Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge learned the risks of soul-binding too many items, bought Unbinding Stones, and rearranged her bound equipment. She confirmed she had stolen Yu Xunhuan’s luck and used Refurbishment to synthesize two Dragon Scales, producing a beautiful but apparently useless Dragon Scale.

• Hechipa warned Yu Xunge that more than five soul-bound items could hinder her development and sold her four Unbinding Stones.
• Yu Xunge collected her share of the auction proceeds, paid Tulan, unbound two items, and bound Mind Catcher and The Vast World, The Tiny Me.
• Yu Xunge checked her Luck and confirmed that the extra point from Yu Xunhuan appeared separately from her own Luck.
• Yu Xunge used Refurbishment with Tulan and combined two Dragon Scales into a taiji-patterned Dragon Scale.
• Tulan admired the new Dragon Scale and insisted that nothing was useless, while Yu Xunge questioned what it could do.

Yu Xunge discovered new abilities on Mind Catcher by transforming into a dragon and skipping a game, then teamed up with Tulan to take a Dragon Scale scheme to Dragon Island. They arrived after a faster flight, with no dragons waiting to welcome them.

• Yu Xunge and Tulan planned to sell a Dragon Scale from Feng Qie and Di San, while failed equipment combinations confirmed Renovation used Luck in parentheses first.
• Yu Xunge transformed into a dragon using Tulan's blood, escaped the Sea Monster Script's race-change requirement, and gained A Prank on Mind Catcher.
• Yu Xunge skipped a Truth question and gained A Lie, then teased Tulan and agreed to travel to Dragon Island to sell the Dragon Scale.
• Yu Xunge sent leave requests to Lucia and Hechipa and made a Skill Crystal for Reversal Moment before the pair set off.
• Tulan flew Yu Xunge to Dragon Island in under thirty-three hours, and Yu Xunge joked when no dragons came out to welcome them.

Yu Xunge and Tulan traded a special Dragon Scale to settle the bidding between Di San and Feng Qie, gaining powerful skills and gold. After the dragons chased them off Dragon Island, Yu Xunge checked her messages and saw Zhao Shuying congratulate her for placing first on all four rankings.

• Tulan used the Dragon Scale to help Di San and Feng Qie coexist peacefully, and they competed to buy it.
• Yu Xunge accepted Absolute Clarity from Feng Qie in exchange for a dragon favor, while Tulan chose Di San's Moment of Truth and sixty thousand gold over Feng Qie's offer.
• Di San won the Dragon Scale, then rented it to Feng Qie for ten thousand gold a month, and Feng Qie chased Yu Xunge and Tulan off Dragon Island.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan split the proceeds, and Yu Xunge read Zhao Shuying's message congratulating her for taking first place on all four rankings.

Yu Xunge bought and learned the SS-rank Skill Who Will Cut The Moonlight, then disguised herself and spent most of her gold to avoid drawing suspicion. After returning to Blue Star, she resumed training and memorizing skills and procedures in preparation for entering the tower.

• Yu Xunge noticed that Tulan's gold had pushed her to first place on the wealth rankings and hurried to Dundun Mountain's Auction House to spend it.
• Yu Xunge bought the SS-rank Skill Who Will Cut The Moonlight for 60,000 gold, learned it, and disguised herself as an orc with Tulan as a kitten.
• Soldiers searched Dundun Mountain for a Minotaur named Fala and a bear, but Yu Xunge denied seeing them and continued shopping and dining to avoid suspicion.
• Yu Xunge spent three hours shopping and fell to sixty-ninth place on the wealth rankings before she and Tulan returned to Blue Star.
• Yu Xunge fed the backyard cats, then secluded herself to train Fox Shadow and memorize procedures, crafting notes, and Martial Skill Books before entering the tower.

Yu Xunge tested Who Will Cut The Moonlight near Ironforge and discovered that she could create a moonless area and gain Arcana by feeding moonlight to the Furious Moon. She learned how powerful Arcana could be and wondered what other uses her skill held, while its thirty-day cooldown left her unable to test it again soon.

• Yu Xunge continued preparing to make Spring Will Not Be Late herself before her protection ran out, while Blue Star's seas grew increasingly dangerous and instance access became more organized.
• Yu Xunge used Who Will Cut The Moonlight near Ironforge, plunging a hundred-kilometer area into darkness before fleeing without investigating further.
• Yu Xunge received Time Will Come's November proceeds, bought an Escape Gem from Hechipa, and returned to Blue Star with a moon shadow visible in her right eye.
• Yu Xunge directed the moonlight in her eye onto the Furious Moon and gained seven points of Arcana as her new attribute appeared.
• Tulan explained that Arcana was rare energy that could greatly strengthen any skill, and said Di San possessed 679 points.
• Yu Xunge realized Who Will Cut The Moonlight had a thirty-day cooldown and suspected the skill had uses beyond interacting with the Furious Moon.

Yu Xunge collected purple-grade equipment and a cache of skills from the Special Affairs Bureau for the Moon Sand operation. She traded two luck-altering skill crystals for I Can't Die Here, while remaining outside Dinghai’s assigned plan.

• Yu Xunge put away the glowing Furious Moon and taunted Tulan about gaining seven points of profundity, leaving Tulan silent.
• The next day, Yu Xunge went to the Special Affairs Bureau with the sleeping Tulan to collect equipment and skill crystals.
• Yu Xunge chose level 15 gear and reviewed the tools and skills Dinghai had prepared for the team’s Moon Sand operation.
• Yu Xunge considered the extensive escape and survival skills and wondered why Dinghai trusted her so much.
• Yu Xunge traded Zhao Shuying her two So Happy Now crystals for the S-rank skill I Can't Die Here.

Yu Xunge traded with Zhao Shuying, trained for the coming tower climb, and studied Gold Medal Killer under Lucia while noticing that Yu Xunhuan was beginning to doubt how much she cared about him. The chapter left Yu Xunhuan relying on Yu Xunge as his only hope against Black Jade, despite her growing distance from him.

• Yu Xunge learned that Zhao Shuying's God-Bestowed Talent was called Longevity as Enduring as the Southern Mountains and gave her five bottles of Melt Time in exchange for 300 gold.
• Tulan rejected Zhao Shuying's offer of a part-time job and claimed that only Yu Xunge could teach her crooked tricks, so Yu Xunge stuffed food into her mouth to stop her talking.
• Yu Xunge attended battlefield-preparation classes in Dinghai, skipped the afternoon psychology lessons, and trained with Lucia in Zelan while Lucia tried to sell her potions and gems.
• Zhao Shuying told Yu Xunge that Su Yitong had been confronting Yu Xunhuan and that Black Jade did not protect him, as long as he did not interfere with Black Jade scrubbing himself.
• Yu Xunge suspected that Yu Xunhuan was realizing she did not care for him as deeply as she claimed, but understood that he still saw her as his only hope against Black Jade.

Yu Xunge prepared to enter the tower with the team, no longer pretending to care about Yu Xunhuan or fearing Dinghai. The group used their disguise skills just after midnight on December 13, before beginning their mission.

• Yu Xunge reflected on how her growing strength had changed her view of Yu Xunhuan and Dinghai, and told Zhao Shuying that she could not help her brother while their parents were away.
• On December 11, Yu Xunge made safety charms from cat fur and hung one around her neck before sewing Tulan's charm onto her cape.
• At 11 p.m. on December 12, Yu Xunge, Tulan, and the nine tower-climbing team members gathered before the portal at the Special Affairs Bureau.
• Zhao Shuying warned Yu Xunge and Su Yitong that cameras were watching, so they joined the Dinghai group in its hand-stacking ritual, followed by Liang Yuchuan.
• Just after midnight on December 13, the group used I Won't Be Human Anymore and Forge Documents to disguise themselves and conceal their information.

Yu Xunge entered the tower disguised as an Oak Owl and discovered that it placed her in a separate game-like world with altered attributes and information. She survived the battle against the Oak Owls’ enemies while testing which of her talents and items still worked.

• Yu Xunge and Team S disguised themselves as Wind Scythe Tribe members, entered the tower, and crossed its threshold.
• Yu Xunge found herself on a battlefield, dodged a Minotaur boy’s attack, and killed him before transforming into an Oak Owl.
• Yu Xunge checked her status and discovered that the tower had changed her name, attributes, and friends list, while leaving her talents and several items usable.
• Yu Xunge saw that Reversal Moment could be used once every thirty natural days, while Furious Moon’s Time-Space Walk had become unreadable.
• Yu Xunge fought alongside the Oak Owls, endured repeated near-fatal accidents, and used fruit tossed to her by allies to restore her HP.

Yu Xunge fought alongside the Oak Owls before being reassigned to the cooking huts, where she learned about Forest Sea’s long war against Zelan and studied the Oak Owls’ abilities and fruits. Two years passed in her routine of cooking and occasional battlefield training, while she continued investigating her wings and the skills and knowledge from Spring Will Not Be Late and Gold Medal Killer.

• Yu Xunge fought aliens with the Little Oak Owls, but a Great Oak Owl reassigned her to cook in the camp’s kitchens.
• Yu Xunge used her Fire Control talent to tend the fires and inferred that the war was well underway and the Oak Owls favored the Tao line.
• Yu Xunge learned that Forest Sea had been fighting Zelan for fifteen years, that a third of the Oak Owls had died, and that Tao Mian, Song Gui, and Maple Sugar led the strongest defense.
• Yu Xunge discovered that the advancement led by Tao Mian, Song Gui, and Maple Sugar had raised every Oak Owl’s level of life, allowing lower-ranked talents to improve.
• Yu Xunge heard that Song Gui had obtained Lizhou, then continued cooking while taking occasional leave to train on the battlefield.
• Yu Xunge studied magical fruits and her own wings’ inaccessible ability, living this routine for two years.

Yu Xunge spent years studying Oak Owl talents and plants, then stole Taosu’s Monthly New Arrivals skill to develop strange new food effects. By the end of her tenth year in the tower, she had found a solution for Pu Jiu, while the Oak Owls around her kept leaving for the battlefield and never returning.

• Yu Xunge discovered that Mind Catcher could hold only three skills of the same kind, while monthly Moon Cutting brought her fifty-five points of profundity over two years.
• At the 7210 Hazelnut Festival, Yu Xunge met Peach Crown and learned that Taosu was Peach Can’s young cousin, an S-rank apothecary with the Monthly New Arrivals skill.
• Yu Xunge secretly swapped away Taosu’s Monthly New Arrivals skill, then used it to study Forest Sea plants and create new combinations with unusual effects.
• By the end of 7217, Yu Xunge had become the kitchen’s head chef, kept her food’s rating below eighty, and collected the personal tableware of Oak Owls leaving for the battlefield.
• After ten years in the tower, Yu Xunge found a solution for Pu Jiu while remaining wary of the bonds the Oak Owls tried to form with her.

Yu Xunge lived through two Oak Owl incarnations, honing her combat skills and learning that death in the tower could cost her skills, before entering a fourth life as Songqiu. As the war reached its most intense phase in 7199, she was assigned to manage equipment in the Rose Forest legion, with nineteen years still remaining before the war’s end.

• As Xiangzong, Yu Xunge tried to contact Dinghai’s people and repeatedly summoned Tulan to chat until Tulan knocked herself unconscious.
• Yu Xunge fought for five years, exchanged Reversal Moment for Combat Review, and used the skill to improve her fighting and earn admirers.
• Eleven other races sent a ten-person level 60 squad to kill Yu Xunge, and a soldier carrying Time Stop helped the squad behead her.
• Yu Xunge awoke as Daohe, realized that dying in the tower could cost her a skill, and spent the remaining years of the war slacking and trading for Skill Books.
• Yu Xunge entered a fourth incarnation as Songqiu in 7199, joined the Rose Forest legion, and was assigned to manage equipment as the war intensified.

Yu Xunge reflected on how decades of reincarnations had changed her and worried that she was becoming too conditioned to fight alongside the Oak Owls. After searching for a fellow Dinghai member, she met Liang Yuchuan, who mistook her for a close family acquaintance and talked at length about her relatives and past reincarnations.

• Yu Xunge recalled how her years of war had trained her to analyze enemies and treat the Oak Owls as allies, making her fear she might not be able to fight them after leaving the tower.
• Yu Xunge disguised herself with red markings and bells, then searched for someone from Dinghai while Tulan accompanied her as a sparrow.
• Yu Xunge met the red-decorated Oak Owl Spicy Vinegar, and both women excitedly mistook each other for fellow Dinghai members.
• Spicy Vinegar identified herself as Liang Yuchuan from S City and thanked Yu Xunge for saving her great-grandparents, then shared news about her family and her uncle Liang Ya.
• Liang Yuchuan kept Yu Xunge and Tulan talking for half an hour, recounting her past imprisonments and declaring that Tulan was a Sagittarius.

Yu Xunge parted from Liang Yuchuan, then worried that Liang Yuchuan’s reckless killing of a Song relative could expose them both. Yu Xunge prepared supplies and skills for her planned defection, but on the fifth day she received an oak owl arrest warrant.

• Liang Yuchuan added Yu Xunge as a friend and left, while Tulan teased Yu Xunge about seeing her off.
• Yu Xunge reflected that Liang Yuchuan’s complicated history with her made their meeting a sharp reminder of reality.
• Liang Yuchuan told Yu Xunge she had killed Song Ji’s youngest daughter to avenge her, and Yu Xunge questioned her about the risks of being traced.
• Yu Xunge decided to defect sooner and used her status to gather fruit, potions, equipment, and five B-rank elemental skills.
• On the fifth day, Yu Xunge received the oak owls’ arrest warrant.

Yu Xunge returned to the oak owl camp to kill enemies and steal attribute points, then reunited with Liang Yuchuan and found Zhao Shuying, who joined their party. As alarms sounded in the camp near dawn, Yu Xunge waited at a cliff outside while preparing Jade Feast.

• Yu Xunge avoided an ambush at breakfast, stole an A-rank Blood Debt Blood Repayment Skill Book, and learned that she and Liang Yuchuan had been branded traitors.
• Yu Xunge returned to the camp to kill oak owls and strengthen herself, where she ran into Liang Yuchuan, who had also returned to hunt alone.
• Yu Xunge found Zhao Shuying hiding among the oak owls, invited her into the party, and added Liang Yuchuan so they could share information.
• The three women split up and assassinated oak owls through the night, while Yu Xunge gradually overcame her hesitation about killing them.
• Near dawn, Yu Xunge left the camp and waited at a southwest cliff; explosions and Alarm Peppers sounded behind her as she charged Jade Feast.

Yu Xunge, Liang Yuchuan, and Zhao Shuying formed a team to take jobs and gather information, naming their organization Just for Money. Seven years later, Yu Xunge and Liang Yuchuan fled after completing an assassination mission, with Liang Yuchuan angry that Oak Owls had insulted Yu Xunge.

• Yu Xunge, Liang Yuchuan, and Zhao Shuying agreed to pursue their separate goals together, with Zhao Shuying handling the team's outside operations and negotiations.
• Zhao Shuying proposed dividing the rewards from her jobs between intelligence and skills for Liang Yuchuan and Yu Xunge, and both women agreed.
• Yu Xunge brought Tulan out, and Tulan suggested naming their organization Just for Money; the three women and the dragon adopted the name.
• Seven years later, Yu Xunge and Liang Yuchuan escaped through the jungle after completing an assassination mission against rising Oak Owl talents.
• Liang Yuchuan said she had stayed to kill more Oak Owls because they had insulted Yu Xunge, while Yu Xunge questioned why she had not left after the mission was complete.

After seven years of missions and evading pursuit, Yu Xunge reached the final materials needed to refine Spring Will Not Be Late and Gold Medal Killer, while enduring Liang Yuchuan’s infuriating habit of killing anyone who insulted her. By the end of Ruinkor Year 7206, Yu Xunge and her companions understood more about the invasion, and she feared Blue Star might fall sooner than the Forest Sea because many of its Instance Barriers were hidden beneath the oceans.

• Yu Xunge returned to the hideout with Zhao Shuying and Liang Yuchuan, demanded to take only Solo Missions, then accepted fifty-two materials from Zhao Shuying as the last ingredients for two refinements.
• Liang Yuchuan received a new Gauntlet Blade and provoked Yu Xunge with a gesture she had learned from Tulan, so Yu Xunge hurled Tulan away in frustration.
• Yu Xunge reflected on the skills she had gathered over seven years, mostly C-rank, along with four B-rank Skills and one A-rank Skill.
• Yu Xunge considered how the tower’s memory-born figures differed from its heroic spirits and suspected that part of the shattered Forest Sea might exist within the tower.
• By the end of Ruinkor Year 7206, Yu Xunge and her companions judged that the Forest Sea’s five-year grace period had ended and that Blue Star could fare worse because many Instance Barriers lay hidden on the seafloor.

After years in the Tower, Yu Xunge experimented with Arcana and used it to activate Who Will Cut The Moonlight in an untouched region. The attempt caused severe pain and left moon sand inside her right eye, and she and Tulan hurried back after sharing an awkwardly heartfelt exchange.

• Yu Xunge discovered that Arcana could strengthen skills to extraordinary levels, while Tulan accumulated points but refused to spend hers except to protect Yu Xunge.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan traveled to an untouched region of the forest sea so Yu Xunge could use Arcana to activate Who Will Cut The Moonlight.
• The skill flashed with a view of the sky over Midnight City, then caused Yu Xunge intense pain and sent her plummeting.
• Tulan caught Yu Xunge and used an Arcana-enhanced Expert Number; Yu Xunge's right eye then appeared empty, with moon sand visible inside it.
• Tulan admitted that Yu Xunge was important to her, and Yu Xunge reacted by fidgeting before insisting they return to eat.
• Tulan asked why Yu Xunge would not say she liked her, and Yu Xunge loudly refused, leaving them bickering as they headed back.

Yu Xunge learned from Zhao Shuying that Instance Barriers might be permanently closed using designated items collected from alien races, and she began gathering them. The chapter left Zhao Shuying pursuing power within Dinghai while Yu Xunge and Tulan continued their quests.

• Zhao Shuying told Yu Xunge that disappearing Instance Barriers might be permanently closed using signature items collected from alien races.
• Zhao Shuying suspected Dinghai kept the method secret because closing barriers offered benefits, and she planned to test it with Yu Xunge and Tulan.
• Yu Xunge recognized Zhao Shuying’s ambition and wished her success before leaving the base with Tulan.
• Yu Xunge explained that Zhao Shuying wanted to compete for power, and Tulan wondered why anyone had time for that during the Zelan invasion.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan began collecting designated items, though some were difficult to obtain or identify.

Yu Xunge considered the difficulty of obtaining Zhuman candle flames and the Fountain of Immortality, then joked with Tulan about how Zhumen handled their hair. After Zhao Shuying told her that someone from Dinghai wanted to join Money Only, Yu Xunge warned her to be careful and wondered whether Oak Owl had been communicating with the heroic spirits in their world.

• Yu Xunge explained why obtaining moon fox tails, Zhuman candle flames, and the Fountain of Immortality would be difficult.
• Yu Xunge asked Tulan a series of questions about Zhumen hair and candle flames, leaving Tulan overwhelmed.
• Zhao Shuying told Yu Xunge that someone from Dinghai had approached her about joining Money Only.
• Yu Xunge declined to return to the base and told Zhao Shuying to stay cautious around the newcomer.
• Yu Xunge wondered whether Oak Owl had been able to contact the heroic spirits outside their world.