Chapter Summaries

The exchange delegation exposed and killed Uchimura, a Shadow Person posing as a Japanese Defense Society vice president, then captured the shadow he left behind. The shadow disappeared moments later, leading Director Wang to suspect its real body in the Star Spirit World had been killed to silence it.

• After receiving Mu You's warning, the delegation watched Uchimura's shadow as he led them to the guesthouse.
• The Blood Emperor attacked Uchimura, and the delegation restrained the Japanese guests while Director Wang said they were catching a spy.
• The delegation killed Uchimura and used intense light to reveal and capture his fleeing shadow.
• Makiyama Hayata returned, denied knowing Uchimura was a spy, and agreed to summon everyone in the Defense Society for screening.
• Director Wang praised Mu You for identifying Uchimura, and Mu You said he had noticed something suspicious.
• The captured shadow disintegrated and vanished, and Director Wang concluded that someone had killed its real body in the Star Spirit World.

Mu You revealed that he possessed Gemini's and Scorpio's Crystals, made the Black Magic Enthusiasts' Club the Mystic Arts Association's primary target, and traded for a powerful spatial spell. While exploring the Underground Factory's Southern District, he found Louise's fifth diary fragment, which described a failed escape and a horrific punishment in the Western District, prompting him to explore it next.

• Makiyama Hayata checked the Defense Society's members for Shadow People, while the Japan Government ordered overnight investigations and suspected Shadow People fled.
• Mu You attended the Secret Art Meeting, disclosed that he held Gemini's and Scorpio's Crystals, and assigned the members to investigate the Black Magic Enthusiasts' Club.
• Mu You traded his black magic Position Swap card with Libra for the Spatial Convergence scroll.
• Mu You explored the Southern District, escaped children who mistook his character for a robot, and found Louise's fifth diary fragment in a library.
• Mu You learned that Louise and other children had been punished in a Gu Insect pool in the Western District and decided to explore that district next.

Mu You infiltrated the Western District’s Gu Pool through a sewage pipe, found a Golden Silkworm pupa, and overheard the Undead Society’s leader discussing a coming Spatial Rift and the plan to use Shadow Messengers as bait. He tried to attack the leader but was overwhelmed by a terrifying presence and died.

• Mu You disguised himself as a Cleaning Robot and entered the Gu Pool through a sewage pipe, repeatedly logging out to clear insects that jammed his mechanical body.
• Mu You sent Sand Spiders to explore the pool, and one found a page from Louise’s diary warning her not to enter the Western District because of a monster.
• A Sand Spider discovered a Golden Silkworm pupa that could eat Gu Insects and restore Mu You’s mana and action points.
• Mu You overheard the Stalk Man speak with the Undead Society’s leader, who planned to escape through a Spatial Rift in 43 hours and use other Shadow Messengers as bait.
• Mu You ordered his character to attack the leader, but a terrifying presence immobilized him and killed him.

Mu You investigated the underground factory, uncovered a diary page about Mianmian’s dream ability, and killed the Green-Clothed Old Woman to recover a clue from Louise’s music box. The other Shadow Fiends then tore him apart.

• Mu You failed to approach the central platform because a terrifying presence killed him whenever he revealed himself, and he overheard the President order Stalk Man to guard the Gu Pool against intruders.
• Mu You learned that Japan was searching for Shadow Fiends by investigating people who had disappeared for over a month, and he noticed Ye Rumeng and Mianmian’s home lay near the suspected Spatial Rift.
• Mu You found a torn page from Louise’s diary describing how Mianmian entered a dream world while asleep, but someone had already taken the item hidden in a music box.
• Mu You suspected the Green-Clothed Old Woman had taken the music-box clue and found administrators destroying robots in the central district.
• Mu You tricked the Green-Clothed Old Woman, killed her after she transformed into an Elderly Shadow Fiend, and obtained the clue from the music box before the other Shadow Fiends killed him.

Mu You investigated Louise’s diary and Ye Rumeng’s past, discovering evidence that Ye Rumeng’s memories of a sister named Mianmian did not match her family home. The chapter left Ye Rumeng asleep after her memories seemed to cause her pain, while Mu You suspected she had been abducted and her memories altered.

• Mu You fused with the elderly Shadow Fiend’s remains, gaining 56 Health and the ability to control and briefly detach his shadow.
• Mu You read Louise’s sixth diary page, which described her separation from Mianmian and her friendship with the young Sayaka, but found no matching child in Japan’s missing persons database.
• Dusk City was activated under Holy Light Nana, who was Libra’s Doppelganger Card, and Mu You shared his Sky City construction advice with Libra and Capricorn.
• Mu You visited Ye Rumeng’s family home and learned from a neighbor that Ye Rumeng’s family had consisted only of her parents and herself, all of whom died in a car accident.
• Mu You searched the house and found no evidence that Mianmian had lived there, then brought Ye Rumeng inside and questioned her about her sister.
• Ye Rumeng could not identify any belongings of her supposed sister and fell asleep in pain, leading Mu You to suspect that her memories had been tampered with.

Mu You realized that Sayaka, a missing child with no official report, might be a Shadow Person and had Lu Yao search Tokyo’s school records for her. As Tokyo descended into chaos from a mass Shadow Fiend attack, Sayaka reached the newly opened spatial rift underground, but someone appeared and blocked her path.

• Mu You suspected that the person hiding near Ye Rumeng’s home might be disguised as a child, then connected Sayaka from Louise’s diary to the Shadow People.
• Mu You asked Lu Yao to find eight-year-old Sayaka in Tokyo’s elementary school enrollment records, offering her Blue Gear to produce results before afternoon.
• The Japanese Defense Society and the Exchange Delegation captured Wind and Thunder Sect peripheral members, but the true core members died before they could be questioned.
• Director Wang predicted a larger attack, and sixteen Shadow Fiends appeared across Tokyo at midnight, throwing the city into chaos.
• Sayaka killed the woman caring for her, uncovered a dry well in a nearby park, and followed its underground passage to the spatial rift.
• As Sayaka approached the open rift, she dodged a scythe and found an unidentified figure blocking the entrance.

Mu You and Lin Xue captured the Shadow Person hiding as Sayaka, but it revealed that its weakened shadow could no longer suppress a monster beneath the underground factory before vanishing. The monster emerged as the God of Shadows and attacked Dawn City, where a giant octopus began trying to pull it off Sky City.

• Mu You and Lin Xue trapped Sayaka’s Shadow Person, which explained that it had been suppressing a monster and then abandoned its shadow, warning that the Fools would pay.
• Xiao Ya alerted Mu You and Lin Xue that Dawn City was under attack, and the two used a Spatial Rift to reach the Cook Islands.
• The God of Shadows burst from beneath a village, destroyed it, and flew toward Sky City.
• Mu You and Lin Xue returned to Sky City as the God of Shadows landed and began attacking the city, killing players in its path.
• A giant octopus leaped onto Sky City and wrapped its tentacles around the God of Shadows, trying to drag it away.

Mu You and Lin Xue discovered that the Shadow God's Shadow had taken over its human host and was a level-35 creature with billions of Health. By combining the Evil-Subduing Death Knell, sunlight, and the Octopus King's restraint, they pinned it down temporarily, leaving Mu You to mobilize Dawn City's citizens before it broke free.

• Mu You attacked the Shadow God and died from its God's Devour ability, then used the Omniscient Crystal to learn about its divine backlash and God's Defense.
• The Shadow God tore through the Octopus King's tentacles and began overpowering him, but Lin Xue struck its back with the God of Death's shell and saw a living person inside.
• Lin Xue revealed that the host's sin value was over a hundred times higher than Z Worldwalker's and used the Evil-Subduing Death Knell to bind the Shadow God, revealing its level as 35.
• Mu You crushed a Sunlight Stone, causing the Shadow God's Shadow to howl and struggle in the sunlight, while Lin Xue rang the Death Knell a second time and reduced its level to 33.
• The Octopus King restrained the weakened Shadow God, and Mu You returned to the City Lord's Castle to use the Citywide Quest system to mobilize Dawn City's citizens before the restraints wore off.

Dawn City’s residents learned that attacking the immobilized God of Shadows granted generous rewards, including True Experience that bypassed level bottlenecks. Thousands rushed to defend the city, and the Shadow God’s health fell rapidly, leaving Mu You expecting the fight to end well before the two-hour deadline.

• The City Lord announced a two-hour citywide quest to defeat the God of Shadows and explained the boss’s abilities, weaknesses, and attack strategies.
• Players debated whether defending Dawn City was worth the risks until Mu You’s attack revealed rewards including permanent Health, Fool Reputation, and the Proof of Courage title.
• Mu You, Xiao Ya, and Lin Hai began attacking the Shadow God, while players learned that True Experience could automatically break bottlenecks below level twenty.
• Reports of the rewards spread across the forum, prompting Dawn City residents to join the fight and outsiders to flood the city with applications.
• Dawn City players rapidly removed 370 million Health from the Shadow God in half a minute, and Mu You realized the boss might fall in under an hour.

Blue-Eyes White Dragon’s guide persuaded Dawn City players to farm the Shadow God, but its passive God's Hammer repeatedly wiped out the attackers and restored its Health. Mu You organized a log-off strategy to limit its healing; when the Shadow God reached 10% Health, it split into a miniature form and over a hundred thousand Shadow Fiends that attacked the players.

• Blue-Eyes White Dragon advised players that attacks dealing more than 1.65 damage made the quest worthwhile, and Dawn City residents began farming the Shadow God.
• The Shadow God broke free of the Octopus King and used God's Hammer, killing millions of players and restoring the Health they had removed.
• Mu You ordered players to clear Zone 2-0854 so Water Element mages and Support Staff could restore the Octopus King, then explained that God's Hammer triggered every time the Shadow God lost another 10% Health.
• Mu You instructed players below level 13 to log off before each trigger, limiting the Shadow God’s healing while the remaining players continued attacking.
• After Dawn City repeated the strategy and reduced the Shadow God to 10% Health, it burst into over a hundred thousand Shadow Fiends that attacked nearby players.

Mu You discovered the Shadow God’s final attack could kill everyone nearby and delay their revival, so he escaped it with Lin Xue and killed the weakened god afterward. The Shadow God’s mastermind fled, while a newly formed Shadow Fluffball chose Mu You as its host.

• Mu You explained that the Shadow Army had lost the Shadow God’s most dangerous abilities, and the players killed more than half of the Shadow Fiends until they merged back into the boss.
• As the Shadow God’s Health neared zero, Mu You teleported away and saw it unleash Shadow’s Swan Song, killing the Octopus King and everyone nearby while delaying their revival by a day.
• Mu You rewound time, retreated to the City Lord’s Castle with Lin Xue, and watched the expelled shadows return to their original owners across the Cook Islands.
• After the Shadow God weakened itself and its enemies vanished, an elderly mastermind escaped from Sky City, and Mu You killed the Shadow God with his Cannon.
• Mu You received Divine Power, the Godslayer title, and a Divine Soul Crystal, then watched the Shadow Fluffball join his shadow after the God of Death rejected it from Lin Xue.

After defeating the Shadow God's Shadow, Mu You tested the Shadow Fluffball's abilities and decided to save the Energy Book for a later level. He and Lin Xue then went to Old Luke's Papermaking Workshop to break into the Undead Society, while Dawn City players learned the crisis was over.

• Mu You explored the Shadow Fluffball's Shadow Passage and Shadow Bind, discovering he could travel unseen through shadows and immobilize a target by controlling its shadow.
• Mu You gained one point of Divine Power, 5,000 Health, 5,000 Reputation, and over 640,000 experience, reaching level 19; he chose to save the Energy Book for level 29.
• Mu You and Lin Xue set out to confront the person behind the events, as Dawn City players feared the Shadow God had won after they were wiped out and the Octopus King fell.
• Dawn City players received confirmation that the Shadow God's Shadow had been slain by the Ghost Ship Captain and that the city's crisis was over.
• Mu You and Lin Xue arrived at Old Luke's Papermaking Workshop, found the hidden entrance to the Undead Society sealed, and Mu You fired his Cannon at the floor beneath it.

Mu You and Lin Xue fought through the Underground Factory, where Mu You’s shadow puffball and the released Shadow Fiend helped defeat the administrators’ Shadow Fiends. In the hidden study, they found records revealing how Controllable Shadow Fiends were made and discovered that Ye Rumeng and Mianmian were paired in an experiment whose outcome was left blank.

• Mu You and Lin Xue entered the Underground Factory, where Mu You killed Granny Tang’s Shadow Fiend and watched Granny Tang die repeatedly as its negative emotions overwhelmed her.
• Mu You and Lin Xue defeated the five administrators’ Shadow Fiends with the shadow puffball and the Shadow Fiend from the box, while the administrators died from the transferred negative emotions.
• The boxed Shadow Fiend charged into a Gu Pool and attacked its insects, while Mu You retrieved a golden silkworm pupa from the pool’s edge.
• Mu You found Louise’s final diary fragment, which described the Shadow Passage as a place of extreme mental torment that could create Shadow Fiends.
• Lin Xue found the Controllable Shadow Fiend experiment records, and Mu You learned that Louise had died to save Sayaka, who became a Controllable Shadow Fiend.
• Mu You found Ye Rumeng and Mianmian listed together on page fourteen, but their experiment results were blank.

Ye Rumeng returned to the hospital where she remembered being held with her sister, but found only ruins and learned that the experimenter had used her and her sister to create a self-aware Shadow Fiend. Mu You told her there was no one left to save and called her Mianmian, leaving her staring at a shadow that belonged to a taller girl.

• Ye Rumeng emerged from Mu You's backpack, remembered the hospital, and led Mu You and Lin Xue toward the room she had shared with her sister.
• Ye Rumeng found the room abandoned, and a Box Shadow Fiend protected her by tearing apart an attacking Shadow Fiend.
• Mu You and Lin Xue confronted the experimenter, who explained that Lin Xue's Death Knell curse had reduced him to level one and trapped him in the cylinder.
• The experimenter revealed that he had raised the Shadow Fluffball to pursue godlike power, then tried to suppress it by creating a self-aware Shadow Fiend through Soul Synchronization.
• The experimenter identified Ye Rumeng as Number 14 and explained that her sister Mengmeng had been the unusual child who chose to endure the suffering in her place.
• Mu You called Ye Rumeng Mianmian and urged her to remember; she looked down and saw that her shadow belonged to a taller girl with long hair and a ribbon.

Mianmian planned to escape the Underground Factory with Ye Rumeng, but when the girls were subjected to the Final Experiment, Ye Rumeng took Mianmian’s pain and memories so Mianmian could survive. As Mianmian fell asleep, the person behind the experiment watched the two girls’ shadows merge and anticipated the birth of the Church’s finest creation.

• Mianmian learned that the Underground Factory would soon give her a Final Experiment, and she asked Ye Rumeng to take her in if she escaped into her world.
• Mianmian discovered that Ye Rumeng had been brought to her as the other test subject and gave her the escape plan and a Map Fragment meant for the Dragon Group.
• Mianmian and Ye Rumeng were taken above the Gu Pool and plunged into the Shadow Passage for the experiment.
• Mianmian tried to absorb Ye Rumeng’s pain, but Ye Rumeng instead took Mianmian’s painful memories and urged her to escape through a dream.
• The person behind it all watched the girls’ shadows connect and told Stalk Man that their pairing might produce the Church’s finest creation.

Mianmian learned how Mengmeng’s transformation had separated their shadows and how Mengmeng still instinctively protected her, while Mu You rejected the mastermind’s offer and watched the freed Shadow Fiends kill him. After purifying the Shadow Fiends and bringing the sleeping Mianmian to safety, Mu You learned from the mastermind’s fading remnant soul where his research was hidden.

• The mastermind and the Stalk Man tried to capture the newly transformed Shadow Fiends, but the larger one broke free, killed them, and a bob-haired shadow slipped into the Sealing Box.
• Mianmian realized she had changed back from Ye Rumeng, and the middle-aged man explained that Mengmeng avoided her because touching would return Mianmian’s suffering to her.
• The middle-aged man revealed that he had used the Shadow Fiend Box to lure Mianmian and offered Mu You his research and a group of Shadow Fiends in exchange for his life, but Mu You refused.
• The imprisoned Shadow Fiends broke their chains, destroyed the Cylindrical Device, and killed the mastermind by repeatedly tearing him apart until his lifespan ran out.
• Mu You used the Shadow Fluffball to purify and store the freed Shadow Fiends, while the remaining Shadow Fiend attacked the Shadow Fluffball and then followed Mu You into his shadow.
• After Mianmian fell asleep, Mu You promised to take her back to the Pet Shop; the mastermind’s remnant soul then revealed that his research was hidden fifteen meters below a tile on the third floor of the Gu Pool Elevated Platform.

Mu You and Lin Xue recovered the Shadow Fluffball cultivation log, which revealed the God Race’s extinction, a coming great calamity era, and World-Creation Mountain as a possible way to change the world’s fate. After escaping the collapsing Underground Factory, Mu You reinforced Dawn City, transferred pets to the Star Spirit World, and returned to Tokyo to rejoin the Exchange Delegation.

• Mu You found the hidden Shadow Fluffball cultivation log and read that the God Race had vanished, a great calamity era would arrive in a little over a hundred years, and World-Creation Mountain might offer a way to change what happened.
• Mu You and Lin Xue escaped the Underground Factory as it collapsed, then Mu You admitted two million players to Dawn City to restore its defenses.
• Mu You and Lin Xue returned to the spatial rift, transferred the Two-Headed Dragon and Little Spider to the Star Spirit World, and went back to Tokyo.
• Mu You explained his absence to the Blood Emperor and Director Wang, claiming he had pursued and destroyed a humanoid shadow fiend alone.
• Mu You rejoined the Exchange Delegation, which completed its handover with the Japanese side and boarded a flight home.

Mu You arranged an official identity for Mianmian, then used information bought from Protesting Too Much to defeat the sixth-floor boss, the Lightning Lord, with Lin Xue and their pets. He discovered that the seventh floor was blocked by Dense Crystal Ore, while news revealed Starlight City had emerged and Crimson Dawn was seeking the final fragment of Eternal Night City.

• Mu You visited Zhang Yang at the K City Anomaly Investigation Bureau Headquarters to arrange Mianmian's identity, then returned to the Pet Shop and found Little Girl still asleep.
• Mu You agreed to buy Protesting Too Much's route information for three purple Sky Set pieces and learned that the Lightning Lord's summoned beasts were vulnerable to lightning resistance and bonus damage against giants and summons.
• Mu You and Lin Xue entered the sixth-floor Dungeon with their pets, failed once against the Lightning Lord, then returned with lightning resistance potions and defeated it using Mu You's Vampire Skin.
• Mu You led the group onto the seventh floor, but Dense Crystal Ore blocked every passage, forcing them to retreat to the sixth floor.
• Mu You read that Starlight City had emerged under the Eastern European player Holmes and that the entrance to Dark Night City had opened as well.
• Mu You saw Tyrant, President of Crimson Dawn, announce that his faction had gathered eight Eternal Night City fragments and wanted to buy the final one.

Mu You accepted a quest to prevent the coming clash between Dark City's vampires and werewolves, learning that the lightless night marked the full-moon night when Eternal Night City would emerge. After delivering Louise's diary pages to her grandmother and receiving a Demon-Devouring Gu Jar, he arrived in Dark City and found fresh traces of an attack in a dark alley.

• Mu You learned that Crimson Dawn and its leader, Tyrant, had powerful influence over Dark City's werewolves, but he still intended to secure Eternal Night City for Lin Xue.
• Mu You accepted Freyde the Exile's quest to make either the vampires or the werewolves disappear from Dark City before the lightless night in six days.
• Mu You returned to Zhenyu Village, told Louise's grandmother the truth about Louise, and gave her the girl's eight diary pages.
• Louise's grandmother gave Mu You a Demon-Devouring Gu Jar that produced one magic-draining gu each day.
• Mu You traveled to Dark City and searched secluded streets for werewolves, where his Pumpkin Lantern revealed fresh blood and signs that a young woman had been dragged into an alley.

Mianmian met the Shadow Fiend after waking from a nightmare, and Mu You gave her an official identity as Mu Mianmeng. Meanwhile, Mu You investigated the Blood Clan and went to seek the Rheine Family, where he unexpectedly encountered his vampire sister Rheine Mai.

• Mianmian woke from a nightmare and chased Mengmeng, but Mu You explained that she should let the Shadow Fiend approach when it felt safe.
• Mu You gave Mianmian a Temporary ID Card under the name Mu Mianmeng, and she happily accepted it.
• Mu You used the Pumpkin Lantern to find a vampire feeding on a woman, and the vampire recognized his rank and shared information about the Blood Clan and Rheine Family.
• Mu You learned that the Rheine Family was weak and had been seen near the Dark Forest, so he headed there to secretly return the Heart of Mist.
• Rheine Mai recognized Mu You as her brother and asked whether his amnesia had flared up again.