Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi fought off undead ice people that were draining his body heat while trapped inside a giant creature. Outside, the Betas attacked Charles, the King of the Undead, until a powerful heartbeat sounded from inside his belly.

• Yang Yi woke to ice people gnawing on him and fought them with the Broken Iron Greatsword, the Roaring Flintlock, and the Fool's Short Sword.
• Yang Yi realized the ice people were undead and draining his body heat, then used Healing of the Flame to thaw himself.
• Yang Yi decided he could not let the ice people wear him down and put Boke's skull fragments into the Burning Giant's Heart as fuel.
• Hundreds of Betas attacked Charles, a gigantic ghoul, with Matter Disintegration Cannons, but his wounds healed almost immediately.
• Charles stopped eating and pressed his hands to his belly as powerful heartbeats sounded inside him, shocking the Betas.

Yang Yi fought the Frost Hands inside Charles while the Betas tried to contain the monster and repair a breach in the Deathbirth Star. As Yang Yi pushed toward the source of the hands, he realized they seemed to be trying to scoop him out rather than kill him.

• Yang Yi burned the Fire Worship Cult elders’ skull fragments to summon a Flame Giant, vaporizing the ice figures and searching for an exit.
• Outside, Charles stopped eating and clutched his stomach as powerful heartbeats shook the metal buildings, unsettling the Betas.
• Beta Number 8848 reported an enormous breach in the Deathbirth Star, and Beta Number 10047 ordered emergency repairs to prevent Charles from escaping.
• The Betas deployed Matter Disintegration Cannons and Bionic Robots to hold Charles back while Yang Yi battled the Frost Hands inside him.
• Yang Yi let the Maw of Gluttony consume the Charred Black Giant Worm Ring and eat his stored food, restoring his stamina as the Flame Giant grew stronger.
• Yang Yi concluded that the Frost Hands were trying to scoop him out and moved toward their source.

Yang Yi discovered that he was inside Charles, whose stomach had mutated into a Maw of Gluttony, and fought his way out in an enormous Flame Giant form. He beheaded Charles while demanding the Stone of Truth.

• Yang Yi realized gravity shifted inside the Maw of Gluttony and identified the ice-blue arms and ice people as parts of the mutated stomach.
• Yang Yi concluded that Charles had eaten the undead and was imprisoning them within himself, then prepared to escape with the fuel he had saved.
• Beta and the other Betas continued fighting Charles, but they recognized that their command to stop him and wake him was impossible to fulfill.
• The Betas saw Yang Yi inside Charles, and his powerful heartbeat made Charles and the surrounding Betas falter.
• Yang Yi forced his way out of Charles's stomach with a giant flaming greatsword and emerged as a nearly 2,500-meter-tall Flame Giant.
• Yang Yi demanded the Stone of Truth and beheaded Charles with one swing of his flaming greatsword.

Yang Yi fought Charles inside the Deathbirth Star while searching for the Stone of Truth, but Charles’s magic froze Yang Yi and the satellite began to fall apart. The Deathbirth Star crashed into the sea, leaving Yang Yi swallowed by the Maw of Gluttony and Charles encased in ice.

• Yang Yi repeatedly chopped Charles apart and searched his brain for the Stone of Truth, but Beta 1442 explained that the stone could not be removed while its holder lived.
• Cui Xiya ordered the ship away from the Deathbirth Star after Xiaoji warned that the satellite was likely to fall, while Yu Dawei witnessed its flickering light and realized he was in the Death Plague Sea.
• Yang Yi refused to retreat despite his dwindling strength, insisting he needed the Stone of Truth to help Su Na.
• Charles cast Frozen Scream, unleashing Ice Nest Worms that froze Yang Yi, and the Maw of Gluttony swallowed him.
• The damaged Deathbirth Star disintegrated as it fell into the sea, and Charles’s enormous body landed in the water and froze it into an iceberg.

After the Deathbirth Star shattered, a supernatural plague and freezing storm devastated the Death Plague Sea, while survivors became undead. Trapped inside Charles, Yang Yi used a bone fragment to reignite his flames and set every undead within a hundred meters, including Charles, ablaze.

• The Deathbirth Star's impact unleashed a freezing storm and a plague that made people and buildings break apart into cubes.
• A Deathbirth Society Captain survived repeated gunshots without injury and gathered fifteen undead survivors as the world froze.
• The Captain and his team saw flames rise from the impact zone, then began spontaneously burning as war drums sounded.
• Inside Charles, Yang Yi resisted the Maw of Gluttony's hunger and realized Madness+ was draining his Qi and Blood.
• Yang Yi fed a Fire Worship Cult Elder's bone fragment into his furnace and shouted "Burn with Me," igniting himself and all undead within a hundred meters, including Charles.

Yang Yi fought his way through Charles’s burning stomach as the fire halted the Death Plague Sea’s spread and drove back the Undead. He escaped Charles, while Beta chose to remain behind and began losing her sanity in the flames.

• Yang Yi and Beta realized the fire was burning the Undead and preventing the Undeath Disease from spreading, though Yang warned it might attract something worse.
• Yang Yi saw Charles burning in the sea, where the flames boiled the water and could not be put out.
• Heitanba and the Fire Worship Cult elders fueled their flying ship with their own flesh and hurried toward the crash site, proclaiming the coming age of fire.
• The Death Plague Sea stopped expanding and began to recede, while Yu Dawei found himself back in the Sea of No Light and could not contact Yang Yi.
• Yang Yi reached Charles’s belly and urged Beta to escape, but she chose to stay with Charles as her sanity faltered.
• Yang Yi hacked through Charles’s enormous belly and crawled out.

Yang Yi emerged from Charles into a vast scorched world overlapping with the sea, where burning Undead marched toward The Charred Tree. He realized he was anchoring the merging spaces and abandoned his escape, instead urging Charles toward the Great Being while checking Su Na’s condition.

• Yang Yi escaped from Charles and saw that scorched earth and the sea occupied overlapping spaces across several nautical miles.
• Yang Yi spotted burning Undead, including Ghouls and sea creatures, marching in the same direction and realized his Burn with Me spell could not have reached them.
• Charles stood and began striding toward the source of the fire, and Yang Yi recognized that the Undead were heading toward The Charred Tree.
• Yang Yi considered fleeing but concluded that he was anchoring the merging spaces and would only enlarge the overlap by running away.
• Yang Yi checked the system and saw Su Na’s sanity was 8, then climbed onto Charles’s neck and urged him to move faster toward The Charred Tree.

Yang Yi endured the extreme heat inside Charles while waiting for him to die, and the Charred Black Giant Worm Ring transformed into a Hero-quality Molten Giant Worm Ring. Charles finally disintegrated, exposing the Stone of Truth, but Yang Yi’s Sanity plunged when he saw a great being.

• Yang Yi stayed hidden in Charles’s neck, monitored Su Na and Cui Xiya, and kept his Sanity steady while the heat reduced his maximum Qi and Blood.
• Yang Yi endured the flames as his Constitution and Spirit experience increased, while his equipment began to melt.
• The Charred Black Giant Worm Ring transformed into a Hero-quality Molten Giant Worm Ring that could shift between liquid and solid forms.
• Yang Yi noticed Charles had shrunk to less than a thousand meters tall and that his own body had resisted the heat better.
• Charles disintegrated into black debris with the Undead inside him, and Yang Yi spotted the azure Stone of Truth before seeing a great being and suffering a Sanity plunge.

Yang Yi briefly mistook a scorched wasteland for a green paradise before the White Shard restored his senses, while The Charred Tree continued burning everything nearby. In another time and space, a mysterious fire engulfed Miskatonic University’s admissions building just as it awaited a new student.

• Yang Yi landed in an illusory green landscape, collected fallen equipment and the Stone of Truth, and believed he was on a pilgrimage to The Charred Tree.
• The Giant Worm spat out a White Shard, whose chill snapped Yang Yi out of the illusion and showed him that his body had been burned to pieces.
• The Maw of Gluttony swallowed Yang Yi’s surviving remains, the Giant Worm Ring, and the Stone of Truth before Yang Yi vanished without drawing The Charred Tree’s attention.
• At Miskatonic University, students trapped in the admissions building studied for a coming examination while an invigilator reset a student who had harmed himself.
• The blond student wondered why the expected new student had not arrived, then a sudden fire engulfed him and the entire teaching building.

Yang Yi arrived at Miskatonic University in a bizarre, charred form and learned that he had entered a special scenario where he had to graduate before leaving. After exploiting the entrance exam’s rules, he enrolled in under ten minutes with first place, setting the university’s fastest-enrollment record.

• The Admissions Building caught fire, and Mentor Michelin discovered Yang Yi alive inside a mass of cooled iron at the fire’s center.
• Yang Yi emerged from the iron, gathered charred body parts to rebuild himself, and read the system notifications explaining his new-student scenario.
• Mentor Michelin introduced himself as the dean of instruction and told Yang Yi that new students had to rank in the top ten percent on the entrance exam.
• Yang Yi struggled to read the exam textbook, then asked how many people were taking the exam.
• Yang Yi used the exam circumstances to enroll in less than ten minutes, earning first place and setting a Miskatonic University record.

After completing the entrance exam, Yang Yi examined the strange university’s rules and his own damaged condition. He planned to seek materials in the medical technology building’s Morgue to restore his missing limbs.

• Yang Yi left the admissions building, convinced that submitting his exam before other examinees arrived had secured him first place.
• Yang Yi noticed threads connecting the old man and other figures to an unseen controller, while uniformed students mistook him for an escaped test subject.
• Yang Yi read his student handbook and learned that he ranked first, had 100 credits, and faced a comprehensive graduation exam in 96 days.
• Yang Yi reviewed his status and abilities, noting his near-full pollution depth, low stamina, and severely incomplete body.
• Yang Yi chose the Morgue in the medical technology building as a possible source of materials to repair his body.

Yang Yi found Su Na at Miskatonic University and explained how he had enrolled with a blank exam paper. After learning that Su Na had extensive academic rankings but placed 134th in physical education, he saw a possible way to earn credits.

• Mentor Michelin restored the Admissions Building and decided to close the loophole that had let Yang Yi enroll in first place with zero points.
• Yang Yi asked students if they knew a senior surnamed Su, then found Su Na near the Medical Technology Building.
• Su Na brought Yang Yi to her laboratory and questioned him about his status before checking his student handbook.
• Yang Yi explained how he had entered the university, and Su Na reacted with disbelief when she heard he had burned down the Admissions Building and scored zero on the exam.
• Yang Yi checked Su Na's rankings and noticed she placed 134th in physical education, which he saw as a chance to earn credits.

Yang Yi and Su Na visited the university Morgue, where they found the recently deceased Charles and discussed whether to remain at Miskatonic University. Yang Yi rejected the idea of staying and urged Su Na to leave with him.

• Su Na explained that students who lost their passion for learning could apply for the university's death service, which reclaimed their knowledge and sent their bodies to the Morgue.
• Su Na brought Yang Yi to the Morgue, where they bought a healthy human corpse from Professor Amanda.
• Yang Yi and Su Na recognized the corpse as Charles, who had died within the past ten minutes.
• Su Na suggested they stay at the university and focus on studying, but Yang Yi warned that Charles could be their fate.
• Yang Yi attached Charles's arms and legs to himself with magic, then asked Su Na to leave the university with him.

Yang Yi persuaded Su Na that they could win the graduation exam by preventing the other candidates from taking it, giving him a possible way to graduate. After Su Na left for class, Yang Yi explored the university and registered for several practical courses.

• Yang Yi proposed keeping the other candidates out of the exam hall or killing them so he and Su Na could take first place, and Su Na agreed to try the plan.
• Yang Yi suffered a headache from the Spirit Potion's side effects, then asked Su Na about her Pollution Depth and mutation; she avoided answering and left for class.
• Yang Yi left the Laboratory, tested the Course Registration System, and learned that many courses had very few students.
• Yang Yi registered for courses including Physical Education, Boxing, Weapon Fighting, Shooting, and Blacksmithing.

Yang Yi explored Miskatonic University, collected a student uniform, and discovered the cafeteria’s unlimited meal plan was a bargain. When he tested the campus boundary by digging into the ground, Mentor Michelin stopped him and handed him the student rules, warning that he could lose credits for breaking them.

• Yang Yi reviewed the university’s credit-heavy courses and hidden classes before exploring the campus in his broken Transformation Belt.
• Yang Yi collected a student uniform, drank free nutritional paste, and bought a basic meal card for unlimited cafeteria food.
• Yang Yi traveled to the campus edge and found that he could not move beyond its spatial boundary.
• Yang Yi tested the boundary with his Greatsword, then dug a pit to investigate what lay beneath the ground.
• Mentor Michelin appeared, warned Yang Yi that his actions could cost credits, restored the ground, and gave him the student rules.

Yang Yi adapted to Miskatonic University’s new conduct rules by pretending to become a diligent student while planning his next move. At Physical Education, his natural strength and stamina exceeded the course requirements, so the teacher passed him immediately.

• Yang Yi noticed that the university had added rules against public nudity and damaging the grounds after his recent actions, and found the same rules in the Student Handbook.
• Su Na confronted Yang Yi about the new Student Code of Conduct, and he secretly sent her a coded message explaining that the university monitored students and that he planned to act within the existing rules.
• Yang Yi spent the night considering his options, then jogged cheerfully to his morning Physical Education class.
• Yang Yi heard other students discuss the demanding graduation tests and joined six students as the teacher assigned a punishing series of exercises.
• Yang Yi completed the run and began jumping rope at extraordinary speed, so the teacher determined his natural attributes already met the requirements and passed him.

Yang Yi rapidly earned credits by completing courses and planned to tackle increasingly difficult hidden classes. His first Unrestricted Combat lesson began with the instructor testing him using a trap, a wooden sword, and a blank-firing gun.

• Yang Yi passed advanced Boxing by overpowering the instructor, then completed several other advanced courses and earned extra credits for his sculpture.
• Yang Yi discovered new hidden courses, including God Statue Sculpting, Greatsword Technique, and Gun-Fu, and planned how to spend his remaining credits.
• Yang Yi’s paintings disturbed students, leading the university to ban painting disgusting pictures in public and provide him with a private studio.
• Yang Yi received a note announcing Unrestricted Combat and went to the park for the lesson.
• The old instructor tried to ambush Yang Yi with a smoke bomb, then attacked with a wooden sword and fired a blank, scolding Yang Yi for watching the sword instead of anticipating the gun.

Yang Yi studied Teacher Sun’s unrestricted combat and spent a month and a half advancing through demanding courses at the school. After finally completing Teacher Sun’s course, he reviewed his improved attributes and began preparing for the graduation exam with Su Na.

• Yang Yi chose to learn Teacher Sun’s unrestricted combat and studied the manual’s unconventional tactics, which inspired his graduation-exam plans.
• Over a month and a half, Yang Yi advanced to Legendary, accumulated 1,294 credits, and completed intermediate Greatsword, basic gun-fu, and muscle courses while struggling with more advanced classes.
• Yang Yi and Su Na used armor, potions, and other tools to corner Teacher Sun during a practical lesson, and Teacher Sun accepted Yang Yi as having completed the course after he threatened to use an alchemical bomb.
• Yang Yi reviewed his base attributes and told Su Na he wanted her to secretly prepare special-effect potions for the graduation exam.

After completing Unrestricted Combat, Yang Yi considered entering the Truth Library and learned from Su Na about its powerful but dangerous effects on Sanity. Su Na revealed her Double Face mutation and Pollution Depth, and Yang Yi redeemed a bachelor's degree so he could visit the library with her the next day.

• Yang Yi discussed the Truth Library with Su Na, who described how prolonged study there had once driven her Sanity dangerously low and erased some of her knowledge.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na about her Pollution Depth and mutated organ, and she showed him the second face on the back of her head, identified as Double Face.
• Su Na explained that Double Face increased her maximum Sanity but made her more likely to lose control if she went mad, and she said frequent Truth Library visitors could emerge in despair and choose death.
• Yang Yi decided to accompany Su Na on future library visits for safety and redeemed a bachelor's degree to enter the Truth Library with her on Friday.

After earning his bachelor's degree, Yang Yi entered Miskatonic University's Truth Library for the first time, where librarian Sun Jin gave him access to a study room. The chapter left Yang Yi about to discover what the library had to offer.

• Yang Yi escaped a white-powder booby trap left by his teacher and reflected on his progress in woodworking, smithing, sculpting, and combat.
• Yang Yi reached the Truth Library and entered through its changing, unusual building after confirming he now met its bachelor's-degree requirement.
• Yang Yi tore off the library's wooden entrance door while testing it, then repaired it with a hammer.
• Yang Yi recognized the disguised librarian as Sun Jin, apologized, and asked to study in the library.
• Sun Jin gave Yang Yi a Blue Token for study room 47 and one hour of access.