Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Hongjing revealed a way to replenish his Divine Dragon of Fortune with the accumulated national fortune of Great Qian’s emperors. As the dragon grew stronger and burned away the darkness, Shen Hui watched to see how much its power would increase.

• Zhuge Hongjing activated the Seed of Fortune within his Creation World while Shen Hui and the spectators watched.
• The current Great Qian emperor entered the Shrine of Successive Generations, descended into its basement, and fed his blood to the roots of a strange tree.
• The tree revealed the heads of Great Qian’s past emperors, whose bloody eye sockets sent accumulated national fortune to the Divine Dragon of Fortune.
• The Divine Dragon of Fortune roared as the suppression from the Unspeakable weakened and Zhuge Hongjing’s deity grew larger and stronger.
• Golden flames ignited on the dragon’s claws and began burning away the surrounding darkness while Shen Hui observed its transformation.

Zhuge Hongjing used his Golden Dragon of Fortune to ignite the darkness in Shen Hui’s Creation World, suppressing its negative abilities while the spectators debated the strange power. The flames then transformed into a black mist, leaving Shen Hui unsure what Zhuge Hongjing was planning.

• Zhuge Hongjing’s Golden Dragon of Fortune set the battlefield’s darkness ablaze, and the flames temporarily blocked the negative abilities within it.
• Qingxue worried about Shen Hui, while Ye Long reassured her that Shen Hui might still have a trump card.
• Zhuge Yue said Zhuge Hongjing had used his stored-up power too early, while Zhuge Zhaixing welcomed the chance to test Shen Hui.
• Ye Yitian explained that Zhuge Hongjing appeared to be controlling the fortune of Shen Hui’s Creation World to attack it from within.
• The divine flames gathered, turned black, and changed into a mass of mist, leaving Shen Hui wondering whether the darkness had corrupted them.

Shen Hui realized Zhuge Hongjing had stolen the Death World's Power of Fortune and turned it against him, leaving the battle seemingly lost. As the Golden Dragon of Fortune attacked the Death World, a huge rift suddenly opened across it.

• Shen Hui and the spectators mistook Zhuge Hongjing's darkened divine flames for Shen Hui assimilating them, and believed Shen Hui was winning.
• Ye Yitian explained that the darkness was a divine entity formed from the Death World's stolen Power of Fortune, which would make Shen Hui's world vulnerable.
• Zhuge Hongjing revealed that he had taken Shen Hui's Power of Fortune and claimed his move gave him the advantage.
• The Golden Dragon of Fortune attacked the Death World with a net of darkness, and Shen Hui prepared to accept defeat.
• A huge rift suddenly opened in the Death World and spread toward the heavens.

Shen Hui used the Backrooms World’s independent laws to survive Zhuge Hongjing’s attack and reveal a new Creation World after the Death World vanished. Zhuge Hongjing lost the battle, and Shen Hui withdrew his new world before anyone could inspect it.

• The Backrooms World spread across the Death World, and Shen Hui realized its separate fortune could resist Zhuge Hongjing’s attack.
• Zhuge Hongjing merged the Golden Dragon of Fortune with the dark net, draining the Death World until it disappeared.
• A new Creation World appeared where the Death World had vanished, and everyone recognized Shen Hui as its owner.
• Shen Hui’s world survived Zhuge Hongjing’s attack, leaving Zhuge Hongjing defeated after the Golden Dragon of Fortune disappeared.
• Shen Hui declared that anything was possible, then severed his connection and made the new world vanish.

Shen Hui won the level-seven Creator competition after revealing a different form of his Creation World, leaving the crowd confused about how it worked. He told his friends he had only one Creation World, then the event moved on to the level-eight competition.

• Shen Hui's Creation World vanished, and the crowd debated whether he had two Creation Worlds or had transformed his original one.
• Zhuge Hongjing ended his Creation World and asked Shen Hui how he had produced the unfamiliar world; Shen Hui gave him a vague answer about understanding and creating.
• Shen Hui returned to Qingxue, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan and said he had only one Creation World, but that it had two systems and a special nature.
• Ye Long congratulated Shen Hui on taking first place, while Shen Hui credited the deities and said Zhuge Hongjing was stronger than people realized.
• President Fan Hao quieted the venue and announced the start of the level-eight Creator competition.

After the Chaos Forbidden Domain competition ended, Shen Hui learned that the level-ten matches had been little more than formalities and prepared to return home before President Fan Hao summoned him. Fan Hao began a private meeting by raising their agreement about the Giant God Cult and Shen Hui’s creation world.

• Ye Long and Shen Hui complained that the level-nine and level-ten creator matches had featured little action, and President Fan Hao ended the competition.
• Fan Hao told the slot winners to report to their nearest World Association in two days to gather at Outpost One in the Sea of Stars.
• As Shen Hui and Ye Long prepared to leave, President Chi Yan, Ye Yitian, and President Shengnan stopped them; Ye Yitian praised Ye Long’s creation world, while Chi Yan said Fan Hao wanted to see Shen Hui.
• Shen Hui followed Chi Yan to meet Fan Hao, who invited him to sit and then said he wanted to discuss their agreement concerning the Giant God Cult and Shen Hui’s creation world.

Shen Hui discussed the Giant God Cult’s infiltration of the competition with Chairman Fan Hao, who rewarded his progress and explained that Creation Worlds could advance beyond Saint Ascension. Fan Hao left Shen Hui with the revelation that another World Level existed above the one Shen Hui had reached.

• Chairman Fan Hao tested Shen Hui’s knowledge of the Giant God Cult’s infiltrators, and Shen Hui explained why he had kept the information private.
• Fan Hao told Shen Hui to continue gathering information and said the cultists could enter the Chaos Forbidden Domain because they needed to discover the universe’s true nature.
• Fan Hao promised Shen Hui a reward at the supply depot for his progress and previous good deeds.
• Shen Hui revealed that the Lord of Night had told him about the Negative World and the Fallen Gods, and Fan Hao confirmed that the Night Organization had introduced those concepts to him.
• Fan Hao explained that Creation Worlds could advance their World Level as well as their Civilization Level, and said there was a level above Saint Ascension.

Chairman Fan Hao told Shen Hui that the level beyond Saint Ascension was called Divine Transformation and warned him that a stronger Creation World could attract dangers from within and beyond. He sent Shen Hui to collect his things, leaving him to consider the unknown threats that might lie ahead.

• Fan Hao revealed that creators were exploring Divine Transformation, a level above Saint Ascension, and said Shen Hui’s unusual Creation World might represent a new possibility.
• Fan Hao warned Shen Hui that mistakes in building a Creation World’s worldview could cause serious or irreversible consequences.
• Fan Hao explained that creations within some worlds had rebelled against their worlds and caused upheaval, while Shen Hui recognized their similarity to the World Wanderers, who called themselves Transcendents.
• Shen Hui identified Fallen Gods in the Negative World as an external danger to Saint Ascension worlds, and Fan Hao said he sensed even greater, potentially destructive dangers beyond them.
• Fan Hao told Shen Hui to proceed steadily, then invited him to collect his things and rejoin his waiting companion.

Shen Hui visited the World Association's resource warehouse with President Fan Hao and searched its expanded selection for resources suited to his Creation World. He passed on a blank World Will crystal core but found a Negative Expansion and Catastrophization trait card that sparked an idea.

• President Fan Hao offered to register Shen Hui for a World Association points account and let him choose three resources without value restrictions.
• Shen Hui browsed the warehouse's varied Creation World resources and passed over items incompatible with his system.
• President Fan Hao explained the risks of blank World Will crystal cores and suggested Shen Hui try one, but Shen Hui declined.
• Shen Hui spotted a Negative Expansion and Catastrophization trait card and began considering how it could suit his Creation World.

Shen Hui chose a card that could strengthen pestilence in the Death World, hoping to lay the groundwork for Nurgle. He also took an indestructible black stone from the Chaos Forbidden Domain after Raven sensed it was special, and Chairman Fan Hao offered him a blank World Will Crystal Core as compensation for the selection.

• Shen Hui selected a card to enhance pestilence, which he planned to develop as a foundation for Nurgle in the Death World.
• Chairman Fan Hao rejected Shen Hui's request to take additional unwanted items from the warehouse.
• Shen Hui noticed an unusual black stone and sensed through Raven that it was special.
• Chairman Fan Hao explained that the stone had survived the destruction of a ruined world fragment in the Chaos Forbidden Domain.
• Shen Hui chose to take the stone, and Chairman Fan Hao offered him a blank World Will Crystal Core to make up for the selection.

After receiving three resources from President Fan Hao, Shen Hui rejoined his friends and was mobbed by groups hoping to recruit him or make connections. He showed Qingxue, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan a Blank Will World Crystal and offered it to them to test.

• Shen Hui chose a World Crystal that could strengthen a creation world and provide World Origin Power, then left with the three items President Fan Hao had given him.
• At the town square, dozens of people surrounded Shen Hui and invited him to visit their organizations, but Huang Lingheng drove them away by asserting that Shen Hui belonged to the Night Organization.
• Huang Lingheng invited Shen Hui to celebrate with the Night Organization, then left after noticing that Qingxue, Ye Long, and the others were waiting for him.
• Shen Hui joked to Ye Long and Qingxue that President Fan Hao had given resources to help him because he was poor and had no backing.
• Shen Hui revealed the Blank Will World Crystal, which Ye Long recognized from an underground auction, and offered it to Qingxue, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan to try.

Shen Hui offered the Blank Will World Crystal to his companions so they could test its effects, and Ye Long volunteered to attempt a fusion. In Ye Long’s Creation World, Shen Hui guided him through the process, but Ye Long began to suspect Shen Hui had fused with a crystal himself.

• Shen Hui explained the crystal’s benefits and risks, and Xiao Xiangyan, Ye Long, and Qingxue urged him to keep it for himself.
• Xiao Xiangyan and Qingxue declined to try the crystal, so Ye Long agreed to be the first and took it from Shen Hui.
• Shen Hui led the group to Ye Long’s family residence, where they prepared to begin the experiment.
• Shen Hui and Ye Long entered Ye Long’s Creation World, and the crystal began connecting to it.
• Shen Hui told Ye Long to make his Creation World’s will accept the crystal and warned that forcing the fusion could cause the world to collapse.
• Ye Long questioned how Shen Hui knew so much about the process and began to suspect he had already fused with a crystal.

Shen Hui guided Ye Long through merging a Blank Will World Crystal into his Creation World, which nearly collapsed before Nüwa stabilized it. The fusion succeeded, and as Ye Long began telling Xiao Xiangyan about the results, someone knocked at his door.

• Ye Long began merging the Blank Will World Crystal into his Creation World's World Will, despite the world's growing damage and his fear.
• Shen Hui told Ye Long to call on his deity, and Nüwa appeared to stabilize the Creation World.
• Ye Long completed the fusion and sensed that his Creation World had become stronger and might be rebuilt if one of its World Will Crystals were lost.
• Shen Hui and Ye Long left the Creation World, and Xiao Xiangyan asked Ye Long if the fusion had gone well.
• Ye Long announced that he had succeeded, but a knock at the door interrupted him as someone asked why he had not mentioned bringing guests home.

Ye Yinian and Ye Ying tried to draw Shen Hui and Ye Long into a family celebration, but Shen Hui declined and left with his friends. After celebrating, Shen Hui prepared to expand the Death World's worldview, while Qingxue helped him settle down first.

• Ye Yinian and Ye Ying invited Ye Long, Shen Hui, and their companions to celebrate at the family home, but Ye Long said they had other plans.
• Shen Hui politely refused Ye Yinian's offer to help each other in the Chaos Forbidden Domain and left with Ye Long and the others.
• After they left, Ye Ying complained about Shen Hui, while Ye Yinian urged him to avoid underestimating Shen Hui and to focus on winning him over.
• Ye Long thanked Shen Hui for helping him refuse the invitation, and the group celebrated at a hotel owned by Xiao Xiangyan's family.
• Xiao Xiangyan arranged a room for Shen Hui and Qingxue, and later that night Shen Hui prepared to enter the Death World and expand its worldview.
• Qingxue helped Shen Hui calm down, and he then told her he was ready to build his creation world.

Shen Hui visited Death World and discovered that the Foundation was using SCP-999, the Tickle Monster, to purify contaminated potions and treat Dark Erosion Syndrome. He left after seeing the creature being used as a tireless filter for the Unspeakable’s power of deformation.

• Shen Hui manifested in Steam City and followed a crowd to a Foundation distribution point for Light Potions.
• Shen Hui recognized the orange-yellow potion as a substance extracted from SCP-999 and realized it could cure Dark Erosion Syndrome.
• Shen Hui gave his potion to a severely eroded person, who drank it and coughed contaminated blackish-gray fluid into the bottle.
• Shen Hui vanished and appeared at the Foundation headquarters, where workers transported bottles of contaminated potion to SCP-999’s containment chamber.
• Shen Hui watched the Foundation pour the contaminated potion over SCP-999, which absorbed it and produced fresh orange-yellow potion.

Shen Hui surveyed changes across the Death World, including the use of The Tickle Monster to purify contaminated potions and the growing human presence in the Backrooms World. He then observed SCP-682 interacting with increasingly intelligent Shoggoths in the Mountains of Madness as the Elder Things studied him.

• The Foundation continued making The Tickle Monster absorb Dark Erosion power to purify contaminated potions, and he began to change.
• Shen Hui observed poor residents suffering from Dark Erosion Syndrome without access to the cure as they gathered together.
• Investigators formed teams to enter the Backrooms World, while Francis survived and explored its fourth level with three companions.
• The Great Horned Rat communicated simply with his followers, while the Deep Ones continued visiting Innsmouth.
• SCP-682 appeared in the Mountains of Madness, where the Elder Things studied him and he played or communicated with the increasingly intelligent Shoggoths.

Shen Hui used the Tomies’ graveyard and a Disaster Amplification · Trait Card to make pestilence an inerasable World Trait of the Death World. The Pestilence Doctor sensed the change, decided to cure the world by killing those he believed infected, and attacked the D-class personnel in his laboratory.

• Shen Hui observed that the Shoggoths were developing traits like Yog-Sothoth and that his earliest Eldritch Being Hero Units were changing as their Divine Power increased.
• Shen Hui chose the Tomies’ graveyard as the place to begin creating something related to Nurgle and used the Disaster Amplification · Trait Card to amplify pestilence.
• The Death World gained the World Trait Source of Pestilence, making pestilence impossible to eradicate and increasing its spread and effects.
• The Pestilence Doctor sensed the spreading pestilence and decided to cure the world, starting with the humans he believed were infected.
• The Pestilence Doctor attacked the D-class personnel in his laboratory, and an alarm sounded.

Shen Hui used the World Star Core to strengthen the Death World and began creating Nurgle’s Back Garden, a new domain where life would emerge from death. He ended the Tomies’ mass slaughter after it filled a canyon with corpses, then began rewriting the region’s rules.

• The Pestilence Doctor escaped his guards and searched the Foundation for people he believed were infected, prompting an emergency containment response.
• Abomination’s Pestilence grew stronger, and Clan Pestilens sensed that the Death World was becoming a breeding ground for its spread.
• Shen Hui absorbed the World Star Core into the Death World, raising its World Origin Power to sixty thousand.
• Shen Hui ordered the Tomies to fight to the death, creating a canyon filled with corpses and flesh pulp as the foundation for Nurgle’s Back Garden.
• Shen Hui stopped the slaughter, and the surviving Tomies migrated away from the canyon.
• Shen Hui began isolating the region from the surrounding Death World and rewriting its rules with World Origin Power.

Shen Hui transformed a region of the Death World into Nurgle's Garden, where decay nourished strange forms of life, and gained the Cycle of Life and Death trait. He then used the world's remaining resources to establish the concept of Nurgle, which began drawing power from pestilence, death, and new life.

• Shen Hui accelerated time in a region of rotting flesh until it decomposed into a fertile mass that bred pestilence and disease.
• Shen Hui used World Origin Power to create laws that spawned bizarre insects, fungi, and plants from the decay.
• The World Will named the region Nurgle's Garden and granted the Death World the Cycle of Life and Death trait, which let death nourish the garden's growth and create new life.
• Shen Hui decided to use spreading pestilence to establish Nurgle's concept and checked that he had nearly forty thousand World Origin Power remaining.
• Shen Hui poured the remaining World Origin Power and accumulated faith into the Death World, linking pestilence, death, and new life to Nurgle's concept.
• Power began converging on Nurgle's newly established concept.

The Foundation struggled to learn why the Pestilence was spreading while keeping the unstable Pestilence Doctor contained. As outbreaks worsened and remote towns became breeding grounds, the researchers considered releasing him as a last resort.

• The Foundation kept the Pestilence Doctor in a laboratory under constant guard because contact with people he considered infected made him violently agitated.
• The Pestilence Doctor told the researchers that the world was contaminated and suggested destroying it, while presenting his transformed patients as successful cures.
• The researchers failed to get useful answers from the Pestilence Doctor and debated whether the Abomination or an even more terrifying existence was responsible for the outbreak.
• The researchers acknowledged that they might have to follow the higher-ups' instructions and release the Pestilence Doctor if the Pestilence continued worsening.
• City guards warned residents to report infections as streets emptied and remote towns became breeding grounds for the Pestilence.