Chapter Summaries

Ren Suo guided Nameless One through the Road of Despair, where the Hands of Too Late wounded her before she obtained the Just-in-Time Gauntlet. She then fell into an underground cavern full of One-Eyed Monsters, which turned toward her and began approaching.

• Nameless One crossed the Hands of Too Late, passing the first passage unharmed but suffering many wounds in the second before Ren Suo drew Great Hope on the third attempt.
• Little Jiu brought Ren Suo congee, and he sent her home to finish her holiday homework before returning to the game.
• Ren Suo drew Great Hope, allowing Nameless One to pass the final Hands of Too Late and claim the Just-in-Time Gauntlet.
• Nameless One entered the Abyss of Despair, fell into a vast underground chamber, and revealed countless One-Eyed Monsters that stopped fighting and turned toward her.
• The nearest One-Eyed Monster stepped toward Nameless One.

Federation Watchers watched a livestream as the blue-haired girl, revived and empowered by the Immortal Palace, fought through a swarm of One-Eyed Monsters. Zach concluded that the Immortal Palace was using her victory to intimidate global powers and attract ordinary people, while the girl continued toward the pillar of light.

• Watchers in Manhattan discussed the livestream, and Zach predicted that the Supreme Sovereign would intervene once the girl was in danger.
• The blue-haired girl activated a cultivation method and charged into the One-Eyed Monsters with her greatsword.
• Zach and the other Watchers observed that the Just-in-Time Gauntlet seemed to make every one of the girl's attacks precise and lethal.
• The girl cut through the monster horde without retreating, while Zach marveled at her rapid rise in strength.
• Zach argued that the Immortal Palace was displaying its power by letting one recently chosen chess piece defeat a crisis that would require the Federation to deploy troops or Watchers.

The Watchers watched the live stream end and Zach decided to send the Federation to the East African Great Rift Valley, hoping to claim two suspected treasures from the Immortal Palace. Meanwhile, Ren Suo finished Chapter One of the game and planned to ask Bai Ji for the next part of the Profound Monarch Secret Records while waiting for Chapter Two to unlock.

• Zach concluded that the Immortal Palace had obtained Feather Teleportation from the World Tree and urged the Watchers to take advantage of the World Tree's weakened state.
• The greatsword-wielding girl reached the Light Blue Pillar, which shielded and trapped her as the One-Eyed Monsters descended into a frenzied battle.
• The live stream ended, and Zach ordered the Watchers to contact the military and head for the East African Great Rift Valley to help eliminate the Despair and seize the two remaining treasures.
• Ren Suo equipped the Nameless One with Chapter One of the Profound Monarch Secret Records and considered asking Bai Ji for Chapters Two and Three.
• Ren Suo saw that Chapter Two would unlock the next morning, then stopped playing after the exhausting live performance.

After receiving a barely passable evaluation and only 5 Merit Points for the first chapter of Hand of Fate, Ren Suo realized that future chapters would reward achievement-hunting and side quests. The Ren Nesser livestream triggered widespread speculation and left Ren Suo facing several urgent research reports, while his attempt to ask Bai Ji for extra time stirred up the teachers' group chat.

• Ren Suo received 5 Merit Points, learned the three hidden side quests, and concluded that he would need to pursue achievements to earn better rewards in later chapters.
• Ren Suo saw that Li Dan, Bai Ji, and the internal network had assigned him reports about the Ren Nesser livestream, each with a tight deadline.
• Ren Suo watched classmates debate the livestream's symbolism, and one male classmate used the discussion to flirt with a female classmate by offering to divine her fortune.
• Ren Suo opened the Celestial Lotus teachers' group and asked Bai Ji whether he could submit his report late.
• Liu Yingying and Yuan Jia Min reprimanded Zhao Huo after he called the teachers' group Bai Ji's harem group, then withdrew his message.

Ren Suo tried to secure Profound Monarch Secret Records Chapter 2 and get out of writing a Countermeasures Bureau report, but he failed and began working. At lunch at Dong Chengling’s home, he recruited Gu Yueyan, Lin Xianyu, and Ren Xingmei to help complete the report.

• Bai Ji offered to help Ren Suo with his research report, while Ren Suo learned that he needed to reach the Third Cycle to obtain Profound Monarch Secret Records Chapter 2.
• Yu Kuangtu confirmed that the report could not be canceled and warned Ren Suo that failing to submit it would cost him pay.
• Ren Suo worked on the report, then went to Dong Chengling’s home for lunch and petted Xiao Jiu while she shared her cantaloupe ice cream with him.
• Bai Ji discussed starting a Figure Skating Club, and Ren Xingmei, Lin Xianyu, and Gu Yueyan expressed interest in joining Ren Suo’s research group.
• Ren Suo assigned Gu Yueyan to lead Lin Xianyu and Ren Xingmei in completing a ten-thousand-word report on the disaster manifestations in the “Destiny” livestream within two days.

In Kenya, the Xuan Kingdom team faced down foreign Transcendents before the Rift trembled and wild animals charged their camp. Meanwhile, Ren Suo began the next chapter of Hand of Fate, discovered that fighting the merged despair monster could make his cyclone cultivate, and watched the monster kill the greatsword-wielding girl.

• The Xuan Kingdom team arrived at the Amboseli camp, where the Federation Watchers, Flourishing Sakura Martial Soul Hall, and Betrayer Thirteenth Division confronted them.
• The young man used Dirty Water Lightning to defeat Blue Steel Shadow, while the bald monk’s chant helped everyone withstand an earthquake.
• Mister Chuan ordered the team to suppress the charging wild animals without killing them, and Nan Xi discovered that the livestream had begun again.
• Ren Suo opened Hand of Fate and saw the despair monsters merge into a huge, thousand-handed creature that broke the girl’s protective barrier.
• The greatsword-wielding girl wounded the monster, and its despairing emotions made Ren Suo’s cyclone circulate the Profound Monarch Secret Records on its own.
• The monster recovered and slapped the greatsword-wielding girl to death.

Huo Liang watched Ren Nesser’s livestream and awakened after absorbing the despair released by the monster, while Ren Suo struggled through the boss fight and summoned a second Greatsword Girl to help. The battle continued with Ren Suo’s Seeds of Fate dwindling and a clone joining the fight.

• Huo Liang met Da Pang and Xiao Qiang at Golden Arches, and the three watched Ren Nesser’s livestream together.
• Huo Liang endured the monster’s despairing emotions, while Da Pang and Xiao Qiang could barely watch and gradually felt lighter afterward.
• Huo Liang awakened and discovered he could communicate telepathically with Da Pang and Xiao Qiang.
• Ren Suo spent Seeds of Fate to revive Nameless One as she repeatedly fought the thousand-handed, thousand-eyed monster.
• Ren Suo changed Nameless One’s ability, activated Struggle Warrior, and summoned a second Greatsword Girl to fight the monster.

Ren Suo used Nameless One and her clone to defeat the Thousand-Handed Thousand-Faced Monster, earning Nameless One a blessing and a Seed of Fate. After a new group arrived and one of them attacked her, Ren Suo chose another Path of Destiny, causing Nameless One to disappear.

• Nameless One’s clone fought the Thousand-Handed Thousand-Faced Monster while Ren Suo prepared their shared Blink ability for a decisive attack.
• Ren Suo made Nameless One and her clone use Close in Distance, Far Apart in the World: Blink together, and they cut the monster down until only an eyeball remained.
• The Cloaked Blue-Haired Girl said Nameless One had slain the Source of Calamity and granted her Hope Dust’s blessing, the Despair Eyeball, and a Seed of Fate.
• A hunchbacked young man and his companions entered the underground space, and Nameless One struck him down with one slash when he charged at her.
• Ren Suo randomly selected one of four cards in Between Fates, and Nameless One dissipated; afterward, the young man declared that he would make her his empress.

Ren Suo received the results of his second mission and learned how Xiao Jiu had secretly joined her parents’ group and arranged for Bai Ji to pick her up. After helping Xiao Jiu and considering Dong Chengling’s approaching breakthrough, Ren Suo saw a new research request about pursuing the nameless greatsword girl from the Fate livestream.

• The mission evaluation awarded Ren Suo 70 points, revealed two hidden side missions, and gave him 15 Merit Points, while his bond ability entered an 88-day cooldown.
• Xiao Jiu showed Ren Suo complaints from her teacher and explained that Bai Ji had been picking her up from school while Dong Chengling was busy.
• Ren Suo discovered Xiao Jiu had posed as her own parent in the class chat, then promised to pick her up whenever she wanted.
• Ren Suo offered to help Dong Chengling with chores, but she asked him to cultivate until he reached the Third Cycle and said she felt ready to advance to the Fourth Cycle.
• Ren Suo found that his cultivation had reached 94.4% of the Second Cycle after absorbing energy from the despair in the boss battle.
• Ren Suo received a research request asking how to pursue the nameless greatsword girl from the Fate livestream.

Ren Suo proposed an unconventional way to pursue the Greatsword Girl and read reports about the Fate livestream’s effects, while considering what the Lord of Despair might mean for the future. In Africa, the young man who received Ren Suo’s advice killed despair-corrupted lions and considered trying the suggested sword-themed performance.

• Ren Suo answered the Task Force’s question about pursuing the Greatsword Girl by recommending a dramatic sword-themed dance and poetry performance.
• Ren Suo read reports that the live Fate broadcast could trigger cultivation, awakenings, and emotional reactions, and considered the possibility that it transmitted energy from the Lord of Despair.
• Ren Suo reviewed predictions that the Lord of Despair could lead to societal collapse, then decided to take a day off from cultivation.
• Nan Xi gave the young man Ren Suo’s love guide while he roasted two lions he had killed without using Samadhi True Fire.
• The young man killed another charging lion, noticed that killing the beasts activated his cyclone, and considered using Ren Suo’s sword-themed idea to pursue the Empress.

Ren Suo continued Nameless One’s adventure and equipped the Despair Eyeball, whose effects were neutralized by Hope Blessing. During a forest encounter, Nameless One’s Despair Poison apparently affected a pile of shit, which the white-haired beast-eared child ate; the chapter ended with Ren Suo realizing the poison had come from her footprint.

• Ren Suo inspected Nameless One’s equipment, decided the Despair Eyeball could prevent bad Fate Card outcomes, and equipped it.
• At six in the morning, the Cloaked Blue-Haired Girl began a new Path of Destiny in which Nameless One entered a forest to investigate a predator.
• Ren Suo chose infiltration and drew Despair, but Hope Blessing prevented Nameless One from being affected by the card.
• The white-haired beast-eared child failed to notice Nameless One and went to eat a pile of shit hidden in the grass.
• The child realized the shit was poisoned, and Ren Suo connected the poison to the Despair Eyeball and Nameless One’s bare feet.

Ren Suo guided Nameless One through a poisoned dog demon encounter, then named her the inheritor of the Calamity lineage. She infiltrated a cave to approach the Amanojaku Ghost King, where disasters erupted and left him exhausted and vulnerable to her hidden blade.

• The poisoned white-haired child fought Nameless One alongside a Siberian Husky phantom, but curry made him falter and her attacks eventually banished the phantom.
• After the child expelled the curry and calmed down, Nameless One removed his violent red magatama and gained Dog-Demon Blessing and a Seed of Fate.
• Ren Suo had the Supreme Sovereign name Nameless One Calamity, inheritor of the Immortal Palace’s Calamity lineage.
• Nameless One tracked the magatama’s aura to a cave where a Red-Haired Man guarded hundreds of magatamas, and Ren Suo chose to infiltrate.
• An earthquake brought two rock monsters into the cave, and the Red-Haired Man fought them before flames and smoke trapped him in further calamity.
• The exhausted Red-Haired Man escaped the cave, was struck by bird shit, and went berserk as a blade emerged from the shadows toward him.

Director Kagawa rushed home to erase evidence linking him to Shuten, but discovered his wife’s affair and attempted murder before a hidden attacker struck. Meanwhile, Ren Suo’s greatsword girl reached the Yoshioka estate, where the family begged her to retract her divine powers and offered their cooperation.

• Director Kagawa learned that Shuten had lost and hurried home to destroy clues connecting him to the organization.
• Director Kagawa discovered that Chika had been poisoning him and was having an affair with Mr. Sannō, then attacked them with Inugami.
• Mr. Sannō and Chika escaped through a hole in the bedroom wall, and a hidden blade flew from the wardrobe toward Director Kagawa.
• Ren Suo sent the greatsword girl to the Yoshioka estate, where Yoshioka Kenji summoned Great Tengu and offered to answer her questions.
• Yoshioka Kenji and his family begged the greatsword girl to retract her divine powers and promised to offer the Yoshioka family’s resources.

Ren Suo learned that the Blood Magatama mastermind had created the Fantasy Shikigami Breeding Project, using shikigami to hunt people and empower Cherry Blossom Country’s elites. In Mount Fuji’s Sea of Trees, the Calamity Girl exploited an earthquake to provoke a battle among three shikigami users, then defeated them as a blade struck from the shadows.

• Yoshioka Kenji chose to surrender as the Cloaked Blue-Haired Girl revealed how the mastermind used the Blood Magatama to breed and control shikigami.
• The Great Tengu bowed to the Calamity Girl, gave her its blessing and a Seed of Fate, then flew away.
• Ren Suo led the Calamity Girl into Mount Fuji’s Sea of Trees and chose to wait near a cabin occupied by three powerful shikigami users.
• An earthquake triggered a dispute between the yellow-haired man and the black-haired man over the Red-Haired Woman, and they fought until she intervened and they injured themselves stopping their attacks.
• A blade suddenly struck at the trio’s shikigami phantoms, and Ren Suo defeated all three before the shadow attacker’s identity was revealed.

Ren Suo guided Calamity Girl through the Mount Fuji tree sea and into a secret realm, where a failed weapon-forging gamble left her with a devastating Molten Iron Greatsword. Meanwhile, Nan Xi and Mister Chuan prepared to take the young man to Lianjiang, where they planned to use an undisclosed route to reach Japan.

• Calamity Girl defeated the hosts in Tree Sea Patrol and Tree Sea Herding, and Fatty revealed that the Fantasy Shikigami Breeding Project’s leader was cultivating in a secret realm created from Japan’s spiritual energy spring.
• Ren Suo sent Calamity Girl through the hidden gate into the Netherworld Without Gate, where the Grim Reaper Thirteen Squads brought her to their village and offered her a choice involving her two-handed greatsword.
• Ren Suo chose to forge Calamity Girl’s weapon, but a Fate Card judgment turned Hope into Despair, and an accident in the forge produced the Molten Iron Greatsword while Calamity Girl’s uncontrolled swing destroyed much of the village and killed fifty black giants.
• At Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the young man learned from Nan Xi that Japan had closed its borders, and Nan Xi said they would travel to Lianjiang to use another route into the country.

Ren Suo guided Calamity Girl through the netherworlds of Fatal Gaze and Icy Yama, gaining powerful eye abilities and Hozuki’s blessing. She defeated six shikigami hosts at a deadly train switch, then reached a card showing violent, red-eyed monsters invading a city.

• Ren Suo chose to gamble against the ten grim reapers, and Calamity Girl survived their death sentences, gaining their eye power and defeating them through their own attacks.
• Calamity Girl met Hozuki in Icy Yama and received Hozuki’s Blessing, which let her wield corrosive flames.
• At the railway switch, Ren Suo drew a Destiny Card, and Calamity Girl broke the lever so the train ran over both the five students and the red-eyed blond man.
• The six shikigami hosts revealed their ambush and attacked Calamity Girl, but Ren Suo defeated them despite her serious injuries.
• After healing Calamity Girl and preparing for the next stage, Ren Suo revealed the Hundred Ghosts Parade at Night card, depicting red-eyed monsters attacking a city.

Yun Wangshu, Longevity, Ba, and Little Baldy watched Calamity Girl confront the Aokigahara Earth Spirit, who destroyed himself and his spiritual vein to end the secret realm and release powerful fantasy creatures. Afterward, Ren Suo wondered whether his actions had contributed to the crisis, while Qiao Muyi revealed that she had advanced to the Third Cycle and become a deputy director.

• Yun Wangshu explained that Earth Spirits were indifferent long-lived beings, and he and the others recognized the Aokigahara Earth Spirit in Calamity Girl’s livestream.
• The Aokigahara Earth Spirit described how his spiritual vein produced Fantasy Spirit Matter and how human expectations and rage had turned it into a threat.
• After Calamity Girl defeated his strongest subordinate, the Aokigahara Earth Spirit destroyed himself and the spiritual vein, releasing fantasy creatures and ending the secret realm.
• Yun Wangshu told Longevity that Earth Spirits could revive, prompting Little Baldy to demand that the others put their promise not to hurt him in writing.
• Ren Suo considered whether his earlier actions had contributed to the crisis, then received a message from Qiao Muyi announcing her Third Cycle advancement and new post as deputy director.

Ren Suo earned an Extraordinary evaluation and learned about three hidden side missions before the next boss battle. After being confronted over making his friends help with a research paper, he received the Countermeasures Bureau’s order to remain available tomorrow and chose to stay home, prompting Yu Kuangtu to arrange for him to watch a livestream instead.

• Ren Suo received 80 points and an Extraordinary evaluation, unlocking the Technical Player, Strongest King, and Heaven-Favored Golden King side missions.
• Ren Suo worried about Nameless One’s fate checks in the coming boss battle and rubbed Xiao Jiu’s head for luck while she played a poetry game.
• Gu Yueyan and Lin Xianyu accused Ren Suo of disguising Countermeasures Bureau work as club research, while Ren Xingmei teased him about deceiving girls.
• Xiao Jiu won a math olympiad PDF in a mini-game lottery, and Ren Suo took it and told her to practice after playing Honor of Kings.
• Ren Suo offered Gu Yueyan and the others co-authorship, Spirit Stones, and a possible path to becoming researchers, and Gu Yueyan accepted his explanation.
• Yu Kuangtu told Ren Suo to report for duty or stay home and remain available tomorrow; Ren Suo chose to stay home, so Yu Kuangtu moved his name to another list and decided he would watch the livestream.

You Jian, Boundless, and Mister Chuan joined Lian Jiang’s Countermeasures Bureau and Yangtze River Unit to prepare for the Calamity Envoy’s livestream and a possible battle with ghosts. As the operation began at six, Ren Suo woke up late after forgetting to set an alarm.

• You Jian and his companions arrived at a wilderness camp near Lian Jiang Airport, where Yu Kuangtu introduced the local Third Cycle cultivators and officials.
• You Jian tested the group with a burst of killing intent and his flying sword, demonstrating the power gap between Fourth Cycle and Third Cycle cultivators.
• Nan Xi explained the plan: Boundless would open a Space Gate for Dong Chengling, You Jian, and Mister Chuan, while the local cultivators and Yangtze River Unit prepared to contain any ghosts that came through.
• You Jian told Nan Xi that a partner could help someone endure hardship, then resumed teasing her and was told to get lost.
• Bai Ji and Dong Chengling discussed bringing Ren Suo to the camp if Yu Kuangtu approved, while the others waited for the livestream to begin.
• At six in the morning, Ren Suo woke up and realized he had not set an alarm.

Ren Suo delayed starting the fourth chapter of Hand of Fate while looking after Xiao Jiu, then waited for all one hundred enemy waves to accumulate before entering the game. He arrived in a bright modern city that plunged into darkness as soon as the game began.

• Ren Suo realized that Violent Energy had accumulated into enemy waves while he was late starting Hundred Ghosts Parade at Night.
• Dong Chengling asked Ren Suo to look after Xiao Jiu, and Zhao Huo invited him to a seafood buffet.
• Ren Suo helped Xiao Jiu get ready and do homework, played Honor of Kings with her, and secretly got her account banned from PvP for six hours.
• Xiao Jiu used Bewitching Sound Illusionary Fragrance on Zhao Huo and obtained a seafood buffet serving for Ren Suo.
• Ren Suo returned home, waited until all one hundred waves had accumulated, and started the game with Clear Spring Echo equipped.
• Ren Suo saw a bustling city in the game, then watched its lights and the sun vanish as darkness covered everything.