Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge followed the pocket watch map north after discovering that Youwo’s promised time did not make the watch react, and concluded that Youwo had deliberately chosen a burial site she believed would help Yu Xunge and her timeline. She continued toward the site, while B80 teased her for praising Youwo and criticizing Qihua.

• Yu Xunge had B80 replace Beaver Duke’s name on the pocket watch with Star Sea King, then searched north for Mountain Players but encountered mostly Star Sea Players and melancholy gods.
• Yu Xunge and B80 waited for the appointed time, but the pocket watch did not heat up, leading Yu Xunge to suspect that Youwo had exploited ambiguity about which Qihua the oath referred to.
• Yu Xunge reasoned that Youwo cared only about the Qihua in her own timeline and had chosen the burial site because she believed it would benefit Yu Xunge and the current timeline.
• B80 asked why Youwo liked directing other people’s lives, and Yu Xunge praised Youwo’s methods while criticizing Qihua, triggering the warning that she was being watched.
• Yu Xunge denied that she was praising Youwo against her conscience, and B80 claimed Qihua had threatened it.

Yu Xunge continued north through the Burial Ground, avoiding a fight with Mountains Xunge while strengthening her reserves. At the time window Yudun had given her, Mountains Yudun appeared and examined [Ignorant Game], leaving Yu Xunge to wonder what the encounter would bring.

• Yu Xunge explained to B80 that hiding as an Orchid Mantis was part of her combat style, then encountered Mountains Xunge, who vanished without fighting her.
• Yu Xunge recalled replenishing her ultimate energy with Moon Sand and continued north, marking a plain as a place she could return to through [Absolute Freedom].
• After eating breakfast, Yu Xunge brushed her teeth by the river and complained that Yudun had not specified whether seven twenty-two meant morning or evening.
• Mountains Yudun appeared, pulled Yu Xunge into her time, and took [Ignorant Game] to inspect it.
• Yu Xunge told Mountains Yudun that Star Sea Yudun had first taken the gun back after Yu Xunge stole it, then later forced it on her.

Yu Xunge spoke with Mountains Yudun about her special bullets and her history with Star Sea Yudun. Mountains Yudun lifted Dustfire’s curse interfering with Yu Xunge’s speech, then became curious about Yu Xunge’s Memory Gold Coin as Yu Xunge began recounting the past.

• Mountains Yudun asked Yu Xunge about the four special bullets she had obtained and offered to reveal another way to get them.
• Mountains Yudun removed the speech curse interfering with their conversation, and Yu Xunge asked whether Dustfire had been at the Quiet Mountains.
• Yu Xunge joked that Dustfire’s lucky boxed meal had led her to Mountains Yudun, drawing disapproving looks from B80 and the Little Robot.
• Yu Xunge began describing how Star Sea Yudun had first noticed and pursued her, then used her Memory Gold Coin to recover hazy details.
• Mountains Yudun moved closer to inspect the Memory Gold Coin, which Yu Xunge explained had become a Star Sea Treasure after she fused it with other items.

Mountains Yudun explained the Ignorant Game’s special bullets and revealed how Star Sea Yudun gave her an eye after the two worlds’ conflict ended. Yu Xunge recognized the other Yudun in the gesture, then laughed when Mountains Yudun imitated Qihua’s reaction to the story.

• Mountains Yudun told Yu Xunge that permanently killing a Mountains deity was one way to obtain special bullets, then explained that the bullets could only be collected before Yu Xunge fully comprehended her Deity Talent Word.
• Mountains Yudun revealed that she and Star Sea Yudun had made the Ignorant Game together, using an eye from each of them as its original bullets.
• Mountains Yudun said Star Sea Yudun had visited her Burial Ground after the Mountains fell quiet and the Star Sea descended into chaos, giving her remaining eye to make both gemstones whole.
• Yu Xunge understood why Star Sea Yudun had given her eye, and Mountains Yudun told her how Qihua had criticized the gesture as self-deception.
• Mountains Yudun imitated Qihua’s elegant manner, and Yu Xunge burst out laughing.

Yu Xunge learned why Mountains Yudun had accepted Star Sea Yudun’s gemstone eye and how the missing special bullets could be recovered. Mountains Yudun offered to explain the creation of the Ignorant Game if Yu Xunge delivered a message intended to provoke Star Sea Yudun.

• Mountains Yudun explained that Star Sea Yudun’s gemstone eye had beaten hers, so she had accepted it only after her own death, when she could pursue completeness without accepting it as a living rival.
• Mountains Yudun said the two original special bullets would not count as gemstone eyes and might not return, then declined to use the Romance bullet because she could not name a personality trait to wager.
• Mountains Yudun explained that defying one’s own instincts could return a special bullet, while making another living being defy her instincts could return an initial bullet to the Ignorant Game.
• Mountains Yudun offered a brief account of the game’s creation in exchange for Yu Xunge using One Phone Call to deliver a message to Star Sea Yudun.
• Mountains Yudun told Yu Xunge to say that Star Sea Yudun’s creations could only become toys because they qualified as neither Curios nor items, hoping the message would make Star Sea Yudun come find her.

Yu Xunge used B80 to relay Mountains Yudun’s explanation of the [Toy] system to Star Sea Yudun, who replied by calling them both idiots. Mountains Yudun then explained her disagreement with Star Sea Yudun over toys and Curios, leaving Yu Xunge to conclude that Yudun was arguing with herself.

• Yu Xunge asked B80 to repeat Mountains Yudun’s explanation that the [Toy] system existed because Yudun’s creations were neither Curios nor items.
• Star Sea Yudun replied through the gold coin, calling Yu Xunge an idiot and then insulting Mountains Yudun too.
• Mountains Yudun explained that she and Star Sea Yudun disagreed about whether her unusual creations were toys or Curios.
• Mountains Yudun recalled Star Sea Yudun’s fame as a Star Sea Player and how she gave her creations to players she liked while insisting they were toys.
• Yu Xunge asked whether Star Sea Yudun restricted her toys from being used in combat, and Mountains Yudun said she did not.

Yu Xunge learned how Star Sea Yudun changed the Final Battle rules by crafting toys to counter opponents, then asked Mountains Yudun about the competition and the story of her own page. The chapter ended with Mountains Yudun asking Yu Xunge about her racial talent, and Yu Xunge answering, "Honesty."

• Mountains Yudun explained that Star Sea Yudun made playful toys and had the Order Clock change the rules for marking magic items.
• Mountains Yudun recalled how Star Sea Yudun used materials to craft toys during matches and tailor them to counter opponents.
• Yu Xunge told Mountains Yudun she felt troubled that powerful players like Qihua and Yudun had still lost.
• Mountains Yudun explained that the Final Battle had solo matches followed by team battles, with gods from earlier eras filling places left by dead players.
• Yu Xunge set aside her questions about the competition and said she wanted to hear how Yudun received a page of her own.
• Mountains Yudun asked Yu Xunge about her racial talent, and Yu Xunge answered, "Honesty."

Yu Xunge learned why Mountains Yudun and Star Sea Yudun had created [Ignorant Game] together and heard how their partnership changed after they argued over its future. Mountains Yudun revealed that Star Sea Yudun had not visited since she proposed turning her remaining will into a Cylinder to improve the neglected game.

• Yu Xunge told Mountains Yudun that Star Sea Yudun had given her the precise time of the Burial Ground, confirming that the two Yuduns had arranged their meeting.
• Mountains Yudun explained that she and Star Sea Yudun had treated each other as versions of the same person and spent the [Quiet Mountains] game working together in her Workshop on [Ignorant Game].
• Mountains Yudun showed Yu Xunge her collection of ideas and said Star Sea Yudun had complained that [Ignorant Game] was neglected by its Player and had not received new Special Bullets.
• Mountains Yudun said she had proposed turning her remaining will into a Cylinder to help [Ignorant Game] overcome its limits, and Star Sea Yudun had not visited since.

Yu Xunge understood why Mountains Yudun wanted to sacrifice herself to become part of [Ignorant Game], but she secured the gun to prevent that from happening. Mountains Yudun mistook Yu Xunge’s attachment to the weapon for deep appreciation, and her belief that it had found a worthy owner eased her resolve to sacrifice herself.

• Yu Xunge realized Mountains Yudun’s plan to become [Ignorant Game]’s cylinder would trample on Star Sea Yudun’s pride and could turn the gun into another Godly Relic.
• Mountains Yudun asked Yu Xunge how to calm Star Sea Yudun, and Yu Xunge had B80 lock [Ignorant Game] in the Gashapon Machine’s safe.
• Yu Xunge explained that she did not want Mountains Yudun to sacrifice herself and create lasting complications between them.
• Mountains Yudun deduced that Yu Xunge had chosen [Ignorant Game] as one of her six marked Magic Items because she treasured it.
• Yu Xunge awkwardly agreed with Mountains Yudun’s conclusion, and Mountains Yudun said she would no longer be so set on sacrificing herself and still wanted to discuss blueprints with Star Sea Yudun.

Mountains Yudun told Yu Xunge how she and Star Sea Yudun created [Ignorant Game] through a wagered duel. She explained how the toy consumed her weapon and Order Badge, while Brilliance's World Tombstone settled on the gun barrel.

• Mountains Yudun explained that she and Star Sea Yudun disagreed over whether to make Curios or toys, then decided to compete by creating items for a duel.
• Mountains Yudun made the World-grade hand crossbow [Game Start], while Star Sea Yudun made the gem kaleidoscope [Ignorant Game].
• Star Sea Yudun's [Ignorant Game] produced the Fate gem, which devoured [Game Start], but the crossbow's built-in mechanism exploded and sent Star Sea Yudun back to the Star Sea.
• Mountains Yudun said she had melted [Knowledge Curse] into [Game Start], and the Order Badge inside the scalpel had helped upgrade the crossbow.
• Mountains Yudun revealed that [Ignorant Game] consumed the Order Badge and transformed into a revolving cylinder and gun, while Brilliance's World Tombstone settled on the gun barrel.

Mountains Yudun recounted how she and Star Sea Yudun pursued the purpose of [Ignorant Game] during [Burial Ground]. Their hunt for Special Bullets made them enemies of both the Star Sea and the Mountains, and they sensed the material they needed was already close at hand.

• Mountains Yudun explained that [Ignorant Game] was unusable and could not be separated from her Order Badge, forcing her to carry it into the Demon Game.
• During [Burial Ground], Mountains Yudun and Star Sea Yudun independently made their way toward the center of the Order Clock, where the Time Pointers met.
• Mountains Yudun revealed that a later hunt mode would mark Star Sea players so Mountain Players could track them.
• As Mountain Players pursued them, the two Yuduns studied [Ignorant Game] together and redesigned its Cylinder, Butterfly, and Gun Body.
• Mountains Yudun said they searched for Order Badges and World Tombstones to make Special Bullets, becoming common enemies of the Star Sea and the Mountains.

Mountains Yudun explained why she and Star Sea Yudun had turned away from Star Sea and Mountains to create the [Ignorant Game]. Yu Xunge accepted their willfulness but learned that they had also collected living traits from other Players, leaving her to consider what their actions—and their claim that ignorance was not a sin—meant.

• Mountains Yudun said that she and Star Sea Yudun had rejected responsibility for Star Sea and Mountains and focused on creating the [Ignorant Game].
• Yu Xunge said that Players could give free rein to their nature, though hunting Star Sea Players still went too far.
• Yu Xunge asked whether Tombs of the World could be given to other Players and whether the pair had sought anything else.
• Mountains Yudun said that living beings were precious materials and admitted that she and Star Sea Yudun had collected living traits from Players without killing them.
• Mountains Yudun argued that Star Sea and Mountains imposed meaning on their existence, so they had to create something before destruction; Yu Xunge wondered what, if anything, counted as a sin.

Mountains Yudun told Yu Xunge how she and Star Sea Yudun created [Ignorant Game] by making bullets from each other's gemstone eyes, then explained the curse that turned Star Sea Yudun's hair pink. She offered to reveal a secret about the Order Clock's center in exchange for Yu Xunge's socks.

• Mountains Yudun explained that she and Star Sea Yudun spent the game researching how to make bullets that could capture soul fire, but ran out of materials and time.
• With two hours left before the game ended, the Yuduns attacked each other and each gouged out one of the other's gemstone eyes to make bullets for [Ignorant Game].
• Mountains Yudun made the 'Future' bullet while Star Sea Yudun made the 'Past' bullet, and Star Sea Yudun took the gun while Mountains Yudun kept the bullets.
• Mountains Yudun revealed that she cursed Star Sea Yudun's hair pink after Star Sea Yudun installed her own gemstone eye into Mountains Yudun's will.
• Mountains Yudun used [My Sigh] to choose a game, then chased Yu Xunge and offered to share a secret about the Order Clock's center for her socks.
• Yu Xunge stopped and asked what Mountains Yudun would offer if she gave her both socks.

Mountains Yudun told Yu Xunge how the Clock Dial helped create the Past and Future Bullets, then urged her to collect all six Special Bullets for [Ignorant Game]. Yu Xunge promised to try, and Yudun took her to a Workshop to teach her how to temporarily boost Magic Items.

• Mountains Yudun transformed one of Yu Xunge’s new socks into a ball and threw it into the sky with [Single Toss].
• Mountains Yudun explained that the first two Bullets were completed when her and Star Sea Yudun’s Soul Fires ignited, sending blood-flames from the Clock Dial into them.
• Mountains Yudun asked Yu Xunge to collect all six Bullets so the unknown future of [Ignorant Game] could unfold.
• Mountains Yudun offered to teach Yu Xunge how to briefly increase a Magic Item’s power, including against players who had broken free of God’s Gift.
• Yu Xunge promised to do her best, and Mountains Yudun moved them into an exquisite Workshop to begin the lesson.

Yu Xunge trained with Mountains Yudun for five days, learning to temporarily raise the limits of items and practicing with six Magic Items. After discovering that Mountains Yudun had used One Nightmare to make Star Sea Yudun see her dancing in a dream, Yu Xunge demanded [My Sigh] back but agreed to keep learning.

• Qihua and the others joked about a filthy sock that struck Yudun before Yudun sent it flying back at Qihua.
• Yu Xunge learned the basics of Mountains Yudun's method for temporarily raising an item's limits and tested it on six Magic Items.
• Mountains Yudun used [One Nightmare] to enter Star Sea Yudun's dream and made her see a dance.
• Yu Xunge realized Star Sea Yudun had seen her in Mountains Yudun's Burial Ground and worried she would be blamed for the nightmare.
• Yu Xunge tried to reclaim [My Sigh], but Mountains Yudun offered to teach her how to seal other players' items for three seconds, and Yu Xunge eagerly accepted.

Yu Xunge left Mountains Yudun's burial ground and searched the Burial Ground for the Beaver Duke and King, whose appearances overlapped. After failing to find them by the fifteenth day, she returned to the central clock to test Mountains Yudun's suspected secret about wishes.

• Yu Xunge learned the SS-rank skill [Frozen Moment] and the Godly Skill [Advance the Future] from Mountains Yudun before insisting on leaving to find the Beaver Duke and King.
• Mountains Yudun sent Yu Xunge back to the grassland and asked her to tell Star Sea Yudun that she had given up on an idea; Yu Xunge then left the burial ground.
• Yu Xunge posted a bounty for the Beaver Duke in the Battlefield Chat Channel and changed course toward the warm areas after Isolated Island Zhuri offered a clue.
• Yu Xunge learned that King's burial hours partly overlapped with the Beaver Duke's, but she failed to find either one despite searching the map for days.
• On her fifteenth day, Yu Xunge returned to the central clock, which Mountains Yudun had called special, and considered whether igniting it with her Soul Fire could make wishes come true.

Yu Xunge realized the answer to the miniature realm’s mystery lay in the Lantern and willingly trapped herself inside it. The Beaver Duke appeared, took the Lantern, and left after learning that Yu Xunge ranked first in Star Sea combat power.

• Yu Xunge studied the Star Fragments beneath the Clock Dial and wondered whether she and Mistblade were as trapped as the moon inside [Furious Moon].
• Mistblade suggested Yu Xunge focus on [Cat's Ideal], and Yu Xunge realized that the answer was in the Godly Relic.
• After waiting past the King's expected arrival, Yu Xunge used [Moon's Flipside] on herself and entered the Lantern.
• The Lantern dropped, but the Beaver Duke appeared and caught it before Mistblade could.
• The Beaver Duke asked Mistblade about her Star Sea combat ranking, learned Yu Xunge was first, then turned and left.

Yu Xunge recounted her rise in the Godly Game to the Beaver Duke while learning how Zhuri was connected to her. The conversation left Yu Xunge reflecting on how saving Zai Jiu had only marked the beginning of the real game.

• Yu Xunge answered the Beaver Duke’s questions about when and how she obtained the Lantern and [Cat's Ideal].
• Yu Xunge explained how [Furious Moon] had helped her survive the Godly Game and began telling the Beaver Duke her story.
• The Beaver Duke asked about Zhuri, then revealed that Zhuri carried a wisp of her soul fire.
• Yu Xunge joked with the Beaver Duke about her own flattery, and the Beaver Duke agreed that Yu Xunge had a point.
• Yu Xunge continued recounting her past, including her Wager with Demon, and reflected on how dragging Zai Jiu out of the invasion sequence had begun the game rather than ended it.

Yu Xunge asked the Beaver Duke to upgrade [Furious Moon], and the Beaver Duke agreed on the condition that Yu Xunge learn a skill faster than Zhuri had. The Beaver Duke sent Yu Xunge into one of her fairy tales to discover its name, while the Demon Tavern waited and speculated about her ordeal.

• Yu Xunge told the Beaver Duke that [Furious Moon] had originally possessed the skills Planet, Time-Space Walk, and Furious Moon.
• The Beaver Duke asked what conditions Yu Xunge would set for a future player seeking to upgrade her Godly Relic, and Yu Xunge listed three demanding standards.
• The Beaver Duke offered to upgrade [Furious Moon] if Yu Xunge learned a skill in less than the seven days Zhuri had needed to comprehend hers.
• The Beaver Duke pushed Yu Xunge into darkness and told her to find the name of the fairy tale, while B80 tried and failed to follow her.
• At the Demon Tavern, Chimney Smoke explained that the Beaver Duke often trapped visitors in her fairy tales, and Feiju wondered whether Qihua and Yudun had played each other’s mothers.

Yu Xunge entered the Beaver Duke’s Dark Fairy Tale as a fifteen-year-old destined to become a Mail Carrier, a dangerous profession in District 21. She learned that she would deliver her first letter alone the next day and ended the chapter investigating why Mail Carriers refused to discuss their deliveries, while repeatedly warning one another not to open their letters.

• Yu Xunge saw her aunt Qihua and learned the story’s rules, including that she had to stay in character.
• Yu Xunge recalled that Qihua had become a Mail Carrier at eight to protect and raise her after her parents died.
• Yu Xunge learned she had lost her attributes, skills, and equipment, and that the fairy tale would grow darker as its progress increased.
• Yu Xunge turned back to tell Qihua she was going out, then left to gather information in District 21.
• Yu Xunge listened to Mail Carriers describe strange letters but noticed they avoided discussing important details.
• Yu Xunge wondered whether her first delivery would grant her a skill and remembered the repeated warning: not to open her letter.