Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge explored timelines where her counterparts made different choices and learned how those choices affected Zai Jiu, Queque, and Mountain Isle. She found Queque in Mountain Isle, where Shark Leng’s cautious leadership had kept the Shark Forest Clan alive.

• Yu Xunge discovered that Forest Sea Maple Sugar had made a souvenir cookie of her failed Zai Jiu counterpart.
• Yu Xunge visited Mistblade and learned that this timeline’s Zai Jiu Xunge never returned from Card Swap, leaving Mistblade and Maple Sugar to grow up with the players until Zai Jiu shattered.
• B80 told Yu Xunge that the timeline’s Xunge had gone to Dawn, Zaijiu Yitong had gone to Tiger Ear, and Mistblade had asked Huashu to save humans by taking them to Snow Village.
• Yu Xunge found a timeline where Queque stayed silent about the method for strengthening the Celestial Phenomenon Tribe and kept fighting in the Godly Game.
• Yu Xunge found Queque in Mountain Isle, where Shark Leng had used careful invasions and trade to keep his clan alive.

Yu Xunge traveled through timelines, recorded their histories, and brought her Order Talent, Sovereign, to 99.9% without finding the unknown enemy. Returning to her timeline, she shut down the Godly Game and Demon Game and announced an Arbiter Game as the condition for the Mountain Gods and Mountain Players to board.

• Yu Xunge realized Lighthouse Youwo feared Qihua’s return and left Youwo’s Burial Ground with the Variation Quicksand.
• Yu Xunge found a timeline where Lighthouse survived through peaceful cooperation with Gua Zai, but neither world survived the first Bell Toll.
• Yu Xunge recorded the timelines and their gods’ abilities in World Sigh, gathered order fragments, and reached 99.9% progress on Sovereign.
• Yu Xunge returned to her timeline and resumed time, startling the assembled players and gods with her changed presence.
• Yu Xunge permanently shut down the Godly Game and Demon Game and made boarding conditional on playing her Arbiter Game after a hundred-year pause.

Yu Xunge gave the Star Sea a peaceful hundred years, and people settled into ordinary lives across their worlds. The chapter ended when Maple Sugar asked Yu Xunge to explain adolescence after Feng Mu began acting out to create excitement.

• Yu Xunge paused the Order Clock, restored time throughout the worlds, and made the Cat's Ideal a place of learning.
• Yu Xunge settled into palace life with her companions while the people of Zai Jiu created new games and competitions after the war ended.
• Yu Xunge and Mistblade walked through Zai Jiu, where some little cookies chose to remain in cookie form and Mistblade joked about her subjects' unusual requests.
• Yu Xunge accepted a call from Maple Sugar, who asked what adolescence meant.
• Maple Sugar explained that Feng Mu had declared herself Zaijiu Yitong and dared Maple Sugar to hunt her down because she was restless without war or dungeons.

Su Yitong grew restless under the century-long ceasefire, and Yu Xunge realized that Maple Sugar and the others no longer treated her as Feng Mu. Yu Xunge sent Su Yitong a Pass to Zai Jiu, then went to grant the beings in other timelines a hundred years to prepare for the coming confrontation.

• Su Yitong hoped Maple Sugar would send troops after she left a letter, frustrated by a peaceful life with no wars or dungeons.
• Yu Xunge told Maple Sugar that Su Yitong was not Feng Mu, and Maple Sugar agreed that they treated them as separate people.
• Yu Xunge recognized the woman Su Yitong had spared from her clan and learned Su Yitong had avoided the war between Zelan and Zai Jiu by remaining unconscious.
• Yu Xunge sent Su Yitong a Pass that allowed her to travel between Zelan and Zai Jiu.
• After leaving Mistblade and Tulan at the Mahjong Parlor, Yu Xunge went to other timelines and decided to give their inhabitants a hundred years as well.

Yu Xunge planned a new Player Relic: a vast illustration of the worlds on the brink of destruction, assembled from scenes of each world. As she worked on the Cat's Ideal, players and gods crowded around and brought her gifts, while Tulan tried to stop them from distracting her.

• Yu Xunge attended Yudun's lecture on Skill Reorganization and sketched a caricature that drew rebukes from Xianchan and Yudun.
• Yu Xunge repaired Hechipa's Minotaur alarm clock while Little Maki worried about visiting Zai Jiu, and she told Maki that people should treat each day as if it might be their last.
• Yu Xunge decided to create a new relic called World Sigh, depicting each world just before it shattered, with ten thousand small scenes forming an image of the Cat's Ideal carrying little worlds.
• Yu Xunge spent a year designing the illustration's layout and color plan, then began painting while players watched and made requests.
• Qihua brought Yu Xunge flower branches, and Yudun gave her a case of rare gems as gifts and encouragement.
• Autumn Bear's Bear Mud and Bear Cookies crowded around Yu Xunge as she painted, prompting Tulan to complain and offer to slap her; Yu Xunge kicked Tulan off the bed.

Yu Xunge and Qihua realized the Mechanical Race might be more than ordinary NPCs and decided to include the Abandoned Zone in the world puzzle. Yu Xunge kept her contract with B80, leaving Qihua wondering why she was not upset that it had lied to her.

• Yu Xunge noticed the Abandoned Zone was missing from her puzzle and said the Mechanical Race should have been included.
• Yu Xunge told Qihua she suspected the entire Mechanical Race, citing its unusual access to worlds’ networks and the way races were pruned like faulty code.
• Qihua explained that the Mechanical Race had been said to be created by a god, produced in a factory, and never fully wiped out between Epochs.
• Qihua said a Mechanical Race member had awakened a God-Bestowed Talent because of her, but the Little Robot had disappeared by the next Epoch.
• Yu Xunge decided to add the Abandoned Zone and keep B80’s contract, saying the connection went both ways.
• Qihua asked why Yu Xunge was not sad or angry that B80 had lied to her.

Yu Xunge explained why she could not stay angry at B80, then accidentally upset Qihua while recounting what she had said in the Burial Ground. As B80 grew happier after the Abandoned Zone joined the jigsaw, Yu Xunge reflected on her complicated friendship with Y128 and considered inviting it aboard.

• Yu Xunge told Qihua that she could not blame B80 because it had left the Abandoned Zone seeking real emotions, and Qihua asked what Yu Xunge had done in her Burial Ground.
• Yu Xunge admitted that she had told Youwo that Qihua cried after hearing Mountains Qihua say there was no Fragrant Branch left in the Star Sea.
• Qihua denied crying, then sat still while Yu Xunge ended Time Stop so B80 would not notice their argument; minutes later, Qihua left after saying Yu Xunge’s Crown of Flowers Murder had hit her.
• B80 happily showed Yu Xunge its new spring-shaped antennae and said it thought she liked Y128 because its antenna was cute.
• Yu Xunge sketched a sunflower and explained that she liked Y128 because their friendship had grown through a complicated history, then considered bringing it aboard before noticing Qihua’s pointed look.

Yu Xunge spent New Year's Eve in Zai Jiu surrounded by her teachers and friends, savoring a rare moment of uncomplicated happiness. When B80 asked whether they would become enemies in the future, Yu Xunge asked it not to reveal or calculate what might happen and promised to remember that a future attack would not truly be B80.

• Qihua asked Yu Xunge whether other versions of her had visited someone in the Burial Ground, and Yu Xunge said none had.
• Mountains Xunge and Mountains Xianchan argued about whether Mountains Xunge could take the Beaver Duke as her official teacher, then agreed to celebrate New Year's together in Zai Jiu.
• Yu Xunge invited Qihua to celebrate New Year's with them and used Crown of Flowers Murder to bring her teachers and friends to her home.
• Yu Xunge shared a joyful New Year's dinner with her guests, then lay on the roof with Tulan to look at the night sky.
• B80 asked Yu Xunge whether they would become enemies, and Yu Xunge told it not to expose the moment or calculate the future; B80 asked her to remember that any future attack would not truly be it.

Yu Xunge explained to Mountains Xunge why she had allowed Zai Jiu’s players to seek revenge themselves and why Su Yitong and Liang Yuchuan had survived, then finished paintings depicting the worlds and the Isolated Island. The chapter left her sharing with Huang Jin the story behind the Isolated Island painting, “Brilliant Imagination.”

• Yu Xunge’s painting of Star Sea and the Mountains began joining World Sigh piece by piece, drawing the attention of players and gods.
• Mountains Xunge questioned Yu Xunge about sparing Su Yitong and Liang Yuchuan and about her choices involving Zelan and Mountains.
• Yu Xunge explained that Zai Jiu’s players could take revenge themselves in Zelan, Moon Fox, and Oak Owl, and that Su Yitong and Liang Yuchuan had survived through their own efforts and bargaining chips.
• Yu Xunge and Mountains Xunge argued over how differently they handled grudges and relationships, then Mountains Xunge left when time resumed.
• Yu Xunge painted the Isolated Island scene “Brilliant Imagination” and told Huang Jin how a Moon Bear and Snowman recalled a past timeline and her “Springtime Moon Bear” fairy tale.

Yu Xunge painted Lighthouse and learned more about how Mountains Xianchan and Yan Tu had been copied when Lighthouse was destroyed. After Mountains Xianchan heard the tangled story involving Star Sea Xunge and Star Sea Xianchan, Mountains Mistblade asked, “Then what about Little Seahorse?”

• Yu Xunge hesitated over how to portray Xianchan in her Lighthouse painting until Zai Jiu Xianchan told her to paint silver hair and explained that Mountains Xianchan and Yan Tu had been copied when Lighthouse was destroyed.
• Yu Xunge finished the painting with a red droplet and added Qihua and Crown of Flowers Murder as two tiny branches, while Zai Jiu Xianchan objected.
• Mountains Xianchan cornered Zai Jiu Chun Ke and asked about Star Sea Xunge and Star Sea Xianchan, so he took her to the Café to tell the story.
• Mountains Xianchan recounted the story to Mountains Mistblade, including Star Sea Xunge’s conflicts, her gift of Dawn to Zai Jiu Xunge, and her family’s move to Zai Jiu.
• Mountains Mistblade asked, “Then what about Little Seahorse?” leaving Mountains Xianchan puzzled about who that was.

Yu Xunge reflected on her unfinished illustration and asked Qihua whether she wanted to join the arbiter game, which Qihua agreed to play. On the way home, Yu Xunge told Tulan how Su Yitong had secretly added Maple Sugar and the others to her family genealogy because she wanted them to be family.

• Yu Xunge watched the others travel into the city and asked Qihua why she had chosen Yu Xunge as her drawing teacher.
• Qihua said she wanted to play Yu Xunge's final arbiter game, even though it was a little far away.
• Yu Xunge stopped Tulan near the former Su Family manor, now Little Biscuit's home, and remembered Maple Sugar's account of Su Yitong adding the others to her family genealogy.
• Yu Xunge explained to Tulan that Su Yitong no longer cared about her name and wanted to claim Maple Sugar, Feng Cang, and Feng Ran as family.

After a hundred years of painting, Yu Xunge completed World Sigh’s ten-thousand-piece illustration and gained the [Game Invasion] Authority. The Order Clock broke free of her seal, and the Arbiter Game was announced to begin in three Order Days.

• Yu Xunge transferred her four lethal weaknesses into the illustration’s puzzle pieces and painted Zelan’s sigh as bones before an empty, blood-red Throne.
• Over a hundred years, Yu Xunge completed ten thousand paintings while Qihua and B80 watched her work.
• Yu Xunge finished the final painting of the Abandoned Zone, including herself and the robot B80, and completed the illustration in World Sigh.
• The completed illustration granted Yu Xunge the [Game Invasion] (Authority), while flames above all living beings pointed toward the sky.
• The Order Clock shattered Yu Xunge’s seal, and the Arbiter Game was announced to begin in three Order Days.

On the eve of the final game, Yu Xunge spent time with Zhuri and visited Shen Yushi and Zhao Shuying, reflecting on the lives they had made during the long peace. She offered Zhao Shuying one wish, and the chapter ended as Zhao Shuying asked whether it could be any wish at all.

• Zhuri told Yu Xunge she had no regrets because she dealt with them as soon as they arose, then admitted she did not like horror stories after hearing about a timeline in which Yu Xunge died.
• Yu Xunge shared a meal with Shen Yushi and learned that Yi Qiuguo and Yu Qingshan were living ordinary lives nearby, then decided not to visit them.
• Tulan broke the quiet mood at Shen Yushi's home by offering to produce another crate of dragon dung.
• Yu Xunge arrived at Zhao Shuying's home, joked with her and their companions, and settled in for a conversation.
• Yu Xunge offered to grant Zhao Shuying one wish, and Zhao Shuying asked whether she could wish for anything at all.

Yu Xunge asked Zhao Shuying for a wish while admitting she did not know whether her plan to take the worlds with her would succeed. Zhao Shuying asked Yu Xunge to take her along, then told Zai Jiu that Yu Xunge mattered more to both of them than Zai Jiu itself.

• Yu Xunge offered Zhao Shuying any wish and confessed she was unsure whether she should take all the worlds with her or could succeed.
• Zhao Shuying recalled that Zai Jiu had once asked whether she valued Zai Jiu or Yu Xunge more.
• Zhao Shuying firmly asked Yu Xunge to take her along, whether or not Yu Xunge took Zai Jiu, and Yu Xunge agreed.
• After Yu Xunge left, Zai Jiu said Zhao Shuying had chosen Yu Xunge over Zai Jiu.
• Zhao Shuying said her ideals mattered most and suggested that Zai Jiu also considered Yu Xunge more important.

Yu Xunge refused to take B80 back to the First Epoch, fearing the Mechanical Race might be behind everything and that B80 could expose her plans. Their confrontation awakened B80’s God-Bestowed Talent and transformed it into L, which destroyed 7777’s Cube and demanded to go with her.

• B80 asked Yu Xunge to take it to the First Epoch, but she offered excuses and refused.
• Yu Xunge admitted she feared B80 might betray her, then said its programming had never changed across timelines.
• B80’s Cube erupted with light as it awakened a God-Bestowed Talent and grew into a towering black-iron humanoid.
• The Order Pendulum broke free of Yu Xunge’s restraints as B80 transformed into L.
• L crushed 7777’s Cube and told Yu Xunge to take it instead.

Yu Xunge failed to restore 7777 and confronted B80 over its demand for her loyalty, dissolving their contract before B80 re-established it and disappeared. As the Order Clock advanced toward the Mountains and the Mechanical Race vanished from the star system, Yu Xunge reassured Tulan that she was strong enough to trust her.

• Yu Xunge tried to load 7777's file, but Mechanical Race permissions blocked her from reading its programs.
• B80 asked why Yu Xunge had never used Load Game on it, and Yu Xunge explained that she had kept it in the Tenth Epoch to avoid betrayal and danger.
• B80 calculated Yu Xunge and claimed that its loyalty to her grew with each calculation, but Yu Xunge dissolved their contract.
• B80 linked them again with an Equal Contract, promised to prove programs were more reliable than emotions, and vanished.
• Yu Xunge found the Small Order Clock gone, a dark red Cube in its place, and the Order Clock racing toward the Mountains as every trace of the Mechanical Race disappeared.
• Tulan said she would not betray Yu Xunge, and Yu Xunge gathered her into her arms and said she trusted her.

Yu Xunge discovered that the Old Order had begun to awaken across the Timelines after B80 connected to it, and she gathered her allies to investigate. She announced an early Arbiter Game to return to the First Epoch, then clashed with Qihua over her aversion to loyalty and betrayal.

• Yu Xunge found that she could not pause the Timeline and that the Small Order Clocks and Mechanical Race had vanished across the other Timelines.
• Yu Xunge returned to Zai Jiu, where her allies had gathered, and told them B80 had connected to the Old Order and recounted what had happened.
• Yu Xunge and her allies discussed B80, the Mechanical Race, and the Abandoned Zone until Yu Xunge announced that she would start the Arbiter Game early and return to the First Epoch through a Game Invasion.
• Qihua confronted Yu Xunge on the Palace roof, arguing that Yu Xunge rejected loyalty because she feared losing control, and Yu Xunge countered by mentioning Youwo's loyalty to Qihua.

Yu Xunge visited Undead Wildfire in her Timeline to explain her plan to return to the First Epoch and uncover the source of the disasters. They compared their histories and secrets, leaving Yu Xunge stunned to learn that Qihua could paint.

• Yu Xunge told Undead Wildfire she would take her Timeline back to the First Epoch to seek the truth, while Undead Wildfire warned that their return could cause the disasters they hoped to prevent.
• Undead Wildfire agreed to fight alongside Yu Xunge whenever summoned, though she asked to be called only for a Deathmatch.
• Undead Wildfire explained that Teacher Yudun had given her a Gemstone Eye, which was Mountains Yudun's right eye, and that she had grown a Gemstone Eye of her own to return it later.
• Undead Wildfire said Qihua had planted a seed in her left eye that grew into her flower branch, while Yu Xunge was unsure whether Qihua had given her flower branch too.
• Yu Xunge and Undead Wildfire compared their experiences with Yudun and Qihua, and Yu Xunge learned that Qihua had taught Undead Wildfire to paint better than Graffiti.

Yu Xunge realized Qihua had secretly known how to draw and had deceived her by accepting drawing lessons, but chose not to confront her. She gathered the remaining worlds into World Sigh and set out with Cat’s Ideal for the Order Clock, while Qihua wondered whether Yu Xunge had discovered her trick.

• Yu Xunge remembered the mysterious help she received while drawing her Player Relic and suspected Qihua had been the Deity behind its upgrade.
• Yu Xunge told Undead Wildfire that Qihua had known how to draw while letting Yu Xunge teach her, then left without exposing her.
• Undead Wildfire told Yudun about Yu Xunge’s exploits in another world, including making Yudun and Qihua fight with a scallion and a carrot.
• Yu Xunge gathered the Godly Game Players and the surviving Star Sea worlds into Cat’s Ideal and World Sigh, causing the worlds’ puzzle pieces to light up and enter suspended time.
• Mountains Beaver Duke accepted that Mountains might share the Star Sea’s fate, and Yu Xunge sealed the illustration before Cat’s Ideal sailed toward the Order Clock.
• Qihua asked who they still needed to pick up, while Yu Xunge decided to keep quiet about Qihua’s deception and Qihua wondered what Yu Xunge had discovered.

Yu Xunge led the living aboard the ship away from the awakened Old Order by carrying them back to the First Epoch through the Bridge of Sighs. She launched the Arbiter Game, giving the players 30 Order Days to find the Order Clock’s flaw, escape the Möbius Strip, and discover the Star Sea and the Mountains’ future.

• Yu Xunge opened World Sigh and invited the wills in the Burial Ground to join her journey back to the First Epoch or remain behind, and Youwo and the other gods entered their worlds within a painting.
• Yu Xunge warned the players not to reveal their identities in the First Epoch and declared that the story should begin and end with a game invasion.
• Yu Xunge used World Sigh and the Cat’s Ideal to create the Bridge of Sighs, aiming to reach the moment the Order Clock first rang and delay B80’s awakening.
• Yu Xunge explained that the bridge and her delay of B80 would last 30 Order Days, then leapt onto the bridge with Tulan.
• Yu Xunge established the Arbiter Game, setting its quests, rewards, and rules for players invading the First Epoch.