Chapter Summaries

After the war, Su Luo interrogated Nanmen Shi in a dream and learned what he knew about Yuncang’s plans. He then opened a black box taken from Nanmen Shi and activated a figurine that identified itself as Yuncang Number Twenty-One.

• Goushi asked Su Luo to exploit Yuncang World’s confusion and use a commander's bracelet and codebook to mislead its players.
• Su Luo went to the Incandescent Fire Domain to study Mana and develop a way to fuse the body and soul for inheriting a Superpower Orb.
• Nanmen Shi woke in a dream, where Su Luo told him he had already learned most of what Nanmen Shi knew and might not let him return.
• Su Luo extracted a black metal box from Nanmen Shi and found a white stone and an intricately made figurine inside.
• Su Luo activated the figurine by generating electricity, and it announced, “Yuncang Number Twenty-One, at your service!”

Su Luo activated Yuncang No. 29 and heard Yun Sha’s proposal for cooperation in the coming Final Showdown, along with an explanation of the gifts he had left. He then let the replica connect to a communication bracelet, where it began deceiving the Wardens and helping players survive.

• Yuncang No. 21 warned Su Luo that he was using an unauthorized replica, but the bracelet silenced it and activated Yuncang No. 29.
• Yun Sha explained that the Final Showdown would pit nine advanced worlds, including [Under the Starry Sky], against [Yuncang World], and asked Su Luo to support the Qixing Republic.
• Yun Sha offered a Talent Stone and the illegal intelligence replica as gifts, saying the Qixing Republic hoped to escape a crisis caused by a great fleet.
• Yuncang No. 29 introduced itself to Su Luo and offered to help counter the Wardens’ fraudulent military messages.
• Su Luo allowed Yuncang No. 29 to use a communication bracelet, and it impersonated commanders and players while sending player locations to devices near the Wardens.

Su Luo examined Yuncang No. 29 as the Black Flame and Incandescent Fire domains began converging at the core of the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land]. While Yuncang No. 29 entertained the group and started a documentary, Su Luo shared information about the Yuncang Civilization with the survivors, and [Pineapple Candy] noticed a glowing stone on the table.

• Su Luo examined Yuncang No. 29 and learned that the Yuncang Union prohibited advanced AI from participating directly in war, while Yuncang No. 29 admitted she was illegal.
• The Black Flame Domain and Incandescent Fire Domain began contracting and merging toward the core of the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land], while Su Luo moved his laboratory and prisoners to a nearby rock platform.
• Yuncang No. 29 sang, traded insults with Barton, and discussed faith and survival with Goushi.
• Su Luo compiled information about Yun Sha's message and the Yuncang Civilization into a report and sent it to the surviving survivors.
• Yuncang No. 29 began projecting a documentary about the Yuncang Civilization, and [Pineapple Candy] asked whether a glowing stone was a Talent Stone.

Su Luo used World Master authority to prevent three Yuncang players from being forcibly returned, marking them as affiliated units, while the Survivors gained player status in Ten Thousand Worlds. Their rewards arrived, and Su Luo discovered his world reputation had become notorious.

• As the Survivors argued over the Talent Stone, Please Cheat on Me with Me received a notice that Ten Thousand Worlds was updating and would disconnect her soon.
• Please Cheat on Me with Me realized the Wardens might kill the captives before they could return, but Scholar stopped Goushi from attacking them.
• Su Luo spent Source from the white stone to halt the repatriation of the three Yuncang players and mark them as his affiliated units.
• The Survivors completed their main quest and received Ten Thousand Worlds player status and individual rewards from the Great Being.
• Su Luo received an experimental log from Miles Academy and saw his reputation listed as somewhat well-known (notorious).

Yuncang’s military leaders debated how to respond to the costly campaign in [Under the Starry Sky], where the World Master [Scholar] had inflicted severe losses. The meeting ended with Yun Cangyuan explaining that fallen players’ game accounts remained intact, leaving the expeditionary army’s core combat power available in some form.

• An old general presented the campaign data and identified [Scholar] as the main cause of Yuncang’s heavy losses in [Under the Starry Sky].
• Yuncang’s leaders argued over whether to reinforce [Under the Starry Sky] or conserve forces for the other Advanced Worlds.
• Yun Xingju warned that [Under the Starry Sky]’s high-mana environment made Yuncang’s power-system choices important.
• A technical consultant questioned how Yuncang could deploy more high-level players after the expeditionary army’s losses.
• Yun Cangyuan explained that the accounts of players killed in action had been retained, so the army’s core combat power had not truly perished.

Yun Sha condemned the meeting’s talk of surrender and demanded concrete preparations for the final battle, declaring that Yuncang Star should be destroyed rather than surrendered. In a separate white space, Song Shige and his surviving teammates discussed their new identities after completing a mission to suppress an uncanny invasion.

• Yun Cangyuan recalled reports that some players returned from death with severe cognitive and memory damage, then grew alienated from the meeting’s strategic discussions.
• A Yuncang Intelligence Administration Office consultant asked Yun Cangyuan for his view of the crisis as World Progress reached 85%.
• Iron Crown accused Yun Sha of staying silent, bringing a consultant into the meeting, and losing strategic cores that might have been captured.
• Yun Sha demanded concrete information about warships, player supplies, equipment, and response teams, and rejected discussion of surrender.
• Yun Sha declared that Yuncang Star should be sunk if necessary rather than let the enemy win, leaving the conference room silent.
• Song Shige examined his new Main God Proxy identity while his teammates compared it with their Reincarnator identities and recalled their mission to suppress the uncanny.

After suppressing the anomaly source, Song Shige slaughtered the infected and learned that the next mission would pit Survivor-backed civilizations against one another in the Civilization Arena. Meanwhile, Jing Yunxin completed her trial on the Eternal Battlefield and was assigned a mission to resurrect a being.

• Song Shige killed more than ten million infected people, and his Demon King skill increased his stamina recovery as he killed.
• Song Shige explained that the team could enter the Civilization Arena to support one fledgling civilization or return to their Survival Worlds.
• Song Shige reflected on the differences between the Main God Space and the Ten Thousand Worlds, and his Martial Will startled a nearby warrior.
• Jing Yunxin trained as a healer with a disciplined legion on the Eternal Battlefield, where the warriors' main attributes exceeded the 21-point threshold.
• A phantom declared Jing Yunxin's trial complete and told her that her next-stage mission was to resurrect a being.

Gao Fu maintained the collapsing collective Dream Worlds while reflecting on his growth, the God of Spirit and Dreams’ blessing, and his need to leave Zone 76 and meet more people. Meanwhile, Zone 76’s growing demand for Class Change Certificates fueled fierce competition for Dungeon access, and Han Song was left to organize the next team’s entry.

• Gao Fu considered how his dream-based Talent and class accelerated his growth, though he still lagged far behind Forbidden Class holders and those nearing Level 10.
• Gao Fu recalled the blessing from the God of Spirit and Dreams and resolved to finish his quest before getting out more after returning to Zone 76.
• Zone 76’s average primary attribute reached 12 points, bringing many Survivors close to changing classes.
• The limited supply of Class Change Certificates caused over a hundred teams to compete for entry to a single Dungeon.
• Han Song announced that the current team would need another hour to clear the Dungeon and told the waiting teams to decide who would enter next.

Han Song considered whether to change class while survivors competed for access to the next Trial Instance, and an explosion signaled that the Mutual Aid Association had bombed a potential Forbidden Class holder. The World Channel discussed rising regional strength, the spread of Dead Zones, and Zone 76’s use of Fused Sanctuaries as a response to the shortage of Class Change Certificates.

• Han Song’s acquaintance asked why he had not changed class, and Han Song decided to seek Consultant Su’s advice when he returned.
• A distant explosion alerted Han Song and the nearby survivors that the Mutual Aid Association’s emergency plan had detonated a nuclear bomb beneath a suspected Forbidden Class holder.
• The World Channel debated how Monster Tides were culling survivors and driving some regions toward becoming Dead Zones.
• Tali Lang asked how Zone 76 handled the limited supply of Class Change Certificates, and Song Shige explained that Zone 76 was fusing Sanctuaries so noncombatants could wait to change class.
• A gold-badge survivor urged people to reconsider two pinned messages from Ye Zizhen, but the World Channel users responded with jokes and confusion.

Su Luo traveled to [Desolate Continent] to collect Vital Energy for his Martial Will research, but an approaching Xiantian martial artist sensed the disturbance and withdrew after their wills clashed. Su Luo returned to [Under the Starry Sky] with a full energy reserve and wondered why no one else had investigated his arrival.

• Su Luo teleported to a remote mountain summit on [Desolate Continent] and deployed his Vital Energy collection machine.
• The machine drew in and compressed Vital Energy while Su Luo waited for its storage space to fill.
• A level 88 martial artist arrived with a vast Martial Dao Domain after sensing the energy being drained.
• Su Luo used [Heartfire] against the martial artist's domain, and the man paused before deciding to leave.
• Su Luo finished collecting Vital Energy, returned to [Under the Starry Sky], and asked Yuncang No. 29 why the world's World Master had not responded.
• Yuncang No. 29 explained that not every world had a communications system.

Su Luo studied a collapsing, superheated sphere to understand how Fire Element could rapidly convert into Mana and help him overcome his limits. As the Yuncang World reached 100% progress, the Yuncang Civilization finished connecting its population and prepared its defenses across the star system.

• Su Luo examined the blazing sphere that had replaced the Starry Sky Forbidden Land and discussed environmental destruction with Yuncang No. 29.
• Su Luo rejected Yuncang No. 29’s offer to trade technologies until he could meet its main body, then assigned Xiao Luo to process the Great Being’s Dream Experiment Log.
• Su Luo used Enhanced Perception to study Fire Element and Mana conversion and considered building rapid conversion into his own energy cycle.
• Su Luo examined how the Fire Purgatory title’s Afterburn effect accelerated Mana recovery, then experimented with it on the fireball.
• The Yuncang World’s progress reached 100% after nearly all of the Yuncang Civilization’s 38 billion people were connected to the server.
• Yuncang fleets and defensive installations across the star system took position as the civilization prepared for what came next.

The Final Showdown began, trapping Yuncang World’s players while granting them a powerful temporary buff, and Su Luo learned that his side could travel there freely. Su Luo and the surviving players arrived in Yuncang World’s space, where the conflict was beginning.

• Yun Cangyuan and his adviser witnessed a perceptual bell announce the Final Showdown, after which Yuncang World players lost the ability to log out.
• Yuncang World players received the Fight with Your Back to the River buff as world fusion began, and an enormous warship emerged in orbit.
• Su Luo saw that the War Shop had opened and found that his 440 Source could not afford its cheapest attribute buff.
• Su Luo’s quest updated to require helping Yuncang World join Ten Thousand Worlds, and he used the free travel rule to enter it.
• Su Luo arrived in space near Yuncang World with Yuncang No. 29 and the three strategic cores, followed by the other surviving players from Under the Starry Sky.

Su Luo and the Survivors arrived in Yuncang Civilization’s space and learned from Yun Sha that the Seventh Defense Zone was prepared to meet them with three Deep-Space Fleets and further reinforcements. As they accelerated toward the rendezvous point, Su Luo concealed the group while Yuncang No. 29 explained the enemy’s fleet capabilities.

• Su Luo tried to eavesdrop on Yuncang military communications but found the encrypted, jammed information too chaotic to use.
• Yuncang No. 29 relayed Yun Sha’s warning that three Deep-Space Fleets guarded the Seventh Defense Zone and that a Pillar and four Player Legions would deploy after the Survivors’ threat was confirmed.
• Yun Sha advised the Survivors to flee or defeat the three fleets, then gather at coordinates roughly 400 million kilometers from Yuncang Star.
• Su Luo formed a shifting mana cocoon that concealed all ninety-nine Survivors and Yuncang No. 29 as they accelerated toward the rendezvous point.
• Yuncang No. 29 began describing the Deep-Space Fleet’s ships and weapons, and Kuangxuan Dabaji remarked that the technology was familiar from previous battles.

Su Luo led the survivors away from their arrival point as Yuncang No. 29 defended Yuncang's military strength, and an orbital laser demonstrated the danger of remaining nearby. Su Luo then returned to [Under the Starry Sky] to bring Nanmen Shi and the other two strategic cores to safety in [Yuncang World], accepting the teleportation cost.

• Yuncang No. 29 argued that Yuncang's advanced fleet could threaten a Pillar, while Su Luo and the survivors dismissed its old assessments as unconvincing.
• A Flare-class orbital defense laser fired through the survivors' initial arrival coordinates, and Yuncang No. 29 explained its destructive power and warned them to leave.
• Su Luo said his camouflage could only delay detection, stopped accelerating the group, and vanished from the Cocoon.
• Goushi applied anti-prophecy and anti-tracking arts to the Cocoon while [Pineapple Candy] speculated that the survivors could travel between worlds to replenish their energy.
• Su Luo reappeared before Nanmen Shi and the other two strategic cores and arranged a coordinate-bound teleportation to [Yuncang World], paying an additional 15 Source.

Su Luo escaped with the survivors and headed toward Yuncang Star, while the Yuncang Union deployed three concealed fleets and orbital defenses to track and attack the invaders. Yun Cangyuan hoped the Union’s technology would protect Yuncang Star, though the enemy’s stealth remained a concern.

• Su Luo brought Nanmen Shi and two others into the survivors’ camouflaged cocoon, then directed them to use their Talents as his laboratory followed under stealth.
• Su Luo noticed the mysterious book flicker open, but found its pages blank and turned his attention to the missing Rapid Response Fleets.
• Yun Cangyuan monitored reports confirming an invasion by units from [Under the Starry Sky], as the commander-in-chief ordered the Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Fleets to track the enemy while avoiding direct engagement.
• The Iron Curtain network and orbital stations launched an attack, but the enemy vanished; detection teams later reacquired it and estimated its speed and trajectory toward Yuncang Star.
• The three fleets moved into concealed interception and surveillance positions, while the commander-in-chief told Yun Cangyuan to reserve his Player Legion for possible ground or near-orbit battles.
• Yun Cangyuan observed traces of the stealth fleet and hoped the Union’s advanced technology would let Yuncang Star withstand the coming attack.

After arriving in Yuncang World, Wu Fengzi used his cloning ability to survive the enemy’s relentless orbital attacks. He discovered that the hidden defense network targeted energy fluctuations and anything moving faster than a hundred kilometers per second, then began considering how to evade it.

• The World Master ordered the survivors to retreat after they sensed a deadly lock-on, while Wu Fengzi and two others stayed behind.
• Wu Fengzi split into more than a million miniature clones, but a laser beam destroyed hundreds of thousands of them and killed the two survivors.
• Wu Fengzi scattered his remaining clones to escape successive attacks, struggling to control them as they spread out.
• He merged nearby clones into a larger body, which was struck by a dark-gold kinetic projectile.
• Wu Fengzi used the deaths of his clones to study the defense network and determined that it targeted energy use and targets moving faster than a hundred kilometers per second.
• After his current clone died, Wu Fengzi shifted his consciousness elsewhere and began forming a plan.

Wu Fengzi escaped Yuncang’s fleet inside a tiny fragment and summoned the World Master, while Su Luo’s group raced toward Yuncang Star and detected a fleet preparing to intercept them. Yuncang No. 29 explained the Wireless Fleet before a laboratory suddenly entered the cramped camouflage cocoon.

• Wu Fengzi’s tiny clone survived the destruction of the aircraft carrier, evaded detection, and sent the World Master a message.
• The World Master of the [Desolate Continent] appeared in the void and located Wu Fengzi’s drifting fragment.
• Su Luo detected massive objects overtaking the cocoon and moving ahead along its course, suggesting that a fleet was preparing to intercept the survivors.
• Goushi pressed Yuncang No. 29 to explain the Deep-Space Fleet and the Wireless Fleet, and Yuncang No. 29 described the [Wall of Infinity] and its defensive ships.
• The silvery-white laboratory entered the cocoon and crowded the survivors together.

Su Luo guided the survivors through Yuncang’s concealed interception net and prepared them to assault the nearby fleet. After a decoy triggered a devastating barrage, he realized they had been discovered and that they had to act before the enemy boxed them in.

• The survivors replenished their Mana while Yuncang No. 29 described the civilization’s abundant energy and planet-destroying stellar cannons.
• After the cocoon struck a sensor array, Su Luo ordered the survivors to evade, assigned their battle roles, and led them toward the fleet.
• An earth-magic survivor sent a concealed artificial mountain ahead as a decoy, while Goushi’s divine sight failed to penetrate the enemy’s concealment.
• A network of laser nets appeared, and the decoy triggered a massive barrage from the hidden fleet.
• Su Luo identified the nearby flotilla’s search formation and said they could no longer wait to attack.

Su Luo and the survivors launched a surprise assault on the Yuncang Sub-fleet after discovering its search fleet nearby. Su Luo led a charge toward a Deep Space Mothership, and the chapter ended as the mothership aimed a charged gun at him.

• Su Luo burst out of the cocoon, and the survivors scattered to attack their assigned targets.
• Xiao Kou Chang Kai used Word Spirit to reveal the enemy ships and unmanned machines concealed nearby.
• Barton unleashed a psychic shock wave that incapacitated the crew of a destroyer, then rammed it to begin the boarding battle.
• Su Luo charged the Deep Space Mothership while a curse specialist weakened its unmanned defenses and his allies shared the damage through [Live and Die Together].
• Su Luo used [Heartfire] to incapacitate the crews of several frigates, then ordered his followers to suppress the unmanned units and destroy the mothership.
• The mothership turned toward Su Luo and began charging its underside gun.

Su Luo endured the Deep Space Mothership’s particle cannon and cleaved the vessel nearly in two with a giant Firework Longsword. As survivors flew to scavenge the wreck, [Pineapple Candy] disrupted the battlefield with music and [Kuangxuan Dabaji] was hurled away after ramming a battleship.

• The Deep Space Mothership fired its particle cannon, badly wounding Su Luo and a survivor, who used Second Life to recover.
• Su Luo formed a five-hundred-meter Firework Longsword and cut through the mothership’s armor, nearly severing the ship in two.
• Su Luo began recovering mana and Fire Element, while the survivors flew toward the wreckage to pick up scrap.
• [Pineapple Candy] played music that disrupted machinery and left some crew members unable to fight.
• [Kuangxuan Dabaji] collided head-on with a battleship, crushing its armor before tumbling away into space.