Chapter Summaries

Victor used [Painting • Fake] to unleash incomprehensible contamination across the battlefield, then regained his human form through Return of Reason. Su Luo and Song Shige were driven toward madness, and Su Luo chose to detonate hydrogen bombs in an attempt to interrupt and reset their condition.

• Victor completed [Painting • Fake] and activated its card effect, briefly restoring his reason and human form.
• The painting's gaze struck the Xiantian martial artist, flooding him with incomprehensible knowledge and driving him toward madness.
• Su Luo and Song Shige were contaminated, while the Epic [Tinder] briefly repelled the effect and strengthened their resistance.
• Su Luo realized that increasing his attributes would not help and prepared a blast to interrupt the contamination and reset his state.
• Su Luo sent more than a dozen high-yield hydrogen bombs toward himself and Song Shige as Black Flame flared; Guizishi had already killed himself.

Su Luo used Jing Yunxin’s Resurrection Talent to restore himself and the others after hydrogen bombs destroyed their bodies and Contamination. With the survivors recovering and the Continued Battle nearing its end, Su Luo prepared to use his remaining Reality Interference Card for retaliation.

• Su Luo used the Talisman of Favor and Anchored Pocket Watch to regain control of his mind, then guided Jing Yunxin to activate Resurrection as their bodies and souls were destroyed by the hydrogen bombs.
• Jing Yunxin resurrected herself, Su Luo, Song Shige, and Guizishi, and Su Luo burned Contamination from the dismantled Sanctuaries.
• Su Luo explained to Guizishi that Resurrection depended on consciousness remaining intact during the ongoing process of death.
• Song Shige and Guizishi disagreed about whether the strange attack resembled the Cthulhu Mythos or a memetic assault.
• Su Luo noticed that 12.69% of teams remained and released a mutating piece of flesh beside the Fire Domain, preparing to use his last Reality Interference Card.

The battle royale left only four teams after successive waves of lethal attacks and battlefield-wide interference. As the survivors waited for the Continued Battle countdown, Su Luo unleashed a growing mass of mutated flesh into the Legendary investigator’s battlefield.

• Number One Group and Leopold’s coordinated Legendary card storm eliminated several teams, while Number One Group’s later interference and Victor’s attack wiped out more.
• Leopold entered the Hall of Consciousness and found the senior investigator, the Demon King, and an unfamiliar being who had replaced Zhuo Yun.
• The unfamiliar being identified himself as the Venerable One of World 15437, then vanished; the senior investigator soon left as well.
• Su Luo confined a mass of mutated flesh in the laboratory and watched it grow rapidly as it consumed Mana and elemental matter.
• Su Luo deployed a [Reality Interference Card] into the Legendary investigator’s battlefield, placing it away from Victor so the Mutation could grow.

After the Continued Battle, Su Luo’s team earned 542 points and received regional and personal titles before the team points shop opened. The group bought Diamond Chests and decided to leave the Monster Tide wave reduction coupon unpurchased, while Su Luo remained unable to reach the altar’s Tinder.

• The system announced the Continued Battle results, awarding the region two titles and Su Luo three titles, then opened the temporary team points shop.
• Su Luo tried to take the Epic-grade Tinder from the altar but found it protected, while the group wondered why the shop’s all-points Unknown item was grayed out.
• Su Luo estimated the points’ purchasing power, and the four team members voted to buy the one-time Diamond Chest reward.
• Song Shige considered buying a Monster Tide Basic Wave Reduction Coupon, but the group concluded Zone 76’s strength would outpace the waves and chose not to reduce the pressure.

Song Shige and Su Luo spent their Continued Battle points on zone benefits and personal items. Su Luo obtained a Legendary book called Genli Zhi Mo, whose effects could help him manipulate energy and analyze targets, while its final ability remained mysterious.

• Song Shige’s group bought two Dangerous Terrain Suppression Tickets and two Regional Tax Exemption Tickets, then used their remaining points on titles, zone-wide buildings, and other benefits.
• The zone gained the Radiant, The First to Strike, and Hold On to Your Sanity titles, along with a Healing Spring and a Flame Tower.
• Su Luo examined the Temporary Personal Points Shop and bought a Near-Death Teleportation Ticket, a Legendary-quality item, three Personal Title Slot Expansion Tickets, three blue Attribute Skill Books, friend-slot cards, and rare materials.
• Su Luo received Genli Zhi Mo, a Legendary book that reduced Mana consumption, improved energy affinity and precision, and granted Synchronisation, Strategic Calculation, and Paradox Inscription.

Su Luo salvaged the battlefield’s most valuable spoils, chose titles for Zone 76, and prepared to return for his Purple Skill. After the plane collapsed, two unseen forces divided its cores and sent them into other worlds, where a youth and a tribal leader each received a new source of power.

• Su Luo dismantled his laboratory, reduced the mothership wreckage and giant blade, and packed the valuable salvage into two Sanctuary frames.
• The three strongest people in Zone 76 selected seven titles for the zone, including [United as One].
• Su Luo configured his personal titles and prepared to return to reclaim his Purple Skill.
• After the group departed, the plane’s ten cores escaped its collapse and entered a vast sea of cores in an indescribable gap.
• Two unseen beings divided the cores, marked them, and sent them across countless worlds.
• A youth on a blue planet received a [Civilization Tinder], while a tribal leader found a [shrine] that named her the master of a [Source of Faith].

Su Luo returned from the Continued Battle and unloaded the battlefield salvage and Laboratory components at Jing Yunxin’s and Guizishi’s Sanctuaries. After reviewing Zone 76’s rewards and discussing resource distribution with Qin Lang, he headed to the Mutual Aid Association’s cleared land to work in seclusion.

• Su Luo flew to Jing Yunxin’s Sanctuary, where he met Qin Lang and began unloading his tightly packed supplies.
• Su Luo reviewed the District War results: three professionals had died, five had suffered permanent Attribute losses, and Zone 76 had won two Diamond Chests, thirty Gold Chests, and sixty-seven Iron Chests.
• Su Luo and Qin Lang discussed distributing the chest rewards through contribution exchanges, special-purpose loans, and large-scale crafting projects.
• Su Luo agreed to send technical approaches and supply lists later, said he would be outside the zone for several days, and asked Qin Lang where Song Shige was.
• Su Luo unloaded supplies at Guizishi’s Sanctuary, then returned to the Mutual Aid Association’s cleared land and surrounded it with Black Flame to keep monsters away.

Su Luo rebuilt his temporary laboratory and began restoring his body and mental world after resurrection. As he worked, he read World Channel messages about the confusing District War and learned that Continued Battle qualification depended on team points.

• Su Luo assembled a temporary laboratory, then used its Mana Pool to heal himself while reconstructing his mental world and bodily energy cycles.
• Su Luo carefully scanned his body and soul and found no trace of the indescribable thing.
• Su Luo browsed World Channel messages and encountered bizarre reports about specialized products sold during the District War.
• Survivors discussed the District War’s defense waves and card system, with many confused about how the competition worked.
• A message clarified that Continued Battle qualification required a team to rank in the worldwide top ten percent by points, not merely survive until the remaining teams reached ten percent.

Su Luo reviewed reactions to the District War and considered how powerful regions such as District 66666 might become as the rewards accelerated development. After Zone 76’s Monster Tide ended with almost no deaths, he read reports from survivors of the chaotic Continued Battle, whose participants had now returned.

• Survivors discussed District War rewards, exchange limits, Dungeon access, and the advantages of regions with many class holders.
• Su Luo skimmed more than a hundred thousand messages and noted that the District War had caused fewer casualties than the previous round.
• Qin Lang reported that Zone 76’s average primary attribute had reached 11.7 and that the group was now focusing on secondary attributes.
• Su Luo considered Father Tali Lang, Ye Zizhen, and Ye Fan as possible reasons other regions might rival Zone 76’s development.
• Survivors reported that Continued Battle had become a chaotic fight as visitors from other worlds attacked without introductions.

Su Luo reviewed reports of the deaths and Forbidden Existences encountered in Continued Battle, then waited for the mental world to finish. He assigned Xiao Luo to build the body's circulatory systems while he went to study in the Dream Library.

• Survivors described Continued Battle's brutal battles, strange enemies, and the lack of Near-Death Teleportation.
• Su Luo asked everyone to report the Forbidden Existences they encountered in their District Wars, and Ye Fan and others shared descriptions from their battlefields.
• Participants speculated about the system, the unknown points-shop exchange, and whether Ye Fan was a Forbidden Existence.
• Su Luo lurked for more than two hours until the mental world was complete.
• Su Luo sent Xiao Luo to construct the body's two circulatory systems and energy flows while he entered the Dream Library to study.

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.