Chapter Summaries

After the Xuan Kingdom’s Spirit Treasury opened, Ren Suo cultivated in the facility while waiting to return to Lianjiang. Qiao Muyi helped him obtain a key by sleeping beside him, and he woke to find himself holding her hand and connected to someone else through a Space Spell.

• Ren Suo followed news of Spirit Treasuries opening in several countries and cultivated in the facility as the Xuan Kingdom’s aura increased.
• Qiao Muyi told Ren Suo that Dong Chengling could cast spells independently and that she had advanced to the Second Cycle.
• Qiao Muyi explained her mission concerning Dong Chengling, then agreed to sleep beside Ren Suo so he could fulfill his Awakened Spell’s requirement.
• Ren Suo acquired a key from the sleeping Qiao Muyi, and they both fell asleep holding hands.
• Ren Suo woke the next morning holding Qiao Muyi’s left hand and another person’s right hand, sensing a familiar spatial connection through his Aura Meridian.

Ren Suo and Qiao Muyi tried to sneak out of bed without waking Dong Chengling after she unexpectedly joined them. Qiao Muyi slipped out safely, but her tossed slippers triggered the motion-sensor lights, leaving Ren Suo exposed beside Dong Chengling.

• Ren Suo panicked about waking up beside Qiao Muyi and Dong Chengling, while Qiao Muyi used touch to ask whether anyone was nearby.
• Ren Suo and Qiao Muyi realized Dong Chengling had likely entered the dark room without seeing them.
• Qiao Muyi offered to explain the situation, but Ren Suo insisted he would take responsibility.
• Qiao Muyi proposed a gamble, got out of bed, and quietly made her way toward the door without waking Dong Chengling.
• Qiao Muyi slipped out, then tossed Ren Suo's slippers onto the bed; they landed and the lights came on.

Qiao Muyi covered for Ren Suo after sneaking out of his room, while Ren Suo woke beside Dong Chengling and struggled to understand why she had spent the night with him. Dong Chengling said she had come to show her sincerity before his departure and promised they would sleep together once their relationship was ready, then hurried away blushing.

• Qiao Muyi told the cafeteria staff not to deliver breakfast to Ren Suo and returned to her room, amused by her secret visit and thinking Dong Chengling's matter was settled.
• Ren Suo woke beside Dong Chengling and, while she slept, stared at her until the doorbell interrupted him.
• Dong Chengling woke, explained that she had come to sleep beside Ren Suo because she could control her Awakened Spell, and apologized for arriving after he had fallen asleep.
• Dong Chengling told Ren Suo she needed time before their relationship reached that stage, but promised she would sleep with him once things fell naturally into place.
• Dong Chengling quickly left Ren Suo's room, pressing her warm cheek to her palm as she blushed.

After returning to Lianjiang, Ren Suo faced accusations from Gu Yueyan over his request to sleep with Teacher Dong, then settled in to check the Little World Game Console. He discovered a new free-game section for Level 3 players, where he could choose one of three games.

• Ren Suo returned to his dorm and ran into Lin Xianyu and Gu Yueyan at the dining hall.
• Gu Yueyan accused Ren Suo of asking Teacher Dong to sleep with him, embarrassing herself before the whole dining hall and fleeing.
• Ren Suo left Lin Xianyu to finish the seafood hot pot and hurried away with a zongzi to avoid rumors.
• Ren Suo cleaned his room, ate, and checked his game console, finding keys from Dong Chengling and Qiao Muyi.
• Ren Suo opened the World Store and found three free games in the Critical Exclusive Games (Level 3) section, with only one available to play that month.

After limiting his school-hospital work, Ren Suo learned that Gu Yueyan hoped Dong Chengling would return to teaching, but he told her Dong should pursue opportunities in Tianjing. He then saw that New York’s Spiritual Vein light had appeared and chose the new game “Infinite Intrusion.”

• Ren Suo explained his other duties to Huo He, who reduced his School Hospital shifts to one day a month.
• Gu Yueyan asked whether Dong Chengling would return, and Ren Suo said she should continue developing in Tianjing.
• Ren Suo checked the news and learned that Spiritual Vein light had appeared in New York, with a major confrontation expected in five days.
• Ren Suo reviewed the newly available holiday games and selected “Infinite Intrusion,” in which he would pursue a corrupted internet Spirit Item.

Ren Suo accepted Ilina’s request to control her and hunt down her other half, Twins of Adversity, in the data world. Their attempt to enter the server where Twins of Adversity was hiding ended with Ilina’s avatar appearing as a weak mountain bandit who was immediately killed by a powerful player.

• Ren Suo chose Infinite Intrusion, met Ilina, and accepted her offer to let him control her.
• Ilina explained that she and Twins of Adversity had opposing data authorities and that they needed to gather power from existing data.
• Ren Suo followed Ilina to a crimson palace identified as Baihe.com and chose to enter its Server 13.
• Ilina became a Level 11 Mountain Bandit, then a Level 65 player struck her with an arrow and killed her.

Ren Suo learned that Ilina and Twins of Adversity shared Source Data, making each death costly, and discovered they could hunt the stronger twin by controlling powerful units from other servers. He sent a modern military jeep into a martial arts game, where it tore through players and entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation dungeon.

• Ilina explained that she had lost 5% of her Source Data and that the twin with more data could wield greater power.
• Ren Suo learned he could restore Ilina's Source Data with Merit Points, while Ilina revealed Twins of Adversity could only possess existing data units.
• Ren Suo used the strategy of bringing a powerful unit from another server to hunt Twins of Adversity.
• Qiu Beifeng saw a bounty announcement for an unknown enemy near the Six Paths of Reincarnation dungeon entrance.
• A red-haired woman in a machine-gun-mounted jeep slaughtered players at the dungeon entrance and drove into the dungeon.

Ren Suo used equipment from "Chaotic Battlefield" to tear through the "Six Paths of Reincarnation" instance, reaching Dragon King Gu Shenwei in minutes. Although Gu Shenwei surged to level 999 and destroyed the Jeep, Ren Suo shot through his defenses and killed him.

• Ren Suo discovered that his game character had entered the instance with equipment from "Chaotic Battlefield," including a Jeep and a light machine gun.
• Ren Suo and Ilina drove through the instance, using the machine gun to destroy monsters and obstacles before reaching Dragon King Gu Shenwei.
• Ilina identified Gu Shenwei as the person possessed by Twins of Adversity.
• Gu Shenwei instantly rose to level 999, slashed the Jeep, and caused it to explode.
• Ren Suo had the female character jump out and fire her Assault Rifle, breaking Gu Shenwei's armor and killing him.

Ren Suo defeated Twins of Adversity in the Six Paths of Reincarnation game, then learned the game’s events might be affecting reality. He submitted evidence of the Jeep attack to the Countermeasures Bureau’s database to earn research points, and Ilina found Twins of Adversity’s location.

• Ren Suo used Ilina’s firearms to defeat Dragon King Gu Shenwei, but a green-clad assassin then killed Ilina’s character; Ilina explained that only Clipping Data lost outside Twins of Adversity’s server would not cost Source Data.
• Ren Suo learned from Baihe.com that Huo Yun would appear after Dragon King Gu Shenwei’s defeat and assassinate the party member with the lowest health.
• Ren Suo found a forum post claiming a Jeep and light machine gun had attacked players outside the Six Paths of Reincarnation instance, matching his gameplay experience.
• Ren Suo suspected that Infinite Intrusion’s events had become real before any mission rating was uploaded, though he could not verify why.
• Ren Suo submitted the forum post as suspicious content to the Xuan Kingdom’s mysterious-phenomena database, hoping to earn research points for his Countermeasures Bureau assignment.
• Ilina announced that Twins of Adversity’s location had been found.

Ren Suo struggled to find a way to defeat Twins of Adversity after she hid in League of Legends, then remembered that the Devouring World Spirit was about to open New York’s final spirit repository. The chapter left him noticing that the game’s disc icon was still spinning, suggesting it might let him watch the coming battle.

• Ren Suo chased Twins of Adversity through several game servers, repeatedly defeating her and reducing her Source Data below 30%.
• Ilina located Twins of Adversity in League of Legends, but Ren Suo realized its vast roster of powers made her difficult to overcome there.
• Ren Suo asked Zhao Huo how to defeat a character with every League of Legends champion’s skills, and Zhao Huo suggested matching its abilities and winning the first move.
• Zhao Huo urged Ren Suo to cultivate and focus on the nation’s rejuvenation, while Ren Suo remembered that five days had passed since the spirit veins appeared in New York.
• Ren Suo returned home hoping to watch the opening of New York’s final spirit repository and noticed the Devouring World Spirit disc icon was still spinning.

Ren Suo restarted the “Battlefield Pastor” mini-mission and sent Zhao Zili to New York as the Federation opened a spiritual vein. Zhao Zili arrived at New York Port in radiant robes, where police officer Vanessa received one of his healing feathers.

• Ren Suo decided to use Zhao Zili’s mission opportunity to intervene in the Handsome Monkey King’s situation and searched for a blue-Faith target in New York.
• Ren Suo watched a livestream from New York Port while he prepared Zhao Zili with new equipment and blessings from the Treasury of Endless Radiance.
• The Statue of Liberty’s torch began glowing, and red and blue meteors scattered across the Federation as crowds gathered to watch the spiritual vein open.
• Vanessa patrolled New York Port as the crowd cheered at the spectacle and noticed a white light racing toward the port.
• Zhao Zili blasted through a congested highway and arrived at the port in white robes, healing Vanessa with a feather while carrying a portable rocket launcher.

Ren Suo controlled Zhao Zili as he healed people at New York Port and watched the Handsome Monkey King’s battle on Liberty Island, where a barrier kept him from interfering. After the monkey declared his ties to the Immortal Palace, Federation policewoman Vanessa asked Zhao Zili whether he had been sent by it.

• Ren Suo had Zhao Zili fire the Great Compassion Bazooka into crowds, healing people at New York Port and winning their admiration.
• Zhao Zili tried to reach Liberty Island but was blocked by a high-dimensional barrier, so he watched the battle from a streetlight while continuing to heal people.
• The Handsome Monkey King emerged from the flames and declared that he followed the legacy of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven of the Immortal Palace.
• Vanessa, a Federation policewoman who spoke Mandarin, approached Zhao Zili and asked whether he had been sent by the Immortal Palace.

Ren Suo used Zhao Zili to make the Federation believe the Immortal Palace was displeased with its treatment of the monkey, then watched the Handsome Monkey King defeat the angel and display overwhelming power at New York Port. The monkey and Zhao Zili both vanished, leaving the Federation and its citizens to reckon with the Immortal Palace’s apparent response.

• Ren Suo had Zhao Zili imply that the Immortal Palace had sent him on a mission to save the monkey if its life was threatened, while describing himself as an unofficial member seeking to join.
• Ren Suo used Holy Speech and Holy Sound to have Zhao Zili announce that the Federation’s persecution of the Immortal Palace spirit monkey had disgusted him and that he would stop treating people.
• New York Port citizens reacted angrily to losing Zhao Zili’s free treatment, while Ren Suo watched the Handsome Monkey King defeat the angel and release a thousand clones against the federal soldiers.
• The Handsome Monkey King stood atop the Statue of Liberty, parted Upper New York Bay with a mighty strike, declared that it was going back, and rode away on clouds.
• Zhao Zili told Vanessa that he was going back too, then turned into white radiance and disappeared.

Ren Suo discovered that Zhao Zili had gained eight True Believers but fallen short of the Faith requirement, while Earth's rising Aura extended Zhao Zili's next stay. Back at the Countermeasures Bureau, Li Dan began reviewing submissions and marked Ren Suo's paper about Ren Nesser as “Excellent.”

• Ren Suo learned that Zhao Zili had earned 2,630 portions of WeChat Faith and developed eight True Believers, but had missed the little mission's Faith target.
• Ren Suo saw that the gods had recognized Zhao Zili, his next mission could begin sooner, and Earth's rising Aura would extend Zhao Zili's next stay to forty-five minutes.
• Ren Suo read discussions about whether other powerful beings might return to Earth, then began writing a paper of his own.
• Yu Kuangtu welcomed Li Dan back to the Countermeasures Bureau, assigned him to lead a team, and handed him responsibility for reviewing internal submissions.
• Li Dan opened an email from Researcher Suo about Ren Nesser's true purpose in uploading videos and rated the paper “Excellent” despite noticing many typos.

Ren Suo had lunch with Qiao Muyi and discussed Ren Nesser’s latest video, which concealed details that would have undermined the Immortal Palace story. Their meal was interrupted by Gu Yueyan and Lin Xianyu, and Qiao Muyi’s teasing answer about liking Ren Suo left the situation awkward.

• Qiao Muyi visited Ren Suo at Heavenly Lotus Academy, and they went to the dining hall for seafood hotpot.
• Ren Suo and Qiao Muyi discussed Ren Nesser’s new video, which showed Spirit Treasuries opening around the world and the monkey fighting in New York.
• Ren Suo realized Ren Nesser had edited out events that could expose the Immortal Palace as a fabricated story and suspected the console was catering to him.
• Gu Yueyan arrived with Lin Xianyu and asked Qiao Muyi what her relationship with Ren Suo was.
• Qiao Muyi said she liked Ren Suo, while Lin Xianyu stared at their hotpot and Ren Suo tried to dismiss the awkward exchange.

Ren Suo ate with Qiao Muyi, Gu Yueyan, and Lin Xianyu while they discussed the Immortal Palace and the Spirit Treasuries. After learning that his paper about Ren Nesser had become a reward discussion post, he hoped the Xuan Kingdom would treat Ren Nesser’s videos as trustworthy intelligence.

• Gu Yueyan and Qiao Muyi discussed the Immortal Palace, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and the Battlefield Pastor’s appearance at New York Port.
• Gu Yueyan called Ren Suo a scoundrel before leaving, while Qiao Muyi admitted she had borrowed his phone for a confidential call and made him pay for the meal.
• Ren Suo saw that news and social media were abuzz with the Handsome Monkey King, the Immortal Palace, and the newly opened Spirit Treasuries.
• Ren Suo logged into the internal network and learned that the Ren Nesser Task Force had become the Ren Nesser Immortal Palace Task Force.
• Ren Suo read the discussion of his paper arguing that Ren Nesser’s videos revealed trustworthy intelligence, and hoped the Xuan Kingdom would use them to uncover useful information.

Jie Qiansi and his cultivator colleagues played League of Legends at work until a mysterious black-mist creature appeared in their match and attacked them. It escaped their attempts to stop it, killed Jie Qiansi’s teammates, and was identified as Dota’s Spectre.

• Jie Qiansi finished reading the Internal Publication and invited his colleagues to play a game before heading to the Cultivation Field.
• Jie Qiansi and four colleagues formed a team in League of Legends and struggled through a losing match.
• Jie Qiansi noticed a black-mist creature attacking the respawn base, and his team returned to investigate it.
• The creature evaded attacks and escaped the base, but Blitzcrank hooked it back toward the defensive towers.
• The black-mist creature killed all four of Jie Qiansi’s teammates, and a colleague identified it as Dota’s Spectre.

Jie Qiansi and the other players watched Spectre battle a heavily empowered Baron Nashor in Summoner’s Rift, as abilities and items from Dota and League of Legends clashed. A message promised every hero and skin to all players if they killed the outsider, but both teams chose to keep watching.

• Jie Qiansi’s team and the Purple Side players were wiped out by Spectre’s enormous damage reflection.
• Spectre confronted Baron Nashor, which unleashed stacked abilities and stayed alive through immunity and constant healing.
• Spectre activated Black King Bar and Dragon Heart, resisting Baron Nashor’s attacks while both combatants initially remained at full health.
• Spectre used Ancient Apparition’s ultimate to stop Baron Nashor’s healing, then attacked with Luna’s Eclipse, Silencer’s Global Silence, Axe’s Berserker’s Call, and Doom.
• A message promised every player every hero and skin for killing Spectre, but Jie Qiansi and the other players doubted it and continued watching the battle.

Ren Suo defeated Twins of Adversity in League of Legends and left Ilina searching for her remaining Source Data. He learned that his sister could attend a Cultivator University, and promised his worried mother that he would protect his family.

• Ren Suo used Dota skills and items to help Ilina defeat Twins of Adversity, who left the server with only 19% of the Source Data.
• Ren Suo dismissed other players’ offers to buy his apparent cheat and ordered Ilina to search for Twins of Adversity again.
• Ren Suo watched the battle video spread online as viewers assumed it was a hacker-modified hero, then submitted another in-game intrusion report.
• Ren Suo’s mother told him that his sister had scored 91 points above the first-tier cutoff and could choose a Cultivator University without applying.
• Ren Suo told his mother that he would protect her and his sister.

Ren researched powerful new spells while Xuan Kingdom prepared to gain an advantage from the coming opening of the Global Spirit Veins. Ren Suo learned that someone had waited outside his door, then resumed playing as Ilina located the Twins of Adversity, leaving him wary that the pursuit might not be as easy as it seemed.

• Chief Ren combined Fingertip Instant Lightning with Furnace Alchemy to reshape the Scattering Spirits Space and connect its pipelines to Tianjing schools.
• Chief Ren told a researcher that the chance to see Nine-Tailed Fox kept him from feeling lonely, while the researcher saw her image on his computer wallpaper.
• Black Bell told Ren Suo that someone had lingered outside his door, and Ren Suo found no signs of a break-in or listening device.
• Ren Suo called Zhao Huo and discovered that he had come looking for help with hemorrhoids, then returned to gaming.
• Ilina found the Twins of Adversity nearly twenty-four hours after the previous pursuit, and Ren Suo questioned whether the game would let him clear it so easily.