Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze and the Hunters opened an alloy coffin and fought the awakened Test Subject X, who proved powerful enough to shatter Wang Biao’s golden Buddha. The fight was interrupted by an active Energy Gathering Tower next door, whose beam sent Qin Ze crashing into a wall.

• Qin Ze used the laboratory console to open the alloy coffin, revealing the sleeping Test Subject X.
• Slacking on the Sidelines attacked, but Test Subject X awakened and struck him into a wall.
• The Hunters attacked Test Subject X together, but he shattered Wang Biao’s golden Buddha and broke free of their assault.
• Test Subject X warned Qin Ze to look right, and an energy beam from the active Energy Gathering Tower blasted through the laboratory wall and struck Qin Ze.
• Lu Tongtong pulled Qin Ze from the wall as he spotted the active tower through the opening.

Qin Ze and the Hunters fought a level-nine test subject in the laboratory, but their attacks only exposed that they had been deceived by an illusion. The Energy Gathering Tower charged again and struck the real test subject, who announced that everyone would face the God of the Underworld’s judgment.

• Scholar and Taoist restrained the test subject long enough for the Hunters to prepare a coordinated attack.
• Fairy, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Qin Ze hit the test subject with a blade, an iron ball, and lightning, but the key gave no completion notification.
• Fairy chopped the apparently defeated test subject into pieces, and a mocking voice revealed he was clinging to the ceiling.
• Qin Ze realized the Hunters had attacked an institute staff member controlled by the test subject and concluded that the test subject had been stalling by the Energy Gathering Tower.
• The Energy Gathering Tower fired a blue beam into the test subject’s back, and he declared that everyone would accept the God of the Underworld’s judgment.

Qin Ze and the Hunters fought the test subject, who had reached the Peak of Level Nine after the Energy Gathering Tower poured energy into him. After the tower restored the test subject’s strength and he nearly killed Qin Ze, Qin Ze transformed into a six-armed giant, and Slacking on the Sidelines realized Beast Tamer was the Circus’s leader.

• The test subject charged Fairy, but her plants stopped the laboratory floor from churning and pinned him with thorny vines that drained his power.
• Wang Biao, Passerby A, Qin Ze, and Scholar combined their abilities to attack the test subject, but he escaped through the ceiling on a rising platform.
• Thousand Faces urged the Hunters to destroy the Energy Gathering Tower, and Qin Ze sliced it in half, but the test subject said it was too late.
• The test subject called down a beam of blue energy from Sea Capital, replenished his strength, shattered Fairy’s vines, and knocked Qin Ze toward the ground.
• A six-armed giant rose to block the test subject’s strike against Qin Ze, and Slacking on the Sidelines recognized Beast Tamer as the leader of the Circus.

Qin Ze revealed his true form and fought the test subject, but the test subject used the Energy Gathering Towers to replenish his power and shatter Qin Ze’s sword. Thousand Faces explained that the towers formed a vast support network, and the test subject claimed he had taught the company’s people how to use the energy beam.

• The Hunters realized Beast Tamer was connected to the Circus, and Scholar urged them to focus on defeating the test subject.
• Qin Ze drew his bone sword, revealed his giant form, and fought the test subject while the test subject redirected the Mobile Team against the Hunters.
• Fairy’s parasitic seed drained the test subject’s power, but an energy beam from Sea Capital restored him before Qin Ze could finish him.
• Thousand Faces told Qin Ze that over a hundred Energy Gathering Towers formed a network capable of supplying the test subject across many cities.
• The test subject crushed Fairy’s seed and said he had taught the company how to use the streak of light that struck him.

Qin Ze and the Hunters faced the test subject, who had gained seemingly limitless energy from the Energy Gathering Towers, while the company’s allies gathered to overwhelm them. Yao Yuan waited for reinforcements, and Cancer’s arrival was followed by a surge of sword intent that covered the Level Nine Martial Artists.

• Qin Ze told the Hunters that the Energy Gathering Towers were powering the test subject, and Yao Yuan said he would handle the towers once everyone arrived.
• The test subject wounded Qin Ze, destroyed his Dragons of Lightning and Fire, and demanded that he join him while the Hunters fought the Mobile Team.
• Elder He and four other Level Nine Martial Artists arrived to confront Yao Yuan, while a convoy brought over a hundred martial artists to surround the Hunters.
• Yao Yuan held off the five Level Nine Martial Artists and waited for the last arrival, who turned out to be Cancer.
• Cancer moved to seize the test subject, but a sword rang out and sword intent swept over every Level Nine Martial Artist present.

Yao Yuan fought five Level Nine Martial Artists while the Hall of Stars activated around them, revealing his plan to seal the company’s powerful allies. Elder Liu countered that the company’s Energy Gathering Tower Network could break the artifact, but Yao Yuan said the Stars were already shining.

• At the Black Mountain Biotechnology building, a middle-aged man ordered his assistant to ready the wartime support network, then canceled his order to seize two Energy Gathering Towers that had fired without authorization.
• Yao Yuan told Qin Ze to leave the Level Nine fighters to him and focus on the test subject, while Qin Ze and Fairy attacked the test subject together.
• Yao Yuan fought Elder He, Elder Liu, the burly man, and the couple, but their combined attacks left him badly wounded.
• The Hall of Stars appeared around the battlefield, sealing in the Level Nine Martial Artists and revealing that Yao Yuan had set the artifact in place the previous night to suppress the company’s allies.
• Elder Liu said the Energy Gathering Tower Network could break the Hall of Stars, and Yao Yuan replied that the Stars were already shining.

Ordinary people across the cities answered the Stars Card call and destroyed the Energy Gathering Towers, crippling the company’s support network. On the level-nine battlefield, Qin Ze brought in the Circus to reinforce the embattled Hunters, and Brother Devour and Giant Overlord began attacking the weakened test subject.

• A husband learned his wages had been cut again, then left after receiving a message on his Stars Card.
• A young bookseller and a sanitation worker joined the uprising, as Stars across the continent gathered to attack the Energy Gathering Towers.
• The Stars destroyed ninety percent of the towers, leaving the company headquarters chief furious and powerless to stop them.
• Elder Liu realized the Stars were the source of Brother Yuanzi’s confidence, while the test subject struggled after losing the towers’ support.
• Qin Ze summoned the Circus through the Fog of War, stabilizing the battlefield and driving back the Mobile Team reinforcements.
• Brother Devour absorbed the test subject’s attacks and returned the damage, while Qin Ze raised a Divine Markings greatsword to strike.

Qin Ze attacked the weakened test subject while Fairy helped him, as the Level Nine Martial Artists tried to break out of Yao Yuan’s Hall of Stars. Fairy then betrayed Yao Yuan, covering his chest with roses and causing the hall to crack as the others pressed their attack.

• Brother Devour held the test subject through his explosive blast, leaving himself badly wounded while Qin Ze and Giant Overlord survived.
• The test subject burned the Mobile Team members’ Sources of Life to restore his aura, then fought Qin Ze as Fairy’s flowers helped Qin Ze close in.
• Elder Liu, Elder He, and the other Level Nine Martial Artists attacked the Hall of Stars, while Yao Yuan used his power to keep its projection stable.
• Elder He summoned a tower that drained the attackers’ qi and blood as it pressed against the hall’s ceiling and opened cracks.
• Fairy appeared behind Yao Yuan, caused a scarlet rose to bloom on his chest, and snapped her fingers to cover him with more roses.

Fairy betrayed the Hunters and trapped Qin Ze and the others in her Domain while Yao Yuan sacrificed his heart's blood to activate the Hall of Stars. The hall vanished into the void with Yao Yuan inside, leaving the Hunters to fight their way free of Fairy's vines.

• Fairy revealed her betrayal by unleashing dormant parasitic seeds that bound Qin Ze and the test subject in dark red vines and blocked the Hunters' path.
• Scholar briefly withered the plants with his ability, but Fairy's Domain quickly restored them and trapped the Hunters again.
• Yao Yuan drove the King's Sword into his chest and used his heart's blood to refine the Hall of Stars, strengthening its suppression of the Level Nine Martial Artists.
• The fully activated Hall of Stars rose through the clouds and vanished into the void after Yao Yuan told Qin Ze to take care of himself.
• Qin Ze began burning his Source of Life to escape Fairy's vines as Dharma King and the Self-Destruct Squad joined the fight to save him.

Qin Ze and the clones sacrifice themselves in a massive explosion that destroys the test subject and blasts Fairy away, completing the world correction. The author then reflects on the volume and introduces the coming conflict among the myriad races.

• The Hunters teleport out while the clones blast through the vines and free Qin Ze, who activates Three-Second Real Man and attacks Fairy.
• Fairy suppresses Qin Ze with roses, but Thousand Faces announces a self-destruction that briefly strikes her; she emerges nearly unharmed and pins Qin Ze down again.
• The test subject begins draining Qin Ze, and Qin Ze decides to detonate his Source of God as the clones release their Sources of Life to fuel the blast.
• Brother Devour, Giant Overlord, Dharma King, and the Mist Lord give up their lives alongside the clones as Qin Ze's explosion destroys the test subject and hurls Fairy away.
• Scholar moves the survivors to safety, and the world declares the correction successful.
• The author explains that Yao Yuan's sacrifice was planned, discusses the volume's production, and previews the coming conflict among the myriad races.

After the battle, the Grand Consul confirmed that the Fairness Society would abandon the Overlord Awakening Plan, while Qin Ze and the clones who died in the fight were reborn. Qin Ze woke to the clones’ familiar chatter, relieved that they had returned with him.

• The Hunters mourned their losses and vowed to grow stronger, while Aries and Capricorn decided to head to the Abyss and Ma Yan went to question a woman.
• The Grand Consul told the old man in the gray mist that the battle was over and learned that the Fairness Society would stop pursuing the Overlord Awakening Plan.
• Sagittarius questioned whether they should let the Grand Consul leave, but the old man warned that Sagittarius was no match for him.
• An old man beneath an ice tree said the Chosen One would meet him again in a year.
• Qin Ze’s body regenerated, and he woke in a viscous liquid to find that his dead clones, including the Five Heavenly Kings, had been reborn with him.
• The clones compared their new levels and teased Thousand Faces about his self-destruction, while Qin Ze expressed relief at hearing them again.

Qin Ze was reborn in the World Tree’s fruit after three years, gaining a stronger body and higher cultivation before returning to the world. The tree keeper gave him a letter from Yao Yuan, which revealed that Yao Yuan had arranged for Fairy to help kill Qin Ze.

• Qin Ze absorbed the fruit’s energy, gained a root network that strengthened his body, and rose beyond the level 7.5 barrier.
• Qin Ze tore open the fruit, fell into the snow beneath the World Tree, and learned from the old man that three years had passed.
• The old man explained that the World Tree had used nearly all its Source of the World to refine Qin Ze, though his clones and the Five Heavenly Kings had shared the gains.
• The old man gave Qin Ze a letter from Yao Yuan, who had arranged for Qin Ze to undergo the refinement ahead of schedule.
• Qin Ze read that Yao Yuan had agreed to help Fairy become an upper seat of the Twelve Zodiac Signs in exchange for her help killing Qin Ze.

Qin Ze learned from Brother Yuanzi’s letter why the Hall of Stars plan had required his death and discovered that he was the world’s Chosen One, the Master Key. The tree keeper revealed that Brother Yuanzi was still alive inside the Hall of Stars, and Qin Ze would have to reach level nine to find and open it.

• Qin Ze learned that Brother Yuanzi and Fairy had staged the betrayal to trap the Company’s and Fairness Society’s level-nine fighters in the Hall of Stars.
• Brother Yuanzi explained that he had concealed the plan because the Fairness Society president could deduce future events, and that Qin Ze’s death would buy humanity a year to prepare for the coming Calamity of the Myriad Races.
• Qin Ze learned that the World Will had chosen him as the Master Key and that the Chosen One would anchor the approaching calamity.
• Brother Yuanzi’s letter told Qin Ze to retrieve something from the Grand Consul and hoped he would grow strong enough to cross the sea.
• The tree keeper revealed that Brother Yuanzi was still alive but being consumed by the Hall of Stars, and that Qin Ze could rescue him after reaching level nine.
• The tree keeper told Qin Ze that all nine Hunters had been born and the key’s functions were fully updated.

After returning, Qin Ze explored the Hunters’ chat group and the Myriad Races Forum, then arranged to meet Fairy on Steamed Bun Island in two days. He left the tree keeper’s refuge with his clones to see how the world had changed during his absence.

• Qin Ze reviewed the Hunters’ chat records and decided not to tell the group that he had returned.
• Qin Ze browsed the Myriad Races Forum and found Hunters discussing beast tides, trade, and worlds with complete World Wills being targeted.
• Qin Ze questioned the tree keeper about why he stayed by the ice tree, then borrowed a communication card.
• Qin Ze contacted Fairy, and they agreed to meet on Steamed Bun Island in two days.
• Qin Ze left the tree keeper and set off with his clones to see the world after three years.

A knight captain and two members of an exploration team crossed a spatial gate into the Abyss and boarded an eerie stranded ship. They discovered its crew was alive, and the Ghost Captain confronted them, demanding their valuables.

• A chestnut-haired woman emerged through the spatial gate and was attacked by F-rank beasts before a silver-haired knight rescued her with a steam-powered rifle.
• The knight captain, identified as Gwenni, led the woman and a tailcoated man across the Abyss to investigate a stranded sailing ship.
• The explorers boarded the ship and found nearly twenty masked bodies in the wheelhouse, including a pirate-dressed captain.
• The bodies awakened, revealed themselves as members of the great Circus's Abyss jungling team, and surrounded the visitors.
• Paopao blocked the door as the Ghost Captain transformed and demanded that the explorers hand over their valuables.

Three years after Qin Ze’s death, he returned to a transformed Sea Capital and saw how the human race had grown stronger under the reforms. As he reflected on the city’s changes, the Captain’s crew made contact with visitors from another world, and Qin Ze left the story recognizing that the human race was better prepared for what lay ahead.

• Qin Ze watched through the Captain’s eyes as the Captain and his crew revived and met three weak visitors from another world, then told them to make contact.
• Qin Ze flew out of the independent space, reached the Northern Territory, and took a military train from Snow City toward Sea Capital.
• Qin Ze released the Five Heavenly Kings and the clones at a freight station, then entered Sea Capital alone and saw its strengthened defenses and martial artists.
• Qin Ze overheard students discussing weekly Qi-Gathering Pills and learned from the evening news that Wen Yi had been executed and the Chamber of Commerce’s companies had been reorganized under the Alliance.
• Qin Ze spoke with the noodle shop owner, who said business had improved, and reflected that the human race’s battered ship could now withstand rougher seas.

Qin Ze watched Sea Capital’s defenses wipe out a beast tide, then returned to the Circus headquarters and reunited with the starving Big Black. In the Hunter chat group, the Hunters speculated that Beast Tamer and Senior Yao Yuan might still be alive, while Qin Ze remained silent.

• Qin Ze watched Sea Capital’s forces destroy a beast tide of nearly ten thousand exotic beasts in less than half an hour.
• Qin Ze returned to the Circus headquarters and found Big Black weakened after guarding the warehouse for three years.
• Qin Ze fed Big Black qi and blood, then sent a clone to buy him beef.
• Slacking on the Sidelines argued that Beast Tamer and Senior Yao Yuan might be alive because the Myriad Races Forum was open.
• Scholar suggested the forum might open even if some Hunters were dead, and Slacking on the Sidelines guessed Qin Ze had gone into the Abyss again.

Qin Ze collected the crystal Brother Yuanzi had left with the Grand Consul and learned that it could lead him to a weapon capable of killing a sealed World Overlord. He recognized the coordinates as a world Brother Yuanzi had once visited and set out for the Abyss to claim the Overlord’s power.

• Qin Ze read the Hunters’ chat and learned that beast tides were growing more active, possibly because of something called New Land.
• Qin Ze planned to visit the Grand Consul, travel to Steamed Bun Island, and explore the Abyss and Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze used mental power to persuade the receptionist at Sea Capital Law Enforcement to let him see the Grand Consul.
• The Grand Consul gave Qin Ze a crystal that Yao Yuan had left behind and explained that it revealed the coordinates of a world containing a weapon and a sealed World Overlord.
• Qin Ze recognized the crystal’s coordinates as the world where Brother Yuanzi had rescued Slacking on the Sidelines, then vowed not to let Brother Yuanzi down.
• Qin Ze left for the Abyss, while the Grand Consul worried that too much responsibility had been placed on him.

Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings traveled to Steamed Bun Island to meet Fairy, discovering that the open sea was filled with unusually strong sea creatures and aggressive mutants. Qin Ze waited on the island with the Five Heavenly Kings hidden nearby as Fairy arrived.

• Qin Ze bought a new storage ring, then set out with the Five Heavenly Kings to meet Fairy.
• The group noticed that Thousand Streams Island had declined and that the open sea held more and stronger creatures than before.
• Qin Ze tested a giant sea snake and found it contained chaotic energy rather than the Source of the World.
• Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings encountered numerous aggressive mutants and suspected that a new world had connected to the sea.
• Qin Ze landed on Steamed Bun Island, hid the Five Heavenly Kings in the forest, and waited for Fairy to arrive.
• Fairy appeared in the sky above Steamed Bun Island.

Qin Ze confronted Fairy and deduced that she was one half of the Twins Constellation, possibly his sister Qin Yu in another form. After Fairy defeated him with pollen, Qin Ze tricked her into lowering her guard and removed her mask, only to find an unfamiliar face beneath it.

• Fairy met Qin Ze in the woods, and Qin Ze sent the concealed Five Heavenly Kings away before questioning her about her identity.
• Qin Ze connected the necklace, Fairy's scent, and Xia Huai'an's actions to conclude that Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an were both Twins Constellation.
• Fairy confirmed she was Twins Constellation but denied being Qin Ze's sister.
• Qin Ze tried to remove Fairy's mask, but she countered his attacks with petals, vines, and pollen that weakened him.
• Qin Ze pretended to remain incapacitated, then sprang up and removed Fairy's mask, revealing a face he had never seen.