Recaps

Xu Xi used his repeated deaths to guide his teammates through a haunted highway instance, while viewers mistook his hard-won knowledge for extraordinary insight. The group reached a tunnel where a duplicate of Li Kang appeared, and Xu Xi looped back to face the confrontation for a third time.

• Xu Xi cleared the birthday instance by celebrating Tong Binbin’s birthday with a corpse and stew, then entered Player Space and began exploring the golden staircase.
• Ji Yang watched Xu Xi’s short clear, edited it into a viral video, and vowed to watch every future stream.
• Xu Xi entered a foggy wilderness with Tan Xingyun, Li Kang, and Xu Xiuman, and the group found a black sedan and drove to a funeral-supply shop.
• The shopkeeper warned the group about Daoji Highway and sold them joss paper, and Xu Xi later returned to buy a large supply and offering incense after a failed attempt.
• The group scattered spirit money to drive away Ghostly Shadows, then Xu Xi gave joss paper and incense to an old woman who had blocked their car and asked for a ride.
• The Red-Skirted Woman guided the group through a misleading forest, accepted joss paper as a wedding gift, and gave them wedding candy before they continued toward a tunnel.
• A second sedan rammed Tan Xingyun’s car in the tunnel, and its driver appeared to be another Li Kang, and Tan Xingyun left the stranger behind after questioning both men.
• As the tunnel exit came into view, Xu Xi returned to the confrontation for a third time and remembered that their car had exploded on the first attempt.

Xu Xi entered a storm-bound inn instance, using death rollbacks and clues to survive its creatures and traps. After the young man’s schemes caused the Refined Man’s death and the Burly Man’s mutation, Xu Xi and the High-Ponytail Woman hid from the evolved creature and prepared to clear the instance.

• Xu Xi traded the group’s paper money, incense, and original car to take ownership of the fake Li Kang’s vehicle, then drove everyone safely out of the tunnel and cleared the instance.
• Xu Xi entered a mountain inn instance with four teammates and found clues about missing guests, strange rules, and a monstrous grandmother who attacked people after nighttime knocks.
• After dying when a long-armed creature approached, Xu Xi rolled back, extinguished the candle, and used his flashlight to drive the creature away, though the Short-Haired Woman with Glasses had died.
• Xu Xi trapped the White Humanoid in Room 106, challenged the Refined Man and Burly Man, and helped uncover a hidden passage beneath Room 101 that proved to be a dead-end trap.
• The group caught Yang Wu, who said he was searching for his missing sister and had set a trap because he suspected the players were not human.
• The Burly Man mutated into a White Humanoid, and Yang Wu led Xu Xi, the Refined Man, and the High-Ponytail Woman into the cellar before admitting he had invented much of his story.
• An evolved creature killed the Refined Man, and Xu Xi died before rolling back and striking Yang Wu down as the High-Ponytail Woman joined him in a small room.
• Xu Xi and the High-Ponytail Woman distracted the Evolved Body with their jackets and hid while Xu Xi realized Yang Wu had caused the Burly Man’s mutation with toxin and special powder.

Xu Xi and five other players investigated Ninghe Village’s deaths, poisoned wells, and planned sacrifice of Awang. After uncovering the Mountain God’s role and growing suspicious of the shamaness and Gao Zhuang, Xu Xi and the tall, thin man followed Awang to his mother’s grave.

• Xu Xi cleared the inn dungeon, and Ji Yang reviewed how Xu Xi had outmaneuvered Fake Yang Wu and the other players before Xu Xi entered another instance.
• Village Chief Zhu brought Xu Xi and five players to Ninghe Village and asked them to resolve its mysterious deaths within three days while keeping their identities secret.
• Xu Xi and the players found evidence of a blood-watered wheat field, learned that villagers blamed Awang’s dead mother, and discovered that Granny Shaman planned to sacrifice Awang to the Mountain God.
• Xu Xi rejected the Mountain God’s offer at the temple, then learned from Village Chief Zhu that the shaman had used the god to suppress deaths and that recent victims had made wishes there.
• Xu Xi recognized that Village Chief Zhu’s food was poisoned, and the players tested the village wells and found several poisoned wells linked to deceased villagers.
• The curly-haired woman collapsed and died, while the players grew suspicious of Gao Zhuang and the shamaness after the clinic visit and the shamaness’s summons.
• Xu Xi and the tall, thin man followed Awang to his mother’s grave, placed flowers there, and received Awang’s thanks.

Xu Xi exposed the village’s poisoning and sacrifice scheme, then cleared a looping-street solo instance built around several intertwined tragedies. After God Hunt selected him for a mixed-nation competition, he entered an island-camp scenario but chose to withdraw before the other contestants went in.

• Xu Xi and his teammates exposed Gao Zhuang’s poisoning scheme, stopped his arson, and helped Village Chief Zhu lead the villagers in destroying the Mountain God Temple, clearing the village instance.
• Xu Xi reflected on the players’ schemes and received praise as the first player to clear an instance on Shining Players, then chose to attempt the solo selection instance for the mixed-nation competition.
• Xu Xi navigated looping streets, used Rollback to survive deadly anomalies, and gathered clues about the deaths of a family and other victims.
• Xu Xi uncovered a series of linked tragedies involving animal cruelty, bullying, and revenge, then collected four photograph fragments to clear the solo instance.
• God Hunt selected Xu Xi to represent Huaguo in the mixed-nation competition, where contestants were told to complete challenges at the abandoned Fitali camp on Tanersheng Island.
• During a blessing ceremony, the shaman convulsed and attacked people while warning them to stay away, prompting the production crew to stop the ritual.
• Xu Xi decided to withdraw from the competition and wait for filming to finish, while the other ten players chose to enter the camp.