Chapter Summaries

Shen Hui, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan reached the tenth stage of the ranking challenge, while the other challengers were eliminated. Xiao Xiangyan withdrew from the trial and discovered that Shen Hui had taken second place, leaving him and Ye Long still competing.

• Shen Hui cleared the eighth stage and entered the ninth, followed by Ye Long and others as the field narrowed to five challengers.
• Shen Hui, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan advanced to the tenth stage, while the other two challengers were eliminated.
• In the tenth stage, Shen Hui's heroes faced the attacking forces in a withered forest, while Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan struggled to defend their worlds.
• Xiao Xiangyan ended her trial after her demonic beasts suffered heavy losses, expecting to place second behind Ye Long.
• Xiao Xiangyan checked the rankings and saw that she was third, with Shen Hui in second and Ye Long still challenging.

Shen Hui broke the record by clearing the tenth level, then ended his challenge when a Hero Unit appeared on the eleventh. After Ye Long also cleared the tenth level, the great families competed to recruit Shen Hui, but Ye Long stepped in and said Shen Hui would join no faction.

• Shen Hui opened the eleventh level, recognized its golden-haired leader as a Hero Unit, and ended his challenge to avoid damaging his world further.
• Ye Long cleared the tenth level and returned to find that he had tied with Shen Hui for first place, but Shen Hui had broken the record before him.
• After the combat test ended, representatives from the factions approached Shen Hui and Qingxue, and Xiao Xiangyan invited Shen Hui to join the Xiao Family.
• The Wang Family and Zhang Family representatives also tried to recruit Shen Hui, while the factions argued over his choice.
• Ye Long arrived and said Shen Hui would not join any faction, since he had already refused Ye Long's invitation to join the Ye Family.

Shen Hui declined faction offers but made friends with Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan, then joined Qingxue and Huang Jie at a meeting with Chi Yan. Chi Yan explained how the ten Nascent World spots were assigned and was about to describe the world and their entry time.

• Shen Hui refused the clans’ improved offers, and Ye Long suggested they become friends; Xiao Xiangyan joined in, and the three exchanged contact information.
• Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan went to approach Qingxue, while Shen Hui escaped a crowd seeking to curry favor with him.
• A staff member brought Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Huang Jie into the base, where Shen Hui and Qingxue discussed refusing factions and making useful friends.
• Wang Xinhai introduced Chi Yan, the World Association branch president, who praised Shen Hui and explained that Shen Hui and Qingxue earned two of the ten Nascent World spots, while Huang Jie received one of the remaining spots.

Chi Yan explained the Nascent World competition and rewarded Shen Hui and Qingxue with Intermediate Member status for making the top ten. Outside the meeting room, Huang Jie mocked Shen Hui until Shen Hui revealed his Level 2 World and challenged him to a life-or-death arena, leaving Huang Jie speechless.

• Chi Yan explained that Shen Hui and Qingxue would represent their branch in the Nascent World resource competition and upgraded their World Association memberships as a reward.
• Huang Jie resented Shen Hui for winning the practical test and receiving the reward, believing Shen Hui’s world was useless.
• Shen Hui confronted Huang Jie outside the Training Base, and Huang Jie mocked him in front of the gathering students.
• Qingxue defended Shen Hui, but Huang Jie insisted that breaking a record did not guarantee future strength.
• Shen Hui released the aura of his Level 2 World and challenged Huang Jie to a life-or-death arena, leaving Huang Jie horrified and silent.

After Shen Hui’s Level 2 World impressed the crowd, Huang Jie lost his faction for offending the Ye Clan. Shen Hui and Qingxue accepted an invitation to a celebration and received rewards from their school for their practical test results.

• Huang Jie backed down from Shen Hui, and the faction he had joined cut ties with him after Ye Long criticized his conduct.
• Shen Hui left with Qingxue, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan, and explained that raising a Hero’s level had helped his world reach Level 2.
• Ye Long invited Shen Hui and Qingxue to a celebration at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, and both agreed to attend.
• The principal praised Shen Hui and Qingxue for placing in the top ten, then awarded each a bottle of Low-Level World Origin Potion and one million World Coins.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue collected their potions and received a message confirming their practical test rewards had been issued.

After receiving his practical test rewards, Shen Hui examined how his Level 2 world and Sadako had grown and gathered the invaders’ corpses for later use. Ye Long delivered an invitation to a party, and then a staff member arrived with Shen Hui’s reward supplies.

• Shen Hui checked his generous rewards, arranged delivery, and took Qingxue home before returning to his apartment.
• Shen Hui inspected his Level 2 world, noted Sadako’s improved abilities, and had her pile up the corpses left by invading creatures.
• Ye Long arrived in a red Ferrari, invited Shen Hui to live with him, and gave him a golden party invitation.
• Shen Hui declined Ye Long’s offer to go out that night and answered a call from the staff member delivering his rewards.
• A staff member arrived in a military jeep and approached Shen Hui with a briefcase as neighbors watched and speculated.

Shen Hui received rare rewards for his Awakening test and used them to strengthen his Death World, making it even more hostile to life. Worried that this would prevent the world from developing on its own, he came up with an idea to keep death and life separate.

• Shen Hui confirmed his identity and received his reward briefcase, then fled home after the local residents crowded around him to curry favor.
• Shen Hui inspected the rewards and recognized the Scenario Progression Card and World Origin Core Crystal as exceptionally valuable items.
• Shen Hui consumed three World Origin Potions, bringing his World Origin Power total to 750 units.
• Shen Hui used the World Origin Core Crystal, which transformed into his world's Death World origin and increased its aura of death.
• Shen Hui worried that strengthening the Death World would make it harder for living creatures to survive, then realized he could keep death and life separate.

Shen Hui created a one-kilometer Land of New Life inside his Death World by using World Origin Power and a Terrain Card to isolate the aura of death. After confirming that Tomie's human body remained unharmed there for two years, he planned to expand the safe area and create living things.

• Shen Hui decided to create a safe region in the Death World as the first step toward separating it into a Surface World and an Otherworld.
• Shen Hui used a Scenario Progression Card, a Terrain Card, and World Origin Power to imbue a region with rules that isolated the aura of death.
• Shen Hui's world began to crack and collapse, so he chose a one-kilometer area for the new terrain and stabilized the world's rules.
• Shen Hui ended the simulation and made its results real, creating the Land of New Life within his Death World.
• Shen Hui sent Tomie into the Land of New Life and advanced time by two years, confirming that her human body remained unchanged.
• Shen Hui planned to expand the Land of New Life and use it to create living things.

Shen Hui and Qingxue headed to the World Association to buy World Origin potions and challenge the Borderlands, but they found City Lord Wang Xinhai and members of the Guardians Organization arriving. Ye Long joined them and offered to explain the confidential reason for the gathering somewhere private.

• Shen Hui checked his Death World and found that creating the Primal Soil had used all his World Origin, then went to sleep.
• Qingxue called Shen Hui and invited him to challenge the Borderlands at the World Association, and he agreed because he also wanted to buy World Origin potions.
• Shen Hui met Qingxue at the station, and they took the bus to the World Association.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue saw City Lord Wang Xinhai and several powerful members of the Guardians Organization arrive at the World Association.
• Ye Long introduced Shen Hui and Qingxue to his father, Ye Yitian, who praised them before entering the association.
• Ye Long told Shen Hui and Qingxue that the reason for the gathering was confidential and asked them to find somewhere quiet to talk.

Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long heard a rumor about a foreign-race threat, then visited the World Association's shop. Shen Hui bought and drank six World Origin Potions, gaining 900 World Origin Power to use for creating things and heroes in his world.

• Ye Long told Shen Hui and Qingxue that the seal on the Starry Sky Battlefield passage had weakened and shared a rumor that the foreign races might threaten Blue Star.
• Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long went to the World Association's item shop, where Shen Hui and Qingxue used their intermediate-member discounts.
• Shen Hui bought six Low-Level World Origin Potions for 4,800,000 World Coins after his discount.
• Shen Hui drank all six potions in a private lounge, adding 900 World Origin Power to his world.
• Shen Hui planned to use the power to create things and heroes because he could not expand the Land of New Life further.

Shen Hui created Siren Head as a Perfect-quality Hero, then used most of his remaining World Origin Power to renew soil and grow woodland in the Land of New Life. After leaving his world, he joked with Ye Long about teaching him to create a Hero for five million.

• Shen Hui used World Origin Power to create Siren Head, a twelve-meter-tall creature that could disguise itself, imitate sounds, attack with sound waves, spread fear, and reproduce through parasitism.
• Shen Hui discovered that Siren Head was Perfect quality and had only 120 World Origin Power left after its creation.
• Shen Hui renewed some soil and created a small woodland, leaving only 40 World Origin Power for future development.
• Ye Long called Shen Hui out of his lounge, and Shen Hui said he had created a Hero.
• Ye Long asked Shen Hui to teach him to create a Hero, and Shen Hui offered to do so for five million.

Shen Hui explained how planning a hero’s identity and background had helped him create four heroes, impressing Qingxue and Ye Long. After lunch, the three entered the Borderlands, where Shen Hui began a challenge against a Level 2 Unclaimed World.

• Shen Hui told Qingxue and Ye Long to develop each hero’s identity and background before creating them.
• Qingxue and Ye Long learned that Shen Hui had created four heroes and understood that his undeveloped world left more room for them.
• Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long ate lunch at the World Association, then entered the Borderlands together.
• Shen Hui chose to challenge a Level 2 Unclaimed World and paid the one-million-World-Coin fee.
• Shen Hui began the challenge as his world started merging with an unfamiliar world.

Shen Hui challenged a technology world and sent Siren Head to test its strength against a scouting team. The recon team lost communications, encountered Siren Head in the forest, and one member saw its speakers come alive just before it screamed.

• Shen Hui merged his world with the technology world, whose researchers discovered the connection and hoped its energy could save their declining world.
• Professor Yang ordered combat personnel to scout Shen Hui's world, and their fighter jets landed in its fog-covered territory.
• Siren Head disrupted the team's communications with a piercing sound, and the recon team continued toward the forest.
• The recon team entered a strange clearing where voices, whispers, and an air-raid siren echoed around them.
• A recon team member spotted Siren Head disguised as a utility pole, saw its speakers grow teeth and smile, and heard its piercing scream.

The scout squad encountered Siren Head, whose attacks killed several fighters and drove the survivors away from their parked jets. Shen Hui then steered them toward the forest, where the Pig-headed Butcher began to close in as the scouts found themselves surrounded.

• The scouts opened fire on Siren Head, but their laser-like weapons did no damage, and Siren Head crushed several fighters while blasting them with sound.
• The captain ordered the survivors to retreat toward their fighter jets, but Siren Head overtook them and blocked their route.
• At Shen Hui’s direction, the captain led the squad toward the forest where Sadako was, though Shen Hui intended the Pig-headed Butcher to confront them first.
• The squad stopped outside the forest to rest, but the captain sensed something wrong and ordered them to move.
• Snorting sounds came from around the scouts, and a ring of blue light appeared in the Chaos Mist, surrounding them.

Tomie lured the surviving reconnaissance team away from the Pig-headed Butcher and into Sadako’s forest, then recorded Sadako with their recorder. The Electronic Curse activated, and Tomie planned to let the team carry the footage out.

• The Demon Pigs surrounded the reconnaissance team, and the Pig-headed Butcher transformed into a giant pig that killed several members as the survivors fled.
• The remaining seven reconnaissance team members reached Tomie’s house, where Tomie assured them that they were safe and offered to guide them out.
• Tomie led the team into Sadako’s forest, and its members became captivated by her and answered her questions eagerly.
• Tomie asked to record the area, took the team’s recorder, and filmed Sadako inside a withered well.
• The Electronic Curse began to take effect, and Tomie prepared to have the team take the recording away.

Tomie led the recon squad back to the technological city, where the commander and researchers were captivated by her beauty. As the researchers reviewed the recording, it began showing a black-and-white Deadwood Forest and a Withered Well, signaling that Sadako’s curse had reached the city.

• Tomie led the recon squad safely out of the forest, and the squad returned to the city with her and the recorder.
• The commander sent the recon squad members out of Tomie’s room and stayed alone with her, becoming captivated by her laugh.
• The professor and the researchers watched the recording and saw Siren Head and the Pig-headed Butcher transform into a giant monster pig.
• The researchers watched Tomie meet the recon squad, while a female researcher questioned why she had been living alone in the forest.
• The recording flickered with static and showed a black-and-white Deadwood Forest with the camera aimed at a Withered Well.

Researchers watching footage of the Withered Well witnessed Sadako crawl out of the screen and begin killing them, while chaos spread through the base as Tomie multiplied and combat personnel turned on one another. One researcher escaped into an emergency elevator, only to see the Well appear on its screen and Sadako’s hands emerge again.

• Sadako appeared in the recorder footage and crawled out of the screen, killing the researcher she touched.
• Sadako vanished and reappeared around the lab, killing researchers as the survivors fled and found bodies throughout the corridors.
• The researchers saw that Tomie had multiplied after the reconnaissance team killed her, and that bewitched combat personnel had slaughtered one another.
• A researcher witnessed a combatant kill a Tomie and then shoot himself before escaping to the emergency elevator.
• The elevator screen showed Deadwood Forest and the Withered Well, where a pair of hands appeared at the opening.

Shen Hui defeated the technological world, merged it into his Death World, and gained World Origin, resources, and a rare Technology Civilization Card. As deathly aura killed survivors across the city, some humans found safety in the Land of New Life, where Shen Hui planned to establish new inhabitants.

• Tomie used a researcher to broadcast Sadako's footage through the city, spreading the Electronic Curse until the city fell and Shen Hui received confirmation of victory.
• Shen Hui's Death World absorbed the technological world's World Origin, and its deathly aura spread across the merged territory, threatening the remaining humans.
• Shen Hui received 300 World Origin Power, a Technology Civilization Card, technological resources, and biological lives as rewards for completing the challenge.
• Shen Hui used his remaining Time Flow Rate Card, and over seven days the city's survivors searched for safety as the deathly aura killed those who stayed behind.
• Survivors discovered the Land of New Life, where life did not fade, and gathered there before the deathly aura erupted across the rest of the world.

After five years passed in the Land of New Life, its survivors had turned the Eldritch Beings into rumors, while Tomie’s abilities grew stronger after reaching Level 2. Shen Hui recovered from his world challenge and discussed the results with Ye Long and Qingxue, then planned to sell items from his merged world.

• Shen Hui accelerated time by five years, during which survivors settled in the Land of New Life, explored the Death World, and passed stories of the Eldritch Beings on to their children.
• Shen Hui saw that the survivors had begun treating Sadako, Tomie, and the other Eldritch Beings as rumors, then stopped monitoring the Land of New Life as closely.
• Tomie reached Level 2, shortening the time needed for her Mad Love and Hate ability to take effect and strengthening her enchantment through photographs and videos.
• Shen Hui left his world challenge feeling dizzy and mentally drained, while Ye Long and Qingxue also completed their challenges.
• Qingxue complained that Shen Hui and Ye Long had challenged Level 2 Worlds without her, and they reassured her before promising to tell her about future challenges.
• Shen Hui said he planned to sell useless items from his merged world, and Ye Long offered to buy any Rare items through the Ye Family Chamber of Commerce.

Shen Hui sold the buildings from his fused Technology World and learned from Chi Yan that the foreign races might be plotting against Blue Star. The next day, he accepted Ye Long’s offer to exchange his Low-Level Technology Civilization World Card for a Low-Level World Origin Crystal and a Low-Level Scenario Progression Card.

• Shen Hui sold the buildings from the fused Technology World for 3.2 million World Coins and 50 World Association points.
• Chi Yan warned Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Ye Long that the foreign races in the Starry Sky Battlefield might be targeting Blue Star and gave Shen Hui and Qingxue her contact information.
• Ye Long and Ye Yitian took Shen Hui and Qingxue to dinner, and Ye Long later drove them home while promising to bring a price for Shen Hui’s card the next day.
• Ye Long offered Shen Hui either 300 million World Coins or a Low-Level World Origin Crystal and a Low-Level Scenario Progression Card for his Low-Level Technology Civilization World Card.
• Shen Hui chose the two rare items, and Ye Long agreed to bring them over that afternoon.