Recaps

Yu Xunge followed her grandmother, Shen Yushi, whose nickname was Fan Xiangxiang, through B City to learn how to select cooking ingredients and seasonings. While they traveled, Yu Xunge searched for a blank skill crystal and learned that strict controls had been imposed after a player’s valuable skill mysteriously disappeared.

• Zhao Shuying negotiated with Su Yitong over the Koala Green Wine contract, and Su Yitong agreed to provide 365 uses of Hymn of Hope.
• Yu Xunge made squirrel mandarin fish that scored 76, so Shen Yushi assigned her basic cooking drills and began teaching her to select ingredients, spices, and seasonings.
• Yu Xunge, Shen Yushi, Tulan, and Shen Yushi’s protectors visited B City’s streets, where locals greeted Shen Yushi as Xiangxiang or Fan Xiangxiang.
• Yu Xunge asked Zhao Shuying and Lu Qieyun about blank skill crystals, but learned they were tightly controlled in B City and S City.
• Lu Qieyun explained that the restrictions followed an incident in which a player’s special life-saving skill disappeared after he sold it to others.

Yu Xunge learned that someone might be stealing skills through repeated borrowing, so she stopped planning to sell skill crystals and traded for blank ones instead. As she left Shen Yushi’s home, she reflected on how her grandmother’s lessons had shaped her guarded approach to trust.

• Lu Qieyun told Yu Xunge that the Special Affairs Bureau suspected a God-Bestowed Talent might let someone claim another person’s skill, prompting Yu Xunge to decide she would stop selling crystals for So Happy Now.
• Yu Xunge traded equipment and potions for blank skill crystals, collecting fifteen from Lu Qieyun and the others.
• Yu Xunge spent two nights at Shen Yushi’s home, received rewards and training schedules, and left two boxes of dragon dung as thanks.
• After leaving, Yu Xunge secretly mailed Shen Yushi fifty bottles of precious potions, and Shen Yushi smiled when she found them.
• On the drive home, Yu Xunge told Tulan that her grandmother, Fan Xiangxiang, had taught her to keep some kindness and trust for herself.
• Yu Xunge recalled Shen Yushi teaching her to treat life like a card game, conceal her strengths and secrets, and trust no one completely except herself.

Yu Xunge recalled how Shen Yushi had shaped her understanding of responsibility, then spent the night buying skill crystals, revisiting the past, and sending spiders to watch the Su Family. By three in the morning, her disguise had ended, and Tulan claimed Yu Xunge’s busy night had worn her out too.

• Yu Xunge told Tulan that Shen Yushi had stayed away because she did not care about Yu Qingshan, though Yu Xunge remained unsure whether Shen Yushi had cared about her.
• Yu Xunge visited Baozi during his night shift, exchanged five skill crystals, learned Lan Cheng and Lin Chengze had escaped, and reported an escaped level 12 moon fox to the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Yu Xunge used Time-Space Walk to return to the morning of the fifteenth and leave a We're Not Familiar, But It's Fine skill crystal beside the sink.
• Yu Xunge sent undead spiders to watch the Su Family estate, planning to follow an important family member when they left for a dungeon.
• Yu Xunge finished her preparations at three in the morning, and Tulan sighed that the exhausting work was finally over.

Yu Xunge returned to Zeland as Kabbi and exchanged gold for coins across all thirty-six main cities, amassing a fortune before the Special Affairs Bureau could make trading harder. With her disguise time running low, she spotted a beastman selling a mysterious bone tile and outbid the Oak Owl shopkeeper.

• Yu Xunge teleported to the Zeland seabed, inspected the concealed Special Affairs Bureau outpost, and went to trade gold with goblins.
• Yu Xunge used the Kabbi disguise to exchange gold for coins in all thirty-six main cities, with goblins eagerly bringing others to trade.
• Yu Xunge reached Daybreak City with a large gold fortune and flew to a nearby floating island using her Furious Moon lantern and Planet Skill.
• Yu Xunge visited an engineering shop, then spotted a beastman offering an engraved bone tile to an Oak Owl shopkeeper.
• Yu Xunge saw the tile marked Forty Thousand and shouted an offer of fifty gold before the beastman could sell it for five.

Yu Xunge traded her newly acquired bone card for gold, equipment, and potions before Mistblade intercepted her and demanded the item. Mistblade offered her two rare items in exchange, and Yu Xunge asked what Bloodline Shackles were.

• Yu Xunge paid the beastman one hundred gold and gave him level 13 armor, boots, and potions in exchange for the bone card, and he left with Forty Thousand.
• Yu Xunge teleported out of the shop, but Mistblade intercepted her, disabled her skills, and took her to the island's edge.
• Mistblade questioned Yu Xunge about the bone card, her master, and whether a dragon clan was behind her.
• Mistblade offered to buy the bone card for double its value and promised to remove the Fragrant Blade, but Yu Xunge challenged her guarantees and stalled.
• Mistblade showed Yu Xunge Spring Will Not Be Late and I Really Don't Have Time to Bathe, explaining their effects, and Yu Xunge asked what Bloodline Shackles were.

Yu Xunge bargained with Wuren for the bone tile, stealing a second one while they fought. She secured an A-rank skill, potion bottles, and a crafting method, then prepared to leave before Wuren noticed the theft.

• Wuren explained that Bloodline Shackles could transmit curses and skills through an enemy’s family, and revealed that she alone could make Spring Will Not Be Late.
• Yu Xunge demanded information, an S-rank skill, potions, and their crafting methods in exchange for the bone tile, but Wuren attacked her instead.
• Yu Xunge repeatedly tried to steal from Wuren, finally succeeding after reducing Wuren’s luck and taking another bone tile.
• Yu Xunge threatened to kill herself and showed Wuren a royal nose ring, convincing Wuren that powerful allies stood behind her.
• Wuren explained she could sense nearby bone tiles and agreed to provide an A-rank skill, the method for Spring Will Not Be Late, an Escape Gem, and ten bottles of I Really Don’t Have Time to Bathe.
• Yu Xunge accepted the deal and worried that Wuren would discover the stolen bone tile.

Yu Xunge traded with Mist Blade for Mist Arrival, a notebook, gems, and perfume, then escaped with a new mahjong tile and noticed changes to her Honor Points. Back on Blue Star, she contacted Zhao Shuying to discuss sharing advance information about exchanging gold for coins in Zeland, and Zhao left a Special Affairs Bureau meeting to meet her.

• Mist Blade gave Yu Xunge a herbal-processing notebook, gems, perfume, and the A-rank Mist Arrival skill in exchange for Forty Thousand.
• Yu Xunge learned Mist Arrival while fleeing toward Daybreak City, then used her disguise and perfume before returning to As City and heading toward the undersea volcano.
• Yu Xunge examined Eight Dots alongside Six Dots and realized her Honor Points had increased and then been deducted after she obtained the tile and handed over Forty Thousand.
• Yu Xunge returned to Blue Star and messaged Zhao Shuying, offering to discuss how to exchange gold for coins in Zeland.
• Zhao Shuying left the Special Affairs Bureau meeting after telling Li Changying that Yu Xunge had important information to discuss.

Yu Xunge used Tulan’s virtual-character skill to hide her gold coins from scrutiny on the wealth rankings, then learned more about the Sacred Clans and spoke with Zhao Shuying about blank crystals. She proposed ending their skill-crystal partnership early in exchange for revealing how to exchange gold for gold coins.

• Yu Xunge learned that Tulan’s “Speak in a Big Voice” skill created a controllable virtual character with its own player information.
• Yu Xunge had Tulan create an account named Anonymous, gave it her gold coins to hide, and removed her own anonymous setting from the wealth rankings.
• Tulan told Yu Xunge that the Moon Fox Clan, Oak Owl Clan, and Undead race were the three upper-tier Sacred Clans, while other rankings shifted over time.
• Yu Xunge shared Tulan’s information with Zhao Shuying and learned that the Special Affairs Bureau also did not know why blank crystals were tightly controlled.
• Yu Xunge offered to explain how to exchange gold for gold coins in return for ending their skill-crystal partnership early and settling the proceeds that day.

Yu Xunge settled her contract with Zhao Shuying, taught her how the Special Affairs Bureau could trade gold with goblins, and searched the exchange catalogues for a mysterious item. She found no mahjong tile, but she discovered a listing for Bear Cookies (Unknown).

• Yu Xunge reviewed the ledger, signed off on 596 skill crystals worth 812 Dragon-shaped coins and 1,727 gold coins, and received the proceeds from Zhao Shuying.
• Yu Xunge entered the top hundred of the wealth ranking, while her gold holdings placed her in the top ninety.
• Yu Xunge told Zhao Shuying that her people should turn into goblins and trade gold with goblins in Zelan’s towns and villages, then explained goblin customs.
• Yu Xunge searched the exchange catalogues for mahjong but found nothing, and she declined to describe the item to Zhao Shuying.
• Yu Xunge spotted Bear Cookies (Unknown) in the catalogue.

Yu Xunge traded information about the Bear Cookie to the Special Affairs Bureau for The Vast World, The Tiny Me, then used the wonder to store Furious Moon more conveniently. The Bureau verified the Bear Cookie’s protective effects and began considering how to distribute them to children.

• Yu Xunge offered Zhao Shuying information about the Bear Cookie in exchange for a discount on The Vast World, The Tiny Me, and Zhao agreed to the installment payment arrangement.
• Yu Xunge bought the wonder, explained the Bear Cookie’s protective ability, and Zhao Shuying reported the information to the Special Affairs Bureau.
• The Bureau confirmed the Bear Cookie worked as Yu Xunge described, and her honor points increased by fifty as the Bureau discussed protecting children with the cookies.
• Yu Xunge left dinner with Tulan, returned home, and gathered her coins before relaxing.
• Yu Xunge shrank Furious Moon to the size of a grain of rice and secured it inside her pocket watch.
• Yu Xunge asked Zhao Shuying for durable sinew cords or rope, and Zhao confirmed she had some.

Yu Xunge prepared for the growing danger from instance monsters while studying Melt Time, as the Special Affairs Bureau tightened control and public opinion turned against high-level players. Tulan tried to confront an online critic who had insulted Yu Xunge, leaving Yu Xunge alarmed by how quickly Tulan had adapted to Blue Star.

• Yu Xunge traded 30 bottles of Damage Delay to Zhao Shuying for three durable chains, braided them together, and hung her important items from them.
• Yu Xunge repeatedly solo-cleared the apartment instance to return to the top fifty on the level rankings, then studied Hechipa's notes on Melt Time.
• Monsters and foreign races escaped from an unreported level 13 instance, killed its owner's family, and scattered across Blue Star.
• The Special Affairs Bureau armed instance entrances and announced that Bear Cookies would first go to law-abiding citizens, temporarily suppressing unrest.
• Tulan prepared to confront someone who had insulted Yu Xunge online, and Yu Xunge stopped her before she could leave.

Yu Xunge went to Su Yitong’s concert on the grasslands after being invited, then stayed behind to pursue an opportunity connected to the Yu Xunhuan brothers. The chapter left her alone at the concert venue, ready to retrieve it.

• Yu Xunge suspected Yu Xunhuan had used Black Jade’s help to cause the loss of Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo’s child, while she focused on developing potions and conserving her dragon-concealing bottles.
• Su Yitong invited Yu Xunge to hear Hymn of Hope, and Yu Xunge accepted and arranged to travel with Zhao Shuying and Tulan.
• Yu Xunge tried to make Tulan practice fighting by offering gold coins, but Tulan exploited the rules and won the money by dodging.
• Zhao Shuying and her portal-opening colleague took Yu Xunge and Tulan to Su Yitong’s concert on the grasslands.
• After the concert, Yu Xunge stayed behind, claiming she wanted local specialties while planning to retrieve an opportunity for the Yu Xunhuan brothers.

Yu Xunge recalled Fang Mitu’s history with his dead brother and the Legion Token he had found, which Yu Xunge wanted to keep from helping Yu Xunhuan. She retrieved the strange stone from Fang Mitu’s courtyard and escaped with Tulan.

• Yu Xunge remembered how Fang Mitu had forced her to impersonate his dead brother and how he joined Yu Xunhuan’s team after trading the Legion Token for his brother’s gifts and chat records.
• Yu Xunge explained that she had organized the box of gifts Yu Xunhuan kept, and decided Fang Mitu could not give it to him.
• Yu Xunge retrieved the box of gifts from the Yu Family villa and used Fang Mitu’s repeated descriptions to find his home.
• Yu Xunge disguised herself, flew to Fang Mitu’s courtyard with Tulan, and used Probe skill to check for danger.
• Yu Xunge grabbed the strange stone from a basket of walnuts and flew away with Tulan.

Yu Xunge obtained a Legion Token and offered it to the Special Affairs Bureau in exchange for an A-rank Skill. After her attempt to ride home unnoticed led to an emergency landing and an armed welcome, she traded the token for Magic Echo and left the Bureau with its gratitude.

• Yu Xunge and Tulan cracked open a stone to reveal a Legion Token, which Yu Xunge decided to sell to the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Yu Xunge boarded a flight in cat form and contacted Zhao Shuying to offer the token, but the Bureau arranged an emergency landing to meet her.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan left the plane's pet hold to find Zhao Shuying and armed players waiting for them, and Yu Xunge claimed she had stayed with Tulan because Tulan was afraid of flying.
• Yu Xunge handed the Legion Token to the Bureau and chose Magic Echo from its A-rank Skill Books.
• Zhao Shuying told Yu Xunge that the Special Affairs Bureau would remember what she had done.

Yu Xunge sold the first Legion Token to the Special Affairs Bureau, which established Dinghai as Blue Star’s first legion and publicly thanked her. She then returned to studying Melt Time and went to Zelan, where she found wanted posters bearing several of her aliases.

• Yu Xunge sold the Legion Token to Zhao Shuying and accepted Warm Fluff, a Legendary sweater prepared for her by the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Yu Xunge changed into Warm Fluff, and Zhao Shuying sent her home through a portal.
• The system announced that Yu Zhaohai had established Dinghai, and the legion’s membership surged as players watched the rankings open.
• Yu Xunge reflected on how Dinghai’s early establishment and name differed from those in her previous life, then received a message thanking her for helping the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Yu Xunge continued studying Melt Time, traveled to Zelan with Tulan, and found wanted posters listing her aliases Gewuen, Frost Embroidery, and Kabbi.

Yu Xunge visited Hechipa, asked for help with alchemy, and received an errand to deliver notebooks to Lucia. Hechipa explained that Lucia had stopped teaching children after a former student made a pact with a demon and demanded that Lucia break her principles for her.

• Yu Xunge disguised herself as a Minotaur and entered the city to visit Hechipa at her Alchemy Shop.
• Yu Xunge asked Hechipa about teaching a simplified version of Melt Time, and Hechipa lent her potions and assigned her new lessons.
• Hechipa gave Yu Xunge three notebooks to deliver to Lucia in Daybreak City or Midnight City and suggested asking Lucia about modifying Charm.
• Yu Xunge recalled Lucia's autobiography and asked Hechipa why Lucia no longer formally taught students.
• Hechipa said a Little Oak Owl Lucia had taught made a pact with a demon, killed children for alchemical talent, and challenged Lucia to stay and teach her; Lucia stopped teaching children afterward.

Yu Xunge searched Daybreak City and Midnight City for Lucia, learning more about Lucia’s past and finding her at an open-air tavern. The chapter left Yu Xunge face-to-face with the legendary alchemist, while Furious Moon began to glow beneath Midnight City’s moon.

• Tulan told Yu Xunge that Holy Grail had once wanted Lucia to tutor her, and that Lucia had stayed for eight years to train Hechipa despite her vow never to teach again.
• Yu Xunge learned that Lucia had recently been spending most of her time in Midnight City, so she took Tulan there to search for her.
• Yu Xunge searched Midnight City on foot, asking Little Oak Owls for directions while admiring the city’s perpetual night and its enormous clock tower.
• When Yu Xunge drank her sixth bottle of Melt Time, Furious Moon grew cold and began to glow faintly inside her pocket watch.
• Yu Xunge found Lucia at an open-air tavern and recognized the powerful-looking sea demon from Lucia’s autobiography.

Yu Xunge delivered Hechipa’s three notebooks to Lucia and seized the chance to ask the Alchemy Master for guidance on a lower-tier version of Melt Time. Lucia gave her a generous lesson, leaving Yu Xunge impressed by how much she had learned.

• Yu Xunge waited for Lucia at the tavern while studying Hechipa’s notebook and recording her ideas about Melt Time.
• Lucia recognized that Yu Xunge was not truly a Minotaur and accepted the three notebooks Hechipa had sent.
• Lucia created a private space and noticed Yu Xunge’s notes on a lower-tier version of Melt Time.
• Yu Xunge overcame her caution and asked Lucia to guide her in alchemy.
• Lucia taught Yu Xunge for an hour about the herbs used in Melt Time and answered her questions about potions.

Yu Xunge learned to brew a low-grade Melt Time under Lucia’s guidance, then agreed to try to steal Moon Sand from Taosu in exchange for potions and formulas. Lucia showed her a sample of Moon Sand but pulled it away before Yu Xunge could touch it.

• Lucia praised Yu Xunge’s brewing talent and offered her Gold Medal Killer after discovering she had encountered moonlight.
• Lucia revealed that she knew about the Moon Lake City library theft and asked Yu Xunge to obtain Moon Sand from Taosu’s tower.
• Lucia offered advance payment of 50 bottles of Gold Medal Killer for three attempts within a year, and Yu Xunge accepted after inspecting the Oath Gemstone and swearing an oath.
• Lucia explained that she wanted Moon Sand for potion research and showed Yu Xunge a sample, then pulled it away when Yu Xunge reached for it.

Yu Xunge learned that Moon Sand could upgrade Furious Moon, giving her a reason to target the clock tower in Midnight City. After returning to Blue Star, she continued her alchemy training, invested her attribute points in Agility, and rewarded Tulan for helping her.

• Lucia told Yu Xunge that the moon favored people who could change the world's course, and Yu Xunge left worried about becoming a legendary figure with a troubled fate.
• Yu Xunge discovered that Furious Moon's upgrade required Moon Sand and realized the clock tower's galaxy-like hands were filled with it.
• Yu Xunge told Hechipa about the Moon Sand, and Hechipa asked her to bring some back for study.
• Yu Xunge restocked herbs, returned to Blue Star, and resumed training to make a failed version of Melt Time.
• Yu Xunge used seventeen Distributable Attribute Points to raise her Agility to 106 and doubled Tulan's allowance for her help during Yu Xunge's seclusion.

Yu Xunge sold the Special Affairs Bureau the formula for Time Will Come and began teaching alchemists how to make it. After accepting a bundle of arrows, she went to learn mahjong and realized she might have ruined Mistblade’s hand by replacing a tile.

• Yu Xunge agreed to sell the Time Will Come formula to Zhao Shuying under a contract that canceled her debt and gave her a share of sales.
• Zhao Shuying brought Yu Xunge to teach two hundred intermediate alchemists, with lessons continuing until five hundred could make the potion.
• Zhao Shuying gave Yu Xunge a thousand arrows, and Yu Xunge left Tulan at home before heading out to learn mahjong.
• Yu Xunge learned the mahjong rules from two women at a recreation room frequented by Nameless Ones.
• Yu Xunge connected the All Simples rule to Mistblade’s earlier hand and worried that she had ruined it by replacing a tile.

Yu Xunge spent the night playing mahjong with Tulan, only to learn that their game had been livestreamed and her poor etiquette had become public entertainment. At lunch, she devised a plan to use custom perfume to disguise dragon scents and ordered a hundred bottles of semi-finished perfume.

• Auntie Wang and the other mahjong players warned Yu Xunge that breaking up her mother's All Simples was an unforgivable offense, and Yu Xunge realized their outrage was justified by her childhood grudge against Yu Xunhuan.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan played mahjong through the night, and Zhao Shuying arrived to tell them that footage of their game had been livestreamed since morning.
• Zhao Shuying explained that viewers had mocked Yu Xunge's cheating, false winning claims, and tile arrangements, while Yu Xunge insisted on continuing to play.
• At lunch, Yu Xunge worried that Mistblade could easily kill her and realized that perfume carrying dragon scent might help her disguise Tulan's scent or mislead a pursuer.
• Yu Xunge asked Zhao Shuying to connect her with a player skilled in Incense Making, then ordered one hundred bottles of perfume that could be customized with someone's sweat, tears, or saliva.

Zhao Shuying recruited Yu Xunge for a mission to empty the hands of Time Unfixed so the Special Affairs Bureau could reset unlocked Instance Barriers. Yu Xunge agreed but negotiated for a share of anything found inside and refused to surrender the Bureau’s promised rewards if it wanted a share too.

• Yu Xunge and Zhao Shuying joked with Tulan about selling her dragon snot, then Yu Xunge left Tulan with Zhao Shuying to choose toys.
• Zhao Shuying explained that Instance Barriers would keep refreshing and could produce foreign races far above their original levels.
• Zhao Shuying revealed that an artist could manifest a painting of Time Unfixed to reseal the barriers, but could not accurately paint the fluid contents of its hands.
• Yu Xunge suggested stealing the clock, then agreed to try to empty its hands and bring Tulan along, asking for a game contract guaranteeing her a share of anything recovered.
• When Zhao Shuying asked for a research share if the Bureau helped, Yu Xunge refused to give up the mission’s promised rewards and said the hands held extremely high-grade alchemical materials.

Yu Xunge signed on for the long-term mission to investigate the tower in Zelan and compete with the Special Affairs Bureau for Moon Sand. She prepared to raise her attributes and gather intelligence herself, while stirring up Yu Xunhuan’s conflicts with Su Yitong and Black Jade and putting a bounty on Lan Cheng.

• Zhao Shuying and Yu Xunge agreed that Yu Xunge would keep mission items and equipment while the pointer’s contents would be divided according to each party’s contribution.
• Yu Xunge asked about Su Yitong, learned she had a new pet named Green Wine, and decided not to act against her while the Special Affairs Bureau still needed Hymn of Hope.
• Yu Xunge took Tulan to the apartment dungeon, planned to raise all four major attributes above 100, and began stealing attributes while leveling.
• Yu Xunge repeatedly advised Yu Xunhuan to reconcile with Su Yitong and exploit the conflict between Black Jade, the Su Family, Lin Chengze, and Lan Cheng.
• Yu Xunge anonymously offered 1,000 gold on the game forum for Lan Cheng’s life and revealed his God-Bestowed Talent.

Yu Xunge raised all her Base Attributes above 100 and traveled to Gloom City to gather information about Midnight City and the Oak Owl Clan. She left with directions to an information broker and two costly revelations that left her conflicted.

• Yu Xunge gained her final Constitution point, spent her level 10 attribute points on Agility, and brought all her Base Attributes above 100.
• Yu Xunge collected custom mahjong tiles and prepared to travel alone, leaving Tulan to guard the house.
• Yu Xunge disguised herself as a Minotaur and visited Hechipa, who directed her to Little Maki for information about Midnight City.
• Yu Xunge paid Little Maki for directions to Guota, an undead information broker on an island near the Midnight City clock tower.
• Little Maki sold Yu Xunge two pieces of information about the Oak Owl Clan for fifty gold coins, leaving Yu Xunge unsure whether she was glad to know them.