Chapter Summaries

Lanci and Shen Ye delayed the children’s arrival at the research institute and recovered a hidden chip meant to help them oppose the artificial intelligence. When the other negative personalities fused their Dharma Forms across the real world, Shen Ye and Peaso escaped into a transformed Dharma Realm, where returning a monster’s corpse earned Shen Ye a concealment treasure.

• Lanci learned that the children’s fates had been delayed by two years, leaving them alive before the research project began.
• Lanci found Kunlun and its hidden Intelligent Chip in a service-area restroom, and Shen Ye stored the Rabbit Plush Toy in his Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye blocked the highway with ice crystals to delay the children’s arrival at the research institute.
• Xiatelai and Shen Ye entered the Dharma Realm, but the other negative personalities’ fused Dharma Form forced them to flee back to the Panda Agency.
• Big Skeleton disguised herself as a monster and carried Shen Ye and Peaso through the ruined Dharma Realm, where she traded gold for the corpse of a Spirit of the Dharma Realm.
• Shen Ye returned the corpse to the Dharma Realm and received the jade pendant Glazed Moon, which concealed anyone who had not seen them.

Shen Ye and Xiatelai uncovered hidden potential in the Guanghan Palace Dharma Form, rescued the Spirit of the Dharma Realm Asino, and used its help to awaken the Dharma Form. The chapter ended as the Dharma Realm’s power transformed Guanghan Palace and revealed that it was ready.

• Shen Ye discovered Glazed Moon and hidden mechanisms in Guanghan Palace, then learned from Xiatelai that the Dharma Realm could activate them.
• Xiatelai and Shen Ye used the shop assistant as a decoy to slip past monsters, and Shen Ye used the Despicable Substitute trait to make the monsters fight among themselves.
• Shen Ye and Xiatelai freed Asino, a captive Spirit of the Dharma Realm, from a sealed crate, and Asino linked itself to Xiatelai.
• Big Skeleton ate a monster corpse to assume the form of a black figure and carried Shen Ye and Xiatelai to a dormitory, where the rabbit infiltrated the research institute’s network.
• Xiatelai summoned Asino and brought it to Guanghan Palace, where she and Shen Ye asked the Dharma Realm to activate the Dharma Form.
• The Dharma Realm flooded Guanghan Palace with power, and glowing text announced that Shen Ye’s Dharma Form was ready.

Shen Ye awakened the germination of a new Guanghan Palace Dharma Form by defining it as a series of combat instances, then warned Xiatelai to prepare for an approaching calamity. When an invisible monster ambushed them at the Highway Service Area, Shen Ye and Xiatelai trapped it inside the new Dharma Form, where its greed and refusal to follow the intended route left it stranded and miserable.

• Shen Ye rejected the failed methods of past Guanghan Palace inheritors and proposed creating a series of combat instances, earning the Dharma Realm's help to germinate his new Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye told Xiatelai that the fused Dharma Form of her Negative Personalities and an Emperor Species Cosmic Insect both pointed to a coming calamity, and urged her to prepare for survival.
• Shen Ye and Xiatelai returned to the Highway Service Area, where an eerie mist and sudden silence alerted Xiatelai to an ambush.
• Xiatelai used Thinking of You to expose the invisible attacker with The Emperor in New Clothes, then summoned Guanghan Palace to draw it into Shen Ye's Germinal Dharma Form.
• The monster repeatedly chose apparent shortcuts, paid treasures to use teleportation arrays, and lost its Skeleton Giant Bird after refusing to pay for faster travel.
• After wandering through darkness and discovering that self-harm could activate the final teleportation array, the monster collapsed and wept.

Shen Ye and Lanci escaped a merged Dharma Form by destroying it with a fused trap, then returned to Panda Agency and built a Great Tomb Soldier Barracks in Shen Ye’s Dharma Form. He summoned Guo Yunye as an exceptional Tomb Guard, whose treasure-seeking ability uncovered an Immortal Puppet and revealed that the land contained buried treasures that could be claimed by filling the Endless Ocean with xirang.

• The monster reached the skeletal flying bird by cutting itself, but refused to pay its fare and tried to attack it, returning to the mountain peak as the two Dharma Forms became linked.
• Lanci used the treasures the monster had contributed to build a Volcano Trap, which killed the invading monsters and supplied enough energy to raise Lanci’s strength and defeat their leader.
• Lanci fused two Volcano Traps into a purple-grade Lava Purgatory, destroyed the invading army and both connected Dharma Form worlds, then escaped with Shen Ye to Panda Agency.
• Shen Ye spent Bone Coins and gold to build a Great Tomb Soldier Barracks, then summoned Guo Yunye as an exceptional Tomb Guard.
• Guo Yunye transformed into a Treasure-Seeking Hound and led Shen Ye and the Four Kings to dig up a blue-quality Immortal Puppet.
• Shen Ye learned that he had to fill the Endless Ocean with xirang to obtain more land and the treasures buried within it, which the Desolate Ancient Tomb-Guarding God had taken from the Immortal Kingdom.

Shen Ye escaped the deadly Ten Thousand Shadow Lamenting Demon City and explored Dusk Star, where he turned battles and a monster’s attacks into energy. He returned to the Panda Agency with the War Profiteer Trait and learned that his three curses had ended, allowing his Traits to return to normal.

• Shen Ye used Chaluchitorik’s Silent Baron Trait to map Nine Forms’ combined Dharma Form, then heeded her warning and escaped before the city unleashed a deadly Art.
• Shen Ye bought a Spatial Folding Detector and paid for supervision before traveling to Dusk Star to search for a Trait and treasure.
• Shen Ye summoned Guo Yunye to point him toward treasure, then absorbed energy from spells during a battle among Professionals and learned of a major clash ahead.
• Shen Ye hid near the three major teams waiting for the Earth Demonic Beast, absorbed the beast’s powerful attacks, and sent it into the battle before escaping through a door.
• Shen Ye returned to the Panda Agency, where the War Profiteer Trait appeared and confirmed that he had endured three curses and his Traits would return to normal.

Shen Ye fused his negative traits, built up his Dharma Form, and advanced to the Fifth Layer of the Dharma Realm by harvesting energy from battles and putting monsters to work. After returning to the service area with Xiatelai, he discovered that the Human Evolution Association had deliberately isolated the site for an evolved specimen assessment, and a test subject arrived.

• Shen Ye fused Despicable Substitute, The Emperor in New Clothes, and War Profiteer into the tea-green trait Good Brother.
• Shen Ye summoned Xirang and a Wilderness Nest, then brought the Emperor Species Cosmic Insect into it and threw it into the Ten Thousand Shadow Lamenting Demon City to fight Nine Forms' negative Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye returned to the Terminus Star and gathered energy while the Earth Demonic Beast battled the Three Professional Teams, then made the beast cast spells to earn more energy.
• Shen Ye upgraded the Great Tomb Soldier Barracks, activating his Dharma Form's feedback and raising his strength to the Fifth Layer of the Dharma Realm.
• After returning to the service area with Xiatelai, Shen Ye used Hanged Man's Gate to discover that the Human Evolution Association had scheduled an evolved specimen assessment and isolated Highway 377 Service Area.
• A metal container landed in the plaza and opened, revealing a three-meter-tall humanoid test subject.

Shen Ye helped Xiatelai reconcile with her vengeful negative personality, then followed her and the children to a research institute where he discovered its Professionals knew about the Immortal Kingdom. After the institute’s principal staged a suspicious selection game, Xiatelai and Shen Ye secretly used a radio to contact Kunlun and decided to investigate the institute’s next round.

• Shen Ye used the Immortal Kui to destroy the experimental subject, then helped Xiatelai embrace and merge with her black-clad negative personality after she vowed to punish those responsible for the experiments.
• Xiatelai returned to Sophie and the other children, and the group was flown to a research institute, where Shen Ye overheard its leaders discuss the Immortal Kingdom and order an investigation into everyone at the service area.
• At the principal’s number-tag game, Peaso helped Sophie draw number 2 while Lanci drew number 3, and the children received their prizes and dinner.
• After Sophie fell asleep, Lanci used her radio, and a Professional caught her before she switched it off and went to bed.
• Shen Ye and the other personalities secretly contacted Kunlun, learned that another selection involving a thousand Demon Snakes would begin in three hours, and decided to investigate the Immortal Kingdom and kill their enemies that night.

Shen Ye prepared to confront the negative personalities, lured the research institute’s Professionals into a trap, and eliminated nearly everyone there by sending them to face the Earth Demonic Beast. A new personality challenged him to experience Lanci’s darkest memories, but Shen Ye resisted the first test by killing a predatory woman on the bus, and the challenge continued.

• Xiatelai sought Shen Ye’s advice about the Demon of Fear, and he urged her to care for it instead of fighting it; she left with the other personalities and their powers.
• After discovering the other personalities were gone, Shen Ye used the water in a washbasin to escape the locked dormitory and arranged for Kunlun to deliver supplies.
• Shen Ye used the Four Kings to lure Professionals into a Dharma Realm trap, where an Immortal Puppet demanded payment before abandoning them to the Earth Demonic Beast.
• Shen Ye moved through the institute’s window reflections, sending its researchers and Professionals to the beast, then retrieved a delivery of gold with Big Skeleton’s help.
• A new negative personality challenged Shen Ye to experience Lanci’s darkest memories, with the fate of his world and Xiatelai’s struggle at stake.
• During the first memory, Shen Ye recognized a woman trying to drug him on a bus, forced her to drink the drug, and killed her; the personality said he had not suffered.

Shen Ye relived Lanci’s childhood punishment and learned that her negative personality had formed from painful memories, then reached the events before the false theft accusation. He attacked the girls and Teacher Bella after they threatened his exam opportunity, but the teachers ordered him into solitary confinement for twenty-one days.

• Shen Ye found himself in Lanci’s childhood confinement cell after she had spent twenty-one days in solitary confinement for supposedly stealing a Ferris wheel she had made for Sophie.
• At the school assembly, Shen Ye exposed that the girls and their teacher had framed Lanci, and the negative personality killed the four girls before asking him to change events from the beginning.
• Back in the auditorium before the accusation, Shen Ye attacked the girls who said Teacher Bella wanted to deny him exam rewards, then froze Bella to the teaching building.
• The teachers confronted Shen Ye, and when a girl accused Lanci of stealing, they sentenced him to twenty-one days in solitary confinement.

Shen Ye endured the shadows’ trial by fighting a hopeless war as Baxter, then awakened the Living Soul Lord class and asked the fallen humans for permission to wield their abilities. Surrounded by Living Soul Puppets, he prepared to fight alongside his Lifeless Lord powers.

• Shen Ye escaped confinement briefly to engrave a message on Lanci’s Ferris wheel, proving it belonged to her and prompting the headmistress to release her and investigate Ms. Bella.
• The shadows sent Baxter into a battlefield from her childhood, where she fought biomechanical mecha and tried to protect human soldiers from waves of nuclear bombs.
• After the nuclear strikes left the battlefield’s humans dead, Shen Ye used Xiatelai’s Nightmare Crystal to advance Baxter’s body to the Living Soul Lord class.
• Shen Ye asked the fallen humans for permission to use their classes, creating Living Soul Puppets as they agreed.
• Shen Ye summoned freezing mirrors with the Lifeless Lord while the Living Soul Puppets gathered around him, preparing for battle.

Shen Ye won the battle against the machines, then chose to give Nine Forms’ power to Xiatelai and learned that the Nightmare Art could decide the conflict with the Demon of Fear. Annie sent him to the Nightmare World with a powerful Living Soul Puppet to find the Art, where he posed as Peppa and joined a Human patrol.

• Shen Ye restored the Human Professionals through repeated mirror swaps, helped them destroy the Queen Bee’s forces, and won the battlefield.
• Nine Forms offered Shen Ye its power, but he gave it to Xiatelai; the choice broke the Demon of Fear’s curse that could have turned him into the Tyrannical Eater.
• A little girl revealed that the Nightmare Art could end the conflict, then returned as Annie and told Shen Ye to find it in the Nightmare World while she fought the World Destruction Experiencer Avatar.
• Annie created a Living Soul Puppet with her full strength and sent it with Shen Ye to the Nightmare World, warning him not to reveal her true name.
• Shen Ye arrived in the ancient Nightmare World, called himself Peppa and the puppet Loli, and agreed to accompany a squad of Human Soldiers.

Shen Ye met Xiao Mengyu at the Magic Cottage, where they learned how demons could temporarily prohibit four of their opponents’ abilities. When demons attacked the cottage, Xiao Mengyu and Shen Ye fought back, but a stronger enemy appeared as Big Skeleton collected the fallen demons’ bodies and valuables.

• Shen Ye questioned the Emperor Species’ soul corpse about the Great Tomb and the Nightmare Art, then ordered Big Skeleton to eat it.
• Shen Ye upgraded the Barracks to level three and summoned Xiao Mengyu, who joined him at the Magic Cottage.
• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that Professionals who reached the Seventh Layer of the Dharma Realm had entered the Immortal Kingdom, and Shen Ye explained the demons’ Four Prohibitions.
• Xiao Mengyu killed a demon that had tricked Bronte into opening the cottage door, but its companions witnessed her sword technique and caused her to forget it.
• Shen Ye used Wei True Person’s Enlightenment to reveal the demons outside, then killed many of them with Archery: Starflame before the skill was prohibited.
• A strange roar sounded from the mountains, and Big Skeleton and the Four Kings began collecting the demons’ corpses and valuables.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu killed a demon controlling an army of familiars, and Shen Ye fused her swords into the legendary Luoshen Sword. After the battle, Shen Ye helped Xiao Mengyu seek inspiration for her swordsmanship by using a Songstress Art, leaving her overwhelmed with new insights.

• Shen Ye moved the exploding elven corpses into his Dharma Form while Xiao Mengyu sent the Luoshui Divine Sword to wound a powerful demon nearby.
• Shen Ye fused Xiao Mengyu's Remnant Snow Sword and Luo Water Sword into the legendary Luoshen Sword, which gained powerful abilities.
• Shen Ye discovered a demon leading thousands of familiars, raised his Dharma Form into reality, and defended the Magic Cottage with the Immortal Puppet and Earth Demonic Beast.
• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu flew through the clouds and attacked the demon, with Xiao Mengyu's Luoshen Sword killing it and freeing the familiars from its control.
• Shen Ye gained the Peppa trait, then became a Swordsman after Xiao Mengyu guided his body through Flowing Cloud Pursuit Slash.
• Shen Ye used a Songstress Art while wielding the Luoshen Sword, creating a spectacular sword display that gave Xiao Mengyu a great deal of inspiration.

Shen Ye learned that the Insect Mother’s forces were seeking the Earth Golden Seal, which could reshape reality and dreams, and raced to secure it while the Insect Mother attacked him. After the seal helped Xiatelai defeat the Demon of Fear, the real Xiatelai arrived and healed Shen Ye, leaving her confronting the Insect Mother.

• Shen Ye and Big Skeleton disguised themselves as an Emperor Species and used Dark Whisper to learn that the Insect Mother’s forces sought the Earth Golden Seal in the Imperial Palace.
• The juvenile Emperor Species revealed that the Earth Golden Seal controlled the Huntian Art, then died when its mother’s curse punished it for divulging the secret.
• The Insect Mother appeared in the Magic Cottage and immobilized Shen Ye, while he kept control of Annie and tried to buy time.
• Annie found the Earth Golden Seal hidden in Epoch Prediction, and Shen Ye used it to turn the Demon of Fear’s world into a dream and Xiatelai’s world into reality.
• Xiatelai appeared, confirmed that she had won against the Demon of Fear, healed Shen Ye, and challenged the Insect Mother.

Shen Ye gave up his Lifeless Lord class to unlock Xiatelai’s power, and she defeated the Insect Mother’s advantage before finding him in Purgatory. After trusting him and sharing an intimate farewell, Xiatelai left to face the Insect Mother and go to a higher universe, telling Shen Ye to grow strong enough to find her.

• Xiatelai confronted the Insect Mother over her demand to kill Shen Ye, and the two vanished to fight in the universe.
• Annie witnessed the Insect Mother unleash her Saint Corpse Insect Demon Dharma Form and overwhelm Xiatelai.
• Shen Ye fused his Two-World Link Gate with the Hanged Man’s Gate, losing I Exist in the Mirror and the Lifeless Lord class.
• Xiatelai disappeared from the battle and found Shen Ye in Purgatory, where she erased the pursuing monsters and explained that she had tested his loyalty.
• Xiatelai kissed Shen Ye, told him about the Unfixed Layer and the Black King, and said she would leave for a higher universe after dealing with the Insect Mother.
• Xiatelai called Shen Ye Baxter, promised to bring him to the higher universe once she had established herself, and disappeared.

Shen Ye confirmed that his memories of Xiatelai and the battle against Nine Forms were real, though Xiatelai had concealed the events from the world. He gained the Vampire Kiddo trait and the Dimensional Gate skill, then entered the Nightmare World, where the Shadow Brotherhood welcomed him back as Brother Peppa.

• Shen Ye read the messages Xiatelai, Peaso, Lanci, and Annie had left in Guanghan Palace, and Big Skeleton told him how Xiatelai had used his bones to write them.
• Shen Ye gained the Vampire Kiddo trait, which could fuse items, skills, classes, and traits, and discovered that his fused gates had evolved into the Dimensional Gate.
• Shen Ye learned that the school would send only approved students into the Nightmare World, and Xu Xingke warned him about dangerous visitors from higher worlds while lending him a Battle Guidance Master Tarot Card.
• Guo Yunye demonstrated that he could borrow Nangong Sirui’s Yaksha Power, but borrowing Shen Ye’s Night Roamer class turned him into a stray dog.
• Shen Ye and the approved students teleported to the Nightmare World, where his companions headed to the New Recruit Training Camp and the Shadow Brotherhood welcomed him as Brother Peppa.

Shen Ye received the Immortal Kingdom’s unique title, Deeply Hidden Selection Officer, and learned he could hold trials to choose Professionals for its missions. After a failed trial killed a squad of outsiders, he inspected their supplies and discovered their orders concerned the Huntian Art; he then decided to recruit Xiao San, Xiao Mengyu, and the others for his trip to the Imperial Capital.

• Shen Ye completed the Shadow Ritual, gained the Immortal Kingdom’s recognition, and received the title Deeply Hidden Selection Officer along with a mission to conduct trials and recommend candidates.
• Shen Ye received Norton’s letter urging him to study at the Imperial Military Academy and got a transfer order allowing him to select a squad of up to six for the journey.
• Shen Ye rejected a squad of powerful outsiders after they threatened him, and the Grand Knights killed them when the officer ordered their arrest.
• Shen Ye activated the Immortal Kingdom Trial, but every participant failed; the Immortal Kingdom collected their possessions and sent some supplies into his Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye and Big Skeleton opened a crate of Magic Bombs and found a token ordering the outsiders to investigate entry to the Great Tomb Immortal Kingdom and locate the Huntian Art.
• Shen Ye warned Fei Lun that the Nightmare World’s soldiers had grown stronger, then spotted recruits fighting on the Drill Ground and decided to choose Xiao San, Xiao Mengyu, and the others as companions.

While escorting Shen Ye toward the Imperial Capital, Eudria’s party was ambushed by Joseph and his forces, and Shen Ye used his traits and newly fused Ghost Scout profession to turn the pursuit into a battle. The fight was still underway as Shen Ye began building up his Dharma Form with the energy he had gathered.

• Shen Ye fused Night Roamer and Blade Adept into the Ghost Scout profession, gaining ghost-summoning, temporary invulnerability, and increasingly powerful Netherworld ghosts.
• Shen Ye recognized Joseph as an enemy through the Peppa trait, refused to let him join the party, and changed their route toward Rothenburg after the Immortal Kingdom offered to test Xiao Mengyu, Nangong Sirui, and Guo Yunye.
• Joseph’s army pursued the party, but Shen Ye used Bane to unleash a flood on the soldiers before Eudria struck the remaining pursuers with a fiery spell and revealed herself as Court Archmage Eudria.
• Joseph ambushed Shen Ye from underground while another dangerous enemy engaged Eudria, and the two Grand Knights, Nangong Sirui, Xiao Mengyu, and Shen Ye acted together to stop Joseph.
• Xiao Mengyu wounded Joseph with her sword techniques, while Shen Ye trapped him in his Dharma Form and Guo Yunye, transformed into a Dark Night Demon Wolf, struck him with wind blades.
• Shen Ye removed Guo Yunye from his Dharma Form and prepared to build up his own using 3,050 energy points.

Shen Ye used his traits and upgraded traps to survive Joseph’s assault, while Eudria struck down another Dharma Realm Eighth Layer enemy with a fused magic bomb. Joseph transformed into a Ninth Level presence and demanded Shen Ye serve him, but the Four Kings returned with a mysterious crystal stolen from Joseph’s Dharma Form, disrupting the force that had descended into him.

• Shen Ye activated Lava Purgatory to destroy his Dharma Form and escape Joseph, then upgraded his traps to summon a World-Burning Angel.
• Shen Ye fused 300 magic bombs into Big Firework and gave the launcher to Eudria, who blasted her opponent into the sky with three hundred explosions.
• Nangong Sirui transformed into a Yaksha and fought Joseph alongside the Grand Knights while Shen Ye’s Good Brother doll interfered with Joseph’s weapon.
• Joseph reached the Ninth Level of the Dharma Realm and revealed that he had entered the Unfixed-Level Universe after sensing the Huntian Art, then demanded Shen Ye serve him.
• Joseph’s transformation abruptly ended, and Shen Ye discovered the Four Kings returning in a boat with a huge crystal they had stolen from Joseph’s Dharma Form.

Shen Ye defeated the World Destruction Experiencer Avatar’s attempt to take over his Dharma Form, earned an upgraded Immortal Kingdom class, and split from his companions to investigate the threat. He used Joseph’s golden spear to open a gate into the weapon’s past and prepared to travel back in time.

• Eudria killed Joseph with Starsurge, while Shen Ye learned that the crystal contained a World Destruction Experiencer Avatar and surrendered it to the Immortal Kingdom.
• The Avatar tried to deceive Shen Ye and corrupt his Dharma Form, but Shen Ye hurled its flesh-and-blood cocoon into the Abyss Zone on Terminus Star, and the Immortal Kingdom claimed the crystal.
• The Immortal Kingdom upgraded Shen Ye’s class to Netherworld Spirit Envoy and identified the entity as a World Destruction Experiencer Avatar.
• Shen Ye’s attempt to question Joseph’s corpse triggered a curse that made it explode, so he decided to investigate the threat himself while Eudria and the others continued toward Rothenburg or returned home.
• Shen Ye used Joseph’s golden spear as a spacetime token, opened a Dimensional Gate to a moment the spear had experienced, and prepared to travel into the past despite Big Skeleton’s warning.