Chapter Summaries

The Seeker reunited with Lu Manman, gave her Immortal Jade Dew to restore her youth and awaken her Transcendent potential, then left her after promising they could meet again if she became strong enough. Yun Wangshu and his companions departed after the Seeker rejected his request to meet Ren Han, and Chuan approached them with an invitation to join the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall.

• Yun Wangshu brought Lu Manman to meet the Seeker, who recognized her as the woman who had waited fifteen years for him.
• Roy warned the Seeker that he could not protect Lu Manman forever, while Yun Wangshu explained that he had brought her hoping to earn a favor and learn how to join the Immortal Palace.
• The Seeker agreed to support Lu Manman, then returned and fed her Immortal Jade Dew, restoring her body to around eighteen and promising she could meet him again if she became strong enough.
• The Seeker told Yun Wangshu that the Immortal Palace could not provide a resurrection spell or an easy path to Longevity, then flew away for good.
• Countermeasure Cultivators restrained Roy, while Yun Wangshu and his companions prepared to leave without interference.
• Chuan approached Yun Wangshu's group and asked whether they wanted to join the Ten Thousand Li Great Wall.

On the drive home, Ren Suo reviewed the new and upgraded bond abilities he had gained, including Dong Chengling’s powerful Blink ability. Zhao Huo resolved to train seriously after the battle at the convention, while Ren Suo’s attempt to walk after getting out of the car ended with pain shooting through his body.

• Zhao Huo wondered about Ren Suo’s missing daughter, then joked with him during the drive home.
• Ren Suo checked his bonds and discovered new abilities from Xiao Jiu, Qiao Muyi, Bai Ji, and Dong Chengling, including Dong Chengling’s ten seconds of unlimited Blinks.
• Ren Suo used Qiao Muyi’s derived ability to strengthen Pain Relief Therapy and temporarily ease his muscle pain.
• Zhao Huo said the Explorers’ battle had made him decide to cultivate seriously so he could protect the people he cared about.
• At Heavenly Lotus Academy, Ren Suo got out of Zhao Huo’s car, but a burst of pain made his body go limp as he nearly fell face-first.

Dong Chengling helped Ren Suo home after he injured himself, then offered to stay overnight to care for him. She realized she had grown unusually fond of his company, while Zhao Huo glimpsed a mysterious nine-tailed figure near the academy.

• Dong Chengling supported Ren Suo after Zhao Huo brought him back, and Ren Suo claimed he had injured himself while training.
• Dong Chengling told Ren Suo that her cultivation had progressed unusually smoothly during her recent seclusion, and Ren Suo recalled the villagers' prayers in Ahead High-Energy.
• Dong Chengling offered to stay overnight and care for Ren Suo, and she left to fetch a change of clothes after he agreed.
• Dong Chengling told Qiao Muyi what had happened, and Qiao Muyi urged her to pursue Ren Suo before complications arose.
• Zhao Huo saw what seemed to be a nine-tailed figure leaping through the woods near Heavenly Lotus Academy.

Ren Suo read the Countermeasures System’s analysis of the Seeker and went to sleep while Dong Chengling kept watch nearby. He woke the next morning with something furry in his arms, after dreaming of being pursued and killed.

• Dong Chengling came to Ren Suo’s apartment after showering, rejected his offer of the guest bed, and later said she would wake him at eight to check his recovery.
• Ren Suo offered Dong Chengling his cultivation time, but she left without using his Aura Aggregation Device.
• Ren Suo read classified reports concluding that the Seeker could enhance objects and food, and he upvoted a proposal to develop fantasy merchandise for the Seeker to use.
• Ren Suo found no internal-network information about Yun Wangshu and the others, then went to bed after Dong Chengling promised to check on him in the morning.
• Ren Suo dreamed that he ran from a pursuer while carrying a furry burden, was caught and beheaded, then woke with a warm cheek and something furry in his arms.

A powerful Xuan Kingdom official approved Yun Wangshu’s proposed arrangement with the government, then relaxed with a Nine-Tailed Fox doll. Meanwhile, Ren Suo woke to find Little Jiu grown and in his bed, and Dong Chengling entered just as Little Jiu prepared to reveal something.

• The young man reviewed intelligence on Yun Wangshu, Roy, and the Red-Clothed Man, then approved Yun Wangshu’s proposal and offered him the first three chapters of the Profound Monarch Secret Records in exchange for cultivation insights.
• The young man hugged his Nine-Tailed Fox doll and went to sleep in Scattering Spirits Space.
• Ren Suo woke beside a grown Little Jiu, who clung to him and insisted on joining him to find food while Dong Chengling waited outside.
• Little Jiu reminded Ren Suo of a promise and said she had something to show him, then told him to watch as Dong Chengling came to the bedroom door.
• Dong Chengling entered Ren Suo’s room despite his hurried protests, just as Ren Suo recalled his dream of being killed while holding a ball of fur.

Ren Suo hid Little Jiu under his blanket while Dong Chengling caught him taking her picture and set it as his lock screen. Little Jiu explained that she had come to claim an old promise, and Ren Suo agreed to honor it, leaving him responsible for raising her for the rest of her life.

• Dong Chengling found Ren Suo taking her picture in bed, set it as his lock screen, and left him to get breakfast.
• Ren Suo discovered Little Jiu had hidden under his blanket, and she explained that she could change into a grown form to run faster.
• Little Jiu told Ren Suo that accepting her gift let her find him and that she had come because she believed he had promised to honor an agreement.
• Ren Suo agreed to keep the promise, and Little Jiu revealed that she expected him to raise her for the rest of her life.

Ren Suo welcomed Little Jiu, who had traveled from New York to find him, and persuaded her to leave and return properly so he could hide her sudden arrival. At breakfast, Yuffie Lamperouge arrived with Karen and Little Jiu, leaving Ren Suo flustered as Dong Chengling watched.

• Ren Suo promised to protect Little Jiu, and they exchanged names and hooked pinkies.
• Ren Suo convinced Little Jiu to leave through the window and return later through the dormitory entrance after he prepared food for her.
• Ren Suo joined Dong Chengling for breakfast and told her he planned to rest from spell cultivation.
• Ren Suo speculated that a motorcade arriving on campus belonged to Zhao Huo's fiancée and described how Zhao Huo might react to seeing her.
• Yuffie Lamperouge arrived with Karen and Little Jiu, surprising Ren Suo and leaving Dong Chengling puzzled by his guilty reaction.

Yuffie offered Ren Suo a lucrative position as Lan Peilu Ji’s exclusive wizard because his healing ability could help Karen recover from exhaustion, but he refused to leave his home and country. Yuffie then asked him to become Karen’s Big Brother, surprising Xiao Jiu.

• Dong Chengling stayed with Ren Suo and Yuffie after the British cultivators left, saying she would protect Yuffie.
• Yuffie explained that Ren Suo’s healing spell had helped Karen recover when other healing spells failed.
• Xiao Jiu told Ren Suo how she had met Yuffie and Karen downstairs and brought them to his apartment.
• Yuffie invited Ren Suo to become Lan Peilu Ji’s exclusive wizard, offering him a salary, resources, and a place in the United Kingdom’s Transcendent system.
• Ren Suo declined the offer and said his healing ability was awakened rather than a spell that could be sold.
• Yuffie asked Ren Suo to become Karen’s Big Brother, and Xiao Jiu reacted in surprise.

Ren Suo agreed to stay in contact with Karen and realized he needed to secure Xiao Jiu a safe identity without exposing her as a Nine-Tailed Fox. After Xiao Jiu demonstrated a way to conceal sensitive words, Ren Suo prepared to summon the Deep Blue Girl to help solve the problem.

• Yuffie explained that she wanted Ren Suo to become Karen's brother and help her make friends, and Ren Suo agreed to keep in touch with Karen.
• Yuffie and Karen left, and Dong Chengling urged Ren Suo to enroll Xiao Jiu in school while asking how long she planned to stay.
• Ren Suo considered getting Xiao Jiu a household registration through his Countermeasures System contacts but rejected the idea because it could leave an investigative trail.
• Ren Suo warned Xiao Jiu to conceal the Immortal Palace and her Nine-Tailed Fox identity, and Xiao Jiu revealed that she could replace sensitive words with harmless ones.
• Xiao Jiu said she liked Karen and had learned new ways to use clothes while playing with her, leading Ren Suo to suspect Karen had increased her fusion with the Supreme Treasure.
• Ren Suo shut the balcony curtains and summoned the Deep Blue Girl.

Ren Suo summoned Ilina, who appeared in reality and explained her ability to project data-world powers into the real world. Ilina created an identity for Little Jiu, and Ren Suo noticed that Ren Nesser had updated.

• Ren Suo summoned Ilina, who appeared in a body matching Dong Chengling’s and addressed him as the Supreme Sovereign.
• Ilina explained that her true form was vulnerable to data disruption, then changed her appearance and described her ability to manifest data-world powers in reality.
• Ren Suo asked Ilina to create a legal identity for Little Jiu so his parents could adopt her and she could attend school.
• Ilina quickly arranged Little Jiu’s identification documents, then returned to Ren Suo’s phone as her summoning time ran out.
• Little Jiu agreed to keep Ilina’s appearance a secret, and Ren Suo saw a notification that Ren Nesser had updated.

Ren Suo watched Ren Nesser’s battle videos and received a research assignment to guess what they concealed, then learned that Xiao Jiu’s grandfather had named him her guardian. Xiao Jiu wanted to live and sleep with Ren Suo, but everyone argued that she should stay with Dong Chengling instead.

• Ren Suo watched Ren Nesser’s videos, noticed how much had been cut, and received the Countermeasures Bureau’s assignment to guess what was hidden.
• Ren Suo brought hungry Xiao Jiu to Dong Chengling’s home, where the others welcomed her and shared lunch.
• A delivery brought Xiao Jiu’s records and her grandfather’s letter asking Ren Suo’s family to adopt her and explaining that her name had been changed to Ren Xiao Jiu.
• Bai Ji, Dong Chengling, and Gu Yueyan offered to help with Xiao Jiu’s schooling and care.
• Xiao Jiu insisted that she wanted to sleep with Ren Suo, but the others argued that she should live with Dong Chengling instead.

Lu Manman joined the Great Wall after discovering her effortless cultivation ability, which she named Mid-Autumn Festival, while Ren Suo reviewed the consequences of the Seeker’s appearance and his own recent gains. The chapter ended as Ren Suo’s console announced updates to three games.

• Lu Manman cultivated at the Restricted Zone Research Institute, learned that her passive Awakened Spell let her cultivate without effort, and named it Mid-Autumn Festival.
• Lu Manman agreed to join the Great Wall once she reached the Fourth Cycle, then watched Ren Nesser’s videos and recognized the Seeker in a crossdressing photo posted by Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Ren Suo removed the Unnamed Account item after seeing the negative emotion generated by the Seeker’s photo, and arranged for Xiao Jiu to live with Dong Chengling.
• Ren Suo discovered that the Seeker had become a four-star character, the Rebel had disappeared from the Equipment Interface, and his own cultivation had risen to Second Cycle 90%.
• Ren Suo received notifications that Battlefield Pastor, Devouring World Spirit, and Late Night Street Vendor had finished updating.

Ren Suo celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with his friends, strengthened several Bonds, and arranged for a black cat to warn him when Xiao Jiu visited. Later, he discovered that three games had updated in ways that suggested Earth was changing, and he ended with a mysterious white key in the Content Repository.

• Ren Suo treated Zhao Huo, Sun Shu, Xiao Jiu, and their friends to a Mid-Autumn seafood buffet, where he thanked them for helping him and raised the Bond levels of Lin Xianyu, Ren Xingmei, and Gu Yueyan.
• Ren Suo asked the black cat to watch for suspicious people and warn him whenever Xiao Jiu came to his apartment.
• Ren Suo checked the updated games and found that Zhao Zili was blessing believers to charge his descent, the Collector was targeting irredeemably evil people, and the Devouring World Spirit was opening Small Spirit Treasuries.
• Ren Suo inferred that powerful beings had detected changes in the world and suspected that October's game would reveal more about them.
• Ren Suo opened the Content Repository and found a dazzling pure white key among his stored items.

Ren Suo learned that Xiao Jiu had lied to get game credits, then prepared for October’s new game. He discovered Hand of Fate, a ten-day beta with five-star difficulty and real-time record uploads, and was left considering its unusual rules and risks.

• Dong Chengling warned Ren Suo not to give Xiao Jiu money, but Xiao Jiu persuaded him to top up her Q Coins before Dong Chengling caught her lying and disciplined her.
• Xiao Jiu said she wanted to live with Ren Suo, but admitted that she liked Dong Chengling and considered her family, so Ren Suo refused to let her move in.
• Ren Suo started the October game promotion and examined how he might use Karen’s Light Key to open a high-star Treasure Chest.
• Ren Suo found the October Exclusive Ten-Day Game section and discovered that Hand of Fate was a five-star, ten-chapter beta game with daily chapter limits, possible summons from cleared games, and records uploaded at all times.

Ren Suo decided to play Hand of Fate despite its irreversible, real-time uploads, then discovered settings that let him filter what the game broadcast. As Ren Nesser began streaming the game, Du Liwei and Meng Fan watched the cloaked woman identify the player’s piece as the Immortal Palace’s Supreme Sovereign.

• Ren Suo weighed the risks of Hand of Fate against its Ability Fusion Engraving Rune reward and chose to play.
• Ren Suo found detailed Game Upload Settings, including filters for dialogue, voices, and body movements.
• Meng Fan told Du Liwei that humanity would eventually catch up with the Immortal Palace, while Du Liwei defended the Immortal Palace in silence.
• Ren Nesser began a live stream, drawing Du Liwei and Meng Fan to watch the game.
• The cloaked blue-haired woman announced humanity’s history and named the player’s piece the Immortal Palace’s Supreme Sovereign.

Ren Suo began Between Fates, selecting a corpse’s rebirth as the Nameless One while viewers watched the game as a livestream. At Galaxy Garden Funeral Home, Shen Tong was attacked by ghosts and a monster, but the Nameless One burst from the Cremation Furnace to save him.

• Ren Suo chose the Nameless One, a woman reborn from a corpse through fire, as his game character.
• Shen Tong watched Ren Nesser’s livestream while cremating an unidentified woman at Galaxy Garden Funeral Home.
• The Ghost Party card revealed spirits gathering around Shen Tong, who feared they would drain his life energy.
• Ren Suo chose Great Hope, and a Ray of Light purified the ghosts but formed a one-eyed monster from their foul residue.
• The monster lunged at Shen Tong, but the Cremation Furnace burst open and the Nameless One emerged to knock it away.
• Ren Suo equipped the Nameless One with Blazing Flames Domination and Introduction to Fighting, then urged her to attack the monster.

Ren Suo guided Nameless One through a funeral-home disaster and a burning supermarket, where she defeated monsters formed from calamities and gained the ghosts’ blessing. After the supermarket’s civilians escaped, police arrived and found Shen Tong in his underwear, while Nameless One continued fighting with newly acquired frost powers.

• Nameless One defeated the mouth-covered Source of Calamity at the funeral home, and the ghosts healed her and gave her a Seed of Fate.
• Ren Suo spent a Seed of Fate to move Nameless One to a burning supermarket and chose to have her challenge the Source of Calamity.
• Ren Suo drew a Hope card and, as the Supreme Sovereign, turned the supermarket’s smoke and flames into monsters while helping trapped civilians escape.
• Nameless One fought the smoke and flame monsters, froze them with newly gathered frost powers, and urged the civilians to thank the Immortal Lord.
• Police officers arrived at the funeral home and questioned Shen Tong, who explained that he had given his clothes to Nameless One.

Yu Kuangtu identified a series of unusually intense fires as possible aura disasters and ordered Ren Suo to write a report. In the game, Nameless One gained blessings and defeated a serial killer, but she was discovered by transformed guards and hunting dogs at a manor.

• Yu Kuangtu questioned Li Dan about unusual fires and concluded that aura had likely strengthened them, then ordered Ren Suo to write a report on aura disasters.
• Ren Suo used Nameless One to destroy a source-less flame monster, heal a smoke-poisoned girl, and receive blessings from a guardian spirit and a unicorn.
• Nameless One helped the unicorn, which purified a polluted river and magically changed her outfit.
• Nameless One used a Great Hope card to turn a serial killer’s wraiths against him, then killed him and gained five Seeds of Fate.
• Nameless One infiltrated a wealthy collector’s manor to investigate the killer’s statue, but hunting dogs and transformed bodyguards surrounded her.
• Ren Suo realized he had drawn Great Despair as Nameless One faced the manor’s attackers.

Ren Suo guided Nameless One through Demon Manor, where she defeated the estate’s owner and the wizard behind its monstrous guards. After she reached the source of the artwork’s power in East Africa, the Supreme Sovereign intervened and caused the Great Rift Valley to split open, leaving Ren Suo stunned by the scale of the destruction.

• The collector watched Nameless One fight through his estate’s monster guards, then died when her flaming punch burst through Ren Nesser’s livestream and struck him.
• Ren Suo used Nameless One’s abilities and Demon King Descent to defeat the Demon Manor guards and kill the collector.
• The Cloaked Blue-Haired Girl revealed that an East African artwork had empowered the estate owner and his wizard, who used the bodyguards to hunt civilians and feed the artwork.
• Ren Suo sent Nameless One after the fleeing Demon Wizard, and she cut his jeep in half with a greatsword before killing him.
• Nameless One followed the wizard’s clues to the East African Rift, where the Supreme Sovereign’s intervention caused the Great Rift Valley to split wider.

As Ren Suo guided Nameless One through the livestream, Chief Ren and the researchers analyzed the events and tried to uncover the Supreme Sovereign’s location. Chief Ren’s attempt to pierce the Immortal Palace’s secrets failed, but he formed a theory about the blue-haired girl and her organization while Ren Suo continued toward the final card.

• Chief Ren and the researchers investigated the livestream’s people and locations, then watched the East African Great Rift Valley split open after the Supreme Sovereign spoke.
• Chief Ren used 103,000 spells to try to locate the Immortal Palace, but seven mysterious sounds shattered his spell and left him unable to remember them.
• Chief Ren concluded that the Supreme Sovereign used chess pieces because powerful Transcendents could not safely descend to Earth, and he theorized that the Cloaked Blue-Haired Girl led an organization connected to fate.
• Chief Ren mistook the Mysterious Merchant card for a diplomatic overture and ordered an investigation into the merchant and the two organizations.
• Ren Suo had Nameless One leave the Mysterious Merchant and return to the original route, losing two Seeds of Fate along the way.