Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge entered Qihua’s Crown of Flowers Murder and declared she would retaliate if Qihua crossed her limits. The gathering settled into its seats, leaving Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada trading barbs with Huang Jin over their ages.

• The apprentices emerged into a flower-filled arena where five magical tables and seats had appeared, and Tulan and B80 agreed to keep score.
• Qihua challenged Yu Xunge to enter her Crown of Flowers Murder, and Yu Xunge accepted while warning that she would retaliate if Qihua harmed her.
• Yudun recognized that Yu Xunge’s defiance was what she had wanted, and Qihua took her seat without regretting the confrontation.
• Yu Xunge wrapped a pet bib around the Flower Branch on her chair, and Dawn Cicada questioned her about it.
• Huang Jin told Dawn Cicada not to bully her classmates, and Yu Xunge joked that everyone at the tables was old enough to be their grandmother.

Yudun and Qihua began a joint training session in which their students had to dismantle and rebuild Magic Runes while seizing control from opponents. The exercise started with Yu Xunge rearranging rune components as Huang Jin tried to deceive her and take ownership of them.

• Yudun and Qihua assigned their students to combine Magic Runes into skills and required them to meet a minimum rate of successful casts or control seizures.
• Yudun sent twenty-five golden Flying Balls to attack the Apprentices at random, while the students ate breakfast and prepared for the exercise.
• Little Seahorse angrily confronted Qihua in sign language over its word limit, and Qihua later excused its nine disputed words and sent it to keep score.
• B80 cleared the tables and turned them into clock faces, and the students' round-table exercise began when the minute hands reached twelve.
• Yu Xunge began extracting and rearranging components from three Magic Runes as Huang Jin searched for a way to use deceit and seize control of them.

Yu Xunge and the others practiced combining and stealing Skill Magic Patterns while their banter sparked chaotic fights around the tables. Fragrant Branch pressed Zelan Fengtang and Zai Jiu Xunge to answer whether they were satisfied with the current situation, leaving the question unresolved.

• Yu Xunge and the others learned to maneuver and recombine magic runes, forming skills stronger than those made from runes they drew themselves.
• Little Seahorse taunted the students, setting off explosions at all five round tables, while Huang Jin stole Yu Xunge's hidden Skill Magic Pattern.
• Yu Xunge teased Huang Jin about being a minor, and Maple Sugar traded barbs with Yu Xunge despite their cold war.
• Mistblade asked whether the current situation was satisfactory, prompting speculation that she meant to ask whether Zelan Fengtang would kill Zai Jiu Xunge again.
• Xie Xie seized control of Rage Prayer's Skill Magic Pattern while the others continued their conversation.
• Fragrant Branch approached Yu Xunge and Maple Sugar, then repeated Mistblade's question to Yu Xunge and Zelan Fengtang.

Yu Xunge and the others competed in joint training for a chance to ask their teachers one question. Dawn Cicada offered to help Yu Xunge find someone if she promised not to threaten Qihua with Dawn and Fragrant Branch, leaving Yu Xunge caught between a hostage who wanted to be released and an opponent who wanted her kept as leverage.

• Yu Xunge deflected Qihua's teasing by appealing to Yudun, then returned to studying with the group.
• Yudun promised that the student with the best result in the next training round could ask a question about the Star Sea, the Mountains and the Bell Toll, advanced knowledge, or secrets.
• The players began another round of training, interfering with one another as they tried to win the prize.
• Dawn Cicada offered to help Yu Xunge find someone on the condition that Yu Xunge stop using Dawn and Fragrant Branch as bargaining chips.
• Dawn Cicada insisted that Yu Xunge agree, while Qihua urged her not to, leaving Yu Xunge exasperated by their opposing demands.

The players completed Joint Training, and Zai Jiu Mistblade learned that raising a God-Bestowed Talent to Star Sea rank required a self-assessment. As the group left Flower Island, Yuguo asked Zai Jiu Xunge how she would describe her, and Zai Jiu Xunge answered, “Hollow inside.”

• Zai Jiu Mistblade asked how to raise a God-Bestowed Talent to Star Sea rank, and Qihua told her to conduct a self-assessment.
• Zai Jiu Xunge asked where the deities who owned [Furious Moon] and [Cat's Ideal] were buried, and Yudun explained that their burial sites moved throughout the vast Burial Ground.
• Tiger Ear Que Que asked how to control and reshape the weather above her head, and Yudun pointed her toward the Burial Ground or Mingwu's class.
• The players continued training with rewards from Yudun and Qihua until the sea of stars began revolving backward, ending Joint Training.
• Zichuan Taoyou asked Zai Jiu Xunge to describe her, saying Zichuan Balade's answer of “pain” was wrong.
• Zai Jiu Xunge embraced Yuguo at the edge of Flower Island and described her as “Hollow inside.”

Yu Xunge’s comforting embrace helped Zichuan Taoyou find a direction for comprehending her Deity Talent, and Players flocked to Yu Xunge hoping she would describe them, too. When Maple Sugar rejected Yu Xunge’s word for her, Tiger Ear Que Que pressed Yu Xunge for an answer next.

• Yu Xunge called Zichuan Taoyou’s life hollow, and a light appeared between Zichuan Taoyou’s brows as she found a direction for her Deity Talent.
• Players crowded Yu Xunge to ask her to sum them up, while Yudun pulled Yu Xunge away and Qihua told the Apprentices they could ask again at the next Joint Training session.
• Little Seahorse gave Qihua a whoopee cushion embroidered with Qihua’s portrait, and Qihua accepted it with a quiet “Very good.”
• News spread that Yu Xunge had helped Zichuan Taoyou find her Deity Talent direction, and Players in class asked Yu Xunge to describe them.
• Yu Xunge called Maple Sugar “Forest Sea,” but Maple Sugar said the word did not describe her.
• Tiger Ear Que Que asked Yu Xunge to sum her up as Midsummer Queque.

Yu Xunge’s guesses about Queque, Dawn Cicada, and Rage Prayer helped them discover or affirm their directions, and the story left with the other students seeking her advice. By the next day, her reputation for inspiring epiphanies had spread, while Maple Sugar and Yu Xunge acted with familiar ease despite being Arch-Nemeses.

• Yu Xunge called Queque’s direction “Lost Path,” and a Magic Rune briefly lit on Queque’s forehead before she returned to her seat.
• Yu Xunge described Dawn Cicada as “Flower Soil,” and Dawn Cicada hurried to a Workshop after Yu Xunge said Yan Tu acknowledged her.
• Rage Prayer revealed his Godly Relic, [Carve Errors], and a light appeared on his forehead as he found his direction before rushing out.
• Maple Sugar and Queque asked Yu Xunge to keep talking, so Yu Xunge grabbed her notebook and fled the classroom.
• By the next morning, Players had heard that talking with Yu Xunge could inspire epiphanies, and Yudun noticed Maple Sugar handing Yu Xunge her milk despite their rivalry.

Yu Xunge discovered that Dustfire's Old Dining Table changed the effects of Tomb of the World tiles during a mahjong game. When Tulan won, the table revealed a vision of two Qihuas facing off on the Clock Dial Battlefield, ending with one asking the other why she kept fighting.

• Yu Xunge found Dustfire's Old Dining Table in Yudun's Toy Workshop and learned that Tomb of the World tiles could trigger strange events and reveal Star Sea's regrets.
• Yu Xunge, Maple Sugar, Tulan, and B80 played mahjong, and discarded tiles revealed fragments from different worlds and epochs.
• Queque and the others gathered to watch the game, while Dawn Cicada took B80's seat and Yu Xunge put B80 on a charger.
• Tulan won the game, and the winning tile became a light screen showing two Qihuas facing each other across the Clock Dial Battlefield.
• One Qihua asked the other why she was still fighting when she was the last Fragrant Branch left in Star Sea.

The Players watched scenes from the past while playing mahjong, and Yu Xunge’s remark unexpectedly helped Maple Sugar understand her own direction. After a later scene revealed the first owner of [Furious Moon], Dawn Cicada explained why she had never reclaimed the relic and asked Yu Xunge whether she truly knew her.

• The Players resumed mahjong, and Rage Prayer bought Tulan’s seat with gems, prompting Tulan to mention the beatings Snowdrift gave her for selling dragon dung.
• The Players identified several gods from Astralana’s Demon City in the battle scenes, and Maple Sugar said the missing supreme seats from Zai Jiu and Forest Sea were waiting for them.
• Yu Xunge teased Maple Sugar about her changeable heart, and Maple Sugar received a revelation and ran outside.
• After another round, the Players saw a dying elf with a lantern begin to tell a fairy tale, but the scene cut off before she continued.
• Tulan recognized the elf as the first owner of [Furious Moon], and Dawn Cicada said the relic’s central skill had never appeared while she held it.
• Dawn Cicada asked Yu Xunge whether she truly knew her, and Yu Xunge told her to stop fishing for a response.

Yu Xunge advised the Players to ask their worlds for help finding their direction, while she and the others discovered that the Toy Palace revealed different toys to different Players. The chapter ended with Yudun announcing another Joint Training and admitting she had lied about refusing one to see whether Yu Xunge would do something reckless.

• Seventeen high-priority Joint Training requests woke Yudun, who wondered why the Players would not ask others what they thought of them.
• Yu Xunge told the Players that their worlds might help them find their direction, then explained to Queque that she feared giving Zai Jiu misleading advice.
• Yu Xunge, Dawn Cicada, and the others explored the Toy Palace each night and found that some toys were visible only to certain Players.
• Queque found the [Psychological Counseling] conch beside [Ignorant Game], though Tulan and B80 said they had never seen either toy.
• On their eleventh day, the Players gathered toys to examine and share, but Yudun called them to Joint Training before Yu Xunge could continue exploring.
• Yudun told Yu Xunge she had deliberately lied about refusing Joint Training to see whether Yu Xunge would do something earth-shatteringly stupid.

Yu Xunge skipped Joint Training to practice magic, but Yudun’s mention of Qihua’s stabilizing flower brought her to Flower Island. There, Qihua retaliated for Yu Xunge’s prank with a field of dolls and portrait cushions, and Yudun answered by sitting on a cushion bearing Qihua’s image.

• Yu Xunge stayed behind from Joint Training to practice combining magic runes, while Yudun explained that Qihua’s flowers could stabilize Magic Element during skill synthesis.
• Tulan revealed a cushion bearing Qihua’s portrait, and Yudun confiscated it while Tulan tried to hide it.
• On Flower Island, Qihua welcomed the group with dolls modeled on Zai Jiu Xunge that shouted, “I did nothing wrong!” as they watered the flowers.
• Qihua offered to give Yudun and the Players the noisy dolls, while Yu Xunge endured the group’s teasing over her prank.
• Yu Xunge found portrait cushions on every stool, and Yudun placed a Qihua cushion on her chair, patted it, and sat down in front of Qihua.

Yudun and Qihua taught their apprentices after a tense breakfast exchange with Yu Xunge, and both received a daily quest they refused. The students began their assignments under [March Hibernation], while Yu Xunge tried merging two skills and Dawn Cicada eventually joined the laughter around her.

• Qihua's Flower Whip chased Yu Xunge after she mocked her, and Yu Xunge sat down despite being struck and insisted Qihua was not her teacher.
• Yudun and Qihua discussed Yu Xunge's apparent forgiveness and anger over Qihua's actions, then both refused a daily quest to take apprentices or conduct joint training.
• Yudun assigned the students to merge two A-rank Skill Magic Patterns, while Qihua told them to mutate skills during [March Hibernation]'s bloom.
• Yu Xunge tried merging [Healed, But Still Drooling] with [Mist Arrival], but the frostflowers closed after seven minutes amid repeated explosions.
• Yu Xunge joked about Dawn Cicada's inability to bloom, and Dawn Cicada briefly kept a cold expression before smiling and laughing with the others.

Yu Xunge and the others struggled with their assignments after [March Hibernation] stopped blooming, while Dawn Cicada revealed that Yan Tu was at the Burial Ground. Yu Xunge eventually fused two unrelated skills into a costly control ability and kept its details private from her teachers.

• Dawn Cicada told Yu Xunge and Huang Jin that Yan Tu was at the Burial Ground, and the group wondered why Astralana and Isolated Island held so many secrets.
• Zichuan Taoyou described feeling lost after discovering a direction for her deity talent, while Dawn Cicada said her ambition was simply to stay alive.
• Qihua offered a question as a reward for finishing the assignment first, and Yudun offered a toy to the second player to finish.
• Yu Xunge became the first to succeed by fusing [Mist Arrival] and [Healed, But Still Drooling] into the SS-rank skill [Can't Be Cured].
• Yu Xunge refused to reveal or demonstrate her new skill, suspecting Qihua and Yudun had already seen it.

Yu Xunge learned more about the limits and dangers of attributes after breaking free of God's Gift, then formed a Combo Skill with Dawn Cicada. Their shared vision ended with Dawn Cicada seated on Dawn's Throne, confronting Yan Tu about her fear.

• Qihua explained that attributes became clock-face fluctuations after breaking free of God's Gift, could no longer be increased, and must never match the time of the Star Sea and Mountains.
• Mistblade let Yudun choose her toy, and Yudun gave her a metal lighter that would reveal what she truly wanted when she felt lost.
• Yudun stayed overnight in [March Hibernation], leaving Yu Xunge and the other players to study without their teachers nearby.
• Dawn Cicada told the players that her Flower Branch was [Heartless Allure], and Yu Xunge proposed testing their Combo Skill, [Limited Blooming Season].
• Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada clasped hands, triggering an energy storm and visions of Yan Tu and Dawn Cicada's past, which ended with Dawn Cicada on Dawn's Throne asking Yan Tu why she feared her.

Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada tested their powerful new Combo Skill, but its blast badly damaged Qihua’s Flower Field and [Crown of Flowers Murder]. Qihua ordered them to repair the damage, and Yu Xunge began following a detailed growing guide before Qihua stopped her from reading further.

• Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada activated [Benevolent Lord and Tyrant], whose energy split the ground and destroyed flowers and part of [Crown of Flowers Murder].
• Qihua confronted them and ordered them to restore the Flower Field and replace every missing petal of [Crown of Flowers Murder].
• Yu Xunge tried to enlist Tulan to turn back time, but Tulan said she could not alter time in a Divine Domain.
• Little Seahorse gave Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada repair tools, potions, and instructions for tending the damaged flowers.
• Yu Xunge gathered the fallen petals and read Qihua’s detailed flower-growing diary while her flower branches checked the damage.
• The Fragrant Branch writing turned into drifting petals, and Qihua told Yu Xunge not to read irrelevant things.

Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada repaired Flower Island while Qihua watched, then the players explored a flower field that revealed the former owners of items and skills. The next morning, Yudun warned the apprentices not to rely only on their stats, and Yu Xunge began the day’s skill-synthesis challenge.

• Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada repaired the damaged flowers under Qihua’s watch, while Yu Xunge studied the [Crown of Flowers Murder] manual and practiced with restorative runes.
• Mistblade led Yu Xunge, Dawn Cicada, and the other players to a flower field that could show what the previous owners of items, equipment, and skills looked like.
• Qihua and Yudun watched the players play together and discussed how Godly Instruction brought people together despite their grudges and losses.
• Yudun warned the apprentices that stats had limits and that relying on superior stats alone could put their standing at risk.
• Yu Xunge chose to synthesize [Special Chef? Special Chef!] and [Can't Be Cured] for the day’s Joint Training reward challenge.

Yu Xunge continued training while weighing the risks of pulling more worlds into Zelan or Dawn, and Qihua and Dawn Cicada revealed their faith in her judgment. At mahjong, a new scene showed the Elf splitting into three strands of light and shadow after declaring that a future encounter would throw the Mountains into disorder.

• Yu Xunge asked Qihua whether bringing Zai Jiu and other worlds into Zelan before the next Bell Chime could help them survive the Pendulum Impact, and Qihua said no one knew the limits of her method.
• Qihua and Dawn Cicada accepted the risk that Fragrant Branch could be destroyed, explaining that they were betting on Yu Xunge and her determination to keep Zai Jiu alive.
• Yudun's students completed their basic training, while Flying Balls began attacking apprentices during their activities to help them practice combining skills in combat.
• Yu Xunge told Dawn Cicada that she would move at least one willing world with a World Skill to Dawn at the next Bell Toll.
• Yu Xunge, Maple Sugar, and the others played mahjong, and a new scene showed the Elf splitting into three strands of light and shadow after predicting that a future encounter would throw the Mountains into disorder.

As the course ended and the competition approached, Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada searched for a rare Flower of Deceit dewdrop that could reveal their true selves. Yu Xunge saw herself as a player in its reflection but rejected that identity, while Mistblade revealed that her word was “Prisoner.”

• While tending flowers, Dawn Cicada asked Yu Xunge whether she was anxious about the competition, then led her to search the Flowers of Deceit for a companion dewdrop.
• Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada argued as they searched, and Mistblade joined them after Yu Xunge had asked her to come.
• Just before dawn, the three found a dewdrop and Yu Xunge saw a game interface depicting a character named Zai Jiu Xunge.
• When Dawn Cicada asked what she had seen, Yu Xunge answered “Player” but said she had not been a player for a long time.
• Mistblade looked into the dewdrop and said her word was “Prisoner,” describing herself as imprisoned in her homeland.

Yu Xunge and the other Apprentices reached the Clock Dial Battlefield, where they reunited with Isolated Island Zhuri and learned that she had met the Beaver Duke. The chapter ended with Zhuri surrounded by curious Players as Yu Xunge asked whether the Beaver Duke was truly amazing.

• Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada returned to the Toy Palace, where Yudun warned her Apprentices to give their all, especially against Isolated Island Zhuri.
• Yudun explained that the Chaotic Star Sea had sent Zhuri to the Burial Ground because it believed only the Beaver Duke was qualified to teach her.
• Yu Xunge and the others hurried through Yudun's shrinking Portal and arrived at a Clock Dial Battlefield alongside Mistblade and the other Players.
• Isolated Island Zhuri appeared on their platform wearing a robe like the Beaver Duke's, and she handed her unusable World-grade staff to her Apprentice for safekeeping.
• Zhuri admitted that she knew the Beaver Duke, and Yu Xunge asked whether she was really as amazing as people said.

Yu Xunge entered the first elimination round on Shattered Bell-Ring Island, where players had to kill three people with matching runes within 30 minutes. Meanwhile, the gods at the Demon Tavern discussed Yudun’s failed attempts to give Yu Xunge [Ignorant Game] and revealed that a version altered with Flower of Deceit had been sent to the Chaotic Star Sea.

• Yu Xunge handed out gems and Useless Balloons before the first round began and Tulan, B80, and Hamster vanished as the hourglass ran out.
• The rules required each player to kill three players with the same rune within 30 minutes or be eliminated, and players selected their weapons.
• Yu Xunge chose a longsword, received a rune, and charged at a Tier 17 player with Golden Lightning, flower branches, and her sword.
• At the Demon Tavern, Qihua recounted how Yu Xunge had passed up three chances to obtain [Ignorant Game], while Yudun said she had sent a Flower of Deceit version to the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Yudun explained that she wanted to see what would happen when someone collected all six bullets, and Feiju and Mangmang were thrown out of the tavern after teasing her and Qihua.