Chapter Summaries

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.

Shen Ye escaped the virtual world by making the brain-computer chip nonexistent, then awakened in his original body and learned that the researchers had deliberately chosen him as an experimental subject. After destroying the laboratory, he faced a nuclear strike and transformed into a dragon.

• Shen Ye used the Behind-the-Scenes Figure trait to erase the chip from his history, causing him to vanish from the virtual world and awaken in his original body.
• He rejected the researchers’ offers and learned they had selected him because he was healthy, had no family, and could disappear without attracting attention.
• Shen Ye summoned a fiery saber and destroyed the laboratory, seeing rows of body bags that held other victims of the experiments.
• The researchers launched nuclear missiles at the remote desert base, and Shen Ye used Fei Lun’s Transform into a Dragon skill as the blast arrived.

Shen Ye survived the nuclear blast, fused his two selves into Shen Ye · Super, and returned to the Real World, where Peaso gave him a new identity but left him short of money. Meanwhile, Xiatelai approached the Parasitic Empress to warn her that the Chaos Boat was coming and propose an alliance.

• Shen Ye survived the nuclear explosion and killed the Black-Winged Man and twelve supposed angels after his Rain-Poison Blade suppressed their attacks; he discovered their wings were fake.
• Shen Ye returned to the Multilayered Universe and fused his Real World and Truth Void selves into Shen Ye · Super, gaining the ability to split into two independent versions or merge their abilities.
• Shen Ye sent his teenage self back to the city to cultivate while he returned to the Real World, where Peaso appeared and gave him a chip containing a new identity before her consciousness faded.
• Shen Ye found only 2.5 yuan in his bank account, then learned that completing his mission earned him a spaceship he could not sell, so he borrowed money and rushed to a noodle shop for food.
• Xiatelai met the injured Parasitic Empress in the wilderness, showed her the approaching Chaos Boat, and asked her to join forces to survive.

Shen Ye faced a forced sacrifice in the Multilayered Universe and confronted the Angel Graveyard’s threats in the Real World. After an explosion killed Mike before he could transfer two billion yuan, Shen Ye ordered Fei Lun to kill the attackers, and Fei Lun transformed into a dragon and incinerated them.

• Xiatelai stopped the Valkyrie’s sacrifice when she sensed something wrong, but the Seventeenth Tier big shot forced the ritual to resume and appeared, calling for help.
• Shen Ye met Mike in an empty noodle shop, where Mike tried to mediate with the Angel Graveyard; when its winged representative threatened Shen Ye, Shen Ye killed him with a chopstick.
• An unseen attacker stole Shen Ye’s Rain-Poison Blade, and Mike offered two billion yuan and a customized Mecha as compensation.
• Just as Mike was completing the money transfer, his stomach exploded, destroying the block and killing him before the transaction went through.
• Shen Ye ordered Fei Lun to kill the attackers, and Fei Lun transformed into a dragon and burned the people in the secret chamber to ashes.

After the Angel Graveyard’s attack, Shen Ye gained access to the Eternal Brain and chose the Ascetic Daoist path, receiving power that raised him to the nineteenth level of the Dharma Realm. He then went to follow new military orders and faced an S-class Demon King, which his Bone Blade suppressed while he watched the Void.

• Shen Ye learned that officials would confiscate his Universe Ship to pay for the destruction caused by the Angel Graveyard’s attack, while chip-based replacements would repopulate the ruined district.
• Peaso showed Shen Ye the Eternal Brain, which recognized him after the Angel Graveyard’s destruction and removed his chip.
• Shen Ye rejected the Priest emblem, chose the Cultivator path and then the Ascetic Daoist class, and advanced to the nineteenth level of the Dharma Realm after completing his first class quest.
• Shen Ye received orders to meet a mission team at South City People’s Square, spent his free attribute points on agility, and raced there rather than paying for a taxi.
• Shen Ye joined a girl to investigate an arrival site where an S-class Demon King appeared, and his Bone Blade suppressed the creature so he urged her to attack it.

Shen Ye survived White Night Spirit Wang’s Puppet’s ambush by trapping it beyond the reach of the Multilayered Universe, then organized a public sacrificial campaign to strengthen a Truth Seventeenth Tier being against the Chaos Boat and White Night Spirit Wang. The chapter ended with Shen Ye planning a Double Eleven event to draw even more people into the sacrifices.

• Shen Ye killed the Demon King, learned that the western outskirts were safe, and advanced to the next mission while a warning from Fate Divination left him uneasy.
• Shen Ye and his companions sacrificed treasures to help the Truth Seventeenth Tier being, but the Chaos Boat’s ritual opened a trial that created powerful Puppets of the group.
• Shen Ye defeated his weaker Puppet with the Truth Cannon, then White Night Spirit Wang’s Puppet ambushed him and nearly killed him before the Tribunal imprisoned it.
• Shen Ye merged with his younger self, used the Real Estate Gate and a Heaven-Piercing Gate to strand White Night Spirit Wang’s Puppet at a distant location, then split apart again.
• Shen Ye arranged a continuous livestream offering gold to viewers who sacrificed household items, and the Truth Seventeenth Tier being reported that its power was rapidly recovering.
• Shen Ye ordered his assistant to prepare a Double Eleven promotion so more people would participate in the sacrifices.