Recaps

Lin Yu learned that the Hunter World’s powerful people hunted and killed beings in lower-level worlds as part of a coming-of-age assessment. The chapter ended with him understanding that the Heka World had accepted the deadly arrangement partly for the promised rewards.

• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System about the Hunter World and learned its people could absorb genes and powers by devouring others.
• The Hongmeng System explained that the Hunter World divided its young people into factions to hunt beings in a matched xuanhuan world, with winners returning for a coming-of-age ceremony.
• Lin Yu questioned why the Heka World would let Hunter World people hunt there, given its deference to higher-level worlds.
• The Hongmeng System said the Hunter World promised rewards to any battlefield world that killed its losing candidates within a year.
• Lin Yu realized that the Heka World’s leaders had little power to refuse and may have welcomed the chance to gain advanced technology.

Lin Yu learned that the Hunter World's people used Devouring Genes to absorb powers from other worlds, but their hunts were constrained by strict rules. The Hongmeng System revealed that the Hunter World belonged to a powerful Hunting Alliance that selected battlefields and limited casualties, though compensation usually went to the hunted world rather than the victims' families.

• Lin Yu asked why the Hunter World's cruel hunting methods resembled a movie from his previous life, and the Hongmeng System explained that its people possessed Devouring Genes that could absorb genes from other worlds.
• Lin Yu questioned whether consuming foreign genes would weaken the Hunter World's own genes, prompting the Hongmeng System to deduce that its hunting practices were governed by systems of rank and competition.
• Lin Yu asked how the Hunter World could choose other worlds as battlefields without violating the Chief God Code, and the Hongmeng System explained that similar worlds had formed the Hunting Alliance.
• The Hongmeng System said Hunting Alliance members had to follow ranked rules, either raise their own hunting worlds or select battlefields according to alliance regulations, limit casualties, and provide compensation that usually went to the hunted world.

Lin Yu judged that the Hunter World’s beginner-level hunt in the Heka World would not affect him and focused on the growing faith from the Star of Vastness. Meanwhile, Smart the Wise’s explosives shifted the war in the Eagle Kingdom’s favor, and Hu Lun’er captured a vicious beast instead of killing it.

• The Hongmeng System told Lin Yu that the hunt in the Heka World was unlikely to affect him after his second energy replenishment.
• Lin Yu sensed stronger Power of Faith flowing from the Star of Vastness and stayed quietly in the hotel.
• Smart the Wise’s explosives and gunpowder gave the Eagle Kingdom an advantage over the Beacon Smoke Nation and its vicious beasts.
• Smart the Wise waited through a stalemate, relying on vicious beasts familiar with human society to communicate with one another.
• Hu Lun’er overpowered and captured a vicious beast, then took it back to the Eagle Kingdom alive.

Hu Lun’er prepared to lead the Eagle Kingdom’s forces against a Beacon Smoke Nation stronghold after Smart’s defection of some ferocious beasts had shaken the enemy’s morale. Lin Yu discovered that Smart’s so-called spirit-nourishing decoction was secretly harming Hu Lun’er, though the chapter ended before revealing its worst side effect.

• The Eagle Kingdom used the defection of some ferocious beasts to weaken the Beacon Smoke Nation’s morale and gain ground in the war.
• Hu Lun’er prepared to lead an assault on a major Beacon Smoke Nation stronghold, and National Preceptor Smart offered him a bowl of spirit-nourishing decoction.
• Hu Lun’er drank and smashed the bowl, praising Smart and crediting him with much of the Eagle Kingdom’s success.
• Smart promised the allied ferocious beasts a bowl of decoction each if they returned in triumph.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System to analyze the decoction and learned it drained Hu Lun’er’s spiritual power, caused addiction, and harmed his reproductive ability.

Lin Yu watched Imperial Preceptor Smart’s poisoned medicine scheme help Hu Lun’er remain strong while Smart maneuvered toward victory on the Star of Vastness. A year later, Hu Lun’er conquered the Beacon Smoke Nation’s main city and set out to eliminate its Grand Shaman.

• Lin Yu learned that Smart had secretly increased the poison in Hu Lun’er’s daily medicine, relying on Lin Yu’s earlier enhancements to keep Hu Lun’er healthy.
• Lin Yu withdrew his mental power from the Star of Vastness and concluded that Smart was likely to win, bringing the world closer to unification.
• A year later, Hu Lun’er led Smart, the Eagle Kingdom’s army, and allied fierce beasts in an assault that defeated the Beacon Smoke Nation.
• Hu Lun’er killed the Beacon Smoke Nation’s king and dismissed him as a puppet, then continued onward to root out the Grand Shaman.
• Hu Lun’er encountered several fierce beasts that had stayed with the Beacon Smoke Nation, and frowned when he finally saw the Grand Shaman.

Lin Yu descended as the True God to end the war and save the Beacon Smoke Nation's survivors, while punishing the great shaman for his failure. The war subsided, faith in the True God spread, and the Eagle Kingdom grew stronger as it built up the church.

• The great shaman prayed for the True God to save the Beacon Smoke Nation, but Hu Lun'er dismissed his pleas.
• Lin Yu descended in a concealed form that Hu Lun'er, Imperial Preceptor Smart, and the great shaman each recognized as the True God.
• Lin Yu promised to spare the Beacon Smoke Nation's people, then killed the great shaman with divine flames for failing him.
• Hu Lun'er let the Beacon Smoke Nation's refugees leave, and the war gradually subsided as the True God's appearance strengthened people's faith.
• The Eagle Kingdom began building up the church, and several years later the nation had grown stronger.

As Hu Lun'er weakened, Imperial Preceptor Smart took control of the Eagle Kingdom while rumors blamed the emperor’s condition on divine punishment. Hu Lun'er realized Smart had been poisoning him and learned that Smart was also a messenger of the gods before Smart killed him.

• Hu Lun'er grew frail and childless, prompting rumors that the gods had punished him for defeating the Beacon Smoke Nation.
• Imperial Preceptor Smart assumed authority and continued leading the Eagle Kingdom, earning the people’s trust.
• Smart visited the bedridden Hu Lun'er alone, and Hu Lun'er accused him of poisoning the emperor.
• Smart revealed that he, too, was a messenger of the gods and had received his knowledge from the God of Wisdom.
• Hu Lun'er realized Smart had been one of the divine messengers, and Smart killed him.

Imperial Preceptor Smart killed Hu Lun'er and took control of the Eagle Kingdom, while Lord True God condemned Hu Lun'er as having brought his downfall upon himself. Smart burned the emperor's residence, and the people mistook the fire for divine punishment.

• Imperial Preceptor Smart told Hu Lun'er that he had built the Eagle Kingdom and stabbed him through the heart.
• Lord True God declared that Hu Lun'er had failed his expectations through his own stupidity, then left without appearing.
• Imperial Preceptor Smart found Hu Lun'er's hidden accusation naming Smart as the one who stole the kingdom.
• Imperial Preceptor Smart left Hu Lun'er's residence as it burned, and the people of the Eagle Kingdom believed the flames were sent by Lord True God.

After Hu Lun'er died, Smart seized the throne and consolidated his rule as the Church of Wisdom eclipsed the Eagle Kingdom's other churches. Thirty years later, Smart remained emperor, and Feidina visited him as she understood the secret behind his medicinal soup but had not exposed it.

• After Hu Lun'er died by divine punishment, State Preceptor Smart killed his guards and close associates, then became emperor.
• Smart's rule brought the Eagle Kingdom further development, and rumors spread that a deity had taught him wisdom.
• Subjects established the Church of Wisdom, whose useful inventions won popularity until it displaced the churches of the God of Strength and the God of Beacon Smoke.
• Thirty years later, Emperor Smart read memorials while drinking medicinal soup to refresh his mind.
• Feidina visited Smart, who apologized for neglecting her, while she silently regarded the soup and kept its secret to herself.

Feidina pleaded with Emperor Smart to stop drinking the poisonous restorative tonic, but he insisted that his duty as the True God's envoy mattered more than his life. Back in Heka World, Lin Yu checked the casualty count, then went to sleep after asking the Hongmeng System to warn him of danger and wake him if Smart was near death.

• Feidina confronted Emperor Smart over his continued use of the toxic restorative tonic and begged him to choose a natural death instead.
• Emperor Smart told Feidina that he loved her but would not abandon his pursuit of truth, and she left his bedchamber in despair.
• Lin Yu withdrew his spiritual power from the Star of Vastness and reflected on how Smart had become consumed by his search for truth.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System for Heka World's casualties, and it reported 1,832 with the lockdown expected to end in two days.
• Lin Yu went to bed and told the Hongmeng System to warn him of danger and wake him if Smart was about to die.

A Hunter World creature entered Lin Yu’s hotel room to capture him as its final prey, mistaking him for a Heka World inhabitant. Lin Yu woke to the attack and retaliated with overwhelming force, leaving the creature on the ground.

• Lin Yu fell asleep while the invisible Hunter World creature approached him.
• The creature revealed its monstrous form and decided to toy with Lin Yu before taking him captive.
• The creature sensed the octopus tentacle, turned invisible, then emerged again when it seemed harmless.
• The Hunter World creature struck Lin Yu, who sprang from bed and knocked it flying with a palm strike.
• Lin Yu kicked the creature hard enough to crack the hotel floor and realized what the Hongmeng System’s earlier question had meant.

Lin Yu defeated and bound the Hunter World creature who had ambushed him, then scolded the Hongmeng System and his octopus tentacle for failing to warn him. As the creature begged to follow him, the Hongmeng System alerted Lin Yu that something had happened with Smart and suggested he investigate at the Star of Vastness.

• Lin Yu stomped and punched the Hunter World creature until he subdued him, then bound him with the Fantasy Weapon.
• Lin Yu reprimanded the Hongmeng System for not warning him about the ambush, and it explained that it had assumed he had authorized the attack.
• Lin Yu scolded the octopus tentacle for failing to warn him, and it nodded in apology.
• Lin Yu questioned the Hunter World creature about his sneak attack, and the creature asked to duel him again before begging to follow him and surpass his strength.
• The Hongmeng System told Lin Yu that something had happened with Smart and suggested he go investigate at the Star of Vastness.

Lin Yu brought the Hunter World being to the Star of Vastness while Smart rushed to Feidina after she took deadly poison. Feidina died in Smart’s arms after learning he loved the truth more than her, and Smart drank the poison and called out to the Embodiment of nature and mighty power.

• Lin Yu sent his spiritual power to the Star of Vastness and brought the tied-up Hunter World being along with him.
• After hearing that Feidina had taken poison, Smart hurried to her residence and dismissed everyone else.
• Feidina questioned Smart about what she meant to him, and he confessed that he loved her but loved the truth more.
• Feidina asked whether Smart loved their child or wanted to use him to continue the Church of Wisdom, and Smart said he loved both her and their child.
• Feidina died before she could see Smart drink the remaining poison, and Smart closed her eyes and called out to the Embodiment of nature and mighty power.

Lin Yu offered Smart the chance to change his wish and save himself and Feidina, but Smart refused and received the truth about the world instead. After seeing the vastness of the cosmos, Smart apologized to Feidina and said he would make the same choice again.

• Lin Yu appeared before Smart and offered to change his wish so he could save himself and Feidina.
• Smart refused to change his wish, and Lin Yu sent a periodic table and spiritual power into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Smart’s perspective rose beyond the Star of Vastness and revealed the world as a sphere within the vast Origin Artifact World.
• Lin Yu returned Smart’s view to the Star of Vastness, where Smart understood that Lin Yu had answered his questions.
• Smart apologized to Feidina and said he had no regrets and would make the same choice again.

After Hunter World ended its assessment and left Heka World, Lin Yu decided to depart as well. He exchanged his savings for gold bars, completed the departure formalities with Treichel, and headed for his spaceship.

• Lin Yu confirmed that the Star of Vastness’s churches and faith system had endured, then accelerated time slightly and waited for Power of Faith.
• Hunter World recalled its hunters after the assessment reached two thousand casualties, searched Heka World briefly, and left after announcing bounties for the heads of failed hunters.
• Heka World’s military searched for the failed hunters without success, and the authorities lifted the lockdown as residents returned to ordinary life.
• Lin Yu agreed to leave Heka World after the lockdown ended and later exchanged his remaining savings for gold bars with Treichel.
• Treichel completed Lin Yu’s departure formalities, and Lin Yu summoned the octopus tentacle before walking toward his spaceship.

Lin Yu considered how to deal with the Hunter World being and, after the Hongmeng System explained the benefits of subduing him, released him from confinement. The being submitted to Lin Yu, but realized he had failed his exam and been captured.

• The Hongmeng System advised Lin Yu to subdue the Hunter World being, explaining that his assassination and intelligence-gathering skills could aid Lin Yu’s future explorations.
• The Hongmeng System said the Hunter World being would remain loyal to a stronger master and that Lin Yu could help erase his failure and give him another chance at the exam.
• Lin Yu released the Hunter World being from the desert formation on the Star of Vastness, where he had been kept away from its inhabitants.
• The Hunter World being bowed and apologized to Lin Yu, recognizing the vast difference in their strength.
• The Hunter World being saw the boundless universe instead of Heka World and realized he had failed his exam and been captured.

Lin Yu accepted Sanoke’s submission and agreed to help him erase the disgrace of his failed assessment. As the Fantasy Weapon traveled toward the world recommended by the Hongmeng System, Lin Yu expanded the ship and gave the octopus tentacle and Sanoke their own rooms.

• Lin Yu asked Sanoke to submit to him, and Sanoke agreed while asking Lin Yu to help wash away the disgrace of his failure.
• Lin Yu accepted Sanoke’s request, and Sanoke swore to serve him until he surpassed him.
• Lin Yu expanded the Fantasy Weapon to two or three times its original size and added three rooms.
• Lin Yu gave the octopus tentacle a room and warned it not to leave the ship without need.
• Lin Yu led Sanoke to the neighboring room he had prepared for him.

Lin Yu traveled to the Exile World, a low-level world where powerful exiles fought a war that its administration promoted as a tourist attraction. After registering and meeting his guide Aikesi, Lin Yu explained that he had been born a citizen of a fourth-level world because his father had immigrated there.

• During the long journey, Lin Yu learned that intelligent life had emerged on another small world, which he named the Star of Azure.
• Lin Yu arrived at the Exile World and learned that its administration controlled most of the world while resistant exiles held out in a small region.
• Lin Yu suspected that the administration was prolonging the fighting to attract tourists and profit from the battles.
• Lin Yu entered the Exile World as a legitimate tourist, exchanged currency, and hired Aikesi as his guide.
• Aikesi asked whether Lin Yu had recently immigrated to a fourth-level world, and Lin Yu said his father had immigrated there before he was born.

After verifying Lin Yu’s identity, Aikesi left him to explore the Exile World, but Lin Yu grew suspicious when the Hongmeng System found that unusually many passersby were watching him. The system confirmed that no one in the world could threaten Lin Yu, and he checked into a luxury hotel as he planned to look around.

• Aikesi inspected Lin Yu’s identity badge, offered him discounted attractions, and then departed.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System whether Aikesi’s probing behavior was normal in the Exile World.
• The Hongmeng System reported that over fifty-three percent of passersby had turned to look at Lin Yu, an unusually high rate compared with the Heka World.
• Lin Yu asked the system to assess the Exile World’s combat strength, and it found that its average combat power was three points and no one could threaten him.
• Lin Yu chose a highest-grade hotel suite, where an attendant stamped a room-key badge onto his hand and seemed curious about him.

Lin Yu noticed that the Exile World was treating his arrival with unusual caution and had Sanoke search his luxury hotel suite for hidden cameras. The chapter ended with Sanoke dismantling the cameras while Lin Yu relaxed and gave the wriggling octopus tentacle a drink.

• Lin Yu entered the hotel’s most luxurious suite with Sanoke and mentally told him to remove any hidden cameras.
• Sanoke was startled by Lin Yu’s direct mental communication but began searching the suite and dismantling cameras.
• Lin Yu recalled that the hotel had delayed his check-in for a supposed safety and hygiene inspection, which had made him suspect they were preparing something.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System whether the hotel’s behavior was normal, and the system said the Exile World was excessively cautious about his arrival.
• Lin Yu let Sanoke continue his search while he relaxed on the sofa and handed a drink to the octopus tentacle on his shoulder.

Lin Yu discovered that the octopus tentacle was only disgusted by bottled tea, then learned the Hongmeng System could detect little about Exile World because its power was limited. After Sanoke removed hidden cameras from the suite, he found a concealed diary whose first entry confessed love for Huoledisi’s girlfriend.

• The octopus tentacle recoiled from Lin Yu’s bottled tea, and Lin Yu used the Hongmeng System to learn that it found the drink disgusting.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System about Exile World, but it reported that its limited power prevented a deeper investigation.
• Sanoke removed most of the hidden cameras in the suite and found a notebook wedged in a narrow gap in the bed.
• Lin Yu opened the notebook and read a diary entry in which the writer apologized to Huoledisi for falling in love with his girlfriend.

Lin Yu read a diary describing its owner’s affair with Huoledisi’s fiancée, a terrifying ritual, and an unnamed group that threatened the world. Troubled by the diary’s references to Falaote and its unreadable final pages, Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System to locate the surveillance footage.

• Lin Yu read that the diary’s owner loved a woman who accepted Huoledisi’s proposal, and that Huoledisi later revealed he had known about their affair.
• The diary’s owner hired a private detective after Huoledisi summoned him, and the detective showed him images connected to a terrifying ritual that ruined everything he had cherished.
• The owner refused the woman when she later regretted joining with Huoledisi, and he wrote that the group behind the ritual would one day rule the world.
• Lin Yu noticed the diary’s mood-marked weather entries, recognized Falaote’s name, and wondered what the owner had witnessed and how the notebook reached the hotel.
• Lin Yu found the diary’s later writing distorted and unreadable, then asked the Hongmeng System to search for the camera footage.

Lin Yu investigated the notebook’s unexplained events but found no records in the Exile World’s official systems or among the resistance fighters. The Hongmeng System assured him he was safe and suggested the octopus tentacle watch for higher-dimensional activity, so Lin Yu asked the little creature what strange things he had noticed.

• The Hongmeng System found no surveillance footage, classified files, or major recorded events matching the notebook’s account.
• Lin Yu asked whether the resistance fighters had records, and the Hongmeng System explained that their lack of conventional electronic devices made them difficult to investigate.
• Lin Yu questioned whether the system’s safety deductions had accounted for the resistance, and it assured him he could be protected and evacuated even if the Exile World were destroyed.
• The Hongmeng System mentioned higher-dimensional life-form protection and suggested that Lin Yu have the communication device watch for higher-dimensional activity.
• Lin Yu picked up the octopus tentacle and asked whether it had noticed anything especially strange about the Exile World.

Lin Yu learned how to contact the God of Truth and Order through the octopus tentacle and ordered it to stay alert and guard him. He then checked Sanoke’s work removing surveillance devices and discovered the hotel room also contained a biological monitor.

• The octopus tentacle told Lin Yu that it could contact the God of Truth and Order if Lin Yu simply asked, and explained that its role was communication rather than detection.
• Lin Yu ordered the octopus tentacle to report anything unusual and remain nearby on guard, though it complained about being kept from going out to play.
• Sanoke told Lin Yu he had removed all thirty-six surveillance devices, but Lin Yu questioned whether he had checked the room thoroughly.
• Lin Yu threw a potted plant beside the television into the trash and explained that it contained a biological monitor, warning Sanoke not to underestimate the technology of the second-level world.

Lin Yu and Sanoke removed the last monitoring device and prepared to investigate whoever was spying on Lin Yu. While Sanoke went hunting for the culprit, Lin Yu went to a bar to gather information, where the manager noticed his unusually lavish spending.

• Lin Yu reassured Sanoke after he missed a monitoring device, and Sanoke revealed that he had set traps near the devices they removed.
• Lin Yu told Sanoke to investigate after nightfall and gave him a magical treasure that could erase an ordinary being’s memories, instructing him to interrogate the spy before wiping his memory.
• After night fell, Sanoke slipped out of the hotel to investigate while Lin Yu headed to a lively bar for information.
• Lin Yu spent generously enough to become one of the bar’s highest-tier VIP customers, drawing the manager’s attention.