Chapter Summaries

Mountains Xunge fully awakened her Demon Talent and destroyed Extra-Story Xunge, then forced Star Sea Xunge out of her Wildfire Rekindled state and struck at her. Yu Xunge intervened, and the chapter ended with the two Xunges facing each other as bluish smoke from the streetlamps flowed toward Mountains Xunge.

• Mountains Xunge lost control and relentlessly attacked Extra-Story Xunge after realizing that even her other self had betrayed her.
• At 10:19 p.m., Mountains Xunge fully ignited her Soul Fire and completed her understanding of her Demon Talent, City of Ruins.
• Mountains Xunge destroyed Extra-Story Xunge and issued a setting that forced Star Sea Xunge out of Wildfire Rekindled, spending 20 Soul Fire to do so.
• Mountains Xunge swung at Star Sea Xunge, but Yu Xunge blocked the strike with a white-gold lightning sword and restrained her with chains.
• Yu Xunge told Mountains Xunge that they were alike, as bluish smoke from the streetlamp flames streamed toward Mountains Xunge.

Yu Xunge used her newly transformed Crown of Flowers Murder and an automatic save to withstand Mountains Xunge’s timeline-changing attacks, then altered the battlefield to expose Mountain Players’ weaknesses. As both sides’ Soul Fire recovered, the fight continued, and the gods of Star Sea and Mountains traded an awkward exchange about who had taught Yu Xunge.

• Mountains Xunge fully lit her talent and broke free of God’s Gift, while Yu Xunge’s Crown of Flowers Murder mutated to absorb Soul Fire and copy other Flower Branches’ properties.
• After learning a new use for Save and Load Game, Yu Xunge restored her [Wildfire Rekindled · Second Phase] state when Mountains Xunge rewound her, then triggered an automatic reload when her Soul Fire was sealed.
• Yu Xunge made Mountain Players’ lethal weaknesses glow and Star Sea Players’ weaknesses disappear for a minute, forcing Mountains Xunge to stop targeting Zai Jiu Xunge’s settings and attack the Star Sea Players instead.
• Yu Xunge tried to load a version of Mountains Xunge from another timeline but failed, then sent platinum Thunder raining over the Mountain Players as her Soul Fire began recovering.
• Mountains Xunge accused Yu Xunge of playing dirty, and Mountains Qihua asked Yudun and Qihua whether they were Yu Xunge’s teacher; both denied it.

Yu Xunge helped Star Sea defeat the Mountain Players, then used the First Mates’ clues to discover that King had taken Tulan. She transformed into the hairless cat King favored and met the Divine Will as its new Captain.

• Yu Xunge killed several Mountain Players, while Mountains Xunge escaped after using an escape Godly Skill; Yu Xunge removed two lethal weaknesses and was left with 17.
• An announcement revealed that a Deity had been born in Mountains, Star Sea had achieved 20 kills, and the Order Clock had stopped for two days before its expected arrival in Star Sea in eight days.
• Zai Jiu Xunge and other Star Sea Players headed to the Respawn Point to camp for returning Mountain Players, while the deities departed and the Burial Ground bells celebrated Mountains Xunge igniting her Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge summoned [Cat's Ideal] and tried transforming into different cats to attract King, whose scent the First Mates said she and Tulan carried.
• Yu Xunge reset [This Cat Here]'s cooldown and transformed into a young hairless cat; King arrived riding Tulan and accepted Yu Xunge as its new Captain.

Yudun, Qihua, Feiju, and Mangmang discussed the differences between Mountains Xunge and Star Sea Xunge while Mountains Xunge hunted Star Sea Players with a group of Mountain Players. Yu Xunge reunited with Tulan and King, then learned that upgrading [Cat's Ideal] required sneaking into a Star Sea tavern to steal a drink.

• Feiju and Mangmang complained about Mountains Qihua interfering in player affairs, then discussed how Mountains Xunge had chosen to help Mountain Players while Star Sea Xunge would likely put her own goals first.
• Mountains Xunge joined nine other Mountain Players to hunt Star Sea Players in the Burial Ground.
• Tulan explained that she had spent her time trapped with King playing games, and Yu Xunge discovered King had stayed inside rather than exploring.
• King told Yu Xunge that her trial to upgrade [Cat's Ideal] was to sneak into a tavern where Star Sea gods gathered and steal a drink.
• King explained that the trial reflected Yu Xunge's adventures with [Cat's Ideal] and that stricter relic compatibility would have demanded a much harder trial.

Yu Xunge learned how the shrunken [Cat's Ideal] could hide from deities who had escaped God's Gift and prepared to sneak to the tavern. King sent her toward it, but then realized the ship's Hunting State might not fool certain Higher Deities.

• King explained that [Cat's Ideal] could shrink to its smallest form and use Soul Fire to evade detection, with each point lasting about a minute.
• Yu Xunge tested Hunting State while wrapped in the ship's flag and found she could leave the hull's immediate area, though the effect failed beyond 50 meters and doubled Soul Fire consumption.
• Yu Xunge prepared the ship, her companions, and her Lantern, then told King she was ready.
• King used [Absolute Freedom] to send Yu Xunge and [Cat's Ideal] toward the tavern with an automatic return set for one hour later.
• As the cats, dragon, and Little Robot watched the ship depart, King remembered that Hunting State could not fool some Higher Deities who specialized in making items.

Yu Xunge and Tulan searched the two Star Bridge taverns, and Yu Xunge chose the Demon Tavern to steal liquor from. As she reached its windowsill, Qihua detected their hidden boat and overheard their conversation, leaving Yu Xunge furious at Tulan’s teasing.

• Yu Xunge cautiously flew her children's boat past the crowded gods' tavern, where Captain and Drummer were, and headed for the Demon Tavern.
• Tulan and Yu Xunge discussed the powerful raid groups formed by the Star Sea Players and Mountain Players as they approached the tavern.
• Qihua noticed an anomaly near the windowsill, used her skills to see Yu Xunge and Tulan aboard the tiny boat, and listened to them speak.
• Tulan joked that Qihua and Yudun might make Yu Xunge sail them home and pour their drinks, and Yu Xunge snapped at Tulan for spending too much time with Zhao Shuying.

Yu Xunge and Tulan tried to cross the Demon Tavern unseen, but its hidden traps forced them to travel along a table. Qihua and Yudun appeared to help them while turning the tavern’s hazards into a new game, and Yudun revealed she had saved the filthy sock.

• Qihua asked Yudun what skill had destroyed the sock, and Yudun demonstrated how a thorn exploded after hitting invisible magical threads overhead.
• Yu Xunge abandoned the aerial route, then watched an Autumn Bear fall into a black hole when the floor beneath it lit up.
• Yu Xunge landed on Qihua and Yudun’s table, and Tulan asked them for advice on stealing liquor to upgrade Cat's Ideal.
• Qihua and Yudun began adding mood-responsive movement to the table’s cups, fruit, and other objects as a new tavern game.
• Yudun produced the saved filthy sock and said she planned to tear it in half and stuff the pieces into Mountains Yudun’s and Zai Jiu Xunge’s mouths.

Yu Xunge and Tulan secretly navigated a little boat across the gods’ tables while Yu Xunge overheard a hidden method for reducing lethal weaknesses. The Order Clock exposed her presence in the Tavern, leaving Qihua and Yudun to invent excuses as the gods watched them.

• Yu Xunge handed Tulan the Ship's Wheel and used the Flagpole to clear moving cups and other obstacles from their boat’s path.
• Tulan’s teasing made the ball of Dirty Socks Mountains Yudun had created turn into a Jet Mushroom, slowing the boat with stinking, knockback gas.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan passed Qihua’s table and overheard gods discussing how Players could reduce their lethal weaknesses.
• Yu Xunge received a warning from the Order Clock forbidding her from sharing the hidden method with other Star Sea Players.
• Autumn Bear was punished with an additional lethal weakness after Yu Xunge obtained the method, revealing that a Player was listening in the Tavern.
• Qihua and Yudun blamed the incident on a Player with an Eavesdropping Talent Ability or a prank by the Chaotic Star Sea while Yu Xunge and Tulan headed for the Bar Counter.

Yu Xunge and Tulan’s unauthorized entry triggered an Order Clock challenge that merged the Demon and Godly Taverns and transformed everyone inside into hairless cats. Five Mountains gods arrived to capture the intruder, but the chapter ended as they too transformed into cats.

• The Order Clock detected an outside-order error and offered the Star Sea gods a timed game: accept and risk a contest against five Mountains gods, or reject and have the intruder removed.
• Qihua accepted the quest, and more than half of the eligible gods voted to play before the countdown ended.
• The taverns merged, and everyone inside—including Yu Xunge, Tulan, Qihua, and Yudun—changed into hairless cats.
• Five Mountains gods, including Mountains Qihua and Mountains Beaver Duke, entered the tavern and transformed into hairless cats as well.

Yu Xunge and Tulan prepared to hide from the five Mountain Players in the Tavern while Star Sea and Mountains readied for a clash. The battle began, and the players discovered that Mountains’ locked health and Star Sea’s 50% warning line made it crucial for Star Sea to use control skills to keep the enemy from finding the unnamed intruder.

• As the countdown dwindled, Qihua and Yudun watched the five Mountain Players while Yu Xunge and Tulan steered their boat toward a hiding spot.
• Yu Xunge concealed the [Furious Moon], changed Tulan’s form and name to Book Shadow, and changed her own name to avoid being identified.
• When the countdown ended, the Mountain Players stamped their feet and unleashed skill auras, but Star Sea Players countered with their own domains.
• The Star Sea and Mountain gods began fighting, and they discovered that Mountains’ health bars were locked while Star Sea Players would leave the game if their HP fell below 50%.
• Star Sea Players realized they could not kill the Mountain Players and had to use control skills to stop them from finding the unnamed intruder in the Tavern.

Yu Xunge hid in Star Sea's tavern while the Star Sea Gods fought the Mountain Gods, trying to obtain liquor for her game quest without being discovered. The Mountain Gods began destroying the tavern's drinks and vessels, leaving her search for a bottle under growing pressure.

• The Star Sea and Mountain Gods fought inside the tavern as Yu Xunge and Tulan steered their boat through the battle.
• Mountains Qihua found Yu Xunge, but a pink-haired Star Sea cat tackled her aside, letting Yu Xunge use Absolute Freedom to relocate.
• Star Sea Qihua warned Yu Xunge that Mountains Qihua could follow her thoughts, then severed their link when Yu Xunge's repetitive thoughts gave her a headache.
• Mountain Players suspected that Star Sea Xunge had entered the tavern to upgrade a Godly Relic, but the Order Clock did not confirm a capture.
• Mountains Qihua told Mountains Beaver Duke and Mountain Howl to clear out the tavern and destroy its drinks and vessels.

Yu Xunge weighed the risks of stealing liquor as Mountains Qihua deliberately stirred up chaos, then used Beaver Duke-tier [Furious Moon] to travel to another timeline. She escaped the cats’ attempt to catch her, while the tavern’s bombardment continued.

• Mountains Qihua ordered the other Mountains deities to attack, and the ensuing skills sent protected liquor bottles flying through the tavern.
• Yu Xunge considered using [Absolute Freedom] to reach a bottle but realized the deities could prevent her from leaving, and suspected Mountains Qihua had baited her into acting.
• Yu Xunge decided to use [Furious Moon] and told the others to cover her while she activated [Time-Space Walk].
• The tavern went dark as the cats tried to stop Yu Xunge, but when the lantern lit again, they realized she had escaped to another timeline.
• Star Sea Qihua mocked Mountains Qihua, and Yudun teased Star Sea Qihua about licking her paw.

Yu Xunge stole a bottle of liquor from another timeline and returned to the tavern, where Mountains Beaver Duke’s words left the Star Sea Players speechless. She spent fifteen Soul Fire points to give Star Sea beings a new faction talent, setting the stage for the battle to resume.

• Yu Xunge checked that Qihua and Yudun were absent, then summoned Tulan and used [Time-Space Walk] to steal a bottle of liquor from another timeline.
• After Yu Xunge returned to her timeline, Yudun noticed a bottle missing, and Qihua identified the thief as Furious Moon from another timeline.
• Mountains Beaver Duke argued that Mountains and Star Sea suffered in different ways, leaving the Star Sea Players silent and halting the fighting.
• Yu Xunge spent fifteen Soul Fire points to give Star Sea beings the talent [What Are You Babbling About], which gave their attacks a chance to make Mountains beings drool.
• The Star Sea Players brightened at the new talent as Yu Xunge hid behind a White Hairless Cat to watch what happened next.

Yu Xunge reflected on whether Cat's Ideal still suited her before deciding to upgrade it. King began the upgrade after she affirmed that Cat's Ideal and Furious Moon could both belong to her.

• Yu Xunge wondered whether Cat's Ideal still matched her, while the First Mates silently trusted her to find her own answer.
• Yu Xunge hid with Tulan inside the lamp as Star Sea and Mountains fought in the Tavern.
• King asked Yu Xunge whether she was sure about upgrading Cat's Ideal and warned that a relic could leave if their compatibility fell short.
• Yu Xunge said that Cat's Ideal and Furious Moon were not contradictory as long as she still yearned for life outside the cage.
• King pressed his paw to the Ship's Wheel, and light enveloped Cat's Ideal.

Yu Xunge learned how [Cat's Ideal] had changed after its upgrade and discussed what made her suited to the relic. After she followed King to learn its hidden tricks, the deities debated why so few beings matched [Cat's Ideal] and concluded that Yu Xunge's knack for drawing others to her might be one of its hidden traits.

• King explained that Yu Xunge suited [Cat's Ideal] because she refused to let others judge her past, control her present, or dictate her future.
• Yu Xunge reviewed the upgraded relic's skills, including its soul-fire restoration, expanded time stop, timeline travel, and the passive removal of five lethal weaknesses.
• When asked to choose between [Cat's Ideal] and [Furious Moon], Yu Xunge praised both, then summoned her six First Mates and asked King which one he liked best.
• King led Yu Xunge, who had transformed into Black Hairless Cat, away to explain the relic's hidden tricks as the others watched them go.
• After the Demon Tavern's battle, Feiju questioned why so few players matched [Cat's Ideal], and Yudun suggested its hidden trait was a fickle heart or a tendency to attract everyone one knew.

Yu Xunge learned how the divine wills awakened in the Burial Ground and why Lighthouse Youwo received extra time, then asked King about an unusual ancient will. She realized Youwo’s address could be intended to trap her, and suspected Youwo’s choices stemmed from her devotion to Qihua.

• Yu Xunge asked King whether she could enter the Burial Grounds at will, and King explained that she could only find them during brief awakenings and needed their inhabitants’ consent.
• King told Yu Xunge that divine wills set aside part of their awakening time to wait for the living beings they missed, and explained that the Order Clock favored Lighthouse Youwo’s intensely burning Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge asked King who appeared between 3:10:38 and 3:15:19 in the morning, and King warned that the ancient will of Mountains could trap a Zai Jiu Player until the Burial Ground game ended.
• Tulan accused Youwo of trying to hurt Yu Xunge, while Yu Xunge concluded that Youwo’s actions came from her devotion to Qihua rather than childish jealousy.

Yu Xunge studied the Small Order Clock with Mistblade and Maple Sugar while trying to understand its hidden use and redeem her Arbiter benefits. She discovered that pouring Soul Fire into a Star Fragment triggered a once-per-Star-Sea-day blessing, then B80 urged her to think about how she became the Zaijiu Arbiter.

• Yu Xunge left King and returned with Tulan and B80, then went to study the Small Order Clock while her companions searched the Battlefield Chat Channel.
• Mistblade explained that Mountains Mistblade had used her Demon Talent word, “Sinking,” to sway her Warden, and that Mountains Xunge had stopped her from using it on Yu Xunge.
• Mistblade told Yu Xunge that she had become the Star Sea Emperor because Star Sea Players now most wanted to kill her, after the players’ childish battle rules made the sides break up.
• Maple Sugar joined Yu Xunge and Mistblade in studying the Small Order Clock, and Yu Xunge warned them that it had an important use she could not reveal without punishment.
• Yu Xunge tried calling Zai Jiu to the clock without success, then poured Soul Fire into a Star Fragment and received 50 Soul Fire through the Order Clock’s once-per-day blessing.
• B80 told Yu Xunge to think about how she had become the Zaijiu Arbiter.

Yu Xunge discovered that the Order Clock had started a second vote to decide whether she would remain Zai Jiu’s Arbiter, and she challenged Zai Jiu to recognize her value to the world. As players rushed to vote yes, Yan Tu learned that they feared losing their Arbiter.

• The Order Clock initiated a second Arbiter vote, asking Zai Jiu’s adult humans whether Yu Xunge should continue as Arbiter as the war neared its end.
• Yu Xunge realized the wording could turn people against her and let the star fragments pass through her hand without explaining herself.
• Zai Jiu asked Yu Xunge whether she was still willing to die fighting for Zai Jiu, and Yu Xunge said Zai Jiu should consider what she meant to the world and whether it could keep her.
• Players heard their exchange and began frantically voting yes to keep Yu Xunge as Arbiter.
• Yan Tu asked a player about the vote and learned that people feared the Arbiter would leave; a passerby joked that another pretty race might lure her away, prompting a passing crab to glare at them.

After becoming the Zaijiu Arbiter, Yu Xunge used an upgraded gold coin to improve her rewards and remove eight more Lethal Weaknesses. She upgraded [Mysterious Power] and [Flower of Deceit], leaving Maple Sugar and Mistblade to wonder what mischief she was imagining.

• The Order Clock confirmed Yu Xunge's appointment as Zaijiu Arbiter and granted her improved rewards for her recorded actions.
• Yu Xunge upgraded the rewards with [Endless Gold Coin], increasing the number of Lethal Weaknesses removed and the skills she could upgrade.
• Yu Xunge used the Order Clock to remove eight Lethal Weaknesses, leaving her with four.
• Yu Xunge upgraded [Mysterious Power] and [Flower of Deceit], giving the skills stronger effects and new Soul Fire costs.
• Maple Sugar recalled Yu Xunge tying Mistblade's tails together with a Hair Tie, and Mistblade admitted she had been awake.

Yu Xunge upgraded her skills and reflected on her growing power to protect worlds, while the Order Clock’s pendulum began accelerating toward the Star Sea. After Mistblade recalled how order had briefly stopped the pendulum before, Yu Xunge hit on a plan: smuggling.

• Yu Xunge upgraded [Set Sail Before the Sigh] and [Doomsday Party], gaining the ability to hold and move worlds and to use living beings’ emotions as a barrier.
• Yu Xunge noticed her Deity Talent Word progress had reached 90%.
• B80 reported that Mountains Shark Leng had given his HP to the Mountain Players, then fallen asleep in a coffin while they attacked scattered Star Sea Players.
• The Order Clock announced that its pendulum would enter the Star Sea in five days.
• Mistblade recalled that the pendulum had stopped when order fell into slight disorder, and Yu Xunge realized she could use smuggling to disrupt order.