Recaps

Lister built his strength, defeated Quint in their public duel, and accepted a mission to clear the Ghost-Eyed Giants from Rai Territory. After discovering a turquoise crystal guarded by a powerful Cyclops, he joined forces with Lawson and Quint to confront the giants, while Kailina moved toward the same prize.

• Chen Xinhe woke as Lister Merick in Divine Revelation’s world, learned he had a duel with Quint, and began preparing to avoid the fate he remembered for Master Merrick.
• Lister hunted Three-Headed Hound Knights, strengthened his skills, and declared the cleared Kayas Region safe for a trade route with the Poly Merchant Association.
• Lister learned that Anna planned to elope with Ruisi and that Quint knew of their relationship, while Quint revealed Duke Will II wanted to control the professional families and offered Lister an alliance.
• Lister defeated Quint in the public duel, and Duke Will II assigned Lister a dangerous Ghost-Eyed Giants mission while secretly planning to have him killed.
• Quint brought Anna and Ruisi back after their escape failed, then joined Lister in opposing Kailina as Lister traveled to Rai Territory and changed his class to Basic Swordsman.
• Lister explored Rai Territory, killed cyclopes, and found a level 31 elite Cyclops guarding a turquoise crystal in the ruins of the baron’s castle.
• Lister persuaded Lawson Conner to help eliminate the Cyclopes, while Quint recruited Kailina to hunt them and she threatened to kill Lister if they met.
• Lister waited with Lawson and Simmons near the castle as Lawson spotted Kailina approaching and led the group toward the core area.

Lister uncovered a vast turquoise vein, gained a countship and diplomatic authority from the Kingdom of Lucian, then entered Great Chu during the closed beta. In Jiangling Prefecture, he pursued a painting linked to an imperial secret treasure and drew player Chen Shanqiang and thief Wu Yan into his investigation of Assistant Commander Li.

• Lister and Lawson killed Ante, Kailina, and the Ghost-Eyed Giant, then discovered a vast turquoise vein beneath the ruined castle.
• Lister mastered Will Breathing Technique, and Count Connor asked him to take the mine’s discovery to the Kingdom of Lucian.
• Lister killed Nasis and Tracy, then sought out Carven Lucian at Lucian Professionals' University and revealed both the mine and a buried alchemical city.
• Lister met King Kerry and Hughes Lucian, who appointed him envoy to the Great Chu Imperial Dynasty and placed the Sixth Guard under his command.
• Lister received a countship, wealth, equipment, and a share of the mines, while the Will Family revoked the Merick Family’s titles in the Duchy of Will.
• When the closed beta began, Lister created the player character Chen Xinhe and led the Sixth Guard into Jiangling Prefecture, where he obtained a counterfeit Yellow Court Saber Art visualization scroll after a bandit attack.
• Lister accompanied Xiong Ranran to her family’s mansion, where the Brocade Guard investigated the painting, and he suspected Assistant Commander Li had kept the genuine diagram and framed Marquis Xiong.
• Lister commissioned Chen Shanqiang to investigate Assistant Commander Li, caught thief Wu Yan searching his luggage, and later confronted her at Shanyi Hall.

Lister uncovered genuine visualization methods, defended Jiangxia from a demonic beast tide, and used his strength and saber instruction to gain influence among players. After killing General Yu and Duke Wei, he remained in Jiangling Prefecture and met a mysterious Faceless One sent to investigate him.

• Lister helped defeat the Bloodmane Spirit Bear at Jiangxia, then discovered that the recovered secret treasures in the Imperial City were fakes and chose three genuine visualization methods from the imperial treasury.
• After the open beta began, Lister tested the city’s punishment system by killing Love of a Lifetime, but Chen Xinhe took the penalty instead, and Lister confirmed that monsters stopped respawning in areas he had cleared.
• General Yu injured Rolf and demanded that Lister lead the delegation to Lucian, so Lister killed Yu Yang after he provoked him and attacked his guard captain.
• Lister taught Chen Shanqiang the Merrick Saber Technique and arranged for him to kill One Sword Opens the Heavens, turning Chen Xinhe into a famous outlaw and drawing players to Lister’s lessons.
• Lister taught the Merrick Saber Technique to hundreds of thousands of players, raised his visualization skills, and killed Duke Wei and his soldiers after Duke Wei came to force him to leave for Lucian.
• The Yongping Emperor ordered officials to blame the deaths on a demonic beast tide and let Lister depart, while Lister continued teaching players and won Robust Physique at auction.
• Lister bought the Radiance of Extreme Transcendence and advanced the Merrick Saber Technique to B-rank, then met a Level 40 Faceless One who revealed that he was the King of Qin’s senior brother and had come to investigate him.

Lister returned to the Duchy of Will, helped Quint claim the dukedom, and began Act Two with a new quest to register Lucian with the Galactic Federation. He and Wang Yue entered the Alchemy Ruined City, where they met Hoffman and learned that Carven Dill had been waiting for Lister.

• Lister returned to Lucian with Chen Tuo, learned Hughes had become king, and refused Hughes’s offer of a generalship before Wang Yue helped him rob the royal treasury of potions and military rewards.
• After Duke Will II’s death sparked a civil war, Lister defeated Morey and the other heirs, then helped Quint secure the dukedom and assemble two thousand Class Holders for the kingdom’s war.
• Act Two began, and Lister accepted a harder advancement quest from Zone 71 to register Lucian with the Galactic Federation before setting out to find the alchemy ruins with Wang Yue.
• Lister and Wang Yue entered the Alchemy Ruined City, fought its machines, and gained access to the central districts after Lister won a public assessment against a combat robot.
• In District Four, Lister and Wang Yue found a green-haired alchemical doll, then encountered an Alchemical Type S Puppet in District Three that broke Lister’s saber during their fight.
• Lister killed the puppet and transferred true damage to its controller, while Hoffman introduced himself as the city’s creator and revealed that Carven Dill had been waiting for Lister for over a year.
• The ruins granted Lister and Wang Yue A-rank clearance to Area One, where they entered Hoffman’s home and Wang Yue found a diary crystal.