
• Gourd, Stone Mama, and Little White introduced games, stories, food, and lessons to the villagers, prompting Village Chief Guo to restrict the newcomers' influence and keep their machines in the Great Ancestral Hall.
• Over two peaceful months, Soul-Burial Grass absorbed the curse on Zhang Ming's soul while the travelers taught village children and fed the night watchmen.
• During a night patrol, Guo Dazhu told a young militiaman that the Night of a Hundred Ghosts destroyed even great cities and that civilization had declined as people obeyed the rules to survive.
• Little White learned that the Night of a Hundred Ghosts was approaching, and Stone Mama wondered whether they had returned to the Old Mythological Era or the Shanhai Realm.

As the Night of a Hundred Ghosts began, Stone Mama armed Bluestone Village and helped it repel waves of possessing spirits. The battle turned more dangerous when Granny Ghost appeared in the fog, leaving the villagers terrified and the outcome uncertain.

• Stone Mama gave Bluestone Village weapons and rifles, and Guo Dazhu led a team to lend them to five neighboring villages.
• A comet-like object fell as the two moons overlapped, and Gourd sensed a mass of souls appearing in space before hiding beside Zhang Ming.
• Possessing spirits attacked Bluestone Village, and Guo Dazhu shot his cousin Guo Dagou after he was possessed.
• Stone Mama sent Little White to unleash its psychic roar, slowing and dispersing monsters as the villagers fought to defend the walls.
• A jingling wind chime announced Granny Ghost's arrival, and the monsters backed away as the villagers feared it had come to claim a new body.

Granny Ghost attacked Bluestone Village and nearly reached Zhang Ming’s grave, but Zhang Ming woke briefly, hurled nuclear bombs at it, and helped the villagers survive the assault. Meanwhile, the Xiongba Civilization’s exploration team struggled against monsters and soul attacks, with commander Taize ordering a retreat to their ship.

• Stone Mama attacked Granny Ghost but was struck down, and the ghost’s shriek paralyzed the villagers as it headed for the ancestral hall.
• Granny Ghost dug toward Zhang Ming’s grave, and Gourd tried to stop it before Zhang Ming’s hand seized the ghost and threw it away.
• Zhang Ming had Gourd guide him as he sent nuclear bombs after Granny Ghost, causing blasts far from Bluestone Village.
• Stone Mama and Gourd revived the villagers with diluted mental stimulant, and Guo Dazhu rallied them to fight the incoming monsters.
• The Xiongba Civilization’s exploration team suffered casualties from monsters and soul attacks, and commander Taize ordered the soldiers to retreat to their ship and use weapons of mass destruction.

Taize’s bearfolk crew struggled to survive after a Spacetime Storm stranded their spaceship in a dangerous space junkyard, where they witnessed a Technology Civilization destroy a powerful Demon God proxy. Meanwhile, Little White fought alongside Stone Mama and the militia, saving Guo Dazhu from a vicious bird monster.

• Taize learned that the spaceship had lost contact with Headquarters and might be trapped in a fragmented space filled with Demon God powers.
• The bearfolk witnessed a Technology Civilization bombard a red-lit humanoid with Nuclear Bombs, and their expert suspected it was a battle against a Demon God’s anchored proxy.
• Taize announced emergency regulations, including cremating the dead and keeping electromagnetic shielding active, after corpses reanimated and souls continued to enter the ship.
• Little White adapted its fighting style during the battle and killed a giant bird monster with a Sharp Needle, then shattered its soul with a psychic blast.
• Guo Dazhu thanked Little White for saving him before returning to the fight.

After waking from his coma, Zhang Ming recovered enough to speak and explored the mirror-like world while Gourd cared for him. As the village recovered from the Night of a Hundred Ghosts, a Xiongba Civilization reconnaissance team discovered evidence of a Demon God and located Bluestone Village.

• Zhang Ming used purple lightning spheres to help the defenders, and Bluestone Village survived the Night of a Hundred Ghosts with over forty dead and more than two hundred wounded.
• Stone Mama, Little White, and Gourd discussed how Demon Gods were modifying the world to mirror the Shanhai Realm and create a route for transmitting their power.
• Zhang Ming woke beneath Great Bluestone, learned that Gourd had helped him survive, and joked about using nuclear bombs against her big sister, [Unfulfilled Wish].
• Zhang Ming explored the world through Soul Perspective, then entered Gourd Space, where Gourd massaged his soul and told him she had repaired his Steamship and Aerospace Plane.
• A Xiongba Civilization reconnaissance drone found a Demon God blood anchor near the nuclear craters and destroyed it with a laser.
• The reconnaissance team flew over Bluestone Village, observed its inhabitants and their limited losses, and considered whether they could be allies.

The Xiongba Civilization’s investigators discovered a relic and a Demon God-anchored man in Bluestone Village, but Zhang Ming exposed and captured their scout, Little Bamboo Shoot. While recovering, Zhang Ming learned more about the strange region, considered how to use the Space-Time Worm’s body, and found that his accumulated source could speed his recovery.

• The Xiongba Civilization’s drone scanned Bluestone Village and found Stone Mama, a Divine Beast, and a bluestone relic that the investigators identified as remnants of a Divine Man’s weapon.
• Taize warned the investigators that civilizations trapped in the region might have degenerated into native villages, then ordered the drone to retreat after it detected Zhang Ming behind the bluestone.
• Zhang Ming exposed the concealed drone with the Eye of Space-Time, caught Little Bamboo Shoot, and imprisoned it in a metal container.
• Gourd identified Little Bamboo Shoot as a World Will and explained that the region’s chaotic rules restricted some powers, while supernatural abilities remained relatively usable.
• Gourd advised Zhang Ming to develop the Space-Time Worm’s body as a weapon rather than fuse with more Demon God rules, and she reported that only the Shangbu Civilization’s communicator remained reachable.
• Zhang Ming reviewed his wealth, discovered he had 11,611.2 source, and learned that spending source could reduce his recovery time from a century to a year or two.

While Zhang Ming recovered in the Burial Realm, the Xiongba Civilization debated whether he was a demon god anchor or a powerhouse following the Way of the Demon God. As Bluestone Village prepared for spring and a trading caravan, Zhang Ming contacted Jia Huangjin, learned more about the Burial Realm, and received a lead on finding Jia Yushi in Great Mother City.

• Zhang Ming enjoyed a lewd dream while Miss Gourd and Girl No. 1 warned him about his shameless behavior and unfinished recovery.
• Taize and the Xiongba Civilization's experts concluded that their World Will avatar was trapped and sent drones to investigate whether other villages had demon god anchors.
• Bluestone Village planted Kunlun beans supplied by Doctor Little White, and villagers discussed organizing a post-disaster trading caravan with the old chief.
• Zhang Ming sensed the bond between the villagers and the Great Bluestone, recovered enough to leave the earth, and contacted Jia Huangjin through the Shangbu Civilization's Copper Coin Communicator.
• Jia Huangjin told Zhang Ming that the Burial Realm was an isolated part of their domain and directed him to seek Jia Yushi in Great Mother City.

Zhang Ming recovered in Bluestone Village, explored the Space-Time Worm’s powers, and discovered that lower-dimensional spaces could slice through matter. He joined a caravan to help nearby villages, while Xiongba Civilization’s scouts watched the villagers prepare to depart.

• Zhang Ming learned from Jia Huangjin and Gu Shunjing that humanity had a hundred years of protection and that the distant Dusk Calamity threatened other worlds.
• Zhang Ming used the red moon to heal the Space-Time Worm’s wound, resisted its instinctive hunger with his mental black hole, and learned to control its body.
• Zhang Ming discovered that two-dimensional spaces could cut through matter, accidentally sliced apart the door, and then invited Guo Dazhu to explain the caravan plan.
• Zhang Ming agreed to join Bluestone Village’s caravan despite his injuries, and Guo Dazhu organized villagers to gather trade goods and prepare for the journey.
• Xiongba Civilization’s Bearfolk scouts watched the village’s preparations and reported that their World Will’s avatar was peacefully resting beside a turtle.

Zhang Ming led the Bluestone Village caravan through the Burial Realm, where they helped villagers survive the Night of a Hundred Ghosts and uncovered ancient records about Burial’s plan to protect the New World from the Old Mythological Era. The chapter ended with Stone Mama doubting that Burial had truly carried out his promise to merge his Ego into the earth.

• Zhang Ming and the village chief assembled a sixteen-person caravan, which set out aboard the Steamship to trade and help other villages.
• The caravan reached Li Family Village and stopped Li Lai’s father from being fed to the Tuhuang, then used advanced medicine to treat his infection.
• Zhang Ming examined the village’s ruined Exquisite Pagoda and, with Stone Mama, deciphered murals describing the Vaisravana Heavenly King and Burial’s plan to stabilize the realm.
• Zhang Ming learned that Burial intended to merge his Ego into the earth while Divine Men placed their weapons throughout the land to support life and strengthen the New World.
• Stone Mama questioned whether Burial had truly fulfilled his promise, suggesting the realm’s present dangers cast doubt on his account.

Zhang Ming’s caravan left Li Family Village and headed toward Black Iron Village, where the dangerous Don’t Look Back Mountain Path lay ahead. As the Xiongba Civilization planned to approach Zhang Ming, he entered the path and experienced its Demon God-level power while the caravan followed its deadly rules.

• Zhang Ming’s caravan traded medical services for clothes and supplies, shared rewards with its members, and prepared to travel onward.
• Zhang Ming gave Li Lai a bottle of bloodline-strengthening pills before the caravan departed Li Family Village.
• Guo Dazhu warned the caravan about the Don’t Look Back Mountain Path, while Stone Mama used the Space Gourd to protect some travelers.
• The Xiongba Civilization’s Taize decided to disguise a team as a local caravan and make contact with Zhang Ming after learning of his good deeds.
• Zhang Ming entered the mountain path, saw a brief vision, and realized it held Demon God-level power; he and Stone Mama sang as the frightened caravan followed the rules in silence.

Zhang Ming struggled through Don't Look Back Mountain Path while shadow creatures kept climbing onto him, and the Xiongba Civilization party mistook his abilities and Stone Mama's remarks for signs of a split personality. After carrying the creatures nearly to the exit, Zhang Ming heard the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle ask whether he had found a new Immortal to replace it.

• Zhang Ming used Spatial Severing and Two-Dimensional Space to fend off heavy shadow creatures that repeatedly demanded he carry them.
• Guo Dazhu and the young people following his rope emerged from the mountain path and continued toward Black Iron Village.
• Taize led the Xiongba Civilization party into the path, where they spotted Zhang Ming's moving black shield and mistook him for a giant worm absorbing a Demon God's power.
• The bearfolk gave Zhang Ming a Large Immortal Peach, and he dropped his shield so they could pass while the shadows piled onto his back.
• Zhang Ming carried the shadows forward until they jumped off one by one, then heard the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle ask whether he had found a new Immortal to take its place.

Zhang Ming learned that the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle was struggling to suppress the Demon God Mo and suspected its death was necessary for another guardian to take its place. After leaving the mountain path, he reached Black Iron Village and met the New Path civilization called Xiongba, which proposed working with him to find a way out of the Burial Realm.

• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle explained that the mountain paths weakened Mo by making it spend power on travelers, and demanded that Zhang Ming find an Immortal successor.
• Stone Mama accused the turtle of being ensnared by Mo's power and regret, then provoked it into throwing him out of the path.
• Stone Mama told Zhang Ming that the turtle might have to die to escape Mo's influence and allow a new suppressor to take over, while Zhang Ming worried that they had killed a potential successor.
• Zhang Ming arrived at Black Iron Village with the caravan, where the turtle people welcomed the travelers and traded forged goods for supplies.
• Zhang Ming recognized the Xiongba Civilization as followers of the New Path, and Taize introduced himself and proposed that they cooperate to escape the Burial Realm.
• Taize showed Zhang Ming a combat power detector, which revealed the strength and health of nearby beings but failed to register Miss Gourd.

Zhang Ming explained the Burial Realm’s dangers to the Bearfolk and set out with them and Bluestone Village’s young people for Great Mother City to seek information from Jia Yushi. Meanwhile, Human Civilization celebrated its victory over the shadow beasts, welcomed Shangbu Civilization representatives, and began helping them investigate Zhong Shan’s resurrection.

• Zhang Ming told Taize and the Bearfolk that the Burial Realm was a mirror-like chessboard shaped by demon gods, and that civilizations might have forgotten their histories through age, deliberate concealment, or supernatural influence.
• Zhang Ming, Taize, and the others chose to travel on foot from Black Iron Village to Great Mother City to find Jia Yushi, while Guo Dazhu agreed to bring Bluestone Village’s eager young people along.
• Human Civilization celebrated its victory after twelve years of war against the shadow beasts and began planning a thirty-year development project for the reclaimed continent.
• Wang Fumin welcomed Jia Huangjin and Gu Shunjing to Friendship Island, where the Shangbu Civilization gave humanity a faster-than-light communicator and traded goods before visiting Earth World.
• Jia Huangjin asked about Zhong Shan’s resurrection and proposed taking Zhong Shan’s widow with the Shangbu Civilization, so Wang Fumin led the visitors to Black Tortoise World to meet her.

Jia Huangjin visited Mu Mu on Turtle Island to ask how Zhong Shan had been revived, while Zhang Ming investigated a buried Divine Man beneath Black Iron Village. Zhang Ming uncovered the Torch Dragon’s final memory, which revealed its death and the origins of demon gods, leaving the young man in the vision questioning the powerful beings’ plans to flee to another domain.

• Jia Huangjin visited Mu Mu with a Life Crystal and told her that Zhong Shan might still be alive, then pressed her to reveal who had revived him.
• Zhang Ming and his companions found that Black Iron Village’s sacred hammer lay above a gigantic, petrified corpse, and Zhang Ming sent a soul clone into its brain.
• Zhang Ming’s clone found a last preserved memory showing that the Torch Dragon had died after returning from the Demon God’s Sea, leaving a warning about the dangerous new domain.
• Powerful beings debated abandoning the Burial Realm for the larger domain, while the black-haired young man realized the Torch Dragon may have intended for them to die there.
• The young man explained that demon gods originated when a Space-Time Worm opened tunnels to other realms, bringing spirits and beginning the mythological era.

Zhang Ming explored a corpse’s memories and witnessed ancient Divine Men argue over leaving the Burial Realm, a dispute that ended in a battle and the black-haired young man’s sacrifice to Demon God [Mo]. He emerged with suspicions about the Divine Men’s fate and discovered a remnant of [Mo]’s power before the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle confronted him.

• Zhang Ming read the black-haired young man’s memories, learning that Burial believed a living Mythological Center hunted Demon Gods and that cooperation with Demon Gods might be possible.
• The young man urged the Divine Men to sign contracts using Demon God [Mo]’s power and leave the Burial Realm in an orderly fashion, but Li Niu and others rejected his plan.
• The Divine Men fought over access to Torch Dragon’s Space Tunnel, and the young man and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle yielded when the battle threatened to destroy the Burial Realm.
• The young man swallowed the Black Parchment, sacrificed himself in a bargain with [Mo], and unleashed its dark power upon the gathered Divine Men.
• Zhang Ming suspected that the bargain had prevented the departing Divine Men from returning, then noticed black light inside the corpse’s mind and decided to investigate it later with Miss Gourd.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle challenged Zhang Ming for disturbing its brother’s grave, but Zhang Ming flattered the turtle and reassured it that he had left the body untouched.

Zhang Ming questioned the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle about ancient history, then reconnected with friends and allies through a costly communicator. Jia Huangjin revealed that the Wanhai Civilization wanted Zhang Ming's Fruit of Eden because it could provide a nearly flawless body for powerful beings seeking a second life, and Zhang Ming began negotiating a price.

• Zhang Ming flattered the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle into explaining that his senior brother's corpse could wield Eternal-level power and that its hammer contained the power.
• Stone Mama and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle traded insults, and the Divine Turtle mistook Gourd for the terrifying Demon God [Unfulfilled Wish].
• Zhang Ming spoke with Old Wang, Gu Shunjing, Jia Huangjin, and others, heard updates about their worlds, and watched Jia Huangjin buy a thousand Black Tortoise remains from Stone Mama.
• Zhang Ming helped Taize send a message and information to the Xiongba Civilization's Headquarters through Jia Huangjin's network.
• Jia Huangjin asked to buy Zhang Ming's body-reconstruction treasures, explaining that the Fruit of Eden's rule-free malleability could let powerful beings start over without the flaws of conventional body-rebuilding treasures.
• Zhang Ming realized the Wanhai Civilization wanted the Fruit of Eden for Immortal-level rebirth and asked Jia Huangjin to name its offer.

Zhang Ming negotiated with Jia Huangjin to sell a Fruit of Eden for 100,000 Source of the World, while the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle learned about Gourd and warned that Demon Gods in the Burial Realm were going out of control. Jia Huangjin reported the deal to leaders of the Shangbu and Wanhai Civilizations, who gathered with other civilizations to discuss the threat.

• Zhang Ming demanded Source of the World from Jia Huangjin, and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle appeared after Zhang Ming called for it.
• Jia Huangjin explained that Gourd might help someone become an Immortal, and Gourd produced a Fruit of Eden while the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle warned of a possible Demon God invasion.
• Zhang Ming offered a Fruit of Eden for 100,000 Source of the World, and Jia Huangjin agreed to report the price to his superiors.
• Jia Huangjin left Black Tortoise Island and met with Flaming Sun inside the Wanhai Civilization's Spatial Artifact.
• Jia Jiankang and leaders from several civilizations joined a discussion about Zhang Ming's offer and the dangers surrounding the Burial Realm.
• The Wisdom Civilization's representative pledged to stand against the Demon Gods, while some civilizations appeared unimpressed.

Civilizations negotiated whether to fund Zhang Ming, whose Demon God cultivation, Immortal-slot trade, and body-reconstructing fruit could offer a new path to Immortality. After they pooled 100,000 units of Source of the World, Zhang Ming returned Little Bamboo Shoot to Taize and agreed to continue toward Great Mother City with the Bearfolk.

• Gua Guzi told the assembled civilizations about Zhang Ming’s path, the Demon God anchors, and the dangers spreading through the Demon God’s Sea.
• The civilizations debated funding Zhang Ming, and Gua Guzi revealed that he also sold Immortal slots and might wield rules connected to the dead Space-Time Worm.
• The Wisdom Civilization agreed to invest in exchange for learning about the new Immortal path, and Gua Guzi presented Zhong Shan’s growing second-life body and its fruit.
• The civilizations pooled 100,000 units of Source of the World to buy a fruit, while Jia Huangjin realized the Wanhai Civilization had gained both funding and an Immortal slot through its pitch.
• Zhang Ming returned Little Bamboo Shoot to Taize, then agreed to travel with the Bearfolk toward Great Mother City.

Zhang Ming’s caravan traveled north through ruined villages, helping refugees and restoring one sacred relic before encountering a dangerous region governed by strange rules. The chapter ended with the group weakened by willow branches that drained their vitality as they continued through the desolate land.

• The Xiongba Civilization sent Tong Gu and a great black bear to accompany Zhang Ming’s caravan, and the group left the Bearfolk behind with plans to protect Bluestone Village.
• Zhang Ming’s caravan traveled with turtlefolk, spent a night at a Tuhuang temple, and left food, medicine, and fuel for refugees at Yellow Field Village.
• Zhang Ming used Source of the World to restore Yellow Field Village’s white jade sacred relic, then gave supplies to deerfolk refugees fleeing a disaster involving a strange red sun.
• The refugees lent Zhang Ming a wooden sacred relic containing a mysterious impression of a solitary figure pursuing the red sun, and the two groups parted ways.
• The caravan encountered a great willow whose local rule required travelers to worship it and wear a willow branch; the branches began draining their vitality, leaving the group weak.