Chapter Summaries

Player Ten attacked the sleeping Lu Ce and triggered the Laziness Mask’s Wake-up Rage, but escaped before Lu Ce’s strike could kill him. After Lu Ce recovered, the players gathered as the game proposed another round, and Perfect Life demanded that everyone receive a perfect clear.

• Players Seven, Eight, and Nine found the sleeping Lu Ce but failed to change anyone’s score.
• Player Ten, an Illuminati member, stabbed Lu Ce in the throat while he slept.
• The attack triggered the Laziness Mask’s Wake-up Rage, and Lu Ce struck at Player Ten as he activated his Exit Coin and escaped.
• Xie Antong, Perfect Life, and Chiyo Eon rushed to Lu Ce, who had healed his neck and recovered.
• The game announced that Player Ten’s time had ended and gathered the remaining players on the ruined street.
• The game proposed an extra round, but Perfect Life argued that everyone should receive a perfect clear because they were tied for first.

With Lu Ce asleep, Perfect Life and Xie Antong challenged the game’s claims that it could punish the players. The game shifted its pressure onto Xie Antong and Chiyo Eon, but Xie Antong kept provoking it and demanded that it punish Lu Ce instead.

• Lu Ce fell asleep after his injuries were repaired, so Perfect Life questioned the game about whether the players could all clear it perfectly.
• The game argued that it had warned the players and threatened to punish their passive play, then placed pressure on Perfect Life.
• Xie Antong challenged the game’s claim of mercy, and it redirected its pressure onto her while Chiyo Eon shielded her with black water and a great serpent.
• Perfect Life and Chiyo Eon helped ease the pressure on Xie Antong as she mocked the game for seeming unable to target them both at once.
• Xie Antong accused the game of bullying the weak, pointed out Lu Ce’s rule violations, and dared it to punish or wake him.

Xie Antong challenged the game’s authority and rallied the players against replaying hide-and-seek. The game patched its rules and improved the rewards, while Lu Ce finally woke up to face Xie Antong.

• Xie Antong used the game’s tentative wording to argue that it could not force a replay without the players’ agreement.
• Chiyo Eon, Creator, and Jiu Tian joined Xie Antong and Perfect Life in refusing to replay, while the remaining players stayed silent.
• The game patched its rules to prohibit shared first place, required a winner and loser before ending, and upgraded rewards for players who cleared the game.
• The game roared that the competition would continue, and Lu Ce woke up as Xie Antong addressed him.

Xie Antong confronted Lu Ce and fired at him, then said she had returned his shot so they owed each other nothing. Lu Ce fell asleep again, and Xie Antong turned her attention to the game itself.

• Xie Antong recognized Lu Ce, injected herself with a drug, and raised her gun toward him.
• Xie Antong fired at Lu Ce’s mask, prompting Chiyo Eon, Creator, and Perfect Life to intervene and protect against a possible escalation.
• Xie Antong said she had only returned Lu Ce’s shot and that they now owed each other nothing.
• Lu Ce dismissed her words, said he would defeat her where she was strongest, and fell asleep again.
• Creator urged Xie Antong to stay clear-headed, and Xie Antong looked toward the sky and questioned the game about how their conversation affected its rules.

Xie Antong challenged the game's authority and proposed a coin toss that would kill one of her and the other player, exposing the game's limits. She then demanded that any rules it set include one condition for each player, leaving the next game undecided.

• The game offered Xie Antong a point if she killed her opponent, but she argued that the rules had to be agreed upon and called the game's authority limited.
• The game proposed that Xie Antong and her opponent could agree to a death match, and she suggested a coin toss where heads meant she died and tails meant he died.
• The game rejected the coin toss for lacking competition, while Xie Antong concluded it could not directly erase a player through a game's outcome.
• The Dragon Group's elders discussed Xie Antong's apparent hatred and instructed someone to stay in contact with Jiu Tian and cooperate with him.
• Xie Antong demanded either jointly agreed rules or rules set by the game in exchange for one condition for each player, then proposed that they state their conditions.

Xie Antong secured approval for a battlefield divided among the players after everyone proposed one condition, while Perfect Life wondered what she was really planning. Just as the game prepared to announce the competition, Lu Ce woke and asked if he could make a request too.

• Perfect Life suspected Blank had engineered the free-condition rule to conceal another objective, while Blank impatiently pressed the game to decide.
• The game agreed that each player could propose one condition, warning that rejected requests would use up their only chance.
• Player Seven requested that nobody could die, but the game rejected it; Player Eight then requested that the game not require anyone to die, and the game approved it.
• Jiu Tian requested that the game include mind games, Chiyo Eon requested limited cooperation choices, and Perfect Life requested the right to choose opponents; the game approved each condition.
• The Creator offered no specific condition, and the game ruled his request too broad and meaningless to evaluate.
• Xie Antong requested that the battlefield be divided, and the game approved it before Lu Ce woke and asked to make a request of his own.

Lu Ce used the Laziness Mask’s subconscious thinking to negotiate with the game, asking it to enter the match as a player. The game accepted, leaving the other players facing a far more dangerous contest.

• Perfect Life questioned Lu Ce about speaking while apparently asleep, and Lu Ce revealed that he had heard everything through the Laziness Mask’s Subconscious Thinking.
• After Perfect Life explained the game’s offer and its one-chance condition, Lu Ce said the other players were not worthy opponents and asked for the game itself to join the match.
• Lu Ce persuaded the game that entering would prevent another draw and let it control the rules, then taunted it as an unqualified dog if it refused.
• The game agreed to join the match and warned the other players that Lu Ce’s request had raised their odds of losing to one hundred percent.
• The Creator, Perfect Life, and Xie Antong responded with confidence, estimating that their odds of leaving unscathed had only fallen to ninety-nine or ninety-eight percent.

Xie Antong reflected on Sin’s choice to challenge the game and break the players’ zero-sum struggle, believing he was the truly perfect player. The game began, and Xie Antong warned Lu Ce that he might regret his decision.

• Xie Antong recognized that Sin had understood the game’s rules and believed his dangerous choices were clearing a path for the players.
• Xie Antong compared Sin with Perfect Life and concluded that Sin, not Perfect Life, was the truly perfect player because he challenged the game rather than taking the easy path.
• Player Seven questioned whether the other players had to agree to the conditions, but the game cut him off and announced that a new game mode had been generated.
• The players entered their separate arenas, leaving Xie Antong and Lu Ce alone; Xie Antong told Lu Ce she hoped he would not regret his decision.

Xie Antong and the other players entered a new game, Sea of Blood 2.0, whose rules involved Literary and Martial rooms, speaking turns, and challenges. Two identical game voices argued over the rules before the game began, leaving the players confused.

• Xie Antong entered room 3, marked Martial, while Lu Ce fell asleep after entering the game.
• The game's voice explained that rooms were Literary or Martial and described Sea of Blood 2.0 as another form of hide-and-seek.
• A second voice interrupted the explanation, arguing that players could lie or omit information about their room numbers and characters.
• Perfect Life, Chiyo Eon, Xie Antong, Jiu Tian, and other players spoke during the open-mic confusion, while Sin denied causing the disruption.
• The voices argued over the number of challenge attempts and the withdrawal rule before the game voice declared that the game had begun.

The Creator revealed that he had imitated the game's rule-announcement voice and challenged anyone to come after him in Room Seven, where he claimed the character was “Martial.” Chiyo Eon then entered Xue Yue’s room, attacked him, and threatened to hunt players ranked below her, leaving him alive but terrified.

• The Creator said he was in Room Seven with the character “Martial,” admitted that he had imitated the voice of “Brother Jue,” and invited others to confront him.
• Xie Antong recorded the Creator’s claimed room number and character as “7” and “Martial.”
• Chiyo Eon introduced herself and asked the person in her room for his name.
• Xue Yue identified himself, and Chiyo Eon attacked him and announced that he was dead.
• Chiyo Eon warned lower-ranked players that she would hunt them if they gambled on their room information, then told the wounded Xue Yue to stay silent or she would kill him.

Chiyo Eon revealed her room number while signaling to Blank, and Xie Antong prepared for her turn as the game’s voice interrupted the schedule. The voice announced that its room was Zero and challenged players to a martial contest, leaving the others to face its provocation.

• Chiyo Eon told the players her room was Number Six, withheld the character there, and said she was not currently in that room.
• Xie Antong recorded Chiyo Eon’s room number and marked Xue Yue as alive.
• Xie Antong spent her turn in silence, using her All-Knowing Eye and an injection before swallowing a piece of candy.
• The game’s voice skipped Sin’s turn and addressed the players, claiming it could change its own rules.
• The game’s voice said its room was Zero and that the character there was martial, then invited players to challenge it to a martial contest.

The Creator realized that Blank had impersonated the game's voice to send him a hidden message and decided to enter Room Zero. Meanwhile, Xie Antong recovered from her impersonation before a powerful figure appeared in her room, where the word was “Martial.”

• The Creator noticed that the false game's voice had spoken for exactly three minutes and inferred that Blank was secretly communicating with him.
• The Creator connected Blank's request to divide the battlefield with her hidden-message strategy and decided to challenge Room Zero.
• After the false voice disappeared, six minutes passed without anyone speaking, leaving the players fearful that someone had been killed.
• Xie Antong spat out the voice-mimicking object, coughed, and waited to recover.
• A powerful figure appeared in Xie Antong's room and pinned her down with an oppressive aura as the word “Martial” appeared.

Xie Antong asked the Creator to help her defeat Perfect Life and ensure he suffered a crushing defeat, while Sin entered the second round exhausted from resisting the Laziness Mask. The chapter ended with Sin trying to convince himself that someone else could handle what came next.

• The Creator gave Xie Antong medicine and told her that neither Room Zero nor Room Ten existed.
• Xie Antong said she planned to use Sin to devour the wolf, and the Creator acknowledged the feud between them.
• Xie Antong asked the Creator to defeat Perfect Life and make him suffer a crushing defeat as a key part of her plan.
• The second round of conversations began, and Sin struggled to stay awake despite the Laziness Mask’s demand that he sleep.
• Sin muttered that someone else could handle the task he did not want to do.

Lu Ce endured a powerful mental backlash while Xie Antong secured Creator’s help against Perfect Life through a plan built on five gambles. Xie Antong then spoke as Blank, ordering Chiyo Eon to start killing, and Chiyo prepared to move with Xue Yue.

• Lu Ce fought to stay conscious as he repeatedly muttered Blank, Perfect Life, and Creator’s names.
• Xie Antong explained her five gambles to Creator, who agreed to help her fight Perfect Life.
• When Room Three’s speech turn came, Xie Antong claimed to be Blank and ordered Chiyo Eon to kill.
• Chiyo Eon acknowledged the order, stopped Xue Yue from speaking, and gave him a high-grade potion.
• Chiyo Eon told Xue Yue they would scout the other rooms and declared that her game and a battle of divine punishment were about to begin.

Xie Antong’s plan used Chiyo Eon’s attacks on later-position players to force Perfect Life and the game to focus on the hidden rooms. Perfect Life arrived at Xie Antong’s room, where the Creator confronted him, leaving a fight about to begin.

• Chiyo Eon gave Xue Yue a potion, then took him away to bring him into Divine Punishment.
• Xie Antong explained to the Creator that Chiyo Eon’s threats and forced disappearances could disrupt the game’s hunt for later-position players.
• Xie Antong reasoned that the remaining uncertain rooms belonged to her, Sin, and a likely eliminated player, making her room a likely target for Perfect Life.
• Jiu Tian noticed that his room was gradually growing darker as his turn to speak continued.
• Perfect Life appeared in Xie Antong’s room and considered leaving without fighting, but the Creator emerged from a mirror shard and declared that he intended to cause Perfect Life trouble.

The Creator attacked Perfect Life in Room Three, using mirrored space and Gatling guns before the two fought at close range. The Creator admitted he had lost their exchange, but Perfect Life’s divination revealed that his odds of suffering a crushing defeat had risen above fifty percent.

• The Creator told Perfect Life he attacked because he disliked him, and Xie Antong remained sheltered within the mirrored space.
• The Creator summoned Gatling guns and used the mirrors to reflect bullets at Perfect Life, who defended himself with an energy vortex.
• Perfect Life froze the bullets, summoned a halberd, and shattered the mirrored space with a strike.
• The Creator reappeared behind Perfect Life, and they exchanged blows; Perfect Life coughed while the Creator’s right arm went limp.
• The Creator predicted Perfect Life would suffer a crushing defeat, and Perfect Life’s Yin Yang Hand confirmed the odds exceeded fifty percent.

Xie Antong manipulated Perfect Life into fighting the Creator while concealing her plan to mislead the game about Sin’s location. She revealed that Perfect Life could still become Number One Under Heaven by winning, but doing so would let the game reach her room and threaten Sin’s perfect clear.

• Perfect Life questioned Xie Antong about her prediction that he would suffer a crushing defeat, and she said his promises and sense of fairness made him vulnerable.
• Xie Antong told Perfect Life to consider how Sin would act, but Perfect Life rejected her psychological tactic and resumed fighting the Creator.
• While Perfect Life and the Creator exchanged attacks, Xie Antong used the sounds of events in other rooms to identify their occupants.
• Xie Antong revealed that Room Zero did not exist and that Sin could not be found by choosing a room, then explained how she had deceived the game about her location.
• Perfect Life realized Xie Antong wanted him to win so the game would mistake her room for Sin’s, and she told him that victory could make him the game’s favored Number One Under Heaven.

Xie Antong watched the Creator defeat Perfect Life, whose final attack nearly killed her before leaving him exposed. With Perfect Life defeated, they waited for the game's true body, while Brother Jue faced an unexpected powerhouse in another room.

• Xie Antong explained that her plan had aimed to make Perfect Life face the Creator, despite the unfairness of the game.
• Perfect Life grew increasingly frantic and considered killing Xie Antong to stop the game from reaching her room.
• Perfect Life hurled his halberd at Xie Antong, who narrowly dodged it and left him open to the Creator's attack.
• The Creator struck Perfect Life down, and Xie Antong thanked him before waiting for the game's true body.
• Brother Jue struggled through a challenge in another room after encountering an unexpected powerhouse.

Jiu Tian stalled a Despair Emissary in Room Eight by rambling through their questions instead of engaging with their psychological battle. In Room Three, Xie Antong wondered why the Despair Chosen had gone quiet and suspected another expert was holding them up.

• Jiu Tian faced a Despair Emissary in Room Eight and received the Dragon Group’s instruction to stall for as long as he could.
• The Despair Emissary began a battle of words with paradoxical questions, but Jiu Tian avoided answering directly and spoke at length about what God meant.
• When the Despair Emissary switched to the trolley problem, Jiu Tian continued rambling and kept them occupied.
• Xie Antong noticed the unusual silence in Room Three and wondered whether the Despair Chosen had found Sin or been stalled by another expert.

Jiu Tian remained trapped in Room Eight, where Despair Emissary gave him a despairing “blessing” and claimed a point. Despair Emissary then entered Room Nine to face Lu Ce, whose Sin mask revealed that his plan had gone badly wrong.

• Jiu Tian continued babbling to keep his mind from collapsing, while the Elder Council realized he could no longer use an Exit Coin.
• Despair Emissary learned that Perfect Life had lost and decided to stop waiting and target another player.
• Despair Emissary injected black energy into Jiu Tian's mind, silencing him, then left after earning a point.
• Lu Ce waited in Room Nine as Sloth's sleepiness reached its limit.
• Despair Emissary appeared in Room Nine, recognized Sin's dark green mask, and realized his plan had gone wrong.
• Lu Ce laughed and told Despair Emissary that he had been waiting for him for a very long time.