Recaps

Qiu Lu of With Deer and Mirror Goose fought on the Clock Dial while confronting their shared history and searching for their Deity Talent words. Mirror Goose found the word “Oasis” as their final clash ended with both names disappearing from the arena.

• Zai Jiu told Yu Xunge that the Undead teacher had refused the conversion materials and chosen to remain loyal to the Withered Overlord; Yu Xunge respected her decision.
• Qiu Lu and Mirror Goose fought evenly at first, but Mirror Goose took control of her skills and gained the advantage.
• Qiu Lu explained that With Mountain stayed in Tingzhou to honor Frost Deer, and that she killed leaders who agreed to abandon Tingzhou.
• Mirror Goose suggested Qiu Lu’s Deity Talent word was “Dutiful child,” prompting her to attack him more fiercely.
• Qiu Lu provoked Mirror Goose by threatening Wind Whale, then called him “Oasis”; Wind Whale identified with the word as Qiu Lu delivered her final strike.
• Qiu Lu of With Deer and Tingzhou Jing'e disappeared simultaneously, and the Clock Dial became ore mountains and a sea.

Maple Sugar fought Bear Mud, who confronted her over turning Autumn Bears into cookies and accused her of acting out of anger over Forest Sea’s destruction. After Bear Mud’s Deity Talent brought them both near death, Maple Sugar refused the offer to execute part of the Autumn Bear Clan and said she still preferred Bear Cookies.

• After Qiu Lu and Tingzhou Jing'e forfeited their victory rewards, the Chaotic Star Sea revealed Maple Sugar and Bear Mud as the next opponents.
• Bear Mud challenged Maple Sugar over her treatment of Autumn Bears, and Maple Sugar declared that she felt no guilt and that the Chaotic Star Sea was rotten.
• Maple Sugar and Bear Mud fought as she attacked with low-mana skill runes and he revealed that his Deity Talent word was “Useless.”
• Bear Mud used his Deity Talent to launch a suicidal attack, hoping to trade twenty percent of the Autumn Bear Clan for twenty percent of the Oak Owls.
• Maple Sugar survived the explosion with one wing left, and she refused the Chaotic Star Sea’s offer to execute twenty percent of the Autumn Bear Clan.

Yu Xunge learned that Bear Cookies remained conscious and could not be restored, then proposed using them to move willing populations from endangered worlds into worlds with World Skills. She left Maple Sugar to decide whether to help and learned that Bear Cookies were already sought after across several worlds.

• Yu Xunge and Mistblade asked Maple Sugar whether the Autumn Bears made into cookies were conscious and could be restored; Maple Sugar said they were conscious, could move freely, and could not be restored.
• Yu Xunge proposed that Maple Sugar turn willing Players from endangered worlds into cookies so they could be taken to higher-tier worlds with World Skills.
• The Players recognized that Bear Cookies might bypass restrictions on moving living beings between worlds and discussed the risks of concentrating populations and potentially gaining World Skills from emptied worlds.
• Yu Xunge told Maple Sugar they should talk after the game, and Maple Sugar's silence signaled that she agreed.
• News of the conversation spread, and Yu Xunge learned that Bear Cookies had circulated beyond Zelan and Zai Jiu and could cost more than a live Autumn Bear.

Yu Xunge defeated Donghai Shark Leng during Revenge Hour, then refused the chance to execute part of his clan. She returned to the stands to check whether her mist-induced skill had made her companions drool, and they all attacked her for asking.

• Dawn Cicada explained that some skills could only be created by the souls of their users, while Yujin Cuoluo won a duel and received a major attribute enhancement.
• Yu Xunge was paired with Donghai Shark Leng, the enemy she had first encountered in a Godly Game, and they began their duel.
• After Donghai Shark Leng reduced her strength, Yu Xunge switched to magic and used [This Account Is Ruined] to control him before defeating him with her other skills.
• Yu Xunge refused the offer to execute 20% of the Shark Forest Clan and rushed back to the stands to inspect Zhuri, Huang Jin, Mistblade, and the others for signs of drooling.
• When Yu Xunge asked whether they had drooled, the group surrounded and beat her, and Huang Jin twisted her ear.

The remaining players chose whether to withdraw from Revenge Hour before the next duels began under new rules that raised HP and let victors unite worlds and followers. Mistblade and Maple Sugar fought fiercely, with Mistblade holding the lead but Maple Sugar refusing to give up.

• After the first round left 45 players, the Godly Game offered them a chance to withdraw, and 13 players left before the next round began.
• The Chaotic Star Sea raised each player's maximum HP to 1,000 and let duel winners choose whether to bring the defeated player and their followers into their world or join the defeated player's world with their own followers.
• Mistblade asked Maple Sugar whether she would execute Moon Fox if Mistblade lost, and Maple Sugar said she would.
• Mistblade and Maple Sugar charged at each other and fought with blood mist and flames, each recognizing the other as a formidable combatant.
• Mistblade reduced Maple Sugar's HP to 215 while keeping her own at 389, but Maple Sugar refused to concede.

Maple Sugar defeated Mistblade in a brutal duel using her Four Seasons Deity Talent and Golden Forest Sea, then faced Zai Jiu Xunge and asked what price she would pay to spare Moon Fox. The chapter left Moon Fox’s fate in Maple Sugar’s hands.

• Maple Sugar used Four Seasons—Winter to freeze Mistblade’s right wrist, and Mistblade answered with Prisoner, briefly imprisoning Maple Sugar’s thoughts.
• Mistblade battered Maple Sugar during the five-second opening, but Maple Sugar survived with 107 HP while Mistblade’s right hand remained sealed.
• At 72 HP, Maple Sugar sacrificed a wing to unleash owl feathers, then turned them into lightning with the SS-rank combat technique Golden Forest Sea.
• Maple Sugar activated Four Seasons—Spring to lock her HP at one, and the simultaneous attacks left her victorious and Mistblade unconscious.
• Maple Sugar asked Zai Jiu Xunge what price she would pay for Maple Sugar to spare Moon Fox.

Yu Xunge refused to interfere in Maple Sugar’s revenge, while offering to pay for Oak Owl to join Zai Jiu. Maple Sugar spared Moon Fox and rejected Zai Jiu, then she and Mistblade continued comprehending their Deity Talent words before Mistblade thanked Yu Xunge for respecting her and Moon Fox.

• Yu Xunge refused to stop Maple Sugar but offered to pay for Oak Owl to join Zai Jiu.
• Maple Sugar refused to execute Moon Fox and refused to join Zai Jiu, ending the duel’s HP-locking effect.
• Maple Sugar accused Mistblade of engineering a mutual-death gamble to comprehend her Deity Talent word, and Mistblade revealed she had planned to use [Scene Replay] to take Moon Fox’s punishment herself.
• Maple Sugar and Mistblade continued comprehending “Four Seasons” and “Prisoner” while bickering, and Yu Xunge reflected on why she had not intervened.
• Mistblade approached Yu Xunge after the duel and thanked her for respecting Mistblade’s position and Moon Fox.

Yu Xunge was trapped between Maple Sugar and Mistblade as they discussed her reaction to executions and her past choices. Zhuri and Huang Jin revealed their Deity Talent words before being matched against each other, and Huang Jin explained the regret behind hers.

• Maple Sugar asked whether Yu Xunge’s flower withered because she feared Mistblade or because watching Maple Sugar execute Moon Fox would change how she saw Maple Sugar.
• Mistblade defended Yu Xunge, saying she reacted strongly because she had seen the World Sighs of Snow Village and Forest Sea, and told Maple Sugar not to push her.
• Maple Sugar asked Mistblade whether she had intentionally lost to Yu Xunge in the Player Relic game, and Mistblade said Maple Sugar would not believe either answer.
• Oak Owl and Moon Fox stopped Yu Xunge from slipping away while Maple Sugar and Mistblade continued talking across her.
• Zhuri told Huang Jin her Deity Talent word was “Missed Opportunity,” and Huang Jin revealed hers was “Speechless.”
• Huang Jin explained that she remained speechless whenever someone asked why she disliked the name [Tian Huhaoqi], and the next duel matched Isolated Island Zhuri against Isolated Island Huang Jin.

Huang Jin and Zhuri fought in the Clock Dial, confronting their regrets over Tian Huhaoqi as they battled with their evolved techniques. Zhuri won, and the two ended the match by recalling their friendship and their younger selves.

• Huang Jin asked Zhuri to fight seriously if she considered her a friend, and Zhuri agreed.
• Zhuri used spellblade magic and a Time Pointer that stole the second of Huang Jin’s successful attacks, while Huang Jin countered her magic rings.
• As Huang Jin’s HP fell, she used “Speechless” to prevent Zhuri from using skills or mana, and they continued their duel with ordinary weapon attacks.
• Huang Jin and Zhuri spoke about their old match, their regrets, and Huang Jin’s favorite boast as their HP dwindled.
• Zhuri defeated Huang Jin, and the game announced her victory.

Yu Xunge faced Dawn Cicada in a Clock Dial battle and answered her question about how she would respond to the invasion of her world. Dawn Cicada explained why she did not resent Qihua for guiding and manipulating her, and the fight was about to begin.

• Yu Xunge watched Zhuri defeat Huang Jin without revealing her Deity Talent entries and realized how much Zhuri's combat ability had changed.
• The Clock Dial selected Zai Jiu Xunge and Lighthouse Xianchan, teleporting Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada onto the battlefield.
• Yu Xunge covered the battlefield with Golden Rain Curtain, while Dawn Cicada's flower branches lured the lightning and resisted its harm.
• Dawn Cicada asked whether Yu Xunge would have invaded other worlds to protect Zai Jiu, and Yu Xunge said she would fight alongside her people until she was no longer needed.
• Yu Xunge asked why Dawn Cicada was not angry at Qihua for manipulating her, and Dawn Cicada said Qihua's time and effort were the price she paid for guiding her.

Yu Xunge defeated Dawn Cicada in a Clock Dial match, then returned to the stands as Mistblade waited for her own match against Fox Tail. Maple Sugar confronted Mistblade about why she had deliberately tried to draw with her.

• Dawn Cicada used Lighthouse Xianchan to suppress Crown of Flowers Murder, but Yu Xunge attacked with her sword and gained the upper hand despite Dawn Cicada stealing her Buffs.
• Dawn Cicada revealed that her Deity Talent Word was Lighthouse and temporarily stole Yu Xunge's Absurd Story.
• Yu Xunge recovered Absurd Story with Pirate Entrance and defeated Dawn Cicada, who was resurrected afterward.
• The matches continued while Mistblade impatiently waited for her turn to fight Yu Xunge.
• When Fox Tail and the stick figure were matched, Mistblade tried to rush down to the field, but Maple Sugar grabbed her wrist and challenged her motives for their earlier draw.

Yu Xunge faced Mistblade on the Clock Dial and learned that Mistblade had secretly mastered the Warden ability of her Prisoner talent. The match ended with Yu Xunge losing health from her own attacks as Mistblade’s shadow charged at her.

• Maple Sugar confronted Mistblade about deliberately protecting her dignity, and Mistblade admitted she had been willing to lose to her.
• Yu Xunge asked Mistblade whether she had lost to her on purpose in the Player Relic, and Mistblade implied she had.
• Yu Xunge and Mistblade began fighting on the Clock Dial, where Mistblade blocked and redirected Yu Xunge’s magical attacks.
• Yu Xunge used Bird in a Cage to fill the arena with lightning and explosive flower birds.
• Mistblade activated Prisoner’s Warden ability, binding her original body with red chains while a shadow version attacked Yu Xunge.
• Mistblade told Yu Xunge that attacks against the Warden made Yu Xunge lose health under the prison’s rules.

Yu Xunge fought Black Mistblade while trying to reach the chained Mistblade and understand the Warden’s power. She realized Mistblade saw herself as both judge and prisoner, but the duel remained a stalemate as Yu Xunge continued searching for her deity talent word.

• Yu Xunge stopped attacking Black Mistblade and focused on dodging while testing the skill that returned damage to her.
• Yu Xunge approached the Mistblade bound by crimson chains and recognized the cold, unyielding self-respect beneath her calm demeanor.
• Yu Xunge concluded that Mistblade’s Prisoner identity meant all who invaded other worlds were sinners awaiting judgment, and that Mistblade was both prisoner and Warden.
• Mistblade laughed at Yu Xunge’s interpretation while Black Mistblade continued attacking, and Yu Xunge’s attempts to damage the Warden failed.
• The duel continued for over forty minutes, with Mistblade losing no further HP and Yu Xunge still unable to break the skill.
• Mistblade asked Yu Xunge whether she had found her deity talent word.

Yu Xunge discovered how to exploit Mistblade’s Warden skill and used the opening to force her surrender. The match ended with Zai Jiu Xunge declared the winner.

• Yu Xunge turned Mistblade’s Scarlet Chains into a Golden Apple and tried to use her skills against Black Mistblade, but attacks still affected Mistblade’s original body.
• Yu Xunge realized she could be classified as a prisoner by hiding inside Mistblade’s tails beneath the Scarlet Chains.
• Yu Xunge’s plan caused Black Mistblade to disappear, and she attacked Mistblade with [Bird in a Cage] while clinging to her tail.
• Mistblade dispersed into a bank of mist, and Yu Xunge used stored Mana to cast the Ultimate Version of [Can’t Be Cured].
• Mistblade surrendered, and the game declared Zai Jiu Xunge the winner.

Yu Xunge watched Mistblade’s powerful new skill and reflected on how players awakened their Deity Talent Words. After being asked again whether she had found her own, she recalled Yudun explaining why Qihua had been angry with her since the Card Swap incident.

• Yu Xunge returned to the stands with Mistblade after Mistblade failed to stomp her, and the players discussed Mistblade’s new Warden skill.
• Yu Xunge suggested Maple Sugar’s Soul Fire had lit after she spared Autumn Bear, possibly helping her use her Deity Talent Word again.
• Grapefruit and Prayer used Hollow Heart and Too Late during their evenly matched fight, which soon became a drawn-out struggle.
• Queque asked Yu Xunge whether she had found her Deity Talent Word, prompting Yu Xunge to recall Qihua whipping her from Flower Island and Yudun questioning her afterward.
• Yudun told Yu Xunge that Qihua had been angry since Card Swap because Yu Xunge had treated her like a spectator rather than a teacher who mattered to her.

Yu Xunge fought Zhuri on the Clock Dial Battlefield, countering her teacher’s time-based skills with her own abilities. The match ended with Zhuri realizing she could no longer activate her Deity Talent Word, “Missed Opportunity,” because she had made peace with her past.

• Yu Xunge was jolted from her memories and faced Zhuri on the Clock Dial Battlefield.
• Yu Xunge fought Zhuri with daggers, using [Absurd Story] to reflect damage while teasing her about their past.
• Zhuri reversed the clock to seal Yu Xunge’s skills, then sped herself up and damaged her apprentice with rapid magic circles.
• Yu Xunge activated [Wildfire Rekindled] and [Never Change], preventing Zhuri’s attacks from causing further damage.
• Zhuri tried to use her Deity Talent Word, but its crown-like sign dimmed, and she told Yu Xunge that “Missed Opportunity” no longer worked because she had let go of the past.

Yu Xunge and Zhuri resumed their duel after Zhuri pretended to meditate, and Yu Xunge realized that Zhuri had discovered her Deity Talent Word: her own name. The chapter ended with Zhuri holding back its power while she waited to see Yu Xunge's Deity Talent Word.

• Zhuri revealed that her apparent contemplation had been a trick, then charged at Yu Xunge again.
• Yu Xunge trapped Zhuri in a lightning net with [After the Funeral], but Zhuri escaped by vanishing from the clock dial.
• Yu Xunge reminisced about her dream of defeating Zhuri and fought her with a golden longsword and [Crown of Flowers Pilgrimage].
• Yu Xunge guessed that Zhuri's Deity Talent Word was “Zhuri,” and Zhuri confirmed it.
• Zhuri told Yu Xunge that she was waiting for Yu Xunge to reveal her own Deity Talent Word.

Yu Xunge and Zhuri’s duel led Zhuri to use her Deity Talent Word, sending Yu Xunge into a different timeline where she met Dawn Smoke Disciple and Dawn Cicada. She learned that this timeline’s Zelan Wildfire was expected to join an invasion of Zichuan, but the other Dawn members knew nothing of the bell toll.

• Zhuri activated her Deity Talent Word, freezing the battlefield and sending Yu Xunge falling through the Star Sea into Dawn.
• Dawn Smoke Disciple recognized that Yu Xunge was not Zelan Wildfire and told her she had brought the requested Godly Game Course and palace blueprints.
• Dawn Cicada asked where Dawn Wildfire was, and Yu Xunge asked whether Dawn had annexed Zelan and learned that Zelan Wildfire had the [Invasion Sequence].
• Dawn Smoke Disciple said the Star Sea year was 6799, and Yu Xunge asked how many times the bell had tolled and whether they had faced a pendulum impact.
• Dawn Smoke Disciple and Dawn Cicada revealed that they knew nothing about any bell toll.

Zhuri met Wildfire, an alternate-timeline version of Zai Jiu Xunge, after using her ability to help Xunge comprehend a deity talent word. Wildfire questioned Zhuri about Xunge and the disrupted timelines, then defended Qihua; in the Demon Tavern, Qihua and Yudun considered keeping this timeline’s Wildfire from returning.

• Zhuri’s use of her ability exhausted the moonlight in her crown, and Wildfire appeared where Zai Jiu Xunge had been standing.
• Wildfire introduced herself as Zelan Wildfire, Dawn Wildfire, or Undead Wildfire, and asked Zhuri which world’s Xunge was present.
• Zhuri identified Xunge as Zai Jiu, the Zaijiu Arbiter, and explained that she had helped Xunge comprehend a deity talent word.
• Wildfire said Yudun had told her it was not yet time to comprehend a deity talent word, then told Dawn Cicada to be more respectful when speaking of Qihua.
• At the Demon Tavern, Qihua and Yudun agreed they wanted this Wildfire to stay, while Chimney Smoke suggested they had given her the flower branch and gemstone eye.
• Mangmang explained that the Camellia Verse Jazz flower needed affection and attention, and would leave if neglected or no longer sincerely loved.

Yu Xunge learned more about Zelan Wildfire’s past and realized that her rebirth had made her the force shaping the Chaotic Star Sea. She awakened the incomplete deity talent “Sovereign,” whose first ability let her save timelines and load people or versions of herself from them.

• Yu Xunge met Dawn’s former Zelan leaders and learned that Zelan Wildfire had an Ice Dragon and a Mechanical Race pet named B, and possessed both Fragrant Branch’s Flower Branch and the Firecolor Race’s gemstone eyes.
• Dawn Smoke Disciple told Yu Xunge that Zelan Wildfire had been taught by Isolated Island Zhuri, and explained that an Elf had left Isolated Island after discovering the truth about the world to find Wildfire.
• Yu Xunge reflected on how the timelines’ events and relationships remained familiar while her choices could still change their course, and concluded that she was not a player but a “Sovereign.”
• Yu Xunge awakened her incomplete deity talent, “Sovereign,” at 30% progress and gained the ability to save a timeline and temporarily load someone’s data from a backup timeline.

Yu Xunge chose Undead Wildfire’s timeline as a save, sacrificing part of her Soul Fire as the two timelines began to intersect. When Yu Xunge returned to the Arena, she caught Zhuri inviting Wildfire to stay longer and confronted her.

• Yu Xunge considered whether Undead Wildfire’s timeline could help her avoid having her own timeline pruned.
• Yu Xunge used her Deity Talent Word to save Wildfire’s timeline, permanently putting 10% of her Soul Fire in a used state.
• Zhuri and the other god players talked with Undead Wildfire about her world while the match was put aside.
• Zhuri asked Undead Wildfire to stay in the timeline longer, and Yu Xunge returned and reproached her.
• Yu Xunge told Zhuri she could let her see Undead Wildfire again.

Yu Xunge summoned Undead Wildfire to meet her and asked her to help defeat Zhuri in a match. After Wildfire agreed in exchange for a flowering branch, Qihua and Yudun drank together at the Demon Tavern and found comfort in the realization that Cooking Teacher sounded better than Etiquette Teacher.

• Yu Xunge used Load Game to summon Undead Wildfire and met her other self, who introduced her Godly Relic [Carve Errors].
• Yu Xunge asked Undead Wildfire to team up against Zhuri, but Wildfire initially refused because Zhuri was her favorite teacher.
• After Yu Xunge gave her a flowering branch of [Heartless Allure], Undead Wildfire agreed to fight Zhuri and proposed that Yu Xunge tank while she dealt ranged damage.
• At the Demon Tavern, Qihua and Yudun drank together while Feiju explained the Beagle comparison to Mangmang.
• Qihua said she felt better because Cooking Teacher sounded a little better than Etiquette Teacher.

Yu Xunge fought Zhuri in the Clock Dial Battlefield while trying to understand why Zhuri’s apparent Time Skills did not trigger Undead Wildfire’s [Wildfire Rekindled]. She realized Zhuri was using hypnosis to make her perceive time effects, then ended her Load Game ability and faced Zhuri alone.

• Zhuri expanded her Time Pointer across the battlefield, slowed Yu Xunge and Wildfire, and struck them both with her daggers.
• Yu Xunge realized Zhuri’s apparent time manipulation was hypnosis that shaped her perceptions and expectations.
• Yu Xunge spotted Wildfire floating near the spectator stands as a ghostly blue flame, leaving Yu Xunge to take Zhuri’s aggro alone.
• Yu Xunge concluded Wildfire was unwilling to act before understanding the situation and felt disappointed by the limits of Load Game.
• Yu Xunge smiled, ended Load Game, and watched the ghostly blue wildfire dissipate.

Yu Xunge overcame Zhuri’s hypnosis by clearing her mind and fought her apprentice in a close dagger duel, ultimately winning. After the match, both women’s Deity Talent Words continued to progress, and Zhuri revealed that hers had reached nearly 80%.

• Yu Xunge realized Zhuri was using hypnosis, blocked its influence by shutting out the Time Pointer, and began fighting back despite remaining partly slowed and unable to see.
• Yu Xunge and Zhuri battled with identical daggers and combat skills until their HP reached an even 50:50, and the match ended with Yu Xunge victorious.
• The spectators considered Yu Xunge the likely first-place finisher, while both her and Zhuri’s Deity Talent progress increased after the match.
• Yu Xunge learned that Zhuri’s Deity Talent Word had reached nearly 80% progress after only one match, and the two returned to the stands bickering.
• Huang Jin explained that Zhuri’s Deity Talent Word meant all living beings should pursue her while she pursued the sun, and she offered Zhuri a blessing as the next match began.

Zhuri and Mistblade faced off in the tournament, trading teasing remarks until Zhuri used her Deity Talent Word to shrink Mistblade to the size she had been at age three. The match left Mistblade tiny and Zhuri listening to the spectators speculate about her strategy.

• Mistblade eagerly left the stands to face Zhuri in their tournament match.
• Zhuri offered to let Mistblade use her Deity Talent Word first, and Mistblade teased her about waiting being a privilege of the strong.
• Yu Xunge and Huang Jin joked about Zhuri's anger, and both Zhuri and Mistblade overheard them.
• Zhuri used her Deity Talent Word to shrink Mistblade to her three-year-old size while retaining her combat power.
• Mistblade rebuked Zhuri in a childish voice, and spectators joked that Zhuri's choice of size came from her experience training with Aihao.