Chapter Summaries

Su Luo and Song Shige examined the spoils from Region 8 and headed into the Fire Domain after learning the elimination had gone smoothly. In space, the Trickster and Mech Armor argued over how to avoid helping Su Luo and the Demon King, leaving their uneasy standoff unresolved.

• Song Shige showed Su Luo the Vast Sea Scroll, which had bound itself to him and resisted all attempts to examine it.
• Su Luo took five Food Vouchers of Choice from Song Shige's spoils, then learned Region 8 had been eliminated and the remaining regions had gained seven points.
• Su Luo contacted his companions, heard that everything had gone smoothly, and drove the Laboratory into the Fire Domain after clearing everyone out of it.
• The Trickster and Mech Armor confronted each other in space after Anna chose elimination rather than fight them.
• The Trickster proposed that they hide separately to deny Su Luo and the Demon King elimination points, but Mech Armor refused because he suspected the Trickster would betray him.

Su Luo questioned Mech Armor and the Trickster about their powers and compared the different Survival Systems. The group identified shared rules across their worlds but ended without knowing the purpose of the Trial Instances.

• The Trickster and Mech Armor fell into the Scholar's black Fire Domain through Su Luo's temporary passage and were trapped inside.
• Su Luo questioned Mech Armor about its armor-based system, learning that it evolved through combat and materials and that its skills came from upgrades or enemy modules.
• The Trickster described several worlds' power systems, and Su Luo tested a classless Skill Book with Song Shige, confirming that compatible systems could share learnable skills.
• Mech Armor explained that his world had no Skill Books, while the Trickster noted that the sky warship seemed to rely on an external tool rather than personal power.
• Su Luo and the others listed common Survival System rules, including mobile or fixed bases, identical levels, a Level 5 trial, and a 20-point attribute ceiling that required competing for a breakthrough.
• Mech Armor questioned the purpose of Trial Instances, but no one knew why they sent people into doomed worlds and selected survivors.

Su Luo restrained the Trickster, then explored a ruined automated industrial site and recovered a large quantity of an extraordinarily heat-resistant alloy. He returned to the Fire Domain with the metal, which he named No. 3 Alloy, as Song Shige continued beating the Trickster.

• After Mech Armor left, Su Luo used black flames to keep the Trickster trapped in combat, and Song Shige played back the Trickster’s recorded words before punching him.
• Su Luo drove his laboratory to a wrecked mechanical production site and tested an alloy that only began melting at twelve thousand degrees.
• Su Luo discovered that the site’s advanced mining and smelting equipment had belonged to a survivor’s Sanctuary, which had disappeared when its owner was eliminated.
• Su Luo collected machines and furnace equipment, then smelted the wreckage into more than a hundred cubic meters of pure alloy blocks.
• Su Luo named the metal No. 3 Alloy, returned to the Fire Domain, and began distributing it among the Sanctuaries of Zone 76 while Song Shige beat the Trickster.

After Group Nine won the Continued Battle, Song Shige and the others spent their team points on regional benefits and unlocked the Regional Title System. The personal points shop then opened, and Su Luo began choosing items while considering how to strengthen himself and the region.

• Group Nine took first place and received titles that strengthened Survivors in Zone 76 and improved Song Shige's abilities.
• Song Shige and the others bought a Monster Tide Basic Wave Reduction Coupon and a Dangerous Terrain Suppression Ticket, then exchanged points for tax exemption, chests, and a random regional Title.
• Zone 76 obtained [Wind of Diligence], and the system unlocked the Regional Title System with control permissions for Song Shige, Su Luo, and Guizishi.
• The Temporary Personal Points Shop opened, and Su Luo reviewed its offerings and the experience needed to develop blue Attribute skills.
• Su Luo exchanged his personal points for two suited Perfect-quality items, a blue Attribute Skill Book, three treasures, and rare materials.

Su Luo obtained powerful equipment and supplies, then discussed Ye Xu and the possibility that a Forbidden Existence had escaped a Dungeon. He asked Song Shige about strategic weapons, hoping to use them to resolve the threat peacefully and directly.

• Su Luo equipped the Soul-Draining Necklace and concealed the Talisman of Favor in his body, then consumed treasures that raised his attributes.
• Su Luo dismantled the temporary Laboratory into components for the nine Sanctuaries and packed local supplies into System Space.
• Su Luo and Song Shige agreed to investigate Ye Xu, suspecting a Forbidden Existence might have escaped and that it was not cooperating with Ye Xu.
• Su Luo and Song Shige reasoned that Ye Xu's low ranking, silence, and lack of transactions made his situation suspicious, while Jun Lebao and Jing Yunxin offered alternative explanations.
• Su Luo asked Song Shige whether his organization had information about strategic weapons, explaining that he wanted to borrow the east wind to settle matters peacefully.

After returning from the District War and subsequent battle, Su Luo read the World Channel while traveling toward a Dungeon and recorded reports about Forbidden Existences, other worlds, and shared Trial Instance settings. Ye Zizhen pinned two posts, and Shan Yixian announced that more information from back home would follow.

• Su Luo returned to his laboratory, brewed Focus-Calming Tea, and piloted it toward a distant Dungeon while browsing the World Channel.
• Survivors reported that Forbidden Existences could leave Dungeons with them, and users discussed how Trial Instance difficulty might relate to survivor potential and ratings.
• Survivors from the subsequent battle shared reports about other worlds, their power systems, and the possibility that different worlds had identical Trial Instance settings.
• Ye Zizhen spent two World Channel pinning permissions to pin a summary about Forbidden Existences and a report of a shared Trial Instance setting.
• Shan Yixian announced that participants from battlefield 91 would relay news from back home, with information provided by [Planar Stalker].

Su Luo moved Han Song’s shelter to the safe zone and questioned him about the mysterious porcelain bottle bound to him. He then turned to the greater threat facing Zone 76: Ye Xu and the possible Forbidden Existence, and began considering how to confront it.

• Han Song asked Su Luo for a ride to the safe zone, so Su Luo moved Han Song’s shelter there with his own.
• Su Luo asked whether Han Song had won the porcelain bottle from the [Wishing Well], and Han Song confirmed it while insisting he would serve Su Luo and Zone 76.
• Su Luo returned the porcelain bottle to Han Song and speculated that some special item bindings might persist beyond the system’s reach.
• Su Luo descended his laboratory underground, sorted his mechanical samples and components, and postponed reverse-engineering them.
• Su Luo and Song Shige’s concerns about Ye Xu led Su Luo to consider whether the World Will was weakened or whether the system was the true Forbidden Existence.
• Su Luo decided he would confront the threat directly and noted that Raiding Tickets could help him return home.

After the District War, Su Luo learned that World No. 9527 had earned two additional daily Trait Dungeons and investigated whether his original Sanctuary had survived the nuclear war. He concluded it was probably intact and prepared to use it as an anchor for a trip home.

• Su Luo arranged for the Mutual Aid Association to gather information for a possible return to his original world, then reviewed Xiao Luo's dream operation log.
• The system announced that World No. 9527 had claimed 34 first-place finishes in the Continued Battle and earned two additional daily Trait Dungeons.
• Su Luo observed that the World Channel was growing less useful and reviewed Sanctuary reports gathered by the Mutual Aid Association.
• Su Luo inferred that his Sanctuary might include his former library's basement and underground parking garage, which could have civil defense capabilities.
• Su Luo told Qin Lang that the Sanctuary was likely still intact and asked him to arrange the Dongfeng and copy information for the trip.

Jun Lebao protected Su Luo’s Sanctuary, then searched a destroyed underground base for the old missiles Number Two wanted. After Su Luo reviewed the mission logs, he investigated distortions in his dream and learned that time flowed at sharply different speeds in its disrupted zones.

• Jun Lebao teleported into Su Luo’s underground Sanctuary, inspected it, removed hazards, and sealed it inside a protective shell.
• Jun Lebao surveyed the damaged city and flew toward a hidden stockpile in the western mountains after Number Two said the nuclear strikes had been intercepted.
• Jun Lebao entered the ruined underground base and sent Number Two images of several old missiles, which Number Two rejected.
• Number Two redirected Jun Lebao to collect nuclear material and search another location for a more powerful missile, explaining that an old contact had provided the lead.
• Su Luo entered his dream’s conceptual boundary, and Xiao Luo reported that the collision with another dream had created an interface and zones where time flowed at up to ten times or as slowly as 0.2 times its normal rate.

Su Luo used lessons from Luther’s dream to build four specialized zones in his own dream, enabling faster study and parallel calculations. After Jun Lebao sent him a hydrogen bomb through Han Song’s shelter, Su Luo began dismantling it to modify it safely.

• Su Luo realized Luther’s dream separated combat and waiting zones, allowing time to pass at dramatically different rates, and Xiao Luo warned that copying its speed would be prohibitively costly.
• Su Luo partitioned his dream into normal-speed, study, experiment, and computation zones, then set Xiao Luo and specialized secondary consciousnesses to work on parallel calculations.
• Su Luo received Jun Lebao’s message that he had brought back two powerful items and asked him to send one.
• Su Luo ordered Han Song to confirm a Mutual Aid Association trade request, received a hydrogen bomb, and carried it to his underground laboratory.
• Su Luo began dismantling the locked-down 3.3-megaton hydrogen bomb, identified its T-U configuration, and checked that its foam layer was intact.

Su Luo, Song Shige, and Jing Yunxin attacked Ye Xu’s Sanctuary to investigate his prolonged absence, using a modified hydrogen bomb and a strike from Song Shige. They found evidence that Ye Xu had been gone for days and discovered him curled up motionless in the dusty second-floor rest area.

• Su Luo finished modifying two bombs, then flew his laboratory toward Ye Xu’s Sanctuary after Song Shige agreed to move out.
• Su Luo gave Jing Yunxin a Perfect Talisman of Favor for protection, while Song Shige prepared to guard against a Forbidden Existence.
• Su Luo and Song Shige saw that survivors had tried and failed to break into Ye Xu’s Sanctuary, then launched their attack.
• Song Shige cut open the Sanctuary’s dome, and Su Luo’s modified bomb flew inside and attached itself to the only humanoid target.
• Su Luo and Song Shige found seven piles of identical supplies, indicating Ye Xu had not collected his Talent’s output for seven days.
• Su Luo and Song Shige sensed Ye Xu curled up motionless on a dusty sofa in the second-floor rest area.

Su Luo discovered that Ye Xu had been overwhelmed by the thousand Superpower Orbs produced by his Talent, leaving him unconscious and unable to control his body. In Ye Xu’s dream, the princess questioned him about his previous life, and he began recounting his failures and the strange swelling of his soul.

• Su Luo and Song Shige found Ye Xu unconscious and discovered that his soul contained a thousand Superpower Orbs.
• Su Luo explained that Ye Xu’s Talent had amplified one orb a thousandfold, causing his soul to overload under conflicting transformations.
• Su Luo concluded that they could investigate the system’s role by asking Ye Xu in his Dream World.
• Ye Xu dreamed that he had been reborn during the trial and met a princess who claimed she had also been reborn.
• Ye Xu told the princess about the beast tide, the director’s attack, his failed revenge, and the painful swelling that preceded his unconsciousness.

Ye Xu woke from Su Luo’s constructed dream and struggled to survive in the harsh reality, eventually asking Su Luo to let him return to the illusion. He realized that he was dreaming again and tried to bargain for his possessions, explaining that the dream’s sensations had exposed it.

• In Su Luo’s dream, Ye Xu helped the princess defeat the beast tide, killed Donglicang, and spent ten happy years with her before Su Luo pulled him back to reality.
• Su Luo explained that he had created the dream, then gave Ye Xu a [Return Scroll] and let him leave the laboratory.
• Ye Xu struggled to find a Blue attribute Skill Book, built a team, and was crippled by a powerhouse from another district during the district war.
• Ye Xu asked Su Luo to let him try the dream skill again, but Su Luo refused.
• Back at his shelter, Ye Xu suspected that his surroundings were another dream and offered Su Luo everything he owned to return to the earlier illusion.
• A rational voice asked how Ye Xu had discovered the deception, and Ye Xu said the sensations had revealed it.

Su Luo drew Ye Xu into a dream and learned that Ye Xu wanted to escape reality by living in an illusion. Su Luo granted his wish by trapping him in a realistic, accelerated dream, then modified Ye Xu’s body to sustain itself.

• Su Luo confronted Ye Xu, who begged to return to his fantasy world and explained that he could no longer bear reality.
• Su Luo sent Ye Xu back into his dream, adjusting its speed and structure so he could not wake up.
• Su Luo recalled how he had linked their dreams, shattered Ye Xu’s fantasy, and pulled him into his own dream.
• Su Luo decided to keep Ye Xu as a future test subject and placed a secondary subconscious entity in the dream to observe it.
• Su Luo accepted Ye Xu’s friend request and received information from him before reinforcing the bridge between their dreams.
• Su Luo modified Ye Xu’s body so it could survive without eating or excreting, while keeping him in human form.

Su Luo concluded the aftermath of the Trial Instance and discussed the professional guide, risk controls, and Thousandfold Increase research with Xi Ji. He left Xi Ji at Han Song’s Sanctuary with Ye Xu’s body while he went underground to work.

• Su Luo told Xi Ji that the Forbidden Existence’s threat had been eliminated and Ye Xu had chosen to remain in a dream, then took Xi Ji and Ye Xu’s body away in the laboratory.
• Xi Ji explained the revised professional guide and its application-only distribution plan, while Su Luo warned that information would inevitably spread as more survivors became professionals.
• Su Luo and Xi Ji agreed that a Peacekeeper should monitor people who entered trials without using the guide and eliminate anyone who returned with confirmed abnormalities.
• Su Luo told Xi Ji to oversee Thousandfold Increase research at a safe-zone base near Wizard’s Abandoned Experimental Field and to keep collecting knowledge.
• Su Luo delivered materials to Han Song’s Sanctuary, then left the laboratory and sank underground; Xi Ji stayed behind with Han Song and Ye Xu’s lifeless body.

Su Luo studied the Natural Body Tempering Method and integrated its elemental circulation paths into his Heart Fiend Body Tempering Technique, then inscribed an improved skill book that raised the skill to Level 25. He noticed that the fifth Monster Tide was approaching and began melting No. 3 Alloy while checking Zone 76’s Regional Channel.

• Su Luo had Xiao Luo record the remaining Trial Instance knowledge and optimize three spells, the Three-Cycle Method, and the Heart Fiend Body Tempering Technique.
• Su Luo studied the Natural Body Tempering Method and incorporated its branching Natural Element pathways into his own technique.
• Su Luo tested the modified pathways on a simulated version of his body on the Dead Silent Planet and sent the technique to Xiao Luo for optimization.
• Su Luo used Skill Book Inscription to raise Heart Fiend Body Tempering Technique to Level 25, increasing his Constitution and Strength.
• Su Luo discovered that the fifth Monster Tide was approaching, began melting No. 3 Alloy with Black Flame, and opened Zone 76’s Regional Channel.

Su Luo reviewed the Zone 76 map project and read Han Song’s popular post about Dungeon safe zones before checking on Han Song’s research into Ye Xu’s Talent. After learning how Ye Xu’s ability treated his belongings, Su Luo began experimenting with the dream bridge and considered kicking Ye Xu out.

• Su Luo read about the Mutual Aid Association’s plans to map Zone 76 and checked updates on survivors and class holders.
• Su Luo found Han Song’s post predicting a future real estate industry around Dungeons and replied that Han Song had a way with words.
• Su Luo asked Han Song whether he had upgraded the item and investigated Ye Xu’s ability; Han Song reported that it could multiply personal items and described their tests.
• Su Luo considered whether Ye Xu’s Talent had multiplied items because Ye Xu had voluntarily given up his belongings, then began experimenting with the dream bridge and planned to kick Ye Xu out.

Han Song explained the Mutual Aid Association’s plan to test the rules behind Ye Xu’s Talent while Su Luo began reinforcing his laboratory and reviewing World Channel discussions. The chapter left Su Luo reading debate about rising monster levels, Zone 76’s strong survivors, and the 20-point attribute limit.

• Han Song told Su Luo that Ye Xu’s Talent might judge an item’s ownership or conceptual connection rather than physical possession, and described the Association’s planned tests.
• Su Luo began shaping No. 3 Alloy into a stronger laboratory framework and sent Qin Lang a revised list of materials to price.
• Su Luo read World Channel posts about stronger monsters, survivor attributes, and Zone 76’s high average and large survivor count.
• Kundina Orlando asked Su Luo about his Flame Storm and Meteor Fall skills, while other survivors discussed outside-zone dangers and preparations for the next District War.
• Survivors debated the 20-point attribute limit, and one claimed to possess 21 attribute points despite the panel not showing them.

Su Luo read a serialized World Channel story about A, a ruthless class holder who abused and killed B’s father, and B, who later caused A and more than a hundred people to die during the Monster Tide. The account left survivors debating how B manipulated the challenge and what the incident meant for trust and survival.

• Su Luo read the storyteller’s explanation of World Channel message limits and the first installments about a zone with two class holders.
• The storyteller described how A’s faction merged more than a hundred Sanctuaries and relied on A to lead their defense against the Monster Tide.
• The storyteller revealed that A had raped B and killed B’s father, despite B having helped him before his Class Change.
• The storyteller said B beat the tenth wave, then faced a Level 8 elite monster after leaving his Sanctuary and triggering the “Fighting Alone” buff.
• B returned to the Sanctuary before the monster entered, and more than a hundred people, including A and B, died during the livestream.
• Survivors on the World Channel argued about B’s actions, the threat of Level 8 elite monsters, and their loss of trust in the system.

Su Luo explained how the system’s Fighting Alone mechanism could turn resentment into a threat against fused Sanctuaries, then urged survivors to support those who came after them and compete against other worlds. At the Mutual Aid Association, leaders assessed the danger to their fused Sanctuary projects and found the immediate risk relatively low.

• The system’s Hatred Mechanism imposed the Fighting Alone state on survivors outside their Sanctuaries, weakening them while increasing monster-wave difficulty and enabling resentful survivors to endanger everyone.
• Su Luo warned that the fused Sanctuary path created another Chain of Suspicion, and urged survivors to help later arrivals because more class holders could secure more Continued Battle victories and Trait Dungeon slots.
• Ye Zizhen added that Continued Battle’s eventual rewards might extend beyond Trait Dungeon slots.
• At the Mutual Aid Association meeting, Number One and the managers reviewed the fused Sanctuary projects and noted that headquarters had kept its top survivors out of the fusion.
• Qin Lang reported that groups of fewer than a hundred fused Sanctuaries faced relatively little risk, while survivors in other districts bore the greater pressure.