Chapter Summaries

Shen Hui’s Death World overwhelmed Sun Jingjing’s mechanical martial artists, transforming them into flesh-covered monsters and forcing Sun Jingjing to sever her connection. Shen Hui won the clash of worlds, and Sun Jingjing suffered an apparent episode as he called for President Shengnan to get her to a hospital.

• The martial artists were driven mad by Tomie’s flesh, fighting over the girls and repeatedly creating more Tomies when they killed them.
• A program in the mechanical martial artists awakened them briefly, but they found themselves surrounded by Tomies and other monsters before succumbing to madness and mutating.
• Sun Jingjing watched her martial artists transform and recognized that Shen Hui’s Death World had fully descended over them.
• Sun Jingjing severed her connection to Shen Hui’s world, conceding the clash, then collapsed in the Real World in terror and pain.
• Shen Hui opened his eyes, saw Sun Jingjing suffering an episode, and called for President Shengnan to get her to the hospital.

Shen Hui won both rounds of the Starry Sky Leaderboard selection challenge, while Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan also qualified and Qingxue was eliminated. After the challenge ended, Shen Hui sought out Chi Yan to collect his promised resources, planning to refine the Otherworld and the Deep Ones and integrate the Foundation into Death World.

• Sun Jingjing was taken to a psychiatric hospital after her challenge against Shen Hui, and Shen Hui explained that she had refused his warning to surrender.
• The remaining competitors completed the first round, and Ye Long, Qingxue, and Xiao Xiangyan told Shen Hui that they had passed.
• Rumors about Shen Hui spread among the competitors, who feared being matched against him in the final round.
• Shen Hui's opponent surrendered as soon as she saw him, securing his place on the Starry Sky Leaderboard.
• Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan won their final challenges, while Qingxue lost to Bai Fan; Fan Hao then announced the selection challenge had ended.
• Shen Hui went to find Chi Yan to collect the World Association resources he had been promised.

Shen Hui entered the World Association’s resource vault with Chi Yan to collect resources, where he found tools suited to his plans for the Land of New Life and Death World. He discovered an unusual World Bug Card, but the chapter ended before its effect was revealed.

• Chi Yan warned Shen Hui to avoid another incident like the one with Sun Jingjing and congratulated him on making the Starry Sky Leaderboard.
• Chi Yan brought Shen Hui into the main association’s resource vault, where they met her teacher, the guard who had also taught Fan Hao.
• Shen Hui selected a set of Transcendent-quality basic construction cards and found a Rule Attachment Card that could add details to changes in his worlds’ rules.
• Shen Hui browsed an unlabeled shelf of neglected cards and spotted one named World Bug Card.

Shen Hui found a World Bug Card in the Water District resource vault and decided to use it to create the Backrooms within his Creation World. After collecting a few other resources, he left with Chi Yan and set out for the Water District, eager to continue building the Death World.

• Shen Hui picked up a World Bug Card, and Chi Yan warned him that using one had once caused a Creation World to collapse into a Black Death Star.
• Shen Hui explained that the card could help him create the Backrooms by introducing a bug into his Creation World, and Chi Yan accepted his decision while warning him to be careful.
• Shen Hui found Star Cores and selected three more cards and a potion containing five thousand units of pure World Origin Power.
• Chi Yan stopped Shen Hui from taking more resources and led him out of the vault.
• Shen Hui and Chi Yan said goodbye to Chi Yan's master, rejoined the main Water District group, and began their journey back.

Shen Hui developed Death World’s Otherworld, creating negative-emotion-born monsters and the Hero Unit Pyramid Head. When the Great Ruin arrived on Arkham’s founding day, it unfolded differently than before, transforming the places where people hid.

• Shen Hui used a World Origin Power Potion and a Rule Attachment Card to link the Otherworld to Death World.
• Shen Hui made negative emotions manifest as monsters and created Pyramid Head, an Otherworld-only Hero Unit embodying violence, sin, punishment, and pain.
• Death World gained the trait Otherworld: Domain of Emotions, which gathered negative emotions into monsters and summoned its Hero Unit when they reached a critical point.
• Shen Hui accelerated time, and after five months the Land of New Life repaired the damage from the Great Ruin and otherworldly invasions.
• As Arkham’s 159th founding day approached, residents, the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and the Deep Ones prepared for the expected Great Ruin.
• The Great Ruin arrived on schedule, and thick fog and urban-legend creatures appeared as people hiding in the cities felt their surroundings change and fear surge.

Negative emotions in the Land of New Life spawned monsters and a devastating ruin that killed more than seventy thousand people, while Wandering Doom awakened on his own. Shen Hui then created Dagon when the oldest Deep One transformed into the leader of his kind.

• Negative emotions spread through the steam cities, spawning monsters that attacked people and threw the cities into chaos.
• Pyramid Head hunted people as they fled, and Wandering Doom appeared, driving those who saw him into madness and death.
• The ruin ended at dawn, leaving the cities scarred and more than seventy thousand people dead; Shen Hui was pleased that Wandering Doom had awakened without his intervention.
• After several days, Shen Hui turned his attention to creating Dagon and watched the ancient Deep Ones gather in their undersea city.
• The oldest Deep One entered the circle of worshippers, received power, grew larger than the others, and became Dagon.

Shen Hui witnessed Dagon’s evolution into a powerful servant of Cthulhu, then created SCP-173 as the first Foundation containment object. He planned to introduce the anomalous sculpture into the steam civilization and observe its reaction.

• Dagon evolved from a Deep One into a Master-quality Hero with powers tied to Cthulhu and command over the deep sea.
• Shen Hui decided to expand the Death World's worldview by creating the Foundation and the Backrooms World.
• Shen Hui chose SCP-173, The Sculpture - The Original, as the first containment object and formed it from concrete and rebar using World Origin Power.
• SCP-173 gained the ability to move at extreme speed when unobserved and attack with a gravity-distorting force.
• Shen Hui classified SCP-173 as an anomalous containment object and prepared to introduce it into the steam civilization.

Three months after the Great Ruin, Arkham rebuilt and prepared for another year of terror, while its people continued researching steam technology and eldritch power. During construction in the rain, Old Ke's digging machine struck something buried underground, and he ordered an old coworker to inspect it.

• Arkham's plague doctors collected bodies and treated the aftermath of the Great Ruin as the Esoteric Order of Dagon sent followers to face Dagon's terror for power.
• The next Great Ruin killed around twenty thousand people, and the Wandering Doom appeared again.
• After the new year, three days of rain shrouded Arkham as construction continued at a planned factory site.
• Old Ke's excavator struck something hard underground, and he told the old man tending the fire to climb into the pit and secure it with a hook.

At a construction site, a statue killed workers by moving whenever no one was looking, and investigators recognized it as a new urban legend. Shen Hui watched as they discovered its rule and prepared to intervene to help establish the Foundation to contain it.

• An old man and Old Ke excavated a strange statue, and it vanished before reappearing behind the old man and breaking his neck.
• The statue killed Old Ke when he tried to flee, then killed three more people at the construction site.
• City guards, plague doctors, and members of the Esoteric Order of Dagon investigated the statue but found nothing unusual while watching it.
• When everyone looked away from the statue, it moved beside a corpse and killed six people by breaking their necks.
• A member of the Esoteric Order of Dagon deduced that the statue attacked only when no one was looking, and Shen Hui decided to help create the Foundation to contain it.

Shen Hui used his Arkham avatar to establish the SCP Foundation and oversee the containment of SCP-173 in Steam City. He then crushed a World Bug Card and injected reverse Power of Rules into the Death World, locating the loophole it created.

• Arkham's council approved Shen Hui's proposal to turn the Strange Tale Anomaly Investigation Bureau into the SCP Foundation, tasked with containing, controlling, studying, and using anomalies.
• The SCP Foundation took over the construction site and, after a week and more than ten deaths, identified SCP-173's rules and contained the statue.
• Shen Hui noted that the Death World's people wanted to use anomalies against eldritch strange tales and the Great Ruin, then returned his attention to building the world.
• Shen Hui crushed the World Bug Card and injected its reverse Power of Rules into the Death World, disrupting its rules and creating a loophole that he pinpointed.

Shen Hui used the world bug and his remaining cards to create an independent space for the Backrooms, overcoming a dangerous collision of rules that threatened the Death World. After the new space stabilized and the singularity vanished, he prepared to create the Backrooms’ first level, Level 0.

• Shen Hui combined the erroneous spatial rule with the Space Expansion Card to form the foundation of the Backrooms World.
• A black singularity appeared above the Death World and began swallowing its rules, alarming the humans, Deep Ones, and Heroes.
• Shen Hui controlled the singularity as the opposing rules reconstructed into an ordered, independent space attached to the Death World.
• Shen Hui used the Rule Blocking Card to stop the Death World’s rules from entering the new space.
• The singularity collapsed and disappeared, restoring the Death World as Shen Hui prepared to create Level 0.

Shen Hui completed Level 0 of the Backrooms World, creating the Bug Clipping trait and expanding the Death World while strengthening most of his Heroes. After checking the changes, he withdrew his consciousness and recovered from severe mental exhaustion.

• Shen Hui used the final material construction card to create Level 0, a disorienting and dangerous tutorial level of the Backrooms World.
• The Death World gained the Bug Clipping trait, which caused people who slipped through glitches in the Real World to fall into the Backrooms World.
• The Death World expanded from 567 kilometers to 680 kilometers, and Sadako, Pig-headed Butcher, Tomie, Siren Head, Slender Man, and Abomination leveled up and improved their abilities.
• Shen Hui checked the Death World's expanded attributes, including the new Backrooms World and Bug Clipping trait.
• Shen Hui withdrew his consciousness, suffered blurred vision and distorted shadows from mental exhaustion, then recovered and resolved not to push himself so hard next time.

After recovering, Shen Hui went to the underground market to arrange a duel against a creator from the Edge Gang and ordered a custom mask. He left the market planning to return that evening for the match.

• Shen Hui read Chi Yan's message and decided to visit the underground market now that his world was complete.
• Shen Hui turned down Ye Long's invitation to register for the Starry Sky Leaderboard and celebrate at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion.
• Shen Hui met the underground market manager, learned his opponent belonged to the Edge Gang, and accepted the duel scheduled for eight that night.
• Shen Hui browsed the market and ordered a custom mask featuring eyes, mouths, tentacles, and an exposed heart; the shopkeeper asked if he was mentally well.

Shen Hui was robbed by a clown-masked scammer in the underground market and kept the Death tarot card the thief had tricked him into drawing. That night, he returned to the dueling arena under the alias Death God as the introduction to the duel began.

• Shen Hui put on his new tentacled mask and encountered the clown-masked man, who tricked him into drawing a tarot card.
• A crowd chased the clown for scamming them, and Shen Hui discovered the man had stolen his bank card and taken three million.
• Shen Hui turned over his card, saw the Death card, and tossed it aside before leaving the underground market.
• After wandering through the evening market, Shen Hui returned to the dueling arena and told the manager his alias was Death God.
• The manager began introducing the two level-four creators competing that night, but the chapter ended before he named the first duelist.

Shen Hui, fighting under the codename Death God, faced Initial Adam, the Edge Gang’s third-in-command, in an arena duel. Initial Adam summoned two powerful arthropod Hero Units, and Shen Hui responded by summoning a statue, leaving the spectators stunned.

• The manager announced that Initial Adam would fight in the arena, and the crowd cheered over his reputation and fifteen-match winning streak.
• The manager introduced Shen Hui as Death God, and the audience mocked his unusual mask and doubted his chances against Initial Adam.
• Shen Hui entered the arena and sensed that he could connect to his Creation World and summon its units.
• After the duel began, Initial Adam summoned two enormous arthropod Hero Units from his Creation World.
• Shen Hui calmly summoned a statue from his Creation World, stunning the spectators.

Shen Hui used Anomalous Containment Object 173 to challenge Original Adam, hiding his Death World Heroes and testing his opponent. After Original Adam’s Heroes attacked Shen Hui directly, Shen Hui’s anger surfaced as a strange orange glow spread across the arena.

• Shen Hui summoned 173, and after he tricked Original Adam and his Heroes into looking away, 173 snapped one Hero’s neck.
• Original Adam recognized that 173’s ability depended on being watched and transformed his two Heroes into humanoid insect beasts.
• One of Original Adam’s Heroes attacked Shen Hui while the other charged 173, but Slender Man teleported Shen Hui out of danger.
• Shen Hui became grim as the crowd urged him to fight back, then a dreamlike orange glow spread across the dueling arena.

Shen Hui overwhelmed Original Adam by covering the dueling arena with his Creation World and summoning Wandering Doom, then threatened the Edge Gang when Hei Hong demanded retribution. The chapter ended with Original Adam sinking into the ground and disappearing.

• Original Adam launched a surprise attack on Shen Hui, but Shen Hui dodged and accepted the duel.
• Shen Hui summoned Wandering Doom, whose terrifying presence severed Original Adam's connection to his Creation World and forced his heroes to vanish.
• Shen Hui recalled Wandering Doom, but his Creation World still covered the arena, leaving Original Adam helpless and the spectators convinced he had been crushed.
• Hei Hong, the Edge Gang's second-in-command, threatened Shen Hui, while the arena manager tried to end the duel and offered both fighters the winner's prize.
• Shen Hui mocked Hei Hong and the Edge Gang for caring more about dignity than Original Adam, then Original Adam sank into the ground and disappeared.

Original Adam was trapped in a strange corridor world after Shen Hui made him vanish. At the underground market, the enforcer arrived and unexpectedly killed Hei Hong instead of Shen Hui.

• Original Adam woke in a maze of identical rooms and corridors, unable to sense his Creation World or find an exit.
• Original Adam grew exhausted and desperate as he encountered strange shadows, voices, and a false door.
• Hei Hong transformed into her Creator Form and advanced on Shen Hui after he said Original Adam could not return.
• Master Zhi, the underground market's enforcer, arrived and approached the Edge Gang.
• Master Zhi declared that the rule-breaker could die, then placed his hand on Hei Hong and made her explode into bloody mist.

Shen Hui gained the underground market enforcer’s trust by posing as a returning member of the Giant God Cult. The enforcer led him to the local church base, where Shen Hui used Wandering Doom’s power to activate its entrance.

• Master Zhi warned the Edge Gang and the dueling arena staff not to break the underground market’s rules again, then took Shen Hui aside.
• The enforcer greeted Shen Hui with the Giant God Cult’s prayer, and Shen Hui pretended to be an undercover member who had lost contact with the organization.
• The enforcer welcomed Shen Hui back, offered to help him regain church funds, and invited him to join the local base.
• The enforcer brought Shen Hui to a stone slab and asked him to activate it with Giant God Power.
• Shen Hui disguised Wandering Doom’s power with the Backrooms World and made the slab’s carvings glow.

Shen Hui infiltrated a Giant God Cult meeting as Death God and learned that the cult planned attacks against the World Association in five days. He secured extra resources and arena winnings before heading home to create SCP-049.

• The Enforcer introduced Shen Hui as Death God to the Giant God Cult members, who prayed to the Lord of the Earth.
• The Enforcer announced that cult members would attack various areas in five days to disrupt the World Association and strengthen themselves with the Titan God’s power.
• Shen Hui learned that the cult still wanted him killed and that the high priest would richly reward anyone who captured or killed him.
• Shen Hui praised the Lord of the Earth, received an extra share of resources, and chose a pestilence card to create SCP-049, the Pestilence Doctor.
• Shen Hui collected one hundred million in arena winnings from the arena manager and left the underground market to create SCP-049 at home.