Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi visited Huayang Mall to buy Truancy Artifacts for a journey to a location chosen by Fang Kang, then explored the shops he had once been unable to afford entering. With his preparations made, he headed toward a public teleportation point.

• Gu Xi told the Ferocious Weasel to return without him and entered Huayang Mall.
• Big Head Li offered Gu Xi medicine and other goods, and Gu Xi accepted them before asking for Truancy Artifacts.
• Gu Xi bought several Truancy Artifact sets with Negative Energy, intending to use two items to prepare for the trip Fang Kang had arranged.
• Gu Xi wandered through Huayang Mall’s shops, feeling satisfied that he could now enter places he had avoided as a student.
• Gu Xi left the mall and took a shuttle bus to a nearby public teleportation point.

Gu Xi entered the Barren Flame Plains through a public teleportation point and discovered that its extreme heat would prevent him from deploying his Undead Army. He revealed that his fire-immune red dragons could survive there, then left the mountain-sized furnace that served as the world’s teleportation point.

• Gu Xi entered the public Teleportation Gate using the world identification number ZFE2JDAT04HJ70 and arrived in a void watched by a Flame Lord and a Sea Giant.
• Gu Xi chose the Flame Lord’s world and found himself inside a huge Earth Furnace, where a Red-haired Man warned that the Barren Flame Plains’ heat would quickly destroy his undead.
• Gu Xi summoned the Steel City Gate instead of waiting for the fire-resistance treatment, and his Black Dragons fled while his thirty-four red dragons thrived in the heat.
• The Red-haired Man let Gu Xi leave after three minutes, and Gu Xi realized the mountain-sized Earth Furnace was the teleportation point for the Barren Flame Plains.

Gu Xi explored the Barren Flame Plains, where his fire immunity protected him from the extreme heat and he encountered powerful local patrols. The Barren Flame Patrols asked him to put away his red dragons and began explaining the region after he asked about its rules and how to reach the Different Flame Dragon Cave.

• Gu Xi activated the Flame Light Six Paths Lamp’s fire immunity and tested the different temperatures across the Barren Flame Plains.
• Gu Xi observed the fire-adapted humans and the large, snake-tailed creatures carrying tridents.
• The Barren Flame Patrol surrounded Gu Xi, identified themselves as Level 9 guardians, and asked him to put away his red dragons to preserve the plains’ balance.
• Gu Xi agreed to recall the dragons and asked the patrol about local rules and directions to the Different Flame Dragon Cave.
• The Barren Flame Patrol eagerly began describing the Barren Flame Plains, giving Gu Xi an introduction to the world.

Gu Xi learned that the Crimson Flame Empire maintained strict regional and population balance, and that his red dragons had disrupted the Barren Flame Plains. The Barren Flame Patrol left him at the entrance to the Different Flame Dragon Cave, where he would need stronger fire resistance to stay beyond seven days.

• The Barren Flame Patrol explained that Ka'anya depended on balance and that Gu Xi's thirty-four red dragons had disrupted the Barren Flame Plains.
• They described the Crimson Flame Empire's regions and said beings above level 15 were kept equal in number to those in the Ocean Dynasty.
• Gu Xi asked what happened to the bodies and souls of dead experts, and a Barren Flame Patrol member said their burial sites were called Heroes' Mausoleums.
• The Barren Flame Patrol led Gu Xi to the Different Flame Dragon Cave and told him its Strange Dragon Squad wielded teleportation.
• The Barren Flame Patrol departed, advising Gu Xi to find further fire-resistant enhancements if he wanted to remain in the empire beyond seven days.

Gu Xi arrived in the Different Flame Dragon Cave to meet Fang Kang and discuss the Building Blueprints he had brought. Fang Kang confirmed that he had been forced to seek an unconventional way to build a Titan because an enemy had blocked every path available to him.

• Gu Xi entered the city, released an owl to contact Fang Kang, and watched it get shot down because flying was prohibited.
• The flame people compensated Gu Xi with three coins and offered him a map, but Fang Kang interrupted before Gu Xi could object to their sales pitch.
• Fang Kang arrived with two mage players in Red Robes and led Gu Xi away on a boat, warning him not to act recklessly in the city.
• Gu Xi used Mind's Eye to communicate privately with Fang Kang, who explained that an enemy had blocked the paths he needed to build a Titan and reach level 10.

Gu Xi and Fang Kang negotiated a trade after Fang Kang revealed that he was competing with an arch-enemy for a chance to advance within the Academy Faction. Fang Kang selected ten Building Blueprints, and the chapter ended with him exchanging blueprints he had brought for Gu Xi’s stock.

• Fang Kang told Gu Xi that he and an arch-enemy were competing to reach level 10 first and claim their teacher’s opportunity to advance to level 15.
• Gu Xi secretly showed Fang Kang his Building Blueprints and asked him to appraise them for a planned Auction House sale.
• Fang Kang chose ten blueprints, including three related to golden tents and seven Cloud Palace variants, and asked Gu Xi not to sell them to anyone else for five years.
• Gu Xi agreed to the five-year restriction in exchange for Fang Kang paying the price of genuine copies.
• Fang Kang exchanged several Building Blueprints, including Pale Temple, Bloody Demon Pool, and Dark Cave, for Gu Xi’s selected stock.

Gu Xi examined Fang Kang’s Building Blueprints and agreed to trade for three low-level plans and two top-tier buildings: an Evil Path Demon Hall and a Pure White Cloud City. He opened Fang Kang’s final offering, recognized its value, and confirmed it was worth five Cloud Palace Building Blueprints despite its problems.

• Gu Xi accepted Fang Kang’s three low-level Building Blueprints, including a Pale Temple, after confirming he could use them.
• Gu Xi inspected the Evil Path Demon Hall blueprint and noticed its restriction on having only one top-tier Training Camp in a city.
• Gu Xi examined the Pure White Cloud City blueprint and considered whether his Death Knight temple could satisfy its Knight Training Field requirement.
• Gu Xi opened Fang Kang’s final offering, suspected Fang Kang had acquired it after someone blocked his path, and asked whether it was usable.
• Fang Kang asked whether the item was worth five Cloud Palace Building Blueprints, and Gu Xi confirmed it was and thanked him.

Gu Xi traded Building Blueprints with Fang Kang and learned the value of the Dragon Valley Teleportation Gate and Awakening Dragon Incense. Fang Kang asked him to carry the incense if he encountered a linked gate, and directed him to an auction house to trade his remaining goods.

• Gu Xi recognized that the Dragon Valley Teleportation Gate could provide weekly access to a major dragon gathering place and accepted Fang Kang's proposed trade.
• Fang Kang explained that he had taken the blueprint from an enemy and asked Gu Xi to bring Awakening Dragon Incense if he encountered another linked gate, while stressing that his scheme did not involve Gu Xi.
• Gu Xi learned that the incense attracted dragons, lowered their guard, and could be sold to dragonkind in large quantities.
• Gu Xi put away the blueprints after completing the transaction, and Fang Kang recommended an auction house near Different Flame Dragon Cave and explained its item-matching service.

Gu Xi visited the Crimson Five-Leaf Clover Auction House to sell unused Building Blueprints and found the right-hand component needed for his Temporary Task, Sealed Power. After buying it with Negative Energy, he saw the task progress advance to five of seven components, then wondered who was bidding at an auction with no other customers.

• Gu Xi followed Fang Kang’s directions to the Auction House and chose the Crimson Five-Leaf Clover after its red-skinned representative promised plentiful corpses and good fortune.
• At the tiny auction tent, Gu Xi recognized a right-hand component from his task and bid three hundred Flame Energy for it.
• Gu Xi exchanged 330 Negative Energy for the component, and his Sealed Power task advanced to five of seven components found.
• The auctioneer continued calling out bids on another item despite the empty venue, leaving Gu Xi to wonder who was buying it.

Gu Xi adapted to the auction’s isolated bidding system, bought a Death Medal that linked Death City and Death Lord, and considered how to manage the undead it would attract. When the Wishing Holy Grail appeared, he bid four hundred thousand Flame Energy.

• Gu Xi realized that the auctioneer was communicating with guests in separate spaces, then bought several quest items and materials.
• Gu Xi recognized a blue-quality medal as a linkage treasure for Death City and Death Lord, bid five times its price, and received the Death Medal.
• Gu Xi learned that the Death Medal would attract deceased people to become Aryadovi City residents, and wondered who could manage them.
• The auctioneer presented the Wishing Holy Grail, and Gu Xi bid four hundred thousand Flame Energy after considering its powers.

Gu Xi realized that the auction house had been manipulating customers’ emotions and left after uncovering its magic arrays. A powerful flame being summoned him through a teleportation gate, then invited him to sit and drink as it revealed its interest in his Orange Equipment.

• Gu Xi’s Flame Light Six Paths Lamp interrupted his escalating bid for the Wishing Holy Grail, and he recognized that Mind Power had influenced him.
• Gu Xi examined the tent’s floor and roof, discovered arrays that amplified and absorbed customers’ emotions, and decided to leave.
• When the Auction House staff tried to stop him, Gu Xi summoned his equipment bearers and White Bone Canopy and walked out without being challenged.
• Gu Xi saw crimson auras and phantom treasures over the Auction House district before a voice summoned him through a Teleportation Gate.
• Gu Xi entered a realm of flames and faced a gigantic flaming eye, whose owner said it meant no harm and invited him to have a drink.

Gu Xi drank Life Fire from a powerful figure, was forcibly raised to Level 8, and chose Flame Domain and Flame Storm as his new skills. The figure then asked Gu Xi to travel to the Ocean Dynasty if his lamp could protect him from mental influence.

• Gu Xi drank Life Fire and received a free level, full restoration, and five flame-related skill options.
• Gu Xi chose Flame Domain and Flame Storm, which replaced his existing skills and strengthened related abilities.
• The great eye explained that Life Fire could raise people only as far as Level 9 and offered Gu Xi another cup, which he declined.
• The great eye asked whether Gu Xi's lamp could protect him from mental influence and requested that he visit the Ocean Dynasty if it could.

Gu Xi accepted a bigshot’s request to release an impulsive emotion in the Ocean Dynasty, then discovered the bigshot had also given him a dangerous bottle and a Realm-Breaking Drill. In the Ghostfire Wasteland, Gu Xi found a chance to reconsider the mission and focused on figuring out how to leave safely.

• A bigshot asked Gu Xi to take a bottle of impulsive emotion to the Ocean Dynasty, promising him a Teleportation Gate, and Gu Xi agreed.
• The bigshot sent Gu Xi to the Ghostfire Wasteland, where Gu Xi switched his immunity to mental influence and used the Mind Nether Lamp Holder to hide himself.
• Gu Xi inspected the Realm-Breaking Drill and the Congealed Special Aura, then realized the bottle and the mission might carry more risk than he had expected.
• Gu Xi used the Mind Nether Lamp Holder and the Yellow Springs Dragon Robe Holder to discover the Ghostfire Wasteland was connected to the deceased Earth Element Bigshot’s standing pillar, beyond the Crimson Flame Empire bigshot’s gaze.
• Gu Xi weighed his options and worried that the Realm-Breaking Drill might send him somewhere the Crimson Flame Empire bigshot could find him.

Gu Xi traveled to the Ocean Dynasty to complete his mission, but realized that releasing the Congealed Special Aura into the sea would draw overwhelming retaliation. After preparing an escape route and setting traps, he released it and fled toward the chaotic-aura region.

• Gu Xi decided to finish the mission despite suspecting it was a trap, and used Mind Shield to slip past the Ocean Dynasty’s searches.
• He used the Yellow Springs Dragon Robe Holder to scout dangerous terrain and the Mind Nether Lamp to track probing gazes.
• Near the coast, Gu Xi realized that contaminating the sea could expose him to attacks from across the Ocean Dynasty.
• Gu Xi reached a cliff, laid Flame Traps, and prepared an escape route with the Evil Coffin.
• Gu Xi threw the Congealed Special Aura toward the sea, triggered the traps, and fled as the Evil Coffin carried him away.

Gu Xi used the Realm-Breaking Drill to create a Teleportation Gate and draw attention while secretly escaping through the Mysterious Academy. After transferring to a player city, he realized he might have arrived in the Real World, near Yin Capital.

• Gu Xi reached the chaotic elemental area, used the Realm-Breaking Drill to open a Teleportation Gate, and entered it as onlookers focused on him.
• Gu Xi rejected the Gate's exit option and instead left the world through the Mysterious Academy, while Water Element troops arrived and tried to secure the Gate.
• Gu Xi asked the Mysterious Academy staff to send him to one of the listed city coordinates, then emerged in a busy player city.
• Gu Xi asked a player dressed as a police officer what city he was in, and the player guessed he was a Necromancer from Yin Capital on a school trial.
• Gu Xi recognized Yin Capital as a place in the Real World and wondered if he had returned there.

Gu Xi confirmed that he had reached the Real World and learned how its players, schools, and equipment differed from those in Yuanzu City. After deciding he needed to establish an Anchor Point before he was sent back, he began studying textbooks to understand the world.

• A player told Gu Xi he was in Qianfang City and suggested Netherworld City for undead supplies or Gaoshan City for Building Blueprints; he also warned Gu Xi about using medicine to level up.
• Gu Xi thanked the player but went to an inconspicuous bookstore instead of the Teleportation Gate or Sword Washing Pool.
• Gu Xi compared textbooks with what he had learned at Minggu Bone Wind Academy and confirmed that Yuanzu City had lost many things after being pulled into Game Deep.
• Gu Xi learned that Real World players could reach level 60, attend school until level 10, cross level 20 more easily, and revive at least three times during their lives.
• Gu Xi considered the Titan Slayer a powerful weapon for risking a death to defeat a Titan and learned that Orange Equipment was common at higher levels while Red Equipment remained rare.

Gu Xi wanted to buy textbooks in the Real World but lacked its currency, so he sought ways to earn money. At City Hall, he accepted a difficult task to deal with clever Ghosts near a cemetery, hoping its reward would let him buy the books and a Location Hearthstone.

• Gu Xi learned that Negative Energy was worth little in the Real World and that he could sell goods at a Black Market or earn money through City Hall tasks.
• A bookstore clerk advised Gu Xi to visit the Black Market, take a task at City Hall, or sell items at the Auction House.
• Gu Xi found a City Hall task to deal with Ghosts at a cemetery fifty li outside Qianfang City; previous Necromancers had failed to catch them.
• Gu Xi claimed the task using Game Number 629SHD2S0FXC30 and received two days to complete it without penalty for failure.
• Gu Xi read the task listing and hoped its reward would cover his textbooks and a Location Hearthstone.

Gu Xi accepted a mission to investigate an uncontrolled Ghost at Dongliu Cemetery, where player corpses were buried under elaborate precautions against becoming undead. He learned the Ghost was Liu Baiwei, whose spreading Death Qi threatened to awaken the other dead, and began examining the incomplete records of his life.

• Gu Xi considered using a Location Hearthstone to establish an Anchor Point in the Real World and headed out of the city.
• Gu Xi arrived at Dongliu Cemetery and learned that deceased players required special treatment because their accumulated death characteristics could cause them to become undead.
• A cemetery worker stopped Gu Xi and explained that an uncontrolled Ghost had appeared, resisted attempts to suppress it, and nearly killed two Necromancers.
• The old man identified the Ghost as Liu Baiwei, a level 29 Wind-type Shaman who had died after exhausting his lifespan and had been buried at Dongliu Cemetery.
• Gu Xi reviewed Liu Baiwei's incomplete records and asked the old man why they lacked details about part of his history.

Gu Xi entered Dongliu Cemetery and spoke with Liu Baiwei, a powerful Ghost whose awakening was caused by the destruction of an ornament he had given to a woman he loved. Gu Xi promised to report Liu Baiwei’s wish and returned with his agreement to restrain his Death Qi while he waited.

• Gu Xi ignored the Old Man’s warning and entered Dongliu Cemetery, where a Ghost Domain transformed the grounds around him.
• Gu Xi met Liu Baiwei, confirmed the Ghost was friendly, and asked to talk instead of provoking him.
• Liu Baiwei explained that an ornament he had given a woman he loved had been destroyed, and he wanted to find and protect her as she entered the Yellow Springs.
• Gu Xi agreed to report Liu Baiwei’s situation and asked him to restrain the Death Qi so the cemetery’s other corpses would not be disturbed.
• Liu Baiwei agreed to wait and promised that nothing would go wrong in Dongliu Cemetery as long as Gu Xi brought him an answer.

Gu Xi explained Liu Baiwei’s situation to the Old Man, who agreed to investigate whether Liu Baiwei’s beloved was alive and promised an outcome within two days. Liu Baiwei thanked Gu Xi by giving him three purple-grade items, and Gu Xi began inspecting them before turning to the Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword.

• Gu Xi told the Old Man that Liu Baiwei had awakened because he feared his beloved was in trouble, and the Old Man decided to handle the cemetery matter himself.
• The Old Man asked Gu Xi to watch Liu Baiwei while he investigated, promising to resolve the situation within two days.
• Liu Baiwei thanked Gu Xi and gave him the Yin Wind Robe, Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword, and Ghost Copper Curse Bell.
• Gu Xi examined the Yin Wind Robe, considered its abilities and drawbacks, then put it aside because its army-related features did not suit his needs.
• Gu Xi picked up the Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword and felt scorching energy surge from it as a bird cried from its tip.