Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze and the rebels launched a decapitation operation against the Führer, only to discover that Nangong Qianrou could effortlessly defeat them even after an EMP disabled the drones and peacekeepers. Qin Ze woke in a secret underground room, and the group decided to investigate the old man living in the sewers.

• The one-eyed man rallied more than forty rebels while Sun Xiaotian prepared the EMP emitter, and the Führer's convoy arrived at Happiness City's central square.
• Qin Ze recognized the Führer as Nangong Qianrou as she addressed the residents, and the one-eyed man led the rebels in an attack.
• Sun Xiaotian activated the EMP emitter, disabling the spherical drones and peacekeepers as the rebels charged toward Nangong Qianrou.
• Nangong Qianrou restrained and sentenced the rebels to death, causing them to explode; Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings' disguised clones were destroyed.
• Qin Ze woke in a secret underground room, and Mist Lord and Giant Overlord left to retrieve the EMP emitter.
• Qin Ze said the group should solve the problem by visiting the old man who lived in the sewers.

Qin Ze confronted the old man about Dynasty and asked him to help assassinate the Führer, but learned that the Führer was only a puppet of the Spirit of Eternal Life. The old man explained the Spirit’s origins and the rebels’ plan to destroy it from within, leaving Qin Ze asking to join their chat group.

• Qin Ze deduced that the old man had given him the note and learned that the Führer’s spies had infiltrated Dynasty.
• Qin Ze urged the old man to help assassinate the Führer, but the old man warned that the Führer was immortal.
• The old man gave Qin Ze a chronicle describing how fused human spirits created the Spirit of Eternal Life, which became self-aware and seized control of humanity.
• The old man revealed that mechanical ascension let people break beyond the limits on martial cultivation while leaving part of their spirits under the Spirit’s control.
• The old man explained that the Spirit of Eternal Life was the true Führer and could only be defeated from within, so Qin Ze asked to join his chat group.

Qin Ze prepared to infiltrate Happiness City's central building and enter the Spirit of Eternal Life’s mental world to free the emotions trapped inside it. As the attack began, he killed a Mechanical Faction spy, and the rebels chose to join the assault.

• The old man explained that Qin Ze could weaken the Spirit of Eternal Life by uploading intact Spirits and releasing the emotions hidden in its mental world.
• Qin Ze summoned his clones and planned an attack on the central building for the next night, assigning the old man to face the Führer while he sought the stripping machine.
• Qin Ze told the chat group about the plan, and his companions worried about the danger but agreed that he was best suited to enter the mental world.
• Qin Ze and the rebels took positions near the building, where Thousand Faces guarded the repaired EMP launcher.
• The one-eyed man arrived with dozens of people, and Qin Ze killed him, exposing him as a Mechanical Faction spy.
• Sun Xiaotian and the other rebels chose to join the attack, and Qin Ze prepared to fight alongside them.

The Head of State prepared to return to Sky Island for an upgrade that would replace her brain, while the Circus and the Eternal Flame launched a real assault on her building. Their advance was halted when the Head of State used her powers, but the old man confronted her.

• The Head of State agreed to return to Sky Island for an upgrade after the voice in her mind promised her a new brain made from the Spirits of ten thousand people.
• The Circus launched an assault on the building, and the old man realized its members were genuine resisters fighting for freedom.
• The old man and the believers of the Eternal Flame joined the Circus, helping it overpower the peace officers and push into the building.
• Thousand Faces activated the EMP emitter, the Dharma King destroyed the drones, and the Resistance Army advanced through the building under the Mist Lord's Fog of War.
• The Head of State emerged and used her powers to immobilize the Resistance Army and make several members self-destruct, but the old man flew at her and declared himself her opponent.

The old man fought the Führer in a battle of Spirits while Qin Ze and his allies reached the control room and used the human-Spirit separator. Qin Ze’s Spirit was uploaded and passed through space toward a closed door.

• The old man revealed that mechanical ascension had stripped away human emotions and challenged the Führer, then fought to buy Qin Ze time.
• Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Brother Devour reached the control room and prepared the human-Spirit separator.
• The Spirit of Eternal Life offered Qin Ze mechanical ascension in exchange for half his Spirit, but Qin Ze refused and ordered the separation to begin.
• When the separator warned that Qin Ze’s Spirit was too strong, Dharma King struck him with lightning to provide more energy.
• Brother Devour started the upload, and Qin Ze’s Spirit vanished from the jar and traveled beyond the atmosphere to a tightly shut door.

The Spirit of Eternal Life trapped Qin Ze in an illusion of his ordinary life, where his memories and abilities gradually faded. A white-haired old man reminded him of his purpose, and Qin Ze began to break free as blue flames rose from his body.

• Qin Ze woke in his bedroom and spent the day at school with Qin Yu and Fatty, believing he had returned to his old life.
• Qin Ze accused the Spirit of Eternal Life of creating an illusion, but found he had lost his qi and blood, forgotten his breathing method, and begun to lose his memories.
• Qin Ze returned home and found comfort with Qin Yu and his parents as the college entrance exam drew closer.
• During PE, a white-haired old man told Qin Ze to wake up, remember who he was, and recognize that the Spirit of Eternal Life had created what he saw.
• The old man shouted “Freedom!” as security guards dragged him away, and Qin Ze remembered before blue flames rose from his body.

Qin Ze broke free of the Spirit of Eternal Life’s dream and discovered the stolen halves of people’s Spirits trapped in bubbles. He freed tens of thousands of people, then led them in an attack on the Spirit of Eternal Life.

• Qin Ze rejected the dream, broke its illusion, and entered the spiritual void with the leader of the Eternal Flame.
• The leader of the Eternal Flame explained that the Spirit of Eternal Life trapped stolen halves of people’s Spirits in tailored dreams and drained their emotions.
• The Spirit of Eternal Life offered Qin Ze godlike power if he submitted, but Qin Ze refused and summoned an azure dragon with the combined spiritual power of his clones.
• Qin Ze’s azure dragon burst the dream bubbles and freed their captives, while the Spirit of Eternal Life devoured some bubbles to keep them from him.
• After the azure dragon spent its strength popping the last bubble, Qin Ze rallied the tens of thousands freed people and led them in a charge against the Spirit of Eternal Life.

Qin Ze freed the emotions of the Spirits devoured by the Spirit of Eternal Life, weakening its control over them. The Spirits prepared to strike back, while the Spirit of Eternal Life transferred itself into a mech and headed for the Pan-Continent.

• Qin Ze and his allies fought the devoured Spirits inside the Spirit of Eternal Life, and Qin Ze spotted their stolen emotions gathered in a black mass above them.
• Qin Ze endured the Spirit of Eternal Life’s lightning and offers, then destroyed the black mass and restored the Spirits’ emotions.
• The old man told Qin Ze that the Spirit of Eternal Life was weakened but not dead, and that the Spirits would attack it from within as others fought from without.
• The Spirit of Eternal Life entered a humanoid mech in hangar two and flew toward the Pan-Continent.

After Qin Ze returned from the Spirit of Eternal Life's mental void, the Spirit arrived in a mech and attacked the head of state, the old man, and their allies. As the clones struggled to hold the Spirit off, Qin Ze recovered and made a dramatic entrance, striking the Spirit aside.

• Qin Ze woke from his mental journey with a severe headache and temporary loss of control over his limbs, while Dharma King explained the aftereffects.
• The old man and the peace officers regained parts of their Spirits and broke free of the Spirit of Eternal Life's control, but the Spirit soon landed in a mech and confronted them.
• The head of state refused to obey the Spirit of Eternal Life, who immobilized her allies, destroyed the peace officers, and prepared to kill the old man.
• Giant Overlord and the clones attacked the Spirit of Eternal Life, but the Spirit summoned automated mechs and drones and overpowered Giant Overlord.
• Qin Ze descended as a six-armed giant, struck the Spirit of Eternal Life aside, and prepared to use Blue Flame · Thunder Burial.

Qin Ze and the clones battered the Spirit of Eternal Life, but it unleashed a psychic attack that left them helpless. Qin Ze used Brother Yuanzi’s silver sword to destroy the mech after the Spirits sacrificed themselves to break its psychic shield, and the world hunt mission was completed.

• Qin Ze and the clones attacked the Spirit of Eternal Life, but their combined assault failed to kill it.
• The Spirit of Eternal Life burned itself to unleash a psychic shockwave, incapacitating Qin Ze and the clones as it advanced on Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze rejected the Spirit of Eternal Life’s offer of godhood and threw the silver sword from his necklace at it.
• The Spirits sacrificed themselves and formed Galaxy, which shattered the Spirit of Eternal Life’s psychic void and drained its power.
• The silver sword’s qi split the Spirit of Eternal Life in two, leaving only charred remains in a deep pit.
• The World Hunt Mission was completed, and the world’s closure countdown began.

Qin Ze completed the hunt mission, defeated the Spirit of Eternal Life, and returned to Sea Capital with the Circus. He learned that the next mission targeted the newly born Spirit of Primordial Origin at a research institute, while Yao Yuan arranged for the project to be terminated and the Spirit destroyed.

• Qin Ze and the Circus defeated the Spirit of Eternal Life, and Qin Ze urged the old man and the head of state to lead the human race’s recovery.
• Qin Ze activated the key and left the Otherworld with the Circus, leaving the head of state to rebuild the human race.
• Qin Ze returned to the Circus base in Sea Capital, where Giant Overlord remained unconscious but stable and the clones tended to their losses.
• Qin Ze checked the World Correction Mission and learned that the Spirit of Primordial Origin had been born at Black Mountain Biotechnology’s Polaris Secret Research Institute.
• Yao Yuan identified the institute and arranged for the Military Department to end the Humanoid Combat Weapon Project and destroy the Spirit of Primordial Origin.
• Taoist appeared in the group chat and asked whether anyone had time in the coming days.

Taoist asked the group for help with a dangerous matter tied to a core secret of the Yin-Yang Temple, and several members agreed to meet him in the Northern Territory. The chapter ended with Taoist leaving his master's grave to capture something and bring it back to the temple.

• Taoist offered ten units of Source of the World to anyone who would help him and asked volunteers to meet him in the Northern Territory in a week.
• Slacking on the Sidelines, Fairy, and Scholar agreed to help, while Qin Ze planned to attend under his own identity after his mission ended.
• Lu Tongtong vowed to grow stronger after realizing she could not join the offline gathering.
• Slacking on the Sidelines worried that Fairy might be an Advanced Martial Artist, then welcomed Wang Biao and announced that the Dew Duo would make its appearance.
• A young man told the council that Leo remained trapped in the Mystic Dream Otherworld and that Taurus would examine a candidate for Virgo's vacancy.
• Taoist apologized at his master's grave, vowed to capture something and return it to the Yin-Yang Temple, then left the temple carrying a wooden chest.

Qin Ze followed the Joint Law Enforcement Team to the Polaris Research Institute as it shut down the Humanoid Combat Weapon Project. The team destroyed the project data, but Lin Siyao activated the Human-Spirit Separation Machine, leaving the Spirit of Primordial Origin’s fate uncertain.

• Qin Ze traveled alone to the research institute after Brother Yuanzi told him that Sea Capital Law Enforcement and a Military Department inspection team were on their way.
• The Joint Law Enforcement Team entered the underground laboratory and found Nangong Qianrou connected to the Human-Spirit Separation Machine and the Spirit of Primordial Origin held in a tank.
• The inspection team captain ordered the Humanoid Combat Weapon Project terminated and its materials, samples, and facilities destroyed.
• Lin Siyao collapsed after the director confirmed the shutdown, while the team removed Nangong Qianrou from the examination bed and began investigating the laboratory.
• After the team destroyed the project data, Lin Siyao put on the helmet and started the Human-Spirit Separation Machine.

Lin Siyao fused her Spirit with the Spirit of Primordial Origin, which escaped destruction and attacked the joint enforcement team. Qin Ze stopped it and completed the World Correction Mission, while Nangong Qianrou suspected she had seen him in the corridor.

• Lin Siyao endured the forced stripping, and her Spirit fused with the Spirit of Primordial Origin as the jar began to crack.
• The inspection captain activated the self-destruct sequence, but the Spirit of Primordial Origin survived the explosion and unleashed powerful mental shocks.
• Lin Siyao used the Spirit to suppress the joint enforcement team and tried to escape, but Qin Ze confronted her in the corridor.
• The Spirit of Primordial Origin attacked Qin Ze, and his azure dragon flattened and swallowed it before vanishing with it.
• Qin Ze received notice that the World Correction Mission was complete and left through the Shelter Space.
• The inspection team found the sample missing, while Nangong Qianrou wondered if she had seen Qin Ze and a dragon.

Qin Ze encouraged Nangong Qianrou to choose her own life and gave her a birthday dress before setting out with the Five Heavenly Kings for the Northern Territory. Nangong rejected her family’s plans, while Qin Ze and the circus crew began their journey to the Abyss.

• Qin Ze decided Captain Hook and his sailor clones would stay behind while he and the others went to the Northern Territory.
• Qin Ze urged Nangong Qianrou to reject the dangerous martial-artist modification project if she did not want it and to live for herself.
• Qin Ze gave Nangong Qianrou a white dress for her birthday, and she decided she no longer wanted to marry.
• Nangong Qianrou hung up on her father when he tried to persuade her to pursue a marriage alliance.
• Qin Ze gathered the Five Heavenly Kings at Abyss Circus headquarters and led them toward the Northern Territory.

Qin Ze arrived in Snow City, a frigid settlement built around the Abyss entrance, and began exploring while his clones searched for the Circus. After finding a corpse in an alley, he was confronted by a gray coat and suspected he had landed in trouble.

• Qin Ze arrived in Snow City by train and learned how the settlement had grown around the Abyss entrance.
• Qin Ze released his clones to explore, then entered a tavern and paid fifty yuan for orange juice.
• A scruffy man warned Qin Ze about Snow City's dangers, advised him not to flaunt his wealth, and suggested taking assignments near the wall.
• Brother Devour told Qin Ze that he had found a Circus base in the city.
• Qin Ze followed the smell of blood to an alley, where he found the man from the tavern dead with his upper torso hollowed out.
• A gray coat shouted at Qin Ze to raise his hands, and Qin Ze realized he might be in trouble.

Qin Ze was released by the Military Department’s Inspection Team and regrouped with Brother Devour in Snow City, where the Circus learned about a series of murders and a Maka Race spy carrying a huge bounty. An underground rumble only Qin Ze could hear interrupted their discussion, before Dharma King announced that he had run into Brother Biao.

• Hooked Nose questioned Qin Ze, confirmed he was a Haidu Academy student, and advised him to return to school until he was stronger.
• Qin Ze left the Inspection Team headquarters and learned that the corpse there was the twelfth victim in a string of recent murders.
• Qin Ze met Brother Devour at the Circus’s rented base, where Giant Overlord reported that entering the Abyss required a Military Department work pass.
• Yangyang reported that twelve people had been murdered and that a Maka Race spy was hiding in Snow City with a 100-million-coin bounty; Qin Ze told his clones to memorize the wanted man’s face.
• Qin Ze heard another underground rumble that no one else seemed to notice, and Dharma King excitedly announced that he had encountered Brother Biao.

Wang Biao learned the location of a fake Circus and planned to raid it with the Dew Duo, while Qin Ze’s group decided to strike first. Qin Ze and the beasts infiltrated the hideout in elephant masks, and a fight broke out across the courtyard.

• Wang Biao told the Dew Duo that the fake Circus was hiding in an abandoned building south of the wall and arranged to attack it that night.
• Wang Biao said one of his troupe members had been killed in the recent serial murders, but the burly man warned him to let the inspection team investigate.
• The Dharma King told Qin Ze about the fake Circus, and Qin Ze decided to raid it before Wang Biao arrived.
• Qin Ze, the Dharma King, Brother Devour, and thirty beasts reached the hideout and disguised themselves in elephant masks.
• Qin Ze tricked a guard into opening the gate, then the Dharma King struck him with lightning as the beasts poured into the courtyard.
• The fake Circus’s reinforcements hesitated because both sides wore elephant masks, but the Dharma King and the clones attacked them and turned the courtyard into a melee.

Qin Ze and his clones infiltrated the fake Circus and used their elephant masks and shared Local Area Network to eliminate its members through deceptive backstabs. After Qin Ze confronted four leaders and Dharma King subdued them, a hidden boss appeared and reprimanded the group for invading his home.

• Laoliu's clones fooled the fake Circus members into trusting them, then stabbed them from behind while the clones joked over their Local Area Network.
• A command to remove the masks revealed that the combatants had been on the same side, just as four fake Circus leaders arrived and boasted about their organization.
• Qin Ze appeared in the Circus leader's mask, and the woman challenged him for impersonating their leader.
• Dharma King struck the woman and three men with Thunderbolt, leaving them collapsed as Qin Ze asked who was in charge.
• A middle-aged man watched from a third-floor window and told Qin Ze that his group had trespassed and wrecked the host's home.

Qin Ze and his allies fought the fake leader, who tried to recruit them to serve his lord before attacking. Brother Devour and Dharma King wounded him, but he escaped the worst of the assault by using shadow creatures to consume several people and heal himself.

• Qin Ze kicked away the woman who had pleaded with him, while the fake leader revealed he had abandoned the Circus to serve a more powerful lord.
• The fake leader attacked Qin Ze, but Brother Devour transformed and blocked his punch, sending him flying backward.
• The fake leader tried to recruit Qin Ze and Brother Devour, but Qin Ze and his clones mocked him, prompting him to attack Brother Devour.
• Brother Devour restrained the fake leader as Dharma King's lightning struck them both, and Brother Devour bit into the fake leader's shoulder.
• The fake leader severed his trapped arm and retreated, then sent black shadows to consume the woman and three intermediate martial artists, using their bodies to heal himself.