Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge investigated Quiet Mountains and learned that it had its own Godly Game and strict rules for entering main cities. In Lighthouse, she heard that another version of herself lived in the Seventh Domain, while Yan Tu was arrested after approaching her.

• Yu Xunge used [Waste Guide] and Time Stop to research Quiet Mountains, then shared what she learned about its Godly Game in the group chat.
• Yu Xunge sent B80 to monitor battlefield chat and told Tulan to prepare Tail Tip before heading toward Lighthouse in the Twenty-third Domain.
• Yu Xunge observed Lighthouse and learned that a new rule removed disguise effects below Godly Skill level from anyone entering a main city.
• Yu Xunge changed her hair color, stole Fragrant Branch currency, and entered Lighthouse, where Fragrant Branch made up most of the population.
• Yan Tu told Yu Xunge that he had seen another version of her in Zai Jiu in the Seventh Domain, then reported that the woman had arrested him.

Yu Xunge disguised herself and investigated life in Quiet Mountains while searching for clues about the strange second versions of people from Chaotic Star Sea. The chapter ended with her meeting Quiet Mountains’ Dawn Cicada, whose status was high but whose demeanor seemed weary and unhappy.

• After learning that Quiet Mountains had another Zai Jiu Xunge, Yu Xunge altered her appearance and hid her important equipment inside her Gashapon Machine, concealed in her denture.
• Yu Xunge observed that most people in Lighthouse were ordinary or low-level, gaining experience through work and study rather than combat, and wondered where Fu Qingfengji had gone.
• Yu Xunge used [Secret in the Wind] and heard that only a little over three hundred Fragrant Branches had been born that year, then shared the information with the Battlefield Channel Chat Group.
• Dawn Cicada confronted Yu Xunge about her appearance and the Flower Branch item she carried.
• Yu Xunge pretended to be Quiet Mountains’ Zai Jiu Xunge and quietly studied Dawn Cicada, noticing her formidable reputation and gloomy, detached manner.

Yu Xunge encountered Quiet Mountains’ Dawn Cicada, who weakened her until she lost consciousness, leaving the Godly Relic at risk. Hours later, the other players discussed her disappearance and shared discoveries about the world and its copies.

• Yu Xunge asked Yan Tu how different she was from Quiet Mountains’ Zai Jiu Xunge, and Yan Tu described the two as sharply different in temperament.
• Dawn Cicada warned Yu Xunge to stay, then caused her consciousness to fade; Yu Xunge tried to escape with Tulan’s [Tail Tip] but blacked out.
• That night, the players noted Yu Xunge had been silent for seven hours, and Dawn Cicada guessed the Quiet Mountains version of herself had captured her.
• The players discussed possible connections between copies of Chaotic Star Sea players and Order Badges, while Zai Jiu Mistblade went to investigate in Mountain Isle City.
• Fu Qingfengji reported seeing a statue of the deity from the Temple Q&A, and Zhuri closed the Chat Screen in exasperation.

Yu Xunge woke imprisoned by Lighthouse Xianchan, whose questions revealed that players in the Quiet Mountains knew of the Star Sea but were barred from learning its circumstances. After Lighthouse Xianchan left, Yu Xunge reported what she had discovered and wondered whether this version of Xianchan remembered her own family.

• Yu Xunge found herself restrained by a special Curio that sealed her attributes and most of her skills, though her Godly Skills remained usable.
• Lighthouse Xianchan choked Yu Xunge and demanded to know why the Star Sea's Xianchan was called Dawn Cicada.
• Yu Xunge explained that the Lighthouse had been destroyed, but the Godly Game interrupted Lighthouse Xianchan when she asked how it could have happened.
• Lighthouse Xianchan warned Yu Xunge to behave before leaving the cell, and Yu Xunge reported the encounter and the information restriction in battlefield chat.
• Yu Xunge asked Yan Tu to find out whether Lighthouse Xianchan knew Yi Qiuguo and Hechipa, then wondered whether she remembered her family and teacher.

Song Gui was captured by the Quiet Mountains version of Zai Jiu Xunge, who tortured and questioned her about Star Sea’s players and her other self. Song Gui called her a replica, and Zai Jiu Xunge reacted with a smile that left her frightened.

• Isolated Island Zhuri told the battlefield chat that Apostles of God appeared unpredictably in Quiet Mountains and that Zai Jiu Xunge and Lighthouse Xianchan were probably among them.
• Song Gui described how the Quiet Mountains version of Zai Jiu Xunge had captured and tortured her, then asked the battlefield chat how to answer her questions.
• Song Gui annoyed Zai Jiu Xunge by chatting with Star Sea’s Zai Jiu Xunge, so Zai Jiu Xunge stabbed her and demanded to know how well they knew each other.
• Zai Jiu Xunge used a skill to interrogate Song Gui about Star Sea’s players, learning that Zichuan Taoyou was the strongest at Tier 18 and that Star Sea’s Zai Jiu Xunge was Tier 15 and with Lighthouse Xianchan.
• Zai Jiu Xunge asked how Song Gui saw her, and Song Gui answered that she was a replica; Zai Jiu Xunge smiled at the answer.

Yu Xunge watched Lighthouse Xianchan interrogate Fu Qingfengji, then tested whether her items and racial talents still worked while imprisoned. Her Flower Branch drained energy from the cell and converted it into a stat point before a strange voice spoke beside her.

• Lighthouse Xianchan questioned Fu Qingfengji about Star Sea players and the statue, but the Godly Game punished her when she asked about Qihua.
• After Lighthouse Xianchan left, Yu Xunge teased Fu Qingfengji and learned from battlefield chat that Song Gui had been killed after calling herself a copy.
• Yu Xunge considered ways to escape and discovered that she could use [Doll Ring Toss] despite her sealed skills.
• Yu Xunge used Crown of Flowers Murder to drain energy from the cell, gathering enough to gain one allocatable stat point.
• A distinctive voice told Yu Xunge she seemed able to escape without being rescued, startling both her and Fu Qingfengji.

Maple Sugar confronted Yu Xunge in the cell, reflecting on how their intertwined choices had led to Forest Sea’s crisis. She pressed a dagger to Yu Xunge’s throat and asked if she had anything to say, leaving Yu Xunge bleeding but alive.

• Maple Sugar arrived and Yu Xunge recognized her voice, while Fu Qingfengji expected her to help Yu Xunge.
• Maple Sugar recalled how Yu Xunge’s past choices had repeatedly thwarted her and helped bring Zelan to surrender the Forest Sea fragments.
• Maple Sugar approached Yu Xunge from behind and held a dagger to her throat, saying she could not let the chance to kill her pass.
• Yu Xunge warned that killing her could hurt Maple Sugar’s game rating, and Maple Sugar said she had expected Yu Xunge to mention Forest Sea’s fading instead.
• Maple Sugar asked Yu Xunge if she had anything else to say as the blade cut her neck and her HP began falling.

Yu Xunge willingly let Maple Sugar kill her, and Mountains Xunge arrived to fight Mountains Xianchan. Meanwhile, Huang Jin revealed that Forest Sea Maple Sugar was another copied player, and Zhuri prepared to share the list of Surviving Divine Descendants.

• Maple Sugar asked Yu Xunge if she had anything else to say, and Yu Xunge admitted she would make the same choice again before moving into the dagger and dying.
• Maple Sugar burned away the blood and vanished as Fu Qingfengji warned her to run; Mountains Xunge then appeared beside Lighthouse Xianchan.
• Mountains Xunge mocked Lighthouse Xianchan for not killing her other self, and the two began fighting across the Magic Array wall.
• Fu Qingfengji told the Battlefield Chat Channel about Yu Xunge's death and the stark difference between Mountains Xunge and Star Sea Xunge.
• Huang Jin identified the copied figure in her straw doll as Forest Sea Maple Sugar, prompting players to question why they had been copied.
• Zhuri found records of the Surviving Divine Descendants and began listing those beyond the two already known.

Yu Xunge learned that Quiet Mountains’ replicas grew stronger through the Demon Game and decided to avoid her counterpart while investigating the Order Badges. As she traveled toward Snow Village, Fu Qingfengji reported that Mountains Xunge had defeated Mountains Xianchan and was pursuing Zai Jiu Xunge.

• Isolated Island Huang Jin explained that descendants of gods had to win ten Demon Games to enter Quiet Mountains, where death was permanent, and that Mountains Xunge had reached the stage of seeking her Demon Name.
• After resurrecting, Yu Xunge resolved to keep Tulan and B80 inside the game, avoid the Lighthouse and her counterpart, and search for Mountains Mistblade in Snow Village.
• Yu Xunge monitored the battlefield chat as Huang Jin and Zhuri led the Ladder Ranking and Fu Qingfengji gained points by sharing gossip.
• Fu Qingfengji reported that Mountains Xunge taunted and defeated Mountains Xianchan before opening a Portal to intercept Zai Jiu Xunge.

Yu Xunge entered Snow Village and discovered how its Moon Fox districts turned the city into a cruel amusement park, while reflecting on the contrast between Quiet Mountains’ happiness and the suffering of Chaotic Star Sea. A battlefield message from Zelan Taomian showed that the city had become a target for the players’ grief and resentment.

• Yu Xunge entered Snow Village under a magic cloak, used Lonely Antenna Baby to conceal herself, and arranged for the Zhuri Sprite and B80 to meet her the next morning.
• Yu Xunge flew over the city and discovered that its districts were ruled by different Moon Fox clans and each enforced bizarre rules on residents and visitors.
• Yu Xunge realized that Chaotic Star Sea players stood out because they were driven by urgent missions and the trauma of their worlds’ destruction, unlike Quiet Mountains’ residents.
• Yu Xunge questioned why the Death Knell and Pendulum had targeted Chaotic Star Sea and wondered whether its preparations had always been meant to oppose Quiet Mountains.
• Yu Xunge read Zelan Taomian’s message expressing hatred for Snow Village, and recognized that Quiet Mountains had become a focus for Chaotic Star Sea players’ resentment.

Yu Xunge infiltrated Mountains Mistblade’s home to search for clues and saw the frail, tormented-looking powerhouse carving a gemstone. Mountains Mistblade sensed her presence and asked whether the other version of herself was doing well.

• Qihua and Yudun discussed which replicas might survive Quiet Mountains and the danger of another timeline diverging from theirs.
• Zhuri worried about Yu Xunge’s safety, while B80 said it would follow the Apprentice’s instructions and continued on with the Zhuri Sprite.
• Yu Xunge used [Waste Guide], [Mysterious Power], and [Shadow of Moon Gazing] to enter Mountains Mistblade’s snow house and search it.
• Yu Xunge found Mountains Mistblade in her study, inspected her information, and noticed a master-grade sleeping potion beside her.
• Mountains Mistblade sensed Yu Xunge and asked whether the other version of herself was doing well.

Yu Xunge escaped Mountains Mistblade and used Pirate Entrance to steal three items, including Mountains Mistblade’s diary. The diary revealed how the Demon Game’s mandatory tasks tormented Mistblade and the other Apostles of God, and why Mistblade believed the game was designed specifically for them.

• Yu Xunge fled from Mountains Mistblade, hid in the Shadow World, and returned after Mistblade entered Time Stop again.
• Yu Xunge used Pirate Entrance three times to steal from Mountains Mistblade, then escaped the snow house with a notebook, a carving knife, and half a ruby called Tyrant Game.
• Yu Xunge climbed a Mu Tree and opened Mountains Mistblade’s diary, which described Xianchan’s anger after an Apostle betrayed her in a Demon Game.
• Mountains Mistblade wrote that Mountains Xunge shared her rewards before receiving a mandatory task to betray Mistblade, and reflected on her own nightmare of kneeling to the enemy camp.
• Mountains Mistblade recorded telling Mountains Xunge that the Demon Game was meticulously designed to inflict suffering on the Apostles of God through their nightmares and mandatory tasks.

The narrator recorded how Mountains Xunge grew stronger and harsher, while the other Apostles of God plotted against her and watched her struggle with her mandatory nightmares. By the end, they had rejected the idea that they were copies of another-world originals and regarded themselves as the real ones.

• The narrator described Mountains Xunge becoming colder and stronger, then fought her after she taunted them during an allegiance quest.
• The narrator, Xianchan, Maple Sugar, Shark Leng, Yan Tu, and other Apostles formed and merged alliances to find a way to kill Mountains Xunge.
• Mountains Xunge reached Tier 17, won the Winter Solstice Festival event, and asked the narrator to craft her ruby prize into an earring in exchange for staying quiet during future allegiance quests.
• After Mountains Xunge tried to reclaim a traitor's doubled rewards, she failed to overcome her nightmare, which then allowed the traitor to receive skills she had comprehended during the game.
• The Apostles discussed what they would do if they met their originals and agreed that they no longer considered themselves copies or needed a past.

Yu Xunge read the final entries in a diary about Mountains Xunge, then returned to Mountains Mistblade’s home to search for more clues. She overheard Mountains Xunge reveal how to enter the Demon Game before the two women discovered that Yu Xunge had escaped, and Mountains Mistblade was left exhausted and disappointed.

• Yu Xunge read that another version of Mountains Xunge might have been happy, then put the diary, [Tyrant Game], and [Lullaby] into the Gashapon Machine.
• B80 told Yu Xunge that Huang Jin had found a diary about Mountains Xunge and that Mountains Mistblade was searching for her.
• Yu Xunge used four layers of protection to sneak back beneath the bed in Mountains Mistblade’s home and listened as Mountains Mistblade spoke with Mountains Xunge.
• Mountains Xunge explained that the Order Badge could open a door into the Demon Game, prompting Mountains Mistblade to flip the bed and search for Yu Xunge.
• The women found only white petals, and Mountains Xunge admitted she had revealed the information so Yu Xunge would enter the game.
• Mountains Mistblade said she had no badge and would be erased if she did not enter the Demon Game within twenty-one days, but Mountains Xunge showed no concern and noticed that Mountains Mistblade was disappointed.

Yu Xunge traveled to Forest Sea to consult Huang Jin about the Order Badge and the Demon Game, then shared clues about Mountains Yan Tu and Mountains Xunge’s nightmares in the battlefield chat. Mountains Xunge confirmed that she had won a Winter Solstice event called “Who Is the Emperor of the Quiet Mountains?”

• Mountains Mistblade considered how to recover the Order Badge, while Mountains Xunge teased her about the diary and left pleased by her curse.
• Yu Xunge shared information from the diaries, earned 2,000 contribution points, and traveled to Forest Sea instead of entering the Demon Game.
• Yu Xunge met Huang Jin in Moon Bear form, showed her the Order Badge’s item information, and recounted the diary clues while withholding details about the nightmares.
• In the battlefield chat, Yu Xunge explained that Mountains Yan Tu’s nightmare involved her teammates suffering whenever she fled, and suggested that Mountains Xunge was Mountains Xianchan’s nightmare.
• Mountains Xunge confirmed to Zai Jiu Smoke Disciple that she had won a Winter Solstice event, naming it “Who Is the Emperor of the Quiet Mountains?”

Yu Xunge and Huang Jin tested the Order Badge, sending a controlled mountain resident into the Demon Game and learning that visitors could play without being forced to continue. The test left Yu Xunge shaken by Mountains Xunge’s accusation that she was treating her pain as a curiosity, while Huang Jin offered to help her try the game the next day.

• Yu Xunge and Huang Jin failed to find the Order Badge hidden in Mistblade’s notebook and decided to test it using a controlled mountain resident.
• The resident spoke the invocation, vanished with the diary, and returned ten minutes later in severe distress before Huang Jin regained control of her.
• Yu Xunge found a note from Mountains Xunge accusing her of making light of her pain and being curious about her nightmare.
• Huang Jin questioned the resident and learned that visitors had to complete ten Demon Games to become official players, but were not forced to keep playing.
• Huang Jin told Yu Xunge the resident had gained fifteen levels in one game and asked whether she wanted to try the Demon Game the next day.

Yu Xunge entered the Demon Game and was forced to choose whether to kill her friends, then returned shaken by the choices she had made. After destroying Mountains Xunge’s note, she arranged for others to enter the game and began recruiting players across the Chaotic Star Sea.

• Yu Xunge entered the Demon Game and received mandatory missions to kill Huang Jin, Tulan, Zhuri, and B, with failure threatening her skills and player status.
• Yu Xunge completed the missions, including killing Tulan and B80 after their abilities were sealed, and earned powerful rewards.
• Yu Xunge returned to Huang Jin in tears, and Huang Jin hugged and comforted her as she struggled with the choices she had made.
• Yu Xunge found Mountains Xunge’s new note, destroyed it with golden lightning, and offered Huang Jin the six p.m. Demon Game slot.
• Yu Xunge returned moments later to collect the Diary and announced that players could sign up for Demon Game slots, setting admission prices based on whether she held a grudge against them.

Yu Xunge confessed to Tulan and B80 that she had chosen to kill them permanently in the Demon Game to protect her player status, and they accepted her choice without asking her to give up her power. She retrieved the Order Badge from Mountains Mistblade’s Diary and, with ten hours until the next Demon Game, began reading Mountains Maple Sugar’s Diary, which recorded a string of deaths.

• Yu Xunge told Tulan and B80 that she had chosen to kill them permanently in the Demon Game rather than lose her player status.
• Tulan said she would be sad briefly but would look down on Yu Xunge if she surrendered her power, and B80 agreed she should not become trash in the Abandoned Zone.
• Yu Xunge used Scan Appraisal to discover how Mountains Mistblade had hidden the Order Badge in the Diary, then sacrificed all her Mana and an SSS-rank Skill to retrieve it.
• Yu Xunge wondered whether the Order Badge was tied to a competition between the Chaotic Star Sea and Quiet Mountains, then put the badge and Mountains Mistblade’s Diary into the Gashapon Machine.
• Unable to sleep before the next Demon Game, Yu Xunge checked Mountains Maple Sugar’s Diary for an Order Badge and read entries listing the deaths of Fat Goose, Qiu Lu, Xie Xie, Yanshan, Jingman, and Yanxi.

The narrator recorded years of suffering in the Demon Game, found relief in mahjong, and grew close to Mountains Xunge through repeated missions that forced betrayal. The chapter ended with Mountains Xunge being voted the most annoying player by nearly all the Apostles of God.

• The narrator reflected on years of suffering and discovered that pain could be stored in owl feathers and converted into strength.
• Mistblade introduced mahjong, which became the narrator's main diversion and drew Frost Deer, Maji, and a new Apostle of God into the game.
• Mountains Xunge repeatedly disrupted the narrator's plans, while the Demon Game often assigned the narrator missions to betray her.
• The narrator and Frost Deer formed a plan to kill Mountains Xunge, and Maji, Mistblade, Xianchan, Queque, and Mirror Goose joined before the rival groups merged.
• Mountains Xunge confronted the narrator after repeated betrayals, but the narrator beat her and sent her away bruised.
• Mountains Xunge received nine votes when the Apostles of God were asked who was the most annoying player, and the narrator was the only one who had not voted for her.

After reading Mountains Mistblade’s diary, Yu Xunge received a threat from Mountains Xunge ordering her to keep entering the Demon Game or die. She chose to defy the threat by turning it into training, discovering that Time Stop let her repeatedly enter the same game while Quiet Mountains remained frozen.

• Yu Xunge read the final pages of Mountains Mistblade’s diary, which described Mountains Xunge’s plan to kill her original and reminded Yu Xunge of the threat she posed.
• Mountains Xunge delivered Yu Xunge a note demanding that she keep entering the Demon Game or die that day.
• The group discussed Yu Xunge’s absence, the visitor-player rules, and the possibility that she was using Time Stop to repeat the same Demon Game.
• Yu Xunge’s anger at Mountains Xunge’s contempt drove her to decide she would play the Demon Game even more than her copy.
• Yu Xunge activated Time Stop just before the entry window and entered the Demon Game again, confirming that she could repeat it during the frozen time.