Recaps

An anonymous forum post recounted Number One’s role in founding and organizing the Mutual Aid Association, from building its first network to establishing the Council and later yielding power to Chairman Song. Number One discovered the post and was pleased to see his history discussed.

• An anonymous poster described Number One’s emergency-management background and how he quickly contacted acquaintances and Number Two after transmigrating.
• The poster explained how Number One built the Mutual Aid Association by winning over administrators and information workers, spreading a controlled rumor, and developing an organization before recruiting powerful Survivors.
• The poster recounted the formation of the Council, the factional struggles that followed, Qin Lang’s appointment, and Number One’s decision to hand power to Chairman Song and step down.
• Forum users debated whether organization or individual strength mattered more and whether Number One had intended to relinquish power.
• Number One searched the forum after a meeting, found the post about himself, and beamed at its praise.

After the Monster Tide and District War settlements, Qin Lang assessed the system updates and faced the growing burden of managing Zone 76’s resources and new systems. Su Luo replied immediately to Qin Lang’s message about the materials he had requested.

• Number One read and shared articles about himself and Number Two, then returned to work with concern about the backlog.
• The system announced the Monster Tide and District War settlements, Zone 76’s survival rate, its rewards, and several updates.
• Qin Lang welcomed the upgraded System Store and reconsidered the need for a new currency, while focusing on designing a contribution system and managing Zone 76’s resources.
• Song Shige delegated decision-making to Number One and left, while Su Luo withdrew to his experimental zone to work on his laboratory.
• Qin Lang arranged the materials on Su Luo’s supply list and asked whether to send them to Han Song or let Su Luo collect them.
• Su Luo replied to Qin Lang’s message immediately.

Su Luo pursued ways to raise his attributes and gain more time, while preparing an experimental reserve of Fire Element and relocating his emergency teleport point. The chapter ended with the World Channel displaying Trial Instance ratings and a silver-badged user claiming the Survival System was a gal game.

• Su Luo arranged to borrow dozens of blue Skill Books, then reviewed his modest Spirit and Constitution gains and considered three paths to greater attribute growth.
• Su Luo set up a Mana Pool and elemental conversion device to accumulate high-purity Fire Element for future experiments.
• Su Luo used the Near-Death Teleportation Ticket to choose a safe, open wasteland as his emergency return point.
• Su Luo calculated that matching the Dream World’s five-hundredfold time flow would require an absurd amount of energy, then asked the System for a dream-related purple skill.
• The World Channel gained badges based on Trial Instance ratings and new message filters, while a silver-badged user claimed the Survival System was a gal game.

Su Luo reviewed the World Channel’s class-holder statistics, then prepared a high-temperature Mana Pool experiment that required more materials. He arrived to meet Han Song, who demonstrated advanced fire skills in the darkness.

• A gold-badged survivor reported that 364,376 class holders had spoken, including 842 gold badges, 284,391 silver badges, and 79,143 bronze badges.
• Su Luo left the World Channel and prepared a vacuum domain around the Mana Pool so its fireball could exceed ten million degrees.
• Han Song waited outside the Sanctuary with traded materials and practiced shaping several fire skills he had learned from Su Luo’s posts.
• Su Luo appeared silently beside Han Song, startling him.

Su Luo distributed study materials and a weapon-modification guide, then selected new titles after the Title System update. He checked the expanded System Store and sent Xiao Luo to build an optimized laboratory in the Dream World while he returned to the Library.

• Su Luo checked Han Song's dream log, traded him green fire-study books, and told him to learn the prerequisites for the blue skill [Fire Domain].
• Su Luo visited Ye Xu's stone house, then gave Han Song ten copies of [Weapon Modification Operating Guide (blue)] and a necklace to pass to Qin Lang.
• After the Title System update, Su Luo obtained [Full-Health One], [Wanderer], and [Scholar], then equipped [Wanderer] and [Scholar] in place of his fire titles.
• Su Luo reviewed new upgrade materials in the System Store and called Xiao Luo to build the optimized Dream World laboratory.
• Xiao Luo warned that losing the computing area's information hub would reduce efficiency by seventy percent, and Su Luo told it to watch the central fireball so it would not explode.

Jiang Mengrui tested the System Store’s new specified skill-book draws and found that the books she received were unusable, then learned the penalty exemption for her subordinate’s lost attributes cost over two hundred million Survival Coins. She compensated him with resources and discovered the store’s new item-enhancement function, successfully improving her Guardian Sword to +1.

• Jiang Mengrui spent nine million SC on a specified draw and received a defense skill book that no one she tested could use.
• Jiang Mengrui spent ten million SC and then 200,000 SC on two more draws, but neither skill book suited anyone; she told World Channel users the draws seemed designed to avoid what people needed.
• Jiang Mengrui checked the second District War penalty exemption and learned it would cost her subordinate 203 million SC.
• Jiang Mengrui gave her subordinate resources to compensate him for the attribute loss, choosing to shoulder the burden herself.
• Jiang Mengrui used the store’s new enhancement function on her Guardian Sword and successfully raised it to +1.

Jiang Mengrui enhanced her Guardian Sword, while Chao Tuke sought billions of Survival Coins to remove his severe punishment and restore his attributes. Meanwhile, Su Luo tested three Perfect-quality buildings that boosted Spirit recovery, inspiration, and mental development.

• Jiang Mengrui enhanced her Guardian Sword to +11, activating an effect that could briefly protect her from powerful mental shocks.
• Chao Tuke saw that exempting himself from the second District War’s Severe Punishment would cost 3.2 billion Survival Coins, far more than his 270 million in liquid funds.
• Chao Tuke ordered Zone 76’s managers to recycle high-level resources and raise at least 2 billion Survival Coins within 24 hours, threatening those who disobeyed.
• The District War System unexpectedly began a countdown to the next District War, which was due in 25 days.
• Su Luo sat on the Spiritual Meditation Platform and examined its mental benefits, then inspected the Inspiration Spark Rack and Spirit-Nourishing Spinning Top.

Su Luo used the Mutual Aid Association’s funding and Zone 76’s tax exemption to deploy new buildings, then inspected his experimental area’s thirty-million-degree fusion device and equipped himself with strengthened Perfect-quality gear. He left with the new heat source’s potential in mind and his equipment upgraded.

• Su Luo discovered that the shop now sold blueprints for buildings deployable outside a Sanctuary, including emergency bases and environment builders.
• Su Luo enabled tips on an obscure post and received a hundred million SC from the Mutual Aid Association, with the regional tax exemption preventing fees.
• Su Luo examined the rebuilt fusion device, a controlled thirty-million-degree heat source, and considered its uses for experiments, Spells, and future laboratory power.
• Su Luo set aside dozens of blue Skill Books for return and opened equipment boxes delivered by the Mutual Aid Association.
• Su Luo equipped eight Perfect-quality items strengthened to +11 and compared their bonuses with his Legendary-quality Plan of Enduring Principles.

Su Luo examined his new Perfect-quality supplies and used his upgraded necklace to create seven Soul Servants. He studied the Superpower Orbs extracted from Ye Xu and chose a Soul Servant for an experiment, leaving the next step unresolved.

• Su Luo opened chests containing Perfect-quality consumables and inspected his upgraded Soul-Draining Necklace.
• Su Luo spent forty-nine Soul Fragments to create seven Elite Soul Servants.
• Su Luo examined the Superpower Orbs he had extracted from Ye Xu and considered how their protective mechanism worked.
• Su Luo selected a stable, sturdy Soul Servant to use in an experiment with the extracted orbs.

Su Luo tested whether a Superpower Orb could transform a Soul Servant into an Awakened, but the experiment killed the servant and proved too difficult to continue without more data. He used his Legendary item, [Genli Zhi Mo], as a powerful calculator, enhanced it to +3, and left Zone 76 with his belongings buried nearby.

• Su Luo tried to use a [Flamefire Legacy] orb to transform a Soul Servant, but the orb’s energy and protection mechanism destroyed it despite his efforts to stabilize and repair its soul.
• Su Luo abandoned the fusion experiment, deciding to study Superpower Orb interactions and gather more data before trying again.
• Su Luo tested the laboratory’s upgraded defenses and escape systems, then activated [Genli Zhi Mo]’s [Strategic Calculation] effect.
• Su Luo found that [Strategic Calculation] could not independently solve problems, but it rapidly completed computational tasks when supplied with clear models and data.
• Su Luo approved outsourcing the Calculation Zone’s demanding calculations to [Strategic Calculation] and enhanced [Genli Zhi Mo] to +3 at great cost.
• Su Luo buried important belongings and experimental materials, returned the blue Skill Book, and drove the laboratory out of Zone 76.

Ye Xu’s cheat made killing teammates increase his stats, but after his team’s mission difficulty turned to hell, he and Han Jin were badly injured while pursuing the Holy Talisman. The chapter then revealed that Han Song had written Ye Xu’s Dream World experiences as a novel, before the experimenters began a new test using a Talisman of Favor.

• Ye Xu discovered that killing teammates spared him punishment and raised his stats, and Han Jin agreed to accompany him into a fourth mission world.
• The mission to obtain the Holy Talisman abruptly changed from normal difficulty to hell difficulty, with death as the penalty.
• Wounded and near death, Han Jin asked Ye Xu to kill him, and Ye Xu’s stats rose more than they had from all his previous kills combined.
• Han Song’s post about Ye Xu’s experiences ended, and readers commented on the story and speculated about Ye Xu’s cheat.
• Han Song inspected the experiment’s output and confirmed that its simplified test had failed.
• Su Luo selected the Talisman of Favor as the first item for the experiment’s next three-day test.

Su Luo explored a vast vacuum zone where objects were drawn toward a mysterious center and transformed into high-energy rays. His calculations suggested a gravity-generating device with immense mass, so he recorded the site as [Gravity Source] and left to study it later.

• Su Luo reached a spherical vacuum zone after following an Exploration Quest from the summit of a gravity mountain.
• Su Luo tested the zone with rocks and other objects, finding that they accelerated toward its center before vanishing and producing high-energy rays.
• Su Luo calculated that the center behaved like an immense Gravity Source and contained an unknown area only a few cubic meters in size.
• Su Luo recorded the location as [Gravity Source] and left without entering the dangerous zone.
• Su Luo recalled another recorded site, [Kaleidoscope], where distorted light and chaotic elements made exploration dangerous.

Su Luo explored the Land of Darkness, recorded a graveyard of stellar debris, and reached a vast ancient ruin at the system’s destination. After deciphering its archaic markings, he learned they said, “The stars are dying.”

• Su Luo fled a Contamination zone and continued charting dangerous terrain in the Land of Darkness while improving his Three-Cycle Method, Heartfire control, and Spell Permanence Technique.
• His laboratory struck debris heated to 3.7 billion degrees, and Su Luo recorded the surrounding stellar wreckage as the Celestial Body Tomb.
• Su Luo navigated out of the Celestial Body Tomb and reached the ruin marked by the system’s Exploration Quest.
• After preparing shields, consumables, and Soul Servants, Su Luo approached the ruin’s dark, crater-like entrance and examined its carvings.
• Su Luo touched the archaic markings, sensed an ancient spiritual echo, and translated the message: “The stars are dying.”

Su Luo explored an ancient civilization’s ruins, translated the few inscriptions that remained, and uncovered a hall of empty coffin-like structures. Completing the Exploration Quest earned him the Purple Skill Enhanced Perception, and touching a new point of light immediately activated another quest.

• Su Luo entered the ruins and searched their empty halls, finding only a few surviving inscriptions describing a civilization’s decline.
• Su Luo explored the upper and middle levels, studying the ruins’ construction, then descended to inspect the branching passages.
• Su Luo found a vast hall filled with empty coffin-like structures and crumbling tubes, then translated a longer inscription about a new world, the vanished starry sky, and migration for survival.
• The system marked Su Luo’s Exploration Quest complete and awarded him the Purple Skill Enhanced Perception.
• Su Luo touched a new point of light, activating another Exploration Quest, but he could not sense the direction the system indicated.

Su Luo tested his new Purple Skill, Enhanced Perception, and briefly saw gravity itself as a web of silver threads. Elsewhere, Shan Yixian braved a deadly wind-blade zone to obtain a plant that increased his Spirit, but the Abyss cut off his way back.

• Su Luo asked Song Shige about his guidance quest, then tested Enhanced Perception and discovered that he could directly perceive gravity before the skill exhausted him.
• Shan Yixian followed his Information Prompt to a quest point in a wind-blade zone after abandoning a cavern with dangerous gravity.
• Shan Yixian activated his protective equipment and entered the wind-blade zone, enduring its hazards for about half a day.
• Shan Yixian emerged with a plant, ate it, and gained 0.2 Spirit along with a closer affinity to Wind Element.
• Shan Yixian discovered that the Abyss had blocked his route home and resolved to get his mobile Sanctuary running.

After completing his first Exploration Quest, Su Luo tested his new Purple Skill and weighed returning to his base against pursuing more quests. An unexpected invitation appeared, and Zone 76’s count revealed that only Jing Yunxin and one other person had received it.

• Su Luo experimented with [Enhanced Perception] and discovered it could extend his senses, reveal gravity, and let him observe Mana in fine detail.
• Su Luo considered returning to Zone 76 to consolidate his research and secure supplies, or seeking more Exploration Quests and Purple Skills before the next District War.
• Su Luo noticed an invitation letter in his mailbox with a one-hour countdown and saw that others in the World Channel had received one too.
• Zone 76 counted only two recipients: Jing Yunxin and an unidentified second person who surprised the zone.

Su Luo strengthened [Genli Zhi Mo (Legendary)] and used the invitation to bring his laboratory into an advanced world, where he became its temporary World Master. The story then shifted to the Yuncang Star System and Nanmen Shi, an ordinary player entering a private AI test server in Ten Thousand Worlds.

• Su Luo learned that Gao Fu was reclusive, spent most of his time sleeping, and had an unexplained invitation, so he planned to question him later.
• Su Luo spent Survival Coins enhancing [Genli Zhi Mo (Legendary)] to +7, improving its mana and energy-related effects.
• Su Luo opened the golden invitation and selected his laboratory and everything inside it to teleport with him.
• A voice struck Su Luo unconscious, and the system identified him as the Temporary World Master of the advanced world [Under the Starry Sky].
• Nanmen Shi entered Ten Thousand Worlds and selected [Unrestricted AI Test Server (Private)].

Nanmen Shi used the Ten Thousand Worlds for entertainment and worked in a service industry deeply tied to the game. After every server shut down for a mandatory update, he learned that the disruption could eliminate up to half of all jobs and trigger a global economic crisis.

• Nanmen Shi entered a private AI server and used its unrestricted modules to generate pornography before spending the rest of his free time in an erotic adventure world.
• Nanmen Shi messaged a classmate after seeing them in a news feed, teased them about not wearing clothes in the cold, and found that they had blocked him.
• Nanmen Shi received notice that his industry was entering an indefinite rectification period and learned that every Ten Thousand Worlds server had shut down for an unannounced update.
• Nanmen Shi searched for information and discovered that the shutdown had left roughly half the population without work.
• Nanmen Shi followed news and panic online during the twenty-hour outage, then read an official forecast warning that up to fifty-two percent of jobs could disappear within seventy-two hours.

Nanmen Shi entered the Yuncang World and discovered that Yuncang Union citizens had been legally conscripted into a mandatory game-adaptation protocol. After awakening and registering his SSS Talent, Live and Die Together, he disappeared from the ordinary world; meanwhile, Su Luo awoke after a journey of more than twenty hours to a star-filled realm.

• Nanmen Shi accepted an invitation to the Yuncang World and learned that he had been lawfully conscripted into its adaptation protocol.
• Nanmen Shi reunited with his three friends, who explained that citizens had to spend at least seventy percent of their daily time playing designated worlds or face severe penalties.
• Nanmen Shi followed the crowd to Awakening Plaza, where a guide registered his Talent, Live and Die Together, which received an SSS rating.
• Su Luo awoke in a laboratory overlooking a vast, brilliantly colored sea of stars and realized that his teleportation had taken more than twenty hours.

Su Luo examined the [Ten Thousand Worlds] panel and discovered that he had been assigned quests to safeguard [Under the Starry Sky] and help [Yuncang World] join the game. He contacted other survivors to compare their assignments, then asked the World Channel whether anyone else had entered [Ten Thousand Worlds].

• Su Luo claimed the nickname "Scholar" and inspected his [Ten Thousand Worlds] panel, which identified him as the World Master of [Under the Starry Sky].
• Su Luo read his two main quests: safeguard [Starry Sky Forbidden Land] and help [Yuncang World] join [Ten Thousand Worlds].
• Su Luo saw World Channel messages from players who had been transported to unfamiliar places and were still able to use system functions.
• Su Luo contacted Song Shige, Jing Yunxin, and Gao Fu, learning that each had been sent somewhere different and given a distinct duty.
• Su Luo concluded that survivors shared the experience of being assigned tasks by an entity and asked the World Channel whether anyone else was in [Ten Thousand Worlds].

Su Luo headed toward a mysterious starlit island while unrest spread across the Yuncang Star System after the [Ten Thousand Worlds] update. Nanmen Shi learned that he was being sent into a war against aggression that his captain called a mad gamble, then entered the Yuncang 21st Expeditionary Army's private world.

• Su Luo concluded that the [Great Beings] were recruiting survivors for work and guided his laboratory toward the nearest starlit island.
• The [Ten Thousand Worlds] update and revelations about its connection to reality sparked military rule, riots, rebellion, and departures from the Yuncang Star System.
• Nanmen Shi traveled aboard a transport ship toward Yuncang Star with a legendary captain who had recruited him for the expedition.
• The captain described the conflict as a just war of defense but admitted it was a mad gamble on players and the merging of virtual and real worlds.
• Nanmen Shi accepted the Yuncang 21st Expeditionary Army's private-world invitation and began crossing into its world node.

Su Luo explored the Starry Sky Forbidden Land and met the three highest-level Wardens of nearby islands, learning how the Survivors’ quests and power systems worked. The chapter ended with the group watching two powerful attacks collide above the ground.

• Su Luo spent two days exploring the Starry Sky Forbidden Land and found that Under the Starry Sky was a small plane made up of hundreds of floating islands.
• Su Luo learned that Survivors guarded different islands, shared a similar first main quest, and would lose part of their second quest rewards if they failed to defend their assigned areas.
• Su Luo met the Wardens Kuangxuan Dabaji, Xiao Kou Chang Kai, and Dog Shit_@!... and learned about their strength and backgrounds.
• Su Luo questioned the three Wardens about their names, and their explanations left him doubtful about completing the main quest.
• Su Luo, the three Wardens, and other Survivors watched a cyan spiral spear collide with a spreading dark-purple net of energy.

Su Luo left the other Survivors and prepared to resume experimenting with the Superpower Orb at the core of the Starry Sky Forbidden Land. He activated powerful perception and inspiration skills, beginning a carefully balanced fusion experiment while the Black Flame Domain continued to threaten the island.

• Su Luo discovered that he could not add [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] as a friend, then left the experts and flew his laboratory toward the expanding Black Flame Domain.
• [Dog Shit_@!...] watched the laboratory disappear and worried about how quickly Su Luo's black flames were transforming the island.
• Su Luo arranged his research equipment and consumables near the Astral Remains at the island's core, then summoned a Soul Servant for another fusion experiment.
• Su Luo activated [Enhanced Perception (purple)] and [Burst of Inspiration], using potions and energy supplied by the laboratory to sustain his research.
• Su Luo focused on finding a safe energy balance between the Superpower Orb's defensive mechanism and the Soul Servant's fragile structure.

Nanmen Shi attended a briefing on the planned expedition to [Under the Starry Sky], where the reconnaissance team’s findings revealed a vast world defended by at least 119 legendary-rank beings. The expeditionary force had barely over fifty legendary players, leaving the room to face the scale of the threat as Nanmen Shi asked whether more armies could be sent.

• At the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land], [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] noticed an impossible tear in the sky above the Su Luo Laboratory, filled with gilded Dao patterns and spectral flames.
• A briefing announced that the Yuncang 21st Expeditionary Army would invade [Under the Starry Sky] to slow the rising world progress and postpone the final battle.
• The briefing showed reconnaissance images of roughly 120 floating islands, including the immense central [Starry Sky Forbidden Land].
• Officials reported that 80 percent of the first reconnaissance team had been killed and that at least 119 legendary-rank life-forms inhabited the world.
• Nanmen Shi noted that the expeditionary force had only a little over fifty legendary players and asked whether other armies could join the invasion.

Nanmen Shi was assigned a critical role in the expedition against [Under the Starry Sky], while Su Luo discussed the cost of avoiding District War punishment and prepared his realm for the coming conflict. Four and a half days after becoming World Master, Su Luo continued his research as scouts entered the outer islands and the Survivors’ numbers fell.

• The commander told Nanmen Shi that the Twenty-First Army would join three other expeditionary armies and explained their plan to attack the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land].
• The commander urged Nanmen Shi to rely on his [Live and Die Together] Talent and asked whether he had any requests, and Nanmen Shi asked if the commander had a daughter.
• [Kuangxuan Dabaji] revealed that he bought a [Second District War Severe Punishment Exemption Opportunity] for thirty-one billion six million five hundred thousand, after his region’s population dropped from 8,200 to 7,000.
• Su Luo, [Dog Shit_@!...], [Kuangxuan Dabaji], and [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] compared their regional populations, and Su Luo reported a little over nine thousand.
• Organized player squads entered the outer islands of [Under the Starry Sky] to conduct reconnaissance, and Su Luo passed reports to the local Wardens while capturing two players for questioning.
• Su Luo focused on experiments and compiling the Spell Permanence Technique as the number of Survivors fell from 119 to 110 after nine died in internal conflicts and killings.