Recaps

Mi Yao and Chen Kong discussed the dangers of Longevity Island and the possibility that the trial was a trap before a Vine Tide of Rotten Vine Corpses surrounded their cave. They used a Star Energy Bomb to lure the horde away and escaped toward a hidden passage and the next Safe Zone.

• Mi Yao told Chen Kong that Star Energy grew denser toward the island's center and that he had spotted a possible elite monster or Big Boss there.
• Mi Yao speculated that the trial might be a scheme to lure players onto the island as sacrifices, then asked Chen Kong about Tiandao.
• Chen Kong said he did not know Tiandao's whereabouts but believed he was alive and heading toward the nearest gathering point.
• A Vine Tide of Rotten Vine Corpses approached the cave, and Mi Yao saw on his Game Console that something was controlling them.
• Mi Yao threw a Star Energy Bomb outside to draw the Rotten Vine Corpses toward its explosion, then led Chen Kong toward a hidden passage in the northwest.

Mi Yao led Chen Kong to a ruined wall where the pursuing Rotten Vine Corpses refused to cross, then waited until morning because Chen Kong was still poisoned. At daylight, they discovered a town square that resembled an ordinary 1990s neighborhood and went to investigate.

• Mi Yao guided Chen Kong to a broken wall, where the Rotten Vine Corpses stopped and fled rather than approach.
• Mi Yao explained that the wall marked the farthest point he had reached and said he would describe what lay beyond after daybreak.
• Mi Yao set up his tent, and Chen Kong fell asleep against the wall while recovering from his injuries and poison.
• Chen Kong woke to sunlight and the sounds of a bicycle bell and Peking opera, then saw elderly people practicing tai chi and townspeople going about their morning.
• Mi Yao and Chen Kong headed toward the square to investigate the seemingly ordinary town.

Chen Kong and Mi Yao entered a town district on Longevity Island and saw that it resembled an old-fashioned town rather than a typical urban ruin. Meanwhile, Tiandao met Caroline and Jing Liuli in Chang Sheng Town, warned them to watch the locals carefully, and led them toward the bank.

• Chen Kong realized that the area he and Mi Yao had entered was a town district marked for demolition.
• Chen Kong and Mi Yao crossed the square, observed its old-fashioned streets and curious residents, and headed into town to look for others.
• Caroline and Jing Liuli found Tiandao outside a small store, where he paid an elderly shopkeeper for soda.
• Tiandao told Jing Liuli that the town's rules differed from those outside and warned her that the locals could be dangerous.
• Tiandao led Caroline and Jing Liuli to Chang Sheng County Bank to exchange money.

Tiandao took Caroline and Jing Liuli to Chang Sheng County Bank, where he exchanged three Rotten Vine Corpse hearts for money and a guesthouse voucher. After explaining that the county forbade lying and warning that Chang Sheng County was dangerous at night, he secured a room for them, while Chen Kong and Mi Yao discovered they had no money.

• Jing Liuli felt uneasy outside Chang Sheng County Bank, but Tiandao led her and Caroline inside.
• Tiandao truthfully completed a bank form and exchanged three high-level Life Cores for three Da Tuan Jie bills and a Guesthouse Check-in Voucher.
• Tiandao explained that people could not lie in the county and warned Caroline and Jing Liuli that Chang Sheng County was troublesome after dark.
• Tiandao used the voucher and one bill to secure a large suite at the Chang Sheng County Guesthouse for the group.
• Chen Kong and Mi Yao found themselves unable to pay after eating at a stall in the square.

Chen Kong and Mi Yao learned that Chang Sheng County demanded life equivalents for unpaid noodles, but Vivian paid their debt with mao notes and brought them to a Safe Zone. She explained that knowledge could be traded as a valuable kind of memory, leaving the source of her money tied to that discovery.

• Chen Kong and Mi Yao bought and ate yangchun noodles before discovering they could not pay with Star Energy Crystals.
• The noodle seller revealed that meals could be paid for with mao notes, Heavenly Lifespans, or Fragmented Memories, then he and the townspeople attacked when Chen Kong and Mi Yao refused to pay with life equivalents.
• Chen Kong and Mi Yao fought back without killing the townspeople, and Vivian stopped the seller by paying their bill with mao notes.
• Vivian led Chen Kong and Mi Yao to the guesthouse lobby, a Safe Zone, and explained that knowledge was a valuable form of memory.

Tiandao and Caroline explained that Chang Sheng County residents sought lifespan to strengthen their bodies and memories to fill their blank minds, suggesting the island trapped people in a fixed moment of time. That night, a trainee was attacked by the noodle-stall owner and other monsters, until a woman wielding the Demonic Blade appeared to confront them.

• Caroline showed Jing Liuli holographic scans revealing that most Chang Sheng County residents had blank heads and bodies with extraordinary vitality, while the guesthouse owner appeared nearly normal.
• Tiandao explained that lifespan strengthened the residents' bodies and borrowed memories gave them an illusion of being alive because their own memories were frozen in time.
• The story's audience concluded that Longevity Island functioned like a prison of time, then saw Chang Sheng County become eerily silent beneath gray fog at night.
• A monster attacked a Heavenly Martial Training Base trainee, then transformed into the ordinary-looking noodle-stall owner and prepared to pierce the trainee's forehead.
• A woman holding the Demonic Blade arrived in flames, and the goateed old man and other green-eyed residents gathered to face her.

Chen Xing fought Chang Sheng County’s monsters during curfew, while Tiandao left the guesthouse on a mysterious errand. The next day, Chen Kong, Vivian, and Mi Yao investigated the aftermath and headed to the county bank, where they were about to meet Liu Ma and Isabelle.

• Chen Xing rejected the county’s rules and used Bloodflame: Sever the Void! to destroy the goateed old man and the attacking townspeople.
• Tiandao left the guesthouse at night despite warnings, and the owner marked his name with a pale-purple rose in a ledger.
• Vivian woke Chen Kong and Mi Yao, and the three checked out of the guesthouse before setting out to obtain money.
• Chen Kong recognized the scorched, blade-marked street as the site of Chen Xing’s fight, but the townspeople claimed a gas cylinder had exploded.
• Chen Kong, Vivian, and Mi Yao headed for the county bank, while Liu Ma and Isabelle arrived there shortly afterward, unaware that the other group had arrived first.

Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian opened savings accounts at the county bank but lacked enough money for lodging vouchers, while noticing strange flickering lights. Caroline concluded that the island repeated the same day across different time-space layers and went with Jing Liuli to the bank, where they planned to wait for the nighttime passage Tiandao had been seeking.

• Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian exchanged five Rotten Vine Corpse cores and opened savings accounts, but learned they were still short of the deposit needed for guesthouse vouchers.
• Chen Kong and Vivian noticed strange behavior at the bank, while Isabelle saw the reflection of Chen Kong's group despite the hall being empty and Liu Ma received a three-day voucher.
• Caroline showed Jing Liuli the repeated June 15 marks on the calendar and reasoned that each day was a separate layer of the island's time and space.
• Jing Liuli and Caroline received Tiandao's note directing them to the county bank, but he was not there when they arrived.
• Caroline proposed waiting until night, believing it was the passage between layers that Tiandao had gone out to find.

Caroline and Jing Liuli explored the Chang Sheng County Bank at night, where Caroline determined that the vault would appear physically at midnight. Tiandao arrived with a golden chrysanthemum he had taken from the County Hospital, identifying it as the Key that embodied life and balance, while a broken Libra scale and a strange phantom hinted at the island’s deeper danger.

• Caroline and Jing Liuli used Daydream · Illusory Dream to remain hidden in the bank and opened the locked door to the staff break room.
• Caroline found a hidden passage beneath the break room and led Jing Liuli toward the bank vault, which was surrounded by Spacetime Phantoms.
• Caroline explained that the vault’s physical form would appear at midnight, when the island’s spacetime nodes converged.
• Tiandao arrived and showed Caroline and Jing Liuli a golden chrysanthemum he called the Key, explaining its life energy counterbalanced the island’s deathly rose.
• In a memory from the previous night, Tiandao fought through Rotten Vine Corpses at Chang Sheng County Hospital and found the chrysanthemum beneath a broken Golden Scale marked [The Twelve Zodiac Palaces—Libra Palace].
• Fleshy tentacles attacked Tiandao as he took the flower, and a gigantic scale-and-tree phantom watched him leave the hospital before vanishing.

At midnight, Tiandao, Caroline, and Jing Liuli opened the Chang Sheng County Bank vault and discovered the Life Energy and Memory Shards sustaining Chang Sheng County and Longevity Island’s time loop. A memory incarnation of General President Enit appeared and challenged Tiandao to defeat him before answering questions.

• Tiandao used the Golden Chrysanthemum to help Caroline break the vault’s death-energy defenses and open its door.
• Tiandao explained that the vault’s Life Energy sustained Chang Sheng County’s citizens while its Memory Shards powered Longevity Island’s time cycle.
• The Memory Shards summoned Enit’s memory incarnation, who recognized Tiandao and restrained Caroline and Jing Liuli with Time Stasis chains.
• Enit attacked Tiandao, who evaded his chains and struck back with Black Azure, forcing Enit’s incarnation to slide backward.
• Enit praised Tiandao’s strength, and Tiandao prepared to continue their fight.

Tiandao and Enit's memory clone fought a fierce battle in the underground vault, with Enit's Gluttony initially overwhelming Tiandao before Tiandao answered with Sage Mode and Vector Control. Their final attacks devastated the vault, and Caroline and Jing Liuli looked into the crater to see who remained standing.

• Enit used Flowing Light Escape to attack Tiandao, who copied the movement technique and countered with Vector Control.
• Enit disrupted Tiandao's Vector Control by devouring its energy, then hurled him into the vault wall.
• Tiandao entered Sage Mode and struck Enit into a wall, but Enit restored his clone by devouring surrounding energy and energy from his wounds.
• Tiandao battered Enit while reversing Gluttony's energy absorption, forcing Enit to unleash a powerful surge and prepare a final strike.
• Enit and Tiandao clashed with Abuse of Food and Conquest, blasting a crater into the vault and a hole through its ceiling.
• Caroline and Jing Liuli regained movement and looked toward the crater, shocked by what they saw.

Tiandao and Enit's memory clone fought to a destructive stalemate, and Enit vanished after urging Tiandao to challenge established rules. Tiandao left the battle injured but newly inspired to pursue the strength needed to reach Calamity, then surprised Caroline by asking what would happen if he took over as General President.

• Caroline and Jing Liuli watched the enormous sinkhole left by Tiandao and Enit's battle and struggled to comprehend their power.
• Enit praised Tiandao's Vector Control, and Tiandao explained that he wanted to alter things beyond the physical and visible.
• Enit urged Tiandao to break existing rules before his memory clone dissolved into golden light.
• Tiandao reflected that the battle had advanced his understanding of Vector Control and brought him closer to entering Calamity.
• Caroline gave Tiandao Sweet Dream Candy and bandaged his injuries, then asked him to warn them before taking dangerous actions.
• Tiandao asked Caroline what would happen if he pulled Enit down and became General President himself.

Tiandao learned why ordinary Calamity breakthroughs depended on physical resilience, Self-Control, and a gradual adaptation to Calamity Source, then realized those methods could not work for his vastly overpowered body. Drawing on Enit's example, he decided to strengthen his Spirit Power until his will could influence reality and replace a Calamity Source.

• Tiandao learned that a Calamity breakthrough required a strong body, enough Star Energy, a Calamity Source, and the Self-Control to wield the resulting power.
• The chapter recounted how the Plague Doctor gradually adapted to a Calamity-class virus Star Beast, devoured its Calamity Source, and became a Calamity-class powerhouse.
• The United States Star Beast Eradication Team developed a gradual, supervised breakthrough process based on the Plague Doctor's experience.
• Tiandao concluded that his exceptional body made the conventional process dangerously unsuitable, because his immense capacity for star energy would make losing control inevitable.
• Tiandao connected Enit's successful breakthrough to his powerful Spirit Power and Gluttony Star Source, and resolved to raise his own Spirit Power until his will could replace a Calamity Source.

Tiandao led Caroline and Jing Liuli through a Subspace rift toward the true Longevity Island, revealing that the island had returned because its immortal Calamity-class Star Beast survived Enit's earlier attack. In Chang Sheng County, Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian discovered that the residents and events repeated in a loop, their memories were being tampered with, and the hospital and bank were likely linked to the anomaly.

• Tiandao explained that Enit had destroyed the first Longevity Island but failed to kill the rule-bound rose tree that created it, then led Caroline and Jing Liuli through the rift as the underground vault collapsed.
• Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian observed residents repeating identical actions and confirmed that their own memories had developed gaps or abnormalities.
• Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian searched Chang Sheng County separately but found that fog and invisible boundaries sent them back to the main street.
• Vivian identified the County Hospital and Bank Backend as permission blind spots, while Chen Kong learned that both places were forbidden and showed signs of abnormal energy.
• The three agreed to infiltrate the hospital and bank that night, assigning Mi Yao to disrupt surveillance, Vivian to crack electronic locks, and Chen Kong to handle unexpected threats.

Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian fought through the hospital’s monstrous construction workers and entered the County Hospital, where they discovered a damaged Golden Scale and a withered golden chrysanthemum. Their discovery disturbed the hospital’s balance and awakened something dangerous, leaving them to retrieve the items and find a way out.

• Chen Kong led Mi Yao and Vivian through a gap in the construction fence, where they were attacked by vine-covered construction workers.
• Mi Yao used his pixel blade to clear a path to the hospital’s side door, and Vivian picked the lock while Chen Kong and Mi Yao held back the monsters.
• The three entered the hospital and headed toward the third floor after Vivian detected abnormal energy in the newborn reception room.
• Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian found a damaged Golden Scale above a withered golden chrysanthemum in the reception room.
• The scale turned and the hospital trembled as deep roars sounded, and Mi Yao said his Star Source identified the scale and chrysanthemum as useful items.

Chen Kong, Vivian, and Mi Yao revived the Golden Chrysanthemum by fighting off hordes of Rotten Vine Corpses at County Hospital, then searched the hospital for a way out of Chang Sheng County. At dawn, the hospital returned to normal, and the three left to investigate the county bank.

• Vivian and Mi Yao concluded that the Golden Chrysanthemum needed life as a catalyst, so the group went into the corridor to fight the Rotten Vine Corpses.
• Chen Kong, Vivian, and Mi Yao retreated to the operating room and then the rooftop, where Mi Yao used his Turret Matrix to help defeat the growing corpse tide.
• The Golden Chrysanthemum patterns on their hands filled with gold, and the Chrysanthemum bloomed; Chen Kong took it and found that its warmth restored his strength.
• The group searched County Hospital but found no passage out, while the Golden Chrysanthemum prevented more Rotten Vine Corpses from appearing.
• At dawn, sunlight restored County Hospital to a normal condition, and Mi Yao led Chen Kong and Vivian toward the county bank.

Vivian, Chen Kong, and Mi Yao fought the Rotvine Giant Serpent inside the county bank vault, but its regeneration overwhelmed their attacks. Just as Chen Kong was trapped in its coils, Enit and Tiandao struck the creature from above and saved him.

• Chen Kong used the golden chrysanthemum to open the vault, where a Rotvine Giant Serpent burst from the floor and attacked the group.
• Mi Yao, Vivian, and Chen Kong coordinated attacks on the serpent, but it regenerated its damaged flower using vitality from a jar on the scale.
• Mi Yao bound the serpent's core while Chen Kong and Vivian struck it with Bloodflame and an energy blast, but the creature recovered and wounded Mi Yao.
• Mi Yao gave Chen Kong his Slow-Sealing Talisman ultimate, allowing Chen Kong to slow the serpent and drive a Bloodflame blade into its core.
• The serpent coiled around Chen Kong as the slowing effect faded, but Enit and Tiandao blasted its pistil from above, destroying the core and freeing him.

After surviving the Rotvine Giant Serpent, Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian crossed a widened Space-time Rift into a dangerous jungle and followed the trail left by Tiandao’s group. They found Liu Ma and Isabelle fighting mutated monkeys, while Vivian realized the monsters’ vitality increased with their size.

• Chen Kong and Mi Yao concluded that energy from a battle in another Space-time Layer had crossed the rift and destroyed the giant serpent, and Vivian noted that Tiandao’s group was far ahead.
• Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian entered the rift, seeking an exit before the Raccoon Administrator’s seven-day deadline and the departing ship.
• The trio found a massive mutated boar and other monster corpses, which Vivian identified as evidence that Tiandao, Jing Liuli, and Caroline had passed through at least a day earlier.
• Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian followed a deliberately cleared path deeper into the jungle, hoping to meet Tiandao’s group.
• They encountered Liu Ma and Isabelle fighting a mutated gorilla and regenerating vine-covered monkeys, and Vivian observed that the monsters’ vitality was proportional to their size.

Chen Kong, Isabelle, Liu Ma, Mi Yao, and Vivian reunited in the jungle and uncovered a weakness in the mutated gorilla’s regeneration, but the creature surged in strength before they could finish it. Liu Ma lay injured as the gorilla prepared to attack him, while the others remained tied up by the monster and its vine monkeys.

• Liu Ma and Isabelle fought the regenerating mutated gorilla and vine monkeys, but the poison and a surprise attack left Isabelle severely injured.
• Mi Yao’s game-console shield saved Isabelle, and Chen Kong, Mi Yao, and Vivian arrived to join the fight.
• Chen Kong shot the purple flower cores on the vine monkeys’ foreheads, killing them, while Isabelle injected herself to halt the poison’s spread.
• Vivian identified a 3.7-second regeneration cycle, and the group attacked the gorilla’s chest wound and flower core to slow its healing.
• The gorilla burned core energy to double its regeneration and overpower the team, smashing Liu Ma into the ground as it prepared to bite him.

On Longevity Island, Liu Ma and his companions fought the mutant gorilla as it prepared to destroy itself, and Mi Yao shielded them from the resulting blast. The gorilla’s life signs remained in the crater but no longer threatened the group.

• Isabelle saved Liu Ma from the gorilla’s bite with an ice wall, while Chen Kong, Mi Yao, Vivian, and Liu Ma attacked the creature and grievously wounded it.
• The gorilla’s Life Core flared as it grew larger, and Vivian warned that it was preparing to burn its Life Energy and self-destruct.
• Vine monkeys formed a wall to trap the group, so Isabelle, Vivian, Mi Yao, and Chen Kong fought to clear a path while Liu Ma recovered.
• Mi Yao trapped the gorilla in a pixel cage, and Chen Kong fired a Spiral Soul-Piercing Bullet that disrupted the creature’s Life Energy.
• Mi Yao raised his riot shield as the gorilla exploded, protecting the group from the blast that created a vast crater.
• Vivian scanned the crater and reported that the gorilla’s remaining life signs were growing stronger but posed no threat to them.

After defeating the mutated gorilla, Chen Kong’s group discovered that Purple Roses parasitized the island’s creatures and continued toward the island’s center, following the trail left by Tiandao’s group. They found Tiandao fighting atop a pyramid, but the pyramid’s vines attacked them and drove them into a desperate retreat.

• Vivian identified the Purple Roses as parasites that gave their hosts extraordinary vitality, and Chen Kong’s group decided to rest before continuing toward the island’s center.
• The group found the corpses of powerful monsters killed along the way and realized Tiandao’s group had cleared the path ahead.
• They spotted Tiandao standing atop a pyramid surrounded by space-time rifts and battling waves of monsters.
• Three golden-patterned vines emerged from a rift and attacked Chen Kong’s group, piercing Liu Ma, breaking Mi Yao’s shields, and regenerating after absorbing Stellar Energy.
• Vivian urged everyone to retreat as the vines’ toxins and powers weakened them, while Tiandao continued fighting hundreds of vines and monsters with ease.

Mi Yao, Liu Ma, Chen Kong, and Isabelle struggled against dark-purple vines around the mysterious Pyramid, which drained their Star Energy and spread a debilitating toxin. Yagami Rin rescued them and explained that the Pyramid was ruled by Libra’s Law of Equivalent Exchange, revealing that Libra was the “Exchange” among the Twelve Miracle Stones.

• Mi Yao and his companions fought metallic-patterned vines that absorbed Star Energy, while the vines poisoned Liu Ma and pinned him down.
• Vivian identified the vines’ connection to the Golden Chrysanthemum and burned away Chen Kong’s life mark, ending the vines’ tracking of him.
• Isabelle slowed a vine with an ice spike, allowing Mi Yao to throw Liu Ma beyond the vines’ range, but the remaining vines overwhelmed the group and badly wounded Chen Kong.
• Yagami Rin appeared, severed the vines, drove them back into the Space-time Rifts, and gave Chen Kong an antidote.
• Yagami Rin explained that the vines manifested Libra Palace’s Law of Equivalent Exchange and revealed that Libra was the “Exchange” among the Twelve Miracle Stones.

Chen Kong and the others withdrew from the pyramid while Tiandao fought the monsters and exposed Wilfred as Libra Palace, a vessel of the Zodiac. Libra Palace revealed that Longevity Island was part of his domain and demanded Tiandao’s eyes; Tiandao refused, and their battle began.

• Yagami Rin advised Vivian, Chen Kong, and Isabelle to leave the pyramid alone, so they headed to the Safe Zone to check on Liu Ma while Rin remained behind to assist the trainees.
• Tiandao repelled waves of monsters with his Vector Field and challenged the unseen power controlling them to reveal itself.
• Wilfred appeared, and Tiandao explained that his story of being coerced by an Ancient God was a lie because he showed no reverence and held privileges beyond those of a mere believer.
• Tiandao identified Wilfred as Libra Palace, a god’s vessel, and Libra Palace transformed before the altar.
• Libra Palace said Longevity Island was part of his domain and offered power and information in exchange for Tiandao’s eyes, but Tiandao refused and attacked with a Vector Light Blade.

Tiandao fought Libra at the pyramid summit, using the Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye and Vector Control to counter Libra’s laws and attacks. Libra trapped Tiandao inside his domain and tried to take his eyes by force, but Tiandao learned the domain’s essence and regained his ability to move as the chapter ended.

• Tiandao pierced Libra’s vine armor with a Vector Light Blade, then reversed the direction of Libra’s Law Vines and explained how his vectors altered their targets.
• Libra summoned Death Judgment, but Tiandao blocked it with Myriad Repulsion - Matrix and absorbed some of its energy, arguing that Libra’s forced exchanges violated true equivalence.
• Libra invoked his domain, stopped Tiandao’s movement, and used the ancient tree’s roots to drain his star energy while accelerating Longevity Island’s Time Loop.
• At the pyramid’s outskirts, Chen Kong and the others found that the accelerated time was worsening Liu Ma’s toxin, but the acceleration suddenly returned to normal.
• Libra pierced Tiandao with a Death Qi Sword and attempted to forcibly take his eyes, but Tiandao gripped the blade, regained his movement, and said he had learned the essence of a domain.

Tiandao broke Libra Palace’s Equivalent Domain by reversing its star energy and briefly creating his own domain, reaching the level of a half-step Calamity. After Tiandao struck down Libra Palace’s ancient-tree body, Longevity Island began to collapse, leaving Chen Kong and the others unsure what had happened.

• Tiandao used his understanding of Libra Palace’s time-exchanging domain and his adaptive Tian Dao Cells to reverse the star energy controlling its timelines.
• Tiandao escaped Libra Palace’s time control, recovered from his injuries, and used Vector Lock to disrupt the energy patterns sustaining the domain.
• Tiandao simulated the Law of Exchange and unleashed Domain. Boundless Time and Space, briefly shattering Libra Palace’s Exchange Domain.
• Libra Palace suffered backlash as his domain collapsed, while Tiandao explained that he had reached the level of a half-step Calamity.
• Tiandao formed a Vector Light Blade and cleaved Libra Palace’s ancient tree in two, causing the pyramid and Longevity Island to shake and crack.
• Chen Kong and the others watched the island and pyramid collapse, realizing that the trial might be ending.