Chapter Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Su Luo hosted three powerful neighbors at the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land] while urging survivors to prepare for an imminent attack. When [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] deliberately triggered a power that transformed [Kuangxuan Dabaji], Su Luo’s group contained the incident, and the neighbors left for their defense zones.

• Su Luo established a communications network for the survivors and told them to keep their devices operational and remain reachable.
• [Kuangxuan Dabaji], [Xiao Kou Chang Kai], and Goushi visited Su Luo instead of preparing their islands, and [Kuangxuan Dabaji] complained that he lacked defensive buildings.
• After [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] called Su Luo’s laboratory “Awesome,” the word’s power tried to invade the men, and [Kuangxuan Dabaji] punched [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] into the distance.
• [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] recovered and admitted he had deliberately lost control, while the real Scholar revealed that the players had sent no probes for over ten hours and an all-out attack might be imminent.
• Su Luo ordered the visitors to return to their defense zones, stored a record of their conversation in the Library in the Dream World, and replenished his mana from the Astral Remains Core.

Su Luo organized information about the Survival Worlds and argued that the Survival System had balanced civilizations’ starting advantages, easing anxiety among World No. 9527’s survivors. As he continued his experiments and research, Xi Ji shared Su Luo’s findings, leaving survivors fascinated by the many worlds beyond their own.

• Su Luo reflected on his growing favorability toward the Great Being and used information from other survivors to piece together how the Survival Worlds and cross-world organizations worked.
• Su Luo posted that technological civilization was also a form of supernatural power and argued that the Survival System had likely leveled the civilizations’ original advantages.
• Su Luo noted that Survival Worlds differed in population and zone sizes, then added the gathered information to his Library while continuing his fusion experiment and compiling the Spell Permanence Technique.
• Xi Ji reposted Su Luo’s information in the World Channel and marveled at descriptions of civilizations and worlds beyond the Land of Darkness.

Xi Ji prepared to lead Zone 76’s first formally approved Out-of-Zone Exploration as the Mutual Aid Association equipped the team with Perfect-quality amulets. As he reached the zone’s border, a new Monster Tide began, and its basic clearance requirement had risen to six waves.

• The Mutual Aid Association launched its first large-scale Out-of-Zone Exploration, with Xi Ji leading four high-level class holders.
• Xi Ji saw that the Mutual Aid Association had tipped Su Luo’s guide more than five billion Survival Coins, funded by selling its stockpile of Perfect-quality protective items.
• Yin Haoguang fitted two Perfect-quality amulets into Xi Ji’s body before Xi Ji left for the meeting point.
• Xi Ji crushed the monsters along his route and reached the zone’s border as the system announced a new Monster Tide.
• Xi Ji checked the Monster Tide rules and confirmed that the basic wave count had increased to six.

Xi Ji and his team regrouped as players across the zones faced the approaching end of the era of non-class holders. In Yuncang, Nanmen Shi was summoned before the nine Pillars and then received a mysterious instruction to wait in room A-36.

• Xi Ji read World Channel messages about most zones reaching the seventh Monster Tide wave and the urgent need for people to become class holders.
• Xi Ji and his four teammates regrouped near the boundary marker, checked their equipment, and prepared for the expedition.
• The Yuncang 21st Expeditionary Army assembled and learned that Nanmen Shi had been kept behind by the Pillars.
• Nanmen Shi met the nine Pillars, who explained that they had risen through years of organized effort and sacrifice in the Ten Thousand Worlds.
• After leaving the Pillars' review, Nanmen Shi heard a voice tell him to go to room A-36 and wait for one hour.

Nanmen Shi agreed to follow the Pillar’s plan to advance the Arrivalist cause, while the expeditionary force assembled at the edge of [Under the Starry Sky] and launched an attack on its islands. Barton met the assault boats with a stealth strike, smashing into their formation with a blood-red shockwave.

• The Pillar told Nanmen Shi that humanity needed to embrace the [Ten Thousand Worlds] more fully and asked him to help.
• Nanmen Shi chose to blindly follow the Pillar, despite belonging to the indifferent Carefree Sect.
• The expeditionary force assembled across the outlying islands and established a communications network.
• Su Luo ordered Barton to delay the approaching force, but Barton refused to retreat and transformed into a dragon-like monster.
• Barton launched a stealth attack on twelve assault boats and struck their formation with a massive blood-red shockwave.