Chapter Summaries

Shen Hui contacted the Star-Devouring Behemoth from inside its stomach and negotiated to regain control of his Death World and decide who would be left behind. The Behemoth agreed to leave him the blank Star Cores it could extract, and six Star Cores arrived from other Creation Worlds.

• Shen Hui found Ye Long, Huang Lingheng, Leng Zimeng, and the others among the unconscious people, while 682 and Raven proved able to move in the Behemoth’s stomach.
• The Transcendent’s mark let Shen Hui understand the Star-Devouring Behemoth, which restored his connection to the Death World and told him the Transcendents had gone to another space.
• Shen Hui told the Behemoth not to absorb the Creation Worlds yet and chose which people and factions would remain trapped, including members of Purple Maple who had incited an attack on his world.
• The Behemoth refused to let Shen Hui strip the trapped worlds himself but promised to leave him their Star Cores after absorbing them.
• Shen Hui asked whether the Behemoth could extract blank Star Cores, and six flew to him from four other Creation Worlds.

Shen Hui collected six star cores, but Raven swallowed one and seemed to carry the beginnings of a creation world within him. After Shen Hui and the others were released from the Star-Devouring Behemoth, rescuers brought them back, where Shen Hui pretended not to know how they escaped and learned that Chi Yan had kept him at the hospital.

• Shen Hui counted the seven star cores he had and watched Raven swallow one, then sensed a new aura growing inside Raven that might become a creation world.
• Shen Hui told the Star-Devouring Behemoth to leave the people who had attacked him behind and release everyone else, then thanked it as it swam away.
• Shen Hui pretended to be unconscious on a lifeless planet until rescuers arrived and took the group back for medical checks.
• Shen Hui woke in a hospital and let Ye Long believe he knew nothing about their escape from the Star-Devouring Behemoth.
• Ye Long told Shen Hui that the Night Organization members had been taken by their respective organizations and that Chi Yan had kept Shen Hui at the hospital.

Chi Yan questioned Shen Hui about his Night Organization membership, the auction, and the Star-Devouring Behemoth, then warned him that others might target his Creation World. After leaving the hospital, Shen Hui went to a hotel with six blank Star Cores and prepared to merge them into the Death World.

• Chi Yan confirmed that Shen Hui had joined the Night Organization willingly and promised to protect him from the organizations he had offended at the underground auction.
• Chi Yan told Shen Hui that seven Star Cores, including his, had vanished when the Star-Devouring Behemoth swallowed people, and asked him about World Wanderers and the cultists.
• Chi Yan told Shen Hui that the Starry Sky Leaderboard might assign him a mission to investigate suspected Laughing Moon Cult hideouts, and warned that others might covet his Creation World because it could nurture a god.
• Ye Long asked Shen Hui how he had nurtured a god, and Shen Hui gave him a vague explanation about gods arising as Creation Worlds developed.
• Shen Hui left the hospital, checked into a hotel, summoned six blank Star Cores, and prepared to merge them into the Death World.

Shen Hui forced a blank Star Core into the Death World, strengthening its foundations and making it harder for unknown creatures to invade. He then discovered that the Backrooms World could absorb Star Cores easily and left it with three, eager to see how much it had changed.

• Shen Hui forcibly fused a blank Star Core with the Death World's existing Star Core, enduring a violent quake and cracks in space until the world absorbed it.
• The Death World's will reshaped the blank Star Core, strengthening its laws and foundations, and Shen Hui concluded that this feat could not be replicated by ordinary Creation Worlds.
• Shen Hui considered the Backrooms World, a subsidiary world with its own rules but no Star Core or World Will, and decided to give it a Star Core.
• Shen Hui summoned the Backrooms entrance and inspected its framework, noting that its trapped creatures had died and that the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile was the only one to escape.
• Shen Hui placed three Star Cores into the Backrooms World, which absorbed them readily, then wondered how many levels he could now create.

Shen Hui used the Backrooms World's new World Will to create Level 2, Pipe Dreams, and Level 3, the Electrical Station, complete with dangerous conditions and Entities. After Mortality's effect improved, he began designing Level 4, the Abandoned Office.

• The Backrooms World gained a World Will and the Mortality trait, which weakened extraordinary abilities of creatures entering it.
• Shen Hui designed Level 2, Pipe Dreams, with toxic black liquid, dangerous heat, and Crawlers infected by a fungus.
• The Backrooms World's will formed Pipe Dreams and its Crawlers without consuming World Origin Power.
• Shen Hui designed Level 3, the Electrical Station, and created the hostile Hounds to inhabit it.
• The Backrooms World's will formed the Electrical Station, and Mortality's effect improved.
• Shen Hui began considering the structure and characteristics of Level 4, the Abandoned Office.

Shen Hui created Levels 4 through 8 of the Backrooms World, adding dangerous environments and connecting some levels to places in the Death World. The chapter left the new routes to the Sea of Death and the Mountains of Madness open as possible escapes into the territories of the Deep Ones and Elder Things.

• Level 4 formed as a relatively safe office building stocked with Almond Water, and Level 5 formed as the Terror Hotel, home to Deathmoths and unsettling sensory effects.
• Shen Hui created Level 6, a lightless and soundproof level, then brought the Mist of Lost Direction into it to intensify its effects.
• Shen Hui created Level 7, an ocean level with zones of increasing depth, and connected its abyssal zone to the bottom of the Sea of Death, where the Deep Ones lived.
• Shen Hui created Level 8, a cave system with dangerous pools and several kinds of spiders, and connected certain caves and mineral veins to the interior of the Mountains of Madness, where the Elder Things lived.

Shen Hui completed Level 9, The Suburbs, finishing the Backrooms World’s first ten basic levels and helping the Death World ascend to Level 7. Afterward, he accelerated time and surveyed the Death World’s growing cults, Magic Energy contamination, and divided ratmen.

• Shen Hui completed The Suburbs, a dark level populated by Neighborhood Watch variants and The Beast of Level 9.
• The completed Backrooms World developed the framework for independent growth, and the Death World ascended to Level 7, receiving 10,000 World Origin Power.
• Shen Hui used a Time Flow Rate Card to speed up time in the Death World and checked on its development.
• Steam City saw new sects worshipping Wandering Doom, Sky Tentacle, and Hard-to-Destroy Reptile, while research into eldritch creatures advanced alongside worsening Magic Energy contamination.
• The ratmen in Ratmen's Ruined Capital split into four major clans after a civil war.

Shen Hui named the Skaven Ratmen’s four great clans and established the Council of Thirteen, reserving a seat for the Great Horned Rat. He then observed the growing number of people entering the Backrooms World and the Foundation’s renewed investigation into SCP-0.

• Shen Hui named the four Skaven Ratmen clans: Clan Skryre, Clan Moulder, Clan Pestilens, and Clan Eshin, each pursuing a different specialty.
• Shen Hui descended into the Skaven Ratmen Empire, established the Council of Thirteen with twelve ratmen representatives, and reserved the final seat for the Great Horned Rat.
• Shen Hui proclaimed himself the Great Horned Rat, creator and god of the Skaven Ratmen, and urged them to pray for his descent.
• Shen Hui noticed that more people were falling into the Backrooms World and meeting other travelers as they explored its lower levels.
• The Foundation reopened its investigation into the disappearances, provisionally designated SCP-0, with investigators trained at the Miskatonic School assisting.
• Shen Hui observed the Death World’s development and judged that his level-seven Creation World might rival a level-nine world.

Shen Hui expanded the Land of New Life and created the Undead Sea Area trait, turning sunken ships and their dead crews into ghost ships. After observing the Sea of Death, the story left a father and son from Innsmouth setting out to fish as their long run of safe voyages came to an end.

• Shen Hui spent 3,000 World Origin Power expanding the Land of New Life to 1,000 kilometers and made it a resource-rich landscape.
• Shen Hui used the wrecks and drowned sailors in the Sea of Death as the basis for a new ghost-ship trait.
• The ships rose from the seabed as ghost ships, with their crews transformed into glowing skeletons, and Shen Hui named the trait Undead Sea Area.
• Shen Hui spent 4,000 World Origin Power on the trait and used a Time Acceleration Card to observe the Sea of Death’s development.
• A father and son from Innsmouth, devoted followers of the Deep Ones, sailed out to fish after surviving many years of danger at sea.

A father and his young son went fishing, but a storm and thick fog trapped their boat at sea. As their boat neared disaster, a large, outdated ship with ghostly green lights appeared through the storm.

• The father took his son fishing, explaining that stronger winds and waves and the approaching Great Ruin made it important to stock up before seeking shelter in the Esoteric Order of Dagon's church.
• The father and son caught a large haul, but dark clouds and thickening fog forced them to stop and wait when the father lost his bearings.
• A fierce wind and towering waves battered their boat, so the father started the Magic Energy engine and tried to steer them through the storm.
• A huge wave nearly capsized the boat, and the injured father embraced his terrified son and prayed for their survival.
• The son spotted a ghostly green light, and the father saw an old-fashioned large ship approaching through the storm.

A father and son encountered a phantom ship whose green flames burned their sanity, and their fishing boat sank as the ghost ship passed. Investigations later classified the vessels as an uncontainable supernatural phenomenon on the Sea of Death.

• A father steered his fishing boat toward an eerie green-lit ship, hoping it would rescue him and his son from the storm.
• The ghost ship overlapped their boat, and its green-flaming skeleton sailors passed through them and burned their sanity.
• A wave overturned the fishing boat, and the father and son sank beneath the sea as green flames spread over the wreck.
• After more ships disappeared, the Foundation, Esoteric Order of Dagon Potions masters, and Miskatonic School investigators began investigating the ghost ships.
• Investigators found that the phantom ships carried dead sailors, appeared with storms and fog, and caused nearby vessels to sink and later become ghost ships.
• The Foundation concluded that the ghost-ship phenomenon could not yet be contained.

Shen Hui created SCP-096, the Shy Guy, and sent him into the newly expanded Land of New Life. An exploration team photographed a distant humanoid creature and began reviewing the images, unknowingly capturing his face.

• Shen Hui used World Origin Power to create SCP-096, a docile creature who hunted anyone who saw his face.
• Shen Hui placed 096 in the newly expanded area of the Land of New Life.
• Exploration teams from Steam City set out to survey the expanded territory and search for resources.
• A team of explorers spotted a distant humanoid figure and photographed it with a Magic Energy camera.
• The explorers reviewed the images, which showed the figure turning toward them and revealed his face.

Shen Hui read the Foundation’s report on 096 and wondered what would happen if it clashed with 173. He then returned to the waking world and attended a Giant God Cult meeting, where the members treated him as a favored figure.

• The Foundation discovered that 096 attacked anyone who saw its face, contained it, and planned a joint experiment with 173.
• Shen Hui withdrew from the Death World and learned from Leng Zimeng that the Night Organization wanted him to return and share clues about those who had targeted him.
• Shen Hui saw a notice for a Giant God Cult meeting scheduled for that evening.
• Shen Hui changed into cult clothing, went to the cult’s base, and received a warm welcome from the members and the enforcer.

Shen Hui learned that the Giant God Cult planned to use the World Association against the Laughing Moon Cult, then was confronted by three Bright Night Organization preselected candidates who wanted to eliminate him from the Lord of Night contest. When they refused to back down, Shen Hui entered Creator Form and began changing the space around them with the power of the Death World.

• The enforcer revealed that the Giant God Cult's high priest and holy son had attended the underground auction, and said the cult would use the World Association to attack the Laughing Moon Cult.
• Shen Hui realized the Giant God Cult had leaked information about the Laughing Moon Cult to the World Association, then left the meeting and walked home.
• Three Bright Night Organization preselected candidates confronted Shen Hui and said they intended to remove him from the Lord of Night contest.
• Shen Hui said he was not interested in the position and told them to target Huang Lingheng or other Red Night Organization candidates, but they refused to let him leave.
• Shen Hui warned the three that they would face a terror beyond death, released energy from the Death World, and entered Creator Form as the surrounding space began to change.

Shen Hui was trapped in a card duel when You Teng used the Magic Card World to suppress, rather than erase, Shen Hui's Death World. The three Bright Night Organization members faced him under special rules, but Shen Hui's deck was unexpectedly enormous as the duel began.

• Shen Hui expanded his Death World around the three opponents, overwhelming them with its pressure and preventing them from summoning their Creation Worlds.
• One opponent revealed the Magic Card World, which overlaid and suppressed Shen Hui's Death World and restored the three opponents' composure.
• You Teng identified himself as a member of the Bright Night Organization and challenged Shen Hui to a three-on-one card duel governed by the Magic Card World's rules.
• The duel rules turned each Creator's units and world features into cards, assigned each side 500 health, and gave Shen Hui an extra draw each turn.
• The opponents saw that Shen Hui's deck was nearly as large as all three of theirs combined, and the duel began with both sides drawing cards.

Shen Hui defended against three opponents by summoning the Pig-headed Butcher, then placed the Domain of Emotions and transformed the Butcher to withstand their attacks. As the second round began with Shen Hui on offense, he drew Mist of Lost Direction and a card that let him draw two more.

• An opponent summoned Humanoid Mecha-Pterosaur-04T and attacked Shen Hui's Pig-headed Butcher with missiles, badly injuring it.
• Shen Hui placed the Domain of Emotions and transformed the Pig-headed Butcher into a Demon Pig, restoring some of its injuries.
• Kaxiu attacked with amplified flames, but the transformed Pig-headed Butcher endured them while several Demon Pig followers died.
• You Teng boosted all allied units' attack power by ten percent, then Shen Hui ended his turn and the first round concluded.
• At the start of the second round, Shen Hui drew Mist of Lost Direction and a support card that granted two more draws, then activated the mist field.

Shen Hui used Tomie’s multiplying charm to overwhelm his opponents, but they played Great Dimensional Transfer to remove her from the field for two rounds. With Tomie gone and only SCP-173 visible, the opponents prepared to attack.

• Shen Hui drew Sea of Death and Tomie, then summoned Tomie and SCP-173.
• An opponent equipped a Pterosaur with a Core Separation Device and used its explosion to destroy the Pig-headed Butcher and the other attackers, but Tomie’s remains multiplied into dozens of copies.
• Shen Hui sent the Tomies after the fire and storm superpower users, and Tomie’s charm made the fire superpower user attack his teammate.
• The fire superpower user burned some Tomies, but more copies emerged from the remains.
• You Teng helped his teammates draw cards, and the Esper World creator used Great Dimensional Transfer to remove Tomie from the field for two rounds.
• Seeing only SCP-173 left on Shen Hui’s field, You Teng and the others anticipated their coming attack round.

Shen Hui used trait cards to weaken and frighten his opponents’ units, while 173 and the Pig-headed Butcher killed the attackers. You Teng then erased every card on the field, but Shen Hui drew two cards and began his next turn by activating Sea of Death.

• Shen Hui repaired the Pterosaur and equipped it with the Annihilation Cannon, then used Decay, Vitality, and Distortion and Unspeakable during his defense preparation turn.
• The Pterosaur killed the revived Pig-headed Butcher with its Annihilation Cannon, but 173 remained on Shen Hui’s field.
• Shen Hui summoned Storm Superpower User-Aika and achieved the Storm Twins bond; Decay, Vitality, and Distortion killed the Flame Superpower User, who revived as a corpse.
• The Storm Twins were frightened by the revived corpse and killed by 173, triggering the Domain of Emotions and summoning the Otherworld and its monsters.
• You Teng activated Zero, Destruction, clearing every card from the field, including Shen Hui’s 173 and trait cards.
• Shen Hui drew two cards on his attacking turn and activated the Sea of Death field card.

Shen Hui used the Sea of Death to summon the Deep Ones, evolve Dagon, and bring forth Sky Tentacle, a Saint Ascension-quality Hero that stunned his opponents. He began a ritual to summon the Father of Sharks as the battle continued.

• Shen Hui played the Sea of Death Terrain Card and summoned the Deep Ones, which produced three creatures in the ocean.
• Shen Hui evolved one Deep One into Dagon, who could lead the others in summoning the Father of Sharks.
• Shen Hui summoned Sky Tentacle, whose Saint Ascension aura revealed that his level-seven Creation World had reached a new stage.
• The technology Creator, the Superpower Creator, and You Teng reacted in disbelief to Sky Tentacle's power and Shen Hui's advancement.
• Shen Hui asked whether they wanted to see another miracle, then Dagon led the Deep Ones in a ritual as divine power rose from the seabed.

Shen Hui defeated his opponents with the Father of Sharks, the Sky Tentacle, and his other units, until You Teng destroyed the Sea of Death Terrain Card. Its final effect drew Cthulhu’s attention, and the spreading darkness shattered You Teng’s world, leaving all the creators facing an uncontrolled force.

• Shen Hui’s Father of Sharks and Sky Tentacle destroyed the Heaven-Dominating Armor, while his Deep Ones and Dagon reduced their creator’s health to zero.
• The Superpower creator conceded, leaving You Teng as Shen Hui’s final opponent.
• You Teng activated a Destruction Card against the Sea of Death Terrain Card, causing it to shatter.
• The Sea of Death’s final effect drew Cthulhu’s attention, and darkness filled You Teng’s creation world as eyes and tentacles appeared.
• The darkness broke You Teng’s world apart and poured into the space where the creators stood.