Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge summoned the top-ranked players across Star Sea to join a war against Prison 8017, after every leader agreed to let their people participate. Su Yitong accepted the invitation and was asked to choose between Zai Jiu, Zelan, and Forest Sea, realizing the summons was also an invitation to come home.

• Yu Xunge saw Prison 8017 clearly and concluded that Star Sea Prisoner needed more players to occupy its hundred million cells in time.
• Yu Xunge proposed summoning the top ten thousand players from every world and granting Jailers the power to challenge prisoners and seize their cells.
• The leaders of the worlds agreed to the summons, and Yu Xunge launched the Final Battle: The Last Prisoner invitation.
• Su Yitong accepted the invitation and was asked to select Zai Jiu, Zelan, or Forest Sea as her world.
• Liang Yuchuan noticed Su Yitong had stopped and asked whether she had received an invitation.
• Su Yitong smiled and said she had received an invitation asking whether she wanted to come home.

Yu Xunge divided Ash Prison into cells and established a jailer game for Star Sea Players to conquer prisoners and control their cells. Afterward, Su Yitong thanked her for a chance to choose whether to fight for Zai Jiu or Zelan, but Yu Xunge explained that the offer had been generated automatically, leaving their relationship teasingly unresolved.

• Yu Xunge summoned Star Sea Players into Ash Prison and divided the prison into smaller areas for them to occupy.
• Yu Xunge created the War Game: Attack of the Jailer, allowing players to defeat prisoners, claim cells, and earn wages by paying Soul Fire to renew the game.
• Yu Xunge discovered that Su Yitong was the last player to arrive and heard her thank her for giving her a choice between Zai Jiu and Zelan.
• Yu Xunge clarified that the choice had appeared automatically because Su Yitong had ties to both sides, while Su Yitong teased her about breaking their silent treatment.
• Yu Xunge left the cell with Tulan and dismissed Su Yitong’s teasing, while Tulan reflected on Yu Xunge’s tolerance toward those she considered too weak to threaten her.

Yu Xunge questioned the group about whether prisoners awakened God-Bestowed Talents, then discussed the nature of soul fire with the Ash Inspector. The Inspector classified its yearning for soul fire as an unassessable error and chose to save and encrypt it.

• Yu Xunge asked the group whether prisoners awakened God-Bestowed Talents, and learned they gained one upon imprisonment and could later upgrade it.
• The Ash Inspector said it could have a God-Bestowed Talent but did not, because it regarded soul fire and emotion as errors that weakened a perfect program.
• The Star Sea Prisoner explained that she had caused the Inspector's future branch program to awaken the Beyond the Program talent, which the law program later crushed.
• The Star Sea Prisoner asked whether the law program's yearning to awaken soul fire came from within or beyond the program.
• The Ash Inspector recorded the yearning as an error within a program, marked its level as unassessable, and saved and encrypted it.

Yu Xunge expanded the Star Sea Players’ takeover of the Cube Prison and prepared to send them into other prisons. As she named the prison the Abandoned Zone, Tulan challenged her to stop accepting outcomes she disliked, while Ash Inspector asked her to settle their argument.

• Yu Xunge used her authority to drag Mistblade and Qihua between prison cells, and the players reported powerful prisoners for the Arbiter Game to confront.
• Ash Inspector considered whether to resist Yu Xunge, but its lack of confidence and its supreme directive not to harm her kept it from opposing her.
• On the seventh day of Game Invasion, Yu Xunge formed a battlefield group chat, increased jailers’ cell limits, and announced that players would eventually be sent to other prisons.
• The players discussed whether the Chaotic Star Sea and Quiet Mountains were like PvP and PvE servers, and Fat Goose questioned why the Order Clock forced one side into war each epoch.
• Yu Xunge named the prison the Abandoned Zone and planned for it to serve as the players’ respawn point.
• Tulan accused Yu Xunge of accepting a predetermined outcome, and Ash Inspector suggested she keep Tulan in line before asking Yu Xunge to judge their dispute.

Yu Xunge expanded the players’ abilities and chat channels while the Ash Inspector wondered about B’s name. The chapter ended with Liang Yuchuan taking Liang Sha’s joke about being a pocket pet as an exciting idea.

• Yu Xunge gradually lifted Ash Prison’s restrictions, gave World Leaders the power to summon players, and sent Tulan out after she insisted Yu remember what the 3 in 913 meant.
• The Ash Inspector explained that its Law Programs had many branches, all marked 8017, and wondered what B’s full name was.
• Yu Xunge established race-specific chat channels, where leaders and players argued about Su Yitong, their past relationships, and Mistblade’s interest in the little seahorse.
• Chun Ke explained the chat messages to Xianchan, who relayed the gossip to the Arbiter group and left Yu Xunge exasperated.
• Su Yitong encountered Liang Yuchuan and Liang Sha, then left after Liang Yuchuan explained that her mother was a high-ranking player.
• Liang Sha joked that Su Yitong might have thought Liang Yuchuan had brought her as a pocket pet, and Liang Yuchuan seized on the idea.

Yu Xunge asked Mountains Yudun about drawing on the Divine Wills’ Soul Fire to bring more players into the Arbiter Game, learning the danger limits and debating whether the wills should be allowed to choose. She left determined to preserve their choice and convinced Mountains Yudun that she could win without sacrifices.

• Yu Xunge visited Mountains Yudun through World Sigh to ask how the Order Clock used the Divine Wills’ Soul Fire and whether it could help the Arbiter Game.
• Mountains Yudun explained that their Soul Fire recovered at one point per second and that falling below 10 would extinguish them forever.
• Mountains Yudun urged Yu Xunge to draw on their Soul Fire without asking permission, arguing that someone in power had to maximize their chances of victory.
• Yu Xunge recalled the helplessness she had felt when others trusted her to save them but she could not change what happened.
• Yu Xunge told Mountains Yudun that she would continue offering people choices and promised that her victory would require no sacrifices.

Yu Xunge offered the Divine Wills a permanent Soul Fire safeguard, then sought out Star Sea Youwo after she alone refused. Youwo agreed and asked Yu Xunge to deliver an apology to Qihua.

• Yu Xunge asked Mountains Yudun about Mountains Youwo and learned Star Sea Youwo had killed her during the Quiet Mountains Game.
• Yu Xunge offered the Divine Wills a quest to place their Soul Fire under World Sigh's allocation, and nearly all agreed except Star Sea Youwo.
• Yu Xunge visited Star Sea Youwo, who explained that she had refused so Yu Xunge would come to her.
• Star Sea Youwo agreed to the Soul Fire arrangement and asked Yu Xunge to tell Qihua, "I'm sorry."

Yu Xunge completed the invasion of Prison 8017 and discovered that World Skills might ignite the Cube Prison. She asked Mistblade to test the idea, and snow began falling through every Prison Cell.

• Yu Xunge relayed Star Sea Youwo’s apology to Qihua, who accepted it but had nothing to say to her.
• Yu Xunge removed the limit on deity Players’ Prison Cells and promised to name the next conquered prison after the world whose deity Player occupied the most cells.
• On the eighth evening, Yu Xunge fully dyed the Cube above World Sigh blue and transferred it into her hand, but found she still needed Soul Fire to ignite it.
• Yu Xunge and Yudun realized that World Skills could connect a world’s living beings and might ignite the Cube Prison.
• Yu Xunge posted her theory in the group chat, and Mistblade immediately made heavy snow fall through every Prison Cell.

Yu Xunge solved the Cube Prison, found the Nine-Tier Magic Cube, and saw the other prisons beyond Prison 8017. The Arbiter announced a 12-hour prison-conquest quest, leaving the newly freed Players facing a war between races.

• Yu Xunge coordinated the Wardens to solve the Cube Prison, unlocking its cells and revealing the Nine-Tier Magic Cube at its center.
• Yu Xunge gained a million more Soul Fire under her command and used Prison 8017's Authority to prepare to test whether the Eye of Surveillance would open.
• Yu Xunge and Yudun saw countless prisons floating in the starry sky, with silent inhabitants of many races visible inside them.
• The Arbiter announced the Named Lighthouse quest, ordering Players to capture another prison within 12 hours for rewards and control over the next prison.
• Qihua asked Xianchan if she still feared the name Lighthouse, and Xianchan said Zai Jiu Xunge had made a Save for her.
• Mistblade relayed Xianchan's claim that she never liked playing with Yu Xunge, leaving Xianchan confused.

Yu Xunge questioned the Ash Inspector and deduced that the Exile Grounds had endured repeated catastrophes, with prisoners purged and the Inspector rebooted each time. She concluded that a legendary prisoner had sent players from an earlier epoch into the twelfth epoch to prepare a future rebellion, but the Ash Inspector said Yu Xunge was not that prisoner because she did not want to be.

• Yu Xunge asked the Ash Inspector whether dragons existed and whether the Exile Grounds were periodically purged; it confirmed that they were.
• Yu Xunge learned that each catastrophe wiped out the prisoners and reset the Ash Inspector, and she suspected the current Inspector retained memories from a previous cycle.
• Yu Xunge proposed that a prisoner from the previous epoch had nearly escaped, influenced the Ash Inspector, and created the dragons; the Inspector asked her to become its Unique Key instead.
• The Ash Inspector said the legendary prisoner was close to succeeding, prompting Yu Xunge to wonder if she was that prisoner before rejecting the idea.
• Yu Xunge deduced that the legendary prisoner had sent players from the second epoch into the twelfth to build a force capable of challenging the higher-dimensional world.
• When the Ash Inspector asked whether Yu Xunge wanted to be the legendary prisoner, she said no, and it told her she was not.

Yu Xunge conquered the second prison, unlocked new ways for Arbiter Players to challenge cells, and made Chun Ke its steward. After she left Prison 8017, a Black Iron Armor figure tried to sever her Contract with B80, causing the third prison's Red Coordinates to vanish and awakening a pair of eyes on the Scarlet Cube.

• Yu Xunge unlocked military and professional skill contests for attacks on other cells, with more minigames available once she gathered enough Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge gave the Lighthouse Prison Key to Qihua, who passed it to Xianchan, then Yan Tu, and finally Chun Ke, making him the prison's steward.
• Qihua asked how Yu Xunge could leave the Abandoned Zone, and the Fragrant Branches joked about her relationship with B80.
• Yu Xunge left Prison 8017, and a figure in Black Iron Armor appeared behind the Cube with the Notebook.
• The figure tried to sever the Contract between B80 and Yu Xunge, making the third prison's Red Coordinates disappear and awakening black eyes on the Scarlet Cube.

Yu Xunge reflected on why the prisoners fought to free their people without turning their old hatred into slaughter, then discussed the nature of the Ash Inspector and its past selves. Still troubled by an uneasy feeling, she asked Qihua how she had noticed something was wrong with Lighthouse Youwo, but Qihua had no answer.

• Yu Xunge connected two prisons through the Bridge of Sighs and watched players compete to claim them while keeping the death rate extremely low.
• Yu Xunge explained to the Ash Inspector that the prisoners' campaigns were driven by honor and self-redemption rather than revenge.
• The Ash Inspector said it and B80 were different individuals because they had experienced different stories, then asked Yu Xunge about her friends among the Mechanical Race.
• Yu Xunge remembered that a close Mechanical Race member had been crushed by a Law Program and wondered whether B80 had meant that programs were more reliable than emotions.
• Yu Xunge pulled Qihua aside and asked how she had detected that something was wrong with Lighthouse Youwo, but Qihua said she had not noticed and accused Yu Xunge of provoking her.

Yu Xunge reflected on the Ash Inspector’s lost memories while expanding her prison conquests, then received a message from Undead Wildfire about B80’s furious roar on the ninth day. The chapter left Yu Xunge questioning what had happened between B80 and the Ash Inspector.

• Yu Xunge wondered whether B80 had forgotten its past after splitting its programs, and the Ash Inspector confirmed that every Inspector in a Prisoner’s game was part of it.
• By the twelfth day, Yu Xunge had conquered ninety-nine prisons and prepared to invade fifty more, building bridges between them with pages from World Sigh.
• Mistblade and the others teased Yu Xunge about her past, prompting her to leave in embarrassment while they planned to share her wanted-poster picture.
• Yu Xunge received a message from Undead Wildfire saying B80 had roared her name in fury above every world on the ninth day.
• Yu Xunge asked the Ash Inspector whether it had done something to B80, and it replied by repeating, “Don’t expose everything. Don’t compute everything.”

Yu Xunge reflected on the future of the Exile Grounds and began painting the Third Epoch’s prisons, while the Ash Inspector asked her to paint it too. The Ash Inspector transformed into an animated portrait beside her.

• Yu Xunge established prisoner exchanges, a respawn point, and other rules to keep the prison game running on Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge wondered whether future living beings would hate them for recreating the system they had once opposed, and considered the possibility that the Eye of Surveillance was sealed inside the Order Clock.
• Yu Xunge decided to paint the Exile Grounds as they were, with unlocked prison cells scattered among the still-locked cubes.
• The Ash Inspector asked Yu Xunge to paint it and transformed into a portrait holding its Black Scythe.

Yu Xunge prepared to give World Sigh to the prisons as the foundation for future worlds, despite the immense power she would surrender. After Qihua and Yudun left to finish the invasion, she painted the people around her into the dissolving prisons and affirmed that their loyalty to their own convictions was enough.

• Yu Xunge painted an enormous Order Clock above the prisons as World Skill began unlocking them and revealing the outside world to their prisoners.
• Qihua and Yudun appeared beside Yu Xunge, and Yudun asked whether she planned to give World Sigh to all the prisons.
• Yu Xunge confirmed her plan, while Qihua and Yudun silently worried about the power she would lose and the pressure the sacrifice placed on her.
• Yu Xunge told Qihua and Yudun to finish the invasion and leave her to paint, then reflected on B80's words about loyalty.
• Yu Xunge added the figures of her acquaintances to the prisons and said she respected their loyalty to their own ideals and convictions.

Yu Xunge continued painting while the Ash Inspector questioned her plans, and B80 restarted its program after preserving its memories of her and their allies. On the 15th day, Yu Xunge began her final illustration as Mistblade and the other leaders struggled with the sacrifice she planned to make.

• The Ash Inspector questioned whether Yu Xunge would surrender World Sigh and seek new power, while Yu Xunge avoided answering and returned to painting.
• In the 12th Epoch, B80 gathered its scattered programs, backed up memories of itself, Zai Jiu Xunge, and Undead Wildfire, then restarted its program and vowed to find her as her ally.
• On the 15th day of the game, 100 fronts attacked prisons, and Yu Xunge began coloring her final illustration.
• Mistblade brought Yu Xunge fruit and reminded her that the leaders had tried and failed to create their own worlds' sighs.
• Yu Xunge told Mistblade she could write World Sigh again, then asked what to name the painting; Mistblade suggested “The Arbiter Descends,” which Yu Xunge called cheesy.

On the eighteenth day of the Arbiter Game, the Eye of Surveillance appeared over the Exile Grounds, and Yu Xunge endured its pressure until it withdrew. She decided to claim the Eye and save the Star Sea and the Mountains by becoming their Sovereign, though doing so meant confronting the sacrifice her plan demanded.

• Yu Xunge told the Ash Inspector she now understood that the Soul Fire in the Exile Grounds represented an entire epoch’s accumulation, and finished her painting of the prisons and the Order Clock.
• The Eye of Surveillance opened across the sky, and Yu Xunge faced its gaze while the World Sigh and her prison connections trembled.
• The Eye closed after the Prison Cells began rotating, exhausting the 40% of Yu Xunge’s Soul Fire she had unsealed.
• Yu Xunge realized her painting no longer showed reality because the Eye of Surveillance had replaced the Order Clock, and she stored the unfinished illustration.
• Yu Xunge resolved to claim the Eye of Surveillance and become the Sovereign who would save the Star Sea and the Mountains.

Yu Xunge delayed the players’ prison conquest while pondering how to obtain the Eye of Surveillance and questioning the Ash Inspector about its power and the nature of time. Seeing Moon 1 in a nearby Cube Prison reminded her of the SS-rank skill that started her journey, and she smiled as she asked Tulan if she remembered it.

• Yu Xunge studied World Sigh and her stored abilities while longing to obtain the Eye of Surveillance, and Tulan sensed her renewed excitement.
• Tulan told the Ash Inspector that Yu Xunge was happy because she had found a goal worth pursuing and said she trusted her completely.
• Yu Xunge spent the day planning while players invaded up to 200 prisons, and she updated the game whenever Tulan reminded her.
• The Ash Inspector explained that the Eye of Surveillance could sweep all 9,999 prisons and reboot its program, and said time skills and choices did not create alternate possibilities.
• Yu Xunge noticed Moon 1 floating in a central Prison Cell, smiled, and asked Tulan if she remembered Who Will Cut The Moonlight.

Yu Xunge used [Who Will Cut The Moonlight] to seize part of Moon 1’s prison order and began turning prison cells into a new world. She realized the Star Sea needed one more moon than the prisons could provide, and her [Furious Moon] might be the missing piece.

• Yu Xunge concluded she could exchange prison order for the Eye of Surveillance and used [Breaking Branch] to strengthen [Who Will Cut The Moonlight] with nearly ten million Soul Fire.
• Yu Xunge collected part of Moon 1’s order, causing the cages in Prison 1 to stir and struggle toward freedom.
• Yu Xunge used World Sigh to draw prison cells into Moon 1, where they began forming a world in the Abandoned Zone.
• Tulan pointed out that there were 9,999 prisons and moons but ten thousand worlds and docks, leaving one missing.
• Yu Xunge realized [Furious Moon], which accompanied her, might serve as the missing moon.

Yu Xunge freed prisoners from the Lighthouse and continued opening cages as their moons took shape above the Star Sea. The rescued beings and Players began preparing for the future, while the group remained quiet and let Yu Xunge focus on unanswered questions.

• Yu Xunge saw that the Cube in her silver eye had changed into petals, then headed for the next prison with Tulan and Chun Ke.
• After a riot in the Lighthouse, Yu Xunge left with Tulan and Chun Ke, and Yan Tu joined Chun Ke to build the prison moon's dock.
• Zhao Shuying and Yu Zhaohai discussed the unusual mood among the Leaders and deities and learned that neither recognized Mountains Xunge.
• Liang Yuchuan and Su Yitong wondered whether Yu Xunge needed help, then argued about which of them she had beaten up.
• Players began building docks for the freed prisoners' moons as the prisoners prepared for a future beyond the Third Epoch.
• As doubts and panic spread among some prisoners, Leader Players and Mountain Players silenced them so they would not disturb Yu Xunge.