Chapter Summaries

Zhang Ming prepared to negotiate over the Fruit of Eden with the Ten Thousand Races Conference, while Stone Mama and several Divine Beasts argued over his dealings with Demon Gods. At the conference, the Sheep-Headed Monster revealed his immense power and threatened the assembled leaders as the Burial Realm faced collapse.

• Gourd made Zhang Ming recite an Abstinence Song and visualize the consequences of lust, but he woke the next morning asking her for a girl again.
• Stone Mama asked to join Zhang Ming's negotiations as the Divine Beast Group's agent, and Zhang gave him fifty units of Source of the World to attend and listen.
• Ghost Crow and a Sheep-Headed Monster accused Zhang Ming of betraying sapient life by working with Demon Gods, while Zhang defended his need to use their power.
• Zhang and the others met Jia Yushi, who convened a Ten Thousand Races Conference with leaders from powerful civilizations across the Demon God's Sea.
• The Sheep-Headed Monster, whom the conference leaders recognized as Brother Qilin, warned that the Burial Realm was about to collapse and unleashed a wave of killing intent.

At the assembly, the Burial Realm’s Divine Beasts threatened to defect unless the civilizations provided a billion units of the Source of the World. Zhang Ming privately persuaded Gourd to play the part of [Unfulfilled Wish] and then proposed that the civilizations invest in him, but the Yate Civilization demanded proof that a Demon God had not influenced his mind.

• Old Mountain Goat, Ghost Crow, and Stone Mama issued a final ultimatum, threatening to abandon the other civilizations unless they paid for the Source of the World.
• Zhang Ming learned that Gourd intended to give him any money she received and persuaded her to act convincingly like [Unfulfilled Wish].
• Gourd explained that stronger rules could cost millions of units of the Source of the World, but Zhang Ming argued they could wait to make wishes until they actually needed those abilities.
• Zhang Ming addressed the assembly and urged the civilizations to unite, pointing out how difficult it would be to coordinate funding and projects across the Demon God's Sea.
• Zhang Ming proposed that the civilizations invest in him and offered to sign a Demon God Contract to help dig a Space Tunnel.
• A representative of the Yate Civilization said it would consider investing only after Zhang Ming proved that his mind had not been influenced by a Demon God.

Zhang Ming negotiated with the Demon God's Sea civilizations to fund Space Tunnels, using Qilin's threats and his own claims of cooperation with [Hope] to overcome their suspicions. The meeting ended with the civilizations considering investment, while Zhang Ming offered to build tunnels large enough to transport continents or planets.

• Zhang Ming challenged the Yate Civilization's representative for questioning his mind and threatened to dig tunnels that could bring Demon Gods to the tinder faction's moons, while Qilin and Old Mountain Goat backed him up.
• A respected elder from the Wanhai Civilization recognized Zhang Ming's qualifications, and Zhang Ming proposed using the Space-Time Worm's rules to build tunnels between the Burial Realm and the Demon God's Sea.
• Jia Yushi explained that the Catolampus Civilization had developed soul-uploading technology and that the Wisdom Civilization was the strongest civilization; representatives then debated the tunnel's dangers and the need to free the Immortals trapped in the Burial Realm.
• Zhang Ming offered to let the civilizations own the tunnels or keep them temporarily under his control, and he claimed that [Hope] would sign a contract for 500,000 units of Source of the World.
• Zhang Ming promoted dedicated tunnels to improve travel and trade, and he agreed that widened tunnels could transport continents or planets.

Zhang Ming helped secure support for a tunnel to the Burial Realm and proposed cooperation with [Hope], but the Burial Realm suddenly suffered a catastrophic Demon God attack. As the realm collapsed and its inhabitants died in the bloody rain, Jia Yushi urged Zhang Ming to escape through the Teleportation Array.

• Zhang Ming negotiated with the civilizations, gaining support for a space tunnel and a shared Demon God research site in the Burial Realm.
• Zhang Ming described [Hope]'s origins and offered rule-made goods through her, while the civilizations remained wary of the Demon God.
• Zhang Ming and Jia Yushi arranged to exchange goods for a drop of Divine Blood from the Wanhai Civilization.
• Zhang Ming stepped outside and saw bloody rain melting the Burial Realm; Ghost Crow said a Demon God had destroyed the realm's balance and the other Demon Gods would begin harvesting its inhabitants.
• The Sheep-Headed Monster returned to its true body to challenge the invading Demon God, while Ghost Crow and Stone Mama faced the spreading catastrophe.
• The ancient array failed, half the Burial Realm's population died within minutes, and Jia Yushi urged Zhang Ming to flee through the Teleportation Array.

The Demon Gods invaded the Burial Realm, and Zhang Ming fled as its defenders sacrificed themselves and the world was destroyed. He survived with Stone Mama, Jia Yushi, and Gourd Girl, but the chapter ended with Stone Mama and Ghost Crow making a bizarre remark about licking something.

• Qilin burned away its life to challenge [Slaughter], which dragged Qilin and the blood rain into an Alternate Space.
• As [Mo] overwhelmed the Burial Realm, Luo's remains and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle fought and failed to stop the Demon God, while Jia Yushi transported Zhang Ming and his companions to safety.
• Six sets of Eternal-level remains and numerous Immortals resisted the Demon Gods, while Great Willow Tree and [Dusk] attacked [Burial] and triggered further destruction.
• Roc and other ancient creatures sacrificed parts of themselves to send villagers into Space-Time Turbulence, hoping they would escape the collapsing world.
• The Burial Realm was pulverized into cosmic dust, leaving Zhang Ming, Stone Mama, Jia Yushi, Gourd Girl, and some villagers alive as the Demon God's Sea faced the Demon Gods directly.
• Stone Mama and Ghost Crow unexpectedly said they wanted to lick something, leaving Zhang Ming bewildered.

Zhang Ming realized his vision of the Burial Realm’s destruction had been a prophecy and struggled to avert the coming Blood Rain Demon God without alerting [Unfulfilled Wish]. He left the conversation with the Sheep-Headed Monster still trying to find a way to bring reinforcements before the attack.

• Zhang Ming woke back at the morning he had met Stone Mama, Ghost Crow, and the Sheep-Headed Monster, and hid his knowledge of the coming catastrophe behind exaggerated flattery.
• Zhang Ming considered warning the others and asking the Sheep-Headed Monster to fight the Blood Rain Demon God, but feared that revealing the prophecy would expose him to [Unfulfilled Wish].
• The Sheep-Headed Monster explained that the Burial Realm would eventually be destroyed by its defenders if the Demon Gods took it over, and estimated that this would happen in years rather than hours.
• Zhang Ming accompanied Stone Mama, Ghost Crow, and the Sheep-Headed Monster into a circular building, where the two old monsters repeated what they had said in his prophecy.
• Zhang Ming hinted that the group should bring over the Planetary Fortress, but the Sheep-Headed Monster and Ghost Crow said that transporting the distant war fortress was impossible.

At the Ten Thousand Races Conference, Zhang Ming realized [Unfulfilled Wish] might summon the blood rain Demon God to destroy the Burial Realm to prevent him from becoming stronger and harder to control. He offered to dig a Space Tunnel for the cost of materials and introduced [Hope] to the civilizations as a worthy investment, leaving them to consider her potential.

• Jia Yushi welcomed Zhang Ming and the others to the Ten Thousand Races Conference, where the debate over the Burial Realm and a Space Tunnel unfolded as it had in Zhang Ming’s vision.
• Zhang Ming interpreted [Hope]’s messages and concluded that [Unfulfilled Wish] might destroy the Burial Realm to thwart his plans and preserve its control over him.
• Zhang Ming decided that promising [Unfulfilled Wish] reliable future income might prevent the destruction, then offered to dig the tunnel for free labor if the civilizations covered the costs.
• Zhang Ming assured the civilizations he could keep the tunnel within an affordable budget, and they privately consulted their advisers about the proposal.
• Zhang Ming introduced [Hope] as a gentle Demon God with the potential to become an Ultimate Demon God and urged the civilizations to invest in her.

Zhang Ming demonstrated that [Hope] could grant wishes and negotiate with other Demon Gods, persuading the civilizations in the meeting room that cooperation might be profitable. He proposed a trading business with Gourd and left her wondering whether she had missed a historic opportunity.

• Zhang Ming persuaded Gourd to invest in herself and promised to help her earn money by fulfilling wishes.
• Zhang Ming offered to demonstrate [Hope]'s abilities, and she gave a Fruit of Eden to the Sheep-Headed Monster and a small piece to Lord Stone Mama.
• At Zhang Ming's request, [Hope] explained how she could obtain Demon God Contracts, Human Lifespan Fruits, and Evil Weapons without their usual costs or restrictions.
• [Hope] described how other Demon Gods could supply goods through cooperation, and Zhang Ming offered Ghost Crow a Fruit of Eden for thirty thousand.
• Zhang Ming advised Gourd on pricing goods and told her to keep the Source of the World she earned, while he would make money through his own labor.

Zhang Ming watched [Hope] secure the Demon God's Sea civilizations' cooperation by truthfully explaining how she could become an Ultimate Demon God. After the deal was accepted, he began distancing himself from her by pushing the negotiations onto her and saying he needed to focus on the Space Tunnel.

• Miss Gourd was tempted by the prospect of earning hundreds of millions a year through product promotion, while Zhang Ming considered gradually breaking up with her.
• The Demon God's Sea civilizations agreed that cooperation with [Hope] was worth trying, but demanded proof that her path to becoming an Ultimate Demon God did not involve destroying civilizations.
• [Hope] signed Demon God [Mo]'s contract and said she had to kill, assimilate, or persuade her other side, which had no connection to any civilization in the Demon God's Sea.
• The contract confirmed [Hope] was telling the truth, relieving the civilizations and prompting Ghost Crow, Old Sheephead, and Stone Mama to plan to become distributors.
• Zhang Ming told [Hope] to handle negotiations with the civilizations herself while he excavated the Space Tunnel, leaving her uncertain about why he seemed to be withdrawing from her.

Zhang Ming completed a five-million-unit contract between the civilizations and the Demon Gods, then exchanged one hundred Fruits of Eden for a drop of Divine Blood from the Mythological Origin. He prepared to fuse with the dangerous relic and dig a tunnel between the Burial Realm and the Demon God's Sea.

• The civilizations' representatives agreed to preorder Demon God products worth about five million units of Source of the World, with [Unfulfilled Wish] receiving most of the payment.
• Zhang Ming gave Jia Yushi a Communicator, arranged for Stone Mama to handle future communications, and confirmed the trade of one hundred Fruits of Eden for a drop of Divine Blood.
• After twenty hours, Jia Yushi delivered the Divine Blood and warned Zhang Ming that failed fusion would annihilate his body and soul.
• Zhang Ming sent the Fruits of Eden to the Wanhai Civilization and discussed with Jia Yushi the cost of stabilizing Demon Gods and the threat posed by Ultimate Demon Gods.
• Zhang Ming borrowed Jia Yushi's cultivation room to prepare for fusing with the Divine Blood and opening a tunnel between the Burial Realm and the Demon God's Sea.

Zhang Ming prepared to fuse with the divine blood, using solitude and a new diary to steady himself before the dangerous attempt. After the blood pulled his soul into a strange inner universe, he defeated a dead Immortal's first attack and set a trap for its curse, leaving the confrontation underway.

• Zhang Ming said farewell to Little White, Stone Mama, and his friends before entering seclusion to fuse with the divine blood.
• Zhang Ming spoke with Miss Gourd, then reviewed his memories and wrote a diary recounting his life up to the Burial Realm and the Great Willow Tree.
• Zhang Ming regained his composure and touched the divine blood, which entered his soul and drew him into a strange universe.
• Zhang Ming cut down the phantom of a dead Immortal who had failed to fuse with the blood.
• Zhang Ming endured the Immortal's curse, split his soul in two, hid his upper half in an alternate space, and left his lower half exposed as bait.

Zhang Ming cleared the curse left in the Divine Blood and reached an illusion of the Mythological Origin, where Burial explained how the blood could steal Demon God Rules. Zhang Ming considered stealing Miss Gourd’s rules, but learned that the rules could not be separated to alter reality.

• Zhang Ming destroyed the infant-shaped creatures and hive formed from Burial’s lingering curse, then stored the remaining curse in Miss Gourd’s Piggy Bank.
• Zhang Ming crossed the Divine Blood’s hostile space and reached a layered, milky-white illusion of the Mythological Origin and the River of Time.
• Burial warned Zhang Ming not to travel farther upstream and explained that Divine Blood could steal a small portion of a Demon God’s rules, especially from a dead Demon God.
• Zhang Ming considered stealing Miss Gourd’s rules instead of those of the Space-Time Worm or [Unfulfilled Wish].
• Burial told Zhang Ming that Demon God Rules could be cut apart but remained a single whole, so the theft could not separate [Hope] from [Unfulfilled Wish].

Zhang Ming used Burial’s divination method to investigate the Demon Gods’ rules, finding that [Hope]’s rules were far more complex than [Unfulfilled Wish]’s and hesitating to steal any of them. He turned instead to the dead Space-Time Worm, whose rules he could safely take, and began selecting brain rules to improve his command of higher-dimensional space-time without losing himself.

• Burial warned Zhang Ming against stealing [Unfulfilled Wish]’s rules and taught him a divination method for examining Demon Gods in the Mythological Origin.
• Zhang Ming divined [Unfulfilled Wish]’s rules and then discovered that [Hope]’s rules were vastly more complex, though he eventually sensed that [Hope] was present there too.
• Zhang Ming considered stealing some of [Hope]’s rules to deepen their connection, but worried that doing so would make True Gourd hate him and decided he could not make up his mind.
• Zhang Ming searched for the dead Space-Time Worm, learned from Burial that it was a relatively weak Demon God associated with freedom, and located its rules in the river.
• Zhang Ming decided to steal the Space-Time Worm’s brain rules so he could better control higher-dimensional space-time and its many limbs, relying on the Divine Blood to protect his sense of self.

Zhang Ming stole the Space-Time Worm’s brain rule and a personality of the [Hope] Demon God, then confronted No. 1 about her plans and motives. After she explained their bond and her past scheme against [Unfulfilled Wish], Zhang Ming agreed to help her while trying to resume their closeness.

• Zhang Ming endured the Space-Time Worm’s backlash and absorbed its brain rule into his Divine Blood, gaining a new capacity to process space-time information.
• Zhang Ming used the Divine Blood to steal a portion of [Hope]’s rules, and No. 1 revealed herself as the personality he had taken.
• Zhang Ming accused No. 1 of manipulating him and pursuing the Ultimate, while she admitted that the Space-Time Worm had once been part of her long-term plans.
• No. 1 explained that she had developed an ego through Zhang Ming’s wishes and described a past scheme that could have weakened [Unfulfilled Wish] at the cost of Zhang Ming’s life.
• No. 1 told Zhang Ming that [Unfulfilled Wish] had made a fatal mistake by taking her place and that she would eventually assimilate it.
• Zhang Ming accepted No. 1’s explanation, promised not to sacrifice his companions, and turned his attention to getting closer to her again.

After recovering from fusing with Divine Blood, Zhang Ming concealed the tension between himself and [Unfulfilled Wish] while learning about the Gourd’s growing trade network and his new abilities. He told Jia Yushi he planned to travel after helping with the Burial Realm tunnel, raising Little White and fulfilling his promise to help it become a Black Tortoise.

• [Unfulfilled Wish] told Zhang Ming that it had expanded its trade partnerships and earned over ten million units of Source of the World while he was unconscious for twelve days.
• Zhang Ming and [Unfulfilled Wish] acted distant around Stone Mama, whose teasing made the Gourd suspect that Zhang Ming wanted to break up with it.
• Zhang Ming discovered that the Brain Rule let him perceive Stone Mama’s sudden attack in slow motion, but he chose to let the stone hit him.
• Stone Mama told Zhang Ming that the Gourd was making shrewd deals in the Burial Realm, while Zhang Ming insisted they kept their finances separate.
• Zhang Ming asked the Gourd for money, and [Unfulfilled Wish] agreed to give him genuine Source of the World.
• Jia Yushi welcomed Zhang Ming back and discussed the Burial Realm tunnel, and Zhang Ming said he planned to travel, raise Little White, and help it become a Black Tortoise.

Zhang Ming accepted a contract to excavate a Space-Time Tunnel linking the Burial Realm to the Jianzhengjian World Cluster, then awakened the Space-Time Worm’s true body to begin the work. After feeding it the project’s advance payment to quell its hunger, he took control of the enormous creature and sped through space, leaving Miss Gourd struggling to keep up.

• Zhang Ming agreed to excavate a Space-Time Tunnel after Jia Yushi showed him the route and contract, and he received an advance of 3,000,000 units of Source of the World.
• Jia Yushi took Zhang Ming to the World Cauldron, where he explained that the Burial Realm’s defensive formation was failing because its population was too small.
• Zhang Ming resonated with the Space-Time Worm’s true body and spent 60,000 units of Source of the World to awaken it.
• Zhang Ming resisted the Space-Time Worm’s instinctive euphoria and fed it the remaining Source of the World to calm its overwhelming hunger.
• The Space-Time Worm emerged from its moon shell, and Zhang Ming took control of its body and began leaping millions of kilometers through space while Miss Gourd tried to follow.

Zhang Ming explored the Space-Time Worm’s inherited tunnels, discovered how to reuse collapsed passages, and began building a route between the Demon God's Sea and the Burial Realm. Meanwhile, Miss Gourd revealed her plan to absorb [Unfulfilled Wish], while [Hope] expanded her influence by bringing Demon Gods and civilizations into profitable cooperation.

• Miss Gourd warned Zhang Ming to dig the Burial Realm section last because its Demon God Anchoring could trigger a backlash, then left him to travel through space.
• Zhang Ming found his predecessor’s collapsed Space Tunnels and learned that reusing them could cut excavation costs by about eighty percent.
• Miss Gourd explained that [Unfulfilled Wish] would develop a sense of self while trying to impersonate [Hope], allowing Gourd to assimilate her; she said she would lower her intelligence afterward and travel with Zhang Ming.
• Zhang Ming excavated and widened a passage from the void through the Demon God's Sea to the Burial Realm, collecting payments and secretly earning a substantial profit.
• Professor Amoeba and other scientists praised the tunnel’s quality, while several civilizations discussed using Zhang Ming’s services or studying his excavation methods.
• [Hope] brought more than forty Demon Gods and many Immortals of the Burial Realm into her expanding network, turning former hostilities into commercial cooperation.

As the Space-Time Tunnel neared completion, Zhang Ming met No. 101, a new humanlike personality created by [Unfulfilled Wish] to challenge [Hope] for control. No. 101 struggled with her emerging sense of self, and Zhang Ming brought her back to the village, where she asked him to cook for her.

• Researchers and leaders of the Demon God's Sea worried that [Hope] was evolving rapidly and that hostile Demon Gods might attack when the Space-Time Tunnel was completed.
• Jia Yushi and the Immortals discussed evacuations in the Burial Realm and estimated that Zhang Ming needed three to five more days to finish digging the tunnel.
• Miss Gourd created No. 101, who tried to persuade Zhang Ming to make her the Primary Personality, but he rejected her and chose to keep abstaining.
• No. 101 wrestled with whether she was [Unfulfilled Wish], [Hope], or a new self, while [Hope] urged Zhang Ming to bring her back before she lost control.
• Zhang Ming found No. 101 sitting alone, comforted her, and took her back toward the village.
• No. 101 told Zhang Ming she wanted him to cook for her, and he warned that eating would not make the food disappear.

Zhang Ming brought No. 101 to the Space-Time Worm, where she developed an ego, drank too much, and began wavering between [Unfulfilled Wish] and [Hope]. After analyzing her origins alone in the bath, she concluded that [Unfulfilled Wish]’s path was likely doomed and wondered whether she was truly [Hope].

• Zhang Ming carried No. 101 to the Space-Time Worm and tried to comfort her loneliness by talking about family, relationships, and accepting that everyone was alone.
• No. 101 drank fruit wine and other liquors, then drunkenly offered Zhang Ming money to spend time with her before [Unfulfilled Wish] suppressed her intoxication.
• No. 101’s newly formed ego began distorting [Unfulfilled Wish]’s mind, while Zhang Ming cooked for her and Miss [Hope] joked with him about their relationship.
• No. 101 ate Zhang Ming’s meal, then took a bath and reasoned that her ego meant the non-ego path had already lost and that [Hope] might assimilate her.
• No. 101 decided to enjoy the time she had left and questioned whether she was [Hope] or [Unfulfilled Wish].

Zhang Ming tried to keep his distance from No. 101, then named her Hui and accompanied her to explore the Burial Realm. Meanwhile, Demon God avatars and dangerous rules appeared across the Burial Realm as the Space-Time tunnel neared completion, leaving the civilizations with only three days to prepare.

• Zhang Ming repeatedly entered sage mode to resist No. 101’s advances, and she later found him exhausted and asleep.
• No. 101 dressed in Miss [Hope]’s clothes, went to Zhang Ming’s bedroom, and asked him to fulfill her wishes; Zhang Ming sought Miss [Hope]’s advice on how to comfort her.
• The investigation team detected the Demon God [Reincarnation] through a doll that was drawn onto a mountain path, while Gray Toad warned them that Demon God [Mi] had assimilated the power of [Burial].
• Demon God avatars emerged across the oceans and began moving toward land, prompting the Sheep-Headed Monster to prepare to fight them as the tunnel remained about three days from completion.
• Zhang Ming took No. 101 to the Burial Realm, named her Hui, and listened as she asked to shop, see Earth’s animals, and spend her brief life with him.