Chapter Summaries

Barton ambushed a player force, survived a nuclear blast, and killed dozens after revealing his increased level and blood-flame abilities. Across the outer islands, Yuncang’s diversionary assaults met defenders whose strength and abilities far exceeded expectations.

• Barton destroyed assault boats and shrugged off the players’ attacks as [Steelbreaker] organized a counterattack.
• The dead players’ boats exploded in a nuclear blast, leaving Barton gravely injured but alive.
• Barton invoked Blood Skull Sacrifice, revealed himself as Lv.88, and used bone blades to kill dozens of players while [Steelbreaker] escaped wounded.
• The Yun Cangyuan Expeditionary Army sent detachments to more than twenty outer islands to pin down their defenders with standardized forces and individual nuclear weapons.
• The assault teams’ expected battles of attrition became routs as island defenders displayed unpredictable power.
• On Island No. 97, a star-robed mage immobilized and tore apart a Lv.75 assassin who tried to attack from behind.

Yuncang’s expeditionary forces suffered heavy losses against the Wardens guarding the islands, whose strength far exceeded expectations. The commanders abandoned their slow advance and planned a rapid, protected strike toward [Starry Sky Forbidden Land], with reinforcements on the way.

• Yuncang players reported that the Wardens could overwhelm opponents of the same level, leaving the expeditionary army under mounting pressure.
• The Twenty-First Army’s field commander concluded that the plan to advance slowly had failed and consulted the Seventh, Eighteenth, and Thirty-First Armies about a new tactic.
• Nanmen Shi learned that three armies would reinforce [Under the Starry Sky] after Yuncang redirected its forces from other advanced worlds.
• The commander ordered Nanmen Shi to use [Live and Die Together] to link players and have the Seventh Army’s strategic core grant them Instant Death Immunity.
• The army prepared a lightning charge toward [Starry Sky Forbidden Land], while the Eighteenth and Thirty-First Armies held back the Wardens and diversionary forces confused the defenders.

Su Luo coordinated information and strategic suggestions for survivors while examining spoils recovered by [Skullcrusher] Barton. Studying the Yuncang players’ wristband communicators, he identified how they transmitted signals through rare elemental particles in the high-mana environment.

• Su Luo sent survivors enemy summaries and tailored strategic advice based on their willingness to cooperate.
• Su Luo examined three Yuncang players’ corpses and found energy crystals and metabolic catalysts, but no traces of their souls or consciousness.
• Su Luo inspected fragments of an assault ship and the players’ equipment, including external Mana Pools with lower efficiency than his own.
• Su Luo opened the sealed bone sphere containing the communicators and tested their memory-alloy casings and compact internal components.
• Su Luo used [Enhanced Perception] to observe the signals and deduced that the wristbands encoded information onto rare elemental particles to communicate through the unstable environment.

Su Luo cracked the players’ communications device but needed Barton to interrogate captured players for the military code. After translating the intercepted messages, Su Luo mapped the battlefield and directed the Survivors as enemy forces prepared concentrated assaults across the islands.

• Su Luo bypassed the wristband’s security and captured military communications, but could not understand their encoded contents.
• Su Luo sent Survivors to capture players, and Barton brought him three captives in exchange for a Skill Book.
• Barton interrogated the captives and gave Su Luo the military code rules and tactical references.
• Su Luo translated the intercepted messages and used them, battle reports, and player locations to build a battlefield map and guide the Survivors.
• Su Luo warned Survivors that islands seventy-one, fifty-four, and twenty-seven faced elite assaults carrying nuclear bombs, then gave one Survivor a deliberately misleading explanation of what a nuclear bomb was.

Nanmen Shi and Chen Yan’s squad reached the final staging area after Wardens repeatedly harassed their advance. They entered the Ironclad for the final briefing, where the star map showed heavy fighting across the surrounding islands.

• The World Master gave a survivor from Island 54 detailed intelligence and tactical advice, helping survivors disrupt the players’ attacks.
• Nanmen Shi talked about wanting to make out, then asked Chen Yan whether his spouse was a man or a woman; Chen Yan said his spouse was a woman.
• Nanmen Shi called Chen Yan an old traditionalist and later messaged him asking about a casual hookup, prompting Chen Yan to stop monitoring his communications.
• The assault boat reached assembly point H-3, near three large islands surrounding the Starry Sky Forbidden Land.
• Nanmen Shi and the squad boarded the Ironclad for a final briefing, where the star map showed Yuncang forces facing scattered Wardens and heavy losses across the outer islands.

The commanders of the Seventh, Eighteenth, and Twenty-First Armies reviewed their devastating losses and studied footage of the powerful Wardens guarding the route to the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land]. Nanmen Shi questioned why they planned to attack three islands at once and asked which route was the real assault.

• The commanders concluded that the enemy had likely cracked their communications, while staff reported that the armies had suffered severe losses despite tying down many Wardens.
• The Seventh Army commander said the three armies' spearhead had to push through the islands toward the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land].
• The commanders watched footage showing the scarlet dragon, the armored swordsman, the musician, and the black-and-gold-robed Warden attacking the expeditionary forces.
• The Twenty-First Army commander asked Nanmen Shi for his thoughts, and Nanmen Shi asked why they would split their forces across three islands instead of concentrating on one, and which route was the true attack.

The Yuncang army divided its forces to attack three mutually supporting islands, while Su Luo strengthened his attributes and monitored the battle from the Astral Remains. After spotting encrypted communications linked to tactical changes, he discussed the enemy’s plans with allied survivors and ordered them to keep defending the islands or retreat to the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land].

• The Twenty-First Army commander explained to Nanmen Shi why the army had split into three forces and ordered everyone to keep the tactical discussion off communications channels.
• The commander rallied the gathered forces, and the Yuncang army launched its attack on the islands.
• Su Luo raised his Constitution to 21.1 and his Strength to 20.0 while directing defenses across dozens of islands.
• Su Luo noticed garbled communications becoming more frequent before major Yuncang tactical adjustments, but decided not to try to crack them.
• Su Luo discussed the three attacking forces with his group of powerful survivors and ordered them to hold their assigned islands or retreat to the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land].

Su Luo received a strange message from Nanmen Shi, who claimed to represent one of the Yuncang World’s Pillars and offered a clue about an upcoming assault. After investigating whether anyone had leaked Su Luo’s identity, Su Luo shared the exchange with his group, who questioned Nanmen Shi’s loyalties.

• Su Luo reviewed the effects and cost of strengthening Genli Zhi Mo, deciding to postpone further upgrades until he had far more Survival Coins.
• Nanmen Shi sent Su Luo a series of provocative messages to confirm that Su Luo could receive and answer secret communications.
• After Su Luo replied, Nanmen Shi invoked the Pillar Yun Sha and offered information about which upcoming assault would be the real main attack.
• Su Luo checked the survivors and communication records for leaks, found no evidence of either, and shared Nanmen Shi’s messages with his group.
• Barton asked whether Nanmen Shi was a traitor to humanity and a major power.

Su Luo and the other defenders assessed Nanmen Shi’s intelligence about the Yuncang armies and redirected their defense toward two unusually resilient strategic cores. As the battle intensified, Yun Cangyuan watched the approach to Frostbreath Ridge while commanding the 21st Army in a near-suicidal campaign.

• Nanmen Shi offered to meet and deliver something entrusted to him by Lord Pillar, then reported that strategic cores were the true core of the enemy force.
• Su Luo identified Nanmen Shi and his companion as the strategic cores of the 21st and 7th Armies, and outlined which other cores were dead, missing, or delayed.
• Goushi and Xingkong Wuyu described the two cores’ damage-sharing and instant-death immunity abilities, including a mechanism that limited damage transferred through the link.
• Barton proposed focusing defenses on the two difficult-to-kill cores, and the group agreed to leave the specific deployment plan to Su Luo.
• Su Luo began planning around area-of-effect damage over time as Yuncang forces pressed their attack across three fronts and the outnumbered survivors struggled to hold on.
• Yun Cangyuan watched Frostbreath Ridge from his assault ship and continued commanding the 21st Army’s near-suicidal campaign.

Yun Cangyuan’s fleet landed on the icy island despite [Pineapple Candy]’s musical domain, then confronted the Lv. 88 Warden [Xiao Kou Chang Kai], whose Word Spirit forbade flight. Yun Cangyuan ordered the troops to keep attempting to fly in hopes of exhausting the Warden’s power.

• A robed musician appeared on an ice platform and used a melody to disrupt the approaching Yuncang fleet with ice and wind energy.
• Yun Cangyuan ordered the fleet to spread out, use mental protection and anti-interference equipment, and land in batches while Nanmen Shi’s [Live and Die Together] distributed the domain’s effects.
• The first assault force landed on the ice field, and a Legendary player warned Yun Cangyuan that [Pineapple Candy]’s attack seemed aimed at shaping the environment rather than directly harming them.
• The Legendary squad occupied [Pineapple Candy], allowing nearly a thousand players to land as Yun Cangyuan’s forces spotted [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] on the island’s highest ridge.
• [Xiao Kou Chang Kai] declared, “Here, flight is forbidden,” grounding players who were airborne or tried to fly.
• Yun Cangyuan ordered his troops to repeatedly activate their flight abilities to drain [Xiao Kou Chang Kai]’s power.

Xiao Kou Chang Kai and Xingkong Wuyu trapped and suppressed the Yuncang army while hidden elemental bridges fed Ice Element to the island. Yun Cangyuan realized the island was becoming an ice coffin and ordered an immediate evacuation, but the ominous music returned just as he gave the command.

• Xiao Kou Chang Kai used words of power to slow Yuncang's troops and disrupt their ranged attacks.
• Xingkong Wuyu appeared elsewhere on the island and immobilized approaching players, freezing some with frost dragons.
• Yun Cangyuan noticed elemental bridges transporting Ice Element from the Starry Sky Forbidden Land and realized the island was being prepared for a large-scale attack.
• After Xiao Kou Chang Kai left the front line with blood at his mouth, Yun Cangyuan ordered all units to abandon their positions and evacuate the island.
• The distant music returned with a rising, solemn chill as the evacuation order came too late.

Dog Shit_@!... and Pineapple Candy turned the Third Island into an enormous ice prison, trapping the Yun Cang expeditionary force and leaving Nanmen Shi to freeze after he admitted that [Pillar] had ordered his betrayal. As the other Yun Cang armies began suffering the effects through [Live and Die Together], Nanmen Shi wondered why Yun Cangyuan had known about the betrayal and let it happen.

• Pineapple Candy and Dog Shit_@!... combined their abilities to create a vast ice domain that immobilized and froze the expeditionary force on the Third Island.
• A Lv.89 legendary player severed his [Live and Die Together] link, brought Yun Cangyuan to Nanmen Shi, and gave Nanmen Shi a flame-engraved pendant before facing the guardians.
• Yun Cangyuan confronted Nanmen Shi about leaking the attack direction and contacting the guardians, and Nanmen Shi admitted that [Pillar] had ordered him to betray the expedition.
• Nanmen Shi told Yun Cangyuan he had kept his Talent active because without it he would have been the first to die, then lost consciousness in the ice prison while wondering why Yun Cangyuan had allowed the betrayal.
• The other two Yun Cang armies felt the Third Island's intense cold and slowing effects pass through their [Live and Die Together] links.

After a shared freezing attack devastated the Yuncang armies, the survivors launched a rapid assault and reached the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land]. A hidden support squad then arrived with the [Mirror] strategic core, revealing a plan to strike at the World Master’s core battlefield.

• The Seventh Army commander ordered the players to sever their [Live and Die Together] links, but the Fourth Island and Second Island forces suffered heavy casualties.
• The surviving commanders ordered a rapid assault, while Barton and [Kuangxuan Dabaji] escaped the Yuncang Army’s interception.
• The reduced armies broke through the final barrier and reached the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land], where Su Luo was the only one present.
• The Seventh Army commander placed a fruit pit that grew into a door, and a support squad led by a bald man emerged with the [Mirror] strategic core.
• The commanders revealed that Third Island had served as bait while [Treasure Chest] and a decapitation squad were secretly brought in to attack the core battlefield.

A Yuncang player drew the [Taiyi Fire-Repelling Divine Talisman], allowing the invading force to push into the Black Flame of [Starry Sky Forbidden Land]. The group discovered that the flames surrounded an immense incandescent inner wall, revealing that the forbidden land was a hollow energy sphere rather than a floating island.

• The ordinary man used his [Treasure Chest] to draw the [Taiyi Fire-Repelling Divine Talisman], which suppressed fire-attribute energy in a small area at a heavy energy cost.
• The commander organized the players into rotating teams to power the talisman, and the group advanced through the Black Flame; the commander lost several fingers when the flames consumed his protective energy.
• After traveling thousands of kilometers, the Yuncang players reached a region of incandescent plasma with no ambient Mana.
• The commander ordered the group to search for a way around the region, but they realized it extended in every direction and formed the inner wall of a hollow energy sphere around the star's remnant core.

The Yuncang force forced its way through the Incandescent Fire Domain and found Su Luo beside the Astral Remains Core. As both sides assessed each other and prepared for a fight, Su Luo identified two unusual players among the attackers.

• The commander tightened the protective water film and led the exhausted players through the Incandescent Fire Domain using defensive skills, shields, and resistance potions.
• The surviving Yuncang players entered a quiet, starlit sphere containing a silver-white building and the Astral Remains Core, where they found Su Luo waiting.
• The commander arranged the players for a possible attack as detection equipment reported Su Luo's Mana far beyond the expected Legendary range.
• A reconnaissance player revealed Su Luo's Spirit, and the commander grew wary when it did not explain the World Master's extraordinary Mana reserves.
• While the players recovered and prepared to advance, Su Luo appraised them and singled out an ordinary man and a frail girl with unusual skills.

Su Luo used a meteor shower and a malicious symbiotic link to devastate the Yuncang players as they fought their way toward the Astral Remains. As the survivors entered the area he had prepared, Su Luo’s [Heartfire: Primordial Origin] began to flare.

• Su Luo summoned Black Flame meteorites from the Fire Domain, and the commander ordered [Mirror] to link the Yuncang players with [Live and Die Together].
• The meteorites battered the linked group, killing high-level players as their damage was shared among everyone.
• Su Luo accepted a link invitation from [Please Cheat on Me with Me] and sent self-inflicted injuries through the symbiosis link to the players.
• Su Luo used experimental suppressants to transmit debilitating effects through the link, and [Please Cheat on Me with Me] severed it after the commander ordered her to do so.
• The meteor shower drove the surviving players closer to the Astral Remains and into Su Luo’s prepared area.
• Su Luo purged the sedatives from his body and sensed a spiritual flame ignite as [Heartfire: Primordial Origin] flashed on his panel.

Black Flame silently attached itself to the players’ souls as they charged through the Fire Domain, while lethal energy balls and permanent control spells disrupted their advance. The bald man discovered that the flame could burn away a victim’s awareness of its presence, leaving the survivors to examine their own souls for it.

• Black Flame appeared beneath the Treasure Chest talent holder’s skin, burned through his soul, and left him unresponsive despite the priest’s attempt to heal him.
• The players advanced toward the deep-blue figure while precise white energy balls and permanent control spells slowed them and killed a Legendary mage.
• The commander noticed a trace of Black Flame on his fingertip, lost his ability to think, and died as the flame consumed his mind.
• The bald man ordered the survivors to inspect their souls after Black Flame began appearing on and killing non-Legendary players.
• The bald man found Black Flame had already burned away a fifth of his soul and realized it could remain dormant while erasing awareness and memories of itself.

Su Luo’s mental attacks and battlefield traps forced the players to adapt, first with a fire-repelling talisman and then with copied Second Life Talents. Nine battered Legendary players finally reached him and prepared to exploit what they believed was his weakness in close combat.

• The bald captain used the [Taiyi Fire-Repelling Divine Talisman] to suppress Su Luo’s Heartfire and lead the surviving players through the traps.
• Su Luo changed Heartfire’s manifestation into Ethereal Wind after seeing that the talisman countered attacks based on fire.
• When a different soul attack bypassed the talisman, the bald captain abandoned the team’s damage-sharing link and ordered [Please Cheat on Me with Me] to copy [Second Life] for the surviving Legendary players.
• Nine wounded Legendary players reached Su Luo after enduring his traps, while the [Treasure Chest] strategic core died and the talisman treasure disappeared.
• The bald captain challenged Su Luo to fight at close range, and Su Luo decided to try.

Su Luo used a decoy to draw the Legendary players’ attacks while he killed their healer and fought off their coordinated assault. As the bald captain’s willpowered sword thrust closed in, Su Luo triggered the traps beneath the battlefield, but the strike continued toward him undeterred.

• Several Legendary players used Second Life, and Su Luo’s decoy exploded when the bald captain thrust at it, sending spiritual power into the captain’s mental world.
• Su Luo appeared beside the Legendary priest, killed him, and moved away with the priest’s head as the other players tried to locate and attack him.
• A Legendary elemental mage trapped Su Luo in an elemental cage, but Su Luo dismantled it and punched through the mage’s shield.
• A Legendary assassin stabbed Su Luo in the back, but Su Luo escaped, expelled the damaged tissue, and began healing.
• The bald captain advanced with a self-sacrificing sword thrust as another knight fled toward Astral Remains, and Su Luo activated the traps beneath the battlefield.
• The bald captain roared “Yuncang” and thrust onward through the traps’ effects.

Su Luo fought off the Legendary players at the Astral Remains while Goushi followed his instructions to capture [Please Cheat on Me with Me]. The nine Legendaries who launched the final charge died, and Su Luo was left at Lv.89.

• Su Luo took the bald swordsman's powerful thrust head-on, then healed his shattered arm as the remaining Legendary players spent their Second Life revivals.
• A rain of concentrated energy fell over the battlefield, where the other attackers were already dead or gravely injured.
• Goushi emerged from the hidden energy passage and followed Su Luo's instructions to quietly capture [Please Cheat on Me with Me] without letting her log out.
• The black-armored warrior refused [Please Cheat on Me with Me]'s request to retreat, then was frozen, beheaded, and thrown into the Incandescent Fire Domain by an unseen force.
• The unseen force carried [Please Cheat on Me with Me] to Su Luo, who stood among the defeated Legendaries and revealed that he had somehow reached Lv.89.