Chapter Summaries

Shen Hui connected the Death World to the Esper World in scattered locations, where supernatural realms began causing deadly incidents. The Superpower Bureau traced a cursed video to a dead man’s house and entered the lifeless woods, watched by a hidden presence.

• Shen Hui split the connection between the worlds so each Hero’s location appeared in a different part of the Esper World.
• A girl entered strange woods, encountered a woman in a dry well, and returned home with a power that made her father tear out his own organs.
• A video promising death to someone the viewer hated spread online, while other strange realms and supernatural incidents appeared across the Esper World.
• The Superpower Bureau learned that more than a thousand people, including espers, had died after watching the video and traced its source to the girl’s house.
• The espers found the dead father and the girl’s body, then entered the lifeless woods, where a pair of sinister eyes watched them.

Two superpower squads encountered deadly horrors in separate secret realms: one was trapped by Sadako through a television showing a dry well, while the other discovered living victims suspended in a slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse squad had only begun to grasp the gruesome scene when the chapter ended.

• A superpower squad found a dry well and an old television whose screen showed the same forest and well.
• The television revealed Sadako at the bottom of the well, and she climbed toward its mouth as the squad watched.
• The squad members looked into the empty well and found themselves alone at its bottom, where Sadako's mental illusion made them kill themselves.
• Another squad followed a distress signal to a slaughterhouse and found signs that someone had been dragged inside.
• The squad used a ball of lightning to illuminate the ceiling and discovered human remains hanging from hooks, including a head attached to exposed organs that were still alive.

Shen Hui's Heroes spread terror and devastation across the Esper World, overwhelming its defenders and weakening the World Will under the Death World's suppression. As the surviving humans hid and the Superpower Bureau fell, the Bureau director faced several figures arriving outside.

• The Pig-headed Butcher slaughtered the esper squad in the slaughterhouse, survived the captain's lightning attack by transforming into a gigantic Demon Pig, and hunted down the fleeing espers.
• Tomie, Siren Head, Slender Man, and Pestilence spread their horrors through cities, killing or enthralling people as Abomination gathered the dead into an undead horde.
• The Superpower Bureau ran out of reinforcements as its espers vanished, and the Esper World fell into ruin beneath the Death World's growing influence.
• The Bureau director remained as the last defender at the Superpower Bureau, and several figures appeared outside as he recognized that his fear had arrived.

After Shen Hui absorbed the Esper World, a challenge unexpectedly began against a connected Level Five world with its own creator. As ordinary people entered the Death World, their group prepared to summon gods after Slender Man attacked one of them.

• Shen Hui absorbed the Esper World into the Death World, which expanded to 567 kilometers and gained 1,500 World Origin Power.
• When the challenge failed to end, a new world challenge began, and Shen Hui found that he could not break the connection.
• Shen Hui sensed that the connected world was a creator-owned Level Five world with an ancient setting and many places of worship.
• Thousands of ordinary people advanced into the Death World, where Slender Man appeared before one group.
• Shen Hui ordered Slender Man to attack, and Slender Man pierced a middle-aged man with his tentacles.
• An older man called for the crowd to set up an altar and summon the gods, and the frightened people quickly grew calm.

Shen Hui’s Heroes were overwhelmed as ordinary people in the opposing faith-based Creation World summoned gods and gained powers that countered his Death World. Just as the creator prepared to destroy Shen Hui’s world, an enormous unknown creature began appearing in its dusk-colored sky.

• Slender Man’s attacks failed against people who performed a ritual to summon the Black Earth God, and they swarmed and suppressed him.
• People in the Deadwood Forest invoked the White God, resisted Sadako’s fear and mental control, and charged at her.
• Other groups summoned the Stone God and different gods to suppress the Pig-headed Butcher, Tomie, Siren Head, and Abomination.
• Shen Hui realized the opposing world relied on a system of faith that made ordinary people powerful and immune to his Death World.
• A World Association staff member revealed he was secretly challenging Shen Hui’s world and planned to destroy it, frame Ji Xinfeng, and serve his high priest.
• An orange-yellow dusk spread across Shen Hui’s world as an enormous unknown creature began to emerge in the sky.

Shen Hui awakened Wandering Doom, who shattered the faith sustaining the Giant God Cult member’s world and destroyed its inhabitants. After the challenge ended, Shen Hui returned to the Sea of Stars and identified a disappearing World Association staff member as the cultist.

• Shen Hui awakened Doom, whose twilight presence filled the Death World and drew the attention of its people and the Giant God Cult member.
• Wandering Doom suppressed the faith of the Giant God Cult member’s people, causing their powers and the statues of their gods to vanish.
• The people turned to worshipping Wandering Doom and attacked one another and themselves to attract his notice.
• Wandering Doom crushed the crowd, absorbed their doom, and left the faith-based world without faith, causing it to collapse.
• Shen Hui returned to the Sea of Stars, found Ji Xinfeng still inside the Unclaimed World, and recognized a disappearing World Association staff member as the Giant God Cult member.

Shen Hui discovered that a Giant God Cult infiltrator in the World Association had tried to kill him, but the man died before Shen Hui could question him. With the Association preparing a Great Purge, Chi Yan took Shen Hui to stay at her home until it was over.

• Shen Hui returned from the Sea of Stars and told Chi Yan that a Giant God Cult member inside the World Association had attacked him.
• Shen Hui found the infiltrator dying in a World Association room, but the man refused to reveal anything and died.
• Chi Yan ordered the Association base sealed and its staff assembled, then warned Shen Hui that the Association was not safe until the Great Purge was complete.
• Chi Yan explained that the Giant God Cult had raised infiltrators from childhood to join the Association, while Shen Hui asked to keep the corpse so he could try to revive it in another form and recover its memories.
• The investigation found no other problems among the assembled staff, and Chi Yan took Shen Hui back to her home.

Shen Hui returned to Chi Yan’s home and learned that Breath of Life Essence was rare but had little general market value. Chi Yan suggested he take it to the Land of the Unfettered, where someone might trade for it, and Shen Hui considered the alternative arena and its risks.

• Shen Hui visited Chi Yan’s detached villa and accepted her invitation to make himself at home.
• Chi Yan told Shen Hui that his reward would arrive within two days, while gifts from other regions would come later because factions were investigating internally.
• Shen Hui asked how much the World Association would pay for his Breath of Life Essence, and Chi Yan explained that its value depended on whether a world urgently needed it.
• Chi Yan suggested that Shen Hui try trading the essence in the Land of the Unfettered, where he might find someone who needed it.
• Chi Yan explained that the Land of the Unfettered offered free, random world challenges and had grown trading venues, but its unpredictable matchups made it dangerous.

Shen Hui examined the Source of Faith and decided to use it to create a faith centered on Cthulhu, whose followers would slowly make the sleeping Great Old One real. He began planning how to create those followers.

• Shen Hui inspected the Source of Faith he had obtained after the battle with the faith world.
• Shen Hui considered making one of his Heroes the object of faith, but rejected the idea as too ordinary for his Death World.
• Shen Hui decided that a corrupted hope built on fear of the unknown would suit his world.
• Shen Hui chose Cthulhu as the faith's intangible source and planned to use His followers' Power of Faith to make Him real over time.
• Shen Hui began planning how to create a group of Cthulhu's followers.

Shen Hui planned to expand the Land of New Life and develop the Deep Ones after resources arrived, then met Ye Long, Xiao Xiangyan, and Qingxue at the World Association. He decided to sell his Breath of Life Essence in the Land of the Unfettered and entered it with his friends.

• Shen Hui discussed his plans to create an ocean and the Deep Ones, enlarge the Land of New Life, and create the Silent Hill template once resources arrived.
• Chi Yan took Shen Hui to the World Association, where he reunited with Ye Yitian, Ye Long, Xiao Xiangyan, and Qingxue.
• Shen Hui told his friends about his recent battle, prompting them to marvel at the strength of his level-four world.
• Shen Hui said he planned to sell his Breath of Life Essence in the Land of the Unfettered, and Xiao Xiangyan offered to help through her family's business.
• Shen Hui and his three friends bought connection devices, put them on in a private room, and entered the Land of the Unfettered.

Shen Hui and his companions visited the Land of the Unfettered to sell Breath of Life Essence and learned that a team whose Creation Worlds were badly damaged might need it. Xiao Xiangyan led them toward the Zhuge Family, where the team and Zhuge representatives had gathered.

• Shen Hui, Qingxue, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan arrived in the Land of the Unfettered and saw crowds of creators looking for teams to challenge Unclaimed Worlds.
• A burly recruiter from the Fierce Wolf Guild approached them, but he backed off after Ye Long revealed his Level 3 Creation World.
• Shen Hui led the group to the trading area, where Xiao Xiangyan recognized Uncle Zhang, the Xiao Family's resource buyer.
• Shen Hui told Uncle Zhang he wanted to sell more than thirty wisps of Breath of Life Essence.
• Uncle Zhang said a team with badly damaged Creation Worlds had returned from challenging an extraordinary world, and Xiao Xiangyan learned they were at the Zhuge Family's place.

Shen Hui met Zhuge Hongjing and Zhuge Yue while they were trying to buy Breath of Life Essence from other world owners. He negotiated a trade with the Zhuge Family for a Rule Evolution Card alongside money and Perfect basic resource cards, planning to use it to adapt fishmen to his Death World.

• Zhuge Hongjing told Zhuge Yue and the sellers that Shen Hui had obtained Breath of Life Essence, and Shen Hui arrived as they discussed buying it.
• Shen Hui learned the sellers were offering world coordinates and declined to trade his Breath of Life Essence for them.
• Shen Hui rejected Zhuge Hongjing's offer of a hundred million and a complete set of Perfect basic resource cards, then asked for a way to adapt creatures to his world's rules.
• Zhuge Hongjing offered a Rule Evolution Card, which could improve a creature type's adaptability through its descendants.
• Shen Hui and Zhuge Hongjing agreed to trade the Breath of Life Essence for the original offer plus a Rule Evolution Card, to be delivered with the Zhuge Family's gifts of thanks the next day.

After collecting his rewards from the World Association, Shen Hui used them to prepare the Death World for a new creation. He formed a vast ocean and established Cthulhu as the faith of the servants he planned to create.

• Chi Yan told Shen Hui that his rewards had arrived, and she accompanied him to collect five boxes at the World Association.
• Shen Hui opened the boxes in his Death World and found Rare-quality world-building items, a Perfect-quality set of Basic Resource Cards, and the Rule Evolution Card; he also received the promised hundred million.
• Shen Hui used World Origin Power Potions and Crystals to strengthen his Death World and prepared to expand the Land of New Life.
• Shen Hui used Terrain Construction Cards and Resource Expansion Cards to turn half his world into a vast, lifeless ocean.
• Shen Hui crushed the Source of Faith and glimpsed an unspeakable presence beneath the sea before the world will cut off his vision.
• Shen Hui recovered from the encounter and realized that the faith of Cthulhu had been established.

Shen Hui used faith in Cthulhu and accelerated evolution to create the Deep Ones, who established an undersea civilization in the Death World. After watching them thrive, he turned his attention to developing the Land of New Life and bringing its humans into contact with them.

• Shen Hui combined the Creature Construction Card and Rule Evolution Card to seed life in the sea, where Cthulhu's faith slowed the death aura's effects.
• Shen Hui chose cyan fish as the Deep Ones' ancestors and accelerated their evolution, shaping their bodies toward their intended form.
• Over several years, the fish evolved into amphibious, intelligent Deep Ones who worshipped Cthulhu and gained power and longevity through their faith.
• Shen Hui placed resources on the seabed, and the Deep Ones built an undersea city with massive Cyclopean columns.
• Shen Hui considered creating Dagon later and turned to developing the Land of New Life so its humans would encounter the Deep Ones and begin believing in Cthulhu.

Shen Hui expanded the Land of New Life from five kilometers to forty-five, creating a vast safe region for humans and ordinary creatures. After months of exploration and encounters with Siren Head, more than a thousand survivors left their settlement to establish themselves in the wider world, heading first for a city’s ruins.

• Shen Hui used World Origin Power to cleanse and expand the Land of New Life, stopping when it reached forty-five kilometers in diameter.
• A little girl followed her puppy beyond the former forbidden zone and found it unharmed, prompting news that the safe area had grown.
• Survivors explored the expanded land for months, discovering forests, rivers, animals, resources, and the new boundary of the safe haven.
• An expedition encountered Siren Head, and several people disappeared, but the survivors continued exploring and shared what they learned.
• After teams mapped the region and found city ruins, more than a thousand people left their settlement to begin a new life, making the ruins their first destination.

The people settled in a ruined steam city, rebuilt it into the prosperous city of Arkham, and developed steam technology over generations. As urban legends spread and sightings of dangerous creatures continued, they established rules for surviving them.

• After reaching the ruins, the people found blueprints explaining steam technology and began repairing machines and dividing up the work.
• Over the following decades, the people restored the city, mastered steam technology, and named it Arkham.
• Over the next century, Shen Hui used Creature Construction Cards to add groups of humans, and Arkham's population grew beyond one hundred thousand.
• The people expanded the city, built schools and connected surrounding towns by rail while developing new steam-powered machines.
• As Slender Man, Siren Head, and other urban legends appeared, the people established taboos and procedures for responding to their signs.

Shen Hui activated the Silent Hill template, causing the Surface World and the Otherworld to overlap in the Land of New Life. During Arkham’s 101st anniversary celebration, the Otherworld’s death mist engulfed the city, and the Eldritch Beings that had once been confined to specific places appeared throughout it.

• Over a hundred years, Arkham developed steam technology while radical investigators formed a secret cult around artworks inspired by dreams of a deep, oppressive ocean.
• Shen Hui activated the Silent Hill template, introducing the Death World's rules and creating the Surface World and the Otherworld.
• Arkham's residents celebrated the city's 101st anniversary as the Otherworld gradually replaced the Surface World.
• The death mist reached Arkham, corroding the city and awakening the people’s deepest fears.
• Sadako, the Pig-headed Butcher, Siren Head, and other Eldritch Beings appeared across Arkham, throwing the crowds into terror.

The Great Ruin devastated Arkham, killing nearly twenty thousand people, and later recurred with fewer casualties as the city adapted to its arrival. Three years later, Shen Hui connected the expanding Land of New Life to the Sea of Death, prompting Arkham to send investigators to explore the change.

• At dawn after the first Great Ruin, Arkham’s survivors saw the devastation, while Shen Hui watched as his eldritch urban legend Heroes grew stronger from the fear and flesh and blood.
• Over the following months, Arkham’s radical faction investigated the creatures, and shared dreams of the deep sea led to the founding of Arkham Asylum and a split over whether the dreams should be pursued.
• At the next anniversary, the Great Ruin returned, but most people who stayed indoors survived, with about five thousand dead or missing.
• Over the next three years, Arkham remained largely unchanged as more people were confined to the asylum.
• Shen Hui expanded the Land of New Life to 107 kilometers in diameter and connected it to the Sea of Death, while the Deep Ones stayed in their underwater city.
• Arkham’s people noticed the expansion and immediately sent investigators to explore it.

Arkham expanded across the Land of New Life, and settlers founded Innsmouth beside the Sea of Death. Guided by the Deep Ones, believers and greedy fishermen joined together to worship Cthulhu and formed the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

• Arkham's explorers mapped the expanded Land of New Life and discovered the Sea of Death.
• Over five years, Arkham grew into a civilization of three cities, and its people founded Innsmouth beside the sea.
• Innsmouth's residents built steamships and developed fishing, while believers in strange dreams became convinced the Sea of Death offered shelter from the Great Ruin.
• The Deep Ones contacted Innsmouth's believers, who began sacrificing themselves and accepting the Deep Ones' guidance.
• Fishermen who traded crew members for sea resources also came to worship Cthulhu, and the gathered followers founded the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

Shen Hui completed the Death World's development, planting Cthulhu worship and gaining the Unspeakable trait. After three days in the world, he returned to the Real World exhausted and hungry, where Chi Yan, Ye Long, Qingxue, and Xiao Xiangyan entered and stared at him in shock.

• Cthulhu worship spread through the Death World, bringing Deep One-human hybrids, dream-given powers, and a new path for steam civilization.
• Shen Hui ended the Scenario Progression Card, and the Death World's World Will reported the Sea of Death and the Unspeakable world trait.
• Shen Hui learned that Unspeakable distorted the minds of anyone who probed the world's foundations or investigated the Deep Ones.
• Shen Hui considered adding potion, SCP, and Backrooms systems to expand the Death World's worldview and development.
• Shen Hui returned to the Real World after three days without food or water and felt ravenous and mentally drained.
• Chi Yan, Ye Long, Qingxue, and Xiao Xiangyan entered Shen Hui's room and looked at him as though he were a monster.