Chapter Summaries

Luo Fan survived the melee with help from An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird, while the Young Master Weird kept pursuing him. With twelve Trial Participants left, the Young Master Weird urged the other Weirds to join forces against Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird.

• The Young Master Weird attacked Luo Fan, and the Snake-Type Weird petrified him until An Xiaoran dispelled the effect with holy light.
• The Qipao Weird protected An Xiaoran from the Beetle Weird, reversed its level with her time rule, and killed it.
• Luo Fan evaded the Young Master Weird with Rose's skills while the number of Trial Participants fell to twelve.
• Luo Fan's Mimicry time limit expired, revealing his own appearance as the Young Master Weird prepared to attack again.
• The Young Master Weird identified Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird to the other Weirds and called for them to eliminate the trio before the trial ended.

Luo Fan used his attack-immunity ability and An Xiaoran’s support to kill the Snake-Type Weird with sunlight, making the gathered Weirds fear him. He then declared his personal grudge with the Young Master Weird and warned the others not to interfere, leaving them hesitant and the Young Master Weird isolated.

• Luo Fan charged at the Snake-Type Weird while the Young Master Weird and Giant Ape Weird attacked him without effect.
• An Xiaoran dispelled the Snake-Type Weird’s Petrification and pinned it with a Healing Cross while Luo Fan stunned it with Sap.
• Luo Fan poured Mo Yuling’s sunlight over the Snake-Type Weird, killing it and causing its Sixth-Tier Weird Crystal to drop.
• Luo Fan showed the Weirds the sunlight remaining in his bottle and warned them that he would fight anyone who interfered in his grudge with the Young Master Weird.
• The Weirds held back, and the Young Master Weird realized Luo Fan had turned them against joining the fight.

Luo Fan manipulated the Giant Ape Weird into killing the Young Master Weird, then waited for an opening as the remaining contestants sized one another up. The Giant Eagle Weird killed an injured humanoid Weird, leaving nine participants and apparently ending the second trial, but Luo Fan sensed something was wrong.

• Luo Fan accused the Young Master Weird of insulting the Giant Ape Weird and persuaded the Giant Ape to attack it.
• The other Weirds refused to help the Young Master Weird, and the Giant Ape beat it to death.
• Luo Fan assessed the ten remaining contestants and chose an injured humanoid Weird as a possible target.
• The Giant Eagle Weird swooped down and killed the wounded humanoid Weird while Luo Fan watched.
• Luo Fan counted nine survivors and thought the second trial had ended, then suddenly realized something was wrong.

Luo Fan discovered that an invisible Mantis Weird had been hiding among the trial participants and ambushed the Qipao Weird, leaving her badly injured. With the remaining Weirds poised to attack and the trial still unresolved, Luo Fan used the Red Veil to summon the Weird Bride, Xiaodie.

• Luo Fan realized the trial had not ended because an unseen Mantis Weird was among the participants, and it appeared beside the Qipao Weird and severed her right arm.
• Luo Fan and An Xiaoran shielded the injured Qipao Weird while Luo Fan shot the Mantis Weird and exposed its identity as a level 68 stealth-type Weird.
• The other Weirds eyed the wounded Qipao Weird as a vulnerable target, leaving Luo Fan and An Xiaoran outnumbered and struggling to hold them off.
• Luo Fan decided to summon the Weird Bride despite the dangers, retrieved the Red Veil, and silently called for his wife.
• One of the Red Veil’s Weird Crystals began to glow as the other Weirds grew wary, while the Mantis Weird waited for a chance to attack the Qipao Weird again.

Luo Fan's red veil failed inside the Tower's rule barrier, leaving him and the badly injured Qipao Weird surrounded by seven hostile Weirds. After Qipao Weird summoned her father, the Years Weird, he killed the Giant Eagle from afar, ending the second trial; the final trial then began.

• Luo Fan realized the red veil could not summon help inside Fallen Sea Island's barrier, while the seven Weirds closed in on him and the injured Qipao Weird.
• Qipao Weird urged Luo Fan to escape with An Xiaoran, but he refused and asked her to call out her father's name.
• The Years Weird sensed Xiaohong's danger and tore open a rift, crushing the attacking Giant Eagle with one hand.
• The second trial ended with nine survivors, and Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and Qipao Weird began recovering as the remaining Weirds kept their distance.
• A voice announced that the final trial had begun.

Years Weird watched anxiously as Xiaohong remained trapped in the trial, while Luo Fan faced the Tower’s final individual test: a perfect copy of himself. After the two matched each other in a gunfight, Luo Fan reloaded, and his copy abandoned its gun and charged.

• Years Weird suffered backlash from intervening in the trial and decided he could only wait for Xiaohong to escape.
• The final trial began, and An Xiaoran, Qipao Weird, and the other participants vanished, leaving Luo Fan alone in the plaza.
• A copy of Luo Fan appeared, claiming to possess his skills, Uncanny Artifacts, and memories, and threatening to replace him if it won.
• Luo Fan and his copy exchanged gunfire while using Spirit Void Step, wounding each other as their ammunition ran low.
• Luo Fan reloaded his Weird Gun with a sixth-tier weird crystal, but his copy threw its gun aside and charged at him.

Luo Fan realized the shadow could not access his system or storage space and used his stored artifacts to gain the advantage. He stayed invisible and waited out the shadow’s Mimicry, leaving the copy exposed while still cautiously anticipating a counterattack.

• Luo Fan deduced that the shadow had no system or storage space because it could not reload its Weird Gun.
• Luo Fan used his Invisibility Cloak to vanish, while the shadow lacked the stored Far-Sensing Wave Hat needed to detect him.
• The shadow used Mimicry to become Zhang Dakai and then a cheetah, turning invisible as well.
• Luo Fan used the Far-Sensing Wave Hat to locate the shadow and waited instead of attacking, keeping his position hidden.
• After an hour, the shadow’s Mimicry expired and it returned to its original form, while Luo Fan remained invisible and warned that the shadow’s remaining use would only delay defeat.

Luo Fan outmaneuvered his shadow by forcing it to exhaust Mimicry, then used patience and Petrification Bait to create an opening and kill it. After the shadow vanished, Luo Fan wondered whether the Qipao Weird and An Xiaoran had passed their final tests or been replaced by their shadows.

• Luo Fan used his Banquet Weird form to force his shadow to spend its final Mimicry use, then turned invisible and waited for the transformation to expire.
• After the shadow's Young Master Weird form ended, it activated Petrification Bait, but Luo Fan closed his eyes to avoid its effect and used a bait of his own.
• Luo Fan used the Mimicry stored in his Weird Gun to become the Young Master Weird and aimed at the shadow, who stood with his eyes closed.
• The shadow admitted defeat and said Luo Fan's system had made victory impossible, then Luo Fan shot it three times and killed it.
• The shadow's corpse dissolved into motes of light, and Luo Fan wondered whether the Qipao Weird and An Xiaoran had passed their final tests or become shadows.

Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird chose to continue to a mysterious Hidden Assessment, while the Giant Ape Weird took the ten-level reward and left. The Mantis Weird also chose to leave, but a second voice erupted from within it, revealing a struggle between two consciousnesses.

• Luo Fan found himself on the Tower's altar with An Xiaoran, the wounded Qipao Weird, the Giant Ape Weird, and the Mantis Weird, and concluded that the shadow's claim about replacing him had likely been a lie.
• The trial offered the five survivors a choice between leaving with ten levels and continuing to an assessment with unknown risks and rewards.
• Luo Fan chose to continue, and An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird chose to accompany him despite her injuries.
• The Giant Ape Weird chose to leave and rose from Level 71 to Level 81 before being teleported away.
• The Mantis Weird chose to leave, but after Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird vanished, two distinct voices argued from inside its body.

The Years Weird watched anxiously as Luo Fan and Xiaohong entered Fallen Sea Island’s hidden assessment, then began to suspect Luo Fan might be more than he seemed. At the assessment site, Luo Fan, the Qipao Weird, and An Xiaoran found dozens of other climbers, recovered the Qipao Weird’s arm, and started up a staircase that suppressed their powers; they met a human climber who asked Luo Fan who he was.

• The Years Weird saw Luo Fan leave for the hidden assessment with Xiaohong and grew fearful for his daughter, then wondered whether Luo Fan was unusual.
• Luo Fan arrived with the Qipao Weird and An Xiaoran at a gray space beneath a vast mountain, where they found a staircase with 9,999 steps and dozens of climbers.
• Luo Fan asked An Xiaoran to heal the Qipao Weird, and An Xiaoran used her transformed form and Regeneration to regrow the woman’s severed arm.
• Luo Fan, the Qipao Weird, and An Xiaoran began climbing and discovered that the staircase imposed increasingly strong suppression on their powers.
• Luo Fan caught up with a young human climber and asked who he was, but the young man asked Luo Fan the same questions.

Luo Fan learned that Zhao Xuan had arrived from 2023, before the Weird Apocalypse, and told him what would happen in 2024. He continued climbing the Void Temple’s staircase and caught up with a battle-worn man, whom he asked about his name and the year he came from.

• Luo Fan introduced himself to Zhao Xuan and learned that Zhao had been transported from a 2023 hiking trip on Mount Huang.
• Luo Fan realized that the Void Temple had gathered Trial Participants from different times and told Zhao Xuan about the coming Weird Apocalypse.
• Luo Fan spotted five humans ahead of him and decided to catch up with them to learn about the future beyond 2026.
• Luo Fan left Zhao Xuan behind and continued climbing the staircase with the Qipao Weird.
• Luo Fan caught up with a burly man in a tattered tactical uniform and asked his name and what year he came from.

Luo Fan learned that the Void Temple’s steps suppressed the levels of those who climbed them, then met a bird-headed rule-type Weird that claimed to come from beyond the mountain, from a timeless void. The chapter ended with Luo Fan preparing to ask it about the origin of Weirds.

• Luo Fan told the middle-aged man that he came from 2026 and described the Weird apocalypse, which the man said he had suspected from a premonition.
• As Luo Fan climbed with An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird, An Xiaoran noticed her level was dropping, and Luo Fan used the Monitoring Glasses to discover the steps suppressed climbers’ levels.
• Luo Fan caught up with a young woman from early 2025, listened to her account of surviving the apocalypse, and assured her that humanity still existed two years later.
• A bird-headed rule-type Weird asked Luo Fan about the apocalypse and said it came from a timeless, empty void above the mountain.
• Luo Fan connected the Weird’s account to the mystery of where Weirds came from and prepared to question it.

Luo Fan asked the bird-headed Weird about its world and how rule-type Weird came to be, learning that Weird lived in separate Weird Domains and grew stronger by devouring others or comprehending rules. The bird-headed Weird redirected him to the Qipao Weird, who agreed to explain after Luo Fan asked her directly.

• Luo Fan bargained with the bird-headed Weird and described Blue Star and human society in exchange for an account of the Weird world.
• The bird-headed Weird explained that Weird lived in endless Weird Domains, followed the rule that the strong devoured the weak, and grew through eating or comprehending rules.
• The bird-headed Weird said that Weird who comprehended rules became rule-type Weird with power beyond their level.
• The bird-headed Weird pointed out that the Qipao Weird was herself a rule-type Weird, prompting Luo Fan to ask her how rules were comprehended.
• The Qipao Weird watched Luo Fan in silence, then agreed to tell him.

Luo Fan stopped the Qipao Weird from revealing the origins of Rule-Type Weirds after realizing the answer could put her at risk, and resolved to become strong enough to protect those he cared about. He continued climbing with An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird, eventually reaching a woman from a later timeline who recognized him.

• Luo Fan asked whether answering his question would bring trouble to the Qipao Weird, then refused to let her risk revealing the secrets of Rule-Type Weirds.
• The Bird-Headed Weird watched Luo Fan and the Qipao Weird's exchange and wondered whether humans and Weirds could coexist despite the coming apocalypse.
• Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Qipao Weird continued up the increasingly oppressive stairs, passing a middle-aged woman and an excited young man who called Luo Fan a hero and the pinnacle of Sequence Users.
• At around the seven-thousandth step, Luo Fan caught up with a woman whose suppressed level was 22 and asked her name and what year she came from.
• The woman recognized Luo Fan and excitedly said she had never expected to encounter him there.

Zhu Lanjun, a woman from December 2026, told Luo Fan about the future and warned him that rumors linked him to the Weird, including claims that he had married one. At the final stretch of the staircase, the Qipao Weird collapsed after climbing 87 steps, and Luo Fan began his own attempt under crushing pressure.

• Zhu Lanjun revealed that she knew Luo Fan from the future, where they had traded goods and kept in contact, and she shared news about the coming six months.
• Zhu Lanjun told Luo Fan that people on the Forum rumored he had connections to powerful Weird and had married a Weird, but she trusted him because his produce had saved lives in her Convoy.
• Luo Fan continued climbing with An Xiaoran and the Qipao Weird until they reached the nine-thousandth step, where everyone was suppressed to level 0.
• Luo Fan saw three Weird still climbing the final 999 steps, and the Giant Ape-shaped Weird collapsed and rolled back down.
• The Qipao Weird climbed 87 steps before exhaustion made her fall, and Luo Fan caught her as she rolled toward him.
• Luo Fan stepped onto the nine-thousand-and-first step and felt pressure like the entire mountain was pressing down on him.

Luo Fan used Life Fire to overcome the pressure on the final steps and surged toward the Void Temple summit. With only a few steps left, he slipped and stumbled, leaving his success uncertain.

• Luo Fan climbed to around the 280th step of the final section before exhaustion left him unable to move forward, while the Weirds mocked him.
• Luo Fan recalled the Life Fire technique Mother-in-law had taught him and ignited it by burning his vitality.
• Luo Fan used the golden energy to pass the struggling Weirds and continued climbing as everyone below watched.
• Luo Fan reached the last few steps before the Void Temple gates, but his foot slipped and he stumbled.

Luo Fan completed the 9,999 steps and entered the Void Temple, where he examined its many statues and their inheritance conditions. He found a mysterious black statue that felt familiar, but had not yet chosen an inheritance.

• Luo Fan steadied himself after nearly slipping, climbed the final steps, and opened the Void Temple's door.
• Luo Fan entered the vast temple and learned that its hundreds of statues offered inheritances with different requirements and that he could choose only three.
• Luo Fan considered the Tiger God's inheritance, which required defeating its remnant image, but did not accept it.
• Luo Fan rejected Da Yi's Archery Path inheritance because it required sacrificing all his skills, then continued inspecting the statues without choosing.
• Luo Fan approached a black, patterned humanoid statue whose eyes and presence stirred a powerful sense of familiarity.
• An Xiaoran waited outside with the Qipao Weird, who reassured her that Luo Fan would come back out.

Luo Fan chose the God of Deception's inheritance and won it by convincing the God of Deception Phantom that his empty fist held a Weird Crystal. The phantom awarded him a mysterious ball of light, and Luo Fan used Treasure Appraisal to identify it.

• Luo Fan chose the pitch-black statue and accepted the inheritance trial, which required him to deceive the God of Deception Phantom.
• Luo Fan asked the phantom to judge whether he was telling the truth about holding a Weird Crystal in his clenched fist.
• The God of Deception Phantom doubted Luo Fan but ultimately decided the fist was empty.
• Luo Fan opened his hand to reveal a Weird Crystal, proving that he had deceived the phantom.
• The God of Deception Phantom accepted defeat, gave Luo Fan a ball of light, and turned back into a stone statue.
• Luo Fan opened his Mall page and activated Treasure Appraisal to examine the ball of light.

Luo Fan appraised and absorbed a Godhead Fragment, gaining the conceptual ability Faith Becomes Reality, which turns lies into truth using Faith Points. After testing its costs, he emerged from the temple and claimed he had found a Rule-Type Weird Crystal, hoping to measure An Xiaoran’s belief; her unquestioning faith began supplying him with Faith Points.

• Luo Fan spent one million Check-in Funds to appraise the orb and learned it was a Godhead Fragment from the God of Deception.
• Luo Fan absorbed the fragment and gained Faith Becomes Reality, an ability that required Faith Points from people who believed him.
• Luo Fan tested the ability’s costs, discovering that a minor creation needed 300 Faith Points, upgrading Sap needed eight million, and erasing the apocalypse could not be calculated.
• Luo Fan left the temple and told An Xiaoran and the others that he had picked up a Rule-Type Weird Crystal inside.
• An Xiaoran believed Luo Fan without hesitation, and her faith began generating Faith Points for him.

Luo Fan realized An Xiaoran’s trust had earned him faith points and discovered that the Godhead Fragment let him remember the unnameable Mother-in-law and Years Weird. He taught An Xiaoran Life Fire and gained a large faith-point reward from the Qipao Weird, then considered how to gather enough faith to help her reach the top as An Xiaoran began climbing again.

• Luo Fan received 63,800 faith points from An Xiaoran’s trust and concluded that faith points depended on both a believer’s trust and their level of existence.
• Luo Fan realized the Godhead Fragment let him remember Mother-in-law and Years Weird despite their unnameable nature.
• Luo Fan taught An Xiaoran to ignite Life Fire and encouraged the Qipao Weird to find her own way up the steps.
• The Qipao Weird said she believed Luo Fan, giving him 231,200 faith points and bringing him closer to the million needed for her goal.
• Luo Fan considered persuading the other climbers to believe the Qipao Weird could reach the top, while An Xiaoran ignited Life Fire and stepped onto the 9,001st step.