Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge recorded the civilizations of worlds as she traveled, while Dawn Cicada struggled with her memories of Lighthouse. When Dawn Cicada asked what Lighthouse’s sigh contained, Yu Xunge revealed that it worried about her.

• Dawn Cicada remembered why she hated Lighthouse’s name and wondered what the world regretted or resented.
• Yu Xunge devoted more time to recording civilizations while searching for ruined World Docks and collecting World Sighs.
• After half a month without meeting anyone, Yu Xunge received a call from Zai Jiu Mistblade and saw a crowd of players gathered on the screen.
• Dawn Cicada stepped forward and asked Yu Xunge what Lighthouse’s sigh contained.
• Yu Xunge told Dawn Cicada that Lighthouse’s sigh included her and worried about her because she had been young when she led the Fragrant Branches away.

Dawn Cicada learned that Lighthouse had worried about her, then Yu Xunge prepared to welcome a new World Sigh with thirty days remaining in the game. A Candle Barbarian from No Light described the glowing world, the Sacred Flame Doctors who altered candle flames, and the people’s carefree approach to life.

• Dawn Cicada thanked Yu Xunge for telling her that Lighthouse had worried about her and promised to repay the favor when Dawn trampled Zai Jiu.
• Yu Xunge found no new Flower Branch on Dawn Cicada, ended her call with Zhuri and Huang Jin, and prepared to welcome another World Sigh.
• A Candle Barbarian explained that every living creature in No Light glowed and that Candle Barbarians were born with seven fixed candle flames in their hair.
• The Candle Barbarian described Sacred Flame Doctors, who developed secret methods for moving candle flames and built family fortunes through their craft.
• The Candle Barbarian recalled traveling and performing music before returning home, concluding that Candle Barbarians’ saying, “Before the candle flames go out,” urged them to enjoy life.

Yu Xunge struggled to record Snow Village because its hundreds of Moon Fox clans each had their own customs and rules. In her account, she recalled several misunderstandings caused by those customs and ended with her own arrest in Mist Tail territory.

• Yu Xunge crossed out “Mountain Isle” and began writing about Snow Village after Calico asked why she had avoided it.
• Yu Xunge explained that Snow Village had once held more than seven hundred Moon Fox clans, each with distinct customs and rules.
• A Smoke Tail friend’s story reminded Yu Xunge how a Flower Tail traveler and successive messengers were repeatedly arrested in Burning Tail territory for looking elders in the eyes.
• Yu Xunge accidentally invited her Smoke Tail friend on a date by asking her to go to the bathroom together, and later received a letter saying the friend was now her partner.
• Yu Xunge asked a Mist Tail friend about visiting her territory, believed it had few rules, and was arrested there on her first day.

Yu Xunge reflected on how Moon Fox clans had turned their customs into an elaborate game called Snow Village, and mourned its destruction as the number of surviving clans dwindled. After recovering the boat Zhuri had traded for Soul Fire, she marked an unknown target with [Moon Postman] and continued recording a new civilization.

• Yu Xunge recalled how she had been arrested across Moon Fox territories, then realized the clans used their rules to create an adventure game for visitors and students.
• Yu Xunge reflected that Snow Village had fallen from 766 clans to 201 when it shattered, with only 72 remaining, and wondered whether the losses came from invasions alongside Zelan.
• Calico told Yu Xunge that B80 had found a small boat, and Yu Xunge recognized it as the boat Zhuri had traded her Soul Fire for.
• Yu Xunge tested [Moon Postman] on a potion but found that the mark vanished because she did not truly want to find it.
• Yu Xunge marked an unknown target with [Moon Postman] and resumed recording the new civilization, wondering why [You are being watched] had not notified her.

The chapter followed the Shark Forest people of Mountain Isle, whose peaceful lives of cultivating plants and decorating their home islands were shattered when they became players and were forced into invasions. After their world was invaded, most supported expelling their last surviving leader in exchange for a promised peace, while the narrator wished Mountain Isle and those who chose betrayal would sink together.

• Yudun and Qihua watched Zai Jiu Xunge begin writing a civilization, while players aboard the War Cruise Ship waited for another World Dock.
• Donghai Shark Leng recognized the newly appeared world as Mountain Isle and resisted discussing it with the other players.
• The narrator described how Shark Forest people lived alone on their mountain isles, cultivating plants and eventually sinking with their homes when they died.
• The Shark Forest people became players and were forced to invade other worlds, leaving them grief-stricken and unwilling to accept outsiders.
• When Mountain Isle was invaded, the enemy promised peace if the Shark Forest people expelled their leader, and more than 70% supported the proposal.
• The narrator rejected a future of endless slaughter and asked for those who chose to betray their leader to sink along with Mountain Isle.

Yu Xunge completed her record of the world’s regrets and chose the unknown path called Silent Traveler. Meanwhile, Tulan turned her frequent visits around Zai Jiu into a profitable business, but Wind Scythes began reselling her tickets and the Sky Crabs chose Little Seahorse as their own star.

• Yu Xunge finished recording why Sky Crabs lived in the water while fishfolk lived on land, filling the final gap in her Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge considered the three paths, Warfire and Lament, Sad Comedy, and Silent Traveler, then chose Silent Traveler because she did not want to invade other worlds or leave Zai Jiu’s players living in fear.
• Tulan told Yan Tu that she had earned money by selling limited vouchers for photos, handshakes, feeding, duels, and other interactions.
• Tulan complained that Wind Scythes who followed Song Gui to Zai Jiu had hoarded and resold her vouchers at high prices.
• Tulan told Yan Tu that the Sky Crabs planned to promote Little Seahorse as their own star, leaving Yan Tu stunned by their lack of concern.

Lizi, a Wind Scythe who despised their bleak prospects under the Bone Carvings, saw the launch of Tribulations of Ten Thousand Races and awakened an S-rank God-Bestowed Talent, which she welcomed as her tribe’s good fortune. After reading Ton-Ton, Yu Xunge realized the world regretted that the Wind Scythes had been unhappy there and may also have regretted siding with the Bone Carvings.

• Lizi described how the Wind Scythes’ business-minded and adventure-loving members depended on each other, while Bone Carvings preyed on the tribe and dwindled its numbers.
• Frustrated by her people’s faith in their shaman’s yearly promise of a turning point, Lizi left the underground castle and witnessed the game’s launch and her S-rank talent awakening.
• Yu Xunge considered why Ton-Ton’s sighs seemed to mourn the Wind Scythes despite their betrayal of the Bone Carvings and their eventual departure for Zelan.
• Yu Xunge guessed that Ton-Ton regretted the Wind Scythes’ unhappiness and then its support for the wrong side, drawing distinct sighs in response.

Feiju avoided watching the account of Zichuan, while the chapter recounted how the Yuguo lived in a peaceful fruit-filled world before the game descended and forced them to choose between dying to dungeon monsters and consuming their own kind for power. It ended with the narrator remembering the bitter grapefruit Yuguo who willingly let her eat them in hopes she could protect Zichuan.

• Mangmang teased Feiju for leaving because she feared seeing citrus mentioned in the account of Zichuan.
• The narrator described Zichuan’s bowl-shaped world, the Yuguo’s way of life, and their custom of eating only other varieties of fruit.
• After the game descended, the Yuguo struggled to clear dungeons and discovered that eating their own kind could increase their God-Bestowed Talent ranks.
• The grapefruit Yuguo chose to let their sole S-rank grapefruit Yuguo consume them so she might become strong enough to protect Zichuan.
• A grapefruit asked whether grapefruit tasted good, and the narrator tearfully lied that they were sweet, though they were bitter.

Yu Xunge recorded the lost civilizations of shattered worlds and offered each world's people the chance to buy their own history, while keeping Zichuan's secrets from outsiders. On the War Cruise Ship, she learned that Y128 had loudly revealed Yu Xunge's unusual feelings toward it, leaving her reputation in danger.

• Yu Xunge struggled with the emotions stirred by the World Sighs but continued writing about the worlds she had witnessed.
• Yu Xunge approached the War Cruise Ship and offered to sell each world's recorded civilizations only to players from that world.
• Zichuan Taoyou demanded that Yu Xunge keep Zichuan's sigh secret from players outside the Yuguo Race, and Yu Xunge made clear the information would not be free even to them.
• Yu Xunge noticed her acquaintances avoiding her gaze and asked Maple Sugar what had happened.
• Maple Sugar told Yu Xunge that Y128 had shouted to Tulan that Yu Xunge liked it while wanting to kill it, and Yu Xunge feared for her reputation.

Maple Sugar’s reaction to Zai Jiu Xunge’s escape prompted questions from Song Gui and Xie Xie, while Tiger Ear Que Que explained that she wanted Zai Jiu Xunge to join her because the rain above her head made her seem like one of her people. The chapter then recounted how the Celestial Phenomenon Tribe’s leader tried to persuade her people to donate their companion weather magic, but most rejected the proposal, leaving the tribe divided and fearful.

• Maple Sugar fled shortly after Zai Jiu Xunge escaped, while Song Gui, Que Chengbomang, and Fuqing Moji watched her reaction.
• Xie Xie asked Tiger Ear Que Que why she had chosen Zai Jiu Xunge as a Target Player, and Tiger Ear Que Que said she wanted her to come to Tiger Ear because her endless rain made her seem like one of her people.
• The narrator described how members of the Celestial Phenomenon Tribe gathered to share weather and how their companion magic drained Mana, leaving most of them weak in the early stages of the game.
• The tribe’s leader returned from dangerous battles with rewards that strengthened her people, earning their worship and trust.
• The leader proposed that members who could not manipulate magic elements at level 20 voluntarily donate their companion elements to gifted fighters, promising resources to contributors and setting strict conditions.
• The Celestial Phenomenon Tribe rejected the proposal by 76% of the vote, and the narrator described how the decision left the people afraid that the leader would raise the issue again.

Yu Xunge learned that Midsummer had accepted its fate and had urged Midsummer Queque to leave before the Celestial Phenomenon Tribe’s fear of her grew. She wondered how Queque found new worlds to lead, and Zai Jiu explained that she had sought a new home through the Godly Game.

• Midsummer recalled how Queque gave her companion elements and nearly all her resources to three trusted legion commanders before leaving alone.
• Yu Xunge considered Queque’s sacrifices and recorded the words Midsummer wanted to convey to her.
• Midsummer told Yu Xunge that the Celestial Phenomenon Tribe accepted its ending and did not blame Queque for leaving.
• Midsummer explained that it had begged Queque to leave because the tribe would only fear her more as she grew stronger.
• Yu Xunge asked Zai Jiu how Queque became a leader in other worlds, and Zai Jiu said she found worlds willing to accept her as a new home.

Yu Xunge chose [The Deaf-and-Dumb Idealist] and questioned the tangled timelines of the Godly Games, then asked [Furious Moon] about Dawn Cicada and her own compatibility with the relic. As she fell asleep, B80 revealed why becoming a living being appealed to her, while Captain defended his past decision not to let Zelan Fengtang sacrifice her God-Bestowed Talent for a single-use [Tranquil Dusk].

• Yu Xunge chose [The Deaf-and-Dumb Idealist] and wondered why the Godly Game lasted fifty days despite the conflicting timelines between worlds.
• Yu Xunge asked [Furious Moon] whether Dawn Cicada had been incompatible with it and whether Yu Xunge's sense of responsibility for Zai Jiu made her incompatible too.
• [Furious Moon] said Dawn Cicada had taken responsibility for everyone around her, while Yu Xunge could still pursue her own life if Zai Jiu no longer needed her.
• Yu Xunge asked B80 how Dawn's timeline related to Zai Jiu's and whether Dawn players entered Godly Games more often, but B80 did not answer.
• Yu Xunge asked B80 whether it still wanted to ignite Soul Fire, and B80 said her struggle between ideals and reality filled it with longing.
• Captain told Bitter Cup and Drummer that Zelan Fengtang's single-use [Tranquil Dusk] would have cost her God-Bestowed Talent permanently and would not have saved her from eventual regret.

Captain argued that he had chosen the best path for Maple Sugar, then left the tavern after Drummer and Bitter Cup criticized his decision. Later, Maple Sugar rejected Dawn Cicada’s offer to join Dawn and overheard conversations about Zai Jiu Xunge before catching Tiger Ear Que Que trying to contact her.

• Drummer and Bitter Cup explained that Maple Sugar had knowingly accepted the cost of her choice, but Captain insisted his plan for her was best and stormed out of the tavern.
• Graffiti showed the gods a drawing of Captain crying over a broken shell, and Drummer and Bitter Cup discussed Captain’s attraction to curly-haired players.
• Dawn Cicada offered Maple Sugar a chance to join Dawn, but Maple Sugar pointed out that she would still face defeat penalties and warned Dawn Cicada to consider the burdens on Candle Barbarian and Moon Fox.
• Maple Sugar overheard Zai Jiu Xunge’s teacher discussing the older Key Player’s progress and the Personality Tags that improved it.
• Maple Sugar found Tiger Ear Que Que calling for Zai Jiu Xunge and asking her B80 to hide the call, but the B80 refused.

Tiger Ear Que Que questioned Zai Jiu Xunge about whether Midsummer had left a message for her, while a crowd of players secretly eavesdropped outside the Communications Hall. After Que Que stormed off, Yu Xunge told B80 to hang up on Mistblade if she called again.

• Maple Sugar found Mistblade selling another chance to communicate with Zai Jiu Xunge, and Que Que tried to hurry them out of the Communications Hall.
• Zai Jiu Xunge recognized Que Que as Midsummer Que Que, prompting Maple Sugar and Mistblade to leave and discover a line of players eavesdropping in the corridor.
• Que Que corrected Zai Jiu Xunge’s form of address, then asked whether Midsummer had anything to say to her.
• Zai Jiu Xunge directly asked whether Que Que wanted to know if Midsummer had left her a message, and Que Que unleashed a blizzard that swept through the hall and corridor.
• Que Que glared at the eavesdroppers and strode away, while Yu Xunge laughed at the scene and ordered B80 to hang up if Mistblade called again.

The chapter recounts the Landscale Tribe’s life on Tide and how its celebrated leader, Fuqing Moji, surrendered during a catastrophic storm, earning his people’s hatred despite Tide telling him he had done well. Later, Fuqing Moji dismissed questions about whether Tide hated him and walked away, already knowing its answer.

• The narrator described how the Landscale Tribe prepared boats on land and endured storms at sea as Tide’s waters rose and receded.
• A child told the narrator that Tide taught the tribe to adapt to changing conditions, and that child later became Tide’s strongest leader.
• When a storm threatened to overturn Tide, Fuqing Moji threw down his weapon and ordered his legion to surrender, prompting the Landscale Tribe to condemn him.
• Fuqing Moji told Fu Qingfengji that he had saved seventy percent of the tribe and did not care whether Tide hated him.
• Xie Xie suggested Fuqing Moji could have delayed surrender to protect his reputation, but Fuqing Moji called that hypocritical.
• Fuqing Moji left without asking whether Tide hated him, remembering that Tide had told him, “Well done.”

Yu Xunge noticed that time was becoming inconsistent between worlds and wondered how the Godly Game began. She examined the world With Deer and learned through Qiu Lu’s memories how the first Survival Crisis began, leaving Qiu Lu’s mother preparing her for war and possible separation.

• Yu Xunge compared Tulan’s account of time in Zai Jiu with her own and realized the flow of time had begun to diverge on Day 40.
• Yu Xunge considered whether gods could alter time and questioned who had started the Invasion Sequence and the first Godly Game.
• Qiu Lu recalled growing up among the With Mountain deer, whose world was called With Deer, before dozens of gates appeared and the herd awakened God-Bestowed Talents.
• Qiu Lu met Mirror Goose, a young Wind Whale, through a world gate and later learned the worlds would face the Survival Crisis.
• Qiu Lu’s mother told her to prepare for separation and death, explaining that the crisis was war rather than a game.

Yu Xunge recorded Qiulu and Frost Deer's memories of the early chaos and With Deer’s rise, then wondered whether Godly Game rewards came from powerful beings and whether the deities were nurturing players even as they drove them to fight. The chapter left her questioning the purpose behind the Godly Game.

• Mother questioned whether other worlds could shelter their inhabitants and what would happen if every living being came to With Deer, just as the countdown ended and beings began charging through the gates.
• Black flags and spreading black mist sparked a chaotic war, during which Frost Deer, Yanxi, Jingwu, and Wuti rose as leaders; the game ended with With Deer officially going online and its world gates closing.
• Yu Xunge reflected on With Deer’s later invasions and recorded Frost Deer reassuring Qiulu that she trusted With Mountain and considered herself their mother as well as With Deer’s.
• Yu Xunge connected the antler pattern on a Godly Relic to With Mountain and wondered whether Player Relics became Godly Relics after deities fell.
• Yu Xunge looked at the Golden Rain Curtain and questioned whether Godly Game rewards came from powerful members of the Celestial Phenomenon Tribe, and why deities both nurtured players and encouraged them to destroy one another.

Yu Xunge returned to the mysterious space and rejected a skill that would protect her world by stripping its people of their player status and talents, prompting an unknown existence to challenge her refusal to either fight or withdraw. Meanwhile, Zhuri struggled to maintain her ranking, and Zai Jiu Mistblade marked Zai Jiu Xunge for transfer to her world if she finished in the top ten.

• Yu Xunge filled her jar of Soul Fire on day 45 and entered the mysterious space for the third time.
• Yu Xunge received two defensive World Skill options and a third option, Outside the Sequence, that would remove her people's talents and player status in exchange for immunity from player harm.
• Yu Xunge rejected the third option, and the unknown existence accused her of wanting both the game's power and freedom from its wars.
• Zhuri avoided invasion duels against players with War Skills and preserved her eligibility, but her ranking fell below 290th place.
• Zai Jiu Mistblade purchased Target Player and marked Zai Jiu Xunge to become a Moon Fox and transfer to her world if she finished in the top ten.
• Huang Jin confirmed that Zai Jiu Mistblade ranked in the top ten and that Zai Jiu Song Gui and Zai Jiu · Xie Xie had assigned their game honors to her.

Dawn Cicada bought the Flower Branch and overheard Zai Jiu Xunge struggling with the pressure of her goals, though a joking call with Mistblade briefly lifted her spirits. On the final day, players bet on whether Xunge could evolve her God-Bestowed Talent before Zelan’s descent upon Zai Jiu.

• Dawn Cicada bought the Flower Branch, restoring her disabled skills, and overheard Zai Jiu Xunge discussing Snow Village’s civilization with players.
• Dawn Cicada recognized that Xunge’s strained voice reflected the doubts and burdens she had felt while pursuing revenge.
• Mistblade joked with Xunge until she laughed, then found Song Gui, Dawn Cicada, Zhuri, and Zichuan Taoyou waiting outside the Communications Hall.
• On day 49, Raging Motorcycle set up a Godly Game-supervised betting pool on whether Xunge could evolve her God-Bestowed Talent before the game ended.
• Zelan the Fat Goose saw that several surprising players, including Zichuan Taoyou, had bet on Xunge’s success.

With 30 minutes left in the Godly Game, players prepared for the final settlement and argued over what would happen to Zai Jiu Xunge. Zhuri learned about Xunge’s latest results and her old comics, while Dawn Cicada and Qihua considered how to bring her to Dawn within the rules.

• Zelan Kufu contacted Zelan and told the subordinates to prepare to descend upon Zai Jiu, while Song Gui and Xie Xie chose to wait longer rather than give up.
• Zhuri checked Little Xunge’s results and saw that she had earned an SSS-rank Skill, raised Human Race Evolution Progress to 46%, and gained 1700 Honor Points.
• Huang Jin told Zhuri that Little Xunge had drawn comics featuring her, prompting Maple Sugar and Fat Goose to recall the outrageous comics they had read.
• Dawn Cicada said she wanted Zai Jiu Xunge to come to Dawn, but worried that Tiger Ear Que Que or Zai Jiu Mistblade might receive her instead.
• Qihua insisted she had followed the rules in releasing Flower Branch, and Yudun asked how she planned to bring Zai Jiu Xunge to Dawn within the rules.