Chapter Summaries

After exhausting himself expanding his Creation World, Shen Hui learned that the World Association was testing a way to bring Creation Worlds into the Real World, and he joined the group heading to headquarters. There, he encountered Ye Long’s powerful cousin Ye Ying before the test was scheduled to begin the next day.

• Shen Hui collapsed from exhaustion after spending three days using up his resources to expand his Creation World, then ate and rested with Ye Long, Qingxue, Xiao Xiangyan, and President Chi Yan.
• Chi Yan told Shen Hui that the World Association had made progress on bringing Creation Worlds into the Real World and had selected him to take part in a test.
• Shen Hui joined the group traveling to the World Association headquarters, where Ye Ying greeted Ye Long and thanked Shen Hui for helping his cousin.
• Ye Long identified Ye Ying as his older cousin and a top Water District competitor on the Starry Sky Leaderboard, then left while Shen Hui and the others continued to headquarters.
• Chi Yan led the group to their accommodations and told them the test would begin the next day.

Shen Hui suggested a way for Ye Long to combine his cultivation and Zerg systems through parasitic immortal cultivation. The next day, Ye Long arrived at the test exhausted after spending the night exploring the idea.

• Ye Long told Shen Hui he was secretly developing cultivation and Zerg systems because he feared losing the Ye Family leadership to Ye Ying.
• Shen Hui warned that the two systems could hinder each other, then recalled the idea of Parasitic Immortal Cultivation.
• Shen Hui explained how stages of Zerg development could correspond to stages of cultivation, with Zerg parasitizing and strengthening human hosts.
• Ye Long excitedly praised Shen Hui's idea and hurried back to try it that night.
• The next day, Shen Hui saw Ye Long looking exhausted and teased him about masturbating too much.

Shen Hui gathered with the others for a Creation World manifestation test while Ji Xinfeng persuaded the Council of Elders to investigate whether Shen Hui was responsible for his sons’ deaths. The elders agreed in exchange for Ji Xinfeng’s Star Core, then announced they would restrict everyone’s connection to their Creation Worlds during the test.

• Ye Long told Shen Hui that his advice had worked, then smugly glared at Ye Ying without explaining his plan to Xiao Xiangyan and Qingxue.
• Sun Jingjing told Shen Hui she had fulfilled her promise and that they were even, and Shen Hui advised her to control her temper before leaving.
• Ji Xinfeng asked the five elders to examine Shen Hui’s world fragments for evidence connecting him to Ji Cailiang’s and Ji Caishan’s deaths.
• The five elders initially declined, but agreed to investigate after Ji Xinfeng offered them a Star Core from a Small Thousand World.
• Nearly a thousand people gathered for the test, and the elders announced that they would restrict each person’s connection to their Creation World to prevent irreversible damage.

During the test, Elder Gu Cheng tried to invade Shen Hui’s Death World and was driven into madness by the Unspeakable within it. The elders severed their connection, but Gu Cheng remained impaired, and Shen Hui accused him of bringing the disaster on himself.

• Ye Long, Qingxue, and Xiao Xiangyan received restrictions before Shen Hui stepped forward.
• Elder Gu Cheng injected world power into Shen Hui, then used it to invade and analyze his Death World.
• The Death World flooded Gu Cheng’s mind with incomprehensible visions and whispers, overwhelming his sanity.
• The elders noticed Gu Cheng’s strange behavior and severed his connection to Shen Hui, but blood had already poured from Gu Cheng’s eyes.
• Shen Hui accused Gu Cheng of trying to dissect his world and warned the other elders that they would suffer the same fate if they tried.

Shen Hui confronted the elders after Gu Cheng’s attempt to dissect his Creation World, then learned that faith and spiritual harmony could connect a Creator’s world to the Real World. He left the chapter considering what might happen if he brought his Death World and its creatures into reality.

• Shen Hui accused the elders of plotting against him after Gu Cheng invaded his Creation World, and Chi Yan, Ye Long, Ye Yitian, and others spoke up in his defense.
• The four elders avoided further confrontation, ordered staff to take Gu Cheng away for a mental examination, and continued the trial without placing restrictions on Shen Hui.
• Zhuge Zhaiyue explained that belief in a Creation World and harmony with its will could let a Creator connect it to the Real World through spiritual power.
• Shen Hui recognized his confidence in the Death World as a form of belief and wondered what it would be like to manifest it and its eldritch creatures in reality.

Shen Hui and the other candidates took the test to connect their Creation Worlds to the Real World, and many participants succeeded. Shen Hui’s section remained quiet, leaving his success uncertain as Ji Xinfeng and the four elders watched with excitement.

• Shen Hui entered his test section and focused on connecting his Creation World to the Real World, while ripples formed around him unnoticed.
• The World Association’s leaders discussed the test’s risks and likely limits, and Branch President Shengnan suggested Chi Yan take Shen Hui as her disciple.
• Several candidates, including Ye Long, Zhuge Hongjing, Zhuge Yue, and Sun Jingjing, successfully brought their Creation Worlds into the Real World.
• The observers noticed that Shen Hui had not appeared among the successful candidates, and members of the Zhuge Family doubted him.
• Ji Xinfeng and the four elders seemed pleased as Shen Hui’s section remained quiet.

While most participants successfully descended their Creation Worlds, Shen Hui entered a strange state as the Death World’s will and rules took shape around him. At the last moment, his Creation World descended on a vast scale, covering the entire town in distorted space and black mist.

• Bai Fan, Zhuge Hongjing, and Ye Long explored their descended Creation Worlds, with Ye Long’s world showing the bizarre insect traits Shen Hui had helped him develop.
• More than sixty percent of the participants succeeded while Shen Hui remained still, surrounded by distortion and black fog as he became an embodiment of the Death World.
• Chi Yan and the other observers discussed ending the test, believing no more participants would succeed.
• A spatial ripple spread from Shen Hui’s compartment, and observers realized that he had finally succeeded.
• Shen Hui’s Creation World surged outward, twisting space and spreading ancient fear, freezing cold, and black mist across the town.

As Shen Hui manifested his world, its strange power invaded the Creation Worlds of people in the Real World and trapped them in a series of terrifying distortions. The chapter leaves them facing an immense creature beneath the sea as a familiar voice asks if they are all right.

• The manifested Creation Worlds shook and cracked as Shen Hui’s aura and gray-black mist invaded them, and Bai Fan recognized his power.
• Zhuge Hongjing, Sun Jingjing, and Ye Long reacted to the disturbance, while others struggled against the mist’s distortions and whispers.
• Some people severed their Creation Worlds from the Real World, only to find themselves isolated in a black, fog-filled place and unable to reconnect.
• They saw visions of fleeing figures crying out about the Great Ruin, dangerous shadows, and a colossal creature beneath an orange sunrise.
• They followed strange creatures into a silent sea and found a vast underwater complex surrounding a colossal being in the darkness.
• As they tried to look closer at the creature, a familiar human voice called out, asking whether everyone was all right.

Shen Hui’s out-of-control Death World enveloped the test site, filling everyone with terrifying illusions. Chi Yan entered his world and woke him, causing the manifested world to shatter and disappear.

• The people affected by Shen Hui’s Creation World regained their memories and gathered with World Association members, who explained that his world had gone out of control.
• Zhuge Zhaixing warned that Shen Hui had to be found and separated from the Real World before the dangerous aura caused more harm.
• The group entered Shen Hui’s partition and found him unconscious, transformed by his level-four world’s power into an inhuman Creator Form.
• Ji Xinfeng offered to sever Shen Hui’s connection to his world, but Chi Yan objected and volunteered to enter the world to wake him.
• Chi Yan invaded Shen Hui’s Death World and called to him, and Shen Hui opened his eyes as the manifested world shattered and vanished.

After waking from three days unconscious, Shen Hui learned that his Creation World’s arrival in the Real World had sparked a debate over restricting him. As the World Association agreed to place him under restrictions, Shen Hui appeared to challenge the decision.

• Shen Hui woke in a hospital room, and Qingxue told him he had been unconscious for three days after exhausting his mental energy.
• Qingxue explained that Shen Hui’s Creation World had affected people and caused a commotion, prompting some to call him dangerous.
• Shen Hui learned that Chi Yan, Ye Long, and others were discussing restrictions at the World Association, and he decided to join them.
• Ji Xinfeng argued that Shen Hui posed a threat, while Chi Yan and Zhuge Zhaixing opposed restricting him; most organizations sided with Ji Xinfeng and the five elders.
• As the discussion ended with Shen Hui set to be restricted, Shen Hui appeared and challenged the group for deciding his fate without his consent.

Shen Hui persuaded the World Association to let him search for a Giant God Cult stronghold instead of placing him under its control, in exchange for resources to strengthen his Creation World. President Fan Hao approved the deal and gave Shen Hui two weeks to provide intelligence, leaving him set to receive supplies after the Starry Sky Leaderboard test.

• Shen Hui challenged the World Association’s plan to control him by claiming he could find a Giant God Cult stronghold.
• Shen Hui demanded freedom from interference and a large amount of resources, and Chi Yan and the Council of Elders agreed to give his proposal a chance.
• Fan Hao arrived in person from the Small Thousand World and accepted Shen Hui’s conditions, warning him he would pay for deceiving the association.
• Fan Hao gave Shen Hui two weeks to produce intelligence on the Giant God Cult and arranged for Chi Yan to take him to the World Association’s supply pavilion after the Starry Sky Leaderboard test.

After Shen Hui was expelled from the Sea of Stars, he asked Chi Yan for the preserved bodies of Giant God Cult members so he could bring them into his Death World. He manifested the world in a remote wilderness, where its decay trait revived the corpses, leaving them twitching and standing.

• Fan Hao's pressure forced Shen Hui's consciousness back into the Real World, where he reunited with Qingxue at the World Association.
• Shen Hui waited for Chi Yan, then asked her for the Giant God Cult members' preserved bodies; she warned him about the dangers of investigating the cult and told him the Starry Sky Leaderboard test would begin in three days.
• Chi Yan took Shen Hui and the bodies in a pickup truck to an isolated wilderness so he could manifest his Creation World safely.
• Shen Hui connected the Death World to the Real World and manifested it without losing control, though he could not precisely limit its range.
• The Death World's decaying vitality trait gave the frozen Giant God Cult members an alternative form of life, and they twitched and crawled to their feet.

Shen Hui used Abomination to combine the memories of resurrected cultists and learned the Giant God Cult operated secret bases, including one near a marketplace. He decided to investigate the location alone and considered using the Titan God’s power to infiltrate the cult.

• Shen Hui summoned Abomination, which absorbed the resurrected undead and combined their scattered memories.
• Shen Hui learned the Giant God Cult had many secret bases, that members recognized one another by the Titan God's blessing, and that one base was beneath a marketplace.
• Shen Hui considered releasing the trace of Colossal Creature World power in his Death World to infiltrate the cult, but kept the idea from Chi Yan and the World Association.
• The next day, Shen Hui bought clothes with a hood, put on a face mask, and took a taxi to investigate the marketplace alone.

Shen Hui entered the underground black market beneath Qingbai Market while searching for the Giant God Cult. He found the market’s World Duel Arena, but had not yet located the cult’s base.

• Shen Hui searched Qingbai Market and agreed to pay a guide to take him to its underground market.
• Shen Hui paid for a membership at an inconspicuous tea shop and followed a hidden staircase into the underground market.
• Shen Hui discovered that the crowded market was filled with creators selling contraband and other dangerous goods.
• Shen Hui searched the market for the Giant God Cult but found no sign of its base.
• Shen Hui spotted a guarded passage marked “World Duel Arena.”

Shen Hui entered an underground arena where creators made creatures from their worlds fight, then volunteered to duel for a large prize. He hoped the fight would draw out the hidden Giant God Cult, and the manager promised to arrange his match within a week.

• A masked manager recognized Shen Hui’s strength, apologized for the guards’ treatment, and guided him into the arena.
• The manager explained that the arena’s platform connected to creators’ worlds and that deaths among their creatures could harm the creators.
• Shen Hui watched Orcs defeat a mage civilization, leaving the mage-world creator injured.
• After finding no sign of the Giant God Cult, Shen Hui decided to make them seek him out by entering a duel.
• Shen Hui agreed to fight for a guaranteed one million World Coins, with a hundred million for a win and doubled rewards for continued victories.
• The manager said Shen Hui’s match would be arranged within a week and marked by a red strip of cloth at the market entrance.

Shen Hui learned the rules for the Starry Sky Leaderboard test and joined the other invitees at the World Association. The first round paired him against Sun Jingjing.

• Shen Hui encountered a clown-masked Tarot Cult recruiter at the black market, who fled after another person accused him of being a swindler.
• Shen Hui read the invitation explaining that four hundred contestants would compete for one hundred spots on the Starry Sky Leaderboard.
• Shen Hui learned from Ye Long and the others that a strange world connected to the Zhuge Family had been discovered, and he noticed Qingbai Market’s entrance marker had changed from blue to red.
• Shen Hui arrived at the World Association with Chi Yan and met the other contestants, including Ye Long, Qingxue, Xiao Xiangyan, Zhuge Hongjing, and Bai Fan.
• Fan Hao began the test and announced that four hundred contestants would be randomly paired to compete for two hundred places in the first round.
• The random draw paired Shen Hui with Sun Jingjing.

Shen Hui and Sun Jingjing connected their creation worlds for a test challenge and inspected each other’s civilizations. Sun Jingjing sent a cyberpunk army toward Shen Hui’s world, while Shen Hui’s order mobilized the cities and Deep Ones to meet the invasion.

• Shen Hui drew Sun Jingjing as his opponent, and she challenged him to prove his strength.
• Fan Hao opened a force field that let the challengers connect their creation worlds.
• Shen Hui explored Sun Jingjing’s cyberpunk world, while Sun Jingjing looked over his steam-powered civilization and dismissed it as weak.
• Sun Jingjing ordered an old man in her world to assemble robots, cyborgs, and martial artists and invade Shen Hui’s world.
• Shen Hui ordered the leader of the Esoteric Order of Dagon to alert the cities and prepare the Deep Ones of Innsmouth for the attack.

Sun Jingjing sent mechanical martial artists into Shen Hui's Death World, where they overwhelmed Steam City's defenders. The Esoteric Order of Dagon drank its self-made Potions and transformed into tentacled monsters as the battle escalated.

• Sun Jingjing's fighter jets entered Shen Hui's Death World and ignored Steam City's cannon fire with their energy shields.
• The mechanical martial artists dropped into Steam City and demanded that its defenders surrender.
• The city guards opened fire, but the martial artists dodged the bullets and smashed through them with powered attacks.
• Members of the Esoteric Order of Dagon drank Potions made from Scholar Weike's formula to hear Cthulhu's call.
• The followers' SAN values fell to zero, and tentacles burst through their skin as they transformed into monsters.

Shen Hui triggered the Great Ruin while the mechanical martial artists were defeating the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the hybrid Deep Ones in Steam City. The Great Ruin transformed the city into a desolate, mist-covered place, where the martial artists found a dilapidated building and heard an offer to buy meat.

• The Esoteric Order of Dagon and the hybrid Deep Ones transformed and fought the invading mechanical martial artists, but the martial artists overpowered them and destroyed much of Steam City.
• Sun Jingjing expected victory, while Shen Hui judged the battle only a beginning and triggered the Great Ruin over the Land of New Life.
• The city guards, the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and the hybrid Deep Ones fled as the Great Ruin arrived, leaving the martial artists behind.
• The city changed into a rusty, damp, mist-shrouded landscape, and the president warned the martial artists not to pursue their enemies.
• After wandering through the altered surroundings, the martial artists approached a dilapidated building, where a voice asked if they had come to buy meat.

The mechanical martial artists entered a slaughterhouse to hunt the Pig-headed Butcher, but found themselves trapped in a forest filled with monsters and illusions. As fear and confusion took hold, they killed a beautiful girl and felt compelled to carry her remains home.

• The mechanical martial artists struck the Pig-headed Butcher with Thunder Fist and chased him into the slaughterhouse.
• The slaughterhouse became a decaying forest, and the martial arts association president realized someone had spoken without being part of their group.
• A utility pole transformed into a monster, attacked the group, and vanished, leaving the martial artists lost in the forest.
• A featureless figure appeared beside one martial artist and spoke of a wonderful scent before disappearing.
• The martial arts association president ordered the group to keep moving, and they encountered a beautiful young girl.
• The martial artists killed the girl, then felt an irresistible urge to collect her scattered remains and take them home.