Chapter Summaries

As Yu Xunge transformed prisons into worlds, the Eye of Surveillance opened again and launched a devastating attack against her. She survived by shielding the Star Sea and redirecting her lethal weaknesses, but Zhuri feared the cost of leaving her to face the threat alone.

• Yu Xunge transformed prisons into worlds while players hurried to invade the remaining prisons, and 5,000 prisons had vanished by the twenty-third day.
• The Eye of Surveillance opened, turning players building World Docks to ash and causing the remaining Cube Prisons and blank Bridges of Sighs to begin breaking apart.
• Yu Xunge used her soul fire to shield the prisons and Bridges of Sighs, but the Eye revealed four lethal weaknesses and sent star-smoke arrows at her.
• Yu Xunge forbade everyone from leaving their prison cages and sealed her Pet Space, preventing Zhuri and the others from coming to her aid.
• Yu Xunge moved her lethal weaknesses and used soul-fire meteors to intercept the arrows until the Eye closed after half an hour.
• Zhuri saw Yu Xunge sit on a throne of golden thunder and wondered whether the ending could be called perfect if Yu Xunge remained in the epoch forever.

Yu Xunge seized control of more than half the authority over the Exile Grounds, reshaped its worlds, and revived those killed by the Eye of Surveillance. After realizing her allies were angry that she had fought without them, she cleared their complaints and offered them an Easter egg quest to break the silence.

• As the five-thousandth prison became a world, Yu Xunge’s right eye changed, revealing prisoners’ whispers and the Exile Grounds’ stored rewards.
• Yu Xunge suppressed the whispers, gained control over more than half the Exile Grounds’ authority, revived the fallen, and let the prison games continue.
• Yu Xunge spoke with the Ash Inspector about the coming purge and joked that the Inspector was a prisoner too.
• Yu Xunge contacted Tulan, then discovered the group chat was full of complaints about her and erased the negative messages.
• Yu Xunge offered an extra skill slot for chatting with her, and the group members responded with teasing and mock gratitude while Mountains Xunge stayed silent.

Yu Xunge finished unlocking the prisons and gathered the players in Abandoned Zone No. 1 to transform the remaining prisons into worlds. Before she transformed Zai Jiu, she recalled its sigh and learned that it had foreseen Hechipa resurrecting Undead Wildfire and taking her away, leaving Zai Jiu’s stranded players without a future.

• Yu Xunge stayed silent as the group criticized her for fighting the Eye of Surveillance alone, and Tulan emerged to ask whether she needed a weapon.
• Yu Xunge promised the group they would fight together next time and explained she had acted alone because she was unsure whether Load Game could restore people killed by the Eye of Surveillance.
• Tulan told Yu Xunge that the others had been willing to die fighting beside her, then bit her ear and left.
• Yu Xunge sped up the prison renovations, and by Day 28 all prisons had been unlocked as players gathered in Abandoned Zone No. 1.
• Yu Xunge recalled that Undead Wildfire had been among the people in Zai Jiu’s sigh, along with many other Zai Jiu geniuses.
• Yu Xunge explained that Zai Jiu had seen Hechipa resurrect Undead Wildfire and take her away, and had concluded that its stranded players had no future.

Yu Xunge returned Zai Jiu's Moon and World Sigh's final passage, triggering a surge of memories and starlight from the worlds that eased her distress. As she sat on the Throne, Ashen Precepts poured through the Eye of Surveillance and the other players rallied to defend her.

• Yu Xunge used [Who Will Cut The Moonlight] to send Zai Jiu's Moon toward the prison cells and watched World Sigh's final passage drift away, clarifying the Time Marks in her right eye.
• Yu Xunge collapsed onto the golden Throne as memories of Epoch 12 and its wars filled her mind, while starlight from worlds across the Star Sea flew toward her.
• Zichuan Cuimang recalled using [Fruit Consumption Guide] on the Arbiter and silently prayed that she would obtain everything she wanted.
• Zhuri discussed miracles with Huang Jin and the other players as starlight engulfed Yu Xunge.
• The Eye of Surveillance opened for the third time and released Ashen Precepts, prompting the players of Prison Cell No. 1 to fly out and fight while defensive abilities shielded Yu Xunge.
• Zhuri joined the battle, traded remarks with Fragrant Branch, and told Huang Jin that Xunge was an exception to her dislike of Fragrant Branch.

The mysterious centaur god appeared and ordered the Ash Inspector to kill Yu Xunge, but the players’ God-Bestowed Talents remained intact because of Zai Jiu Xunge’s order. While allies headed across the Bridge of Sighs, luminous cubes assembled inside Yu Xunge’s sealed dimension, where she sensed a crucial transformation beginning.

• Tens of thousands of powerful Ash Inspectors fought the players, whose leaders held the front lines against the growing threat.
• A petal-bodied centaur appeared, declared that God would reclaim its gifts, and discovered that the players’ talents had not been taken back.
• The centaur recognized Yu Xunge as the cause, ordered the Ash Inspector overseeing the Exile Grounds to kill its Unique Key, and received its agreement.
• B80 brought Undead Wildfire across the Bridge of Sighs, and he decided to follow the Ash Inspector and see what was happening.
• In a hidden dimension, cubes containing gifts from many races gathered inside Yu Xunge’s world and tried to assemble into a larger Cube while she remained trapped.

Yu Xunge completed the Cube by placing the divine wills from the Order Clock inside it, then issued a rule fully unsealing Arbiter Players and granting Godly and Leader Players access to soul fire. As the battle against the former master of the Exile Grounds began, He imposed a new punishment making each death cost prisoners talents, soul fire, or skills.

• Yu Xunge filled the Cube's empty cells with the divine wills hidden in the Game Invasion illustration, pairing gods whose waking times did not overlap.
• After B80 received the directive to kill the Unique Key, Yu Xunge sensed a dangerous presence and established a rule fully unsealing Arbiter Players and allowing Godly and Leader Players to draw on soul fire.
• B80 charged at Tulan, who used May She Be Flawless to synchronize their attributes and fought the Ash Inspector head-on.
• The Godly Players attacked the former master of the Exile Grounds, while the newly unsealed players drew on soul fire and some dead fighters revived in distant Prison Cages.
• The former master raised His curved blade and decreed that prisoners born in the Exile Grounds would lose a god-bestowed talent with each death, then lose soul fire or skills once those talents ran out.

Yu Xunge waited helplessly as the Cube assembled while the players fought Rust Tablet and the Ash Legion. Tulan fell to the Ash Inspector, which approached the Throne to begin Rust Tablet’s punishment, leaving Yu Xunge alone and unable to intervene.

• Yu Xunge struggled with her suspicions and forced herself to trust the players, reminding herself that she had saved a file for herself.
• The Eye of Surveillance erased players without awakened Deity Talents, and the remaining fighters discovered that Ash Soldiers could revive unless their linked partners were killed within five seconds.
• Maple Sugar and Fat Goose fought the Ash Legion while Qihua, Yudun, and the Captain faced Rust Tablet, whose skill kept their team limited to three fighters.
• Rust Tablet revealed its name and taunted the players as the battle wore them down and the soul fire needed for resurrection dwindled.
• The Ash Inspector defeated Tulan, whose dragon corpse floated in the Star Sea, then approached Yu Xunge’s Throne to begin the punishment.

The Ash Inspector prepared to obey Rust Tablet’s command to kill the sleeping Star Sea Prisoner, but B80 arrived and blocked its strike. Rust Tablet then invoked the River of Order and ordered the Ash Inspectors to kill her and cast her into it.

• The Ash Inspector recalled how the Star Sea Prisoner had warned that its creator could command it to betray her.
• Rust Tablet restored the Ash Inspector’s Cube and ordered it to kill the Star Sea Prisoner, while she rushed from the Respawn Point and an Ash Soldier blocked her.
• B80 intercepted the Ash Inspector’s scythe and identified it as its future self; Rust Tablet ordered both to kill their Unique Key.
• The two Ash Inspectors remained within a barrier only their Unique Key could enter, while the sleeping Star Sea Prisoner showed signs of waking.
• Rust Tablet declared that those who fell into the River of Order could no longer be anchored, sacrificing nearly half the Ash Soldiers, and ordered the Ash Inspectors to kill her and throw her into the river.

As the Ash Legion made death permanent, Yu Xunge awoke and joined the battlefield, ordering the players to retreat to Mountains. The two B80s sacrificed themselves to destroy their own Cubes, leaving Yu Xunge with the Future B80’s remains while Rust Tablet seized the other Cube.

• Rust Tablet made death permanent, and the players fought desperately while protecting their weakened allies.
• Mistblade and the other players battled Ash Inspectors as Zhuri, the bears, Shark Leng, Queque, and others supported the defense.
• Yu Xunge woke, created a safe route to Mountains, and told the players to retreat there.
• Yu Xunge tried and failed to read the future B80’s file, then fought both B80s as Rust Tablet ordered them to kill her Unique Key.
• The two B80s turned their weapons on their own Cubes and died, leaving Yu Xunge with Epoch 12’s Cube, a flower, and two azure bullets while Rust Tablet took the Third Epoch’s Cube.

Yu Xunge awakened new Cube powers that linked the surviving Arbiter Players, shifting their weaknesses to their enemies and sharing their health, buffs, and skills as they fought Rust Tablet. With Qihua and Yudun holding off the enemy, Yu Xunge prepared to use the gifts of the epoch’s prisoners to alter fate and reach for the Eye of Surveillance.

• Yu Xunge used Disorder to transfer the Arbiter Players’ lethal weaknesses to their opponents, then used Tranquility to share their HP, Mana, and buffs across the battlefield.
• Yu Xunge and the other players used the Cube’s War power to share thousands of skills, while their attacks and crowd-control effects drove Rust Tablet back.
• Rust Tablet claimed more Exile Grounds authority and Soul Fire, strengthening the Ash Inspectors, and crushed a damaged Cube that sank into the River of Order.
• Rust Tablet asked Yu Xunge’s identity, and she answered, “Star Sea Prisoner,” as Qihua and Yudun attacked without restraint to protect her plan.
• Yu Xunge looked toward the Eye of Surveillance and prepared to exchange her connected eye for it, but the Prisoner Codex instead offered a way to scramble predetermined fate and receive fate’s echo.

Yu Xunge used the Eye of Surveillance to seize control of the Exile Grounds while the others fought Rust Tablet and the Ash Legion. She uncovered how Rust Tablet had granted the prisoners the right to play while exploiting and killing them, then declared that the Eye was missing a pendulum as Rust Tablet was captured.

• Yu Xunge confronted the Eye of Surveillance and began taking its control from Rust Tablet, while the players and their allies fought to protect her.
• Mountains Xunge, Undead Wildfire, and the others rushed to battle, and Mountains Xunge exposed Star Sea Xianchan’s diary entries, sparking teasing among the group.
• Rust Tablet fought Fragrant Branch, Huo Cai, and Lu Lin, insisting that he had given the supposedly low-ranking races their right to play.
• Through the Eye of Surveillance, Yu Xunge learned that Rust Tablet’s rusted divine tablet let him invite beings into the game, but that failure to escape God's Gift meant death.
• Yu Xunge realized the Eye of Surveillance was missing a pendulum and looked toward Rust Tablet, who was restrained by a flower whip as Captain rode on his back and Yudun stood on his head.

Yu Xunge and the Star Sea Players defeated Rust Tablet, and Zai Jiu Xunge sealed him inside the Order Clock, turning his power into an invitation system for the Star Sea Prisoners. She established how future epochs would invite new players, preserve prisoners through saves, and divide players between the Disorder, PvP, and PvE paths.

• Yu Xunge transferred every Lethal Weakness onto Rust Tablet, while the Star Sea Players kept fighting without fear and drove him close to defeat.
• Rust Tablet summoned nearly a hundred Ash Inspectors to protect him, but Yu Xunge ordered Qihua, Yudun, and the others to keep him alive as the Cube and World Sigh enacted their laws.
• Zai Jiu Xunge bound Rust Tablet and the Symbiotic Item inside him into the Order Clock, sealing them under its control.
• Yu Xunge completed the painting of the Order Clock and used it to turn each Bell Chime into an invitation for living beings outside the world to join the Star Sea Prisoners.
• Yu Xunge ordered each world's will to create a World Imprint so invitees could see the coming war and decide whether to accept the game.
• Yu Xunge set rules for saves, player choices between PvP and PvE, and the allocation of limited resources, favoring those who chose hardship and survived.

Yu Xunge used the Romance bullet to retrieve the damaged B80 from the River of Order, then promised to lend Maple Sugar the gun so she could retrieve her fallen comrades. She realized she had no save for B80 and would have to restart it using the authorization she took from Rust Tablet.

• Yu Xunge offered the Ash Inspectors contracts to run the Godly Game under player oversight, and they accepted.
• Yu Xunge revived the players whose bodies had been recovered, while Mistblade and Maple Sugar searched the river for their fallen companions.
• Yu Xunge failed to load B80's save, then fired the Romance bullet and wagered an unknown part of herself to retrieve the damaged Cube.
• Yu Xunge told Maple Sugar that Ignorant Game could retrieve those lost across time and space, and promised to lend it once they escaped.
• Yu Xunge realized she had never saved B80 and would have to restart it with the authorization she had taken from Rust Tablet.

Yu Xunge left the revived Third Epoch B80 in the past as a snowman’s companion, then revived Epoch 12 B80 and built a Golden Tree to help find lost players. As the players escaped Epoch 3, she explained that its branching timelines came from a legendary Prisoner’s simulations and were about to be erased by the Bell Chime.

• Yu Xunge turned the past B80 into part of the game, made a snowman of herself, and left the B80 Law Program in its arms in Abandoned Zone 1.
• Yu Xunge revived Epoch 12 B80 without loading a saved game, and B80 quietly stood behind her with a flower on its head.
• Yu Xunge formed a Golden Tree over the river to sense passing Heroic Spirits and explained that [Ignorant Game] could retrieve only a Treasure belonging to the player using it.
• Yu Xunge and the players climbed the staircase formed by the [Prisoner Codex] as she explained that a legendary Second Epoch Prisoner’s simulations had created the timelines, which the Bell Chime would prune.
• The players crossed the barrier into Epoch 3 and reached the White Gold-colored ship and Order Clock, while the B80 left in Abandoned Zone 1 awoke and looked toward the moon, feeling it had forgotten something important.

Yu Xunge rested aboard the Cat's Ideal before leading the players into a new battle. She shattered the sky with the special bullet "Celebration," opening the Chaotic Star Sea and triggering an Abyss Game update that would introduce the Star Sea Prisoners.

• Yu Xunge told the players they could rest for a day before the next battle and said she would end the War Sequence when their people could access the Game from birth.
• Yu Xunge gave Undead Wildfire a bouquet of Crown of Flowers Murder so players in her timeline could contact and summon their other selves for help.
• Maple Sugar returned with Feng Cang, Su Yitong, and Feng Mu as the players prepared for battle in ceremonial garments.
• Yu Xunge loaded six golden bullets into [Ignorant Game] and fired them together at the Star Sea, creating the new bullet "Celebration" and shattering the sky.
• The Game announced that Ash Prison had reappeared, renamed it the Chaotic Star Sea, and scheduled an update introducing the new Star Sea Prisoners faction.

After Zhuri and Huang Jin left to search for Apprentice, Mistblade stayed behind and tried to keep her plans for school and Moon Fox’s future unchanged. Years later, Apprentice returned, just after the little snowman Mistblade had kept for her melted.

• Zhuri and Huang Jin left the Small Cabin to search for Apprentice, entrusting Mistblade with the Magic Key, gold, and Aihao’s contact information.
• Mistblade found a magical practice snowman made by Xunge and tucked it into her schoolbag after pouring most of her magic into it.
• Maple Sugar and Fat Goose teased Mistblade about keeping the snowman, and Maple Sugar questioned whether she would stick to her plans if Apprentice returned.
• Maple Sugar warned Mistblade not to change her plans because of Apprentice, leaving Mistblade unsettled.
• In her seventh year, Mistblade saw Apprentice return at the Twilight Library, and Maple Sugar remarked that the snowman had melted the day before.