Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu and his group entered the Chaos Domain to find Azathoth, fighting bizarre elemental creatures and losing most of their companions along the way. Xiao Yu reached Azathoth and began floating toward him, but an unidentified voice stopped him.

• Xiao Yu, Old Li, Medivh, and their companions entered the Chaos Domain, where Medivh warned them about dangerous creatures formed from chaotic data.
• Peerless Magic God destroyed a jellyfish-like water elemental with Explosive Flames, and the group later drove off miniature suns with Elemental Decomposition.
• Xiao Yu used Insight to locate Azathoth, and the group followed the Chaos Domain’s spherical wall while battling elemental creatures and suffering casualties.
• The group reached a vast Netherstorm emanating from Azathoth, but a gigantic fireball with a lava face appeared and attacked them.
• Medivh teleported Xiao Yu a short distance toward Azathoth and stayed behind with Old Li and the others, who were engulfed by destructive beams as Xiao Yu ran on.
• Xiao Yu climbed a stone cliff, spotted a way to float toward Azathoth, and began swimming through the air before an unidentified voice called out to him.

Xiao Yu was captured by Naiser while the Blasphemous Prophet set out to destroy Azathoth. Xiao Yu claimed Naiser was a contestant in a deadly reality show, leaving Naiser shaken as the darkness around them disappeared.

• Naiser captured Xiao Yu and revealed that he wanted revenge by making Xiao Yu witness his destruction.
• A Blasphemous Saint summoned the Blasphemous Prophet, whom Xiao Yu recognized as Forrest, and the Prophet headed toward Azathoth.
• Xiao Yu realized Forrest had used the Blasphemers and the Creator God to gather believers and expand his power.
• Xiao Yu cast Darkness Domain and told Naiser that he was a contestant in Great Villain of Humanity, a reality show whose winner would face terrible punishment.
• Naiser questioned Xiao Yu’s story, but Xiao Yu insisted he was a special guest and that the cameras could not see them inside the darkness.
• Xiao Yu said the spell was ending, rubbed his face into a grave expression, and the black mist dissipated.

Forrest used the GM Scepter of Domination and support from the game's GMs to analyze Azathoth so he could absorb its power, while Xiao Yu tried to turn Naiser against him. Naiser stopped his men and hurled Xiao Yu into Azathoth, which awakened and stripped Forrest's data permissions.

• Forrest used the GM Scepter of Domination and the GMs' analysis to examine Azathoth, intending to convert it into his own energy.
• Xiao Yu warned Naiser's men that Forrest planned to create a god and rule the world, but they dismissed him.
• Naiser decided to stop Forrest for the safety of the world and used Time and Space Stop to freeze his men.
• Naiser cast Vector Throw and launched Xiao Yu into Azathoth before Forrest could react.
• Azathoth awakened, absorbed Forrest's energy stream, and stripped the GMs of their data permissions.

Xiao Yu regained control of Azathoth’s body after the system merged his character data, then seized Forrest. Forrest invoked the Creator God’s power, broke free, and prepared to fight with the faith of hundreds of millions of players.

• Naiser declared that he had switched sides to stop Forrest’s scheme, stunning Forrest and his subordinates.
• Azathoth grabbed Forrest as Xiao Yu’s consciousness completed its return to the character.
• The system granted Xiao Yu access to Azathoth and merged his character data, restoring his power and control.
• Xiao Yu taunted Forrest and tried to crush him, but Forrest’s white shield blocked his grip.
• Forrest summoned the Creator God’s form with power drawn from players’ faith and vowed to destroy Azathoth and absorb his power.

Xiao Yu and Medivh forced Forrest to retreat, then Xiao Yu began absorbing the Chaos Domain’s elemental energy to grow stronger. Forrest punished Naiser and called an emergency meeting to accelerate the Moha Religion’s plan, warning that an unprecedented threat could make it fail.

• Medivh arrived after the others died in the Chaos Domain, and he and Xiao Yu confronted Forrest together.
• Forrest retreated with his subordinates, warning that Xiao Yu’s immense energy would make it difficult for him to leave the Chaos Domain.
• Medivh proposed building Dark Portals to connect the Chaos Domain and the War of the Gods, while Xiao Yu stayed to master his power.
• Xiao Yu used Elemental Absorption to drain nearby elemental creatures and decided to make the Chaos Domain’s creatures submit or absorb them.
• Forrest had Naiser beaten, then ordered him healed and imprisoned after Naiser insisted he wanted to be a good person.
• Forrest convened the Moha Religion’s elders and urged them to choose a true god and accelerate their plan against an unprecedented threat.

Forrest and the other faction leaders planned to use the players to weaken Azathoth, then announced an expansion framing him as an invading evil god. Their warning unexpectedly made players curious about worshipping Azathoth, and adventurers in Frost City began discussing it.

• Shen Yuan said Azathoth lacked Power of Faith and player support, and proposed using players to weaken him while the gods prepared their own plan.
• Forrest and the leaders of the Cosmic Will and Descent Factions rejected his push to choose a victor immediately, and their factions resumed an all-out holy war.
• Forrest's designers announced the Great Old One expansion and posted ominous information about Azathoth and the Chaos Domain.
• Players questioned the sudden expansion, and many grew curious about what would happen if they prayed to Azathoth.
• Several adventurers who had finished an adventure discussed Azathoth around a tavern table in Frost City.

Players began worshipping Azathoth after discovering him as a new god in War of the Gods, and their prayers activated Xiao Yu’s Power of Faith System. With hundreds of thousands of followers and several thousand devout believers, Xiao Yu considered using them to build a Dark Portal.

• Qiannianmao prayed to Azathoth and received the Lesser Elemental Mark as a casual believer.
• Saruman told Darth Vader’s group about Azathoth, and the former followers of the God of Darkness prayed to him together.
• Players across War of the Gods began joining Azathoth’s faction, bringing his followers into the hundreds of thousands.
• Medivh explained to Xiao Yu that the Creator God’s faith-powered strength did not transfer between planes, while Xiao Yu’s own power relied on faith.
• Xiao Yu’s Power of Faith System activated and showed 574,863 followers and over 1.1 million power of faith.
• Xiao Yu reviewed the options for appointing Chosen, prophets, or saints and considered gathering his followers to build a Dark Portal.

Xiao Yu established the Church of Chaos and appointed Big Water Cunt as its prophet and leader, tasking him with organizing believers to build a Dark Portal in the Lost Continent. Xiao Yu issued an oracle directing his followers to obey Big Water Cunt as he prepared to bring his dark army into the continent.

• Xiao Yu recognized Big Water Cunt as a believer and granted him the title of Chaos Prophet, giving him Greater Prophecy and Prophecy of Calamity.
• Xiao Yu established the Church of Chaos and appointed Big Water Cunt as its leader.
• Xiao Yu ordered Big Water Cunt to form a guild of believers and arrange construction of a Dark Portal in a remote part of the Lost Continent.
• Xiao Yu asked Medivh to explain how to build the portal and oversee its construction; Medivh agreed and mentioned he had made a deal with an old friend for a way out.
• Xiao Yu issued an oracle promising believers rewards and immortality, and instructed them to report to Big Water Cunt and follow his orders.

Xiao Yu built an army in the Chaos Domain while the gods of the Lost Continent fought for faith, and Forrest prepared to defeat his rivals. Shen Yuan visited Naiser in prison, gave him a gaming helmet, and left him to hurry before it was taken away.

• Players flocked to join Big Water Cunt's Church of Chaos after Azathoth's oracle promised rewards, while Xiao Yu began conquering the Chaos Domain.
• Xiao Yu gathered a million elemental creatures and built a Dark Portal as Big Water Cunt and Medivh organized a large guild to build another portal.
• Forrest gained the advantage over the God of Eternity and the God of Light but remained wary of Shen Yuan, who had stayed out of the struggle for faith.
• Shen Yuan visited Naiser in prison, told him that Xiao Yu had outplayed him, and announced that he was leaving for somewhere far away.
• Shen Yuan gave Naiser a small gaming helmet and urged him to hurry, and Naiser put it on.

Naiser entered Earth Online using a dedicated gaming helmet Shen Yuan had given him and reunited with the Council of Sages. As Shen Yuan and the others watched, monstrous forces poured through rifts above every major city, marking the Overlord’s descent.

• Naiser entered Earth Online and explored its unfamiliar twenty-first-century streets while worrying that he was still imprisoned in reality.
• Kairoz picked Naiser up and brought him to a rooftop gathering with Alodi, Ner'zhul, Lilith, Merlin, and Shen Yuan.
• Naiser ate and demanded an explanation, but Shen Yuan told him to wait and watch the sky.
• A black rift opened above the city, and tentacled monsters emerged as similar invasions began above all 108 major cities in Earth Online.
• The Earth Chronicles recorded that the Overlord descended on December 21, 2012.

Xiao Yu activated the completed Dark Portal and sent his chaos army into the Lost Continent. As alien creatures overwhelmed the United States, the president prepared a nuclear strike until a mysterious wizard appeared and urged everyone to surrender.

• Xiao Yu confirmed that both Dark Portals were complete, and Medivh left after saying he had repaid his debt.
• Xiao Yu activated the Dark Portal and ordered his elemental forces and chaos army to enter the Lost Continent.
• Alien creatures attacked American cities, overwhelmed military forces, and infected soldiers and civilians.
• The president prepared to launch a nuclear strike despite warnings about the civilians still in Washington.
• A strangely dressed wizard appeared at the military base and told the assembled officials that they should surrender.

Medivh seized control of the United Nations Defense Headquarters as governments surrendered to supernatural forces. After warning Li Mingfei that Earth Online would soon be cut off from the outside world, Medivh took charge of the remaining NPCs and ordered a meeting of world leaders.

• Medivh stopped the American president’s guards and bullets, declared himself a god, and transformed the president’s briefcase into a cake.
• An official reported that America and Russia could not launch their nuclear weapons, then vanished after contacting his boss.
• Li Mingfei learned that the five permanent members had surrendered, and Medivh appeared at the United Nations Defense Headquarters.
• Medivh told Li Mingfei that Shen Yuan was behind the crisis and that Earth Online would be isolated in ten minutes when its firewall activated.
• Li Mingfei ordered the GMs to retreat and log out, while Medivh took command of the remaining NPCs and called for a meeting of world leaders.

Forrest learned that Shen Yuan had trapped thirteen million players in Earth Online and that Shen Yuan and Naiser had become vegetative. The God of Light and the God of Eternity surrendered their power to Forrest, who prepared to begin his godhood ritual, but a player challenged him to defeat Azathoth first.

• Forrest received Li Mingfei's report that Shen Yuan had caused an alien invasion in Earth Online with thirteen million players online.
• Forrest ordered his people to wake Shen Yuan and control Naiser, but learned that both had disconnected from the game and become vegetative.
• Forrest told the God of Light and the God of Eternity about the crisis, and both gods abandoned their followers and gave their power to the God of Creation.
• Forrest decided to begin his godhood ritual and declared himself the true God of Creation.
• A player interrupted Forrest and said he could not claim to be the one true god until he defeated Azathoth, the God of Chaos.

Old Li mobilized officials after Shen Yuan trapped millions of Earth Online players, while Xiao Yu rushed to stop Forrest from endangering War of the Gods. At the Battlefield of the Gods, Azathoth interrupted Forrest’s ascension and began battling him, leaving Forrest searching for another way to win.

• Old Li ordered agents to arrest Forrest and shut down Excellence Technology, then warned Chenghong Moli to tell Xiao Yu to stop Forrest’s scheme.
• Chenghong Moli informed Xiao Yu that Shen Yuan had trapped over ten million Earth Online players and that officials feared Forrest would do the same in War of the Gods.
• Xiao Yu led his army through the Dark Portal and hurried toward the Battlefield of the Gods before all his forces had arrived.
• Forrest urged players to pray to him as the surviving god, and the system announced the Divine Descent event and its reward.
• Azathoth arrived, challenged Forrest, and blasted his nearly solid divine image with chaos energy, weakening it by stripping away faith power.
• Forrest struck Azathoth with a pillar of light, but Azathoth summoned a real black hole that swallowed the light, prompting Forrest to consider another tactic.

Forrest explained his plan to use the Mental Focus Device and players’ faith to become a real god and save those trapped in Earth Online, while Xiao Yu stalled him. When Chenghong Moli reported that Old Li’s men had reached Excellence Technology, Xiao Yu rejected Forrest’s offer, and Forrest prepared to fight him to the end.

• Forrest claimed Shen Yuan had caused the crisis and said becoming the one true god could let him save the people trapped in Earth Online.
• Forrest described using the Mental Focus Device to combine players’ mental power and faith, which he believed could turn him into a real god.
• Forrest offered Xiao Yu money and a place beside him, but Xiao Yu kept bargaining while waiting for Old Li’s men to reach Excellence Technology.
• After Chenghong Moli reported that the group had arrived at Excellence Technology, Xiao Yu refused Forrest’s offer.
• Forrest angrily ended their private chat and vowed to fight Xiao Yu without mercy.

Xiao Yu defeated Creator God in the game and became the Only True God, while players’ prayers seemed to cause a strange sensation in his real body. After his attempt to test his powers showed no effect, Forrest lost hope and agreed to answer the agents’ questions.

• Creator God created matter to crush Azathoth, but Xiao Yu used Cosmic Great Annihilation to destroy it as the two fought until both were close to losing control.
• Old Li and the police pulled Forrest from his game pod, causing Creator God to vanish from the battle.
• Azathoth was declared the victor of the War of the Gods, and over a hundred million players prayed to him as Xiao Yu logged out.
• Xiao Yu tested whether he could control water or fire in reality, but neither attempt worked.
• Xiao Yu told Forrest that his theory had not worked, and Forrest gave up and agreed to tell the agents what they wanted to know.

Xiao Yu refused to lead a mission to contact Earth Online, but when he silently called water into an empty glass, it appeared anyway. The chapter ended with Xiao Yu agreeing to try a computer game while Chenghong Moli discovered the water in the glass.

• Xiao Yu watched the news as the authorities investigated Excellence Technology, imprisoned Forrest, and shut down War of the Gods, while Earth Online remained isolated.
• Old Li, Chenghong Moli, and a National Network Bureau official told Xiao Yu that millions of Earth Online players were trapped and asked him to lead a mission to contact the game world.
• Xiao Yu refused the mission, and Old Li left Chenghong Moli to protect him because the Moha Religion remained a threat.
• Xiao Yu silently called water into an empty glass, but saw that it remained empty and laughed off the thought.
• Big Water Cunt called and invited Xiao Yu to try a computer game, and Xiao Yu agreed.
• Chenghong Moli picked up the glass and found that it contained half a glass of clear water.