Recaps

Yu Xunge asked Mountains Yudun about drawing on the Divine Wills’ Soul Fire to bring more players into the Arbiter Game, learning the danger limits and debating whether the wills should be allowed to choose. She left determined to preserve their choice and convinced Mountains Yudun that she could win without sacrifices.

• Yu Xunge visited Mountains Yudun through World Sigh to ask how the Order Clock used the Divine Wills’ Soul Fire and whether it could help the Arbiter Game.
• Mountains Yudun explained that their Soul Fire recovered at one point per second and that falling below 10 would extinguish them forever.
• Mountains Yudun urged Yu Xunge to draw on their Soul Fire without asking permission, arguing that someone in power had to maximize their chances of victory.
• Yu Xunge recalled the helplessness she had felt when others trusted her to save them but she could not change what happened.
• Yu Xunge told Mountains Yudun that she would continue offering people choices and promised that her victory would require no sacrifices.

Yu Xunge offered the Divine Wills a permanent Soul Fire safeguard, then sought out Star Sea Youwo after she alone refused. Youwo agreed and asked Yu Xunge to deliver an apology to Qihua.

• Yu Xunge asked Mountains Yudun about Mountains Youwo and learned Star Sea Youwo had killed her during the Quiet Mountains Game.
• Yu Xunge offered the Divine Wills a quest to place their Soul Fire under World Sigh's allocation, and nearly all agreed except Star Sea Youwo.
• Yu Xunge visited Star Sea Youwo, who explained that she had refused so Yu Xunge would come to her.
• Star Sea Youwo agreed to the Soul Fire arrangement and asked Yu Xunge to tell Qihua, "I'm sorry."

Yu Xunge completed the invasion of Prison 8017 and discovered that World Skills might ignite the Cube Prison. She asked Mistblade to test the idea, and snow began falling through every Prison Cell.

• Yu Xunge relayed Star Sea Youwo’s apology to Qihua, who accepted it but had nothing to say to her.
• Yu Xunge removed the limit on deity Players’ Prison Cells and promised to name the next conquered prison after the world whose deity Player occupied the most cells.
• On the eighth evening, Yu Xunge fully dyed the Cube above World Sigh blue and transferred it into her hand, but found she still needed Soul Fire to ignite it.
• Yu Xunge and Yudun realized that World Skills could connect a world’s living beings and might ignite the Cube Prison.
• Yu Xunge posted her theory in the group chat, and Mistblade immediately made heavy snow fall through every Prison Cell.

Yu Xunge solved the Cube Prison, found the Nine-Tier Magic Cube, and saw the other prisons beyond Prison 8017. The Arbiter announced a 12-hour prison-conquest quest, leaving the newly freed Players facing a war between races.

• Yu Xunge coordinated the Wardens to solve the Cube Prison, unlocking its cells and revealing the Nine-Tier Magic Cube at its center.
• Yu Xunge gained a million more Soul Fire under her command and used Prison 8017's Authority to prepare to test whether the Eye of Surveillance would open.
• Yu Xunge and Yudun saw countless prisons floating in the starry sky, with silent inhabitants of many races visible inside them.
• The Arbiter announced the Named Lighthouse quest, ordering Players to capture another prison within 12 hours for rewards and control over the next prison.
• Qihua asked Xianchan if she still feared the name Lighthouse, and Xianchan said Zai Jiu Xunge had made a Save for her.
• Mistblade relayed Xianchan's claim that she never liked playing with Yu Xunge, leaving Xianchan confused.

Yu Xunge questioned the Ash Inspector and deduced that the Exile Grounds had endured repeated catastrophes, with prisoners purged and the Inspector rebooted each time. She concluded that a legendary prisoner had sent players from an earlier epoch into the twelfth epoch to prepare a future rebellion, but the Ash Inspector said Yu Xunge was not that prisoner because she did not want to be.

• Yu Xunge asked the Ash Inspector whether dragons existed and whether the Exile Grounds were periodically purged; it confirmed that they were.
• Yu Xunge learned that each catastrophe wiped out the prisoners and reset the Ash Inspector, and she suspected the current Inspector retained memories from a previous cycle.
• Yu Xunge proposed that a prisoner from the previous epoch had nearly escaped, influenced the Ash Inspector, and created the dragons; the Inspector asked her to become its Unique Key instead.
• The Ash Inspector said the legendary prisoner was close to succeeding, prompting Yu Xunge to wonder if she was that prisoner before rejecting the idea.
• Yu Xunge deduced that the legendary prisoner had sent players from the second epoch into the twelfth to build a force capable of challenging the higher-dimensional world.
• When the Ash Inspector asked whether Yu Xunge wanted to be the legendary prisoner, she said no, and it told her she was not.

Yu Xunge conquered the second prison, unlocked new ways for Arbiter Players to challenge cells, and made Chun Ke its steward. After she left Prison 8017, a Black Iron Armor figure tried to sever her Contract with B80, causing the third prison's Red Coordinates to vanish and awakening a pair of eyes on the Scarlet Cube.

• Yu Xunge unlocked military and professional skill contests for attacks on other cells, with more minigames available once she gathered enough Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge gave the Lighthouse Prison Key to Qihua, who passed it to Xianchan, then Yan Tu, and finally Chun Ke, making him the prison's steward.
• Qihua asked how Yu Xunge could leave the Abandoned Zone, and the Fragrant Branches joked about her relationship with B80.
• Yu Xunge left Prison 8017, and a figure in Black Iron Armor appeared behind the Cube with the Notebook.
• The figure tried to sever the Contract between B80 and Yu Xunge, making the third prison's Red Coordinates disappear and awakening black eyes on the Scarlet Cube.

Yu Xunge reflected on why the prisoners fought to free their people without turning their old hatred into slaughter, then discussed the nature of the Ash Inspector and its past selves. Still troubled by an uneasy feeling, she asked Qihua how she had noticed something was wrong with Lighthouse Youwo, but Qihua had no answer.

• Yu Xunge connected two prisons through the Bridge of Sighs and watched players compete to claim them while keeping the death rate extremely low.
• Yu Xunge explained to the Ash Inspector that the prisoners' campaigns were driven by honor and self-redemption rather than revenge.
• The Ash Inspector said it and B80 were different individuals because they had experienced different stories, then asked Yu Xunge about her friends among the Mechanical Race.
• Yu Xunge remembered that a close Mechanical Race member had been crushed by a Law Program and wondered whether B80 had meant that programs were more reliable than emotions.
• Yu Xunge pulled Qihua aside and asked how she had detected that something was wrong with Lighthouse Youwo, but Qihua said she had not noticed and accused Yu Xunge of provoking her.

Yu Xunge reflected on the Ash Inspector’s lost memories while expanding her prison conquests, then received a message from Undead Wildfire about B80’s furious roar on the ninth day. The chapter left Yu Xunge questioning what had happened between B80 and the Ash Inspector.

• Yu Xunge wondered whether B80 had forgotten its past after splitting its programs, and the Ash Inspector confirmed that every Inspector in a Prisoner’s game was part of it.
• By the twelfth day, Yu Xunge had conquered ninety-nine prisons and prepared to invade fifty more, building bridges between them with pages from World Sigh.
• Mistblade and the others teased Yu Xunge about her past, prompting her to leave in embarrassment while they planned to share her wanted-poster picture.
• Yu Xunge received a message from Undead Wildfire saying B80 had roared her name in fury above every world on the ninth day.
• Yu Xunge asked the Ash Inspector whether it had done something to B80, and it replied by repeating, “Don’t expose everything. Don’t compute everything.”

Yu Xunge reflected on the future of the Exile Grounds and began painting the Third Epoch’s prisons, while the Ash Inspector asked her to paint it too. The Ash Inspector transformed into an animated portrait beside her.

• Yu Xunge established prisoner exchanges, a respawn point, and other rules to keep the prison game running on Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge wondered whether future living beings would hate them for recreating the system they had once opposed, and considered the possibility that the Eye of Surveillance was sealed inside the Order Clock.
• Yu Xunge decided to paint the Exile Grounds as they were, with unlocked prison cells scattered among the still-locked cubes.
• The Ash Inspector asked Yu Xunge to paint it and transformed into a portrait holding its Black Scythe.

Yu Xunge prepared to give World Sigh to the prisons as the foundation for future worlds, despite the immense power she would surrender. After Qihua and Yudun left to finish the invasion, she painted the people around her into the dissolving prisons and affirmed that their loyalty to their own convictions was enough.

• Yu Xunge painted an enormous Order Clock above the prisons as World Skill began unlocking them and revealing the outside world to their prisoners.
• Qihua and Yudun appeared beside Yu Xunge, and Yudun asked whether she planned to give World Sigh to all the prisons.
• Yu Xunge confirmed her plan, while Qihua and Yudun silently worried about the power she would lose and the pressure the sacrifice placed on her.
• Yu Xunge told Qihua and Yudun to finish the invasion and leave her to paint, then reflected on B80's words about loyalty.
• Yu Xunge added the figures of her acquaintances to the prisons and said she respected their loyalty to their own ideals and convictions.

Yu Xunge continued painting while the Ash Inspector questioned her plans, and B80 restarted its program after preserving its memories of her and their allies. On the 15th day, Yu Xunge began her final illustration as Mistblade and the other leaders struggled with the sacrifice she planned to make.

• The Ash Inspector questioned whether Yu Xunge would surrender World Sigh and seek new power, while Yu Xunge avoided answering and returned to painting.
• In the 12th Epoch, B80 gathered its scattered programs, backed up memories of itself, Zai Jiu Xunge, and Undead Wildfire, then restarted its program and vowed to find her as her ally.
• On the 15th day of the game, 100 fronts attacked prisons, and Yu Xunge began coloring her final illustration.
• Mistblade brought Yu Xunge fruit and reminded her that the leaders had tried and failed to create their own worlds' sighs.
• Yu Xunge told Mistblade she could write World Sigh again, then asked what to name the painting; Mistblade suggested “The Arbiter Descends,” which Yu Xunge called cheesy.

On the eighteenth day of the Arbiter Game, the Eye of Surveillance appeared over the Exile Grounds, and Yu Xunge endured its pressure until it withdrew. She decided to claim the Eye and save the Star Sea and the Mountains by becoming their Sovereign, though doing so meant confronting the sacrifice her plan demanded.

• Yu Xunge told the Ash Inspector she now understood that the Soul Fire in the Exile Grounds represented an entire epoch’s accumulation, and finished her painting of the prisons and the Order Clock.
• The Eye of Surveillance opened across the sky, and Yu Xunge faced its gaze while the World Sigh and her prison connections trembled.
• The Eye closed after the Prison Cells began rotating, exhausting the 40% of Yu Xunge’s Soul Fire she had unsealed.
• Yu Xunge realized her painting no longer showed reality because the Eye of Surveillance had replaced the Order Clock, and she stored the unfinished illustration.
• Yu Xunge resolved to claim the Eye of Surveillance and become the Sovereign who would save the Star Sea and the Mountains.

Yu Xunge delayed the players’ prison conquest while pondering how to obtain the Eye of Surveillance and questioning the Ash Inspector about its power and the nature of time. Seeing Moon 1 in a nearby Cube Prison reminded her of the SS-rank skill that started her journey, and she smiled as she asked Tulan if she remembered it.

• Yu Xunge studied World Sigh and her stored abilities while longing to obtain the Eye of Surveillance, and Tulan sensed her renewed excitement.
• Tulan told the Ash Inspector that Yu Xunge was happy because she had found a goal worth pursuing and said she trusted her completely.
• Yu Xunge spent the day planning while players invaded up to 200 prisons, and she updated the game whenever Tulan reminded her.
• The Ash Inspector explained that the Eye of Surveillance could sweep all 9,999 prisons and reboot its program, and said time skills and choices did not create alternate possibilities.
• Yu Xunge noticed Moon 1 floating in a central Prison Cell, smiled, and asked Tulan if she remembered Who Will Cut The Moonlight.

Yu Xunge used [Who Will Cut The Moonlight] to seize part of Moon 1’s prison order and began turning prison cells into a new world. She realized the Star Sea needed one more moon than the prisons could provide, and her [Furious Moon] might be the missing piece.

• Yu Xunge concluded she could exchange prison order for the Eye of Surveillance and used [Breaking Branch] to strengthen [Who Will Cut The Moonlight] with nearly ten million Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge collected part of Moon 1’s order, causing the cages in Prison 1 to stir and struggle toward freedom.
• Yu Xunge used World Sigh to draw prison cells into Moon 1, where they began forming a world in the Abandoned Zone.
• Tulan pointed out that there were 9,999 prisons and moons but ten thousand worlds and docks, leaving one missing.
• Yu Xunge realized [Furious Moon], which accompanied her, might serve as the missing moon.

Yu Xunge freed prisoners from the Lighthouse and continued opening cages as their moons took shape above the Star Sea. The rescued beings and Players began preparing for the future, while the group remained quiet and let Yu Xunge focus on unanswered questions.

• Yu Xunge saw that the Cube in her silver eye had changed into petals, then headed for the next prison with Tulan and Chun Ke.
• After a riot in the Lighthouse, Yu Xunge left with Tulan and Chun Ke, and Yan Tu joined Chun Ke to build the prison moon's dock.
• Zhao Shuying and Yu Zhaohai discussed the unusual mood among the Leaders and deities and learned that neither recognized Mountains Xunge.
• Liang Yuchuan and Su Yitong wondered whether Yu Xunge needed help, then argued about which of them she had beaten up.
• Players began building docks for the freed prisoners' moons as the prisoners prepared for a future beyond the Third Epoch.
• As doubts and panic spread among some prisoners, Leader Players and Mountain Players silenced them so they would not disturb Yu Xunge.

As Yu Xunge transformed prisons into worlds, the Eye of Surveillance opened again and launched a devastating attack against her. She survived by shielding the Star Sea and redirecting her lethal weaknesses, but Zhuri feared the cost of leaving her to face the threat alone.

• Yu Xunge transformed prisons into worlds while players hurried to invade the remaining prisons, and 5,000 prisons had vanished by the twenty-third day.
• The Eye of Surveillance opened, turning players building World Docks to ash and causing the remaining Cube Prisons and blank Bridges of Sighs to begin breaking apart.
• Yu Xunge used her soul fire to shield the prisons and Bridges of Sighs, but the Eye revealed four lethal weaknesses and sent star-smoke arrows at her.
• Yu Xunge forbade everyone from leaving their prison cages and sealed her Pet Space, preventing Zhuri and the others from coming to her aid.
• Yu Xunge moved her lethal weaknesses and used soul-fire meteors to intercept the arrows until the Eye closed after half an hour.
• Zhuri saw Yu Xunge sit on a throne of golden thunder and wondered whether the ending could be called perfect if Yu Xunge remained in the epoch forever.

Yu Xunge seized control of more than half the authority over the Exile Grounds, reshaped its worlds, and revived those killed by the Eye of Surveillance. After realizing her allies were angry that she had fought without them, she cleared their complaints and offered them an Easter egg quest to break the silence.

• As the five-thousandth prison became a world, Yu Xunge’s right eye changed, revealing prisoners’ whispers and the Exile Grounds’ stored rewards.
• Yu Xunge suppressed the whispers, gained control over more than half the Exile Grounds’ authority, revived the fallen, and let the prison games continue.
• Yu Xunge spoke with the Ash Inspector about the coming purge and joked that the Inspector was a prisoner too.
• Yu Xunge contacted Tulan, then discovered the group chat was full of complaints about her and erased the negative messages.
• Yu Xunge offered an extra skill slot for chatting with her, and the group members responded with teasing and mock gratitude while Mountains Xunge stayed silent.

Yu Xunge finished unlocking the prisons and gathered the players in Abandoned Zone No. 1 to transform the remaining prisons into worlds. Before she transformed Zai Jiu, she recalled its sigh and learned that it had foreseen Hechipa resurrecting Undead Wildfire and taking her away, leaving Zai Jiu’s stranded players without a future.

• Yu Xunge stayed silent as the group criticized her for fighting the Eye of Surveillance alone, and Tulan emerged to ask whether she needed a weapon.
• Yu Xunge promised the group they would fight together next time and explained she had acted alone because she was unsure whether Load Game could restore people killed by the Eye of Surveillance.
• Tulan told Yu Xunge that the others had been willing to die fighting beside her, then bit her ear and left.
• Yu Xunge sped up the prison renovations, and by Day 28 all prisons had been unlocked as players gathered in Abandoned Zone No. 1.
• Yu Xunge recalled that Undead Wildfire had been among the people in Zai Jiu’s sigh, along with many other Zai Jiu geniuses.
• Yu Xunge explained that Zai Jiu had seen Hechipa resurrect Undead Wildfire and take her away, and had concluded that its stranded players had no future.

Yu Xunge returned Zai Jiu's Moon and World Sigh's final passage, triggering a surge of memories and starlight from the worlds that eased her distress. As she sat on the Throne, Ashen Precepts poured through the Eye of Surveillance and the other players rallied to defend her.

• Yu Xunge used [Who Will Cut The Moonlight] to send Zai Jiu's Moon toward the prison cells and watched World Sigh's final passage drift away, clarifying the Time Marks in her right eye.
• Yu Xunge collapsed onto the golden Throne as memories of Epoch 12 and its wars filled her mind, while starlight from worlds across the Star Sea flew toward her.
• Zichuan Cuimang recalled using [Fruit Consumption Guide] on the Arbiter and silently prayed that she would obtain everything she wanted.
• Zhuri discussed miracles with Huang Jin and the other players as starlight engulfed Yu Xunge.
• The Eye of Surveillance opened for the third time and released Ashen Precepts, prompting the players of Prison Cell No. 1 to fly out and fight while defensive abilities shielded Yu Xunge.
• Zhuri joined the battle, traded remarks with Fragrant Branch, and told Huang Jin that Xunge was an exception to her dislike of Fragrant Branch.

The mysterious centaur god appeared and ordered the Ash Inspector to kill Yu Xunge, but the players’ God-Bestowed Talents remained intact because of Zai Jiu Xunge’s order. While allies headed across the Bridge of Sighs, luminous cubes assembled inside Yu Xunge’s sealed dimension, where she sensed a crucial transformation beginning.

• Tens of thousands of powerful Ash Inspectors fought the players, whose leaders held the front lines against the growing threat.
• A petal-bodied centaur appeared, declared that God would reclaim its gifts, and discovered that the players’ talents had not been taken back.
• The centaur recognized Yu Xunge as the cause, ordered the Ash Inspector overseeing the Exile Grounds to kill its Unique Key, and received its agreement.
• B80 brought Undead Wildfire across the Bridge of Sighs, and he decided to follow the Ash Inspector and see what was happening.
• In a hidden dimension, cubes containing gifts from many races gathered inside Yu Xunge’s world and tried to assemble into a larger Cube while she remained trapped.

Yu Xunge completed the Cube by placing the divine wills from the Order Clock inside it, then issued a rule fully unsealing Arbiter Players and granting Godly and Leader Players access to soul fire. As the battle against the former master of the Exile Grounds began, He imposed a new punishment making each death cost prisoners talents, soul fire, or skills.

• Yu Xunge filled the Cube's empty cells with the divine wills hidden in the Game Invasion illustration, pairing gods whose waking times did not overlap.
• After B80 received the directive to kill the Unique Key, Yu Xunge sensed a dangerous presence and established a rule fully unsealing Arbiter Players and allowing Godly and Leader Players to draw on soul fire.
• B80 charged at Tulan, who used May She Be Flawless to synchronize their attributes and fought the Ash Inspector head-on.
• The Godly Players attacked the former master of the Exile Grounds, while the newly unsealed players drew on soul fire and some dead fighters revived in distant Prison Cages.
• The former master raised His curved blade and decreed that prisoners born in the Exile Grounds would lose a god-bestowed talent with each death, then lose soul fire or skills once those talents ran out.

Yu Xunge waited helplessly as the Cube assembled while the players fought Rust Tablet and the Ash Legion. Tulan fell to the Ash Inspector, which approached the Throne to begin Rust Tablet’s punishment, leaving Yu Xunge alone and unable to intervene.

• Yu Xunge struggled with her suspicions and forced herself to trust the players, reminding herself that she had saved a file for herself.
• The Eye of Surveillance erased players without awakened Deity Talents, and the remaining fighters discovered that Ash Soldiers could revive unless their linked partners were killed within five seconds.
• Maple Sugar and Fat Goose fought the Ash Legion while Qihua, Yudun, and the Captain faced Rust Tablet, whose skill kept their team limited to three fighters.
• Rust Tablet revealed its name and taunted the players as the battle wore them down and the soul fire needed for resurrection dwindled.
• The Ash Inspector defeated Tulan, whose dragon corpse floated in the Star Sea, then approached Yu Xunge’s Throne to begin the punishment.

The Ash Inspector prepared to obey Rust Tablet’s command to kill the sleeping Star Sea Prisoner, but B80 arrived and blocked its strike. Rust Tablet then invoked the River of Order and ordered the Ash Inspectors to kill her and cast her into it.

• The Ash Inspector recalled how the Star Sea Prisoner had warned that its creator could command it to betray her.
• Rust Tablet restored the Ash Inspector’s Cube and ordered it to kill the Star Sea Prisoner, while she rushed from the Respawn Point and an Ash Soldier blocked her.
• B80 intercepted the Ash Inspector’s scythe and identified it as its future self; Rust Tablet ordered both to kill their Unique Key.
• The two Ash Inspectors remained within a barrier only their Unique Key could enter, while the sleeping Star Sea Prisoner showed signs of waking.
• Rust Tablet declared that those who fell into the River of Order could no longer be anchored, sacrificing nearly half the Ash Soldiers, and ordered the Ash Inspectors to kill her and throw her into the river.

As the Ash Legion made death permanent, Yu Xunge awoke and joined the battlefield, ordering the players to retreat to Mountains. The two B80s sacrificed themselves to destroy their own Cubes, leaving Yu Xunge with the Future B80’s remains while Rust Tablet seized the other Cube.

• Rust Tablet made death permanent, and the players fought desperately while protecting their weakened allies.
• Mistblade and the other players battled Ash Inspectors as Zhuri, the bears, Shark Leng, Queque, and others supported the defense.
• Yu Xunge woke, created a safe route to Mountains, and told the players to retreat there.
• Yu Xunge tried and failed to read the future B80’s file, then fought both B80s as Rust Tablet ordered them to kill her Unique Key.
• The two B80s turned their weapons on their own Cubes and died, leaving Yu Xunge with Epoch 12’s Cube, a flower, and two azure bullets while Rust Tablet took the Third Epoch’s Cube.

Yu Xunge awakened new Cube powers that linked the surviving Arbiter Players, shifting their weaknesses to their enemies and sharing their health, buffs, and skills as they fought Rust Tablet. With Qihua and Yudun holding off the enemy, Yu Xunge prepared to use the gifts of the epoch’s prisoners to alter fate and reach for the Eye of Surveillance.

• Yu Xunge used Disorder to transfer the Arbiter Players’ lethal weaknesses to their opponents, then used Tranquility to share their HP, Mana, and buffs across the battlefield.
• Yu Xunge and the other players used the Cube’s War power to share thousands of skills, while their attacks and crowd-control effects drove Rust Tablet back.
• Rust Tablet claimed more Exile Grounds authority and Soul Fire, strengthening the Ash Inspectors, and crushed a damaged Cube that sank into the River of Order.
• Rust Tablet asked Yu Xunge’s identity, and she answered, “Star Sea Prisoner,” as Qihua and Yudun attacked without restraint to protect her plan.
• Yu Xunge looked toward the Eye of Surveillance and prepared to exchange her connected eye for it, but the Prisoner Codex instead offered a way to scramble predetermined fate and receive fate’s echo.