Recaps

Shen Ye searched the ninth floor for the woman linked to his emblem while Xiatelai revealed her new Shadow Goddess Mother profession and searched the ship’s hidden worlds for her. After finding the woman, Xiatelai warned that Shen Ye needed a more advanced profession to enter her world, prompting him to begin developing his Immortal Kingdom Dharma Form.

• Shen Ye rejected the ninth floor’s offer to skip the trial and entered several hidden worlds while searching for the emblem’s owner.
• Xiatelai threatened the angels with her Shadow Reincarnation Deliverance Art, then accepted their apology and obtained a Holy Flower Wreath for Shen Ye.
• Xiatelai explained that her fused Shadow Goddess Mother profession could access the ship’s hidden worlds through Shadow Passages.
• Xiatelai sent eighty-eight thousand doppelgangers to search the ship’s eight thousand eight hundred worlds and eventually found the woman Shen Ye sought.
• Xiatelai warned Shen Ye that his current profession could not enter the woman’s world, so Shen Ye began developing his Dharma Form to advance his Immortal Kingdom profession.

Xiatelai returned the Huntian Art to Shen Ye, restoring the Three Arts and advancing his Dharma Form. He chose a new Immortal Kingdom class, Mountain God, then offered passing Professionals a resurrection save point in exchange for protective treasures.

• Xiatelai returned the Huntian Art to Shen Ye and shared the memories of why she had taken it away to protect him.
• The restored Three Arts strengthened Shen Ye's Dharma Form, and he chose to advance his Immortal Kingdom class instead of making a truth creation.
• Shen Ye gained the Mountain God support class and used Longing-Guided Transit to sense the dangerous world connected to the cherished emblem.
• Several Professionals arrived on the stairs, and Shen Ye offered to create resurrection save points in exchange for defensive or offensive treasures.
• A Gatekeeper agreed to trade single-use items for Shen Ye's save-point resurrection skill.

Shen Ye found the female knight the Terminus Lord of All Eras wanted him to save, but she was bait controlled by the ship, the third-ranked Ultimate Creation. Shen Ye escaped her ambush by splitting his fate, only to face her again on the Lower Deck as she prepared to eat him.

• White Night Spirit Wang pursued Shen Ye to the ninth level, where the Green Dragon explained that its worlds imposed changing trials and challenged him to survive without Spellcraft.
• Shen Ye found the female knight leading her people into battle, learned she refused to leave, and reported her response to the Terminus Lord of All Eras.
• The Terminus Lord revealed that the ship enslaved those seeking its allegiance and asked Shen Ye to rescue the female knight, who was supposedly still free.
• When the battlefield's rules allowed only spell spirits and traits to function, Shen Ye charged in with Norton, Kalula, Micteticashiva, and the Elven High Priest to reach the female knight.
• Shen Ye used his fate-splitting Art to escape the ship's ambush and arrived on the Lower Deck, where the Terminus Lord became his eternally bound slave.
• The female knight followed Shen Ye to the Lower Deck, revealed the ship's white vertical pupil behind her, and said she would eat him.

Shen Ye resisted the Ultimate Creation’s Truth-level attempt to enslave him, then freed the Valkyrie from its control and helped her reunite with the Terminus Lord of All Eras. He and the Valkyrie prepared to strike back by exploiting the Ultimate Creation’s use of her as a proxy.

• Shen Ye pierced the Valkyrie and resisted the Ultimate Creation’s offer by wishing for capitalists to stop exploiting the proletariat, which the creation could not fulfill.
• Shen Ye killed the Valkyrie, but his Self-Transformation and Sovereign Freedom caused her to revive with her soul and some of her former power restored.
• Shen Ye used Costume-Change BGM to immobilize the Valkyrie, then sent her through his Dharma Form’s gate and dispelled the Era Seal.
• The Valkyrie reunited with the Terminus Lord of All Eras, and they began rebuilding her body and soul beyond the Ultimate Creation’s control.
• Shen Ye helped the Valkyrie become the Seventeenth Tier being’s second Agent and explained that they could use her as a proxy to attack the Ultimate Creation under the same rules it had exploited.

On the ninth level, White Night Spirit Wang agreed to reach the twenty-first level in exchange for control of the ship, while Shen Ye learned he would soon be attacked and the ship would flip. Shen Ye split fate into parallel worlds to escape and fight back, but White Night Spirit Wang discovered his rare power and began pursuing him across worlds.

• White Night Spirit Wang killed two wounded Professionals while healing them, then resurrected them and negotiated with a presence in the void to be sent to the twenty-first level in exchange for the ship.
• Shen Ye sacrificed treasures through the Valkyrie, and the powerhouse warned him that White Night Spirit Wang would arrive in three minutes and the ship would soon flip over.
• Shen Ye sent the Valkyrie and Terminus Lord of All Eras upward to clear levels, then released Catdog to search the hold and used his fate-splitting power to create parallel worlds.
• White Night Spirit Wang confronted Shen Ye under changed combat rules, and Shen Ye fought him with the Night Rain Blade and Avīci Swordsmanship while another fate-thread revealed a secret passage.
• Shen Ye escaped into parallel worlds through the secret passage and ventilation duct as the ship began turning over, while White Night Spirit Wang used Parallel Disorder to enter another world and pursue him.

Shen Ye escaped White Night Spirit Wang by splitting parallel worlds, then lured him into choosing between pursuing Shen Ye and attempting to claim the Chaos Boat. While Shen Ye rested on the sixteenth floor and his allies fought monsters for offerings, he upgraded his Bloodsucking Old Man Trait to the sixth layer of Truth.

• Two White Night Spirit Wangs searched the lowest deck, then followed the ship's rotation to the newly revealed twenty-first level, where they found Shen Ye's note and multiplied into eight while chasing him.
• White Night Spirit Wang chose to pursue the twenty-first-level trial instead of chasing Shen Ye, while Shen Ye returned to the twentieth level and then used Longing-Guided Transit to reach the Valkyrie and the Terminus Lord.
• Shen Ye explained that he expected White Night Spirit Wang to seize his chance to claim the Chaos Boat, and decided to help a seventeenth-rank powerhouse by gathering offerings rather than let White Night Spirit Wang win.
• Shen Ye, the Valkyrie, and the Terminus Lord entered the sixteenth-floor trial; the Valkyrie and the Terminus Lord went out to fight monsters while Shen Ye rested in a cottage.
• After the day's tally appeared, Shen Ye chose to upgrade Bloodsucking Old Man, raising it from the fifth to the sixth layer of Truth as Bloodsucking Elderly Man.

Shen Ye used his new Bloodsucking Elderly Man trait to evolve his real estate gate into a resource-driven strategy, building mining robots and a Truth Cannon to fight the Chaos Boat. His first Truth Tier Three shot wiped out the monsters on the floor and cleared the trial, leaving the Valkyrie and Terminus Lord alarmed by how dangerous his weapon was.

• Shen Ye discovered that Bloodsucking Elderly Man could extract elements as compensation, then tricked the busy Chaos Boat and White Night Spirit Wang into giving him natural evolution and eight portions of disorder.
• Shen Ye incorporated the elements into Little Western Heaven, turning it into a Robot Factory, and chose to develop a real-time strategy against a designated enemy.
• Shen Ye renamed his mine Resource Mountain, produced mining robots, and unlocked a Truth Cannon while Norton arranged priests, food, and comforts to support the fighters.
• Shen Ye fired a Truth Tier Three cannon shot at the monster horde, destroying the deck’s surroundings; the floor announced that its trial had been passed and its restrictions lifted.
• The Valkyrie and Terminus Lord warned Shen Ye that truth-stage weapons were dangerously powerful, while Shen Ye admitted he was still at the compulsory education stage.

On the fifteenth floor, Shen Ye upgraded the Night Rain Blade and created cyborg bodies that could steal elements, then learned that his Multilayered Universe may have devoured other universes before Su Rong. As the Chaos Boat reshaped its levels and White Night Spirit Wang appeared, Shen Ye escaped to the twentieth floor and began communicating with Su Rong while the Valkyrie and Terminus Lord protected him.

• Shen Ye tested the Night Rain Blade and upgraded it to Truth Fourth Tier by absorbing the Oblivion element from eight Truth Cannon shells.
• After firing the Truth Cannon ten times, Shen Ye unlocked the Truth Artificial Humanoid Construct Research Center and tested a cyborg body with the Bloodsucking Elderly Man trait, which extracted Terminus Strike from the Terminus Lord before dying.
• The Valkyrie's sacrifice summoned a truth seventeenth-tier being, but the ritual was abruptly cut off after it began warning Shen Ye about his Multilayered Universe.
• Shen Ye realized White Night Spirit Wang and the summoned being had both said that Multilayered Universes could devour one another, and he suspected his universe had done so before Su Rong.
• When the Chaos Boat altered its structure and the stairs began disappearing, Shen Ye escaped with the Valkyrie while the Terminus Lord returned to the Primordial Ruins.
• On the twentieth floor, Shen Ye surrounded himself and the Valkyrie with cyborg bodies, agreed to White Night Spirit Wang's Contract, summoned the Terminus Lord, and began communicating with Su Rong.

Shen Ye sacrificed a Truth construct to aid the Seventeenth Tier powerhouse, then transferred Gate’s Guardianship to Fei Lun so he could escape the Chaos Boat’s suppression. He reached the Nightmare World, earned the Explosive Drummer trait, and returned through his Gate to Death Planet.

• Shen Ye’s Gate and summons were suppressed by the Chaos Boat’s Truth force field, preventing him from returning to Death Planet.
• Shen Ye and the Valkyrie sacrificed the Truth Artificial Humanoid Construct Research Center, and the Seventeenth Tier powerhouse rewarded Shen Ye with the Feeding element.
• White Night Spirit Wang mediated a chance for Shen Ye to leave, warning that the Chaos Boat feared further sacrifices.
• Shen Ye summoned Fei Lun and transferred Gate’s Guardianship to him so Fei Lun could summon Shen Ye into the Nightmare World as Peppa.
• The Chaos Boat, White Night Spirit Wang, and the Seventeenth Tier powerhouse let Shen Ye pass, earning him the Explosive Drummer trait.
• Shen Ye opened his Gate in the Nightmare World and returned to Death Planet.

Shen Ye learned that a dormant civilization had awakened on Death Planet and was preparing to devour his Multilayered Universe, while people who had not recovered past-life memories were abandoned in Yujing City. After his parents helped him obtain a legal identity, Shen Ye decided to register for social service as his Doppelganger continued to grow stronger, setting his sights on reclaiming the stolen universe.

• Shen Ye discovered that he could not recover the original Shen Ye's sealed memories because the real Shen Ye had died before he transmigrated, and Guo Yunye told him that people without awakened past-life memories had been abandoned in Yujing City.
• Su Rong explained that a dormant civilization on Death Planet had awakened, occupied the planet, and planned to awaken its own Multilayered Universe to devour Shen Ye's.
• Shen Ye's parents arrived, gave him a Soul-Calling Pill to create a past-life memory, and teleported him away after Guo Yunye brought him instant noodles; Shen Ye urged Guo Yunye to cultivate and secretly gave him a Fast Cultivation Manual.
• Shen Ye and his parents used their family connections to secure his registration, and officials approved his identity after checking his records and Dharma Realm strength.
• Shen Ye learned that his new identity card showed him at the Fifteenth Level of the Dharma Realm, then asked his father to take him to register for entry into society as his Doppelganger received a blessing and his Real-Time Strategy Base evolved.

Xu Xingke and the Sword Maiden continued fighting through the White Night Demon Cage while wondering why White Night Spirit Wang had disappeared. On Death Planet, Xiao Mengyu staged a broken engagement to give Shen Ye the Luo Family’s Long Regret blade technique, which he fused with Avīci; after two armed men broke into his garden, he immobilized them and took their swords.

• Xu Xingke and the Sword Maiden discussed whether White Night Spirit Wang was hiding and decided to keep fighting through the Demon Cage.
• Shen Ye studied an ancient Stone Stele and improved his swordsmanship before Zhao Xiaoshang called him to meet Xiao Mengyu.
• Xiao Mengyu publicly broke off her engagement to Shen Ye, then secretly explained that she had arranged the scene to give him the Luo Family’s Long Regret inheritance.
• Shen Ye comprehended Long Regret and fused it with Avīci, beginning its evolution into a stronger blade technique.
• Two armed men vaulted into Shen Ye’s garden to kill him, but his Explosive Drummer trait immobilized them, and he took their swords.

Shen Ye used his strange abilities to defeat people who came to kill him and gathered their equipment to support the impoverished Shen Family. After advancing his profession and strengthening his traits, he devoured another group of attackers in front of Shen Shi'an, leaving his father baffled and Shen Ye praising their generosity.

• Shen Ye claimed a bundle of weapons and armor had been left in the garden, and Shen Father and Shen Mother sold the equipment to buy food and a protective emblem.
• Three attackers tried to kill Shen Ye, but his traits immobilized them, and he stripped them of their gear and threw them out of the garden.
• Shen Ye advanced to Shadow-Blending Blade Adept and gained the skill Light-Splitting Shadow-Catching.
• Shen Ye fused Lord of the Sun Wheel into Explosive Drummer, advancing the combat trait and gaining a chance to stun enemies.
• A group of black-clad attackers arrived at night, and Shen Ye used his truth pupil technique to kill and devour them before Shen Shi'an could intervene.
• Shen Ye collected the attackers' equipment and told Shen Shi'an that the family had received another generous gift.

Xu Xingke and the Sword Maiden discovered that White Night Spirit Wang had been dead for a hundred million years, while Shen Ye survived a new assassination attempt by navigating two fatal Fate Lines. Shen Ye and Su Rong traced the Blood Seed trait to the Parasitic Empress, one of the Twenty-One Ultimate Creations, and the chapter ended as another assassin appeared.

• Xu Xingke found White Night Spirit Wang's ancient remains beneath a grave and opened a secret passage after realizing someone had impersonated the dead ruler.
• Shen Ye used Fate Divination to compare two outcomes: one in which devouring an assassin killed him, and another in which he defeated the attacker and received an Exemption token from the Inspector.
• Shen Ye crossed between the Fate Lines, survived, and gained the exclusive Blood Seed trait, then agreed with Su Rong to trace the trait to its source despite the risks.
• Shen Ye and Su Rong traveled through the Dharma Realm and discovered that the Parasitic Empress fed on people marked with Blood Seed, including the Multilayered Universe.
• Shen Ye returned to the Shen Residence, lost the Blood Seed trait, and saw another black-clad assassin standing on the garden wall.

Shen Ye survived the assassination inspection by drawing help from the neighborhood and earned the restrictive Blood Reject trait, which let him act when someone gave him an order. He used that rule to send Song Yinchen to the White Night Demon Cage to fulfill her mission, while he began preparing to deal with the Parasitic Empress.

• Shen Ye shouted for help during the first assassination attempt, and Shen Father and the other Professionals captured the attacker.
• Two more Assassins attacked Shen Ye, but he fled and summoned help instead of fighting, prompting him to livestream his sword practice as a precaution.
• The inspection ended before a third attempt, and Shen Ye received the Blood Reject trait, which allowed him to temporarily depart from his ordinary life by following another person's request.
• Shen Ye used his livestream viewers' challenge to perform thirty-two consecutive slashes during a backflip and earned star jade.
• Song Yinchen arrived with the Blood Saint trait and revealed that she would die if she failed to find another Ultimate Creation, so Shen Ye redirected his Real-Time Strategy Base toward the Parasitic Empress.
• At Shen Ye's order, Song Yinchen entered the White Night Demon Cage to complete her mission, then began trying to grow stronger as a Crown of Light appeared above her head.

Shen Ye used his evolving Real-Time Strategy Base and Truth Disorder ability to secretly strip Traits from people, while fighting off Professionals driven to attack him by the sleeping Parasitic Empress. After he unlocked and built the Tribunal, it captured the attackers, leaving Shen Ye to choose their fate.

• Zhang Xiaoyi visited Shen Ye, warned him to hide his Blood Reject Trait, and offered him a card to secure an easy job, but Shen Ye refused it.
• Shen Ye completed his combat philosophy prompt, evolving the base and gaining a Truth Cannon that let him secretly devour Traits from defeated opponents.
• Shen Ye tested the ability on himself and a guard, then tried it on Zhao Xiaoshang, learning that his Trait could change without anyone noticing.
• The Parasitic Empress’s instincts drove nearby Professionals to attack Shen Ye, who fought them without killing them and devoured their Traits as the battle spread through the city.
• Shen Ye’s Trait advanced to Popular Idol, and after he completed 300 Truth Cannon bombardments, he built the Tribunal, which captured the Professionals and presented him with options for dealing with them.

Shen Ye ended the Tribunal prison’s blood-trait harvest with the Huntian Art, then faced the Parasitic Empress’s emissary and learned he would take his Profession Test. He chose a centaur puppet as his opponent, won the test, and was told to stab a Divine Artifact into the void to prove his loyalty before Class Advancement.

• Shen Ye used the Huntian Art to erase the city’s memories of the night while keeping the stripped titles removed, and advanced his Popular Idol trait to Popular Idol Max.
• At dawn, the Parasitic Empress’s emissary marked Shen Ye, lifted his Silence Period, and told him to choose his profession carefully; Su Rong revealed that the woman was the will of the parasitized Multilayered Universe.
• Shen Ye ate breakfast with his family, received his father’s advice to choose the lion if uncertain, and went to the Profession Appraisal Office for his test.
• Shen Ye chose a centaur puppet from the Nightmare World and killed it with Light-Splitting, Long Hatred Blade Art, and Shadow-Capturing, earning a replacement weapon and a rating.
• The exam officials told Shen Ye and the other young candidates to stab a Divine Artifact into the void to prove their loyalty, and Shen Ye acted first.

Shen Ye chose the Explorer class, joined Nangong Sirui’s team, and received powerful Battle Armor from Lan. After the Parasitic Empress awakened and destroyed the Zhao Family, Shen Ye recognized her as the new teammate who had just contacted him.

• Shen Ye chose the Explorer class, and Nangong Sirui brought him to the Explorer Camp and offered to guide him.
• Lan gave Shen Ye a six-piece suit of Battle Armor and gave Nangong Sirui a jade mask, while Shen Ye learned the armor’s quests and defensive powers.
• Nangong Sirui invited Shen Ye to explore the Dwarf Demon Hall, and Shen Ye received a replacement blade from the Professional Arbitration Center.
• Su Rong warned Shen Ye that the Parasitic Empress had awakened, and an invisible pulse swept across the city.
• A distant attack destroyed the Zhao Family’s residence, and Su Rong told Shen Ye that the Empress had fed on two blood seeds.
• Nangong Sirui introduced a new teammate through Shen Ye’s identification card, and Shen Ye recognized the girl as the Parasitic Empress.

Shen Ye used his performance-based traits to lead the group through a horde of living corpses and discovered that their destination was the fallen Dusk Star. Inside the Dwarf Demon Hall, Su Su revealed her ability to suppress others with Truth, while Shen Ye’s quick response prevented the gray creatures from attacking; Su Su then changed his emerging blood trait from Blood Seed to Blood Emperor.

• Shen Ye activated Popular Idol Max and Battle-Dance Songstress, then used a performance to make tens of thousands of living corpses clear a path for the vehicle.
• The Parasitic Empress changed Shen Ye’s Blood Worker trait into Blood Supervisor after Su Su fell into his arms, and Nangong Sirui assigned Zhang Xiaoyi and Su Su to scout ahead.
• Shen Ye recognized the fallen building as Dusk Star, and he and Nangong Sirui followed the scouts into the Dwarf Demon Hall after Zhang Xiaoyi called for help.
• Su Su’s Truth Suppression immobilized Shen Ye and Nangong Sirui, but Shen Ye used his Artist trait to pacify the gray dwarves until Su Su lifted the suppression and killed them with flames.
• Su Su changed Shen Ye’s developing trait from Blood Seed to Blood Emperor after he agreed to help her, and Shen Ye rejoined Zhang Xiaoyi and Nangong Sirui.

Shen Ye escaped a forced contest arranged by the Parasitic Empress, unsealed the Lord of the Multilayered Universe’s Helmet and Belt, and activated the Truth Twelfth Tier Battle Armor. Lan revealed the Multilayered Universe’s history and disclosed that Xiatelai was the will of its other half before a master-acknowledgment ritual began around them.

• The Parasitic Empress sent two Blood Emperor transfers to spar with Shen Ye, who fled while Nangong Sirui and Zhang Xiaoyi held them off.
• Shen Ye forced the Dwarf Demon Kings to cook for him and gained the Helmet’s recognition, then extracted the Extremely Evil Spell Spirit’s highly toxic element and gained the Belt’s recognition.
• Shen Ye activated the Truth Twelfth Tier Battle Armor and learned from Lan about the Multilayered Universe’s history, its conflict with the Parasitic Empress, and the need for a master-acknowledgment ritual.
• Lan revealed that Xiatelai was the will of the Multilayered Universe’s other half and that she and Shen Ye had activated the ritual together.
• Truth Runes surged around Shen Ye and Lan, forming a vast Mandala as the ritual began.

Shen Ye trapped his exploration team in an underground Earth Force Field, used a livestream to prevent his teammates from stealing the treasure, and cultivated until Lan’s blessing upgraded his Gate Ability to a 120:1 time ratio. After a mandatory order paired him against Sun Chengxie, the fight was interrupted by the arrival of an enormous dragon.

• Zhang Xiaoyi lured the burly bald man away while Nangong Sirui fought Sun Chengxie, until Shen Ye claimed he had found treasure and stopped them.
• Shen Ye led the team to a dwarf demon settlement, where they rushed for a treasure chest before the ground collapsed and dropped them into an Earth Force Field surrounded by lava.
• Sun Chengxie verified that the treasure was genuine, and Shen Ye livestreamed the team’s inventory to deter anyone from stealing it.
• Shen Ye revealed that he had arranged the trap to keep the team and three Blood Emperors underground, then cultivated until he reached the seventeenth layer of the Dharma Realm and upgraded his Gate’s time ratio to 120:1.
• The team received an order for Shen Ye to spar with Sun Chengxie, but they halted when a rumbling announced an enormous dragon appearing above the cliff.

A dragon attacked Shen Ye and his companions, intending to kill every Blood Emperor and slaughter their city so it could become the Parasitic Empress's master. After poisoning the dragon from inside and evolving Fei Lun into a blade, Shen Ye broke through its defenses and escaped through its belly.

• The red-robed dragon forced the group to fight, killed the burly bald man, and revealed its plan to kill all Blood Emperors and slaughter the city.
• The dragon killed Sun Chengxie with its pupil technique, then attacked Shen Ye as Zhang Xiaoyi and Nangong Sirui tried to report the danger.
• Shen Ye used the Lord of the Multilayered Universe Battle Armor to survive inside the dragon and enlisted Fei Lun to poison its digestive system.
• When the dragon resisted the poison, Shen Ye fused Azure Demon into Night Rain and used Fei Lun's toxins to exploit the dragon's temporary coma and increased poison damage.
• Shen Ye and Fei Lun evolved into a blade, used Everlasting Regret to cut through the dragon's flesh, and escaped through its belly.

Shen Ye escaped the Truth Seventh Rank dragon by tricking it and drawing the Parasitic Empress into the fight, then returned to the ruins and staged his weapon’s death. The Empress spared him after discovering his extraordinary affinity, and the Dharma Realm awarded him the Primordial Trait Behind-the-Scenes Figure.

• Shen Ye used Fate Divination to bait the dragon, promoted his recorded video so the Parasitic Empress could see it, and fled when the dragon prepared to meet his supposed ultimate move.
• The Parasitic Empress arrived disguised as a young woman, defeated the dragon after it threatened her and her god, and killed it.
• Shen Ye returned to the Dwarf Demon Hall, found his companions hiding, and went alone into a lava passage to avoid involving them.
• Shen Ye staged a funeral for his cracked Rain Venom blade, while the disguised Parasitic Empress watched and inferred that his affinity had led the weapon to sacrifice itself for him.
• The Parasitic Empress reconsidered killing Shen Ye and chose to observe him longer, while the Dharma Realm granted him the Primordial Trait Behind-the-Scenes Figure.

Shen Ye entered the city’s monster duels, chose the long blade Cloudshadow, and secretly gave it the Heavenlight prefix before killing the Serpent Demon in one strike. After the monsters used a skip privilege and challenged his weapon’s fairness, Shen Ye demanded extra payment to switch blades, then sensed contact from the Emperor Species through the Heart of the Swarm.

• Shen Ye used his Behind-the-Scenes Figure trait to test prefixes, persuaded Fei Lun to help him again, and trained Long Regret until it reached High Rank.
• Shen Ye returned to the city after being selected as a duelist and learned that the wilderness monsters’ Serpent Demon had already killed two humans.
• Shen Ye chose Cloudshadow from the armory and secretly added the Heavenlight prefix, causing its fire attacks to grow stronger with each strike.
• Shen Ye combined Cloudshadow with Long Regret and killed the Serpent Demon in one blow, then learned his Doppelganger had reached the Dharma Realm Eighteenth Layer.
• The monster team used a skip privilege, and its referees objected to Cloudshadow; Shen Ye demanded extra payment to change weapons and left after sensing a message from the Emperor Species.
• Su Su noticed Shen Ye’s undetectable trait and wondered why the Dharma Realm favored him.

Shen Ye witnessed the Parasitic Empress survive an assassination by Myriad Gods and clash with two Dragon Race guards before she took him to safety. After revealing the secret of a Gatekeeper who guards the passage beyond the Truth Void, she fell unconscious, and Shen Ye realized that he had been the Gatekeeper of nightmare and reality since he first came to this world.

• Myriad Gods told Shen Ye that the Universe Council planned to assassinate the Parasitic Empress and gave him the shadow of the Spear That Pierces the Azure Sky as a backup weapon.
• Professionals found the Parasitic Empress impaled by the spear, but she survived, destroyed its first shadow, and killed Myriad Gods with its second strike.
• The Parasitic Empress's Dragon Race guards appeared, and Shen Ye intervened when they moved to attack her; she then took him away through the void.
• In a cave, the Parasitic Empress told Shen Ye that a Gatekeeper would arise to guard the passage beyond the barrier, then collapsed from her wounds.
• Shen Ye refused the spear's urging to kill the unconscious Empress and recognized from his first Contract that he was already the Gatekeeper of nightmare and reality.

Shen Ye crossed the barrier into the Real World and discovered that his life in the Nightmare World had been a consciousness projection created by an experiment. Though the Four Kings and an Earth Demonic Beast rescued his body, Shen Ye remained trapped in a mass-hypnosis scenario and searched for a way to remove the chip in his head.

• The injured girl left to heal, and Su Rong told Shen Ye she would have to slaughter in the wilderness to absorb enough energy.
• Shen Ye entered the Nightmare World, took the amber pendant Peaso had left him, and used the Heaven-Piercing Gate to cross the barrier.
• The pendant’s Huntian Art broke through his hypnotic illusion long enough for Shen Ye to see that his body was suspended in a cultivation tank and that researchers had abducted him after a car accident.
• The Earth Demonic Beast and the Four Kings broke open the tank and carried Shen Ye out, but he remained inside the dreamlike scenario and realized a metal plate in his head was sustaining it.
• Shen Ye’s Traits made his head impossible to pry open, and he realized Big Skeleton’s gravestone was among the few things from his Dharma Form that had crossed into reality.