Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge left Mistblade and Maple Sugar to return to the Star Sea, setting a rule to teleport endangered Star Sea beings to her side. She offered worlds a chance to leave the war and travel with her, and Leaders across the Chaotic Star Sea pledged to follow.

• Yu Xunge realized that the Order Clock had not forced her out of the game and wondered whether earlier games had confined her within an invisible framework.
• Yu Xunge set a rule that would teleport Star Sea beings in the Burial Ground to her side when their maximum HP fell below 20%, despite Mistblade and Maple Sugar questioning the loss of choice.
• Yu Xunge departed with Tulan and B80 aboard the Cat's Ideal, leaving Mistblade and Maple Sugar behind.
• Yu Xunge invited worlds to leave the Invasion Sequence and travel with her, warning that their safety could depend on her survival.
• Leaders from worlds including Reef, Zelan, Tingzhou, Winter Sea, and Zichuan answered that they wanted to follow Yu Xunge.

Yu Xunge collected worlds from across the Star Sea while the accelerated pendulum threatened to enter in two days. After discovering that Mountain Players had infiltrated the Star Sea to hunt its leaders, she continued rescuing worlds and prepared to show the collected worlds what it meant to belong to the Arbiter.

• Yu Xunge began shrinking and collecting worlds, privately hinting to Zhuri, Huang Jin, and Zai Jiu Xianchan that the small Order Clock held a secret.
• Tingzhou Jing'e returned to Yu Xunge's ship after fighting Mountain Players and reported that five had attacked it; Yu Xunge suspected other Mountain Players had infiltrated the Star Sea.
• Yu Xunge collected more worlds with help from her six First Mates, while Mistblade, Maple Sugar, Zhuri, Huang Jin, Shark Leng, Prayer, and Grapefruit joined her aboard.
• Mountains synthesized its fourth Order Badge, and an announcement warned that the pendulum would enter the Star Sea in two days.
• Yu Xunge prioritized worlds with high star tiers and top-ranked leaders, and players learned that three Mountain Players had infiltrated the Star Sea to hunt World Leaders.
• Yu Xunge continued collecting worlds as the remaining players accepted that their worlds might be destroyed, then told Tingzhou Jing'e that the worlds belonged to the Arbiter.

Yu Xunge brought Star Sea Gods and players to Mountains after disrupting the Order Clock, intending to make it send its destructive pendulum into Mountains. The two sides reached a tense standoff, with the Star Sea forces shielding Yu Xunge as she declared herself the pendulum crashing into Mountains.

• Yu Xunge stopped after collecting her hundredth world and used the Ship's Wheel to take her passengers to the Burial Ground, where the Order Clock announced that order was in disarray and its pendulum had stopped.
• Yu Xunge opened a thirty-second route between the Star Sea and Mountains taverns, and players and mysterious figures boarded before the Order Clock resumed correcting itself.
• Yu Xunge caught the golden bullet Arbiter, then took the ship and its passengers to Mountains, where the Order Clock warned that it would enter Mountains in thirty order days.
• Mountain Gods gathered as Star Sea Gods and players faced them, but the Order Clock remained in disarray and the Star Sea forces protected Yu Xunge.
• Yu Xunge reminded the Mountain Gods that she was the pendulum crashing into Mountains.

Zai Jiu Xunge confronted the Mountain Gods after bringing 100 Star Sea worlds into Mountains, revealing that the Order Clock had changed direction and warning that Mountains could not escape Star Sea’s fate. She declared that she would return to Star Sea before 30 Days and bring Mountains into its Invasion Sequence so both worlds could face the final destruction together.

• Mountains Qihua told Zai Jiu Xunge that she could not keep the Star Sea worlds in Mountains forever.
• Zai Jiu Xunge sent the 100 worlds toward their people and warned the Mountain Gods that killing her would leave them trapped in Mountains.
• The Order Domain answered that it could not contain two dazzling seas of fire at once and predicted destruction.
• Zai Jiu Xunge declared that she would return to Star Sea before 30 Days and gather its worlds to face the coming destruction.
• Zai Jiu Xunge told the Mountain Gods she intended to bring Mountains into Star Sea’s Invasion Sequence, making its peace depend on Star Sea’s fate.

Zai Jiu Xunge persuaded the Star Sea Gods and Mountain Gods to accept a new arrangement, with Star Sea living aboard the Cat's Ideal while continuing to enter Godly Games. After settling them, she tried to leave for the Burial Ground, but her allies stopped her and demanded she take them along or deal with their extra teachers first.

• Zai Jiu Xunge proposed establishing a new order, and Mountains Qihua, Mountains Beaver Duke, and the others agreed to live in Mountains while Star Sea Players continued participating in Godly Games.
• Yu Xunge expanded the Cat's Ideal into a luxury ship for Star Sea, and Mountains Qihua, Mountains Beaver Duke, and several others argued over who counted as Yu Xunge's teacher.
• Mountains Qihua's flowers turned black when she learned Star Sea Qihua had been Yu Xunge's first teacher, and she stormed off.
• After Mountains Beaver Duke left, Yu Xunge invited the Star Sea Gods to choose rooms, then tried to leave for the Burial Ground.
• Mist Blade Fengtang, Zhuri, and Huang Jin restrained Yu Xunge and demanded she take them to the Burial Ground or handle the extra teachers herself; Yu Xunge promised to retrieve them once their maximum HP rose above 60%, then fled without Tulan.

Yu Xunge used the Order-tier Flower of Deceit on the Möbius Strip beneath the Order Clock and created a Golden Apple, then ate it after restoring her Second Phase state. The apple increased her Soul Fire limit by ten, and she vanished from the Cat's Ideal to test another idea.

• Zai Jiu Xunge raised Thunder over Mountains into a golden river before leaving, and Tulan regretted not clinging to her.
• Yu Xunge tried to trigger a reward from the Order Clock but received only a notification that a new event had been recorded.
• Yu Xunge poured nearly all her remaining Soul Fire into the Möbius Strip and formed a tiny Golden Apple, then returned to the Cat's Ideal to recover.
• After resting, Yu Xunge used Load Game and ate the apple, gaining ten points to her Soul Fire limit.
• Yu Xunge considered ways to create more apples and vanished from the Cat's Ideal to test something in her Second Phase state.

Yu Xunge discovered that the Order Clock’s pendulum could harm worlds and that its Star Fragments strengthened her Soul Fire, so she used Zai Jiu to repeatedly draw the fragments out. As she continued collecting them and growing stronger, her Order Talent “Sovereign” reached 92% progress.

• Yu Xunge linked her HP to Zai Jiu with the “Arbiter” bullet, then let the Order Pendulum strike Zai Jiu and trigger her Gemstone Brilliance passive.
• Yu Xunge realized the pendulum was a living being that could harm worlds, and suspected the Order Clock was cultivating wars and suffering to collect Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge issued a rewarded quest to Zai Jiu’s players, directing them to make noise and heal Zai Jiu so she could keep drawing Star Fragments from the pendulum.
• Yu Xunge repeatedly positioned Zai Jiu in the pendulum’s path, collecting Star Fragments that increased her Soul Fire cap, recovery, and insight while she used Save to preserve her gains.
• Zai Jiu Xianchan arrived after her HP fell to the Danger Line, noticed Yu Xunge’s immense aura, and began investigating the Order Clock.
• Yu Xunge’s incomplete Order Talent “Sovereign” reached 92% progress.

Yu Xunge awakened the Sovereign’s new-order ability by stripping soul fire from world fragments, transforming World Sigh and discovering it held records of earlier eras. She continued breaking down the fragments, while realizing the game’s lethal-weakness system might be sculpting players for an unknown purpose.

• Yu Xunge gathered worlds with high-level world skills and used their leaders’ abilities to speed up stripping soul fire from the pendulum.
• The time-mark dial in Yu Xunge’s consciousness shattered, and a platinum-white World Sigh formed, containing world fragments and accounts of past eras.
• Yu Xunge’s third ability, New Order, took shape, protecting her while she wrote new history and established a new order.
• Yu Xunge revised the World Sigh’s prologue and left its epilogue unfinished, then continued feeding worlds into the pendulum for three days.
• Yu Xunge found that her quests had turned gray but her four lethal weaknesses remained, and recalled Little Seahorse’s warning that she was being sculpted.

Yu Xunge discovered that her altered World Sigh could record the abilities of Divine Wills who touched her, and she began seeking out more visitors to test it. She remained at the Small Order Clock with the Star Sea Players, while Zhuri stayed trapped nearby by Yu Xunge’s safety rule.

• Yu Xunge kept Star Sea Players whose HP fell to the 20% Danger Line at her base, and Zhuri complained that the rule restrained her despite her fighting style.
• Yu Xunge worked the Small Order Clock with worlds while Star Sea Players watched the substance beneath it diminish and Divine Wills arrived to observe.
• A Mountain God tried to pull Yu Xunge into her time and touched her shoulder, causing Yu Xunge’s platinum book to record the Demon Talent ability “Nostalgia.”
• Yu Xunge realized she could record abilities through World Sigh and began teleporting to greet visitors, while Tulan and B80 kept watch.
• Zhuri offered Yu Xunge her ability, but Yu Xunge refused to risk harming her; Yu Xunge then clutched Youwo’s arm to keep her from escaping.

Yu Xunge recorded Youwo’s Talent Ability and learned more about Youwo’s devotion to Qihua and her willingness to sacrifice everything for her. Youwo began considering whether Qihua might favor rebellion, while Yu Xunge suggested that Youwo’s own death might have achieved her goal without endangering anyone else.

• Youwo approached Yu Xunge at the Order Pendulum, and Yu Xunge recorded her Talent Ability before pushing her away from Zhuri.
• Youwo spoke toward Qihua, saying she had shaped their shared past into the Lighthouse and would wait for Qihua to visit.
• Youwo asked Yu Xunge whether worshipping Qihua might make Qihua lose interest in her, but Zai Jiu Xianchan objected and Yu Xunge reminded her that she had cursed Qihua before.
• Youwo wondered whether Qihua liked rebellious people and whether she herself had not rebelled enough.
• Yu Xunge suggested that Youwo could have killed herself in front of Qihua instead of risking everything, and Youwo realized she had never considered that possibility.
• Youwo concluded that she would still stake everything if given another chance because she could not afford to lose.

Yu Xunge prepared the Star Sea Players to fight on their own while making sure she could restore them with her saves. After receiving the Beaver Duke’s Fairy Tale talent, she was watched by Mountains Yudun, who asked Yu Xunge for the matching sock.

• Youwo faded away before she could say anything else, and Zai Jiu Xianchan confronted Yu Xunge about their conversation.
• Tulan gave Zai Jiu Xianchan a boxed meal and explained that Yan Tu had been telling her stories; Zai Jiu Xianchan demanded that Yan Tu move out and announced she would move in herself.
• Yu Xunge saved each Star Sea Player at full HP and Soul Fire before they left the outpost, and she refused the Beaver Duke’s suggestion that she lead them against the Mountain Players.
• The Beaver Duke promised to set aside a minute for Yu Xunge and gave her a strand of hair, which recorded the talent ability Fairy Tale.
• Mountains Yudun asked Yu Xunge whether she had heard the notification saying she was being watched, then asked Yu Xunge to give her the other sock.

Yu Xunge remained in the Burial Ground after the game ended, then returned to the Chaotic Star Sea and began collecting more worlds as the Order Pendulum turned toward it. She brought players aboard the Cat's Ideal, where Mistblade was immediately drawn into Qihua's Mahjong game.

• Mountains Yudun recorded Yu Xunge's Clarity ability and explained that Divine Wills exchanged messages through the Burial Ground's lamps.
• After the Burial Ground game ended, Yu Xunge felt free of God's Gift and returned to the Cat's Ideal without receiving a settlement or reward.
• Yu Xunge headed back to the Chaotic Star Sea, where warnings said the Pendulum would enter it in 24 Order Days.
• Yu Xunge let the Cow Cat steer toward unfamiliar World Docks while she studied the order in her mind and the gods relaxed on deck.
• At B80's urging, Yu Xunge brought players aboard, and Mistblade arrived in time to hear Qihua declare an All Simples win.
• Yu Xunge gave Mistblade Mahjong tiles, then learned Tulan had picked up Mahjong advice from Little Seahorse and was secretly coaching Qihua, Yudun, and Graffiti.

After the war ended, Zai Jiu Xunge brought another world aboard the ship as the survivors celebrated and reunited with lost companions. Zai Jiu Xianchan learned that Yan Tu was safe in Zai Jiu, though she was appalled to hear Yan Tu had been spending nights away from home.

• Zai Jiu Xunge pulled a world from the War Sequence and brought it aboard, while the gods and Star Sea Players quietly watched.
• Maple Sugar returned Bear Cookies to Autumn Bear, and B80 told him he would have to wait for the missing Zai Jiu Bear Cookies to be bought back.
• Suya asked Maple Sugar to turn her into a cookie, but Maple Sugar flung her onto the mahjong table, where the Captain claimed victory and the others restarted the game.
• Zai Jiu Xianchan asked Zai Jiu Xunge to help her find Yan Tu, and Yu Xunge explained that Yan Tu was spending time with Zai Jiu Yuchuan and the Liang Family.
• Zai Jiu Xianchan reacted with disbelief when Yu Xunge told her that Yan Tu had been staying out overnight.

Yu Xunge used repeated Time Stops to record the histories and choices of many worlds, awakening a new movement in the deep-blue star fragments within her consciousness. She emerged changed and stronger, while Zhuri and Huang Jin sensed that her power had grown again.

• Yu Xunge told Zai Jiu Smoke Disciple that Zai Jiu Xianchan wanted her, and learned that Yan Tu was painting her walls.
• Yu Xunge activated [Waste Guide] and discovered that recording [Forest Sea] made a wisp of unknown flame flicker and the star fragments in her consciousness begin to move.
• Yu Xunge used successive Time Stops to record lost histories and differing choices from Forest Sea, Snow Village, Lighthouse, Mountain Isle, Tide, and other worlds.
• Zhuri noticed that her Snake-Shaped Brooch had entered attack mode, and she and Huang Jin realized someone had used Time Stop repeatedly.
• Yu Xunge emerged from the Captain's Quarters with an aura of history, and Zhuri told Huang Jin that she had grown stronger again.

Yu Xunge gathered the Star Sea Worlds and returned to Mountains before traveling across timelines to save worlds and investigate the Order Clock. She discovered that worlds could not leave their Time Domain and began wondering how she could contend with an enemy that had accumulated power across many Epochs.

• Yu Xunge brought Yan Tu aboard the Cat's Ideal and continued her History Homework while the gods discussed her growing strength and freedom from the game.
• Yu Xunge packed up the Star Sea Worlds, sailed back to Mountains, and then visited the Backup Timeline to honor her agreement with Undead Wildfire.
• Yu Xunge traveled across more than three hundred timelines and saved fifty where the games had progressed the least.
• At the center of the Burial Ground in Undead Wildfire's timeline, Yu Xunge saw intact Star Sea and Mountains beneath the Order Clock and suspected that pruned timelines fused into the survivors.
• Yu Xunge tried to take Zai Jiu to another Time Branch but learned that a world leaving its Time Domain would be annihilated.
• Qihua asked what was troubling Yu Xunge, and she laughed that he was easy to read.

Yu Xunge reflected on how Qihua’s guilt and eternal burden shaped her need for conflict, and the two recognized their shared resistance to control. After Yu Xunge discussed her timeline predicament and questions about who pruned timelines, Qihua gave her a Flower of Deceit for emergencies.

• Yu Xunge realized Qihua’s guilt over Fragrant Branch and her resistance to control explained her behavior and her unusual tolerance of Yu Xunge.
• Qihua and Yu Xunge acknowledged that they were alike, while Zai Jiu Xianchan and Yan Tu bickered nearby and Fat Goose disrupted them.
• Yu Xunge used Load Game to repeat the conversation with Qihua, then explained her predicament and asked what beings pruned timelines and judged which ones to keep.
• Qihua considered possible solutions but rejected them as too time-consuming and could offer no answer about the nature of timelines.
• Qihua gave Yu Xunge a Flower of Deceit to use in an emergency, then returned when Yu Xunge thanked her so she could hear the words again.

Yu Xunge created a peaceful school aboard the Cat's Ideal, using time loops and Time Stop so the players and gods could study and train together. She read Zhuri's fairy tale, Brilliant Imagination, and realized she had become Zhuri's greatest regret before Elf saw through Yu Xunge's attempt to recreate the story.

• Yu Xunge used Time Stop and repeated timeline saves to give the Cat's Ideal's players and gods more time to learn and train together.
• Yu Xunge took Zhuri to the Beaver Duke for lessons because no deity wanted to teach the Beaver Duke's heir.
• Zhuri asked Yu Xunge whether she had read Brilliant Imagination, and Yu Xunge told her it was the best fairy tale she had ever read.
• Yu Xunge learned that Zhuri's story imagined her growing up with Huang Jin and Xunge through endless seven-year cycles, and she realized she had become Zhuri's greater regret than Tian Huhaoqi.
• Yu Xunge tried to recreate Brilliant Imagination aboard the Cat's Ideal, but Elf saw through her plan.

Yu Xunge continued looping through time aboard the Cat's Ideal while recording every World Sigh, and the Mountains Beaver Duke and Mountains Qihua asked what it would take to bring Mountain Players and teachers aboard. After gaining the ability to pause the game and drawing on World Sigh's greater power, she reached the Order Clock and paused every timeline, but realized she still was not the creator.

• B80 and Tulan kept Yu Xunge oriented through her repeated time stops and reported the players' requests, including Yudun's wish to visit Mountains Yudun without her saving and reloading.
• The Mountains Beaver Duke and Mountains Qihua asked Yu Xunge to let Mountain Players and teachers aboard, but she asked what they thought she still needed.
• Yu Xunge finished writing down every World Sigh she had obtained and sensed that she had begun to touch the world's truth.
• Yu Xunge gained the Order ability [Pause Game] and paused Star Sea and Mountains, stopping even the Mountain Gods who could move during her time stops.
• Yu Xunge used World Sigh to gather the worlds aboard the Cat's Ideal, entered the Order Clock, and paused every timeline, but recognized that she was not the creator.

Yu Xunge traveled through paused timelines, collecting Star Fragments beneath their Order Clocks and observing alternate versions of people she knew. She left Undead Wildfire with more time to complete the Quiet Mountains Game, then continued exploring worlds and writing new possibilities.

• Yu Xunge left a few Star Fragments beneath the Small Order Clock to avoid waking the being buried within it, then took Tulan, B80, and the six first mates to another timeline.
• In the Undead Wildfire Timeline, Yu Xunge collected most of its Star Fragments and traveled through the silent world with her companions.
• Yu Xunge and her companions found Undead Wildfire carving a gemstone in a Mu Tree, while her Tulan slept and B80 played a game.
• Yu Xunge lifted the timeline's pause and told Undead Wildfire she would give her more time, promising to return after she finished the [Burial Ground] game.
• Yu Xunge teleported away, visited familiar people and abandoned World Docks, and wrote this timeline's World Sigh in various places.

After Undead Wildfire used her Light and Shadow talent to help save worlds, Yu Xunge left that timeline and searched across countless timelines for a way to beat the game. She ended in Forest Sea, watching another Maple Sugar face the approaching Bell Chime without a World Skill.

• Undead Wildfire explained that she could flip skills and worlds into shadow, using her Light and Shadow talent to affect the Star Sea.
• Yu Xunge told Undead Wildfire she was honored that they were the same person, then left her timeline.
• Yu Xunge traveled through timelines for ages, visiting alternate versions of familiar people and investigating Zai Jiu, Forest Sea, and the three items.
• Yu Xunge collected Variation Quicksand from each timeline’s Youwo, intending to give it to Lighthouse Youwo and taunt her that Qihua had never visited.
• Yu Xunge sat in Forest Sea and watched a red-haired Oak Owl, another Maple Sugar, as the Bell Chime approached and she lacked a World Skill.