Chapter Summaries

Su Luo’s team reaped 3.8 million Tinder Shards through a card combination, then discussed their standing and prepared for the next Monster Tide by upgrading their [Tinder]. The Excellent-quality [Tinder] expanded its protective range and granted a variety of buffs, while the team wondered about its nature as the number of teams remaining worldwide fell to 39.15%.

• Song Shige’s attack helped Su Luo’s team earn 3.8 million Tinder Shards, and they noticed Wangu Chaoqitu had lost 0.5% Sanctuary integrity.
• Su Luo told the team they could not take first place in the District War, and he opened the public mic to discuss their next card combination.
• Shan Yixian and the others agreed to upgrade their [Tinder] because its firelight range was too small for the higher waves.
• Gai Li discovered that a card’s quality could not exceed the quality of its owner’s [Tinder], so the team left to upgrade their own.
• Song Shige fed Tinder Shards into the altar and upgraded his [Tinder] to Excellent quality, expanding its firelight range to one kilometer.
• Guizishi and Jing Yunxin noticed that Excellent-quality [Tinder] gave them status bonuses, while Su Luo and Song Shige received none.

Su Luo raised the [Tinder] to Perfect quality and then expanded its firelight to a thirty-kilometer radius, improving the battlefield and strengthening those inside it. He prepared a three-wave monster challenge with the group, who accepted despite the increased strength and numbers.

• Jiang Mengrui reported that her Perfect-quality [Tinder Probe Card] could not reveal Yashan's [Tinder], and Su Luo returned to upgrading his own.
• Su Luo spent thirty-six thousand shards to raise the [Tinder] to Perfect quality, then added 720,000 more shards to expand its firelight to a thirty-kilometer radius.
• The stronger firelight made Mana and elemental energies denser, granted Su Luo and Song Shige a one percent Attribute boost, and made the Soul Servant more solid; Jing Yunxin agreed to heal it.
• Guizishi celebrated receiving a 56 percent boost, while Song Shige reminded him that the power did not belong to him.
• Su Luo announced that the next challenge would feature three stacked waves with twice the monster strength and five times the numbers, and the group agreed to proceed.
• Shan Yixian teased Gai Li about rare items, then admitted he had never seen an Epic-grade item before Su Luo began the countdown.

Su Luo and Song Shige cleared three waves of monsters to amass Tinder Shards, then prepared for one final farming group before Continued Battle. Elsewhere, Yashan observed a level 10 Elite monster and estimated its Constitution exceeded 24 points.

• Su Luo incinerated most of the three-wave Monster Tide with his Black Flame Domain and Heartfire, while Song Shige used his Blood City projection and saber strikes to stop the monsters reaching the Tinder.
• Su Luo and Song Shige collected about 23.82 million Tinder Shards between them and agreed to farm one last group before Continued Battle.
• Yashan observed a level 10 Elite monster restrained by Forbidden Spells after the twenty-fifth wave yielded three cards and 2.2 million Tinder.
• Yashan used Appraisal on the monster, but his shell's low Spirit returned question marks for its attributes and skills.
• Yashan estimated the monster's Constitution was above 24 points and compared its strength to the demonic pet he had once raised.

Yashan considered the limits of upgrading his Tinder while testing his control over destructive power. Elsewhere, powerful class holders gathered in the Tinder consciousness hall as Su Luo and the others prepared to use their cards for the next wave.

• Yashan seized and transformed the mana around him, then calculated that reaching a Tinder quality beyond Legendary would require tens of millions of fragments.
• Layton and Binluk surveyed the powerful and suspicious figures gathered in the consciousness hall, including Ye Fan and several apparent forbidden existences.
• An indistinct woman estimated that at least four forbidden existences were present, while a man with closed eyes put the number at six; the Great Heavenly Bright Vast True Lord suggested they fight.
• The white-eyed man held up a card to Layton and Binluk as they complained about the strange battlefield.
• Su Luo used his saved cards and told everyone to prepare for the next wave.
• Jiang Mengrui revealed an Attack Copy Card and a Full Conversion Card, saying she would use them fifty-nine seconds after the wave began.

Su Luo used his Black Flame Domain and [Heartfire] to burn through the monster waves, but three level 10 monsters survived and reached the battlefield. He appraised them and prepared to attack with Black Flame Meteorites.

• Song Shige vanished as [Blood City] unfolded, while Su Luo held his position inside the Black Flame Domain.
• The monster waves crossed the domain, where most weaker creatures burned and stronger survivors were consumed by [Heartfire].
• The three level 10 monsters—[Breeding Propagator], [Elemental Bugles], and [Geometric Astral Remains]—resisted the flames and continued forward.
• Su Luo sent out pillars carrying his Constant Spells and appraised the three monsters.
• Dozens of Black Flame Meteorites emerged from the shadows below Su Luo's laboratory.

Su Luo battered the three giants with Black Flame Meteorites and a devastating concentrated energy sphere, leaving them badly wounded. As Song Shige returned to defend the Sanctuary, a stealthy soul-type monster attacked, but Su Luo pinned it down with Heartfire and Song Shige struck it.

• Su Luo used Black Flame Meteorites to split the three monsters apart and disrupt their attacks.
• Su Luo gathered energy from silver-white pillars into an incandescent sphere that pierced [Breeding Propagator], [Elemental Vein Bugles], and [Geometric Astral Remains] before exploding.
• The injured giants burned under Black Flame and faced another meteorite barrage after their Rebirth skills were spent.
• A nearly transparent soul-type monster slipped past Song Shige's [Blood City] and charged toward the Sanctuary, draining Su Luo's Mana.
• Su Luo trapped the monster with Heartfire, and Song Shige returned to strike it with his Zhanmadao.
• Su Luo noticed Guizishi sprawled on the ground as Jing Yunxin healed herself and began treating him.

Su Luo and the other representatives gathered their spoils and discussed their upgraded skills and Legendary-quality [Tinder]. The cooperation meeting was interrupted when Jiang Mengrui raised Ye Zizhen’s hint about the Sanctuary and the system’s “Severe Punishment,” as Yashan arrived and drew everyone’s attention.

• Su Luo’s Black Flame Domain and meteorite bombardment destroyed the twenty-first wave, earning him over 97 million fragments and four cards.
• Song Shige told Su Luo that [Blood City] had reached level three and developed a new branch focused on fine control and guidance.
• The regional representatives gathered in the Tinder Hall, where Father Tali Lang congratulated them for reaching at least Legendary quality.
• Mu Hongyuan corrected Shan Yixian’s claim that Legendary [Tinder] were easy to obtain, and Gai Li Darwin taunted him.
• Su Luo silenced Shan Yixian and Gai Li Darwin, then urged everyone to finish their cooperation so they could prepare for the Continued Battle.
• Jiang Mengrui brought up Ye Zizhen’s hint about the Sanctuary and the system’s “Severe Punishment,” while Yashan entered the hall and questioned whether he was welcome.

Jiang Mengrui revealed that a Sanctuary nearly destroyed by monsters could inflict permanent attribute loss, prompting the group to examine the dangers of the District War’s elimination rules. After the group used their fourth set of cards to delay and reduce incoming waves, the Scholar departed the Tinder Hall.

• Jiang Mengrui told the group that her teammate had permanently lost three attribute points after his Sanctuary triggered [Near-Destruction Teleportation], and confirmed the loss with his attribute-panel screenshot.
• Father Tali Lang warned that the District War would end when only 10% of groups remained and that Sanctuaries placed along monster paths could be destroyed before the [Tinder].
• Su Luo and Mu Hongyuan discussed ways to protect their attributes, while Chao Ketu raised the possibility that the Continued Battle phase might have the same 10% survival condition.
• The group turned their attention to Yashan, who objected to their suspicion, used several cards on himself, and left.
• The group used their fourth set of cards to delay and reduce the waves, lowering Su Luo’s displayed target from the [Twenty-second wave] to the [Eighteenth wave].
• Jiang Mengrui was credited with providing many of the key cards, and the Scholar thanked everyone before leaving the Tinder Hall.

Su Luo and his allies upgraded the Tinder to Epic quality, gaining enormous power and expanding its radiance across five hundred kilometers. After the district war ended, Su Luo faced a choice between claiming rewards immediately or carrying the Tinder and wave progress into Continued Battle.

• Song Shige fed Tinder Shards into the Tinder, raising it first to Legendary quality and then to Epic quality.
• Su Luo spent more shards to expand the Tinder's radiance to five hundred kilometers, enriching the Mana and boosting his cultivation and attributes.
• Jing Yunxin and Guizishi struggled to control their newfound power, while Su Luo used Black Flame and healing to adapt to his own boost.
• Song Shige left to practice with his Talent and adjust to the enhanced power.
• The system announced that the district war had ended and offered the group a choice between settling rewards or proceeding to Continued Battle with their current Tinder status and wave progress.

Su Luo registered for Continued Battle while Jun Lebao’s team learned they had qualified through a revival round and chose to register despite the risks. Guizishi refused to stay behind, so Su Luo used the Soul Servant to shield him from Heartfire, leaving it badly diminished as the team prepared to continue.

• Su Luo chose to carry over his [Tinder] strength and confirmed his Continued Battle registration.
• Jun Lebao learned that his team had qualified through the revival round based on worldwide team points, and he registered them despite a teammate’s warning about facing stronger teams from a weak start.
• Jun Lebao’s team agreed that everyone would register, including the three members carrying Sanctuaries.
• Guizishi refused to stay behind, so Su Luo warned him that Heartfire could burn nearby allies when used at full strength.
• Guizishi used his Automatic Combat Talent to hide inside Jing Yunxin’s Soul Servant, which Su Luo determined could shield him from Heartfire’s area effects.
• Su Luo reinforced Guizishi and Jing Yunxin with soul energy, leaving the Soul Servant shrunken and damaged, then returned to contemplating Heartfire and the Curse.

Su Luo and his team prepared for a defensive Continued Battle, where they had to protect their [Tinder] from incoming attacks. Zhuo Yun Perfected Person prepared for the battle and clashed with a subordinate over his robe and the rules that forbade harming people from their own world.

• The system assigned Su Luo, Song Shige, Jing Yunxin, and Guizishi to Battlefield Number One and announced the defense rules, point settlements, and a thirty-minute preparation phase.
• Su Luo examined the powerful [Tinder], suspected it carried Fortune, and left the altar with Song Shige.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person stored his weapons and treasures in his sleeves while refusing a subordinate's offer of a special combat suit.
• The subordinate mocked Zhuo Yun Perfected Person's self-made robe and reminded him that the Venerable One's rules treated compatriots as equals and forbade killing them.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person invoked the rule to kill outsiders, then angrily reacted as the subordinate reiterated the rule of equality among compatriots.

Zhuo Yun Perfected Person arrived at a gathering of top Survivors from different worlds, where Su Luo assessed the rival teams and made contact with potential allies. The chapter ended as Song Shige used a card to inspect another team’s Tinder Shards and cards.

• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person struggled against his resentment toward the Venerable but obeyed the rules and entered the hall through the [Leyline].
• Song Shige noticed Guizishi and Jing Yunxin were uneasy and told them to leave the gathering.
• Su Luo met the other teams, agreed to discuss cooperation with the investigator from [Exploration Survival], and accepted other teams’ requests to talk.
• Su Luo used the [Tinder Probe Card (special)] and found that seven teams had Legendary-quality Tinders while two had ordinary-quality ones.
• Song Shige used the [Intelligence Peek Card (Random)] to inspect a randomly selected team’s Tinder Shards and cards.

Jiang Mengrui and Su Luo assessed the powerful teams gathered for the Continued Battle and looked for ways to survive among them. Su Luo disguised himself as a Forbidden Existence, leaving Zhuo Yun Perfected Person stunned.

• Song Shige reported that the random target in a black Daoist robe had over ten million Tinder fragments, and Su Luo concluded that the target might be able to kill a level 10 Elite monster alone.
• Jiang Mengrui detected that most teams had Legendary-quality Tinder and realized that two teams had reached Epic quality, then concealed her Goddess of Luck class while introducing herself.
• Su Luo judged that his team might only last until the twenty-fifth wave without hydrogen bombs and resolved to rely on information and the rules rather than a direct fight.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person tried to contact the Epic team and, after reaching Su Luo, asked whether he had earned a Supreme rating in the Trial Instance.
• Su Luo calmly claimed that he had come out of the Trial Instance, disguising himself as a Forbidden Existence and freezing Zhuo Yun Perfected Person's expression.

Su Luo prepared his Fire Domain for the Continued Battle while Song Shige monitored the battlefield and fielded a trade request from Zhuo Yun Perfected Person. The battle began without monsters appearing, and Zhuo Yun gave up trying to negotiate with Song Shige, whom he mistook for a bot.

• Su Luo shared information about twenty cards with Zhuo Yun Perfected Person after agreeing to cooperate with him, as he had with six others.
• The Continued Battle began, and the Guardian Rankings showed no monsters appearing during Wave 18.
• Su Luo expanded his Black Flame Domain to a ten-kilometer radius and raised its core temperature to nearly two hundred thousand degrees before stopping and forming Black Flame Meteorites and unstable energy spheres.
• Song Shige monitored the public channel and accepted a call from Zhuo Yun Perfected Person, who offered a Trade Card in exchange for a Wave Delay Card.
• Song Shige repeatedly agreed without choosing a card, so Zhuo Yun Perfected Person disconnected and called another team.

At the second checkpoint, Song Shige and Su Luo maintained the Number One Group’s Epic Tinder advantage while Song Shige secretly used cards to disrupt rival teams. As new monsters revealed energy from other Survival World systems, Zhuo Yun Perfected Person tried to rally strong teams into an alliance against the Number One Group, but the proposal met resistance.

• Song Shige told Su Luo that he had used six negative cards to stir up trouble among the other teams while they waited for the Continued Battle to end.
• Su Luo monitored the approaching eighteenth wave as Song Shige reported that only 76.43% of groups remained.
• The Number One Group’s Black Flame Domain destroyed most of the incoming monsters, and Su Luo noticed one left behind unfamiliar Vital Energy.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person used a Legendary communication card to bring several strong teams into a private channel and accused the Number One Group of secretly attacking them.
• After learning that random-target cards could affect their users, Zhuo Yun Perfected Person argued that the teams should share card resources and form a defensive alliance against the Number One Group.
• A ten-meter-tall Giant questioned the idea of joining forces against an Epic team.

As the battlefield’s fragile peace held, the investigator sought a way to break the stalemate, while Leopold secretly allied with Song Shige and learned the cost of Epic quality. At Wave 21, Su Luo confronted a massive mechanized assault and sent Guizishi to fight its mech as the Black Flame Domain consumed the drone swarm.

• The Giant condemned the other teams for keeping peace through fear and alliances, then left the channel.
• The investigator shared a Reality Interference Card and asked whether anyone had a Card Quality Breakthrough Card that could make it threaten an Epic-grade target.
• Leopold privately offered Song Shige intelligence and an alliance, exchanged cards, and learned that Epic quality required fifty-five million Tinder Shards.
• At Wave 21, a Deep Space Mothership, a giant war mech, and hundreds of thousands of drones appeared along the attack routes.
• Su Luo sent Guizishi to fight the mech and advanced toward the mothership with his Black Flame Domain, which destroyed the drones’ ammunition and overheated the drones themselves.

Su Luo and Guizishi defeated the mech and captured the Deep Space Mothership during wave twenty-two. After returning, Su Luo found the Laboratory damaged and prepared Song Shige to face the next wave.

• Guizishi rammed the mech and injected Su Luo’s high-energy experimental waste into its body, destroying it from within.
• The Deep Space Mothership’s main cannon pierced Su Luo’s advancing Cocoon, but the Cocoon kept moving through its attacks and melted the warship’s outer shell.
• Su Luo cut the Deep Space Mothership apart, preserving its major systems, and the panel announced the end of wave twenty-two.
• Su Luo returned with the captured warship and found the Laboratory battle-damaged atop the destroyed mech.
• Su Luo sent Guizishi back to his Sanctuary and told Song Shige he would face the next wave, then waited for it to come ashore.

Su Luo and Leopold both unleashed negative cards in the lobby, then Su Luo used Reality Interference Cards to prepare a devastating strike against other teams. Zhuo Yun Perfected Person faced four stacked waves and hurried to upgrade his cards as the consequences of the attack became clear.

• Leopold upgraded the [Shrine] to Epic quality and entered the lobby with a stack of Legendary cards, intent on eliminating weaker teams.
• Su Luo confirmed that eight teams were Legendary quality, upgraded his remaining negative cards, and used most of them as Leopold launched his own negative cards.
• After waiting five minutes, Su Luo used two [Reality Interference Cards] and left the lobby while Leopold chose not to interfere.
• Su Luo and Song Shige harvested energy from Fire Domain Cores and prepared to drop the energy and nukes on selected areas during the interference window.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person saw waves twenty-six through twenty-nine appear and upgraded his prepared negative cards to Legendary quality.

Zhuo Yun Perfected Person fought off a mass attack until his teammates and Sanctuary were destroyed, leaving him as a damaged Golden Core. A colossal Fire Domain Core then struck, and his Sanctuary triggered Near-Destruction Teleportation.

• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person used Targeted Negative Cards against rival teams and Buff Cards on his own, but gained three negative statuses himself.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person unleashed his Golden Core and sword techniques against more than a dozen attackers while the [Leyline] supplied spiritual energy.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person's teammates and Sanctuary were destroyed, and he was reduced to a cracked Golden Core and the remains of his Sanctuary.
• A million-cubic-meter piece of the Fire Domain Core arrived, unleashing a blast of light, heat, and force that overwhelmed the area.
• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person's Sanctuary triggered Near-Destruction Teleportation.

As the destruction spreads, Zhuo Yun Perfected Person loses his attributes and his Golden Core begins to crack, while Victor survives as a shifting soul and prepares a ritual using the upgraded Anchor. Victor sacrifices his remaining power to send the Anchor’s perception toward an incomprehensible dimension, and the chapter ends as he makes contact with something beyond the battlefield.

• Zhuo Yun Perfected Person’s attributes drop, his Golden Core cracks, and he senses the Venerable One condemning him as waste.
• Victor reforms his body from his soul after surviving the energy storm, then lets the Black Flame burn him as he heads for the altar.
• Victor uses his cards and millions of fragments to upgrade the Reality Interference Card and pour the remaining fragments into the Legendary Anchor.
• Victor mutates and performs a blasphemous ritual, enveloping himself and the Anchor in a pulsating flesh-like cavity.
• The Anchor’s perception pierces the battlefield’s planar barrier, and Victor sees something in a distant, incomprehensible dimension.