Recaps

Su Luo and Layton explored deeper into the Trait Dungeon, where Su Luo demonstrated extraordinary spellcasting by attacking and maintaining layered shields at the same time. After explaining his fire-related special effect, Su Luo discovered his personal casting modifiers were negative; elsewhere, Gai Li Darwin struggled with the Dungeon’s limits on his strength and mana before spotting a distant fire.

• Su Luo and Layton blasted through the cave’s dead ends and fought monsters as they descended toward stronger enemies and better gold drops.
• Su Luo used separate attack and defense wands to fire spells rapidly while maintaining more than thirty layers of shields, leaving Layton puzzled by his casting speed.
• Su Luo reached a floating red, heart-shaped crystal, gained 900 health, and explained that his special effect was Fire Element Enthusiast.
• Layton learned that Su Luo’s personal wind-up and recovery modifiers were negative, unlike his own.
• Gai Li Darwin adapted his [Lord of Flesh] abilities to wand-based spells but found that the Dungeon’s cooldowns and mana limits undermined his strengths.
• Gai Li Darwin gave up on obtaining a trait and noticed a faintly flickering fire in the distance.

Su Luo and Layton discussed the Dungeon’s rules while fending off attacks, until Gai Li Darwin ambushed them with a Flesh Portal. Su Luo escaped the portal’s tentacles and counterattacked with a barrage of Flame Spears, leaving Gai Li exposed to the first wave.

• Su Luo noticed that one of the Dungeon’s twenty participants had been eliminated, and he and Layton speculated about the Dungeon’s time limit.
• Layton told Su Luo about his father, their family ranch, and how he had taken up drinking after his father died.
• Gai Li Darwin attacked Su Luo and Layton with a Trigger Spark Bullet that opened a Flesh Portal, forcing Layton to teleport away.
• Su Luo stacked shields and retreated from the portal’s tentacles while configuring his attack wand.
• Su Luo fired accelerating, auto-targeting Flame Spears at Gai Li, who barely added a shield before eighteen spears from the first wave struck him.

Su Luo and Layton overwhelmed Gai Li Darwin with Flame Spears and meteorites until he surrendered. After taking some of his wands, they questioned him about his Talent and region, but he refused to answer.

• Su Luo's accelerated Flame Spears broke through Gai Li Darwin's shields, and a meteorite struck near him while he tried to heal.
• Su Luo's approaching meteorites forced Gai Li to leave his Chaos Field, so he surrendered and threw down his wands.
• Su Luo and Layton took wands from Gai Li, who recognized Su Luo and identified himself as the Lord of Flesh.
• Gai Li explained that his body parts could mutate and gain complementary abilities, then complained that the Trait Dungeon's restrictions had removed his advantages.
• Layton asked Gai Li which region he came from, but Gai Li stayed silent, and Su Luo suggested beating him until he gave up the spells.

Su Luo and Layton continued through the Trait Dungeon, where they learned that spell damage affected temporary health rather than their real bodies. After Su Luo eliminated Gai Li, the pair ventured deeper and found a damaged cave with two bottomless pits, where something appeared to be waiting.

• Gai Li inspected Layton’s Giant Nuclear Bomb spell, then took Su Luo’s Ice Rain and Expanding Energy Ball spells before setting off alone.
• Su Luo bombarded the cave Gai Li had entered, and the Dungeon’s participant count dropped by one.
• Su Luo and Layton continued deeper, faced stronger monsters, and Su Luo ate a red heart that raised his health to 1,050.
• Layton said he planned to keep exploring and promised to give Su Luo his Teleport Bullet spell before leaving.
• Su Luo and Layton found a ruined cave with two pitch-black pits, and Layton doubted that the ugly thing nearby was a person.

Guan Ziyang attacked the long-tongued [Shi], who defended himself with shields, healing, and dangerous black-hole spells. As Guan Ziyang failed to defeat him, Su Luo and Layton watched without intervening, and Guan Ziyang turned to cursing them.

• Guan Ziyang used Appraisal on the crouching [Shi] and began attacking him with gray beams.
• When [Shi]’s health fell low, he cast shields and healing spells, then used black holes to absorb attacks while recovering from their damage.
• Guan Ziyang summoned a ghost that copied his fireball barrage, breaking [Shi]’s shield and forcing him to evade between the black holes.
• Su Luo and Layton discussed [Shi]’s strange tactics and concluded that he was mad but not stupid.
• Guan Ziyang challenged Su Luo and Layton to fight him, but they ignored him, and he began cursing at them.

Su Luo and Layton fought Guan Ziyang in the giant cave, using a carefully layered spell combo to break through his defenses. Guan Ziyang’s own lifesaving spell then hurled him away atop a series of enormous shit mountains, leaving Layton in the path of the charging mess.

• Guan Ziyang taunted Su Luo and Layton, but they could not hear him clearly and prepared defensive shields instead.
• Su Luo fired a Dream Interference Bullet and a Trigger Spark Bullet, whose effects slowed Guan Ziyang and opened portals that unleashed tentacles against him.
• Guan Ziyang’s health fell sharply, so he activated his lifesaving wand and fired a spore-shaped projectile.
• A spell reversed the projectile into Guan Ziyang’s chest, where it turned into ten fast-moving shit mountains that pushed him through the cave.
• Layton teleported nearby but could not finish Guan Ziyang before the charging shit mountains and Guan Ziyang rushed toward him.

Su Luo and Guan Ziyang traded escalating shit-based attacks while Layton fled, and Eater abandoned his defense to pursue summoned food. Su Luo raised a boulder barrier against Guan Ziyang’s assault as his Flame Spear trap charged, while a newcomer arrived and reacted to Eater.

• Su Luo built a cube of Chaos Fields and filled it with Flame Spears, stacking their damage as they ricocheted and multiplied.
• Guan Ziyang’s spell carried him and Layton through giant shit mountains, earning Guan Ziyang a flood of negative emotion points from Layton before Layton escaped with Teleport Bullet.
• Guan Ziyang freed himself from the waste and aimed his next attack at Su Luo, who switched spells while charging a powerful move.
• Eater left his black-hole defense to seek the fragrant food summoned nearby and recited a poem about eating shit.
• A woman arrived and, seeing Eater consuming filth, raised her wand to cast a spell.
• Su Luo summoned a huge boulder barrier against Guan Ziyang’s shit attack, while Guan Ziyang healed himself and wondered why Su Luo showed no disgust.

Su Luo cleaned up after eliminating Guan Ziyang and Layton, then met Jiang Mengrui, a fellow first-place winner from the continuation battle. Jiang claimed that the trait qualification was destined to be hers, leaving Su Luo to consider the reach of her luck.

• Guan Ziyang was struck by a barrage of Flame Spears that depleted his dungeon health, and Layton deliberately drew the remaining Spears to himself and died.
• Su Luo used tornadoes and [Space Bullet] to clear the cave, then took Layton’s wands and examined the wand that had summoned the poop mountain.
• Su Luo saw that 11 players remained and met Jiang Mengrui, who introduced herself as a [Goddess of Luck] from Zone 64573.
• Su Luo and Jiang Mengrui exchanged accounts of how their zones had won the continuation battle, with Jiang revealing that she had been the last survivor in hers.
• Jiang told Su Luo that the trait qualification was already destined to be hers from the moment she entered the Trait Dungeon.

Su Luo met Jiang Mengrui, whose luck let her avoid every threat in the Dungeon through her starter wand’s [Damage Immunity] spell. After his massive barrage failed to harm her, he was left facing an opponent who seemed invulnerable.

• Su Luo deduced that Food had been eliminated by the Black Hole spell he had cast himself, while Jiang Mengrui had ignored the wands he left behind.
• Jiang Mengrui explained that luck had guided her to victories in past battles and said she had entered the Dungeon knowing she would win.
• Jiang Mengrui revealed that her starter wand permanently carried [Damage Immunity], which gave her a chance to ignore damage for five seconds after casting it.
• Su Luo confirmed Jiang Mengrui had never lost health and fired hundreds of Flame Spears at her.
• Jiang Mengrui remained unharmed and offered to let Su Luo keep attacking, so Su Luo changed his spell combination.

Su Luo trapped damage-immune Jiang Mengrui in a cage of poop mountains after rejecting her one-sided offer of cooperation, then left to prepare a way to defeat her. At a shop deeper in the Dungeon, he encountered a strange man preaching about a self-proclaimed lord and asked whether the man was that lord.

• Jiang Mengrui tried to recruit Su Luo to eliminate the other participants, but Su Luo surrounded her with poop mountains and refused her offer.
• Su Luo explained that Jiang Mengrui's proposed partnership placed all the risks on him while she kept her damage immunity and claimed the Trait qualification.
• Su Luo reinforced Jiang Mengrui's dung cage, left her trapped, and went to the spot where Food had been eliminated to prepare spells for breaking her immunity.
• Su Luo cleared monsters, eliminated an unshielded participant, collected special spells, and traveled to a deep shop to buy a stronger wand.
• A pale man with black eyes preached about the Great Heavenly Bright Vast True Lord, then admitted he had borrowed the teachings and made up the god's name.
• After the man's eyes turned white and his manner changed, Su Luo asked whether he was the lord he had been preaching about.

Su Luo battled a white-eyed Forbidden Existence who had escaped a Trial Instance and sought to convert humanity into followers. After the entity boasted of his plans and past victories, Su Luo sealed him beneath an overwhelming mass of feces, though the entity kept smiling.

• The white-eyed man explained that he had taken over his host and intended to become humanity’s one true lord.
• Su Luo attacked with Black Flame-enhanced Flame Spears, but the man’s pale domain dissolved the projectiles and erased some of Su Luo’s shields.
• Su Luo spread his Black Flame Domain across the shop and learned that the man had killed two potential converts after they refused him.
• The white-eyed man discarded his wands, admitted the Trait Dungeon had stripped away his abilities, and asked Su Luo for his name.
• Su Luo healed the man, bought new wands, and criticized his arrogance before the man vanished.
• A pitch-black sphere swallowed the discarded wands, and Su Luo buried the white-eyed man beneath layers of feces; the man laughed before gagging.

Su Luo eliminated a powerful participant, then returned to find Jiang Mengrui trapped in the filth he had used to seal the shop. He attacked her despite her damage immunity and left her surrounded by two hundred nuclear canisters, where the chapter ended as she braced for their detonation.

• Su Luo sealed the shop entrance with a mountain of boulders and escaped the trait Dungeon's weakened environment.
• A female participant's devastating Spell combination barely damaged the blue-robed figure, who retaliated with Flame Spears and eliminated her.
• Su Luo collected four wands from the defeated participant and returned to the sealed shop, where Jiang Mengrui had spent half an hour enduring the stench.
• Su Luo warned Jiang Mengrui that she had one chance to eliminate herself, then attacked her with Flame Spears without waiting for her answer.
• Jiang Mengrui realized that her damage immunity protected her health data but not her physical body, as two hundred nuclear canisters appeared around her.

Su Luo used an overwhelming spell combination to blast apart the mountain of organic matter, but Jiang Mengrui survived until she chose elimination. He took her wand and headed toward the dungeon’s last remaining player, the Forbidden Existence, whose believer sensed that trouble was coming.

• Su Luo combined enhanced Giant Nuclear Bomb spells with a copied attack and watched the resulting explosion devastate the cave.
• Jiang Mengrui survived the blast with severe injuries, then threw away her starter wand and gave up.
• Su Luo told Jiang Mengrui that she had relied too heavily on her Talent, picked up her wand, and prepared the Mutation spell.
• Su Luo went toward the last player while the Forbidden Existence listened to its believer report that only two players remained.
• The believer claimed Su Luo was coming to convert, but the Forbidden Existence admitted to an ominous premonition.

Su Luo trapped the white-eyed man in a relentless cycle of healing and [Mutation], letting the Aberrant Element contaminate his body and spread through the battlefield. As the white-eyed man became grotesquely mutated and the surrounding area turned into a spreading mass of flesh, Su Luo launched a sudden assault with Flame Spears and cartoon-style hydrogen bombs.

• The white-eyed man recognized Su Luo as [Scholar] after Su Luo freed him from the filth.
• Su Luo summoned Abyssal maws to clear space, then used [Natural Healing Bolt] and [Extra Mana] to cast healing bolts without depleting his mana.
• Su Luo repeatedly struck the white-eyed man with [Mutation] while healing him, causing the Aberrant Element to consume his energy and mutate his body.
• The white-eyed man repeatedly tore contaminated flesh from himself, but the Aberrant Element spread through the surrounding matter and nearby living creatures.
• The white-eyed man taunted Su Luo about getting caught in the spreading contamination, and Su Luo stopped casting [Mutation] while continuing to heal him.
• Twenty Flame Spears appeared above the white-eyed man, followed by two hundred cartoon-style hydrogen bombs raining down.

Su Luo kept the white-eyed man trapped in a cycle of mutation and healing until the mutation developed its own chaotic consciousness and overwhelmed the man’s body. Su Luo won the Trait Dungeon and earned trait eligibility and the title [Spellcaster].

• The white-eyed man recovered from Su Luo’s explosive attack, but the damage and mutation left him trapped in a balance where he could neither die nor escape.
• Su Luo continued firing healing bolts while mutation spread through the Dungeon and began infecting his left arm.
• After twenty minutes, the mutation consumed the Dungeon’s ecosystem and began collapsing toward the white-eyed man’s body.
• Su Luo cut off his infected left hand as the white-eyed man’s shell transformed into a mass of chaotic matter, and Su Luo suspected the mutation had developed a will.
• The white-eyed man lost control of his body and encountered the unfamiliar consciousness born from mutation.
• Su Luo stopped casting when the system declared him the Dungeon’s sole remaining player, awarded him trait eligibility, and granted him the title [Spellcaster].

Su Luo used Rewind to restore his severed arm after the Trait Dungeon, then studied the lingering mutation and equipped a new title. He returned to his dream research and developed a second Spirit skill, raising his Spirit to 20.8.

• Su Luo activated Rewind to regrow his left arm, then removed the last trace of mutated flesh and healed himself with Natural Element.
• Su Luo concluded that the mutation might have crippled a Forbidden Existence and suspected Zone 76's Forbidden Existence was connected to Donglicang's system-like cheat.
• Su Luo examined his new Spellcaster title and replaced Boundary Breaker with it.
• Su Luo and Xiao Luo worked on optimizing the Dual-Cycle Method and deconstructing the Three-Cycle Method into another Spirit skill.
• Su Luo leveled both skills, increasing his Spirit to 20.8 and his Mana to 47.

Su Luo returned from the Trait Dungeon and began investigating the Aberrant Element data while heading back toward Zone 76. He reunited with Song Shige, Xi Ji, and Jun Lebao, learned about Song Shige’s upgraded Vast Sea Scroll and mobile Sanctuary, and turned his attention to examining its engine.

• Su Luo sent Xiao Luo his Trait Dungeon observations about the Aberrant Element and a suspected new will, then approved simulations to gather more data.
• Su Luo confirmed the Great Rift had disappeared, located Zone 76, and piloted his laboratory toward it.
• Xi Ji and Jun Lebao examined the Vast Sea Scroll, struggled to remember what they saw, and warned that its mental impact could harm people with lower mental attributes.
• Song Shige explained that the scroll had been upgraded to Fine quality and that his nearly level 8 Sanctuary could move because its engine had reached the required level.
• Su Luo arrived and asked Song Shige if he could take apart the engine-related parts of his Sanctuary to study them.
• Song Shige asked about the Trait Dungeon, and Su Luo said he had obtained what he wanted before checking the World Channel.

Su Luo and Song Shige compared their experiences in Trait Dungeons, learning how different rule sets could alter the value of their abilities and equipment. Song Shige explained how he had been eliminated in one Dungeon but won another, and the conversation ended with him about to reveal how he survived Shan Yixian’s heavily equipped build.

• Xi Ji reported in the channel that Su Luo and Jiang Mengrui had both qualified for traits in the third round.
• Su Luo told Song Shige how he had used spell combinations and his stats to overpower opponents in his Trait Dungeon.
• Song Shige described losing a 5v5 control-point match after his teammates joined forces against him in the subsequent team free-for-all.
• Song Shige recounted meeting Shan Yixian in a hundred-person battle royale, where Shan’s extensive equipment helped him reach the final circle.
• Su Luo inferred that Song Shige had won the battle royale, and Song Shige’s account left him poised to explain how.

Su Luo and Song Shige discussed the Great Heavenly Minghao Fungus and concluded that the Trait Dungeon might suppress Forbidden Existences’ powers, though Su Luo suspected the system’s rules had a hidden cost. Su Luo then examined the Vast Sea Scroll, whose visions of Martial Will left him impressed by their dramatic imagery.

• Su Luo told Song Shige about the Great Heavenly Minghao Fungus, its ability to beguile people and possess Forbidden Class holders, and his own contamination by Aberrant Element.
• Song Shige said the white-eyed man had entered the Trait Dungeon twice that day but had seemed like an ordinary participant.
• Su Luo and Song Shige reasoned that the Survival System’s Trait Dungeon rules might weaken or block Forbidden Existences, while Su Luo warned that the system could have a deeper purpose.
• Song Shige left to arrange transit Sanctuaries near Dungeon entrances, and Su Luo sent his mental power into the Vast Sea Scroll.
• Su Luo viewed seven changing visions of Martial Will in the scroll, then handed it to Song Shige, who said Su Luo’s reaction matched his own first impression.

Su Luo studied Song Shige’s newly awakened [Martial Will] and learned about its effects and possible connection to Xiantian experts. They left Zone 76 to test Song Shige’s purple skill, [Blood City], which he described as a growing ability.

• Song Shige used the Vast Sea Scroll to awaken [Martial Will], and Su Luo detected Vital Energy as the force that had fueled its growth.
• Song Shige explained that [Martial Will] strengthened mental resistance, empowered attacks and matching skills, and could eventually develop into a domain or will manifestation.
• Su Luo and Song Shige discussed whether [Martial Will] was a core component of Xiantian and comparable to trait qualification.
• Song Shige agreed to demonstrate his purple skill, so he and Su Luo left Zone 76 to find a suitable testing area.
• Song Shige identified his purple skill as [Blood City] and said it was a special ability that could grow.

Song Shige demonstrated how his Purple Skill, [Blood City], had incorporated Martial Will and begun to grow, while Su Luo recorded the display. At the same time, the Mutual Aid Association struggled to reach Song Shige and postponed plans to reorganize the Analysis Department until he could handle them.

• Song Shige summoned the phantom of [Blood City] and used it to slash a deep rift into the ground.
• Song Shige showed Su Luo that [Blood City] had reached level 2 and explained that its growth depended on its holder's understanding, attributes, will, and combat insights.
• Qin Lang and Number One found that Song Shige was not responding to messages or approving the Analysis Department's restructuring.
• Xi Ji told Qin Lang that Song Shige was with Consultant Su and said that only the president should handle a cleanup of the association's ranks.
• After more than ten hours of demonstrations, Song Shige struggled to summon [Blood City] again while Su Luo continued recording and directing him.

Su Luo analyzed Song Shige’s [Blood City] and gave him a blue skill to help it develop, while concluding that purple skills were personal traits shaped through their owners’ choices and understanding. After Song Shige left, Su Luo absorbed accumulated calculations, improved his body, and the chapter ended with Han Song discovering that special items were appearing across districts.

• Su Luo gave Song Shige preliminary analysis of [Blood City] and an [Emotion Manipulation Method (blue)] Skill Book for its next stage of development.
• Su Luo and Song Shige discussed how purple skills grew through personal understanding rather than conventional skill experience, and Song Shige left to rest before returning to fight.
• Su Luo reviewed Xiao Luo’s calculations, leveled up his Heart Fiend techniques, and modified his body to adapt to increased Constitution.
• Han Song saw World Channel reports that people in several districts had found upgradeable special items, and wondered if cheats were being handed out wholesale.

Han Song studied the requirements for developing special items and shared his findings with Song Shige, then discovered that an experiment involving Ye Xu had successfully expanded the items his Talent could select. He began planning further tests to improve the Talent’s random output.

• After seeing discussion of special items on the World Channel, Han Song wrote a report arguing that upgrading them required a large survivor population and an efficient supply system, and sent it to Song Shige.
• Song Shige agreed the report was useful and considered revising it for the World Channel, and Han Song approved a backlog of Sanctuary Teleportation applications.
• Han Song saw Zone 76’s growing class population and Dungeon guides, then enforced the first-come, first-served rules when two teams argued at a Dungeon entrance.
• Han Song found that Ye Xu had produced three thousand Excellent Clear-Mind Forehead Ornaments from an item briefly placed in contact with him, confirming that such items could enter his Talent’s selection pool.
• Han Song considered how to optimize the selection pool and whether Ye Xu’s spirit, dreams, or surroundings affected the results, then began compiling another report.

Su Luo discovered that the [Vast Sea Scroll] catalyzed [Martial Will] by helping a person fuse belief, energy, and soul, and he found Heart Fiend Blood Qi could substitute for Vital Energy as its medium. He visited Song Shige to study the scroll and dismantled his Sanctuary’s engine, leaving Song Shige facing a costly repair bill and Su Luo questioning the expense of upgrading to a level 8 Sanctuary.

• Su Luo perceived that the [Vast Sea Scroll] was a training ground and catalyst for [Martial Will], not an inheritance of techniques, and determined that Vital Energy enabled will to affect reality.
• Su Luo studied Song Shige’s [Martial Will] data and tested Mana, mental power, elements, and other energies before finding Heart Fiend Blood Qi as the best substitute for Vital Energy.
• Su Luo traveled to Song Shige’s home and examined the [Vast Sea Scroll] for five or six hours before dismantling Song Shige’s Perfect-grade Sanctuary engine.
• Song Shige found that the damaged engine would cost at least three million SC to repair, while Su Luo questioned whether upgrading to a level 8 Sanctuary was worth its expense.

Su Luo discussed Sanctuary development and the upcoming District War with Song Shige, then left with the Vast Sea Scroll and said he had found a simple lead on [Martial Will]. As Zone 76 investigated a new [Dangerous Terrain] in East District 36, Ding Lexin arrived to examine it.

• Song Shige explained that level-eight Sanctuaries required rare materials unavailable in Zone 76, and Su Luo advised him not to bring his Sanctuary to the District War.
• Song Shige asked whether Su Luo had made progress studying the Vast Sea Scroll; Su Luo replied that it was simple and left, prompting Song Shige to worry when he noticed the damaged [Cursed Figurine] at Su Luo's waist.
• Survivors reported that a new [Dangerous Terrain] across East Districts 35 and 36 caused severe headaches, drawing attention from the Mutual Aid Association and class holders.
• The Mutual Aid Association selected Ding Lexin, whose [Spirit Fortress] resisted mental effects, to investigate and monitor dangerous terrain in the zone.
• Ding Lexin teleported to a level-five Sanctuary near East District 36, where its owner discussed his team's Class Change progress and the risk of the Supervision Department intervening.