Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze reunited with the Hunters and introduced them to Miss Sword Case before they opened the Breakthrough Otherworld. The Hunters entered the trial, where Qin Ze hoped to reach Level Nine and unlock the Hall of Stars.

• Little Deer and the other Hunters tearfully welcomed Qin Ze back after learning he had survived.
• Qin Ze introduced himself again as the Human Race's eighth-seat Hunter, Beast Tamer, Circus leader, and Haidu Academy freshman, then introduced Miss Sword Case to the group.
• Fairy and the Hunters agreed to open the Breakthrough Otherworld for Qin Ze, while Lu Tongtong said her Deduction ability would help her cultivation without it.
• Fairy counted the group and Passerby A revealed he had been overlooked; everyone then activated their keys around Qin Ze.
• A great tree appeared behind Qin Ze, and seven-colored light opened the Breakthrough Otherworld and carried the Hunters inside to begin the trial.

The Breakthrough Otherworld placed Qin Ze, Taoist, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Scholar in scenes drawn from their memories as they faced their respective trials. Qin Ze set off across the sea with an illusion of Yao Yuan, while the others confronted moments from their pasts.

• Qin Ze met an illusion of Yao Yuan, who told him that safeguarding the Human Race's golden age required strength, and the two raced across the sea toward Level Nine.
• Taoist found himself back at the Yin-Yang Temple, practicing under his master and relishing their time together.
• Slacking on the Sidelines relived being sixteen as his father pushed him to run faster and prepare to survive.
• Scholar returned to his childhood study, used his ability to recite everything he had learned, and left after telling his teacher she had nothing more to teach him.

The Breakthrough Otherworld sent Passerby A, Wang Biao, Lu Tongtong, and Fairy into scenes from their pasts, forcing them to confront choices and unexpected encounters. It left Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an discovering Qin Ze split open again in his bedroom.

• Passerby A recognized his junior-high class outing and tried to warn the class not to board the bus, but he could not speak and was dragged aboard.
• Wang Biao realized he had returned to the night he escaped with Hao Qiang and persuaded him not to go to the Law Enforcement Department.
• Lu Tongtong followed a lost little girl toward the direction a voice had indicated and encountered a much younger Qin Ze.
• Fairy transformed into Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an in Qin Yu's house, and the two went to investigate a groan from Qin Ze's bedroom.
• Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an found Qin Ze split open again.

Taoist tried to prevent his master's death during the hundred-city beast tide, but failed to stop the Dominator from escaping or save the old Taoist. After his master died, Taoist accepted his own identity as Xuanbei, and the Otherworld began to collapse.

• Taoist learned that his master intended to send him into seclusion on the eve of the hundred-city beast tide and warned him that the Dominator's escape would kill him.
• The old Taoist recognized Taoist as his future disciple but refused to leave, believing that wounding the Dominator would protect others.
• Taoist found a powerful man resembling Qin Ze reinforcing the seal, then prepared arrays to stop the Dominator when it escaped the next day.
• Taoist failed to kill the Dominator, repaired the cracking seal, and later found his mortally wounded master in the courtyard.
• The old Taoist told Taoist to be himself rather than imitate his master, then died in Taoist's arms.
• Taoist declared himself Xuanbei, the twenty-eighth master of the Yin-Yang Temple, as a mysterious aura entered him and the Otherworld collapsed.

During the beast tide, Slacking on the Sidelines froze in terror as an S-rank octopus beast attacked Shelter No. 2. After Cheetah Kid sacrificed himself to protect him, Slacking on the Sidelines overcame his fear and charged the beast, then returned from the Otherworld.

• Slacking on the Sidelines panicked as the Yan Family took orders to defend Shelter No. 2, haunted by memories of his family dying in the beast tide.
• Inside the shelter, Cheetah Kid befriended Slacking on the Sidelines and revealed that he came from another world.
• An S-rank octopus beast tore open the shelter, and Slacking on the Sidelines froze while Cheetah Kid fought the attacking small octopuses.
• Cheetah Kid exploded himself to destroy the swarm and protect Slacking on the Sidelines.
• Slacking on the Sidelines overcame his fear, awakened his resolve, and charged the giant octopus before white light ended the Otherworld.

Scholar revisited an ordinary afternoon from his past in the Breakthrough Otherworld, where Snow Leopard humbled him and taught him not to rely on Words Become Law for everything. After Scholar emerged, Passerby A noticed a masked boy aboard the bus and suspected the mask resembled the Circus’s style.

• Scholar met his grandfather in the recreated past and agreed to meet the new teacher waiting in the garden pavilion.
• Scholar challenged Snow Leopard to a knowledge contest, but Snow Leopard answered his questions and kept testing him with subjects he had never studied.
• Scholar admitted defeat, accepted Snow Leopard as his teacher, and shouted that he was nothing without his ability as the Otherworld collapsed.
• Passerby A watched a boy named Liu Hui board the bus, then recognized the boy’s Peppa mask as resembling the Circus’s style.

Passerby A relived the bus massacre that had haunted him since childhood, but Peppa’s words helped him understand how to use his ability. He destroyed the rhinoceros beetle in the Otherworld’s recreation of the tragedy and emerged with a surge of qi.

• A mutant beast alert sent the school bus back toward Great City, but an S-rank rhinoceros beetle appeared and overturned the bus.
• Peppa realized the beast had attacked, called on Passerby A to help, and urged him to believe that no ability was useless.
• Peppa blinded the rhinoceros beetle with a flash from his body, then ran for safety and was melted by its venom.
• Passerby A remembered how his ability had made the beast overlook him during the original massacre and realized he could use it to approach unseen.
• Passerby A struck the rhinoceros beetle with a heavy punch, collapsing the Otherworld’s recreation and bringing a surge of qi into his body.

Wang Biao brought Hao Qiang to meet the Dark Night Lion King and asked him for access details to the underground organ black market beneath the Rubik's Cube Building. The Lion King agreed to help and join their mission, which they planned to begin the next day.

• Wang Biao led Hao Qiang through the slums to the Dark Night Lion King's home, where Hao Qiang mistook their meeting for something illicit.
• Wang Biao explained that the company had infiltrated Law Enforcement and asked the Dark Night Lion King for the black market's security code and Law Enforcement's communications frequency.
• Wang Biao recalled how the black market had cost his friends their lives, including Hao Qiang, and resolved to prevent that regret in this chance to start over.
• The Dark Night Lion King agreed to provide the information on the condition that Wang Biao take him along to fight the company.
• Wang Biao accepted, and the Dark Night Lion King proposed scouting the Rubik's Cube Building the next day before making their move at night.

Wang Biao and the Dark Night Lion King broke into the Rubik's Cube Building to free the black market prisoners, but Wang Biao was nearly killed by its powerful gatekeeper. The prisoners' encouragement helped him break through Level Nine and defeat the man, though the shattered surroundings revealed the battle was part of the Breakthrough Otherworld.

• The Dark Night Lion King proposed two plans for entering the closed Rubik's Cube Building, but Wang Biao chose to attack immediately.
• Wang Biao smashed through the alloy entrance and fought past the security guards while the Dark Night Lion King led him to the black market's core.
• The Dark Night Lion King opened the prisoners' rooms, and Wang Biao told the freed people to follow him.
• A Peak of Level Eight gatekeeper overwhelmed Wang Biao, shattered his golden body, and left him badly wounded.
• The Dark Night Lion King and the prisoners urged Wang Biao to keep fighting, and their qi helped him break through Level Nine and strike down the gatekeeper.
• The gatekeeper and the surrounding area shattered like a mirror as a voice remarked on the martial artists of Wang Biao's world.

Lu Tongtong found herself in a past version of her hometown, where she met a younger Qin Ze and joined him and a lost little girl for a day of begging. That night, the girl revealed that her name was Lu Tongtong, leaving Lu Tongtong stunned by the apparent meeting across time and space.

• Lu Tongtong met a younger Qin Ze, who warned her that children had been disappearing and advised her not to take the lost girl to Law Enforcement.
• The little girl refused to leave Qin Ze, so Lu Tongtong went with them as Qin Ze and his Mighty Tiger Gang underlings begged in the street.
• Qin Ze taught Lu Tongtong how to beg, while the little girl’s charm helped the group earn more than usual.
• Qin Ze took Lu Tongtong and the girl to his unfinished mansion, where they ate the food he had bought with their earnings.
• The little girl said she belonged to the Lu family and introduced herself as Lu Tongtong, shocking Lu Tongtong.

Little Deer recognized that teenage Qin Ze had rescued her four-year-old self, Lu Tongtong, and realized he was the person her ability had foretold could help avert a crisis facing the Human Race. After Qin Ze returned Lu Tongtong to her father, Little Deer’s vision faded and a strand of qi entered Lu Tongtong’s dantian.

• Little Deer watched Qin Ze bond with Little Little Deer, who said her intuition told her he was a good person.
• Little Deer told Qin Ze that her ability had warned of a world-ending crisis and that she had been searching for someone who could stand against it.
• The next morning, Qin Ze and Little Deer followed Lu Tongtong to the Lu Family home, where her father welcomed her back.
• Qin Ze promised Little Little Deer that their team would save the world together when she grew up, and Little Deer recognized him as the person she had been seeking.
• Little Deer’s surroundings blurred away, and a strand of qi flowed into Lu Tongtong’s dantian.

Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an followed Qin Ze through the day he was sent to a psychiatric hospital, and Qin Yu comforted him by taking him home. The Otherworld ended with Qin Ze and the family portrait returning to Qin Yu as energy.

• Qin Yu stitched Qin Ze's cracked body together with her Spirit, while Xia Huai'an warned that continuing to do so could cost her life.
• Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an recalled how Qin Yu had left for Otherworld No. Zero after their parents disappeared, while Qin Ze ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
• Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an followed Qin Ze to the market, where he babbled erratically about dreams, games, and the future empress.
• Qin Yu stepped out of the Shelter Space, and Qin Ze stopped babbling and clung to her, frightened and relieved to see his sister.
• Qin Yu walked Qin Ze home and welcomed him inside, where he finally relaxed before the Otherworld turned white.
• Xia Huai'an announced that the Otherworld was over, and Qin Ze and the family portrait became energy that flew into Qin Yu.

Qin Ze traveled with Yao Yuan across the sea into the true Breakthrough Otherworld, where crushing gravity and whispers tested his mind. As they fought increasingly powerful sea beasts, Yao Yuan urged Qin Ze to discover his first conviction and hinted that he could go no farther with him.

• Qin Ze raced across the sea with Yao Yuan, then endured the growing gravity and mental disturbance of the Breakthrough Otherworld.
• Yao Yuan demonstrated how conviction shaped a person’s power and said his first conviction was to create peace and prosperity for the Human Race.
• Qin Ze admitted he wanted Yao Yuan to live but could not name his own conviction, and Yao Yuan told him he already had one to discover.
• Sea beasts surrounded Qin Ze and Yao Yuan, who fought through them as the creatures grew stronger and kept multiplying.
• Yao Yuan smiled at Qin Ze and said he could accompany him only this far.

Yao Yuan held back the sea beasts so Qin Ze could continue alone, and Qin Ze nearly succumbed to the crushing debuffs before finding strength in his conviction to protect the Human Race. He transformed, flew across the sea, and broke through the shackles of Level Nine, reaching Level Nine Point Five.

• Yao Yuan hurled Qin Ze beyond the first beast tide and stayed behind to face the sea beasts alone.
• Qin Ze struggled through the growing gravity and mental impact as the beast tide overwhelmed him.
• Remembering Yao Yuan's words, Qin Ze realized his conviction was to protect the Human Race's prosperous world.
• Qin Ze assumed his exotic beast form, spread wings of Blazing Sun Fire, and flew over the burning sea.
• Qin Ze shattered the shackles of Level Nine, reached Level Nine Point Five, and landed on the far shore.

The Hunters returned from their Breakthrough Otherworld with nearly all of them at Level Nine, and Qin Ze prepared to open the Hall of Stars to rescue Yao Yuan. Little Deer revealed a meeting across time in the Otherworld, while White Hair’s condition worsened and the president hinted that Qin Ze might be the person he was seeking.

• The Hunters returned to the Ring Mountains after breaking through, and Fairy revealed that the president had ordered her to rescue Leo and Cancer when the Hall of Stars opened.
• Qin Ze said he would open the Hall of Stars after speaking with Tree Keeper, and the Hunters agreed to remain in Snow City.
• Little Deer told Qin Ze that she had met him as a child when he was a teenager in the Otherworld, leaving him stunned.
• The bronze coffin shook in the cave and White Hair began losing control, but Fairy soothed her and stopped the coffin from shaking.
• The president congratulated Qin Ze on reaching Level Nine and said he would wait to see whether Qin Ze was the person he was looking for.

After hearing Little Deer's account of how his teenage self saved her as a child, Qin Ze returned to the Circus's base and set his sights on opening the Hall of Stars. Tree Keeper explained that Qin Ze must use the World Will to find the Hall and gather the World Hunt Participants to force it open, while Little Deer discovered a disturbing vision of Qin Ze's wounded, stitched-up soul.

• Little Deer told Qin Ze that his teenage self had saved her when she was a child, though neither could explain how their timelines could have crossed.
• Qin Ze took Little Deer back to Snow City and exchanged contact details with her; after he left, she used her ability and saw his soul covered in wounds and stitches.
• On his way to the Circus's base, Qin Ze considered his plans to rescue Brother Yuanzi, reach Otherworld No. Zero, and prepare for the approaching Abyss beast tide.
• Qin Ze returned to the base, where Miss Sword Case woke and learned they had left the Breakthrough Otherworld; he then felt a brief resonance with an unknown presence outside the city.
• Qin Ze used the key to contact Tree Keeper and asked how to open the Hall of Stars.
• Tree Keeper told Qin Ze to pour Source of the World into the key to locate the Hall, then join forces with all World Hunt Participants and the World Will to force the divine artifact open from outside.

Qin Ze learned that the Fairness Society's president had pursued Otherworld No. Zero for over a century and organized the Hunters to prepare to open the Hall of Stars. A strange coffin had resonated with Scorpio, leaving the group wary of the president's hidden plans as Qin Ze prioritized freeing Brother Yuanzi.

• The Tree Keeper told Qin Ze that the Fairness Society's president was from another race, had once sought access to Otherworld No. Zero, and possessed power beyond Level Nine a century earlier.
• Qin Ze summoned the Hunters to gather and agreed to wait three days while they stabilized their cultivation before attacking the Hall of Stars.
• Fairy told the group that Scorpio and Taurus had found a coffin on their way to support her, and that Scorpio had resonated with it and nearly gone berserk.
• Qin Ze recognized the coffin as the one found by the treasure-hunting duo and wondered whether it was connected to his own recent resonance and the other divine artifacts in the Northern Territory.
• Fairy warned that the president likely had a hidden objective involving Scorpio and the coffin, but Qin Ze insisted that opening the Hall of Stars came first.
• Qin Ze asked Fairy whether she thought the president suspected her.

Qin Ze used the World Tree’s power to locate and reveal the Hall of Stars, then led the Hunters to its doors. As they prepared to force them open, the doors opened on their own, revealing an endless void.

• Qin Ze used the key and the Source of the World to survey the Human Race’s world, spotted Otherworld No. Zero, and found the Hall of Stars.
• Qin Ze used the World Will to pull the Hall of Stars out of the void in the Northern Territory.
• The Saber King watched the Hall of Stars from afar, while A Niu and White Hair set out with the coffin to carry out the president’s task.
• Qin Ze and the Hunters reached the Hall of Stars and formed Taoist’s array to pool their strength.
• As Qin Ze prepared to punch the doors, the Hall of Stars lit up and opened by itself, exposing an endless void.

Qin Ze was pulled into the Hall of Stars, only to discover it had become the Demon Suppression Hall. Trapped in a cell, he encountered a woman who mistook him for Jiuyou and attacked him for supposedly killing him.

• Qin Ze let the Hall of Stars pull him inside, and Slacking on the Sidelines was thrown back when he tried to follow.
• The doors closed behind Qin Ze, leaving the Hunters outside to worry and wait.
• Qin Ze found himself alone in a cramped, doorless room that Miss Sword Case identified as the Demon Suppression Hall.
• A cold presence crept around Qin Ze's leg, and a woman called him Jiuyou.
• Qin Ze's Blazing Sun Fire drove away the chill, but the woman accused him of killing Jiuyou and vowed to make him pay.

Qin Ze encountered a fox spirit imprisoned in the Demon Suppression Hall, who mistook him for her husband Jiuyou’s killer and tried to trigger the hall’s killing array. After the array shut down, she began to doubt her accusation, and Qin Ze asked her to explain the hall and Jiuyou.

• The fox spirit attacked Qin Ze with powerful mental strikes, but Qin Ze used the Tree of Mind to locate her and bind her with vines.
• The woman accused Qin Ze of killing Jiuyou because she sensed Jiuyou’s Source of God in him, while Qin Ze asked whether Jiuyou was the Desolate God.
• The fox spirit turned her tails red and struck the walls to activate the killing array, intending to die alongside Qin Ze.
• The golden runes went dark and the room stopped shaking, prompting the fox spirit to accuse Qin Ze of gaining control of the Demon Suppression Hall.
• Qin Ze swore he had not killed Jiuyou, released the fox spirit, and asked her about the hall and her husband.