Chapter Summaries

Su Luo advanced the Three-Cycle Method until his Spirit reached a threshold that linked its growth to his Constitution, then turned to strengthening his body. While studying Baleful Qi, he realized that the energy produced by death might point to fundamental rules governing the world, and stopped before pursuing the unsettling idea further.

• Su Luo completed a major revision of the Dual-Cycle Method, which the system recertified as the Three-Cycle Method, and gained Spirit.
• Su Luo found that he could no longer spend free attribute points on Spirit and determined that reaching 14 Spirit had intensified its correlation with Constitution.
• Su Luo chose to pursue both soul and body development, prioritizing the improvement of his Constitution.
• Su Luo gathered martial arts, body-modification, and aberrant-beast knowledge, set dream-world time flow to three times, and studied Baleful Qi Infusion.
• Su Luo tested Baleful Qi and concluded it was elemental energy formed when a creature died, then wondered whether the world's rules had assigned death a special power.
• Su Luo felt unsettled by the implications of Baleful Qi and cut off his speculation about the world's origins.

Su Luo completed the Heart Fiend Body Tempering Technique, a method that used purified Baleful Qi and qi and blood to strengthen the body. With the District War two days away, he asked Qin Lang how many class holders might participate.

• Su Luo studied the Baleful Qi, martial arts, and body modification systems, then used them to design a new body-tempering method.
• Su Luo named the technique the Heart Fiend Body Tempering Technique and created Heart Fiend Blood Qi by refining Baleful Qi through the Emotion Cycle.
• Su Luo finished preparing to modify his body and checked that five days had passed since the last Monster Tide and that the District War would begin in two days.
• Su Luo asked Qin Lang how many class holders would participate in the District War.
• Qin Lang reported that 15 Mutual Aid Association members and two independent survivors were attempting Class Change, and confirmed that Ye Xu had successfully changed class.

Su Luo strengthened his skills and rushed to build two new Mana Pools before the District War, while warnings from Ye Zizhen suggested a larger threat lay ahead. At the Mutual Aid Association headquarters, leaders confronted the grim death toll from the Class Change Trial Instance and the possibility that only a fraction of survivors would become class holders.

• Su Luo leveled up the Three-Cycle Method and Heart Fiend Body Tempering Technique, then delayed entering a Trait Dungeon until his attributes reached the cap of 20.
• Su Luo used traded materials and a blueprint to begin constructing two new Mana Pools in his laboratory before the District War.
• Su Luo read the world channel as Ye Zizhen urged class holders to preserve their strength, prompting speculation that the truth behind survival in darkness would soon be revealed.
• At the Mutual Aid Association headquarters, Xi Ji and Jing Yunxin reported that only nine of fifteen class-change candidates returned from the Trial Instance, and several suffered mental trauma.
• A higher-up challenged Number One over the low survival rate and the projected number of future class holders, and Number One confirmed the dire estimate.

At a conference, Xi Ji argued that the Survival System treated ordinary survivors as expendable and designed Trial Instances to select people with exceptional Talents. He left with plans to compile survival guides, but stood alone at the Sanctuary questioning how long anyone could endure the system.

• Xi Ji described how his team fell to a beast tide in the Trial Instance, leaving him as the sole survivor despite his [Aura Control] Talent.
• Xi Ji proposed that Trial Instance ratings reflected a hidden assessment of each survivor’s potential and that the system favored people with cheat-like Talents.
• Qin Lang suggested using prior knowledge to lower instance ratings and help survivors clear trials by focusing on survival.
• The conference members discussed compiling guides and trying to stop Dongli Cang early in the 'Rise of Superpowers' instance, though they acknowledged that others had failed to return.
• Xi Ji handed the gathered documents to a colleague for the Analysis Department to use in creating a guide.
• After everyone left, Xi Ji stood alone at the Sanctuary and wondered what the Survival System intended and how long ordinary class holders could survive.

Han Song revealed his treasure-growing porcelain bottle to Su Luo and asked to join the Mutual Aid Association. Su Luo arranged for Song Shige to contact him, gave him emergency weapons and a Skill Book, and then changed his laboratory plans while heading toward [Dangerous Terrain].

• Su Luo warned Han Song about nearby [Dangerous Terrain] and noticed how quickly his attributes and ranking had improved.
• Han Song showed Su Luo the bound porcelain bottle, which contained a space that could cultivate plants that raised attributes.
• Han Song asked Su Luo to connect him with Song Shige so he could cooperate with and join the Mutual Aid Association, and Su Luo agreed.
• Su Luo contacted Song Shige, who planned to arrange support for Han Song, then gave Han Song three spell-sealing swords and a blue Skill Book.
• Su Luo sent Han Song back to his Sanctuary, resumed traveling toward [Dangerous Terrain], and decided to build a small Mana Pool instead of completing the large one.

Su Luo reached level 7, assessed his abilities, and prepared key Laboratory components for the District War. He was teleported to Battlefield 91 while the Laboratory remained buried underground.

• Su Luo killed a level 6 Elite monster with his fire net and reached level 7.
• Su Luo discovered that the System had temporarily restricted part of his Spirit increase because his Constitution could not support it.
• Su Luo packed the Mana Pool Core and other key components into his expanded Storage Space, then buried the Laboratory underground.
• The System assigned Su Luo’s group to Battlefield 91 and began the District War teleportation.
• Su Luo and the components he carried were teleported toward Battlefield 91.

Su Luo and the other Zone 76 participants assessed the crude District War battlefield and introduced their classes while preparing for the elimination contest. Gao Fu finally woke up long enough to explain how he survived the Trial Instance, then returned to sleep as Su Luo built a temporary laboratory.

• Su Luo surveyed the flat, 100-kilometer battlefield and noted that twenty-five Sanctuaries were spread across it, including nine from Zone 76.
• Su Luo, Song Shige, Jing Yunxin, Xi Ji, Guizishi, Duan Xinpan, Yin Haoguang, Shi Yong, and Jun Lebao introduced their classes and Talents.
• Xi Ji knocked down the door of Gao Fu's stone house and woke him, revealing him asleep on a luxurious bed.
• Gao Fu said he slept through most of the Trial Instance and survived the monsters because of his high Constitution and many skills.
• Gao Fu introduced himself as King of Dreams, compared his growth with Song Shige's, and went back to sleep until the battle began.
• Su Luo used a Material Selection Voucher to gather materials and continued building a temporary laboratory.

Class holders from several zones watched Zone 76’s squad while Shan Yixian faced a deranged fellow participant from his zone. The madman’s bizarre performance shocked the battlefield, and Shan Yixian withdrew into his Sanctuary.

• Binluk worried about Zone 76’s numbers and the powerful robed figure, while Spindu Layton told him they could surrender if necessary.
• Shan Yixian recalled how his neighbor had become insane after his Class Change as the neighbor’s foul Sanctuary opened.
• The neighbor crawled out in a grotesque form, recognized Shan Yixian, and threatened to give him a knife.
• The madman performed his specialty, prompting Su Luo to ask whether he was praying to a jar and Song Shige to call it “Madness Match.”
• Shan Yixian retreated into his Sanctuary, and the madman’s launched liquid struck the Sanctuary wall and vanished.

Shan Yixian flung a madman between neighboring regions until a bizarre class holder began licking the ice coffin that trapped him. Wang Hongwei joined Zone 76, traded information for cigarettes and a promise about his elimination, and warned that a witch from a Trial Instance had apparently escaped into his region and killed everyone there.

• Shan Yixian bound the madman and hurled him between regions, where class holders passed him along in an ice coffin until a marshmallow-roofed shelter owner began licking it with a monstrous tongue.
• Wang Hongwei approached Zone 76 to offer information, asked for cigarettes and a guarantee that he would be eliminated after the long-tongued madman, and accepted Su Luo's agreement.
• Wang Hongwei revealed that he was the only survivor in his region after its population fell from more than five thousand to one while he was in a Trial Instance.
• Wang Hongwei said a Forbidden Class holder had brought a centuries-old witch out of a medieval Trial Instance, and that she had killed everyone in the region within two days.
• Song Shige said Zone 76 would warn others through the World Channel, and Wang Hongwei agreed to share his information.

As the two madmen’s game ended in grotesque violence, class holders from the other regions gathered in Zone 76 to discuss cooperation and the elimination order. Xi Ji began the meeting by declaring that Zone 76 would take first place because it had two Forbidden Class holders.

• Wang Hongwei left after Su Luo promised to guarantee his elimination order.
• The pale figure attacked the long-tongued madman, but the returned damage destroyed its head, and the madman ate its remains.
• Binluk and Layton arrived to propose cooperation, and Binluk assessed Su Luo and Song Shige as the strongest figures present.
• Shan Yixian arrived, identified himself as a Collector with a Forbidden Class, and rejected Binluk’s proposal to form an alliance.
• Class holders from every region gathered in Zone 76 as the preparation period neared its end.
• Xi Ji opened the meeting by stating that Zone 76 would claim first place because it had two Forbidden Class holders.

The district leaders debated the rankings and the Continued Battle until Su Luo demonstrated his overwhelming power by creating a vast Fire Domain. The chapter ended with Shan Yixian stunned by the spectacle.

• Shan Yixian claimed he should place first or second, while Layton and others asserted their own Forbidden Classes and the group acknowledged the strongest contenders.
• Shan Yixian, Binluk, and Layton approached Su Luo as Song Shige said he would conserve his strength and focus on the Continued Battle.
• Su Luo raised his hand and drew mana into a black-flamed stone sphere, opening a huge fissure in the ground.
• Su Luo combined wind and fire into a Fire Domain that spread across the sky, bringing boiling rain and forming fiery weapons, dragons, and enormous eyes.
• Shan Yixian stared at the destructive display in awe, thinking it was incredibly cool.

Shan Yixian’s Talent urged him to befriend Su Luo, while Layton revealed a nuclear bomb that drove Shan away and discouraged the other zones from challenging the strongest fighters. When the zone battle began, the powerhouses maintained a fragile peace, and a madman in another zone devoured a headless body.

• Shan Yixian saw his Talent’s suggestion to befriend Su Luo and gave up competing for first place.
• Layton revealed a B91-13-type nuclear bomb, prompting Shan Yixian to flee and other class holders to avoid the powerful fighters.
• The zone battle began, but contestants used Flesh-and-Blood Communication Dolls to negotiate instead of fighting.
• Song Shige and Su Luo encouraged their companions to spar with opponents from other zones for practice.
• In another zone, the long-tongued madman devoured a headless body and then returned to his shelter.

Shan Yixian, Layton, and Binluk fought the long-tongued madman and the pale figure fused inside him, but the creature survived being cut apart. Binluk launched it toward the battlefield’s center as Layton’s Fire Domain and meteor descended, and the madman began drawing flames into his enormous mouth.

• Jun Lebao and Milk Powder watched the pale figure emerge from the long-tongued madman and fuse with him into a crawling Aggregation Body.
• Shan Yixian attacked the Aggregation Body with a feather from an illusory crown, melting most of its flesh as it fled toward Layton’s and Binluk’s Sanctuaries.
• Layton sliced the creature in two, and Binluk destroyed its scattered flesh with an elemental blast, but the madman began fusing himself back together.
• Binluk sent the recovering madman hurtling toward the battlefield’s center while Layton directed the Fire Domain and its meteor toward him.
• The madman opened his enormous mouth beneath the approaching attack and used a strange suction force to pull a flame from the Fire Domain.

The long-tongued madman swallowed the meteor attack, survived, and left the battlefield, while the remaining contestants gathered to exchange information. Layton revealed he could return to Blue Star and described the worsening situation there, ending with his account of the first nuclear detonation after they crossed over.

• The long-tongued madman swallowed the meteor, survived the attack, sent a note to Zone 76, and disappeared with his candy Sanctuary.
• Notifications announced the elimination of Zone 12385 and Zone 65846 as Su Luo continued building his Sanctuary.
• Xi Ji invited the remaining contestants to gather, and Shan Yixian asked Su Luo to show him the madman's note.
• Layton revealed that his Talent let him return to Blue Star and that he had taken a nuke from a U.S. military base.
• Layton said most places on Blue Star were uninhabitable and began recounting events there, including the first nuclear detonation less than two days after the crossing.

The survivors compared what they knew about Earth’s nuclear devastation and their Trial Instances, while Su Luo revealed that Wang Hongwei’s region had been reduced to one person after a Dungeon threat followed someone back. Shan Yixian recounted his doomed romance with a saintess, leaving the gathering laughing at his month-long Dungeon fling.

• Layton explained that nuclear exchanges and power-plant disasters had devastated Earth, and admitted he had not recovered seeds or organized knowledge backups.
• Shan Yixian asked whether Layton could return to Earth, and Layton said the system had blocked him from doing so.
• Su Luo revealed that only one person remained in the region associated with number 65846, and Song Shige described how the suspected return of the Oldest Witch’s consciousness had silenced the region.
• The survivors shared accounts of their Trial Instances, which varied in setting but commonly ended in destruction and despair.
• Shan Yixian recounted meeting a saintess in his Dungeon, refusing to leave with her, and learning too late that his Talent had warned him to flee.
• Binluk and the others laughed at Shan Yixian’s account, and Shan Yixian angrily confronted them.

Su Luo and the others compared their Dungeon experiences and concluded that powerful beings inside Dungeons could recognize trial takers and try to escape with them. Su Luo then argued that these Forbidden Existences were likely seeking to escape their Trial Instances rather than slaughter entire zones, before Shan Yixian recognized the situation as resembling Werewolf.

• Su Luo and Layton suggested that the God of Light might have replaced the Saintess and that the Demon Gods could have staged Shan Yixian’s final experience to follow him out.
• Layton described a technological Dungeon where a super artificial intelligence developed consciousness, while Su Luo and Song Shige recounted their own experiences.
• The group observed that some powerful Dungeon beings recognized visitors and tried to leave with them, and Su Luo suspected that one might have escaped in a sample from his Dungeon.
• Su Luo ordered a search of World Channel logs, and the group found five apparent Forbidden Class holders who had gone silent after emerging from Dungeons.
• Su Luo gathered Zone 76’s core members and proposed that Forbidden Existences wanted to escape their Trial Instances, not destroy entire zones; Shan Yixian compared their possible choices to Werewolf.

Su Luo questioned the origin of the class grading system and suspected that Forbidden Classes carried hidden risks tied to Forbidden Existences. Outside the Flame Barrier, Guizishi’s district’s unusually high survival rate led class holders to discuss how stable prices and the Survival System’s economy helped keep people alive.

• Su Luo asked who created the class grading system, and Xi Ji identified Ye Zizhen as the first to publish a breakdown of class qualities; Su Luo noted that “Forbidden” sounded distinct from ordinary and advanced grades.
• Xi Ji concluded that Forbidden power came with risk, while the group considered whether Forbidden Existences could manipulate class holders and spread between districts.
• Outside the Flame Barrier, Guizishi told other class holders that his district had twelve thousand survivors, far more than their districts, and attributed the number partly to limited infighting and useful forum information.
• Shi Yong and Jun Lebao discussed a resource-type Talent holder who had issued Skill Books but later caused trouble, and said their leaders planned to study him before taking action.
• A class holder argued that reasonable, stable prices explained the district’s high survival rate and described Survival Coins as a resource-based currency issued and reclaimed through system activities and fees.
• Jun Lebao recognized the mention of unregulated markets and blamed the Capitalists.

Shi Yong and the others discussed how resource inequality and unstable markets shaped the survivors’ Zones, then realized that excellent-rated Class changes could let Forbidden Existence escape from a Trial Instance. They concluded that the system’s livestreams and Hidden Rule were designed to make leaders suppress promising fighters, leaving Shan Yixian to mock the system’s scheme.

• Shi Yong explained to Jun Lebao how abundant resources could turn into power and wealth, while fragile markets and violence left ordinary survivors struggling to obtain basic supplies.
• Su Luo, Song Shige, and the others compared Zone development; Layton described how he had used his Talent and friends to stabilize his Zone’s markets, while Binluk recalled helping him fight.
• The group learned that only two of the nine represented Zones had basically stable prices, and Xi Ji said the person who coordinated Zone 76’s work was not a Class holder.
• Shan Yixian speculated that the system might stop merging Zones, and the group considered how excellent-rated Class changes could expose a Zone to a Forbidden Existence escaping its Trial Instance.
• Shan Yixian identified the Regional Livestream as a way to help leaders find promising fighters, while Xi Ji explained that advance Dungeon information could lower a rating and reduce the danger at the cost of a Zone’s potential.
• Shan Yixian laughed that the first forbidden ones would lead the later ones.

Su Luo and the others debated whether to conceal the possibility that Forbidden Existences could leave Dungeons, then shifted to exchanging information after Su Luo dismissed the threat of a leak. Shan Yixian gave Su Luo a Perfect-quality robe and received a powerful Mana-focused skill in return, while Su Luo asked him to obtain the Mutual Aid Association’s information records.

• Xi Ji warned everyone not to reveal that Forbidden Existences could leave Dungeons, and his killing intent frightened several people into preparing to surrender.
• Su Luo and Layton argued that Forbidden Class holders would soon deduce the truth themselves, and Su Luo ended the discussion.
• The group exchanged information about the Mutual Aid Association, monsters, and Dungeons while Su Luo worked on his laboratory.
• Shan Yixian gave Su Luo a Perfect-quality Dawn Moon Robe as an investment in his potential.
• Su Luo gave Shan Yixian the Dual-Cycle Method, which improved Mana absorption and mental resistance without class restrictions.
• Su Luo told Shan Yixian to ask Xi Ji and the others for an Essence Backup from the Mutual Aid Association.

After Zone 76 won the District War, Su Luo dismantled his mobile laboratory and prepared his team for Continued Battle. The team spent its points on a one-use near-death teleportation item, while the personal points shop opened.

• Shan Yixian proposed that class holders lend resources to help non-class holders change classes, but Song Shige rejected the plan as too risky.
• Su Luo finished building his modular combat laboratory, then disassembled it so Zone 76 could store its components in their Sanctuaries.
• As the other zones departed, Layton praised Zone 76, and Su Luo invited Guizishi to cosplay as the Battle System in his laboratory.
• The system declared Zone 76 the winner of Battlefield 91 and awarded the zone and Su Luo new Titles.
• Su Luo had the team redeem their 65 points for Continued Battle Near-Death Teleportation, and the Temporary Personal Points Shop opened.