Chapter Summaries

Fairy and Ma Yan tried to reach the seed atop the mushroom evil god, but its defenses stopped them until Qin Ze arrived and learned how its corruption worked. After purging the corruption from himself, Qin Ze and Fairy attacked the giant mushroom so he could reach its Source of God.

• Fairy tried to reach the seed while Ma Yan cut through the mushroom evil god’s tentacles, but the mushroom blocked their path and trapped them.
• Qin Ze arrived, caught Fairy, and used his greatsword to fend off the mushroom’s attacks as she explained its purple domain, corruption, and the seed’s power to destroy its Source of God.
• The mushroom’s self-destructing flying soldiers marked Qin Ze with corruption, but he purged it with the golden Divine Markings in his eyes.
• Fairy pinned the mushroom with her ultimate move, Flower Burial, while Qin Ze passed through the void and appeared behind it.
• Qin Ze raised his blue-flamed greatsword and declared, “I am the one true god.”

Qin Ze awakened golden Divine Markings and repeatedly cut apart the Mushroom Evil God, but the creature kept reviving inside its Domain. Its cryptic words about the Star Gate and a place called “there” led Qin Ze to suspect that other gods could awaken in the human world.

• Qin Ze unleashed golden Divine Markings, repaired his greatsword, and sliced through the Mushroom Evil God’s barrier and body.
• Capricorn surfaced from the lake, saw the mushroom split apart, and nursed his desire for revenge against Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze realized the Mushroom Evil God was still alive when its Domain remained, then blocked its tentacle attack with a Black Tortoise Shield.
• The Mushroom Evil God questioned Qin Ze about the Star Gate and “there,” prompting him to consider that other gods might still exist in a dormant state.
• Qin Ze charged and cut the Mushroom Evil God into pieces again, but mushroom soldiers reassembled it, leading him to suspect the seed on its head revealed its true body.

Qin Ze used Lu Tongtong’s future-deduction ability to predict where the Mushroom Evil God would reappear after teleporting through its purple Domain. He cut off its cap and seized the seed, which could counter the evil god.

• The mushroom soldiers self-destructed around Qin Ze, but his golden Divine Markings protected him from their contamination.
• Fairy told Qin Ze to take the seed atop the Mushroom Evil God, while warning that the god was taking root and growing stronger.
• Qin Ze realized the Mushroom Evil God could disassemble and reappear anywhere within its Domain, then contacted Lu Tongtong to have Little Deer deduce the seed’s position.
• Lu Tongtong relayed the Mushroom Evil God’s predicted locations, allowing Qin Ze to attack it as it reassembled and eventually outmaneuver its changed position.
• Qin Ze cut off the Mushroom Evil God’s cap with his Divine Markings greatsword, and a hand behind him smashed the cap and seized the seed.

Qin Ze and his allies battered the Mushroom Evil God’s defensive barrier, but hidden lake tentacles trapped them and the Mushroom Evil God revealed that his self-destructing soldiers had planted mushrooms inside Qin Ze. As the barrier recovered and Qin Ze’s powers faltered, he activated Three-Second Real Man.

• Qin Ze hurled the seed at the reassembled Mushroom Evil God, who blocked it with a purple pillar of defensive light as his Domain shrank.
• Fairy, Ma Yan, Aries, Dharma King, Giant Overlord, Brother Devour, and Qin Ze’s dragons unleashed their attacks, leaving the pillar cracked.
• Qin Ze tried to strike the weakened pillar, but the platform shattered and tentacles from the lake marked and bound Fairy and the others.
• Qin Ze splashed his divine-power-infused blood on his allies to stop the tentacles from draining their life force, while Fairy warned him that the Mushroom Evil God was restoring his barrier with the earth’s power.
• The Mushroom Evil God revealed that his self-destructing soldiers had planted mushrooms throughout Qin Ze’s body, obstructing his Source of God.
• Qin Ze declared that he still had other trump cards and activated Three-Second Real Man as the Mushroom Evil God’s tentacles surged toward him.

Qin Ze destroyed the Mushroom Evil God and secured the seed, then learned that the evil god’s egg came from Otherworld No. Zero. The company’s secrets and the president’s mysterious limits left Qin Ze determined to investigate the otherworld.

• Qin Ze burned away the mushroom network inside his body and shattered the Mushroom Evil God’s defensive pillar with his sword and lightning.
• The seed bound the Mushroom Evil God and drained his power, while Qin Ze’s lightning stopped him from swelling; the Mushroom Evil God died after warning that the calamity of the myriad races had begun.
• Qin Ze questioned Fairy and learned that her president had sent her to subdue the evil god, that the egg came from Otherworld No. Zero, and that the company controlled access to the otherworld.
• Qin Ze swallowed the seed, then vanished into the Fog of War, leaving Fairy and the others alive.
• Aries collapsed in relief, and Capricorn surfaced from the lake.

After the central lake battle, Qin Ze and his allies regrouped in Snow City and discussed the company’s role in the disaster. In the group chat, Yao Yuan revealed that the company’s egg came from Otherworld No. Zero and that the Military Department and law enforcement lacked the ability to develop it.

• Fairy led Aries and Capricorn away from the central lake as the Inspection Team approached, while Aries said a six-armed man had taken the seed.
• Qin Ze found Lu Tongtong safe, and she explained that an animal-masked person had rescued her from the collapsing platform.
• Qin Ze, Lu Tongtong, Slacking on the Sidelines, and his companions returned to Snow City, where Lu Tongtong recounted the lake battle and Wang Biao lamented the loss of nearly all his men.
• Qin Ze returned to Circus headquarters, gave Life Essence to the exhausted Heavenly Kings, and warned them to rest before the Otherworld opened.
• In the group chat, Yao Yuan confirmed the company’s egg came from Otherworld No. Zero and said the Military Department and law enforcement could not develop it.

Qin Ze learned why the company could remain in Otherworld No. Zero and absorbed the power stored in a dark red seed. He continued reading the Desolate God's diary, which ended with the goddess asking the Desolate God to kill her.

• Yao Yuan explained that the company had a person whose innate ability let him remain in Otherworld No. Zero indefinitely, and said the Grand Consul might use the day's events as an opportunity to reclaim it.
• Qin Ze told Yao Yuan that he had seen Fairy at the central lake in the Ring Mountains.
• Qin Ze absorbed the power in the dark red seed, raising his Source of God progress to around fifty-five percent.
• Qin Ze read that the Desolate God had encountered a powerful purple mushroom god and later proposed destroying the Star Gates to stop aberrant beasts from multiplying and advancing.
• Qin Ze read that the goddess summoned the Desolate God and asked him to kill her.

After reading the Desolate God's diary, Qin Ze considered the coming Calamity of the Myriad Races, the Goddess of Life's sealing, and the Divine Tree, then focused on growing stronger. At Black Mountain Biotechnology, the Zither Woman ordered the company to leave Otherworld No. Zero and surrender a talent ability user, and a zither note rang out as the confrontation began.

• Qin Ze read that the Goddess of Life had asked the Desolate God to kill her when the Calamity of the Myriad Races began, and he concluded that the Desolate God had sealed her instead.
• Qin Ze questioned the roles of the Fume-shroom and the Divine Tree, then told his clones to help him become a god as soon as possible.
• A Black Mountain Biotechnology assistant told the middle-aged boss that the evil god had been revived but was later killed, and that the doctor and two others had died at the scene.
• The Zither Woman entered the boss's office and ordered Black Mountain Biotechnology to withdraw from Otherworld No. Zero within a week and hand over a talent ability user.
• The middle-aged boss challenged the order, and the Zither Woman replied that she was informing him rather than negotiating before striking a zither note.

Zither Woman warned the middle-aged man that the Grand Consul would intervene unless he met Law Enforcement’s demands, prompting him to order Test Subject X moved. As the Hunt Otherworld opened in the Ring Mountains, Qin Ze decided to stay and join the Hunters’ trial, where the assembled group was finally joined by Beast Tamer.

• Zither Woman cut the middle-aged man and warned him to meet the demands within a week or face the Grand Consul.
• The middle-aged man ordered his assistant to secretly transfer Test Subject X, and the laboratory staff prepared to move the test subject.
• Qin Ze saw the Otherworld open over the Ring Mountains and agreed to stay, despite Lu Tongtong warning him it was dangerous.
• Slacking on the Sidelines told Wang Biao about the Hunters, and Yao Yuan called the group to gather at the Ring Mountains the next morning.
• Slacking on the Sidelines, Passerby A, Scholar, Lu Tongtong, Wang Biao, Fairy, Taoist, and Yao Yuan gathered near the Otherworld entrance.
• Beast Tamer arrived and greeted everyone.

Qin Ze met the other trial participants while disguised as an Intermediate Martial Artist, and the group entered the Otherworld to search for the source of its contamination. They flew away from a lava-filled version of the Ring Mountains, with no guidance from their keys.

• Qin Ze revealed himself as Beast Tamer, embarrassing Slacking on the Sidelines, Passerby A, and Taoist, while Wang Biao suspected Qin Ze was the Circus leader.
• Yao Yuan proposed introductions, and Wang Biao joined the group as a prospective participant before Slacking on the Sidelines boasted about their chances.
• The group entered the Otherworld and received the objective of finding and eliminating the source of contamination within three days, but their keys offered no guidance.
• Qin Ze decided to keep his clones and distinctive abilities hidden, while the Local Area Network urged him to let them out.
• The group found themselves beside a lava lake in a dark red version of the Ring Mountains, and Yao Yuan carried them away on a flying greatsword.

Qin Ze and the others encountered frightened scavengers who escaped into a shifting underground maze controlled by an unseen power. After soldiers from a heavily armed rotorcraft arrived, checked the group for infection, and offered protective suits, the Hunters were left preparing to leave with them.

• Slacking on the Sidelines spotted scavengers carrying a bloodied giant mole, but a fissure opened beneath them and swallowed them before Fairy could catch them.
• Scholar looked underground and discovered a vast maze of shifting tunnels, while Qin Ze concluded the scavengers were hiding because they feared the group.
• Fairy and Slacking on the Sidelines tried to dig into the maze, but the earth refilled their pit and the mountain attacked them with rocks and earthen pillars.
• A heavily armed rotorcraft destroyed the pillars with missiles, and its soldiers used devices to suppress the underground controller's ability.
• The soldiers scanned Qin Ze and the others for infection, found none, and offered them protective suits before taking them away.

Qin Ze and the Hunters arrived at the Northern Fortress, where soldiers mistook them for shelter residents and confined them for two days of contamination checks. While investigating the fortress’s restrictions, Qin Ze received an offer in the chat group to have the cell door opened.

• Qin Ze saw the underground scavengers attack the devices left behind as the rotorcraft carried his group away from the Ring Mountains.
• Qin Ze let the soldiers believe his Pip-Boy identified him as a shelter leader, and the Hunters agreed to learn about the catastrophe before returning to the mountains.
• The soldiers flew Qin Ze and the others to the Northern Fortress and explained that Polluters attacked it every few days and contamination near the Ring Mountains was severe.
• The fortress staff placed the group in a converted cell for two days of observation, and Yao Yuan warned the Hunters to be discreet.
• Qin Ze learned that the cell suppressed their abilities and qi circulation, then received a message from Passerby A offering to open the door.

Qin Ze secretly explored the fortress, mapped its defenses, and discovered two residents from Shelter No. 20 in the neighboring cell. The chapter left him receiving an urgent warning from Thousand Faces that a fight had broken out.

• Passerby A opened the cell while Fairy blocked the surveillance, allowing Qin Ze to sneak out and release Thousand Faces.
• Qin Ze explored the fortress, placed wards, learned its defenses and exits, and released nearly a hundred clones to hide in the sewers.
• Qin Ze returned to the cell and learned from Passerby A that two shelter residents were being held next door.
• Qin Ze spoke with the residents, who said they had come from Shelter No. 20 to scout ahead and had been detained by the fortress guards.
• Soldiers delivered dinner to the cells, and Thousand Faces suddenly shouted over the Local Area Network that someone was fighting.

Qin Ze watched the Northern Fortress repel a night raid by grotesque scavengers and learned from Thousand Faces that the fortress had no obvious commander, mess hall, or supply warehouse. The group decided to investigate the contamination in the Ring Mountains, and Qin Ze began questioning the blue-skinned neighbor about the calamity.

• Thousand Faces reported that hundreds of scavengers were attacking the Northern Fortress, and Qin Ze watched the soldiers set fire to the fused monster they formed to scale the wall.
• After the raid ended, Thousand Faces told Qin Ze that the fortress’s rooms were empty and that he could find neither its mess hall, its supply warehouse, nor its commander.
• Qin Ze told the chat group about the raid and the fortress’s strange features, and the group agreed that the contamination was likely in the Ring Mountains and that they needed to learn how strong the Polluters were.
• The group decided Qin Ze should question the blue-skinned neighbors, and Wang Biao watched him approach the cell door in confusion.
• Qin Ze asked the short, thin neighbor how the calamity had happened.

Qin Ze learned that the contamination came from Otherworld No. Zero and suspected their mission's final boss was an evil god. The Hunters theorized that their neighbors' shelter held the clever plan, and Fairy set out to verify it through their dreams.

• Qin Ze told the short, thin man that his shelter's duty was clearing contamination and saving the world.
• The short, thin man explained that contamination from Otherworld No. Zero had become a plague, and that his shelter's residents had hibernated for four centuries.
• Qin Ze learned that contamination had nearly wiped out exotic beasts and likely caused the Gates of the Abyss to close.
• Qin Ze shared his suspicion that an evil god was the final boss, and the Hunters discussed how they could fight it.
• Beast Tamer deduced that the neighbors' shelter was designed for hibernation and might contain the clever plan.
• Fairy produced a multicolored seed and said she would question the sleeping neighbors in their dreams.

Fairy used a seed to enter a short, skinny man's dream, where he revealed his suspicions about the fortress survivors and his plan to bring them to the shelter. As the Hunters prepared to investigate the shelter and contact the Polluters, Thousand Faces discovered that the fortress soldiers were Polluters feasting on corpses.

• Fairy grew vines from the seed, and the Hunters used them to enter the short, skinny man's dream.
• In the dream, the short, skinny man told the shelter administrator that he suspected the fortress survivors had been polluted, and the administrator ordered him to bring them to the shelter.
• The short, skinny man woke and stared at the wall, while the Hunters concluded that the shelter was their best lead and planned to split up the next day.
• Thousand Faces found a crowd of soldiers at the city gate eating Polluter corpses and realized they were Polluters hiding their identities.
• A soldier noticed Thousand Faces standing apart from the feast and asked why he was not eating.

Qin Ze discovered that the fortress soldiers were Polluters and learned from a soldier’s memories that the king planned to eat the shelter’s survivors. When the king’s powerful mental force traced the soldier’s memories to Qin Ze and his clones, Qin Ze prepared to fight back.

• Thousand Faces learned that the soldiers used shelter residents as bait and reserved canned food as offerings for the king, who was expected the next day.
• Qin Ze decided to leave the cell alone to confirm that the fortress soldiers were Polluters, while the short, thin man in the neighboring cell noticed the unexplained door opening.
• Qin Ze met the clones in the sewer, where Thousand Faces had knocked out soldiers and dressed the clones in their uniforms.
• Brother Devour ate a Polluter, allowing Qin Ze and the clones to receive the soldier’s memories and learn the truth about the world.
• A powerful mental force followed the link to the devoured soldier and attacked the clones, shattering Qin Ze’s Azure Dragon before golden markings spread across his eyes.

Qin Ze defeated the king’s spiritual assault, then sent his clones into battle to distract the fortress soldiers and open Shelter No. 20 ahead of schedule. As the fortress descended into chaos, the Self-Destruct Squad seized a cannon and blasted open the gate, though the gunner accidentally fired on friendly clones afterward.

• Qin Ze used his golden spiritual dragon to shatter the king’s attack and force him to sever their link, after which the king promised to find him.
• Qin Ze learned that the fortress soldiers had located the group, so he decided to open Shelter No. 20 that night and retrieve the “cunning plan.”
• Qin Ze sent ordinary clones out of the sewers, where they launched a chaotic assault that confused the soldiers and spread fighting throughout the fortress.
• Qin Ze entered the Shelter Space and headed for the cells while the Self-Destruct Squad searched for a way to open the fortress gate.
• The Self-Destruct Squad fought its way to a cannon, turned it toward the gate, and blasted it apart.
• A clone fired a second cannon shot at the soldiers, and other clones cursed him for hitting friendly forces.

Qin Ze revealed that he and the Hunters were outsiders fighting to cleanse the world of pollution, then persuaded the short, skinny man and the tall, fat man to lead them to their shelter. As the group fled the collapsing fortress, the remaining clones used a desperate self-destructing cannon shot to strike the rock wall blocking the gate.

• Qin Ze freed the short, skinny man from his cell and discovered that he could put people to sleep and had suspected the Hunters were outsiders.
• The short, skinny man accused Qin Ze of seeking the thing inside the shelter, and Qin Ze admitted that the Hunters were not shelter residents.
• Qin Ze exposed a soldier's polluted form and showed the duo the Hunters' strength, convincing them to trust the group and take them to their shelter.
• The Shelter Space shattered outside the cell building, and Brother Yuanzi carried the group toward the blasted gate while the Hunters fought through the soldiers.
• A rock wall blocked the gate, so the last clones loaded themselves into the cannon and one clone's explosion propelled the other into the wall.

Qin Ze and the Hunters escaped the fortress after the clones’ self-destructing attacks, and Qin Ze explained the history behind the King and the shelters. He revealed that the people of the Ring Mountains had become contaminated to fight contamination.

• The clones sacrificed themselves in a final series of explosions, allowing the Hunters to escape the fortress.
• Slacking on the Sidelines asked Qin Ze why the fortress soldiers had fought among themselves, and Qin Ze said he had used a trick.
• Qin Ze told the Hunters that the company’s supposed blessing came from bodily fluids taken from remains found in Otherworld No. Zero, which eventually awakened as the King.
• Qin Ze explained that the King’s awakening led humanity to build shelters, while the King converted people into Polluters and ruled them through a mental network.
• Lu Tongtong asked why the Ring Mountains’ Polluters fought the fortress soldiers, and Qin Ze explained that they had become contaminated to fight contamination.