Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge weighed Donghai Shark Leng’s offer of a one-year truce while Hate Thorns transferred Dragon Blood to Tulan and had its first curse lifted. She rejected negotiation and successfully imposed a new curse preventing Donghai Shark Leng from reclaiming his stolen God-Bestowed Talent Skill until he won the Godly Game three times in a row.

• Donghai Shark Leng offered Yu Xunge a one-Star-Sea-Year truce without curses if she named her price.
• Hate Thorns gave Tulan Dragon Blood, lifting the curse that had first been placed on it.
• Yu Xunge tried several curses to prevent Donghai Shark Leng from reclaiming his talent, but the conditions failed.
• Donghai Shark Leng warned Yu Xunge to stop cursing him and offered a temporary truce.
• Yu Xunge rejected his offer and cursed him so he could not reclaim his stolen God-Bestowed Talent Skill until he won the Godly Game three times consecutively.

Yu Xunge cursed Donghai Shark Leng and learned that Hate Thorns resented its pet contract with him, then searched the market for a robot partner. She found L and arranged to use her Theft Skill to help it earn Diamond Miner.

• Yu Xunge taunted Donghai Shark Leng after cursing him, then left with the sleepy Tulan.
• Yu Xunge saw that Hate Thorns' taboo was Pet Contract and its weakness was Donghai Shark Leng.
• Yu Xunge put Tulan into Pet Space and abandoned her plan to use Tulan's help during the game.
• Yu Xunge found the purehearted, low-initiative robot L and asked it to partner with her.
• Yu Xunge proposed giving L stolen Diamond Miner to solicit business, and L agreed.

Yu Xunge partnered with L to profit from the Diamond Miner marketplace while trying to avoid implicating the robot when inspectors arrived. She learned the inspectors would come at the ten-thousandth investment and continued stealing until she needed L to heal her.

• Yu Xunge sold her Treasure Mines to L and discovered that L had a healing skill, so she invested half her diamonds in their partnership.
• Yu Xunge persuaded L to treat her Theft Skill as part of their business and asked when she should leave to avoid the inspectors' judgment.
• L said inspectors would arrive when the ten-thousandth investment was made, leaving Yu Xunge unsure how close that threshold was.
• Yu Xunge disguised herself as an oak owl and used I Want to Improve So Badly nine times, succeeding twice and gaining over three thousand diamonds and a pair of unusable legendary gloves.
• Yu Xunge took the diamonds and gloves to L for healing and left the items with it to convert into diamonds for her share of the profits.

Yu Xunge teamed up with L to steal diamonds in the market, helping the robot earn money and triggering strange changes in its programming. After splitting their loot, Yu Xunge asked how to leave, while L briefly asked her to stay before claiming it had experienced a program error.

• L identified Yu Xunge as the Oak Owl, and Yu Xunge joked that she would commit crimes to support it, causing L’s status to change to “Turning Bad.”
• Yu Xunge and L stole diamonds together until a victim caught them, then fled through the market as L excitedly admired the sights.
• Yu Xunge changed their appearances and suggested ways for L to make time to fly around the market, while L promised to warn her if their pursuer returned.
• After half an hour, Yu Xunge and L had stolen 80,000 diamonds, equipment, and five Treasure Mines, and L gave Yu Xunge 50,000 diamonds.
• Yu Xunge asked how to leave after seeing L’s status change again, and L grabbed her robe and asked her to stay before retracting the request as a program error.

Yu Xunge escaped Special Commercial District 3333 after testing L’s directions and discovered that her Diamond Hand reward unlocked three rules. The leaderboard’s enormous player count left her questioning how many people had played the same game before.

• Yu Xunge asked L how to leave, learned the dry well was the exit, and asked how to evade an inspector’s interrogation.
• Yu Xunge returned to carry L to the well, then used Phantom Body Curse and Phantom Shift to watch Donghai Shark Leng arrive and kick L aside.
• Yu Xunge rescued L and asked it to switch the well’s destination to District Eleven before leaving again.
• Yu Xunge received the Diamond Hand reward, which unlocked rules requiring her to eliminate a Mechanical Race member every 12 hours, forbidding District Nineteen, and forbidding divination for the Mechanical Race.
• Yu Xunge noticed the commercial district leaderboard’s unusually large number and wondered whether hundreds of thousands of players had visited before.

Yu Xunge mined and rested while gathering rumors about the Y-series robots, then entered Special Commercial Zone No. 8017 and found it had become a war zone during a Mechanical Race rebellion. She fled as the robots transformed into powerful combat mechs.

• Yu Xunge watched players complain in battlefield chat about special scenarios and taxes as her Ladder Ranking rose.
• She mined ten valuable Treasure Mines in Area Eleven, then hid to rest and monitor the chat channel.
• At Hour Eleven, Yu Xunge decided to seek information about the Y-series robots and entered a commercial zone.
• Special Commercial Zone No. 8017 triggered a Mechanical Race Rebellion, was sealed off, and became a War Zone with a one-hour deadline to quell the rebellion.
• The robots transformed into combat mechs ranging from Tier 9 to Tier 15, and Yu Xunge fled after spotting the danger.

Yu Xunge abandoned her plan to snipe from safety when the Mechanical Race turned the marketplace into a battlefield. Zelan Fengtang united the players against the rebels, and the battle began with Yu Xunge firing from above while conserving her strength.

• The Mechanical Race destroyed the marketplace shops and assembled under a towering Tier 15 leader whose energy core contained Treasure Mine.
• Zelan Fengtang called for the players to cooperate, and Yu Xunge agreed to her promise that she would buy curse slots for anyone who betrayed the group.
• The players in the 8017 Special Market District gathered behind Zelan Fengtang as the Mechanical Race prepared to fight.
• Zelan Fengtang charged the Mechanical Race with a lightning spear, igniting the players' fighting spirit and starting the battle.
• Yu Xunge flew higher, applied her buffs, and began shooting at a Tier 9 Mechanical Race member while conserving Mana for the long fight.

Maple Syrup unleashed her full Cheers ability and destroyed B, while Yu Xunge used the opening to kill the weakened Tier 14 Mechanical Race member D. Despite their turnaround, the players faced certain defeat, and as many retreated by killing themselves, a winged figure swooped toward the abandoned Tombs of the World.

• Yu Xunge saw players slack off as the Mechanical Race overwhelmed them and continued fighting without revealing her strongest ability.
• Maple Syrup filled the battlefield with lightning beer mugs, gave Yu Xunge knowledge of Cheers, and blasted B into a wreck.
• Yu Xunge shot and destroyed D, then thanked Maple Syrup, who answered that Yu Xunge was just like her.
• Maple Syrup attacked the Tier 14 Mechanical Race members while Yu Xunge applied what she had learned to make her Cheers skill more stable.
• At the fifty-eighth minute, nearly half the players killed themselves and left, while a winged figure pounced toward their Tombs of the World.

Yu Xunge and the surviving players scavenged Tombs of the World after the Mechanical Race rebellion was defeated, and she gave Fengtang thirty as repayment for teaching her Cheers. The system converted Special Commercial Zone No. 8017 into an Abandoned Zone, leaving the surviving players ineligible for Diamond Miner rewards except those for Mechanical Race kills.

• Yu Xunge led nearly all the remaining players away from the Mechanical Race to collect Tombs of the World, while Fengtang stayed behind and the Mechanical Race repaired its injuries.
• Yu Xunge fought off players crowding around the Tombs of the World and agreed to collect thirty for Fengtang in exchange for the favor of teaching her Cheers.
• Fengtang realized Yu Xunge had been affected by their ten years together but would not return to her side as Feng Mu had.
• Yu Xunge handed Fengtang thirty Tombs of the World and said they were even just before the War Zone became an Abandoned Zone.
• The system announced that Special Commercial Zone No. 8017 had become an Abandoned Zone and that surviving players had lost Diamond Miner reward eligibility, though the top hundred players by Mechanical Race kills would still receive rewards.

Yu Xunge opened her rewards before the Abandoned Zone merged with the market, then joined the other players there to learn that they could neither die nor leave and had no mission. The group faced an unexplained new predicament as Yu Xunge realized hunger might weaken her.

• Yu Xunge discovered that her final blow on a Tier 14 Mechanical Race enemy had boosted her ranking to 67th place and opened her Abyssal Skill Blind Box.
• Yu Xunge obtained the SSS-rank skill Mysterious Power, which locked her HP at 1% and limited each living being to damaging her only once.
• The market vanished, revealing the Abandoned Zone, a vast dump beneath a sky lit by a rotating Nine-Tier Magic Cube.
• Yu Xunge and Maple Sugar approached players who had entered the zone earlier, and Zichuan Fushi told them that they could not die or leave and had no mission.
• Yu Xunge realized she was hungry after nearly thirteen hours without food and worried that the resulting weakness could impair her combat ability.

Yu Xunge explored the Mechanical Race gathering and negotiated with Zelan the Fat Goose for food and information. Their conversation ended with her joking about being Mist Blade and Feng Tang’s child, prompting Feng Tang to attack her.

• Yu Xunge watched the Mechanical Race and searched for someone approachable, but their intense emotions made her wary.
• Zelan the Fat Goose confronted Yu Xunge over her past dealings, and she blamed Mist Blade Moon Empress for forcing her.
• Yu Xunge offered Tomb of the World for food, but Zelan rejected it and proposed a curse-related bargain instead.
• Yu Xunge asked to trade for food and information about Commercial District 1211, and Zelan gave her a roast goose while asking about Hechipa’s recipe.
• Yu Xunge refused to betray Hechipa for a thousand bottles of I Don't Like This Skill II, then joked about being Mist Blade and Feng Tang’s child.
• Feng Tang threw a lightning ball at Yu Xunge, who dodged it and apologized for making cheap jokes.

Yu Xunge restored her strength by refurbishing a roast goose with a Treasure Mine, then traded food for information with Fat Goose about Special Commercial Zone No. 1211. She learned that B had led the Mechanical Race rebellion there and was executed when the zone became an Abandoned Zone, leaving her to face the truth about the robot she knew.

• Yu Xunge combined a Treasure Mine with a roast goose, ate the resulting Cyber Roast Goose, and offered Fat Goose two more combinations in exchange for food and Treasure Mines.
• Yu Xunge and Fat Goose exchanged information about Special Commercial Zones No. 8017 and No. 1211, and Fat Goose recounted how the Mechanical Race deceived players into killing one another during the inspection.
• Fat Goose explained that the rebellion killed nearly all the players in Special Commercial Zone No. 1211, while the punishment marks on the dead players were never transferred.
• Fat Goose revealed that B had led the rebellion, killed the real inspector, and was executed by the gods when Commercial Zone No. 1211 became an Abandoned Zone.
• Yu Xunge recognized B's name, and Fat Goose pointed out the garbage mountain where B had fallen.

Yu Xunge left the players and Mechanical Race to search the garbage mountain for B, driven by curiosity about the robot and the fate of awakening Mechanical Race members. After hours of searching, she found B’s damaged head and asked whether it regretted what it had done.

• Yu Xunge flew away from the group and traveled to the garbage mountain, reasoning with herself about why she had left and recalling L’s signs of awakening.
• At the garbage mountain, Yu Xunge refurbished her roast geese with Treasure Mine into Cyber Roast Geese and searched the scrap for B.
• Yu Xunge called for B while flying over the garbage mountain, where discarded Mechanical Race members babbled unintelligibly and patrols dropped more wreckage.
• After searching for hours, Yu Xunge heard a damaged Mechanical Race member answer her and recognized it as B.
• Yu Xunge ate a Cyber Fat Goose and told B she had come because she admired what it had done, then asked whether it regretted it.

Yu Xunge visited B in the robot graveyard, discussed B’s punishment and L’s awakening, and discovered that B knew a way out. The chapter ended with B asking Yu Xunge to take it to her planet, but she refused because she would not deceive and abandon it.

• B told Yu Xunge that it regretted its actions despite having calculated the consequences of defying the gods.
• Yu Xunge told B that she might have helped awaken L, and B teased her about L falling in love with her.
• Yu Xunge said she had visited B to talk, but B pointed out that the game had lasted 14 hours, 12 minutes, and 22 seconds and accused her of seeking information about the Y-series robots.
• Yu Xunge recognized that B had deliberately provoked her when she said she was leaving, and B admitted it wanted Yu Xunge to take it to her planet if it revealed a way out.
• Yu Xunge refused to take B to Wine-Carrying Star because she considered it too dangerous and did not want to deceive and abandon it.

Yu Xunge tried to leave B behind, wary of taking in a sentient machine, while B pleaded to go with her. B offered its chip and freedom under Yu Xunge’s control, betting that their friendship would eventually earn it freedom.

• B asked Yu Xunge to take it away so it could experience hope and develop its will, but Yu Xunge suspected its appeal was a trap and prepared to leave.
• B recalled how Yu Xunge had called it by its designation and realized that being remembered had helped it feel complete.
• Yu Xunge explained that she feared she could not control B and refused to replace her dragon, even after B claimed it could kill powerful inspectors.
• B offered Yu Xunge its chip, allowing her to control or destroy it, and said it was betting that their friendship would eventually win it freedom.

Yu Xunge recruited B, a Mechanical Race felon, and learned how to return from the Abandoned Zone to the mining district. After selling her Cyber Roast Geese, she offered Maple Sugar the route in exchange for a reward, but Maple Sugar tried to pay with the same goose Yu Xunge had just sold her.

• Yu Xunge accepted B’s request to follow her and extracted its chip, becoming its owner.
• B told Yu Xunge that a gatekeeper could send her back to the mining district for 50,000 gem diamonds, then to Mining District 99 for another 20,000 before the fifteenth hour.
• Yu Xunge returned to Maple Sugar and traded her remaining Cyber Roast Geese for Treasure Mines.
• Yu Xunge offered to sell Maple Sugar the secret route out of the Abandoned Zone, and Maple Sugar enclosed them in a lightning barrier to hear it.
• Maple Sugar offered Yu Xunge the Cyber Roast Goose she had just bought as payment for the secret.

Yu Xunge negotiated with Maple Syrup for a way out of the Abandoned Zone while realizing B had guided her into a plan that could unleash chaos in the mining zone. Maple Syrup offered her a self-created skill and invited her to become a student, but Yu Xunge made her acceptance conditional on Zeland joining Zai Jiu.

• Yu Xunge asked Maple Syrup for rare skills, then demanded fifty thousand treasure diamonds as the price for leaving the Abandoned Zone.
• Yu Xunge realized B had predicted her actions and intended the return of many players and Mechanical Race members to throw the mining zone into chaos.
• Maple Syrup considered whether to profit from the players or lead them in a revolt, while B’s vibration warned Yu Xunge that time was running short.
• Maple Syrup offered Yu Xunge the self-created skill Drunkard, and Yu Xunge accepted its Skill Memory Feather.
• Maple Syrup invited Yu Xunge to return to Daybreak City as her student, and Yu Xunge said she would go when Zeland joined Zai Jiu.

Yu Xunge returned from the Abandoned Zone with B and raced toward the marketplace to reach a Y-series Robot before it left. She was thrown toward Moon No. 1, where Tulan rescued her, and arrived in the marketplace with only minutes to spare.

• Yu Xunge realized B had shared the secret of freeing Mechanical Race members because it supported both her needs and B’s goal, though B denied manipulating her.
• The Abandoned Zone guard took Yu Xunge’s seventy thousand gem diamonds and threw her toward Moon No. 1 after she showed B’s chip.
• Yu Xunge used Who Will Cut The Moonlight on the cube and suffered intense pain in her right eye as she passed through barriers.
• Tulan rescued Yu Xunge, and she told the dragon to return to Pet Space while she pursued a Y-series Robot.
• Yu Xunge changed her appearance and hurried toward the marketplace as B reported that the caravans were leaving and seventeen Y-series Robots remained in line.

Yu Xunge tried to steal spring water that could upgrade Godly Game rewards, but B revealed that the robots escorting it were protected by an anti-theft starnet. B asked Yu Xunge to give it two accessory slots so it could become her pet, then admitted it wanted to evolve into a living being and asked her to take responsibility for it.

• Yu Xunge repeatedly failed to use Ultimate: I Want to Improve So Badly on a robot because the robots had an anti-theft starnet.
• B offered to amplify Yu Xunge's skill if she made a pet contract with it, and explained that the robots were carrying Snow Village Appointment spring water.
• Yu Xunge refused to trust B's offer and watched the robot caravan disappear through the gate of light.
• B proposed converting two of Yu Xunge's accessory slots into a Pet Contract slot, and Yu Xunge questioned why it wanted the contract so badly.
• B explained that it wanted to ignite Soul Fire and become a living being, then told Yu Xunge she had to take responsibility for it.

Yu Xunge agreed to turn her accessory slots into a Pet Space so B could disable the robots’ anti-theft net, then used the brief opening to steal from the merchant convoy. She succeeded in taking a cold cup-shaped item and was still under attack as the chapter ended.

• B promised that Yu Xunge would control its life and death as her pet, and Yu Xunge agreed to form a contract after they left the market.
• B altered Yu Xunge’s two accessory slots into a Pet Space and prepared to disable the robots’ anti-theft star net for five seconds.
• Yu Xunge used Thieving Baby Dragon to return to the moment when the merchant convoy was entering the light gate, then flew within range of the Y-type robots.
• B disabled the star net, and Yu Xunge repeatedly used I Want to Improve So Badly while dodging the robots’ attacks until she stole a cold cup-shaped item.
• Yu Xunge gave the item and B to Tulan to store, while Tulan healed her; Yu Xunge’s HP fell to 33% as the robots continued firing at her.