Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze met Fairy, learned she had not betrayed Yao Yuan, and received an update on the dangers in Otherworld No. Zero. After Qin Ze departed, Fairy revealed that she had already acknowledged him.

• Qin Ze removed Fairy's mask, saw her true face, and exchanged teasing remarks with her before both put their masks back on.
• Fairy explained that Yao Yuan was alive and that she had joined Law Enforcement to suppress the Fairness Society, not to betray him.
• Fairy said she walked alongside the light and told Qin Ze that Yao Yuan had asked her to brief him on Otherworld No. Zero.
• Fairy described the growing corruption in Otherworld No. Zero, warned Qin Ze to stay inside for no more than half an hour, and pointed him toward its entrance.
• Qin Ze left for Otherworld No. Zero, and Fairy said she had already acknowledged him.

Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings entered Otherworld No. Zero and discovered a barren, pollution-filled realm that did not seem to be an ordinary Otherworld. Qin Ze used the Source of God to resist the pollution and set out to uncover the realm’s secrets, while the others faced a strict time limit.

• Fairy refused the lively voice’s attempt to arrange her marriage to Qin Ze, then stepped through a spatial gate to meet an old acquaintance in the gray fog.
• Qin Ze told Dharma King, Thousand Faces, and Mist Lord that he believed Fairy’s composed voice was Qin Yu, based on a secret snack shop they had visited together.
• Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings flew past groups of infected sea creatures and reached the black vortex identified as Otherworld No. Zero.
• The group plunged through the entrance and arrived in a dark red, barren world where intense pollution seeped into their bodies.
• Qin Ze found that the Shelter Space could not block the pollution, so he activated the Source of God and recalled the Five Heavenly Kings to help them endure it.
• Qin Ze headed into the realm to investigate its secrets, knowing the Five Heavenly Kings could remain there for only half an hour.

Qin Ze ventured into the corrupt depths of Otherworld No. Zero, where ruined structures and a distant mountain marked unexplored territory. Just as he prepared to turn back, he found a photograph showing a family portrait of the four of them.

• Qin Ze tested the corruption with a clone, which became infected almost instantly and attacked before Qin Ze burned it to ashes.
• Qin Ze assessed how long he could survive in Otherworld No. Zero and hurried beyond the areas previously explored by the company.
• Qin Ze and his companions examined ruins that the Mist Lord and Thousand Faces identified as likely remains of a military camp.
• The Mist Lord urged Qin Ze to turn back with time reserved for the return trip, but Qin Ze went to investigate a glowing point nearby.
• Qin Ze dug a photograph out of the dirt and saw a family portrait of the four of them.

Qin Ze found a family portrait in Otherworld No. Zero and learned from a talking rock that his parents had been there and planned to climb Underworld Mountain. He wondered whether they were Demigods as the rock revealed that the God of the Underworld was on the mountain.

• Qin Ze found a small copy of his family portrait and wondered whether Qin Yu or his parents had dropped it in Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze considered the possibility that his parents were Demigods and decided to ask Qin Yu about them after leaving Otherworld No. Zero.
• Qin Ze discovered that the rock he had been sitting on could speak Spirit Language and questioned it about the photo.
• The rock said Qin Ze's parents had sat on it, looked at the portrait, and planned to climb Underworld Mountain.
• The rock told Qin Ze that the God of the Underworld was on Underworld Mountain.

Qin Ze questioned a talking stone about his parents’ journey toward Underworld Mountain, then followed its directions to a ruined temple. There he met a sentient sword case that claimed it never lied.

• Qin Ze learned that the stone could not discuss other gods, but it described his parents fleeing wandering corpses toward Underworld Mountain after dropping the photograph.
• The stone said it had not seen Qin Ze’s parents again, and Brother Devour suggested they might have left Otherworld No. Zero by another route.
• The stone directed Qin Ze to a dilapidated temple where a sword case could verify its story, and Qin Ze traveled there after warning the stone not to lie.
• Qin Ze sent Brother Devour into the temple first to check for danger, then entered and found a black sword case on the altar.
• The sword case identified the temple’s deity as the God of the Underworld and told Qin Ze that it never lied.

Qin Ze questioned Miss Sword Case and learned that his parents had reached Underworld Mountain and were still alive, protected by a divine artifact. As he prepared to leave before the contamination infected him, Miss Sword Case warned that their artifact was nearly spent and offered to help.

• Qin Ze learned that Miss Sword Case had met his parents when they hid from wandering corpses and that they had gone toward Underworld Mountain.
• Miss Sword Case said Qin Ze's parents were still ahead, alive and protected from contamination by a divine artifact.
• Qin Ze questioned Miss Sword Case about the stone outside and whether either of them was a strange beast, while the Mist Lord warned that only ten minutes remained.
• Qin Ze decided to leave the temple rather than risk infection, but Miss Sword Case warned that his parents' divine artifact was almost at its limit.
• Miss Sword Case offered to help Qin Ze with the contamination.

Qin Ze agreed to enter Miss Sword Case after she swore an oath to the World Will, hoping she could help him rescue the two humans trapped beneath Underworld Mountain. After she transported him into her interior, Qin Ze discovered it was a void that swallowed his spiritual power, and Miss Sword Case told him not to move because it tickled.

• Miss Sword Case offered to shield Qin Ze from corruption and help him rescue the two humans if he entered her, and Qin Ze tested her durability with his bone sword.
• Miss Sword Case swore before the World Will that she meant Qin Ze no harm, then explained that splitting Underworld Mountain would free the two humans from the God of the Underworld's power.
• Qin Ze and his companions agreed to cooperate with Miss Sword Case, who claimed she could split the mountain while the God of the Underworld remained half-asleep.
• Miss Sword Case opened her sword case and used spatial power to transport Qin Ze inside her.
• Qin Ze found himself in a void that swallowed his spiritual power, and Miss Sword Case warned him not to move because it tickled.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case reached Underworld Mountain, where his parents were trapped beneath a failing divine artifact. After confirming that the artifact had cracked, Qin Ze prepared to split the corpse-built mountain and save them.

• Miss Sword Case took Qin Ze out of the temple for the first time and carried him through the fog toward Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze warned Captain to take Paopao along when visiting the female knight captain’s world, while the clones reacted with envy to Captain’s discovery.
• Miss Sword Case opened the sword case and teleported Qin Ze out beneath the gray fog at Underworld Mountain.
• Qin Ze used his Divine Markings to see his parents trapped on the mountainside beneath a cracked oil-paper umbrella that was keeping away the contamination.
• Miss Sword Case urged Qin Ze to split Underworld Mountain, and the corpses covering it lit their eyes red and locked onto him as he drew his bone sword.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case fought off a horde of Wandering Corpses at Underworld Mountain, with Miss Sword Case revealing her powerful Five Elements Flying Swords and Qin Ze adding his blue flames. After they cleared the corpses, Underworld Mountain began to shake as they prepared to face whatever awaited them there.

• Wandering Corpses rose from Underworld Mountain and surged toward Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case.
• Miss Sword Case released the Five Elements Flying Swords, which tore through nearly a quarter of the horde with attacks representing the five elements.
• Qin Ze unleashed a wave of blue flames, and he and Miss Sword Case destroyed the remaining Wandering Corpses in less than five minutes.
• Qin Ze tried to touch the flying swords, but Miss Sword Case pulled them away and insisted they were hers.
• Underworld Mountain began to tremble violently as Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case turned their attention to the bigger threat.

The God of the Underworld awakened and merged with Underworld Mountain, forcing Qin Ze and his companions to fight. Qin Ze’s strongest attacks barely damaged the giant, and the God of the Underworld sent him crashing into the ground.

• Miss Sword Case realized the God of the Underworld had awakened as Underworld Mountain shook and its wandering corpses surged toward the group.
• Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case attacked the mountain, but the corpses absorbed their blows with little effect.
• Qin Ze transformed into a six-armed giant, activated the Source of God, and carved a deep gash into Underworld Mountain with a golden sword aura.
• Underworld Mountain formed itself into a giant, crushed Qin Ze’s sword aura, and fully awakened as the God of the Underworld.
• Qin Ze dodged the God of the Underworld’s palm and attacked its ankle, but the giant kicked through his Black Tortoise Shield and hurled him hundreds of meters.

Qin Ze battled the God of the Underworld, then realized the fight was a dream shaped by the Sword Case’s guidance. He dismissed the God of the Underworld from the dream and confronted the Sword Case, whose red jewel filled the world with light.

• Qin Ze and the Sword Case attacked the God of the Underworld, but its wounds healed as roaming corpses restored its body.
• After Three-Second Real Man ended, Qin Ze weakened, and the Sword Case said he could use her full power if he made a contract with her.
• Qin Ze suspected the Sword Case wanted the contract to escape the world and had been steering his thoughts.
• Qin Ze concluded the battle was a dream shaped by his own understanding and the Sword Case’s guidance, then declared that the God of the Underworld could die.
• The God of the Underworld vanished before stomping Qin Ze, and the Sword Case’s red jewel filled the world with light as a female voice told him not to move.

Qin Ze realized the sword case had trapped him and his clones in a reset dream, and he broke the cycle with help from Captain’s message. Miss Sword Case began another cycle, leaving Qin Ze to face her demand again.

• Qin Ze and his clones noticed that the scene and their memories felt strangely familiar as Miss Sword Case brought them to Underworld Mountain.
• Miss Sword Case defeated the Wandering Corpses, but Underworld Mountain transformed into the God of the Underworld and advanced on them.
• Captain contacted Qin Ze through the Local Area Network, helping him remember that the sword case had reset its dream and severed their connection to the others.
• Qin Ze stopped the God of the Underworld from advancing and confronted Miss Sword Case about her Dream of Sinking ability and demand for a contract.
• Miss Sword Case’s jewel began to glow as she announced that they would meet in the next cycle.

Qin Ze escaped Miss Sword Case’s Dream of Sinking with help from his clones and learned that his family was imprisoned at Underworld Mountain, which he would need to split open to rescue them. After receiving his mother’s necklace, he ordered Miss Sword Case to take him there, leaving her to choose between helping him and staying behind.

• Qin Ze used the Local Area Network to have his clones wake him, collapsing Miss Sword Case’s dream and returning to her body.
• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze that his family was suppressed at Underworld Mountain and that he had 360 divine calendar days to rescue them before the divine artifact failed.
• Qin Ze prepared to leave, but Miss Sword Case showed him the silver necklace his mother had left for him.
• Qin Ze put on the necklace and demanded that Miss Sword Case take him to Underworld Mountain, promising to carry her away once he confirmed his family was safe.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case traveled to Underworld Mountain, where he saw his sleeping parents protected by a cracked divine artifact. The God of the Underworld began to awaken and pulled Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case into His Domain, where the mountain’s corpses stirred.

• Miss Sword Case swore to take Qin Ze to Underworld Mountain and carried him there inside the Sword Case.
• On the way, Miss Sword Case said Qin Ze’s parents had come to Otherworld No. Zero searching for the truth, but she did not know what truth they sought.
• Qin Ze saw his parents sleeping beneath an oil-paper umbrella and learned that Miss Sword Case had recreated the mountain from what she had seen before.
• Qin Ze refused to take Miss Sword Case away, and Underworld Mountain began to rumble.
• Qin Ze tried to escape with Void Traversal, but an irresistible force dragged him into the God of the Underworld’s Domain.
• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze that the Source of God on him had likely awakened the God of the Underworld, as the mountain’s corpses opened their eyes and surged toward them.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case were trapped in the Void Domain as Wandering Corpses attacked, and Qin Ze used his clones to fight them. After the corpses repeatedly regenerated, Qin Ze realized he needed to confront the God of the Underworld on Underworld Mountain.

• Miss Sword Case told Qin Ze that her Five Elements Flying Swords were gone, so Qin Ze released Fog of War and sent his clones into battle.
• The clones scattered the Wandering Corpses with explosions, lightning, and brute force while Miss Sword Case watched and discussed her missing memories.
• The destroyed Wandering Corpses reassembled and attacked again, revealing that the horde could regenerate indefinitely.
• Miss Sword Case explained that Wandering Corpses were different from Strange Beasts because they were already dead, and Qin Ze realized the fight would wear everyone down.
• Qin Ze looked toward Underworld Mountain and decided to confront the God of the Underworld.

Qin Ze and his allies fought the God of the Underworld’s powerful Wandering Corpses but found that the enemies kept reviving and blocked their way to Underworld Mountain. Miss Sword Case suggested that Qin Ze seek help from his parents to use the divine artifact, the oil-paper umbrella.

• Qin Ze transformed and clashed with a sword-wielding Wandering Corpse, while the God of the Underworld sent four powerful Wandering Corpses into battle.
• The Dharma King fought the four-winged Wandering Corpse, Brother Devour battered the horned Wandering Corpse, and Giant Overlord attacked the three-headed tyrannosaur Wandering Corpse.
• Qin Ze destroyed the swordsman Wandering Corpse with lightning, a white tiger, and blue flames, but it immediately revived and launched another sword-qi attack.
• Miss Sword Case warned Qin Ze that the endlessly reviving Wandering Corpses would wear them down and suggested borrowing the power of the oil-paper umbrella.
• Miss Sword Case offered to let Qin Ze communicate with his parents so they could use the divine artifact.

Qin Ze reunited with Mama Qin in a dream while his clones fought to deliver the Daydream Seed to her on Underworld Mountain. Mama Qin revealed that the Sword Case could help him break through the God of the Underworld’s domain, then began giving him urgent instructions as the dream started to collapse.

• Miss Sword Case used Dream of Sinking to bring Qin Ze into a dream of his childhood home while the clones escorted the Daydream Seed toward Underworld Mountain.
• The clones battled the Wandering Corpses, and Dharma King sacrificed his remaining strength to destroy the God of the Underworld’s giant arm and let the seed reach Mama Qin.
• Mama Qin embraced Qin Ze, and his resentment toward his parents disappeared as he felt comforted by her presence.
• Mama Qin told Qin Ze that the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella could not break the God of the Underworld’s domain alone and that he needed the Sword Case’s power.
• As cracks spread through the dream, Mama Qin told Qin Ze to remember her words, but the chapter ended before she gave her instructions.

Mama Qin warned Qin Ze to conceal his rebirth until he became powerful enough and revealed that the Calamity of the Myriad Races was connected to the old gods. After Mama Qin vanished with the collapsing dream, Qin Ze sealed a contract with Miss Sword Case and led the others in breaking the Void Domain.

• Mama Qin told Qin Ze that the World Will was hiding him from the Abyss's rules and urged him not to reveal himself before reaching level nine or becoming a Demigod.
• Mama Qin said she and Qin Ze's father had sought the truth about the Calamity of the Myriad Races, which had something to do with the old gods, before the dream collapsed.
• Qin Ze marked Miss Sword Case with his Source of God, sealing an ordinary contract between them, and they left the space together.
• Qin Ze killed the swordsman pursuing Miss Sword Case and joined the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella's attack on the Void Domain's boundary.
• Qin Ze, the Five Heavenly Kings, and the clones combined their attacks, and Qin Ze smashed the Sword Case into the boundary until the Void Domain shattered.
• Qin Ze looked toward Underworld Mountain and declared that dawn had come.

Qin Ze returned from Otherworld No. Zero with Miss Sword Case and set rules for her stay in the human world. After she asked him to take her to the Land of Origin, he promised to bring her along when he found a way back there, then returned to Sea Capital and prepared to check the chat group.

• Qin Ze escaped Otherworld No. Zero through the Myriad Phenomena Umbrella’s spatial gate, leaving Stone relieved that the Sword Case had gone.
• Qin Ze ordered Miss Sword Case to stay beside him, conceal her sentience from outsiders, and help when he needed her, and she agreed.
• Miss Sword Case asked Qin Ze to take her to the Land of Origin, but neither of them knew how to reach it, so Qin Ze promised to bring her when he returned there.
• Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case flew to Sea Capital, where Qin Ze released the Five Heavenly Kings and injured clones to recover.
• Miss Sword Case mistook Big Black for a Strange Beast, and Qin Ze explained that Big Black was his pet before heading to his room to check the chat group.

Qin Ze learned that the Hunters had been summoned to Snow City to find an infiltrator from another race, and he decided to travel there on his way to collect Brother Yuanzi’s gift. After reassuring Miss Sword Case that he would take her to the Abyss, Qin Ze set off for Snow City with her and Big Black.

• Qin Ze read the Hunters’ group chat and learned that an unknown member of another race had infiltrated Snow City, prompting the Inspection Team to summon the Hunters.
• Catch a Fox Spirit said the Sovereign was showing signs of awakening but agreed to leave the forbidden land to a disciple so they could join the investigation.
• Qin Ze told Miss Sword Case that he would take her to the Abyss and persuaded her to trust only him as her best friend.
• Qin Ze considered his gains from Otherworld No. Zero, reflected on the old gods’ connection to the Calamity of the Myriad Races, and urged his clones to train hard.
• The next morning, Qin Ze agreed to take Miss Sword Case and Big Black with him and flew toward Snow City inside his Shelter Space.