Chapter Summaries

Tang Zhixue woke in a dilapidated shack after apparently transmigrating into a world shared by a thousand people, each with different surroundings and talents. After killing a snake that attacked his doorway, he completed a task that bound his personal panel and learned the snake was a First-Tier Mutant Beast.

• Tang Zhixue collapsed while listening to a livestream and woke in a run-down wooden shack wearing coarse clothes.
• Tang Zhixue found a three-page book displaying his information, including the talents Vitality Absorption and Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent.
• Tang Zhixue read area chat and discovered that a thousand people had arrived in the world, with members scattered across varied environments.
• Tang Zhixue opened the shack door, and a snake lunged from the weeds before the door severed its head.
• Tang Zhixue crushed the snake's head with a stool, completing the personal panel binding task and learning he had killed a First-Tier Mutant Beast.

After binding his personal panel, Tang Zhixue discovered he could inspect item information and use Vitality Absorption on plants. He spent the morning mutating and transplanting plants beside his cabin, ending with five special plants but no confirmed food source yet.

• Tang Zhixue identified his talents and warned the regional chat that killing a Mutated Beast could bind the personal panel.
• Tang Zhixue examined the Ember Ash Snake's head and carcass, learning the head was inedible and the carcass was edible.
• Tang Zhixue tested Vitality Absorption on a weed and transferred the extracted Plant Vitality to foxtail grass, mutating it into Wine-Making Grass.
• Tang Zhixue spent the morning extracting and transferring Plant Vitality until he had transplanted five mutated plants beside the cabin.
• Tang Zhixue identified one of the plants as Jade Flower, which gathered surrounding energy and condensed special energy crystals after flowering.

Tang Zhixue harvested edible white melons and learned from regional chat that monsters could disguise themselves as people. When a monster posing as a woman came to his door, he killed it and found an unreadable book among its belongings.

• Tang Zhixue harvested twenty-one white melons from his mutated vines and decided to search the woods for water.
• Tang Zhixue read reports in regional chat about monsters that lured people by impersonating humans and saw reports of other monster sightings.
• Tang Zhixue heard a woman ask for food outside his cabin and kicked open the door, knocking the disguised monster down.
• Tang Zhixue smashed the monster's head with a stool, killing it, then searched its belongings.
• Tang Zhixue found a yellow-covered book written in an unfamiliar script and examined its pages and illustrations.

Tang Zhixue learned Blazing Tiger Fist from a book, but before he could practice, a Vine Hound Beast attacked him. He used his Vitality Absorption talent to drain the beast through its vines, and the beast died, leaving him with its corpse and a mass of plant vitality.

• Tang Zhixue acquired Blazing Tiger Fist and learned some of the other world's writing from the book.
• A Vine Hound Beast emerged from the woods, lunged at Tang Zhixue, and bit his calf.
• Tang Zhixue struck the beast with a stool, but it unleashed vines that bound him.
• Tang Zhixue activated Vitality Absorption through the vines and drained the beast's vitality until it died.
• Tang Zhixue received a message identifying the corpse as a first-tier Vine Hound Beast and noticed a fist-sized mass of plant vitality.

Tang Zhixue absorbed Plant Vitality to heal his wound and restore stamina, then trained the Blazing Tiger Fist until he reached first tier. He replenished his White Melons and set out to find water, but returned to ask the regional chat for advice before heading east again.

• Tang Zhixue absorbed Plant Vitality, recovering his stamina and healing the wound on his calf.
• Tang Zhixue practiced the Blazing Tiger Fist for over three hours, raising his skill to beginner level and his grade to first tier.
• Tang Zhixue used Plant Vitality to grow twenty White Melons, then decided to explore the woods for water and meat.
• Tang Zhixue asked the regional chat how to find water, and Xu Shi advised him to look in valleys, gullies, greener areas, and along tree roots.
• Tang Zhixue thanked Xu Shi and headed back toward the eastern woods.

Tang Zhixue found a treasure chest containing a Shelter Crystal and used it to transform his Wooden House into the Blazing Sun Shelter, which unlocked regional trading. He listed a snake head for sale and told the regional chat how to find Shelter Crystals and access trading.

• Tang Zhixue discovered a sealed box while exploring and found mineral water, Bigmouth Flower seeds, and a Shelter Crystal inside.
• Tang Zhixue placed the Shelter Crystal, which repaired and upgraded his Wooden House into a Level 1 Shelter with regional trading.
• Tang Zhixue named the Shelter Blazing Sun and examined its improved interior and trading chest.
• Tang Zhixue listed the smashed Ember Ash Snake head in the trading chest in exchange for a one-jin stone.
• Tang Zhixue told the regional chat about Shelter Crystals and their trading function, causing the channel to erupt with questions.

Tang Zhixue searched the woods for more treasure chests but found unusual materials instead, then returned to his Shelter to learn how to make fire. After choosing the Fire-Plow Method, he began shaping a dry branch with a stone tool.

• Tang Zhixue searched the woods for over an hour without finding another treasure chest, but collected Void Nether Stone, Golden-Pattern Iron Ore, and Purple Cloud Grass.
• Tang Zhixue gathered dry branches on his way back to the Shelter and asked the regional chat how to start a fire by drilling wood.
• Yuan Lexian explained the Hand-Drill and Fire-Plow methods, while Xu Shi described using sunlight focused through a bottle.
• Tang Zhixue chose the Fire-Plow Method and searched his dry branches for a hardwood stick.
• Tang Zhixue began shaping the wood with a sharp-edged stone because he had not found anyone trading tools.

Tang Zhixue made a fire with the Fire-Plow Method, then built an indoor fire pit and listed two mutant beast carcasses for trade. The chapter left him reviewing offers for his White Melons and waiting to see what the carcasses might fetch.

• Tang Zhixue used the Fire-Plow Method to start a fire outside his Wooden House and listed ten White Melons in exchange for dead branches.
• Regional chat users discussed his trade listing and shared ways to build a fire pit in a Wooden House Shelter.
• After returning with more branches, Tang Zhixue dug a shallow pit inside, built a stone fire ring, and knocked ventilation holes into the wall.
• Tang Zhixue decided not to eat the Ember Ash Snake or Vine Hound Beast carcasses and listed both for trade, leaving buyers to make offers.
• Tang Zhixue opened the White Melon trade details and began reviewing the offers.

Tang Zhixue traded his goods for dead branches, a martial technique, and a Tranquility Flower before the First-Month Calamity arrived. Blue Star World rewarded him with upgraded Shelter facilities and weapons, including a Martial Arts Space whose powerful time-flow effect came at a cost.

• Tang Zhixue exchanged White Melons for dead branches and obtained Linked Pearl Archery by trading the Ember Ash Snake.
• Tang Zhixue traded the Vine Hound Beast for a Tranquility Flower and stayed inside his Shelter as strange noises and a stench of decay came from outside.
• A warning announced that the Silent White Fog would manifest at midnight and suppress sound and energy, eventually causing those exposed to fall into eternal slumber.
• Blue Star World rewarded Tang Zhixue for learning martial arts by expanding his Shelter, adding a Martial Arts Space, and providing an Iron Axe, a Wooden Bow, and 100 arrows.
• Tang Zhixue inspected the Martial Arts Space and learned that it could make time flow up to six times faster inside, but the effect came at a cost.

Tang Zhixue joined the Spring Festival · Door Gods event by cleaning his doorway and putting up portraits of Yuchi Gong and Qin Qiong. After everyone in the Blue Star-Heavenly Stems Region completed the event, random rewards were announced, leaving Tang Zhixue’s own reward unknown.

• Tang Zhixue discovered an empty Training Space and received notice of the limited-time Door Gods event, despite it being summer.
• Tang Zhixue asked the regional chat for glue and learned from Wen Yue that the portraits would stick to the door without it.
• Tang Zhixue opened his Shelter door into the dark, foul-smelling night, swept the doorway clean, and put up the Door God portraits.
• Tang Zhixue bowed to the portraits, closed the door, and began studying the Linked Pearl Archery manual.
• The system announced that everyone in the region had completed the event and listed Door God Protection, Blessing, and Door God Token as possible random rewards.

Tang Zhixue learned Linked Pearl Archery and relied on the Door God Protection when a wraith appeared near his Shelter. The Spring Festival event then warned that a shapeless Year Wraith would arrive before dawn and could not be driven away by the Door God.

• Tang Zhixue received First Tier Door God Protection and continued reading until he acquired Linked Pearl Archery.
• After hearing a scream and a wraith strike his door, Tang Zhixue practiced archery in the Training Space and learned the basics.
• Tang Zhixue trained in Blazing Tiger Fist and received one point of energy when a First Tier wraith dissipated near his Shelter.
• Tang Zhixue planned to gather materials the next day and rely on the Door God for protection overnight.
• The Spring Festival event warned Tang Zhixue that a shapeless Year Wraith would appear at the year's transition and set surviving until tomorrow as the objective.

Tang Zhixue and the others searched for a way to face the approaching Year Wraith, and Tang Zhixue discovered that the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra could temporarily purify his shelter. He shared the breakthrough with the chat, where others asked him how to make the mantra work.

• Tang Zhixue and others discussed the Year Wraith and speculated that two worlds might be merging.
• Luo Hongcai shared the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra in the chat as a possible way to repel evil.
• Tang Zhixue learned the mantra and recited it repeatedly until it reached Proficient and released golden light.
• Tang Zhixue checked his shelter and found it had gained a temporary Purification effect that could dispel dark energy and slay evil and ghosts.
• Tang Zhixue offered Luo Hongcai White Melons to thank him, then told the chat the mantra worked and received requests for instructions.

Tang Zhixue explained how to recite the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra, allowing Luo Hongcai to purify his Shelter, but the mantra did not repel the Year Wraith that appeared at midnight. He discovered its true body inside its monstrous mouth, pulled it out, and received New Year's Money before the Year Wraith vanished.

• Tang Zhixue shared his understanding of the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra in the regional chat and answered questions.
• Luo Hongcai successfully recited the mantra and gave his Shelter a temporary purification effect, while over two hundred people failed before midnight.
• A Year Wraith appeared in Tang Zhixue's Shelter and demanded to know whether he had banished the year.
• Tang Zhixue spotted something inside the Year Wraith's mouth, reached in, and pulled out its baby-like true body.
• Tang Zhixue shook the Year Wraith until it coughed up New Year's Money, then the creature dissolved into black qi.
• The system announced that Tang Zhixue had completed the Spring Festival event and warned that the New Year's Money had to be used that day.

After surviving the Year Wraith, Tang Zhixue shared advice in the regional chat and learned that other survivors had faced similar creatures that could copy people. He slept through a cold night and woke to find the reward from his [New Year's Money] missing from the bed.

• Tang Zhixue discovered his three rewards and warned the regional chat not to answer Year Wraiths, explaining how to find and defeat their hidden bodies.
• Tang Zhixue worried about his brother, Tang Zhiming, after seeing the regional chat count fall to 485 survivors.
• Xu Shi, Xu Muqiu, Wen Yue, and other survivors joined the chat; Xu Muqiu said his Year Wraith copied him but tripped, letting him kill it.
• Tang Zhixue learned that Year Wraiths could copy a person's appearance and strength, then went to sleep with the [New Year's Money] under his pants.
• Tang Zhixue woke several times to relight the fireplace, and in the morning found the bed empty where the reward had been.

Tang Zhixue discovered that Guarding the Year was a temporary skill on his personal panel, then prepared for the Silent White Fog disaster by tending his plants. He successfully harvested Purple Cloud Grass seeds and planned to explore for fruit trees.

• Tang Zhixue found the temporary Guarding the Year skill on his personal panel and confirmed it could protect him for one breath once per day.
• He noticed the Silent White Fog outside and learned that prolonged exposure could suppress thought and lead to a silent death.
• Tang Zhixue planted seeds and nourished his crops, producing White Melons before the vines withered.
• He pollinated the Purple Cloud Grass flower by hand, and its ripe fruit burst, scattering seeds.
• Tang Zhixue collected the Purple Cloud Grass seeds but found that none were mutated.

Tang Zhixue cultivated several plants, discovered that a mutated Bigmouth Flower had become a Water-Gathering Grass, and found that Jade Flowers produced wood-aspect energy crystals. He used the crystals to fill the shelter’s energy, unlocking the option to upgrade it with ordinary materials.

• Tang Zhixue planted the Purple Cloud Grass seeds and used plant vitality on the Bigmouth Flower, which mutated into a Water-Gathering Grass that could collect fresh water.
• Tang Zhixue grew six Water-Gathering Grass plants and used the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to drive gray-black gas and bizarre insects from the soil.
• Tang Zhixue found that the Tranquility Flower had not mutated, while the Jade Flower produced twelve seeds and a Wood Spiritual Energy Crystal before withering.
• Tang Zhixue gave the first energy crystal to the shelter, raising its energy to 53 out of 100, then used another crystal to fill it completely.
• Tang Zhixue saw that the shelter could now be upgraded using materials he supplied, though its current energy only allowed ordinary materials.

Tang Zhixue traded white melons for stone, discovered that accelerated plant growth depleted soil fertility, and explored new items in the trading interface. After accidentally absorbing a Wood Spiritual Energy Crystal, he saw a number appear beside one of his talents.

• Tang Zhixue traded thirty-two white melons for 1,600 kilograms of stone and kept ten melons for himself.
• Tang Zhixue found that the soil beneath his plants had lost fertility after he accelerated their growth.
• Tang Zhixue browsed the trading interface and saw a Spirit Gathering Array explanation and a Health-Nourishing Stake Manual, but he lacked the resources to buy either.
• Tang Zhixue tried absorbing a Wood Spiritual Energy Crystal while practicing Blazing Tiger Fist, then placed it in his mouth and watched it dissolve into liquid.
• Tang Zhixue checked his personal panel and found the number 50 beside his diligence makes up for lack of talent talent.

Tang Zhixue used his talent to discover that he could practice martial arts in a dream space, then explored beyond his shelter by reciting the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra. He found mutated plants and ruins marked with the words “Blazing Fire Sect,” and continued tracing the ruins’ edge.

• Tang Zhixue discovered that his talent could activate a dream space for practice after he fell asleep, using energy to sustain it.
• Tang Zhixue went into the woods and used the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to clear a narrow path through the white mist.
• Tang Zhixue found plants mutated by the mist and warned the chat channel to master the mantra before exploring.
• Tang Zhixue spotted a stone stele carved with characters meaning “Blazing Fire Sect” and wondered whether it was connected to his Blazing Tiger Fist.
• Tang Zhixue found ruins under the mist and began following their edge while reciting the mantra to see how far they extended.

Tang Zhixue explored fog-covered ruins, discovered a Blazing Fire Sect forging manual and gathered rusted weapons to take back to his shelter. He returned to find the shelter’s Purification effect had expired and the special plants outside had turned hostile.

• Tang Zhixue used the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to clear the fog around the ruins, but the passage back began closing as the mantra’s effect wore off.
• Tang Zhixue found Blazing Fire Sect Forging Basics, which explained that practitioners of the Blazing Tiger Fist needed to forge weapons to continue improving.
• Tang Zhixue cleared the ruins and collected twenty-five sabers and thirty-six swords, but found no other books or hidden spaces.
• Tang Zhixue carried the weapons back toward the shelter while reciting the mantra to keep a path through the fog open.
• Tang Zhixue discovered that the shelter’s Purification effect had expired and that the nearby special plants had turned gray and attacked him with gas.
• Tang Zhixue retreated inside, confirmed that only Door God Protection remained, and recited the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra again.

Tang Zhixue renewed the shelter’s temporary Purification effect and discovered the special plants had been reduced to ash by the Silent White Fog. He tried harvesting a transformed tree for materials, but its poisonous properties forced him to search for safer trees instead.

• Tang Zhixue renewed Purification, found the special plants reduced to ashes, and realized he needed a safe place to plant his remaining seeds.
• He checked regional trading for containers but found only basic materials, then went outside to gather wood and shelter-upgrade materials.
• Tang Zhixue used the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to reveal the black, thorn-covered trees, but the mantra did not change them.
• He felled a Thorned Strange Black Tree and learned its trunk contained poison released when burned, so he abandoned it as a source of firewood or building material.
• Tang Zhixue searched along the fog’s edge and spotted trees that looked different from the transformed black trees.