Recaps

Su Luo studied Fortune and Talent Awakening, awakened Mental Overload, and spent most of his remaining Source increasing his Fortune before leaving the Starry Sky Forbidden Land. After returning to the Land of Darkness, he found Mo Xiaoyu and Yuan Dong gravely injured by its extreme gravity and began healing them with Natural Element energy.

• Su Luo learned that Fortune shaped probability trends, found that the shop did not offer Account Retention Opportunity or World Rollback Authority, and discovered that his Talent awakening assessment required eight stones.
• Su Luo awakened the A-rated Mental Overload Talent, bought a Talent Awakening Stone as a research sample, and raised his Fortune to 430 while keeping about a thousand Source in reserve.
• Yuncang No. 29 urged Su Luo to leave, and Su Luo returned with the laboratory, Yuncang No. 29, and the spoils to the Land of Darkness.
• Nanmen Shi emerged from the inner room struggling under the Land of Darkness's extreme gravity and reported that Mo Xiaoyu and Yuan Dong had passed out and appeared nearly dead.
• Su Luo corrected Nanmen Shi about his surname, brought out Mo Xiaoyu and Yuan Dong's injured bodies, and guided Natural Element energy into them.

After returning to the Land of Darkness, Su Luo repaired Mo Xiaoyu and Yuan Dong, checked in with his companions, and discovered that the Ten Thousand Worlds panel had entered Offline Mode outside its coverage area. He began examining his rewards, deciding to use a Spiritual Crystal for experiments before turning to the Flamefire Legacy.

• Su Luo restored Mo Xiaoyu and Yuan Dong, reinforced the laboratory against gravity, and told Nanmen Shi to remain in the inner room.
• Su Luo contacted Song Shige, Jing Yunxin, and Gao Fu, learning that Song Shige and Jing Yunxin expected to return in about three days.
• Su Luo confirmed that Fortune still boosted his learning speed, then discovered the Ten Thousand Worlds panel had restricted functions and Talents required stored energy in Offline Mode.
• Su Luo connected his energy reserves to the laboratory's Mana Pool and told Nanmen Shi, Mo Xiaoyu, and Yuan Dong to charge their panels with Mana.
• Yuncang No. 29 restarted after the high-gravity zone and complained that Su Luo had not helped him.
• Su Luo examined the Spiritual Crystal, chose to use it to cultivate Soul Servants and conduct experiments, then prepared to inspect the Flamefire Legacy.

Su Luo analyzed the Flamefire Legacy and the Unknown Atlas, learning how the atlas used Vital Energy to activate basic Martial Dao runes and discovering how to advance it. As survivors returned from the trials, rising casualties and spreading solutions threatened to close off ordinary survivors’ chances of obtaining Forbidden Classes.

• Su Luo put away the SS Rank Flamefire Legacy, deciding that he wanted its knowledge and operating mechanism rather than its power.
• Su Luo used Vital Energy to activate the Unknown Atlas’s characters and found that they formed basic Martial Dao runes that strengthened the body.
• Su Luo concluded that the atlas improved comprehension of basic Martial Dao runes and identified the materials and conditions needed to advance it.
• Su Luo sent Qin Lang the materials list and an explanation, then entered his dream to study and improve his attributes.
• Forbidden Class holders returned from the trials, but about fifteen percent of those invited by Great Beings had died, a higher rate than in the previous Continued Battles.
• Trial guides and standard answers spread among survivors, making Forbidden Classes increasingly unattainable for those who had not yet undergone a Class Change.

Han Song decided to attempt his Class Change after Su Luo advised him to master a blue attribute skill first. On his return to Zone 76, Su Luo reserved space for his laboratory, encountered the recovering Mutated Insect Queen, and found Nanmen Shi in a badly burned state.

• Han Song told an acquaintance he would go to the Trial Instance after discussing his Class Change with Su Luo, who urged him to learn the basics of a blue attribute skill first.
• Su Luo asked the Mutual Aid Association to reserve land for an integrated experimentation and production array, and Qin Lang said the president had already reserved an entire Safe Zone for him.
• Su Luo brought his laboratory back toward Zone 76 and steered toward the Mutated Insect Queen, who was devouring her offspring to recover from severe injuries.
• Su Luo appraised the stronger Insect Queen, recorded her location and aura, and placed tracking spells on her.
• Nanmen Shi emerged from the experimental chamber with scorched-red skin and collapsed on the floor.

Su Luo’s attempts to install the Flamefire Legacy in Nanmen Shi repeatedly failed because Nanmen Shi was incompatible, but the experiments gave Su Luo valuable data. He then ordered Yun Xiaoxiao to build a more advanced energy system, leaving the young Dungeon protesting its forced labor.

• Su Luo repeatedly tried to fuse the Flamefire Legacy with Nanmen Shi, but Nanmen Shi’s body and soul rejected it.
• Nanmen Shi begged Su Luo to stop and suggested the legacy rejected him because Su Luo was a more suitable vessel, but Su Luo said Nanmen Shi was simply incompatible and knocked him out.
• Su Luo concluded that his fusion experiments, combined with his research on Superpower Orbs, could help him reproduce how legacies and orbs strengthened their hosts.
• Su Luo ordered Yun Xiaoxiao to upgrade his energy source into a stable fusion reactor with a Mana absorption module, then transferred the required technical knowledge into it.
• Yun Xiaoxiao left to build the reactor and complained that Su Luo had made it a laborer without wages, time off, or labor protections.

Su Luo oversaw Yun Xiaoxiao’s construction of a fusion reactor while using Miles Academy’s research to improve the Dream World. When Jing Yunxin returned, Su Luo discovered that a mysterious Perched Healing True Spirit had fused with her soul.

• Yun Xiaoxiao dismantled the existing apparatus and began building equipment to upgrade the energy core.
• Su Luo used Miles Academy’s experimental data to refine dream partitioning and develop a way to adjust the weight of dream areas.
• Jing Yunxin returned to her Sanctuary, where Su Luo’s Heartfire domain weakened her before he brought her to the laboratory for examination.
• Su Luo found an unknown life-form fused with Jing Yunxin’s soul and learned from the Ten Thousand Worlds panel that it was a juvenile Perched Healing True Spirit.

Su Luo confirmed that Jing Yunxin had gained a powerful being as a tenant rather than suffering possession or a curse. Elsewhere, a man confronted the Mutated Insect Queen and forced it to explain how its Nirvana Talent worked.

• Su Luo checked Jing Yunxin’s condition, found her soul had grown stronger, and gave her the information from the [Ten Thousand Worlds] panel.
• The Mutated Insect Queen prepared to consume its remaining offspring before moving to a safer territory.
• Recognizing the man who had stolen its offspring at Gravity Mountain, the Mutated Insect Queen attacked him with a psychic shock wave, which he effortlessly stopped.
• The man lifted some insects into the air and crushed the rest into a pillar of meat, forcing the Mutated Insect Queen to eat them and raising its Constitution to 22.
• The man pinned the Mutated Insect Queen and cracked its head with a Spell palm, then demanded Nirvana; the Queen explained that it could sacrifice itself to accelerate the next generation, and he told it he would keep that next life alive.

Su Luo tested his newly created purple skill, [Source Essence Circulation Technique], while the Mutated Insect Queen sacrificed herself to preserve her essence in an egg. After the sixth Monster Tide ended on the sixty-fourth day, survivors faced widespread deaths and growing numbness.

• The Mutated Insect Queen chose Sacrifice and poured her life energy, soul origin, and memories into an insect egg as her body withered.
• Su Luo observed the transformation and recorded data while confirming his breakthrough to level 8 and the creation of [Source Essence Circulation Technique].
• Su Luo assessed the skill’s internal and external energy cycles and planned improvements to its spell construction, stability, and conversion efficiency.
• Su Luo gained the [We Are Pioneers!] title for being the third survivor in World No. 9527 to obtain a purple attribute-type skill and added it permanently to his title combination.
• The sixth Monster Tide ended on the sixty-fourth day, leaving many survivors dead and communities increasingly numb to loss.
• Russian literature grew popular among survivors amid the cold, gloomy atmosphere and uncertain future.

Survivors developed theories about the Survival Filter, Survival Debt, and Dead Zones while Gold Badges worked on survival assessment models. Ye Fan revealed his extraordinary attributes and reacted with alarm after Su Luo said Guan had sought her out.

• Survivors discussed the Survival Filter's physical, rules, evolution, and conceptual layers, along with the risks of accumulating Survival Debt.
• The World Channel reported 10,123 Dead Zones and debated how many class holders remained alive.
• Gold Badge participants proposed using Ye Fan and his district as benchmarks for survival potential, and Ye Fan posted his attributes: Strength 26.0, Spirit 28.0, and Constitution 26.5.
• Jiang Mengrui, Ye Zizhen, Su Luo, and Qing Yunnan reacted to Ye Fan's numbers, with Ye Zizhen and Su Luo offering to build assessment models.
• Su Luo told Ye Fan she had met a cultivation-side Survivor called Guan, and Ye Fan first denied knowing him before admitting he did and asking how they had met.
• After Su Luo said Guan had come looking for her, Ye Fan warned her not to ask more and said he was scared.

Su Luo advanced his magical industrial plan for Zone 76 while improving the Dream World’s learning efficiency. He sent Yun Xiaoxiao to oversee construction and dispatched Xiao Luo to conduct experiments and gather materials.

• Survivors moved their Sanctuaries toward Safe Zones as mana flowed into a vast central area and sixteen industrial sites across Zone 76.
• Yun Xiaoxiao complained that Su Luo had assigned him to build basic industrial facilities immediately after he completed the experimental zone’s Magical Fusion Hybrid Reactor.
• Su Luo argued that industry could provide survivors with powerful external tools to accelerate their growth, then sent Yun Xiaoxiao to a Safe Zone.
• Su Luo completed changes to the Dream World, raising the learning area’s energy efficiency and enabling sustained tenfold acceleration with a fourteenfold overclocking limit.
• Su Luo told Xiao Luo to take the laboratory out to search for Exploration Quests, conduct the inheritance experiment, upgrade the laboratory, and collect samples.

Su Luo investigated the Great Being’s Invitation Letter and confirmed that Layton’s [Planar Stalker] class let him travel freely between worlds. He decided to connect Layton’s zone to Yun Xiaoxiao’s Dungeon, then heard a strange voice address him.

• Su Luo followed a direction indicated in his dream while searching for Purple Skills.
• Layton returned to his scrap-metal island and discovered traces of Mana near his home.
• Layton found a Survivor from Zone 76 and agreed to hear about the zone’s cross-regional cooperation plan.
• Su Luo confirmed Layton’s ability to travel between worlds and decided to send Yun Xiaoxiao’s Dungeon to Layton’s zone.
• Su Luo reflected on how the Invitation Letter had benefited unusual Survivors before a strange voice interrupted him.

Su Luo was pulled into a vast, layered dream ruled by a towering structure and found his powers heavily suppressed. After the Six-Eyed Giant Whale addressed him, the dream presented four starting choices, but Su Luo had not yet chosen when the chapter ended.

• Su Luo located a massive dream marked as a quest site, but an irresistible force pulled his consciousness inside.
• Su Luo arrived on a dark plain beneath a colossal tower and found a six-eyed giant whale at its base.
• Su Luo contacted the Mutual Aid Association and arranged for Yun Xiaoxiao to tell Xiao Luo that he was safe.
• Su Luo sensed that the dream was divided into connected layers and discovered that its rules suppressed his abilities.
• The Six-Eyed Giant Whale told Su Luo to choose, and the dream displayed four options involving cards, Relics, and a curse.

Su Luo chose to obtain a card, but the Six-Eyed Giant Whale’s interrupted speech brought a dead warrior crashing down from the Tower. The whale revived him, and Iron Guard introduced himself before leading Su Luo into the Tower, where they found a crude, dilapidated bottom floor.

• Su Luo examined the rules of his Source Essence Circulator and the active Desolation Plague effects, then chose to obtain a card.
• The Six-Eyed Giant Whale began speaking, causing the choices to vanish as a humanoid corpse fell from above the Tower.
• The whale’s mournful call stripped away the corpse’s darkness and wounds, reviving the warrior, who named himself Iron Guard.
• Iron Guard said he remembered needing to climb the corrupted Tower, and Su Luo agreed to follow him inside.
• Su Luo questioned Iron Guard about the Tower, but Iron Guard could not remember its origin or what he had to defeat.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard entered the Tower and found its bottom floor crude and dilapidated.

Su Luo and Iron Guard entered a turn-based card battle against a Cultist inside the Tower, learning the fight’s rules and the enemy’s abilities. The Cultist attacked them as the second round began, after Su Luo gained a defensive bonus and played his cards.

• Su Luo discovered that Tower combat used cards and examined his deck, while Iron Guard explained that their paired climb had increased the Cultist’s health.
• Iron Guard struck the Cultist with [Bash] and [Strike], applying Vulnerable, and explained the monster’s Intent and status effects.
• Su Luo played [Subconscious Reasoning] and [Fireball], then ended his turn and exhausted [Ascender's Bane].
• The Cultist used Ritual to gain strength at the end of its turn, and Iron Guard warned that it would attack in the next round.
• Su Luo spent two points of Source Essence for three armor at the start of each turn, then played two [Attacks] and one [Defend].
• The Cultist attacked Iron Guard and Su Luo with pale arcs of light.

Su Luo learned how combat and card rewards worked in the tower, then created a card suited to his own power before climbing toward the next room with Iron Guard. Meanwhile, Han Song hid in a ruined world beneath a blood-red moon, where humanity and the aberrant monsters had vanished and urban legends now roamed.

• Su Luo and Iron Guard defeated the Cultist, with Su Luo using Fireball to burn it to ashes and earn two Source Essence.
• Iron Guard collected his gold and chose a spectral card, while Su Luo found that his three reward cards were blank because he was an outsider to the tower.
• Su Luo infused the highest-quality blank card with Spell Mastery, which upgraded his attack and defense cards for the rest of a battle.
• Iron Guard led Su Luo up a stone staircase toward an unknown room in the tower.
• Han Song hid among the ruins on the thirtieth day of the Trial Instance and observed a world beneath a blood-red moon where humanity and aberrant monsters had disappeared.

Han Song’s attempt to save the world collapsed after the Blood Moon unleashed beings that wiped out humanity, and a mysterious music box appeared against his chest. At the Tower, Su Luo removed a card from his deck and took two potions from a blue sprite without paying.

• Han Song recalled how he had killed Dongli Cang, briefly ending the global Mutation and believing he had saved civilization.
• The Blood Moon rose three days later, bringing urban legends that replaced the mutants and killed the surviving humans within days.
• A music box appeared between Han Song’s chest and the ground, and a distorted melody began playing in his mind.
• Su Luo followed Iron Guard through the Tower and learned that the blue sprite sold items and could remove cards from decks.
• Su Luo paid 75 gold to remove an ordinary [Defend] card, then took two potions from the blue sprite without paying.

Su Luo explored a chamber with a blue Winged Spirit statue, then fought a Great Jaw Worm in the corridor beyond and created a new area-damage card after defeating it. The chapter ended with Iron Guard badly wounded at 2/75 HP as Su Luo asked whether he was about to die.

• Iron Guard prayed before the blue Winged Spirit statue and fell into a deep sleep, while Su Luo collected its scattered coins and examined its power.
• Iron Guard woke, and Su Luo led him onward into a corridor where a Great Jaw Worm attacked them.
• Su Luo used [Spell Mastery] and defensive cards while Iron Guard helped him withstand the worm's attacks.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard defeated the Great Jaw Worm, and Su Luo chose to create [Elemental Collapse] as a card.
• Su Luo noticed Iron Guard's armor was cracked and his HP had dropped to 2/75, then asked if he was about to die.

Su Luo and Iron Guard discovered how relics and sacrifices could restore and strengthen Iron Guard while uncovering his purpose and the identity of the Eternal Night Court. After they upgraded their cards at a bonfire, they continued climbing and encountered two lice.

• Iron Guard sacrificed memories to restore his armor and health and permanently gained one point each in strength and agility.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard opened a chest containing the [Two Principles] relic and a red skull, which Iron Guard fused with his mask.
• Iron Guard remembered that he sought revenge against a demon and wanted to destroy the tower, and he told Su Luo that their surroundings were the Eternal Night Court.
• At a bonfire, Iron Guard forged a card while Su Luo upgraded [Spell Mastery], giving it the [Innate] attribute.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard continued climbing and found a red louse and a green louse in the next room.

Su Luo and Iron Guard opened the tower’s first-floor boss room and found a monstrous doppelganger of Iron Guard, while Su Luo’s separate consciousness continued experiments in the laboratory. The chapter left the boss fight poised to begin and Nanmen Shi trapped in a painful strengthening chamber.

• Su Luo collected the Strawberry relic and printed new cards, while Iron Guard recalled that he had climbed the tower many times and knew Lan Weide as a biologist.
• Iron Guard warned Su Luo that the tower punished infinite card loops, so Su Luo kept his infinite-build idea as a trump card.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard opened the boss room and found the Demon Doppelganger, a red, empowered version of Iron Guard with 3,200 HP.
• Iron Guard recognized the boss as his former self and predicted it would deal sixty damage while inflicting vulnerable and weak.
• Xiao Luo noticed Nanmen Shi in the laboratory, judged him more useful for inheritance experiments than breeding, and threw him into a cultivation chamber to strengthen him.

Xiao Luo remodeled the laboratory while traveling through the Land of Darkness to secure another Purple Skill, but turned back after Yun Xiaoxiao reported an abnormal Blood Moon in Zone 76. As the Blood Moon rose, Han Song returned with a Forbidden Class and was vaporized when a shadow arm emerged from him and triggered the Mutual Aid Association's buried bomb.

• Nanmen Shi crawled out of the cultivation chamber and saw Mo Xiaoyu and Yuan Dong deliver sealed canisters before leaving in silence.
• Xiao Luo rebuilt the laboratory with technology from Yuncang No. 0 and hurried through the Land of Darkness in pursuit of another Purple Skill.
• Yun Xiaoxiao warned Xiao Luo that an abnormal Blood Moon had appeared in Zone 76, so Xiao Luo turned the laboratory around and headed back.
• Han Song returned to the Land of Darkness with a Forbidden Class, but a pale arm emerged from his shadow and wrapped around his neck.
• A supervisor from the Mutual Aid Association's Supervision Department detonated a buried bomb, vaporizing Han Song and the shadow arm.

Han Song’s soul was captured for possible resurrection after the nuclear blast, while the destroyed shadow entity manifested as a Blood Moon above Zone 76. The Blood Moon became trapped by the zone’s barrier and began seeking energy by spreading mental contamination among the survivors.

• Han Song’s amulet protected a remnant of his soul, and a Supervision Department specialist sealed it in a bottle for assessment and possible resurrection.
• The shadow entity’s remaining dark-red light expanded into a Blood Moon above Zone 76, prompting Number Two to order reconnaissance, evacuations, and maximum defenses.
• Number Two rejected another nuclear strike, warning that the explosion had fed the entity, and prioritized learning from Han Song’s memories while awaiting the president and Consultant Su.
• The Blood Moon struck the barrier separating Zone 76 from the Land of Darkness and became trapped about forty kilometers above the zone.
• The Blood Moon absorbed Mana and energy from monsters, then used Blood Moon Whisper to spread fear and mental contamination among the survivors, though the zone’s defenses weakened its effect.

Su Luo fought the Tower’s floor guardian, the [Demon Doppelganger], while Iron Guard burned away his cards and memories to survive. After Iron Guard died and reappeared unharmed, Su Luo defeated the boss and cleared the first floor.

• Su Luo used [Zero Protocol] to strip the [Demon Doppelganger] of its defenses and buffs, then dealt heavy damage with his cards.
• Iron Guard ran out of cards after burning them to heal and strengthen himself, then died beneath the boss’s greatsword.
• Su Luo managed his resources alone and killed the [Demon Doppelganger] with [Elemental Collapse] and [Fireball].
• The first floor cleared, revealing a staircase and a purple-hazed treasure chest, and Su Luo saw Iron Guard standing unharmed behind him.

After Iron Guard absorbed the Demon Doppelganger’s power and cards, Su Luo rejected the Relic’s offered upgrades and used its connection to his real power instead. The two entered the Tower’s second stage, a vast and bizarre dream city where new rules and monsters awaited.

• Iron Guard reformed with the Demon Doppelganger’s energy and cards, recovered memories, and concluded that defeating mirror images was how to climb the Tower and seek revenge.
• Su Luo questioned whether Iron Guard had once possessed demonic power, then found the treasure chest empty and saw that his [Source Essence Circulator] could be upgraded.
• Su Luo bypassed the Relic’s three preset upgrade paths and strengthened its connection to his own power, while Iron Guard waited and examined his new deck.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard went to the second floor, where Su Luo’s Relic gained the [Source Essence Return] effect.
• Iron Guard identified their new location as the Tower’s second stage, a bizarre city with stranger rules and more varied monsters, while Su Luo studied the dream.

Su Luo exploited a prolonged fight on the Tower’s second floor to farm Source Essence despite the escalating Desolation Plagues. He used the Source Essence Return card to transfer 500 units toward the suppressed power core of his real body, through a destination hidden in the gaps between the Tower’s rules.

• Su Luo learned that the Desolation Plague punished taboo strategies, then printed Elemental Control to pair with Elemental Collapse.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard fought an Orb Guardian while Su Luo converted energy and HP into Source Essence and relied on armor to survive.
• The Desolation Plagues escalated during the drawn-out battle, strengthening enemies and limiting Su Luo to fifteen cards per turn.
• Su Luo accumulated 543 Source Essence as Iron Guard grew alarmed and began taking damage from the Orb Guardian.
• Source Essence Return consumed 500 Source Essence and directed it toward the power core of Su Luo’s real body.

Su Luo broke through the Tower’s restrictions and defeated the Orb Guardian without using a card, while Han Song returned from his trial to warn Number One about the Blood Moon. As its influence intensified and monsters moved toward the Safe Zones, Number One ordered the defenses strengthened and Number Two’s team to act.

• Su Luo used a fraction of his own power to kill the Orb Guardian, then began absorbing energy from the Tower and its monsters.
• Jing Yunxin restored Han Song after confirming his special item and soul were stable, and Han Song told Number One how the Weird Tale Era and Blood Moon began.
• Number One and Han Song concluded that the Blood Moon was likely a powerful individual weird tale rather than the source of all weird tales.
• The Analysis Group reported that the Blood Moon’s mental contamination was increasing and its strengthened monsters were organizing to approach Safe Zones.
• Number One ordered the Safe Zones to reinforce their defenses, continue the standoff, and notify Number Two’s side to act.
• The Blood Moon’s red light warped the surroundings as something began hatching among the shadows and monsters.