Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi discovered the hall beneath the platform where he suspected the final BOSS was hiding, then risked a trip through his city gates to claim a concealed treasure chest. After collecting its rewards, he failed to notice a faint crack beneath the empty chest.

• The Architect showed Gu Xi a massive hall beneath the platform, with a central glass-like disc and stairs leading upward, and Gu Xi guessed that the final BOSS was there.
• Gu Xi told the Architect to stop digging downward and continue elsewhere while he hurried to dismantle the platform before Lida Juan recovered.
• Gu Xi spotted an ice-covered treasure chest in the lower hall and sent the Steel City Gate there so he could travel safely down and back up through the gates.
• Gu Xi opened the purple treasure chest and collected gold, resources, recruitment tickets, building plans, and frost-enhancement materials, including an Ice Crystal.
• Gu Xi put away the loot without noticing that a faint crack appeared beneath the emptied chest.

Gu Xi and the other players scrambled to escape after the Evil God Temple’s self-destruct system activated. Gu Xi prepared to leave with Fang Kang, while Li Dangna and Yuan Xihua remained unaccounted for.

• The Evil God Temple’s self-destruct system activated, and Gu Xi rushed to the upper platform while ordering Shaya to begin retreating.
• Fang Kang abandoned his fight against the bosses and used a Wish Genie to teleport himself and his box to the nearest evacuation point.
• Gu Xi continued dismantling the platform as the countdown ran down, then Fang Kang appeared before him.
• Fang Kang learned that Gu Xi had defeated the final boss and realized Li Dangna and Yuan Xihua might encounter each other while escaping.
• Gu Xi ordered Shaya to gather everyone and retreat.

Gu Xi and Fang Kang escaped the Evil God Temple just before Li Dangna’s forbidden spell triggered its self-destruction. The explosion blasted them into White Castle, where Gu Xi realized it had happened earlier than expected.

• Gu Xi withdrew his troops, put away the City Gates, and left through the Teleportation Gate, while Fang Kang noticed a missing finger on the hand clutching the temple.
• Li Dangna and Yuan Xihua met in the main hall and began fighting, then summoned their troops as their battle escalated.
• Li Dangna ordered her Forbidden Spellcasters to use forbidden spells against Yuan Xihua’s reflective clothing puppets.
• The forbidden spell resonated with the Evil God Temple’s self-destruction energy and caused the temple to explode after the other Teleportation Gates closed.
• Gu Xi and Fang Kang emerged into White Castle as the blast wave knocked them down, and Gu Xi realized the explosion had occurred early.

After the Evil God Temple exploded, Gu Xi and Fang Kang learned that their mission was complete and regrouped with Alexander and the others. They agreed to settle the promised equipment rewards, and Gu Xi chose items from the available faction lists before heading back to his faction to claim his rewards.

• Gu Xi received a notice that the Evil God Temple Battle was complete and that he had to return to his faction to claim his rewards and leave Stuttestrup World.
• Fang Kang reached Gu Xi and said Li Dangna and the others were presumed dead after the Evil God Temple self-destructed.
• Alexander, Su Chun, and Ai Qingsheng joined them, and Alexander confirmed they would honor the promised Blue Equipment share.
• Fang Kang proposed arranging the equipment exchange through the factions, and Gu Xi agreed to choose items from their lists.
• Gu Xi dismissed the Blue Equipment and unit exchanges he saw on the lists, then selected items worth about as much as Blue Equipment.

Gu Xi chose a carriage station blueprint, a set of Holy Light troop skins, and a decorative statue from the three factions, each for a planned use in Aryadovi City. He arranged for Fang Kang to deliver the items, but misunderstood Fang Kang’s offer of Starry Sky Transmission until Su Chun and the others explained it.

• Gu Xi selected the Stu Royal Family’s Carriage Station blueprint to connect Aryadovi City’s districts and planned to build stations at Aryadovi Tower, the Main District, and the Weird Mirror Space.
• Gu Xi exchanged with Holy Light Wing Cathedral for seven freely mixable Holy Light skins, despite Ai Qingsheng advising him to consider more practical supplies.
• Gu Xi chose a blue statue from Golden Forest, expecting it to unlock similar Auxiliary Buildings in Aryadovi City.
• Gu Xi told Fang Kang he planned to leave the next morning after waiting for Shadow Fortress, and Fang Kang offered to send the items through Starry Sky Transmission.
• Gu Xi suspected Fang Kang might not deliver the items because they had not exchanged contact details, but Su Chun and the others explained how Star Luck let Fang Kang contact him.

After returning to Soul-Devouring Valley, Gu Xi assessed his gains and learned that Dimi needed troops to secure the territory she had captured. He agreed to send reinforcements but gave Dimi ten days to take the remaining territory, or she would lose command of the Battlefield Ghost unit.

• Gu Xi returned to Soul-Devouring Valley and found the area devastated by the explosion, then set up camp while waiting for Shadow Fortress.
• Gu Xi reviewed his gains as Luna explained that the city’s chef had been overwhelmed by unfamiliar ingredients and was serving only roasted owl and boiled water.
• Gu Xi realized Dimi was struggling after Shaya brought out a parasol in Dimi’s style, and Luna revealed that Dimi wanted to borrow troops.
• Gu Xi agreed to send Dimi the Electric-Start Zombie unit, the Battlefield Ghost unit, and Yagyu, giving her ten days to capture the remaining territory or lose the Battlefield Ghosts to Yagyu.

Gu Xi returned to Shadow Fortress and exploited an exchange loophole to obtain twenty Black Dragons before selecting Blue and green equipment. He stored the dragons in Aryadovi Tower for Grand Princess Anna and began collecting the other rewards, leaving the Purple Equipment for last.

• Shadow Fortress resurfaced in Soul-Devouring Valley, and Lin Qi welcomed Gu Xi and explained his reward options.
• Gu Xi asked Quartermaster Domala for Black Dragons and used four Level 8 Soldier Recruitment Tickets to demand twenty.
• Domala returned with twenty Black Dragons, and Gu Xi sent them to Aryadovi Tower for Grand Princess Anna.
• Gu Xi chose Blue and green equipment from the exchange list, and Domala reluctantly provided the items.

Gu Xi combined Shadow Mist with White Bone Canopy to create an automatic protective cloak, then fed Dark Track to the Evil Coffin and examined several green items. The Evil Coffin emerged transformed into a fast, shadow-traveling mount, leaving Gu Xi ready to inspect the purple equipment.

• Gu Xi combined Shadow Mist with White Bone Canopy, mutating it into an automatic protective layer that attacked anyone who struck him.
• Gu Xi fed Dark Track to the Evil Coffin, which disappeared into the shadows to evolve.
• Gu Xi collected three Substitute Puppets, three Death Tomes, Rotten Sludge, a Necromantic Stone Slab, and a Black Death Worm Recipe.
• The Evil Coffin returned with a matte-black, neon-lit appearance and had grown large enough to serve as a mount.
• Gu Xi inspected the Evil Coffin's new abilities and found it could travel at high speed, navigate automatically, and move through shadow space.

After the Evil Coffin was upgraded, Domala led Gu Xi to choose a piece of Purple Equipment in Shadow Fortress. Gu Xi took a belt with useful abilities and mild negative effects, while Domala warned him that better exchange options required respected reputation with the Shadow Crown.

• Gu Xi was pleased with the Evil Coffin's improvements, and Domala took him to collect his Purple Equipment reward.
• Domala brought Gu Xi to a room displaying Purple Equipment and explained that Gu Xi could choose from the middle ring.
• Gu Xi surveyed the equipment and chose the Thorns Shard belt for its storage and quick-use abilities.
• Gu Xi examined the belt's effects and found its painful drawbacks harmless.
• Domala told Gu Xi to reach respected reputation with the Shadow Crown before seeking better Purple Equipment.

Gu Xi equipped the Thorns Shard and discovered that the Fox Eye Ring halved its negative effects. He examined Shadow Crown’s equipment and learned more about the belt’s storage features before leaving with advice about the Evil Coffin’s shadow-jumping ability.

• Gu Xi decided not to pursue Shadow Crown reputation and equipped the Thorns Shard instead.
• The Fox Eye Ring activated its Suppression and Purification trait, reducing the Thorns Shard’s negative effects by half.
• Gu Xi inspected Shadow Crown’s inner ring, spotted the Thorns Heart, and studied the Thorns Shard’s potion, supply, and material storage slots.
• Domala explained the origins of several pieces of equipment, and Gu Xi realized Domala resented outsiders taking advantage of Shadow Crown.
• Gu Xi asked Domala for advice about the Evil Coffin’s shadow-jumping ability, then returned to the main hall.

After receiving the items Fang Kang sent, Gu Xi left Stuttestrup World and saw that Evil God Lida Juan’s corruption still threatened the world. Back at the Chaoyang Radiance Guild, he learned that many players had gathered for a major operation and asked a registration clerk what was happening.

• Gu Xi received the items Fang Kang sent and learned that Fang Kang and Alexander planned to stay in Stuttestrup World longer.
• Lin Qi escorted Gu Xi to the Teleportation Array, where Gu Xi gave him an owl as a way to make contact and was sent away.
• Gu Xi viewed all of Stuttestrup World from above and saw that Evil God Lida Juan’s corruption had spread far beyond the Stu Royal Family’s territory.
• Gu Xi arrived at the Chaoyang Radiance Guild and saw excited players gathering in the Teleportation Gate plaza for an operation.
• Gu Xi paid a registration clerk for information and learned that the players were not preparing to pioneer the giant world obtained from Iron Ghost Hand, but were responding to a major job.

Gu Xi learned that a major Genesis operation was being planned to help Yuanzu City’s players build a bridge back to the Real World. He wanted to join, but Li Xinghui explained that the operation would begin twelve years from now and required years of preparation.

• A records clerk told Gu Xi that Yuanzu City was preparing a Genesis operation and guild members were being trained to support it.
• Gu Xi recalled that Genesis was a long-running effort to connect the Game World to the Real World, and became eager to participate.
• Gu Xi asked where to sign up, but the records clerk stopped him before Li Xinghui appeared and confirmed he had already signed up.
• Li Xinghui told Gu Xi not to rush, explaining that Genesis was planned for twelve years from now and would require years of recruitment, travel, training, and coordination.
• Gu Xi understood why the preparations had to begin early, then asked Li Xinghui what the current gathering was for.

Li Xinghui explained to Gu Xi the difference between guild training and applying for Giant World pioneering rights, advising him to pursue special-potential status. Gu Xi went to register, unaware that he and Li Xinghui had forgotten his chance to join the Blazing Sun Mage Group, and arrived at a Teleportation Gate that seemed to be watched by unseen observers.

• Li Xinghui told Gu Xi that the guild's intensive training was meant for players with little potential, while promising players could apply to pioneer the Giant World and be recognized as special-potential talents.
• Li Xinghui explained how special-potential talents had shaped Bailian City's history and asked Gu Xi to help the boys in his family if they struggled in the future; Gu Xi agreed.
• Li Xinghui urged Gu Xi to register for Giant World pioneering rights soon so he could secure a safer starting area, and Gu Xi left to do so.
• After Gu Xi departed, Li Xinghui forgot that Gu Xi had previously agreed to join the Blazing Sun Mage Group; Gu Xi had also forgotten and never reported to the group.
• Gu Xi arrived at the new Teleportation Gate at the back of Teleportation Gate Square and sensed that many people were watching despite the few people gathered there.

Gu Xi visited the Teleportation Gate to enter a wilderness development world and received guidance on surviving there. The recorder assigned him a favorable deployment site, an Ancient Battlefield, and Gu Xi prepared to travel there.

• Gu Xi followed a faint voice behind the Teleportation Gate, where a recorder and several Chaoyang Radiance Guild family heirs were gathered.
• The heirs discussed Gu Xi's achievements, including mastering Death City and Death Avatar and winning first place at the Bailian Grand Ceremony.
• The recorder explained the wilderness world's dangers and advised Gu Xi to establish a safe base, avoid Main Quests, and gather information cautiously.
• The recorder gave Gu Xi a note directing him to an Ancient Battlefield with nearby villages, and Gu Xi thanked him by offering miniature Magic Potions.
• The recorder advised Gu Xi to obtain a Dual-Mechanism Exit Signal Device before entering the wilderness development world.

Gu Xi returned to Aryadovi City and asked Luna, Shaya, and the library’s undead to identify what he should pursue in the new wilderness world. After discussing the city’s resource shortages and population imbalance, he settled on capturing resource sites and villages as his main objectives.

• Gu Xi returned to Aryadovi City and went to the library with Luna and Shaya to discuss the city’s situation.
• Luna pointed out that Aryadovi City needed resource sites, especially to supply stone, wood, metal, and later rare materials.
• Shaya raised the city’s small population, and an undead librarian explained that the shortage of laborers had left the city’s forces badly unbalanced.
• Gu Xi decided his main wilderness objectives were to occupy resource sites for supplies and outlying villages for population.

Gu Xi discussed the Black Dragons, Aryadovi City's coming battles, and the sealed Great Lord with Grand Princess Anna. He agreed to help protect the dragons and promised to join her at Westminster Abbey after Aryadovi City’s other eras were conquered.

• Gu Xi visited Grand Princess Anna after deciding to develop a New World Wilderness, and she congratulated him on becoming a Death Sorcerer Lord.
• Grand Princess Anna warned that the Black Dragons would eventually become Bone Dragons unless Gu Xi found an abandoned Dragon Country, and she gave their remaining time as five years at most.
• Grand Princess Anna explained that conquering Aryadovi City would draw in cities from other eras, requiring Aryadovi Tower to keep enough troops.
• Gu Xi learned that the sealed Great Lord was level 45, then steadied himself and worried about whether his forces could handle the coming battles.
• Grand Princess Anna assured Gu Xi that troops were available, and Gu Xi promised to join her at Westminster Abbey once the other eras of Aryadovi City were conquered.

Gu Xi agreed to let Sleeping Beauty Princess project Sleeping Beauty Castle in his territory after learning that she wanted a place for her castle to be remembered. He and Luna established a route to the castle, which began taking shape around a thorn forest beyond Aryadovi City.

• Gu Xi met Sleeping Beauty Princess in the library, and she asked to leave a projection of her castle in his territory.
• Gu Xi warned that his territory would gradually take on undead attributes, but Sleeping Beauty Princess said she was not concerned and offered him ownership of the castle.
• Luna questioned Sleeping Beauty Princess about the castle's size, followers, and town, and Sleeping Beauty Princess confirmed that a town would gather around it.
• Gu Xi approved the plan, and Sleeping Beauty Castle appeared about one hundred and fifty li outside Aryadovi City's main city.
• Gu Xi and Luna built the Horizontally Openable School Gate and a Carriage Station, while Sleeping Beauty Princess awakened a pea seed that grew into the castle's thorn forest.

Gu Xi and Luna assessed Sleeping Beauty Castle and turned its surrounding thorn forest and town into a defensive asset and a planned resource town. Gu Xi focused on developing the Frost Magic Tower and Frost Armory, then set priorities for Aryadovi City before departing for the New World.

• Gu Xi and Luna decided to accept Sleeping Beauty Princess's request, gaining Sleeping Beauty Castle, its growing thorn forest, and a managed town they designated as Aryadovi City's first resource town.
• Gu Xi discovered that the thorn forest blocked the Blood Maple Tree's influence and sent his Minotaurs, Pegasus Cavalry, and Cyclopes there to preserve them from turning undead.
• Gu Xi completed the Frost Magic Tower, whose linked buildings raised its first-floor spell slots from four to seven, and organized Skeleton Mages who knew Ice Arrow to study its frost spells.
• Gu Xi had the Blacksmith Shop forge weapons for the Frost Armory, but it still needed two or three more days before it could be upgraded.
• Gu Xi told Luna to send the Mysterious Academy corpses and Essence of Blood to the Bloody Temple after the armory upgrade, prioritize upgrades to the main Magic Tower and Ghost Electric Tower, and then build the Netherblue Temple.
• Gu Xi postponed upgrading his Cold Wind Staff, which remained Blue Quality when he set off for the New World.

Gu Xi arrived in the Immortal Dynasty World and found a valley coated with cinnabar, rooster blood, and Black Dog Blood. When three White-robed Swordsmen attacked him, he fought back, and their hunter ally threatened him for damaging the ground.

• Gu Xi entered the Immortal Dynasty World and discovered the valley had been treated with a small amount of cinnabar and blood.
• Three White-robed Swordsmen charged Gu Xi and called him a villain, so he attacked them with ice Flying Swords.
• Gu Xi continued his assault after the swordsmen asked him to wait, and one of them triggered Gu Xi’s Flame Trap and was killed.
• The middle-aged hunter raised his bow and warned Gu Xi that he would kill anyone who damaged the ground, so Gu Xi activated the Mind Nether Lamp.

Gu Xi recognized that Hunter was being controlled by a tiger that turned its victims into Chang Ghosts, and he committed his undead army to fighting them. The tiger remained locked in battle with the Earthbound Weird Dragon as Gu Xi's forces closed in to attack.

• Hunter shot a white-robed swordsman under Gu Xi's Mind Nether Lamp hypnosis, and the victim became a Chang Ghost after his soul was pulled from his body.
• Gu Xi summoned the Earthbound Weird Dragon and the Bonecleaver Battalion through the Steel City Gate, while Hunter called on the Chang Ghosts to attack.
• Gu Xi used White Bone Storm against Hunter, then sent his Skeleton Archers and Skeleton Mages to strike the incoming Chang Ghost army.
• The Ghost Squad's White Impermanence frightened the Chang Ghosts, so Gu Xi ordered the squad to surround them without attacking unless they fled or fought.
• Gu Xi ordered all his troops to focus on the tiger, whose Blood Qi scattered the front-line Skeleton Soldiers before the Bone Titans and Nether Soul Dragons attacked it.