Chapter Summaries

Qin Lang addressed concerns about the Analysis Department overlooking survivors’ changing mental states and defended the Mutual Aid Association’s unconditional support for Su Luo. Meanwhile, Su Luo experimented with skill inscriptions and discovered that exceeding a skill’s level cap could eventually raise its quality.

• Qin Lang confirmed that the Analysis Department had not assessed mental-state changes, and the meeting decided to clarify responsibilities and repair the department’s lapses.
• Qin Lang rejected Xiao Du’s objection to supplying Su Luo, explaining that Su Luo’s contributions and reputation made him as valuable as President Song.
• After more than ten hours of work, Su Luo reviewed the latest Three-Cycle Method data and examined its expanded level cap.
• Su Luo repeatedly inscribed Optimized Fireball and discovered that leveling a skill beyond its cap could raise it to the next quality.
• Su Luo realized that none of his current skills qualified as purple-quality skills by the system’s standards.

Su Luo chose to study and consolidate his new knowledge before exploring beyond his zone, then sent Xiao Luo to process his plans while he piloted his upgraded laboratory away from the Sanctuary. Meanwhile, Jefferson watched survivors turn against the organizations that had supported them and dreaded the coming Monster Tide, while hiding from a Forbidden Existence in Zone 34679.

• Su Luo decided to digest his knowledge before exploring outside the zone and planned to test his limits later.
• Su Luo organized his skill improvements and experiments, sent the task list to Xiao Luo, and piloted his upgraded laboratory away from the Sanctuary.
• Jefferson read World Channel posts about class holders abandoning their organizations after receiving support and rejecting Sanctuary fusions.
• Jefferson saw that only six people remained alive in Zone 34679 and feared the Forbidden Existence brought back by the zone's Forbidden Class holder.

Jefferson and four supposed allies tried to survive the fifth Monster Tide wave together, but one fled before the fourth wave and triggered the livestream system. Jefferson discovered the other three had already become parts of Him, and Him descended before Jefferson.

• Jefferson reminded the other four survivors to endure the fifth Monster Tide wave and abandon the remaining challenges together.
• After the first three waves, one ally announced he was using a Class Change Certificate to escape, despite Jefferson begging him to stay.
• The fourth wave began, and the system activated four livestream rooms because fewer than five challengers remained.
• Jefferson saw the same deathly pale, staring face in the other three livestream rooms and realized those allies had already become parts of Him.
• Him descended before Jefferson through the gaze, ending Jefferson's game.

Su Luo compared scientific papers from his world with those from the Trial Instances and found widespread errors and fabricated research, prompting him to purge unreliable knowledge from the library. After mapping the region’s Dangerous Terrain, he found more than a thousand areas covering roughly two percent of its land.

• Su Luo posted his view that Trial Instances were built on real worlds and that their civilizations followed natural patterns of development.
• Su Luo screened papers from both worlds and found comparable rates of pseudoscience, fundamental errors, and fabricated or manipulated research.
• Su Luo ordered Xiao Luo to discard literature containing fabricated data, fallacies, or fundamental errors, retaining only knowledge that remained correct and logically consistent.
• Su Luo installed a precision component in the laboratory’s mana pool and reflected that mathematics and fundamental physics were less prone to systemic fraud.
• Su Luo mapped the region’s Dangerous Terrain and counted more than a thousand areas, ranging from dozens to thousands of square kilometers and covering about two percent of the region.

Su Luo examined the spread of [Dangerous Terrain] and set out to obtain an Alchemy Skill Book that could help him study his perfect-quality equipment. Meanwhile, Han Song organized supplies and equipment for delivery as the Mutual Aid Association considered building shelters near Dungeons to cut the cost of repeated runs.

• Su Luo reviewed a report showing that 214 survivors had shelters inside [Dangerous Terrain] and worried that the area would keep expanding.
• Yin Haoguang told Su Luo that [Alchemy (blue)] had dropped, and Su Luo accepted it as a chance to learn how to dismantle complex items.
• Su Luo's laboratory accelerated toward its destination to collect the Skill Book.
• Han Song sorted the Mutual Aid Association's supplies and Su Luo's stored equipment, then packed items entrusted to him by other class holders.
• A Dungeon team joked about Han Song's secretive work as he headed to the nearby stone house.
• The Mutual Aid Association considered relocating shelters beside Dungeons to reduce the expense of repeated Dungeon trips.

Su Luo and Han Song investigated the rules behind Ye Xu’s Talent, testing how it selected and amplified items. Su Luo concluded that the Talent used weighted randomness influenced by Ye Xu’s needs and that its unstated rules had to be discovered through careful testing.

• Han Song told Su Luo that Ye Xu’s Talent had produced three thousand Fine-quality mental-charm-resistant necklaces and three thousand stamina potions despite Ye Xu not handling items.
• Su Luo reasoned that the Talent only affected certified items and that ownership depended on conceptual binding rather than physical possession.
• Han Song proposed testing whether sustained physical contact could make items count as Ye Xu’s belongings, and Su Luo approved the plan and offered a Perfect-quality item for testing.
• Su Luo pointed out that the Talent’s outputs suggested weighted randomness shaped by Ye Xu’s environment, needs, and awareness.
• Su Luo explained that Talent descriptions left key terms undefined, so survivors had to test and understand their powers’ precise rules.

Su Luo left the district to find Chairman Song and attacked the level-six Brute Giant with the silver-white laboratory. The Brute Giant was killed and left the server after Su Luo’s repeated collisions and Black Flame meteorites overwhelmed its regenerative abilities.

• Su Luo told Han Song to focus on learning to use Talents and other system features before speculating about their essence.
• Su Luo left the district to look for Chairman Song, who had gone out after the District War.
• The Brute Giant dodged the laboratory’s first charge, but Su Luo’s vehicle struck it and smashed its body against a mountainside.
• The Brute Giant healed, used Grudge Lock against the laboratory, and was struck again; it later damaged the laboratory with an Elbow Strike and Critical Strike.
• Su Luo summoned two Black Flame meteorites, which crushed and vaporized the Brute Giant despite its Rebirth skill.
• The Brute Giant tried to flee as the Black Flames consumed it, then burned to death and left the server.

Su Luo created an Elite Soul Servant and ventured beyond his region in the laboratory, adapting to the chaotic gravity and crossing dangerous terrain. Near a mountain range, he encountered an enormous swarm of insect soldiers, including Level 7 Acid Insect Soldiers.

• Su Luo used ten soul fragments from his Soul-Draining Necklace to create a Level 6 Elite Soul Servant that inherited some of his skills.
• After defeating the Observer, Su Luo qualified to explore outside the region and guided his laboratory into the darkness.
• Su Luo stabilized the laboratory against shifting gravity, left a trail of black flames as a marker, and crossed a vast Dangerous Terrain.
• At the foot of a mountain range, gravity surged to a hundred times Earth's, forcing Su Luo to modify the laboratory again.
• Su Luo illuminated a dense swarm of at least a thousand Level 5 to Level 7 insect soldiers approaching through the darkness.

Su Luo attacked a migrating colony of Zerg outside the zone, then realized the creatures had been traveling with a clear purpose rather than displaying the hostility of monsters inside the zone. He collected several insects for experiments as the swarm moved on, and his Spirit rose to 19.9 while Xiao Luo reported progress on optimizing the Three-Cycle Method.

• Su Luo used the laboratory’s automated weapons to bombard a swarm of Zerg, gaining some experience while noticing that the monsters all had Pressure Resistance.
• Su Luo appraised the roughly three-thousand-member colony and identified a powerful Level 7 Mutated Insect Queen whose full attributes and skills remained hidden.
• The Mutated Insect Queen led the colony away without attacking the laboratory, and Su Luo concluded that the Zerg were migrating rather than targeting him.
• Su Luo followed the swarm along its flank and captured several insects as experimental materials, judging that the zone might protect survivors from threats beyond it.
• Su Luo’s Spirit increased to 19.9 after he drank Focus-Calming Tea, and Xiao Luo said its calculations could improve the Three-Cycle Method by one skill level.

Su Luo studied the insects’ natural spell models and used them to reinforce his laboratory as he explored increasingly high-gravity terrain. After returning to his marked wasteland, he discovered that the terrain had radically changed and his positioning signal was being disrupted.

• Su Luo used Xiao Luo to retrieve relevant knowledge and dissected insects, finding their Mana-sensing organs and intricate spell models that helped them endure extreme gravity.
• Su Luo adapted the insects’ pressure-resistance spells to reinforce the laboratory and continued climbing into stronger gravity.
• At six hundred times normal gravity, the Mana Pool cracked and became unstable, forcing Su Luo to end the expedition after greatly improving the laboratory’s tolerance.
• Su Luo returned to his marked wasteland and found that the black-flame trail was gone and his positioning signal appeared to come from several directions.
• Su Luo compared the terrain with his records and found that valleys, stagnant water, and other features had transformed within a day, though he had remained in the same continuous space.

Su Luo investigated the bizarre Great Rift and met Song Shige, who explained that Exploration Quests could grant purple skills and that he had completed one. After Song Shige returned to his Sanctuary, Su Luo searched for information about purple skills and considered how he might obtain one himself.

• Su Luo sent a Soul Servant to scout the Great Rift and learned that the surrounding area had extreme gravity, spell interference, and other dangerous conditions.
• Song Shige arrived at the rift, told Su Luo it would eventually move away, and revealed that he had developed Martial Will and earned a purple skill through an Exploration Quest.
• Song Shige vanished when his temporary teleportation stay expired, then messaged Su Luo that his skill was unusable until he obtained a trait and that he was preparing to enter a Trait Dungeon.
• Su Luo searched the World Channel for reports about purple skills but found no mention of purple Skill Books.
• Xiao Luo suggested that Su Luo capture someone with a purple skill and extract their memories.

Su Luo studied the Zerg’s naturally inherited spell models and realized they could help him advance [Spell Permanence Technique] to purple quality. He also confirmed he could cultivate beyond the system’s attribute cap, though the process was far too slow for the time he had.

• Xiao Luo warned Su Luo that adopting a ready-made purple skill could disrupt the personal system of techniques he was developing, and Su Luo told Xiao Luo to optimize his recent spells and spell models.
• Su Luo examined the spell structures in Zerg samples, which gave him confidence that he could derive a method to make spells permanent in dynamic environments and at microscopic scales.
• Su Luo raised [Three-Cycle Method] and confirmed that he could train his Spirit beyond the system’s 20-point limit, although advancing further would take years.
• Su Luo studied how mana-rich environments shaped organisms and found that Zerg tissues contained inherited spell models for repair, reconstruction, error correction, and information replication.
• Su Luo wondered whether such internal spell models explained the power of noble bloodlines and focused on deriving a broadly applicable construction method for [Spell Permanence Technique].

Su Luo entered a Trait Dungeon that suppressed his abilities and forced participants to fight with wand-based spells and game-like stats. He tested the dungeon’s rules and inspected his available spells, including a temporary fire resistance effect, as he prepared to face its challenges.

• Su Luo agreed to enter the third Trait Dungeon after discussing the event with other survivors, including Song Shige and Layton.
• The dungeon selected Su Luo and teleported him into a dilapidated cave, where he received a wand containing Optimized Fireball and Optimized Tornado.
• Su Luo discovered that a surrounding restraint suppressed his abilities that affected the outside world, leaving the wand as his practical means of combat.
• Su Luo examined his temporary data panel and found high mana regeneration, increased mana capacity, and immunity to fire damage below 30.
• Su Luo tested both wand spells, then reviewed his spell inventory and inspected Blood Shield.

Layton explored the Trait Dungeon, discovered a shop selling wands, and gathered gold to improve his equipment. When he returned to the damaged ancient building, he found Su Luo there and thanked him for sharing introductory professional guides with their district.

• Layton killed a monster, collected its gold, and found an ancient building deep inside the cave.
• Layton discovered a heart that increased his health and browsed the shop’s wands, but he could not afford the ones he wanted.
• Layton bought a spell backpack expansion, then hunted monsters until he had gathered over eight hundred gold.
• Layton returned to find the ancient building’s dome blasted open and its stone mage statue decapitated, then encountered Su Luo surrounded by rapidly cast Blood Shields.
• Layton thanked Su Luo for providing nearly eighty introductory guide posts that had helped survivors in their district.

Su Luo and Layton explored the Trait Dungeon, comparing how their powers had been weakened and how their wands worked. Su Luo blasted through a blocked passage with a rapid stream of Flame Spears, leaving Layton baffled by the spell’s unusually low casting delay and lack of recharge time.

• Layton told Su Luo that the Trait Dungeon blocked access to system spaces and weakened his teleportation, while Su Luo demonstrated his repeated Blood Shields.
• Su Luo explained the Dungeon’s information system, bought a wand, and answered Layton’s question about maintaining order with “Kill.”
• Layton used his Space Bullet to carve a short hole through rock, but Su Luo took over and fired accelerating Flame Spears until they opened a hundred-meter passage.
• Layton examined Su Luo’s wand and Flame Spear statistics and questioned why the spell had almost no casting delay or recharge time.
• Su Luo guessed that the spell was simply too lazy to bother delaying or recharging.

Su Luo and Layton explored deeper into the Trait Dungeon, where Su Luo demonstrated extraordinary spellcasting by attacking and maintaining layered shields at the same time. After explaining his fire-related special effect, Su Luo discovered his personal casting modifiers were negative; elsewhere, Gai Li Darwin struggled with the Dungeon’s limits on his strength and mana before spotting a distant fire.

• Su Luo and Layton blasted through the cave’s dead ends and fought monsters as they descended toward stronger enemies and better gold drops.
• Su Luo used separate attack and defense wands to fire spells rapidly while maintaining more than thirty layers of shields, leaving Layton puzzled by his casting speed.
• Su Luo reached a floating red, heart-shaped crystal, gained 900 health, and explained that his special effect was Fire Element Enthusiast.
• Layton learned that Su Luo’s personal wind-up and recovery modifiers were negative, unlike his own.
• Gai Li Darwin adapted his [Lord of Flesh] abilities to wand-based spells but found that the Dungeon’s cooldowns and mana limits undermined his strengths.
• Gai Li Darwin gave up on obtaining a trait and noticed a faintly flickering fire in the distance.

Su Luo and Layton discussed the Dungeon’s rules while fending off attacks, until Gai Li Darwin ambushed them with a Flesh Portal. Su Luo escaped the portal’s tentacles and counterattacked with a barrage of Flame Spears, leaving Gai Li exposed to the first wave.

• Su Luo noticed that one of the Dungeon’s twenty participants had been eliminated, and he and Layton speculated about the Dungeon’s time limit.
• Layton told Su Luo about his father, their family ranch, and how he had taken up drinking after his father died.
• Gai Li Darwin attacked Su Luo and Layton with a Trigger Spark Bullet that opened a Flesh Portal, forcing Layton to teleport away.
• Su Luo stacked shields and retreated from the portal’s tentacles while configuring his attack wand.
• Su Luo fired accelerating, auto-targeting Flame Spears at Gai Li, who barely added a shield before eighteen spears from the first wave struck him.

Su Luo and Layton overwhelmed Gai Li Darwin with Flame Spears and meteorites until he surrendered. After taking some of his wands, they questioned him about his Talent and region, but he refused to answer.

• Su Luo's accelerated Flame Spears broke through Gai Li Darwin's shields, and a meteorite struck near him while he tried to heal.
• Su Luo's approaching meteorites forced Gai Li to leave his Chaos Field, so he surrendered and threw down his wands.
• Su Luo and Layton took wands from Gai Li, who recognized Su Luo and identified himself as the Lord of Flesh.
• Gai Li explained that his body parts could mutate and gain complementary abilities, then complained that the Trait Dungeon's restrictions had removed his advantages.
• Layton asked Gai Li which region he came from, but Gai Li stayed silent, and Su Luo suggested beating him until he gave up the spells.

Su Luo and Layton continued through the Trait Dungeon, where they learned that spell damage affected temporary health rather than their real bodies. After Su Luo eliminated Gai Li, the pair ventured deeper and found a damaged cave with two bottomless pits, where something appeared to be waiting.

• Gai Li inspected Layton’s Giant Nuclear Bomb spell, then took Su Luo’s Ice Rain and Expanding Energy Ball spells before setting off alone.
• Su Luo bombarded the cave Gai Li had entered, and the Dungeon’s participant count dropped by one.
• Su Luo and Layton continued deeper, faced stronger monsters, and Su Luo ate a red heart that raised his health to 1,050.
• Layton said he planned to keep exploring and promised to give Su Luo his Teleport Bullet spell before leaving.
• Su Luo and Layton found a ruined cave with two pitch-black pits, and Layton doubted that the ugly thing nearby was a person.

Guan Ziyang attacked the long-tongued [Shi], who defended himself with shields, healing, and dangerous black-hole spells. As Guan Ziyang failed to defeat him, Su Luo and Layton watched without intervening, and Guan Ziyang turned to cursing them.

• Guan Ziyang used Appraisal on the crouching [Shi] and began attacking him with gray beams.
• When [Shi]’s health fell low, he cast shields and healing spells, then used black holes to absorb attacks while recovering from their damage.
• Guan Ziyang summoned a ghost that copied his fireball barrage, breaking [Shi]’s shield and forcing him to evade between the black holes.
• Su Luo and Layton discussed [Shi]’s strange tactics and concluded that he was mad but not stupid.
• Guan Ziyang challenged Su Luo and Layton to fight him, but they ignored him, and he began cursing at them.