Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge rediscovered her hunger for power and gained a skill and racial talent that let her trigger powerful abilities by shouting their names. As Mountains Xunge’s copies cornered her in a fight, she summoned the Zhuri Sprite and a younger version of herself, leaving her facing a desperate battle.

• Yu Xunge abandoned her doubts and comprehended the boss enrage skill [Which of Us Is the Boss].
• The Fragrant Branch vanished, and Yu Xunge gained the racial talent [Flower of Deceit], which let her activate skills for free by shouting their names.
• Tulan realized that Yu Xunge had recovered her old, single-minded drive for power after the chains of responsibility holding her back had snapped.
• Trapped in the Demon Tavern, Qihua explained that she had returned because Mountains Xunge had rewritten her settings and prevented her from using skills, then left a Flower of Deceit for communication.
• Mountains Maji and Mountains Shark Leng joined the fight, leaving Yu Xunge outnumbered five to one despite Tulan holding Mountains Queque back.
• Yu Xunge summoned the Zhuri Sprite and used [Echoes of the Snow Country] to bring a younger version of herself into the battle.

Yu Xunge fused with Tulan and faced the Quiet Mountains team, using her abilities to impose rules and turn the battle against Mountains Xunge’s group. She survived several attacks but failed to secure the advantage she wanted, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Mountain Players sealed the area with a dome of waves while Yu Xunge dismissed her childhood self and prepared to fight the six Quiet Mountains versions.
• Yu Xunge asked Tulan to fight beside her, and they activated [Moment of Truth], giving Yu Xunge dragon wings and access to several of Tulan’s skills.
• Yu Xunge used [One-Man Party] to ban Resurrection Skills in Midsummer for thirty minutes, then used [Reversal Moment] to swap Mountains Maple Sugar’s HP with her own.
• Mountains Maple Sugar slowed time with [Wait, There's Something Wrong with This Will], restored her HP, and attacked Yu Xunge.
• Yu Xunge used [Shadow of Moon Gazing] to enter the Shadow World at 23% HP, but her attempt to cancel [Mysterious Power] failed.

Yu Xunge explained how she used [My Sigh] to hypnotize herself and her opponents into scripted roles while fighting Mountains Xunge’s team. After stealing a fox tail and surviving a sneak attack, she used [Unwavering Vow] to copy [Inheritance Heir] and tried to claim her friends’ estates, but her targets proved difficult to kill.

• Mountains Xunge questioned whether Yu Xunge’s nightmare had changed, and Yu Xunge explained that she had deliberately acted out a script to keep it repetitive.
• Yu Xunge stole a golden apple from Mountains Shark Leng with [Flower of Deceit], then used [My Sigh] to hypnotize Mountains Queque into attacking Mountains Maple Sugar.
• Yu Xunge struck Mountains Mistblade with [Story's End] and took her third fox tail, but Mountains Maple Sugar hit Yu Xunge with a smoke arrow from behind.
• Yu Xunge used [Unwavering Vow] to copy [Inheritance Heir] and sent her friends applications to inherit their estates.
• Mountains Mistblade regrew her tail, while the other opponents used their abilities to resist Yu Xunge’s attempts to kill them.

Yu Xunge faced all ten Mountains Apostles of God as they coordinated their attacks against her. After configuring the second and third phases of [Wildfire Rekindled], she entered the encirclement and announced that she would bring death and calamity to Quiet Mountains.

• Star Sea Xunge overwhelmed the Mountains players with celestial skills, while Mountains Xunge explained that Yu Xunge had broken free of her God's Gift by exploiting the Demon Game.
• Mountains Xianchan and Mountains Yan Tu joined the assault, forcing Yu Xunge to activate the ultimate version of [Wildfire Rekindled].
• Mountains Queque, Mountains Maji, and the other Apostles attacked Yu Xunge as Mountains Frost Deer and the Wind Whale arrived, bringing the total to ten Apostles of God.
• Yu Xunge finished setting the activation conditions and burst keywords for [Wildfire Rekindled]'s second and third phases.
• As the Apostles' skills closed in, Yu Xunge charged into their encirclement and declared that she would bring death and calamity to Quiet Mountains.

Yu Xunge entered her second phase and overwhelmed the Mountain Players with new powers, including mind control that repeatedly turned their allies against them. The fight left Mountains Xunge under the same control as the others, while Mountains Maji found Star Sea Xunge closing in behind him.

• Yu Xunge endured the Mountain Players’ attacks until her second-phase transformation began, then emerged with dragon wings, a dragon-spine longsword, and greatly enhanced abilities.
• Mountains Maple Sugar inspected Yu Xunge’s phase-two stats and discovered that she was immune to control, reflected all damage, and could steal health and control minds.
• Yu Xunge’s gold coins possessed Mountains Maple Sugar and Mountain Mirror Goose, turning them against their teammates and disrupting the group’s skills.
• The coins returned and possessed Mountains Mistblade and Mountains Shark Leng, while attacks could generate a third coin and control another player.
• Mountains Queque and Mountains Shark Leng urged Mountains Xunge to undo the permanent-death setting, but Mountains Xunge said she would lose her last chance to change a setting.
• The third gold coin controlled Mountains Xunge, and as Mountains Maji fled, he spotted Star Sea Xunge behind him.

Mountains Xunge revealed the deadly rules she had added to Midsummer and trapped every player in a cage with her Demon Relic. She charged Star Sea Xunge with only 5% HP, risking a mutual death as she attacked.

• Mountains Maji survived a devastating attack with Frost Deer's healing, while Mirror Goose took a blow meant for Frost Deer and was then used to draw nearby players into attacking her.
• Mountains Xunge regained her reason, removed her mask, and declared that she would show everyone what it meant to be Lord of the Mountains.
• Mountains Shark Leng and the others urged Mountains Xunge to cancel her permanent-death setting, while players recalled that Star Sea Xunge had also forbidden resurrection skills.
• Mountains Xunge's mask became chains that enclosed the battlefield, and a phantom chain connected her heart to Yu Xunge through the Demon Relic skill [Who Is in the Cage].
• Mountains Xunge lowered her HP to 5% with HP-costing skills, charged Star Sea Xunge, and swung her long blade while asking if they should go to hell together.

Yu Xunge fought Mountains Xunge in the cage, then unleashed a series of skills that triggered a new phase of her Demon mission. The other players were left outside as white blossoms engulfed Star Sea Xunge, and Mistblade began to suspect they had triggered another phase.

• Yu Xunge and Mountains Xunge traded attacks, with Mountains Xunge learning new sword techniques from Yu Xunge as the other players fought under the Gold Coins' mind control.
• Zhuri, Huang Jin, Maple Sugar, Mistblade, Xianchan, and others arrived but could not enter the cage, while Yu Xunge and Mountains Xunge discussed their God-Bestowed Talents.
• Yu Xunge ended the mind control and used a succession of skills against Mountains Xunge, then issued a Demon mission demanding that the Apostles of God attack Star Sea Xunge within eight seconds or be erased by Quiet Mountains.
• The Apostles of God charged Star Sea Xunge, but an invisible barrier knocked them back and kept them out as white blossoms engulfed her.
• The Mountain Players reacted with dismay to the apparent new phase, while Mistblade wondered whether they had triggered it again.

Star Sea Xunge entered her third phase and faced the Mountain Players alone, while the Star Sea players gathered outside the cage to watch rather than intervene. The chapter left Mountains Xunge’s team preparing to fight through the dangerous storm and petals as Star Sea Xunge’s battle began.

• Star Sea Xunge activated her third phase, turning the Golden Rain Curtain into a damaging, paralyzing storm and scattering petals that could turn buffs into debuffs.
• Mountains Maple Sugar inspected Star Sea Xunge’s new form and shared her powerful abilities, including damage reflection, lifesteal, and increased health.
• Mountains Xunge ordered the Mountain Players to spread out as Star Sea Xunge’s chains broke and her ice-flame wings appeared.
• Zelan Kufu asked whether the Star Sea players would enter the cage to help, and Maple Sugar explained that Star Sea Xunge had refused help and called the fight her One-Man Party.
• Mistblade told Zelan Kufu that the 782 Star Sea players had gathered to witness Star Sea Xunge’s battle, and reflected that she had never expected them to join her story.

Mountains Xunge and Yu Xunge fought as their linked attacks devastated players from both factions. The Star Sea players were drawn into the battlefield, and the fight continued with Yu Xunge attacking everyone indiscriminately.

• The Mountain Players realized that their attacks on Star Sea Xunge linked to their own teammates, while her reflected damage and commanded healers made attacking her even more dangerous.
• Mountains Xunge canceled the rule making deaths in Midsummer permanent, then attacked Yu Xunge without worrying about the damage to her teammates.
• Mountains Xunge ordered Maji to expand the water curtain and pull Star Sea players into the battle, while Mountains Shark Leng used Lonely Thorn to prevent players from forming parties.
• Yu Xunge called on everyone to fight for the Chaotic Star Sea, then resumed attacking Mountains Xunge and damaging both factions with her linked lightning and petals.
• Huang Jin and Zhuri argued about whether Huang Jin deserved credit for teaching Yu Xunge.

Yu Xunge fought to hold off the Mountain Players as Star Sea reinforcements disrupted the battle, but her limited phase-three power forced her to change tactics. After killing and reviving two opponents, she began eating to prepare to destroy the Order Badge, while Mountains Xunge and Dawn Cicada challenged her.

• The Star Sea players' arrival drew mind-control coins away from the Mountain Players, while Mountains Mistblade, Mountains Maple Sugar, Mountains Xunge, and Mountain Mirror Goose used their skills to control the battlefield.
• Mistblade and Fat Goose complained that the Mountain Players were treating them like mobs, while Yu Xunge realized Star Sea's War Skills did not work in Quiet Mountains and noted that her Party Value had reached 75.
• Yu Xunge used [Symphony] to kill Mountains Yan Tu and Mountains Maji, triggering linked flower-arrow attacks throughout the cage.
• Mountains Yan Tu and Mountains Maji revived after the water curtains vanished, and Yu Xunge's Party Value rose to 90.
• Yu Xunge used [To Hell With It] to summon a meal and ate while preparing to resume her task of destroying the Order Badge; Mountains Xunge and Dawn Cicada objected, and Mountains Xianchan told them to stop.

Yu Xunge destroyed two Order Badges while fighting in Quiet Mountains, but the game expelled her before she could continue. In the tavern afterward, Qihua defended her decision to control Yu Xunge, saying only a player like her could make Qihua’s Flower of Deceit bloom.

• After her Party Value reached one hundred, Yu Xunge’s transformation ended, and she used [Long Sigh] to make the players on both sides cry while she stole Mountain Players’ items with [Pirate Entrance].
• Mountains Xunge, Mountains Maple Sugar, and Mountains Mistblade broke free of Yu Xunge’s control and chased her as she continued stealing items and destroying Order Badges.
• Yu Xunge destroyed an hourglass and a seashell, and battlefield announcements confirmed that two Order Badges had been destroyed; she was then expelled from Quiet Mountains and received compensation, rewards, and the title Bell Chime Variation.
• In the tavern, Yudun asked Qihua whether she regretted controlling Yu Xunge, and Qihua said Yu Xunge was the most worthy player to make her bloom.
• Yudun called Qihua boring and said she would say the same when Qihua tried to put [Ignorant Game] back in Yu Xunge’s hands.

After Star Sea Xunge was expelled, the Star Sea players faced the Mountain Players in the cage, and Zai Jiu Mistblade unleashed her hidden strength to begin the battle. The two sides fought their counterparts, while Mountains Xunge revealed how Star Sea Xunge used the Demon Game to strengthen herself; the fight continued as Mountains Mistblade challenged Zai Jiu Mistblade’s Three-Sword Style.

• Quiet Mountains expelled Star Sea Xunge, and the remaining Star Sea players gathered as the Mountain Players faced them again in the cage.
• Star Sea Mistblade unsealed her power, rose to Tier 19, and charged Mountains Mistblade with three Blood Mist Sabers.
• The Star Sea players charged their Mountain counterparts, while Zhuri, Huang Jin, Zichuan Taoyou, Rage Prayer, and Tingzhou Qiulu confronted Mountains Xunge.
• Rage Prayer blocked a slash for Tingzhou Qiulu, and Zhuri teleported Tingzhou Qiulu away before Mountains Xunge could defeat it.
• Mountains Xunge told Zhuri and Huang Jin that Star Sea Xunge immersed herself in suffering to keep her Demon Game task easy, and they praised her resolve.
• Mountains Mistblade faced Zai Jiu Mistblade and declared that she could also use Three-Sword Style.

After the battle in Quiet Mountains, Yu Xunge reflected on her changing priorities as Zai Jiu Mistblade took first place in the Ladder Ranking and Zichuan Taoyou learned why the mountains had not copied her. Song Gui then asked Yu Xunge to teach her how to fight, and Yu Xunge made clear that Oak Owl’s integration into Zai Jiu mattered more than an offer of cooperation.

• Yu Xunge reviewed the battle and realized that [Romantic Detour] described her own changed path as well as Zai Jiu’s.
• Tulan noticed that Zai Jiu Mistblade had taken first place in the Ladder Ranking.
• Zelan Kufu reported that the Mountain Players had defeated the Star Sea side but spared some survivors, and that Quiet Mountains told Zichuan Taoyou it lacked enough grapefruits for her to eat.
• Song Gui asked Yu Xunge what price she would accept to teach her how to fight.
• Yu Xunge rejected cooperation between Oak Owl and Zai Jiu as payment and told Song Gui that Oak Owl needed to focus on integrating into Zai Jiu.

After leaving the Quiet Mountains, Yu Xunge discovered that breaking free of God's Gift had transformed her status and left her with fatal weak points. She returned to the World Dock and began choosing items to fuse, leaving Y128 perched on her shoulder.

• Song Gui left to consider what bargaining chips she could offer Yu Xunge, while Zai Jiu Mistblade and Zai Jiu · Xie Xie returned to Zai Jiu and shut themselves in their rooms.
• Yu Xunge checked her status and found that she had broken free of God's Gift, but now developed twenty fatal weak points each Star Sea day that could each reduce her HP by ten percent.
• Yu Xunge returned to the World Dock, left Tulan and B80 with the First Mates, and claimed the Quiet Mountains' Product Upgrade treasure.
• Yu Xunge chose My Sigh as the base for an upgrade with Mind Catcher, Lonely Antenna Baby, and Illegally Manufactured.
• Yu Xunge summoned Y128 and asked to use its antenna, offering compensation; Y128 asked to stay on her shoulder for 100 hours, and she agreed.
• B80 climbed into Y128's lap while Tulan clung to Yu Xunge's other shoulder, leaving Y128 to complain that Yu Xunge had another shoulder.

Yu Xunge forged the Star Sea Treasure [My Sigh], received rewards for fixing the Demon Game bug, and used an invitation to relocate the Dragon Clan to Zai Jiu. She welcomed the arriving dragons and ended the chapter telling Y128 and B80 to take their conversation to private chat.

• Yu Xunge combined several items with [Product Upgrade] to create the Star Sea Treasure [My Sigh], which granted six coin-based skills.
• Yu Xunge received a Mountain Commemorative Coin, a Star Sea Commemorative Coin, an Arbiter's Invitation, and the title [Bell Chime Variation].
• Yu Xunge used the Arbiter's Invitation to relocate the Dragon Clan to Zai Jiu and asked Tulan and Lizhou to help; she also asked Zhao Shuying to prepare for the players' reactions.
• Dragon Island descended over Zai Jiu as players gathered to watch, and Yu Xunge warned two children not to feed the Sky Crabs before giving them Advanced Potions.
• Yu Xunge heard Tulan and Lizhou discuss what people called her, while Y128 and B80 joked about the Mechanical Race avoiding her name; Yu Xunge told them to use private chat.

Yu Xunge considered the threat posed by Mountains Xunge’s Demon Talent, then asked the Chaotic Star Sea to negotiate terms for sheltering living beings from 591 worlds. As she began recording the world sighs, Cheese explained why no new Grapefruit Yuguo or Guava Yuguo had awakened in Zichuan.

• Yu Xunge defeated Di San and Feng Qie, and B80 explained that Mountains Xunge’s Demon Talent, Extra Story, could alter settings with frightening effects.
• Yu Xunge decided to negotiate directly with the Chaotic Star Sea over the price for bringing living beings from 591 worlds into Zai Jiu.
• Yu Xunge began writing the world sighs aboard the Cat’s Ideal, with her first mates gathered around her desk.
• Yu Xunge asked Cheese why no more Grapefruit Yuguo or Guava Yuguo had awakened in Zichuan.
• Cheese said the Star Sea prevented new Yuguo from awakening because the old Yuguo were happiest living in anticipation of another of their kind.

Yu Xunge finished writing [World Sigh] and met with Mistblade, who noticed how much more assured she had become. Tulan learned that Dragon Island was being brought online, threatening to expose her lucrative dragon products, and decided she could always hide in Yu Xunge’s Pet Space.

• Tulan returned home, found Mistblade waiting, and went to fetch Yu Xunge from the captain’s cabin.
• Yu Xunge finished [World Sigh], dismissed herself from the ship, and Tulan learned from Y128 how Song Gui had inspired its awkward pickup line.
• Y128 warned Tulan that B80 was helping bring Dragon Island online and that Lizhou had given the dragons phones to learn about Zai Jiu and Tulan.
• Tulan worried that Dragon Island would expose her dragon dung and dragon tears for sale, then decided she could hide in Yu Xunge’s Pet Space.
• Yu Xunge welcomed Mistblade with coffee and asked why she had come, while Mistblade observed Yu Xunge’s newfound confidence.

Yu Xunge learned that the second pendulum impact would destroy worlds of star tier 3 or below, while Zai Jiu was currently safe at tier 4. The Godly Game established a sanctuary application system that placed Zai Jiu first, and Yu Xunge continued questioning the game about breaking free of God's Gift and her rescue in the Quiet Mountains.

• Mistblade told Yu Xunge that 171 World Leaders had asked Zai Jiu to shelter living beings, and said they trusted Zai Jiu because it had her.
• The Godly Game announced that the second pendulum would arrive in 20 Star Sea days and that worlds at star tier 3 or below would inevitably shatter.
• The Godly Game created a Sanctuary Application section where World Leaders could spend Honor Points to request shelter, with Zai Jiu listed first and priced highest.
• The Godly Game told Yu Xunge that breaking free of God's Gift would make her independent of its control but leave her closer to death.
• The Godly Game explained that the Quiet Mountains had tried to bind Yu Xunge, so it sent Qihua to help her shatter the Order Badge before entering the Demon Game again.
• Yu Xunge concluded that Qihua had chosen for herself how to carry out the quest, and the Godly Game responded with confusion.

Yu Xunge prepared to welcome applicants from other worlds and reassured Mistblade that she was glad to see her. In the garden, Qihua learned that an upcoming Godly Game would pit her against someone still angry about her actions in the Quiet Mountains.

• Yu Xunge received applications from hundreds of worlds, set rules for accepting newcomers, and asked Zhao Shuying and the legion commanders to prepare.
• Yu Xunge shared a meal with Mistblade, Tulan, and Y128, then told Mistblade she trusted her motives.
• Qihua planted Crown of Flowers Murder while Yudun questioned why she had chosen such a troublesome flower.
• Star Sea warned Qihua that someone had a problem with her and recounted the person's accusation that Qihua's actions in the Quiet Mountains had been deliberate.
• Qihua explained Crown of Flowers Murder's behavior and told Yudun to check on [Ignorant Game] so it could be delivered to her adversary.

Yu Xunge visited Tingzhou, where Wind Whale leader Tingzhou Jing'e asked her to preserve the Wind Whales’ stories if the world shattered. After retrieving One-Eyed Tabby, Yu Xunge returned to Zai Jiu and set sail for Tiger Ear to find her last First Mate.

• Yu Xunge arrived in Tingzhou and waited for its First Mate while writing [World Sigh].
• Tingzhou Jing'e asked Yu Xunge to record the Wind Whales’ civilization and stories if Tingzhou shattered, and offered her all its Honor Points after its death.
• Tingzhou Jing'e reflected on its life and departed after wishing Yu Xunge good luck.
• One-Eyed Tabby arrived and complained that the unhappy inhabitants made Tingzhou dull.
• Yu Xunge brought One-Eyed Tabby back to Zai Jiu, where it chose the world and raised Cat's Ideal's upgrade progress to 5/6.
• Yu Xunge sailed toward Tiger Ear to find the final First Mate.