Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge continued recording World Sigh while traveling to Tiger Ear, where Queque asked to join Zai Jiu if Tiger Ear could not survive a future Pendulum Impact. Yu Xunge agreed, and Queque said she wanted to die fighting in a war rather than be taken by the Bell Chime.

• Yu Xunge explained to Y128 that she spun the Gold Coin to view sealed memories, and reassured it that it was among them with B80, 7777, and L.
• Yu Xunge delegated monitoring the Battlefield Chat Channel to Tulan and B80, while Zai Jiu tattled that they had formed a private gossip group about her.
• The ship arrived at Tiger Ear, and Yu Xunge gave the Cow Cat permission to read World Sigh before leaving the ship alone.
• Yu Xunge waited openly for the stranded orange cat, and Queque arrived to propose a deal.
• Queque asked to join Zai Jiu before a future Bell Chime if Tiger Ear could not withstand a later Pendulum Impact, and Yu Xunge agreed.
• Queque said she was not afraid of dying but wanted to die on the battlefield if the Chaotic Star Sea and Quiet Mountains went to war.

Yu Xunge reviewed the growing preparations for the second Pendulum Impact, then returned to Zai Jiu with Orange Cat and began upgrading [Cat's Ideal]. Yan Tu confessed that she had spread gossip about Yu Xunge and Mistblade having a child, leaving Yu Xunge relieved that Yan Tu had survived the resulting confrontation.

• Queque left after telling Yu Xunge she wanted to die on the battlefield if the Chaotic Star Sea and Quiet Mountains went to war, and her drizzle soaked Yu Xunge.
• Yu Xunge reviewed reports from Zai Jiu and the Battlefield Chat Channel about the second Pendulum Impact, invasions, and worlds seeking places to shelter their populations.
• Yu Xunge picked up Orange Cat and returned to Zai Jiu, where [Cat's Ideal] began turning and its ship's wheel started upgrading.
• Yu Xunge questioned Yan Tu about what she had told Mountains Xunge, and Yan Tu admitted she had shared gossip that Yu Xunge and Mistblade had a child named Little Seahorse.
• Yu Xunge asked whether Mountains Xunge and Mountains Mistblade had beaten Yan Tu, then relaxed when Yan Tu said she was still standing.

After winning the Godly Game, Yu Xunge used her rewards to reduce her Lethal Weaknesses and fuse two items into the powerful Ancient accessory [Cat's Schedule]. She then accepted Zhuri's challenge to a dagger duel.

• Yu Xunge won first place in Godly Game No. · Quiet Mountains and received a Star Sea Treasure Chest, a level-cap increase for Zai Jiu players, and a fusion reward.
• Yu Xunge used the Star Sea Blessing to remove one of her Lethal Weaknesses, leaving her with nineteen.
• Yu Xunge fused [Where's the Owl?] and [Soros's Time] into the Ancient accessory [Cat's Schedule], retaining and improving the skills she needed most.
• Cheese told Yu Xunge that Zhuri had come to see her, and Zhuri challenged her to a fight.
• Yu Xunge took up daggers and advanced to fight Zhuri, telling her teacher it was an honor to defeat her.

Huang Jin and Zhuri reflected on their past and Zhuri's changing relationship with her apprentice, while Yu Xunge prepared to test whether World Skills could be shared between Zai Jiu and Zelan. The chapter ended with several worlds competing to host her experiment.

• Huang Jin recalled how her Tian Huhaoqi title skill had helped her and learned that Zhuri had failed to defeat her apprentice, though the apprentice had returned Zhuri's Soul Fire.
• Huang Jin teased Zhuri about still being taller than her apprentice, and Zhuri charged at her with a dagger before Huang Jin fled as a Moon Bear.
• Yu Xunge stopped traveling and returned to Zai Jiu to wait for Pendulum, still working to repay the World Sighs she owed.
• Yu Xunge told Mistblade, Song Gui, Xie Xie, and Yan Tu that she planned to take Zai Jiu into Zelan to test whether their World Skills could be shared.
• Yu Xunge invited Zelan to participate in the experiment, but representatives of several other worlds also offered to host it.

Zai Jiu Xunge used the World Chat Channel to secure invasion reparations from Zelan and Dawn, then distributed most of the Honor Points to strengthen Zai Jiu. After her Time-Space Walk skill was unsealed, she faced the unresolved problem between herself and Maple Sugar.

• Mistblade realized Zai Jiu Xunge had publicly pressured Zelan to make peace and protect against Mistblade returning Moon Fox to Zelan.
• Zelan Kufu agreed to pay one hundred million Honor Points in reparations and have Zelan Bone Shadow lift Zai Jiu Xunge's curse, or die trying.
• Yu Xunge transferred most of the reparations to Zhao Shuying, Yan Tu, and Zai Jiu's defenses, while keeping ten million Honor Points for emergencies.
• The Lantern flared and unsealed Zai Jiu Xunge's Time-Space Walk skill, and she learned that Zelan Bone Shadow had been resurrected.
• Little Seahorse asked whether Zai Jiu Xunge had been waiting for Zelan Fengtang, and Yu Xunge said the problem between her and Maple Sugar had no solution.

Yu Xunge brought Zai Jiu to Zelan while the gods and players debated whether she had protected or captured the god who betrayed her. As the second Pendulum Impact began, Zelan Kufu used [Death Sentence Mitigation] to turn the remains buried across Zelan into armor for Zai Jiu.

• Yu Xunge left after being asked how she could know there was no solution without trying, saying she would take Zai Jiu to Zelan.
• Xie Xie told the players how Zai Jiu had sealed the god who betrayed her inside the Lantern and seemingly absorbed something from it with her Flower Branch.
• Mistblade asked whether Zai Jiu had sealed the god to capture it or protect it, while gods secretly watched the group discuss the story.
• Yu Xunge settled Zai Jiu in Zelan, visited Zelan Kufu and Gloom City's Alchemy Shop, then returned to do her history homework with B80.
• Yu Xunge, Mistblade, Song Gui, and the other leaders gathered above the sea for the second Pendulum Impact, and Mistblade covered Zai Jiu in Never-Melting Winter to raise its HP.
• As the Pendulum approached, Zelan Kufu's [Death Sentence Mitigation] turned the trees near every graveyard into white bone, using the remains of Zelan players who had died in other worlds as armor.

Yu Xunge helped Zai Jiu survive the second Pendulum Impact, then learned that the otherworldly refugees were grieving for their shattered worlds. She gathered First Edition Tombs of the World and offered them to the refugees so they could find their original worlds’ gravestones.

• Yu Xunge and Song Gui healed Zai Jiu after the second bell toll, while Mistblade, Yan Tu, and the Sky Crabs helped protect the world.
• The Chaotic Star Sea announced that 1,622 worlds remained, updated the Invasion Sequence, and warned that the third Pendulum Impact was expected after the next Godly Game.
• Yu Xunge asked Zai Jiu about First Edition Tombs of the World and learned that they could respond to players from their original worlds.
• Yu Xunge summoned Tulan, B80, Y128, and 7777 to search the River of Time for Tombs of the World, then collected several hundred over two days.
• Yu Xunge summoned 421 otherworldly leaders and invited them to touch the First Edition Tombs so they could identify their shattered worlds.

Yu Xunge returned home after letting displaced players visit the Tombs of their shattered worlds, then shut herself away to work. She entered a mandatory special Godly Game, where most players had vanished, and received an instruction promising a chance to prove the Chaotic Star Sea needed them.

• Yu Xunge let otherworlders blow bubbles showing scenes from their worlds’ Tombs, and they returned to the main city with the bubbles.
• Yu Xunge went home with her companions, where Tulan photographed Yan Tu and Yu Xunge listed the pictures for Dawn Cicada to buy.
• Yu Xunge told Zhao Shuying to report only once a week, then continued writing in her study until the Chaotic Star Sea summoned her to the game.
• Yu Xunge entered Godly Game No. as a special game that disabled items and equipment, while noticing that most Ladder Ranking names had turned gray.
• Players in the Battlefield Chat Channel asked Yu Xunge to shelter people from their worlds if those worlds shattered, and she closed the channel.
• A game quest scroll appeared, announcing a chance to turn the tables and prove that the Chaotic Star Sea needed its players.

Yu Xunge answered the Godly Game’s questions about combat, instruction, and her beliefs, choosing to fight for herself rather than out of duty to the Star Sea. She ended by defining Game Invasion as an “Elegy.”

• Yu Xunge gave cocky custom answers about her preferred combat and instruction, while Tulan and B80 whispered about her attitude.
• She chose no preference for her teacher’s race, reasoning that even gods she had grudges against could put serious business first.
• She selected Demon Game as the game that could save the Star Sea, recalling how Mountains Xunge’s Demon Game training had helped her match the Apostles of God.
• Yu Xunge said she fought only for herself and would die only for herself, and added that the Chaotic Star Sea should pay the tuition for Godly Instruction.
• She agreed that her possessions could be reclaimed after her death if she were buried undisturbed and her creations went to outstanding players.
• After wondering whether players from the previous era had answered the same questions, Yu Xunge described Game Invasion as an “Elegy.”

Yu Xunge and four other players arrived at Yudun’s palace for a lesson on surviving attacks from her flying orbs. After Yudun explained the scoring rules, the players stocked up on weapons, and she revealed they would receive new weapons each day.

• Yu Xunge entered the game with Tulan and B80, then arrived at a palace alongside Maple Sugar, Tiger Ear Que Que, Rage Prayer, and Dawn Cicada.
• Yu Xunge and the others entered the palace, which Yudun had organized into workshops filled with machines and moving vehicles.
• Yudun introduced five flying orbs per player, explaining that hits cost points, returned attacks earned points, and players with negative nightly scores faced punishment.
• Yu Xunge and the other players grabbed large quantities of weapons, with Yu Xunge storing hers in her Gashapon Machine.
• Yudun told the players they would be issued weapons every day.

Yudun led Yu Xunge and four other players through combat exercises while explaining that she would teach them Assembly and Modification, a way to reassemble skills. The five chose to study with her, and Yudun began class in the Workshop as she informed the group chat that Yu Xunge had arrived.

• Yudun explained the Godly Game’s rules and put the players through attacks from golden orbs that exposed their combat weaknesses.
• Yudun offered to teach Assembly and Modification so the players could reassemble their skills into new abilities.
• Yudun offered to transfer the players to Qihua’s Cloud Island, but none accepted.
• Yudun led the five players into the Workshop, assigned them seats, and warned that they would be expelled if they failed to defend against three attacks per hour.
• Yudun opened the group chat and told its members that Yu Xunge was with her.

Yudun taught five apprentices to sense and draw the runes of an A-rank-or-higher skill, giving Zai Jiu Xunge only half the time because of her exceptional talent. Meanwhile, Qihua realized that Yudun had taken Zai Jiu Xunge as an apprentice and sent Mistblade on an errand to deliver a letter, along with a pointed insult for the god on the island.

• Yudun assigned the apprentices to sense and draw the runes of a qualifying skill before the Star Sea reversed, warning that failure would mean a class transfer.
• Yudun gave Zai Jiu Xunge only four hours, and Yu Xunge chose her S-rank skill [Naughty Kitchen] to begin the task.
• Qihua noticed that the gods who cared about Zai Jiu Xunge had stopped asking where she was and concluded that Yudun had told them not to ask in the group chat.
• Qihua sent Mistblade to deliver a petal letter to a distant island, requiring her to control flowering branches to walk and return within two hours.
• Qihua told Mistblade to tell the god on the island that she was childish, leaving Mistblade fearing the errand could get her killed.

Yu Xunge and the other Players practiced drawing skill magic patterns under Yudun’s strict instruction, while Tulan and B80 explored the Palace. A message from Qihua led Yudun to agree to a joint training session in five days, leaving her already wary of the chaos to come.

• Yudun forbade Yu Xunge, Xianchan, and Prayer from switching skills and assigned Maple Sugar and Queque magic patterns to draw.
• Tulan and B80 explored the Palace, and their delighted reactions made Yudun briefly smile before she told the Players to focus on their homework.
• Mistblade arrived with a letter from Qihua and teased Zai Jiu Xunge by calling her childish.
• Yudun agreed to Qihua’s proposed joint training session, but set it for five days later instead of the next day.
• The Players joked about Mistblade’s changed behavior as she struggled to leave the workshop with her legs wrapped in Qihua’s flowering branches.

Yu Xunge endured Yudun’s repeated attacks while practicing a magic pattern, eventually using Companion Thunder and Crown of Flowers Murder to finish it despite being struck. Yudun allowed her to rest, leaving the other players frustrated as Prayer realized why people kept provoking Yu Xunge.

• Yu Xunge’s layered defenses failed to stop Yudun’s golden orbs from interrupting her drawing, and she angrily confronted the deity before returning to work.
• Rage Prayer, Xianchan, Maple Sugar, and Queque also had their nearly completed drawings interrupted by Yudun’s attacks, but they calmed down and continued.
• Yu Xunge teased Dawn Cicada about her Flower Branch, prompting Dawn Cicada to threaten a Deathmatch against the players watching it.
• With most of her defensive skills on cooldown, Yu Xunge used Companion Thunder and Crown of Flowers Murder to complete the magic pattern as a golden orb struck her wrist.
• Yudun confirmed Yu Xunge’s success and granted her a half-hour break, while Prayer concluded that Yu Xunge’s provocateurs must have suffered greatly at her hands.

Yu Xunge explored Yudun’s toy palace, found her improved [Ignorant Game], and studied unusual toys for inspiration on combining magic patterns. Back in class, she drew [Rain in the Wind], a bagpipe toy that let her hear distant acquaintances, and decided to teach Little Seahorse a lesson after work.

• Yu Xunge found [Ignorant Game] in a Workshop and recognized it as the revolver she had once won from Yudun, though she put it back after examining its changed description and abilities.
• Yu Xunge asked Tulan and B80 to guide her toward unusual toys whose parts differed greatly in style so she could learn how to combine skills.
• Yu Xunge and Maple Sugar crossed paths after class, but [Arch-Nemesis] made them look away and pass each other in silence.
• Yu Xunge returned to class and drew [Rain in the Wind], a bagpipe assembled from building blocks, metal, flowers, fruit, and gemstones that let its player hear an old acquaintance’s voice.
• Yu Xunge heard Su Yitong and then Little Seahorse through the bagpipes, and wrote herself a reminder to teach Little Seahorse a lesson after work.

Yudun taught Yu Xunge and the other apprentices how souls and magic runes produced skills, and explained the Chaotic Star Sea’s limits on awakening soul fires. After class, the students bickered and compared their lessons in the Battlefield Chat Channel.

• Yudun assigned Yu Xunge, Queque, Maple Sugar, Dawn Cicada, and Rage Prayer coursework to break Naughty Kitchen into at least five skills.
• Yudun explained that magic runes were the soul’s language and that skills could be awakened or deliberately created by arranging runes.
• Yu Xunge asked why God-Bestowed Talents existed and why the Pendulum operated, and Yudun said the Chaotic Star Sea limited soul fires because the universe lacked energy, then declined to answer about the Pendulum.
• After the lesson, Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada nearly fought, but Yudun warned the apprentices that fighting or damaging anything in the Workshop would get them expelled.
• The apprentices left the Workshop and players exchanged news about their teachers and courses in the Battlefield Chat Channel.

Yu Xunge and the other players continued Yudun’s lessons, learning that Yudun belonged to the Firecolor Race and competing to deconstruct a complex Skill Magic Pattern. The chapter ended with Tulan and B80 embarrassing Yu Xunge by repeating their old declarations, prompting her to chase them.

• Yu Xunge asked what race Yudun was, and Rage Prayer revealed that she was Firecolor.
• Yu Xunge realized Yudun had lost her original gemstone eyes, while the others chose not to press the race’s secret.
• Yudun taught the players Deconstruction Formulas and held a timed competition to break down an SS-rank Skill Magic Pattern into 239 Small Magic Patterns.
• Yu Xunge made Maple Sugar fetch a long menu of food and drinks after Maple Sugar ran out of time most often.
• Tulan and B80 repeated their embarrassing declarations in front of the classroom, and Yu Xunge charged after them in anger.

Yudun trained the five players in dismantling and recombining skill magic runes, then began a timed assessment that would determine who could join her for joint training on Flower Island. The chapter ended with the players fighting over rune fragments while Yudun secretly photographed them.

• Yudun taught the players increasingly advanced methods for dismantling and recombining skill magic runes, while Tulan and B80 began bringing them meals and running errands.
• Yudun announced that passing an assessment would earn the apprentices the right to learn her name and accompany her to Flower Island for joint training.
• Dawn Cicada's Snake-Bone Flower Branch pointed at Zai Jiu Xunge, prompting Crown of Flowers Murder to fight it as Yu Xunge insisted she had no personal feelings.
• Yudun began a timed rune-recombination assessment, striking players who failed until their HP fell below the threshold for remaining in class.
• After lunch, the players competed to seize rune fragments, soon fighting and shouting in their own languages as Yudun took an Image-Capturing Toy photograph.

Yudun tested the five Players on assembling Magic Rune skills and gave them recording glasses for Joint Training. The next morning, the group set off with Tulan and B80, hoping to visit Flower Island and see whether Little Seahorse was still alive.

• Yudun had Queque and the other Players assemble skills under timed assessment, and all five passed with matching completion times and HP.
• Yudun gave each Player glasses that recorded Magic Rune assembly, and the group discussed whether skill control or skill reconstruction would have the advantage in Joint Training.
• Yu Xunge suggested that a Player might dismantle and reassemble a skill after an opponent took control of it, prompting the group to imagine Yudun and Qihua endlessly countering each other.
• The five Players groomed themselves and changed clothes for the trip, but Yudun told them Joint Training was not a mixer.
• Yudun led the group out and called Tulan and B80 to join them, and the dragon and robot hurried over, eager to see Little Seahorse on Flower Island.

Yu Xunge and the other Apprentices traveled with Yudun to Qihua’s Flower Island for joint training, while Yu Xunge rejected Dawn Cicada’s questions about whether she felt guilty for retaliating against Qihua. They arrived to find Qihua and her students waiting, and learned that Little Seahorse could speak only twenty words a day.

• Yu Xunge argued with Dawn Cicada, insisting that Qihua’s rescue did not excuse her manipulation and that she felt no guilt about taking revenge.
• The group reached Flower Island and used their Probe Function to identify Little Seahorse as a tier 16 mascot owned by Zai Jiu · Xie Xie.
• Qihua greeted Yudun and the Apprentices, then led them across the island with her five students.
• Tulan and B80 tried to check on Little Seahorse, and Xie Xie explained that it was now allowed to say only twenty words each day.
• Yu Xunge asked whether Little Seahorse’s greeting counted toward its limit, and Qihua answered that it did.