Chapter Summaries

Ren Suo examined his new Six-Star ability, Different Life, and tested its body-transformation effect by becoming Bai Ji. The transformation worked, but Ren Suo could not figure out how to cancel it.

• Ren Suo considered how Los had relied on Better Loot and Different Life, then inspected the newly acquired Different Life ability in the Equipment Interface.
• Ren Suo learned that Life Is Like a Play could transform him into people he knew and that Empathy could copy a target's memories and body information.
• Ren Suo studied the transformation similarity rates for people he knew and chose Bai Ji as his first test.
• Ren Suo transformed into Bai Ji and examined his new appearance and physique in the mirror.
• Ren Suo tried to end the transformation through the Equipment Interface, but nothing happened.

Ren Suo spent the day away from home because an Awakened Spell had transformed him into Bai Ji, drawing attention from women and making him reluctant to let his family see him. He arranged to meet Bai Ji in White Cloud City, leaving Ren Xingmei alarmed by his explanation.

• Ren Xingmei woke to find Luna in her room and learned from Ren Ma that Ren Suo had left before dawn without saying where he was going.
• Ren Xingmei called Ren Suo, but he declined the call and told her to contact him by WeChat.
• At a Golden Arches restaurant, Ren Suo used his transformed appearance to fend off several women who tried to strike up conversations and get his contact information.
• Ren Suo explained that he was hiding until the transformation wore off because he did not want his family to see him looking like Bai Ji.
• Bai Ji messaged Ren Suo, and after he warned her about his changed appearance, they arranged to meet for a meal.
• Ren Suo told Ren Xingmei that he was meeting Bai Ji, and Ren Xingmei grew more worried about him.

Ren Suo showed Bai Ji that he could transform into him, and Bai Ji warned him that the ability could attract dangerous national attention because of its scientific value. After they parted, Bai Ji returned home and let his grandmother believe he might have fallen in love with his male friend.

• Ren Suo used his transformation ability to surprise Bai Ji at their meeting and explained that he had copied Bai Ji's appearance with an Awakened Spell.
• Bai Ji warned Ren Suo to hide the ability, explaining that the government could value it for biological research and longevity technology.
• Bai Ji told Ren Suo that he had been recalled to the Yangtze base for training, though he did not know whether anything urgent was coming.
• Bai Ji helped Ren Suo open an internet café account before returning home, where his grandmother teased him about being happy after meeting a friend.
• Bai Ji clarified that his friend was a man, and his grandmother replied that men needed to eat too.

Ren Suo planned to return to Lianjiang with Ren Xingmei and Luna, while Dong Chengling offered to use Space Movement. In Yosemite, the Federation and Xuan Kingdom discussed the approaching invasion before silver-armored warriors attacked, leaving You Jian fighting an invader.

• Ren Suo celebrated Lantern Festival with his family, agreed to return to Lianjiang with Ren Xingmei, and learned that Dong Chengling could use Space Movement to help them travel with Luna.
• You Jian met Aurora Roy and the Buryers in Yosemite, where Roy reported escalating spatial distortions and requested Xuan Kingdom’s aid and knowledge of spatial spells.
• Roy presented plans to seek help from the World Tree and Immortal Palace if the Federation could not resist the invasion, and You Jian agreed to discuss them with Xuan Kingdom.
• A silver-armored warrior attacked the military restricted zone, and You Jian seized and slammed him into the rubble while fighting broke out across the camp.
• You Jian’s aura robe stopped the warrior’s bloody claws, and he told the invader to learn Chinese before attacking with a sword-shaped mouthful of saliva.

Ren Suo and Ren Xingmei used Dong Chengling’s Space Movement to reach Lianjiang, where she gave Ren Suo her Fourth Cycle training notes after learning he was close to advancing. As the siblings prepared to leave, Ren Xingmei spotted an armored figure with glowing red eyes on the balcony.

• Ren Suo and Ren Xingmei teleported from their parents’ home to Dong Chengling’s apartment with their luggage and Luna, then reunited with Little Jiu.
• Dong Chengling explained how her Space Movement transferred everyone enclosed by spiritual energy and gave Ren Suo a notebook of her Fourth Cycle insights as a Valentine’s Day gift.
• Ren Suo revealed that his cultivation had reached Third Cycle 100% and that he planned to advance to the Fourth Cycle.
• Dong Chengling explained that Fourth Cycle cultivation required a strong conviction, while Ren Xingmei grew discouraged about her own prospects.
• As Ren Suo and Ren Xingmei prepared to leave after midnight, Ren Xingmei spotted a figure in black battle armor with glowing scarlet eyes standing on the balcony.

Qiao Muyi sensed that Ren Suo was in danger and raced toward Heavenly Lotus Academy, where a powerful masked woman ambushed her. At the academy, Sony trapped Ren Suo and his companions, but Ren Suo recovered enough to stand and confront him.

• Qiao Muyi tried to break through to the Fourth Cycle through cultivation, then sensed Ren Suo in danger and hurried toward Heavenly Lotus Academy.
• Qiao Muyi fought a masked woman with Fourth Cycle combat power and unleashed her Demon King presence as Countermeasures Bureau reinforcements headed out.
• Sony attacked Ren Suo, Dong Chengling, and Ren Xingmei inside the academy, while his realm blocked Space Movement and his blows badly injured Ren Suo.
• Ren Xingmei chose to protect Dong Chengling rather than flee, and Luna and Little Jiu joined the fight but were thrown back by Sony.
• Sony seized Ren Xingmei, revealing that she was his target, before Ren Suo recovered and faced him with a green ring mark on his left hand.

Ren Suo summoned Ren Han to defeat the Black Armor Warrior, but Ren Xingmei and Dong Chengling remained trapped by a foreign sealing power. After Ren Han, Seeker of the Way, and Zhao Zili failed to free them, Ren Suo realized the solution might require learning how the enemy's power worked.

• Ren Suo summoned Ren Han, who taunted and subdued the Black Armor Warrior before crushing him when the warrior broke free of the taunt.
• Ren Suo treated Ren Xingmei and Dong Chengling, but their strength and energy remained sealed, so Ren Han examined them and found he could not undo the foreign power.
• Ren Suo summoned Seeker of the Way, who studied the seal but said she needed time to understand its mechanism.
• Ren Suo summoned Zhao Zili, who healed their injuries but could not remove the seal and advised Ren Suo to follow the guide by learning how the power worked.
• Ren Suo looked at the Black Armor Warrior's corpse and asked Zhao Zili to drag it over, while Dong Chengling tried to reassure him.

Ren Suo used Different Life to absorb Sony’s memories and learned that Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei were marked as the alternate plane’s space and time coordinates. With seconds left before they were transported, he decided to go with them and promised they would be captured only by him.

• Ren Suo activated Empathic Resonance on Sony’s armor, endured the flood of memories, and learned that Siddis had sent Sony to mark alternate plane coordinates.
• Ren Suo told Zhao Zili that Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei were bound by a powerful law-based effect and would soon be transported to the alternate plane.
• Ren Suo explained that the enemy wanted to use Dong Chengling as Earth’s space coordinate and Ren Xingmei as its time coordinate to enable an invasion.
• Dong Chengling said she would try to protect Ren Xingmei if they became captives, while Ren Xingmei and the others accepted the danger and stood by her.
• Ren Suo decided to accompany Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei to the alternate plane, declaring that they would be captured only by him.

As otherworldly forces invaded Earth, Chief Ren defended the Xuan Kingdom from afar while Qiao Muyi fought a powerful woman in purple near Heavenly Lotus Academy. Qiao Muyi reached the academy to find Ren Suo and Dong Chengling missing, and Little Jiu said they had run away together.

• Chief Ren refused to mobilize troops to guard Tianjing and crushed an invading squad near the Mongolian-Russian border with two attacks, leaving one enemy alive to carry his warning home.
• Qiao Muyi fought the woman in purple, adapted to her invulnerable defenses, and unleashed Flame Zhen, but the woman teleported away toward Heavenly Lotus Academy.
• Qiao Muyi pursued the woman to the academy, where she saw a Black Armor Warrior carrying two unconscious people before both he and the woman vanished through spatial rifts.
• Qiao Muyi found Little Jiu and the black cat in Dong Chengling's apartment and learned that Ren Suo and Dong Chengling were safe but had run away together.
• Qiao Muyi's battle and arrival at the academy were reported as a heroic defense of Lianjiang, and she advanced to the Fourth Cycle.

Ren Suo arrived in the Diedra World disguised as Prince Sony and tried to change Los’s fate while concealing Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei as his captives. After acting out Sony’s persona around the two women, Ren Suo switched back to himself and faced their disapproving stares.

• Ren Suo crossed the Azure Silver River of Time with Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei and arrived at Rift Fortress, where the Diedra soldiers hailed him as Prince Sony.
• Ren Suo activated Sony’s programs, dismissed his armor, and heard General Blackthorn accuse Colonel Los of killing comrades and fabricating intelligence.
• Ren Suo told Los that Sony had no interest in framing him, then ordered the soldiers to imprison Los instead of executing him.
• Ren Suo claimed Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei as his spoils and went with them to his room, where he ate while lounging between them.
• After the maids left, Ren Suo bathed, returned to the bed, and began undressing Dong Chengling before she told him to change back into his main body.
• Ren Suo switched back to himself, realized Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei had watched his behavior, and insisted that Sony’s actions had nothing to do with him.

Ren Suo reflected on how becoming Sony had affected his behavior while Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei punished him and then agreed to learn about Diedra. As the three settled in for the night, Dong Chengling comforted Ren Suo in his true appearance and asked him to explain Little Jiu and Luna the next day.

• Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei made Ren Suo hold a plank with dishes on his back as punishment for his behavior as Sony, then removed the dishes when he showed he understood his mistake.
• Ren Suo explained that becoming Sony changed his thoughts and values, but returning to his own body restored them without leaving Sony's influence behind.
• Ren Xingmei asked Ren Suo to obtain Diedran language textbooks, then joked that she wanted to be among the first to benefit if Earth conquered Diedra.
• Dong Chengling asked Ren Suo about Luna and Little Jiu, but postponed the conversation until morning because everyone was exhausted.
• Ren Suo lay awake worrying about the future danger facing Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei, including the Sword of Damocles hanging over them.
• Dong Chengling held Ren Suo in his true appearance and comforted him, then reminded him to explain Little Jiu and Luna the next day while Ren Xingmei listened from bed.

After Ren Suo and Dong Chengling vanished during the otherworldly attack, Qiao Muyi arranged for the Countermeasures Bureau to conceal their disappearance and make it seem they were on a confidential operation. Xiao Jiu insisted they would return before March, and Qiao Muyi ordered Dong Chengling’s residence repaired by then.

• Yuan Chu agreed that Dong Chengling and Ren Suo would temporarily work with the Countermeasures Bureau, while the academy arranged temporary lodging for Dong Chengling.
• Li Dan and Yu Kuangtu speculated about Ren Suo and Dong Chengling’s disappearance and the destruction of Dong Chengling’s residence.
• Qiao Muyi burned the unmarked surveillance hard drive and instructed Li Dan to make it appear that Ren Suo and Dong Chengling were working with the Bureau.
• Qiao Muyi asked Li Dan to arrange leave for Ren Xingmei and coordinate a cover story concealing that the three had been attacked at the academy.
• Qiao Muyi said a Plane War would not break out, and Xiao Jiu declared that Ren Suo, Dong Chengling, and Ren Xingmei would return before March.
• Qiao Muyi ordered Dong Chengling’s residence repaired and ready for her to move back into before March.

Ren Suo attended a meeting where Sony was named the next Bloodline Great Law, then stopped Bei Feng from abusing the silver-haired girl and turned Lanaya against him. The girl silently revealed that she knew Ren Suo was not Sony.

• Ren Suo examined Sony’s messages, ended his argument with Lorifis, and reassured Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei before leaving for a meeting.
• Black Thorns reported on Bayonet Operation, and the meeting approved Sony as the next Bloodline Great Law.
• After the meeting, Lanaya’s guards escorted Ren Suo back to his suite, where he found Bei Feng trying to enter and take control of the silver-haired girl.
• Ren Suo ordered Lanaya to fight Bei Feng, then watched as she struck him down after Bei Feng pleaded for his life.
• The silver-haired girl embraced Ren Suo and silently told him, “You’re not Sony.”

Ren Suo, posing as Sony, learned that Lorifis had recognized him as an outsider and offered to help him escape Diedra. She asked him to rescue her brother Los and help bring down Diedra so she could rebuild it herself.

• Tiramisu visited Los in Coldharbour Prison and told the guards he would earn enough Merit Points to rescue him.
• Ren Suo allowed Lorifis into his suite after she offered him greater freedom, while Lanaya stayed outside to guard him.
• Lorifis revealed that she had deduced Sony was dead and Ren Suo was an outsider by studying Sony’s worldview and behavior.
• Lorifis explained that she had planned to use Sony as a path into Diedra’s ruling class, but now wanted Ren Suo’s help to escape with Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei.
• Lorifis offered to help Ren Suo rescue Los and overthrow Diedra, declaring that she would rebuild it afterward.

Ren Suo refused Lorifis’s offer to help him, but she took Ren Xingmei hostage to force him to free Los. After Ren Xingmei subdued her and learned that Los had escaped prison, Ren Suo and his companions considered using Lorifis as an ally and finding a way to save her brother.

• Ren Suo rejected Lorifis’s plan and refused to use his authority to release Los, despite her offer to pay any price.
• Lorifis warned Ren Suo about surveillance in the room, then seized Ren Xingmei and demanded that he free Los.
• Ren Xingmei fought Lorifis off and pinned her down after a prison-break alert announced that Los and other prisoners had escaped.
• Lorifis explained that she had acted out of desperation to save Los, and Ren Xingmei proposed keeping her under their control.
• Ren Suo confirmed he could control Lorifis’s life and death, while Ren Xingmei and Dong Chengling supported considering her as an ally.

Ren Suo used Sony’s authority and Rift Fortress’s records to expose Black Thorns and let Los and the Forsworn escape. Back in his room, Ren Suo’s companions questioned him about whom he cared for most, and he answered, “Zhao Huo.”

• Rift Fortress’s soldiers failed to stop Los and the Forsworn from reaching the first-floor hall, where Black Thorns ordered them executed.
• Ren Suo intervened and ordered the elite troops to capture the escapees alive, then used the Knowledge Domain records to accuse Black Thorns of opening the blast doors for Los.
• Ren Suo stripped Black Thorns of his position and Divine Descendant status, appointed Brinjolf as acting commander, and allowed Los and the Forsworn to teleport away.
• Ren Suo carried Lorifis back to his room after she objected to his promise to Los that he would take care of her.
• Dong Chengling asked Ren Suo which person he longed for and worried about most, and he answered that it was Zhao Huo.

Ren Suo and his companions planned how to escape Diedra, while Lorifis urged them to remove Balgruuf and confessed her desire for revenge. That night, Lorifis challenged Ren Xingmei to confront her feelings for Ren Suo, and Dong Chengling silently listened.

• Lorifis explained that Dong Chengling and Ren Xingmei needed cracked Plane Travel cards and would have to pass through a Five Great War Zone to escape Diedra.
• Lorifis urged Ren Suo to remove Balgruuf, whom she blamed for abandoning Los and whom she wanted to punish; Ren Suo had already promised to protect Lorifis and Los.
• Ren Suo, Dong Chengling, Ren Xingmei, and Lorifis rested after discussing their plans, while Lorifis continued teaching the women Diedra vocabulary.
• After Ren Suo and Dong Chengling returned from a private moment, Lorifis questioned Ren Xingmei about her relationship with Ren Suo and suggested she stop hiding her feelings.
• Ren Xingmei admitted she was afraid of holding Ren Suo back, and Lorifis told her she might as well be the one to do so; Dong Chengling quietly overheard them.

Yu Kuangtu tried to keep Bai Ji from finding Ren Suo and Dong Chengling, only for Bai Ji to arrive as a Fourth Cycle Cultivator and demand to contact them. Qiao Muyi refused the Great Wall’s recruitment offer because of her lover, then privately told Bai Ji that Ren Suo and Dong Chengling were on an adventure and could not be helped; the chapter ended with her recommending Bai Ji to Countermeasures Headquarters.

• Yu Kuangtu prepared to turn Bai Ji away, but Bai Ji arrived and announced that he had reached the Fourth Cycle.
• Bai Ji pressured Yu Kuangtu to reveal where Ren Suo and Dong Chengling were, so Yu Kuangtu took him to Qiao Muyi.
• Qiao Muyi rejected the Great Wall’s offer, explaining that she wanted to stay in Lianjiang for her lover, and revealed that Dong Chengling had also declined because of romantic feelings.
• Qiao Muyi told Bai Ji that Ren Suo and Dong Chengling had gone on an adventure and that even she could only wait for news.
• Bai Ji said he had given up pursuing Ren Suo and left, while Qiao Muyi created a recommendation letter for him to join the Great Wall.

Ren Suo brought Lorifis, Ren Xingmei, and Dong Chengling to Snowy Sky City, where Lorifis warned him that Governor Balgruuf controlled the region. After Ren Suo accessed the camp’s surveillance, they discovered that Lorifis’s brother Los had infiltrated the military camp disguised as a woman.

• Lorifis and Ren Xingmei mocked Ren Suo’s romantic entanglements while they traveled with him from Rift Fortress.
• Lanaya objected to Ren Suo bringing the women to Snowy Sky City, but he insisted they stay with him and had them wear cloaks.
• Ren Suo’s group teleported to Snowy Sky City and was welcomed by Wilkas before being taken to Mead Military Camp.
• Lorifis warned Ren Suo that Balgruuf controlled Snowy Sky’s administration and military, but Ren Suo focused on photographing the snowy city for his friends.
• Ren Suo used the camp’s surveillance feed and revealed that Los had entered the camp disguised as a woman, leaving Lorifis stunned.

Ren Suo kept Lorifis with him after she chose to support Los’s revolution from afar, then prepared disguises for the banquet. The chapter ended when Wilkas arrived at his door, leaving Ren Suo fearing that the game’s assassination plot had begun early.

• Lorifis refused to reunite with Los, choosing instead to stay with Ren Suo and let Los continue his rebellion without distraction.
• Ren Suo agreed to keep Lorifis with him and decided that she, Dong Chengling, and Ren Xingmei would attend Balgruuf’s banquet disguised as Divine Descendant Guards.
• Ren Suo asked Lanaya for three uniforms, masks, and pairs of Divine Light Contact Lenses.
• Wilkas arrived with Whiterun soldiers, and Lorifis recognized him as the Golden Wolf.
• Ren Suo panicked, suspecting Wilkas’s arrival was the assassination plot from his first game save.