Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Yu entered a hidden premium booth where Motixi tried to lure him into a high-stakes card game. Lin Yu accepted the challenge, hoping to use the opportunity to impress the booth’s occupants and gather information, and Motixi questioned whether he had heard the bar manager’s warning.

• The bar manager led Lin Yu into a spacious hidden booth where guests openly displayed prohibited items.
• The manager introduced Lin Yu as a newly upgraded premium customer and asked the guests not to give him a hard time.
• Motixi invited Lin Yu to play cards for a thousand gold per hand, despite the manager warning that Motixi was a notorious card player.
• After the manager left, Lin Yu sat beside Motixi and agreed to play, seeing a chance to make an impression and gather information.
• Motixi studied Lin Yu with interest and asked whether he had heard what the bar manager had said.

Lin Yu challenged Motixi to a card game after trading insults, wagering ten thousand points against an answer to one question. Motixi cheated and claimed Lin Yu was responsible when he spotted the impossible cards, while Motixi’s weapon suggested the dispute could turn violent.

• Motixi mistook Lin Yu for a wealthy, reckless heir and challenged him to play cards, while Lin Yu provoked him with insults about his wives.
• Motixi proposed that Lin Yu win at cards and beat Anbo at drinking to earn their respect, and Lin Yu agreed to the wager of ten thousand points against one answer.
• Anbo threatened Lin Yu and boasted that nobody could beat him at drinking, while Motixi dismissed Lin Yu’s chances at cards.
• Motixi won the card game and demanded payment, but Lin Yu found three cards with the same number and accused him of cheating.
• Motixi denied responsibility, blamed Lin Yu for shuffling and dealing, and showed him the weapon at his waist.

Motixi accused Lin Yu of cheating after swindling him, then agreed to raise the stakes when Lin Yu proposed a wager for an answer. Lin Yu used the Fantasy Weapon to improve his hand, but Motixi revealed a privilege card that blocked Lin Yu’s next play.

• Motixi denied cheating and accused Lin Yu, the dealer, of trying to cheat instead.
• Anbo warned Motixi to be careful, but Motixi dismissed the concern and proposed rules that included removing duplicate cards and checking sleeves.
• Lin Yu accepted the rules, rolled up his sleeves, and dealt another round despite the onlookers’ warnings.
• Motixi saw his hand and urged Lin Yu to concede, while Anbo suggested raising the stakes; Lin Yu agreed in exchange for an answer if he won.
• Lin Yu used the Fantasy Weapon to turn his poor hand into a straight and played ten cards.
• Motixi changed his cards and claimed that a privilege card would block Lin Yu’s next play.

Lin Yu used special cards to defeat Motixi in a card game, then faced accusations of cheating as the onlookers turned against Motixi. Motixi tried to escape paying the wager by claiming a rule exempted him, but the crowd mocked his excuse.

• Motixi blocked Anbo from playing and laid down a straight, but Lin Yu used a skill-blocking card against Motixi.
• Lin Yu played three jokers and emptied his hand, prompting Motixi to accuse him of switching cards.
• Lin Yu challenged Motixi’s claim, and the onlookers applauded Lin Yu while jeering at Motixi.
• Motixi privately knew his two jokers were genuine, but the crowd dismissed his protest because they believed he had cheated.
• Motixi claimed that holding three thief cards exempted him from paying the wager, and the onlookers mocked his explanation.

Lin Yu challenged Bosai to a fight to make Motixi reveal information, despite Motixi and Bosai assuming the smaller-looking newcomer would lose. The match ended almost instantly when Lin Yu knocked Bosai out of the ring, leaving the spectators afraid of him.

• Motixi introduced his friend Bosai and promised to answer Lin Yu's questions if Lin Yu could defeat him.
• Lin Yu agreed to fight Bosai and entered the ring despite warnings that the match could involve weapons and serious injury.
• Bosai followed Lin Yu into the ring as spectators gathered to watch.
• Lin Yu began the match and knocked Bosai out of the ring in under two seconds.
• The spectators saw Bosai unconscious and turned their fearful gazes toward Lin Yu.