Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge returned to the mysterious space and chose [Before the Sigh Sounds], a power that could create skills at the cost of World Sigh. She declared that she wanted every player in Zai Jiu to choose how they played, then wrote a prologue expressing her wish to divert Zai Jiu from its destined course.

• The War Cruise Ship reached Zai Jiu's dock, where Yu Xunge watched the moon and wrote in her book of World Sighs.
• After filling the Soul Fire jar, Yu Xunge was pulled into the mysterious space and found that a fourth path, [Before the Sigh Sounds], had appeared alongside the three earlier choices.
• Yu Xunge chose [Before the Sigh Sounds] because she wanted players to freely choose how they played and did not want Zai Jiu forced to invade other worlds.
• Yu Xunge saw familiar faces aboard the War Cruise Ship and wrote a prologue in her book, wishing for Zai Jiu to stray from its destined course.

Yu Xunge used [Before the Sigh Sounds] and tried to pull Zai Jiu onto the River of Time with [Cat's Ideal]. As the ship bucked against the rising waves, Calico let go of the wheel with three minutes remaining.

• Yu Xunge removed Zai Jiu's complete-moon door and gave it to [Furious Moon].
• Yu Xunge used [Echoes of the Snow Country] and the Golden Rain Curtain to reach toward Zai Jiu, then ordered all players to leave their instances.
• Yu Xunge used her 122 World Sighs to activate [Before the Sigh Sounds] and began wrapping Zai Jiu in the collar and Golden Rain Curtain.
• Calico, B80, and Tulan helped Yu Xunge pull Zai Jiu toward [Cat's Ideal] as the River of Time tossed the ship.
• Yu Xunge insisted she would rather die than follow a prescribed route, and Calico let go of the wheel with three minutes left.

Yu Xunge and her crew fought to pull Zai Jiu out of the Invasion Sequence before the game’s final settlement. With Calico’s crew aboard, she freed her world from its anchors and proved that no War Skill could harm it outside the Sequence, leaving Zai Jiu free as the game ended.

• Calico summoned the ship’s crew while Yu Xunge, Tulan, B80, 7777, and Y128 struggled to keep [Cat's Ideal] from being dragged into the World Dock.
• Calico’s five First Mates boarded [Cat's Ideal], steadied the ship, and helped it pull the black canvas and the water sphere forward.
• Yu Xunge created the six-star Starsea Skill [Set Sail Before the Sigh] and brought Zai Jiu out of the Invasion Sequence as its glowing anchors snapped.
• Dawn Cicada tested whether War Skills could affect Zai Jiu, but Yu Xunge’s [Silent Traveler] shield deflected the attack.
• Yu Xunge celebrated in tears as the game ended and the players witnessed Zai Jiu’s freedom.

The Arbiter freed Zai Jiu from the War Sequence, uprooting its instances and carrying the world through a rift in the sky. Dawn Cicada reflected on using a rare score-boosting reward to try to claim Zai Jiu Xunge, while Mistblade discovered she had lost first place.

• The Arbiter ordered players to leave their instances as Zai Jiu shook and the world began moving toward a rift in the sky.
• Zai Jiu uprooted its instances, passed through the rift, and announced that it had left the War Sequence.
• Zai Jiu Smoke Disciple saw flower buds appear on her Flower Branch as it began to awaken.
• Mistblade checked the Godly Game rankings and found Dawn Cicada in first place, despite using a special item to boost her own score.
• Dawn Cicada recalled using a rare reward to raise her score after Zai Jiu Xunge defied her, and she laughed as she considered how much Xunge hated Fragrant Branch.

Yu Xunge lost the Demon wager and many abilities, but the gods granted her four choices of penalties to waive. After selecting the abilities she most needed, she learned that her race would change and her first companion Flower Branch would grow, then discovered her God-Bestowed Talent had upgraded to SS-rank Romantic Detour.

• The five First Mates told Yu Xunge which worlds they were in, then left Cat's Ideal as notifications sealed or removed several of her abilities and items.
• Yu Xunge sent Tulan, the Mechanical Race members, and B80 to help Zai Jiu, while Calico explained that its rallying horn needed 100 world-leader check-ins to recharge.
• Yu Xunge appealed the wager penalties, and the gods approved four penalty exemptions for her to choose.
• Yu Xunge chose to unseal Waste Guide and retain Midnight Exile, Mysterious Power, and Reversal Moment.
• Yu Xunge learned that Dawn Cicada's wager result would change her race to the Fuzhi Race and cause her first companion Flower Branch to grow over seven Starsea days.
• Yu Xunge discovered that her God-Bestowed Talent had upgraded to SS-rank Romantic Detour.

Yu Xunge received her new God-Bestowed Talent and planned how to solve Zai Jiu’s lighting and movement problems before helping its players adventure. Meanwhile, Yudun reclaimed [Ignorant Game] but left its bullets with Yu Xunge, prompting Qihua to tease her.

• Yu Xunge examined her new talent, kept the three bullets from [Ignorant Game], and considered them potential collectibles or future trade goods.
• Yu Xunge surveyed Zai Jiu and identified lighting, towing, and player progression as problems she needed to address.
• Yu Xunge planned to tow Zai Jiu to other worlds’ World Docks so its players could fight invaders in exchange for protection fees.
• Yu Xunge prepared to reply to Mistblade and the others, who were asking whether she would transfer to Dawn.
• At the Demon Tavern, Yudun retrieved [Ignorant Game] but left the bullets behind, and Qihua teased her about giving it back to Yu Xunge.
• Yudun changed the subject by pointing out Qihua’s improved mood, and the two argued about Qihua’s Flower Branch.

After returning to Zai Jiu, Yu Xunge reassured its players and invited several leaders to her home. She revealed that she planned to collect a Peace Tax from Dawn Cicada, provoking the guests’ anger.

• Yu Xunge and Calico discovered that Zai Jiu followed the ship when it moved, but could not be moved while Yu Xunge returned to it.
• Yu Xunge brought Zai Jiu back to its dock, left Calico to guard the ship, and returned to reassure the players about leaving the War Sequence.
• Yu Xunge’s return quickly became known across Zai Jiu, while Song Gui remained in good spirits despite Four Seasons City being submerged.
• Yu Xunge invited Mistblade, Song Gui, Xie Xie, and Yan Tu to lunch at her home.
• Yu Xunge announced that she would collect a Peace Tax from Dawn Cicada, and Mistblade and the others angrily challenged her reasoning.

Yu Xunge negotiated with Mistblade, Song Gui, Xie Xie, and Yan Tu over the costs of staying in Zai Jiu and using its services. She then taunted Dawn Cicada in battlefield chat, only to realize that her two teachers could see her messages.

• Yu Xunge proposed free training resources and paid travel and leveling services, prompting Mistblade and Song Gui to consider their terms for remaining in Zai Jiu.
• Yu Xunge outlined additional demands for Oak Owl and proposed that Sky Crab trade abroad for a share of the profits.
• Yan Tu said Dawn Cicada would not pay, and Yu Xunge offered to let Yan Tu stay in Zai Jiu if she helped make it more beautiful.
• Yu Xunge posted photos of Yan Tu's flower buds in battlefield chat and demanded that Dawn Cicada pay Yan Tu's rent and meal costs.
• Dawn Cicada offered Tombs of the World and war-grade boots in exchange for a section of Yan Tu's flower branch, and Yu Xunge completed the exchange.
• Yu Xunge mocked Dawn Cicada in chat, then Mistblade reminded her that her two teachers could now read her messages.

Zhuri reflected on how much Zai Jiu Xunge had grown and felt her own desire to compete rekindled after the Godly Game. Meanwhile, Yu Xunge resumed her work for Zai Jiu, remembered [Mind Catcher], and answered what she would have done if “Silent Traveler” had failed to activate.

• Zhuri realized that her apprentice had grown into Zai Jiu Xunge, and the Godly Game reignited her competitive spirit.
• Yu Xunge gave the leaders three days to consider the Peace Tax before formal negotiations.
• Yu Xunge listed the work awaiting her, including reviewing reports, finding suitable trading worlds, and recording World Sighs.
• Tulan and the three members of the Mechanical Race reminded Yu Xunge that she had neglected [Mind Catcher] for more than fifty days.
• Yu Xunge played Truth or Dare with [Mind Catcher] and said she would have used Time Stop to escape with Zai Jiu if “Silent Traveler” had failed.

Yu Xunge received settlement offers from nearly a thousand worlds while building Zai Jiu’s administrative team and negotiating with Moon Fox, Oak Owl, and Sky Crab. As her Flower Branch continued growing and draining her attributes, a mysterious notification told her she was being watched.

• World Leaders asked what price Yu Xunge would demand to accept settlers from their worlds, and offers arrived from nearly a thousand worlds in three days.
• Yu Xunge recruited experienced administrators from the legions to serve Zai Jiu exclusively, prompting upheaval that the legion commanders accepted with smiles.
• Yu Xunge spent the fourth day negotiating with the teams from Moon Fox, Oak Owl, and Sky Crab, but they reached no agreement.
• While Yu Xunge worked on her history homework, another notification deducted 1,000 agility, and she considered how much of her attributes her growing Flower Branch might consume.
• Yu Xunge played with her Flower Branch until a notification said she was being watched, then stopped and returned to her homework.

Yu Xunge agreed to consider accepting refugees whose worlds had shattered into Zai Jiu, then took Mistblade back to Zelan at her request. Mistblade reunited with Zelan’s leaders, and explained that Lord Zelan Kufu was powerful and accommodating when it benefited Zelan.

• Yu Xunge told [Zai Jiu] that Zai Jiu could prioritize refugees from shattered worlds, though she still needed to establish procedures and rules for their arrival.
• Yu Xunge returned to the Cat Ship and prepared to take Mistblade back to Zelan, where the remaining Moon Foxes were struggling after Mistblade had left with most of their people.
• Yu Xunge brought Mistblade to Zelan, prompting warnings for Zelan’s leaders and a chat exchange in which they questioned Mistblade’s return and asked why Song Gui had not come.
• Yu Xunge asked Mistblade about Zelan Kufu, and Mistblade said he was powerful, good-tempered, and the only Lord of Zelan.

Yu Xunge visited Hechipa and Little Maki after announcing that the war between Zelan and Zai Jiu was over, but both chose to remain in Zelan. Before leaving, Yu Xunge gave them resources and Arbiter Badges that could summon her help.

• Hechipa and Little Maki recognized Yu Xunge, who had arrived disguised as a cow cat, and Little Maki noticed the petals blooming from her Flower Branch.
• Yu Xunge told Hechipa and Little Maki that Zai Jiu had left the war sequence and that the war between Zelan and Zai Jiu was over.
• Hechipa and Little Maki declined Yu Xunge's invitation to leave Zelan because they wanted to stay and defend their world.
• Yu Xunge offered them resources and gold, but Hechipa refused the money and accepted the Fire Spirit Ring Yu Xunge gave her.
• Yu Xunge gave Little Maki an Arbiter Badge and left one for Hechipa, telling Little Maki to use it if she ran into trouble.

Yu Xunge negotiated with Zelan Kufu to let Zai Jiu players grind levels in Zelan while she prepared to bring wandering races into Zai Jiu as a safeguard against an unknown crisis. After returning to Zai Jiu, she received a request from her teacher, Isolated Island Huang Jin, to visit Isolated Island.

• Yu Xunge planned to bring Mistblade and Calico back to Zai Jiu and accept up to 100 wandering players from each race.
• Yu Xunge revealed that she hoped Zai Jiu’s diversity of races would help the world survive an unknown future crisis.
• Zelan Kufu offered safe access to Zelan for 10,000 Zai Jiu players in exchange for Yu Xunge bringing three pieces of equipment, items, or Curios for each Zelan leader in future Godly Games, and she agreed.
• Yu Xunge returned to Zai Jiu with Mistblade and Calico and told Zhao Shuying about the places available for players to grind levels in Zelan.
• Isolated Island Huang Jin asked Yu Xunge to visit, and she left the World Battlefield chat after the other players teased her about sweet-talking her teachers.

Yu Xunge met Huang Jin and Zhuri to discuss transfers between Zai Jiu and Isolated Island, but the launch of Game 3.0 revealed that worlds would face the pendulum’s strikes and that World Skills would affect every world in an Invasion Sequence. After learning that Zelan had no World Skill and asking Mistblade about rebuilding Snow Village, Yu Xunge was left confronting how uncertain survival had become.

• Yu Xunge met Huang Jin and Zhuri at Moonlight Wetland, where they proposed exchanging places for young players and refugees between Zai Jiu and Isolated Island.
• Game 3.0 launched, announcing that the pendulum would enter the Disordered Star Sea in three Star Sea days and that World Skill effects would spread across each world’s Invasion Sequence.
• Huang Jin told Yu Xunge that Isolated Island would be protected but must endure the final pendulum swing, and Yu Xunge instinctively said there would be six tolls.
• Yu Xunge returned to Zai Jiu and asked Mistblade whether Zelan had a World Skill; Mistblade said it did not, though Kufu had collected World Fragments that might be enough if Maple Sugar contributed Forest Sea’s fragments.
• Yu Xunge asked Mistblade whether she still wanted to rebuild Snow Village, and Mistblade said she would have no regrets even if Zai Jiu shattered the next day.

Maple Sugar surrendered eight Forest Sea fragments to Zelan, and Faded Hometown explained why Forest Sea had chosen her to lead Oak Owl. In the Temple, Yudun revealed that Zai Jiu Xunge’s altered timeline had broken a Fate Coin, and Qihua concluded that the Pendulum had arrived early to balance the advantage her rebirth gave the Chaotic Star Sea.

• Maple Sugar handed Kufu eight Forest Sea fragments, allowing Zelan to assemble a World Skill.
• Tao Mian praised Maple Sugar’s leadership, and Faded Hometown told her that Forest Sea had chosen her because she had learned to bend and compromise.
• Yudun explained that she had made Fate Coins by pairing players and sending coins two Star Sea Years into the past.
• Yudun revealed that Zai Jiu Xunge had been the reverse side of a Fate Coin, which broke after she entered the Godly Game.
• Qihua said Zai Jiu Xunge’s altered timeline had triggered a fairness mechanism, bringing the Pendulum early to offset her rebirth’s advantage to the Chaotic Star Sea.

Players prepared for the mysterious pendulum as Yu Xunge grew her Flower Branch and discovered its powerful new talent. When the pendulum entered the Chaotic Star Sea, she returned to Zai Jiu and learned how Mistblade's World Skill could protect the world.

• Players connected worlds through Invasion Sequences or gathered World Fragments to acquire World Skills, and Zelan Kufu activated one of its own.
• Yu Xunge recorded Lost Civilizations and tested storing Zai Jiu inside Isolated Island, where it survived at the cost of Honor Points and energy.
• Yu Xunge's Flower Branch finished growing, granting her Crown of Flowers Murder, which drained targets through its petals and let her strip attributes from foes she strangled to death.
• Yu Xunge returned Zai Jiu to its dock as the pendulum entered the Chaotic Star Sea, and Mistblade explained that Never-Melting Winter linked every living being's HP to the world's Health Bar.

The first pendulum impact struck the worlds, and Zai Jiu survived with 30% HP after players across the worlds healed it. The Godly Game warned that another impact would follow the next game and urged players to raise their talents to Star Sea rank, while Yu Xunge prepared to recruit First Mates and received the renewed Furious Moon relic.

• Mistblade used [Never-Melting Winter] while Yu Xunge and the others discussed the meaning of calibration.
• Yu Xunge realized that the calibration concerned time on the River of Time and within the worlds, just as Star Rail struck the river and her shadow there shattered.
• A bell toll triggered the first pendulum impact, and players across the worlds used Healing Skills to keep Zai Jiu alive as worlds broke apart.
• The Godly Game announced updated invasion rules, a Godly Game every 30 Star Sea days, and a second impact after the next game; it urged players to reach Star Sea rank before the sixth toll.
• Yu Xunge discussed the Godly Game with Song Gui, Xie Xie, and Mistblade, then planned to visit Zichuan, Tiger Ear, and Dawn to recruit First Mates.
• Yu Xunge received the renewed Furious Moon, an SS-rank Godly Relic with moonlight, damage-sharing, time-travel, imprisonment, and protective Bubble Nebula abilities.

Yu Xunge visited Zichuan and Dawn to make arrangements for Zai Jiu, then continued rebuilding and moving her ship while recording the worlds’ civilizations. After finding a first-edition Tomb of the World drifting on the River of Time, she looked toward the World Graveyards carried by its current.

• Yu Xunge met Zichuan Taoyou, agreed to shelter five hundred Yuguo and some homeless players, and accepted special Yuguo fruit as payment.
• Yu Xunge fought Dawn Cicada for nearly two hours, then left without making a deal to shelter Fragrant Branches.
• Yan Tu recognized that Yu Xunge had visited Xianchan by scent, and Tulan teased Yu Xunge about the fight with Dawn Cicada.
• Yu Xunge learned that 3,281 worlds had survived the Pendulum Impact and continued recording their civilizations.
• Yu Xunge brought back Cow Cat, made deals with several worlds, and sent Zai Jiu players to other worlds to level up.
• With four First Mates and a helmsman aboard, Yu Xunge began towing Zai Jiu along the River of Time and found a first-edition Tomb of the World drifting past.

Yu Xunge assembled a powerful Tomb of the World hand and teased Mistblade, who rushed to confront her. Yu Xunge, Yan Tu, and their pets then entered the next Godly Game as the World Battlefield chat mourned shattered worlds and Dawn Cicada traded barbs with Yu Xunge.

• Yu Xunge recorded the worlds linked to her five hundred Tombs of the World and gave Zhuri and Huang Jin thirty original-edition Tombs each.
• Yu Xunge combined All Simples and six pairs to complete the seven-star key World Graveyard · Mountain Peak, gaining skills that could rewind her timeline, increase final rewards, and revive her once after death.
• Yu Xunge posted a photo of her All Simples on Moments, prompting Mistblade to arrive and chase her outside after Yu Xunge had startled her with the post.
• Yan Tu told Tulan she would join the Godly Game and described her agreement with Yu Xunge to make the Human Race a settlement beneficiary in exchange for Yu Xunge taking in Fragrant Branches if Dawn suffered losses.
• Yu Xunge entered Godly Game No. 23169 with Yan Tu and her pet, while players in the World Battlefield chat lamented worlds shattered by the Pendulum and Dawn Cicada exchanged jokes with Yu Xunge.

Yu Xunge entered the Godly Game Quiet Mountains, where players had to find and destroy Order Badges while sharing information to earn contribution-based rewards. After concealing herself from a Great Dragon, she headed toward a settlement as players reported their unfamiliar surroundings in the Battlefield Chat Channel.

• Yu Xunge closed the Battlefield Chat Channel in a good mood after provoking Dawn Cicada, while Yan Tu felt guilty about their arrangement.
• Yu Xunge equipped herself with upgraded gear and learned that her combat power had reached Tier 15.
• The Godly Game announced that players must destroy as many of the world's ten Order Badges as possible within 30 Mountains Days, and that their contributions would shape rewards and the Chaotic Star Sea's final cataclysm.
• Yu Xunge entered Quiet Mountains, concealed herself with the Lonely Antenna Baby, and waited for a jade-like Great Dragon to pass before moving toward rising cooking smoke.
• Players reported unfamiliar places and inhabitants in the Battlefield Chat Channel, while Yu Xunge complained that some updates focused on eating, drinking, and bathroom business.